1.

Stuart Age: Time period – 1603 to 1649, 1660 to 1714 {for 11 years, the

monarchy was temporarily displaced by the Commonwealth of England}

Began with the accession of James I in 1603 and ended with the death of

Queen Anne in 1714

2. English Civil War fought between the Royalists/Cavaliers and the

Protestants/ Roundheads from 1642 to 1649, culminated in the execution of

Charles I in 1649.

Puritan regime came into force, England was declared a Commonwealth and

Oliver Cromwell became the Lord Protector.

3. Gunpowder Plot of 1605 / Jesuit Treason – failed assassination attempt

against King James I by a group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.

4. Quakerism founded in England George Fox.

5. The English Parliament during Civil War was called Rump Parliament

(disbanded in 1653)

6. Restoration of Charles II and the Monarchy happened in 1660.

7. The Glorious Revolution/ the Bloodless Revolution of 1688 involved the

overthrow of the Catholic king James II who was replaced by his Protestant

daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange.

8. Puritan movement- religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th

centuries. Puritans based their lives on the teachings of John Wycliffe and John

Calvin

9. The group of puritans who fled to the New World in the ship Mayflower in

1620 were called Pilgrim Fathers

10. Tory party (supported the King and the Court) was Founded by Lord Danby

11. Whig Party (supported the Parliament) was Founded by Anthony Ashley

Cooper

12. The two great calamities of Restoration age - the Great Plague of 1665 and

the Great Fire of 1666

13. Coffee houses were established during the reign on Queen Anne

14. Methodism – a religious movement begun by a group of students at Oxford

University in the 1720s, aimed at reforming the Church of England from within.

Important figures include John Wesley, Charles Wesley (Wesley brothers) and

George Whitefield

15. French revolution – 1789 – 1799

16. Slogan of French Revolution- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

17.” The Restoration marks the real moment of birth of our Modern English

Prose”. Who made this observation? - Matthew Arnold

18. The 18th century in English literature is also called – Augustan Age

19. Who called the 18th century “Our admirable and indispensable Century” –

Matthew Arnold

20. Who called the 18th century the Age of Prose and Reason – Matthew Arnold

21. Who headed the puritan /government formed after the execution of Charles

I? Oliver Cromwell (Lord Protector)

22. Who was appointed the Latin Secretary during the Puritan Government? –

John Milton

23. Who were the Cavalier poets? – Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, John

Suckling, Richard Lovelace

24. Who wrote ‘To Daffodils”? - Robert Herrick

25. Who is considered the inventor of Cavalier love poetry? – Thomas Carew

26. Who wrote ‘A Rapture”? Thomas Carew

27. Who wrote “A Ballad upon a Wedding” ? – John Suckling

28. Who adapted Pindaric Ode to English Verse? Abraham Cowley

29. The unfinished epic written by Cowley? – Davideis

30. Samson Agonistes is: a poetic play(tragedy) by Milton

31. Milton wrote Areopagitica: in condemnation of pre-publication censorship

32. Areopagitica was published on 1644

33. Which English writer opposed the Licensing Act of 1643- Milton

34. How many books are there in Paradise Lost - 12

35. How many books are there in Paradise Regained - 4

36. In Which Book of Paradise Lost Adam and Eve meet for the first time? Book

IV

37. In which Book of Paradise Lost does the theme of the fall of man appears?

Book IX

38. Paradise Lost is written in Blank Verse

39. What is the name of the palace built by Milton’s fallen angels - Pandemonium

40. The two masques written by Milton - Comus and Arcades

41. Who wrote the poem “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” – Milton

42. The companion poems written by Milton- L’Allegro, Il Penseroso (both in

1632)

43. Lycidas (1645) is a pastoral elegy written by Milton on the death of his friend

- Edward King (Christ college, Cambridge)

44. Who criticized Lycidas as “easy, vulgar and therefore disgusting” – Samuel

Jonson
45. Lycidas is composed of 193 lines

46. Who says of Milton “Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart”? –

Wordsworth (in London 1802)

47. “Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour!” who remembers Milton in a

sonnet so passionately?- Wordsworth (opening lines of London 1802)

48. The term ‘Grand Style’ was coined by – Matthew Arnold

49. Whose great dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000

quotations – Samuel Johnson (A Dictionary of English Language)

50. Who was appointed as England’s first Poet Laureate – John Dryden (1668)

51. Who called Dryden, “Glorious John”- Sir Walter Scott

52. Who wrote the historical play Aureng-zebe (1675) – Dryden

53. Who wrote Annus Mirabilis – Dryden. (It’s a historical poem that described

the English defeat of the Dutch naval fleet and the great fire of London in 1666)

54. Who wrote Mac Flecknoe- Dryden (a verse mock- heroic satire that attack

the playwright Thomas Shadwell)

55. What is the full title of Mac Flecknoe – Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the

True-Blue Protestant Poet, T.S.

56. The central theme of Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther (a beast fable) is –

Dryden’s conversion to Roman Catholicism

57. Dryden’s “The Medal; A Satire against Sedition” is a personal satire on -the

Earl of Shaftesbury

58. Who called Dryden the Father of English Criticism – Dr. Samuel Johnson

59. Who wrote “Absalom and Achitophel” – Dryden. It’s a satirical poem in

heroic couplets, tells the biblical tale of the rebellion of Absalom against King

David; the biblical allegory used to represent the execution of Charles II and the

Exclusion Crisis.

60. Absalom and Achitophel is also a political allegory

61. Which work of Dryden include references of Popish plot and the Monmouth

Rebellion – Absalom and Achitophel

62. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil particularly

regarding the issue of religion just after the Restoration- Absalom and Achitophel

63. What is the genre of The Rape of the Lock - Mock epic

64. Which 18th century writer is famous for his use of Heroic couplet – Alexander

Pope

65. In which of his poems does Pope justify his satiric art – An Epistle to Dr.

Arbuthnot

66. What is Heroic couplet? A couplet of rhyming iambic pentameters.

67. Who is the author of Hudibras? Samuel Butler

68. Samuel Butler’s Hudibras is a satire on- Puritanism

69. On what work is Hudibras modelled on – Don Quixote

70. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is Biblical allegory

71. Who is the author of The Begger’s Opera – John Gay

72. Who were the major Transitional poets – William Blake, Thomas Gray,

Robert Burns, William Collins and William Cowper

73. Who wrote the symbolic poem “Milton” – William Blake

74. Blake’s earliest poems are contained in – Poetical Sketches

75. Who wrote Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience- Willliam Blake

76. Who is the National poet of Scotland – Robert Burns

77. Who is known by the names Rabbie Burns, Bard of Ayrshire, Ploughman

Poet and National Bard – Robert Burns

78. Who is wrote An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard (1751) – Thomas

Gray ( the elegy mourns the death of common men)

79. Who were Graveyard poets or Churchyard poets – pre-romantic English poets

of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality. Four

poems are often considered to exemplify this style of writing. They are: Thomas

Gray’s ”An Elegy written in a Country Churchyard”, Thomas Parnell’s “Night

Piece On Death”, Robert Blair’s “The Grave” and Edward Young’s ”Night

Thoughts”

80. Who called William Cowper “the best modern poet” – Coleridge

81. Who is wrote the poem The Task – William Cowper

82. Which Restoration playwright gave a happy ending to King Lear?- Nahum

Tate in The History of King Lear (1681)

83. What were the most popular genre of drama of Restoration – Heroic Tragedy

and Comedy of Manners

84. Who is the first English woman playwright- Aphra Behn

85. Who is the author of The School for Scandal – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

86. Who is the author of The Way of the World – William Congreve

87. Who is the author of The Country Wife – William Wycherley

88.Who is the author of The Rivals – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

89. Who is the author of The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter – George

Etherege

90. Who is the author of The Beaux’ Stratagem – George Farquhar

91. Who is the author of Love’s Last Shift – Colley Cibber

92. Who is the author of The Conscious Lover – Richard Steele

93. Who is the author of the anti-theatre pamphlet A Short View of the

Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) – Jeremy Collier

94. Which all playwrights did Collier attack in his A Short View of the

Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage – William Wycherley, John

Dryden, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh and Thomas D’Urfey

95. Who is the author of the Heroic Dramas The Conquest of Granada and All

for Love- John Dryden

96. Who invented the term Heroic Drama – Dryden for his play, The Conquest

of Granada

97. Who is considered the pioneer of sentimental comedy- Richard Steele

98. Who were the major writers of sentimental comedy- Richard Steele, Colley

Cibber, George Farquhar

99. Who were the pioneers of Anti sentimental comedy - Oliver Goldsmith and

Richard Sheridan

100. Who is called the Shakespeare of Divines- Jeremy Taylor

101. Who were the major diarists of Restoration England – Samuel Pepys and

John Evelyn

102. Who wrote Sylva (the first book on trees and forestry in English) - John

Evelyn
103. Samuel Pepys diary chronicles the events of England from 1660 to 1669

104. John Evelyn’s diary spanned the period from 1640 to 1706

105. Who is known as the Father of Liberalism - John Locke

106. Who wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) – John

Locke

107. “I shall endeavour to enlighten morality with wit, and to temper wit with

morality.” Who made this endeavour – Joseph Addison

108. Who said, “the proper study of man is mankind” – Alexander Pope (from

Essay on Man)

109. “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing” who said this – Alexander Pope

110. Who began the genre of periodical essay ? – John Dunton in “Athenian

Mercury” (1691)

111. Who published The Tatler – Richard Steele

112. Who published The Spectator – Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (1711

– 1712)( a document of common life in London, published daily)

113. Who wrote the essay The Spectator Club – Richard Steele

114. How many members are there in the spectator club- 6

115. Who invented the fictional character Sir Roger de Coverley – Addison
116. Who published The Female Spectator – Eliza Heywood (1744-1746) (first

periodical by a woman for a women, intended as a response to the periodical of

Addison and Steele. It was a document focusing on issues of female domesticity,

society and female bonding)

117. Who published The Rambler? – Samuel Richardson (1750 – 1752)

(discussed subjects like Politics, society, literature, morality and religion)

118. Who published The Idler? - Samuel Richardson (1758 – 1760) (published

every week in Universal Chronicle) (other authors of this periodical essay were

Thomas Warton, Bennet Langton and Joshua Reynolds)

119. Who published The Review? Daniel Defoe

120. Who founded the weekly magazine The Examiner – John Hunt and Leigh

Hunt in 1808.

121. Who wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) – Edmund

Burke

123. Who is the author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire- Edward

Gibbon (the book consists of 6 volumes and was published from 1776 to

1788. The book traces western civilization from the height of Roman Empire to

the fall of Byzantium)

124. The Lives of how many poets were written by Dr. Johnson in his “Lives of

the Poets?”- 52
125. Who believed Shakespeare did much better in comedy than in tragedy - Dr.

Johnson

126. Who wrote The Life of Samuel Johnson – James Boswell

127. Who called Dryden “the father of English Criticism”- Samuel Johnson

128. Which was Dryden’s formal treatise on criticism?- An Essay on Dramatic

Poesy

129. Who all are the four wheels of the English Novel – Lawrence Sterne, Samuel

Richardson, Henry Fielding, Tobias George Smollet,

130. Which was the first Gothic Novel in English – The Castle of Otranto (by

Horace Walpole)

131. The Mysteries of Udolpho is a – gothic novel by Anne Radcliffe

132. Jane Austen’s parody of The Mysteries of Udolpho – Northanger Abbey

133. What is picaresque novel? Novel relating to the adventures of a rogue or

lowborn as he drifts from place to place and from one social milieu to another in

his effort to survive. (eg. Joseph Andrews)

134. What is epistolary novel? Story written in the form of a series of letters

(Pamela)

135. Which was the first novel in English ? Robinson Crusoe

136. Which was the first novel to be serialized – Pickwick Papers (Charles

Dickens)

137. Who is the protagonist of Pickwick Papers – Samuel Pickwick

138. Which novel of Charles Dickens was based on the effect of

industrialization? Hard Times

139. Whose spiritual autobiography is Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

– John Bunyan

140. What is the full title of The Pilgrims Progress? – The Pilgrim’s Progress

from this World to that which is to come: Delivered under the Similitude of a

Dream wherein is discovered, the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous

Journey; and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country

141. Who is considered the father of English Novel? – Daniel Defoe

142. Who is the author of Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe

143. What is the full title of Moll Flanders - The Fortunes and Misfortunates

of the Famous Moll Flanders

144. Which work of Defoe was considered to be the best by E.M Forster – Moll

Flanders

145. Who wrote Robinson Crusoe ?– Daniel Defoe

146. What is Robinsonade novel? - A novel in which a man is pitted against

nature, often totally alone.( novels written in imitation of Robinson Crusoe)

147. Who wrote Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded – Samuel Richardson

148. Which novel was written as the sequel to Pamela – Pamela in her Exalted

Condition

149. Who wrote Tom Jones?- Henry Fielding

150. Who called Fielding, the Father of English Novel – Sir Walter Scott

151. Fielding’s parody of Pamela - Shamela (full title: An Apology for the Life

of Mrs Shamela Andrews)

152. Which novel of Fielding is written in reaction to Pamela – Joseph Andrews

(The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr.

Abraham Adams) ( Joseph Andrews as the brother of Pamela)

153. Who wrote the Adventures of Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollet

154. Who is the author of Tristram Shandy ?– Lawrence Sterne

155. What is the full title of Tristram Shandy – The Life and Opinions of

Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

156. Who were the members of Scriblerus Club? - Swift, Pope, Fielding, John

Gay
157. Which was the first periodical written by women for women – The Female

Spectator (1744-1746)

158. Who published The Female Spectator ?- Eliza Heywood

159. Who called Fanny Burney (Frances Burney) the mother of English Fiction

– Virginia Woolf

160. Who wrote Evelina, or, a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World ?– Fanny

Burney

161. How many pilgrims are pen pictured in The Prologue?- 21

162. To which period of Chaucer's literary career does The Canterbury Tales
belong?
third period,english period

163. The Franklin is called ……...for being pleasure-loving

Son of Epicurus

164. How does the Piers the Plowman appear early in the poem?
as narrators guide to truth

165. Who is the host in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales?

Harry Bailey

166. Who is compared to Robinhood in the Canterbury Tales?

the yeoman

167. Where is the Franklin's tale set?

In Brittany

168. Which character in The Canterbury Tales is Hubert?

the friar

169.Who is Roger in The Canterbury Tales?

the cook
170. Name the Canterbury Tale which belongs to the genre Berton lay?
the Franklin's tale

171. To whom is the narrator referring when he says" gold in phisik is a

cordial"?
the physician

172. The gist of canterbury has been taken from

Decameron

173. Prose tale in Canterbury Tales

Chaucer's tale of Melibee

174. Piers the Plowman has a subtitle

Vision

175. Which is the longest tale in the Canterbury tale?

The knights tale

176. In the prologue, who introduce the story in Dr. Faustus

Chorus

177. To which Greek mythology the character of Faustus is compared

Icarus

178. Which characters instruct Faustus into the dark arts

Cornelius and Valdes

179. What is the name of the ruler of hell in Dr.Faustus

Lucifer

180. How long does Mephistophiles agrees to serve him

24 Years

181. What is the meaning of the words that appear on Faustus arm in latin
"Fly,man"

182. Which city does Faustus visit extensively in scene 7

Rome

183. Which historical figure does Faustus conjure up for the emperor to see
Alexander the great
184. What does Faustus fetch for the Duchess of Vanholt
A dish of grapes

185. Who agrees ,under duress,to become Wagner's servant

The clown

186. When he first summons Mephistophilis, how does Faustus asks him to
appear?
In the shape of a Franciscan friar

187. In which work Edmund Spenser celebrates his marriage with Elizabeth
Boyle?
Epithalamion

188. Prothalamion is written in honour of

Daughters of Earl of Worcester

189. In each stanza's The Canonization poem have …….lines

9

190. The poem The Canonization was born out of the poet's love for
Anne More

191. John Donne called the lovers as

Saints

192. The Canonization poem was published on

1633

193. The poem Easter wings is written by

George Herbert

194. The term "terrible violence" is an example of

Oxymoron

195. Main theme of Henry Vaughan's Retreat

Loss of childhood innocence

196. "City of palm trees" in the Retreat means

Celestial city or heaven

Spenser's poem in honour of his own marriage

Epithalamion
197. In which month did the pilgrims march towards the Canterbury
April

