English Literature

PRACTICE SET – 1

1. Which of the followng writers did not get the (b) Nicholas Nickleby - David Copperfield - Nobel Prize? Oliver Twist - Pickwick Papers - Barnaby (a) Octavio Paz (b) R.N. Tagore Rudge - Old Curiosity Shop - A Christmas (c) Aurobindo (d) W.B. Yeats Carol - Martin Chuzzlewit - Great 2. Who wrote the following lines: Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities - Hard “The wind disentangles itself from your Times frenzied body as hurricanes of dreams follow 8. Riders to the Sea is a play written by - me” (a) J.M. Synge (a) Nissim Ezekiel (b) R. Parthasarthy (b) Harley Granville - Barker (c) Jayanta Mahapatra(d) Pritish Nandy (c) John Galsworthy (d) T.W. Robertson 3. Which one of the following is not Gurdial 9. Which of the following arrangements of Singh’s novel Galsworthy's plays is in the correct (a) Addh Chanini Rat (Night of the Half - chronological order ? Moon) (a) Loyalties - Strife - The Skin Game - Escape (b) Parsa (c) Godan - Justice - The Silver Box (d) Marhi Da Deeva (The Last Flicker) (b) The Skin Game - Escape - Justice - Strife - 4. Who made the sensational pronouncement of The Silver Box - Loyalties “end of ideology” in 1960 (c) Strife - Escape - The Skin Game - Loyalties (a) David Bell (b) Graham Greene - Justice - The Silver Box (c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) Octavio Paz (d) The Silver Box - Strife - Justice - The Skin 5. Gurdial Singh was born in Game - Loyalties - Escape (a) 1930 (b) 1931 10. Falder is a character in : (c) 1932 (d) 1933 (a) Galsworthy's Justice 6. The Broad Church, which aimed at promoting (b) G.B. Shaw's Arms and the Man the cooperation of different groups and (c) J.M. Synge's The Well of the Saints nationalities, consisted of : (d) Galsworthy's Loyalties (a) Matthew Arnold - Richard Whatley - Julius 11. Sir Ralf Bloomfield Bonnington is a character Hare in G.B. Shaw's : (b) Benjamin Jowett - Mark Pattison - A.P. (a) Candida Stanley (b) Man and Superman (c) Water Pater - Cardinal Newman - Thomas (c) The Doctor's Dilemma Huxley (d) Pygamalion (d) Thomas Arnold - George Eliot - Paul Clifford 12. G.B. Shaw started writing dramatic criticism for: 7. Which of the following arrangements of (a) The Pall Mall Gazette Dickens' novels is in correct chronological (b) Times Literary Supplement sequence ? (c) The Saturday Review (a) Pickwick Papers - Nicholas Nickleby Oliver (d) The World Twist - Old Curiosity Shop - Barna by 13. The Problem play is also known as : Rudge - Martin Chuzzlewit - A Christmas (a) The Drama of Ideas Carol - Dombey and Son - David (b) The Propaganda Play Copperfield - Hard Times - A Tale of Two (c) The Drama of Conflict Cities - Great Expectations (d) The Sentimental Play

