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WorksheetsUGC QUIZ-VI
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 53mins
1. “Lycidas” of Milton is an/a-------
Epic
Masque
Comedy
Elegy
In Lycidas the king has been presented as a ------------
Poet
Priest
Shepherd
None
“London” is a poem by------
Pope
Addison
Johnson
Steele
“The vanity of Human Wishes is a poem by-----
Samuel Johnson
Thomson
Cowper
Crabbe
Which poet was lamented by William Collins in his poem “In Yonder Grave a Druid Lies”
Pope
James Thomson
Crabbe
None
‘Nor second He, that road sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy’ these lines quoted from Gray’s “The Progress of Poesy” alludes to---
Shakespeare
Milton
Spencer
Donne
“The Definition of Love” is a poem by -------
Shakespeare
Donne
William Cowper
Vaughan
The phrase “the high road of life” was used by
Eliot
Kipling
Wordsworth
Coleridge
To which of the following poets does the phrase “Willing Suspension of Disbelief” apply?
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Shelley
Keats
Motiveless Malignity is a phrase from------
Eliot
Coleridge
Donne
Keats
Which of Kipling’s poems is an English version of Indian lullaby?
Our Lady of the Snows
Shiva and the Grasshopper
Mother O’ Mine
Gungadin
From which poem of poe these lines have been taken? “Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door!”
“To One in Paradise”
“Raven”
“To Helen”
“Israel”
Which is Sarojini Naidu’s first collection of poems?
The Bird of Time
The Golden Threshold
The Broken wing
The Feather of the Dawn
Which poem of Ramanujan is associated with the Hindu myth of Lord Vishnu?
“The Striders”
“Still View of Another Grace”
“Obituary”
"Breaded Fish”
Which poem of Nissim Ezekiel is a critique of the man- woman relationship in modern society?
“Island”
“Woman and Child”
“Philosophy”
“Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher”
Which poem of Daruwalla revolves around the experiences of hatred, violence and death?
Rumination
Death of a Bird
The Ghaghra in Spate
The Professor Condoles
“The Woman Hater” was written by ---
Beaumont
Fletcher
Shakespeare
Marlowe
Which of the following plays has been written by William Wycherley?
The Way of the World
She Stoops to Conquer
The Plain Dealer
The Man of Mode
Silvia is a character in which of Farquhar’s plays?
Love and a Bottle
The Constant Couple
The Recruiting Officer
The Beaux Stratagem
Which of the following is the first play written by George Etherage?
The Comical Revenge
She Would if She Would
The man of Mode
The Silent Woman
In which play of Etherage, the character Harriet appears?
The Man of Mode
The Comical Revenge
She Would if She Would
None
Who is the author of the play “The Provoked Wife”
John Vanbrugh
William Congreve
William Wycherley
George Etherage
The subtitle of Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer” is -----
The Mistakes of a Night
The Mistakes of a Morning
The mistakes of a Evening
The Mistakes of a Noon
“Malapropism” is coined after a character in ----
The Way of the World
Love of Love
The Rivals
None
Love’s Last Shift is a sentimental comedy written by ----
Colley Cibber
Collins
Steele
Goldsmith
Problem plays deals with---
Social problems
Ethical problems
Moral problems
Problems of Humanism
Which is the most famous play of “Angry Young Men” movement?
Room at the Top
The Birthday Party
The Outsider
Look Back in Anger
The ‘Theatre of Absurd’ is linked with----
Sartre
Samuel Beckett
Osborne
Wesker
‘The Kitchen-Sink drama’ is marked by----
Neo-realism
Pseudo-realism
Kitchen scenes
Domestic life
Who said that human sadness cannot be abolished?
Arthur Adamov
Jean Genet
Harold Pinter
Eugene Ionesco
What is the relationship of Stanley with Meg in Pinter’s “The Birthday party”
Motherly
Full of Motherliness, almost incestuous
Man-Woman love despite age difference
Caretaker and Guest
“The Hairy Ape” is the drama which can be labeled as ---
Realistic
Expressionist
American Transcendentalist
Symbolic
“The Glass Menagerie” and “A Street Car Named Desire” are the plays written by----
Eugene O’Neill
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
None
“Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is written by---
Eugene O’Neill
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Edward Albee
Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” stands for-----
Success
Love
Failure
Alcoholism
Which play of Aurobindo is posthumously published in 1858?
Rodogune
The Viziers of Bassora
Eric
Perseus, the Deliverer
The play entitled Nala and Damayanti was written by----
Sri Aurobindo
P.A.Krishnaswamy
Vasudeva rao
None
Which play of Nissim Ezekiel deals with the life of a painter?
