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Question 1

Which work by Tennyson is the story of a fisherman, who is shipwrecked, and after spending 10 years on a desert island, returns home to discover, that his beloved wife, believing him dead has remarried and has a new child?

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Enoch Arden

Question 2

Lord Tennyson became the poet laureate in

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1850

Question 3

Tennyson wrote In Memoriam in the memory of

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Arthur Hallam

Question 4

Tennyson’s Enoch Arden appeared in

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1864

Question 5

“Memorial Verses” by Mathew Arnold pays tribute to?

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Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron

Question 6

The Proust screenplay

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Book by Harold Pinter

Question 7

Who wrote screenplay’s of French lieutenant woman and Margaret Atwood’s handmaid’s Tale

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Harold Pinter

Question 8

1649 to 1660 is known as?

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commonwealth period

Question 9

A Dead Man in Deptford is a 1993 novel by Anthony Burgess that portrays the life of?

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Christopher Marlowe

Question 10

first English book to be printed

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he Recuyell of the Histories of Troye by Raoul Lefèvre

Question 11

‘Account of the Augustan Age in England’ (1759) was written by?

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Oliver Goldsmith

Question 12

Eminent Victorians (1918 ) is a book by

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Lytton Strachey

Question 13

Eminent Victorians is a book consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Name the four

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Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon

Question 14

Song of St. Cecilia is by?

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Dryden

Question 15

Faber Book of Modern Verse was a poetry anthology by?

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Michael Roberts

Question 16

A Modern Instance

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Novel by William Dean Howells

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The Age of Innocence

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Novel by Edith Wharton

Question 18

The Naked and the Dead

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Novel by Norman Mailer

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Catch-22

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Novel by Joseph Heller

Question 20

Blood in the Sun is a Literary series by?

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Nuruddin Farah

Question 21

Blood in the Sun is a Literary series by Nuruddin Farah has three books. What are they called?

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Maps, Gifts, Secrets

Question 22

Langue and parole is a theoretical linguistic dichotomy distinguished by Ferdinand de Saussure in his

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Course in General Linguistics

Question 23

The French term langue means?

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the abstract, systematic rules and conventions of a signifying system; it is independent of, and pre-exists, the individual user. It involves the principles of language, without which no meaningful utterance, or parole, would be possible (it is the language occasion)

Question 24

The French term parole means?

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parole (‘speech’) refers to the concrete instances of the use of langue, including texts which provide the ordinary research material for linguistics (we learn as children - grammar etc)

Question 25

John Heywood wrote a Play called the four P's; who were the four P's

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a palmer, a pardoner, a potycary,(apothecary) a pedler

Question 26

Top Girls

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Play by Caryl Churchill

Question 27

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing is the story of a woman named?

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Anna Wulf

Question 28

The Swimming-Pool Library

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novel by Alan Hollinghurst

Question 29

Francis Bacon's New Atlantis is based on an utopian state called?

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Bensalem

Question 30

Name the magazine associated with Movement literature

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Departure, New Poems

Question 31

A.R. Ammons parodies Wordsworth's poem - The world is too much with us- in his which poem?

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Swoggled

Question 32

Evelina, Novel by Frances Burney has the subtitle?

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the History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World

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mysomousoi means?

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Word used by Philip Sydney to describe poet haters in the Defense of Poetry

Question 34

The Intentional Fallacy and Affective Fllacy are essays published in 1940's by?

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Wimsatt and Beardsley

Question 35

The Tower is a Book of poems by William Butler Yeats published in?

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1928

Question 36

The Book of Night Women

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Novel by Marlon James

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ghosts

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John Banville

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One for the Road

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One-act play by Harold Pinter

Question 39

The Oxford India Premchand translations are edited by?

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David Rubin, Alok Rai and Christopher King

Question 40

Spa town of Bath is a primary location in which novels of Jane Austen

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Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

Question 41

Moral Essays (also known as Epistles to Several Persons) is a series of four poems by Alexander Pope. Who are they addressed to?

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Cobham, Lady( Martha Blount), Bathurst, Burlington

Question 42

Mother Courage and Her Children | Play by Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin. Name mother courage.

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Anna Fierling

Question 43

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951)

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Nirad Choudhary

Question 44

Thy Hand, Great Anarch! is a sequence to the book by Nirad Chupdhary known as?

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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951)

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The Continent of Circe (1965)

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Nirad Choudhary

Question 46

In John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, Amans, the lover makes his confession to the priest named?

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Genius

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Chairs

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Eugene Ionesco

Question 48

Sordello (poem) is a very hard poem by?

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Robert Browning about a troubadour named Sordello

Question 49

Sordello is a poem by Robert Browning about the Troubador named Sordello from?

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Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio.

Question 50

tristram shandy's preface appears in?

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volume 3

Question 51

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh owes its title to?

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The Waste Land

Question 52

the wandering jew's soliloquy

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p b Shelley

Question 53

Where, according to T.S. Eliot, are we likely to find “not only the best, but the most individual parts of a poet’s work” ?

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in those parts where the dead poets assert their immortality.

Question 54

Who, among the following, collaborated with Purohit Swami in translating the Ten Principal Upanishads into English ?

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W.B. Yeats

Question 55

To Penshurst

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Ben Jonson’s

Question 56

The example for the country house poem is Ben Jonson's ---------, published in 1616

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To Penshurst

Question 57

The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence - ‘Double, double, toil and trouble’. -- of whom does Samuel Johnson write with these words?

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Thomas Gray

Question 58

Some god o’ th’ island. Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the King my father’s wrack, This music crept by me upon the waters, are line spoken by?

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These lines, spoken by Ferdinand in The Tempest, describe Ariel’s music.

Question 59

The lines spoken by Ferdinand in The Tempest, describing Ariel’s music is also used in T S Eliot's

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The Waste Land

Question 60

“The Storming of Seringapatam” is the prologue of?

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Moonstone by Wilie Collins

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“Gerontion”

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T.S. Eliot

Question 62

The mountain is a poem by?

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Louis Gluck