1. Who among the following is a 16th-century poetess?
(A) Katherine Philips (B Aphra Behn
(C) Lady Mary Wroth (D) Anne Killigrew
Ans:c
\2. Masques are
(A) masks worn during dances
(B) courtly entertainment
(C) performed in public
(D) operatic performances 
Ans B
3. Shakespeare’s Company was known as
(A) King’s Men
(B) The Duke’s Man
(C) The Salisbury Group
(D) The Admiral’s Men 
Ans:A
 4. He was the Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII and later executed for his religious belive, Identify the famous book written by him.
(A) Utopia
(B) The Leviathan
(C) The Book of Common Prayers
(D) Religio Medici 
Ans A
5. The York Cycle comprises of
(A) 24 mystery plays
(B) 48 morality plays
(C) 48 mystery plays
(D) 24 morality plays

Ans:c
 6. Magna Carta was signed in 1215 as a treaty for peace by
(A) King O1 of England and the King of France
(B) king john  of England and a group of rebel barons
(C) the archbishop of Canterbury and a group of rebel barons 
(D) the Archbishop of Canterbury and the King of France
Ans:B
7. The Wars of the Roses was fought between
(A)House of York and the House of Lancashire
(B) the House of Cambridge and the House of York
(C) the House of Salisbury and the House of York
(D) the House of Lancaster and the House of York

Ans:A
 8. Morte  d'Arthur was written by
(A) Sir Thomas Moore
(B) Henry Howard
(C) Sir Thomas Malory
(D) Sir Thomas Wyatt 
And:c
9. — is considered the first tragedy among the English plays.
(A) Ralph Roister Doister (B) Gorboduc
(C) Needle (D) Edward  Two
Ans:b
10. Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the world took place between
(A) 1557-1580 (B) 1580-1583
(C)1577-1579 (D) 1580-1584 
Ans:c
 11.  How does Lady Macbeth explains her husband wild behaviour at the banquet?
(A) She tells the guests that banquet’s ghost is haunting Macbeth
(B) She reveals that Macbeth 1 mourning the death of Duncan
(C) She tells the guest that Macbeth was drunk.
(D)She informs the guests that Macbeth  ill and will recover Soon.

Ans d
 12. The Spanish Tragedy was pub1ish in
IA) 1591 (B 1592
(C) 593 (1)) 1594 Ans:B
13. The Defence of poesy is a work of
(A) poetry (B) criticism (C) drama (D) short story 
Ans:B
 14. Choose the correct chronology
(A) Timberlin, The Massacre at Paris; Dido, Queen of Carthage; Doctor Faustus
(B) Timberlin, Dido Queen of Carthage Doctor Faustus;  The Massacre at Paris 
(C) Doctor Faustus; The Massac at ParisTamburlaine; Dido, Queefl of Carthage
(D) he Massacres at Paris; Tamburlaine ’ Dido, Queen of Carthage Doctor Faustus
Ans B


 15. Identify the University Wits.
(A) Christopher Marlowe, William ShakC8PeaT John Webster, Thomas Nashe
(B) Robert Greene, John Done Philip Sidney, John Lyly
(C) John Webster, Robert Greene, William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney (D) Christopher Marlowe Robert Greene, John Lyly Thomas Lodge
Ans:D






16. The poems Jabberwocky is from
(A) Alice in Wonderland(B) Through the Looking-Glass
(C) The Water-Babies (D) The Woman in White 
Ans:B
17. In which novel would you find the characters Dorothea Brooke, Will Ladislaw, Rosamond Vincy and Celia Brooke’? (A) Middlemarch (B) North and South
(C) Mary Barton (D) Daniel Deronda 
Ans:A
18. The title of Thomas Hardy’s novel, Far from the Madding Crowd was drawn from the poem
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
(B) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(C) The Scholar-Gipsy
(D) Dover Beach
Ans:A
19. Bertha Mason is a character in the novel
(A) Great Expectations (B) Oliver Twist,(c) Jane
Eyre (D) Wuthering Heights 
Ans:C
20. Which city became the centre of Western civilization by the mid-nineteenth century?
(A) Paris (B) New York
(C) London (D) All of the above
Ans:C

