Que- Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth's advocacy of poets drawing on the "language really used by men" in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?
a. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
b. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
c. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
d. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.
Answer- a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
Que- The opening lines of Charlotte Smith's "Beachy Head" refer to the speaker "reclin[ing]" on the "stupendous summit" of a "rock sublime" as her "Fancy" went forth. This poem reflects which of the following features common to much Romantic poetry ?
a. An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth's poems
b. A focus on the poet as seer as in some of Keats's poems
c. A call for social and political reform as in some of Shelley's works
d. A nod to the poet as outcast as in some of Byron's poems
Answer- An emphasis on the relationship between a natural setting and the imagination as in Wordsworth's poems
Que- Complete the following sentence. In Pope's The Rape of the Lock, elevated language functions primarily to______________?
a. demonstrate the importance of the topic.
b. set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.
c. reveal the learnedness of the characters.
d. elicit the sympathy of elite readers
Answer- set up the parody of the pretensions of the characters and their concerns.
Que- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein most reflects which central romantic themes or concerns ?
a. Nature as mirroring the human mind and its imagination
b. The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world
c. The poet as special interpreter of the world
d. The centrality of subjective experience to apprehending the world
Answer- The limits of scientific attempts to understand and control the world
Que- Which of the following directives was part of Queen Victoria's moral crusade ?
a. There should be more missionary work in less civilized parts of the world.
b. Concerts in the parks that were attended by ordinary people should be banned.
c. Civil servants should talk more openly and publicly about their moral work.
d. Members of the Jewish and Catholic faiths should be excluded from public office.
Answer- There should be more missionary work in less civilized parts of the world.
Que- Which of the following best characterizes Wordsworth's attitude towards the French Revolution ?
a. He thought it did not go far enough in granting women rights.
b. He opposed it in favor of supporting the king and the ancien régime.
c. He favored its democratic impulses but was appalled by its destructive nature.
d. He did not think it concerned him and his relationship to nature.
Answer- He favored its democratic impulses but was appalled by its destructive nature.
Que- The main plot of Richardson's Pamela reflects the main characteristics of the sentimental novel through its emphasis on which of the following ?
a. Pamela's attempt to seduce her employer
b. Pamela's parents' attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner
c. Pamela's struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work
d. Pamela's attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer
Answer- Pamela's attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer
Que- Which of the following statements best describes the behavior of the upper-class characters in Congreve's The Way of the World ?
a. They are somewhat jaded, but all are finally good at heart.
b. They are almost universally selfabsorbed and willing to do anything to get what they want.
c. They tend to value love above money and honor.
d. They provide a moral example for the lower classes.
Answer- They are almost universally selfabsorbed and willing to do anything to get what they want.
Que- Which of the following statements accurately describes the theme of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" ?
a. Nature loses its ability to affect human emotion over time.
b. Sensitivity to nature's message comes with age.
c. Life experience does not have to power to alter human opinions.
d. It is not possible to appreciate beauty once one has aged.
Answer- Sensitivity to nature's message comes with age.
Que- Both the Gothic and sentimental fiction emphasize which of the following ?
a. Reason over emotions
b. The necessity for an aristocracy
c. The power of feelings
d. A sense of adventure
Answer- The power of feelings
Que- In Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach," the speaker refers to the "melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" of "The Sea of Faith." This reference alludes to which of the following ?
a. The Protestant Reformation
b. Religious interpretations of changes to the oceans
c. The decline of religion's importance in the modern West
d. His lover's betrayal
Answer- The decline of religion's importance in the modern West
Que- Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth conceives of himself as a "chosen son" primarily because_____________?
a. his brothers died in their youth.
b. he was endowed with a great poetic talent.
c. he was given special educational opportunities.
d. he feels especially connected to nature due to his experience as a youth.
Answer- he feels especially connected to nature due to his experience as a youth.
Que- Which of the following social issues does Dickens confront in Great Expectations ?
a. Penal reform
b. Educational reform
c. The role of the monarchy
d. Both A and B
Answer- Both A and B
Que- In The Rape of the Lock, Pope satirizes which of the following social institutions ?
a. The government
b. Marriage
c. Organized religion
d. All of these answers
Answer- All of these answers
Que- Which of the following genres is NOT part of the hybrid form of Behn's Oroonoko ?
a. Nonfiction
b. Travel memoir
c. Detective story
d. Biography
Answer- Detective story
Que- Which of the following is a central theme of Christina Rossetti's poem "Goblin Market" ?
a. The dangers of sensuality to women
b. The links between sexuality and economics
c. The importance of sisterly bonds
d. All of these answers
Answer- All of these answers
Que- Complete the following sentence. The Byronic hero is characterized as________________?
a. always fighting for good against evil.
b. fortunate in always coming out victorious.
c. nearly superhuman in his powers but tortured by a psychological weight.
d. devoted to religion above all things
Answer- nearly superhuman in his powers but tortured by a psychological weight.
