WorksheetsTEST - 81
Total questions: 110
Worksheet time: 2hrs 50mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
While noting the social canvas of Chaucer’s “General Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, which London location is precisely named as the pilgrims’ starting point?
a)
Cheapside
b)
Southwark
c)
Aldgate
d)
Bishopsgate
2.
In Chaucer’s “General Prologue”, which pilgrim is explicitly associated with the motto “Amor vincit omnia” worn on a brooch?
a)
The Prioress
b)
The Wife of Bath
c)
The Squire
d)
The Nun’s Priest
3.
In Chaucer’s “General Prologue”, the Host who proposes the storytelling contest at the Tabard is named—
a)
Jack Straw
b)
John of Gaunt
c)
Harry Bailly
d)
Nicholas
4.
In “The Book of the Duchess” (Chaucer), the dreamer’s interlocutor mourns “White”; which historical figure is commonly linked to “White”?
a)
Blanche of Lancaster
b)
Joan of Kent
c)
Philippa of Hainault
d)
Anne of Bohemia
5.
In Spenser’s “Epithalamion”, the poet’s bride named in biographical context is—
a)
Elizabeth Boyle
b)
Mary Herbert
c)
Katherine Somerset
d)
Frances Walsingham
6.
In Spenser’s “Prothalamion”, the refrain that frames the Thames setting is—
a)
“Sweet Thames, run softly”
b)
“Flow gently, sweet Afton”
c)
“O Western wind, when wilt thou blow”
d)
“O fons Bandusiae”
7.
Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poem “Remembrance” most closely employs which metrical lineage typical of his court lyrics?
a)
Skeltonics
b)
Italianate sonnet measure
c)
Sapphics
d)
Pindarics
8.
In Bacon’s “Of Studies” (as listed among the Essays), which triad of uses is famously given?
a)
Profit, Pleasure, Policy
b)
Delight, Ornament, Ability
c)
Counsel, Judgment, Action
d)
Wit, Wisdom, Will
9.
In Bacon’s “Of Truth”, Pilate’s question is cited to dramatize skepticism. Which Gospel is evoked?
a)
Matthew
b)
Mark
c)
Luke
d)
John
10.
Sidney’s “An Apology for Poetry” asserts poetry’s superiority partly because it—
a)
Presents “what is,” like history
b)
Teaches by delighting with “what may be”
c)
Proves by syllogism as philosophy
d)
Renounces imitation
11.
In The Book of Job (as on your list), Job’s three primary friends are—
a)
Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar
b)
Elihu, Ezra, Haggai
c)
Malachi, Obadiah, Amos
d)
Nahum, Micah, Joel
12.
In Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus”, Faustus signs his bond with Mephistopheles for a term of—
a)
7 years
b)
12 years
c)
24 years
d)
30 years
13.
In Kyd’s “The Spanish Tragedy”, which figure delivers the play’s framing perspective along with Revenge?
a)
Bel-Imperia
b)
Don Andrea
c)
Hieronimo
d)
Balthazar
14.
In Jonson’s “Every Man in His Humour”, which modern city setting is used in the English version that made Jonson’s name?
a)
London
b)
Rome
c)
Seville
d)
Naples
15.
Milton’s “Paradise Lost” Book IX (as specified in your syllabus) centrally dramatizes—
a)
War in Heaven
b)
The Creation of Man
c)
The Fall of Man
d)
The Nativity of Christ
16.
In Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”, the famous hyperbole presents love growing like a—
a)
Mountain
b)
Sea
c)
Planet
d)
Vegetable
17.
Donne’s “The Canonization” promotes lovers as—
a)
Court jesters
b)
Alchemists
c)
Saints
d)
Philosophers
18.
In Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”, the parodic epic game Belle plays early is—
a)
Loo
b)
Quadrille
c)
Ombre
d)
Whist
19.
In Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock”, the airy spirit presiding over Belinda is named—
a)
Ariel
b)
Uriel
c)
Arielus
d)
Abdiel
20.
