ENGLISH WEEKEND TESTS AND GRAND TESTS 13-18
Practice Test-13
1.Who wrote the Commendatory Verses written by in The Way of the World?
A.Rich copper
B. Richard Steele
C. Dick bismuth
D. Ricky iron
2. Who is the play The Way of the World dedicated to?
A. CharlesII
B. William Shakespeare
C. Romeo, Earl of Montague
D. Ralph, Earl of Montague
3.Who delivers the prologue in The Way of the World?
A. The actor playing Ms.Millamant
B. Mira bell
C. The actor playing Mirabell
D. Ms. Millamant
4. Following your
knowledge that the order of the Dramatis Personae follows the order of power in
Restoration England, what character is highest on the listing?
A.Waitwell
B. Lady wishfort
C. Ms. Millamant
D. Fainall
5.Where does Act I Scene I take place
A. tea-house
B.Ladywishfort's home
C.A chocolate-house
D.A brothel
6.Who said that, “Friendship
without freedom is as dull as love without enjoyment.”
A.Mirabel
B. Witwould
C. Waitwel
D.Fainall.
7.The epigraph of The Way Of The World contains two Latin quotations from
A.Homer
D. Horace satire
C. Virgil
D. Ovid
8.The Prologue is spoken by the actor playing which character in The
Country Wife?
A.Horner
B.Sir jasper fidget
C.Mr. Harcourt
D. Jack
pinchwife
9.Whom has Horner employed to spread the rumor of his impotence?
A.Sir jasper fidget
B.Mr. Sparkish
C.Jackpinchwife
D. The quack
10.Why did the supposed French surgeon supposedly
operate on Horner?
A. Venereal disease
B. Rheumatism
C. Injuries sustained in a tavern brawl
D.A combat wound
11.Why does Horner consider a husband a “monster”?
A. Because husbands inevitably become pathologically jealous
B. Because husbands inevitably
become abusive
C. Because husbands inevitably become cuckolds
D. Because
husbands inevitably abandon their friends
12.What does Horner say is Lady Fidget's “greatest affectation”?
A. Her intellect
B. Her virtue
C. Her liking for the theatre
D. Her
sartorial style
13.How does Horner convince Sir Jasper's entourage
that the rumors of his impotence are true?
A. By feigning envy of other men
B. By feigning an
aversion to women
C. By breaking down in tears
D. By showing them a note
from the quack
14.What pastime does Sir Jasper recommend for Horner
and the ladies?
A. Croquet
B. Lawn tennis
C. Card games
D. The theatre
15.What is Sparkish's great sin in the view of Horner,
Harcourt, and Dorilant?
A. Having contempt for women
B. Affecting wit
C. Seeking to marry alethea
D.Social snobbery
16.Whom does Sparkish claim to have left at Whitehall
in order to dine with the three wits?
A.A marchioness
B.An earl
C.The king
D.A duke
17.What is Alethea's dowry?
A.4,000 POUNDS
b. 3,000 POUNDS
C.5,000 POUNDS
D.2,000 POUNDS
18.What does Horner say is soon to happen to the newly married Pinchwife?
A. His wife will run away
B. He will become a drunkard
C. He will become a wife-abuse
D. He
will become a cuckold
19.Restoration comedy is also called as
A. comedy of humours
B. comedy of errors
C. comedy of manners
D. sentimental
comedy
20.Restoration comedy was developed by Roman dramatists
A. Plautus and Terence
B. Andronicus
C. Homer
D.Naevius
21.The English comedy of manners was early exemplified by Shakespeare's
A.Twelfth Night
B. As you like it
C. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
D.Love’s Labour Lost, Much Ado About Nothing
22.Dryden’s poem Medal is a
satire on
A. Shaftesbury
B. Shadwell
C. Samuel Butler
D Bishop Ken
23.The Comical Revenge is
written by
A.William Congreve
B. George Etherege
C.William Wycherley
D. Thomas
Shadwell
24. “Restoration comedies are
a world of themselves almost as much as fairy land” is said by
A. Charles Lamb
B. Aphra Ben
C. George Bernard Shaw
D.
William Congreve
25.Restoration period takes its name from restoration of--------------
A.Charles II
B.Charles I
C.James II
D.James I
26. ‘Paradise Lost was written in
A. blank verse
B. Ballad
C. Ode
D. Monologue
27. Who is the hero of ‘Paradise Lost ‘?
A. Satan
B. God
C. Adam
D. Christ
28. Which of the following work was NOT written by John Milton?
A. Lycidas
B. LÁllegro
C. ‘Absolom and Achitophel ‘
D. II Penseroso
29. What kind of work was
‘Areopagatica‘
A. A Poem
B. A Novel
C. A Play
D. Tract/ Prose polemic
30. ‘Paradise Lost’ was originally written in
A. 8 books
B. 10 books
C. 12 books
D. 6 books
31. The poem opens with an Invocations to the ___ in‘ Paradise Lost ‘
A. Heavenly muse
B. Almighty God
C. Jesus Christ
D. All the above
32. ‘The Forbidden Tree’ is also known as
A. the Tree of Light
B. the Tree of knowledge
C. the Tree of Love
D. the Tree of Hate
33. Who Restored mankind to Paradise
A. Moses
B. Michael
C. Urania
D. Jesus Christ
34. Who was “the infernal Serpent “?
A. Beelzebub
B.Moloch
C. Belial
D. Satan
35. Satan and his horrible Companions fell from Heaven for the duration
of
A. six days and nights
B. Ten days and nights
C. Nine days and nights
D. Three days and
nights
36. Who was only next to Satan in power and in crime
A. Moloch
B. Belial
C. Beelzebub
D. Mammon
37. Who speaks “to be weak is to be miserable “?
A. Thmmuz
B. Satan
C. Chemos
D.
Orus
38. The fallen angel who first approached Satan was
A. Chemos
B.Astrate
C. Dagon
D. Moloch
39. Who was the wisest man that built a temple on the Mount of
Olives in Moloch’s honour
A.King Solomon
B. King David
C. King Jehoram D.
King Saul
40. ‘Pandemonium ‘means the home of
A. Gods B. Angels
C. Sinners D. Devils
41. The meaning of ‘Mulciber’ was
A. The builder
B. The Architect
C. The softener or welder
D. The Labour
42. Puritanism desired to recover the
A. Purity of doctrine
B. Simplicity of worship
C. Commitment of ministry
D. All
43. Those who believed in Puritanism took the Bible as their guide, and they were
A. Pantheists
B. Monotheists
C. Anti – Catholic
D. Anti – God
44. The Puritans acknowledged Elizabethan as head of the church only to
bar the
A. Pope
B. Duke
C. King
D. Priest
45. The Puritans close the public theatres in
A. 1636
B. 1640
C. 1642
D. 1646
46. The period from 1660 to 1700 is known as the Restoration period or
the Age of
A. Pope
B. Johnson
C. Dryden
D. None
47. The Great Plague of London started in 1665 and ended in
A. 1662
B. 1664
C. 1666
D. 1669
48. After the death of Charles II , who ascended the throne in 1685
A. Charles III
B. Charles IV
C. James I
D. James II
49. The Restoration tragedy, also known as the ___ or the Love and
Honour Drama
A. Heroic Tragedy
B. Epic Drama
C. Revenge Tragedy
D. Domestic Tragedy
50. Which poem of Milton represents the ‘Thoughtful Man ‘?
A. Comus
B. Arcades
C. Lycidas
D. II Peneroso
Practice Test-14
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1. No other boy is as ………………as James (tall/taller/tallest)
2. Gold is one of the………………metals. (precious/more precious/most
precious)
3. Sharma is junior……. Rakesh. (than/to/as)
Change the
following sentences accordingly.
