M.A ENGLISH LITERATURE ENTRENCE EXAM IMPORTANT MCQ PART 1

M.A ENGLISH LITERATURE ENTRENCE EXAM

IMPORTANT MCQ PART 1

question no (1) The subjugation of Women (1869) is an important text of:
option are
(a) George Eliot
(b) Byron
(c) John Mill
(d) Hardy

Answer is option  (c) John Mill


question no (2) Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama?
option are
(a) Ulysses
(b) Break, Break, Break
(c) Maud
(d) Crossing the Bar 


Answer is option  (c) Maud


question no  (3) The line “she dwells with Beauty – Beauty that must be” occurs in Keats’
option are
(a) Lamia
(b) Ode to a Grecian Urn
(c) Ode on Melancholy
(d) Endymion 


Answer is option  (c) Ode on Melancholy


question no  (4) Negative Capability to Keats, means
option are
(a) The ability to sympathize with other
(b) Say bad thing, about others
(c) To empathize 


Answer is option  (c) To empathize 


question no  (5) “Art for arts sake” found its true adherent in:
option are
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Byron
(c) Browning
(d) Wilde 


Answer is option  (d) Wilde 


question no  (6) It as the best of times, it was the worst of time, it was the worst – the opening of Dickens’
option are
(a) Hard Times
(b) David Copperfield
(c) Oliver Twist
(d) A Tales of Two Cities 


Answer is option  (d) A Tales of Two Cities 


question no  (7) The character of Little Neil is a creation of: 
option are
(a) Hardy
(b) Eliot
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) Dickens


Answer is option  (d) Dickens

question no  (8) “Idylls of the King” is illustration of Tennyson’s deep interest in: 
option are
(a) Medieval legends
(b) The role of the king
(c) Hero worship 
(d) The contemporary condition


Answer is option  (b) The role of the king


question no (9) Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions?

option are
(a) Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Wordsworth 
(d) Keats 


Answer is option  (c) Wordsworth


question no  (10) Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous?
option are
(a) Shelley
(b) Browning
(c) Wordsworth 
(d) Keats 


Answer is option  (c) Wordsworth 


question no  (11) The image of the femme fatale dominates the poetry of:
option are
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Tennyson


Answer is option  (b) Keats


question no  (12) Little Time is a character in Hardy’s
option are
(a) The return of the native
(b) Jude the Obscure
(c) Mayor of Casterbridge


Answer is option  (b) Jude the Obscure


question no  (13) Which is the famous elegy written by Shelley?
option are
(a) In Memoriam
(b) Lycidas
(c) Adonis
(d) Thyrsis


Answer is option  (c) Adonis


question no  (14) The moral choice is everything in the works of:
option are
(a) Dickens
(b) George Eliot
(c) Hardy 


Answer is option  (a) Dickens


 question no  (15) Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin’s interest in social economy?
option are
(a) The Seven Lamps
(b) Unto this Last
(c) The Stones of Venice


Answer is option  (b) Unto this Last


question no  (16) Which one of the following poets named the Romantic poet as the “pond poets”?
option are
(a) Southey
(b) Shelley
(c) Keats
(d) Byron 


Answer is option  (a) Southey


question no  (17) The Charge of the Light Brigade” (Tennyson) commemorates:
option are
(a) The Boer War
(b) The battle of Trafalgar
(c) The Crimean War 


Answer is option  (c) The Crimean War 


question no (18) The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to write:
option are
(a) Endymion
(b) Lamia
(c) The Grecian Urn
(d) Melancholy 


Answer is option  (c) The Grecian Urn 


question no  (19) Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a:
option are
(a) Dramatic Monologue
(b) Dramatic Lyrics
(c) Tragic Drama 


Answer is option  (b) Dramatic Lyrics


question no (20) Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813?
option are
(a) Tennyson
(b) Byron
(c) Southey
(d) Wordsworth 


Answer is option  (c) Southey