UGC NET MCQ WITH KEY
1. Who presented the Victorian New Woman in the novel Diana of the Crossways, an
account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage?
a. Graham Greene
b. W.M. Thackeray
c. George Meredith
d. Arnold Bennett
2. Jim Hawkins is the hero of a novel by :
a. Charles Dickens
b. R.L. Stevenson
c. Joseph Conrad
d. Thomas Hardy
3. Which novel by Thomas Hardy attacks the institution of marriage and presents
“erotolepsy”?
a. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
b. Jude the Obscure
c. The Return of the Native
d. Far from the Madding Crowd
4. Which of the following has not been categorized by Coleridge as the three best
plots in literature?
a. Hamlet
b. The Alchemist
c. Oedipus
d. Tom Jones
5. Which is George Eliot’s first novel, in which a woman is tried for murdering her
own child?
a. Silas Marner
b. Romola
c. Daniel Deronda
d. Adam Bede
6. Who of the following was an editor of the magazine Bentley’s Miscellany?
a. Thomas Hardy
b. Edward Fitzgerald
c. W.M. Thackeray
d. Charles Dickens
7. The collection of biographies by Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians, was
published in :
a. 1866
b. 1874
c. 1901
d. 1918
8. On Love is an essay by :
a. Walter Scott
b. William Blake
c. Lord Byron
d. P.B. Shelley
9. Homage to Catalonia by ………. is an account of the Spanish Civil War.
a. W.H. Auden
b. Graham Greene
c. Louis MacNeice
d. George Orwell
10. Who made this famous remark : “Keats as a poet is abundantly and enchantingly
sensuous”?
a. Tennyson
b. D.G. Rossetti
c. Matthew Arnold
d. D.H. Lawrence
11. The first of Lamb’s essays to be published under the name “Elia” was :
a. The South Sea House
b. Oxford in the Vacation
c. Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
d. The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple
12. Who wrote the poem, “The Triumph of Life”?
a. Wordsworth
b. Shelley
c. Keats
d. Southey
13. About which of his poems did John Keats say, “a feverish attempt rather than a deed
accomplished”?
a. Endymion
b. Hyperion
c. Lamia
d. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
14. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is :
a. Boisterous humour
b. Humour and pathos
c. Subtlety of irony
d. Stream of conciousness
15. Who wrote the poem “Defence of Lucknow”, an imperialistic poem depicting racial
pride; celebrating the English defenders of the Lucknow Residency from the Indian
revolutionaries in the event called “Sepoy Mutiny”?
a. Browning
b. Tennyson
c. Swinburne
d. Rossetti
16. Which of the following poets does NOT belong to the ‘Lake School’?
a. Keats
b. Coleridge
c. Southey
d. Wordsworth
17. To whom is Keats’ Endymion dedicated?
a. Leigh Hunt
b. Milton
c. Shakespeare
d. Thomas Chatterton
18. Which of the following novels has a “Chinese-box” structure?
a. Middlemarch
b. Jane Eyre
c. Mansfield Park
d. Wuthering Heights
19. Who of the following had an elliptical style?
a. Robert Browning
b. Alfred Tennyson
c. Alexander Pope
d. John Dryden
20. A Tale of Two Cities opens in 1775. Which of the following does NOT characterize
this period?
a. The British colonies in America have just presented a list of grievances to the King of
England
b. Crime and capital punishment plague the streets of London
c. The guillotine stands as a much feared fixture on the streets of Paris
d. The French aristocracy causes great suffering among the lower classes
21. Who of the following novelists depicted idealized portraits of difficult lives?
a. Sentimental
b. Gothic
c. Victorian
d. Modernist
22. Who edited the popular magazine Household Words?
a. Thackeray
b. Hardy
c. Chesterton
d. Dickens
23. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is a :
a. Bildungsroman
b. Romance
c. Social satire
d. Historical fiction
24. What symbol does Dickens use in A Tale of Two Cities to portend the bloodshed of
the French Revolution?
a. The Dover mail coach
b. The broken wine cask
c. Tellson’s Bank
d. The gullotine
25. Which is Bernard Shaw’s only paly with an American setting?
a. The Man of Destiny
b. You Never Can Tell
c. Major Barbara
d. The Devil’s Disciple
26. Which play of Bernard Shaw has a plot borrowed from Tobias Smollett’s Peregrine
Pickle?
a. Pygmalion
b. The Apple Cart
c. Widower’s houses
d. Arms and the Man
27. Who wrote “Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte” in April 1814, only days after learning
that Napoleon had surrendered his empire to the Allies and agreed unconditionally to exile on the
island of Elba?
a. Walter Scott
b. Lord Byron
c. Duke of Wellington
d. Charles Lamb
28. “O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb” – these are lines written by :
a. Wordsworth
b. Southey
c. Shelley
d. Keats
29. Who wrote these lines: “The stars of midnight shall be dear / To her; and she shall
lean her ear / In many a secret place”?
a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Shelley
d. D.G. Rossetti
30. Which of Shaw’s plays show the unmistakable influence of Anton Chekhov’s
play The Cherry Orchard?
a. Candida
b. Heartbreak House
c. The Devil’s Disciple
d. Arms and the Man
31. The character Eugene Marchbanks appears in Shaw’s play :
a. Arms and the Man
b. Man and Superman
c. Candida
d. The Doctor’s Dilemma
32. The title of Keats’s ballad, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” means :
a. The rich girl without pity
b. The young girl without pity
c. The beautiful girl without pity
d. The country lass without pity
33. Whom does Shelley call “wolves” in Adonais?
a. Publishers
b. Critics and journalists
c. Readers
d. All of these
34. Which type of play is NOT meant for acting?
a. Poetic play
b. Masque
c. Morality play
d. Closet play
35. The one-act play The Man of Destiny by Bernard Shaw is a satire on :
a. War
b. Fame
c. Hero-worship
d. None of these
36. The tragedy Otho the Great is the only poetic play by :
a. John Keats
b. Robert Bridges
c. Samuel Richardson
d. None of these
37. The long poem “Bishop Blougram’s Apology” by Robert Browning is a :
a. Meditation on death and life
b. Meditation on art and life
c. Satire on Judaism
d. Satire on the Roman Catholic Church
38. Which of the following plays by Shaw has an interlude?
a. Candida
b. Saint Joan
c. The Apple Cart
d. Pygmalion
39. …………… was the last collection of essays by Ruskin published during the
lifetime.
