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ENGLISH LITERAUTRE - PAPER I

TIME ALLOWED: (PART-I) 30 MINUTES, MAXIMUM MARKS: 20
(PART-II) 2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS: 80

PART – I (MCQ)
COMPULSORY

Q.1. Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet. (20)

(i) Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate in:
(a) 1817
(b) 1839
(c) 1843
(d) 1849
(e) None of these

(c) 1843



(ii) Who suggested Shelley to “Curb your magnanimity and be more of a poet’?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Keats
(d) Blake
(e) None of these

(c) Keats



(iii) The lines ‘The one remains, the many change and pass; Heaven’s light for ever shines, earth’s shadow fly; are composed by:
(a) Shelley
(b) Byron
(c) Keats
(d) Southey
(e) None of these

(a) Shelley


(iv) ‘On Pathetic Fallacy’ was written by:
(a) Carlyle
(b) Lamb
(c) Ruskin
(d) Shelley
(e) None of these

(c) Ruskin


(v) The 1805 text of ‘The Prelude’ is edited by:
(a) Helen Darbishire
(b) Ernest De Selin Court
(c) Herbert Reads
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these

(b) Ernest De Selin Court



(vi) ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written by:
(a) Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Tennyson
(d) Walter Scott
(e) None of these

(d) Walter Scott


(vii) __________ the quality when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’ ___ is:
(a) Objectivity
(b) Subjectivity
(c) Negative capability
(d) Scepticism
(e) None of these

(d) Scepticism



(viii) ‘The Quarterly Review’ was founded by:
(a) Walter Scott
(b) Byron
(c) Coleridge
(d) Thomas De Quincey
(e) None of these

(c) Coleridge



(ix) ‘Mansfield Park’ is a novel by:
(a) Katherine Mansfield
(b) Emily Bronte
(c) George Eliot
(d) Jane Austen
(e) None of these

(d) Jane Austen


(x) ‘I am half sick of shadows’ is a line from:
(a) Shelley
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Coleridge
(d) Tennyson
(e) None of these

(d) Tennyson


(xi) Adonais is an elegy on the death of:
(a) Moschus
(b) Edward William
(c) John Keats
(d) Shakespeare
(e) None of these

(c) John Keats


(xii) ‘Poetry is the criticism of life’ is a view about poetry by:
(a) Arnold
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Shelley
(d) Hazlitt
(e) None of these

(a) Arnold



(xiii) ‘The Pickwick Papers’ by Dickens was published in:
(a) 1837
(b) 1838
(c) 1839
(d) 1841
(e) None of these

(a) 1837


(xiv) ‘On Heroes and Hero-worship is written by:
(a) Huxley
(b) Carlyle
(c) Ruskin
(d) Mill
(e) None of these

(b) Carlyle


(xv) Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Trollope are:
(a) Novelists
(b) Poets
(c) Critics
(d) Essayists
(e) None of these

(a) Novelists


(xvi) ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ was written by:
(a) J.S. Mill
(b) Ruskin
(c) Carlyle
(d) Darwin
(e) None of these

(d) Darwin


(xvii) Who gave the aesthetic theory of Art For Arts’ Sake:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Browning
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) Galsworthy
(e) None of these

(e) None of these (Walter Pater)


(xviii) “Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will”, is a statement by:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Shelley
(c) Coleridge
(d) Arnold
(e) None of these

(b) Shelley


(xix) ‘A woman of no importance’ is a ______ by Oscarwilde:
(a) Comedy
(b) Tragedy
(c) Dramatic Romance
(d) Farce
(e) None of these

(a) Comedy


(xx) George Eliot and T.S. Eliot are:
(a) Brother & Sister
(b) Contemporary writers
(c) Modern poets
(d) Critics
(e) None of these

(b) Contemporary writers
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