MCQs Modernism
SET-I
Q.1. Which lady is the subject of many of Yeats' poems?
1. Fanny Brawne
2. Maud Gonne
3. Ellen Turnar
4. Sylvia
Answer: 2
Explanation: Maud Gonne, Yeats’s lifelong muse and unrequited love, inspired many of his poems, including No Second Troy and When You Are Old.
Q.2. Which of the following is not a trench poet?
1. Auden
2. Rupert Brooke
3. Sassoon
4. Wilfred Owen
Answer: 1
Explanation: Auden belonged to the 1930s generation, not the World War I trench poets like Brooke, Sassoon, and Owen.
Q.3. “Let us go then, you and I” is the opening line from—
1. The Waste Land
2. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
3. The Hollow Men
4. The Second Coming
Answer: 2
Explanation: The line opens T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), a key modernist poem.
Q.4. The Gokulastami festival is referred to in—
1. A Passage to England
2. A Passage to India
3. Kanthapura
4. India: A Million Mutinies Now
Answer: 2
Explanation: There is a long description of the Hindu festival of Gokul-Ashtami (Krishana-Janma-Asthami) in the Novel A Passage To India.
Q.5. "Sir, No Man's Enemy” is written by—
1. W. B. Yeats
2. Wilfred Owen
3. Auden
4. Evelyn Waugh
Answer: 3
Explanation: W. H. Auden wrote Sir, No Man’s Enemy expressing post-war disillusionment and moral struggle.
Q.6. Which of the following was not written by James Joyce?
1. Dubliners
2. The Island
3. Ulysses
4. Finnegans Wake
Answer: 2
Explanation: The Island was not written by Joyce; his major works are Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake.
Q.7. “I am an Indian poet writing in English” — who made this comment?
1. Arun Kolatkar
2. Kamala Das
3. Nissim Ezekiel
4. R. K. Narayan
Answer: 3
Explanation: Nissim Ezekiel made this statement, asserting his Indian identity despite writing in English.
Q.8. Who described India as the 'Continent of Circe'?
1. Nirad C. Chaudhuri
2. Tagore
3. Raja Rao
4. Sunetra Gupta
Answer: 1
Explanation: Nirad C. Chaudhuri used the phrase “Continent of Circe” to describe India’s contradictions in The Continent of Circe (1965). In his classic 1965 book, Nirad Chaudhuri called India “The Continent of Circe.” (In Greek mythology, Circe seduces Odysseus and his men with her songs, turning them into swine.)
Q.9. ‘Imagism’ advocated the use of—
1. Blank verse
2. Free verse
3. Heroic couplet
4. Haiku
Answer: 2
Explanation: Imagism promoted clarity and precision in language, often using free verse instead of traditional metrical forms.
Q.10. "Disenchantment of our culture with the culture itself" is by Lionel Trilling about—
1. Victorianism
2. Modernism
3. Postmodernism
4. Postcolonialism
Answer: 2
Explanation: Trilling used this phrase to describe Modernism’s critical view of its own cultural heritage.
Q.11. The refrain 'A terrible beauty is born' belongs to—
1. Easter 1916
2. The Second Coming
3. Leda and the Swan
4. The Waste Land
Answer: 1
Explanation: Yeats used this refrain in Easter 1916 to express the paradox of beauty and tragedy in Ireland’s revolution.
Q.12. "Ten Upanishads of Sanskrit” was translated into English by—
1. W. B. Yeats
2. Carlyle
3. T. S. Eliot
4. Saki
Answer: 1
Explanation: Yeats collaborated with Shri Purohit Swami to translate The Ten Principal Upanishads into English.
Q.13. Robert Frost, Drinkwater, Abercrombie, and Brooke are known as—
1. Lake Poets
2. War Poets
3. Dymock Poets
4. Imagists
Answer: 3
Explanation: The Dymock Poets were a group of Georgian poets associated with rural themes before WWI.
Q.14. Gerontion is a poem by T. S. Eliot which means—
1. Little young man
2. Little old man
3. Large old man
4. Large young man
Answer: 2
Explanation: The Greek-derived title Gerontion means “little old man,” reflecting spiritual decay and aging.
Q.15. The Magi in ‘The Journey of the Magi’ are three—
1. Travellers
2. Magicians
3. Pilgrims
4. Wise men from the East
Answer: 4
Explanation: Eliot’s poem refers to the Biblical Magi—three wise men from the East who visited infant Christ.