a. Modern Painters
b. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
c. The Stones of Venice
d. Unto this Last
40. “Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain.” – this is a
line from :
a. The Mayor of Casterbridge
b. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
c. Jude the Obscure
d. The Return of the Native
41. “The Selfish Giant” is a famous short story by :
a. Katherine Mansfield
b. O. Henry
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Somerset Maugham
42. Who said, “I write in metre, because I am about to use a language different from that
of prose”?
a. William Wordsworth
b. S.T. Coleridge
c. P.B. Shelley
d. Matthew Arnold
43. Who of the following was NOT an advocate of “art for life’s sake”?
a. Bernard Shaw
b. A.C. Swinburne
c. Matthew Arnold
d. William Morris
44. “The Education of Nature” is a poem by :
a. William Cowper
b. William Wordsworth
c. Thomas Chatterton
d. James Thompson
45. Who wrote this :
“One impulse from a vernal wood / May teach you more of man, / Of moral evil and of
good, / Than all the sages can”?
a. Thomas Gray
b. Robert Southey
c. William Wordsworth
d. P.B. Shelley
46. “Peter Bell : A Tale,” a long poem by Wordsworth, was mocked by …………… in
his poems, “Peter Bell the Third”.
a. Coleridge
b. Southey
c. Byron
d. Shelley
47. “Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir
George Beaumont” (in short, “Peele Castle”) is a poem by :
a. Thomas Gray
b. Robert Southey
c. William Wordsworth
d. P.B. Shelley
48. 'Bells and Pomegranates' are Browning’s symbolic terms for :
a. Poetry, thought
b. Spirit, body
c. Love, life
d. None of these
49. Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called “the finest novel in
the English language with an Indian theme” :
a. Kim
b. A Passage to India
c. Train to Pakistan
d. Private Life of an Indian Prince
50. From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s Sense
and Sensibility?
I. Elinor II. Marianne III.
Mary IV. Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :
a. I and III
b. I and II
c. II and III
d. III and IV
51. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane of when
he visits Lowood School?
a. Laziness
b. Stealing
c. Lying
d. Spying
52. The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular history of a
remarkable woman, _____.
a. St. Agnes
b. St. Theresa
c. St. Joan
d. St. Carmel
53. Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” combines two poetic forms.
I. Lyric II. Dramatic Monologue III.
Ballad IV. Sonnet
The right combination according to the code is :
a. II and III
b. I and IV
c. I and III
d. II and IV
54. Which Byron poem begins in the following manner : “I want a hero : an uncommon
want, when every year and month sends forth a new one”?
a. Beppo
b. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
c. Don Juan
d. The Vision of Judgement
55. Match the character with the work :
i. Pip - (a) Middlemarch
ii. Causaubon - (b) Great
Expectations
iii. Becky Sharp - (c) Wuthering
Heights
iv. Heathcliff - (d) Vanity Fair
a. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-d
b. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-c, (iv)-a
c. (i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
d. (i)-a, (ii)-d, (iii)-c, (iv)-b
56. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House is pointedly critical of England’s :
a. Privy Council
b. Court of Appeal
c. Court of Chancery
d. military courts
57. Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins with the sombre description of Egdon Heath?
a. Jude the Obscure
b. The Return of the Native
c. Far from the Madding Crowd
d. Under the Greenwood Tree
58. Which of the following poems by W. B. Yeats repudiates the sensual world in
favour of “the artifice of eternity”?
a. “Under Ben Bulben”
b. “Among School Children”
c. “Sailing to Byzantium”
d. “After Long Silence”
59. Which of the following historical events does Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the
Light Brigade” describe?
a. The Battle of Hastings
b. The Wars of the Roses
c. The Battle of Waterloo
d. The Crimean War
60. In the opening book of The Prelude Wordsworth mentions famously that he was
“fostered alike by __________ and __________”.
Pick out the right pair.
(i) nature (ii) fear (iii)
imagination (iv) beauty
a. (i) and (iii)
b. (iv) and (ii)
c. (iv) and (iii)
d. (i) and (iv)
61. Which statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner”?
a. To kill a living creature is immoral.
b. People should honour and respect all living things.
c. Prayer can accomplish miracles.
d. True harmony is achieved only through cooperative effort.
62. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?
I. Sir Walter Scott II. Charlotte Bronte III. Maria
Edgeworth IV. Jane Austen
The right combination according to the code is :
a. I and II
b. II and III
c. I and III
d. III and IV
63. Which among the following texts purports to be the autobiography of a mad German
philosopher edited by an equally fictitious editor?
a. Sartos Resartus
b. The Dream of Gerontius
c. The Professor
d. Felix Holf
64. Which 19th century novelist expressed a wish to “exterminate the race” of Indians
following the 1857 Mutiny in India?
a. William Makepeace Thackeray
b. Charles Dickens
c. George Eliot
d. Anthony Trollope
65. For Coleridge, our power to perceive symbols gleaned from the world about us is
related to the category of :
a. primary imagination
b. secondary imagination
c. fancy
d. intuition
66. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude?
a. Durham
b. Glasgow
c. Cambridge
d. Oxford
67. Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up”?
