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1
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The Title the Sound and The Fury is taken from?

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Macbeth

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2
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Pecola is a character in?

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The Bluest Eye

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3
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Bloomsbury group

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Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.

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About whom did T. S. Eliot write “A thought to him was an experience”

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Donne

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The last book of Gulliver’s Travels is:

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“Voyage to Houyhnhnms”

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6
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Who edited The Tatler:

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Addison and Steele

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ohn Locke’s “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” is about:

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nature of the human mind

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Which of Alexander Pope’s poems begins with the line “Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigued I said”:

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“Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”

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The statement “One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is one’s own” appears in

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Kanthapura - Raja Rao

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10
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Mudooro Narogin, David Malauf are authors from?

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Australia

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The Tyger

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Poem by William Blake

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12
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The Tulsis of Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas lived in:

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Hanuman House

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The quotation “a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM” appears in:

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Bidgraphia Literaria

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14
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“Fearful Symmetry” appears in the poem:

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The Tyger - Poem by William Blake

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The quotation “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reasons” is a definition of:

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Negative capability

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16
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Which of Dickens novels opens with the words “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”

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A Tale of Two Cities

17
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The term “The Fleshly School of Poetry” is associated with the:

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Pre Rephaelites

18
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The line “The sea is calm tonight” occurs in:

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Arnold’s “Dover Beach”

19
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Gorboduc

A

revenge Play by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

20
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The gap-toothed character in “prologue” to The Centerbury Tales is:

A

the Wife of Bath

21
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Cowley

A

Dr Johnson

22
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The Red cross Knight is Spenser’s Faerie Queene represents

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St George

23
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The line “Present fears/Are less than horrible imaginings:” appear in:

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Macbeth

24
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Preface to Shakespeare

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Book by Samuel Johnson

25
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Which novel of Daniel Defoe was considered to be the best by E. M. Forster?

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Moll Flanders

26
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The line “A man can be destroyed but not defeated” appears in

A

The Old Man and the Sea

27
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Who is called the New England poet?

A

Robert Frost

28
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“Negritude” was coined by?

A

Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor, Léon Damas

29
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The Zoo Story

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One-act by Edward Albee

30
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Bertolt Brecht’s concept of theatre was influenced by:

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Irwin Piscator

31
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The relationship between Othello and lago is an example of:

A

inversion (not sure)

32
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A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is:

A

iamb

33
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The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is:

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abab, cdcd, efef, gg

34
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Using “The Bench” for the judiciary is an example of:

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metonymy

35
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Four feet, comprising a monosyllable, trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often called:

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sprung rhythm