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


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 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