4. India is the largest democracy in the world. (change the sentence
into positive degree)
5. She is one of the cleverest students in the college. (change the
sentence into positive degree)
6. Virat is as good as Rohith. (change the sentence into comparative)
7. Chocolates are tastier than candies. (change it into positive
sentence)
8. Rajitha is a ……….girl. (nice/nicer/nicest)
9. Rajesh speaks English………(well/better/best)
10. Mumbai is the richest city in India. (change it into comparative
degree)
11. He ………..living in Hyderabad since 2010.
a) Is
b) was
c) has been
d) had been
12. Ramesh…….. his native place
last month.
a) Visits
b) is visiting
c) visited
d) has been visiting
13. Santhosh…….. online classes
everyday.
a) attending
b) attended
c) attends
d)
was attending
14. Bharath has a puppy. He named it ‘tiger’. (Form a compound sentence
using ‘and”)
15. His grandmother was unwell.
He visited her last weekend. (Form a compound sentence using ‘so”)
16. Mahesh wants to become a doctor. He failed in the entrance test.
(Form a compound sentence using ‘but”)
17. Ajay has been working in a college …….. 2015.
a) for
b) since
c) hence
d) till
18. Soumya prefers tea ……… coffee. (than/to/for)
19. He didn’t want to go to college. He attended anyway. (form a
compound sentence using ‘yet”)
20. Cats are good pets. They are clean. (Form a compound sentence using
‘for”)
21. You should complain Of (a) /
if you are not happy with (b) /the service you receive. (c)
22. My father is (a) / in bad mood (b) / today. (c)
23. I
am not wealthy, (a)/ so I can not afford (b) / to buy a expensive car. (c) / No
error (d).
24. The
road (a) / to famous monument (b) / passes through a forest (c) / No error (d).
25.
Sunita opened a almirah (a) / full of books and took one of them (b) / for
reading. (C) No error (d).
26. What type (a)/ of books you (b)/ like to
read?(c)/ No error (d)
27. None of the
(a)/ student scored (b)/ above 90% in boards.(c)/No error (d)
28. The
resources (a)/was divided based (b)
on their expertise. (c)/No error (d)
29. If
Jacob would have(a)/ called me, I would have picked (b)/him
up from the airport.(c)/ No error (d)
30. He is
the(a)/ most busiest man(b)/ in the office.(c) No error (d)
Change
the sentences accordingly.
31. In spite of being poor, he is very happy. (Change it into
compound sentence using’but')
32. Besides being rich, she is generous. (Change it into compound
sentence using’not only- but also')
33. Taking out the pen, he started writing. (Change it into compound
sentence using’and')
34. Deceived by his friends and family, he killed himself. (Change it into
compound sentence using’so')
35. Through his hard work, he achieved success. (Change it into compound
sentence using’and')
Change the sentences accordingly.
36. We eat to live.(Change the sentence into a Complex sentence using
‘So-that’)
37. In spite of being rich, she is hard working.(Change the sentence
into a Complex sentence using ‘Although’)
38. Because of his illness, he could not join the meeting. (Change the
sentence into a Complex sentence using ‘Since’)
39. It was a blue shirt.(Change the sentence into a Complex sentence
using ‘Which’)
40. Without adding the sugar the dish will taste bad. (Change into a
Complex sentence using ‘If- not’)
41. Why did you(a)/ not threw(b)/ the bag away?(c)No error (d)
42. The criminal stood(a)/ quietly for(b) few moments. (c) /No error (d)
43.She cooks,(a)/ washes dishes,does her homework(b)/ and then
relaxing.(c)/No error (d)
44. Technology must(a)/ be use to
(b)improve the quality of life.(c)/ No error (d)
45. The man who has(a)/ committed must get(b)/ the mostly severe
punishment.(c)/No error (d)
46. We don't know how (a)/did the thief made(b)/ an escape.(c)/No error
(d)
47. one of the most(a)/ notable phenomenons of(b)/ our time is the
development of computer.(c)/No error (d)
48. He attends (a)/ online classes everyday,(b)/ isn't he? (c)/ No error
(d)
49. You will be(a)/ late if you do not (b)/leave now.(c)/No error (d)
50. If he worked hard,(a)/he would have performed (b)/well in the exam.
(c)/No error (d)
KEY:
1. Tall 2. Most precious 3. To
4. No other democracy in the world is as
large as India.
5. Very few students in the college are as clever as she.
6. Richards is greater than any
other cricketer.
7. Candies are not so tasty as chocolates.
8. Nice 9. Well 10. Mumbai is richer than any other city in India.
11. C 12. C 13. B
14. Bharath has a puppy and he named it
tiger.
15. His grandmother was unwell so he visited her last weekend
16. Mahesh wants to become a doctor but he failed in the entrance test.
17. B 18. To
19. He didn’t want to go to college yet he
attended anyway.
20. Cats are good pets for they are clean.
21. A 22. B 23. C 24. B 25. A
26. B 27. B 28. B 29.
A 30. B
31. He is poor but he is very happy.
32.
She is not only rich but also generous.
33. He took out the pen and started writing.
34. He was deceived by his friends and family so he killed himself.
35. He worked hard and achieved success.
36. We eat so that we can live.
37. Although she is rich, she is hard working.
38. Since he was ill, he could not join the meeting.
39. It was a shirt which was blue.
40. If you do not add sugar the dish will taste bad.
41. B 42. C 43. C 44. B 45. C
46. B 47.
B 48. C 49. D 50. A
Practice Test-15
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1.The Golkonda Fort is an ancient as
the Red Fort.(Change into comparative degree).
a) The Red
Fort is not the more ancient than the Golkonda Fort
b)The Red
Fort is not more ancient as the Golkonda Fort
c)The Red
Fort is not ancient than the Golkonda Fort.5
d)The Red
Fort is not more ancient than the Golkonda Fort.
