1. Which novelist created the fictional town of Malgudi?
A. Mulk Raj Anand
B. R. K. Narayan
C. Raja Rao
D. Salman Rushdie
2. Who is the unreliable narrator in "Midnight’s Children?"
A. Shiva
B. Aadam Aziz
C. Saleem Sinai
D. Ahmed Sinai
3. In which year did William Faulkner receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A. 1946
B. 1949
C. 1954
D. 1962
4. Who described Faulkner as “the greatest artist the South has produced”?
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Malcolm Cowley
C. Ralph Ellison
D. Robert Penn Warren
5. Which of the following works by William Faulkner won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
A. The Sound and the Fury
B. As I Lay Dying
C. A Fable
D. Light in August
6. The phrase “heresy of paraphrase” was coined by
A. T. S. Eliot
B. I. A. Richards
C. Cleanth Brooks
D. Wimsatt
7. The “heresy of paraphrase” argues that
A. Poetry should be summarized
B. Meaning exists outside the text
C. Poetic meaning cannot be reduced to prose
D. Context determines meaning
8. Which of the following critics is NOT associated with New Criticism?
A. Cleanth Brooks
B. W. K. Wimsatt
C. I. A. Richards
D. Northrop Frye
9. The essay “The Language of Paradox” appears in
A. Practical Criticism
B. The Well Wrought Urn
C. Seven Types of Ambiguity
D. Anatomy of Criticism
10. Which of the following best illustrates paradox?
A. “The sun rises in the east.”
B. “Sweet sorrow.”
C. “The earth revolves.”
D. “Two plus two is four.”
11. Paradox in New Criticism is closely linked with
A. Mimesis
B. Irony
C. Catharsis
D. Sublime
12. According to Aristotle, tragedy is an imitation of
A. Character
B. Action
C. Emotion
D. Fate
13. Which of the following emotions are central to catharsis?
A. Love and hatred
B. Joy and sorrow
C. Pity and fear
D. Anger and revenge
14. Which philosopher considered poetry dangerous to society?
A. Aristotle
B. Horace
C. Plato
D. Longinus
15. Which Greek critic introduced hamartia as a tragic concept?
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Sophocles
D. Horace
16. The setting of Oedipus Rex is
A. Athens
B. Corinth
C. Delphi
D. Thebes
17. Ben Jonson’s famous tribute to Shakespeare appears in
A. Second Folio
B. Third Folio
C. First Folio
D. Fourth Folio
18. Which portrait of Shakespeare appears in the First Folio?
A. Chandos Portrait
B. Droeshout Engraving
C. Cobbe Portrait
D. Sanders Portrait
19. The character Heathcliff appears in
A. Jane Eyre
B. Wuthering Heights
C. Great Expectations
D. Middlemarch
20. "Doctor Faustus" is based on
A. Greek myth
B. Biblical story
C. German legend
D. Roman history
21. William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" is narrated through
A. Linear omniscient narration
B. Stream of consciousness
C. Epistolary form
D. Dramatic monologue
22. The character Beckett’s Vladimir and Estragon appear in
A. Endgame
B. Waiting for Godot
C. Happy Days
D. Krapp’s Last Tape
23. "The Old Man and the Sea" is best described as a
A. Novel
B. Short story
C. Novella
D. Epic
24. The protagonist of "The Old Man and the Sea" is
A. Manolin
B. Santiago
C. Hemingway
D. Pedro
25. "The Scarlet Letter" was written by
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Herman Melville
C. Edgar Allan Poe
D. Henry James
26. Which Poet Laureate was removed from office due to political reasons?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Robert Southey
C. John Dryden
D. Ted Hughes
27. "Death of a Salesman" was written by
A. Tennessee Williams
B. Eugene O’Neill
C. Arthur Miller
D. Edward Albee
28. Willy Loman is a character in
A. The Glass Menagerie
B. A Streetcar Named Desire
C. Death of a Salesman
D. Long Day’s Journey into Night
29. The position of Poet Laureate originated in
A. France
B. Italy
C. England
D. Greece
30. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was written by
A. Mark Twain
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. John Steinbeck
31. William Faulkner’s fictional county is called
A. Yoknapatawpha
B. Jefferson
C. Maycomb
D. Macondo
32. The phrase, "A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds," occurs in:
A. Shelley’s Defence of Poetry
B. Keats’ letters
C. Wordsworth’s Preface
D. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria
33. Ted Hughes was married to
A. Anne Sexton
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Carol Ann Duffy
D. Emily Dickinson
34. Ted Hughes won the Hawthornden Prize for
A. Lupercal
B. Crow
C. Hawk in the Rain
D. Birthday Letters
35. Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature in
A. 1987
B. 1991
C. 1993
D. 1998
36. Which poet is associated with Transcendentalism?
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Walt Whitman
C. Robert Lowell
D. Wallace Stevens
37. Which was Ted Hughes’s first published collection of poetry?
A. Crow
B. Lupercal
C. Hawk in the Rain
D. Birthday Letters
38. "Literature is a criticism of life” was stated by
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Leavis
D. Richards
39. Who was the first African-American Poet Laureate of the USA?
A. Maya Angelou
B. Rita Dove
C. Gwendolyn Brooks
D. Langston Hughes
40. The idea that poetry “says one thing and means another” supports
A. Allegory
B. Paradox
C. Catharsis
D. Mimesis
41. Which of the following best distinguishes hamartia from hubris?
A. Hamartia is always moral evil, hubris is error
B. Hamartia is an error in judgment; hubris is excessive pride
C. Hamartia is divine fate; hubris is human choice
D. Hamartia is punishment; hubris is flaw
42. "The Great Tradition” is a work by
A. I. A. Richards
B. Cleanth Brooks
C. F. R. Leavis
D. Raymond Williams
43. The First Folio of Shakespeare was published seven years after Shakespeare’s
A. Birth
B. Marriage
C. Retirement
D. Death
44. For which award did "The Old Man and the Sea" win recognition in 1953?
A. Nobel Prize in Literature
B. National Book Award
C. Pulitzer Prize
D. Booker Prize
45. "Because I could not stop for Death –” is written by
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
D. Christina Rossetti
46. Ted Hughes became Poet Laureate of England in
A. 1975
B. 1981
C. 1984
D. 1998
47. "Do not go gentle into that good night” is an example of
A. Sonnet
B. Villanelle
C. Ode
D. Elegy
48. Philip Larkin is a leading poet of
A. Modernism
B. Neo-Romanticism
C. The Movement
D. Symbolism
49. “They fuck you up, your mum and dad” opens which poem by Larkin?
A. Church Going
B. High Windows
C. This Be the Verse
D. An Arundel Tomb
50. “September 1, 1939” reflects Auden’s response to
A. The Russian Revolution
B. The Great Depression
C. The outbreak of World War II
D. The Cold War