1.The roman a clef (French for “novel with a key”) uses contemporary
historical figures as its chief characters. They are of course given fictional names. One example is Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point. Its Mark
Rampion is modelled on M_______.
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) E.M. Forster
(C) Wyndham Lewis
(D) Arnold Bennett
Answer: (A)
2.Who among the following called the novel ‘the bright book of life’ ?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) James Joyce
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) Aldous Huxley
Answer: A
3.D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of …………… in his novels.
(A) Realism
(B) Naturalism
(C) Primitivism
(D) Expressionism
Answer: C
4.Who in his preface to Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent makes the
following remark?
“the achievement of modern art is that it has ceased to recognize the
categories of tragic and comic or the dramatic classifications ‘tragedy’ and
‘comedy’, and views of life as tragicomedy.”
(1) August Strindberg
(2) Luigi Pirandello
(3) D.H. Lawrence
(4) Thomas Mann
Answer: 4
5.“On or about December 1910 human character changed,” Virginia Woolf
wrote. A more assertive declaration, “It was in 1915 the old world ended”,
was made by a novelist in one of his/her novels, picking a date of far more
historical moment, the point when an entire cultural tradition seemed to
end in war. Name the novelist and the novel.
(1) D.H. Lawrence – Kangaroo
(2) Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
(3) Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
(4) James Joyce – Ulysses
Answer: 1
6.D.H. Lawrence uses the expression ‘a bright book of life’ to describe
(A) The novel
(B) The dramatic monologue
(C) The Bible
(D) The short lyric
Answer: (A)
7.D.H. Lawrence’s 1926 novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country?
(1) Egypt
(2) South Africa
(3) Mexico
(4) Peru
Answer: 3
Graham Greene
Match the Graham Greene novel with its setting :
List – I
I. The Ministry of Fear
II. The Third Man
III. The Power and the Glory
IV. The Quiet American
List – II
A. Vienna
B. Mexico
C. Vietnam
D. London
I II III IV
(1) D A B C
(2) B A C D
(3) D B A C
(4) C D B A
Answer: 1
2. In which of the following novels by Graham Greene does the little girl
Brigitta appear ?
(A) The Heart of the Matter
(B) The Power and the Glory
(C) Brighton Rock
(D) The Quiet American
Answer: B
3.Which novel of Graham Greene in the following list does NOT end in
some form of suicide by the protagonist?
(A) The Heart of the Matter
(B) England Made Me
(C) Brighton Rock
(D) The Power and the Glory
Answer: (B)
3. In this novel by Graham Greene a double agent uses classic works of
fiction to encode secret information. “He put Clarissa Harlowe back in the
bookcase” is the first clue to his treachery. Then he draws on War and Peace
and The Way We Live Now as matrices for secretly transmitting information.
Identify the novel.
1. The Man Within
2. Our Man in Havana
3. The Human Factor
4. The confidential Agent
Answer: 3
4.Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence
Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by
political conflicts?
(A) Anthony Powell
(B) Evelyn Waugh
(C) William Golding
(D) Graham Greene
Answer: (D)
5.The protagonist returns with an admonition, the diamond sent to him
for smuggling out a packet of diamonds as bribe.
This scene occurs in one of the novels of Graham Greene – Identify the novel
(A) The End of the Affair
(B) The Heart of the Matter
(C) The Ministry of Fear
(D) Our Man in Havana
Answer: B
6.In Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, Hale is murdered with the help of
‘brighton rock’ which is
(A) A kind of sugar-candy
(B) A form of grenade
(C) A baton
(D) A kind of rock
Answer: (A)
7.Who among the following wrote a book on the life and works of Dante
Gabriel Rossetti?
(1) Graham Greene
(2) Evelyn Waugh
(3) William Golding
(4) Kingsley Amis
Answer: 2
7.The first novel written by Graham Greene is
(A) Stamboul Train
(B) England Made Me
(C) The Heart of the Matter
(D) The Man Within
Answer: D
8.From among the following identify the two Indian English authors who
received appreciation and encouragement from their British counterparts :
I. R.K. Narayan, Graham Greene
II. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Evelyn Waugh
III. Mulk Raj Anand, E.M. Forster
IV. Raja Rao, Iris Murdoch
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) I and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 3
9. Here are sentences labelled Assertion (A) and Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : While referring to Charlotte Bronte’s claim that she has excluded
public interest from her novels Graham Greene writes : ‘Public interest in her day
was surely more separate from public life… with us, however consciously
unconcerned we are, it obtrudes through the cracks of our stories terribly
persistent like grass through cement’.
Reason (R) : The decade of the “thirties was bristling with recurring economic and
political crisis like the Great Depression, Wall Street Crash, Unemployment, rise of
Hitler and Mussolini, series of murders, invasions and tensions; writers could not
remain unaffected.
In the light of (A) and (R) which of the following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: A
10. Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Novel) (Writer)
A. A Handful of Dust I. E. M. Forster
B. Brighton Rock II. Evelyn Waugh
C. Howard’s End III. D. H. Lawrence
D. The Plumed Serpent IV. Aldous Huxley
E. Those Barren Leaves V. Graham Greene
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A- A- I; B-IV; C-II; D-III; E-V
B- A- II; B-V; C-I; D-III; E-IV
C- A- III; B-I; C-V; D-II; E-IV
D- A- V; B-II, C-IV, D-I; E-III,
Answer:B