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1). Which of the following begins with these words?
“Good morning to the day; and next, my gold!
Open the shrine that I may see my saint”
Volpone
2). Who could have written The Book of Job?
moses
9). Look Back in Anger was year preformed in year
1956
10). Who is the movement poet
Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, John Wain, D J Enright and Robert Conquest. The Movement can be seen as an aggressive, sceptical, patriotic backlash against the cosmopolitan elites of the 1930s and 1940s
7). Don Juan written by Lord Byron is specimen of
.
Epic Satire
3). The theatres were reopened in 1660. When were they closed last?
1642
4). The “Circulating Libraries” were popular during
The Eighteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century
5). The Closed Heroic Couplet used by pope is unique because…
A). The two lines act as a stanza
B) It makes use of an end stopped first line
C). Every Line contains, a caesura
8). The first Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays was printed in ?
1623
6). Which of the following Chaucers tale is in Prose?
The Parsons tale
11). __________ is not a character in Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’
Catherine Morland
12). Who said A thought to Donne was an experience. It modified his Sensibility
T.S. Eliot
13). The Great Tradition was written by _________
F.R. Leavis
14). Rape of the lock by Pope contains _________ cantes
Five
16). A Reed Shaken by the wind is written by ________
Gavin Maxwell
15). Romeo & Juliet is based on the story by which Italian Author?
Bandello
17). “Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it but moulds it to its purpose” was said by
Oscar Wilde
18). Who said, “I awoke one morning and found myself” famous
Byron
19). Who wrote under pseudonym of ‘y.y’
Robert Lynd.
20). Who said ‘Get Stewed, Books are a load crop’
Philip larkin
21). Who is the Author of ‘Toba Tek Singh’
Saadat Hasan Manto
22). Who was the first recipient of Sahitya Akademi award for English
R.K. Narayan
23). Which among the following gods and goddesses takes sides in the Trojan was in ‘Iliad’?
A). Athena
B). Aphiodite
C). Zeus
D). Hera
24). Who wrote ‘The rising of the moon’
lady Gregory
25). Who is not regarded as the Georgian Poet?
Hopkins
26). ‘Cry the beloved country’ is written by
Alan Paton
27). New Testament has __________ books
27
28). Sean 0’ Casey wrote which work?
Juno and the Paycock
29). The manuscripts of Shakespeare’s play are available?
Certainly no
30). Shakespeare’s sonnets are in the following form:
Three quartrains and a couplet.
31). Who is the heroine in Shakespeare ‘Tempest’
Miranda
32). “France standing on the topo f nature seeming born again.” These lines are from…
The Prelude
33). Which of the following of G.B. Shaw was prescribed because of its protrayal sexual exploitation?
B). Mrs. Warren’s Profession
34). Shelley’s Queen Mab is about..
both Religious persecution
Domestic bondage
35). Who wrote Abasalom Abasalom?
Willaim Faulkner
36). The Quintessence of Ibsenism was written by…
G.B. Shaw
37). What does Arnold’s ‘Scholar Gypsy’ deal with?
About the decay of youth and hope
38). The ‘prefaces’ of Shaw to his own plays are very popular
yes
39). The novel, No name (1862) was written by…
Wilkie Collins
40). Shakaspeare’s Sonnets were printed by…
Thomas Thorpe
