Archana Net JRF Online Quiz 2

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1. What term used by Ferdinand de Saussure corresponds to Noam Chomsky’s term ‘performance’?
A. Difference B. Parole
C. Paradigm D. Langue

2. Who among the ancients prescribed that poetry should both instruct and delight ?
A. Longinus B. Horace
C. Aristotle D. Plotinus

3. In which work does William Blake say that Milton was “a true poet and of devil’s party without knowing it” ?
A. Song of Innocence B. London
C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell D. The Chimney Sweeper

4.  In imitation of which classical poet did Samuel Johnson write his London and The Vanity of Human Wishes?
A. Horace B. Homer
C. Tasso D. Juvenal

5.  In “Memorial Verses” Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. Who are they ?
A. Goethe, Shakespeare,Wordsworth B. Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton
C. Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth D. Goethe, Wordsworth,Byron

6. Which of the following was not a dialect of Old English ?
A. Kentish B. Irish
C. Northumbian D. Mercian

7. Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis is about a utopian state called
A. Avalon B. Asgard
C. Bensalem D. Baltia

8.  Which of the following magazines self consciously created an identity for Vorticists, a group of painters, sculptors and writers?
A. Blast B. The Egoist
C. The Criterion D. New Age

9. Who is the only one of Milton’s contemporaries to be mentioned by name in Paradise Lost ?
A. Francis Bacon B. Johannes Vermeer
C. Galileo D. Kingn Charles

10. Where, according to T.S. Eliot, are we likely to find “not only the best, but the most individual parts of a poet’s work” ?
A. . in the poet’s juvenilia or rejected drafts. B.  in the best anthologies and scrap-books.
C. in those parts where the dead poets assert their immortality. D. in those parts where the living poets depart from their ancestors.

11.  Haunted castles, strange noises and an acceptance of the supernatural with all its trappings mark _____________________
A. Metafiction B. Epistolary Fiction
C. Fantacy fiction D. Gothic fiction

12. Who among the following is not a reader-response critic?
A. Maud Bodkin B. Hans Robert Jauss
C. Stanley Fish D. Wolfgang Iser

13. Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language ?
A. Ferdinand de Saussure B. J.L.Austin
C. Roman Jakobson D. Victor Shklovsky

14. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse has a tripartite structure. The three parts are named the following EXCEPT :
A. The Sky B. The Window
C. Time Passes D. Light House

15.  Which Byron work begins thus : “I want a hero : an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one ………” ?
A. Beppo B. Don Juan
C. Cain D. Manfred

16.  Which of the following New Critics put forward the idea of the ‘heresy of paraphrase’ ?
A. Allen Tate B. Cleanth Brooks
C. W.K.Wimsatt D. Monroe C Beardsley

17. Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is set in __________.
A. Surinam B. Abyssinia
C. Egypt D. Assyria

18. . Charles Dickens’s Bleak House is pointedly critical of England’s :
A. Privy Council B. Court of Appeal
C. Court of Chancery D. Military Courts

19. . In Canterbury Tales who has a red face full of sores ?
A. The Summoner B. The Shipman
C. The Yeoman D. The Reeve

20. Which of the following rivers are mentioned in Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” ?
A. Thames and Rhine B. Thames and Ganges
C. Ganges and Humber D. Thames and Humber

21. Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism?
A. Roman Jackbson B. George Poulet
C. Boris Eichenbaum D. Victor Shklovsky

22. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the ………….. romance.
A. Oriental B. French
C. Gothic D. Popular

23.  Who of the following is a Cavalier poet?
A. George Herbert B. John Donne
C. Robert Herrick D. Andrew Marvell

24. . Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a projection forward in time after a devastating Atomic war
A. The Glass is Singing B. The Golden Notebook
C. The Four-Gated City D. A Proper Marriage

25. Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is a defence of
A. youth against old age B. old age againt youth
C. power against knowledge D. knowledge against power