101. Keat’s Endymion has
(a) 3,000 lines
(b) 4,000 lines
(c) 2500 lines
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(d) 4,500 lines
102. Which is the pair of lovers Endymion does not meet in Keat’s Endymion?
(a) Venus and Adonis
(b) Romeo and Juliet
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(c) Glaucus and Scylla
(d) Arcthusa and Alpheus
103. Who wrote the famous Preface to the Lyrical Ballads?
(a) Coleridge
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(b) Southey
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Byron
104. When were the Lyrical Ballads published?
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(a) 1797
(b) 1798
(c) 1800
(d) 1801
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105. The Lyrical Ballads opens with
(a) Kubla Khan
(b) Ode to Duty
(c) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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(d) Immortality Ode
106. The Lyrical Ballads closes with
(a) Kubla Khan
(b) Immortality Ode
(c) Cristobel
(d) Lines Written above Tin tern Abbey
107. Who was the third person with Coleridge and Wordsworth at Quantico Hills when the Lyrical Ballads were composed?
(a) Robert Southey
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Dorothy Wordsworth
(d) Mary Lamb
108. William Wordsworth was born in
(a) 1770 (b) 1771
(c) 1768 (d) 1769
109. Who of the following is known for his Hellenic Spirit?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) RB. Shelley
(c) Southey
(d) John Keats
110. Who wrote:
“Our Sweetest songs are those that tell our saddest thoughts”?
(a) RB. Shelley
(b) Robert Southey
(c) Cardinal Newman
(d) S.T. Coleridge
111. How do we classify Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound? As
(a) an epic
(b) a legendary story
(c) mythological story
(d) a lyrical drama
112. Who wrote this: “He prayed well, who loved well both man and bird and beast”?
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) S.T Coleridge
(c) Leigh Hunt
(d) Cardinal Newman
113. Name the journal to which Southey contributed regularly.
(a) The Quarterly Review
(b) The Backwoods Magazine
(c) The Edinburgh Review
(d) The Westminster Review
114. Sir Walter Scott collected Scottish ballads, and published them along with his own, in
(a) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
(b) Marion
(c) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
(d) The Lord of the Isles
115. How old was Byron when he published Hours of Idleness, a collection of poems in heroic couplet?
(a) 19 (b) 29
(c) 18 (d) 30
116. When Hours of Idleness was criticized by the Edinburgh Review, Lord Byron retaliated by writing a satiric piece. What was the title of this satire?
(a) The Vision of Judgment
(b) Mazeppa
(c) The Giaour
(d) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
117. How many cantos could Byron complete of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage during his two years tour of the continent?
(a) All four
(b) First two
(c) One and three
(d) Only one
118. The first two cantos of Childe Harold take a reader to
(a) Spain
(b) Portugal
(c) Greece and Albania
(d) All of the above.
119. What is the tone of the ending of the second canto of Childe Harold?
(a) Joyous
(b) Melancholy
(c) Self-pitying
(d) Optimistic
120. In which canto does the description of the “Battle of Waterloo” appear?
(a) Canto I
(b) It is an independent poem
(c) Canto III
(d) Canto IV
121. Who is the hero of Childe Harold?
(a) Nature
(b) An unnamed traveler
(c) A legendary king
(d) The poet himself
122. “Michael”, “The Solitary Reaper,” “To a Highland Girl” – all these poems depict
(a) the poet’s joy at the beauty of nature
(b) simple common folk
(c) poet’s awe at the spiritual presence
(d) deep sense of music
123. What was Wordsworth’s professed aim in the Lyrical Ballads?
(a) Purge poetry of all conceit
(b) Simplicity of diction
(c) Make it intelligible to common people
(d) All of the above
124. Which work inspired Coleridge’s Kubls Khan?
(a) Holinshed’s Chronicle
(b) Plutarch’s Lives
(c) Travels in Scotland
(d) Purchas’s Pilgrimage
125. The name of the prisoner of Chillon was
(a) Beppo
(b) Giaour
(c) Francois de Bonnivard
(d) Pasha
126. The Vision of Judgment is
(a) an attack on Jeffrey, the editor
(b) satire on Southey
(c) satire on a young man of Seville
(d) satire on society
127. Don Juan has
(a) 5 cantos (b) 15 cantos
(c) 16 cantos (d) 20 cantos
128. Who is Halide in Don Juan?
(a) Wife of Don Alfonso
(b) Daughter of an old pirate
(c) Princess of Constantinople
(d) A Duchess
129. Where do we find these lines? “Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, “Tis woman’s whole existence….”?
