Educators Science And Arts Entry Test 2013 English Mcqs November 13, 2013

Educators Science And Arts Entry Test 2013 English Mcqs

(1) Joseph Andrews was written by:
(i) Richardson (ii) Defoe (iii) Fielding (iv) Bunyan (v) None of these
(2) Shakespeare was born in:
(i) 1570 (ii) 1601 (iii) 1547 (iv) 1564 (v) None of these
(3) The Wheel of Fire a criticism was written by:
(i) Bradley (ii) W. Knight (iii) Hazlitt (iv) Dryden (v) None of these
(4) Kubla Khan was written by:
(i) Wordsworth (ii) ST. Coleridge (iii) Shelley (iv) Keats (v) None of these
(5) G. B. Shaw began his literary career first as:
(i) Journalist (ii) Novelist (iii) Dramatist (iv) Critic (v) None of these
(6) W. B. Yeats was born in:
(i) 1914 (ii) 1856 (iii) 1865 (iv) 1838 (v) None of these
(7) Jane Austens work is transfused with the spirit of:
(i) Classicism (ii) Puritanism (iii) Idealism (iv) Rationalism (v) None of these
(8) The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is an:
(i) Ode (ii) Elegy (iii) Allegory (iv) Epic (v) None of these
(9) Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett was originally written in:
(i) Italian (ii) Spanish (iii) German (iv) French (v) None of these
(10) The _____ age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art:
(i) Classical (ii) Romantic (iii) Victorian (iv) Elizabethan (v) None of these
(11) Maud and Inmemoriam were written by:
(i) Tennyson (ii) Keats (iii) Pope (iv) Shelley (v) None of these
(12) Tennyson was born in:
(i) 1809 (ii) 1798 (iii) 1709 (iv) 1890 (v) None of these
(13) _____ has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments.
(i) Hyperbole (ii) Metaphor (iii) Rhetoric (iv) Overtone (v) None of these
(14) Keatss aestheticism was later turned into:
(i) Romanticism (ii) Pre-Raphaelitism (iii) Idealism (iv) Anglicanism (v) None of these
(15) _____ is the animating force in the work of Charlotte Bronte:
(i) Idealism (ii) Romanticism (iii) Lyricism (iv) Radicalism (v) None of these

(16) The Wilde Swans at Coole is first great collection of poems of:
(i) W. Lewis (ii) Yeats (iii) E. Sitwell (iv) D. H. Lawrence (v) None of these
(17) T. S. Eliot was born in:
(i) 1887 (ii) 1888 (iii) 1817 (iv) 1870 (v) None of these
(18) Jane Eyre was written by:
(i) J. Austen (ii) G. Eliot (iii) C. Bronte (iv) Emile Bronte (v) None of these
(19) Ophelia, Julia, Viola, Imogen are the characters created by:
(i) Richardson (ii) Fielding (iii) Hardy (iv) Shakespeare (v) None of these

English Literature MCQS November 13, 2013

English Literature MCQS
1. Sylvia Plath married which English poet?
a. Masefield
b. Causley
c. Hughes
d. Larkin
Ans: C
2. Carl Sandburg Planked whitefish contains what kind of imagery?
a. Sea scenes
b. Rural Idyll
c. War
d. Innocent childhood
Ans: C
3. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819?
a. Emily Dickinson
b. Paul Dunbar
c. John Greenleaf Whittier
d. Walt Whitman
Ans: D
4. In 1960 The Colossus was the first book of poems published by which
poetess?
a. Elizabeth Bishop
b. Sylvia Plath
c. Marianne Moore
d. Laura Jackson
Ans: B
5. In his poem Kipling said If you can meet with triumph
and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?
a. Glory
b. Ruin
c. Disaster
d. victory
Ans: C
6. Which of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in
poetry?

a. Assonance
b. Onomatopaea
c. Rhyme
d. Grammar
Ans: D
7. True or false: Writing predates poetry.
a. True
b. False
Ans: B
8. What is the earliest surviving European poem?
a. The Homeric epic
b. The Gilgamesh epic
c. The Deluge epic
d. The Hesiodic ode
Ans: A
9. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
a. The Epic
b. The Comic
c. The Occult
d. The Tragic
Ans: C
10. What is the study of poetrys meter and form called?
a. Prosody
b. Potology
c. Rheumatology
d. Scansion
Ans: A