1. Compared to Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained is best described as a:
A. Mock epic
B. Epic fragment
C. Pastoral epic
D. Brief epic
2. Which work is called a “brief epic” by Barbara K. Lewalski?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Samson Agonistes
C. Paradise Regained
D. Lycidas
3. Which epic poet is especially famous for extended epic similes drawn from nature and warfare?
A. Dante
B. Homer
C. Chaucer
D. Spenser
4. Which of the following characters does NOT appear in "The Four PP?"
A. Pardoner
B. Palmer
C. Apothecary
D. Ploughman
5. The historical setting of "The Black Hill" is:
A. Early 18th century Central India
B. Late 19th century Bengal
C. Mid-19th century Northeast India
D. Early 20th century Assam
6. Which real historical event is referenced in "The Black Hill?"
A. The Sepoy Mutiny
B. The Treaty of Yandabo
C. The disappearance of a French priest
D. The Battle of Plassey
7. In "The Black Hill," the fictional love story is between:
A. Bompo and Nenem
B. Gimur and Nenem
C. Gimur and Kajinsha
D. Kajinsha and Pinyar
8. The concept of the "Theatre of Cruelty" was developed by:
A. Bertolt Brecht
B. Jerzy Grotowski
C. Antonin Artaud
D. Peter Brook
9. Saleem Sinai in "Midnight’s Children" is born at:
A. The end of World War II
B. Dawn on 26 January 1950
C. Midnight on 15 August 1947
D. Noon on 14 August 1947
10. The character known as the “English patient” is described as:
A. A British officer
B. A German spy
C. A nameless, badly burned man
D. A desert explorer with amnesia
11. "The English Patient" is set primarily:
A. In colonial India
B. In a desert hospital
C. In an Italian villa at the end of World War II
D. In postwar London
12. Interior monologue and stream of consciousness are hallmarks of:
A. Magical realism
B. Romanticism
C. Postmodernism
D. Modernism
13. Which pair is correctly matched?
A. James Joyce — Magical realism
B. Virginia Woolf — Magical realism
C. Gabriel García Márquez — Modernism
D. Salman Rushdie — Magical realism
14. Which work introduced 'Transformational–Generative Grammar?'
A. Language and Responsibility
B. Syntactic Structures (1957)
C. The Chomsky Reader
D. Reflections on Language
15. Noam Chomsky is primarily associated with:
A. Structuralism
B. Behaviourism
C. Generative linguistics
D. Functionalism
16. Harold Pinter’s early plays were described by critics as examples of:
A. Theatre of Cruelty
B. Absurd drama
C. Comedy of menace
D. Social realism
17. John Osborne’s "Look Back in Anger" was first staged at:
A. Royal Court Theatre
B. Old Vic
C. Royal Court Theatre, London
D. National Theatre
18. The term “episteme” is associated with:
A. Derrida
B. Michel Foucault
C. Lacan
D. Althusser
19. Which of the following is NOT an epic convention?
A. Epic simile
B. Catalogue of warriors
C. Stream of consciousness
D. Elevated style
20. The opening line of Paradise Lost announces the theme of:
A. Fall of Satan
B. Creation of the world
C. Man’s first disobedience
D. Redemption through Christ
21. The term “intentional fallacy” was proposed by:
A. Northrop Frye
B. W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
C. Roland Barthes
D. F. R. Leavis
22. Which theme dominates Modern British Drama after World War II?
A. Medieval morality
B. Aristocratic romance
C. Alienation and disillusionment
D. Colonial expansion
23.The playwright of "Sakharam Binder" is:
