UGC NET ENGLISH - IMPORTANT SHORT FACTS [SHEET 1]
UGC NET
ENGLISH
IMPORTANT SHORT FACTS
[SHEET 1]
[SHEET 1]
1. Between which sets of dates did Chaucer live ?
Answer. 1340-1400
2. Chaucer lived during the reigns of :
Answer. Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV
3. Who of the following was the closest contemporary of Chaucer
?
Answer. William Langland
4. The Hundred Years' War began in the :
Answer. 14th Century
5. The Hundred Year's War was fought between :
Answer. England and France
6. Caedmon and Cynewulf were two famous poets. They were :
Answer. Chaucer's predecessors
7. Beowulf is the most important AngloAnswer. Saxon
literary work. It is
Answer. an epic
8. Who is the author of Beowulf ?
Answer. Anonymous
9. In which century did Norman Conquest take place ?
Answer. 11th Century
10. Black Death is the name given to
Answer. The epidemic of plague that occurred in Chaucer's Age
11. The War of Roses figures in the works of
Answer. Shakespeare
12. Who of the following is called 'the morning star of the
Reformation' ?
Answer. John Wycliffe
13. How many pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales are going on the pilgrimage ?
Answer. 29
14. How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
represent the military profession?
Answer. 3
15. How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the
Prologue ?
Answer. 8
16. What is the name of the Inn where the pilgrims assemble for
the night ?
Answer. Tabard Inn
17. It is believed that the Host at the Inn was a real man. What
is the real name of the Host at the Inn?
Answer. Harry Bailly
18. To which shrine are the pilgrims going ?
Answer. Shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury
19. How many women characters figure in the Prologue to the
Canterbury Tales ?
Answer. 3
20. One of the Tales in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is in prose.
Which of these ?
Answer. The Parson's Tale
21. One of the portraits in the Prologue is that of Wife of
Bath. What is Bath ?
Answer. The name of the town to which she belonged
22. "He was as fresh as the month of May." This line
occurs in the Prologue. Whom does this line refer to ?
Answer. The Squire
23. Who is the author of Troylus and Cryseyde ?
Answer. Chaucer
24. Who is the author of Piers the Plowman ?
Answer. William Langland
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25. ––– was a prominant prose
writer of the AngloAnswer. Saxon period.
Answer. Venerable Bede
26. ––––– is Chaucer's prose work?
Answer. Treatise
on the Astrolabe
27. The War of Roses was fought between :
Answer. The
House of York and The House of Lancaster
28. The legend of "King Arthur and His Knights of the Round
Table" was first related in :
Answer. Layamon's Brut
29. –––– of Chaucer does not belong to Chaucer's 'Italian period
?
Answer. Canterbury
Tales
30. Chaucer was not indebted for his sources to ––––
Answer. Homer
31. Who were Lollards ?
Answer. The
followers of Wycliffe
32. Wyclif's Bible is a translation of :
Answer. Latin
Texts
33. John Wycliffe was the first to render the Bible into
English. In which year did he do so ?
Answer. 1380
34. The Piers the Plowman is a series of
visions seen by its author Langland. What was the first vision that he saw ?
Answer. The
Vision of a 'Field Full of Folks'
35. –––– wrote a famous poem mourning the death of Chaucer ?
Answer. Occleve in
The Governail of Princes
36. Sir Thomas Malory's famous Morte de Arthur was
written in :
Answer. 1470
37. Caxton was the first to set up a printing press in England.
In which year did he set up the press ?
Answer. 1476
38. Which of the following is the earliest version of the Bible
?
Answer. William
Tyndale's English New Testament
39. Tottle's Miscellany is a famous anthology
of 'Songs and Sonnets'. Whose songs and sonnets are predominant in it ?
Answer. Wyatt
and Surrey
40. Thomas Mores' Utopia was first written in
Latin in 1516. In which year was it rendered into English ?
Answer. 1551
41. Roister Doister is believed to be the first
regular comedy in English. Who wrote it ?
Answer. Nicholas
Udall
42. Gorboduc is believed to be the first regular tragedy in
English. Who wrote it ?
Answer. Sackville
and Norton in collaboration
43. Chaucer's Physician in the Doctor of Physique was
heavily dependent upon
Answer. Astrology
44. Who described Chaucer as "The Well of English undefiled
?"
Answer. Spenser
45. In which month did Chaucer's pilgrims go on their pilgrimage
?
