1.“The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James
and Joseph Conrad.” Which one of the following critical texts begins with the
above assertion?
1. Walter Allen, The English Novel
2. Terry Eagleton, The English Novel
3. F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition
4. Ian Watt, Rise of the Novel
Answer: 3
2.The novel Mary Barton is written by :
(A)Mrs. Gaskell
(B) George Eliot
(C) Emily Bronte
(D) Dickens
Answer: A
3. Which is the correct sequence :
(A) D. G. Rossetti, George Eliot, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray
(B) George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray
(C) Thackeray, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti
(D) Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray, D. G. Rossetti
Answer: C
4.Dinah Morris is a character in George Eliot’s novel
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Silas Marner
(C) Daniel Deronda
(D) Adam Bede
Answer: D
5.Put the following novels of George Eliot in a sequential order. Answer the
question with the help of the code :
(i) Middlemarch
(ii) Daniel Deronda
(iii) Felix Holt, the Radical
(iv) Romola
Code :
(A) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)
(B) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
(C) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)
(D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
Answer: D
6. __________ read Adam Bede with such pleasure that she not only keenly
recommended it to her relatives but also commissioned two paintings of
scenes from the novel.
1. Horace Nightingale
2. George Eliot
3. Margaret Cavendish
4. Queen Victoria
Answer: 4
7. Which of the following books was not published in 1859 ?
(A) Darwin : The Origin of Species
(B) George Eliot : Adam Bede
(C) Mill : On Liberty
(D) Ruskin : Unto This Last
Answer: D
8.George Eliot’s attempt to write a historical novel of the Italian
Renaissance was not successful. Which was this novel?
(A) Adam Bede
(B) Felix Holt
(C) Silas Marner
(D) Romola
Answer: D
9.The author of the essay “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” is ……………..
(1) George Eliot
(2) Henry James
(3) Oscar Wilde
(4) Richard Steele
Answer: 1
10.Who among the Victorian authors has described himself/herself as an
agnostic?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) George Eliot
(D) Thomas Hardy
Answer: (C)
11.Charles Dickens opined that “no man ever before had the art of making
himself mentally so like a woman since the world began.” He was
acknowledging the quality of the work of which writer?
(1) Walter Scott
(2) William Mackpeace Thackeray
(3) George Meredith
(4) George Eliot
Answer: 4
12.Which novel of George Eliot was read with pleasure by Queen Victoria
and also commissioned for two paintings of scenes as a mark of recognition?
(1) Romola
(2) Scenes of Clerical Life
(3) Adam Bede
(4) Middlemarch
Answer: 3
13.Match the correct pair :
(I) George Eliot
(II) Saki
(III) Emily Bronte
(IV) Mark Twain
1. Ellis Bell
2. Mary Anne Evans
3. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
4. H. H. Munro
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 1 3 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4
Answer: B
14. “With all the eagerness to know the truths of life, she retained very
childlike ideas about marriage … the really delightful marriage must be that
when your husband was a sort of a father, and could even teach you Hebrew,
if you wished it.” She is the protagonist in one of George Eliot’s novels. Who
is she?
(A) Romola
(B) Hetty Sorel
(C) Maggie
(D) Dorothea
Answer: (D)
15“The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James
and Joseph Conrad.” Which one of the following critical texts begins with the
above assertion?
1. Walter Allen, The English Novel
2. Terry Eagleton, The English Novel
3. F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition
4. Ian Watt, Rise of the Novel
Answer: 3
Bronte Sisters
1.A fragmentary unfinished novel entitled Emma was published in Cornhill
Magazine. Identify the author.
