1. Which Beckett play consists largely of a woman buried in earth?
A. Play
B. Endgame
C. Happy Days
D. Not I
2. Which play features characters Hamm and Clov?
A. Waiting for Godot
B. Endgame
C. Happy Days
D. Play
3. The correct chronological order of the trilogy of Samuel Becket's is:
A. Molloy → The Unnamable → Malone Dies
B. Malone Dies → Molloy → The Unnamable
C. Molloy → Malone Dies → The Unnamable
D. The Unnamable → Molloy → Malone Dies
4. Beckett worked closely with Joyce during the composition of:
A. Ulysses
B. Dubliners
C. Finnegans Wake
D. A Portrait of the Artist
5. The term “epiphany,” as used by Joyce, refers to:
A. Religious revelation
B. Sudden spiritual or psychological insight
C. Narrative climax
D. Moral judgment
6. "Dubliners" was first published in:
A. 1907
B. 1910
C. 1914
D. 1922
7. "Dubliners" consists of how many stories?
A. 12
B. 14
C. 15
D. 16
8. "My Last Duchess” was first published in:
A. 1838
B. 1842
C. 1845
D. 1855
9. The speaker of the poem "My Last Duchess":
A. Robert Browning
B. The Duchess
C. A Count
D. The Duke of Ferrara
10. Which Tennyson poem reflects Victorian ideals of perseverance and duty?
A. My Last Duchess
B. Fra Lippo Lippi
C. Ulysses
D. Andrea del Sarto
11. Browning’s monologues often involve:
A. Soliloquy without audience
B. A silent listener within the poem
C. Chorus commentary
D. Direct address to readers
12. Which theme recurs most frequently in Christina Rossetti’s poetry?
A. Imperialism
B. Industrial progress
C. Love, loss, and spiritual longing
D. Social reform
13. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
This line best reflects:
A. Browning’s ironic heroism
B. Tennyson’s Victorian idealism
C. Dramatic irony
D. Psychological corruption
14. Rossetti’s poetry is often interpreted through the lens of:
A. Marxist criticism
B. Feminist criticism
C. New Historicism
D. Structuralism
15. Which pairing is INCORRECT?
A. Poems — 1847
B. Goblin Market and Other Poems — 1862
C. The Prince’s Progress — 1866
D. A Pageant — 1871
***Correct year: 1881***
16. Katherine Mansfield is best known for her contribution to:
A. Victorian novel
B. Modernist short story
C. Romantic poetry
D. Realist drama
17. Which writer most strongly influenced Mansfield’s short fiction technique?
A. Charles Dickens
B. Henry James
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Anton Chekhov
18. The character Laura Sheridan appears in:
A. Bliss
B. Prelude
C. The Garden Party
D. At the Bay
19. Virginia Woolf was a central figure of the:
A. Georgian Poets
B. Bloomsbury Group
C. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
D. Lake Poets
20. Which novel by Woolf takes place over a single day?
A. To the Lighthouse
B. Mrs Dalloway
C. The Waves
D. Between the Acts
21. Which classical figure does Shelley re-interpret as a symbol of rebellion?
A. Hercules
B. Apollo
C. Prometheus
D. Orpheus
22. Shelley’s "Alastor" is subtitled:
A. The Spirit of Solitude
B. The Triumph of Life
C. A Vision of Youth
D. The Revolt of Islam
23. "A woman must have money and a room of her own…” comes from:
A. Three Guineas
B. A Room of One’s Own
C. Mrs Dalloway
D. The Common Reader
24. Katherine Mansfield was a contemporary and sometimes rival of:
A. George Eliot
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Dorothy Richardson
D. Jean Rhys
25. Which of the following is Christina Rossetti’s earliest poetry collection?
A. Poems (1847)
B. Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
C. The Prince’s Progress (1866)
D. A Pageant (1881)
26. "To the Lighthouse" is divided into how many parts?
A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. Five
***The Window – Time Passes – The Lighthouse***
27. "Orlando" is often described as:
A. A historical epic
B. A feminist fantasy biography
C. A realist novel
D. A political allegory
28. Shelley’s "Prometheus Unbound" is divided into:
A. Three acts
B. Four acts
C. Five acts
D. Twelve books
29. Katherine Mansfield died at the age of:
A. 29
B. 34
C. 38
D. 42
30. "Prometheus Unbound" is best described as a:
A. Classical tragedy
B. Epic poem
C. Lyrical drama
D. Moral allegory
31. Which Romantic poet sees myth as a vehicle for prophetic vision?
A. Byron
B. Wordsworth
C. Blake
D. Keats
32. Which of the following works is NOT by Thomas Hardy?
A. The Mayor of Casterbridge
B. Jude the Obscure
C. The Return of the Native
D. North and South
33. "Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song” appears in
A. The Waste Land
B. Prothalamion
C. Astrophel and Stella
D. Lycidas
34. Which novel is structured as a Bildungsroman?
A. Wuthering Heights
B. Great Expectations
C. Frankenstein
D. Dracula
35. In "Waiting for Godot," time is
A. Progressive
B. Cyclical
C. Static and meaningless
D. Linear
36. Marxist criticism views literature as
A. Autonomous art
B. Reflection of ideology
C. Psychological expression
D. Moral philosophy
37. Which text is foundational to Feminist criticism?
A. The Second Sex
B. The Feminine Mystique
C. Gender Trouble
D. All of the above
38. "Hybridity” is a key concept in
A. Structuralism
B. Postcolonialism
C. New Criticism
D. Ecocriticism
39. Which novel is NOT Victorian?
A. Middlemarch
B. Jane Eyre
C. Great Expectations
D. Ulysses
40. Aristotle’s Poetics focuses primarily on
A. Comedy
B. Lyric poetry
C. Epic
D. Tragedy
41. Gothic fiction emphasizes
A. Rationality
B. Supernatural fear
C. Social realism
D. Moral didacticism
42. Who wrote "The Anatomy of Criticism?"
A. I. A. Richards
B. Northrop Frye
C. Cleanth Brooks
D. F. R. Leavis
43. The Chicago Critics are associated with
A. Formalism
B. Aristotelian criticism
C. Marxism
D. Psychoanalysis
44. Bakhtin’s concept of “Carnivalesque” relates to
A. Epic poetry
B. Tragedy
C. Novel
D. Lyric
45. Who coined the term “New Historicism”?
A. Stephen Greenblatt
B. Raymond Williams
C. Louis Althusser
D. Hayden White
46. The “Big Three” Victorian novelists include
A. Dickens, Hardy, Eliot
B. Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot
C. Hardy, Eliot, Gaskell
D. Dickens, Brontë, Hardy
47. The Indian English novel begins with
A. R. K. Narayan
B. Mulk Raj Anand
C. Raja Rao
D. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
48. The setting of R. K. Narayan’s "The Guide" is
A. Malgudi, South India
B. Mumbai
C. Delhi
D. Kolkata
49. The setting of "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë is
A. Yorkshire Moors
B. London
C. Cornwall Coast
D. Lake District
50. Which play belongs to Comedy of Humours?
A. Volpone
B. Every Man in His Humour
C. The Alchemist
D. All of the above