 21. What did Kipling mean by “white man’s” Burden’?
(A) The British’ destiny to industrialize   the world
(B) The moral responsibility of the British  to colonize  and educate its subject
(C) A Chartist sentiment, (D) The importance of solving economic and social problems in England
Ans:B
22. In which of the following texts was the idea of the ‘Angel of the House most clearly propounded?
(A) Lord Alfred Tennyson’s princess
(B) Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
(C) John Ruskin s Of Queen’s Gardens(D) Oscar Wild’s Importance of Being Earnest
Ans: C
23. Which is the last novel by Thomas Hardy and when was it published’
(A) Jude the Obscure; 1895
(B) The Woodlanders 1898
(C) Jude the Obscure; 1899
(D) The wood1anders 1896
Ans:A
24. The Picture of Dorian Gray was written by
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Thomas Hardy
(C) Oscar Wilde
(D) H. G. Wells 
Ans: C



 25. When was Charles Darwin’s The origin of Species  pb1ished?
(A) 1857 (B) 1858
(C)1859 (D) 1860 
Ans:C
26. What is common between Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William  Michael Rossetti, Holmount hunt and John Everett Mi1lis?
(A) They started the Oxford Movement
(B) They were all born in India
(C) They were the part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
(D)) They were dramatists 
Ans: C
27. Who, according to Matthew Arnold, among the following writers is not a Touchstone Poet?
(A) John Dryden
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Dante Alighieri
(D) Virgil 
Ans:A
28. Among the Literary Movements listed below, which did not take place in the Victorian Period?
(A) Oxford Movement
(B) Aesthetic Movement
(C) Pre-Raphaelite Movement
(D) The Imagist Movement 
Ans: D
29. In which year did Queen Victoria adopt the title of Empress of India?
(A) 1874 (B) 1857
(C) 1876 (1)) 1859 
Ans: C
30. Marlow is the narrator in the novel
(A) Heart of Darkness
(B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(C) To the Lighthouse
(D) Mrs Dalloway
Ans:A
 31. Milton’s primary argument In the text is on freedom of speech and expression What Is the
name of the text?
(A) Pradise Lost
(B) Areopagitica
(C) Essay on Man
(0) Ballad of Heaven and Hell
Ans: B
32. Moll Flanders in Defoe’s novel is born in
(A) America (B) Bath
(C) Newgate (D) Scotland
Ans: c
33. Aurora Leigh’s mother is not English in Elizabeth Barrett Hrownmg’s poem. She is
(A) French (B) Tuscan
(C) African (D) German 
Ans: B
34. Mein Kampf is the autobiography of
(A) Hitler (B) Botticelli
(C) Michael Angelo (D) Dali 
Ans:A
35. The Tatler was first published by
(A) Addison (B) Steele
(c)) Dryden
(D) Swift

Ans: B
 36. Walt Whitman wrote Leaves of grass celebrating  
(Al capitalist
(B) colonization
(C) dictatorshi
(D) democracy 
Ans: A
37• In The Scarlet Letter, Hester must Wear  the letter
(A)Z (B)D
(C)A (D)S 
Ans: C
38. Where is the fictional setting of the novel. Emma?
(A) Highbury
(B) Highlands
(C) London
(D) Edinburgh 
Ans:A
39• E.S P. Ode pour I’ election de son sepulchre’ (E. P. Ode or the Choice of His sepulchre) is the title of a section of the famous poem
(A) Hugh Selwyn Maubertey
(B) Ash Wednesday
(C) Geoffrey Hill
(I)) None of the above
Ans: A
40. Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.’ This is the first line of a famous essay by George Orwell. Who was the subject of this essay?
(A) Leo Tolstoy
(B) Albert Schweitzer
(C) Bertrand Russell
(D) Mahatma Gandhi 
Ans: D