Q.16. Auden's use of assonance and internal rhyme is an attribute of—
1. Yeats
2. Hopkins
3. Eliot
4. Ezra Pound
Answer: 2
Explanation: Auden was influenced by Gerard Manley Hopkins’s use of sprung rhythm, assonance, and internal rhyme.
Q.17. “World within world” is the autobiography of—
1. Auden
2. Yeats
3. Spender
4. Louis MacNeice
Answer: 3
Explanation: Stephen Spender’s autobiography World Within World recounts his literary and political experiences.
Q.18. Inscape and Instress are concepts of—
1. Aristotle
2. W. B. Yeats
3. Hopkins
4. G. B. Shaw
Answer: 3
Explanation: Hopkins coined Inscape (unique essence) and Instress (energy perceiving it) in his poetic theory.
Q.19. William Empson and I. A. Richards explained "The Windhover" as Hopkins’s envy for—
1. Pristine beauty
2. Divine beauty
3. Moral beauty
4. Natural beauty
Answer: 2
Explanation: Critics interpreted The Windhover as Hopkins’s admiration for divine beauty manifested in nature.
Q.20. Twenty-four sonnets published in 1876 are called—
1. Love Sonnets
2. The Spirit of Man
3. The Terrible Sonnets
4. The Growth of Love
Answer: 4
Explanation: The Growth of Love by Robert Bridges (1876) comprises 24 sonnets exploring love’s evolution.
Q.21. Which among the following offers the correct chronological sequence?
1. A Portrait – Dubliners – Finnegans Wake – Ulysses
2. Ulysses – Dubliners – A Portrait – Finnegans Wake
3. Finnegans Wake – A Portrait – Ulysses – Dubliners
4. Dubliners – A Portrait – Ulysses – Finnegans Wake
Answer: 4
Explanation: Joyce’s works appeared in this order: Dubliners (1914), A Portrait (1916), Ulysses (1922), Finnegans Wake (1939).
Q.22. Match the Nobel Laureates in Literature with the years.
a. Samuel Beckett
b. Seamus Heaney
c. T. S. Eliot
d. W. B. Yeats
i. 1948
ii. 1923
iii. 1969
iv. 1995
Code:
1. A1, b2, c3, d4
2. a4,b3,c2,d1
3. a3,b4,c1,d2
4. a2,b3,c4,d1
Answer: 3
Explanation: Beckett (1969), Heaney (1995), Eliot (1948), and Yeats (1923) are all Nobel laureates in literature.
Q.23. Poems written by G. M. Hopkins were published in 1918 by—
1. T. S. Eliot
2. W. B. Yeats
3. Robert Bridges
4. Edward Thomas
Answer: 3
Explanation: Robert Bridges, Hopkins’s friend, published his poems posthumously in 1918.
Q.24. Virginia Woolf exemplifies the idea that tyranny at home is connected to tyranny abroad in—
1. A Haunted House
2. Orlando
3. Night and Day
4. Three Guineas
Answer: 4
Explanation: Three Guineas links patriarchal oppression to imperialism and fascism.
Q.25. Modernism has been described as being concerned with “disenchantment of our culture with culture itself” by—
1. Stephen Spender
2. Malcolm Bradbury
3. Lionel Trilling
4. Joseph Frank
Answer: 3
Explanation: Lionel Trilling described Modernism as a self-critical movement of cultural disillusionment.
SET-II
Q.26. The number of sections in Eliot's The Waste Land—
1. 4
2. 5
3. 6
4. 7
Answer: 2
Explanation: The Waste Land has five sections, reflecting spiritual desolation in post-war Europe.
Q.27. R. L. Stevenson wrote which novel to explore duality within human nature?
1. Kidnapped
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
3. Weir of Hermiston
4. The Wrong Box
Answer: 2
Explanation: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explores the conflict between good and evil in human nature.
Q.28. G. M. Hopkins’s term for the unique characteristics that make an object distinctive is—
1. Inscape
2. Instress
3. Curtal Sonnet
4. Sprung Rhythm
Answer: 1
Explanation: Inscape refers to the unique design or essence of an object as perceived by the poet.
Q.29. "The Circus Animals' Desertion" is a work by—
1. Edward Albee
2. Eugene Ionesco
3. Anton Chekhov
4. W. B. Yeats
Answer: 4
Explanation: Yeats’s late poem The Circus Animals’ Desertion reflects his creative exhaustion and self-reflection.