A. Girish Karnad
B. Vijay Tendulkar
C. Badal Sircar
D. Mahesh Dattani
24. Which of the following plays is categorized as a “memory play”?
A. The Dumb Waiter
B. The Caretaker
C. No Man’s Land
D. The Birthday Party
25. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s question “Can the Subaltern Speak?” mainly addresses:
A. Nationalism
B. Marxist class struggle
C. Silencing of marginalized voices
D. Cultural hybridity
26. The line “They also serve who only stand and wait” occurs in:
A. Lycidas
B. Samson Agonistes
C. Paradise Lost
D. On His Blindness (Sonnet 19)
27. "Dejection: An Ode" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was written in:
A. 1798
B. 1800
C. 1802
D. 1807
28. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is based on characters from:
A. Macbeth
B. King Lear
C. Othello
D. Hamlet
29. "Waiting for Godot" is often linked with British drama though its author was:
A. English
B. Irish
C. Scottish
D. Welsh
30. Which of the following statements about "Sakharam Binder" is TRUE?
A. It was never staged in India
B. It was translated first into Hindi
C. It was banned in India in 1974
D. It won the Sahitya Akademi Award
31. Which historical event forms the immediate political background of "Absalom and Achitophel?"
A. English Civil War
B. Restoration of Charles II
C. Exclusion Crisis (1679–81)
D. Glorious Revolution
32. In "Absalom and Achitophel," King David represents:
A. Oliver Cromwell
B. Charles II
C. James II
D. William III
33. Which character in "She Stoops to Conquer" provides the comic misunderstanding by mistaking a house for an inn?
A. Tony Lumpkin
B. Hastings
C. Marlow
D. Hardcastle
34. "The Traveller" is subtitled:
A. The Progress of Society
B. The Decline of Empire
C. A Prospect of Society
D. The Growth of Nations
35. 'Dr. Primrose' is the central character of:
A. She Stoops to Conquer
B. The Traveller
C. The Vicar of Wakefield
D. The Good-Natured Man
36. Keats introduced the term “Negative Capability” in:
A. Preface to Endymion
B. Letter to George and Tom Keats (1817)
C. Letter to Shelley
D. Preface to Hyperion
37. Goldsmith opposed “laughing comedy” and instead advocated:
A. Comedy of manners
B. Farce
C. Sentimental comedy
D. Tragicomedy
38. Which literary age most frequently used Biblical allegory for political purposes?
A. Elizabethan Age
B. Jacobean Age
C. Restoration Age
D. Romantic Age
39. Which of the following pairs is INCORRECT in Biblical allegory?
A. David — Charles II
B. Absalom — Duke of Monmouth
C. Achitophel — Earl of Shaftesbury
D. Solomon — Oliver Cromwell
40. Which Muse is associated with epic poetry?
A. Erato
B. Euterpe
C. Calliope
D. Thalia
41. “For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood…”
The poem is:
A. Tintern Abbey
B. Prelude
C. Daffodils
D. Michael
42. The poet who coined the phrase “Ignorance is bliss” is:
A. Alexander Pope
B. William Collins
C. Thomas Gray
D. Oliver Goldsmith
43. Thomas Gray belongs to which literary movement?
A. Romantic
B. Victorian
C. Pre-Romantic / Transitional
D. Modern
44. 'Invocation of the Muse' is a characteristic feature of:
A. Lyric poetry
B. Pastoral poetry
C. Epic poetry
D. Elegy
45. Which play is a meta-theatrical satire on bad drama?
A. The Rivals
B. The School for Scandal
C. The Critic
D. The Duenna
46. Which statement about Keats is TRUE?
A. He rejected imagination
B. He was a Victorian poet
C. He belonged to the second generation of Romantic poets
D. He wrote mainly political verse
47. Which of the following is NOT a traditional type of ode?
A. Pindaric
B. Horatian
C. Pastoral
D. Irregular
48. “Where ignorance is bliss,
’Tis folly to be wise.”
Identify the work:
A. The Deserted Village
B. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
C. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
D. The Traveller
49. “Arms and the man I sing…”
Identify the work:
A. Iliad
B. Aeneid
C. Paradise Lost
D. The Faerie Queene
50. Which English poet replaces the classical Muse with the “Heav’nly Muse”?
A. Chaucer
B. Spenser
C. Milton
D. Dryden