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(1) Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by
(1) S. T. Coleridge
(2) P. B. Shelley
(3) Thomas De Quincey
(4) Lord Byron
Answer: Thomas De Quincey
(2) Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts ?
(1) Anthony Powell
(2) Evelyn Waugh
(3) William Golding
(4) Graham Greene
Answer: Graham Greene

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(3) In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India ?
(1) A Tramp Abroad
(2) Roughing It
(3) The Innocents Abroad
(4) Following the Equator
Answer: Following the Equator
(4) William Blake’s famous poems such as “London”, “The Sick Rose”, and “The Tyger” appear in
(1) Songs of Innocence
(2) Songs of Experience
(3) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(4) Vision of the Daughters of Albion
Answer: Songs of Experience
(5) Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott ?
(1) Richard Hogarth
(2) Joshua Reynolds
(3) George Cruishank
(4) John Tennial
Answer: George Cruishank
(6) The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to
(1) The Land of the Houyhnhnms
(2) The Land of Homosapiens
(3) The Land of the Hurricanes
(4) The Newfound Land
Answer: The Land of the Houyhnhnms
(7) Madam Merle is a character in
(1) The Great Gatsby.
(2) The Portrait of a Lady.
(3) The Jungle.
(4) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Answer: The Portrait of a Lady.
(8) In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have a departure from Standard English ?
(1) The typist scene
(2) The pub scene
(3) The hyacinth garden scene
(4) The Chapel Perilous scene
Answer: The pub scene
(9) The words “If it were done when tis done, then twere well / It were done quickly…” are uttered by
(1) Hamlet.
(2) Lear.
(3) Othello.
(4) Macbeth.
Answer: Macbeth.
(10) John Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel a
(1) religious tract.
(2) political allegory.
(3) comic verse epic.
(4) comedy.
Answer: political allegory.
(11) Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.
(1) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.
(2) He was born in India but schooled in England.
(3) He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.
(4) He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.
Answer: He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.
(12) Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirises in his famous poem.
(1) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
(2) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten
(3) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
(4) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys
Answer: Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
(13) “If______ comes, can_______ be far behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)
(1) winter, spring.
(2) autumn, summer.
(3) wind, rains.
(4) spring, winter.
Answer: winter, spring.
(14) Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy ?
(1) Hamlet
(2) The Duchess of Malfi
(3) Volpone
(4) Gorboduc
Answer: Volpone
(15) What is a neologism ?
(1) A word with roots in a native language
(2) A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use
(3) A word newly coined or used in a new sense
(4) An obsession with new words and phrases
Answer: A word newly coined or used in a new sense

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