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WorksheetsTEST - 79
Total questions: 110
Worksheet time: 2hrs 50mins
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1.
In Chaucer’s Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, which pilgrim wears a St. Christopher medal while serving the Knight?
a)
Yeoman
b)
Reeve
c)
Franklin
d)
Summoner
2.
In Chaucer’s Prologue, the Host who proposes the tale-telling contest is named—
a)
Roger of Ware
b)
Harry Bailly
c)
Jack Straw
d)
Peter of Lombard Street
3.
In Chaucer’s Prologue, the Prioress’s brooch bears which motto?
a)
Veritas vincit
b)
Amor vincit omnia
c)
Pax et lux
d)
Deus caritas est
4.
In Chaucer’s Prologue, the Cook’s culinary specialty ironically contrasts with his shin ulcer; the dish is—
a)
Mortrews
b)
Blancmange
c)
Pottage
d)
Frumenty
5.
In Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess, the source tale the narrator reads before sleeping is—
a)
Orpheus and Eurydice
b)
Ceyx and Alcyone
c)
Pyramus and Thisbe
d)
Apollo and Daphne
6.
Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess chiefly uses which metre?
a)
Rhyme royal
b)
Octosyllabic couplets
c)
Heroic couplets
d)
Alliterative long lines
7.
Spenser’s Epithalamion celebrates his marriage to—
a)
Elizabeth Boyle
b)
Elizabeth Spencer
c)
Katherine Somerset
d)
Mary Sidney
8.
In Spenser’s Prothalamion, the refrain invoking the river is—
a)
“Run, Avon, run softly”
b)
“Sweet Themmes runne softly”
c)
“Flow on, O Isis, flow”
d)
“Still Thames, be calm”
9.
Wyatt’s Remembrance (in the Wyatt–Surrey sonnet tradition) is best linked to his pioneering of—
a)
Spenserian stanza
b)
English (Shakespearean) sonnet
c)
Petrarchan importation
d)
Ode in Pindarics
10.
Bacon’s essay Of Truth famously opens with a remark on Pilate; the key word Pilate “would not stay for” is—
a)
Reason
b)
Law
c)
Truth
d)
Peace
11.
Bacon’s Of Studies assigns conference to make a man—
a)
Exact
b)
Ready
c)
Full
d)
Subtle
12.
Bacon’s essays reached their final expanded edition in—
a)
1597
b)
1605
c)
1612
d)
1625
13.
Sidney’s An Apologie for Poetrie defends poetry as both dulce and—
a)
Pulchrum
b)
Verum
c)
Utile
d)
Rarum
14.
In the Bible’s Book of Job, the three initial friends are Eliphaz, Bildad, and—
a)
Zophar
b)
Elihu
c)
Nahum
d)
Baruch
15.
Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus bargains for how many years of service from Mephistophilis?
a)
12
b)
20
c)
24
d)
30
16.
Doctor Faustus survives in two authoritative early versions known as—
a)
Quartos Q1 and Q2
b)
Texts A (1604) and B (1616)
c)
Folio and Quarto
d)
Bad and Good Quarto
17.
Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy centres on which avenging figure?
a)
Hieronimo
b)
Lorenzo
c)
Andrea
d)
Balthazar
18.
Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour thematically hinges on the Galenic notion of—
a)
Four causes
b)
Four elements
c)
Four humours
d)
Four idols
19.
Milton’s Paradise Lost Book IX narrates the Fall and first sin by—
a)
Adam alone
b)
Eve alone
c)
Both together—Adam first
d)
Both together—Eve first
20.
Paradise Lost first appeared in ten books in—
a)
1660
b)
1667
c)
1671
d)
1674
21.
Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress is written in which verse form?
a)
Blank verse
b)
Heroic couplets
c)
Rhymed couplets (iambic tetrameter→pentameter mix)
d)
Rhymed iambic pentameter couplets
22.
Donne’s The Canonization fashions lovers into—
a)
Phoenix
b)
Compass
c)
Saints
d)
Flea
23.
Pope’s The Rape of the Lock final five-canto version appeared in—
a)
1709
b)
1712
c)
1714
d)
1720
24.
In The Rape of the Lock, the card game Belinda plays is—
a)
Whist
b)
Ombre
c)
Piquet
d)
Loo
25.
Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel allegorizes Achitophel as—
a)
Buckingham
b)
Shaftesbury
c)
Monmouth
d)
Charles II
26.
Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard uses which stanza?
a)
Spenserian
b)
Heroic quatrain (iambic pentameter, ABAB)
c)
Ballad metre
d)
Ottava rima
27.
Johnson’s Life of Milton appears within his project titled—
a)
Prefaces Biographical and Critical
b)
Lives of the Poets
c)
English Poets
d)
The Rambler Lives
28.
In Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the floating island is—
a)
Luggnagg
b)
Laputa
c)
Glubbdubdrib
d)
Balnibarbi
29.
Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress names the first companion martyred at Vanity Fair—
a)
Hopeful
b)
Faithful
c)
Help
d)
Prudence
30.
Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe rescues Friday on which weekday?
a)
Thursday
b)
Friday
c)
Saturday
d)
Sunday
31.
Dryden’s All for Love reworks Antony and Cleopatra using—
a)
Rhymed couplets
b)
Blank verse
c)
Prose scenes
d)
Terza rima
32.
In Sheridan’s The School for Scandal, the famous “screen scene” exposes—
a)
Snake
b)
Sir Benjamin
c)
Joseph Surface
d)
Moses
33.
Congreve’s The Way of the World culminates in the Proviso scene between—
a)
Mirabell & Millamant
b)
Fainall & Mrs. Fainall
c)
Witwoud & Foible
d)
Petulant & Mincing
34.
Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer hinges on Marlow’s mistaking Mr. Hardcastle’s house for—
a)
A courthouse
b)
An inn
c)
A school
d)
A tavern stable
35.
Wordsworth’s Intimations Ode finally appeared in which year’s collection?
a)
1800
b)
1802
c)
1805
d)
1807
36.
Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey dates from the Lyrical Ballads of—
a)
1798
b)
1800
c)
1802
d)
1805
37.
Wordsworth’s Prelude Book I focuses on—
a)
Cambridge
b)
Childhood and school-time
c)
Crossing the Alps
d)
Residence in France
38.
Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode is addressed in its earliest form to—
a)
Mrs. Barbauld
b)
Sara Hutchinson
c)
Mary Wollstonecraft
d)
Dorothy Wordsworth
39.
Coleridge’s Kubla Khan was published (with preface) in—
a)
1798
b)
1800
c)
1816
d)
1820
40.
Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale employs the recurring cry—
a)
“Beauty is truth”
b)
“Forlorn!”
c)
“Hark!”
d)
“Adieu!”
41.
Shelley’s Ozymandias first appeared in—
a)
The Examiner (1818)
b)
The Athenaeum (1821)
c)
Blackwood’s (1817)
d)
The Liberal (1822)
42.
Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on—
a)
Shelley
b)
Byron
c)
Keats
d)
Hunt
43.
Lamb’s Elia essay “The South-Sea House” nostalgically recalls a workplace tied to—
a)
The East India Company
b)
A speculative bubble
c)
The Admiralty
d)
The Royal Exchange
44.
In Lamb’s “Dream-Children,” the children vanish when—
a)
The clock strikes twelve
b)
Alice calls Charles
c)
The reverie breaks
d)
The fire dies
45.
Hazlitt’s “My First Acquaintance with Poets” records first meeting Coleridge in—
a)
Nether Stowey
b)
Keswick
c)
Shrewsbury
d)
Rydal
46.
Wordsworth’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” defines poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of—”
a)
Profound spirit
b)
Powerful feelings
c)
Ordered thought
d)
Natural language
47.
Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously “By a—”
a)
Gentleman
b)
Scholar
c)
Lady
d)
Friend
48.
In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the primary frame narrator is—
a)
Nelly Dean
b)
Lockwood
c)
Joseph
d)
Zillah
49.
Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound is structured as—
a)
Three acts
b)
Four acts
c)
Five acts
d)
A single scene
50.
Arnold’s poem Dover Beach closes with the image of the Sea of—
a)
Faith
b)
Love
c)
Time
d)
Strife
51.
Arnold’s The Scholar-Gipsy laments a “strange disease of—”
a)
Our age
b)
Modern life
c)
The heart
d)
The will
52.
Browning’s Andrea del Sarto features the painter’s wife—
a)
Pippa
b)
Lucrezia
c)
Porphyria
d)
Pauline
53.
Tennyson’s Ulysses was first published in the 1842 volume but written after—
a)
Hallam’s death
b)
The Crimean War
c)
1832 Reform Act
d)
Darwin’s voyage
54.
