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The Victorian Period
The Victorian Period
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A | Elizabeth Barret Browning |
B | Christina Rossetti |
C | Tennyson |
D | D. G. Rossetti |
Question 2 |
A | Cranford |
B | North and South |
C | Mary Barton |
D | Ruth |
Question 3 |
A | Swinburne |
B | Christina Rossetti |
C | Morris |
D | D.G Rossetti |
Question 4 |
A | Imagism |
B | Oxford Movement |
C | Methodist |
D | Pre-Raphaelite |
Question 5 |
A | 1854 |
B | 1843 |
C | 1876 |
D | 1892 |
Question 6 |
A | Northanger Abbey |
B | Pickwick Papers |
C | Mill on the Floss |
D | Vanity Fair |
Question 7 |
A | Vanity Fair |
B | Jane Eyre |
C | Emma |
D | Wuthering Heights |
Question 8 |
A | Theology |
B | Social changes in the Victorian Age |
C | Contemporary literary criticism |
D | Art and Literature |
Question 9 |
A | Jane Austin |
B | Emily Bronte |
C | Thackery |
D | Dickens |
Question 10 |
A | The people of the Oxford area |
B | The University Wits |
C | The Scholars of the Oxford University |
D | The clergymen of Oxford |
Question 11 |
A | Social Movement |
B | Religious Movement |
C | Political Movement |
D | Literary Movement |
Question 12 |
A | Tennyson |
B | Keats |
C | Eliot |
D | Coleridge |
Question 13 |
A | The region in which Hardy's novels are set |
B | The region where Bronte sisters lived |
C | A county in Ireland |
D | The home town of George Eliot |
Question 14 |
A | Pilgrims Progress |
B | Paradise Lost |
C | Utopia |
D | Divine Comedy |
Question 15 |
A | 1837 |
B | 1871 |
C | 1859 |
D | 1842 |
Question 16 |
A | D.G Rossetti |
B | Tennyson |
C | George Eliot |
D | Robert Browning |
Question 17 |
A | The Charge of the Light Bridge |
B | 1st September |
C | Ultima Ratio Regum |
D | In Memorium |
Question 18 |
A | Silas Marner |
B | Adam Bede |
C | Emma |
D | Hard Times |
Question 19 |
A | Education |
B | Tehology |
C | Religion |
D | Civilization |
Question 20 |
A | They were all Victorian Novelists |
B | They were all painters |
C | They all belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite School |
D | They all belonged to the Oxford Movement |
Question 21 |
A | Swineburne |
B | Pope |
C | Byron |
D | Tennyson |
Question 22 |
A | Vanity Fair |
B | Ruth |
C | Hard Times |
D | Cranford |
Question 23 |
A | North and South |
B | Mary Barton |
C | Cranford |
D | Ruth |
Question 24 |
A | They were all atheists |
B | They were all associated with the Oxford Movement |
C | They were all poets |
D | They were all associated with Pre-Raphaelite School |
Question 25 |
A | Little Dorrit |
B | Our Mutual Friend |
C | Dombey and Son |
D | Edwin Drood |
Question 26 |
A | Clare Reeve |
B | Marian Evans |
C | Lara Evans |
D | Mary Collins |
Question 27 |
A | Arthur Hallam |
B | Hugh Clough |
C | Keats |
D | Lord Byron |
Question 28 |
A | Hard Times |
B | Cranford |
C | Emma |
D | Great Expectation |
Question 29 |
A | Robert Browning |
B | Tennyson |
C | D.G Rossetti |
D | Christina Rossetti |
Question 30 |
A | 1884 |
B | 1893 |
C | 1904 |
D | 1879 |
Question 31 |
A | Arthur Hallam |
B | Milton |
C | Hugh Clough |
D | Edward King |
Question 32 |
A | Tennyson |
B | D.G Rossetti |
C | Leigh Hunt |
D | Arnold |
Question 33 |
A | Canterbury Tales |
B | Pilgrims Progress |
C | Shah Namah |
D | Arabian Nights |
Question 34 |
A | a narrative poem |
B | a sonnet |
C | an elegy |
D | a wedding hymn |
Question 35 |
A | Picaresque novel |
B | Historical novel |
C | Gothic novel |
D | Autobiographical novel |
Question 36 |
A | William IV |
B | George III |
C | George IV |
D | Edward VII |
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In Ben Jonson’s Volpone, the animal imagery includes(a) the fox and the vulture(b) the fly and the cockroach(c) the fly, the crow and the raven(d) the fox, the vulture and the goatCorrectIncorrectHint
The main characters in the play are: Volpone – Fox, Voltore – Vulture, Mosca – Gad fly, the parasite, Corbaccio – Crow, Corvino- the raven , celia corvino’s wife, Nano-the dwarf, Androgyno – the hermaphrodite, Castrone –eunuch.