198. How many pilgrims were there in the Canterbury Tales?

29

199. The pilgrims assembled at the

Tabard inn

200. Chaucer employed …...in his prologue and Canterbury tales

Heroic couplet

201. The pilgrims in the Canterbury tale were bound to visit the
Shrine of Thomas-a-Becket

202. Chaucers physician in the doctor of physique was heavily depending

upon
Astrology

203. Chaucer makes a clear reference of Petrarch in

Clerk's tale

204. Piers the plowman is an

Allegorical poem

205. By which river would she find rubies if they had all the time in the
world in To his Coy Mistress
Ganges

206. Which momemtus event in the bible does he refer in To his coy
mistress to show how long he would spend loving her if they only had
the time?
The flood

207. Epithalamion is based on

Italian canzone

208. What is Epithalamion?

an ode

209. Epithalamium is a poem by

Richard Crashaw
210. What happened to Patick Spens and his men
The drowned in the sea

211. Who was the king of scotland during the time in Sir Patrick Spens
Alexander lll

222. Alexander llls daughter who was sent overseas to marry is

Margaret

223. What did Bel-imperia gave her lovers

A scarf

224. In kyd's Spanish Tragedy, Horatio is killed by Lorenzo ,Balthaser and

who else
Pedringano and Serberine

225. Who introduced the heroic couplet into english verse?

Chaucer

226. Who has been called the prince of plagiarists?

Chaucer

227. Chaucer is much known for his

Realism

228. Chaucer first used his rhyme royal stanza in

Troilus and Cresede

229. Who tells the last tale in Canterbury tales

Parson

230. How many lines in Spenserian stanza?

9

231. The unfinished work of Spenser

The Faerie Queen

232. Under which pseudonym was Shepherds Calender published

Immerito

233. To whom Spenser dedicated his work The Shepherds Calender

Philip Sidney
234. To which theatre was Christopher Marlowe associated
English renaissance theatre

235. Which was Marlowe's first play?

Tamburlaine

236. Which school of English poetry is Marvel associated with?

Metaphysical

237. What was Marvel's political position?

Republican

238. Which poetic device is Marvel best known for?

Elaborate conceit

239. Who first coined the term the theatre of absurd

Martin Esslin

240. The term theatre of absurd is philosophically based on

The myth of Sisyphus

241. The influential essay Metaphysical Poets' has been written by

TS Eliot

242. In which year was Beckett awarded Nobel Prize

1969

243. Which French philosopher argued that there were no meta or grand
narratives, only micro narratives?
Jean Grancois Lyotard

244. Baudrillards concept of the sign that creates the perception of reality
than reality itself is
Simulacra

245. Which text first introduced readers to the term simulacrum?

Jean Baudrillards Simulacra and simulations

246. Who coined the term Orientalism?

Erving Geoffman

247. Who is the father of post-colonial theory?

Edward Said
248. Who is the person behind the concept of hybridity?
Homi Bhaba

249. The departure from a homeland by people is called by postcolonial

critics as
Diaspora

250. Postcolonial critics speak primarily of

Euro -American imperialism

251. Postcolonial criticism has been important to

Third-world feminism

252. Chinua Achebe attacks for its racism in

Heart of darkness

253. ……...was a cultural movement associated with French language writers

Leopold Senghor fostered pride in African history, culture and
blackness
Negritude

254. The term Negritude was coined by

Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor

255. The number of poems in Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella
108

256. Who says about Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury that "here is god's
plenty"?
Dryden

257. Which of the following poem Chaucer dedicated to Gower?

Troilus and Creseyde

258. Among the Scottish Chaucerians the poet king was

James l

259. Spencer's satirical poem is

Mother Huberd's tale

260. Thomas Kyd's Spanish tragedy appeared in

1589
261. Which of the following plays of Marlowe is based on a German legend?
Dr Faustus

262. Marlowe's unfinished word

The Massacre at Paris

263. The Jacobean tragedy is called

Tragedy of blood

264. What is the meaning of the word 'orient'?

Rising sun

265. Bhabha's concept of people of a colonised society imitates and take on

the culture of the coloniser
Mimicry

266. The complex mix of attraction and repulsion between the coloniser and
the colonised is
Ambivalence

267. Ethnic groups are characterised by

Cultural traits

268. Physical differences that groups and cultures consider socially

significant
Race

269. Edward Said's Orientalism was published in

1978

270. Orientalism view orient as exotic,sensuous and

Unchanging
 1. The Norman conquest of England in the battle of Hastings is an important
landmark in the history of English literature. It occurred in the year -
1066
2. What people did the Normans originally came from?
Vikings
3. Who was the leader of the Normans?
William of Normandy
4. There were the three men who claimed to have the right to become king.
Who are they?
Earl Harold Godwinson , Harold Hardrada , William of Normandy
5. Who did the English want to be the king?
Earl Harold Godwinson
6. Battle of Stramford Bridge was fought between
King Harold Hardrada of Norway and Harold II , king of England
7. Which king died at the Battle of Stramford Bridge?
King Richard Hardrada
8. Which battle followed Battle of Stramford Bridge(Sep 1066)?
Battle of Hastings (Oct 1066)
9. What was the main battle between English and the Normans?
Battle of Hastings
10. Battle of Hastings was fought between
King Harold of England and William of Normandy
11. Who won the Battle of Hastings ?
William of Normandy
12. On what day was William of Normandy crowned as the King of
England?
25 Dec
13. What was the Doomesday book?
A list of who owned what land in England
14. What was the popular name for the William, the Duke of Normandy?
William, the conqueror
15. Who were the house Carls?
The Normans who William give land to in England
16. Castles built in England during the reign of William of Normandy?
Windsor castle, The tower of London, Colchester Castle, Rochester castle
17. Which battle between English and Norwegians is considered by some
historians to mark the end of the Viking age?
The Battle of Stramford Bridge
18. What was the event in which William I of England summoned his tenants
in chief?
Landowning ones of any account to attend to Salisbury and swear allegiance to
him
Salisbury Oath (1086)
19. What was the metaphor in the middle ages to describe the social
hierarchy believed to be created by God?
Great chain of being
20. What are the three estates provided by the hierarchical arrangement of
feudalism?
The clergy (spiritual needs)
The Nobility (rulers)
The commoners (physical labour to produce necessary life materials for three
estates)
21. Which was the most important philosophical influence of the middle age?
Church
22. A series of wars during middle ages fought between Europeans and
Arabs is called ______
Crusades
23. What was the crusades for?
The Christians of Europe tried to retake the control of Jerusalem and holy land
from the Muslims
24. What was the symbol of crusaders?
Red cross
25. What was the battle cry of crusaders?
God wills it.
26. What was the Black death?
A disease that killed many people in Europe
27. What animal carried the Black Death and transferred it?
Fleas
28. Where do historians think that the Black Death started?
in Asia
29. What is the Black Death called now?
Bubonic plague
30. True or false: If you caught the Black Death today you would likely die
from it
false
31. Around what percentage of people in Europe during the Middle Ages
died from the Black Plague?
33
32. When did the Black Death take place?
1347 to 1350
33. What happened to most of the people who contracted the Black Death in
the Middle Ages?
Their skin turned black and then they died
34. What was the other name of Black death?
The Great plague
35. Who fought each other in the Wars of the Roses?
House of York and Lancaster
36. What were the two sides fighting over during Wars of the Roses?
Who should be king
37. What new royal house took control at the end of the Wars of the Roses?
Tudor
38. What title did Richard of York give himself while ruling England?
Protector
39. The insanity of this king was one of the causes for the start of the war?
Henry VI
40. Who was the powerful wife of Henry VI?
Margaret of Anjou
41. Who was king for most of the Wars of the Roses?
Edward IV
42. In which battle did Henry Tudor defeat Richard III to bring the war to an
end?
Battle of Bosworth
43. True or False: Many of the English nobles switched sides throughout the
war trying to figure out who would win.
TRUE
44. About how long did the Wars of the Roses last?
30 yrs
45. ‘The War of roses’ figures in the work of ____
Shakespeare
46. The Hundred years war was fought between
England and France
47. Hundred years war lasted from___
1337 to 1453
48. Which are the two battles in Hundred years war?
Battle of Crecy 1346
Battle of Agincourt 1415
49. Who won the hundred years war and where?
French at Castilian
50. In which year did Peasant revolt took place?
1381
51. Peasant revolt is also known as _____?
Way Tyler’s rebellion or great rising
52. Peasant revolt ended ______
Serfdom
53. What were chevauchees?
War raids where the army caused havoc and pillaged the land
54. Who was the Black Prince?
The son of King Edward III
55. True or False: The Hundred Years War was a constant battle with fierce
fighting and no periods of peace.
FALSE
56. Who was Joan of Arc?
A French peasant girl who led the army to victory
57. How did Joan of Arc die?
She was burned at the stake
58. What English weapon played a major part in their early victories?
Longbow
59. Who won the Battle of Agincourt?
English
60. Between which sets of dates did Chaucer live

1340-1400

61. Chaucer lived during the reigns of

Edward III, Richard II, and Henry IV

62. Which of the following was the closest contemporary of Chaucer?

William Langland
63. Who called Chaucer “the father of English poetry”?

Dryden
64. Who described Chaucer as “The Well of English Undefiled”?

Spenser

65)With Chaucer is born our real poetry” Who holds this view?
Matthew Arnold

66. “Chaucer found his native tongue a dialect and left it a language” Who
makes this observation?

Lowes

67. “Chaucer is the earliest of the great moderns” Who holds this view?

Matthew Arnold

68. “If Chaucer is the Father of English poetry, he is the Grandfather of the
English Novel” Who makes this remark?

G.K Chesterton

69)Who says about Chaucer’s character ‘here is work plenty’?

Dryden

70. In which month did Chaucer’s Pilgrims go on their pilgrimage?

April

71. How many pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are going on the
Pilgrimage?

29
72. How many pilgrims in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales represent the
knighthood class?

Three

73. How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the Prologue?

Eight

74. How many women characters figure in the Prologue to the Canterbury
Tale?
Three
75. It is believed that the Host at the Inn was a real man. What is the name of
the Host?

-Harry Bailly

76. What is the name of the Inn where the Pilgrims assemble for the night?

Tabard Inn

77. To which shrine are the pilgrims going?

Shrine of St.Thomas a’Becket at Canterbury

78. One of the Tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is in prose. Which of the
following?

The Parson’s Tale

79)One of the portraits in the Prologue is that of the Wife of Bath. What is
Bath?
The name of the ton to which she belonged

80. “He was as fresh as the month of may” This line occurs in the Prologue.
home does this line refer to?
Squire

81. Which of the following is Chaucer’s prose work?

A- Treatise on the Astrolabe

B- Troilus and Criseyde
C- The Legend of Good Women
D- The House of Fame

82. Which of the following poets wrote a famous poem mourning the death
of Chaucer?

A- Occleve in The Governail of Princes

B- Lydgate in Falls of Princes
C-James I of Scotland in The King’s Chair
D- William Dunwar in The Thistle and the Rose

83. -Chaucer was not indebted for his sources to one of the following,
identify him
Homer

84)In which tale of Chaucer a daughter is killed by her father

The physician’s tale

85. -Chaucer’s —–is based in part on a notable French Sermon of Friar

Laurens.

Parson’s Tale

86. Who has been called the morning star of the Renaissance?

Chaucer

87. Which work of Chaucer was an allegory on the death of Blanche, the
wife of his patron.

The Book of Duchess

88. Which of Chaucer’s work has the Trojan war as its background?

Troilus and Creseyde

89. Pandare, who is a Chaucerian character appears in

Troilus and Creseyde

90. “He was as fresh as the month of May” this line occur appears in the
prologue. Who does this refer to

Squire

91. -Which of the following tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is in prose

The parson’s tale

92. “He found English a dialect and left it language” Here is stands for
Chaucer
93. Which work of Chaucer bears a close resemblance to Dante’s Divine
comedy

The House of Fame

94)In which work of Chaucer has first used the heroic couplet?
The Legend of Good Women

95)Which work of Chaucer entitle him to calm of being called “the father of
English poetry”?
The Canterbury Tales

96) The Wife of Bath was

Deaf

97)In Nun’s Priest’s Tale, the poor widow had —-sons.

Three

98)In the first line of the Prologue which month has been referred to by
Chaucer
April
99)In the Prologue which character is fond of hunting and riding?
Monk
100)Which of Chaucer Works celebrates Saint Valentine Days?
The Parliament of Fowles

101)Troilus and Creseyde is written by

Chaucer

102) The life span of Chaucer is

1340-1400

103)The verse of Canterbury Tales consist of

Rhymed Couples

104) How many pilgrims are going on the pilgrimage in Chaucer Canterbury
Tales
29

105) Beowulf is the most important Anglo-Saxon literary work is

-An Epic

106) In which century did Norman Conquest take place

11 Century

107)Who of the following is called ‘the morning star of the reformation’

John Wycliff

108)How many pilgrims in the prologue to Canterbury Tales represents the

military profession
3

109)How many ecclesiastical characters are portrayed in the prologue?

8

110)What is the name of the Inn where the pilgrims assemble for the night?
Tabard Inn

111)Which of the four chief dialects that flourished in the pre-Chaucerian

period become standard English in Chaucer Time
The East Midland

112) “He found English a dialect and left it a language” Said by

Lowes

113)Which of the following poem of Chaucer is considered the first novel in

English?
-Troilus and Creseyde

114)-There is something common between Boccaccio’s Filostrato and

Chaucer’s
Troilus and Creseyde

115)Which of the following tales of Chaucer deals with the Chivalric romance
of Palamon and Arcite?
The Knight Tale

116)Chaucer was called “The Earliest of the great modern”, the morning star of
renaissance” who initiates these remarks
-Albert

117)Which of the following works of Chaucer presents the picture of a strong

united nation?
Canterbury Tales

118)How many tales to be told by the pilgrimage

Four
119)-Where is the tomb of Saint situated?
Canterbury

120) “Amor Vincit Omnia” in Chaucer’s prologue which means

-Love Conquer All

121)Which of the following tales is in prose?

The Parsons Tale

122)Who is known as the connecting link between Chaucer and Spenser

Thomas Sackville

123)The work of Wyatt and Surrey were published in year

1557
124)The first English playhouse called ‘The Theatre’ was found in
1576

125) Gorboduc, the first regular comedy in English was written by

Sackville and Norton
126)When were theatre closed in England?
1642

127)When did the Great Fire of London take place?

1666

128)-Who among the following is the Chaucerian

Alexander Barclay

129) Which work of the Scottish Chaucerian imitates Chaucer’s House of

Fame?
Douglas The Place of Honor

130)Caxton printing press was set up in

1476

131)Which is the first book in English in poetic prose?

Morte d’ Arthur

132)Which work is considered to be the true prologue to the Renaissance

Moore’s Utopia

133)Chaucer wrote Romance of the Rose under the influence of

De Lorris and De Meun

134 ) Which war resulted in bringing Tudor Rule England?

A-The War of Roses

135)The Travel of Sir John Mandeville is believed to be the English translation

of a certain French writer named as
Jean de Bourgogne

136). what was the name of the poet who created the term ‘Metaphysical
Poets’?

Samuel Johnson

137) Which of the following is wrong about metaphysical poets?

A. They were lyric poets.
B. They belonged to the 17th century
C. The term was coined by Dr. Johnson
D. They wrote basically about Nature.
E. None of these

Answer - D

138) In ______________ work did Samuel Johnson use the term ‘Metaphysical
Poets’?

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

139)_________ poet was the chapter of ‘Lives of the Most Eminent English
Poets’ created on in which the term ‘Metaphysical Poets’ was used by Samuel
Johnson?