Q.30. Max Beerbohm, a modernist writer, ferociously attacked—
1. G. B. Shaw
2. H. G. Wells
3. Rudyard Kipling
4. W. H. Auden
Answer: 3
Explanation: The only two targets he attacked with ferocity were British imperialism—in the persona of a blustering John Bull—and Rudyard Kipling. As a parodist, he is frequently held to be unsurpassed.
Q.31. Which poet used symbols like Rose, Falcon, Tower, Wind, and Lion?
1. Arthur Symons
2. W. B. Yeats
3. Wilfred Owen
4. Ezra Pound
Answer: 2
Explanation: Yeats’s symbolic system used recurring images such as the rose and tower to convey mystical meanings.
Q.32. Autumn Journal is an autobiographical long poem written by—
1. W. H. Auden
2. Rupert Brooke
3. Louis MacNeice
4. Seamus Heaney
Answer: 3
Explanation: MacNeice’s Autumn Journal (1939) combines personal and political reflections before WWII.
Q.33. Identify the poet who was not a Poet Laureate.
1. John Dryden
2. T. S. Eliot
3. William Wordsworth
4. Andrew Motion
Answer: 2
Explanation: Eliot was never Poet Laureate; Dryden, Wordsworth, and Motion held the title.
Q.34. The process of substituting a harsh word with a mild one (e.g., "passed away" for "dead") is—
1. Circumlocution
2. Slang
3. Cliché
4. Euphemism
Answer: 4
Explanation: Euphemism softens harsh expressions to make them more socially acceptable.
Q.35. “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper” are lines from Eliot’s—
1. The Waste Land
2. Little Gidding
3. Journey of the Magi
4. The Hollow Men
Answer: 4
Explanation: The famous closing lines of The Hollow Men (1925) signify spiritual and moral decay.
Q.36. Which novel by Joseph Conrad begins, “Mr. Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law”?
1. Heart of Darkness
2. Under Western Eyes
3. The Secret Agent
4. The Nigger of the Narcissus
Answer: 3
Explanation: The Secret Agent opens with this line and explores terrorism and espionage in London.
Q.37. James Joyce’s Dubliners is a—
1. Collection of essays
2. Collection of 15 short stories
3. Play
4. Novel
Answer: 2
Explanation: Dubliners (1914) is a collection of 15 short stories depicting Irish middle-class life.
Q.38. Which is not a characteristic of Kitchen Sink Drama or Angry Young Men Movement?
1. Portrayal of working class
2. Social reality
3. Angry confrontations
4. Absurd situations
Answer: 4
Explanation: Absurd situations belong to the Theatre of the Absurd, not the social realism of the Angry Young Men.
Q.39. Which play was not written by Beckett?
1. Endgame
2. Happy Days
3. Waiting for Godot
4. Juno and the Paycock
Answer: 4
Explanation: Juno and the Paycock is by Sean O’Casey, not Beckett.
Q.40. Imagism was influenced by the aesthetic theories of—
1. Keats
2. Hilda Doolittle
3. Coleridge
4. T. E. Hulme
Answer: 4
Explanation: T. E. Hulme’s aesthetic ideas about precision and clarity influenced the Imagist movement.
Q.41. Which poem by W. H. Auden was written on the occasion of the outbreak of World War II?
1. September 1, 1939
2. The Shield of Achilles
3. The Unknown Citizen
4. Refugee Blues
Answer: 1
Explanation: “September 1, 1939” was written by W. H. Auden after the German invasion of Poland, marking the start of World War II. It reflects disillusionment with politics and society.
Q.42. In T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, who is the “third who walks always beside you”?
1. A symbol of Christ
2. The poet’s alter ego
3. Tiresias
4. The Fisher King
Answer: 1
Explanation: The “third” refers to a mysterious, comforting presence, often interpreted as a Christ figure symbolizing spiritual companionship in desolation.
Q.43. The phrase “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” comes from Yeats’s poem—
1. The Tower
2. Easter 1916
3. Sailing to Byzantium
4. The Second Coming
Answer: 4
Explanation: Yeats’s The Second Coming reflects post–World War I chaos and disintegration of moral and political order.
Q.44. Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is based on a series of lectures delivered at—
1. Cambridge University
2. Oxford University
3. King’s College London
4. University of London
Answer: 1
Explanation: Woolf delivered the lectures at Newnham and Girton Colleges, Cambridge, in 1928, addressing women’s need for independence and creative space.
Q.45. “Make it new” was the motto of—
1. T. S. Eliot
2. Ezra Pound
3. W. B. Yeats
4. James Joyce
Answer: 2
Explanation: Ezra Pound’s famous modernist slogan “Make it new” called for innovation, precision, and renewal in artistic expression.
