5/11/2020 Lit-Quiz

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Warm Greetings from the Department of English, Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts & Science
for Women.

The prime objective of this Quiz is to revisit various fields of English literature and to self
test the knowledge.

The participants will be awarded E Certificate with the minimum score of 50%.

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Name of the participant *

J.SURESH KUMAR

Name of the Institution *

ST THOMAS COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

Participant Mail ID *

jskumar.robo@gmail.com

Affiliation *

UG student

PG Student

Mphil/ PhD Scholar

Faculty

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1. In which of the following novels Harikatha is strategically used as a 2/2

medium of ‘consciousness raising’? *

Waiting for the Mahatma

The Serpent and the Rope

Bend in the Ganges

Kanthapura

2. In Marvell’s “A Dialogue between Soul and Body”, who/which of the 2/2

following has the last word? *

Body

God

Soul

Satan

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3. In Blake’s poem “A Poison Tree” the speaker’s anger grows and 2/2
becomes ________. *

A cherry

An apple

An orange

A rose

4. Ian McEwan’s Saturday spans one day in the life of * 2/2

A cherryA divorce lawyer

An ageing pianist

A London neurosurgeon

A famous poet

5. The author of the book observes “I have attempted, through the 2/2
medium of biography, to present some Victorian visions to the modern
eye”. The four main characters in this book are Cardinal Manning,
Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold and General Gordon. Who is this author?
*

Mathew Arnold

Robert Browning

Lytton Strachey

Oscar Wilde

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6. I.A. Richards’ Practical Criticism (1929) inaugurated a new phase in the 2/2
history of English critical thought. What was this book’s subtitle? *

Studies in Poetry

A Study in Literary Judgement

Essays and Studies

A Theoretical Guide

7. Choices of linguistic forms in using a language, or how a language is 2/2

actually spoken/written, especially one that differs from its prescribed
grammar, is called *

Utterance

Use

Usage

Deviation

8. William Wordsworth had a deep influence on Thomas Hardy. According 2/2

to Hardy a particular poem by Wordsworth was his ‘best cure for
despair’. Which is that poem? *

“Michael”

“Tintern Abbey Revisited”

“The Idiot Boy”

“The Leech gatherer”

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9. In Henry James’s Ambassadors, there is a character who never 2/2

appears in the novel. We get to know about this significant person,
however, from the other characters. Who is this character? *

(A) Maria Gostrey

(B) Madame de Vionette

(C) Mrs. Newsome

(D) Mrs. Sarah Pocock

10. Why are Scott’s novels called “Waverley Novels”? * 2/2

His novels are all set in Waverley.

The Waverley Castle has a significant role in his novels.

Waverley (in his first novel of that name) is a model hero for the protagonists of
Scott’s novels.

Scott started his novel-writing career in his 43rd year with the novel, Waverley.

11. Maxim Gorky, the Great Russian writer of fiction and drama, was in 2/2
real life a man called ______. *

Goliardic Kreshkov

Ronsardo Felixikov

Malthias Serpieri

Aleksei Peshkov

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12. Identify the Post-Apartheid novel by Nadine Gordimer. * 2/2

The Conservationist

The House of Gun

The Lying Days

Burger’s Daughter

13. Who among the following has written the essay, “The Indian 2/2
Jugglers”? *

Charles Lamb

William Hazlitt

Thomas de Quincey

Thomas Love Peacock

14. How would you best describe George Meredith’s Modern Love 0/2
(1862)? *

A ballad

A lyric travelogue

A verse romance

A sonnet sequence

Correct answer

A sonnet sequence

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15. The play was written in 1881 when its author was in Italy. This is 2/2
considered to be his most remarkable intellectual effort. The softening of
the brain as a result of a disease inherited from his father is the subject.
Which is the play? *

An Enemy of the People

Ghosts

Rhinoceros

Six Characters in Search of an Author

16. Tolstoy’s War and Peace carries a lengthy discussion of determinism 2/2
and free will in ________. *

Its prologue

An exchange between Pierre and Natasha

An exchange between Nikolai Rostof and Princess Bezukhoi

Its epilogue

17. Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of the common reader from Dr. 2/2
Johnson. To which particular work of Johnson’s does she remain
indebted? *

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; the essay on Milton

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; the essay on Gray

Preface to Shakespeare

The Patriot

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18. J.M. Coetzee was the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize 2/2
twice. He won the prize for _______. *

Life and Times of Michael K. and Disgrace

Dusklands and Disgrace

Foe and Elizabeth Costello

Age of Iron and Disgrace

19. After the Norman Conquest England became a three-language nation 2/2
for at least two centuries. The three languages were *

