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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