Q.46. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Modernist literature?
1. Stream of consciousness
2. Objective narration
3. Fragmentation
4. Alienation
Answer: 2
Explanation: Modernist literature typically rejects objective narration and linear storytelling, favoring subjectivity and fragmented perspectives.
Q.47. “April is the cruellest month” is the opening line of—
1. The Hollow Men
2. The Waste Land
3. Ash Wednesday
4. Gerontion
Answer: 2
Explanation: The first line of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land establishes the ironic tone of renewal and despair in modern civilization.
Q.48. In which year did James Joyce’s Ulysses appear?
1. 1918
2. 1922
3. 1928
4. 1930
Answer: 2
Explanation: Ulysses was published in 1922, the same year as Eliot’s The Waste Land, marking a milestone in modernist fiction.
Q.49. Who among the following coined the term “Stream of Consciousness”?
1. Sigmund Freud
2. William James
3. Virginia Woolf
4. James Joyce
Answer: 2
Explanation: Psychologist William James introduced the term “stream of consciousness” to describe the continuous flow of human thought, later used in modernist literature.
Q.50. Which of the following plays by T. S. Eliot is a verse drama?
1. The Cocktail Party
2. Murder in the Cathedral
3. The Family Reunion
4. All of the above
Answer: 4
Explanation: Eliot revived verse drama in the 20th century with Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, and The Cocktail Party.
SET-III
Q.1. The death of which monarch in 1901 marked the beginning of the Modern Age in English Literature?
1. King Edward VII
2. Queen Victoria
3. King George V
4. Queen Elizabeth I
Answer: 2
Explanation: Queen Victoria’s death in January 1901 ended the Victorian Age and ushered in the Modern Period. In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
Q.2. Modernism is essentially _______ as it explains mankind’s place in the modern world.
1. Post-Colonial
2. Post-Romantic
3. Post-Darwinian
4. Post-Industrial
Answer: 3
Explanation: Modernism is post-Darwinian because it deals with mankind’s redefined place after Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Q.3. Modernism represents a radical break with _______.
1. Renaissance ideals
2. Victorian conventions
3. Romantic imagination
4. Medieval theology
Answer: 2
Explanation: Modernism rejected conventional Victorian norms in subject matter, form, and style.
Q.4. The focus of early twentieth-century poetry shifted from countryside to _______.
1. Empire
2. The Great City
3. Nature
4. The Church
Answer: 2
Explanation: Modern poetry moved away from rural romanticism and began focusing on urban life and industrial modernity.
Q.5. Which of the following intellectuals is not considered a precursor of Modernism?
1. Karl Marx
2. Sigmund Freud
3. Friedrich Nietzsche
4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Answer: 4
Explanation: Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche influenced Modernism with their ideas on society, psyche, and morality.
Q.6. Who remarked that “not only human character, but all human relations between masters and servants, husband and wife, parent and child are shifted”?
1. D. H. Lawrence
2. Virginia Woolf
3. T. S. Eliot
4. James Joyce
Answer: 2
Explanation: Virginia Woolf, commenting on the social transformations of the Modern Age, made this statement in 1910.
Q.7. Lionel Trilling defined Modernism as “being concerned with the disenchantment of our culture with _______.”
1. History
2. Politics
3. Culture itself
4. Religion
Answer: 3
Explanation: Trilling emphasized Modernism’s self-critical stance toward culture itself.
Q.8. The Boer War (1899–1902) marked the beginning of rebellion against _______.
1. Industrial capitalism
2. British imperialism
3. Modern technology
4. Political democracy
Answer: 2
Explanation: The 'South African War (a.k.a. the Anglo-Boer War) War between Britain and South Africa reflected rising resistance to imperial rule.
Q.9 “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” is a line from:
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2. Ulysses
3. Finnegans Wake
4. Dubliners
Answer: 2
Explanation: The line “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake” is spoken by Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce. It occurs in the “Nestor” episode, where Stephen discusses history and identity with Mr. Deasy. The line expresses Stephen’s view of history as an oppressive burden from which he seeks intellectual and spiritual freedom.
Q.10 Which event shattered faith in a peaceful world and deeply influenced literature?
1. Great Depression
2. World War I
3. Boer War
4. Russian Revolution
Answer: 2
Explanation: The First World War (1914–18) caused immense death and destruction, inspiring disillusionment in writers.
