J.S.Mill
1. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism ?
(A) J.A. Froude
(B) Charles Kingsley
(C) J.S. Mill
(D) Cardinal Newman
Answer: C
Virgina Woolf
1. What is the implication of the statement: “In this sense, one can think of literature less as some inherent quality or set of qualities displayed by certain kinds of writing all the way from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf, than as a number of ways in which people relate themselves to writing”?
1) Literature has values that are constant and universal for all classes and races.
2) Literature has a moral dimension, which cannot be superseded by any other values.
3) Literature has values that may be interpreted differently by different subject-positions.
4) The inherent quality of literature is its literariness.
Answer: 3
2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is written by :
(A) Arthur Miller
(B) Engene O Neil
(C) Edward Albee
(D) Tennessee Williams
Answer: C
3. Which of the following was associated with the “Bloomsbury Group”.
(A) T. S. Eliot
(B) W. B. Yeats
(C) T. E. Hulme
(D) Virginia Woolf
Answer: D
4. Who, among the following women writers, famously imagined the plight of Shakespeare’s sister ?
(A) George Eliot
(B) Virginia Woolf
(C) Irish Murdoch
(D) Frances Burney
Answer: B
5. Who among the following dismissed Ulysses as “a misfire” ?
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) Wyndham Lewis
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: 1
6. Which of the following lines by Shakespeare is repeated several times in Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway ?
(1) “If music be the food of love, play on”.
(2) “Fear no more the heat of the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages”.
(3) “Those are pearls that were his eyes”.
(4) “There is a tide in the affairs of man”.
Answer: 2
7. Who is the author of the poems “Elegy for Mrs. Virginia Woolf” and “William Butler in Limbo”?
(1) Keith Douglas
(2) W.H. Auden
(3) Sidney Keyes
(4) Stephen Spender
Answer: 3
8. “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
9. Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of character and the understanding of realism of writers like Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her famous essay is called ‘Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown’. Who is Mrs. Brown?
(A) The name Woolf gives a woman whom she happens to meet in a train.
(B) A servant in Mr. Bennett’s household.
(C) A character in a Bennett story.
(D) Mr. Bennett’s neighbour who happens to be a writer.
Answer: (A)
10. Identify the text in the following list which offers a fictionalized survey of English Literature from Elizabethan times to 1928:
(A) E.M. Forster, the Eternal Moment
(B) Virginia Woolf, Orlando
(C) Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
(D) David Jones, In Parenthesis
Answer: (B)
11. Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of the common reader from Dr. Johnson. To which particular work of Johnson’s does she remain indebted?
(A) The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; the essay on Milton
(B) The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; the essay on Gray
(C) Preface to Shakespeare
(D) The Patriot
Answer: (B)
12. While foregrounding the marginal presence of women in history in A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf refers to ______ History of England.
(A) Campbell’s
(B) Trevelyan’s
(C) Sander’s
(D) Carter’s
Answer: B
13. Yet it is the masculine values that prevail., observed a famous writer Speaking cruelly, she continued, football and sport are important., the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes trivial. Name the author and the text.
(1) Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(2) Audre Lorde Age, Race, Class….
(3) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
(4) Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Answer: 3
14. In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse the lighthouse does not symbolize :
(A) permanence at the heart of change.
(B) change in the unchanging world.
(C) celebration of life in the heart of death.
(D) celebration of order in the heart of chaos.
Answer: B
15. “Exorcism” is the title of Act III of who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? What is the significance of ‘exorcism’ in the context of the play ?
(A) The casting out of evil spirits
(B) Deconstructing of myths involving marriage, fertility and sons
(C) Facing life without illusions
(D) Exposing all attempts at illusion making
Answer: D
16. In a classic statement that inaugurated Feminist thought in English, we read :
“A woman writing thinks back through her mothers”. Where does this occur ?
(A) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
(B) Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics
(C) Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives
(D) Mary Hiatt’s The Way Women Write.
Answer: A
17. Who among the following writers describes novels as “not form which you see but emotion which you feel”?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) Jean Rhys
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) Joseph Conrad
Answers: (C)
18. In which novel of Virginia Woolf does a painter in the act of painting actually figure as a character ?
(A) The Voyage Out
(B) The Waves
(C) Jacob’s Room
(D) To the Lighthouse
Answer: D
19. In which essay does Virginia Woolf observe that “if a writer were a free man [sic] and not a slave” to the conventions of the literary market-place, there would be “no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest, or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it” ?
(1)”How it Strikes a Contemporary”
(2) “Modern Fiction”
(3) “The Russian Point of View”
(4) “Mr. Bennett and Mr. Brown”
Answer: 2
20. Which two of the following are part of Virginia Woolf’s collection of autobiographical ?
(A )” A Will to Word It.’
(B) A Sketch the Part “
( C) A Font Hue of the Past
(D) Am I smob’
Choose the cod are from the options we below
a. ( A ) and ( B) Only
b. (A ) and ( C ) Only
c. (B) and Only
d. (B ) and ( D) Only
Answer: D
21. In “Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown” Virginia Woolf:
A. analyses the state of modern fiction by contrasting two generations of writers.
B. criticises book buying preferences of the educated English class.
C. presents modernity as a stable and coherent project uniting all artists.
D. responds to E.M Forster’s remarks on character in fiction.
Answer: A
22. Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis (1946) ends with a chapter on:
A. George Eliot’s Middlemarch.
B. James Joyce’s Ulysses.
C. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.
D. Wyndham Lewis’s The Apes of God.
Answer: c
23. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando opens in 1588 and Orlando, a sixteen-year-old boy, writes a poem called:
A. “The Evergreen Tree”.
B. “The Magic Tree”.
C. “The Oak Tree”.
D. “The Poison Tree”
Answer: D
Judith Butler
1. The author of Gender Trouble is
(A) Elaine Showalter
(B) Helene Cixous
(C) Michele Barrett
(D) Judith Butler
Answer: D
Elaine Showalter
1. The term “gynocriticism” was coined by :
(A) Betty Friedman
(B) Elaine Showalter
(C) Luce Irigarey
(D) Susan Sontag
Answer: B
2. Which of the following feminist critics used the expression ‘Gynocriticism’for the rst time ?
(A) Kate Millet
(B) Simone de Beauvoir
(C)Elaine Showalter
(D) Mary Ellmann
Answer: C
Helene Cixous
1. Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists ?
(A) Helene Cixous
(B) Monica Wittig
(C) Simone de Beauvoir
(D) Luce Irigaray
Answer: A
2. This was a path-breaking feminist essay written in the 1970s which used hybrid terms like “sext” and “chaosmos.” Identify the author.
(1) Luce Irigaray
(2) Helene Cixous
(3) Julia Kristeva
(4) Simon de Beauvoir
Answer: 2
3. In coining the term ‘Ecriture feminine’ Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual production, not necessarily written by women. Who among the following male writers is used by her as an example?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) Joseph Conrad
(C) James Joyce
(D) E.M. Forster
Answer: (C)