1. Who, among the following, advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth, and acquires all ideas by experience?(1) John Locke(2) John Wesley(3) Isaac Watts(4) Denis DiderotAnswer: 1 2. Which of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance?(1) Walter Pater(2) Oscar Wilde(3) Thomas Carlyle(4) John RuskinAnswer: 1 […]

1. Matthew Arnold’s “touchstones” were “short passages, even single lines” of classic poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the presence or absence of high poetic quality. Tn his “Study of Poetry” Arnold cited “touchstones” from such non-English poets as Homer and Dante and also from the

1. What is the fate of ignorance in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress?(1) He drowns in the River of Death(2) He enters the Celestial City(3) He finds the Truth(4) He discovers the way to HellAnswer: 4 2. God is referred to as “The President of Immortals” in(1) Paradise Lost(2) Waiting for Godot(3) Tess of the D’urbervilles(4) The

1. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude ?(1) Durham(2) Glasgow(3) Cambridge(4) OxfordAnswer: 3 2. Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?(1) John Marston(2) Thomas Middleton(3) John Fletcher(4) Thomas HeywoodAnswer: 4 3. In William Congreve’s The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line : “One’scruelty is one’s

1. In Frances Burney’s novel, Evelina, the eponymous heroine comes out in society in two locations. They are :(a) Bath(b) Bristol(c) Leeds(d) LondonThe right combination according to the code is :(1) (a) and (b)(2) (b) and (c)(3) (a) and (d)(4) (b) and (d)Answer: 4 2. Which of the following lines by Shakespeare is repeated several

1. Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called “the finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme”.(1) Kim(2) A Passage to India(3) Train to Pakistan(4) Private Life of an Indian PrinceAnswer: 1 2. Who is the author of the poem “The Defence of Lucknow” dealing with the siege of Lucknow,

  1. Which narrative poem by Lord Tennyson presents the story of a fisherman turned Merchant sailor who, after a shipwreck, is marooned on a desert island ?1.”Crossing the Bar”2.”Tithonus”3.”Enoch Arden”4.”Maud”Answer: 3 2. In “Memorial Verses” Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. Who are they ?1. Goethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth2. Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton3. Shakespeare,

Q.1. The term ‘Digger’ is associated with a group of agrarian communists who flourished in England in 1649-50 and were led by1. Laurence Clarkson2. Gerrard Winstanley3. George Fox4. John LilburneAnswer: 2 Q.2. Who viewed Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge as representatives of a “sect of poets …. Dissenters from the established systems in poetry and criticism”

Q.1 Which among the following group of writers is labelled as “University Wits”? Thomas Lodge, Thomas Wilson, Walter Raleigh John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, George Peele Thomas kyd, Francis Beaumont, John Lyly Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe Answer: 4 Q.2 which cultural analyst has combined the study of different dimensions of youth culture with commentary

Q.1 Which among the following group of writers is labelled as “University Wits”? Thomas Lodge, Thomas Wilson, Walter Raleigh John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, George Peele Thomas kyd, Francis Beaumont, John Lyly Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe Answer: 4 Q.2 which cultural analyst has combined the study of different dimensions of youth culture with commentary