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1) Given below are two statements:

Statement I: The term ‘Negative capability’ was coined by john Keats.

Statement II: While analysing the term ‘Dissociation of sensibility’, T.S. Eliot proclaims that

hamlet is an artistic failure.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given

below

{1] Both statement I and statement II are true

[2] Both statement I and statement II are false

[3] Statement Tis true, but statement II is false

[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true

Answer:3

2.Who among the following is celebrated in John Keats’s Lines on the

Mermaid Tavern?

1. Jack, the Ripper

2. Bryson of the Park

3. Jack, the Giant-Killer

4. Robin Hood

Answer: 4

3. Match the character with the author :

List – I

I. Madeline

II. Prometheus

III. Urizen

IV. Childe Harold

List – II

A. Blake

B. Byron

C. Shelley

D. Keats

I II III IV

(1) B C A D

(2) C D A B

(3) D C A B

(4) C D B A

Answer: 3

4. John Keats’s poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ was composed in :

(A) 1818

(B) 1819

(D) 1821

Answer: B

5. The correct chronological order of the following poets is :

(A) Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott

(B) Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron

(D) Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats

Answer: D

6. In a letter to his brother George in September 1819, John Keats had this

to say about a fellow romantic poet : “He describes what he sees – I describe

what I imagine – Mine is the hardest task.” The poet under reference is

(A) Wordsworth

(B) Coleridge

(D) Southey

Answer: C

7. About which nineteenth century English writer was it said that “He had

succeeded as a writer not by conforming to the Spirit of the Age, but in

opposition to it” ?

(A) Lord Byron on Coleridge

(B) Coleridge on Keats

(D) De Quincey on Crabbe

Answer: C

8.Which of the following poem by Keats uses the Spenserian stanza ?

(A) Endymion

(B) The Fall of Hyperion

(D) Lamia

Answer: C

9. The term “egotistical sublime” was coined by

(A) S.T. Coleridge

(B) John Keats

(D) William Hazlitt

Answer: B

10. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’?

(A) John Milton

(B) William Wordsworth

(D) P.B. Shelley

Answer: (C)

11. The island setting of Latmos figures in Keats’s

(A) Endymion

(B) The Eve of St. Agnes

(C) Lamia

(D) Hyperion

Answer: A

12. Which interpretation of Keats’s “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” best

represents the mimetic perspective?

1. The line is an ironic quotation, the equation of “beauty” and “truth” as “all we

know on earth” suggests that reality is an illusory concept and that the primary

function of art is to construct a world within an aesthetic reality of its own.

2. Those aspects of reality which we perceive to be “beautiful” are the only worthy

subject matter of the artist, and it is the artist’s job to observe closely and isolate

those sublime elements from the flux of the mundane.

3. The author’s arbitrary imposition of order upon the chaotic impressions of

reality constitutes the only “truth” in a work of art.

4. A work of literature is “beautiful” insofar as it offers an accurate representation

of its subject matter, with fully realized characters and vivid description of events.

Answer: 4

13. In The Fall of Hyperion : A Dream Keats sees a ladder leading upwards

and is addressed by a prophetess in the following words : “None can usurp

this height … / But those to whom the miseries of the world / Are misery,

and will not let them rest.” Who is the prophetess ?

(1) Urania

(2) Moneta

(3) Melete

(4) Mneme

Answer: 2

14. Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” combines two poetic forms

I. Lyric

II. Dramatic Monologue

III. Ballad

IV. Sonnet

The right combination according to the code is

(1) II and III

(2) I and IV

(3) I and III

(4) II and IV

Answer: 3

15.Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical periodization often has nothing to

do with the lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers born in the same

year belonging to two separate periods.

Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born in 1795. In

standard literary histories, Example: Keats is a Romantic and Carlyle, a

Victorian.

(A) (AST) and (R) are correct

(B) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect

(D) (R) does not follow from (AST)

Answer: A

16. Match the following elegies with the persons for whom they were

written:

(i) Lycidas

(ii)Arthur Hugh Clough

(iii)Adonais

(iv) A.H. Hallam

(v) In Memoriam

(vi) Edward King

(vii) Thyrsis

(viii) Keats

(A) (i) – (vi); (iii) – (iv); (vii) – (ii); (v) – (vi)

(B) (iii) – (viii); (i) – (iv); (iii) – (ii);(v) – (ii)

(D) (v) – (vi); (i) – (viii); (iii) – (ii); (vii) – (iv)

Answer: C

17. In Keats’ poetic career, the most productive year was

(A) 1816

(B) 1817

(D) 1819

Answer: D

19. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats’s Muse figure is

(A) Thea

(B) Moneta

(D) Calliope

Answer: (B)

20. Who is John Keats’s ‘Sylvan Historian’?

(A) Fanny Brawne

(B) Nightingale

(D) The Bridge of Quietness

Answer: (C)

William Hazlitt ,Leigh Hunt,Charles Lamb & Thomas De Quincy

1. Which of the following poets does William Hazlitt call ‘Don Quixote-like’

in his essay, My First Acquaintance with Poets?

