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