WorksheetsUGC-NET -Quiz - I
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
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Class
Date
1.
Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century:
a)
Advancement of Learning
b)
Gulliver’s Travels
c)
The Spectator
d)
An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
2.
One of the following texts was published earlier than 1955. Identify the text:
a)
William Golding, the Inheritors
b)
Philip Larkin, the Less Deceived
c)
William Empson, Collected Poems
d)
Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot
3.
Which of the following awards is not given to Indian–English writers?
a)
The Booker Prize
b)
The Sahitya Akademi Award
c)
The Gyanpeeth
d)
Whitbread Prize
4.
The Puritans shut down all theatersin England in
a)
1642
b)
1640
c)
1659
d)
1660
5.
Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language?
a)
Bishop Berkeley
b)
Samuel Johnson
c)
Edmund Burke
d)
Horace Walpole
6.
Which of the following novels depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East London?
a)
How far can you go
b)
The White Teeth
c)
An Equal Music
d)
Brick Lane
7.
The Enlightenment was characterized by
a)
Accelerated industrial production and general well–being of the public.
b)
A belief in the universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific experimentation.
c)
The Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life.
d)
An undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will.
8.
In which Jane Austen novel do you find the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth?
a)
Emma
b)
Mansfield Park
c)
Persuasion
d)
Northanger Abbey
9.
“Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from
a)
Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimage
b)
Hakluyt’s Voyages
c)
The Book Named the Governour
d)
Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
10.
In which play do we see a reworking of E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India as a camaeo?
a)
The Birthday Party
b)
A Resounding Tinkle
c)
Indian Ink
d)
Amadeus
11.
Which of the following poems uses terzarima?
a)
John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
b)
P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
c)
William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
d)
Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
12.
Which of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing?
a)
A reflection
b)
A speaking picture
c)
A refraction
d)
A reflected picture
13.
The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by
a)
Edwin Muir
b)
Edward Thomas
c)
Robert Bridges
d)
Coventry Patmore
14.
The term homology means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social classes in terms of homologies
a)
Raymond Williams
b)
Christopher Caudwell
c)
Lucien Goldmann
d)
Antonio Gramsci
15.
The preliminary version of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was called
a)
Stephen Hero
b)
Bloom’s Blunder
c)
A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
d)
The Dead
16.
In the closing paragraph of The Trial two men accompany Joseph K to a part of the city to eventually execute him. The place is
a)
A Public Park
b)
A Church
c)
A Quarry
d)
An Abandoned Factory
17.
Which of the following plays gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher Socrates?
a)
The Birds
b)
The Wasps
c)
The Clouds
d)
The Frogs
18.
What do the prosodic features of a language tell us?
a)
The speaker’s native language and its cognate languages.
b)
The speaker’s age, emotional state, social class, educational background, geographical provenance etc
c)
The speaker’s self-confidence or lack of it.
d)
The speaker’s command of the resources of the language spoken by him/her and their deployment.
19.
Who is John Keats’s ‘Sylvan Historian’?
a)
Fanny Brawne
b)
Nightingale
c)
The Grecian Urn
d)
The Bridge of Quietness
20.
E.M. Forster uses some recurrent images in A Passage to India. Pick the odd one out:
a)
Wasp
b)
Stone
c)
Thunder
d)
Echo
21.
In Monica Ali’s Brick Lane which among the following characters has ‘a face like a frog’?
a)
Nazneen
b)
Chanu
c)
Hasina
d)
Karim
22.
“To tell the truth Shug act more manly than rest, men. I means she upright, honest, speak her mind…”What light does the quotation throwon ShugAvery?
a)
She is a manly woman.
b)
She is upright and honest in asserting her lesbian identity.
c)
She is bent on self-assertion
d)
Both (B) and (C)
23.
The year 1828 is a landmark in the history of American language and literature. Identify the reason from the following:
a)
Mark twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in that year.
b)
The Southern Literary Messenger gained wide circulation since that year.
c)
Washington Irving was adjudged the nation’s greatest writer in that year.
d)
Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language in that year.
24.
. ‘By swaggering could I never thrive, for the rain it raineth everyday. ’These lines from Twelfth Night occur in the novel:
a)
Middlemarch
b)
Vanity Fair
c)
Our Mutual Friend
d)
Far From the Madding Crowd
25.
There is nothing outside the text,” is a statement by
a)
Victor Shklovsky
b)
Jacques Derrida
c)
Roland Barthes
d)
Ferdinand de Saussure
26.
