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