1.Edmund Burke denounced the French Revolution in :
(A) Political Philosophy
(B) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
(C) Rejections
(D) The Annual Register
Answer: C
2.Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language?
(A) Bishop Berkeley
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole
Answer: (B)
3.Who among the following cautioned against the dangers of popular liberty ?
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) Thomas Hobbes
(D) John Locke
Answer: C
4.Who among the following wrote a book with the title The Age of Reason ?
(A) William Godwin
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) Thomas Paine
(D) Edward Gibbon
Answer: C
5.Who among the following is not an Irish writer?
(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Thomas Gray
Answer: (D)
6. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after
(A) The Restoration
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The Reformation
(D) The French Revolution
Answer: (A)
7.Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?
(A) Mary Wellstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reections on the Revolution in France.
(B) Edmund Burke’s Reections on the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge.
(C) Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reections on, the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reections on the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Answer: (B)
8.A famous challenge to the Neoclassical tenets of form and reason in aesthetic considerations came from Edmund Burke. His work was titled :
(1) An Enquiry into the Philosophical Origin of, Our Ideas of the sublime and the Beautiful
(2) Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin Of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
(3) An Enquiry into the Philosophical Origin of Our Ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime
(4) Philosophical Enquiry into Our Original Ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime
Answer: 2