From the following list, pick out a woman character who does not belong to Amitav Ghosh’s novels:
a)
Ila
b)
Urvashi
c)
Sonali
d)
Piyali
27.
Who among Charles Dickens’s characters is ‘umble’ and who ‘willin’?
a)
Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
b)
Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby
c)
Martin, Little Nell
d)
Uriah Heep, Barkis
28.
. According to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci:
a)
Hegemony is synonymous with domination
b)
Hegemony involves a degree of consent on the part of subject people.
c)
Hegemony involves a degree of coercion on the part of a dominant political entity.
d)
Hegemony is synonymous with subjugation
29.
Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?
a)
Sons and Lovers
b)
Ulysses
c)
The Power and the Glory
d)
Heart of Darkness
30.
Who of the following poets is Australian?
a)
) Austin Clarke
b)
Judith Wright
c)
Edwin Muir
d)
Derek Walcott
31.
The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” are
a)
comic
b)
solemn
c)
hortatory
d)
irony
32.
In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear ?
a)
The Rivals
b)
She Stoops to Conquer
c)
The Mysteries of Udolpho
d)
The Way of the World
33.
Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?
a)
“The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
b)
In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
c)
The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.
d)
The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.
34.
William Blake’s famous poems such as “London”, “The Sick Rose”, and “The Tyger” appear in
a)
Songs of Innocence
b)
Songs of Experience
c)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
d)
Vision of the Daughters of Albion
35.
Madam Merle is a character in
a)
The Great Gatsby
b)
The Portrait of a Lady
c)
The Jungle
d)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
36.
The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is associated with the early plays of
a)
Arnold Wesker
b)
John Arden
c)
Harold Pinter
d)
David Hare
37.
Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirises in his famous poem.
a)
James Shirley and Chris Shirley
b)
Henry Treece and Charles Triesten
c)
Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
d)
Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys
38.
Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?
a)
Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation
b)
Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory
c)
Makes use of Barthes’s concept of writerly text
d)
Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony
39.
Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
a)
Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems.
b)
Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.
c)
Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin.
d)
Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor
40.
In a poem, a line may either be end-stopped or
a)
rhymed
b)
broken
c)
accented
d)
run-on
41.
An epilogue is
a)
prefixed to a text which it introduces.
b)
suffixed to a text which it sums up or extends.
c)
a piece of writing or speech that formally begins a book.
d)
a piece of writing or speech that bears no relation to the text at hand.
42.
C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing
a)
Practical Criticism
b)
New Criticism
c)
Standard English Project
d)
Basic English Project
43.
In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India?
a)
A Tramp Abroad
b)
Roughing It
c)
The Innocents Abroad
d)
Following the Equator
44.
The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to
a)
The Land of the Houyhnhnms
b)
The Land of Homosapiens
c)
The Land of the Hurricanes
d)
The Newfound Land
45.
The words “If it were done when tis done, then twere well / It were done quickly…” are uttered by
a)
Hamlet
b)
Lear
c)
Othello
d)
Macbeth
46.
Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.
a)
Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.
b)
He was born in India but schooled in England.
c)
He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.
d)
He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.
47.
“If______ comes, can_______ be far behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)
a)
winter, spring
b)
autumn, summer
c)
wind, rains
d)
spring, winter
48.
What is a neologism?
a)
A word with roots in a native language
b)
A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use
c)
A word newly coined or used in a new sense
d)
An obsession with new words and phrases
49.
Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands” is _______.
a)
a discussion of imperialist assumptions.
b)
an essay that propounds an antiessentialist view of place.
c)
an existential lament on triumphant colonialism.
d)
an orientalist description of his favourite homelands.
50.
Identify the statement that is NOT TRUE among those that explain “stage directions” in drama.
a)
Stage directions inform readers how to stage, perform or imagine the play.
b)
The place, time of action, design of the set and at times characters’ actions or tone of voice are indicated by stage directions.
c)
Stage directions are often italicized in the text of a play in order to be spoken aloud.
d)
Stage directions may appear at the beginning of a play, before a scene or attached to a line of dialogue.
51.
The hostess proudly announces that the family can afford a servant and her daughters have nothing to do with the kitchen. Who is the proud mother in this Jane Austen novel?
a)
Mrs. Morland
b)
Lady Catherine de Burgh
c)
Mrs. Bennet
d)
Mrs. Dashwood
52.