Answer. April
46. In the Prologue the fading Chivalry of
Middle Ages is represented by the aged knight, white the budding chivalry of
Chaucerean times is represented by
Answer. the
Squire
47. What was the prize for the best storyAnswer.teller
among the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales ?
Answer. A
free supper
48. More's Utopia was inspired by
Answer. Plato's Republic
49. ––– is the hero in Spenser's Faerine Queene?
Answer. Prince Arthur
50. ––– contained 88 sonnets of Spenser
Answer. Amoretti
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[SHEET 3]
1. Forest of Arden appears in the play____.
Answer. As
You Like It
2. Who is the author of Steel Glass ?
Answer. Gascoigne
3. In which year was the Globe Theatre built ?
Answer. 1599
4. Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published
in
Answer. 1609
5. Who was the author of Endymion ?
Answer. John
Lyly
6. Who is the author of Venus and Adonis ?
Answer. Shakespeare
7. How many plays did Shakespeare write in all ?
Answer. 37
8. When Sidney died, Spenser wrote an elegy on his death. Which
of the following ?
Answer. Astrophel
9. Spenser's Epithalamion is
Answer. a
wedding hymn
10. Spenser's Amoretti is
Answer. a
collection of his love sonnets
11. Spenser wrote a series of sonnets in honour of his lady
love, Elizabeth Boyle, whom he later married. What title did he give to this
series ?
- Amoretti
12. Roister Doister is believed to be the first
real comedy in English. Who wrote it ?
- Nicholas Udall
13. Gorboduc is believed to be our first real
tragedy. It was written in collaboration by :
- Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton
14. The first tragedy Gorboduc was later
entitled :
- Ferrex and Porrex
15. Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie is a reply to
:
- Gosson's School of Abuse
16. In his Apologie for Poetrie, Sidney :
Answer. defends
the Three Dramatic Unities
17. –––– has written only Tragedies.
Answer. Marlowe
18. "Was this the face that launched a thousand
ships?" In which play does this line occur ?
Answer. Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
19. Who used the phrase 'Marlowe's mighty line' for Marlowe's
Blank Verse ?
Answer. Ben Jonson
20. Who said, "Shakespeare has only heroines and no
heroes" ?
Answer. Ruskin
21. For what is the phrase 'The Mousetrap' used by Shakespeare ?
Answer. The play within the play in Hamlet
22. Spenser dedicates the Preface to The Faerie Queene to :
Answer. Sir Walter Raleigh
23. The Faerie Queene is an allegory. In this
Queen Elizabeth is allegorized through the character of :
Answer. Gloriana
24. Who calls Spenser the 'Poets' Poet' ?
Answer. Charles Lamb
25. In which work did Spenser first use the Spenserian stanza ?
Answer. Faerie Queene
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26. In the original scheme or plan of the Faerie Queene as
designed by Spenser, it was to be completed in
- Twelve Books
27. How many Cantos are there in Book I of the Faerie Queene?
- Twelve
28. In the complete plan of the Allegory in the Faerie Queene, Spenser
designed to have twelve books
in it, but he could not complete the whole plan. How many Books
now exist ?
- Six
29. In the Dedicatory Letter, Spenser Says that the real
beginning of the allegory in the Faerie Queene
is to be found in
- Book XII
30. The Faerie Queene is basically a moral allegory. From whom
did Spenser derive this concept of
moral allegory ?
- Aristotle
31. 'Spenser writ no language.' Who said this ?
- Ben Jonson
32. Spenser divided his Shepheardes Calender into
twelve Ecologues. Why did he do so ?
- Because there are twelve months in a year
33. Who is the author of The New Atlantis ?
- Bacon
34. Bacon's Essays are modelled on the Essais of :
- Montaigne
35. Who is the author of Novum Organum ?
Answer. Bacon
36. To whom does Spenser dedicate his Shepheardes
Calendar ?
Answer. Sir Philip Sidney
37. How many Essays were published in Bacon's First Edition of
Essays in 1597 ?
Answer. Ten
38. How many essays of Bacon were published in his third and
last edition of Essays in 1625 ?
Answer. 58
39. "......... a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin
of gold and silver, which may make the metal work
the better, but it embaseth it". In which essay of Bacon do
these lines occur ?
Answer. Of Truth
40. "A place sheweth the man and it sheweth some to the
better, and some to the worse." In which essay
of Bacon do these lines occur ?
Answer. Of Great Place
41. "Frailty thy name is woman." Who says this ?
