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50 Important MCQ's for PG Entrance (Part 1)

This post aims to provide 50 important MCQ's for PG entrance and thereby also helping in attaining knowledge regarding the different question patterns of various entrance examination all over India, of different universities for pursuing Masters degree in English literature. This questionnaire was provided for the 2022 M.A. in English programme, Dibrugarh University. Here, I have provided fifty of the 100 questions and the other fifty i.e. the Part 2 has been provided in the link below:

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1. Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase 'spots of time'.

(A) Coleridge (B) Keats (C) Wordsworth (D) Byron

Ans: Wordsworth

2. Select the correct author work' combinations from the following:

(A) Shakespeare – Hamlet, Tobias Smollett – Captain Singleton, Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion, Mary Shelley – Peregrine Pickle

(B) Shakespeare – Hamlet, Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion, Jane Austen – Ivanhoe, John Keats – The Book of Thel

(C) Shakespeare – Hamlet, Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion, Charlotte Smith – Orphan of the Castle, Amelia Opie – The Father and Daughter

(D) Shakespeare – Hamlet, Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion, Emily Bronte – Villette, Elizabeth Gaskell – The History of Pendennis

Ans: (C) Shakespeare – Hamlet, Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion, Charlotte Smith – Orphan of the Castle, Amelia Opie – The Father and Daughter

3. Neo-classical Age is also called the Augustan Age because:

(A) King Augustus ruled over England during that period

(B) The English writers imitated the Roman writers during this period

(C) The English King was born in the month of August

(D) This was an age of sensibility

Ans: (A) King Augustus ruled over England during that period

4. The concept of human mind as tabula rasa was propounded by:

(A) Bishop Berkley (C) Francis Bacon (B) David Hume (D) John Locke

Ans: (D) John Locke

5. Who among the following English writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643?

(A) John Milton (B) Andrew Marvell (C) Thomas Browne (D) Abraham Cowley

Ans: (A) John Milton

6. In Beckett's Waiting for Godot, which character has two pages of unpunctuated speech?

(A) Estragon (B) Vladimir (C) Lucky (D) Pozzo

Ans: (C) Lucky

7. 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) Swift (C) Dryden (D) Addison

Ans: Addison

8. A protagonist writes a letter of confession, but it gets lost under the carpet only to be found on the wedding day. Who is the protagonist?

(A) Bathsheba (B) Lucetta (C) Sue (D) Tess

Ans: Tess

9. In the age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys. The italicized words are an example of

(A) A transferred epithet (B) A simile (C) A Metaphor (D) A hyperbaton

Ans: (A) A transferred epithet

10. 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

Ans: (B) Alun Lewis

11. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the beast' is actually the evil inside the boys themselves and it is that which is breaking things up?

(A) Jack (B) Simon (C) Roger (D) Ralph

Ans: Simon

12. Which text exemplifies the anti - Victorian feeling prevalent in the early twentieth century?

Code:

I. Eminent Victorians

II. Jungle Book

III. Philistine Victorians

IV. The Way of All Flesh

The correct combination according to the code is

(A) II and IV are correct

(B) I and IV are correct

(C) III and IV are correct

(D) II and III are correct

Ans: (B) I and IV are correct

13. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil particularly regarding the issue of religion just after the Restoration?

(A) Gay's "Beggar's Opera"

(B) Butler's "Hudibras"

(C) Pope's "Dunciad"

(D) Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel"

Ans: (D) Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel"

14. Which of the following poet did NOT write during the 16th century?

(A) John Skelton (B) William Shakespeare (C) Sir Thomas Wyatt (D) Thomas Carew

Ans: (D) Thomas Carew

15. What is the book Lord of the Flies about?

(A) A round trip around America (B) A swarm of killer flies (C) School boys on a desert island (D) None of the above