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus are based on _______.
a)
Holinshed’s Chronicles
b)
Folk-tales and legends
c)
Older Roman Plays
d)
Plutarch’s Lives
53.
In the well-known poem “ To his coy mistress”, the word coy means
a)
shy
b)
timid
c)
voluptuous
d)
sensuous
54.
Which of the following novels is NOT a Partition novel?
a)
Azadi
b)
Tamas
c)
Clear Light of the Day
d)
That Long Silence
55.
What is register?
a)
The way in which a language registers in the minds of its users.
b)
The way users of a language register the nuances of that language.
c)
A variety of language used in social situations or one specially designed for the subject it deals with.
d)
A variety of language used in non-professional or informal situations by professionals.
56.
Identify the correctly matched pair:
a)
Amitav Ghosh – All About H. Halterr
b)
Anita Desai – Inheritance of Loss
c)
Shashi Deshpande – A Bend in the Ganges
d)
Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence
57.
Which among the following is NOT a typical “Indian English Poem” by Nissim Ezekiel?
a)
“How the English Lessons Ended”
b)
“The Railway Clerk”
c)
“Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”
d)
“The Patriot”
58.
In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster Geryon represents ______.
a)
fraud
b)
usury
c)
sloth
d)
gluttony
59.
One of the following Canterbury Tales is in prose, identify.
a)
The Pardoner’s Tale
b)
The Parson’s Tale
c)
The Monk’s Tale
d)
The Knight’s Tale
60.
Julia Kristeva’s ‘Intertextuality’ derives from:
a)
Saussure’s signs and Bakhtin's dialogism
b)
Chomsky’s deep structure
c)
Derrida's aporia
d)
Derrida’s difference
61.
Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths about white purity through characters like:
a)
Norton and Bledsoe
b)
Bledsoe
c)
Rhinehart
d)
All of the above
62.
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”. This is an important statement defining the womanist perspective advanced by
a)
Toni Morrison
b)
Zora Neale Hurston
c)
Alice Walker
d)
Bell Hooks
63.
The world dominated by cold and hypocritical materialists is represented by William Blake in the mythological figure of __________ .
a)
Urizen
b)
Albion
c)
Geryon
d)
Satan
64.
One of the following poems in Men and Women is addressed to Elizabeth Barrett Browning by the poet. Identify it.
a)
“In Three Days”
b)
“By the Fireside”
c)
“One Way of Love”
d)
“One Word More”
65.
____ the very word is like a bell / To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
a)
Bird
b)
Immortal
c)
Forlorn
d)
Fancy
66.
In poems like “The Altar” and “Easter Wings” ________ exploits _______.
a)
John Donne, alliteration
b)
Robert Herrick, trimetre
c)
G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm
d)
George Herbert, typographic space
67.
The novel tells the story of twin brothers, Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and Arthur, the innocent half-wit, the way their lives are inextricably intertwined. Which is the novel?
a)
The Tree of Man
b)
Voss
c)
The Solid Mandala
d)
The Vivisector
68.
Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club?
a)
Thomas Parnell
b)
Alexander Pope
c)
Joseph Addison
d)
John Gay
69.
_______ is a theological term brought into literary criticism by _______.
a)
Entelechy, St. Augustine
b)
Ambiguity, William Empson
c)
Adequation, Fr Walter Ong
d)
Epiphany, James Joyce
70.
Which of the following works does not have a mad woman as a character in it?
a)
The Yellow Wallpaper
b)
The Mad Woman in the Attic
c)
Jane Eyre
d)
Wide Sargasso Sea
71.
The novel has a scene where African American students are made to compete and fight with each other as they rush for the gold coins tossed on an electric blanket. Identify the novel.
a)
Richard Wright: Native Son
b)
James Baldwin: Another Country
c)
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
d)
Toni Morrison: Bluest Eye
72.
G.M. Hopkins’s “Windhover” is dedicated:
a)
To Christ, our Lord
b)
To Christ our lord
c)
To no one
d)
To Christ, the Lord
73.
His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot; / Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Who is this character whose stinginess passed into a proverb?
a)
Corah
b)
Shimei
c)
Zimri
d)
Achitophel
74.
Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is
a)
a Great War veteran
b)
a Dublin bar owner
c)
a Jewish advertising agent
d)
an Irish nationalist
75.
“Late capitalism”, by which is meant accelerated technological development and the massive extension of intellectually qualified labour, was first popularised by ______.
a)
Terry Eagleton
b)
Ernst Mandel
c)
Raymond Williams
d)
Stanley Fish
76.