Answer. Hamlet
42. "Life is a tale, told by an idiot, Full of sound and
fury signifying nothing." In which play do these lines occur ?
Answer. Macbeth
43. "This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars
This other Eden, demiAnswer.paradise ....."
These highly patriotic lines are spoken by :
Answer. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
44. "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact."
In which play do these lines occur ?
Answer. A Mid Answer. Summer Night's Dream
45. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be :
Answer. Polonius (Hamlet)
46. "We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep"
Who speaks these lines ?
Answer. Prospero
47. "Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more."
In which play do these lines occur ?
Answer. Macbeth
48. "Others abide our question. Thou art free,
We ask and ask Answer. thou smilest and
art still
Out Answer. topping knowledge."
These lines are written about Shakespeare. Who was written them?
Answer. Matthew Arnold
49. Shakespeare is called 'The Bard of Avon'. Why is he so
called ?
Answer. Shakespeare was born at Stratford on the banks
of the river Avon
50. Ben Jonson's comedies are called 'Comedies of Humour'. Why ?
Answer. Each of them deals with a particular 'Humour' in human
nature
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[SHEET 5]
1. Whose Age is called the Jacobean Age ?
Answer. The Age of James I
2. Who headed the Puritan Government formed after the execution
of Charles I ?
Answer. Cromwell
3. Who was appointed the Latin Secretary during the Puritan
Government ?
Answer. Milton
4. Samson Agonistes is :
Answer. an epic written by Milton
5. Milton wrote Areopagitica
Answer. to defend people's Freedom of Speech
6. How many Books are there in Paradise Lost ?
Answer. 12
7. In which Book of Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve meet
for the first time ?
Answer. Book IV
8. The author of Hudibras is ––––
Answer. Samuel Butler
9. The term 'Metaphysical School of Poets' was first applied to
Donne and this companion poets by :
Answer. Dr. Johnson
10. –––– was not a Caroline prose writer.
Answer. John Bunyan
11. Which of the following was the author of 'Religio
Medici' ?
Answer. Sir Thomas Browne
12. 'Fame is the last infirmity of noble mind'. In which poem of
Milton's does this line occur ?
Answer. Lycidas
13. Name the woman whom Samson Agonistes loved and who betrayed
him :
Answer. Delilah
14. Milton became blind at the age of :
Answer. 44
15. Lycidas is a pastoral elegy written by
Milton on the death of his friend
Answer. Edward King
16. Who says of Milton : 'Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt
apart' ?
Answer. Wordsworth
17. 'Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour !'
Who remembers Milton in a sonnet so passionately ?
Answer. Wordsworth
18. How many times did Milton marry ?
Answer. Three times
19. In which year did Dryden die ?
Answer. 1700
20. Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy is :
Answer. a critical treatise on dramatic art developed
through dialogues
21. Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy develops through dialogues
amongst four interlocutors. They are
Answer. Eugenius, Crites, Neander, Lisideius
22. In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy Neander
speaks for :
Answer. Modern English Dramatists
23. ––––– is a play written by Dryden
Answer. Conquest of Granada
24. Dryden's All For Love is based on :
Answer. Antony and Cleopatra
25. Who is the author of The Essay on Human
Understanding ?
Answer. John Locke
26. Who is the author of Mr. Badman ?
Answer. Bunyan
27. The central theme of Dryden's The Hind and the
Panther is :
Answer. Defence of Roman Catholicism
28. Dryden said in one of his critical treatises : "Our
numbers (Versification) were in their nonage till these two appeared."
Whom does Dryden refer to
in this observation ?
Answer. Waller and Denham
29. Samuel Butler's Hudibras is a satire on :
Answer. Puritanism
30. One of the following works of John Bunyan is
autobiographical. Which is it ?
Answer. Grace Abounding
31. Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress is :
Answer. an allegory
32. Who is the author of the play 'Venice
Preserved ?
Answer. Thomas Otway
33. 'Gather ye rose Answer. buds while
ye may'. This is the opening line of a popular lyric written by Robert Herrick.
Which of the following ?
Answer. 'Counsel to Girls'
34. ––– is written by William Congreve
Answer. The Way of the World
35. The poets who sided with king Charles I against the
Parliament are called:
Answer. Cavalier Poets / Caroline Poets
36. The author of The Rival Queens is
Answer. Nathaniel Lee
37. "Here is God's plenty". Who is Dryden referring to
in this remark ?
Answer. Chaucer
38. The Faerie Queene, Divina Comedia, and Pilgrim's
Progress are alike in one respect. What is it ?