2. Character is more important than
education.(Change into positive degree).
a)Education is so important as character.
b)Education
is not so more important as character.
c)Education is not so important than character.
d)Education
is not so important as character.
3.Coconut water is healthier than any
other drink.(Change into superlative degree).
a) Coconut water is the healthiest drink.
b)
Coconut water is healthiest drink.
c) Coconut water is healthy drink.
d) Coconut water is the
healthiest drinks.
4.Very few dictionaries are as
standard as the oxford dictionary.(Change into superlative degree)
a)The
oxford dictionary is one of the most standard dictionaries.
b)The
oxford dictionary is one of the most standard dictionary.
c)The
oxford dictionary is one of the standard dictionaries.
d)The
oxford dictionary is one of the most standard dictionaries.
5. This is the most melodious song in
this movie (change the sentence into positive degree)
a)No other
song in this movie are so melodious as this.
b)No other
song in this movie is so melodious than this
c)No other
song in this movie is so melodious as this
d)No other
songs in this movie is so melodious as this.
6.Which of the following is a simple sentence?
a)He was ill but he attended the classes.
b)Although
he was ill he attended the classes.
c)Inspite of his illness he attended the classes.
d)He
was ill yet he attended the classes.
7.Which of the following is a compound
sentences.
a)If you do not work hard you will not pass.
b)You
must work hard to pass.
c)Unless you work hard you will not pass.
d)Work
hard or you will not pass.
8. Which of the following is a complex
sentence?
a)On seeing the police he ran away.
b)He saw
the police and ran away.
c)When he saw the police, he ran away
d)He
saw the police or he would not run away.
9)”Hurry up or you can’t meet him” is
a
a) Simple sentence b) Compound sentence
c) Complex sentence d) Compound-complex sentence
10. Ali got up. He went to post
office. Combine them into a compound sentence.
a) After getting up Ali went to post office.
B)
Ali got up and went to post office
c) Having got Ali went to post office.
d)
As Ali got up he went to post office.
11. He had a great deal of influence.
But he could not get a job. Combineinto a simple sentence.
a)
Although he had a great influence he could not get a job.
b) With
all his influence he could not get a job.
c) He had
a great deal of influence yet he could not get a job.
d)Though
he had a great influence he could not get a job.
12. You will find friends
everywhere.(Change the correct complex sentences for it)
a) You will find the friends in all places.
b)You
will find the friends wherever you go
c) You can go anywhere to find his friends.
d)You
can find his friends everywhere.
13.I found my pen that I had lost
(Choose the correct compound sentence for it)
a) I have lost my pen but I found it.
b)I
found my pen though I had lost it.
C) I found my lost pen.
d)I
lost my pen and if yet to be found.
14. “If You go quickly, you can attend
the party”.(Choose the correct compound sentence for it).
a) Though you go quickly you cannot attend the party.
b)Go
quickly or you cannot attend the party.
c)Inspite of your going quickly you cannot attend the party.
d)Go quickly and attend the party.
15.
a)Raju plays cricket
b) Raju plays chess
also
The given sentences can be combined
and expressed as.
a)Raju doesn’t play either cricket or chess
b)Raju
plays cricket but not chess.
c)Raju plays chess but not cricket.
d)Raju plays not only cricket but
also chess.
16.a)I saw a girl. B)she was
beautiful. If you combine the above two sentences correctly.
You will get
a)I saw a girl which was beautiful
b)I
saw a beautiful girl.
c)I saw a girl but she was beautiful.
d)All
the above.
17. A: He was so intelligent that he
can’t fail.
B: I am
very dull and I can’t understand.
a)Sentence ‘A’ is correct
b)Sentence
‘B’ is correct
c)Both the sentences are correct
d)
Both the sentences are incorrect.
18. A: You must run fast to caught the
bus.
B: She should learns English to get
the job.
a)‘A’ is correct.
b)‘B’ is correct
c)Both are correct
d) Both are incorrect.
19. A: If he writes neatly, he can get
more marks.
B: Unless
he writes neatly, he can get more marks.
a)’A’ is correct
b) ‘B’ is correct
c)A & B are correct
d) A & B are incorrect
20.
a) Iliyas sir teaches nicely.
b) students like Iliyas sir.
If you combine the above sentences
correctly you will get.
a) Though Iliyas sir teaches nicely students like Iliyas sir.
b)Iliyas sir teaches nicely
but students like Iliyas sir.
c) As Iliyas sir teaches nicely, students like him.
d)
Since Iliyas sir teaches nicely, students like Iliyas sir.
21.
A: Though he is poor, he is
honest.
B: Since she is rich, she purchases
the costly items.
a)Sentence ‘A’ is correct
b)Sentence ‘B’ is correct
c) A & B are correct
d) A & B are incorrect.
22. Choose the correct sentence that
has no error.
a) The news that I heard are very interesting
b)
The news that I heard is very interesting
c) A news that I heard are very interesting.
d)
News that I heard is very interesting.
23. Choose the correct sentence
a) When you saw the movie?
b)
When you have seen the movie?
c)When did you saw the movie?
d)
when did you see the movie?
24. Choose the correct sentence?
a) Deepak lived here since 1990
b)Deepak
lives here from 1990
c) Deepak has been living here since 1990
d)
Deepak has lived here till 1990
25. Choose the correct sentence
a) I prayed God for help
b)I
prayed to God for help
c) I prayed God to help
d)
I prayed God for helping
26. From what year did the Restoration
period began, and when did it end?
a) 1651 to 1700
b) 1660 to 1700
c) 1665 to 1710
d) 1545 to 1700
27. What did Enlightenment thinkers
emphasize?
a) Reason and science.
b) Religion and faith c) Tradition and hierarchy
d)
Mysticism and creativity
28. Which poet critic and translator
brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
a) Addison
b) Bunyan
c)Crabbe
d)Dryden
29. Which of the following is not an example of Restoration Comedy?
a) Etherege’s The Man of Mode
b)Wycherley”s
The Country Wife
C) Behn’s The Rover
d) Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
30. Who was deposed from the English
throne in the Glorious, or Bloodles, Revolution in 1688?
a) Elizabeth 1
b) James II
c) George II
d)
William and Mary
31. “Paradise Lost” was published in
the year____
a) 1660
b) 1663
c) 1665
d)
1667
32. The story of God vs Lucifer is:
a) God gets beaten up pretty badly
b)
God doesn’t fight fair
c) Lucifer is beaten badly and thrown out of heaven
d)
Lucifer begs God to forgive him
33. Which devil is Satan’s second in
command?
a) Mammon
b) sin
c) Moloch
d) Beelzebub
34. Satan’s____had him cast out from
heaven
a)image
b)Pride
c) love
d) Hatred
35. According to Milton hell is _____
a) A lake of fire
b)Located underground
c)darkness
d)A black hole
36.Between which sets of years did
Dryden live?
a)1625-1700
b)1631-1700
c)1635-1700
d)
1628-1700
37. Dryden was hailed as The father of
English Criticism who hailed him this?
a) Samuel Butler
b) Pope
c) Dr.Johnson
d) Coleridge
38. Dryden’s Alexander’s Feast is
_____
a) A Play
b)An Ode
c) A narrative poem
d)
satire.