Dryden’s “Absalom and Achitophel” allegorizes the Earl of Shaftesbury as—
a)
Absalom
b)
David
c)
Achitophel
d)
Amnon
21.
Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” first appeared in—
a)
1742
b)
1747
c)
1751
d)
1755
22.
In Johnson’s “Life of Milton”, which pastoral elegy of Milton is criticized as “coldly ingenious”?
a)
Lycidas
b)
Comus
c)
Il Penseroso
d)
L’Allegro
23.
In Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”, the rational horses are called—
a)
Houyhnhnms
b)
Yahoos
c)
Struldbrugs
d)
Laputans
24.
In Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress”, which fair becomes a moral test for Christian and Faithful?
a)
Vanity Fair
b)
Charterhouse Fair
c)
Bartholomew Fair
d)
Sturbridge Fair
25.
In Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe”, Crusoe’s island lies off the coast of—
a)
Brazil
b)
Madagascar
c)
Newfoundland
d)
Sumatra
26.
Dryden’s “All for Love” is written in—
a)
Heroic couplets
b)
Blank verse
c)
Ottava rima
d)
Rhyme royal
27.
Sheridan’s “The School for Scandal” features the famous “Screen Scene” in—
a)
Act II
b)
Act III
c)
Act IV
d)
Act V
28.
In Congreve’s “The Way of the World”, the celebrated “Proviso Scene” negotiators are—
a)
Fainall and Mrs. Marwood
b)
Mirabell and Millamant
c)
Sir Wilfull and Mrs. Fainall
d)
Petulant and Witwoud
29.
In Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer”, Kate’s strategy is to present herself as a—
a)
Barmaid
b)
Governess
c)
Maidservant
d)
Landlady
30.
Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” was composed in—
a)
1793
b)
1795
c)
1798
d)
1802
31.
Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” asserts the child’s proximity to—
a)
Nature’s Book
b)
Celestial Light
c)
The Sublime
d)
The Idyllic Past
32.
Wordsworth’s “The Prelude” Book I centrally explores—
a)
The Alps crossing
b)
The growth of the poet’s mind
c)
London crowds
d)
The French Revolution
33.
Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode” was occasioned by a letter-poem from—
a)
Wordsworth
b)
Sara Hutchinson
c)
Dorothy Wordsworth
d)
Robert Southey
34.
In Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”, the river’s name is—
a)
Ganges
b)
Lethe
c)
Alph
d)
Po
35.
Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” invokes escape upon—
a)
The wings of Poesy
b)
Bacchus’ chariot
c)
Mercury’s sandals
d)
Pegasus
36.
Shelley’s “Ozymandias” first appeared in—
a)
Blackwood’s Magazine
b)
The Examiner
c)
The Athenaeum
d)
The Spectator
37.
Shelley’s “Adonais” is an elegy on the death of—
a)
Byron
b)
Keats
c)
Shelley’s son
d)
Leigh Hunt
38.
Lamb’s “Dream-Children: A Reverie” reveals at the end that the children are—
a)
Niece and nephew
b)
Ghosts in a manor
c)
Figures of fancy
d)
Neighbour’s wards
39.
Hazlitt’s “My First Acquaintance with Poets” chiefly recalls meeting—
a)
Shelley in Italy
b)
Keats in Hampstead
c)
Coleridge at Nether Stowey
d)
Byron at Seaham
40.
Wordsworth’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (1800/1802) defines poetry as—
a)
“A mirror held up to nature”
b)
“Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”
c)
“Measured language in noble subjects”
d)
“A criticism of life”
41.
Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” first appeared in—
a)
1809
b)
1811
c)
1813
d)
1815
42.
“Wuthering Heights” (on your list) was first published under the pseudonym—
a)
Currer Bell
b)
Ellis Bell
c)
Acton Bell
d)
George Eliot
43.