Answer. All are allegories
39. The Restoration playwright who gave a happy ending to King
Lear is
Answer. Nahum Tate
40. The theatres were closed down during the Commonwealth period
in England. In which year were they reopened ?
Answer. 1660
41. The Age of Restoration is so called because ––– was restored
to the English throne:
Answer. Charles II
42. There are four interlocutors in Dryden's Essay of Dramatic
Poesy. Which of them represents Dryden?
Answer. Neander
43. "Here lies my wife, here let her rest !
Now she is at rest, and so am I ! "
This was a proposed epitaph to be engraved on the tomb of his
wife. Who was this poet ?
Answer. John Dryden
44. Dryden's The Medal is a personal satire on
:
Answer. Shaftesbury
45. –––– is a Cavalier poet.
Answer. Richard Lovelace
46. Which of the following is hailed as 'The Father of English
Criticism' by Dr. Johnson ?
Answer. Dryden
47. Name the most important Caroline poet :
Answer. Robert Herrick
48. "The Restoration marks the real moment of birth of our
Modern English Prose."
Answer. Matthew Arnold
49. Samuel Pepy's Diary was written in coded
language. When was it deciphered ?
Answer. 1825
50. Zimri, Duke of Buckingham, is a character that appears in
Dryden's :
Answer. Absolem and Achitophel
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1. The epithet
'Augustan' was first applied to Dryden by :
Answer. Dr. Johnson
2. The eighteenth
century in English literature is also called :
Answer. The Age of Reason
3. The term 'Augustan'
was first applied to a School of Poets by :
Answer. Dr. Johnson
4. Who called the
eighteenth century "Our admirable and indispensable eighteenth
Century" ?
Answer. Matthew Arnold
5. Who called the
eighteenth century 'the Age of Prose and Reason' ?
Answer. Matthew Arnold
6. 'Dryden found
English poetry brick and left it marble.' Who made this remark ?
Answer. Dr. Johnson
7. 'If Pope be not a
poet, where is poetry to be found? Who made this observation ?
Answer. Dr. Johnson
8. The Neo Answer. Classical
Age in English Literature follows the models of :
Answer. Roman Literature
9. In the 'Life' of
which poet did Dr. Johnson apply the term 'Metaphysical School of Poets' ?
Answer. Cowley
10. James II ascended
the throne after :
Answer. Charles II
11. Who started the
Journal The Tatler ?
Answer. Steele
12. "I shall
endeavour to enlighten morality with wit, and to temper wit with
morality." Who made this endeavour ?
Answer. Addison
13. Referring to one
of his novels, Jonathan Swift said,"Good God! What a genius I had when I
wrote that book ! " Which novel was he referring to ?
Answer. A Tale of the Tub
14. In a letter to
Pope, Swift wrote : "I heartily hate and detest that animal called man.
"This is the central theme of one of his novels. Which is it ?
Answer. Gulliver's Travels
15. Swift wrote in one
of his works: "A young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a
most delicious nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed,
roasted, baked, or
boiled." Where does he make this observation ?
Answer. A Modest Proposal
16. Who said "The
proper study of mankind is man ?"
Answer. Pope
17. Iliad and Odyssey were
translated into English by:
Answer. Pope
18. Which of the
following deals with the Popish Plot'?
Answer. Absolem and Achitophel
19. Who wrote, 'True
wit is what oft was thought but never so well expressed ?"
Answer. Pope
20. Thomas Rhymer was
a :
Answer. Critic
21. The
Elegie in praise of John Donne was written by
Answer. Thomas Carew
22. The play by
Marston that foreshadows Shakespeare's The Tempest is
Answer. The Malcontent
23. In Joseph
Andrews Fielding parodies :
Answer. Richardson's Pamela
24. The 'Four Wheels
of the Van of the English Novel are
Answer. Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Richardson
25. 'Pope can fix in
one couplet more sense than I can do in six'. Who said this ?
Answer. Swift
26. The 'Coffee House
Culture' flourished in :
Answer. The Age of Dr. Johnson
27. "A little
knowledge is a dangerous thing
Drink deep or taste
not the Pierian spring."
Whose observation is
this ?
Answer. Pope
28. A certain critic
says that Pope's Essay on Criticism is 'all stolen'. Which of the following
says this ?
Answer. Lady M.W.Montagu
29. Matthew
Prior's The Town and Country Mouse is a parody of Dryden's :
Answer. The Hind and the Panther
30. Who is the author
of Moll Flanders ?