1 UGC Paper-III New Pattern Practice Set 14. Identify from the following options the (c) Danis Glover (d) Allen Curnow dramatist who does not introduce any villain 23. Identify the correct group consisting of in his plays ? Wallington Group of poets - (a) John Drinkwater (b) Harold Pinter (a) Allen Curnow - James K. Baxter - Maurice (c) G.B. Shaw (d) A.W. Pinero Gee - Albert Bendt 15. What was the most revolutionary deed done (b) Ruth Dallas - Charles Brasch - Charles by Aristotle, regarding human rights and Spears - Basic Bowling freedom, which he did before his death? (c) John K. Baxter - W.H. Oliver - Alistair (a) He wrote Poetics Campbell - Louis Johnson (b) He inverted most of Plato’s theories (d) None of these (c) He liberated all his slaves through his will 24. Who among the following writers won the (d) He noted down everything that he studied Booker Prize for Literature in 1985? at Plato’s Academy (a) Keri Hulme 16. Which critic is most associated with the view (b) Alexnader Bathgate that “Poetry is criticism of life.” (c) Ellen Ellis (a) Dryden (b) Eliot (d) Vincent Pyke (c) Wordsworth (d) Matthew Arnold 25. The novels of the early period in New Zealand 17. What did Byron die of were written on Maori life. Who were the (a) heart failure (b) fever Maori? (c) dysentery (d) gouts (a) The immigrants from Asia 18. Who among the following playwrights in the (b) The immigrants from Africa outstanding product of The English Stage (c) The earliest inhabitants of New Zealand Company ? (d) None of these (a) Brian Friel 26. The Rebel Chief : A Romance of New Zealand, (b) John James Cyborne a novel as Maori life, is written by - (c) Noel Coward (d) Samuel Beckett (a) George Chamier (b) Dugald Ferguson 19. Jimmy Poster, the vituperative anti-hero, who (c) Hume Nisbet (d) Grossman is the archetype of the Angry Young Man, 27. The Maori At Home is a famous novel by ? appears in John Osborne's famous play - (a) John White (b) Henry Butler (a) The Entertainer (c) Lady Campbell Hume Nisbet (b) Look Back in Anger (d) Jena Devanny (c) Evidence (d) The West of Suez 28. Identify the correct group of novelists who 20. Harold Pinter, a playwright of international pioneered the feminist fiction in New Zealand- status, was awarded the Nobel Prize for (a) Vincent Pyke - Henry Butler Stunly Literature in : (b) Eleen Ellis - Vogel (a) 2000 (b) 2002 (c) Hume Nishet - Lady Campbell Hume Nisbet (c) 2003 (d) 2005 (d) None of these 21. Who among the following playwrights is 29. Name the critic who enunciated the theory of known for his love for cricket? Deconstruction : (a) John Whiting (b) Harold Pinter (a) Jacques Derrida (b) Edward Sevid (c) Henry Living (d) Rex Warner (c) Nina Baym (d) Stanley Fish 22. The Introduction to the 1987 edition of An 30. Who pioneered the Feminist criticism ? Anthology of Twentieth Century New Zealand (a) Patrocinio P. Schweickart Poetry was written by - (b) Gyatri C. Spivak (a) James K. Baxter (c) Elain Showalter (d) None of these (b) Vincent O' Sullivan 31. Identify the correct group of the exponents of

2 English Literature the Reader-Response Theory or the Recpetion at the end of each couplet Theory : (b) The couplets in which the sense runs on (a) E.D. Hirsch - Stamley Fish - Patrocinia P. from one couplet to another Schweickart - Janathan Culler (c) The couplets in which the last line contains (b) J. Hillis Miller - Michel Foucault - Terry an extra syllable Egleton - Stephen Greenblat (d) The couplets in which the last line is short (c) Rene Wellek - Roman Jakabson - Edward by one syllable Said 38. What is an Alexandrine ? (d) None of these (a) A line of four iambic feet occasionally used 32. Bhabani Bhattacharya was awarded the in a Heroic couplet Sahitya Academy Award (1967) for his famous (b) A line of six iambic feet occasionally used novel : in a Heroic couplet (a) Music for Mohini (c) A line without iambic metre occasionally (b) So Many Hungers used in a Heroic couplet (c) A Goddess Named Gold (d) A line without end-stop occasionally used (d) Shadow From Ladakh in a Heroic couplet 33. Which is the latest novel, published in 2005, 39. What is Terza Rima ? of Salman Rushdie ? (a) Terza Rima is a three-line stanza of rhyming (a) Shalimar the Clown lines (b) The Moor's Last Sigh (b) Terza Rima is an end-stop three-line stanza (c) The Satanic Verses (c) Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with (d) fury a fixed rhyme-scheme 34. The Company of Women and Delhi are novels (d) Terza Rima is a run-on three-line stanza with written by : varying rhyme-schemes (a) Khushwant Singh 40. What is Rhyme Royal stanza ? (b) Chaman Mahal (a) Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza (c) Manohar Malgonkar in any metre (d) Vikram Seth (b) Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza 35. Who among the following novelists was in iambic pentameter influenced by Camu, Sartre, Kierkegard, the (c) Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza Gita and Mahatma Gandhi? in iambic hexameter (a) Bhabani Bhattacharya (d) Rhyme Royal stanza is a seven-line stanza (b) Arun Joshi in iambic septameter (c) Upmanyu Chatterjee 41. What is Ottawa Rima ? (d) Amitav Ghosh (a) It is an eight-line stanza in iambic 36. What is a Heroic Couplet ? pentameter with a fixed rhyme-scheme (a) It is a two-line stanza having eight (b) It is an eight-line stanza with varying syllables in each line rhyme-schemes in iambic pentameter (b) It is a two-lines stanza having ten syllables (c) It is an eight-line stanza made-up of four in each line Heroic couplets (c) It is a two-line stanza having two rhyming (d) It is an eight-line stanza made-up of two lines in lambic Pentameter Terza Rima and a Heroic couplet (d) It is a two-line stanza having two rhyming 42. What is Spenserian stanza ? lines in any metre (a) It is a nine-line stanza consisting of two 37. What is meant by enjambed couplets ? quatrains in iambic pentameter, rounded (a) The couplets in which the sense completes off with an Alexandrine