(1) Elizabeth Gaskell
(2) Charlotte Bronte
(3) Emily Bronte
(4) George Eliot
Answer: 2
2.The novel Mary Barton is written by :
(A)Mrs. Gaskell
(B) George Eliot
(C) Emily Bronte
(D) Dickens
Answer: A
3.Match the imaginary location with its creator :
1. Emily Bronte
2. Thomas Hardy
3. Lowood Parsonage
4. Charles Dickens
5. Wessex
6. Egdon Heath
7. Coketown
8. Charlotte Bronte
(A) 1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8
(B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7
(C) 1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7
(D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8
Answer: B
4. One of the most famous movements of direct address to the reader –
“Reader, I married him” – occurs in
(A) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
(B) Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
(D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Answer: B
5.Who among the following authors were greatly influenced by Thomas
Carlyle’s writings?
I. Charles Dickens
II. Elizabeth Gaskell
III. Emily Bronte
IV. Oscar Wilde
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) I and III
Answer: 1
6.In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane
of when he visits Lowood School ?
(1) Laziness
(2) Stealing
(3) Lying
(4) Spying
Answer: 3
7. Select the matching pair
(A) Emily Bronte – Yorkshire Moors
(B)Hardy – Scotland
(C)Walter Scott – Ireland
(D)Mark Twain – Yoknapatawfa
Answer: A
8.Listed below are the titles of novels and the sources to which they are
aligned by readers.
Match them appropriately :
1. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
2. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
3. R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island
4. Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations
I. Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs
II. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
III. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
IV. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 3 2
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
Answer: C
9.Match the correct pair :
(I) George Eliot
(II) Saki
(III) Emily Bronte
(IV) Mark Twain
1. Ellis Bell
2. Mary Anne Evans
3. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
4. H. H. Munro
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 1 3 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4
Answer: B
10. 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
11.Arrange the following women novelists in the chronological order (by
date of birth):
A. Anne Bronte
B. Jane Austen
C. Ann Radcliff
D. Fanny Burney
E. Maria Edgeworth
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. B, A, D, C, E
2. C, D, B, E, A
3. D, C, E, B, A
4. A, B, C, E, D
Answer: 3
Thomas Hardy
1.Which of the following poems by Thomas Hardy was originally titled By
the Century’s Deathbed?
1. The Minute Before Meeting
2. Neutral Tones
3. The Darkling Thrush
4. The Oxen
Answer: 3
2. Under the Greenwood Tree is written by :
(A) Mrs. Gaskell
(B) George Eliot
(C) Thomas Hardy
(D) Emily Bronte
Answer: C
3. Who, among the following writers, is known for his unforgettable sense
of humour and comedy ?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) P.G. Wodehouse
(C) Thomas Hardy
(D) John Galsworthy
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. Thomas Hardy’s last major novel was _______.
(A) Tess of the D’urbervilles
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) The Return of the Native
(D) The Trumpet Major
Answer: B
6.“Jabberwocky” is a creation in _______.
(A) Edward Lear’s poetry
(B) Lewis Carroll’s work
(C) Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Thomas Hardy’s Woodlanders
Answer: B
7.Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins with the sombre description of
Egdon Heath ?
(1) Jude the Obscure
(2) The Return of the Native
(3) Far from the Madding Crowd
(4) Under the Greenwood Tree
Answer: 2
8. William Wordsworth had a deep influence on Thomas Hardy. According
to Hardy a particular poem by Wordsworth was his ‘best cure for despair’.
Which is that poem?
(A) “Michael”
(B) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(C) “The Idiot Boy”
(D) “The Leechgatherer”
Answer: (D)
9.Who among the following protagonists of Thomas Hardy feels his lot as
akin to Job’s ?
(1) Clym Yeo bright
(2) Angel Clare
(3) Jude
(4) Troy
Answer: 3
10.In his Introduction to The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse
(1973), Philip Larkin underlines the importance of a native tradition with
seen as the major poet of the Modern Period.
(1)William Butler Yeats
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) Thomas Hardy
(4) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: 3
11.Which of the following poems by Thomas Hardy was originally titled By
the Century’s Deathbed?
1. The Minute Before Meeting
2. Neutral Tones
3. The Darkling Thrush
4. The Oxen
Answer: 3