Que- Which of the following statements about the poems in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience is true ?
a. The poems defend the industrial revolution as helping England's economy.
b. The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.
c. The poems reject experience in favor of innocence.
d. The poems reject innocence in favor of experience.
Answer- The poems criticize religious institutions for not helping the oppressed.
Que- Which of the following terms is NOT closely associated with the Gothic novel ?
a. Horror
b. The sublime
c. Suspense
d. Picaresque
Answer- Picaresque
Que- Which of the following best defines sentimentalism ?
a. A refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity
b. An emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others' pain and joy
c. A sense of awe in the power of the natural world
d. A parody of the interest in emotion that developed out of the Enlightenment interest in reason
Answer- An emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others' pain and joy
Que- Which of the following best defines the heroic couplet ?
a. Two characters in an epic who are romantically involved
b. Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter
c. The concluding lines of any poem
d. Two characters who act as foils in a comedy of manners
Answer- Two lines of rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter
Que- Complete the following sentence. According to Edmund Burke, the French Revolution was________________?
a. the ultimate expression of humankind's ability to control its own destiny.
b. a misguided attempt to overthrow human nature by rejecting tradition.
c. a necessary change that was beginning to go astray.
d. an event that had little consequence to England
Answer- a misguided attempt to overthrow human nature by rejecting tradition.
Que- O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don't be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so! These lines characterize Samuel Richardson's Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?
a. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.
b. by emphasizing the character's fright.
c. by emphasizing sexual morality.
d. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character's feelings.
Answer- by emphasizing the character's fright.
Que- In which of the following ways did Hopkins revolutionize poetry ?
a. He created a radically new form.
b. He used unusual, arcane words.
c. He made obscure allusions.
d. All of these answers
Answer- All of these answers
Que- Complete the following sentence. Robert Browning's poem "Porphyria's Lover" is_______________?
a. a sonnet expressing his devotion to his wife.
b. a dramatic monologue spoken by a murderer.
c. a dramatic monologue spoken by Browning.
d. an epic describing a great romance.
Answer- a dramatic monologue spoken by a murderer.
Que- Complete the following sentence. Tennyson's In Memoriam and Browning's dramatic monologues can best be seen as combining neoclassicism with romanticism through their ?
a. neoclassical emphasis on traditional form and romantic subjectivism.
b. romantic rejection of science and neoclassical use of mythology.
c. romantic emphasis on personal feelings combined with a neoclassical focus on social context.
d. romantic critique of industrialization and neoclassical use of satire.
Answer- romantic emphasis on personal feelings combined with a neoclassical focus on social context.
Que- Who was Le Corbusier ?
a. He was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret.
b. He was an architect who designed The Chandigarh Legislative Assembly building in Punjab, India.
c. He was the architect who designed The Robie House in Chicago, Illinois.
d. Both A and B
Answer- Both A and B
Que- Which of the following is NOT a modernist art movement ?
a. Surrealism
b. Dadaism
c. Symbolism
d. Realism
Answer- Realism
Que- Which of the following statements best describes "Magical Realism" ?
a. Magical realism often accepts both a materialist and a supernatural view of the real.
b. Magical realism differs from fantasy and science fiction in that it considers the impossible as normal.
c. The term "magical realism" was first coined by Franz Roh, a German art critic.
d. All of the above
Answer- All of the above
Que- Which of the following is NOT one of the general themes of concern in Derek Walcott's poem"Becune Point" ?
a. Nature
b. Christianity
c. Pastoral landscapes
d. World War II
Answer- World War II
Que- Who wrote "Take up the White Man's burden-/ Send forth the best ye breed-" in order to inspire Western Europeans to propagate benevolent, enlightened colonialism ?
a. Charles Baudelaire
b. William Butler Yeats
c. Rudyard Kipling
d. Napoleon III
Answer- Rudyard Kipling
Que- Post-Modernism is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?
