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UGC NET ENGLISH - IMPORTANT SHORT FACTS [SHEET 1]

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IMPORTANT SHORT FACTS
[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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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

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IMPORTANT SHORT FACTS

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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

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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