1. What was the title of the collection of short stories published by James
Joyce in 1914?
(1) Dubliners
(2) Londoners
(3) New Yorkers
(4) Berliners
Answer: 1
2.Which novel did James Joyce call “the English Ulysses”?
(1) Robinson Crusoe
(2) Clarissa
(3) Vanity Fair
(4) Great Expectations
Answer: 1
3.One of the important texts of Angry Young Man Movement is
(A) Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
(B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
(C) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
(D) The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
Answer: C
4.Who, amongst the following, does not belong to the ‘Great Tradition’,
enunciated by F. R. Leavis ?
(A) Joseph Conrad
(B) James Joyce
(C) Jane Austen
(D) George Eliot
Answer: B
5. James Joyce’s Exiles is a
(A) Short Story
(B) Poem
(C) Play
(D) Novel
Answer: C
6. The preliminary version of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man was called
(A) Stephen Hero
(B) Bloom’s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
(D) The Dead
Answer: (A)
7. _______ is a theological term brought into literary criticism by _______.
(A) Entelechy, St. Augustine
(B) Ambiguity, William Empson
(C) Adequation, Fr Walter Ong
(D) Epiphany, James Joyce
Answer: (D)
8. When was the English ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses lifted?
(1) 1924
(2) 1945
(3) 1936
(4) 1962
Answer: 3
9. Molly Bloom is a character in James Joyce’s
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(B) Dubliners
(C) Ulysses
(D) Exiles
Answer: C
10.Match the following :
1. Peter Ackroyd
2. James Boswell
3. Samuel Johnson
4. Richard Ellman
I. James Joyce
II. T. S. Eliot
III. Life of Johnson
IV. Lives of Poets
(A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2
(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3
(C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4
(D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4
Answer: (B)
11.Literary works such as Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, Samuel
Butler’s The Way of All Flesh and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man provide examples of which following novelistic form?
(A) Nouveau roman or new novel
(B) Epistolary novel
(C) Bildugsroman
(D) Historical novel
Answer: (C)
12.Which play by Tom Stoppard set in Zurich during the First World War
presents a character’s interactions with James Joyce as he was writing
Ulysses, Tristran Zara during the rise of Dadaism, and Lenin leading up to
the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zurich at that time?
(1) After Magritte
(2) Dirty Linen
(3) Artist Descending a Staircase
(4) Travesties
Answer: 4
13.The last word in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is
(1) No
(2) The
(3) Morning !
(4) Jaysus
Answer: 2
14.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)
15.Examples of poetic compounding are found in the work of which two
modernist writers?
1. Graham Greene
2. James Joyce
3. Gerard Manley Hopkins
4. Stephen spender
Choose the correct option:
1. (c) and (d)
2. (a) and (b)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (a) and (c)
Answer: 3