Answer. Daniel Defoe
31. The 'Lives' of how
many poets were written by Dr. Johnson in his "Lives of the
Poets' ?
Answer. 52
32. Dr. Johnson left
out one important poet in his Lives of the Poets. Who was that poet
?
Answer. Goldsmith
33. Who is the author
of The School for Scandal ?
Answer. Sheridan
34. Who is the author
of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ?
Answer. Edward Gibbon
35. Who is the author
of Inquiry Concerning Political Justice ?
Answer. William Godwin
36. Who is the author
of Castle of Otranto ?
Answer. Horace Walpole
37. The
Mysteries of Udolpho is a :
Answer. Gothic Novel
38. What is a
Picaresque Novel ?
Answer. a novel whose hero is a wandering rogue
39. Who called Milton
"the mighty mouthed inventor of harmonies"
Answer. Tennyson
40. Fielding's Joseph
Andrews is a burlesque based on :
Answer. Richardson's Pamela
41. James
Thomson's Seasons is a Nature poem divided into :
Answer. four parts
42. Who is the author
of the poem Grongar hill ?
Answer. John Dyer
43. Thomas Browne, the
greatest prose writer of the puritan age, was by profession ––––.
Answer. a doctor
44. Thomas Chatterton
died at the age of :
Answer. 18
45. Bishop Percy
became famous as an antiquarian by the publication of :
Answer. Reliques of Ancient Minstrels
46. Which poem begins
with the line "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" ?
Answer. Gray Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard
47. Gray's The
Bard and The Progress of Poesy are:
Answer. Pindaric Odes
48. The theme of
Gray's Bard is the curse inflicted upon King Edward I and his
progeny by :
Answer. some poets killed by him
49. 'Nor second He,
that rode sublime upon the seraph.wings of Ecstasy"
they allude to
Answer. Milton
50. Louix XVI of
France was executed by the Revolutionaries in :
Answer. 1793
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IMPORTANT SHORT FACTS
[SHEET 7]
1. Why is the year
1798 taken to be the year of the beginning of the Romantic Movement ?
Answer. Because it was the year in which
Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads was published.
2. Who was or were the
authors of the Lyrical Ballads?
Answer. Both Wordsworth and Coleridge
3. Wordsworth's Prelude is
a :
Answer. Autobiographical poem
4. "God made the
country and man made the town." Who wrote this line ?
Answer. Cowper
5. "We are laid
asleep in body and become a living soul."
In which poem of
Wordsworth does this line occur ?
Answer. Tintern Abbey
6. Collins's poem
"In Yonder Grave a Druid lies" is an elegy on the death of :
Answer. James Thomson
7. In
Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock satirises :
Answer. Both Shelley and Coleridge
8. Who is the author
of The Four Ages of poetry ?
Answer. Thomas Love Peacock
9. "It is a truth
universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must
be in
want of a wife".
In which novel of Jane Austen does this sentence occur ?
Answer. Pride and Prejudice
10. To whom does the
phrase, "willing suspension of disbelief" apply ?
Answer. Coleridge
11. "When lovely
woman stoops to folly" occurs in a play written by :
Answer. Goldsmith
12. "But Europe
at that time was thrilled with joy
France standing on the
top of golden hours,
And human nature
seeming born again."
Which 'time' is
Wordsworth referring to in these lines ?
Answer. The period of the French Revolution
13. "Bliss was it
in that dawn to be alive. But to be young was very heaven." These lines
occur in Wordsworth's :
Answer. The Prelude
14. "Hell is a
city much like London." Whose view is this ?
Answer. Shelley
15. Who was the
intellectual father of the French Revolution ?
Answer. Rousseau
16. The Mariner
in The Ancient Mariner kills :
Answer. an albatross
17. "O Lady, we
receive but what we give,
And in our life alone
does Nature live."
Who is the 'Lady'
Wordsworth addresses in these lines ?
Answer. Dorothy Wordsworth, his sister
18. Robert
Southey's A Vision of Judgement is a ludicrous eulogy of :
Answer. George II
19. Shelley was
expelled from the Oxford University for the publication of :
Answer. On the Necessity of Atheism
20. Who was the poet
who woke one morning and found himself famous ?
Answer. Lord Byron
21. Who called Shelley
"an ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain"
?
Answer. Matthew Arnold
22. Name the novelist
whose novels are called Waverly Novels ?
