Grant Test- TGSET 2026

 TGSET-2026
Practice Bits _Grand Test

Test-1

1. Which of the following plays is an example of a “problem play”?

A) The Importance of Being Earnest
B) Arms and the Man
C) Mrs Warren’s Profession
D) The Playboy of the Western World

Answer: C

2. In King Lear, the Fool disappears after which Act?
A) Act II
B) Act III
C) Act IV
D) Act V

Answer: B

3. “Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships” is a line from:
A) Doctor Faustus
B) Tamburlaine
C) Edward II
D) The Jew of Malta

Answer: A

4. Who among the following wrote The Duchess of Malfi?
A) John Webster
B) Thomas Middleton
C) Cyril Tourneur
D) John Ford

Answer: A

5. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” appears in which poem?
A) Ode to a Nightingale
B) Ode on a Grecian Urn
C) To Autumn
D) Ode to Psyche

Answer: B

6. Which of the following is a “conversation poem” by Coleridge?
A) Kubla Khan
B) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C) Frost at Midnight
D) Christabel

Answer: C

7. W.B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming” contains the famous line:
A) “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”
B) “I will arise and go now”
C) “That is no country for old men”
D) “An aged man is but a paltry thing”

Answer: A

8. “April is the cruellest month” is the opening of:
A) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B) The Waste Land
C) Four Quartets
D) Ash Wednesday

Answer: B

 

9. Who is the author of Tom Jones?
A) Samuel Richardson
B) Henry Fielding
C) Laurence Sterne
D) Tobias Smollett

Answer: B

10. In Hard Times, Charles Dickens criticises:
A) Utilitarianism
B) Romanticism
C) Colonialism
D) Feminism

Answer: A

11. The narrative technique of Wuthering Heights is best described as:
A) Stream of consciousness
B) Frame narrative / multiple narrators
C) Epistolary
D) Free indirect discourse only

Answer: B

12. Which novel begins with the sentence “It is a truth universally acknowledged…”?
A) Emma
B) Sense and Sensibility
C) Pride and Prejudice
D) Mansfield Park

Answer: C

13. Who wrote A Passage to India?
A) E.M. Forster
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) Joseph Conrad
D) George Orwell

Answer: A

14. The character “Stephen Dedalus” appears in which of the following?
A) Dubliners
B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses
C) Finnegans Wake only
D) Exiles

Answer: B

 

15. Charles Lamb’s essays are collected under the title:
A) Essays of Elia
B) Table Talk
C) The Spectator
D) The Rambler

Answer: A

16. The distinction between “competence” and “performance” was made by:
A) Ferdinand de Saussure
B) Noam Chomsky
C) Roman Jakobson
D) Dell Hymes

Answer: B

17. Which of the following is an example of a “creole”?
A) Received Pronunciation
B) Haitian Creole
C) Cockney
D) Indian English

Answer: B

18. Rajmohan’s Wife is significant because it is:
A) The first Indian novel in English
B) The first Indian novel in Bengali
C) The first postcolonial novel
D) The first feminist novel in India

Answer: A

19. Who wrote the novel The Serpent and the Rope?
A) Raja Rao
B) R.K. Narayan
C) Mulk Raj Anand
D) Anita Desai

Answer: A

 

20. “Touchstone method” of criticism was proposed by:
A) T.S. Eliot
B) Matthew Arnold
C) F.R. Leavis
D) I.A. Richards

Answer: B

21. Who defined poetry as “the best words in the best order”?
A) William Wordsworth
B) S.T. Coleridge
C) John Keats
D) Percy Shelley

Answer: B

22. The term “dissociation of sensibility” was coined by:
A) T.S. Eliot
B) Cleanth Brooks
C) William Empson
D) John Crowe Ransom

Answer: A

23. Which critic is closely associated with Practical Criticism?
A) I.A. Richards
B) F.R. Leavis
C) Cleanth Brooks
D) Northrop Frye

Answer: A

24. “The Anxiety of Influence” is a major work by:
A) Harold Bloom
B) Northrop Frye
C) Paul de Man
D) Geoffrey Hartman