3 UGC Paper-III New Pattern Practice Set (b) It is a nine-line stanza of which the first life line is an Alexandrine followed by two 50. Holy War and Profane State was written by - quatrains in iambic pentameter (a) Thomas Overbury (b) Thomas Fuller (c) It is a nine-line stanza consisting of two (c) Thomas Dekkar (d) Joseph Hall iambic pentameter quatrains joined by an 51. John Selden's Table Talk appeared in - Alexandrine (a) 1614 (b) 1618 (d) It is a nine-line stanza made up of four (c) 1654 (d) 1689 Heroic couplets rounded off with an 52. A Cypress Grove, published in 1623, is Alexandrine written by - 43. Songs and Sonnets, known as Tottle's (a) Edmund Waller (b) Joseph Hall Miscellany appeared in - (c) William Drummond of Howthornden (a) 1557 (b) 1560 (d) Sir Francis Bacon (c) 1565 (d) 1577 53. Name the poet whose poems were not 44. Who introduced sonnet for the first time in published during his life time - English poetry - (a) Richard Crawshaw (b) George Herbert (a) Sydney and Spenser (c) John Donne (d) Abraham Cowley (b) Wyatt and Surrey 54. The Authorised Version of the Bible, a work of (c) More and Jonson 47 scholars, appeared in - (d) Beaumont and Fletcher (a) 1603 (b) 1611 45. Arcadia is a - (c) 1624 (d) 1625 (a) Narrative poem (b) Play 55. Who nominated the 47 scholars who prepared (c) Romance (d) Treatise The Authorized Version of the Bible - 46. Astrophel and Stella has been written by - (a) Queen Elizabeth I (b) James I (a) Spenser (b) Lyly (c) Charles I (d) Oliver Cromwell (c) Surrey (d) Sydney 56. The Authorised Version of the Bible is 47. Humanism is a term which strictly applies to - known as - (a) a Renaissance cultural movement which (a) The first classic in English prose turned away from medieval scholasticism (b) The first classic of rationalism and revived interest in ancient Greek and (c) The first classic of religious revival Roman thought (d) None of these (b) humanitarian approach to literature 57. Who is called "the father of English novel"? (c) reformation in the Church (a) Henry Fielding (b) Daniel Defoe (d) the efforts of teachers to reform the (c) Samuel Richardson(d) Jonathan Swift educational system 58. Fielding Joseph Andrews emerges as the 48. Spenser has been hailed as "the poet's poet" pioneer of the - by - (a) psychological novel (a) W.H. Pater (b) Charles Lamb (b) novel of manners (c) Matthew Arnold (d) John Ruskin (c) historical novel (d) none of these 49. Spenser's famous Ode Epithalmion 59. Who propounded the theory of novel writing? commemorates the occasion of - (a) Richardson in the preface of Pamela (a) his marriage with Elizabeth Boyle (b) Swift in the preface of Gulliver's Travel (b) the accession of Elizabeth I to the throne (c) Henry Fielding in the prefaces of Tom Jones of England and Joseph Andrews (c) the publication of his magnum Opus The (d) Addison in the Coverley Papers Faerie Queen 60. Who defined the novel as "a comic epic epic (d) the return to humble and single pastoral in prose?