Abraham Cowley

140) From the following poets ________ said about John Donne, “He
affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires but in his amorous
verses, where nature only should reign…”?
John Dryden

141). How is Drummond of Hawthornden associated with

‘Metaphysical Poets’?
He is considered to be the only writer before Dryden to speak
of ‘metaphysical poets’

142) _____________ term is related to metaphysical poetry

that proposes the tendency of these poets to display their learning
in poetry?

Wit

143 ) _____________poets associated soul with a drop of dew

in one of his poems?
Andrew Marvell

144) select the poets to form the following who compared two legs of the
compass to two lovers in one of his poems?
John Donne

145) Which of the following metaphysical poets married Anne More?

John Donne

146) The life of John Donne coincided with the reigns of which three absolutist
monarchs?

Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I

147) In The Sun Rising, by John Donne, which of the following adjectives
is used to describe the sun?
A.Saucy
B.Pedantic
C.Busy

148)In Donne’s The Indifferent, which is the only quality that the narrator
dislikes in a woman?

Truthfulness

149) In Donne’s The Apparition, which of the following symbols insinuates

the death of the woman who the narrator is in love with?

Quicksilver
Philip Sidney

 Philip Sidney was born in the year?

1954

 Astrophel and Stella was written by?

PHILIP SIDNEY

 Philip Sidney 's Arcadia is a

PASTORAL ROMANCE

 Astrophel and Stella was published in

1591

 Which writer took up a position in Parliament in 1584?

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

 The full title of Sidney' s Arcadia

THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE 'S ARCADIA

 The Apology for Poetry was first published in

1595

 An Apology for Poetry is a ________criticism

JUDICIAL

 According to Sidney, a poet should

TEACH AND DELIGHT

 Sidney compares a poet's rhyming and versing to?

THE LONG GOWN OF A LAWYER

 Poetry according to Sidney is essentially an art of

IMITATION

 Verse is an _______ to poetry

ORNAMENT

 Apology is written in the form of a

CLASSICAL ORATION

 What does John Pietro Pugliano argue about horsemanship?

IT IS THE MOST GENTLEMANLY ART

 According to Sidney, which cultures valued poetry?

GREEK AND ROMAN

 How do historians incorporate poetry into their work?

AS ADORNMENT

 What did Romans call their poets?

VATES

 What did Greeks call their poets?

MAKERS

 How does poetry relate to nature?

IT DRAWS ON NATURE, AS WELL AS CREATES A NEW NATURE

 How does Sidney define mimesis?

IMITATION
  According to Sidney, how would the philosopher defend his art?

BY STATING THAT IT DEFINES VIRTUE

 What, according to Sidney, is the end of all learning?

VIRTUOUS ACTION

 According to Sidney, how would the historian defend his art?

HISTORY TEACHES US HOW TO ACT, WHEREAS PHILOSOPHY IS

TOO ABSTRACT

 How does poetry compare to history and philosophy?

IT MEDIATES BETWEEN THE TWO AND DRAWS ON THE

STRENGTHS OF BOTH

 How does Sidney respond to the assertion that poetry is the "mother of
lies?"

HE STATES THAT IT IS ACTUALLY MORE TRUTHFUL THAN

OTHER ARTS

 How does Sidney make sense of Plato's expulsion of poets from his
republic?

HE SAYS THAT PLATO OBJECTED TO INDIVIDUAL POETS, BUT

NOT THE ART OF POETRY

 How does Sidney gender poetry?

AS FEMALE

 Which contemporary thinker is Sidney responding to in the Defense?

STEPHEN GOSSON
 According to Sidney, what is the function of rhyme?

TO ADD BEAUTY AND TO MAKE POETRY EASY TO MEMORIZE

 Utopia was written by

Thomas More

 Thomas More was born in

1478

 How did Thomas More die?

By decapitation

 In which year was More declared a Saint by the Catholic Church?

1935

 Thomas More originally wrote Utopia in what language?

Latin

 Who translated Utopia into English in 1556?

Ralph Robinson

 In which year was the general publication of Utopia?

1516

 source of Utopia?

Plato’s Republic

Cicero’s De Republica

St. Augustine’s De Civitate Dei

 In Book 1, in which city does More meet Peter Giles?

 Antwerp

 Where is Raphael Hythloday from?

Portugal

 main topics of Book 1?

The role of scholars in society

The state of the justice system in England

An objection to taxes on the poor to fund expansionism and wars

 What does Raphael Hythloday believe scholars should avoid doing?

Advising and offering services to those in power

 How is the island of Utopia’s shape described in Book 2?

Crescent Moon

 How many cities does Utopia contain?

54

 What is the meaning of the word “Amaurot”, the name of Utopia’s capital
city?

Castle in the air

 The Prince of Utopia is elected among how many candidates?- 4

 Under normal circumstances, once he is elected, how long does the

Prince rule for?

For life

 The river in Utopia has a name meaning "without water". What is it

called?
 Anyder

 How often do the Utopians change dorms?

Every 10 years

 If council members are caught discussing state-related matters outside

Parliament, what punishment do they face?

The death penalty

 How long must issues discussed in Parliament be thought over before a

decision is made?

3 days

 How long is a set working day in Utopia?

6 hours

 More thought that a perfect world would be better off without which
professionals?

Lawyers

 Every house in Utopia has a back door which leads to what?

A garden

 How many storeys high is each house in Utopia?

 Every year, 30 Utopian households vote for a governor. What is the name
of this person?

Syphogrant

 Which of the following is not a common trade in Utopia?

Sculpting
 Utopians does not believe in

Astrology

 What is the minimum age at which women and men can get married in
Utopia?

Women at 18 and men at 22

 Which of the following is a typical ritual before marriage in Utopia?

The couple see each other naked

 At what time do the Utopians normally go to bed?

8'o clock

 How long would you have to walk to get from one Utopian city to the
next?

1 day

 Utopians who are terminally ill and suffering are urged to do what?

Let themselves die

 Under which circumstance is divorce permitted in Utopia?

Adultery

 What is the name of the mercenaries hired by Utopians to fight their

wars?

Zapoletes

 The word "Utopia", deriving from the Greek, has the double meaning…

No place and good place

 Who is known as the Father of English Essays?

Sir Francis Bacon

 Sir Francis Bacon was born in the year?

1561
 The first edition of Bacon's The Essays was published in?
1597
 Great a Colours of Good and Evil was written by?
Francis Bacon

 Bacon became a member of Parliament in

1584

 Which essayist wrote both in Latin and English?

Francis Bacon

 Bacon's New Atlantis is modelled on

More's Utopia

 Which work of Bacon was left incomplete due to his sudden death?
New Atlantis

 Who called Bacon's style an index of the emergence of the modern

world?
L.C. Knights

 Who said, "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and
writing an exact man."?
Francis Bacon

 Whose personal essay is Of Gardens?

Francis Bacon

 Bacon's style of prose in his essays

Aphoristic, direct and brief

 What is the opening essay in the final edition of Bacon's essay collection
'Essays or counsels, civil and Moral'?
Of Truth

 Of Truth published in the last edition of the' Essays in?

1625

 Who wrote the book Justin Timberlake a phrase coined by bacon in the
opening sentence of his essay Of Truth?
Aldous Huxley
 " A liar would be brave toward God while a coward toward men".Bacon
borrowed these words from which French writer?
Montaigne

 In Bacon's essay, truth is compared to pearl and lie is compared to?

Diamond

 " The poet that beatified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest"
Bacon quotes which Roman poet in his essay Of Truth?
Titus Lucretius

 What do the Latin words' vinum daemonum' mean?

Wine of the devils

 In which of his essays did Bacon repeat the concluding line of Of Truth?
Of Counsel

 What according to Bacon is the first creation of God in the works of the
days?
The Light of the Sence

 " Certainly, it is heaven upon Earth, to have a man's mind Moin charity,
rest in Providence, and turn up on the poles of truth" This line appears in?
Of Truth
 What is the meaning of the line," But it is not the lie that passeth through
the mind,but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt"
Lie that settles in the mind is harmful

 What is compared to Candlelight in the essay Of Truth?

Lie

 "It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships toast upon the
sea" is a line from Bacon's Of Truth?
Of Truth

 There is an allusion to a Greek writer in Of Truth, who is that writer?

Lucian
 How many fruits are there to friendship according to Bacon s Of
Friendship
Three
 Bacon begins his essay “Of Friendship” with a quotation from
 Aristotle

 Primary fruit of friendship according to Bacon

"the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart,
which passions of all kinds do cause and induce."
 The secondary fruit of friendship as mentioned in the essay Of
Friendship
"healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the
affections. For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections,
from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the
understanding, out of darkness, and confusion of thoughts."

 The third fruit of friendship for Bacon is

" aid, and bearing a part, in all actions and occasions."
 Bacon compares the third fruit of friendship to which fruit?
A Pomegranate

 “The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears” is taken
from the essay
Of Parents and Children by Bacon

 Does Bacon consider children a barrier to success?

Yes

 The “A wise son rejoiceth the father, but an ungracious son shames the
mother.” mentioned by Bacon in the essay Of Parents and Children are
the actual words of

Solomon

 Which child, according to Bacon, are the most ignored in most of the
families

The middle child

 Parents should not be liberal or strict on children when it comes to

 Pocket money

 Bacon prohibits parents from encouraging competition among

Their own children

 Bacon in Of Parents and Children gives an example of _________, who

does not make any difference between the son and nephew.

Italians

 Great achievements in the society, according to Bacon's Of Marriage and

Single Life are made by
Single men and women

 ___________ are sought after by the churches according to Of Marriage

and Single Life
wealthy singles

 Who, according to Bacon are lead by a need to make a better tomorrow

for their children and their children
Married men

 In the essay Of Marriage… BaBacon points out a group of men, who

wittingly decide to not reproduce or have children in fear of
losing their riches to their heirs
 For Bacon who most is the suited for the responsibility of a judge.

Married Men

 According to Bacon, woman is a lover to man when he is?

Young and passionate

 For the middle aged man, a woman is

A Companion

 As a man enters old age and becomes weak and weary, woman becomes

A nurse and a caregiver

  Which, according to Of Marriage… is the right time for marriage

a young man not yet, an elder man not at all

SHAKESPEARE STUDIES

45. Which is the last play written by Shakespeare?

The tempest
46. first play by Shakespeare
Henry VI
47.Which play of Shakespeare has an epilogue?
The tempest
48.According to Eliot, which play of Eliot was an artistic failure ?
Hamlet
49.According to the Oxford dictionary how many words and expressions
did Shakespeare introduce to the English language?
Over 3000
50.How many acts are there in Shakespeare’s place?
5
51.Which Shakespearean play has the characters goneral,regan
and cordelia ? King lear
52.When and where was Shakespeare born?
26April 1564 in Stratford upon Avon
53.Shakespeare’s comedy twelfth night is also called as
What you will
54.How many caskets are there in merchant of venice?
3
55.Which skaedpearean play has the line: sweet are the uses
of adversity? As you like it
56.How many of Shakespeare’s plays were published
during his lifetime? 18
57.Shakespeare’s tragedy is tragedy of ____
Character
58.The last plays of Shakespeare are termed as____
Dramatic romances
59.An important characteristic of Shakespearean comedy
Mistaken identities
60.The name of the London theatre that Shakespeare is most commonly
associated with The Globe theatre
61.In which century was William Shakespeare active as
a playwright 16th & 17th centuries
62.The dates of Shakespeare’s life put him firmly in the middle of which
musical period? Renaissance
63.In addiction to writing plays, William Shakespeare was also
Poet, actor, businessman
64.Who introduced ‘problem plays ‘as an aspect of the new realism?
Henrick Ibsen
65.Who was the founder of Roman epic poetry and drama?
Lucius livius Andronicus
66.Father of historic plays and comedies
Aristophanes
67.Father of tragedy
Aeschylus
68.Who stated that Shakespeare possess negative capability?
John Keats
69.Name the book filled with the retellings of Shakespeare’s plays that
resulted from the collaboration of Charles and Mary Lamb?
Tales from Shakespeare
70.Who considered Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy hamlet as an artistic
failure pointing that the play represents a primary problem?
T.S. Eliot
71.Who was well known for his interpretation of mythic content in literature
and the ‘wheel of fire’, a collection of essays on Shakespeare’s plays?
George Richard Wilson Knight (G. Wilson Knight)
Quotes from Shakespeare’s plays
72.’To be or not to be that is the question ‘
Hamlet
73.’A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
Richard all
74.’ The course of true love never did run smooth ‘
A midsummer night’s dream
75.” To sleep- perchance to dream: ay, there is the rub”
Hamlet
76.” By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked
this way comes “Macbeth
77.” What is in a name? That which we call a rose ‘’
Romeo and Juliet
78.” My salad days, when I was green in judgement:
cold in blood.’’ Antony and Cleopatra
79.” A guiltless death I die ‘’
Othello
1.Shakespeare was born at Stratford-upon-Avon. What is Avon? (Stratford was
the name of the town where he was born)
A river on the bank of which Stratford was situated
2.How may plays did Shakespeare write in all?
37
3.What was Shakespeare’s first play?
Henry VI
4. —-is Shakespeare’s shortest play
The Comedy of errors
5.——- is the swan song of Shakespeare.
The Tempest
6.To whom did Shakespeare dedicate his first narrative poem Venus and
Adonais?
Earl of Southampton
7.Who called Shakespeare “an upstart crow beautified with our feathers”?
Robert Greene
8.Who ridiculed Shakespeare by saying that he knew “Small Latin and less
Greek”?
Ben Jonson
9.Who said, “Shakespeare has only heroine’s, no heroes “?
Ruskin
10.Who has written the critical book -Characters of Shakespeare’s plays?
Hazlitt

11
*Sweet Swan of Avon!
*He was not of an age, but for all time.
Who praises Shakespeare?

Ben Jonson
12.Shakespeare is buried inside the:
Trinity Church

HAMLET

1.When was the first edition of "Hamlet" printed?