Answer: A

25. Who wrote Mythologies?
A) Roland Barthes
B) Claude Lévi-Strauss
C) Michel Foucault
D) Jacques Lacan

Answer: A

26. The concept of “power/knowledge” is central to the work of:
A) Jacques Derrida
B) Michel Foucault
C) Louis Althusser
D) Antonio Gramsci

Answer: B

27. “Hegemony” is a key concept developed by:
A) Karl Marx
B) Antonio Gramsci
C) Louis Althusser
D) Raymond Williams

Answer: B

28. Which of the following is a key text of Eco-criticism?
A) The Ecocriticism Reader
B) Orientalism
C) The Madwoman in the Attic
D) Gender Trouble

Answer: A

29. Judith Butler is best known for her work on:
A) Performativity of gender
B) Psychoanalytic feminism
C) Marxist feminism
D) Ecofeminism

Answer: A

30. “The personal is political” is a slogan associated with:
A) Second-wave feminism
B) First-wave feminism
C) Postfeminism
D) Liberal feminism only

Answer: A

 

31. Which of the following is a Cavalier poet?
A) John Donne
B) Robert Herrick
C) George Herbert
D) Andrew Marvell

Answer: B

32. Absalom and Achitophel is a:
A) Mock-epic
B) Political allegory / satire
C) Pastoral elegy
D) Heroic drama

Answer: B

33. Who wrote To the Lighthouse?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Dorothy Richardson
C) Katherine Mansfield
D) Jean Rhys

Answer: A

34. Epic Theatre is associated with:
A) Bertolt Brecht
B) Antonin Artaud
C) Samuel Beckett
D) Eugene O’Neill

Answer: A

35. “The Theatre of Cruelty” was conceptualised by:
A) Antonin Artaud
B) Bertolt Brecht
C) Jerzy Grotowski
D) Peter Brook

Answer: A

36. Who is the author of Shame?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) V.S. Naipaul
C) Anita Desai
D) Arundhati Roy

Answer: A

37. The term “magical realism” was first used in relation to:
A) Latin American literature
B) African literature
C) Indian literature
D) American literature

Answer: A

38. The Location of Culture is a key postcolonial text by:
A) Homi K. Bhabha
B) Edward Said
C) Gayatri Spivak
D) Frantz Fanon

Answer: A

39. Which of the following is not a feature of Modernist literature?
A) Stream of consciousness
B) Fragmentation
C) Strict chronological narrative
D) Experimentation with form

Answer: C

40. Aristotle considered which element the “soul” of tragedy?
A) Character
B) Plot
C) Thought
D) Spectacle

Answer: B

41. The “unities” of time, place and action were strictly observed in:
A) Shakespearean drama
B) Classical French drama (Corneille, Racine)
C) Restoration comedy
D) Modern absurdist drama

Answer: B

42. Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?
A) Mary Wollstonecraft
B) Mary Shelley
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Simone de Beauvoir

Answer: A

43. “Base and Superstructure” is a key concept in:
A) Psychoanalytic criticism
B) Marxist criticism
C) Formalist criticism
D) Reader-response criticism

Answer: B

44. Stephen Greenblatt is the leading figure of:
A) New Historicism
B) Cultural Materialism
C) Deconstruction
D) Postcolonial theory

Answer: A

45. Which of the following is a novel by R.K. Narayan?
A) Coolie
B) The Guide
C) Kanthapura
D) Untouchable

Answer: B

46. The language of Kanthapura is deliberately:
A) Highly Sanskritised
B) Indianised English with Kannada rhythms
C) Pure British English
D) Pidgin

Answer: B

47. “Defamiliarization” is a technique associated with:
A) Russian Formalism
B) New Criticism
C) Structuralism
D) Post-structuralism

Answer: A

48. Which of the following writers belongs to the Harlem Renaissance?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
B) Toni Morrison
C) Alice Walker
D) Maya Angelou

Answer: A

49. “The affective fallacy” was discussed by:
A) W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
B) Cleanth Brooks
C) I.A. Richards
D) T.S. Eliot

Answer: A

50. Postmodern literature is generally characterised by:
A) Faith in progress and grand narratives
B) Irony, pastiche, intertextuality and scepticism towards metanarratives
C) Strict realism and linear plots
D) Emphasis on authorial authority

