MODERN PERIOD (1901-1938)
MCQs:
1. Which lady is the subject of many of
Yeats' poems.
A.
Fanny Brawne B. Maud Gonne
C. Ellen Turnar D.
Sylvia.
2. Which of the following is not a trench
poet.
A. Auden B.
Rupert Brook
C.Sassoon D. Wilfred Owen.
3. “Let us go then you and I” is the opening
line from.
A. The waste land
B. Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
C. The Hallow Men
D. Second coming.
4. The Gokulastami festival is referred to
in.
A. A Passage to England
B. A Passage to India
C. Kanthapura
D. India: A Million Mutinies Now.
5. "Sir, No Man's Enemy” is written by
A) W. B. Yeats B) Wilfred Owen
C. Auden D.Evelyn
Waugh
6.Which of the following was not written by
James Joyce?
A. Dubliner B.
The Island
C. Ulysses D.
Finnegans Wake.
7. “I am an Indian poet writing in English”.
who made this comment.
A) Arun Kolatkar B) Kamala Das
c) Nissim Ezekiel D) R. K. Narayan.
8. Who has described India as 'Continent of
Circe'?
C.Nirad C Chaudari B. Tagore
C. Raja Rao D. Sunetra Gupta
9. ‘Imagism’ advocated the use of
A) blank verse B. Free verse
C. Heroic couplet D. Haiku.
10. "Disenchantment of our culture with
the culture itself" is by Lionel Trilling about-
A. Victorianism B. Modernism
C. Post modernism D. Post colonialism
11. The refrain 'A terrible beauty is born'
belongs to
A. Easter 1916 B. The second coming
c. Leda and Swan D. The wasteland.
12. "Ten Upanishads of Sanskrit” was
translated into English by
A. W.B Yeats B.
Carlyle
C. T.S Eliot D.
Saki
13. Robert Frost, Drink water, Aber Crombie,
and Brooke are known as
A. Lake poets
B. war poets
C. Dymock poets D. Imagists
14. Geronation is a poem by T.S Eliot which
means
A) Little young man. B. Little old man
C. Large old man D. Large youngman
15. The Magi in ‘The Journey of Magi’ are
three-
A. travellers B. magicians
C. pilgrims
D. wise men from the East
16. Auden's use of assonance and internal
rhyme is an attribute of
A. Yeats B.
Hopkins
C. Eliot D. Ezra Pound
17. “World within world” is the autobiography
of
A. Auden B. Yeats
C. Spender. D. Louis Mac Niece
18. Inscape and Instress are concepts of
A. Aristotle B. W B Yeats
C. Hopkins D.
G.B.Shaw
19. William Empson and I.A. Richards have
explained "The Windhover" as Hopkins envy for
A. Pristine beauty B. Divine beauty
C. moral beauty D. natural beauty
20. Twenty-four sonnets published in 1876 are
called
A. Love Sonnets B. The spirit of man C.
The Terrible sonnets D. The
Growth of Love.
21. Which among the following offers us the correct
chronological Sequence
A. A Portrait - Dubliners - Finnegans Wake-Ulysses
B. Ulysses Dubliners -Aportrait - Finnegans wake
C. Finnegans Wake - A portrait - Ulysses - Dubliners
D. Dubliners - A Portrait - Ulysses - Finnegans Wake.
22. Match the Nobel Laureates in Literature in
List-I with the years in List-II.
a. Samuel
Becket- 1.
1948
b. Seamus Heany-
2.1923
c. TS
Eliot 3.
1969
d. WB
Yeats 4
1995
Choose the correct code:
A.1,b2,c3,d4 B.a4,b3,c2,d1
C.a3,b4,c1,d2 D.a2,b3,c4,d1
23. Poems written by GM Hopkins were published by
in 1918
A. TS Eliot B.
W.B Yeats, C. Robert Bridges D. Edward Thomas.
24. Virginia Woolf exemplifies the idea tyranny at home, within
patriarchy, is connected to tyranny abroad in her novel.
A. A Haunted House B.
Orlando
c. Night and Day D. Three Guineas
25. Modernism has been described as being concerned
with “disenchantment of our culture with culture itself" who is the critic
A. Stephen spender B.
Malcolm Bradbury
C. Lionel Trilling D. Joseph Frank
26. The number of sections in Eliot's The waste
Land
A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D.7
27. R. L. Stevenson wrote the novel...., as he was
driven by the need to explore the different polarities that existed within
human beings
A. Kidnapped B. Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
C. Weir of Hermiston D. The wrong
Box, shart
28. G.M. Hopkin's term for the complex characteristics of which
make an object Unique.
A. Inscape B. Instress
C. Curtall Sonnet D. Sprung
rhythm,
29. "The Circus Animals' Desertion" is a
work by
A. Edward Albee B. Eugene
Ionesco
C. Anton Chekov D.
W.B. Yeats
30. Max Beerbohm, a modernist writer ferociously
attacked which of the following
A. GB Shaw B. HG
Wells
C. Rudyard Kipling D. WH
Auden.
31. Which poet used all kinds of symbols like Rose, Falcon,
Horn Tower, Wind, Lion in his poetry.
A. Arthur Symonds B. WB Yeats
C. Wilfred Owen D. Ezra Pound.
32. Autumn Journal is an autobiographical long poem
written by
A. WH Auden B. Rupert
Brooke
C. Louis Mac Neice D. Seamus
Heany.
33. Identify the poet who was not a poet Laureate.
A John Dryden B. TS
Eliot
C. William Wordsworth D. Andrew
Motion.
34. The process of substituting a harsh word with a
mild one (passed away instead of dead) is
A. Circumlocution B. slang
C. cliché D. Euphemism
35. This is the way the world ends / Not with a
bang but whimper" are the lines from TS Eliot's
A. The Waste Land B. Little Gidding
C. Journey of the Magi D.
The Hollow Men
36. Which novel of Joseph Conrad's begins thus: Mr.
Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his
brother-in-law.
A. Heart of Darkness B. Under
Western Eyes
C. The Secret Agent! D. The
Nigger of Narcissus.
37. James Joyce's Dubliners is a
A. Collection of essays.
B. collection of 15 short stories.
C. play
D. novel.
38. Which is not a characteristic of the kitchen
sink drama or Angry Youngman Movement ?
A. Portrayal of working class B.
Social reality
C Angry Confrontations D.
Absurd situations.
39. Which is the play that was not written by Becket?
A. Endgame B. Happy
Days
C. Waiting for Godot D. Juno and
Paycock.
40. Imagism was influenced by the aesthetic
theories of
A. Keats B.
Hilda Doolittle
C. Coleridge D. TE
Hulme.
Answers:
|
1. B |
2.A |
3. B |
4. B |
5. C |
6. B |
7. C |
8. C |
9. B |
10. B |
|
11. A |
12. A |
13. C |
14. B |
15. D |
16. A |
17. C |
18. C |
19. B |
20. D |
|
21.D |
22.C |
23.C |
24.D |
25.C |
26.B |
27.B |
28.A |
29.D |
30.C |
|
31.B |
32.C |
33.B |
34.D |
35.D |
36.C |
37.B |
38.D |
39.D |
40.D |
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