4 English Literature (a) Tobias Smollett (c) Robert Southey (d) Sir Walter Scott (b) Samuel Richardson 69. Mr. Collins is a character in - (c) Henry Fielding (d) Lauren Sterne (a) Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice 61. The meaning of “widsith” in old English is (b) Scott’s Rob Roy (a) width (b) widely (c) Maria Edgeworth’s Castel Rackrent (c) wise (d) wanderer (d) Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey 62. The name of William Golding’s first novel is 70. Which of the following works has been called (a) The Inheritors (b) Lord of the Flies the Magna Carta of Romanticism ? (c) Pincher Martin (d) The Pyramid (a) Biographia Literaria 63. In this “Progress and Poverty”. Henry George (b) Lyrical Ballads is influenced by (c) Defence of Poetry (a) The American War of Independence (d) The Spirit of the Age (b) The French Revolution Read the following passage carefully and (c) The Marxian system answer the following (Q.Nos. 71-75) questions : (d) None Of these Dryden is the greatest literary figure of the 64. Which of the following arrangements of Jane Restoration, and in his work we have an excellent Austen’s novels is in correct chronological reflection of both the good and the evil tendencies of sequence ? the age in which he lived. If we can think for a moment (a) Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice of literature as a canal of water, we may appreciate the - Emma - Persuasion - Mansfield Park - figure that Dryden is the "lock by which the waters of Northanger Abbey English poetry were let down from the mountains of (b) Northanger Abbey - Persuasion - Shakespeare and Milton to the plain of Pope"; that is, Mansfield Park - Emma - Pride and he stands between two very different ages, and serves Prejudice - Sense and Sensibility as a transition from one to the other. (c) Pride and Prejudice - Sense and Sensibility The numerous dramatic works of Dryden are - Northanger Abbey - Mansfield Park - best left in that obscurity into which they have fallen. Emma - Persuasion Now and then they contain a bit of excellent lyric (d) None of these poetry, and in All for Love, another version of Antony 65. Robecca and Rowena appear as dull heroines and Cleopatra, where he leaves his cherished heroic in Sir Walter Scott’s : couplet for the blank verse of Marlowe and (a) Quentin Durward (b) Ivanhoe Shakespeare, he shows what he might have done had (c) The Heart of Midlothian he not sold his talents to a depraved audience. On (d) The Bride of Lammermoor the whole, reading his plays is like nibbling at a rotting 66. Which of the following novels is not written apple; even the good spots are affected by the decay, by Sir Walter Scott ? and one ends by throwing the whole thing into the (a) The Knight of Gynne garbage can, where most of the dramatic works of (b) The Fortunes of Nigel this period belong. (c) The Black Dwarf (d) The Two Drovers The controversial and satirical poems are on a 67. Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy are characters in higher plane; though, it must be confessed, Dryden's Jane Austen’s : satire often strikes us as cutting and revengeful, rather (a) Northanger Abbey than witty. The best known of these, and a masterpiece (b) Sense and Sensibility of its kind, is "Absalom and Achitophel," which is (c) Pride and Prejudice undoubtedly the most powerful political satire in our (d) Emma language. Taking the Bible story of David and 68. Who is known as “the peasant poet” ? Absalom, he uses it to ridicule the Whig party and (a) John Clare (b) Robert Burns also to revenge himself upon his enemies. Charles II