a. Barkis
b. Micawber
c. Uriah Heep
d. Miss Havisham
68. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the _______ romance.
a. Oriental
b. French
c. Gothic
d. Popular
69. Which of the following is another term to describe “art for art’s sake”?
a. Aestheticism
b. Didacticism
c. Realism
d. Neo-realism
70. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by :
a. Bernard Shaw
b. W.B. Yeats
c. J.M. Synge
d. John Osborne
71. Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is a defence of :
a. youth against old age
b. old age against youth
c. power against knowledge
d. knowledge against power
72. Which of W.M. Thackeray’s novel’s closing sentence is this?“Which of us is happy
in this world ? Which of us has his desire ? Or, having it, is satisfied?”
a. The History of Henry Esmond
b. Vanity Fair
c. The Luck of Barry Lyndon
d. Pendennis
73. In Biographia Literaria S.T. Coleridge defines the imagination as the faculty by
which :
a. the soul perceives the phenomenal diversity of the universe.
b. the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.
c. the mind acquires images by its associative power.
d. the mind separates images by its discriminatory power.
74. P.B. Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo is a conversation between Julian and Count
Maddalo. Who do these two characters represent?
a. Julian represents Keats and Count Maddalo, Byron
b. Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, Byron
c. Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin
d. Julian represents Mary Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin
75. Antagonised by what he considered to be the provinciality of the Lake Poets, Byron
wrote the preface to which of his works as a rebuke to Wordsworth’s own introduction to “The
Thorn”?
a. The Prisoner of Chillon
b. Don Juan
c. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
d. The Vision of Judgement
76. In which of the following poems does Tennyson describe and condemn the spirit of
aestheticism whose sole religion is the worship of beauty and of knowledge for their own sake
and which ignores human responsibility and obligations of one’s fellowmen?
a. “The Princess”
b. “The Lady of Shalott”
c. “The Palace of Art”
d. “Tithonus”
77. Which writer of the Romantic period makes the following comment : “The poet is
far from dealing only with these subtle and analogical truths. Truth of every kind belongs to him,
provided it can bud into any kind of beauty, or is capable of being illustrated and impressed by
poetic faculty”?
a. Wordsworth in Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
b. William Hazlitt in “On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth”
c. Leigh Hunt in What is Poetry?
d. Keats in one of his letters to his brother
78. Which of the following is NOT true of the novels of Charles Dickens?
a. They deal with the problems of the discontents of an urban civilization.
b. The plots are strikingly tight-knit.
c. They share a sense of fun and determining optimism.
d. They incorporate elements of popular contemporary culture.
79. Which of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance?
a. Walter Pater
b. Oscar Wilde
c. Thomas Carlyle
d. John Ruskin
80. Which of the following work did Walter Scott compile?
a. The Lay of the Last Minstrel
b. Marmion
c. Ivanhoe
d. The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border
81. Who among the following critics discerned in the Shelleyan Lyric the signs “of
adolescence”?
a. F.R. Leavis
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Cleanth Brooks
d. I.A. Richards
82. Which of the following is described by Robert Browning as “A Child’s Story”?
a. “Bells and Pomegranates”
b. “Pauline”
c. “Fifine at the Fair”
d. “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
83. Which contemporary discussions on women's rights did Tennyson's The
Princess address?
a. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
b. the debate on women's suffrage
c. the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the
establishment of the first women's college in London
d. the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power
84. What does the phrase "White Man's Burden," coined by Kipling, refer to?
a. Britain's manifest destiny to colonize the world
b. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the
world
c. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
d. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the
world's problems
85. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by "Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe"?
a. Britain's preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
b. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
c. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose
found in Goethe.
d. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically
for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.
86. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings
of the mind in flux?
a. Maria Edgeworth
b. Sir Walter Scott
c. Thomas De Quincey
d. Jane Austen
87. Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century
aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the
seeds of modernism?
a. art for intellect's sake
b. art for God's sake
c. art for the masses
d. art for art's sake
88. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as "the special and opportune art of the
modern world"?
a. the novel
b. nonfiction prose
c. the lyric
d. comic drama
89. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women?
a. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
b. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
c. It often concerned the domestic world with which women were familiar.
d. All of them
90. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in
periodicals?
a. Thomas Carlyle
b. Matthew Arnold
c. Charles Dickens
d. All of them
91. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism?
a. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
b. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure
to the greatest number
c. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a
given piece of literature
d. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
92. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary
representation?
a. the working classes
b. women
c. the lower middle classes
d. slaves
93. Which ruler's reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era?
a. King Henry VIII
b. Queen Elizabeth I
c. Queen Victoria
d. King John
94. Who exemplified the role of the "peasant poet"?
a. John Clare
b. John Keats
c. Robert Burns
d. a and c only
95. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and
language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before
this poet's time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?
a. William Blake
b. Alfred Lord Tennyson
c. Samuel Johnson
d. William Wordsworth
96. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to "'Peddlers,' and 'Boats,' and
'Wagons'!"?
a. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden
b. the clumsiness of Shakespeare's plots
c. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
d. Wordsworth's devotion to the ordinary and everyday
97. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the :
a. troubadour
b. chorister
c. minstrel
d. bard
98. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?
a. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
b. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
d. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë
99. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the
following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is
to the writing of her own era?
a. Fanny Burney
b. Mary Wollstonecraft
c. Jane Austen
d. Mary Shelley
100. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of
Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements?