1. William Wordsworth

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3. William Cowper

4. Lord Byron

Answer: 1

2.’The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers’ is :

(A) A poem by William Blake an essay by Charles Lamb

(B) An elegy by William Wordsworth

(D) An essay by William Hazlitt

Answer: C

3. Who of the following is known for aphoristic prose style ?

(A) William Hazlitt

(B) Francis Bacon

(D) G. K. Chesterton

Answer: B

4. The confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by :

(A) William Hazlitt

(B) S. T. Coleridge

(D) De Quincey

Answer: D

5. Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and

Coleridge?

(A) Robert Southey

(B) Sir Walter Scott

(D) A. C. Swinburne

Answer: (D)

6. From among the following, identify Coleridge’s companion in a fanciful

scheme to establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the

Susquehaina river ?

(A) Lord Byron

(B) Robert Southey

(D) William Wordsworth

Answer: B

7. The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by ________.

(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt

(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey

Answer: C

8. The Romantic period produced a fair amount of dramatic criticism. A

notable examples is “on the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth.” Who is the

author?

1. Thomas de Quincey

2. Edmund Kean

3. William Hazlitt

4. William Charles Macready

Answer: 1

9. Who among the following is the author of Account of the Augustan Age

in England (1759) ?

1. John Gay

2. William Hazlitt

3. Oliver Goldsmith

4. Samuel Johnson

Answer: 3

10.My First Acquaintance with Poets, an unforgettable account of meeting

with literary heroes, is written by

(A) Charles Lamb

(B) Thomas de Quincey

(D) William Hazlitt

Answer: D

11. Who among the following has written the essay, “The Indian Jugglers”?

(A) Charles Lamb

(B) William Hazlitt

(D) Thomas Love Peacock

Answer: (B)

12.Which writer of the Romantic period makes the following comment :

“The poet is far from dealing only with these subtle and analogical truths.

Truth of every kind belongs to him, provided it can bud into any kind of

beauty, or is capable of being illustrated and impressed by poetic faculty”?

(1) Wordsworth in Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

(2) William Hazlitt in “On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth”

(3) Leigh Hunt in What is Poetry?

(4) Keats in one of his letters to his brother

Answer: 3

13. “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

(D) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden

Answer: B

14.Which of the following poets does William Hazlitt call ‘Don Quixote-like’

in his essay, My First Acquaintance with Poets?

1. William Wordsworth

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3. William Cowper

4. Lord Byron

Answer: 1

15. As mentioned in -My First Acquaintance with Poets’ which poet does

William Hazlitt describe as the ”only person I ever knew who answered the

idea of a man of genius”?

1. Coleridge

2. Wordsworth

3. Byron

4. Shelley

Answer: 1

16. Who wrote the essay “My First Acquaintance with Poets”?

A- Charles Lamb

B- John Ruskin

C- Thomas De Quincey

D- William Hazlitt

Answer:D

17.About which nineteenth century English writer was it said that “He had

succeeded as a writer not by conforming to the Spirit of the Age, but in

opposition to it” ?

(A) Lord Byron on Coleridge

(B) Coleridge on Keats

(D) De Quincey on Crabbe

Answer: C

18.“Did he who made the Lamb made thee” appears in :

(A) “The Tyger”

(B) “Chimney Sweeper”

(D) “Introduction”

Answer: A

19. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code

given :

List – I

i. Lambic

ii. Anapaestic

iii. Dactylic

iv. Trochaic

List – II

1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.

3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable

4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable

Codes :

i ii iii iv

(A) 2 1 3 4

(B) 3 2 1 4

(D) 3 1 2 4

Answer: Marks given to all

20. “Competence to age is supplementary to youth, a sorry supplement

indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had. We must ride where we formerly

walked : live better and be softer and shall be wise to do so – than we had

means to do in the good old days you speak of.”

Who speaks these words and to whom?

(A) Lamb to Bridget

(B) Wordsworth to Dorothy

(D) Lamb to Dorothy

Answer: A

21.What was Charles Lamb’s connection with India?

(1) He was fascinated by the Indian jugglers and trades-people in London and

wrote an essay on them

(2) He was fascinated by Eastern mystical religions, especially Buddhism

(3) He was a clerk for thirty three years in the East India Company

(4) He was clerk in South Sea house that prepared patents and documents for

British trading companies in India

Answer: 4

22. In which of the following essays did Charles Lamb first use the

pseudonym/persona, Elia?

1. “My First Play”

2. “The Two Races of Men”

3. “New Year’s Eve”

4. “The South Sea House”

Answer: 4

23. Charles Lamb used the pseudonym Elia for writing in which of the following periodicals?

A. Athenaeum

B. London Magazine

C. The Edinburg Review

D. The Quarterly Review

Answer:B