5 UGC Paper-III New Pattern Practice Set appeared as King David; his natural son, the Duke of Plays," "Discourse on Satire," and especially the Monmouth, who was mixed up in the Rye House Plot, "Essay of Dramatic Poesy" (1668), which attempts to paraded as Absalom; Shaftesbury was Achitophel, lay a foundation for all literary criticism. the evil Counselor; and the Duke of Buckingham was 71. On the accession of James II in 1685, Dryden satirized as Zimri. The poem had enormous political changed his faith and became a - influence, and raised Dryden, in the opinion of his (a) Court poet (b) Protestant contemporaries, to the front rank of English poets. (c) Roman Catholic (d) Reformer Of the many miscellaneous poems of Dryden, 72. Dryden's poem Annus Mirabilis gives a the curious reader will get an idea of his sustained spirited account of - narrative power from the Annus Mirabilis. The best (a) The Great fire and the Dutch War expression of Dryden's literary genius, however, is (b) The Restoration of Charles II found in "Alexander's Feast," which is his most (c) The social transformation during the enduring ode, and one of the best in our language. seventeenth century As a prose writer Dryden had a very marked (d) None of these influence on our literature in shortening his sentences, 73. The following are referred in Dryden's Absalom and especially in writing naturally, without depending and Achitophel - on literary ornamentation to give effect to what he is (a) Monmouth and Shaftsbury saying. If we compare his prose with that of Milton, (b) Shadwell and Vanbrugh or Browne, or Jeremy Taylor, we note that Dryden (c) Hobbes and John Locke cares less for style than any of the others, but takes (d) None of these more pains to state his thought clearly and concisely, 74. Dryden in the second part of Absalom and as men speak when they wish to be understood. The Achitophel satirically caricatured Thomas classical school, which followed the Restoration, Shadwell and Elkanah Settle as - looked to Dryden as a leader, and to him we owe (a) Whig and Tory respectively largely, that tendency to exactness of expression (b) James and Jone respectively which marks our subsequent prose writing. With his (c) Orse and Oram respectively prose, Dryden rapidly developed his critical ability, (d) Og and Doeg respectively and became the foremost critic of his age. His 75. Name Dryden's poem written in celebration of criticisms, instead of being published as independent Charles II's restoration - works, were generally used as prefaces or (a) Annus Mirabilis (b) Religio Laici introductions to his poetry. The best known of these (c) Astrale Redux (d) Medal criticisms are the preface to the Fables, "Of Heroic

ANSWERS 1. (c) 2. (d) 3. (c) 4. (a) 5. (d) 6. (b) 7. (a) 8. (a) 9. (d) 10. (a) 11. (c) 12. (c) 13. (a) 14. (c) 15. (c) 16. (d) 17. (b) 18. (b) 19. (b) 20. (d) 21. (b) 22. (b) 23. (c) 24. (a) 25. (c) 26. (c) 27. (a) 28. (b) 29. (a) 30. (c) 31. (a) 32. (d) 33. (a) 34. (a) 35. (b) 36. (c) 37. (b) 38. (b) 39. (c) 40. (b) 41. (a) 42. (a) 43. (a) 44. (b) 45. (c) 46. (d) 47. (a) 48. (b) 49. (a) 50. (b) 51. (d) 52. (c) 53. (b) 54. (b) 55. (b) 56. (a) 57. (a) 58. (b) 59. (c) 60. (c) 61. (d) 62. (b) 63. (c) 64. (c) 65. (b) 66. (a) 67. (c) 68. (a) 69. (a) 70. (b) 71. (a) 72. (a) 73. (d) 74. (c) 75. (c)