Nalini: A Comedy
Marriage Poem: A Tragic- comedy
The Sleepwalkers
None
The play “Murder at the Prayer Meeting” which echoes the title of Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral has been written by ---
Lakhan Deb
Gurcharan das
Gieve Patel
Girish Karnad
“Chidambaram”, a flashback chronicle play in 14 episodes has been written by------
K.Nagarajan
Girish Karnad
M.V.Rama Sharma
Gurcharan Das
Frotesque praises the constitution of his country in---
De Natura Lagis Naturae
The Governance of England
De Laudibus Legum Anliae
None
Which was the first printed English book?
The Boke of Historyes of Jason
The Recuyell of the Historye of Troye
Morte d” Arthur
The Foure Sonnes of Aymon
“Praise of Folly” is a famous piece of satire written by ----
Desiderius Erasmus
Roger Ascham
Sir Thomas More
William Tyndale
“The Schoolmaster” is a well known work written by-----
Roger Ascham
William Tyndale
Sir Thomas More
Erasmus
Which of the following is the earliest version of Bible?
William Tyndale’s “English New Testament
Miles Coverdale’s “English Bible”
Cromwell’s “Great Bible”
King James ‘s “Authorised Version of Bible”
New Atlantis” is Modelled on-----
More’s “Utopia”
Jonson’s “Epigramme”
Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander”
None
Counsels, Civil and Moral is the subtitle given to----
Bacon’s essays
Hooker’s pamphlet
Montaigne’s essays
Nashe’s novel
Who said? ‘Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man’
Bacon
Deloney
Montaigne
Lodge
"Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity” is a monumental book by---
Hooker
Bacon
Deloney
Nashe
The most important critical work of Elizabethan period is-----
Apologie for Poetrie
The School of Abuse
Defence of Rhyme
Arcadia
During imprisonment in Tower, Walter Raleigh wrote-----
History of the World
Discovery of Guiana
The Discoveries
The Pilgrimage
Walton’s most famous work “The Complete Angler” was published in -----
1603
1623
1633
1653
Which of the following voyages was undertaken by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels?
Voyage to Brobdingnag
Voyage to Congo
Voyage to malyan Islands
Voyage to Denmark
In Swift’s “The battle of the Books” who is the commander of the ancients?
Dryden
Milton
Hobbes
William Temple
Steele at first signed his essays with the name of -----
Issac Walton
Issac Mount
Issac Bickerstaff
Issac Newton
Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb collaborated in-----
Sonnets
Tales from Shakespeare
Lyrics
Short Stories
Hazlitt’s “The Spirit of the Age” came out in the year------
1820
1822
1823
1825
In Macaulay’s “The History of England”, merits and defects of his “Essays” are----
Repeated
Removed
Exaggerated
Stressed upon
The first important work of John Stuart Mill was----
Utilitarianism
Principles of Political Economy
System of Logic
Logica
“The Wealth of Nations” is a prose work on economics written by----
Addison
Gibbon
Adam Smith
Burke
Kamala Satthianadhan has written the first collection of short stories-----
Love and Life Behind Purdah
Stories of Indian Christian Life
Sunbabies: Studies in the Child Life of India
None
Who has written the story “Who Cares”?
Attiah Hosain
Santha Rama Rau
Cornelia Sorabji
Ela Sen
Which author is a gifted story teller with a touch of humour?
Sujata bala
Diana Mehta
Malathi rao
Shashi Deshpande
The recent collection of stories “A Bride for the Sahib” has been written by-----
Mulk raj Anand
R.K.Narayan
Khushwant Singh
Raja Rao
In which story Basavaraj Naikar has tried to bring in the Oedipus myth with the slight twist?
She Wanted a Child
The Anonymous Letter
Mother’s Husband
Fulfillment
Whose story are typically journalistic?
Bharathi Mukherjee
Shashi Deshpande
Anita Desai
Nergis Dalal
Which story of Lahiri has Indo- Pak war of 1971 and the birth of Bangladesh as it’s backdrop?
The Third and Final Continent
When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine
A Real Durwan
A Temporary matter
Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpretor of Maladies” has how many stories?
8
9
10
11
Epistolary novel is a novel-----
Which is a science fiction
Which is based on a letter written by a great man
Which is based on fanciful stories of ghosts
Which is written in the form of letters
Fielding’s “Shamela” seems to be the parody of----
Pamela
Clarissa
Robinson Crusoe
Moll Flanders