39. William Congreve’s “the way of the
world” The scene opens at a ______ house.
a)Biscuit’s house
b) Farm House
c) Chocolate House
d) Mirabell’s house
40. Mirabell and Fain all have just
risen from a game of _____
a)chess
b) cards
c)Puzzle
d) quiz
41. In the game of cards_____was
defeated by Fain all
a) Millament
b) Mirabell
c) Marwood
d) Wish
fort
42. ________holds half of the
Millament’s fortune
a)Mr.wishfort
b) Lady wishfort
c) Mrs. Marwood
d) Mr. Marwood
43. When Lady wishfort discovers that
Mirabell does not love her she starts _____him
a) Plan to kill him
b)Try to marry him
c) Plan to kill herself
d)Hate him
44. When Foible arrives Mrs.Marwood
hides herself in a _______
a) window screen
b) Under the bed
c) room
d) closet.
45. Sir will full tellsMrs.Marwood
that he intends to go abroad after picking up some_______
a) Files
b) English
c) French
d) Black box.
46. Which figure explains the meaning
of the play every man at its conclusion?
a)Angel b)knowledge
c)Doctor
d)Good deeds
47. She is a character in
virginiawoolf’s novel
a)Mrs. Dalloway
b)To the Light house
c)The waves
d)Orlando
48.In which style did John Milton
write the poem Paradise Lost?
a) Blank verse
b) Vers libre
c)Regular meter
d) Free verse
49. How many books were included in
the second edition of the poem Paradise Lost?
a) 12 b)10
c)14
d)11
50. Which one is the shortest book in
Milton’s Paradise Lost?
a) Book XI
b) Book II
c)Book IX
d)Book VII
51.John donne is in some sense ,the
originator of metaphysical poetry ,but who is most closely associated withthe
following of neo –classical poetry ?
a)Benjonson
b)George Herbert
c)Alexander pope
d)William Words worh
52.Which of the following is not
generally considered to be a neo –classical poet?
a)john Dryden
b)Henry Vaughan
c)Alexander pope
d)Benjonson
53.Which of the following is not a
common feature of neo-classical poetry?
A)Imitation of classical forms and allusion to mythology
b)Fantastic
comparisions
c)use of the rhymed couplet
d)An effort to represent human nature
54.He wrote both religious and secular
poetry. one of this poems urged virgins to make the most of their time.
a)Benjonson
b)Alexanderpope
c)Robert Herrrick
d)John Dryden
55.Robert Herrick ‘s poem “The new years gift celebrates christ’s:
a)Crucifixion
b)Resurrection
c)Circumcision
d)Ascension
56.Pope made money by selling
subscriptions to his translation of this classical epic
a)TheIlliad
b)The Aeneid
c)The Aeneid
d)The bhaghavadgita
57.Why didn’t Alexanderpope attend an
English Uiversity?
a)HE lived in Italy until the age of 27
b)ASthama
,Headaches, and spiral deformity made him an invalid.
c)He was a catholic and therefore forbidden from attending
d)He
just wasn’t bright enough
58.Who said about Alexander Pope ,Ïf
pope be not a poet ,where is true poetry to be found?
a)Dr. Johnson
b)Ben Jonson
c)Johnson
d)Alexander pope
59.Who wrote the Imitation of Horace ?
a)Robert Herrick
b)Alexander pope
c)Henry Vaughan
d)Ben Jonson
60)When did Alexander pope first
publish his mock epic the Rape of the Lock ?
a)1711
b)1712
c)1713
d)1714
61.An Essay on Man by Alexander pope
is actually?
a)fiction
b)prose
c)fable
d)poem
62.The Rape of the Lock is a Parody of
which epic poem?
a)theIlliad
b)The Odyssey
c)The Aeneid
d)The Bhaghavadgita
63.Alexander pope is considered the
master of ____
a)Mock Epic
b)Couplet
c)Heroic Couplet
d)Closed couplet
64.Who is Gnome in the Rape of the
Lock?
a)Ariel
b)Umbriel
c)Betty
d)Brillante
65.Who conspires with the Baron to
steal Belinda’s lock in the Rape of The Lock.
a)Umbriel
b)Clarissa
c)Sir Plume
d)Betty
66.Later Rosicrucian doctrine is added
to the Rape of the Lock and then it is published in five cantos in__
a)1712
b)1713
c)1714
d)1715
67.According to pope ‘s depiction not
the supernatural sprites ,what do conquette become?
a)Gnomes
b)Nymphs
c)Salamanders
d)Sylphs
68.Pope’s reference to “mighty rage “
is an allusion to the fury of which epic
hero on Homer’s The Iliad?
a)Menelaus
b)Achilles
c)Agamemnon
d)Hector
69.What does pope specify is the
primary function of Belinda’s ringlets?
a)To be objects of worship
b)To attract men
c)To occasion poetry
d)To
be beautiful
70.Which Augustan writer’s Epitaph
reads one who strove with all his might to champion liberty”
a)Alexander pope
b)Jonathan swift
c)Henry fielding
d)Daniel Defoe
71.Who of the following is not a periodical essayist?
a)Jonathan swift
b)Joseph Addison
c)Richard Steele
d)Lancelot
Andrews
72.Swift’s modest proposal is written
in the form of a __
a)Social Satire
b)Old –Testament history
c)Political allegory
d)project in political economy
social satire
73.Gulliver spent most of his time ___
a)In Forest
b)In Water
c)In Cave
d)In ship
74.What is the significance of the
Ghosts in the Gulliver Travels.
a)Ghosts tell him that history is distorted
b)They
tell that philosophy is faulty
c)They tell that books don’t convey authentic knowledge
d)All of these.