Answer. Walter Scott
23. 'Elia' is a penAnswer.name
assumed by :
Answer. De Quincey
24. Shelley's Defence
of Poetry is a rejoinder to :
Answer. Love Peacock's The Four Ages of Poetry
25. Adonais is
a Pastoral Elegy written on the death of
Answer. Keats
26. Madeline is the
heroine of a narrative poem of Keats. Which poem ?
Answer. Eve of St. Agnes
27. About Keats, a
critic said "He is with Shakespeare". Who is he ?
Answer. Matthew Arnold
28. Who said about
himself : "My name is writ in water."
Answer. Keats
29. Who said. "I
have a smack of Hamlet myself" ?
Answer. Coleridge
30. Shelley's death
was caused by :
Answer. drowning
31. "Nothing of
him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea
change
Into something rich
and strange."
These lines from
Ariel's song were inscribed upon
the grave of the poet
:
Answer. Shelley
32. "Life, like a
dome of many coloured glass,
Stains the white
radiance of Eternity
Until death tramples
it to fragments, die."
From which of the poem
are the above lines quoted ?
Answer. Shelley's Adonais
33. One of Keats's
Odes ends with the line :
"For ever wilt
thou love, and she be fair."
Answer. Ode on a Grecian Urn
34. "A thing of
beauty is a joy for ever." A verseAnswer.tale
of Keats begins with
this line. Identify the tale :
Answer. Endymion
35. "We look
before and after
And pine for what is
not."
In which of Shelley's
lyrics do these lines occur ?
Answer. To a Skylark
36. "He prayeth
best, who loveth best,
All things, great and
small
In which of the poem
do these lines occur ?
Answer. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
37. Who is the author
of Confessions of an English Opium Eater ?
Answer. Thomas De Quincey
38. Who is the author
of Life of Scott ?
Answer. John Lockhart
39. Who has written Tales
from Shakespeare ?
Answer. Charles Lamb
40. The author
of Biographia Literaria is
Answer. Coleridge
41. Who is considered
to be the most remarkable Historical Novelist of the Romantic Period ?
Answer. Walter Scott
42. Ode of
wit is a small masterpiece of
Answer. Abraham Cowley
43. The first poet
laureate of England was
Answer. Ben Jonson (unofficial)
44. Edinburgh Review
was founded in :
Answer. 1802
45. The severe
criticism of Endymion which is believed to have hastened Keats's death appeared
in :
Answer. Quarterly Review
46. Referring to Adonais,
Shelley said, "I have dipped my pen in consuming fire for his
destroyers."
Answer. The Editors of both Quarterly Review and
Blackwood's Magazine
47. After whom did
Wordworth become the Poet Laureate of England ?
Answer. Robert Southey
48. After whose
refusal the Poet Laureateship was conferred on Robert Southey ?
Answer. Walter Scott
49. Dryden's Absalom
and Achitophel, dealt with the people's plan to prevent James from coming
to the throne and make Duke of Monmouth the king, which is known as
Answer. The Popish plot
50. Why is the year
1837 taken as the closing year of the Romantic Period and beginning of the
Victorian Age ?
Answer. Because Queen Victoria succeeded to the
throne in this year
UGC NET ENGLISH
IMPORTANT SHORT FACTS
[SHEET 8]
1. Queen Victoria
succeeded to the throne of England after :
Answer. William IV
2. The Golden Jubilee
of Queen Victoria's reign was celebrated in :
Answer. 1887
3. Queen Victoria
became the Empress of India in :
Answer. 1876
4. The Oxford Movement
was basically a :
Answer. Religious Movement
5. The Oxford Movement
was started by :
Answer. the scholars of the Oxford University
6. What was common
amongst D.G.Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne ?
Answer. They all belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite
School
7. Who was the leader
of the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists in England ?
Answer. D.G.Rossetti
8. Who is the author
of The Blessed Damozel ?
Answer. D.G.Rossetti
9. Who is the author
of Aurora Leigh ?
Answer. Elizabeth Barret Browning
10. The basic theme of
Arnold's Literature and Dogma is
Answer. Theology
11. Arnold's Culture
and Anarchy deals with the subject of
Answer. Education
12. Darwin's The
Origin of Species by Natural Selection challenges :
Answer. Biblical concept of the creation of the
world
13. What is common
amongst Cardinal Newman, John Keble, Henry Newman and Stanley ?
Answer. They were all associated with the Oxford
Movement
14. Which of the
following novels is called a "Novel without a hero" ?
