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Practice Set 1


1. Wordsworth wrote a sonnet on

(a) Sidney

(b) Shakespeare

(c) Ben Jonson

(d) Milton


2. In Dickens’s novel, A Tale of Two Cities, the two cities referred to are -

(a) London and Paris

(b) London and Athens

(c) Paris and Berlin

(d) Paris and Rome


3. Mathew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with -

(a) Ethics

(b) Religion

(c) Civilization

(d) Theology


4. In Keats’s Lamia, Lamia was a -

(a) A fairy

(b) A nymph

(c) An enchantress

(d) A serpent-woman


5. Who called the 18th century the age of Prose and Reason ?

(a) Coleridge

(b) Mathew Arnold

(c) Dr. Johnson

(d) William Hazlitt


6. Who has published his essays under the title ‘The Round Table’ ?

(a) Thomas Carlyle

(b) William Hazlitt

(c) S. T. Cleridge

(d) Thomas De Quincey


7. What is meant by ‘Denouement’ ?

(a) The ending of a romance

(b) The ending of a comedy

(c) The ending of a tragedy

(d) The ending of a Farce


8. The first English tragedy Gorboduc was later given the title ?

(a) Corpus Christi

(b) Endymion

(c) Ferrex and Porrex

(d) Gammer Gurton’s Needle


9. “Frailty thy name is woman !” These lines occur in -

(a) King Lear

(b) Macbeth

(c) Othello

(d) Hamlet


10. The term ‘Stream of Consciousness’ was first used by :

(a) William James

(b) James Joyce

(c) Virginia Woolf

(d) Sigmund Freud


Answers : 1. D, 2. A, 3. A, 4. D, 5. B, 6. B, 7. B, 8. C, 9. D, 10. A

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