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1
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Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude

A

CAMBRIDGE

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Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?

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Thomas Heywood

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3
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In William Congreve’s The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line : “One’s
cruelty is one’s power, and when one parts with one’s cruelty, one parts with one’s power.”

A

Millamant

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4
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T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in

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christianity

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5
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By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag ?

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Grildrig

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Grildrig - The name was given to gulliver by?

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glumdalclitch

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Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up”?

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Wilkins Micawber (David Copperfield)

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What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick?

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Rachel

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The authors were greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle’s writings?

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Charles Dickens

Elizabeth Gaskell

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10
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Who narrates Heart of Darkness ?

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unnamed narrator

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11
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She Stoops to Conquer

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Play by Oliver Goldsmith

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the subtitle of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

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The Mistakes of a Night

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13
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Which was first novel was written by Patrick White :

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Happy Valley

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In King Lear for what reason does Kent assume a disguise?

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To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him.

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15
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What is a feminine rhyme?

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A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed

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16
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Venus Observed, The Lady’s Not for Burning

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Christopher Fry

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17
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Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question, The Work of Mourning,

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Jacques Derrida

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18
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In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in
Adam’s side ?

A

Adam

19
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Possession

A

A.S. Byatt

20
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A.S. Byatt’s n attempts the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets named?

A

Robert Browning

Christina Rossetti

21
Q

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by

A

Bernard Shaw

22
Q

John Milton’s description of gold as a “precious bane” (Paradise Lost, Book II) is best
described as

A

an oxymoron

23
Q

There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s

A

Jew of Malta

24
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Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson believe Shakespeare to observe most successfully

A

Action

25
Q

Who among the following was praised and patronized as a “Ploughman Poet”?

A

Robert Burns

26
Q

Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a projection forward in time after a devastating
atomic war?

A

The four Gated city

27
Q

Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta provide a fictionalized portrait of poor, young
Nigerian women struggling to bring up their children in London?

A

Second Class Citizen

In the Ditch

28
Q

In John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress who keeps Christian’s head above water in the River
of Death?

A

Hopeful

29
Q

In Thomas More’s Utopia which leisure pastimes is not a favourite among Utopians?

A

Dicing and cards

30
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In which year did the Great Exhibition take place?

A

1851

31
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Queen Mab

A

Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelle

32
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The Excursion

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Poem by William Wordsworth

33
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Milton

A

Poem by William Blake

34
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Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is a defence of

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old age against youth

35
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In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of which
they are a part, are made up of three social groups or “estates”. What are the three estates ?

A

Nobility, church and commoners

36
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Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave?

A

Beloved

37
Q

Who translated Homer?

A

Alexander Pope

38
Q

Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy is a

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coming of age story

39
Q

When was the English ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses lifted?

A

1936

40
Q

Thomas Carew’s Poems appeared in print in 1640 and contain a variety of amorous addresses to and reflections on, a fictional mistress known as?

A

Celia

41
Q

Waterland

A

Novel by Graham Swift

42
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Darkness Visible

A

William Golding

43
Q

Hawksmoor

A

Novel by Peter Ackroyd

44
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Grimus: Roman

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Novel by Salman Rushdie

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