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Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands” is _______.
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Question 3 of 20
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Identify the incorrect statement below :
(a) BASIC was an experiment initiated by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards from 1926 to about 1940.(b) Expanded, BASIC read : Broadly Ascertained Scientific International Course.(c) BASIC English was an attempt to reduce the number of essential words to 850.(d) While keeping to normal constructions, BASIC failed as an experiment because itsdocuments were far too complicated and technical to understand.CorrectIncorrect -
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4. Question
Items in a published book appear in the following order :
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Question 5 of 20
5. Question
Match the following :
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- Metaphysical poets
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James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith,
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George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell,
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Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves
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W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke
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6. Question
The following phrases from Shakespeare have become the titles of famous works. Identify the correctly matched group.
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Pale Fire
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The Sound and the Fury
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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Under the Greenwood Tree
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Of Cakes and Ale
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Question 7 of 20
7. Question
Identify the statement that is NOT TRUE among those that explain “stage directions” in drama.
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Question 8 of 20
8. Question
The emergence of the concept of “World literature” is associated with :
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9. Question
Günter Grass’s Tin Drum is part of a trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy. The other two novels are :
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10. Question
The hostess proudly announces that the family can afford a servant and her daughters have nothing to do with the kitchen. Who is the proud mother in this Jane Austen novel ?
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Question 11 of 20
11. Question
When Keats writes about the “beaker full” of “The blushful Hippocrene”,
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12. Question
Which of the following statements on The Prelude by William Wordsworth is/are not true ?
(a) The Prelude was published posthumously.(b) In this poem, Wordsworth records his development as a poet.(c) The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature.(d) Poems like “Michael”, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”, “Nutting” etc. are the highlights of this volume.CorrectCorrect, Congrats!
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Question 13 of 20
13. Question
Assertion (A) : At the end of Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells a lie to the Intended about Kurtz when he tells her “The last word he pronounced was – your name”.
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14. Question
Ear-training in ELT is easily achieved by :
(a) composition(b) dictation(c) cloze tests(d) listening exercises(e) précis writingCorrectCorrect, Congrats!
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Question 15 of 20
15. Question
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus are based on _______.
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16. Question
The basic concept that creation was ordered, that every species exists in a hierarchy of status, from God to the lowest creature, was prevalent in the Renaissance. In this hierarchical continuum, man occupies the middle position between the animal kinds and the angels. This world view is known as :
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17. Question
In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse the lighthouse does not symbolize :
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18. Question
“Can one imagine any private soldier, in the nineties or now, reading Barrack-Room Ballads and feeling that here was a writer who spoke for him ? It is very hard to do so. [….] When he is writing not of British but of “loyal” Indians he carries the ‘Salaam, Sahib’ motif to sometimes disgusting lengths. Yet it remains true that he has far more interest in the common soldier, far more anxiety that he shall get a fair deal, than most of the “liberals” of his day and our own. He sees that the soldier is neglected, meanly underpaid and hypocritically despised by the people whose incomes he safeguards”.
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Question 19 of 20
19. Question
In the well-known poem “ To his coy mistress”, the word coy means
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Question 20 of 20
20. Question
From the following list, identify “backformation”: Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke, swindle, bundle.
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Back-formation is the process of forming a new word by extracting actual or supposed affixes from another word; shortened words created from longer words.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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In which year did Geoffrey Chaucer born?
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In which year did Geoffrey Chaucer die?
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What was the name of Geoffrey Chaucer’s wife?
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In which genre does Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess belong?
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Which work of Geoffrey Chaucer is an elegy written in the memory of John of Gaunt’s first wife, Blanche?
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Which work of Chaucer is a much expanded version of Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato?
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What was the name of the inn in which the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales rested?
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What was the name of the host at Tabard Inn in The Canterbury Tales?
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How many pilgrims are there Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?
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How many tales are told in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?
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What is the other name in which Geoffrey Chaucer is known as?
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William Shakespeare
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1 pointsWhere was Shakespeare born?
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1 pointsWho was Shakespear’s wife?
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1 pointsAt what age did Shakespeare marry 26 year old Anne Hathaway?
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1 pointsWhat is the period of time that scholars generllay consider as the “lost years” of Shakespeare?
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1 pointsWhich playwright attacked Shakespeare, calling him an “an upstart crow”?
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This is said in Groats-Worth of Wit
…there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger’s heart wrapped in a Player’s hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country



