Archana Net JRF Online Quiz 4

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1.  The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was _______.
A. Ben Jonson B. William Devenant
C. John Dryden D. Thomas Shadwell

2. . The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to ________.
A. Charles Darwin B. Arthur Schopenhauer
C. A.N. Whitehead D. Aldous Huxley

3. Which character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is scientific” ?
A. Simon B. Piggy
C. Ralph D. Jack

4. Which of the following novels by H.G. Wells is about the condition of England as Empire ?
A. The Island of Dr. Moreau B. The War of the World
C. Tono Bungay D. The Invisible Man

5. How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of Good Women ?
A. Five B. Six
C. Eight D. Nine

6. . “The old order changeth, yielding place to new” is from ________.
A. Morte d'Arthur B. Idylls of the King
C. Paracelsus D. Asolando

7.  Charles Dickens’s visit to the United States produced _________.
A. Hard Times B. Nicholas Nickleby
C. Martin Chzzlewit D. Oliver Twist

8.  Which of the following African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
A. Chinua Achebe B. Nodine Gordimer
C. Nagugi wa Thiongo'o D. Bessie Head

9. The novel tells the story of twin brothers, Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and Arthur, the innocent half-wit, the way their lives are inextricably intertwined. Which is the novel?
A. The Tree of Man B. The Solid Mandala
C. Voss D. The Vivisector

10. Here is a list of early English plays imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the odd one out:
A. Gorboduc B. Ralph Roister Doister
C. Tamburlaine D. Gammer Gurton's Needle

11. Who among the following proposes that the unconscious comes into being only in language?
A. Sigmund frued B. Jacques Lacan
C. Stuart Hall D. Paul de Man

12.  Who among the following gave a happy ending to King Lear?
A. Naham Tate B. James Quin
C. Peg Woffinton D. Charles Macklin

13. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love?
A. Harold Pinter B. Allan Bennet
C. Caryl Churchill D. Tom Stoppard

14. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as
A. W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn B. Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries
C.  H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine D. Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

15. Who of the following poets is Australian?
A. Austin Clarke B. Judith Wright
C. Edwin Muir D. Derek Walcott

16. . Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?
A. Hamlet B. The Duchess of Malfi
C. Volpone D. Gorboduc

17. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after
A. Restoration Age B. Neo Classical Age
C. The Renaissance D. The Age of Milton

18. The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of
A. Metonomy B. Metaphor
C. Simile D. Conceit

19.  Which American poet wrote: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”?
A. Robert Lowell B. Walt Whitman
C. Walace Stevence D. Langston Hughes

20. Evelyn Waugh’s Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about
A. The English at War B. The English Aristocracy
C. The Irish Question D. The Scottish Nationalism

21. Who claimed: “I have not published a single paper that is not written in a spirit of benevolence and with a love of mankind”?
A. Pope B. Dryden
C. Swift D. Addison

22.  Which poet among this group does not belong to the ‘Auden Generation’ group of poets?
A. Stephen Spender B. Alun Lewis
C. Cecil Day Lewis D. Louis Macneice

23.  How does John Stuart Mill define ‘happiness’?
A. Doing what one wants to do B. Leading a fulfilling life
C. Pleasure and absence of pain D. Virtious activity

24. Dryden’s dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled
A. All for Love B. The State of Innocence
C. Annus Mirabilis D. Religio Medici

25.  C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing
A. Practical Criticism B. New Criticism
C. Standard English Project D. Basic English Project