English, French and German

English, Latin and German

English, French and Latin

English, French and Greek

20. After the Norman Conquest England became a three-language 2/2

nation for at least two centuries. The three languages were *

English, French and German

English, Latin and German

English, French and Latin

English, French and Greek

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21. The poem is cast in the form of a ______. * 2/2

Romantic lyric

Verse epistle

Dramatic monologue

Dialogue

22. “Nothing odd will do long. ______ did not last long.” Dr. Johnson had 2/2
this to say about one of the eighteenth century novels. Identify it from
the following list: *

Tom Jones

The Female Quixote

Tristram Shandy

Clarissa

23. Who among the following women writers has written Novel on Yellow 2/2
Paper? *

Elizabeth Smither

Stevie Smith

Zulu Sofola

Gita Mehta

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24. One of the following was described by its author as “a poem 2/2
including history.” Identify the poem. *

Robert Lowell, Life Studies

William Carlos Williams, Paterson

Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel

Ezra Pound, the Cantos

25. Which Bible is the earliest English version printed with verse 2/2
divisions? *

Tyndale’s Translation

The Geneva Bible

The Douay-Rheims Version

King James Version

26. Samuel Pepys began his diary on__________ * 2/2

New Year's Day 1660

Thanksgiving Day 1665

All Saints' Day 1662

New Year's Day 1667

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27. In her essay "Professions for Women" Virginia Woolf finds an analogy 2/2
between the act of writing and________ *

driving a motor car

fishing

riding a horse

gardening

28. Which of these plays by Shakespeare does not use ‘cross-dressing’ as2/2
a device ? *

As You Like It

Julius Caeser

Cymbeline

Two Gentlemen of Verona

29. Which character in Jane Eyre uses religion to justify cruelty ? * 2/2

Blanche Ingram

Mr. Brocklehurst

Sir John Rivers

Eliza Reed

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30. John Suckling belongs to the group of______ * 2/2

Metaphysical poets

Cavalier poets

Neo-classical poets

Religious poets

31. “Panopticism” is the title of a chapter in a well-known book by________ 0/2

*

Roman Jakobson

Jacques Lacan

Michel Foucault

Jacques Derrida

Correct answer

Michel Foucault

32. Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood ? * 2/2

The Stone Angel

No Fixed Address

The Edible Woman

Half breed

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33. Which of the following poem by Keats uses the Spenserian stanza ? * 2/2

Endymion

The Fall of Hyperion

The Eve of St. Agnes

Lamia

34. Isaac Bashevis Singer is an______ * 2/2

African-American writer

American-Jewish writer

American-Indian writer

American-Asian writer

35. “It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen" 2/2
– is the opening sentence of______ *

Ulysses

Nostromo

Chrome Yellow

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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36. The subtitle of William Godwin’s Caleb Williams is______ * 2/2

Man As He Is Not

Man As He Is

Things As They Are

The Pupil of Nature

37. Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists 2/2
?*

Helene Cixous

Monique Wittig

Simone de Beauvoir

Luce Irigaray

38. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign is______ * 2/2

1830–1900

1837–1901

1830–1901

1837–1900

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39. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes its title to_____ * 2/2

Browning’s Fifine at the Fair

Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice

Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield

Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

40. The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in * 2/2

1642

1640

1659

1660

41. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from______ * 2/2

Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimage

Hakluyt’s Voyages

The Book Named the Governour

Sir Thomas More’s Utopia

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42. The essay 'The Death of the Author' is written by ____ * 2/2

Michel Foucault

Jacques Derrida

Roland Barthes

Alvin Kernan

43. Salman Rushdie's Shame is set in : * 0/2

East Pakistan

India and Pakistan

Pakistan

None of the above

Correct answer

Pakistan

44. The Little Minister is a novel by : * 2/2

John Galsworthy

H.G. Wells

James M. Barrie

Rudyard Kipling

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45. The main character in Gogol's Dead Souls is : * 2/2

Oblomov

Bazarov

Alyosha

Chichikov

46. The author of 'A Satire Against Reason and Mankind' is : * 2/2

Rochester

Dryden

Gray

Swift

47. Which contemporary British poet has translated Beowulf ? * 2/2

Thom Gunn

Alan Lewis

Edward Thomas

Seamus Heaney

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48. “Music that gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired 2/2
eyes” the above lines occur in Tennyson's : *

Tears, Idle Tears

In Memoriam

Maud

The Lotus Eaters

49. Essays of Elia was published in_____ * 2/2

1800

1823

1827

1850

50. The Temple is a collection of poems by______ * 2/2

Thomas Carew

Robert Herrick

George Herbert

Richard Crashaw

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