Question 1: What does the term "Deus ex machina" mean ?
A) A tragic flaw
B) A sudden and unexpected resolution
C) A character’s inner monologue
D) A type of comedy
Question 2: What does "Cogito, ergo sum" mean?
A) I live, therefore I die
B) I think, therefore I am
C) I feel, therefore I am
D) I imagine, therefore I become
Question 3: Who was the first official Poet Laureate of England?
A) John Dryden
B) John Milton
C) Samuel Johnson
D) T.S Eliot
Question 4: When was Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language published?
A) 1750
B) 1752
C) 1755
D) 1757
Question 5: Who is credited with formulating the Rasa Theory in Indian aesthetics?
A) Abhinavagupta
B) Kalidasa
C) Vyasa
D) Bharata
Question 6: What is the full title of the novel Pamela?
A) Pamela; or, Love Conquers All
B) Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
C) Pamela; or, A Maid’s Journey
D) Pamela; or, Morals and Marriage
Question 7: An Apology for Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney was written in response to:
A) Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse
B) Dryden’s Essay of Dramatikc Poesy
C) Ben Jonson’s plays
D) Plato's criticism of poetry
Question 8: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" — this line is from:
A) The Waste Land
B) Dover Beach
C) Ulysses
D) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Question 9: "There is a house now far away where once I received love..."— This line is from which poem?
A) The Old playhouse by kamala Das
B) The House by Jayanta Mahapatra
C) My Grandmother's house by Kamala Das
D) A poem for Mother by Robin Ngangom
Question 10: Can the Subaltern speak? is a work by:
A) Urvashi Butalia
B) Homi Bhabha
C) Edward Said
D) Gayatri Spivak
Question 11: Which poem does these lines occur in?
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe i love her.
Love is so short forgetting is so long.
A) If you forget me
B) Twenty love songs and a song of despair
C) Tonight i can write the saddest lines
D) Sonnet XVII
Question 12: First Indian English novel written by?
A) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
B) Mulk Raj Anand
C) Raja Rao
D) RK Narayan
Question 13: The following lines occur in Plath's poem "Daddy"
Who is the vampire referred to here?
"If i have killed one man i have killed two
The vampire who said he was you"
A) Her father
B) Her husband
C) Her brother
D) Her friend
Question 14: Where is Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Purloined Letter set?
A) Paris
B) London
C) New York
D) Vienna
Question 15: A foot containing of a strong syllable followed by a weak syllable is called
A) Iambic
B) Spondee
C) Terza Rima
D) Trochee
Question 16: Which novel opens up with these lines?
" It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen"
A) Brave New World
B) 1984
C) Animal Farm
D) Fahrenheit 451
Question 17: Which poem does the following lines occur?
"The falcon cannot hear the falconer"
A) The second coming
B) Sailing to Byzantium
C) Wasteland
D) Ode to a nightingale
Question 18: The term 'egotistical sublime' was coined by:
A) William Wordsworth
B) John Keats
C) John Milton
D) William Blake
Question 19: The first phase of industrial revolution was-
A) 1660-1700
B) 1700-1785
C) 1750-1850
D) 1785-1838
Question 20: Which poem begins with the famous line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"-
A) Kabla khan
B) Endymion
C) Adonais
D) Tintern abbey
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