1603 (quarto)
2.Who speaks the first line of the play?
Bernardo
3.Who do the guards first tell about the ghost that has appeared before them?
Horatio
4.Where is the university at which Horatio and Hamlet studied?
Wittenberg
5.Which character speaks from beneath the stage toward the end of Act I?
The ghost
6.Where does the ghost appear during the play?
The castle ramparts and Gertrude’s bedchamber
7.How is Claudius related to Hamlet?
Uncle
8.How did Claudius kill Hamlet's father, the king?
Poured poison in his ear
9.What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father, causing his
death?
Hebenon
10.Who returns as a ghost and tells Hamlet to kill Claudius?
Hamlet's Father
11.Who is Polonius?
The Lord Chamberlain
12.Whom does Polonius send to France to spy on Laertes?
 Reynaldo
13.Who was Reynaldo?
A servant to Polonius
14.What does Hamlet call Polonius?
Fishmonger
15.Who is Hamlet in love with?
Ophelia
16. What does Polonius initially think caused Hamlet's madness?
His love for Ophelia.
17.What does Hamlet claim to be able to tell the difference between when the
wind is from the south?
A hawk and a handsaw
18. "Who says ""To be or not to be.""?"
Hamlet
19.Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be, or not to be; that is the question’
occurs in?
Act III, Scene I
20.Why does Hamlet decide to stage the murder of his father?
To see Claudius' reaction
21.The phrase "The mousetrap" was used in Shakespeare's play " "Hamlet
"which means...........
Play within a play
22.Hamlet decides the best way to determine his uncle's guilt or innocence in
the murder of his father through a play called............
The Murder of Gonzago
23.Whose story does Hamlet ask the players to tell upon their arrival to
Elsinore?
Priam and Hecuba’s
24. What does Claudius do when the actor pours the poison into the king's ear
during the play?
 He got up and left in anger
25.Why does Hamlet not kill the king while the king is praying?
Because he fears the king would go to heaven
26.“When sorrows come, they came not single spies but in battalion. “Who
says?
Kind Claudius
27.Who overhears the meeting between Hamlet and Gertrude?
Polonius
28.What does Gertrude compare herself to?
The violent ocean
29.What object does Polonius use to hide himself when eavesdropping on
Hamlet?
An arras
30.Who does Hamlet kill when he finds him spying?
Polonius
31.Why does Hamlet kill Polonius?
Because he mistakes Polonius for Claudius
32.What are Polonius' last words?
"O, I am slain! "
33.Who vows to avenge Polonius' death?
Laertes (his son)
34.How does Ophelia die?
She drowns in the river
35.Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight during Ophelia’s funeral?
Inside the grave itself
36.Who are the two clowns?
grave diggers
37.Whose skull does Hamlet discover in the churchyard?
The former court jester's
38.What does the gravedigger say to Hamlet when he asks whose grave he is
digging?
He says that it's his own grave.
39.Finish the Quote: "Alas poor______I knew him, Horatio--a fellow of infinite
jest, of most excellent fancy."
Yoricks
40.Why was Hamlet saddened to find Yorick’s skull when talking to the grave
diggers?
Because Yorick was the fool who amused him as a child
41.Who escorts Hamlet on the voyage to England?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
42.What does Claudius ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to do?
Take Hamlet to England
43.In what country do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die?
England
44.What country does Fortinbras decide to invade instead of Denmark?
Poland
45.What is Fortinbras doing when he comes across Hamlet, Rosencrantz, and
Guildenstern?
He is on his way to attack Poland.
46.Why is Hamlet surprised by the nature of the conflict between Poland and
Norway?
Because the conflict seems so insignificant.
47.What does Hamlet resolve to do after meeting Fortinbras?
Achieve his revenge
48.Who returns Hamlet to Denmark after his exile?
A group of pirates
49.How does Hamlet get rid of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
He has them executed in England
50.Who suggests that Laertes provoke Hamlet into a duel?
 Claudius
51. Why does Hamlet not make it to England?
He never left in the first place
52.What was Claudius and Laertes’ traps for Hamlet succeeds in killing him?
The poisoned sword
53.What do Laertes and Claudius plan to do if Hamlet wins the duel
Poison him with a cup of wine
54.How do Laertes and Claudius plan to fix the duel between Claudius and
Hamlet?
They will poison Hamlet's drink and Laertes' sword
55.Who drinks from the poison goblet that Claudius gives to Hamlet?
Gertrude
56.Who is the last character to die in the play?
Hamlet
57.How many characters die during the course of the play?
Eight
58.What are Hamlet's last words?
"The rest is silence"
59.What does the dying Hamlet tell Horatio to do?
Live and pass along his story
60. Who does not die in the final scene?
Horatio
61.Which are the characters survive the play?
Fortinbras, Horatio, and Osric
62.Who ends up ruler of Denmark at the end of the play?
Fortinbras
63.Who is the Prince of Norway?
Fortinbras
64.Why does Fortinbras want to attack Denmark?
 To seek revenge for his father's death
65.Who killed Fortinbras’s father?
Hamlet’s father
66. Which character in the play, a prince of Norway, has the same name as a
dog in a book by Madeline L’engle?
Fortinbras
67.Complete the line: “Something is rotten in the_________”
State of Denmark
68.The health of a state seems related to
The moral state of the leader
69.How many living characters in “Hamlet” are listed by name in the Dramatis
Personae?
17(Hamlet, Claudius, Polonius, Horatio, Laertes, Voltemand, Cornelius,
Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Osric, Marcellus, Bernardo, Francisco, Reynaldo,
Fortinbras, Gertrude, and Ophelia.)
70.In the play-within-the-play, the pseudo king speaks the line “Full thirty times
hath Phoebus’ cart gone round” what he referring to by “Phoebus’ cart”?
The Chariot of the Sun
71.True or False?
The play “Hamlet” is based on the Dutch fable “Amleth”.
False
72. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ in which play this line appears?
Hamlet
73.There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” The famous line
appears in….
Hamlet
74.What is seen as causing the fall of Denmark?
Moral corruption
75.Tragic flaw of Hamlet
Procrastination
76.What religion was Denmark at time of writing?
 Protestant

77.
Famous lines from Hamlet
---------=========-----------

‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’

(Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1)

‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’

(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2)

‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks’

(Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2)

‘To thine own self be true.‘

(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3)

. ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’

(Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2)

‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.’

(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5)

‘Neither a borrower nor loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing
dulls the edge of husbandry.’
(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3)

‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’

(Hamlet Act 4, Scene 5)

‘Brevity is the soul of wit. ‘

(Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2)

Twelfth night

1.What is Twelfth Night's alternate title?

What You Will
2.Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play?
Twelfth Night
3.What holiday is the term "twelfth night" probably a reference to?
Epiphany
4.Along with As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night is
referred to as one of Shakespeare's so-called ___ plays.
Transvestite
5.Many of the elements in the play seem to be drawn from which earlier work?
Gl'ingannati (Italian)
6.Where is the action of the play set?
Illyria
7.Viola is the heroine of one of the Shakespearean comedies. Which play?
Twelfth Night
8.Sebastian and Viola are from?
Messalinae
9.Viola and Sebastian become separated during what?
A shipwreck
10.Viola takes what name when she becomes Duke Orsino's manservant?
Cesario
11.Why does Viola disguise herself as a man?
To find work
12.Who is Olivia in mourning for?
Her brother
13.Olivia refuses to marry for how long?
Seven years
14.Sir Toby, Olivia's uncle, has the surname:
Belch
15.Who is Orsino in love with at the beginning of the play?
Olivia
16.quote: "If music be the food of _____, play on."
Love
17.Where does Twelfth Night take place?
Illyria
18.Why is Olivia unwilling to receive any visitors?
She is in mourning for her dead brother
19. How does Viola come to be at Orsino’s court?
She is shipwrecked nearby
20. Why is Sir Andrew Aguecheek staying at Olivia’s home?
He is trying to court Olivia
21. What is Malvolio’s position?
He is Olivia’s steward
22. What is Sir Toby’s great vice?
He is a drunkard
23. Who does Orsino send to carry his messages to Olivia?
Viola, disguised as Cesario
24. Who does Viola fall in love with?
 Orsino
25. Who does Olivia fall in love with?
Viola, in her disguise as Cesario
26. Who is Sebastian?
Viola’s brother
27. Who takes care of Sebastian after he is shipwrecked?
Antonio
28.How long does Antonio claim Sebastian has been with him?
Three months
29.Within the play, Feste pretends to be a:
Curate
30.Feste calls Olivia a fool because:
She mourns her brother , when he's in heaven
31.The chorus of the ending song that Feste sings is:
"THE RAIN IT RAINETH EVERY DAY"
32.Who challenges Cesario to a duel?
Sir Andrew
33.Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria play a trick on which of
Olivia's. servants?
Malvolio
34.Malvolio is tricked in to thinking who is in love with him?
Olivia
35. What does Malvolio wear in the hope of pleasing Olivia?
Yellow stockings and crossed garters
36. What do Sir Toby and the others do to Malvolio?
They lock him in a dark room and tell him he is mad
37.Who tricks Malvolio into thinking that Olivia loves him?
Maria
38.Malvolio reads a letter that he believes is from Olivia, but it was written by
 Maria
39.Who challenges Cesario to a duel over Olivia?
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
40.What is the name of the Fool, the one who is actually the only voice of
reason in this play?
Feste
41.Viola says that Feste is:
A "WISE FOOL".
42. What disguise does Feste wear when he speaks with Malvolio?
Sir Topas, the curate
43.When Feste visits Malvolio in the dark cell, he disguises himself as
a parson
44.Antonio is wanted in Illyria because of….
"piracy "-like activities
45. Who does Olivia marry?
Sebastian
46.Orsino and Olivia have similar personalities; which trait do they share?
Self-involvement
47.Which character serves to break both Orsino and Olivia out of their self-
involvement?
Viola
48.What spirit does the feast of Twelfth Night embody?
Social upheaval
49.What is the rest of this quote: 'Some are born great, some achieve greatness,
and ...'?
Some have greatness thrust upon them
50. Who said the following: “After him I love / More than I love these eyes,
more than my life, / More, by all mores, than e’er I shall love wife. / If I do
feign, you witnesses above / Punish my life for tainting my love!”
Viola
51.Who said the following: “If music be the food of love, play on; Give me
excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.”
Orsino
52.Who said the following: “If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I am
above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.”
Malvolio
53.Who said the following: “O Time, thou must untangle this, not I! / It is too
hard a knot for me to untie!.”
Viola

The Tempest

1.The Tempest is probably the ___ play that Shakespeare wrote by himself.

Last.

2.How many lines do the Tempest contain?

2068

3.What was the location of the real-world Tempest that Shakespeare drew upon when writing the
play?

Bermuda

4.Some aspects of the play have the feeling of a highly stylized form of dramatic, musical
entertainment called a ___.

Masque

5.There is a masque in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. What occasion does this Masque
celebrate?

The wedding of Ferdinad and Miranda

6.In The Tempest, the magical character that gives up his art has been broadly interpreted as
referring to which real-world figure?

Shakespeare himself
7.Who or what causes the shipwreck at the opening of the play?

Prospero

8.Who is the messenger of the Fairies in the Tempest?

Ariel

9.After the shipwreck, what does Prospero order Ariel to do?

Become invisible

10.Who plots to murder the shipwrecked lords as they sleep?

Stephano and Antonio

11.Who gets drunk and raucous?

Stephano, Trinculo, and Caliban

12.What are Ferdinand and Miranda doing when Prospero reveals them to the lords?

Playing chess

13.Whom does Caliban mistake for one of Prospero’s spirits sent to torment him?

Trinculo

14.What was Prospero’s title before his position was usurped and he was forced to flee Italy?

Duke of Milan

15.Who is the King of Naples?

Alonso

16.From which country is Alonso’s ship returning when it is caught in the tempest?

Tunis

17.At the beginning of the play, Alonso is returning home from:

His daughter’s wedding

18.According to Prospero, where did the King’s ship land after the tempest?

Bermuda
19.Who helped Prospero to escape to the island where the action of the play takes place?

Gonzalo

20.Prospero most often describes Gonzalo as:

Honest

21.In Act I, the mariners decide to abandon ship because:

They were under a spell

22. How long have Prospero and Miranda been on their island

Twelve years

23.What has Prospero been doing on the island for twelve years?

Refining his magic

24.Who is Caliban?

A monster

25.What was the name of Caliban’s mother?

Sycorax.

26.Over how many days does the action of The Tempest take place?

One

27.Which mythical figures appear in the wedding masque Prospero stages for Miranda and
Ferdinand?

Ceres, Iris, and Juno

28.Which character is Prospero’s brother?

Antonio

29.Prospero’s kingdom was:

Usurped by his brother Antonio

30.Which character is Sebastian’s brother?

 Alonso

31.What do we see Miranda and Ferdinand doing in the play’s final scene?

Playing chess

32.Ferdinand initially falls in love with Miranda due to:

Ariel’s ’S enchantment

33.Prospero tests Ferdinand’s love for his daughter by:

Making him a servant

34.What shape does Ariel assume at the magical banquet in Act III, scene iii?

Harpy

35.What do Prospero and Ariel set out as bait for Caliban, Trinculo, and Stephano?

“glistening apparel”

36.What does Caliban say must be done before Prospero can be killed?

His books must be seized

37.What is the name of Alonso’s daughter?

Claribel

38.Throughout the play, Alonso is grieved by:

Thoughts of his son’s ’S death

39.Who forms a plot to take Alonso’s crown?

Sebastian and Antonio

40.Caliban thinks that Stephano is a “brave god” because of his:

“celestial liquor ”

41.What does Prospero give as his reason for treating Caliban badly?

Caliban attempted to rape Miranda

42.Who helped Prospero and Miranda to flee Italy?

 Gonzalo

43.Who says the famous quote “O brave new world/ that has such people in’t”?

Miranda

44.Where does Ariel put the mariners and Boatswain after the tempest?

Asleep in the ship in the harbor

45.Where did Sycorax imprison Ariel?

In a cloven pine

46.What task are both Caliban and Ferdinand forced to perform?

Carrying wood

47.Who persuades Sebastian to try to kill Alonso?

Antonio

48.What does Prospero intend to “drown” after he has reconciled with his enemies?

His book.

49.What does the parallel between Alonso’s desire to drown himself and Prospero’s promise to
drown his book symbolize?

Their need for sacrifice

50.What does Caliban say is his “chief profit” from learning language?

He knows how to curse

51.Which characters do Stephano and Trinculo most clearly parody?

Antonio and Sebastian

52.What did Prospero do for Ariel?

Released him from imprisonment

53.What is the final task Prospero orders Ariel to perform?

To give the fleet calm seas on its return to Italy

54.Who is the speaker of the epilogue, and to whom is it addressed?

Prospero , the Audience

55.Who provides the main comic relief in the play?

Trinculo and Stephano

56.What got Prospero into trouble before the play begins?

His pursuit of knowledge

57.How have many critics and readers interpreted Prospero’s role in the play?

As Shakespeare’s surrogate

58.What kind of relationship does nearly every scene in the play depict?

A power dynamic

59.Ariel turns one of the Shakespearean tragic play into a comedy… Which play?

The Tempest

60.

“This rough magic;

Here I abjure…..

……. I will break my staff;

Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,

…………………………………..

I will burry my books. “

Who speaks these words

Prospero

61.

“Full fathom five thy father lies;

Of his borns are coral made;

Who speaks these words?

Ariel

62.Aldous Huxley took the hint for the title of his novel Brave New World from Shakespeare’s --
------

The Tempest

Henry IV part I

1.Henry IV, Part 1 forms the second part of a ___part series of plays.

Four

2.This play is part of a series that deals with the rise of which royal
house?

Lancaster

3.When is the play set?

1402-1403

4.Who is the arrogant soldier figure from ancient Greek and Roman
comedy that is recognized as influencing Falstaff’s character?

Miles gloriosus

5.Shakespeare’s primary source for the play is generally agreed to be

Raphael Holinshed’s ___of England’s, Scotland, and Ireland.

Chronicles

6.How many main plots does Henry IV, Part 1 have?

 Two

7.Where does the play begin?

The royal palace

8.Who initially suggests the robbery of the wealthy travelers?

Poins

9.Who does Henry suggest might make a more rightful king than his
son?

Hotspur

10.Who saves Henry’s life in the battle?

Harry

11.Who is Hotspur’s father?

The Earl of Northumberland

12.What is Harry’s younger brother’s name?

John

13.Which character in the play is a conflation of two historical figures?

Edmund Mortimer

14.Which character claims to be able to wield magic?

Owain Glyndwr

15.What is Richard Scrope’s title?

Archbishop of York
16.Which character undergoes the greatest dramatic development during
the play?

Harry

17.According to Falstaff, what is honor?

A word

18.Henry’s moral legitimacy always remains clouded because he may

have ___.

Helped murder Richard II

19.By the end of the play, whose form of rulership does Shakespeare
seem to endorse?

Harry’s

20.In a literary sense, who is Falstaff’s double in the play?

Henry

21.What celestial figure is associated with the king and his reign in the
play?

The sun

22.How many characters are involved in swordfights?

23.How does Hotspur die?

Killed in battle by Prince Hal

24.What is Hotspur’s last name?

Percy

25.How many characters named Henry are in the play?

26.Which tavern bum said this? “Come, shelter, shelter: I have removed
Falstaff’s horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet.”

Poins

27.Whom does the Earl of Douglas kill?

Sir Walter Blunt

28.What is Mortimer’s first name?

Edmund

29.Finish the quote from act 3, scene 1:

Lady Percy: “Now God help thee!”

What does Hotspur say?

“To the Welsh lady’s bed.”

30.What does Prince Hal say Falstaff’s ring is made of?

Copper

31.Who has the longest speech in the play?

King Henry( 62 lines )

32.What is commonly believed to be Sir John Falstaff’s original name?

 .Sir John Oldcastle

33.Why did Shakespeare change the original character’s name to Sir

John Falstaff?

The relatives of the original got angry

34.Who says that he can “call spirits from the vasty deep”

Glendower

35.For dramatic effect, Shakespeare manipulates the age of Henry IV by

adding years.

36.Who says the following: “Give me life: which, if I can save, so; if
not, honour comes unlooked for, and there’s an end.”