Yeats’s Byzantium follows and contrasts with his earlier—
a)
“Adam’s Curse”
b)
“Sailing to Byzantium”
c)
“Easter 1916”
d)
“The Second Coming”
55.
Eliot’s The Waste Land bears the dedication “il miglior fabbro” to—
a)
Pound
b)
Joyce
c)
Valéry
d)
Laforgue
56.
Hopkins’s God’s Grandeur chiefly uses—
a)
Dactylic hexameter
b)
Sprung rhythm
c)
Blank verse
d)
Free verse
57.
Auden’s The Unknown Citizen commemorates JS/07/M/378 by—
a)
The State
b)
The Church
c)
His Union
d)
The Family
58.
Hughes’s The Thought-Fox most directly allegorizes—
a)
The muse
b)
War memory
c)
Childhood trauma
d)
Ferality itself
59.
Carlyle’s On Heroes (Lecture III) extols Shakespeare as a—
a)
King
b)
Prophet
c)
Poet
d)
Priest
60.
Arnold’s The Study of Poetry advances the touchstone method using—
a)
Rhyme schemes
b)
Metric scansions
c)
Lines of high quality
d)
Biographical notes
61.
Orwell’s “You and the Atom Bomb” (1945) appeared in—
a)
Horizon
b)
Tribune
c)
The Observer
d)
The Spectator
62.
Dickens’s Hard Times is set in Coketown, ruled by—
a)
Mr. Bounderby
b)
Mr. Podsnap
c)
Mr. Tulkinghorn
d)
Mr. Jaggers
63.
Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss centres on siblings Maggie and—
a)
Stephen
b)
Tom
c)
Philip
d)
Bob
64.
Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge begins with Michael Henchard—
a)
Burning a will
b)
Selling his wife
c)
Faking his death
d)
Robbing a fair
65.
Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway takes place across a single day in—
a)
1918
b)
1919
c)
1923
d)
1925
66.
Osborne’s Look Back in Anger features Jimmy Porter’s wife—
a)
Alison
b)
Helena
c)
Jean
d)
Madge
67.
Brecht’s Mother Courage loses her daughter Kattrin, who dies—
a)
At the gallows
b)
From plague
c)
Beating a drum
d)
On the road
68.
Synge’s Riders to the Sea unfolds on the Aran Islands with the matriarch—
a)
Nora
b)
Maurya
c)
Cathleen
d)
Bride
69.
Churchill’s Top Girls opens with a fantastical dinner hosted by—
a)
Joyce
b)
Angie
c)
Marlene
d)
Nell
70.
Shakespeare’s Othello contains the handkerchief dyed with—
a)
Crocus
b)
Mummy
c)
Cedar
d)
Virgin’s blood (mythic)
71.
In King Lear, the blinded nobleman is—
a)
Kent
b)
Gloucester
c)
Albany
d)
Cornwall
72.
In The Tempest, the airy spirit is—
a)
Caliban
b)
Ariel
c)
Trinculo
d)
Stephano
73.
In Measure for Measure, the Duke disguises himself as—
a)
Friar Thomas
b)
Friar Peter
c)
Friar Lodowick
d)
Friar Martin
74.
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 begins—
a)
“Let me not to the marriage…”
b)
“When in disgrace with fortune…”
c)
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
d)
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
75.
Sonnet 29 resolves with remembrance of—
a)
Beauty’s day
b)
A dear friend
c)
The Muse
d)
Heaven’s light
76.
Sonnet 65 wonders what withstands Time besides—
a)
Black ink
b)
Love
c)
Truth
d)
Virtue
77.
Sonnet 104 asserts the fair friend never can be—
a)
False
b)
Old
c)
Cruel
d)
Cold
78.
Sonnet 106 looks back at the “chronicle of—”
a)
Golden times
b)
Wasted time
c)
Noble verse
d)
Dead kings
79.
Sonnet 116 defines love as an ever-fixed—
a)
Star
b)
North
c)
Sun
d)
Rock
80.
Sonnet 129 glosses lust as “Th’ expense of spirit in a—”
a)
Field of blood
b)
Waste of shame
c)
Fire of sense
d)
Maze of will
81.
Sonnet 130 denies the mistress’s eyes are like—
a)
Stars
b)
Diamonds
c)
Suns
d)
Pearls
82.
