J-3016 Flashcards
Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude
CAMBRIDGE
Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?
Thomas Heywood
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.”
Millamant
T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in
christianity
By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag ?
Grildrig
Grildrig - The name was given to gulliver by?
glumdalclitch
Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up”?
Wilkins Micawber (David Copperfield)
What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick?
Rachel
The authors were greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle’s writings?
Charles Dickens
Elizabeth Gaskell
Who narrates Heart of Darkness ?
unnamed narrator
She Stoops to Conquer
Play by Oliver Goldsmith
the subtitle of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
The Mistakes of a Night
Which was first novel was written by Patrick White :
Happy Valley
In King Lear for what reason does Kent assume a disguise?
To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him.
What is a feminine rhyme?
A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed
Venus Observed, The Lady’s Not for Burning
Christopher Fry
Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question, The Work of Mourning,
Jacques Derrida
In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in
Adam’s side ?
Adam
Possession
A.S. Byatt
A.S. Byatt’s n attempts the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets named?
Robert Browning
Christina Rossetti
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by
Bernard Shaw
John Milton’s description of gold as a “precious bane” (Paradise Lost, Book II) is best
described as
an oxymoron
There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s
Jew of Malta
Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson believe Shakespeare to observe most successfully
Action
Who among the following was praised and patronized as a “Ploughman Poet”?
Robert Burns
Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a projection forward in time after a devastating
atomic war?
The four Gated city
Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta provide a fictionalized portrait of poor, young
Nigerian women struggling to bring up their children in London?
Second Class Citizen
In the Ditch
In John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress who keeps Christian’s head above water in the River
of Death?
Hopeful
In Thomas More’s Utopia which leisure pastimes is not a favourite among Utopians?
Dicing and cards
In which year did the Great Exhibition take place?
1851
Queen Mab
Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelle
The Excursion
Poem by William Wordsworth
Milton
Poem by William Blake
Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is a defence of
old age against youth
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 ?
Nobility, church and commoners
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?
Beloved
Who translated Homer?
Alexander Pope
Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy is a
coming of age story
When was the English ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses lifted?
1936
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?
Celia
Waterland
Novel by Graham Swift
Darkness Visible
William Golding
Hawksmoor
Novel by Peter Ackroyd
Grimus: Roman
Novel by Salman Rushdie