Falstaff

37.Who says the following: “If all the year were playing holidays, To
sport would be as tedious as to work.”

Prince Hal

38.Who says the following: “I better brook the loss of brittle life than
those proud titles thou hast won of me.”

Hotspur

39.At what tavern do Falstaff and friends congregate?

The Boar’s Head

40.Where does the final battle of the play take place?

 Shrewsbury

41.Who was king before Henry IV?

Richard II

42.Why does Harry say he is spending so much time with Falstaff?

To lower expectations, so that when he chooses to act kingly, he

will impress everyone all the more

43.Why does Kate confront Hotspur?

He has not eaten well, slept well, or made love to her for two
weeks

44.How do the Percys justify their rebellion?

They say that Henry is ungrateful for the role they played in
helping him seize the throne

45.In the battle, what does Falstaff carry in place of a pistol?

A skin of wine

46.Who kills Hotspur?

Harry

47.Why does Henry decide to execute Worcester?

He deviously chose not to convey Henry’s peace offering to Hotspur

48.Approximately when was the play written?

1596
49.What is Glyndwr’s nationality?

Welsh

50.What is the Douglas’s nationality?

Scottish

51.To what family does Hotspur belong?

Percy

52.Who is John of Lancaster?

Harry’s younger brother

53.With whom does Harry trick Falstaff during the robbery?

Poins

54.Where did Gadshill get his name?

From a place where he has staged many robberies

55.How does Falstaff survive the battle?

By playing dead

56.What is Falstaff’s favorite literary device?

The pun

57.What is Falstaff’s first name?

John

58.Which captive does Hotspur wish to have released?

 Mortimer

59.How does the Archbishop of York feel about the king?

He is an active participant in the rebellion against the king

60.Why does Hotspur’s father say he will not go to battle?

He is too sick

61.How did Henry obtain the crown?

He took it in a revolution

62.Which of the following traits do Harry and Hotspur have in

common?

Age

63.Who kills Falstaff?

Falstaff doesn’t died in the play

64.Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?

Earl of Northumberland

SONNETS

1.A sonnet has...... lines

14
2.A Petrarchan sonnet has two parts

Octave(8) and sestet (6)

3.How many sonnets did Shakespeare write in all?

154 (abab cdcd efef gg)

4.A Shakespearean sonnet (English Sonnets)has two parts---

3 Quatrains (4 lines each) and a couplet (2)

5.What is a Quatrain?

A 4 lined, typically rhyming unit of verse

6.What is the name given to the 1609 publication of the sonnets?

QUARTO

7. Sonnets 1-17 are labeled as?

"the marriage sonnets

8. Sonnets 18-126 are called?

"the young man sonnets

9.Sonnets 127-154 are?

"dark lady sonnets."(exceptions on 153& 154)

10.Sonnet........begins the "Dark Lady" series of the Shakespeare

sonnets.

127

11.Shakespeare has immortalised his love for his......... in his sonnets

 Dark lady

12. How many of Shakespeare's sonnets dwell on a religious theme?

Just 1

13.In Sonnets 76-86, Shakespeare refers to his Rival Poet as

"a worthier pen"

14.Sonnet 154 is a paraphrase of.............

Sonnet 153

15.Which two sonnets focus on a mythical story involving Cupid?

Sonnets 153 and 154

16.Who is the author of the critical work- Shakespeare's sonnet

reconsidered?

Samuel Butler

17.Sonnet 18 is written in iambic pentameter

18.The poet’s friend is compared to—a summer’s day.

19.The month referred to in’ Sonnet number 18’is - - May.

20.The ‘darling buds’ are shaken by the rough wind of ―

May

21.The phrase ‘summer’s lease’ suggests ―

length of the season

22. “And summer’s lease hath all too short a date” ― Here ‘date’
means ― duration

23.The eye of Heaven’ in Shakespeare’s Sonnet no 18 refers to—the sun

24.The word temperate’ means -moderate.

25.Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ - - - here the word’ thou’
refers to—the poet’s friend.

26.How is the gold-complexion of the sun dimmed?

by the clouds

27.The fair youth’s beauty surpasses the beauty of

-Summer

28. When the Court is in session is Shakespeare’s sonnet number?

Sonnet 30

29.In Sonnet 30, what was the theme at the beginning?

Happy

30.The narrator uses……metaphors throughout the sonnet to describe

the sadness that he feels as he reflects on his life.

Legal metaphors (sessions", "summon", "dateless", and many other

legal terms.)

31. What does he realize at the end of sonnet 30?

Everyone dies
32.The second line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 30 provided the source
of……………

C. K. Scott Moncrieff's title, Remembrance of Things Past,

33.What is the figure of speech in ”When to the Sessions of Sweet

Silent Thought”?

Alliteration

*In the Old age black was not counted fair is Shakespeare’s Sonnet
number?

Sonnet number 127

34. What are the features of imagery in Dark lady sonnets?

Dark skinned, Dark haired women

35.What is the main theme of Sonnet number 127?

Railing against artificial beauty

36.The most used literary figures in Sonnet 127?

Paradox

37.What is the main theme of rhyming couplets in Sonnet 127?

Natural and Untouched Beauty

38.My mistress eyes are like the sun, is Sonnet number?

Sonnet number 130

39.In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare pokes fun at which fellow poet?

 Thomas Watson

40. Sonnet 130 is critical of what type of poem?

Love poetry.

41.How are the eyes of the mistress in the present sonnet?

Not like the Sun

42.Hair of the poets beloved are compared to……..

The wine

43.The cheeks are mentioned as……….. (Not like the Rose)

44.What is more pleasing than the speech of the poet’s mistress

The music

45.How was the love of the poet mentioned in the present sonnet

“Rare”

46.What sums up the lines of sonnet 130?

My mistress’s beauty cannot compare to that of a goddess , but she

is no less beautiful than any woman that is described with false
comparisons .

47.Shakespeare’s sonnet were published in

1609(Quarto edition )

48.Shakespeare s sonnet were published by…….

Thomas Thrope
49.According to A. D Wraight the sonnets could have been the work
of…..

Christopher Marlowe……

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INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

MODULE IV CRITICAL RESPONSES -

1.Meenakshi Mukherjee received the precious Sahitya Akademi Award

in 2003 for her book…………….

The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English.

2.Which work of Meenakshi Mukherjee analyses the works of Jane

Austen and her contemporaries from a feminist perspective?

Re-reading Jane Austen

3.An Indian for all seasons”, a biography of historian R.C. Dutt, was
written by

Meenakshi Mukherjee

4.“Realism and Reality” is written by…………..

 Meenakshi Mukherjee

5.Realism and Reality gives a glimpse on the rise of novel in India

during………….

… till……………….

Mid 19 th C till 20th C

6.The book is divided into….

7.The first chapter has……. Chapters

5

(*From Purana to Natuna”, *“Pilgrim prose and the Novel of P

urpose”, *“Recreating a Past: Fiction and Fantasy”,
*“Women in a new Genre”,
*“The Novelists for all seasons ”)

8. The Second part of the book has 3 chapters .and deals with texts o
f individualwriters, “Pather Panchali”, “Godan”, and “Samskara”.

9.Purana to Nutana is the….. Chapter.

First

10.Nutana” here means??

In Sanskrit, the new or novel

11.Purana” here means?

 the Old, or the Indian pre-novel narrative
forms

1.Indian Poetry in English and the Indian Aesthetic Tradition is an essay

written by

Ayyappa Panikker

2.The essay was published in………. 1983

3.Panikker begins his essay referring to the two parameters of Indian

poetry in English, which are……………

“Indian” and “English”.

4.According to him, the coming together of different cultures may result

in…………….

compromise, confrontation or the mutual avoidance of one another. .

5.Confrontation of the cultures are……………(.productive ). because it

allows both cultures to……….( retain) their individual identity.

6. Compromise could result in the…….( decline )of one or both.

7.In order to highlight the recurring themes from the Indian mythology
in Indian poetry in English, Panikker cites the story of………….(
“Satyavan Savitri” )from the Mahabharata in the works of………..(
Toru Dutt, Aurobindo and Jayanta Mahapatra.)
8.According to panikker the poem “Relationship” by Mahapatra
resembles the European myth of ………….Orpheus and Eurydice.

9.Aurobindo uses Sanskrit aesthetic terms such as…………“rasa”

“bhoga” and “ananda” to explain how his poetry seeks to attain for the
reader the aesthetic experience. He calls this theory………….
“aesthesis”

*Poles of Recovery was written by……. (Amit Chaudhuri)

1.Poles of Recovery was taken from……..(Clearing a space: Reflections

of India,Literature and culture )

2. Amit Chaudhuri begins the article by narrating an event from his life
when he was an undergraduate at the,,……….. (University College in
London )in the early 1980s

3.The whole essay talks of the aspect of……..(disowning and

recovering ‘Indianness’)

4.In poles of Recovery Amit Chaudhuri talks about the life of.,..

Michael Madhusudan Dutt

O .V.Vijayan

U.R.Anantha Murthy

A.K.Ramanujan

Nirad.C.Chaudhary
5.Around the late 1850s, after the long process of disowning, began the
process of recovery of the Bengali language and culture culminating in
his epic poem …………….(Meghnadbadhakabya. )

6.Tilottama Sambhava’.was written by

Amit Chaudhuri

7.Nirad.C.Chaudhary’s…………(The Autobiography of an Unknown)

Indian presents a variation, an inversion, a conferring of new values to
exile and to homecoming

8.According to Amit Chaudhuri It was with the publication of,………. (

Midnight’s Children in 1981) the tale of modernity came to an end.

FROM MODERNISM TO PRESENT

1. The second coming, sailing to byzantium is the poem by - William Butler

Yeats

2. W.B.Yeats is an Irish poet (help to found abbey theatre)

3. The second coming is the poem written in-1919

4. Which historical event do most critics believe the poem the second coming

specifically reffered to- the Bolshevik revolution

5. What kind of shapes does the word ‘gyre’ refer to- circles

6. What language is the word spiritus mundi from- latin

7. What kind of mythological creatur is featured in the poem- A Sphinx

8. What book of the bible does the term ‘the second coming’ orginate from-

revelations

9. What poetic form is the second coming based on- iambic pentameter

10.Yeats detailed his philosophy about gyres in which volume of his work- A

Vision

11.Which author titled a novel after a quote from The second coming – Chinua

Achebe

12.What does the phrase the second coming refer to in the bible – the second

appearance of jesus Christ

13.What do the words ‘blank and pilotless as the sun’ refer to- the sphinx gaze

14.What year was yeast born- 1865

15.In 1923, yeats was awarded which price – the nobel prize in literature

16.Yeats was most interested in which school of thought – occultism

17.What perspective is the poem the second coming written from – first person

18.Which city is the beast in the poem the second coming approaching

- Bethlehem

19.Byzantium is- mythical city

20.Ath the end of ‘sailing the byzantium’ the speaker imagines transformation in

– a mechanical bird

21.In sailing to Byzantium the element that death is most associated with is – fire

22.‘the tower’ is named after yeats - home

23.The direction that the spirits would move around the speaker is sailing to

Byzantium is in a – gyre

24.What is the childhood activity that the speaker remember in ‘the tower’ –

fishing

25.Yeats family was a member of - the protestant ascendancy

26.Which shakespearen character does yeats compare an irregular to- Falstaff

27.In which collection the poem sailing to Byzantium was published – the tower

28.The rhyme scheme of sailing to Byzantium – ottava rima

29.Sailing to Byzantium was published – 1928 (written in 1926)

30.What is another name of Byzantium – Constantinople

31.To which the poet compared old man in sailing to byzantium – to a tattered

coat

32.The poem In memory of W.B.Yeats written by – W. H .AUDEN

33.Auden is – English americam poet

34.Who wrote Auden: An Introductory Essay (1951) – Richard hoggart

35.In memory of W.B . Yeats appeared in - author time in 1940

36.Yeats death – 1939

37.The poem In memory of W.B .Yeats written in – 1939

38.the poem Poem in October is written by- Dylan Thomas

39.in which city was Dylan Thomas born – Swansea

40.Daddy was the poem written by – syliva plath

41.syliva plath was born in - boston

42.plath husband – ted hughes

43.syliva plath was born on -1932

44.the speaker feels like she has been a foot living in a black shoe for – 30 years

45.plath explained the poem DADDY in a – BBC interview

46.the poem daddy is spoken by a girl with- electra complex

47.Sylvia plaths father was - otto plath

48.Ted hughes referred as a - vampire

49.The poem Daddy waswritten on oct 12- 1962

50.The waste land was written by – t.s eliot

51.The cities mentioned in the poem the waste land – Vienna

52.Who called The Waste Land a music of ideas – I A Richards( in the his work

principles of literary criticism)

53.The epigraph of The waste land is a quotation from a well known latin prose

work – satyricon by petronius

54.Where was the orginal epigraph ta eliot chosen for the poem the waste land –

conrad’s heart of darknesswhich battle did Stetson supposedly participate in –

mylae (stentson is refered in the section burial of the dead)

55.Which popular nursery rhyme is mentioned at the end of the waste land –

London bridge is falling down

56.The famous line Hieronimo is mad again in the the waste land is a Spanish

tragedy by – Thomas kyd

57.‘those were pearls which were his eyes’ in the waste land is a quote from –

shakespeares the tempest

58. The name of married couple in the section a game of chess – albert and lil

59.Protagonist of the waste land is - Tiresias

60.Anne Hathaway is written by - carol ann duffy

61.The speaker of the poem anne hathway –shakespeare’s wife

62.What does the speaker’s husband do in the metaphorical seas – dive for pearls

63.What does the speaker compare her husband’s kisses to – shooting stars

64.The poem anne hathway references – shakespeare’s will

65.Where is the poem’s epigraph from What form does the poem anne hathway

somewhat follow – a Shakespearean sonnet

66.Waiting for godot was written by – Samuel beckett

67.What role does Pozzo play? - Pozzo is an antagonist in the play..... the man

who brings chaos into Vladimir and Estragon's sheltered world.

68.When Pozzo first enters, what does he reveal he is on his way to do - Sell his

slave

69.Who informs Pozzo and Lucky that Godot won't be coming on the first day –

a boy

70.What has happened to Pozzo when he and Lucky return on the second night?

71.What has happened to Pozzo when he and Lucky return on the second night -

He is blind

72.Dulce et decorum est written by - Wilfred owe

73.Where does the soldier in "Strange Meeting" find himself? – in hell

74.Church going by – Philip larkin

75.How does the speaker of church going treat thr church when he first steps

inside – carelessly

76.Thought fox written by – ted hughes

77.The setting of greatly influenced hughes poetry – Yorkshire

78.What is the speaker trying to do- write

79.The thought fox appears in which of huges collection – the hawk and the rain

80.Which best describes the poems tone – contemplative

81.The foxs eye is – green eye

82.Punishment is written by punishment- seamus Heaney

83.The wedding is the poem written by – alice Oswald

84.The wedding published in – 1996

85.The British written by – Benjamin zephaninah

86.The british poem is about – diverse culture

87.Stuff happens is the drama written by – David hare

88.David hare was bornin – Sussex

89.Cloud nine is written by – carly Churchill

90.Cloud nine is a play first performed – 1979

LINGUSTIC

91. Human language is – context free

92. Animal language is – context bound

93. Language varieties – diachronic and synchronic

94. Dialect spoken in a particular geographical area is called -regional dialect

95. Dialect spoken In a social stratification are – social dialect

96. The study of dialects is known as – dialectology

97. Lines dividing geographical areas on the basis of distinct linguistic features

in use are called – isoglosses

98. When several such lines are drawn for divergent items they crisscross and

overlap and points where a large number of isoglosses come together are called

– bundles of isoglosses

99. Maps with area marked for specific linguistic features are called – dialect

map

100. Study of speech sound is – phonetics

101. Study of combination of sound – phonology

102. Study of words – morphology

103. Set of rules – syntax

104. Study of meaning – semantics

105. Study of symbols – graphology

106. Orgins of words – etymology

107. The study of how we acquire language and how we use it for

communication is called – psycholingustics

108. Study of language in relation to society – sociolingustic

109. Pidgin is otherwise called - bazaar language

110. Langue and parole was developed by – ferdinard de sassure

111. Langue – legislative

112. Parole – executive

113. Competence and performance was developed by – noam Chomsky

114. Competence and performance are similar to Saussure concept – langue and

parole

115. Competence and performance is seen in the major work –syntactic

structure

116. Syntagmatic and paradigmatic – sassure

117. Syntagmatic –linear arrangement

118. Paradigmatic – vertical arrangement

119. The prague school was founded in -1926

120. The most important exponents of prague school were- Roman Jakobson

and Nikolas Trubeskoy

SEMESTER II
FROM MODERNISM TO PRESENT
MODULE III

1. Who wrote The Night in the circus and when it was publishes?
Angela Carter in 1984
2)How much old is Celia when come to Hector?
5
3) Who won the first game
A.H.

