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Q.1: Which of the following works by Chaucer is often called ‘a novel in verse’?

The Book of the Duchess

The Legend of Good Women

Trailus and Criseyde

The Canterbury Tales

Q.2 : “Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” The above words are uttered by a character in __________.

King Lear

Othello

Macbeth

Hamlet

Q3 : According to Francis Bacon what makes a “ready man”?

Reading

Writing

Consultation

Conference

Q4 : Dante has used ___________ in Divine Comedy.

Monorhyme

Limerick

Terza Rima

Enclosed Rhyme

Q5 : Which one of the following is written in blank verse?

Donne : The Flea

Dryden : All for Love

Shelley : Ode to the West Wind

Shakespeare : Sonnet 29

Q6 : Which of the following examplifies the Puritan attack on poetry?

Sidney’s “ Apology for Poetry “

Lodge's “Reply”

Gabriel Harvey’s “Four Letters”

Stephen Gosson’s “School of Abuse”

Q7 : Richardson’s Clarissa falls in the category of :

Epistolary novel

Psychological novel

Realistic novel

Bildungsroman novel

Q8 : Which among the following is not a tragi-comedy?

The Caretaker

Waiting for Godot

The Cherry Orchard

The School for Scandal

Q9 : Lyrical Ballads was published in_____.

1785

1798

1789

1770

Q10 : Which woman novelist wrote Frankenstein in 1818?

Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell

George Eliot

Charlotte Bronte

Mary Shelley

Q11 : Who among the following is not a ‘Graveyard poet’?

Thomas Parnell

Alexander Pope

Edward Young

Robert Blair

Q12 : D. H. Lawrence’s “Cocksure Women and Mensure Men”, the anti-feminist work, is an example of ___________ essay.

an informative

a descriptive

an argumentative

a narrative

Q13 : Which poem of Sylvia Plath describes the condition of a pregnant woman?

Mirror

Balloons

Insomaniac

Metaphors

Q14 : Whose poems heralded the ‘Celtic Revival’ in the 18th Century?

W.B. Yeats

Tennyson

Eric Linklater

James Macpherson

Q15 : Nation and Narration is written by:

Edward Said

Gayatri Spivak

Homi Bhaba

Bill Ashcroft

Q16 : Which of the following is a 'dramatic poem' written by John Milton?

Animadversions

L’Allegro

Il Penerose

Samson Agonistes

Q17 : Who is the author of the narrative poems, ’A lover’s Complaint, ‘Venus and Adonis’ and ‘The Rape of Lucrece’?

Ben Johnson

Aphra Behn

Marlowe

Shakespeare

Q18 : Which of the following play was written by Wole Soyinka to commemorate the Independence of Nigeria?

A Dance of the Forests

The Road

Kongi’s Marvest

Madmen and Specialists

Q19 : Which literary process etymologically means ‘carrying across’?

Annotation

Parse

Transposition

Translation

Q20 : Betty Friedan wrote the text entitled as:

The second Sex

The Feminine Mystique

A Room of One’s Own

Thinking about Women

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