Answer: B

Set-B

1. Who among the following is associated with the “University Wits”?
A) Ben Jonson
B) Christopher Marlowe
C) John Webster
D) Thomas Kyd

Answer: B

2. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the line “To be, or not to be” appears in:
A) Act I, Scene 2
B) Act II, Scene 2
C) Act III, Scene 1
D) Act IV, Scene 5

Answer: C

3. Which of the following is a Revenge Tragedy?
A) As You Like It
B) The Spanish Tragedy
C) Twelfth Night
D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Answer: B

4. “The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven” is spoken by:
A) Adam in Paradise Lost
B) Satan in Paradise Lost
C) Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus
D) Prospero in The Tempest

Answer: B

5. Who wrote the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)?
A) S.T. Coleridge
B) William Wordsworth
C) Robert Southey
D) John Keats

Answer: B

6. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” is the opening line of:
A) Ode to a Nightingale
B) Endymion
C) Ode on a Grecian Urn
D) Hyperion

Answer: B

7. Which poem begins with the line “I wander thro’ each charter’d street”?
A) The Tyger – Blake
B) London – Blake
C) The Chimney Sweeper – Blake
D) Holy Thursday – Blake

Answer: B

8. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is dedicated to:
A) Ezra Pound
B) Virginia Woolf
C) James Joyce
D) W.B. Yeats

Answer: A

9. Who is the author of Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded?
A) Henry Fielding
B) Samuel Richardson
C) Laurence Sterne
D) Tobias Smollett

Answer: B

10. In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy’s first proposal to Elizabeth is made at:
A) Netherfield
B) Pemberley
C) Hunsford (Rosings)
D) Longbourn

Answer: C

11. Which novel is considered the first stream-of-consciousness novel in English?
A) Mrs Dalloway
B) Ulysses
C) To the Lighthouse
D) The Waves

Answer: B (Joyce’s Ulysses; though Richardson’s Pointed Roofs is earlier, Ulysses is the landmark)

12. The character “Heathcliff” appears in:
A) Jane Eyre
B) Wuthering Heights
C) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
D) Villette

Answer: B

13. Who wrote Things Fall Apart?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
C) Wole Soyinka
D) Buchi Emecheta

Answer: A

14. Francis Bacon’s essays are best described as:
A) Personal and confessional
B) Aphoristic and pragmatic
C) Romantic and emotional
D) Satirical and humorous

Answer: B

15. The term “langue” and “parole” was introduced by:
A) Noam Chomsky
B) Ferdinand de Saussure
C) Roman Jakobson
D) Leonard Bloomfield

Answer: B

16. Which of the following is an example of a “pidgin”?
A) Standard British English
B) Indian English
C) Tok Pisin
D) American English

Answer: C

17. The first Indian novel in English is generally considered to be:
A) Rajmohan’s Wife by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
B) Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
C) Kanthapura by Raja Rao
D) The Guide by R.K. Narayan

Answer: A

18. Who coined the term “Indian Writing in English”?
A) K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar
B) M.K. Naik
C) C.D. Narasimhaiah
D) All of the above used it extensively

Answer: A (most associated with Iyengar’s foundational work)

19. “Art for Art’s Sake” is associated with:
A) Matthew Arnold
B) Walter Pater / Aesthetic Movement
C) T.S. Eliot
D) F.R. Leavis

Answer: B

20. Who said “Poetry is the criticism of life”?
A) T.S. Eliot
B) Matthew Arnold
C) S.T. Coleridge
D) Cleanth Brooks

Answer: B

21. The concept of “Objective Correlative” was introduced by:
A) I.A. Richards
B) T.S. Eliot
C) F.R. Leavis
D) William Empson

Answer: B

22. Which critic is associated with “New Criticism”?
A) Northrop Frye
B) Cleanth Brooks
C) Raymond Williams
D) Terry Eagleton

Answer: B

23. “The Death of the Author” is a famous essay by:
A) Michel Foucault
B) Roland Barthes
C) Jacques Derrida
D) Julia Kristeva

Answer: B

24. Jacques Derrida is primarily associated with:
A) Structuralism
B) Deconstruction
C) New Historicism
D) Psychoanalytic criticism