Metaphor is so widespread that it is often used as an umbrella term to include other figures of speech such as metonyms which can be technically distinguished from it in its narrower usage. Identify the metaphorical phrase in this sentence:
a)
narrower usage
b)
technically distinguished
c)
figures of speech
d)
umbrella term
77.
Here is a list of early English plays imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the odd one out:
a)
Gorboduc
b)
Tamburlaine
c)
Ralph Roister Doister
d)
Gammer Gurton’s Needle
78.
Where does Act I Scene 1 of William Congreve’s Way of the World open?
a)
A Chocolate-House
b)
A Pub
c)
A Carrefour
d)
The drawing room of Sir Willfull’s mansion
79.
While “a well-boiled icicle” for “a well-oiled bicycle” is an example of Spoonerism, someone saying “Congenital food” for ‘Continental food’ is an example of ______.
a)
Malaproprism
b)
Pleonasm
c)
Neologism
d)
Archaism
80.
“Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.” This is the epigraph to
a)
T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”
b)
Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would be the King”
c)
George Eliot’s Silas Marner
d)
E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End
81.
The phrase “leaves dancing” is an example of ________.
a)
pathetic fallacy
b)
hyperbole
c)
pun
d)
conceit
82.
Who among the following proposes that the unconscious comes into being only in language?
a)
Sigmund Freud
b)
Jacques Lacan
c)
Stuart Hall
d)
Paul de Man
83.
Which of the following poems by Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and death?
a)
“The Beggar Maid”
b)
“The Lotus-Eaters”
c)
“Ulysses”
d)
“Tithonus”
84.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Northrop Frye’s four ‘generic plots’?
a)
The comic
b)
The tragic
c)
The lyric
d)
The ironic
85.
The following postmodernist novel has an unusual protagonist whose gender is not revealed. So much so, that we keep wondering whether that person’s relationships are homo /hetero-sexual:
a)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
b)
English Music
c)
Written on the Body
d)
Enduring Love
86.
Which novel of Graham Greene in the following list does NOT end in some form of suicide by the protagonist?
a)
The Heart of the Matter
b)
England Made Me
c)
Brighton Rock
d)
The Power and the Glory
87.
Who among the following gave a happy ending to King Lear?
a)
James Quin
b)
Nahum Tate
c)
Peg Woffington
d)
Charles Macklin
88.
Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century:
a)
Advancement of Learning
b)
Gulliver’s Travels
c)
The Spectator
d)
An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
89.
Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had left–leaning tendencies?
a)
T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington
b)
Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
c)
W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day Lewis
d)
J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh
90.
Name the theorist who divided poets into “strong” and “weak” and popularized the practice of misreading:
a)
Alan Bloom
b)
Harold Bloom
c)
Geoffrey Hartman
d)
Stanley Fish
91.
In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to
a)
The sun
b)
The moon
c)
The North Star
d)
The rose
92.
W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes its title to
a)
Browning’s Fifine at the Fair
b)
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice
c)
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield
d)
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
93.
Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge?
a)
Robert Southey
b)
Sir Walter Scott
c)
William Hazlitt
d)
A. C. Swinburne
94.
Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language?
a)
Bishop Berkeley
b)
Samuel Johnson
c)
Edmund Burke
d)
Horace Walpole
95.
Which of the following novels depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East London?
a)
How far can you go
b)
The White Teeth
c)
An Equal Music
d)
Brick Lane
96.
In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear as characters?
a)
Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy
b)
Harold Pinter’s Caretaker
c)
Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of Ma Parker”
d)
Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock
97.
______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English.
a)
Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti
b)
Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella
c)
Samuel Daniel’s Delia
d)
Michael Drayton’s Idea’s Mirror
98.
Which of the following author– theme is correctly matched?
a)
The Battle of the Books- Tribute to “The rude forefathers of the hamlet”.
b)
The Rape of the Lock- Quarrel between ancient and modern authors.
c)
Gray’s “Elegy”-Accumulation of wealth and the consequent loss of human lives and values.
d)
The Deserted Village- Quarrel between two families caused by Lord Petre.
99.
Which is the correct sequence of the novels of V.S. Naipaul?
a)
The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The Suffrage of Elvira – A House for Mr. Biswas.
b)
Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr.Biswas – The Suffrage of Elvira.
c)
The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas.
d)
The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr. Biswas.
100.
Which of the following poems uses terzarima?
a)
John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
b)
P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
c)
William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
d)
Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
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