Question 1. In Langland’s Piers the Plowman, Piers appears finally as _____________.
(A) Charity
(B) Tha Holy Trinity
(C) Jesus
(D) The Good Samaritan
Question 2. It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim would tell in all ____________.
(A) One story
(B) Two stories
(C) Three stories
(D) Four stories
Question 3. Venus and Adonis is a long narrative poem by _____________.
(A) Shakespeare
(B) Marlowe
(C) Drayton
(D) Sydney
Question 4. The total number of poems in Shakespeare’s Sonnets is __________.
(A) 123
(B) 142
(C) 104
(D) 154
Question 5. Which of the following plays has a Machiavellan hero?
(A) Tamburlaine Part I
(B) Dr Faustus
(C) Jew of Malta
(D) Edward II
Question 6. Which of the following is written by Samuel Butler?
(A) Religio Laici
(B) David Simple
(C) Hudibras
(D) Journal of the Plague Year
Question 7. Which of the following poems did Milton write in Octosyllabic Couplets?
(A) Il Penseroso
(B) On His Blindness
(C) On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
(D) Lycidas
Question 8. Which of the following plays is not written by Congreve?
(A) The Way of the World
(B) The Old Bachelor
(C) Love for Love
(D) The Relapse
Question 9. Dryden’s All For Love is an adaptation of __________.
(A) Philaster
(B) Romeo and Julie
(C) Antony and Cleopatra
(D) Edward II
Question 10. Which of the following books proposes a political theory?
(A) Principia
(B) Leviathan
(C) Anatomy of Melancholy
(D) Liberty of Prophesying
Question 11. Which of the following books is written by a woman?
(A) A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(B) Social Contract
(C) A Treatise of Human Nature
(D) The Wealth of Nations
Question 12. Which of the following books by Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory?
(A) The Battle of the Books
(B) A Modest Proposal
(C) Gulliver’s Travels
(D) A Tale of a Tub
Question 13. Which of the following is a “visionary” work by William Blake?
(A) The Song of Los
(B) Songs of Experience
(C) Poetical Sketches
(D) The Vision of the Daughters of Albion
Question 14. Pope’s An Essay on Man is based on the ideas of ____________.
(A) Lord Petrie
(B) Theobald
(C) Lord Bolingbroke
(D) Lord Harvey
Question 15. Which of the following works by Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal?
(A) London
(B) Vanity of Human Wishes
(C) The Life of Savage
(D) Rasselas
Question 16. The final version of Wordsworth’s The Prelude appeared in ___________.
(A) 1798
(B) 1806
(C) 1850
(D) 1860
Question 17. “To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite” is written by ___________.
(A) Shelley
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Keats
(D) Byron
Question 18. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” occurs in __________.
(A) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(B) Ode to Autumn
(C) Ode to Psyche
(D) Endymion
Question 19. Which of the following novels is a satire on the Gothic novel?
(A) Pride and Prejudice
(B) Emma
(C) Sense and Sensibility
(D) Northanger Abbey
Question 20. Who distinguished between “the literature of Knowledge” and “the literature of power”?
(A) Coleridge
(B) De Quincey
(C) Hazlitt
(D) Lamb
Question 21. Who among the following Victorian poets is the most sensititve to the conflict between the old and the new?
(A) Tennyson
(B) Rossetti
(C) Browning
(D) Swinburne
Question 22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written by __________.
(A) Mrs Gaskell
(B) George Eliot
(C) Thomas Hardy
(D) Emily Bronte
Question 23. The novel Mary Barton is written by ____________.
(A) Mrs Gaskell
(B) George Eliot
(C) Emily Bronte
(D) Dickens
Question 24. The line “Poetry is a criticism of life” occurs in __________.
(A) Culture and Anarchy
(B) Modern Painters
(C) The Study of Poetry
(D) Sartor Resartus