a. A fascination with the past but a past that is used out of its original context as pastiche
b. A reinforcement of master narratives
c. A rejection of master narratives
d. Both A and C
Answer- Both A and C
Que- Which of the following artists was NOT influenced by Surrealism ?
a. Giorgio de Chirico
b. Salvador DalÃ
c. Marcel Duchamp
d. Paul Gauguin
Answer- Paul Gauguin
Que- Siegfried Sassoon's poem "To Victory" is concerned primarily with which of the following themes ?
a. His safe return home
b. The defeat of the Germans
c. His death and escape from suffering.
d. His ability to finally kill an enemy soldier
Answer- His safe return home
Que- Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction ?
a. Raymond Williams
b. Jacques Derrida
c. Fredric Jameson
d. Both A and B
Answer- Jacques Derrida
Que- According to Dr. Dino Felluga's "General Introduction to Postmodernism," Roland Barthes, in his work "The Death of the Author," argues which of the following points ?
a. The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text.
b. Once the Author is gone, the claim to decipher" a text is quite simple."
c. A text never consists of multiple writings, it is always the product of a monolithic culture.
d. Both A and B
Answer- Once the Author is gone, the claim to decipher" a text is quite simple."
Que- Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India's post-colonial situation ?
a. Ravinder Reddy
b. Rummana Hussain
c. Dadabhai Naoroji
d. A and B only
Answer- A and B only
Que- Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term "Orientalism" ?
a. Edward Said
b. Arundhati Roy
c. Salman Rushdie
d. Homi Bhaba
Answer- Edward Said
Que- How may W.B. Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming," be interpreted ?
a. As an interpretation of the Biblical Second Coming of Christ
b. As an attempt to support European colonialism in Africa
c. As a howl of despair concerning the current state of the world
d. Both A and C
Answer- Both A and C
Que- Which of the following is true of Charles Baudelaire's "Bénédiction" ?
a. It was originally written in English.
b. It celebrates the almost divine power of the poet.
c. It suggests that poetry is demonic in nature.
d. Both A and B
Answer- It celebrates the almost divine power of the poet.
Que- Of the following, who was NOT a well known modernist author ?
a. James Joyce
b. Voltaire
c. Virginia Woolf
d. None of the mentioned
Answer- Voltaire
Que- According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on "Tradition and the Individual Talent," which of the following is true of "tradition ?"
a. In English literature, we cannot refer to "the tradition" or to "a tradition;" at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is "traditional" or even "too traditional."
b. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.
c. All of the above
d. A and B only
Answer- A and B only
Que- Which of the following authors is NOT considered to be a practitioner of "Magical Realism" ?
a. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
b. Isabel Allende
c. James Joyce
d. Allejo Carpentier
Answer- James Joyce
Que- The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work "Against the Grain," is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?
a. The work celebrates the young Jean and his Jesuit school education as a model for the best possible education of the young.
b. It ends with the famous line "the horror, the horror."
c. It explores Jean's decision to become a recluse and a social drop-out.
d. All of the above
Answer- It explores Jean's decision to become a recluse and a social drop-out.
Que- The literary style of Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse" is best described in which of the following ways ?
a. As an omniscient narrative of love and loss
b. As a third-person narrative of the Great Depression
c. As a domestic stream of consciousness narrative
d. A and B only
Answer- As a domestic stream of consciousness narrative
Que- In Jorge Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel," which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?
a. The short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.
b. It is obsessed with the descriptions of an endless and ultimately incomprehensible library.
c. Borges takes great pains to show how the key to understanding the library is reason.
d. The library is analogous to the universe.
Answer- Borges takes great pains to show how the key to understanding the library is reason.
Que- Who painted "The Accommodations of Desire" ?
a. Salvador DalÃ
b. Pablo Picasso
c. Juan Miró
d. Man Ray
Answer- Salvador DalÃ
Que- Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country ?
a. Argentina
b. Brazil
c. Mexico
d. Britain
Answer- Argentina
Que- Which of the following statements best describes the "Great Depression" ?
a. The Great Depression lasted for one hundred years.
b. The Great Depression was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by Western civilization since industrialization.
c. The Great Depression was a severe economic downturn in the industrialized world that began in 1929 and lasted for approximately ten years.
d. B and C only
Answer- B and C only
Que- Which of the following authors is NOT an important Irish writer ?
a. Seamus Heaney
b. James Joyce
c. William Butler Yeats
d. E.M. Forster
Answer- E.M. Forster