1. Which poet defines poetry as the “record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds”?
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Shelley
D. Keats
2. Which poet collaborated with Wordsworth on "Lyrical Ballads"?
A. Shelley
B. Byron
C. Coleridge
D. Southey
3. Which statement is TRUE about Romantic nature symbolism?
A. Nature is morally neutral
B. Nature is inferior to reason
C. Nature and human emotion are interconnected
D. Nature serves only as background
4. Which of the following poems is NOT one of the Lucy poems?
A. She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
B. Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
C. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
D. Tintern Abbey
5. Which poet is best described as a philosophical critic of imagination?
A. Shelley
B. Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
D. Byron
6. The concepts of mimicry and hybridity are most closely associated with:
A. Edward Said
B. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
C. Homi K. Bhabha
D. Frantz Fanon
7. Chaucer’s "Troilus and Criseyde" is influenced by:
A. Homer
B. Virgil
C. Boccaccio
D. Dante
8. Which dialect forms the basis of standard literary Middle English?
A. Northern
B. Kentish
C. West Midland
D. East Midland (London dialect)
9. Which event traditionally marks the beginning of the Middle English period?
A. Signing of Magna Carta
B. Viking invasions
C. Norman Conquest (1066)
D. Black Death
10. Hybridity in postcolonial studies signifies:
A. Cultural purity
B. Racial superiority
C. The mixing of colonizer and colonized cultures
D. Political nationalism
11. Which work by Homi Bhabha elaborates the ideas of mimicry and hybridity?
A. Orientalism
B. The Wretched of the Earth
C. Can the Subaltern Speak?
D. The Location of Culture
12. The Lucy poems were composed during Wordsworth’s stay in:
A. London
B. France
C. Germany
D. Scotland
13. Epiphany in modern fiction most often replaces:
A. Setting
B. Character
C. Conventional climax or resolution
D. Dialogue
14. In Katherine Mansfield’s "The Fly", the fly functions mainly as a:
A. Decorative image
B. Moral lesson
C. Symbol of human suffering and endurance
D. Comic relief
15. Which of the following writers is most associated with subtle epiphanies rather than dramatic endings?
A. Charles Dickens
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Katherine Mansfield
D. H. G. Wells
16. An epiphany is best defined as:
A. Sudden external action
B. Moral conclusion at the end of a story
C. A sudden moment of inner realization or insight
D. A symbolic object
17. "The Fly" is a short story written by:
A. Virginia Woolf
B. Katherine Mansfield
C. Dorothy Richardson
D. Elizabeth Bowen
18. Scott Fitzgerald’s contribution to Lost Generation literature is:
A. Tender Is the Night
B. This Side of Paradise
C. The Great Gatsby
D. All of the above
19. The Lost Generation rejected which value most strongly?
A. Individual freedom
B. Art for art’s sake
C. Victorian ideals
D. Modernist experimentation
20. Which city became a hub for Lost Generation writers?
A. London
B. Rome
C. Paris
D. Berlin
21. Which novel best represents the Lost Generation ethos?
A. Of Mice and Men
B. The Sun Also Rises
C. Native Son
D. Invisible Man
22. The Lost Generation refers primarily to writers disillusioned after:
A. The Great Depression
B. World War I
C. World War II
D. The Cold War
23. Which of the following is a short story by Hemingway?
A. The Killers
B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. A Farewell to Arms
D. The Sun Also Rises
24. American Modernism in literature roughly spans:
A. 1860–1890
B. 1910–1945
C. 1950–1970
D. 1880–1910
25. Faulkner’s fictional county Yoknapatawpha is located in:
A. Alabama
B. Mississippi
C. Georgia
D. Tennessee
26. Faulkner received the Nobel Prize in Literature in:
A. 1938
B. 1949
C. 1954
D. 1962
27. Hemingway’s concept of meaning beneath the surface of a text is called:
A. Negative capability
B. Symbolist method
C. Iceberg theory
D. Impersonality
28. The term “Lost Generation” was popularized by:
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Ezra Pound
C. Gertrude Stein
D. F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. Which writer had a significant influence on Mansfield’s modernist technique?
A. Charles Dickens
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Anton Chekhov
D. George Eliot
30. Which of the following is a recurring feature in Mansfield’s fiction?
A. Grand historical settings
B. Supernatural elements
C. Moments of sudden insight (epiphany)
D. Detective-style suspense
31. The protagonist of "A Farewell to Arms" is:
A. Jake Barnes
B. Robert Jordan
C. Frederic Henry
D. Santiago
32. "The Sun Also Rises" portrays the post-war generation known as:
A. Angry Young Men
B. Beat Generation
C. Lost Generation
D. Bloomsbury Group
33. "The Old Man and the Sea" was published in:
A. 1945
B. 1952
C. 1958
D. 1961
34. The protagonist of the novel "The Old Man and the Sea" is:
A. Manolin
B. Santiago
C. Pedro
D. The Fisherman
35. "Moby-Dick" was first published in:
A. 1845
B. 1851
C. 1860
D. 1875
36. Jane Austen is best described as a novelist of:
A. Romantic idealism
B. Gothic fiction
C. Social realism and comedy of manners
D. Naturalism
37. Which theme is most central to "Pride and Prejudice"?
A. Colonial expansion
B. Industrial conflict
C. Marriage and social class
D. Religious morality
38. "Pride and Prejudice" was first published in:
A. 1797
B. 1805
C. 1813
D. 1820
39. "Waiting for a Visa" is an autobiographical work by:
A. Mahatma Gandhi
B. Jyotirao Phule
C. B. R. Ambedkar
D. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
40. Girish Karnad won the Jnanpith Award in:
A. 1987
B. 1994
C. 1998
D. 2005
41. Which play by Girish Karnad is based on a folk tale from Karnataka?
A. Tughlaq
B. Hayavadana
C. Nagamandala
D. Yayati
42. Girish Karnad primarily wrote his plays in:
A. Hindi
B. English
C. Kannada
D. Marathi
43. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT about the Jnanpith Award?
A. It was instituted in 1961
B. It is awarded by Bharatiya Jnanpith
C. It can be awarded posthumously
D. It is given for a single book only
45. Which of the following writers has received the Jnanpith Award AND Bharat Ratna?
A. Mahadevi Verma
B. Rabindranath Tagore
C. Girish Karnad
D. A. K. Ramanujan
46. The Jnanpith Award is given for excellence in:
A. English literature only
B. Any Indian language listed in the Eighth Schedule
C. Hindi literature only
D. Regional folklore
47. Which poem collection of Sarojini Naidu includes the famous poem “In the Bazaars of Hyderabad”?
A. The Bird of Time
B. The Golden Threshold
C. The Broken Wing
D. Feather of the Dawn
48. Which of the following works by Sarojini Naidu was published posthumously?
A. The Broken Wing
B. The Golden Threshold
C. The Bird of Time
D. Feather of the Dawn
49. Which is the first collection of poems by Sarojini Naidu?
A. The Bird of Time
B. The Broken Wing
C. The Golden Threshold
D. Feather of the Dawn
50. "Look Back in Anger" was first performed in:
A. 1945
B. 1950
C. 1956
D. 1962