a. supernatural phenomenon
b. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden's persecution
c. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
d. secret passages, decaying mansions, gloomy castles, and dark dungeons
e. all of the above
101. The ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen’ was set by France’s
National Constituent Assembly in :
a. 1989
b. 1789
c. 1799
d. 1798
102. Which poem of Wordsworth’s is known as the ‘Poem to Coleridge’?
a. The Prelude
b. The Lucy poems
c. We are Seven
d. Peter Bell
103. The only play written by William Wordsworth is :
a. The Recluse
b. The Prelude
c. The Borderers
d. Tintern Abbey
104. Which among the following is Wordsworth’s first publication of poems?
a. The Prelude
b. An Evening Walk
c. Lyrical Ballads
d. The Lucy Poems
105. Jane Austen’s novel First Impressions was published as :
a. Pride and Prejudice
b. Sense and Sensibility
c. Emma
d. Sanditon
106. Which among the following is a work of Leigh Hunt?
a. Captain Sword and Captain Pen
b. Sir Ralph Esher
c. Men, Women and Books
d. All of them
107. Utilitarianism is a book written by who among the following :
a. Leigh Hunt
b. Thomas De Quincey
c. J.S. Mill
d. Charles Lamb
108. Mary Wollstonecraft’s political pamphlet A Vindication of the Rights of Men was
written in response to :
a. Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
b. Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man
c. J.S. Mill’s On Liberty
d. Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime
and Beautiful
109. Match the following :
i. 1714 – 1837 - (a) Edwardian Era
ii. 1811 – 1820 - (b) Georgian Era
iii. 1837 – 1901 - (c) The Regency
iv. 1901 – 1914 - (d) Victorian Era
a. (i)–b, (ii)–c, (iii)–d, (iv)–a
b. (i)–d, (ii)–a, (iii)–b, (iv)–c
c. (i)–a, (ii)–d, (iii)–b, (iv)-c
d. (i)–c, (ii)–a, (iii)–d, (iv)–b
110. Match the following :
i. 1832 - (a) Ascension of
Queen Victoria to the throne
ii. 1837 - (b) First Opium
War
iii. 1839 - (c) The Indian
Mutiny
iv. 1857 - (d) First Reform
Act
a. (i)–b, (ii)–c, (iii)–d, (iv)–a
b. (i)–d, (ii)–a, (iii)–b, (iv)–c
c. (i)–a, (ii)–d, (iii)–b, (iv)-c
d. (i)–c, (ii)–a, (iii)–d, (iv)–b
111. Which among the following quotation is from Alfred Tennyson?
a. "Nature, red in tooth and claw"
b. "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all"
c. "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers"
d. All of them
112. 'Sartor Resartus' is a notable philosophical novel written by :
a. George Eliot
b. George Meredith
c. R.L. Stevenson
d. Thomas Carlyle
113. Callista is a novel written by :
a. Cardinal Newman
b. John Ruskin
c. Leslie Stephen
d. Walter Pater
114. Poems of 1912-1913 are an elegiac sequence written by :
a. Thomas Hardy
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. W.H. Auden
d. Stephen Spender
115. Match the following Hardy’s novels with their alternative titles :
i. Tess of the d’Urbervilles - (a) The Life
and Death of a Man of Character
ii. The Mayor of Casterbridge - (b) A
Comedy in Chapters
iii. The Well – Beloved - (c) A Pure
Woman Faithfully Presented
iv. The Hand of Ethelberta - (d) A Sketch
of a Temperament
a. (i)–b, (ii)–c, (iii)–d, (iv)–a
b. (i)–d, (ii)–a, (iii)–b, (iv)–c
c. (i)–a, (ii)–d, (iii)–b, (iv)-c
d. (i)–c, (ii)–a, (iii)–d, (iv)–b
116. ‘Middlemarch’ is a realistic novel by :
a. George Eliot
b. Emily Bronte
c. Anne Bronte
d. Anne Isabella Thackeray
117. Which among the following is a work of Thackeray?
a. The Rose and the Ring
b. The Adventures of Philip
c. A Shabby Genteel Story
d. All of them
118. Who among the following was the editor of the Victorian magazine The Woman’s
World?
a. George Eliot
b. George Meredith
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Leslie Stephen
119. ‘The Habit of Perfection’ is an ascetic poem written by :
a. Gerard Hopkins
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. W.H. Auden
d. Stephen Spender
120. Which among the following is a work of Gerard Hopkins?
a. God’s Grandeur
b. The Sonnets of Desolation
c. As Kingfishers Catch Fire
d. All of them
1. C
2. B
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. D
7. D
8. D
9. D
10. C
11. A
12. B
13. A
14. C
15. B
16. A
17. D
18. D
19. A
20. C
21. C
22. D
23. C
24. B
25. D
26. A
27. B
28. C
29. A
30. B
31. C
32. C
33. B
34. D
35. C
36. A
37. D
38. C
39. D
40. A
41. C
42. B
43. B
44. B
45. C
46. D
47. C
48. A
49. A
50. B
51. C
52. B
53. C
54. C
55. C
56. C
57. B
58. C
59. D
60. B
61. B
62. C
63. A
64. B
65. A
66. C
67. B
68. C
69. A
70. A
71. B
72. B
73. B
74. B
75. B
76. C
77. C
78. B
79. A
80. A
81. B
82. B
83. C
84. B
85. C
86. D
87. D
88. B
89. D
90. D
91. B
92. C
93. C
94. D
95. D
96. D
97. D
98. C
99. C
100. E
101. B
102. A
103. C
104. A
105. A
106. D
107. C
108. A
109. A
110. B
111. D
112. D
113. A
114. A
115. D
116. A
117. D
118. C
119. A
120. D
account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage?
a. Graham Greene
b. W.M. Thackeray
c. George Meredith
d. Arnold Bennett
2. Jim Hawkins is the hero of a novel by :
a. Charles Dickens
b. R.L. Stevenson
c. Joseph Conrad
d. Thomas Hardy
3. Which novel by Thomas Hardy attacks the institution of marriage and presents
“erotolepsy”?
a. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
b. Jude the Obscure
c. The Return of the Native
d. Far from the Madding Crowd
4. Which of the following has not been categorized by Coleridge as the three best
plots in literature?
a. Hamlet
b. The Alchemist
c. Oedipus
d. Tom Jones
5. Which is George Eliot’s first novel, in which a woman is tried for murdering her
own child?
a. Silas Marner
b. Romola
c. Daniel Deronda
d. Adam Bede
6. Who of the following was an editor of the magazine Bentley’s Miscellany?
a. Thomas Hardy
b. Edward Fitzgerald
c. W.M. Thackeray
d. Charles Dickens
7. The collection of biographies by Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians, was
published in :
a. 1866
b. 1874
c. 1901
d. 1918
8. On Love is an essay by :
a. Walter Scott
b. William Blake
c. Lord Byron
d. P.B. Shelley
9. Homage to Catalonia by ………. is an account of the Spanish Civil War.
a. W.H. Auden
b. Graham Greene
c. Louis MacNeice
d. George Orwell
10. Who made this famous remark : “Keats as a poet is abundantly and enchantingly
sensuous”?
a. Tennyson
b. D.G. Rossetti
c. Matthew Arnold
d. D.H. Lawrence
11. The first of Lamb’s essays to be published under the name “Elia” was :
a. The South Sea House
b. Oxford in the Vacation
c. Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
d. The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple
12. Who wrote the poem, “The Triumph of Life”?
a. Wordsworth
b. Shelley
c. Keats
d. Southey
13. About which of his poems did John Keats say, “a feverish attempt rather than a deed
accomplished”?
a. Endymion
b. Hyperion
c. Lamia
d. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
14. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style is :
a. Boisterous humour
b. Humour and pathos
c. Subtlety of irony
d. Stream of conciousness
15. Who wrote the poem “Defence of Lucknow”, an imperialistic poem depicting racial
pride; celebrating the English defenders of the Lucknow Residency from the Indian
revolutionaries in the event called “Sepoy Mutiny”?
a. Browning
b. Tennyson
c. Swinburne
d. Rossetti
16. Which of the following poets does NOT belong to the ‘Lake School’?
a. Keats
b. Coleridge
c. Southey
d. Wordsworth
17. To whom is Keats’ Endymion dedicated?
a. Leigh Hunt
b. Milton
c. Shakespeare
d. Thomas Chatterton
18. Which of the following novels has a “Chinese-box” structure?
a. Middlemarch
b. Jane Eyre
c. Mansfield Park
d. Wuthering Heights
19. Who of the following had an elliptical style?
a. Robert Browning
b. Alfred Tennyson
c. Alexander Pope
d. John Dryden
20. A Tale of Two Cities opens in 1775. Which of the following does NOT characterize
this period?
a. The British colonies in America have just presented a list of grievances to the King of
England
b. Crime and capital punishment plague the streets of London
c. The guillotine stands as a much feared fixture on the streets of Paris
d. The French aristocracy causes great suffering among the lower classes
21. Who of the following novelists depicted idealized portraits of difficult lives?
a. Sentimental
b. Gothic
c. Victorian
d. Modernist
22. Who edited the popular magazine Household Words?
a. Thackeray
b. Hardy
c. Chesterton
d. Dickens
23. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is a :
a. Bildungsroman
b. Romance
c. Social satire
d. Historical fiction
24. What symbol does Dickens use in A Tale of Two Cities to portend the bloodshed of
the French Revolution?
a. The Dover mail coach
b. The broken wine cask
c. Tellson’s Bank
d. The gullotine
25. Which is Bernard Shaw’s only paly with an American setting?
a. The Man of Destiny
b. You Never Can Tell
c. Major Barbara
d. The Devil’s Disciple
26. Which play of Bernard Shaw has a plot borrowed from Tobias Smollett’s Peregrine
Pickle?
a. Pygmalion
b. The Apple Cart
c. Widower’s houses
d. Arms and the Man
27. Who wrote “Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte” in April 1814, only days after learning
that Napoleon had surrendered his empire to the Allies and agreed unconditionally to exile on the
island of Elba?
a. Walter Scott
b. Lord Byron
c. Duke of Wellington
d. Charles Lamb
28. “O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb” – these are lines written by :
a. Wordsworth
b. Southey
c. Shelley
d. Keats
29. Who wrote these lines: “The stars of midnight shall be dear / To her; and she shall
lean her ear / In many a secret place”?
a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Shelley
d. D.G. Rossetti
30. Which of Shaw’s plays show the unmistakable influence of Anton Chekhov’s
play The Cherry Orchard?
a. Candida
b. Heartbreak House
c. The Devil’s Disciple
d. Arms and the Man
31. The character Eugene Marchbanks appears in Shaw’s play :
a. Arms and the Man
b. Man and Superman
c. Candida
d. The Doctor’s Dilemma
32. The title of Keats’s ballad, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” means :
a. The rich girl without pity
b. The young girl without pity
c. The beautiful girl without pity
d. The country lass without pity
33. Whom does Shelley call “wolves” in Adonais?
a. Publishers
b. Critics and journalists
c. Readers
d. All of these
34. Which type of play is NOT meant for acting?
a. Poetic play
b. Masque
c. Morality play
d. Closet play
35. The one-act play The Man of Destiny by Bernard Shaw is a satire on :
a. War
b. Fame
c. Hero-worship
d. None of these
36. The tragedy Otho the Great is the only poetic play by :
a. John Keats
b. Robert Bridges
c. Samuel Richardson
d. None of these
37. The long poem “Bishop Blougram’s Apology” by Robert Browning is a :
a. Meditation on death and life
b. Meditation on art and life
c. Satire on Judaism
d. Satire on the Roman Catholic Church
38. Which of the following plays by Shaw has an interlude?
a. Candida
b. Saint Joan
c. The Apple Cart
d. Pygmalion
39. …………… was the last collection of essays by Ruskin published during the
lifetime.
