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
OSCAR WILDE
1. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: According to W.H. Auden. The Importance of being earnest is the purest example in English literature of a ‘verbal opera’.
Statement II; Oscar Wilde possessed profound insight into the range of the arts that in a combined form make theatre performance possible.
In the light of the above statement choose the correct answer from the options given below.
[1]Both statement 1 and statement 2 are true
[2] Both statement 1 and 2 are false
[3]statement 1 is true but statement 2 is false
[4]statement 1 is false but statement 2 is true
ANSWER:1
2. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People ?
(A) A Woman of No Importance
(B) Lady Windermere’s Fan
(C) The Importance of Being Earnest
(D) An Ideal Husband
ANSWER:C
3. Identify a play in the following list that is not written by Oscar Wilde :
(A) A Woman of No Importance
(B) The Importance of Being Earnest
(C) Saints and Sinners
(D) An Ideal Husband
ANSWER:C
4. Salonie is a play written by Oscar Wilde written in
(A) English
(B) Irish
(C) French
(D) Italian
ANSWER: * (Marks given to all)
5. For which one of the following reasons, in Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Gray breaks down when he sees his finished portrait?
1. Overwhelmed by the beauty of the portrait
2. Overjoyed by the feeling that his beauty will be known to all
3. Distraught by the fact that his beauty will fade while the portrait stays beautiful
4. Distraught by the badly drawn portrait
ANSWER:3
6. “The chapter on the fall of the rupee you may omit. It is somewhat too sensational. Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side.” The fall of the Indian rupee in the final decades of 19 century is referred to in one of Oscar Wilde’s plays . identify the play.
1. The importance of being earnest
2. Lady Windermere’s fan
3. An Ideal Husband
4. A Woman of no importance
ANSWER:1
7. Who is the author of the statement : “The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in the glass” ?
(1)Arthur Symons
(2) Benjamin Disraeli
(3) W. B. Yeats
(4) Oscar Wilde
ANSWER:4
8. Which one of the following essays holds that “As a method, realism is a complete failure’?
A. Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall”
B. Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying”
C. D H Lawrence, “Why the Novel Matters”
D. Mary McCarthy, “My Confession”
ANSWER:2