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(1) Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale in The Waste Land ?
(1) St. Magnus Martyr
(2) King Arthur Street
(3) St. Mary Woolnoth
(4) Lower Thames Street
Answer: King Arthur Street
(2) Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys ?
(1) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
(2) Good Morning, Midnight
(3) The Quiet American
(4) Wide Sargasso Sea
Answer: The Quiet American

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(3) The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was _______.
(1) Ben Jonson
(2) William Davenant
(3) John Dryden
(4) Thomas Shadwell
Answer: John Dryden
(4) The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to ________.
(1) Arthur Schopenhauer
(2) Charles Darwin
(3) A.N. Whitehead
(4) Aldous Huxley
Answer: Charles Darwin
(5) Which character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is scientific” ?
(1) Simon
(2) Piggy
(3) Ralph
(4) Jack
Answer: Piggy
(6) How did Chaucer’s Pardoner make his living ?
(1) By selling stolen cattle from the neighbourhood ottery
(2) By selling indulgences to those who committed sins
(3) By pardoning those who stole property or committed other crimes
(4) By assisting the Friar in Church services
Answer: By selling indulgences to those who committed sins
(7) From among the following, identify Coleridge’s companion in a fanciful scheme to establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina river ?
(1) Lord Byron
(2) Robert Southey
(3) William Hazlitt
(4) William Wordsworth
Answer: Robert Southey
(8) Which of the following novels by H.G. Wells is about the condition of England as Empire ?
(1) The Island of Dr. Moreau
(2) The War of the Worlds
(3) Tono-Bungay
(4) The Invisible Man
Answer: Tono-Bungay
(9) Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is
(1) a collection of poems
(2) a play
(3) an autobiography
(4) a novel
Answer: an autobiography
(10) Who among the following wrote a poem comparing a lover’s heart to a hand grenade ?
(1) John Donne
(2) Abraham Cowley
(3) Wilfred Owen
(4) Robert Graves
Answer: Abraham Cowley
(11) The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to
(1) William James
(2) Werner Heisenberg
(3) John Dewey
(4) Charles Darwin
Answer: Werner Heisenberg
(12) “Jabberwocky” is a creation in _______.
(1) Edward Lear’s poetry
(2) Lewis Carroll’s work
(3) Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit
(4) Thomas Hardy’s Woodlanders
Answer: Lewis Carroll’s work
(13) Who are Didi and Gogo ?
(1) They are two characters in Endgame.
(2) They are nicknames, respectively, for Lucky and Pozzo.
(3) They are nicknames, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon.
(4) They are two characters in Breath.
Answer: They are nicknames, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon.
(14) Who among the following theorists talks about “the circulation of social energy” ?
(1) Raymond Williams
(2) Stephen Greenblatt
(3) Antonio Gramsci
(4) Haydon White
Answer: Stephen Greenblatt
(15) How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of Good Women ?
(1) Six
(2) Seven
(3) Eight
(4) Nine
Answer: Nine

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