1) “ A man can die but once” is one of quote of following plays ? a. Henry 6 part three b. Henry 4 part two c. Henry 6 part one d. Henry 4 part one
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2) Following are the characters of: Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus, Sempronius ? a. Coriolanus b. Cymbeline c. Timon of Athens d. Winter’s tale
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3) Hamlet consist of _____________acts? a. 3 b. 4 c. 5 d. 6
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4) Which of Shakespeare’s play features Sir John Falstaff ? a. The merry wives of Windsor b. Troilus and Cressida c. King John d. Titus Andronicus
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5) ____________was father of Desdemona ? a. Othello b. Brabantio c. Iago d. Gratiano
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6) Which of the following tragedy is not written by Shakespeare ? a. Hamlet b. Macbeth c. King Lear d. King Oedipus
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7) Who was villain in Othello ? a. Claudius b. Iago c. Egeus d. None of above
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8) Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare ? a. A mid summer night’s dream b. Much ado about nothing c. As you like it d. Love’s labour’s lost
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9) Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower ? a. Gertrude b. Polonius c. Horatio d. Hamlet
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10) The style of Paradise Lost is ? a. more Latin than most poems b. more spontaneous than thought out c. more satirical than spontaneous d. more dramatic than lyrical
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11) Which of Shakespeare’s characters exclaims; ‘Brave, new, world!’ ? a. Ferdinand b. Antonio c. Miranda d. Prospero
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12) O, you are sick of self-love’ Who is referred to in these words in Twelfth Night ? a. Orsino b. Sir Andrew c. Sir Toby d. Malvolio
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13) The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced by the ? a. French Revolution b. Glorious Revolution of1688 c. Reformation d. Oxford Movement
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14) Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen ? a. Sense and Sensibility b. Mansfield Park c. Sandition d. Persuasion
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15) Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is included in ? a. Dramatis Personae b. Dramatic Idyls c. Asolando d. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country
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16) Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’ ? a. Wordsworth b. Coleridge c. Lamb d. Shelley
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17) When Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality Ode’ was first published in 1802, it had only ? a. Stanzas I to IV b. Stanzas I toV c. Stanzas I to VI d. Stanzas I to VII
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18) ‘Heaven lies about us in our infancy’. This line occurs in the poem ? a. Immortality Ode b. Tintern Abbey c. The Second Coming d. Leda and the Swan
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19) “The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance.” This line occurs in ? a. Hamlet b. Henry IV,Pt I c. The Tempest d. Twelfth Night
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20) Thackeray’s “Esmond” is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of ____________? a. the Medieval age b. the Elizabethan age c. the age of Queen Anne d. the Victorian age
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21) Essays of Ella are ? a. full of didactic sermonising b. practically autobiographical fragments c. remarkable for their aphoristic style d. satirical and critical
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22) Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare’s greatest ? a. comic figures b. historical figures c. romantic figures d. tragic figures
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23) Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled ? a. ‘Last Impressions’ b. ‘False Impressions’ c. ‘First Impressions’ d. ‘True Impressions’
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24) “The better part of valour is discretion” occurs in Shakespeare’s ? a. Hamlet b. Twelfth Night c. The Tempest d. Henry IV, Pt I
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25) The title of Carlyle’s ‘Sartor Resartus’ means ? a. Religious Scripture b. Seaside Resort c. Tailor Repatched d. None of these
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26) The most notable characteristic of Keats’ poetry is ? a. Satire b. Sensuality c. Sensuousness d. Social reform
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27) “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” The above lines have been taken from ? a. The Waste Land b. Tintern Abbey c. The Second Coming d. Prayer for My Daughter
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28) Who wrote “Biographia Literaria” ? a. Byron b. Shelley c. Coleridge d. Lamb
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29) Tracts for the Times relates to ? a. The Oxford Movement b. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement c. The Romantic Movement d. The Symbolist Movement
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30) Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem ‘Ode to the West Wind’ ? a. Rime royal b. Ottava rima c. Terza rima d. Spenserian Stanza
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31) What was the cause of William’s death in Sons and Lovers ? a. An accident b. An overdose of morphia c. Suicide d. Pneumonia
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32) Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge” ? a. Wordsworth b. Shelley c. Keats d. Coleridge
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33) “Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.” Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night ? a. Duke Orsino b. Malvolio c. Sir Andrew Aguecheek d. Sir Toby Belch
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34) Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ? a. A teacher b. A clerk c. A thief d. A dentist
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35) Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson “Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.” ? a. Oxymoron b. Metaphor c. Simile d. Synecdoche
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36) Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry ? a. Sir Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare c. Earl of Surrey d. Milton
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37) Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner ? a. The Stones of Venice b. The Two Paths c. The Seven Lamps of Architecture d. Modem Painters
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38) Carlyle’s work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of ? a. six lectures b. five lectures c. four lectures d. seven lectures
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39) Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London ? a. Charles Lamb b. William Wordsworth c. Leigh Hunt d. S. T. Coleridge
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40) The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in ? a. 1823 b. 1826 c. 1834 d. 1833
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