Q.11. The year 1928 is significant for Britain because it witnessed:
1. Women’s suffrage
2. End of World War I
3. Start of Great Depression
4. Fall of British Empire
Answer: 1
Explanation: Universal suffrage for women was granted in 1928, marking a major social change.
Q.12. Which event in the 1930s created widespread financial instability?
1. Great Fire of London
2. Great Depression
3. Spanish Civil War
4. Suez Crisis
Answer: 2
Explanation: The Great Depression (1930s) followed the 1929 stock market crash, affecting the global economy.
Q.13. Which scientific and philosophical figures influenced Modernist literature?
1. Newton, Locke, and Hobbes
2. Freud, Einstein, and Bergson
3. Spencer, Darwin, and Carlyle
4. Marx, Weber, and Nietzsche
Answer: 2
Explanation: Freud (psychology), Einstein (relativity), and Bergson (subjective time) shaped modern literary consciousness.
Q.14. Which year is considered the landmark of High Modernism due to the publication of three major texts?
1. 1910
2. 1914
3. 1922
4. 1930
Answer: 3
Explanation: In 1922, The Waste Land, Ulysses, and Jacob’s Room were published—marking the height of Modernism.
Q.15. “Make it new(Avante-Garde)”” was the motto of which literary movement?
1. Symbolism
2. Modernism
3. Imagism
4. Romanticism
Answer: 2
Explanation: Ezra Pound’s Modernist slogan “Make it new” urged writers to break away from tradition and experiment with form, imagery, and language.
Q.16. Modernist literature emphasized:
1. External realism
2. Inner reality of the mind
3. Pastoral nostalgia
4. National identity
Answer: 2
Explanation: The focus shifted from external to internal realities—depicting consciousness and subjective time.
Q.17. Which narrative technique became prominent in Modernist fiction?
1. Epistolary narration
2. Stream of consciousness
3. Third-person omniscient
4. Allegorical narration
Answer: 2
Explanation: The “stream of consciousness” technique revealed the psychological depths of characters.
Q.18. “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” is written by:
1. Dylan Thomas
2. W. H. Auden
3. Louis MacNeice
4. Stephen Spender
Answer: 2
Explanation: Auden’s elegy In Memory of W. B. Yeats (1939) honors Yeats’s poetic legacy and examines the poet’s role in a time of political turmoil.
Q.19. Which of the following novelists does not belong to the Modernist group?
1. Virginia Woolf
2. James Joyce
3. D. H. Lawrence
4. Thomas Hardy
Answer: 4
Explanation: Hardy bridges Victorian and Modern eras but is often seen as a late Victorian realist.
Q.20. The phrase “Workers of the world unite” appears in which text?
1. The Republic
2. Das Kapital
3. Communist Manifesto
4. Beyond Good and Evil
Answer: 3
Explanation: Marx and Engels used this slogan in The Communist Manifesto (1848).
Q.21. The Georgian Poets were active roughly between:
1. 1890–1900
2. 1901–1911
3. 1912–1922
4. 1925–1935
Answer: 3
Explanation: The Georgian Poets flourished during 1912–1922, named after King George V.
Q.22. Who edited the Georgian Poetry anthologies?
1. Ezra Pound
2. Edward Marsh
3. G. K. Chesterton
4. Edmund Blunden
Answer: 2
Explanation: Edward Marsh edited five Georgian Poetry anthologies featuring poets like Brooke and Sassoon.
Q.23. Which of the following is not a Georgian poet?
1. Rupert Brooke
2. Siegfried Sassoon
3. D. H. Lawrence
4. T. S. Eliot
Answer: 4
Explanation: T. S. Eliot was a Modernist poet, while the others belonged to the Georgian group.
Q.24. Walter de la Mare’s pseudonym was:
1. Walter Ramel
2. George Orwell
3. Lewis Carroll
4. Ellis Bell
Answer: 1
Explanation: De la Mare wrote children’s literature under the pseudonym “Walter Ramel.”
Q.25. W. H. Davies’ poem “Leisure” begins with which famous line?
1. “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
2. “What is life, if full of care”
3. “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone”
4. “When I was one-and-twenty”
Answer: 2
Explanation: Davies’ “Leisure” begins with the reflective line “What is life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.”
SET-IV
Q.26. Which poetic movement arose in reaction to the romantic idealism of the Georgians?
1. Symbolism
2. Surrealism
3. Imagism
4. Expressionism
Answer: 3
Explanation: Imagism, led by Ezra Pound and H.D., reacted against sentimental Georgian poetry by stressing clarity, precision, and economy of language.