75.Houyhnhnms represents in the
Gulliver travels .
a)Utopia
b)Dystopia
c)Perfection of nature
d)none
76.Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver
Travels in ____
a)1726
b)1723
c)1714
d)1711
77.Who is Gulliver’s main caretaker in
Brobdingnag?
a)The Queen
b)Glumdalclitch
c)The Farmer
d)Reldresal
78.Dr.Johnson left out one important
poet in his lives of the poets .Who was that poet?
a)Gray
b)Goldsmith
C)Collins
d)James
Thomson
79.Who is the author of the school for
scandal?
a)Richardson
b)Swift
c)Sheridan
d)Collins
80.Fielding Joseph ‘s Andrew is a
burlesque based on
a)Smollet’s peregrine ppickle
b)Smollett’s
Humphry Clinker
c)Richardson ‘s Clarissa Harlowe
d)Richardson
‘s Pamela
81.What was the period of Augustan
age?
a)1600-1700
b)1700-1750
c)1750-1800
d)1800-1850
82.Who said “The proper study of
mankind is man””?
a)Addison
b)Dryden
c)Steele
d)Alexander Pope
83.A Tale of a Tub by Swift vindicates
___?
a)The church of England
b)Catholic Romans
c)Church of Rome
d)Church of America
84.Who termed Dryden and Pope as
“Classics of Prose”?
a) Dr.Johnson
b)Mathew Arnold
c)Steele
d)ST Coleridge
85.Parson Adam figures in ___?
a)Joseph Andrews
b)Jonathan wild
c)Tom Jones
d)Pamela
86.The finest example of mock heroic
poetry “is found in :
a)The Rape of the lock
b)Rabbi Ben Ezra
c)London
d)Vanity of
Human wishes
87.Who wrote dictionary ?
a)Samuel Johnson
b)Dryden
c)Jonathan Swift
d)Henry Fielding
88.Thomas “Seasons” and Gray’s Elegy
revealed.
a)Pre –romantic note
b)Description of Nature
c)Both
d)None.
89.Thomas Gray belongs to __
a)Church yard school of poetry
b)Graveyard school of poetry
c)Both
d)None
90.A famous English poet translated
the part of this poem into Latin ,who is he/she ..
a) P.B.Shelley
b)Mary
c)Henry
d)None
91.She is good at___
a)Dance
b)Dancing
c)Dances
d)None
92.He is interested in ______ to
Canada
a)Emigrate
b)Emigrated
c)Emigrates
d)Emigrating
93.He demanded ___________(speak ) to
thr manager
a)to speak
b)speak
c)speaking
d)speaks
94.Finally I managed _____(finish )the
work
a)finished
b)finishing
c)to finish
d)None
95.I prepared _____(go) on holiday
a) to go
b)gone
c)goes
d)going
96.How do you end the main body of a
formal letter?
a)By telling the recipient what he should be doing next
b)By talking about the weather in your city
c)By talking about the weather in the recipient’s city
d)By expressing your love for the recipient.
97.If you didn’t know the recipient ‘s
name ,how would you address the person
a)Dear Mr/Mrs
b)Dear Sir/Madam
c)My dear
d)Hello
98.In an Informal letter you should do
what?
a)Scribble
b)Ignore grammar
c)Leave out the date
d)write legible in simple English
99.The main point is written in which
part of a formal letter?
a)Post Script
b)Closing
c)Opening
d)Body
100.If you didn’t know the recipient’s
name how would you close the letter?
a)With love
b)Yours sincerely
c)Yours faithfully
d)Affectionately yours.
Practice Test-16
1.Who
among the following
writers was a
surgeon in England?
a)Lord Byron
b)B.P.B. shelly
c) John Keats
d) Leigh Hunt
2. Who wrote “ A
thing of Beauty is a joy
forever”?
a) Keats
b) P. B.Shelly
c) Words worth
d) Coleridge
3. For whom is it said ,“ sensuousness is a
paramount bias of his genius”?
a) Tennyson
b) Shelly
c) Keats
d) Blake
4. “
The Eve
of St. Agnes” is written by
a) Tennyson
b) Byron
c) Wordsworth
d) Keats
5. “
Hellenism” of Keats denotes his love
a)Poetry
b) Greek culture and art
c)ancient culture
d)nature
6. The
line ,“Beauty is truth , truth beauty “
occurs in which of the poem of Keats’s?
a) Ode to Nightingale
b) ode to psyche
c) Ode to Autumn
d)
Ode on a Grecian urn
7. Who
coined the term “Negative capability”?
a)Shakespeare
b)Shelly
c)Keats
d)Byron
8. Which
poem of Keats contains “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are
sweeter”
a)Ode to Melancholy
b)Ode to autumn
c)ode to psyche
d)ode on a Grecian urn
9.”Egotistical
Sublime” is a phrase coined by,
a)Wordsworth
b)Tennyson
c)Shelly
d)Keats
10.”Endymion”
is a long poem by
a)John Keats
b) P. B. Shelly
c) S. T. Coleridge
d) Wordsworth
11.”Adonais”
is an elegy on Keats, written by,
a)Keats
b)Arnold
c)Coleridge
d)Shelly
12. Which
of Shelley’s poems has a story from Greek mythology?
a) Julian and Maddalo
b) Alastor
c) Queen mab
d) Prometheus
unbound
13.
Shelley died by
a) Drowning
b) Hanging him self
c) Drinking poison
d) poisoning him self
14. Who
wrote “My name is writ in water” ?
a) Words worth
b) Keats
c) Coleridge
d) Shelley
15. Who
was greatly influenced by Godwin’s Philosophy of life?
a) Keats
b) Browning
c) Shelley
d) Byron
16.
Shelley’s final unfinished poem was
a) The Triumph of life
b) Hellas
c) Prometheus unbound
d) Ode to the west wind
17. “ O
wind! If winter comes, can spring be far behind? “ these lines appear in Shelly’s
a)The cloud’
b)‘Ode to west wind’
c)Ode to Liberty’
d) Ode to Naples’
18. Mathew Arnold called which of the following as “An
intellectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain."
a)Tennyson
b) Blake
c)Wordsworth
d) Shelley
19. Which of the following poem is not written
by Shelley?
a) To a skylark
b) The cloud
c) Hymn to intellectual beauty
d) Fall
of Hyperion
20. What is the original title of “ The Revolt of Islam “ by P.B. Shelley?
a) Alastor
b) Laon and Cythna
c) Queen Mab
d)
Hellas
21. Which
of the following is an autobiography of Byron?
a) The corsair
b) Manfred
c) child’s Harold’s pilgrimage
d)The Giaour
22. “Chide
Harold ‘s Pilgrimage “ is a poem by
Byron written in
a)1811
b)1808
c) 1812
d) 1818
23. Byron
is the write of
a)Adonis
b) Prometheus unbound
c)Lucy Gray
d)Dan Juan
24. “I woke one morning &found my self famous" Who commented on his own success?
a)Milton
b) Shelly
c) Byron
d) Keats
25. The
term “ Byronic” is associated with the word
a) Character
b) Author
c)Hero
d) Heronie
26. Byron
satirizes Britain in his
a)The Giaour
b) Alaster
c) Atheism
d) Don Juan
27. Who
wrote” English Bards & scotch Reviewers” ?
a)Charles Lamb
b) lord Byron
c) Lord Tennyson
d) Hazlitt
28. Who
wrote blank verse tragedies such as“ The
Deformed “,” Transformed” and “ Manfred”?
a)Coleridge
b) Scott
c) Byron
d)Godwin
29. Who
said that “Byron was mad, bad and
dangerous to know”?
a)John Keats
b) Walter Scott
c)P.B. Shelly
d)Lady Caroline lamb
30. Byron’s
fist published collection was
called
a)Years of Idleness
b)Eons of Idleness
c)House of Idleness
d) Childe Harold's pilgrimage
31.Who is
regarded as “ The high priest
of Romanticism”?
a)word worth
b) B.P.B. shelly
c)Coleridge
d) John Keats
32. The
“Moon” in Coleridge’s poetry
is a symbol of
a) P. B. Shelly
b) John Keats
c) Coleridge
d) words worth
33.