Ans: (C) School boys on a desert island

16. Who was the originator of the Oxford Movement?

(A) Henry Newman (B) Richard Hurrel (C) John Keble (D) J. A. Froude

Ans: (A) Henry Newman

17. Amitav Ghosh's Jungle Nama is a

(A) novel (B) collection of short stories (C) book in verse (D) play

Ans: (A) novel

18. The first attempt at writing a monolingual Dictionary in English was made by

(A) Dr. Samuel Johnson (B) Alexander Pope (C) Ben Jonson (D) T. S. Eliot

Ans: (A) Dr. Samuel Johnson

19. Among the following which novel was not written by Amitabh Ghosh?

(A) River of Smoke (B) The Circle of Reason (C) Sea of Poppies (D) Red Earth and Pouring Rain

Ans: (D) Red Earth and Pouring Rain

20. Ahmad Ali is the author of:

(A) Twilight in Delhi (B) Phoenix Fled (C) In Custody (D) A Bend in Ganges

Ans: (A) Twilight in Delhi

21. The phrase "Stormy Sisterhood' is applied to

(A) Charlotte Bronte (B) Emily Bronte (C) Anne Bronte (D) Collectively to all the three

Ans: (D) Collectively to all the three

22. Eliot introduced which of the following terms in his essay Hamlet and His Problem?

(A) Objective Correlative (B) Tradition and Individual (C) Negative Capability (D) Dissociation of Sensibility Call me

Ans: (A) Objective Correlative

23. 'Call me Ishmael' is the opening sentence of the novel:

(B) The Scarlet Letter (A) Pride and Prejudice (C) A Farewell to Arms (D) Moby Dick

Ans: (D) Moby Dick

24. Agra Bazar is a famous play by

(A) Vijay Tendulkar (B) Mahasweta Devi (C) Habib Tanvir (D) Badal Sarkar

Ans: (C) Habib Tanvir

25. Saleem Sinai is a character in the novel:

(A) Heart of Darkness (B) Midnight's Children (C) Kim (D) The Scarlet Letter

Ans: (B) Midnight's Children

26. In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Hamlet is a student at the University of

(A) Wittenberg (B) Gutenberg (C) Oxford (D) Cambridge

Ans: (A) Wittenberg

27. Who are Didi and Gogo?

(A) They are two characters in Endgame

(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for Lucky and Pozzo

(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon

(D) They are two characters in Breath

Ans: (C) They are nicknames, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon

28. Who is the author of the poem "The Defence of Lucknow" dealing with the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny?

(A) Rudyard Kipling (B) Edward Lear (C) Alfred Lord Tennyson (D) Robert Browning

Ans: (C) Alfred Lord Tennyson

29. Allegro means:

(A) Lazy man (B) Silent man (C) Greedy man (D) Cheerful man

Ans: (D) Cheerful man

30. Dryden wrote a Pindaric ode namely:

(A) Aurangzeb (B) Alexander's Feast (C) Mac-Flecknoe (D) None of the above

Ans: (B) Alexander's Feast

31. Matthew Arnolds "touchstones" were "short passages, even single lines" of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. Which English poet did Arnold disapprovingly call "not one of the great classics" in the list below?

(A) Sidney (B) Chaucer (C) Spenser (D) Donne

Ans: (B) Chaucer

32. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Victorian Age?

(A) The rise of a highly competitive industrial technology

(B) An emphasis on strictly controlled social behavior

(C) The growth of rural traditions and movement from large cities

(D) A romantic focus on home and family

Ans: (C) The growth of rural traditions and movement from large cities

33. What was Charles Lamb's connection with India?

(A) He was fascinated by the Indian jugglers and trades-people in Londonand wrote an essay on them

(B) He was fascinated by Eastern mystical religions, especially Buddhism

(C) He was a clerk for thirty-three years in the East India Company

(D) He was clerk in South Sea house that prepared patents and documents for British trading companies in India

Ans: (D) He was clerk in South Sea house that prepared patents and documents for British trading companies in India

34. In Faerie Queene what is Redcrosse's reward for slaying the Dragon?

(A) The Dragon's treasure hoard

(B) The satisfaction of accomplishing the end of righteous quest

(C) Una's hand in marriage and her parent's kingdom

(D) Eternal salvation

Ans: (C) Una's hand in marriage and her parent's kingdom

35. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth's Prelude?