Answer. Vanity Fair
15. What is meant by
'Wessex' ?
Answer. The region in which Hardy's novels are
set
16. George Eliot's
novel Romola is a :
Answer. Historical novel
17. 'George Eliot' was
the penAnswer.name of :
Answer. Marian Evans
18. Charles Dickens
left one novel unfinished. Which is it ?
Answer. Edwin Drood
19. Who wrote :
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him?"
Answer. Voltaire
20. Tennyson was
appointed Poet Laureate after :
Answer. William Wordsworth
21. In Memoriam Tennyson
mourns the death of :
Answer. Arthur Hallam
22. Matthew
Arnold's Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of :
Answer. Hugh Clough
23. Who defines poetry
thus: "Poetry is a criticism of life, under the conditions fixed for such
a criticism
by the laws of poetic
truth and poetic beauty" ?
Answer. Arnold
24. The
Dynasts in an epic drama written by Hardy. It deals with :
Answer. The Napoleonic Wars
25. In which of
Hardy's novels the scene of a wife's auction takes place ?
Answer. The Mayor of Casterbridge
26. Wilkie Collins as
a novelist is best known for :
Answer. the creation of sensational plots
27. The phrase 'Stormy
Sisterhood' is applied to :
Answer. Bronte SistersAnswer.Charlotte,
Emily, Anne
28. What award was
given to Hardy as a great novelist?
Answer. Order of Merit
29. In one of his
novels Hardy says: "Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general
drama of
pain." It is in
Answer. The Mayor of Casterbridge
30. In one of his
novels Hardy quotes Shakespeare's remark :
"As flies to the
wanton boys are we to the gods,
They kill us for their
sport."
In which of the novels
does he quote these lines?
Answer. Tess
31. Hardy believed in
the philosophy of :
Answer. Immanent Will
32. Who is the author
of Prometheus Bound ?
Answer. Elizabeth Barret Browning
33. The poet who
speaks of Nature as 'Red in Tooth and Claw' ?
Answer. Tennyson
34. Which of the
following novels of Charles Dickens is most autobiographical ?
Answer. David Copperfield
35. Who is the author
of the novel No Name ?
Answer. Wilkie Collins
36. Who is the author
of 'Unto This Last ?
Answer. Ruskin
37. Dickens said about
one of his novels : " I like this the best" which novel was he
referring to ?
Answer. David Copperfield
38. Who is the author
of Dr. Jakyll and Mr. Hyde ?
Answer. R.L.Stevenson
39. Charles Dickens's
characters are generally :
Answer. Flat
40. In Dickens's A
Tale of Two Cities', the two cities referred to are :
Answer. London and Paris
41. The theme of
Tennyson's Idylls of the King is :
Answer. The story of King Arthur and His Round
Table
42. Tennyson's Queen
Mary is a :
Answer. Drama
43. "Let
knowledge grow from more to more,
But more of reverence
in us dwell :
"That mind and
soul, according well,
May make one music as
before."
These lines are quoted
from Tennyson's
In Memoriam. What do
these lines imply ?
Answer. Compromise between knowledge and faith
44. "And may
there be no moaning of the bar ,
When I put out to sea
! "
These lines occur in
Tennyson's :
Answer. Crossing the Bar
45. How many years did
Tennyson take in brooding over and finishing In Memoriam ?
Answer. Seventeen years
46. Which poem of
Browning's begins with the lines:
"Grow old along
with me !
The best is yet to be
."
Answer. Rabbi Ben Ezra
47. "I was ever a
fighter, so one fight more,
The best and the last
!"
In which poem of
Browning do these lines occur?
Answer. Prospice
48. "God's in his
heaven Answer.
All's right with the
world !"
In which poem do these
lines occur ?
Answer. Pippa Passes
49. "Truth sits
upon the lips of dying men." In which poem of Matthew Arnold's does this
line occur ?
Answer. Sohrab and Rustum
50. "Others abide
our question. Thou art free
We ask and ask : Thou
smilest and art still,
Out topping
knowledge."
In these lines from a
poem written by Matthew Arnold, 'Thou' refers to :
Answer. Shakespeare
UGC NET ENGLISH
IMPORTANT SHORT FACTS
[SHEET 9]
1. Who was the Editor
of an anthology of verse entitled Georgian Poetry ?
Answer. Edward Marsh
2. What is common
amongst Rupert Brooke, Julian Grenfell and Siegfried Sassoon as poets ?
