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