Whitman’s Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking features the mockingbird as emblem of—
a)
Democracy
b)
Poetic birth
c)
War memory
d)
Death’s peace
83.
Anne Bradstreet’s Prologue subtly rebukes—
a)
Royal censors
b)
Male critics
c)
Puritan elders
d)
Court poets
84.
Emerson’s Brahma draws on—
a)
Advaita
b)
Vishishtadvaita
c)
Dvaita
d)
Shakta
85.
Frost’s Birches imagines a boy swinging to—
a)
Escape earth awhile
b)
Forget winter
c)
Train balance
d)
Reach heaven
86.
Frost’s Mending Wall repeats the neighbor’s maxim—
a)
“Good fences make good neighbors”
b)
“Something there is that loves a wall”
c)
“One on a side”
d)
“Old-stone custom”
87.
Dunbar’s The Sparrow emblematises—
a)
Masking
b)
Sympathy
c)
Resilience
d)
Social grace
88.
Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings conveys freedom’s—
a)
Rhyme
b)
Tune
c)
Trill
d)
Dream
89.
Cummings’s The Cambridge Ladies critiques—
a)
Provincial piety
b)
Modern art
c)
Ivy League
d)
Suffrage
90.
Gilman’s The Anti-Suffragists satirizes opposition by deploying—
a)
Dramatic monologue
b)
Ballad irony
c)
Catalogue of alibis
d)
Blank verse
91.
Thoreau’s Where I Lived and What I Lived For extols—
a)
Industry
b)
Simplicity
c)
Charity
d)
Order
92.
Emerson’s The American Scholar calls for—
a)
Bookish obedience
b)
Man Thinking
c)
Trade alliances
d)
Party politics
93.
Faulkner’s Nobel Address (1950) insists man will endure because of—
a)
Strength
b)
Goodness
c)
Courage
d)
Spirit
94.
Morrison’s Beloved centres the rememory of—
a)
Sixo
b)
Sethe
c)
Paul D
d)
Denver
95.
Lahiri’s The Namesake gives Gogol a namesake from—
a)
Pushkin
b)
Tolstoy
c)
Nikolai Gogol
d)
Chekhov
96.
Miller’s Death of a Salesman presents Willy’s older brother—
a)
Ben
b)
Charley
c)
Howard
d)
Bernard
97.
O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones is driven by its pulsing—
a)
Gong
b)
Drum
c)
Chant
d)
Bell
98.
Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire reaches Blanche to—
a)
Desire → Elysian Fields
b)
Desire → Belle Reve
c)
Desire → Cemeteries
d)
Cemeteries → Desire
99.
Tagore’s Gitanjali English edition (1912) had an introduction by—
a)
Yeats
b)
Eliot
c)
Pound
d)
Shaw
100.
Ezekiel’s “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” parodies—
a)
Anglo-Indian slang
b)
Hinglish idiom
c)
Babu office English
d)
Victorian diction
101.
Toru Dutt’s Our Casuarina Tree memorializes siblings Aru and—
a)
Abju
b)
Unni
c)
Rajeev
d)
Arjun
102.
Kamala Das’s “An Introduction” declares “I am Indian, very—”
a)
dark
b)
brown
c)
proud
d)
human
103.
Sujata Bhatt’s “A Different History” invokes the goddess—
a)
Saraswati
b)
Lakshmi
c)
Durga
d)
Parvati
104.
Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste (1936) was originally—
a)
A banned essay
b)
A refused speech
c)
A manifesto
d)
A court testimony
105.
Anand’s Coolie follows the boy—
a)
Bakha
b)
Munoo
c)
Ramu
d)
Hari
106.
Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice is set chiefly in—
a)
Bombay
b)
Madras
c)
Calcutta
d)
Bangalore
107.
Roy’s The God of Small Things is set in—
a)
Ayemenem
b)
Malgudi
c)
Maycomb
d)
Chandrapore
108.
Karnad’s Hayavadana adapts a tale also used by—
a)
Mann
b)
Goethe
c)
Flaubert
d)
Tolstoy
109.
Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session targets the persecution of—
a)
Miss Benare
b)
Mrs. Kashikar
c)
Ms. Samant
d)
Mrs. Rokde
110.
Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali depicts professional mourners led by—
a)
Dulan
b)
Sanichari
c)
Pateshwari
d)
Budhua
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