6 English Literature

PRACTICE SET – 2

Read the following passage carefully and (a) 1625 (b) 1612 answer the following (Q.Nos. 1-5) questions : (c) 1597 (d) 1590 Bacon, a man of versatile genius and 3. Bacon defined his essays as - achievements, wrote varied type of prose which is (a) "An attempt on a subject" philosophical in The Advancement of Learning (1605), (b) "Dispersed meditations" historical in the History of Henry VII (1622) and (c) "As lyric in prose" speculative in New Atlantis (1626), which remained (d) None of these incomplete due to his death. 4. Bacon borrowed the general conception of Bacon's character was full of contradictions. essay from - Macaulay said that he was the supreme example of (a) Montaigne's Essays shinning intellect conjoined to and base moral nature. (b) Seneca's Epistles Bacon is the father of essay writing in English (c) Sir Thomas More's Utopia prose. He occupies a permanent place in prose due to (d) Erasmus's His Praise of Folly his Essays, ten in number which appeared in 1597. 5. Bacon is "the first English essayist, as he The second edition (1612) and the third edition (1625) remains by sheer mass and weight of genius." raised the number of essays to 38 and 58 respectively. This opinion was expressed by – They are on familiar subjects and express, to quote (a) William Hazlitt his own words, "the dispersed meditations" of a (b) Thomas de Quincey trained and disciplined mind. They contain utilitarian (c) Carlyle (d) Hugh Walker wisdom and are written in clear, lucid and aphoristic 6. John Wycliff is called - style. Bacon's essays are a record of his outlook on (a) The morning star of Renaissance world throughout the years of his active life. In his (b) The morning star of the revival of learning essay Bacon, writes Rickett, emerges as "the pioneer (c) The morning star of Reformation of a clear, sententious English that suggests rather (d) The morning star of Romanticism than expounds, and blends dignity with familiarity, in 7. The barren period in English literature stretches that pleasant and attractive manner which is the secret from - of the power of all our great essayists." His images (a) 1401 to 1515 (b) 1320 to 1330 and figures of speech are simple and clearly illustrate (c) 1366 to 1401 (d) 1400 - 1450 the idea that he wishes to communicate. His essays 8. The Peasants' revolt, also known as Tyler's are argumentative and objective, not personal and Rebellion, began in - subjective. (a) 1381 (b) 1383 1. Name the critic who summed up Bacon's (c) 1390 (d) 1391 character in the following Couplet - 9. Who are Lollards ? If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined - (a) Jack Straw and his followers The wisest, the brightest and meanest of (b) John Ball and his followers mankind (c) John Tyler and his followers (a) John Dryden (d) John Wycliff and his followers (b) Dr. Samuel Johnson 10. Identify the first protestant in England - (c) Alexander Pope (d) Matthew Arnold (a) John Gower (b) John Wycliff 2. The third edition of Bacon's Essays containing (c) William Langland (d) Wat Tyler 58 essays appeared in - 11. In Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales,