Q.27. Which poet’s dictum was “Direct treatment of the ‘thing,’ whether subjective or objective”?
1. T. S. Eliot
2. Ezra Pound
3. W. B. Yeats
4. W. H. Auden
Answer: 2
Explanation: Ezra Pound’s rule for Imagism emphasized presenting objects directly without unnecessary commentary.
Q.28. The Imagist movement began around the year:
1. 1905
2. 1910
3. 1912
4. 1918
Answer: 3
Explanation: Imagism emerged in 1912 with Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), and Richard Aldington as its core members.
Q.29. Which of the following statements best defines Imagist poetry?
1. Use of traditional rhyme schemes
2. Use of free verse and precise imagery
3. Use of allegory and moral symbolism
4. Use of blank verse and long narrative form
Answer: 2
Explanation: Imagist poetry employed free verse, direct language, and sharp visual images.
Q.30. “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” was written by
1. Amy Lowell
2. Ezra Pound
3. T. E. Hulme
4. Ford Madox Ford
Answer: 2
Explanation: Pound’s 1913 manifesto “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” laid out rules for writing precise, image-driven poetry.
Q.31. T. E. Hulme’s essays “Romanticism and Classicism” helped lay the foundation for:
1. Surrealism
2. Symbolism
3. Imagism
4. Expressionism
Answer: 3
Explanation: Hulme’s emphasis on hard, clear, and precise imagery influenced the Imagist movement.
Q.32. Who among the following was not an Imagist poet?
1. Richard Aldington
2. H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
3. Amy Lowell
4. W. B. Yeats
Answer: 4
Explanation: Yeats was a Symbolist and later Modernist poet, not associated with Imagism.
Q.33. The Dada movement originated during:
1. World War I
2. World War II
3. The Great Depression
4. The Victorian Age
Answer: 1
Explanation: Dadaism arose during WWI (1916) as a protest against war and bourgeois values.
Q.34. The term “Dada” was coined in:
1. Zurich
2. Paris
3. London
4. Berlin
Answer: 1
Explanation: The Dada movement began in Zurich at the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916.
Q.35. Surrealism developed out of which earlier movement?
1. Symbolism
2. Romanticism
3. Dadaism
4. Imagism
Answer: 3
Explanation: Surrealism evolved from Dadaism, focusing on dreams and the unconscious mind.
Q.36. The leading figure of Surrealism was:
1. Guillaume Apollinaire
2. André Breton
3. Stéphane Mallarmé
4. Jean Cocteau
Answer: 2
Explanation: André Breton’s First Manifesto of Surrealism (1924) officially launched the movement.
Q.37. Who defined Surrealism as “pure psychic automatism”?
1. Ezra Pound
2. André Breton
3. T. S. Eliot
4. Paul Éluard
Answer: 2
Explanation: In his Manifesto of Surrealism, Breton described it as “pure psychic automatism” — expression of unconscious thought.
Q.38. Who among the following coined the term “Stream of Consciousness”?
1. William James
2. Virginia Woolf
3. James Joyce
4. Henry James
Answer: 1
Explanation: The term was coined by psychologist William James in The Principles of Psychology (1890) to describe the flow of thoughts in the human mind, later applied to literary narrative techniques.
Q.39. The phrase “mythical method” is associated with which critic?
1. F. R. Leavis
2. T. S. Eliot
3. Northrop Frye
4. I. A. Richards
Answer: 2
Explanation: T. S. Eliot, in his essay on Joyce’s Ulysses, called the “mythical method” a way to order modern chaos.
Q.40. The Irish Literary Revival was led by:
1. James Joyce and J. M. Synge
2. W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory
3. George Moore and G. B. Shaw
4. Seán O’Casey and Thomas Kinsella
Answer: 2
Explanation: Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory founded the Irish Literary Theatre, later Abbey Theatre.
Q.41. Yeats’s early poetry is influenced primarily by:
1. Nationalism and Celtic mythology
2. Symbolism and Imagism
3. Romantic love and melancholy
4. Modern industrial life
Answer: 1
Explanation: Yeats’s early verse drew on Irish folklore and nationalistic themes.
Q.42. The later poetry of W. B. Yeats reflects:
1. Romantic idealism
2. Political satire
3. Philosophical mysticism and symbolism
4. Natural description
Answer: 3
Explanation: Yeats’s later poems, like “The Second Coming,” show mystical and symbolic tendencies.