Answer. They were all war poets
3. Who succeeded
Robert Bridges as Poet Laureate of England ?
Answer. John Masefield
4. Who was the author
of the popular tragic play Riders to the Sea ?
Answer. J.M.Synge
5. The poet who
supported British Imperialism in India?
Answer. Rudyard Kipling
6. Rudyard Kipling was
born in :
Answer. Bombay
7. "Oh, East is
East, and West is West, And never the twain can meet." Whose lines are
these ?
Answer. Rudyard Kipling
8. Who is the author
of The Testament of Beauty ?
Answer. Robert Bridges
9. T.S.Eliot dedicated
his The Waste Land to :
Answer. Ezra Pound
10. In how many parts
is The Waste Land divided ?
Answer. Five parts
11. Which of the poem
of T.S.Eliot ends with the lines?
"Datta,
Dayadhvam, Damyata, Shanti, Shanti,
Shanti."
Answer. The Waste Land
12. James
Joyce's Ulysses is based on the pattern of :
Answer. Homer's Odyssey
13. James Joyce
initiated :
Answer. Stream of consciousness technique
14. Which of James
Joyce's novels resembles a Vast Musical Composition ?
Answer. Finnegans Wake
15. The novel of
D.H.Lawrence, that has autobiographical overtones
Answer. Sons and Lovers
16. D.H.Lawrence
called one of his novels "Thought Adventure". Which is it ?
Answer. Kangaroo
17.
D.H.Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover is generally called an
obscene novel. Why ?
Answer. It's theme is sexual experience
18. The phrase
'religion of the blood' is associated with
Answer. D.H.Lawrence
19. Virginia Woolf was
the daughter of an eminent
critic. Who is he ?
Answer. Leslie Stephen
20. A character in
Virginia Woolf's novels changes his sex. Which is that novel ?
Answer. Orlando
21. What is the
Central theme of Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman ?
Answer. A woman's search for a fitting mate
22. In which of Shaw's
plays the 'Chocolate cream hero' appears ?
Answer. Arms and the Man
23. The phrase 'Don
Juan in Hell' occurs in Shaw's :
Answer. Man and Superman
24. What is the
central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession ?
Answer. Prostitution
25. The central theme
of Galesworthy's Strife is :
Answer. Labour and Capital conflict
26. "The law is
what it is a majestic edifice sheltering
all of us, each stone
of which rests on another."
In which play of
Galsworthy do these lines occur?
Answer. Justice
27. In which year was
Bernard Shaw awarded the Nobel Prize ?
Answer. 1925
28. Joseph Conrad's
novels are generally set in the background of :
Answer. the sea
29.
E.M.Forster's A Passage to India deals with :
Answer. relationship between the Britishers and Indians
30. Who is the author
of Human Bondage ?
Answer. Somerset Maugham
31. Who has written
the poem If ?
Answer. Rudyard Kipling
32. Who is the author
of Two Cheers for Democracy?
Answer. E.M.Forster
33. Who is the
originator of 'Sprung Rhythm' ?
Answer. Hopkins
34. The term 'Stream
of conciousness' was first used by:
Answer. William James
35. The terms
'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with :
Answer. Hopkins
36. One of Shaw's
plays was proscribed on the charge of obscenity. Which was it ?
Answer. Mrs. Warren's Profession
37. Who called 'Hamlet' an
artistic failure ?
Answer. T.S.Eliot
38. The World
Within World is an autobiography of :
Answer. Stephen Spender
39. Who said,
"For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single
sentence ?"
Answer. G. B. Shaw
40. Aldous Huxley
borrowed the title 'Brave New World' from :
Answer. Shakespeare's Tempest
41. Who was the author
of Light of Asia ?
Answer. Edwin Arnold
42. Who was the author
of The Earthly Paradise ?
Answer. William Morris
43. The Seven
Types of Ambiguity was written by :
Answer. William Empson
44. Who was believed
to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglocatholic
in religion ?"
Answer. T.S.Eliot
45. Who was the
founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England ?
Answer. Virginia Woolf
46. How should Rudyard
Kipling be rightly called ?
Answer. An Anglo Indian poet
47. George Orwell's
Nineteen Eighty Four is
Answer. A prophetic novel
48. Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World is
Answer. A prophetic novel
49. Who initiated the
term 'New Criticism' in English literary criticism ?
Answer. John Crowe Ransom
50. In which
verse Answer. form is T.S. Eliot's Waste
Land written ?
Answer. Free Verse
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