a. Modern Painters
b. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
c. The Stones of Venice
d. Unto this Last
40. “Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain.” – this is a
line from :
a. The Mayor of Casterbridge
b. Tess of the d’Urbervilles
c. Jude the Obscure
d. The Return of the Native
41. “The Selfish Giant” is a famous short story by :
a. Katherine Mansfield
b. O. Henry
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Somerset Maugham
42. Who said, “I write in metre, because I am about to use a language different from that
of prose”?
a. William Wordsworth
b. S.T. Coleridge
c. P.B. Shelley
d. Matthew Arnold
43. Who of the following was NOT an advocate of “art for life’s sake”?
a. Bernard Shaw
b. A.C. Swinburne
c. Matthew Arnold
d. William Morris
44. “The Education of Nature” is a poem by :
a. William Cowper
b. William Wordsworth
c. Thomas Chatterton
d. James Thompson
45. Who wrote this :
“One impulse from a vernal wood / May teach you more of man, / Of moral evil and of
good, / Than all the sages can”?
a. Thomas Gray
b. Robert Southey
c. William Wordsworth
d. P.B. Shelley
46. “Peter Bell : A Tale,” a long poem by Wordsworth, was mocked by …………… in
his poems, “Peter Bell the Third”.
a. Coleridge
b. Southey
c. Byron
d. Shelley
47. “Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir
George Beaumont” (in short, “Peele Castle”) is a poem by :
a. Thomas Gray
b. Robert Southey
c. William Wordsworth
d. P.B. Shelley
48. 'Bells and Pomegranates' are Browning’s symbolic terms for :
a. Poetry, thought
b. Spirit, body
c. Love, life
d. None of these
49. Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called “the finest novel in
the English language with an Indian theme” :
a. Kim
b. A Passage to India
c. Train to Pakistan
d. Private Life of an Indian Prince
50. From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s Sense
and Sensibility?
I. Elinor II. Marianne III.
Mary IV. Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :
a. I and III
b. I and II
c. II and III
d. III and IV
51. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane of when
he visits Lowood School?
a. Laziness
b. Stealing
c. Lying
d. Spying
52. The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular history of a
remarkable woman, _____.
a. St. Agnes
b. St. Theresa
c. St. Joan
d. St. Carmel
53. Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” combines two poetic forms.
I. Lyric II. Dramatic Monologue III.
Ballad IV. Sonnet
The right combination according to the code is :
a. II and III
b. I and IV
c. I and III
d. II and IV
54. Which Byron poem begins in the following manner : “I want a hero : an uncommon
want, when every year and month sends forth a new one”?
a. Beppo
b. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
c. Don Juan
d. The Vision of Judgement
55. Match the character with the work :
i. Pip - (a) Middlemarch
ii. Causaubon - (b) Great
Expectations
iii. Becky Sharp - (c) Wuthering
Heights
iv. Heathcliff - (d) Vanity Fair
a. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-d
b. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-c, (iv)-a
c. (i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
d. (i)-a, (ii)-d, (iii)-c, (iv)-b
56. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House is pointedly critical of England’s :
a. Privy Council
b. Court of Appeal
c. Court of Chancery
d. military courts
57. Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins with the sombre description of Egdon Heath?
a. Jude the Obscure
b. The Return of the Native
c. Far from the Madding Crowd
d. Under the Greenwood Tree
58. Which of the following poems by W. B. Yeats repudiates the sensual world in
favour of “the artifice of eternity”?
a. “Under Ben Bulben”
b. “Among School Children”
c. “Sailing to Byzantium”
d. “After Long Silence”
59. Which of the following historical events does Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of the
Light Brigade” describe?
a. The Battle of Hastings
b. The Wars of the Roses
c. The Battle of Waterloo
d. The Crimean War
60. In the opening book of The Prelude Wordsworth mentions famously that he was
“fostered alike by __________ and __________”.
Pick out the right pair.
(i) nature (ii) fear (iii)
imagination (iv) beauty
a. (i) and (iii)
b. (iv) and (ii)
c. (iv) and (iii)
d. (i) and (iv)
61. Which statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner”?
a. To kill a living creature is immoral.
b. People should honour and respect all living things.
c. Prayer can accomplish miracles.
d. True harmony is achieved only through cooperative effort.
62. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?
I. Sir Walter Scott II. Charlotte Bronte III. Maria
Edgeworth IV. Jane Austen
The right combination according to the code is :
a. I and II
b. II and III
c. I and III
d. III and IV
63. Which among the following texts purports to be the autobiography of a mad German
philosopher edited by an equally fictitious editor?
a. Sartos Resartus
b. The Dream of Gerontius
c. The Professor
d. Felix Holf
64. Which 19th century novelist expressed a wish to “exterminate the race” of Indians
following the 1857 Mutiny in India?
a. William Makepeace Thackeray
b. Charles Dickens
c. George Eliot
d. Anthony Trollope
65. For Coleridge, our power to perceive symbols gleaned from the world about us is
related to the category of :
a. primary imagination
b. secondary imagination
c. fancy
d. intuition
66. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude?
a. Durham
b. Glasgow
c. Cambridge
d. Oxford
67. Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up”?
a. Barkis
b. Micawber
c. Uriah Heep
d. Miss Havisham
68. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the _______ romance.
a. Oriental
b. French
c. Gothic
d. Popular
69. Which of the following is another term to describe “art for art’s sake”?
a. Aestheticism
b. Didacticism
c. Realism
d. Neo-realism
70. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by :
a. Bernard Shaw
b. W.B. Yeats
c. J.M. Synge
d. John Osborne
71. Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is a defence of :
a. youth against old age
b. old age against youth
c. power against knowledge
d. knowledge against power
72. Which of W.M. Thackeray’s novel’s closing sentence is this?“Which of us is happy
in this world ? Which of us has his desire ? Or, having it, is satisfied?”
a. The History of Henry Esmond
b. Vanity Fair
c. The Luck of Barry Lyndon
d. Pendennis
73. In Biographia Literaria S.T. Coleridge defines the imagination as the faculty by
which :
a. the soul perceives the phenomenal diversity of the universe.
b. the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.
c. the mind acquires images by its associative power.
d. the mind separates images by its discriminatory power.
