QUESTIONS ON ENGLISH LITERATURE

QUESTIONS ON ENGLISH LITERATURE: MEDIUM LEVEL

💠 In Pinter's Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it?

Ans. A drum

💠 How does Lord Jim end?

Ans. Jim is shot through chest by Doramin.

💠 "Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books.” To which author can we attribute the above admission?

Ans. George Orwell.

💠 Modernism has been described as being concerned with “disenchantment of our culture with culture itself” Who is the critic?

Ans. Lionel Trilling.

💠 “Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing.” The above lines are quoted from:

Ans. Frost at Midnight”

💠 Which one of the following modern poems employ ottava rima?

Ans. Among School Children.

💠 John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare's:

Ans. Antony and Cleopatra.

💠 Samuel Pepys kept his diary from:

Ans. 1660 to 1669.

💠 In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?

Ans. A moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous models.

💠 An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portrait which contemporary figures:

Ans. Addison and Lord Hervey.

💠 Name two plays by Shakespeare which uses ‘cross-dressing’ as a device?

Ans. As You Like It and Cymbeline.

💠 Name two works which can be categorised under postcolonial theory?

Ans. Nation and Narration and Orientalism and White Mythologies.

💠 Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic statement of which Philosophy?

Ans. Empiricist.

💠 Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all times.” Who said this?

Ans. Michel Foucault.

💠 In the late 17th century, A Battle of Books erupted between which two groups?

Ans. Champions of Ancient and Modern Learning.

💠 Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day Love's pleasure drives his love away…” In the above quote, the last line is an example of:

Ans. Paradox.

💠 The phrase “dark satanic mills” has become the most famous description of the force at the centre of the industrial revolution. The phrase was used by:

Ans. William Blake.

💠 "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale, the scared river ran.” Where does this ‘sacred river’ directly run to?

Ans. The caverns measureless

💠 Who is the 20th century poet, a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who rejected the label “British” though he has always written in English rather than his regional language?

Ans. Seamus Heaney.

💠 Sir. Thomas Browne's Religion Medici emphasizes on:

Ans. It emphasizes Browne's love of mystery and wonder.

💠 Which one of the following best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era?

Ans. Studied melancholy and aestheticism.

💠 Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude”?

Ans. Alastor.

💠 Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses tradition of the Beast Fable?

Ans. The Nun's Priest's Tale

💠 At the end of Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel:

Ans. Sets off in quest of life away from his mother.

💠 When you say “I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips,” you are using a rhetorical device of:

Ans. Enumeration

💠 Evelyn Waugh's Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about:

Ans. The English at War

💠 Who coined the phrase “The Two Nations” to describe the disparity in Britain between the rich and the poor?

Ans. Benjamin Disraeli