1.“He that is not with us is against us. He that is not against us is with us.” Who said this?
1. Charles Lamb
2. Samuel Johnson
3. Francis Bacon
4. R. W. Emerson
Answer: 3
2.Who of the following is known for aphoristic prose style ?
(A) William Hazlitt
(B) Francis Bacon
(C) John Ruskin
(D) G. K. Chesterton
Answer: B
3.The concept of human mind as tabula rasa or blank tablet was propounded by
(A) Bishop Berkley
(B) David Hume
(C) Francis Bacon
(D) John Locke
Answer: D
4.“All Rising to Great Place is by a _____ satire.” (Francis Bacon)
(A) Murky
(B) Winding
(C) Crooked
(D) Sinister
Answer: B
5.“All Rising to Great Place is by a _____ satire.” (Francis Bacon)
(A) Murky
(B) Winding
(C) Crooked
(D) Sinister
Answer: B
6. Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis is about a utopian state called
1. Asgard
2. Avalon
3. Bensalem
4. Baltia
Answer: 3
7.Who is the only one of Milton’s contemporaries to be mentioned by name in Paradise Lost ?
1. Francis Bacon
2. Johannes Vermeer
3. Galileo
4. King Charles
Answer: 3
8.“The Books You Needn’t Read, the Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading, Books Read Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The Category of Books Read Before Being Written …” The above extract is taken from
(A) Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Library of Babel”
(B) Italo Colvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
(C) Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose
(D) Francis Bacon’s “Of Studies”
Answer: B
9.“No man is truly great, who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. Nothing can be said to be great that has a distinct limit, or that borders on something evidently greater than itself. Besides, what is short-lived and pampered into mere notoriety, is of a gross and vulgar quality in itself.” This passage describing the quality of greatness is taken from
(A) “Of studies” by Francis Bacon
(B) “The Indian Jugglers” by William Hazlitt
(C) Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
(D) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden
Answer: B
10.To whom does Francis Bacon refer the following piece of advice ? “Let him sequester himself from the Company of his Countrymen, and diet in such Places, where there is good company of the Nation… Let him upon his Removes, … procure Recommendation, to some person of Quality, residing in the Place, whither he removeth…”
(1)The Beaux
(2) The Peddler
(3) The Traveller
(4) The Stationer
Answer: 3
11.“He that is not with us is against us. He that is not against us is with us.” Who said this?
1. Charles Lamb
2. Samuel Johnson
3. Francis Bacon
4. R. W. Emerson
Answer: 3
12. Which two of the following inspired the rise of the periodical essay?
A. Robert Burton
B. Francois Rabelais
C. Francis Bacon
D. Michel de Montaigne
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. C and A only
2. A and B only
3. C and D only
4. B and D only
Answer: 3
14.In ” Advancement of learning Francis Bacon divides poetry into three divisions :
a. Philosophical , religious , imaginative
b. Epic , dramatic , lyrical
c. Narrative , representative , allusive
d. Odes , sonnets , eclogues
Answer: C
15.Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Essay). (Essayist)
A. “The Tory Fox-Hunter” I. Francis Bacon
B. “What I Believe” II. Joseph Addison
C. “The Death of the Moth” III. E.M.Forster
D. “Of Ambition” IV. Virginia Woolf
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. A -I , B -III , C -IV , D -II
B. A -II , B -III , C -IV , D -I
C. A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -I
D. A -IV , B -I , C -II , D –II
Answer: B
16.Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Text) (Author)
A. Advancement of Learning I. Susan Sontag
B. Past and Present II. Francis Bacon
C. English Traits III. Thomas Carlyle
D. Illness as Metaphor IV. R. W. Emerson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
- A -I , B -III , C -IV , D –II
- B- A -II , B -III , C -IV , D –I
- C- A -III , B -IV , C -II ,
- D –I D- A -IV , B -I , C -II , D –III
Answer : b