Shelley’s “Prometheus Unbound” is a—
a)
Three-act drama
b)
Four-act lyrical drama
c)
Closet drama in five acts
d)
Masque in two parts
44.
Arnold’s “Dover Beach” is renowned for the metaphor of the—
a)
Sea of Faith
b)
Tide of Reason
c)
Ocean of Love
d)
Flood of Time
45.
Arnold’s “The Scholar-Gipsy” originally appeared in—
a)
1849
b)
1853
c)
1867
d)
1875
46.
Browning’s “Andrea del Sarto” is included in—
a)
Dramatic Lyrics
b)
Men and Women
c)
Dramatis Personae
d)
The Ring and the Book
47.
Tennyson’s “Ulysses” was published (revised) in—
a)
1833
b)
1837
c)
1842
d)
1848
48.
Yeats’s “Byzantium” is a later companion to—
a)
Easter 1916
b)
Sailing to Byzantium
c)
The Second Coming
d)
Among School Children
49.
Eliot’s “The Waste Land” consists of—
a)
Three parts
b)
Four parts
c)
Five parts
d)
Six parts
50.
Hopkins’s “God’s Grandeur” prominently employs—
a)
Syllabics
b)
Sprung rhythm
c)
Skeltonics
d)
Accentual-syllabic anapests
51.
Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen” labels the subject by code—
a)
JS/07/M/378
b)
AX/03/N/114
c)
PK/21/H/921
d)
QZ/10/L/006
52.
Ted Hughes’s “The Thought-Fox” first appeared in the volume—
a)
Lupercal
b)
The Hawk in the Rain
c)
Crow
d)
Moortown
53.
Carlyle’s “Hero as Poet” (Lecture III in On Heroes…) crowns which English writer?
a)
Chaucer
b)
Shakespeare
c)
Milton
d)
Spenser
54.
Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry” advocates which method of evaluation?
a)
Mimetic
b)
Pragmatic
c)
Touchstone
d)
Expressive
55.
Orwell’s “You and the Atom Bomb” was published in—
a)
1939
b)
1945
c)
1947
d)
1950
56.
Dickens’s “Hard Times” is set in the industrial town of—
a)
Casterbridge
b)
Middlemarch
c)
Coketown
d)
Norland
57.
George Eliot’s “The Mill on the Floss” centers on siblings named—
a)
Maggie and Tom
b)
Dorothea and Celia
c)
Sue and Jude
d)
Catherine and Hindley
58.
Hardy’s “The Mayor of Casterbridge” features a fateful wife-sale by—
a)
Gabriel Oak
b)
Michael Henchard
c)
Clym Yeobright
d)
Jude Fawley
59.
Woolf’s “Mrs Dalloway” unfolds primarily over—
a)
A week
b)
A day
c)
A month
d)
Two days
60.
In Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger”, the volatile protagonist is—
a)
Jimmy Porter
b)
Joe Keller
c)
Stanley Kowalski
d)
Eddie Carbone
61.
In Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”, the boy-poet repeatedly names his shore as—
a)
Coney
b)
Fire Island
c)
Paumanok
d)
Montauk
62.
Bradstreet’s “The Prologue” originally appeared in the London volume titled—
a)
Poems on Several Occasions
b)
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America
c)
Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety
d)
Meditations Divine and Moral
63.
Emerson’s “The American Scholar” was delivered before which society in 1837?
a)
Transcendental Club
b)
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard
c)
Boston Athenaeum
d)
Concord Lyceum
64.
Thoreau’s “Where I Lived and What I Lived For” belongs to the 1854 book—
a)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
b)
The Maine Woods
c)
Walden
d)
Cape Cod
65.
Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1950) climaxes with the claim that man—
a)
“shall transcend by mind”
b)
“cannot be defeated”
c)
“will not merely endure; he will prevail”
d)
“must master fear first”
66.
In Dunbar’s “The Sparrow” (on your list), the poem’s plain-style register is notable for its—
a)
Broad dialect orthography
b)
High sonnet artifice
c)
Minimal dialect marking
d)
Sapphic stanzas
67.
Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (listed under Poetry) is in genre terms a—
a)
Verse sequence
b)
Memoir
c)
Verse novel
d)
Dramatic monologue
68.
Cummings’s “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls” first appeared in the 1920s volume—
a)
Tulips and Chimneys
b)
XLI Poems
c)
No Thanks
d)
is 5
69.
Gilman’s “The Anti-Suffragists” achieves satire chiefly by adopting—
a)
A reformer’s manifesto
b)
A neutral reporter
c)
The opponent’s persona
d)
A juridical brief
70.
Morrison’s Beloved names the murdered child’s grave with a single word—
a)
“Beloved”
b)
“Sethe”
c)
“Dearly”
d)
“Daughter”
71.
In Lahiri’s The Namesake, the public “good name” that replaces the pet name is—
a)
Ashoke
b)
Nikhil
c)
Subhash
d)
Rahul
72.
Miller’s Death of a Salesman—which line is spoken by Linda about Willy?
a)
“Attentions must be paid.”
b)
“Pay attention to the man.”
c)
“Attention must be paid.”
d)
“The man must be heard.”
73.
Miller’s Death of a Salesman—Willy’s elder son is—
a)
Happy
b)
Biff
c)
Ben
d)
Charley
74.
O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones—the bullet that kills Brutus Jones is made of—
a)
Lead
b)
Silver
c)
Gold
d)
Iron
75.
O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones stages an auditory motif that tightens throughout—
a)
Chant
b)
Drumbeat
c)
Siren
d)
Bell
76.
Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire ends with Blanche’s line—
a)
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
b)
“Whoever you are, I have always depended on hope.”
c)
“The kindness of strangers is all I have.”
d)
“I can depend on strangers, always.”
77.
Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire—the apartment is located on—
a)
Royal Street
b)
Elysian Fields
c)
Bourbon Street
d)
Desire Street
78.
Tagore’s Gitanjali (English) reached a wide audience after an introduction by—
a)
Yeats
b)
Pound
c)
Eliot
d)
Shaw
79.
Ezekiel’s “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” lampoons public-speech tics of—
a)
RP bureaucracy
b)
American slang
c)
Indian English
d)
Cockney parlance
80.
Toru Dutt’s “Our Casuarina Tree” ends with a prayer that the tree’s name be—
a)
“Whispered by every wave”
b)
“Linked with our love”
c)
“Numbered among the immortal”
d)
“Known to future years”
81.
Kamala Das’s “An Introduction” provocatively asserts her right to write in—
a)
Sanskrit
b)
Malayalam and English
c)
Hindi
d)
Urdu
82.
Sujata Bhatt’s “A Different History” warns that mishandling books insults—
a)
Lakshmi
b)
Saraswati
c)
Ganga
d)
Parvati
83.
Nehru’s An Autobiography was written primarily during—
a)
His Oxford years
b)
His American lecture tour
c)
Imprisonment
d)
The Cabinet Mission
84.
Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste was originally prepared as—
a)
A parliamentary speech
b)
A pamphlet reply
c)
An address to a conference
d)
A court affidavit
85.
Anand’s Coolie—the hill-station where Munoo works as a servant is—
a)
Simla
b)
Ooty
c)
Darjeeling
d)
Nainital
86.
Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice—Ravi’s wife (who tethers him to domesticity) is—
a)
Nalini
b)
Savitri
c)
Susila
d)
Mira
87.
Roy’s The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in—
a)
1995
b)
1996
c)
1997
d)
1998
88.
Karnad’s Hayavadana—the Kapalika goddess at the temple where heads are exchanged is—
a)
Durga
b)
Kali
c)
Chamundi
d)
Bhavani
89.
Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session—the mock-trial’s prosecutor role is taken by—
a)
Ponkshe
b)
Sukhatme
c)
Rokde
d)
Kashikar
90.
Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali—the profession around which the drama revolves is—
a)
Wet-nursing
b)
Professional mourning
c)
Midwifery
d)
Fortune-telling
91.
Dattani’s Dance Like a Man—the elderly couple recalling the past are—
a)
Jairaj & Ratna
b)
Viswas & Lata
c)
Amrit & Leela
d)
Jiten & Dolly
92.
Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel—the village head who outwits Lakunle is—
a)
Eman
b)
Baroka
c)
Ogun
d)
Elesin
93.
Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe centers on a young Indigenous woman in—
a)
Winnipeg
b)
Toronto
c)
Vancouver
d)
Calgary
94.
Jane Harrison’s Stolen—the character who lifelong seeks his mother and dies before reunion is—
a)
Sandy
b)
Ruby
c)
Jimmy
d)
Anne
95.
Achebe’s Things Fall Apart—the proverb “the palm-oil with which words are eaten” is spoken by—
a)
Obierika
b)
Uchendu
c)
Okoye
d)
Ezeudu
96.
Patrick White’s Voss is loosely based on the explorer—
a)
Burke
b)
Eyre
c)
Leichhardt
d)
Sturt
97.
Shakespeare’s Othello—the handkerchief’s strawberries are described as—
a)
Painted
b)
Sewn with silk
c)
Dyed with mummified maidens’ blood
d)
Stained with mulberry juice
98.
Shakespeare’s King Lear—the servant who wounds Cornwall is—
a)
Oswald
b)
Steward of Goneril
c)
An unnamed First Servant
d)
Edmund’s man
99.
Shakespeare’s The Tempest—Prospero’s command “our revels now are ended” occurs after—
a)
The harpy scene
b)
The masque
c)
The shipwreck
d)
Caliban’s plot
100.
Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure—the Duke’s friar disguise bears the name—
a)
Friar John
b)
Friar Thomas
c)
Friar Peter
d)
Friar Lodowick
101.
Sonnet 29 (“When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”) turns upon the volta beginning—
a)
“Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising”
b)
“Haply I think on thee”
c)
“For thy sweet love remembered”
d)
“Like to the lark at break of day”
102.
Sonnet 65 (“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea”) ends with the couplet’s answer—
a)
“This miracle alone shall set me free”
b)
“In black ink my love may still shine bright”
c)
“My friend shall live in lines of harmony”
d)
“Time’s sickle blunts by constancy”
103.
Sonnet 104 (“To me, fair friend, you never can be old”) insists time has passed—
a)
A year
b)
Two years
c)
Three winters
d)
Four springs
104.
Sonnet 106 (“When in the chronicle of wasted time”) surveys old verses as—
a)
“Rough drafts”
b)
“Prophetic almanacs”
c)
“Prophecies”
d)
“Poor records”
105.
Sonnet 129 (“The expense of spirit in a waste of shame”) anatomizes—
a)
Avarice
b)
Lust
c)
Sloth
d)
Pride
106.
In “Mrs. Dalloway” technique terms, Woolf’s dominant narration is—
a)
Epistolary
b)
Free indirect discourse
c)
Omniscient aside
d)
Dramatic monologue
107.
Aristotle’s Poetics—the tragic error is best glossed as—
a)
Peripeteia
b)
Hamartia
c)
Anagnorisis
d)
Catharsis
108.
Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria XVII—the faculty pairing he contrasts imagination with is—
a)
Wit
b)
Fancy
c)
Genius
d)
Judgment
109.
Eliot’s “The Metaphysical Poets” diagnoses a historical split labeled—
a)
Negative capability
b)
Objective correlative
c)
Dissociation of sensibility
d)
Auditory imagination
110.
Richards’ “Four Kinds of Meaning”—the quartet he lists is—
a)
Sense, feeling, tone, intention
b)
Form, content, genre, mode
c)
Symbol, myth, allegory, irony
d)
Image, rhythm, syntax, lexis
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