 41. The name of Ben Johnson Was play based on a fair is
(A) Smithfield Fair
(B) Mayfair
(C) My Fair Lady
(D)) Barthlomoeo  Fair
Ans: D
42. Who among the following is not  the Restoration playwright?
(A)Congreve
(B) Etherege
(C) Aphra Behn
(D) Catherine Gore 
Ans: D
43. Adam in Milton’s Paradise Lost Was OVer cOme by
(A) God’s authoritY
(B) female charm
(C)female fear
(D)) love 
Ans: B
44. Who wrote the text, The principles of Biology (1863)?
(A) Charles Darwin
(B) Erasmus Darwin
(C) Herbert spencer
(D) J. S. Mill 
Ans: C
45. The idiom ‘argue the toss’ means
(A) cheer for loss
(B) argUe with spouse
(C) dispute a decission
(D) argue with the teacher

Ans: C
 46. In the room, the women come and go talking of Michal Angello
How many times do the following lines occur in the poem Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
(A) Once (B) Twice
(C) Thrice (I)) Four 
Ans: A
47. An aged man is but a ____ thing.
A tattered coat upon a stick...’
Fill in the blank.
(A) insignificant (B) paltry
(C) miserable (D) worthless 
Ans: B
48. Lupercal is a poetry collection by which modem poet?
(A) Simon Armitage
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) John Agard
(D) Carol Ann Duffy 
Ans: B
49. The Pylons Poets’ take their name from a poem with a similar name written by
(A) W. H. Auden
(B) Louis MacNeice
(C) Cecil Day-Lewis
(D) Stephen Spender 
Ans: D
50. Identify the correct chronological order of Charles Dickens’ novels.
(A) Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House
(B) Oliver Twist, Sketches by Boz, A Chrislrrw.s Carol, Bleak House
(C) A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Oliver Twist, Sketches by Boz
(D) Bleak House, Oliver Twist, Sketches by Boz, A Christmas Carol 
Ans: A
51. Who among the following was not in the Bloomsbury group?
(A) Virginia Woolf
(B) J. M. Keynes
(C) E. M. Forster
(D) W. B. Yeats

Ans: D
 52. “Yet let’s go..”
?? they do nor ‘move.
These are the last lines of the play
(A) Myth of Sisyphus
(B) Waiting  for Godot
(C) The Zoo Story
(D) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
Ans: B
53. The only novel by Sylva  Plath  is
(A) The Bell Jar
(8) The Iron Men
(C) The Idiot
(I)) The Queen of the Night 
Ans: A
54. In which work do you find Captain Bluntschi, a Swiss army Officer?
(A) All Quiet on the Western Front
(13) War arid Peace
(C) Arms and the Man
(D) The Red Badge of courage 
Ans: C
55. He was found by the Bureau Of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint,
These are the opening lines of the famous modem poem
(A) The Unknown
(B) The Unknown Soldier
(C) The Unknown Citizen
(D) An Unknown Girl

Ans: C


• b



 56. This Supplement his income from poetry by writing a detective novel  under the
pseudonym Nichola Blake. identified the  poet
( A) w. H. Auden
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Cecil Day-Lewis
(D) Luis  Macnice
Ans: C

57.VLADIMIR: One out of four Of the three they don’t mention any thieves at all and the third says that both of them abuse him.

ESTRAGON : WHO

In this lines from Waiting for Godot the thieves refer to

(A) the two thieves who rob and beat Estragon 

(B)Lucky and Pozo

(C)The Two thieves crucified along with Jesus 

(D)  the two boys working for Godot
Ans: C

58 - Few Critics have even admitted that hamlet the play is the primary problem and hamlet the character only secondary. This is the opening line of a famous essay on hamlet. Who is the author?

(A) Ernest Jones            (B) T. S. Eliot

(c) Dr. johnson                      (D) Thomas De Quincey

 Ans B

59 Which IS the chronological order of the from T. S. Eliot’s the wasteland?

(A) The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, What the Thunder Said

(B)The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, Death by Water, The Fire Sermon  What the Thunder Said

C) The Burial of the Dead Death by Water, A Game of Chess The Fire Sermon, What the Thunder Said.

