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 li are false
[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false ¥
[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true
Answer: [3]
2.Who among the following is associated with the term ‘Intentional fallacy’ in literary criticism?
[1] W.K Wimsatt
[2] Rolland Barthes
[3] J. Hillis miller
[4] John Keats
Answer:[1]
3.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
4.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
(C) Byron
(D) Southey
Answer: C
5.The term “egotistical sublime” was coined by
(A) S.T. Coleridge
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) William Hazlitt
Answer: B
6.Which of the following poems uses terza rima?
(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
Answer: (B)
7.Who among the following exemplified the role of the “peasant poet”?
(a) John Clare
(b) John Keats
(c) William Cobbett
(d) Robert Burns
The right combination according to the code is:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (c) and (d)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (a) and (d)
Answer: 4
8.A.R. Ammons parodies a famous poem in his “Swoggled” I’d rather be suckled by an outworn pagan than get my horn wreathed in an old Triton. Which poet, which poem ?
1. John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
2. John Milton, “On His Blindness”
3. William Wordsworth, “The World is Too Much with Us”
4. Elizabeth B. Browning, “How do I Love Thee…?”
Answer: 3
9.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
(C) (AST) and (R) are incorrect
(D) (R) does not follow from (AST)
Answer: A
10.Byron’s “The Vision of Judgement” is a satire directed against
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) John Keats
(C) Henry Hallam
(D) Robert Southey
Answer: D
11.In his famous letter to Benjamin Bailey (November 22, 1817) John Keats wrote : “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth.” Which of the following sentences follows this passage ?
(1) Now I am sensible all this is a mere sophistication, however it may neighbour to any truths, to excuse my own indolence…
(2) The Imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream – he woke and found it true.
(3) This however I am persuaded of, that nothing beside Imagination can give us sweet sensations and pleasurable thoughts.
(4) My pains at last some respite shall afford, while I behold the battles Imagination maintains.
Answer: 2