Practise Test #4

Tagore’s brief chat with ------ was recorded and known as ‘Note on the Nature of Reality’.
Einstein
Edison
Ruskin
Emerson
Isaac Bickerstaff was the pen name of -------.
Alexander Pope
Edmund Burke
John Locke
Jonathan Swift
Match the term with the statement :
 
i. Fiction that includes within itself commentary on its own narrative or linguistic identity (a) Assonance
ii. A line of a poem which is repeated in the course of a poem, usually at the end of a stanza (b) Transferred epithet
iii. The rhyming of vowel sounds without the rhyming of consonants (c) Refrain
iv. My host handed me a hospitable glass of wine (d) Metafiction
(i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-d
(i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-c, (iv)-a
(i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b
(i)-a, (ii)-d, (iii)-c, (iv)-b
Which poem of Wallace Stevens opens with the line, “call the roller of big cigars”?
“Sunday Morning”
“The Emperor of Ice-cream”
“The Snow Man”
“It Must Give Pleasure”
Osborne’s Look Back in Anger marked a new voice on the British stage by virtue of its reaction against :
The problem of unemployment
Existing affected drawing room comedies
The problem of overcrowding in cities
Absurd theatre
Rudyard Kipling received the Nobel Prize for Literature in -------
1907
1910
1921
1940
Everyman is a :
Morality play
Comedy
Tragedy
Interlude
The King and the Duke are comic villains in :
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Puddenhead Wilson
The Prince and the Pauper
John Milton’s Lycidas is :
An allegory
A pastoral elegy
A lyric
A masque
Match the following characters with the authors :
 
i. Becky Sharp (a)George Orwell
ii. Snowball (b)Thackeray
iii. Thomas Becket (c)James Joyce
iv. Stephen Dedalus (d)T.S. Eliot
(i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c
(i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
(i)-a, (ii)-b, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
(i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-c, (iv)-d
'Iswar' and 'Om' in "A Fine Balance" are :
Actors
Tailors
Coblers
Watchmen
Which of the following descriptions is NOT used for the eighteenth century?
Augustan age
Age of good sense
Neo-classical period
The sentimental age
"In The Rape of the Lock Belinda’s lock" is finally transformed into :
a star
a bird
a moon
a sun
Which of the following writers is NOT a Satirist?
Dryden
William Cowper
Samuel Butler
Swift
'Sir Fretful Plagiary' appears in Sheridan’s :
The Critic
The Rivals
The School for Scandal
A Trip to Scarborough
The characters Gertrude, Horatio and Claudius figure in :
King Lear
Othello
Hamlet
Tempest
Which among the following is a work of Christopher Marlowe?
The Jew of Malta
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
A New Way to Pay Old Debts
A Woman Killed with Kindness
Duessa is an allegorical character in :
The Faerie Queene
The Piligrim’s Progress
The Canterbury Tales
The Shepherd’s Calender
“Yet dearly I Love you, and would be loved fain, But am betrothed unto your enemy.” In these lines written by Donne, the ‘enemy’ can be interpreted as :
Evil
The Sensual Life
The Rival
Both 'Evil' and 'The Sensual Life'
‘Ay, as wife, spouse, my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweet heart, and the rest of that nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar’. These comments on married life appear in :
Taming of the Shrew
The Way of the World
The Rivals
The Country Wife
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