4) Which of the following is true about the game?

ONE OPPONENT HAS TO OUTLAST THE OTHER
IT IS ON NEUTRAL GROUND
CELIA AND MARCO DO NOT KNOW THE RULES
ALL IS TRUE
5) Marco's studying is:

DONE MOSTLY INDEPENDENTLY

6) Prospero can be described as a/an _________ teacher.
CRUEL
7) Where does the young adult Marco live
LONDON

8) Who is Barris?
AN ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT
9) Which of the following regarding the circus is false?
IT IS FREE TO THE PUBLIC
10) Bailey cannot get ____________ out of his head.
THE RED-HAIRED GIRL
11) Isobel:
READS A TAROT
12) Tsukiko is notable for her skills and her:
TATTOO
13) When does Marco realize Celia is his opponent?
WHEN SHE COMES TO AUDITION TO BE AN ILLUSIONIST
14) Herr Thiessen is a/an:
CLOCKMAKER
15) What happens to Prospero?
HE BUNGLES A SPELL AND LOSES HIS PHYSICAL BODY
16) Which of the following statements about Bailey is false?
HIS SISTER IS LOVING AND KIND

17) On opening night:

THE TWINS ARE BORN
18) Poppet can:
READ THE FUTURE
19) To whom does Celia tell the truth?
BARRIS
20) Who starts to become suspicious of the circus?
TARA
21) When does Marco realize Celia is his opponent?
AT THE AUDITION
22) When does Celia realize Marco is her opponent?
ONE NIGHT IN THE RAIN
23) Herr Thiessen does all the following except:
ONLY VISITS THE CIRCUS ONCE BUT IT STICKS WITH HIM FOREVER
24) What performance does Bailey attend when the circus comes back?
CELIA'S
25) In which city does the circus first open?
LONDON
26) On which piece do the competitors collaborate?
THE LABYRINTH
27) Who wrote The code of Woosters and when was it published?
P.G Wodehouse in 1938
28) At the start of the novel, Jeeves is trying to persuade bertie to do what?
Go on a round the world cruise
29) What is the name of Aunt Dahlia’s French chef, whose potential loss is the
recurring theme of the book?
Anatole
30) What is the name of sir Watkyn Bassett’s country house in which most of
the action take place?
Totleigh towers
31) What is the name of the fascist organisation of which Roderick spode is a
prominent Member?
Black shorts
32) What job does Harold ‘stinker’ pinker have?
Clergyman
33) What is the object which Berti’s uncle Tom and Watkyn Bassetts keen to
have?
Silver cow creamer
34) What Madeline Bassett believe happens every time when a fairy blows its
wee nose?
A tsunami strikes Indonesia
35) Which of the following does Stephanie stiffy bing ask her fiance Harold
stinker linker to do for her?
Steal a policeman’s helmet
36) Roderick spode’s guilty secret concerns Eulalie. But who, or what is
Eulalie?
A boutique selling women’s underclothing
37) Apart from the book’s title , What is “ The code of Woosters”?
Never let a pal down
38) Who wrote “The Portrait of the artist as a young man “
and when was it published?
James Joyce in 1916
39) What does Stephen's father call him as a child?
Baby tuckoo
40) Where does Stephen attend school as a child?
Colognes
41) Why do John Casey and Dante argue at Stephen's first Christmas dinner at
the adult table?
Casey supports panel and Dante is against him
42) Why does Father Dolan whip Stephen during Latin class?
Stephen is not doing work because his glasses are broken.
43) How does Father Conmee respond to Stephen's request that he talk to Father
Dolan about his punishment in Latin class?
He promises to talk to Father Dolan
44) What does Mike Flynn try to teach Stephen to do?
Run
45) With which novel does Stephen fall in love?
The count of Monte Cristo
46) To whom does Stephen write his first love poem?
E__c__
47) Which two colours does Stephen associate with Dante?
Green and Maroon
48) Which character smokes "black twists" of tobacco?
Uncle Charles
49) Why do Stephen and his father travel to Cork?
To sell something at an auction
50) Why is Stephen embarrassed of his father when they visit Cork?
Simon gets drunk and become nostalgic
51) What does Stephen do to win prize money?
He wins an essay prize
52) What does Stephen do with his prize money?
He spends on to his family
53) In what city does Stephen first have sex with a prostitute?
Dublin
54)How does Stephen react to having slept with a prostitute?
He feels alienated and anguished
55) Where does Stephen hear Father Arnall give his sermons on hell?
At a three day Belvedere retreat
56) What is Stephen's reaction to Father Arnall's sermons?
He confesses his sins
57) Who suggests to Stephen that he might become a member of the Jesuit
order?
The director of Belvedere
58) What sight makes Stephen realize that he wants to dedicate himself to art?
A girl on the beach
59) Instead of becoming a Jesuit, what does Stephen do?
He attends university
60) Which of Stephen's friends at the university is staunchly patriotic?
Davin
61) What is one of the basic distinctions of Stephen's aesthetic theory?
Static vs kinetic art
62) Which of the following lists corresponds to one of the distinctions made in
Stephen's aesthetic theory?
Epical , lyrical and dramatic
63) What ceremony does Cranly try to convince Stephen to attend, for his
mother's sake?
Easter mass
64) Who wrote “The Prevention of literature”?
George Orwell
65) When was it published?
1946
66) The Prevention of literature is concerned with the freedom of____
Thought and expression
67) The essay first appeared in______
Polemic
68) Which club was introduced by Orwell in this essay?
Pen club
69) What are the controversial topic dealt by Orwell in this essay?
Ukrainian feminine
Poland
Spanish civil war
70) Who wrote “Tradition and Individual talent”
T.S Eliot
71) In Which year did T.S Eliot got Nobel prize for literature?
1948
72) In which year was Tradition and Individual talent was published?
1919
73) What are the general ideas presented by Eliot in the essay?
Tradition involves historical sense
Relationship between tradition and talent
Impersonal theory of poetry
74) Tradition and Individual talent was first published in
Egoism
75) Poetry is the turning loose of _____
Emotions
76) Who wrote The short story ‘rain’?
Somerset Maugham
77) When was it published?
1921
78) What was the original publication name of the story?
Miss Thompson
79) Where was the story set?
Pacific Island
80) What is the theme of the story?
A missionary’s determination to reform a prostitute leads to tragedy.
81) Who are the main characters in the story?
Dr Macphail and his wife
Davidson and his wife
Horn
Miss Thompson

American Literature – Module IV

 1. Who wrote The Origins of Hawthorne and Poe? – Paul Elmer More
2. Who wrote The Art of Fiction? – Henry James
3. Who wrote The Black Is a Country? – Amiri Baraka
4. What were the themes of Hawthorne’s writings? – Evil and Morality
5. What were the themes of Poe’s writings? – Self imagination, Crime,
Human nature, Realism and Nature
6. Who wrote Young Goodman Brown? – Nathaniel Hawthorne
7. Who wrote Ulalume? – Poe
8. Who wrote The Cask of Amontillado? - Edgar Allen Poe
9. When was the The Art of Fiction published? – 1884 in London’s
Magazine
10.To which lectures rebuttal was The Art of Fiction written? – Fiction as
One of the Fine Arts by Sir Walter Besant
11.By what name was Amiri Baraka known earlier? – LeRoi Jones

Indian Writing in English – Module I

 India's first newspaper, 'Hicky's Bengal Gazette', was published in

1780

 The Bengal Gazette was introduced by

James Augustus Hicky

 Macaulay presented his 'Minute on Indian Education' on

1835

 The act that proclaimed the establishment of the Universities at Bombay,

Madras and Calcutta
The Wood Dispatch of 1854

 The first Indian novel in English, Rajmohan’s Wife (1864) was written
by.
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

 The first Indian to write a book in English

 Sake Dean Mahomed

 Untouchable was written by

Mulk Raj Anand

 Raja Rao’s Kanthapura was written in

1938

 Dhan Gopal Mukerji won the Newbery Medal for excellence in

American children's literature in 1928 for the children's book

Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon

 The period from 1850 to 1900 in Indian English Literature is known as

the imitative phase when the Indian poets were romantic poets in the
Indian garb

 Indian poetry written by the Indians in English can be divided into three
phases
The imitative, the assimilative and the experimental

 George Bottomley has described Indian English Literature as "Matthew

Arnold in a ______".
Saree

 Which Bengali epic did Michael Madhusudan Dutt write?

Meghnath badh Kavya

 Which poet converted popular stories from the Ramayana,Mahabharata

and the Puranas into English verse?
Toru Dutt
 What does Aurobindo's Savitri symbolize?

a symbol of what humanity can achieve.

 Which is the only poem written in English by Tagore?

'The Child'

 Which is the first collection of poetry by Ezekiel?

A Time to change

 Who are the two Eliot figures of India?

P. Lal and D. Narasimhaiah

 The Shair or Ministrel and other poems was written by

Kasiprasad Ghose

 The Captive Lady was written by

Michael Madhusudan Dutt

 Name the two pre - independence poet - philosophers

Sri Aurobindo and Tagore

 Name the post - independence poets who are preoccupied with the
problem of roots.
Ramanujan, Parthasarthy and Arun Kolatkar

 The Works of Sarojini Naidu, Tagore, Aurobindo Ghose and Harindranth

Chattopadhyaya are known for
nationalism, spirituality and mysticism
  who wrote Dive for Death
T. Ramakrishna

 The novel Kamala, a story of Hindu Life was written by

Krupabai Satthianandan

 Tagore was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature in

1913

 Tagore 's Gora was translated into English from

Bengali

 What is the name of R.K.Narayans first novel?

Swami and friends
16.which of narayans novels garnered the most critical praise and was made
into an American film?
The Guide
17.Fictional town of Malgudy was ---
Chennai
18.Hero and heroine of the novel ‘The Guide ‘?
Raju and Rosie
19.Who wrote the novel Shame ?
Salman Rushdie
20.What is the full name of Salman Rushdie ?Sir.Ahmad
Salman Rushdie 21.Which book of Salman Rushdie won
Booker prize in 1921 ?
Midnight’s children
22.Rushdies which novel was the subject of major controversy?
The satanic verses (1988)
23.The novel which was shortlisted for Manbooker prize in 2008?
Sea of poppies
24.Author of following novels : The glass palace ,Sa of poppies,Flood of
fire ,The hungry tide ,Shadow lines .
Amitav Ghosh
25.The Tigers daughter, Wife ,Jasmine, The holder of the world, Leave it to me
, were written by ___
Bharathi mukherjee
26.First collection of short stories written nair Anitha nair ___
Satyr of the subway
27.The better man, Mistress, ladies were written by
Anitha nair
28.Which novel ofAnita Nair both elected as one of thebest in India , which
deals with women condition in a male dominated society in 2001?
Ladies coupe
29.Who is the author of the following works : time stops at shamli, The kite
maker ,My fathers last letter ,Life with father , The tunnet ?
Ruskin bond
30.What was the first short Story written by Ruskin bond
Untouchable
31.Theme of the Story ‘The kite maker’____
Tradition, mortality , loneliness ,happiness , independence , kindness ,
pride and change 32.Dalit writer who wrote ‘Poisoned Bread' ,A corpse
in the well ,Promtion etc Arjun Dangle
33.Which short story of Arjhn dangle reveals the false identity of

dalit bourgeois ? Promotion

34.Forst Asian to win the Pulitzer prize

Jhumpa lahiri for( Interpreter of Maldives)
35.who wrote the novel ‘Impressionist and Transmisson ?
Jhumpa lahiri
36.Interpreter of Maldives ,Unaccostomed Earth were storystory
collections of ____ Jhumpa
37.Which essay of A.K.Ramanujan was dedicated to his father
Is there an Indian way of thinking
38. What was the earliest known diary entry of A.K
Ramanujan titled ? A poem is born (sep1949) at the age
of 20
39.Which satirical poem was based on Rananujans father’s death
Obituary
40.A.K.Ramanujan won sahitya academy award for__
The collected poems (1999)
41.Which is A.K's first collection of poems ?
The striders
42.How many languages are known by A.K
5
43.The controversy surrounded essay by Ramanujan is ____
Three hundred Ramayanas
44.An English poet once remarked that his discipline and education gave
him his ‘outer’ whereas his Indian origin gave him ‘ inner' form
.Reflecting a part of this claim is a famous essay caller :
Is there an Indian way of thinking

 The earliest Indian English play, Krishna Mohan Banerjee' s The

Persecuted, was written in

1831

 The Bengali Theatre, the Hindoo Theatre was established in

1831

 Is This Civilization (1871) was written by

 Michael Madhusudan Dutt

 The first theatre in Mumbai

The Bombay Amateur Theatre(1776)

 The play The Indian Heroine (1877) was written by

D.M. Wadia

 The post independence play Hall was written by

G. V. Dasani

 The play The Doldrummers was written by

Asif Currimbhoy

 The play Harvest(1997)is written by

Manjula Padmanabhan

 Who wrote Indian Home Rule or Hind Swaraj (1910)

Gandhiji

 Who translated the Mahabharata into English

Kisari Mohan Ganguli

 The trinity of Indian writing in English

Mulk Raj Anand, R.K.Narayan and Raja Rao

 The novel Kanthapura was written by

Raja Rao
  The structure of the novel Untouchable draws extensively from
James Joyce’s Ulysses

 The fictitious region of Malgudi was created by

R. K Narayan

 R. K. Narayan's Waiting for the Mahatma deals with the theme of

Quit India Movement of
1942

 Rao’s Kanthapura deals with the

Civil Disobedience Movement

Augustan Age – Module II

1. Who wrote Paradise Lost? – John Milton

2. Which ages Milton lived through? – The Caroline, Commonwealth
and Restoration Ages
3. What post did Milton hold during the Commonwealth Government?
– Latin Secretary
4. At what age did Milton become blind? – 44
5. How many time did Milton marry? – 3
6. How many books are there in Paradise Lost? – 12
7. Milton’s Samson Agonistes is a – poetic play
8. Milton wrote Areopagitica – to defend people’s freedom of speech
9. Name the woman whom Samson Agonistes loved and who betrayed
him? – Delilah
10.In which book of Paradise Lost Adam and Eve meet for the first
time? – Book IV
11.‘Fame is the last infirmity of the noble mind’ In which poem of
Milton does this line occur? – Lycidas
12.Lycidas is a pastoral elegy written by Milton on the death of his
friend – Edward King
 13.Who said of Milton: ‘Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart’? –
Wordsworth
14.‘Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour!’ – Wordsworth
15.Milton’s Paradise Lost is divided into the same number of books as
– Divine Comedy
16.Who is next in command after Satan in the Paradise Lost –
Beelzebub
17.‘What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low race and support.’ – Book I
18.Which book of Paradise Lost begins with an invocation to light? –
Book III
19.In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton discuss the principles of
free will and divine justice – Book III
20.How many English sonnets did Milton write? – 18
21.What is Milton’s Comus? A masque
22.‘Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms’. This is the first line of a
sonnet written by Milton. What is the title of the sonnet? – When the
Assault Was Intended to the City
23.Milton wrote the sonnet on the death of his wife. It is entitled On his
Deceased Wife. What was the name of the wife who is deceased? –
Catherine Woodcock
24.‘They also serve who only stand and wait.’ This is the concluding
line of a sonnet written by Milton. What is the title of the sonnet? –
On His Blindness
25.What is Milton’s On the Nativity of Christ? - An Ode
26.Milton has written a poem entitled L’Allegro. What is the meaning of
the title? - A very cheerful man
27.Milton has written another poem entitled II Penseroso. What is the
meaning of the title? - A very melancholy man
28.In Milton’s famous Masque Comus, an important character is Circe.
Who was Circe? - The mother of Comus.
29.Milton borrowed the theme for Comus from- Homer’s Odyssey
30.Milton derived the title for his Areopagitica from the Greek word
‘Areopagus’. What was Areopagus? - A Greek hill where a tribunal
for liberty of speech was held
31.Milton wrote a large number of political pamphlets and treatises.
What were they called? -Tracts

