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(1) In More’s Utopia what religion is practised by the Utopians ?
(1) Belief in a single, infinite power and sun, moon and planetary worship
(2) Islam
(3) Judaism
(4) Buddhism
Answer: Belief in a single, infinite power and sun, moon and planetary worship
(2) In Book 5 of prelude, Wordsworth dreams of an Arab in the desert after reading which great work ?
(1) Cervantes’s Don Quixote
(2) Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
(3) Euclid’s Elements
(4) Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Answer: Cervantes’s Don Quixote

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(3) Lady Dedlock is a character in Dickens’s
(1) Bleak House
(2) Great Expectations
(3) David Copperfield
(4) Hard Times
Answer: Bleak House
(4) Which Keat’s poem was originally intended to be part of a collection of verse-tales based on stories by Boccaccio ?
(1) The Eve of St. Agnes
(2) Lamia
(3) Isabella
(4) Hyperion
Answer: Hyperion
(5) Where does Conrad’s Heart of Darkness begin ?
(1) The Congo
(2) The Thames
(3) Belgium
(4) The Atlantic
Answer: The Thames
(6) In Gullivers Travels which of the following ideas is not a product of the Academy of Lagado ?
(1) A random sentence-generating machine.
(2) A proposal to end speech altogether, by carrying around sacks of the things that words signify.
(3) A project for truncating words and shortening sentences by leaving out verbs.
(4) A digestible dictionary, written on a wafer.
Answer: A digestible dictionary, written on a wafer.
(7) Which of the following stories is NOT written by Nathaniel Hawthorne ?
(1) “The Minister’s Black Veil”
(2) “Young Goodman Brown”
(3) “The Purloined Letter”
(4) “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”
Answer: “The Purloined Letter”
(8) What attributes of Shakespeare’s characterization does Johnson admire in his preface to Shakespeare ?
(1) The way his characters represent particular times and places.
(2) The way his characters exhibit quirks representative of their humours or professions.
(3) The way his characters portray the general passions and principles of human nature.
(4) The way his characters portray real individuals.
Answer: The way his characters portray the general passions and principles of human nature.
(9) According to Foucault sexuality points to discourses about all the following EXCEPT
(1) Medicine
(2) Anthropology
(3) Psychology
(4) Criminology
Answer: Anthropology
(10) “All Arabia breathes from yonder box.” This line from The Rape of the Lock is an example of
(1) periphrasis
(2) innuendo
(3) metonymy
(4) chiasmus
Answer: metonymy
(11) Who among the following addresses the reader in a substantial Preface to Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy ?
(1) Zelotopia
(2) Democritus Junior
(3) St. JoanDemocritus
(4) Solitudo
Answer: Democritus Junior
(12) Which of these is the best paraphrase of the line, “the paths of glory lead but to the grave” ?
(1) Those who seek glory often die in its pursuit.
(2) Everyone dies, even the famous and glorious.
(3) Everyone dies, even the famous and glorious.
(4) Everyone dies, even the famous and glorious.
Answer: Everyone dies, even the famous and glorious.
(13) Which novel did James Joyce call “the English Ulysses” ?
(1) Robinson Crusoe
(2) Clarissa
(3) Vanity Fair
(4) Great Expectations
Answer: Robinson Crusoe
(14) What narrative perspective does Chaucer employ in the opening of “The General Prologue” ?
(1) A first-person “I”
(2) Omniscience
(3) Third person
(4) Free indirect discourse
Answer: A first-person “I”
(15) A fragmentary unfinished novel entitled Emma was published in Cornhill Magazine. Identify the author.
(1) Elizabeth Gaskell
(2) Charlotte Bronte
(3) Emily Bronte
(4) George Eliot
Answer: Charlotte Bronte

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