74. P.B. Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo is a conversation between Julian and Count
Maddalo. Who do these two characters represent?
a. Julian represents Keats and Count Maddalo, Byron
b. Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, Byron
c. Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin
d. Julian represents Mary Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin
75. Antagonised by what he considered to be the provinciality of the Lake Poets, Byron
wrote the preface to which of his works as a rebuke to Wordsworth’s own introduction to “The
Thorn”?
a. The Prisoner of Chillon
b. Don Juan
c. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
d. The Vision of Judgement
76. In which of the following poems does Tennyson describe and condemn the spirit of
aestheticism whose sole religion is the worship of beauty and of knowledge for their own sake
and which ignores human responsibility and obligations of one’s fellowmen?
a. “The Princess”
b. “The Lady of Shalott”
c. “The Palace of Art”
d. “Tithonus”
77. Which writer of the Romantic period makes the following comment : “The poet is
far from dealing only with these subtle and analogical truths. Truth of every kind belongs to him,
provided it can bud into any kind of beauty, or is capable of being illustrated and impressed by
poetic faculty”?
a. Wordsworth in Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
b. William Hazlitt in “On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth”
c. Leigh Hunt in What is Poetry?
d. Keats in one of his letters to his brother
78. Which of the following is NOT true of the novels of Charles Dickens?
a. They deal with the problems of the discontents of an urban civilization.
b. The plots are strikingly tight-knit.
c. They share a sense of fun and determining optimism.
d. They incorporate elements of popular contemporary culture.
79. Which of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance?
a. Walter Pater
b. Oscar Wilde
c. Thomas Carlyle
d. John Ruskin
80. Which of the following work did Walter Scott compile?
a. The Lay of the Last Minstrel
b. Marmion
c. Ivanhoe
d. The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border
81. Who among the following critics discerned in the Shelleyan Lyric the signs “of
adolescence”?
a. F.R. Leavis
b. T.S. Eliot
c. Cleanth Brooks
d. I.A. Richards
82. Which of the following is described by Robert Browning as “A Child’s Story”?
a. “Bells and Pomegranates”
b. “Pauline”
c. “Fifine at the Fair”
d. “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
83. Which contemporary discussions on women's rights did Tennyson's The
Princess address?
a. the grueling working conditions for women in textile factories
b. the debate on women's suffrage
c. the need to enlarge and improve educational opportunities for women, resulting in the
establishment of the first women's college in London
d. the question of monarchical succession and if a woman should hold royal power
84. What does the phrase "White Man's Burden," coined by Kipling, refer to?
a. Britain's manifest destiny to colonize the world
b. the moral responsibility to bring civilization and Christianity to the peoples of the
world
c. the British need to improve technology and transportation in other parts of the world
d. the importance of solving economic and social problems in England before tackling the
world's problems
85. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by "Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe"?
a. Britain's preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
b. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
c. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose
found in Goethe.
d. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically
for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.
86. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings
of the mind in flux?
a. Maria Edgeworth
b. Sir Walter Scott
c. Thomas De Quincey
d. Jane Austen
87. Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century
aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the
seeds of modernism?
a. art for intellect's sake
b. art for God's sake
c. art for the masses
d. art for art's sake
88. What type of writing did Walter Pater define as "the special and opportune art of the
modern world"?
a. the novel
b. nonfiction prose
c. the lyric
d. comic drama
89. Why did the novel seem a genre particularly well-suited to women?
a. It did not carry the burden of an august tradition like poetry.
b. It was a popular form whose market women could enter easily.
c. It often concerned the domestic world with which women were familiar.
d. All of them
90. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in
periodicals?
a. Thomas Carlyle
b. Matthew Arnold
c. Charles Dickens
d. All of them
91. Which of the following best defines Utilitarianism?
a. a farming technique aimed at maximizing productivity with the fewest tools
b. a moral arithmetic, which states that all humans aim to maximize the greatest pleasure
to the greatest number
c. a critical methodology stating that all words have a single meaningful function within a
given piece of literature
d. a philosophy dictating that we should only keep what we use on a daily basis.
92. To whom did the Reform Bill of 1832 extend the vote on parliamentary
representation?
a. the working classes
b. women
c. the lower middle classes
d. slaves
93. Which ruler's reign marks the approximate beginning and end of the Victorian era?
a. King Henry VIII
b. Queen Elizabeth I
c. Queen Victoria
d. King John
94. Who exemplified the role of the "peasant poet"?
a. John Clare
b. John Keats
c. Robert Burns
d. a and c only
95. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and
language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before
this poet's time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?
a. William Blake
b. Alfred Lord Tennyson
c. Samuel Johnson
d. William Wordsworth
96. What did Byron deride with his scathing reference to "'Peddlers,' and 'Boats,' and
'Wagons'!"?
a. the neo-classical influence of Pope and Dryden
b. the clumsiness of Shakespeare's plots
c. the Orientalist fantasies of Coleridge
d. Wordsworth's devotion to the ordinary and everyday
97. Looking to the ancient past, many Romantic poets identified with the figure of the :
a. troubadour
b. chorister
c. minstrel
d. bard
98. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?
a. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
b. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
d. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë
99. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the
following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is
to the writing of her own era?