32.Who wrote ‘Mac Flecknoe’? – John Dryden

33.Who wrote ‘The Rivals’? – R. B. Sheridan

34.Who wrote ‘Rape of the Lock’? – Alexander Pope

35.Who wrote ‘On the Death of the Late Earl of Rochester’? – Aphra
Ben

36.Who wrote ‘Love Turned to Hate’? – Sir John Suckling

37.Who wrote ‘The Unfading Beauty’? – Thomas Carew

38.Who wrote ‘Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat’? – Thomas Gray

39.Who wrote ‘The Lamb’? – William Blake

40.Who wrote ‘The Nightingale and the Glow-worm’? – William

Copwer

41.Who wrote ‘The Way of the World’? – William Congreve

42.Who wrote ‘Love’s Last Shift’? – Colly Cibber

43.Who wrote ‘A Red, Red Rose’? – Robert Burns

44.Who wrote ‘Auld Lang Syne’? – Robert Burns

45.Dryden’s ‘All For Love’ is based on – Antony and Cleopatra

46.In Dryden’s ‘Essay of Dramatic Poesy’, which of the interlocutors

represents Dryden himself – Neander

47.In Dryden’s ‘Essay of Dramatic Poesy’, Neander speaks for –

Modern English Dramatists

48.Drden’s ‘Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ is – a acritical treatise on

dramatic art developed through dialogues

49.Dryden lived between – 1631-1700

50.Dryden’s ‘Love Triumphant’ is a - heroic play

51.Dryden’s ‘Absalom and Achitophel’ is a powerful – political satire

52.Dryden’s ‘Wife of Bath Her Tale’ is – a fable

53.What special epithet is given to Dryden’s plays in general? – Heroic

plays

54.The central theme of Dryden’s ‘The Hind and the Panther’ is –

Defence of Roman Catholicism

55.‘Here’s God’s Plenty.’ Who is Dryden referring to in this remark? –

Chaucer

56.Dryden’s ‘The Medal’ is a personal satire on – Shaftesbury

57.Who hailed Dryden as ‘The Father of English Criticism’? – Dr.

Johnson

58.Zimri, The Duke of Buckingham appears in Dryden’s – Absalom and

Achitophel

59.Dryden’s ‘Alexander’s Feast’ is – An Ode

60.Dryden has written an elegy on the death of Cromwell. What is its

title? – Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Cromwell

61.Whom does Dryden satirize in Mac Flecknoe? – Thomas Shadwell

62.Dryden has written a play on a Mughal Emperor. Who was he? –

Aurangzeb

63.Dryden said in one of his critical treatises: ‘Our numbers were in

their nonage till these two appeared.’ Whom does he refer to in this
observation? – Waller and Denham

64.When was Alexander Pope born? – 1688

65.In which age did Pope live and write? – The Neo – classical or
Augustan Age
66.Pope was basically – a satirist

67.Pope wrote his poetry in – Heroic Couplets

68.Pope himself says that the most important characteristic feature of his
poetry is – Correctness

69.Pope has addressed the ‘Essay on Man’ to – Lord Bolingbroke

70.How many Epistles are there in Pope’s ‘An Essay on Man’ – Four

71.Pope exposes the frivolities of Augustan Age in – The Rape of the

Lock

72.Which poet did Pope admire most? – Dryden

73.Pope’s poetry basically lacked in – Emotion

74.Whom did Pope regard his ‘poetic mentor’? Dryden

75.The ultimate end of poetry according to Pope is – Didacticism

76.Pope believed that a work of art must be based on – Truth

77.Pope’s ‘Pastorals’ were published in – 1709

78.Pope took ‘Ars Poetica’ as a model for his poetry. Who is the author
of ‘Ars Poetica’? – Horace

79.What does Pope define in these words, ‘What oft was thought but
never so well expressed’? – Wit

80.‘Beauty divorced from good sense is worth nothing.’ In which poem

does he make this observation? – The Rape of Lock

81.What does Pope mean by the expression ‘Follow Nature’? – To

follow moral law
82.The term ‘Augustan’ was first applied to a School of Poets by – Dr.
Johnson

83.The 18th century in English Literature is also called – The Age of

Reason

84.Who called the 18th century ‘our admirable and indispensable

Eighteenth Century’? – Matthew Arnold

85.Who called the 18th century ‘The Age of Prose and Reason’? –
Matthew Arnold

86.Who wrote ‘Anne Killigrew’? – Dryden

87.How many cantos are there in the ‘Rape of the Lock’? – 5 Cantos

88.Who is the heroine of the ‘Rape of the Lock’? – Belinda

89.Homeric scenes of battles are parodied in the ‘e by – A game of cards

90.A large number of sylphs are given in the charge of protecting

Belinda’s petticoat in the ‘Rape of the Lock. How many sylphs are
given this charge? – 50

91.Belinda is completely heart-broken about her clipped lock of hair.

The poet consoles her in the end by saying – that the clipped lock of
her hair would fly up and shine among the stars.

92.How many sonnets in all were written by Milton in Latin? – 5

93.The last six lines of a Miltonic sonnet are divided into two groups of
thre lines each. What is the group of three lines called? – Tercet

94.A mock-epic is a parody of – a real epic

95.What is the meaning of ‘L’Allegro’? – A cheerful man

96.Who is the most important poet who has written Pindaric Odes in
English? – Thomas Gray
97.Who has written ‘Ode on the Nativity of Christ’? – Milton

98.Who wrote ‘Alexander’s Feast’? – Dryden

99.Gray wrote ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ on – the death

of the poor country rustics

100. In the Churchyard of which village is the scene of Gray’s elegy

laid? – The Churchyard of Stoke Poges

101. Why did Gray choose the Churchyard of Stoke Poges? – Because
Gray’s mother was buried there.

102. In which metre and stanza form is Gray’s Elegy written? – In

iambic penta,eter quatrains

103. Pope’s ‘Rape of the Lock’ is a satire on – contemporary

aristocratic society

104. Lydia and Julia make a pair of two heroines in – The Rivals

105. Who is the author ‘The School for Scandal’? – Sheridan

106. Who wrote ‘The Country Wife’? – Wycherley

107. Who wrote ‘The Rival Ladies’? – Dryden

108. Who wrote ‘The Plain Dealer’? – Wycherley

109. Who wrote ‘Life of Gray’- William Mason

110. Who wrote the biography of Dr. Johnson? – James Boswell

111. Who wrote ‘Prefaces and Dedicatory Epistles to his Plays and
Fables’? – Dryden

112. Who wrote ‘Essay on Criticism’? – Pope

113. Who were the members of Scriblerus Club? – Pope, Swift, John
Gay, Thomas Prnell and Dr. John Arbuthnot
114. Who were the members of Kit-Kat Club? – Robert Walpole,
William Congreve, John Vanbrugh, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele,
Jacob Tonson (Whigs)

115. Who published Pope’s ‘Pastorals’? – Jacob Tonson

116. Quarterly Review favored – Tories

117. Edinburgh Review favored – Whigs

118. Who were the members of ‘BlueStockings’? – Elizabeth Montagu,

Elizabeth Carter, Hester Chapone, Mary Delaney, Hannah More

119. Pope’s ‘Pastorals’ consisted of – four poems named after seasons.

Spring reflects natural beauty. Summer stresses on the importance of
man. Autumn speaks about human use of nature. Winter says nature
is subservient to the poet.

120. Pope’s ‘An Essay on Criticism’ is divide into – 3 parts. Part I

deals with the role of taste. Part II speaks about the factors that
misguide man. Part III is a tribute to Longinus. And it attacks John
Dennis and Appius.

121. Pope’s ‘Windsor Forest’ is called as ‘Local Poetry’ by – Dr.

Johnson

122. Pope’s ‘Eloisa to Abelard’ is modelled on – Ovid

123. Pope’s ‘Three Hours After Marriage’ is written in collaboration

with – John Gay and John Arbuthnot. It is called ‘Wasp of
Twickenham’

124. Pope’s ‘Opus Magnum’ is written in – 4 parts. The Essay on Man,

The Dunciad. Third part was never published. Moral Essays of Ethics

125. ‘The Dunciad’ consists of – 3 books

126. ‘The Dunciad’ is Pope’s reply to – Lewis Theobald

127. Pope’s ‘Moral Essays’ has – 4 Epistles. Epistle I – To Cobham (to
characters of men), Epistle II – To a Lady (to characters of women),
Epistle III – To Bathurst, Epistle IV – To the Earl of Burlington.

128. Which work of Pope is titled after its publication? – 1788

129. Who were the transitional poets? – Blake, Gray and Burns

130. Pope’s ‘Imitations of Horace’ has – 11 translations

131. In which play does Horner and Margery Pinchwife appear? – The
Country Wife

132. Who wrote ‘The Indian Emperor’? – Dryden

133. Who wrote the second part of ‘Absalom and Achitophel’? –

Nahum Tate

134. Dryden’s ‘Religion Laici’ is subtitled – A Layman’s Faith

135. The Hind and the Panther has – 3 Parts.

136. The Hind and the Panther is tranversed into the story of – The
Country Mouse and the City Mouse by Matthew Prior and Charles
Montagu

137. What is the subtitle of Dryden’s Troilus and Cressida? – Truth

Found Too Late

138. Whi=o is the hero of The Conquest of Grananda? – Almanzor

139. How many characters does An Essay of Dramatic Poesy have? –

4. Crites representing Sir Robert Howard. Eugenius representing
Charles Sackville. Lisideius representing Sir Charles Sedley. And
Neander representing Dryden himself.

