1.“Only connect” is the epigraph to a novel by :
(A) George Orwell
(B) Joseph Conrad
(C) D.H. Lawrence
(D) E.M. Forster
Answer: D
2.The motto “only connect” is taken from
(A) Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo
(B) Rudyard Kipling’s Kim
(C) H.G. Wells’ The History of Mr. Polly
(D) E.M. Forster’s Howards End
Answer: D
3.Who among the following was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group ?
(A) Lytton Strachey
(B) Clive Bell
(C) E.M. Forster
(D) Winston Churchill
Answer: D
4.The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals, critics, writers and
artists. Who among the following belonged to the Bloomsbury Group?
I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell
III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter Pater
(A) I and II
(B) I
(C) II and III
(D) IV
Answer: (A)
5.A remarkable novelist of the English Modernist phase who wrote a short
book on what the novel is (and why it matters) remarked, “Oh dear, yes –
the novel tells a story”. Identify the novelist:
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) James Joyce
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) DII. Lawrence
Answer: 3
6.Who among the following modern writers is associated with the quote,
“Only connect” ?
(1) D.H. Lawrence
(2) Virginia Woolf
(3) James Joyce
(4) E.M. Forster
Answer: 4
7. Who among the following was born in India ?
(1) Paul Scott
(2) Lawrence Durrell
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) V.S. Naipaul
Answer: 2
8. From the following list, choose the work which is not written by E.M.
Forster:
(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(B) Maurice
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) The Longest Journey
Answer: (C)
9.E.M. Forster uses some recurrent images in A Passage to India. Pick the
odd one out:
(A) Wasp
(B) Stone
(C) Thunder
(D) Echo
Answer: (C)
10.E.M. Forster’s Passage to India begins with a description of the city of
Chandrapore. It has an old Indian part and a new part consisting of the
British civil station. Which of the following descriptions of the city is not
found in the text?
(A) The streets are mean, the temples ineffective.
(B) It is a city of gardens.
(C) It is a tropical pleasaunce washed by a noble river.
(D) The new civil station is not sensibly planned and not modern.
Answer: (D)
11. The novel Maurice by E.M. Forster appeared posthumously in 1971. It had
a homosexual theme, so Forster considered its subject matter too indelicate
for publication during his life time. It was influenced by a writer who was a
socialist and open homosexual. Identify the writer.
(1) Oscar Wilde
(2) Edward Carpenter
(3) W.H. Auden
(4) E.F. Benson
Answer: 2
12.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