Q.43. Yeats’s famous refrain “A terrible beauty is born” appears in:
1. Sailing to Byzantium
2. Easter 1916
3. The Second Coming
4. The Tower
Answer: 2
Explanation: The refrain appears in Yeats’s political poem Easter 1916, about the Irish Rebellion.
Q.44. The poem “The Second Coming” symbolizes:
1. The birth of Christ
2. The end of civilization
3. The Irish Revolution
4. The victory of science
Answer: 2
Explanation: Yeats envisions a chaotic apocalypse where “the centre cannot hold.”
Q.45. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” is an example of:
1. Biblical allusion
2. Symbolism
3. Prophetic imagery
4. All of the above
Answer: 4
Explanation: The line combines apocalyptic prophecy, symbolic vision, and biblical allusion.
Q.46. The title of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart comes from which poem?
1. “Easter 1916”
2. “The Second Coming”
3. “Sailing to Byzantium”
4. “Leda and the Swan”
Answer: 2
Explanation: Achebe’s novel title derives from Yeats’s “The Second Coming.”
Q.47. “Leda and the Swan” dramatizes which mythological event?
1. Birth of Athena
2. Rape of Leda by Zeus
3. Fall of Troy
4. The Flood
Answer: 2
Explanation: The poem retells Zeus’s seduction of Leda in the form of a swan.
Q.48. “Sailing to Byzantium” explores:
1. Political decay
2. Spiritual transcendence through art
3. Nature’s beauty
4. War and death
Answer: 2
Explanation: Yeats expresses a longing for immortal artistic perfection beyond mortal decay.
Q.49. Which of the following plays by Yeats is based on Irish legend?
1. Purgatory
2. The Dreaming of the Bones
3. Deirdre
4. All of the above
Answer: 4
Explanation: Yeats’s plays, including Deirdre and Purgatory, draw on Irish myth and folklore.
Q.50. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in:
1. 1918
2. 1923
3. 1928
4. 1932
Answer: 2
Explanation: W. B. Yeats received the Nobel Prize in 1923 for his “inspired poetry” that gave expression to the Irish spirit.
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Q.51. The term War Poets refers to poets who wrote mainly about which war?
1. Boer War
2. Crimean War
3. World War I
4. World War II
Answer: 3
Explanation: The War Poets depicted the horror and futility of World War I in their works.
Q.52. Who among the following is not a War Poet?
1. Siegfried Sassoon
2. Wilfred Owen
3. Rupert Brooke
4. W. H. Auden
Answer: 4
Explanation: Auden belonged to the 1930s generation, not the World War I group.
Q.53. Which poem begins with the line “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”
1. Dulce et Decorum Est
2. Anthem for Doomed Youth
3. The Soldier
4. Futility
Answer: 2
Explanation: Wilfred Owen’s Anthem for Doomed Youth mourns soldiers’ deaths with bitter irony.
Q.54. “Dulce et Decorum Est” criticizes which idea?
1. Romantic love
2. Patriotism in war
3. Religion
4. Industrialism
Answer: 2
Explanation: Owen calls the patriotic saying “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country” an “old lie.”
Q.55. Rupert Brooke’s famous war sonnet “The Soldier” reflects:
1. Pessimism
2. Patriotism and idealism
3. Nihilism
4. Cynicism
Answer: 2
Explanation: Brooke’s early war poetry glorified patriotic sacrifice before the horrors of war became apparent.
Q.56. Which poem begins with the line ““I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark?”
1. Dulce et Decorum Est
2. Anthem for Doomed Youth
3. The Soldier
4. Strange Meeting
Answer: 4
Explanation: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen is best known for his poems "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and " Dulce et Decorum Est." The poem ‘Strange Meeting‘ describes a soldier who escapes from battle and finds himself in a hellish, underground tunnel where he encounters the ghost of an enemy soldier he killed. The enemy soldier speaks about the futility of war and the shared humanity of all soldiers, ultimately revealing their potential for friendship despite the conflict.
Q.57. Wilfred Owen’s poems were first published posthumously by:
1. Ezra Pound
2. Robert Graves
3. Siegfried Sassoon
4. Edmund Blunden
Answer: 3
Explanation: Sassoon edited and published Owen’s poems in 1920 after his death in combat.
Q.58. Which novel by Aldous Huxley depicts a dystopian future dominated by science and technology?
1. Eyeless in Gaza
2. Brave New World
3. Point Counter Point
4. Island
Answer: 2
Explanation: Brave New World (1932) envisions a technologically controlled society where human freedom and individuality are sacrificed for stability.