In which poem does
Coleridge display mastery over
the Ballad stanza?
a) Christabel
b) The rime of ancient mariner
c) Kubla khan
d) To a
friend
34. Where
did Coleridge meet Charles Lamb for the first time?
a) Cambridge
b) Christ’s Hospital
c) Devonshire
d) Quantock hills
35. The Mariner in Coleridge’s” The Rime of
Ancient mariner” kills
a) Apenguin
b) A Devil
c) A Dove
d) An Albtraus
36. When
was the unfinished dream poem “Kubla Khan” published?
a)1816
b)1821
c)1820
d)
1810
37.” Life
of Byron “ is written by
a)Shelly
b) Thomas More
c) Southey
d)Coleridge
38.”Christabel “ and
“ The Rime of Ancient Mariner “ have glamour
a)Classica
b) Neo- classical
c) Medieval
d) Modern
39. An
Element of the supernatural is present in the poetry of
a)words worth
b) Byron
c) Browning
d) Coleridge
40Coleridge says, “Water , Water everywhere nor any drop to drink”. In______?
a)Kubla khan
b)The Rime Ancient Mariner
c)Christable
d) France : An Ode
41. Who
did Wordsworth call as “inmate of my heart and a phantom of delight”?
a) S.T. Coleridge
b) Mary Hutchinson
c) Annette vallon
d) Caroline
42.
Wordsworth says “the scholar to do away with books and make Nature his teacher”
in __?
a) The Prelude
b) The Solitary Reaper
c)Tables Turned
d) Lyrical Ballads
43. Which of the following works was the reaction of Wordsworth towards the French Revolution?
a) Tintem Abbey
b) Lyrical Ballads
c) The prelude
d) The solitary Reaper
44. Who
described Romanticism as “ addition of strangeness to beauty”?
a) Eliot
b) Walter Pater
c) F.R.Leavis
d) Words worth
45. The
sonnets of Wordsworth are
a) Shakespearean
b) Of his own style
c) Petrarchan
d) Spenserian
46. Who
said “ Child is the father of man”?
a) William Blake
b) William Wordsworth
c) Robert Browning
d) P.B. Shelly
47. Which
of the following is an incomplete work of Wordsworth?
a) Daffodils
b) By the sea
c) The Recluse
d)
Desideria
48. Who
called Wordsworth the “egoistical sublime”?
a) P.B.Shelly
b) John Keats
c) S.T.Coleridge
d) Robert Browning
49. Who
called Wordsworth “the lost leader”?
a) P.B. Shelly
b) John Keats
c) Robert Browning
d)Mathew Arnold
50. Words
worth is mainly remembered as a/an
a) Pessimistic poet
b) Optimistic poet
c) Nature Poet
d) Royal poet
Key
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1)c 11)d 21)b 31)c 41)b |
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2)a 12)d 22)c 32)c 42)c |
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3)
d 13)a 23)d 33)b 43)c |
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4)
d 14)d 24)c 34)b 44)b |
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5)b 15)c 25)c 35)d 45)c |
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6)
d 16)a 26)d 36)a 46)b |
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7)
c 17)b 27)b 37)d 47)c |
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8)d 18)d 28)c 38)c 48)b |
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9)d 19)d 29)d 39)d 49)c |
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10)a
20)b 30)c 40) b 50)c |
Practice Test-17
1) “Oh, God that maddest this beautiful earth,
When will it ready to receive thy saints”is from
a)Othello 2) Saint Joan 3) Death of salesman 4) merchant of venice
2 The following lines are taken from
“ The root
is to be pulled out
Out of the anchoring earth”
a)Piano and Drums
b) The express
c) On His Having Arrived at the age of 23
d)
On killing a Tree
3) “ For
now, my lord the king regards me not
But dotes upon the love of Gaueston.
He claps his cheeks, and hangs about
his
Neck, smiles in his face, and whispers in
his ears”, The above lines are from
a)The way of the world b) Edward the second
3)
Macbeth 4) she stoops to conquer
4)
The lines ‘God is in His Heaven’ All is
right with the world’ is from the poem ‘pippa passes by
a) Tennyson 2) Arnold
3) Browning 4) Byron
5) “ There
is sweet music here that softer falls
Than petals from blown roses on the
grass,is an example of
a) Onomatopoeia 2) Alliteration
3) Metaphor
4) symbolism
6) In which of Tennyson’s poems do you find the
lines
“ Ring out
the old, ring in the new,
Ring
,happy bells, across the snow”
a)The Lotos Eaters 2) “Ulysses”
3) “ In memorium ” 4) “ The
Brook”
7) “ Ah,
like a comet through flame, she moves
Entranced “- this line is from the poem
a)Sonnet to science 2) The Express
3) Tha Tables Turned 4) Piano and Drums
8) In Shelly’s
“ Ode to the west Wind “, the words,
If winter comes,can spring be far
behind”? Imply the poet’s
a)Pessimism 2) Optimism
3) Scepticism 4) Tragic Vision
9) “ she has beauty enough to make any man trust
So, and complaisance enough not to
contradict him who shall tell her so,” –These
Lines refer to
a)Jane Austin 2) Isabella
3) Mirabell 4) Milliamant
10) In which poem do these lines occur? – ‘Wild
Spirit , which art moving ,every where : Destroyer
And Preserver ,hear, oh ,hear !
a)London 2) Ode to the west wind
3) Ode to a Nigntingale 4 ) Olysses
11)
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to
day
To the last syllable of rewarded time”
These lines in Macbeth are uttered
by
a)Banquo 2) Duncan
3) Lady Macbeth 4) Macbeth
12) “ Let Nature be your teacher “ – these
words are taken from the poem:
a)” The Tables Turned “ 2) “ The Express”
3) “ On killing a Tree 4) Go,” Lovely Rose”
13) “ O Lady , we receive but what we give,
And in our life, alone does nature
live”.
