English Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers | English Quiz Set 10

1 Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with __________ capitalism.

2 Early in Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust, while Tony and his young son, John Andrew, walk to the church, John tells his father a story he has heard from the stable manager, Ben about a mule “who had drunk his company’s rum ration” in the First World War and subsequently died. What is the mule named ?

3 The Oxford English Dictionary was published in twelve volumes with its current title in the year :

4 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is notorious for its many digressions across nine volumes and its failure to deliver a complete autobiography. In which volume does Tristram Shandy finally recount his birth ?

5 Miguel de Cervantes’s inimitable Don Quixote, foreshadows metafictional moorings when the novelist,

(a) says that the first chapters of the narrative are recreated from the Archive of La Mancha

(b) says that it is a faithful rendering of a Catalan text in Spanish

(c) says that part of it has been translated from the Arabic by the Moorish author Cide Hamete Benengeli

(d) says that he is rewriting the history of a medieval knight altering the heroic vein with a farcical mode

The right combination according to the code is :

6 In his theory of Mimesis, Plato says that all art is mimetic by nature; art is an imitation of life. To argue his case he gives the example of a :

7 The translation of Geeta into English in 1784 called Bhagvit - Geeta marked, in William Jones’s opinion, an “event that made it possible for the first time to have a reliable impression of Indian Literature”. Who was the translator ?

8 One of the plays among the following contains the characters Coll, Gib, Dan and Mak. Identify the play :

9 Tereza, in Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, troubled by Tomas’s promiscuity, falls an easy prey to jealousy, fear and nightmares. Which of the following are the terrible dreams she has ?

(a) She dreams of cats attacking her.

(b) She dreams of wolves attacking her.

(c) She dreams that she is dead and buried in a common grave where she lies with the corpses of strangers.

(d) She dreams that she is dead, stripped of her clothes and plagued by other naked corpses.

The right combination according to the code is :

10 Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”, a rare blend of allegory and fairytale world presents the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. Which of the following is NOT true about the enchanted world that the poem unravels ?

11 In which of these prisons is Defoe’s character, Moll Flanders born ?

12 Years before, Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopia, Nineteen Eighty - Four got an evidence of the party’s dishonesty. What is it ?

13 The Indian Queen is :

14 In J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace David Lurie is working on an opera on the life of one of the Romantic poets. Who is the poet ?

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Assertion (A) : There is no unity or absolute source of the myth.

Reason (R) : The focus or the source of the myth are always shadows and virtualities which are elusive , unactualizable, and nonexistent in the first place. Any search for the discursive unity in the myth is, therefore, misplaced.

In the context of the above statements :