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(1) New Science is a work associated with _______.
(1) Ernest Cassirer
(2) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(3) G. Battista Vico
(4) Immanuel Kant
Answer: G. Battista Vico
(2) Identify Petrarch’s sonnet sequence from among the following :
(1) Rine Sparse
(2) Astrophel and Stella
(3) Amoretti
(4) Delia
Answer: Rine Sparse

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(3) The island setting of Latmos figures in Keats’s
(1) Endymion
(2) The Eve of St. Agnes
(3) Lamia
(4) Hyperion
Answer: Endymion
(4) Which of the following African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(1) Chinua Achebe
(2) Nadine Gordimer
(3) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(4) Bessie Head
Answer: Nadine Gordimer
(5)
“My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow
With thy green mother in some shady groove”

– William Drummond

The above quote is an example of _______.
(1) End-stopped rhyme
(2) Alliteration
(3) Run-on line
(4) Tercet
Answer: Run-on line
(6)
This work was a satire in Ottava rima,
attacking George III and Robert
Southey. Identify the poem :
(1) Dunciad
(2) The Vision of Judgment
(3) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(4) Alastor
Answer: The Vision of Judgment
(7)
“The shrill, demented choirs of waiting shells,
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.”
These lines are from Wilfred Owen’s :
(1) “Strange Meeting”
(2) “Futility”
(3) “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
(4) “Duke et Decorum Est”
Answer: “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
(8) In Aphra Behn’s Oronooko, how does the titular character die ?
(1) He disembowels himself.
(2) He is whipped to death.
(3) He is hanged in the public square.
(4) He is cut to pieces slowly by the executioner.
Answer: He is cut to pieces slowly by the executioner.
(9) The library where the “Battle of Books” takes place is _______.
(1) St. James’ Library
(2) King’s Library
(3) Sir William’s Library
(4) Christ Church Library
Answer: King’s Library
(10) In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex the first scene finds Oedipus
(1) in conversation with a priest
(2) in consultation with a general
(3) giving audience to an ambassador
(4) in consultation with a minister
Answer: in conversation with a priest
(11) Who among Shakespeare’s contemporaries did not write tragedies ?
(1) Thomas Kyd
(2) John Lyly
(3) Christopher Marlowe
(4) Ben Jonson
Answer: John Lyly
(12) The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of ________.
(1) Ahmed
(2) Nadira
(3) Amir
(4) Amourrah
Answer: Amir
(13) Thomas Babington Macaulay, the writer of the infamous Minute of 1835, finds a mention in Salman Rushdie’s
(1) Midnight’s Children
(2) Shame
(3) The Moor’s Last Sigh
(4) Fury
Answer: The Moor’s Last Sigh
(14) The issue of privileging speech over writing was taken up for discussion in Plato’s :
(1) Ion
(2) Republic Book III
(3) Republic Book X
(4) Phaedrus
Answer: Phaedrus
(15) ‘The Medium is the Message’ is a concept given by
(1) Ernest Hemingway
(2) Sylvia Plath
(3) Seymour Hersh
(4) Marshal McLuhan
Answer: Marshal McLuhan

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