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(1) Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poems in 1918 ?
(1) Robert Bridges
(2) Coventry Patmore
(3) John Betjeman
(4) Stephen Spender
Answer: Robert Bridges
(2) Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of the characters in __________.
(1) Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene
(2) William Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
(3) Philip Sidney’s Arcadia
(4) Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Answer: Philip Sidney’s Arcadia

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(3) Pinter once admitted that he first became aware of the dramatic power of the pause from seeing a popular American comedian. Which one ?
(1) Bob Hope
(2) W. C. Fields
(3) Jack Benny
(4) Charlie Chaplin
Answer: Jack Benny
(4) Charles Dickens’s Bleak House is pointedly critical of England’s :
(1) Privy Council
(2) Court of Appeal
(3) Court of Chancery
(4) military courts
Answer: Court of Chancery
(5) Which of the following is NOT true of the ideal state in Thomas More’s Utopia ?
(1) Personal property, money and vice are effectively abolished.
(2) The root causes of crime, ambition and political conflict, are eliminated.
(3) There is only one religion guided by the principle of a benevolent Supreme Being.
(4) Its priesthood, which includes some women, is limited in number.
Answer: There is only one religion guided by the principle of a benevolent Supreme Being.
(6) Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins with the sombre description of Egdon Heath ?
(1) Jude the Obscure
(2) The Return of the Native
(3) Far from the Madding Crowd
(4) Under the Greenwood Tree
Answer: The Return of the Native
(7) The metrical form of Gower’s Confessio Amantis is :
(1) iambic pentameter
(2) anapestic trimeter
(3) octosyllabic couplets
(4) trochaic tetrameter
Answer: octosyllabic couplets
(8) What happens to the lock of hair at the end of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock ?
(1) It is given back to its rightful owner.
(2) It is preserved in a monument.
(3) It turns into a star.
(4) It is presented to the poet as a token of gratitude.
Answer: It turns into a star.
(9) The Bard. The Iron Lady. The King.

The above are examples of :

(1) anacoluthon
(2) aposiopesis
(3) asyndenton
(4) antonomasia
Answer: antonomasia
(10) Which of the following novels by Margaret Atwood depicts the historical event of the notorious murders committed in 1843 ?
(1) The Blind Assassin
(2) Alias Grace
(3) Cats Eye
(4) Oryx and Crake
Answer: Alias Grace
(11) Which of the following poems by W. B. Yeats repudiates the sensual world in favour of “the artifice of eternity” ?
(1) “Under Ben Bulben”
(2) “Among School Children”
(3) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(4) “After Long Silence”
Answer: “Sailing to Byzantium”
(12) Which of the following characters in Moby Dick falls overboard and turns insane as a result ?
(1) Pip
(2) Queequeg
(3) Starbuck
(4) Tashtego
Answer: Pip
(13) Which of the following poems by Seamus Heaney is dedicated to the Irish poet Paul Muldoon ?
(1) “The Loaning”
(2) “The Sandpit”
(3) “A Migration”
(4) “Widgeon”
Answer: “Widgeon”
(14) In Canterbury Tales who has a red face full of sores ?
(1) the Summoner
(2) the Shipman
(3) the Yeoman
(4) the Reeve
Answer: the Summoner
(15) The pace of speech is called :
(1) syllable
(2) loudness
(3) tempo
(4) pitch
Answer: tempo

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