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(1) Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude ?
(1) Durham
(2) Glasgow
(3) Cambridge
(4) Oxford
Answer: Cambridge
(2) Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?
(1) John Marston
(2) Thomas Middleton
(3) John Fletcher
(4) Thomas Heywood
Answer: Thomas Heywood

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(3) In William Congreve’s The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line : “One’s cruelty is one’s power, and when one parts with one’s cruelty, one parts with one’s power.”
(1) Mirabell
(2) Witwoud
(3) Millamant
(4) Mincing
Answer: Millamant
(4) T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in
(1) Christianity
(2) Hinduism
(3) Buddhism
(4) Judaism
Answer: Christianity
(5) By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag ?
(1) Grildrig
(2) Glumdalclitch
(3) Splacknuck
(4) Mannikin
Answer: Grildrig
(6) Who among the following was born in India ?
(1) Paul Scott
(2) Lawrence Durrell
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) V.S. Naipaul
Answer: Lawrence Durrell
(7) What metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12) to frame his tale and to describe the relationship between the tale and its readers ?
(1) That of a caravan of lost souls, traversing a desert.
(2) That of a stagecoach, which picks up diverse passengers along the way.
(3) That of a ship filled with jolly mariners.
(4) That of a riderless horse, following his own direction.
Answer: That of a ship filled with jolly mariners.
(8) Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism ?
(1) Roman Jakobson
(2) Georges Poulet
(3) Boris Eichenbaum
(4) Victor Shklovsky
Answer: Georges Poulet
(9) Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up” ?
(1) Barkis
(2) Micawber
(3) Uriah Heep
(4) Miss Havisham
Answer: Micawber
(10) What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick ?
(1) Pequod
(2) Rachel
(3) Hagar
(4) Sphinx
Answer: Rachel
(11) Northanger Abbey is a parody of the _______ romance.
(1) Oriental
(2) French
(3) Gothic
(4) Popular
Answer: Gothic
(12) Which of the following is another term to describe “art for art’s sake” ?
(1) Aestheticism
(2) Didacticism
(3) Realism
(4) Neo-realism
Answer: Aestheticism
(13) The statement that there are “none so credulous as infidels” is an illustration of
(1) Oxymoron
(2) Antithesis
(3) Paradox
(4) Metonomy
Answer: Paradox
(14) Who narrates Heart of Darkness ?
(1) Marlow
(2) Director of Companies
(3) Kurtz
(4) An unnamed narrator
Answer: An unnamed narrator
(15) The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of
(1) The Conscious Lovers
(2) The Good Natur’d Man
(3) She Stoops to Conquer
(4) The Rivals
Answer: She Stoops to Conquer

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