(D) The Burial of the Dead, The Fire Sermon A Game Of Chess, Death by Water, What the Thunder Said.

Ans B

60 Under whose, the leadership were the 1916,1917 anthologies of some imagist  poet published

(A)Ezra pound                               (B)  Amy Lowell

(C)Hilda  Doolittle                          ()   Ford Madox Ford

Ans A

B.A ENGLISH PREVIOUS YEAR 2011 QUESTION PAPER GU

JAMIA MILIA ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY ENTRENCE EXAM Q.PAPER 2018 PART B

M.A.ENTRANCE TEST 2018 QUESTION PAPER  NEHU

TUEE QUESTION PAPER 2018 M.A(english)

 Q NO.1. WHICH WAS MARLOWE'S FIRST PLAY?
 a): TAMBURLAINE
 b): Edward 2
 c): Dr.Faustus
 d): Jew of Malta
ANS: A

Q.NO.2, when was theatre, closed in England?
Ans: a): 1623
         b):1632
         c):1624
         d):1642
 ANS: D

Q.NO.3. In Chaucer Canterbury tales, how many tales are to be told by each pilgrim?
Ans:a):2
       b):3
       c):4
       d):5
ANS: C

Q.NO.4:which of the following poem by Keats is modelled on the style of  Milton paradise lost :
Ans: :a):Endymion
         b): Isabella
         c): Hyperion
         d): Lamia'
 ANS C
Q.NO.5. which of the following poem by Tennyson is often considered as a sequel to the other
a): Ulysses and The Palace of Art
b): Ulysses and The Lotus Eater
c): Ulysses and The Lady of Shallot
d): Ulysses and The Locksley Hall
Ans: D
Q.NO 6. which figurative term did Ruskin give to English literature
a): Intentional Fallacy
b): Affective Fallacy
c): Pathetic Fallacy
d): Apathetic Fallacy
Ans:C
Q.NO.7.who considered to be the first of the women novelist-
a): Francis Burney
b): George Eliot
c): Virginia Woolf
d): Jane Austen
Ans:A
Q.NO.8: Life of Charlotte Bronte was written by:
a): Emily Bronte
b): George Eliot
c): Elizabeth Gaskell
d): Charlotte Bronte
Ans:C
Q.NO.9. Oxford movement is  known as
a): Tractarian Movement
b): Education movement
c): University Movement
d): Pre-Raphaelite movement
Ans:A
Q.No.10:One Of Shaw's plays deal with the problems of phonetics and pronunciation.which of the following is that play:
a): Pygmalion
b): Candida
c): Captain Brassbound's Conversion
d): Major Barbara
Ans:A

