1. Shakespeare’s tragedies usually end with:
A. Marriage
B. Coronation
C. Death of the hero
D. Comic relief
2. Which essayist is known for “Of Studies”?
A. Lamb
B. Bacon
C. Hazlitt
D. Steele
3. The tone of "Dream Children" is best described as:
A. Comic
B. Ironical
C. Melancholic
D. Satirical
4. Dr. Johnson’s "Lives of the Poets" is an example of:
A. Fiction
B. Biography and criticism
C. Poetry
D. Drama
5. Addison and Steele are associated with:
A. The Tatler and The Spectator
B. Romantic poetry
C. Gothic novels
D. Tragedy
6. Bacon’s prose style is often described as:
A. Ornamental
B. Loose
C. Aphoristic
D. Sentimental
7. Which poetic device is used in “The mind is its own place”?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Irony
D. Alliteration
8. A 'pastoral poem' typically deals with:
A. City life
B. Court politics
C. Shepherds and rural life
D. War
9. The limerick (poetry) originated in:
A. France
B. England
C. Ireland
D. Scotland
10. “Emotion recollected in tranquillity” is associated with:
A. Coleridge
B. Shelley
C. Keats
D. Wordsworth
11. 'Romantic poetry' is best characterized by:
A. Strict classical form
B. Emotional restraint
C. Imagination and nature
D. Courtly love
12. The phrase “colossal wreck” in Ozymandias suggests:
A. Royal grandeur
B. Divine power
C. Human arrogance and decay
D. Political stability
13. The 'Spenserian sonnet' differs from the 'Petrarchan sonnet' mainly in its:
A. Theme
B. Rhyme scheme
C. Number of lines
D. Meter
14. Epithalamion by Spenser is a poem celebrating:
A. Death
B. Friendship
C. Marriage
D. Coronation
15. A monologue is:
A. A dialogue between two characters
B. A speech by one character
C. A chorus song
D. A narrative poem
16. Aristotle’s three pillars of persuasion are:
A. Rhetoric, Grammar, Logic
B. Pathos, Logos, Ethos
C. Ethics, Emotion, Style
D. Logic, Poetry, Drama
17. Pathos primarily appeals to:
A. Logic
B. Authority
C. Emotions
D. Ethics
18. Which of the following are the three main types of poetry?
A. Pastoral, Elegy, Ode
B. Sonnet, Ballad, Epic
C. Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic
D. Romantic, Classical, Modern
19. What is a limerick?
A. A 14-line love poem
B. A poem of free verse
C. A five-line humorous poem with AABBA rhyme
D. A narrative poem
20. "Dream Children" is notable for its:
A. Political satire
B. Autobiographical pathos
C. Scientific tone
D. Allegory
21. "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" was written by:
A. William Wordsworth
B. S. T. Coleridge
C. John Keats
D. Charles Lamb
22. "Ozymandias" was written by:
A. John Keats
B. Lord Byron
C. P. B. Shelley
D. William Blake
23. Who called Charles Lamb “Gentle-hearted Charles”?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Robert Southey
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Percy Shelley
24. Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets were first published in:
A. 1603
B. 1609
C. 1616
D. 1623
25. Who is known as the “Father of the English Sonnet”?
A. Edmund Spenser
B. William Shakespeare
C. Sir Thomas Wyatt
D. John Milton
26. Amoretti celebrates Edmund Spenser’s marriage to:
A. Anne Hathaway
B. Mary Sidney
C. Elizabeth Boyle
D. Rosalind
27. How many sonnets are there in Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti?
A. 154
B. 108
C. 88
D. 75
28. Colin Clout, the shepherd figure in "The Shepheardes Calender", was originally created by:
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. John Skelton
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. Thomas Wyatt
29. "The Shepheardes Calender" was dedicated to whom?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Sir Philip Sidney
C. John Donne
D. Ben Jonson
30. The term “hamartia” refers to:
A. Comic flaw
B. Tragic flaw
C. Moral virtue
D. Plot structure
31. Blank verse is most commonly used in:
A. Essays
B. Sonnets
C. English drama
D. Ballads
32. Which novel portrays Gandhian ideology most prominently?
A. Untouchable
B. The Guide
C. Kanthapura
D. Midnight’s Children
33. Match the novel with the author: "The Guide"
A. Raja Rao
B. R.K. Narayan
C. Mulk Raj Anand
D. Amitav Ghosh
34. "Train to Pakistan" is set during:
A. Quit India Movement
B. Civil Disobedience
C. Partition of India (1947)
D. Emergency
35. “He had never known a mother’s love” refers to Bakha in:
A. Godan
B. Untouchable
C. Coolie
D. Train to Pakistan
36. Moorthy is a Gandhian character in:
A. Untouchable
B. Coolie
C. Kanthapura
D. Godan
37. "Great Expectations" is set mainly in:
A. London only
B. Kent and London
C. Paris
D. Manchester
38. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” appears in:
A. The Sun Also Rises
B. The Great Gatsby
C. Tender Is the Night
D. This Side of Paradise
39. Scout Finch is a character in:
A. The Catcher in the Rye
B. Of Mice and Men
C. To Kill a Mockingbird
D. The Grapes of Wrath
40. “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high” appears in a work by:
A. R.K. Narayan
B. Rabindranath Tagore
C. Bankim Chandra
D. Sarojini Naidu
41. The imitation of action in drama is called:
A. Catharsis
B. Mimesis
C. Peripeteia
D. Nemesis
42. Which of the following is NOT one of Aristotle’s six elements of tragedy?
A. Plot
B. Character
C. Spectacle
D. Theme
***(Aristotle identified six essential elements of tragedy: Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Song, and Spectacle)***
43. According to Aristotle, which element of tragedy is the most important?
A. Character
B. Diction
C. Thought
D. Plot
44. The tragic hero’s error in judgment is known as:
A. Hubris
B. Hamartia
C. Nemesis
D. Mimesis
45. A sudden reversal of fortune in a tragedy is called:
A. Catharsis
B. Anagnorisis
C. Peripeteia
D. Nemesis
46. The moment when a tragic hero realizes the truth is known as:
A. Hamartia
B. Anagnorisis
C. Catharsis
D. Hubris
47. Francis Bacon died in:
A. 1616
B. 1621
C. 1626
D. 1635
48. Which famous quotation is associated with Francis Bacon?
A. “To err is human”
B. “All the world’s a stage”
C. “Knowledge is power”
D. “Art for art’s sake”
49. “Of Studies” deals mainly with:
A. Politics
B. Love
C. Use and value of learning
D. Religion
50. Which of the following is NOT an essay by Bacon?
A. Of Studies
B. Of Truth
C. Of Revenge
D. Of Superstition and Enthusiasm