7 UGC Paper-III New Pattern Practice Set the pilgrims started a sixty mile ride to (a) Poetical Sketches Canterbury in the month of - (b) The Song of Innocence (a) March (b) April (c) The Songs of Experience (c) May (d) June (d) Hymn to Adversity 12. The War of the Roses took place during the 22. Blake's Songs of Innocence is about – period – (a) the glorification and joys of childhood (a) 1380-1410 (b) 1400-1430 (b) the glorification of morality and spirituality (c) 1455-1485 (d) 1425-1455 (c) the emancipation of women 13. Dryden used blank verse giving up the heroic (d) none of these couplet in - 23. Blake denounced the subordination of (a) Wild Gallant (b) All For Love women in – (c) Aurengzebe (d) The Rehearsal (a) Songs of Innocence 14. Name the play of Shakespeare, which (b) Visions of the Daughters of Albian anticipates the form of Restoration Comedy - (c) Songs of Experience (a) A Midsummer Night's Dream (d) The Book of Horizen (b) Measure For Measure 24. Which of the following arrangements of Blake's (c) The Merry Wives of Windsor poems is in the correct chronological (d) Taming of Shrew sequence? 15. Identify the critic who described the (a) The Poetical Sketches – The Book of Thel Restoration comedy as "artificial". - The Songs of Innocence - The Marriage (a) Dryden (b) Charles Lamb of Heaven and Hell - The Gates of Paradise (c) Matthew Arnold (d) Dr. Johnson - The Vision of the Daughters of Albian - 16. Millamant, a brilliant woman character, The Songs of Experience appears in - (b) The Book of Thel - The Songs of (a) Congreve's The Old Bachelor Experience - The Gates of Paradise - The (b) Congreve's The Way of the World Vision of the Daughters of Albian - The (c) Etherege's The Man of Mode Marriage of Heaven and Hell - The Songs (d) Vanbrugh's The Recluse. of Innocence - The Poetical Sketches 17. In which year Collier condemned in a pamphlet (c) The Songs of Experience - The Vision of the Restoration Comedy of Manners ? the Daughters of Albian - The Gates of (a) 1688 (b) 1690 Paradise - The Songs of Innocence - The (c) 1692 (d) 1698 Marraige of Heaven and Hell - The Book 18. Who wrote A Short View of the Profaneness of of Thel - The Poetical Sketches The English Stage ? (d) None of these (a) Sir George Etherage(b) Collier 25. The periodical essay is called "periodical" (c) Dr. Johnson (d) Charles Lamb because it was - 19. Who defended the Restoration Comedy of (a) published in magazines and journals which Manners against Collier's charge of immorality? appeared periodically (a) Charles Lamb (b) Matthew Arnold (b) published in newspapers which appeared (c) Ruskin (d) Dr. Johnson daily 20. Who among the following poets composed (c) published in books containing information The Cotter's Saturday Night and Tam about current affairs O'Shanter? (d) none of these (a) William Blake (b) Robert Burns 26. The periodical essay "makes us familiar with (c) George Crabbe (d) William Cowper world of men and women, records their actions, 21. Which of the following poems is not written assigns their motives, exhibits their whims, by William Blake ? characterises their pursuits in all their singular 8 English Literature and endless variety, ridicules their absurdities, and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure exposes their inconsistencies", "holds the for these shadows of imagination that willing mirror up to Nature", "and shows the very age suspension of disbelief for the moment which and body of the time." constitutes poetic faith.” Identify the critic from the following group, Who wrote these lines? who expressed the above opinion - (a) Wordsworth in the Preface to the Lyrical (a) Thomas De Quincey(b) Matthew Arnold Ballads (c) William Hazlitt (d) Walter Pater (b) Coleridge in Biographia Literaria 27. “An archangel –– a little damaged.” Who used (c) Shelley in the Necessity of Atheism this phrase for S.T. Coleridge? (d) Robert Southey in Thalba the Destroyer (a) Charles Lamb (b) Matthew Arnold 31. “At school he had been a playless day-dreamer, (c) Rickett (d) Charles Reade yet even in those days, he gathered around 28. Who summed up Coleridge’s personality in the him a host of admiring listeners once he had following lines ? begun to talk.” “A man of gigantic genius, he was absolutely Identify the poet about whose personality this wanting in will power, and his slavery to opium, opinion refer to : which lasted many years, helped him still further (a) Lord Byron (b) P.B. Shelley to paralyse his energies. So the divinely gifted (c) S.T. Coleridge (d) William Blake Coleridge stumbled through life, dreaming 32. O Lady ! we receive what we give great dreams and projecting great books; but And in our life does nature live. the dreams were never realised, and the books These lines occur in –– were never written.” (a) Coleridge’s Ode to Dejection (a) Arnold (b) Hudson (b) Wordsworth’s Ode on the Intimations of (c) Wordsworth (d) Pater Immortality 29. Which of the following arrangements of (c) Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam Coleridge’s works is in the correct (d) Byron’s Childe Harold chronological sequence? 33. The Lady of the Lake is written by : (a) Religious Musings - The Destiny of (a) William Wordsworth (b)Robert Burns Nations - Ode to the Departing Year - (c) Sir Walter Scott (d) John Keats France : an Ode - The Rime of the Ancient 34. Tennyson's In Memoriam was written in Mariner - Christabel - Kubla Khan - Frost memory of : at Midnight (a) Arthur Clough (b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Frost at (b) Arthur Henry Hallam Midnight - Christabel - Kubla Khan - (c) His wife France : An Ode - Ode to the Departing (d) Robert Browning Year - The Destiny of Nations - Religious 35. Who wrote the following lines : Musings "The old order changeth yielding place to new (c) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Ode on And God fulfils himself in many ways the Departing Year - Religious Musings - Lest one good custom should corrupt the The Destiny of Nations - Frost at Midnight world." - Christabel, Kubla Khan - France An Ode. (a) William Wordsworth (d) None of these (b) Lord Tennyson 30. “It was agreed that my endeavours should be (c) Robert Browning directed to persons and characters, (d) None of these supernatural or at least romantic, yet so as to 36. Who among the following poets succeeded transfer from our inward nature a human touch Wordsworth as the poet Laureate in 1850?

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