Q.59. The group of poets active during the 1930s and concerned with social and political issues were known as:
1. Imagists
2. Decadents
3. The Auden Group
4. The Symbolists
Answer: 3
Explanation: The Auden Group (or Thirties poets) included Spender, MacNeice, and Day-Lewis, focusing on politics and morality.
Q.60. The poets of the 1930s were deeply influenced by which ideology?
1. Capitalism
2. Marxism
3. Romanticism
4. Existentialism
Answer: 2
Explanation: Many 1930s poets were drawn to Marxism and socialism due to economic depression and political unrest.
Q.61. Which poet’s autobiography is titled World Within World?
1. W. H. Auden
2. Stephen Spender
3. Louis MacNeice
4. Cecil Day-Lewis
Answer: 2
Explanation: Spender’s World Within World (1951) reflects his experiences as a poet and intellectual in the 1930s.
Q.62. “Look, stranger, on this island now” is a line from a poem by:
1. T. S. Eliot
2. W. H. Auden
3. Louis MacNeice
4. Stephen Spender
Answer: 2
Explanation: The poem “Look, Stranger!” (1936) by Auden presents modern man’s alienation and dislocation.
Q.63. Auden’s use of assonance and internal rhyme is an influence from:
1. Yeats
2. Hopkins
3. Eliot
4. Ezra Pound
Answer: 2
Explanation: Auden admired Hopkins’s rhythmic experimentation and adopted similar sound patterns.
Q.64. Which Auden poem begins “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone”?
1. Funeral Blues
2. Refugee Blues
3. The Shield of Achilles
4. September 1, 1939
Answer: 1
Explanation: Funeral Blues is one of Auden’s most famous elegies, expressing personal grief with deep emotion.
Q.65. The poem “September 1, 1939” was written on the eve of:
1. The Spanish Civil War
2. World War II
3. The Great Depression
4. The Russian Revolution
Answer: 2
Explanation: The poem marks the outbreak of WWII and meditates on collective guilt and loss.
Q.66. Which poet described poetry as “a criticism of life”?
1. T. S. Eliot
2. Matthew Arnold
3. W. H. Auden
4. I. A. Richards
Answer: 2
Explanation: Though Victorian, Arnold’s idea influenced later modern critics like Eliot and Auden.
Q.67. Which of the following works is not by T. S. Eliot?
1. The Waste Land
2. Four Quartets
3. Ash-Wednesday
4. The Tower
Answer: 4
Explanation: The Tower is a collection by W. B. Yeats, not Eliot.
Q.68. The Waste Land was published in:
1. 1918
2. 1920
3. 1922
4. 1925
Answer: 3
Explanation: T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) is the defining poem of High Modernism.
Q.69. How many sections does The Waste Land contain?
1. Four
2. Five
3. Six
4. Seven
Answer: 2
Explanation: The poem has five sections—each exploring spiritual and cultural desolation.
Q.70. Ezra Pound’s role in the publication of The Waste Land was as:
1. Editor
2. Co-author
3. Translator
4. Publisher
Answer: 1
Explanation: Pound edited and condensed Eliot’s manuscript, famously called “il miglior fabbro” (the better craftsman).
Q.71. Which of the following poets was not a part of the “Thirties Poets”?
1. W. H. Auden
2. Stephen Spender
3. Louis MacNeice
4. Philip Larkin
Answer: 4
Explanation: Philip Larkin belonged to the post-war “Movement” poets of the 1950s, not the politically conscious “Thirties Poets” like Auden, Spender, and MacNeice.
Q.72. “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper” appears in:
1. The Waste Land
2. The Hollow Men
3. Gerontion
4. Four Quartets
Answer: 2
Explanation: Eliot ends The Hollow Men (1925) with these haunting lines expressing spiritual exhaustion.
Q.73. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was first published in:
1. 1909
2. 1911
3. 1915
4. 1917
Answer: 3
Explanation: Prufrock (1915) introduced Eliot’s modern voice of alienation and paralysis.
Q.74. The phrase “objective correlative” was introduced by:
1. T. S. Eliot
2. Ezra Pound
3. F. R. Leavis
4. I. A. Richards
Answer: 1
Explanation: Eliot proposed that emotions in art should be expressed through an “objective correlative”—a set of objects or events.
Q.75. Eliot’s Four Quartets are primarily concerned with:
1. Political allegory
2. Religious and spiritual meditation
3. Social satire
4. Classical mythology
Answer: 2
Explanation: Four Quartets (1943) explore time, divinity, and redemption in a Christian philosophical framework.
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