(a) Don Juan
(b) Bipod
(c) Childe Harold
(d) Lara
130. Where do we meet these characters? Don Alfonso, Julia, Sultana? In
(a) Lara
(b) Don Juan
(c) Childe Harold
(d) Beppo
131. When he wrote Queen Mab, Shelley was only
(a) 19 (b) 18
(c) 21 (d) 22
132. Which of Shelley’s poems has a story from Greek mythology?
(a) Prometheus Unbound
(b) Alastor
(c) Queen Mab
(d) Julian and Maddalo
133. Which poem was inspired by the Greek proclamation of independence, followed by Greek revolt against Turkish rule?
(a) Epipsychidion (b) Queen Mab
(c) Hellas (d) Prometheus
134. Who is Adonais of the poem Adonais?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) John Keats
(c) Shelley himself
(d) None of the above
135. We meet characters such as Asia, Hercules, Jupiter in
(a) Hellas
(b) Prometheus Unbound
(c) Adonais
(d) Queen Mab
136. In which novel Scott projects Scotland under Robert Bruce, King and national hero?
(a) Quentin Durward
(b) Kenilworth
(c) Castle Dangerous
(d) St. Ronan’s Well
137. Which of the following is not written by Walter Scott?
(a) The Black Dwarf
(b) The Legend Montrose
(c) The Talisman
(d) None of the above
138. What is the background of Ivanhoe?
(a) The first crusade of Constantinople
(b) Contemporary life in the Scottish span of St. Ronan’s well
(c) Enmity of Saxon and Norman
(d) Wales under Henry II
139. Who wrote the following?
Castle Rackrent, the Absentee, Ormond?
(a) Fanny Burney
(b) Jane Poster
(c) Thomas Peacock
(d) Maria Edge worth
140. This woman novelist wrote “Scotch” novels: Thaddeus of Warsaw and The Scottish Chiefs. Who is she?
(a) Jane Porter
(b) Susan Ferrier
(c) Marry Russell Mitford
(d) Maria Edge worth
141. Who wrote Headlong Hall, Maid Marian, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle and Gryll Grange?
(a) Thomas Peacock
(b) G.P.R. James
(c) George Meredith
(d) Charles Lever
142. One of the following was not associated with the ‘Edinburgh Review’. Identify him.
(a) Sidney Smith
(b) William Blackwood
(c) Henry Brougham
(d) Francis Jeffrey
143. One of the characters of Jane Austen remarks, “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” Who said this and in which novel?
(a) Mr. Woodhouse in Emma
(b) Darcy in Pride and Prejudice
(c) Catherine in Northanger Abbey
(d) None of the above
144. His sonnet was rejected by a magazine Gem, on the plea that it would “shock mothers”. At this he wrote to a friend, “I am born out of time …. When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed ‘Hang the age, I will write for antiquity.’ Who is he?
(a) Thomas Peacock
(b) Hazlitt
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) Leigh Hunt
145. This patriotic song is often prescribed for school anthologies in India:
“Breathes there the man, with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, this is my own, my native land.” Who is the poet?
(a) Robert Southey
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Lord Byron
(d) William Wordsworth
146. Where do we find Bingley?
(a) Pride and Prejudice
(b) Sense and Sensibility
(c) Mansfield Park
(d) Persuasion
147. When was the unfinished dream poem ‘Kubla Khan’ published?
(a) 1816 (b) 1810
(c) 1820 (d) 1821
148. Read the line: “About thirty years age, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram “. This is the beginning of a novel by Jane Austen. Which one?
(a) Mansfield Park
(b) Emma
(c) Sense and Sensibility
(d) Northanger Abbey
149. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Which of Jane Austen’s novels begins with these words?
(a) Sense and Sensibility
(b) Northanger Abbey
(c) Pride and Prejudice
(d) Emma
150. Which of Scott’s novels depicts the conflict between the Puritans, the Covenanters, and the royal forces under Culverhouse”?
(a) Old Morality
(b) Castle Dangerous
(c) Heart of Midlothian
(d) Talisman
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