Who is the ’ lady ‘ Wordsworth
addresses in these in these lines?
a)Many Hutchinson, his wife 2) Dorothy, his sister
3) Jane Austen , the novelist d)Mary Godwin
14) “ Life
, like a dome of many coloured glass, stains the white radiance of Eternity
Until death
Tramples it to fragments, die …..
from
a)Words worth’s Immorality Ode
2) Words Worth’s The Prelude
c) Shelley’s Hellas
4) Shelley’s Adonais
15) which of the following begins with these
words?
“Good morning to the day, and next
,mygold!
Open the shrine that I may see my saint”
1)The poetaster
2) Cynthias Revels
3) Volpone
4)
None of these
16) Which of the following Chaucer's tale is in
prose?
1) The Pardoners tale 2) The Cooks tale
3) The
prioress’s tale 4) The Parsons tale
17) Which American writer published ‘A brave and
startling truth ‘ in 1996
1) Robert Hass 2) Jessica Hagdorn
3) Maya Angelou
4) Micheal Palmer
18) which
famous Shakespeare play does the quote, “ Neither a borrower nor a lender be”
come from ?
1) Cymbeline 2) Hamlet
3) Titus Andronicus 4 ) Pericles, prince of Tyre
19) The phrase ‘Religion of the blood is
associated with
1) D.H. Lawrence 2) E.M. Forster
3)
H.G. wells 4) Virginia Woolf
20) The
novel has a scene where African American students are made to compete and fight
with
Tossed on an electric blanket .Identify
the novel
1)Richard wright : Native Son
2) James Baldwin : Another country
4)Ralph Elison: Invisible man
4) Toni Morrison:
Bluest eye
21) Who
among the following women writers has written Novel and Yellow paper?
1) Elizabeth Smither
2) Stevie Smith
3) Zulu sofola
4) Gita mehta
22) The
Success of which play in 1947 secured Tennessee william’s reputation as a great
playwright?
1) The Glass Menagerie
2) A Street car named Desire
3) Clothes for a Summer Hotel
4) In the Bar of a Tokyo
Hotel
23) Which of the following plays is not written
by George Bernard Shaw?
1) The Lady of Lyons
2) Caesar and Cleopatra
3) Candida
4) Androcles and the Lion
24) “ There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow “ occurs in Shakespeare’s play.
1) Julius Caesar
2) Hamlet
3) Macbeth
4) Othello
25) English Critical Texts is edited by
1) David Daiches
2) D.J. Enright and Ernest chickera
3) Nagarajan and Seturaman
4)
Rene Wellak
26) which
French writer wrote a book on Mahatma Gandhi?
1) Thomas mann 2) Gustave Flaubert
3)
Romain Rolland 4) Jean Racine
27) Which
play wright is known for writing lengthy prefaces to his plays?
1) Christopher Fry 2) Samuel Beckett
3) George Bernard Shaw 4) Tennessee
28) Evalina is a famous novel of
1) Jane Austine 2) Fanny Burney
3) Jane
Eyre 4) Jane Porter
29)
Which of the following works is not actually a Prose Essay
1) Essay of Dramatic poesy 2) Essay on Man
3) An Essay towards a New
Theory of vision
30) Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following
plays except
1) Tamburlaine the Great 2) The jew of Malta
3) Richard III 4) Edward II
Choose
the correct synonyms for the given below words
31)
FOSTERING :
1) Safeguarding 2) Neglecting 3) Ignoring 4)
Nurturing
32) PROPEL:
1)
Drive 2) Jettison
3) Burst 4)
Acclimatize
33) MASSIVE:
1) Lump
sum 2) Strong 3) Little 4) Huge
34) Stumbling Block
1)
Argument 2) Frustration 3) Advantage 4)
Hurdle
35) Defer
1)
Indifferent 2) Defy 3)Differ
4) postpone
36) Cease
1)
Begin 2) Stop 3) Create 4) Dull
37) Pious
1) Religious 2) Sympathetic 3)
Afraid 4) Faithful
38) Cancel
1)
Abolish 2) Approve 3)
Allow 4) Break
39) Abandon
1)
Forsake 2) keep ) 3) cherish
4) Enlarge
40)
Germinate
1)
Decay 2) Breed
3) produce 4) sprout
41)
Recuperate
1)
Rehabilitate 2) Recover 3) Reimburse 4) Relocate
42) Augury
1)
Prophecy 2) Astronomy
3) Intention 4)
Future
43) Delectable
1)
Nobel 2) Enjoyable 3)
Delicious 4) Sumptuous
44)
Dielelctric
1) Nonconductor
2) Instuctive 3) Constructive
4) Destructive
45) Paltry
1)
Insignificant 2) Unfair 3)
Average 4) Slovenly
46)
Disparage
1) Scatter
2) Discriminate 3) Belittle
4) waste
47) Alacrity
1) Briskness
2) Fear 3)
Frankness 4) Alarm
48) Busy
1)
Active 2) Occupied
3) Preoccupied 4) Diligent
49)
Bitterness
1) Sourness
2) Hoarseness 3) Acrimony
4) Aspersion
50)
Sterile
1) Dry
2) Barren 3)
Childless 4) None of these
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Practice
Test-18
1.
The Historical novel written by Scott is
______.
a) Waverly
b) Child Harold
c) Black Dwarf
d) Rob Roy
2. The life of Napoleon was written by Scott in _____ volumes.
a)Two
b)Five
c)Three
d)Nine
3.
The character Jennie Deans appear in which of
the following Scott’s novel.
a)Waverly
b)Old Morality
c)The Talisman
d)The Heart of Midlothian
4.
Scott’s ‘Lady of the lake’ is
a……….
a)poem
b)novel
c)drama
d)song
5.
Charles Lamb belongs to………
a)The Age of Shakespeare
b)The modern age
c)Augustan Age
d)The Age of Romanticism
6. Tales From Shakespeare’ was written by?
a)Waltor Scott
b)Charles and Mary Lamb
c) Wordsworth
d)Byron
7. Most of the Lamb’s essays were published in……..
a)Edinburgh Review
b)Fraser’s Magazine
c) London Magazine
d)Blackwood’s magazine
8. The theme of Jane Austen’s novels is…….
a)Nature
b)Adventure
c) Family life
d)Crime
9. Elia is the pen name of……
a)Carlyle
b)Dequincy
c) Hazlitt
d)Lamb
10.
