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Practice Set 13

December 18, 2025
Questionnaire

1. The unreliable narrator is more commonly associated with—

A. Neo-Classicism

B. Romanticism

C. Modernism

D. Victorianism

 

2. Which term refers to mixing high and low culture?

A. Pastiche

B. Parody

C. Fragmentation

D. Foregrounding

 

3. Fragmentation as a technique reflects—

A. Confidence in tradition

B. Religious certainty

C. Crisis of meaning and modern experience

D. Moral didacticis

 

4. The action of Joyce’s Ulysses takes place in—

A. London

B. Rome

C. Dublin

D. Ithaca

 

5. Which work best exemplifies fragmentation?

A. Middlemarch

B. Pride and Prejudice

C. The Waste Land

D. Tom Jones

 

6. The concept of the “Mythical Method” was proposed by—

A. James Joyce

B. Ezra Pound

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Virginia Woolf

 

7. Which novel best exemplifies Stream of Consciousness?

A. Middlemarch

B. Mrs Dalloway

C. Hard Times

D. Lord of the Flies

 

8. Which of the following is NOT a Modernist writer?

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Virginia Woolf

C. James Joyce

D. Charles Dickens

 

9. Which writer is most closely associated with Postmodern fiction?

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. William Faulkner

C. Thomas Pynchon

D. D. H. Lawrence

 

10. "The Old Man and the Sea" won the Pulitzer Prize in—

A. 1950

B. 1953

C. 1954

D. 1956

 

11. Earnest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in—

A. 1945

B. 1949

C. 1952

D. 1954

 

12. "The Sun Also Rises" portrays the—

A. Beat Generation

B. Lost Generation

C. Angry Young Men

D. Jazz Age writers

 

13. The phrase “Jazz Age” was coined by—

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Gertrude Stein

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. John Dos Passos

 

14. The Angry Young Men movement originated in—

A. America

B. France

C. Germany

D. England

 

15. "Look Back in Anger" was written by—

A. Alan Sillitoe

B. Kingsley Amis

C. John Osborne

D. John Braine

 

16. Which writer is associated with both the Jazz Age and the Lost Generation?

A. Jack Kerouac

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. Allen Ginsberg

D. John Osborne

 

17. Which poet wrote Howl?

A. Ezra Pound

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Allen Ginsberg

D. Gregory Corso

 

18. "Look Back in Anger" was first performed in—

A. 1948

B. 1952

C. 1956

D. 1960

 

19. John Osborne’s drama helped to establish—

A. Poetic drama

B. Theatre of the Absurd

C. Kitchen-sink realism

D. Symbolist theatre

 

20. Jazz Age literature often reflects—

A. Medieval chivalry

B. Economic depression

C. Materialism and social change of the 1920s

D. Colonial resistance

 

21. Symbolist drama rejects—

A. Music and poetry

B. Dialogue

C. Naturalistic representation

D. Myth

 

22. Symbolist theatre emphasizes—

A. Photographic realism

B. External action

C. Mood, atmosphere, and suggestion

D. Social protest

 

23. Kitchen-sink realism is primarily associated with—

A. French Symbolism

B. Postmodern drama

C. British post-war theatre

D. Classical tragedy

 

24. Which work is NOT by Rabindranath Tagore?

A. Gora

B. The Home and the World

C. The Guide

D. Gitanjali

 

25. "Train to Pakistan" is primarily set during—

A. Quit India Movement

B. Bengal Famine

C. Partition of India

D. Non-Cooperation Movement

 

26. Which novel by Mulk Raj Anand focuses on caste oppression?

A. Coolie

B. Untouchable

C. Two Leaves and a Bud

D. The Private Life of an Indian Prince

 

27. Which of the following plays is NOT by Shakespeare?

A. Pericles

B. Edward II

C. The Tempest

D. Cymbeline

 

28. Which work is written by Chinua Achebe?

A. Season of Migration to the North

B. Things Fall Apart

C. Petals of Blood

D. The God of Small Things

 

29. The “Mythical Method” is discussed in—

A. Tradition and the Individual Talent

B. Ulysses, Order and Myth

C. The Metaphysical Poets

D. Hamlet and His Problems

 

30. Which novel is an example of Magic Realism?

A. Heart of Darkness

B. Midnight’s Children

C. A Passage to India

D. Sons and Lovers

 

31. Who wrote "Silence! The Court Is in Session?"

A. Girish Karnad

B. Vijay Tendulkar

C. Mahesh Dattani

D. Badal Sircar

 

32. The phrase “Incredulity towards metanarratives” is associated with—

A. Derrida

B. Foucault

C. Lyotard

D. Barthes

33. The protagonist of "Lucky Jim" is—

A. Jimmy Porter

B. Jim Dixon

C. Charles Ryder

D. Arthur Seaton

 

34. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in:

A. 1924

B. 1925

C. 1926

D. 1927

 

35. "Lucky Jim" is written by—

A. John Osborne

B. Kingsley Amis

C. John Braine

D. Alan Sillitoe

 

36. "Lucky Jim' was first published in—

A. 1952

B. 1954

C. 1956

D. 1959

 

37. "Lucky Jim" is most closely associated with—

A. Beat Generation

B. Lost Generation

C. Angry Young Men

D. Jazz Age writers

 

38. "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville was first published in:

A. 1850

B. 1851

C. 1852

D. 1853

 

39. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë was first published in:

A. 1846

B. 1847

C. 1848

D. 1850

 

40. Which literary magazine was a key platform for the Lost Generation writers?

A. The Egoist

B. The Little Review

C. Vanity Fair

D. The Criterion

 

41. John Millington Synge’s works are known for their—

A. Urban realism

B. Poetic depiction of rural Irish life

C. Victorian sentimentality

D. Symbolist abstraction

 

42. Emily Brontë died in—

A. 1847

B. 1848

C. 1849

D. 1850

 

43. Who was a literary mentor and friend of W. B. Yeats, supporting him in early Irish literary magazines?

A. Ezra Pound

B. Lady Gregory

C. T. E. Hulme

D. John Millington Synge

 

44. "Wuthering Heights" is a story primarily about

A. Victorian social etiquette

B. Passionate love and revenge

C. Colonial India

D. Industrial city life

 

45. Which Bronte sister wrote "Agnes Grey?"

A. Charlotte

B. Emily

C. Anne

D. Maria

 

46. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” — said by:

A. Aldous Huxley

B. George Orwell

C. H. G. Wells

D. D. H. Lawrence

 

47. "The Gift of the Magi" was written by—

A. Mark Twain

B. O. Henry

C. James Joyce

D. Rudyard Kipling

 

48. John Millington Synge collaborated with which theatre company?

A. Abbey Theatre

B. Gate Theatre

C. Royal Shakespeare Company

D. National Theatre

 

49.Which magazine first published T. S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?"

A. The Criterion

B. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse

C. The Egoist

D. Dial

 

50. "Riders to the Sea" was first performed in—

A. 1902

B. 1903

C. 1904

D. 1905