140. Whom does Crites defend? – Ancients

141. Whom does Lisideius defend? – French

 142. Whom does Eugenius defend? – Moderns

Romantics and Victorians - Module I

1. The Victorian period refers to the reign of Queen Victoria of England
during - 1837-1901
2. The critic who called 18th century age of prose and reason – Mathew
Arnold
3. Spencer has been hailed as “the poet's poet” by – Charles Lamb
4. Romantic period is characterized by – Return to nature
5. Mathew Arnold's first published poem – The Strayed Reveller
6. Mary Ann Evans wrote under the pen name of – George Eliot
7. Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for the publication of – On
the Necessity of Atheism
8. Who is known as ‘Elia' the prince among essayists – Charles Lamb
9. Who coined the phrase ‘egotistical sublime’ to describe Wordsworth's
distinctive genius – John Keats
10.Who wrote his own epitaph “Here lies the one whose name is writ in
water “ - John Keats
11.When was the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads published – 1798
12.Which poet is considered a national hero in Greece – Lord Byron
13.In Coleridge’s poem ‘The rime of the Ancient Mariner ‘where were the
three gallants going – A wedding
14.Who wrote the maximum number of sonnets – Wordsworth
15.Who said “Keats was a Greek" – Shelley
16.Who is known as the “Peasant Poet" – John Clare
17.Who wrote The Necessity of Atheism – Shelley
18.Which novel of Jane Austen deals with elopement- Pride and Prejudice
19.Members of Cockney School of Poetry – Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt,
John Keats and Shelley
20.The accession of Queen Victoria took place in – 1837
21.Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in – 1848 by Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais
22.Which age is called age of doubt – The Victorian Age
23.Which novel of Elizabeth Gaskell shows hardships caused by Industrial
Revolution – A tale of Manchester Life
24.Tennyson's In Memoriam was written in memory of – Arthur Henry
Hallam
25.Essays in Criticism is the fundamental work of – Mathew Arnold
26.The Oxford Movement is also known as – Tractarian movement
27.Who is known for Wessex novels – Thomas Hardy
28.Who wrote the Critique of Judgement – Immanuel Kant
29.Shelley's The Defence of Poetry was published in – 1840
30.First generation of poets/Older poets in Romantic age – Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Walter Scot and Robert Southey
31.Second generation of poets/ younger poets – Lord Byron, Shelley and
Keats
32.Queen Victoria became the Empress of India in – 1876
33.Who called the eighteenth century ‘our admirable and indispensable
Eighteenth Century’ – Mathew Arnold
34.“The Restoration marks the real moment of birth of our Modern English
Prose" who makes this observation – Mathew Arnold
35.After whom did Wordsworth become the Poet Laureate of England –
Robert Southey
36.Queen Victoria succeeded to throne after- William IV
37.The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign was celebrated in – 1887
38.Darwin's The Origin of Species by Natural Selection challenges –
Biblical concept of the creation of the world
39.Tennyson was appointed the Poet Laureate after – William Wordsworth
40.The Dynasts is an epic drama written by Hardy, it deals with –
Napoleonic Wars
41.In Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, the two cities referred to are – London
and Paris
42.The theme of Tennyson's Idylls of the King is – The story of King Arthur
and His Round Table
43.The Oxford Movement came into motion with the publication of the book
of verse entitled – The Christian Year by John Keble
44.The Pre Raphaelite School of Poetry is – pictorial and highly musical
45.Who called Pre- Raphaelite poetry ‘Fleshy School of Poetry’ – Robert
Buchanan
46.The Romantic Movement is also called the Romantic Revolt because it
revolted against – The Neo-classical School of Poetry
47.The Romantic Movement is also called ‘The Romantic Revival because it
revived – The values of Elizabethan Poetry
48.Who were the authors of the Lyrical Ballads- Wordsworth and Coleridge
49.The Oxford Movement was basically a – Religious Movement
50.The Oxford Movement was started by- The scholars of the Oxford
University
51.What was common among D.G. Rossetti, William Morris and A.C
Swinburne – They all belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite School
52.Leader of the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists in England – D.G. Rossetti
53.What is common amongst Cardinal Newman, John Keble, Henry
Newman and Stanley- Oxford Movement
54.What is meant by ‘Wessex’ – The region in which Hardy's novels are set
55.Stormy Sisterhood – Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte
56.Founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England – William
Holman Hunt
57.Originator of the Oxford Movement – John Keble
58.The English painters of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood took inspiration
from – The Italian painters before Raphael
59.The Pre-Raphaelite poets generally drew their themes from – Medieval
Ages
60.The Pre-Raphaelite poets believed in the concept of – Art for Art's Sake
61.Title of the series of sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning-
Sonnets from Portuguese
62.The sonnet series entitled River Duddon Sonnets was written by –
Wordsworth
63.Sonnet If Thou Must Love Me by – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
64.Title of collection of sonnets written by George Meredith – Modern Love
65.Shelley wrote a Pastoral Elegy on the death of Keats, it’s title – Adonais
66.Ode to Virgil was penned by- Tennyson
67.Ode to Thomas Moore was penned by- Byron
68.Who mourns the death of the Duke of Wellington in the form of an Ode –
Tennyson
69.Who has paid a tribute to Napoleon in the form of an Ode – Byron
70.Whose death does Mathew Arnold mourn in Rugby Chapel – Death of
his father
71.Whose death does Mathew Arnold mourn in his elegy Thyrsis – A.H.
Clough
72.What kind of elegy is Arnold's Thyrsis – Pastoral Elegy
73.Whose death does Shelley mourn in his elegy Adonais – Keats
74.‘Urania' is referred to as the mother of Keats, who was Urania- The
patron goddess of poets
75.Shelley in his elegy Adonais refers to ‘the herded wolves’ who were
responsible for the death of Keats, who were they- The Scotch Reviewers
who condemned his poetry
76.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written by – Coleridge
77.In which literary age did Poetic Plays become popular – In the Romantic
and Victorian Age
78.Author of Poetic Play Borderers – Wordsworth
79.Play Manfred was penned by – Byron
80.Poetic Play Cenci is written by – Shelley
81.Play Prometheus Unbound was written by – Shelley
82.Play Queen Mary was penned by- Tennyson
83.Author of The Fall of Robespierre – Robert Southey
84.Empedocles on Aetna is written by – Mathew Arnold
85.Author of Play The Promise of May – Tennyson
86.Dramatic monologue Tithonus is written by – Tennyson
87.Dramatic monologue Andrea del Sarto is written by- Robert Browning
88.Who was Andrea Del Sarto – A renowned painter
89.Who was Fra Lippo Lippi on whom Browning has written a dramatic
monologue- A renowned painter
90.From where did Browning got the idea for the title of his monologue
Caliban upon Setebos - Shakespeare's Tempest
91.Author of prose work Confessions of an English Opium-Eater- Thomas
De Quincey
92.Mathew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with – Ethics
93.Basic theme of Arnold's Literature and Dogma – Theology
94.Who is the opium water eater in De Quincey's Confessions of an English
Opium-Eater- De Quincy himself
95.Author of Heroes and Hero-Worship – Thomas Carlyle
96.Author whose essays and articles have been published under the title
Friendship's Garden ‘ Mathew Arnold
97.Whose essays and articles have been published under the title Hours in a
Library – Leslie Stephen
98.Author of volume of essays entitled Men, Women and Books – Leigh
Hunt
99.Who has published his essays under the title The Round Table – William
Hazlitt
100. Whose essays have appeared under the title Imaginary Portraits –
Walter Pater
101. Who wrote the volume Characters of Shakespeare's Plays –
William Hazlitt
102. Who is the author of Biographia Literaria – Coleridge
103. The Prelude is the poetical autobiography of – Wordsworth
104. Who has written the biography of Byron – Thomas Moore
105. Who is the author of The English Comic Characters – William
Hazlitt
106. Who is the author of The Spirit of the Age – William Hazlitt
107. Author of the Castle of Otranto- Horace Walpole
108. The Mysteries of Udolpho is a – Gothic novel
109. Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Nightmare Abbey were novels of –
Jane Austen
110. George Eliot's novel Romola is a – Historical Novel
111. Charles Dickens’s unfinished novel – Edwin Drood
112. In which of Hardy's novels the scene of a wife's auction takes place
– The Mayor of Casterbridge
113. Hardy believed in the philosophy of – Immanent Will
114. Which award was given to Hardy as a great novelist – Order of
Merit
115. Charles Dickens’s most autobiographical novel – David
Copperfield
116. Charles Dickens’s characters are generally – flat
117. Who is the author of Hard Times – Charles Dickens
118. Author of Vanity Fair – Thackeray
119. Novel Jane Eyre was written by – Charlotte Bronte
120. Novel Middle March was written by – George Eliot
121. Critic most elaborately discussed the concept of Imagination- S.T.
Coleridge
122. Who has divided literature into two broad divisions – Literature of
Power and Literature of Knowledge- De Quincey
123. Who gave the concept of Art of Art's sake – Walter Pater
124. Who gave the concept of Art for Life's Sake – Mathew Arnold
125. Wordsworth was popularly known as the poet of – Lake Districts
126. Who accused Wordsworth of being a ‘Lost Leader' – Browning
127. Wordsworth's Prelude is an – Autobiographical poem
128. The phrase “willing suspension of disbelief “is associated with-
Coleridge (Poems on supernatural themes)
129. The Mariner in The Ancient Mariner kills – An albatross
130. Why were the Ancient Mariner and his companions so cursed –For
killing an Albatross
131. Number of parts in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – seven
132. Coleridge has written an Ode addressed to which country- France
133. Coleridge is best known for his concept of- Imagination
134. Christabel is divided into – two parts
135. Name of the sorceress in Christabel – Geraldine
136. Coleridge has written an elegy on the death of – Chatterton
137. Coleridge's poem entitled To A Friend is addressed to – Charles
Lamb
138. Total life span of Shelley- 30 years
139. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford university for the
publication of - On the Necessity of Atheism
140. Shelley's death was caused by – drowning
141. Shelley's The Revolt of Islam dedicated to- Jane Clairmont
142. Shelley’s tragedy The Cenci was dedicated to – Leigh Hunt
143. Shelly's autobiographical poem – Alastor
144. Total span of Keats’ life- 26 years
145. Cause of Keats' death – Disease of Consumption
146. Who said about Keats “He is with Shakespeare” – Mathew Arnold
147. Keats' Volume of Poems of 1817 was dedicated to- Leigh Hunt
148. “Keats was a Greek born in England” said so because – Borrowed
most of his themes from Greek mythology
149. Lord Byron died at the age of – 36 years
150. Byron's Ode to a historical personality – Napoleon Bonaparte
151. Byron wrote an Ode to a poet he admired – Thomas Moore
152. Seven Spirits as characters in which poetic play of Byron –
Manfred
153. Byron dedicate his play titled Cain (Adam &Eve main characters)
to – Sir Walter Scot
154. Byron dedicate his tale Don Juan to – Robert Southey
155. Lamb suffered from a hereditary disease for some time – Streak of
madness
156. How was Lam' mother died – Got killed by Lamb's mad sister
157. Lamb loved a woman, whom he couldn't marry – Ann Simons
158. Who called Lamb “gentle -hearted Charles" – Coleridge
159. Lamb wrote Tales from Shakespeare in collaboration with- Mary
Lamb
160. Dickens was born at- Portsmouth
161. First novel of Dickens- Pickwick Papers (Episodic novel)
162. Most autobiographical novel of Charles Dickens - David
Copperfield
163. Dickens portrays the degradation and sufferings of the poor in
English workhouse in the novel – Oliver Twist
164. Dickens's novel deals with the life of a circus child named Sissy
Jupe- Hard Times
165. Dickens' novel Tale of Two Cities is -Historical novel
166. Tennyson was appointed the Poet Laureate of England after -
William Wordsworth
167. Number of years for completing In Memoriam by Tennyson -17
years
168. The Cup of Tennyson is – A tragedy
169. Tennyson has written a poem on the tomb of a Mughal Emperor-
Akbar
170. Tennyson wore a poem on a city of India – Lucknow
171. Tennyson generally portrays women as – gentle and refined
172. Browning wrote a poem in memory of his died wife – Prospice
(Looking forward to)
173. Mathew Arnold started his career as- Inspector of schools
174. Name of the hero of a novel of Hardy, who rises from the position
of a hay cutter to the position of a Mayor – Michael Henchard (Also
writes his will before his death)
175. Poetical collection of Hardy – Poems of the Past and the Present
176. Walter Scott's most popular novels are about – Scotland
177. Themes of Scott's historical novels cover a period of nearly – eight
centuries
178. Number of novels published by Jane Austen – 6
179. First published novel of Jane Austen- Sense and Sensibility
180. Pride and Prejudice was first published under the title- First
Impressions
181. In how many volumes was Mansfield Park – 3 volumes
182. How many volumes was Persuasion published- 2 volumes
183. The story Lady Susan us developed through – Letters
184. Novel she was writing when she died at 42 years old – Sanditon
185. Kind of novels Jane Austen has written – Domestic novels

Critical Studies I – Module III

1. The book The Prison Notebooks was published by – Antonio

Gramsci
2. Who developed the concept of ‘Cultural hegemony’ – Antonio
Gramsci
3. Gramsci ‘s term ‘political society’ means – society which rules
through force
4. Gramsci's term ‘civil society ‘means – society rules through
consent
5. One of the founders of “Western Marxism” was – Georg Lukas
6. Major works of Lukas – The theory of the Novel of 1916, History
and Class Consciousness of 1923
7. Term ‘historical consciousness’ was by – Lukas
8. Term ‘Commodity fetishism’ was introduced by – Karl Marx
9. Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947) was penned by- Theodore
Adorno
10.The essay “Reification and the consciousness of the proletariat’’
was written by – Lukas
11.Most fundamental ideas of Marxism as Social and political theory
are the concepts of – Base and Superstructure
12.One of the four pillars of Marxist thought – Historical Materialism
13.Means of material production are controlled by – Ruling class
14.What forms the ‘base' of society – The instruments and relations of
production
15.The non-material sphere of ideas which corresponds to the material
sphere of production is known as – superstructure
16.Literature, art and culture are part of – superstructure of society
17.Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels first propounded the ideas of base
and superstructure in – The German Ideology (1845-46) and A
Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
18.The Frankfurt School was also known as – Critical Theory
19.Frankfurt School was founded in- 1923, Germany later moved to
U.S.
20.Prominent figures of first generation of Frankfurt School – Max
Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin,
Friedrich Pollock
21.Since 1970s, second generation began with- Jurgen Habermas
22.Horkheimer and his followers rejected the notion of – Objectivity
in Knowledge
23.Theory of ideology developed by whom provided a foundation for
“post Marxist" philosophy – Louis Althusser
24.The concept of “ideological interpellation" was by – Althusser
25.The essay Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses was
excerpted from – On the Reproduction of Capitalism
26.Althusser’s Repressive State Apparatuses (RSA) constitutes- The
instruments of force like army, police and prison
27.Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA) constitutes- Ideologies like
family, schools, church, media etc.
28.The Communist Manifesto a political document was published by
German philosophers - Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels in 1848,
London
29.Karl Marx was born in – 1818, Prussia
30.Friedrich Engels was born in – 1820 in an industrialist family
31.The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844) was
penned by – Friedrich Engels
32.Gramsci proposed superstructure can be split into two levels – civil
society and political society
33.Three basic factors of the production process – Means of labour,
human labour and the subject of labour
34.Means of labour includes – tools and machinery, buildings and
land used for production
35.Means of Production includes – Capital goods like raw materials,
facilities, machinery and tools.
36.Mode of production includes – means of production used by a
given society, such as factories & other facilities, machines & raw
materials, also includes labour and the organization of labour.
37.The concept refers to the systematic misrepresentation of dominant
social relations in the consciousness of subordinate classes is –
false consciousness
38.Term False consciousness was first used by – Friedrich Engels in
1893
39.A theory that the superstructure of a society mirrors it’s economic
base and by extension that a text reflects the society that produced
it is known as -Reflectionism
 40.The essay titled ‘The Author As Producer’ was written by- Terry
Eagleton
41.From which book the essay comes from- 4th chapter of Terry
Eagleton's Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976)
42.The fourth and final chapter of the book Eagleton considers
literature as a – Commodity
43.Eagleton argues that artist becomes – producer of commodity
44.Author finds that surplus value or profit goes to – publisher of the
work
45.Eagleton looks at the thought two 20th century Marxist thinkers in
the essay they are – Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht
46.Author of 2 essays ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction'(1933) and ‘The Author as Producer ‘(1934) –
Walter Benjamin
47.Eagleton explained about Epic theatre in the essay created by-
Bertolt Brecht
48.Who was author according to Brecht’s worldview – Producer
rather than creator
49.The first three chapters of the book discuss views of – Marx,
Engels & other Marxist thinkers
50.The focus of these chapters is on literature as – Ideology

Critical studies ll (module5)

1.Who introduced the term post truth?

Serbian American playwright Steve Tesich in his 1992 article ‘A
government of lies'. 2.When did postfeminism begin?
Late 1970s
3. Which novel of AmitavGhosh won him the sahithya Academy Award?
The shadow line
4.Deeti,the main character is from which Novel?
Sea of poppies
5.What is the term for ecocrticism in UK?
Green studies
6.An important initial text in ecocriticism ‘The ecocriticism reader: Landmarks
in literary ecology is edited by -____
CheryllGlotfelty & Harold fromm
7.Who defined ecocriticism as ‘The study of the relationship between
literature and physical environment ‘
Cheryll Glotfelty
8.Who was the founder of ecocriticism?
Cheryll Glotfelty
9.Who termed Posthumanism?
Ihab Hissan in his essay ‘Prometheus as performer:Towards a post
humanist culture ‘. 10.Theory that deals with political, social
,technological and environmental issues? Posthumanism
11.What does the interactions between politics of technology and
culture refers to ? Technoculture
12.Who coined the concept of Technoculture?
Salvador Giner
13.Subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that focus on a
combination of low life and high tech?
Cyberpunk
14.Who coined the term ‘Cyberpunk'?
Bruce Bethke , in 1983 for his short story, “ Cyberpunk “
CRITICAL STUDIES II
MODULE II
NEW HISTORICISM

1. Who coined the term ‘New Historicism’

Stephen Greenblatt
2. Stephen Greenblatt’s book Renaissance self fashioning : from more to
Shakespeare published in 1980 is considered as the beginning of _____
New Historicism
3. ____ is based on the parallel reading of literary and non literary texts
usually of the same historical period.
New Historicism
4. Who defined New Historicism as the ‘ textuality of history , the
historicity of texts ‘?
Louis Montrose
5. How does new historicist critic analyse a text ?
Reading literary texts in the light of non literary text
6. When was The Archaeology of Knowledge published?
1969
7. In what language was the book published?
French
8. Which book was written by Foucault before The Archaeology of
Knowledge ?
The Order of things
9. Which of Foucault’s book precede The Archaeology of Knowledge?
Madness and Civilization
10. Foucault summarises the current shift in historical studies as a new
interrogation of what?
The document
11. Which is not the forms of historical unity that Foucault rejects?
Discursive unity
12. What is the central Historical field Addressed by the archaeological
method?
The history of the Sciences.
13. What are the 4 major aspects of discursive unity to emerge from
Foucault’s four hypothesis about discursive unity?
The formation of events
The formation of objects
The formation of enunciative process
14. Which is not one of the science used as an example by Foucault?
Engineering
15. An object of discourse first appear Where?
A surface of emergence.
16. Foucault’s term strategies refers to what aspect of a discourse?
Themes and theories.
17. What is the basic element of discourse?
The statement.
18. Which term refers to a structure in which 2 incompatible Objects,
concepts, types of enunciation have the same conditions of emergence and try to
occupy the same discursive space?
Point of diffraction.
19. The statement is defined by its what?
Associated field.
20. Why is the statement is not reducible to the speech art?
Because the speech art may involve more than one talent.
21. Which cannot be considered a statement?
A row of typewriter keys.
22. The quality of material repeatability applies to what?
Statements only.
23. Materiality is important to statements in what sense?
The sense of material institutions.
24. What term can be defined as the unities of meaning that grammar
recognises in a series of signs?
Sentence.
25. What term can be defined as the act that produce a group of signs
materially ?
Formulation.
26. What term can be defined as the modalities of existence of a series of
signs ?
Statement.
27. In contrast to the history of ideas, How does the archaeological method
approach the field of statement?
As a set of rarities?
28. For archaeology, a discourse is an expression of what?
Nothing.
29. Which term has 2 Extremely different meanings, one in the history of
ideas and other in archaeology?
Regularity.
30. In the history of ideas, Which term can serve as both an obstacle to
overcome in the field of discourse and as a founding principle of discourse?
Contradictions.
31. On what basis can we analyse the ways in which Science is ideological?
On the basis of its discursive relations.
32. In the conclusion, Foucault is accused of being Which of the following?
A structuralist.
33. What is the term for a method of doing history?
Historiography.
34. Which philosophers does Foucault credit with de-emphasizing the role of
individuals in history?
Karl Marx.
35. What branch of philosophy deals with the study of knowledge?
Epistemology.
36. Which of the following is an example of the non discursive domain?
Institutions.
37. Which is the word for an author's collective works?
Oeuvre .
38. What is the Word Foucault prefers to something ‘new ’ like a invention?
Original.
39. What is the word Foucault prefers to the ‘old ‘or the seemingly non-
intentive?
Regular.
40. What word means the object that a word represent?
Referent.
41. Complete the quote. “ In one time, history is that which transfer
documents into _____”
Monuments
42. What is Foucault’s word for chain of related things?
Series.
43. What is the major challenge for contemporary history?
Discontinuity.
44. What is the another word Foucault uses to positively access
discontinuity?
Dispersion.
45. New Historicism refers to iself as ____?
Cultural poetics
46. New Historicism developed during
1980s