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Practice Set 3

December 9, 2025
Questionnaire

1. Who coined the term “Intentional Fallacy”?

A. Wimsatt & Beardsley

B. Richards

C. Frye

D. Derrida

 

2. Which novel begins with the line: “Call me Ishmael”?

A. Billy Budd

B. Moby Dick

C. The Scarlet Letter

D. Huckleberry Finn

 

3. “Ars Poetica” was written by:

A. Aristotle

B. Horace

C. Longinus

D. Quintilian

 

4. Which dramatist was killed in a tavern brawl?

A. Shakespeare

B. Jonson

C. Marlowe

D. Webster

 

5. Brave New World derives its title from:

A. Dante

B. Milton

C. Shakespeare

D. Spencer

 

6. The term heteroglossia is associated with:

A. Todorov

B. Bakhtin

C. Jakobson

D. Barthes

 

7. Who is the author of "The Anatomy of Criticism"?

A. Frye

B. Eagleton

C. Booth

D. Trilling

 

8. "The Waste Land" is dedicated to:

A. Ezra Pound

B. Woolf

C. Joyce

D. Lawrence

 

9. Who wrote the "Bildungsroman Sons and Lovers"?

A. Hardy

B. Lawrence

C. Joyce

D. Conrad

 

10. Which philosopher influenced T. S. Eliot’s notion of “Tradition”?

A. Bergson

B. Aquinas

C. Bradley

D. Hegel

 

11. “Dramatic Monologue” was perfected by:

A. Tennyson

B. Browning

C. Rossetti

D. Arnold

 

12. The term “Stream of Consciousness” as a narrative technique became widely associated with which literary period?

A. Renaissance

B. Romantic Age

C. Modernist Period

D. Victorian Age

 

13. The modernist movement in English literature is generally considered to have begun around which event?

A. The Industrial Revolution (1760)

B. The French Revolution (1789)

C. World War I (1914)

D. The Great Depression (1929)

 

14. T. S. Eliot received the Nobel Prize in:

A. 1939

B. 1948

C. 1954

D. 1961

 

15. Saussure introduced the distinction between:

A. Text and work

B. Signifier and signified

C. Langue and parole

D. Syntax and semantics

 

16. "The Golden Notebook" was written by:

A. Atwood

B. Lessing

C. Rhys

D. Bowen

 

17. The phrase “Pathetic Fallacy” was coined by:

A. Eliot

B. Ruskin

C. Arnold

D. Coleridge

 

18. Who wrote "The Alchemist"?

A. Marston

B. Webster

C. Jonson

D. Heywood

 

19. The term epiphany in literature is associated with:

A. Joyce

B. Yeats

C. Woolf

D. Forster

 

20. Which poet wrote "The Eve of St. Agnes"?

A. Keats

B. Shelley

C. Byron

D. Wordsworth

 

21. Arnold called poetry “a criticism of life” in:

A. Culture and Anarchy

B. The Study of Poetry

C. Essays in Criticism

D. Literature & Dogma

 

22. “Structure of Feeling” is a concept of:

A. Raymond Williams

B. Stuart Hall

C. Foucault

D. Althusser

 

23. "The Castle of Otranto" is the first:

A. Gothic novel

B. Historical novel

C. Novel of manners

D. Psychological novel

 

24. “Death of the Author” was proposed by:

A. Barthes

B. Derrida

C. Foucault

D. Eagleton

 

25. Pamela is written in:

A. Third-person narration

B. Diary form

C. Epistolary form

D. Autobiographical style

 

26. The term Oedipus Complex comes from:

A. Freud

B. Jung

C. Adler

D. Lacan

 

27. Modernist fiction favours:

A. Linear plots

B. Authorial commentary

C. Fragmentation

D. Morality lessons

 

28. Who wrote "The Rape of the Lock"?

A. Dryden

B. Pope

C. Swift

D. Addison

 

29. Which critic is associated with “Defamiliarization”?

A. Shklovsky

B. Sklov

C. Jakobson

D. Levinas

 

30. “Inscape” and “Instress” are concepts of:

A. Wordsworth

B. Hopkins

C. Blake

D. Browning

 

31. “Objective Correlative” was used by:

A. Brooks

B. Eliot

C. Shklovsky

D. Richards

 

32. Which novel features the character Heathcliff?

A. Jane Eyre

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Middlemarch

D. Tess

 

33. Who wrote Invisible Man?

A. Baldwin

B. Ralph Ellison

C. Wright

D. Hughes

 

34. The term “Deep Structure” belongs to:

A. Saussure

B. Chomsky

C. Bloomfield

D. Propp

 

35. "The School for Scandal" was written by:

A. Wilde

B. Sheridan

C. Congreve

D. Marlowe

 

36. The character “Mr. Casaubon” appears in:

A. Vanity Fair

B. Middlemarch

C. Great Expectations

D. Return of the Native

 

37. Biographia Literaria was written by:

A. Wordsworth

B. Shelley

C. Coleridge

D. Arnold

 

38. Who wrote "The Tyger"?

A. Coleridge

B. Blake

C. Wordsworth

D. Burns

 

39. Which poem ends with “Shantih shantih shantih”?

A. Four Quartets

B. The Waste Land

C. Prufrock

D. Ash Wednesday

 

40. "Poetic Diction” was attacked by:

A. Swift

B. Wordsworth

C. Johnson

D. Dryden

 

41. "In Heart of Darkness," Kurtz’s last words were:

A. “Forgive me”

B. “The horror! The horror!”

C. “Light, more light!”

D. “I am the master”

 

42. The Jacobean Age corresponds to the rule of:

A. Henry VII

B. James I

C. Charles II

D. George I

 

43. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” opens:

A. Isabella

B. Endymion

C. Lamia

D. Hyperion

 

44. Which poet described culture as “a pursuit of our total perfection”?

A. Eliot

B. Matthew Arnold

C. Dryden

D. Browning

 

45. Toru Dutt’s "Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan" was published:

A. During her lifetime

B. Posthumously

C. As a serial in Brahmo journal

D. Under a pseudonym

 

46. Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on:

A. Keats

B. Byron

C. Wordsworth

D. Hunt

 

47. Nissim Ezekiel served as the editor of:

A. Indian P.E.N.

B. The Quest

C. The Illustrated Weekly

D. The Hindu

 

48. Henry Derozio taught at which institution, inspiring the Young Bengal Movement?

A. Presidency College

B. Hindu College

C. Serampore College

D. Fort William College

 

49. Ezra Pound edited and helped shape which major modernist poem?

A. The Cantos

B. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

C. The Waste Land

D. Four Quartets

 

50. Which of the following is not a work by Browning?

A. Andrea del Sarto

B. Fra Lippo Lippi

C. My Last Duchess

D. Locksley Hall