a. Fanny Burney
b. Mary Wollstonecraft
c. Jane Austen
d. Mary Shelley
100. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of
Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements?
a. supernatural phenomenon
b. perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden's persecution
c. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes
d. secret passages, decaying mansions, gloomy castles, and dark dungeons
e. all of the above
101. The ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen’ was set by France’s
National Constituent Assembly in :
a. 1989
b. 1789
c. 1799
d. 1798
102. Which poem of Wordsworth’s is known as the ‘Poem to Coleridge’?
a. The Prelude
b. The Lucy poems
c. We are Seven
d. Peter Bell
103. The only play written by William Wordsworth is :
a. The Recluse
b. The Prelude
c. The Borderers
d. Tintern Abbey
104. Which among the following is Wordsworth’s first publication of poems?
a. The Prelude
b. An Evening Walk
c. Lyrical Ballads
d. The Lucy Poems
105. Jane Austen’s novel First Impressions was published as :
a. Pride and Prejudice
b. Sense and Sensibility
c. Emma
d. Sanditon
106. Which among the following is a work of Leigh Hunt?
a. Captain Sword and Captain Pen
b. Sir Ralph Esher
c. Men, Women and Books
d. All of them
107. Utilitarianism is a book written by who among the following :
a. Leigh Hunt
b. Thomas De Quincey
c. J.S. Mill
d. Charles Lamb
108. Mary Wollstonecraft’s political pamphlet A Vindication of the Rights of Men was
written in response to :
a. Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
b. Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man
c. J.S. Mill’s On Liberty
d. Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime
and Beautiful
109. Match the following :
i. 1714 – 1837 - (a) Edwardian Era
ii. 1811 – 1820 - (b) Georgian Era
iii. 1837 – 1901 - (c) The Regency
iv. 1901 – 1914 - (d) Victorian Era
a. (i)–b, (ii)–c, (iii)–d, (iv)–a
b. (i)–d, (ii)–a, (iii)–b, (iv)–c
c. (i)–a, (ii)–d, (iii)–b, (iv)-c
d. (i)–c, (ii)–a, (iii)–d, (iv)–b
110. Match the following :
i. 1832 - (a) Ascension of
Queen Victoria to the throne
ii. 1837 - (b) First Opium
War
iii. 1839 - (c) The Indian
Mutiny
iv. 1857 - (d) First Reform
Act
a. (i)–b, (ii)–c, (iii)–d, (iv)–a
b. (i)–d, (ii)–a, (iii)–b, (iv)–c
c. (i)–a, (ii)–d, (iii)–b, (iv)-c
d. (i)–c, (ii)–a, (iii)–d, (iv)–b
111. Which among the following quotation is from Alfred Tennyson?
a. "Nature, red in tooth and claw"
b. "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all"
c. "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers"
d. All of them
112. 'Sartor Resartus' is a notable philosophical novel written by :
a. George Eliot
b. George Meredith
c. R.L. Stevenson
d. Thomas Carlyle
113. Callista is a novel written by :
a. Cardinal Newman
b. John Ruskin
c. Leslie Stephen
d. Walter Pater
114. Poems of 1912-1913 are an elegiac sequence written by :
a. Thomas Hardy
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. W.H. Auden
d. Stephen Spender
115. Match the following Hardy’s novels with their alternative titles :
i. Tess of the d’Urbervilles - (a) The Life
and Death of a Man of Character
ii. The Mayor of Casterbridge - (b) A
Comedy in Chapters
iii. The Well – Beloved - (c) A Pure
Woman Faithfully Presented
iv. The Hand of Ethelberta - (d) A Sketch
of a Temperament
a. (i)–b, (ii)–c, (iii)–d, (iv)–a
b. (i)–d, (ii)–a, (iii)–b, (iv)–c
c. (i)–a, (ii)–d, (iii)–b, (iv)-c
d. (i)–c, (ii)–a, (iii)–d, (iv)–b
116. ‘Middlemarch’ is a realistic novel by :
a. George Eliot
b. Emily Bronte
c. Anne Bronte
d. Anne Isabella Thackeray
117. Which among the following is a work of Thackeray?
a. The Rose and the Ring
b. The Adventures of Philip
c. A Shabby Genteel Story
d. All of them
118. Who among the following was the editor of the Victorian magazine The Woman’s
World?
a. George Eliot
b. George Meredith
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Leslie Stephen
119. ‘The Habit of Perfection’ is an ascetic poem written by :
a. Gerard Hopkins
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. W.H. Auden
d. Stephen Spender
120. Which among the following is a work of Gerard Hopkins?
a. God’s Grandeur
b. The Sonnets of Desolation
c. As Kingfishers Catch Fire
d. All of them
1. C
2. B
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. D
7. D
8. D
9. D
10. C
11. A
12. B
13. A
14. C
15. B
16. A
17. D
18. D
19. A
20. C
21. C
22. D
23. C
24. B
25. D
26. A
27. B
28. C
29. A
30. B
31. C
32. C
33. B
34. D
35. C
36. A
37. D
38. C
39. D
40. A
41. C
42. B
43. B
44. B
45. C
46. D
47. C
48. A
49. A
50. B
51. C
52. B
53. C
54. C
55. C
56. C
57. B
58. C
59. D
60. B
61. B
62. C
63. A
64. B
65. A
66. C
67. B
68. C
69. A
70. A
71. B
72. B
73. B
74. B
75. B
76. C
77. C
78. B
79. A
80. A
81. B
82. B
83. C
84. B
85. C
86. D
87. D
88. B
89. D
90. D
91. B
92. C
93. C
94. D
95. D
96. D
97. D
98. C
99. C
100. E
101. B
102. A
103. C
104. A
105. A
106. D
107. C
108. A
109. A
110. B
111. D
112. D
113. A
114. A
115. D
116. A
117. D
118. C
119. A
120. D
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