Q.NO. 11: Who among the following writers is associated with psychological realism:
a):William James
b):Henry James
C):F.R.Leavis
d): Henry Miller
Ans:B
Q.NO.12: Arnold's Touch Stone method values :
a): All literary pieces
b): Only the best writings
C): Greek Writings
d): English writing
Ans:B
Q.NO.13:Which of the following books was widely read by Arnold:
a): Ramayana
b): Mahabharata
C): Akbarnama
d): Bhagwad Gita
Ans:D
Q.NO.14: the title of the novel, things fall apart comes from which of the following poems by Yeats:
a): A poet to his beloved
b): No second troy
C): The magi
d):The second coming
Ans:D
Q.NO.15. Who said, "poetry is speaking picture"?
a): Horace
b): Longinus
C): Sidney
d): Shelley
Ans:C
Q.NO.16: who coined the phrase, " objective correlative "?
a):C.S.Lewis
b):T.S.Eliot
C): Virginia Woolf
d): Matthew Arnold
Ans:B
Q.NO.17: who coined the term New Criticism?
a): J.E.Spingarn
b): Kennethe Burke
C): J.C.Ransome
d): Cleanth Brooks
Ans:C
Q.No.18 : who coined the term defamiliarization?
a): Roman Jakobson
b): Mikhail Bakhtin
C): Vladimir Prop
d): Victor Shklovsky
Ans:D
Q.No.19:which critic is known for dialogic criticism?
a): R.jakobson
b): V.Propp
C): M.Bakhtin
d): Eichenbaum
Ans:C
Q.No.20 Formalistic criticism related to the structure of
a): Literary Device
b): Myths
C): Content
d): Form
Ans:A
Q.No.21:Semiotics is the study of:
a): structure
b): signifiers
C): Signs
d): Signified 
Ans:C
Q.No.22:the death of the author was written by
a): Jacques Derrida
b): Michael Foucault
C): Roland Barthes
d): Felix Guattari
Ans:C
 Q.NO.23: who coined the term intertextuality:
a): Helen Cixous
b): Roland Barthes
c): Michel Foucault
d):  Julia Kristeva
Ans:D
Q.NO.24: who coined the term deconstruction:
a): Paul de Mann
b): Derrida
c): Hillis Miller
d)Harrold Bloom
Ans:B
Q.NO.25 who coined the term Hegemony
a): Louis Althusser
b): Antonio Gramsci
c): Terry Eagleton
d) Michel Foucault
Ans:B
Q.NO.26:the concept of collective unconsiousness is associated with :
a): Sigmund Freud
b): Carl Jung
c): James Frazer
d) Lacan
Ans:B
Q.NO.27: Wordsworth's lyrical ballad was published in
a):1800
b):1798
c):1802
d)1805
Ans: B
Q.NO.28. who define poetry as, "criticism of life"?
a): T.S.Eliot
b): Matthew Arnold
c): Shelley
d) Sidney
Ans:B
Q.NO.29. Walter Pater was a votary of :
a): Art for Morality's sake
b): Art for Art Sake
c): Art for Culture's sake
d) Art for Socity sake
Ans: B
Q.NO30: When a girl is drawn to her father, in Freudianism it is:
a): Electra complex.
b): Oedipus complex
c): narcissism
d): Thanatos
Ans: A
Q.NO.31:the term 'postmodern 'was first used in the context of:
a): Literature
b): Architecture
c): Sculpture
d): Painting
Ans: B
Q.NO.32: Theater of absurd was a term coined by:
a): Derrida
b): Kafka
c): Martin Esslin
d): A.Artaud
Ans:C
Q>NO33: Who is associated with 'Epic theatre'?
a): Bertolt Brecht
b): Marin Esslin
c): A. Artaud
d):  Michel Foucault
Ans:A
Q.NO.34: 'A room one's Own'(1929) was written by:
a):  Kate Millet
b):  Toril Moi
c): Simone de Beauvoir
d): Virginia Woolf.
Ans:D
Q.NO.35: ....... it is to Indian fiction what Tolstoy's war and peace is to the Russian "which of Tagore's novel has been referred to here?
a): The Wreck
b): The Home and the World
c): Binodini
d): Gora
Ans:D
Q.NO.36: "The Temple" is a trilogy of lyrics sequence by:
a): A.K.Ramanujan
b): Sarojini Naidu
c): Rabindranath Tagore
d): Nissim Ezekiel
Ans: B
Q.NO.37: which novel of Anita Desai is considered to be ' an epic on Calcutta' :
a): Bye- Bye Blackbird
b): Voices in the City
c): The villages by the Sea
d): Fire on the Mountain
Ans: B
Q.NO.38: which of the following bears the title of a novel as well as poem?
a): The Rape of Lucrece
b): Gone with the Wind
c): Ulysses
d): Prometheus Unbound
Ans:C
Q.NO.39: Identity the work which is not written by Shakespeare:
a): Titus and Andronicus
b): Caeser and Cleopatra
c): Taming of the Shrew
d):   Much Ado About Nothing

Ans:B

Q.NO40: who said I am an Indian, very brown, born in Malabar.......
a): Jai Nimbakar
b): Adil Jussawala
c): Shiv.K.Kumar
d): Kamala Das
Ans:B