Answer: B

25. Who wrote Orientalism?
A) Homi K. Bhabha
B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
C) Edward Said
D) Frantz Fanon

Answer: C

26. The concept of “hybridity” is central to the work of:
A) Edward Said
B) Homi K. Bhabha
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Answer: B

27. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” is an essay by:
A) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
B) Chandra Talpade Mohanty
C) Sara Suleri
D) Trinh T. Minh-ha

Answer: A

28. Feminist criticism that focuses on “gynocriticism” was developed by:
A) Elaine Showalter
B) Simone de Beauvoir
C) Judith Butler
D) Helen Cixous

Answer: A

29. “The Mirror Stage” is a concept of:
A) Sigmund Freud
B) Jacques Lacan
C) Carl Jung
D) Melanie Klein

Answer: B

30. Marxist criticism is primarily concerned with:
A) Gender relations
B) Class struggle and ideology
C) Linguistic structures
D) Unconscious desires

Answer: B

 

31. Which of the following is a Metaphysical poet?
A) Andrew Marvell
B) John Dryden
C) Alexander Pope
D) Thomas Gray

Answer: A

32. “The Rape of the Lock” is an example of:
A) Epic
B) Mock-epic
C) Ballad
D) Ode

Answer: B

33. Who is the author of A Room of One’s Own?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Katherine Mansfield
C) Dorothy Richardson
D) Gertrude Stein

Answer: A

34. The Theatre of the Absurd is associated with:
A) Bertolt Brecht
B) Samuel Beckett
C) Arthur Miller
D) Tennessee Williams

Answer: B

35. “Waiting for Godot” is a play by:
A) Eugene Ionesco
B) Samuel Beckett
C) Harold Pinter
D) Tom Stoppard

Answer: B

36. Who wrote Midnight’s Children?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) V.S. Naipaul
C) Amitav Ghosh
D) Rohinton Mistry

Answer: A

37. The term “magic realism” is most closely associated with:
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) William Faulkner
D) James Joyce

Answer: A

38. “The Empire Writes Back” is a key text in:
A) Feminist theory
B) Postcolonial studies
C) New Historicism
D) Ecocriticism

Answer: B

39. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Romantic poetry?
A) Emphasis on emotion and imagination
B) Celebration of nature
C) Strict adherence to classical rules
D) Interest in the supernatural

Answer: C

40. Aristotle’s Poetics primarily discusses:
A) Epic and Tragedy
B) Comedy and Satire
C) Lyric poetry
D) Novel

Answer: A

41. The “Three Unities” of classical drama are:
A) Time, Place, Action
B) Plot, Character, Thought
C) Beginning, Middle, End
D) Exposition, Climax, Denouement

Answer: A

42. Who is the author of The Second Sex?
A) Simone de Beauvoir
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Betty Friedan
D) Kate Millett

Answer: A

43. “Cultural Materialism” is associated with:
A) Stephen Greenblatt
B) Raymond Williams
C) Michel Foucault
D) Louis Althusser

Answer: B

44. New Historicism was pioneered by:
A) Stephen Greenblatt
B) Hayden White
C) Clifford Geertz
D) All of the above contributed

Answer: A (most closely associated)

45. Which of the following is a work by Mulk Raj Anand?
A) Kanthapura
B) Untouchable
C) The Serpent and the Rope
D) The Guide

Answer: B

46. Raja Rao’s Kanthapura is written in:
A) Standard British English
B) A deliberately Indianised English
C) Purely Sanskritised English
D) Pidgin English

Answer: B

47. The concept of “Defamiliarization” (ostranenie) belongs to:
A) Russian Formalism
B) Structuralism
C) Deconstruction
D) Reader-Response theory

Answer: A

48. Who among the following is a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Toni Morrison
C) Alice Walker
D) Maya Angelou

Answer: A

49. “The intentional fallacy” was proposed by:
A) W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
B) Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren
C) I.A. Richards
D) F.R. Leavis

Answer: A

50. Which of the following best describes Postmodernism?
A) Belief in grand narratives
B) Scepticism towards metanarratives, playfulness, intertextuality
C) Strict realism
D) Emphasis on authorial intention

Answer: B