1. Which ode contains sensuous imagery of taste & intoxication?
A. To Autumn
B. Ode to a Nightingale
C. Grecian Urn
D. Melancholy
2. Who wrote "In Memoriam A.H.H.?"
A. Matthew Arnold
B. Robert Browning
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. Thomas Hardy
3. “A.H.H.” in In Memoriam A.H.H. stands for:
A. Alfred Henry Hallam
B. Arthur Henry Hardy
C. Arthur Henry Hallam
D. Arnold Hugh Hallam
4. The creator questioned in "The Tyger" is associated with:
A. Benevolence only
B. Duality of creation (good & evil)
C. Scientific progress
D. Political revolution
5. Which symbol dominates "The Lamb?"
A. Industrial power
B. Christian innocence / Christ figure
C. Gothic terror
D. Classical heroism
6. The speaker of Tennyson's "Ulysses" is:
A. Telemachus
B. Poet himself
C. Mythical hero reflecting on old age
D. Sailor narrator
7. Which is an indoor Jacobean theatre?
A. Globe
B. Rose
C. Blackfriars Theatre
D. Swan
8. Elizabeth Barrett Browning died in:
A. 1846
B. 1855
C. 1861
D. 1870
9. Which statement is FALSE?
A. Browning married Elizabeth Barrett
B. Browning lived in Italy
C. Browning belonged to the Lake Poets
D. Browning wrote dramatic monologues
10. Which writer is buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral instead of Poets’ Corner?
A. Tennyson
B. Browning
C. John Milton
D. Dickens
11. Which author has a memorial but is NOT buried in Poets’ Corner?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Robert Browning
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. Charles Dickens
12. Which pairing is INCORRECT?
A. The Lamb → Innocence
B. The Tyger → Experience
C. Blake → Symbolism
D. The Tyger → Pastoral serenity
13. Which metre is used in epic poetry traditionally?
A. Iambic tetrameter
B. Trochaic trimeter
C. Dactylic hexameter
D. Anapestic dimeter
14. A narrative that begins in the middle of events is called:
A. Flashback
B. In medias res
C. Prologue
D. Frame narrative
15. An autodiegetic narrator is:
A. External narrator
B. Multiple narrator
C. Narrator who is also the protagonist
D. Unreliable narrator
16. Which pairing is INCORRECT?
A. Volpone → Ben Jonson → Jacobean
B. Doctor Faustus → Marlowe → Elizabethan
C. The Duchess of Malfi → Shakespeare → Jacobean
D. Hamlet → Shakespeare → Elizabethan
17. Pastoral elegy is associated with:
A. Dryden
B. Pope
C. Milton
D. Keats
18. “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains…”
Identify the ode:
A. Ode on Melancholy
B. Ode to Psyche
C. Ode to a Nightingale
D. Ode on Indolence
19. “Deus ex machina” refers to:
A. Comic misunderstanding
B. Artificial plot resolution
C. Tragic flaw
D. Chorus entry
20. Which is NOT a figure of speech?
A. Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Plot
D. Hyperbole
21. Which protagonist is known for “stream of consciousness”?
A. Robinson Crusoe
B. Stephen Dedalus
C. Tom Jones
D. David Copperfield
22. Which is NOT a revenge tragedy?
A. Hamlet
B. The Spanish Tragedy
C. The Duchess of Malfi
D. Volpone
23. Setting in a novel refers to:
A. Theme
B. Plot structure
C. Time and place of action
D. Character sketch
24. Which statement BEST distinguishes narrator from protagonist?
A. Narrator = hero
B. Protagonist = speaker
C. Narrator = teller; Protagonist = central actor
D. No difference
25. Which novel features a narrator who is also the protagonist?
A. The Great Gatsby
B. Jane Eyre
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Heart of Darkness
26. “Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art…”
This poem is technically a:
A. Pindaric ode
B. Horatian ode
C. Sonnet
D. Elegy
27. Who belongs to Enlightenment feminist thought?
A. Simone de Beauvoir
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Mary Wollstonecraft
D. Judith Butler
28. Which rhyme scheme is typical of a Shakespearean sonnet?
A. ABBA ABBA CDC DCD
B. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
C. AABB CCDD EEFF GG
D. ABC ABC ABC ABC
29. Girish Karnad’s plays often reinterpret:
A. Victorian realism
B. Myth and history
C. Absurdism only
D. Puranic poetry
30. Which thinker emphasizes financial independence as a prerequisite for artistic creation?
A. Wollstonecraft
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Beauvoir
D. Elaine Showalter
31. Which feature BEST distinguishes an ode from an elegy?
A. Both mourn death
B. Ode celebrates/exalts; elegy laments/mourns
C. Ode is narrative
D. Elegy is dramatic
32. “Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget…”
Identify the ode:
A. Ode on Indolence
B. Ode to a Nightingale
C. Ode on Melancholy
D. Ode to Psyche
33. Mary Wollstonecraft’s central demand in "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" is:
A. Sexual liberation
B. Political revolution
C. Equal education for women
D. Economic independence
34. "Tughlaq" by Girish Karnad was first performed/published in:
A. 1964
B. 1974
C. 1972
D. 1988
35. In "The Great Gatsby", the narrator is:
A. Jay Gatsby
B. Nick Carraway
C. Tom Buchanan
D. Daisy Buchanan
36. Which work is an autobiography?
A. Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"
B. Gandhi’s "The Story of My Experiments with Truth"
C. Lytton Strachey’s "Eminent Victorians"
D. Plutarch’s "Lives"
37. Who is the author of "The Story of My Life?"
A. Anne Sullivan
B. Helen Keller
C. Mark Twain
D. Laura Bridgman
38. Which is NOT a stanza form?
A. Tercet
B. Quatrain
C. Caesura
D. Sestet
39. Which sensory impairments did Helen Keller experience?
A. Blindness only
B. Deafness only
C. Blindness and deafness
D. Muteness only
40. "Silence! The Court is in Session" was first staged in:
A. 1956
B. 1984
C. 1975
D. 1967
41. The protagonist of "The Spanish Tragedy" is:
A. Hamlet
B. Vindice
C. Hieronimo
D. Bosola
42. Which theme is MOST strongly reinforced by the line “Ignorance is bliss”?
A. Heroic ambition
B. Rational enlightenment
C. Suffering caused by foreknowledge of life’s miseries
D. Moral didacticism
43. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” is stated by:
A. Mary Wollstonecraft
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Simone de Beauvoir
D. Betty Friedan
44. Which play is NOT by William Shakespeare?
A. Hamlet
B. Macbeth
C. The Duchess of Malfi
D. King Lear
45. Christopher Marlowe is BEST known for:
A. Comedy of humours
B. Heroic tragedies
C. Domestic tragedy
D. Tragicomedy
46. Restoration drama begins in England in:
A. 1603
B. 1660
C. 1700
D. 1649
47. “Pathetic fallacy” refers to:
A. Exaggeration
B. Moral lesson
C. Attributing human emotions to nature
D. Comic relief
48. “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes” refers to:
A. Endgame
B. Waiting for Godot
C. Krapp’s Last Tape
D. Happy Days
49. Which poetic device involves contradiction?
A. Simile
B. Metonymy
C. Paradox
D. Assonance
50. Which poet is MOST closely associated with the revival of the ode in English Romantic poetry?
A. Byron
B. Shelley
C. Keats
D. Wordsworth