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(21) Who say, “Of all his women, Imogen is most perfect"?
[A] Eliot
[B] Lamb
[C] Mrs. Jameson
[D] Ruskin
Answer: Mrs. Jameson
(22) Who is of the view that Chaucer is not as great as the classicists?
[A] Johnson
[B] Sydney
[C] Arnold
[D] None of these
Answer: Arnold
(23) The fall of Constantinople to the Turks took place in the year-
[A] 1535
[B] 1485
[C] 1453
[D] 1455
Answer: 1453
(24) Out of 154 sonnets, 126 of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to - (a) Dark Lady (b) (c) Queen Elizabeth (d) Lady Penlope
[A] Mr. W.H
[B] P. Lal
[C] Vikram Seth
[D] none of the mentioned
Answer: Mr. W.H
(25) Who first used the blank-verse ?
[A] Thomas Heywood
[B] Thomas Middleton
[C] Surrey
[D] William Shakespeare
Answer: Surrey
(26) The word ‘renaissance’ seems to have been first in the book named as -
[A] Historie de France
[B] Paradise Lost
[C] Tottel’s Miscellany
[D] Utopia
Answer: Historie de France
(27) What is ‘rhyme-royal’?
[A] A quatrain with the rhyme-scheme abab
[B] The ten-syllabic line arranged in seven-line stanza
[C] The eight-syllabic line rhyming in couplet
[D] The ten-syllabic line rhyming in couplet
Answer: The ten-syllabic line arranged in seven-line stanza
(28) Who “found English a dialect and left it a language"?
[A] Sir Walter Scott
[B] Robert Southey
[C] Robert Burns
[D] Chaucer
Answer: Chaucer
(29) Totus mundus agit historian means-
[A] World is coming
[B] All the world is a history
[C] All the world is a stage
[D] History is all world
Answer: All the world is a stage
(30) Senecan plays were rendered into English by –
[A] T.W. Robertson
[B] Harley Granville-Barker
[C] John Galsworthy
[D] Heywood
Answer: Heywood
31 The term ‘Stream of Consciousness’ was first used by :
[A] Sigmund Freud
[B] James Joyce
[C] William James
[D] none of the mentioned
Answer: William James
(12) “Frailty thy name is woman !” These lines occur in -
[A] Hamlet
[B] Professor Herford
[C] William Shakespeare
[D] William Wordsworth
Answer: Hamlet
33 The first English tragedy Gorboduc was later given the title ?
[A] Ferrex and Porrex
[B] Gammer Gurton’s Needle
[C] Corpus Christi
[D] Endymion
Answer: Ferrex and Porrex
34 What is meant by ‘Denouement’ ?-
[A] The ending of a comedy
[B] The ending of a Farce
[C] The ending of a romance
[D] The ending of a tragedy
Answer: The ending of a comedy
35 Who has published his essays under the title ‘The Round Table’ ?
[A] William Hazlitt
[B] Thomas De Quincey
[C] S. T. Cleridge
[D] None of the above
Answer: William Hazlitt
36 Who called the 18th century the age of Prose and Reason ? (a) Coleridge (b) (c) Dr. Johnson (d) William Hazlitt
[A] Mathew Arnold
[B] Thomas James Farrell
[C] Henry James
[D] None of the above is correct.
Answer: Mathew Arnold
37 In Keats’s Lamia, Lamia was a -
[A] A serpent-woman
[B] An enchantress
[C] A nymph
[D] A fairy
Answer: A serpent-woman
38 Mathew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with
[A] Civilization
[B] Theology
[C] Ethics
[D] Religion
Answer: Ethics
39 In Dickens’s novel, A Tale of Two Cities, the two cities referred to are -
[A] Paris and Rome
[B] Paris and Berlin
[C] London and Paris
[D] London and Athens
Answer: London and Paris
40 Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on :
[A] Milton
[B] Virginia Woolf
[C] H.G. Wells
[D] E.M. Forster
Answer: Milton
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