(A) Durham (B) Glasgow (C) Cambridge (D) Oxford

Ans: (C) Cambridge

36. The statement that there are "none so credulous as infidels" is an illustration of:

(A) Oxymoron (B) Antithesis (C) Metonymy (D) Paradox

Ans: (D) Paradox

37. Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of the characters in

(A) Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene

(B) Philip Sidney's Arcadia

(C) William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

(D) Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Ans: (B) Philip Sidney's Arcadia

38. Which of the following is not true of the ideal state in Thomas More's Utopia?

(A) Personal property, money, and vice are effectively abolished

(B) The root cause of crime, ambition, and political conflict are abolished

(C) Its priesthood, which includes some women, is limited in number

(D) There is only one religion guided by the principle of a benevolent Supreme Being

Ans: (A) Personal property, money, and vice are effectively abolished

39. What happens to the lock of hair at the end of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock?

(A) It is preserved in a monument

(B) It is given back to its rightful owner

(C) It turns into a star

(D) It is presented to the poet as a token of gratitude

Ans: (C) It turns into a star

40. Which of the following poems of W. B. Yeats repudiates the sensual world in favor of "the artifice of eternity"?

(A) "Under Ben Bulben" (B) "Sailing to Byzantium" (C) "Among School Children" (D) "After Long Silence"

Ans: (B) "Sailing to Byzantium"

41. Which of the following historical events does Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" describe?

(A) The Wars of the Roses (B) The Battle of Hastings (C) The Battle of Waterloo (D) The Crimean War

Ans: (D) The Crimean War

42. Which of the following is not true of free verse?

(A) Characterised by irregular lines

(B) No rhyme pattern

(C) A dependence on the effective and more intense use of pauses

(D) Written in iambic pentameter

Ans: (D) Written in iambic pentameter

43. In "Tradition and the Individual Talent" T. S. Eliot uses the analogy of the catalyst to elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry. He cites the example of a filament of platinum and, in the poetic process this is equivalent to:

(A) the language of the poet (B) the mind of the poet (C) the soul of the poet (D) the life of the poet

Ans: (B) the mind of the poet

44. The error of interpreting a literary work by referring to evidence outside of itself, such as the design and purpose of the author is called:

(A) Authorial fallacy (B) Intentional fallacy (C) Affective fallacy (D) Synecdochic fallacy

Ans: (B) Intentional fallacy

45. Who, among the following raises the following painful belonging?

"Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?

I who have cursed The drunken officer of British rule, how choose

Between this Africa and the English tongue I love ?"

(A) Louise Bennett (B) Derek Walcott (C) Chinua Achebe (D) Wole Soyinka

Ans: (B) Derek Walcott

46. Who is the only one of Milton's contemporaries to be mentioned by name in Paradise Lost?

(A) Francis Bacon (B) Galileo (C) King Charles (D) Johannes Vermeer

Ans: (B) Galileo

47. Haunted castles, strange noises, and an acceptance of the supernatural with all its trappings mark:

(A) metafiction (B) fantasy fiction (C) epistolary fiction (D) gothic fiction

Ans: (D) gothic fiction

48. What is an "implied reader"?

(A) The ideal audience envisioned by the author and to whom the work of literature is supposedly addressed

(B) The ideal reader of a work of literature which is approximated over time by successive responses of generations of actual readers

(C) The ideal "average" reader who can approach a work of literature with no preconceived ideas about the author's life, the time of composition etc

(D) A reader who embodies all those predispositions necessary for a literary work to exercise its effect

Ans: (A) The ideal audience envisioned by the author and to whom the work of literature is supposedly addressed

49. Albert Camus borrows the following epigraph to his novel The Plague from ______ "it is reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another, as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which exists not",

(A) James Hoggs' The Confessions of a Justified Singer

(B) Jeremy Bentham's The Principles of Morals and Legislation

(C) Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

(D) Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy

Ans: (C) Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

50. Which two writers have written essays on the defence of poetry?

(A) Sir Philip Sidney and T. S. Eliot

(B) Sir Philip Sidney and P. B. Shelley

(C) Matthew Arnold and T. S. Eliot

(D) Sir Philip Sidney and Matthew Arnold

Ans: (B) Sir Philip Sidney and P. B. Shelley

PART 2 (51-100)

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