Which of the following novel
is not written by Jane Austen?
a) Mansfield Park
b)Persuasion
c) Northanger Abbey
d)Nightmare Abbey
11. The term ‘novel’(= a little new thing) originated from…..
a)Latin ‘Novellus’
b)Italian ‘Novella’
c) both
d)None of these
12. The beginning of the Romantic Age is marked by the publication of…
a)Child Harold
b)Lyrical Ballads
c) Ivanhoe
d)Life of Napoleon
13. The Romantic Period begins and ends in the year……
a)1660-1700
b)1700-1745
c)1745-1798
d)1798-1837
14. The Romantic poets revolted against…..
a)Elizabethan Poets
b)Neo-Classical Or Augustan School
c) Metaphysical poets
d)None
15. Who is considered as the most remarkable historical novelist of the Romantic Age
a)John Galt
b)Jane Austen
c) Walter Scott
d) Hazlitt
16. ‘The Confessions of an Opium Eater’ is the best work of ….
a)Dequincy
b)Hazlitt
c) Austen
d)Lamb
17. The essayist who known as ‘Psychologist of Style’ is……..
a)Dequincy
b)Hazlitt
c) Austen
d)Lamb
18. Dequincy’s ‘Recollection of the lake poets’ is a collection of…..
a)Essays
b)Biographies
c) songs
d)Poems
19. Dequincy’s ‘On knocking at the gate in Macbeth’ is the criticism on the murder of…..
a)Lady Macbeth
b)Macbeth
c)King Duncan
d)Macduff
20.
Which writer did not have a large influence on
the rise of the novel?
a)Charles Dickens
b)Walter Scott
c)Daniel Defoe
d)Samuel Richardson
21.
Who wrote Pamela?
a)HenryFieldings
b)Walter Scott
c)Daniel Defoe
d)Samuel
Richardson
22.
Who wrote Robinson Cruise?
a)HenryFeildings
b)Walter Scott
c)Daniel Defoe
d)Samuel
Richardson
23.
When was the first English novel “Robinson
Crusoe” Published?
a)1714
b)1814
c) 1719
d)1740
24. What was another name for Middle Class?
a)Gentry
b)Bourgeoisie
c)Proletariat
d)None of these
25. Who is known as ‘Prince of Essays’?
a)Dickens
b)Lamb
c) Hazlitt
d)Dequincy
26. The first novel of crime and detection in English “Things as they are Or The Adventures of Caleb Williams” was written by?
a)Charles Dickens
b)Daniel Defoe
c) Caleb Williams
d)Samuel Richardson
27. What is the subtitle of the first robot book ‘Frankenstein” written by Mary Shelly?
a)Modern Prometheus
b)Prometheus
c) A romance
d) The wrongs of woman.
28. Biography of Scott, ‘The life of Walter Scott’, was written by?
a) Lamb
b)Lockheart
c) Hazlitt
d)Dequincy
29. Dashwood sisters Elinor and Marianne are main characters in Jane Austen’s…..?
a)Pride and Prejudice
b)Sense and Sensibility
c) Emma
d)Mansfield Park
30.
“I am going to take a heroine
whom no one, but myself will much alike….” Is about ?
a)Emma woodhouse in Emma
b)Catherine in Northenger Abbey
c) Fanny Price in Mansfield Park
d)Bennet in Pride and
Prejudice
31.
“It is truth universally
acknowledged, that a single man’s procession of good fortune must be in want of
wife.” It is the opening line of Jane Austen’s…..?
a)Pride and Prejudice
b)Sense and Sensibility
c) Emma
d)Mansfield Park
32.
Which of the Jane Austen’s
novel is a ‘parody of Gothic Novel’?
a)Pride and Prejudice
b)Sense and Sensibility
c) Northanger Abbey
d)Mansfield Park
33. Which of the Jane Austen’s novel is a satire on slave trade, corruption and exploitation?
a)Pride and Prejudice
b)Sense and Sensibility
c) Emma
d)Mansfield Park
34.
Hazlitt’s Characters from
Shakespeare (1817) is dedicated to?
a)Austen
b)Dequincy
c) Charles Lamb
d)Shelly
35. The line “You don’t need to burn a whole house to roast a pig” appears in ‘Dissertation on a Roast Pig’. It is written by…. ?
a)Austen
b)Dequincy
c) Charles Lamb
d)Hazlitt
36. “Novel of fear, terror and ruined castles” began in Romantic age is?
a) Jacobin
b)Gothic
c)Sentimental
d)Picaresque
37.
Robinson Crusoe saved a man
saved from Cannibals? What is the name of the man?
a) Friday
b)Colonel Jack
c)Defoe
d)Singleton
38. Picaresque Novel is a_____(From the Spanish term ‘Picaro’)?
a)Novel of fear
b)Story of Rouge
c)written in the form of letters
d)Scientific fiction
39. Subtitle of Pamela is?
a)Virtue Awarded
b)The Virtue Rewarded
c)Pure Woman
d)A Picaro
40. What was not a reason why the Novel became popular?
a)It was an affordable book for the Middle Class
b)
It gave people a way to escape reality
c) It gave simple solutions for complex problems
d) The Genre had
a strict formula for the writing
41. Fielding’s ‘Joseph Andrews’ was written in response to……..?
a)Pamela
b)Robinson Crusoe
c)Clarissa
d)Tristram Shandy
42.
The trend of coffee houses,
circulating libraries and clubs started in?
a)Elizabethan Age
b)Augustan Age
c)Romantic Age
d)Victorian Age
43.
Who is known as ‘Royalist
Writer’ and original master of English Prose in 19th century?
a)Hazlitt
b)Dequincy
c)Austen
d)Charles
lamb
44.
Which of the following work
is a Comic Epic Poem in Prose (Mixed Genre)?
a)Pamela
b)Robinson Crusoe
c)Joseph Andrews
d)Tristram Shandy
45.
Lamb’s ‘Essays of Elia’ are
dedicated to?
a)Byron
b)Coleridge
c)Keats
d)Wordsworth
46.
Out of Austen’s 6 novels,
which is published posthumously?
a)Emma
b)Pride and Prejudice
c)Persuasion
d)Mansfield Park
47.
Hazlitt’s ‘My first
Acquaintance with Poets” describes his meeting with ______?
a)Wordsworth
b)Dequincy
c)Coleridge
d)Lamb
48.
18th century in known
as?
a)Augustan/Neo-classical Age
b)Age of Prose
c)Golden age of Pamphleteering
d)all the above
49. Who said “The novel is a one bright book of life”??
a)Mathew Arnold
b)TS Eliot
c)DH Lawrence
d)W.J.Long
50.
Epistolary Novel is _____?
a)Novel of fear
b)Story of Rouge
c)written in the form of letters
d)Scientific fiction
Key:
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1. a |
2. d |
3. d |
4. a |
5. c |
6. b |
7. c |
8. c |
9.d |
10.d |
11.b |
12.b |
13.d |
14.b |
15.c |
16.a |
17.a |
18.b |
19.c |
20.a |
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21.d |
22.c |
23.c |
24.b |
25.b |
26.c |
27.a |
28.b |
29.b |
30.a |
31.a |
32.c |
33.d |
34.c |
35.c |
36.b |
37.a |
38.b |
39.b |
40.d |
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41.b |
42.b |
43.a |
44.c |
45.b |
46.c |
47.c |
48.d |
49.c |
50.c |
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