Graham Greene

Match list-1 with List-II:

List-I

(a) A Handful of Dust

(b) Brighton Rock

(c) Howard’s End

(d) The Plumed Serpent

(e) Those Barren Leaves

List-II

I. E.M. Forster

II. Evelyn Waugh

III. D.H. Lawrence

IV. Aldous Huxley

V. Graham Greene

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-III; (e)-V

[2] (a)-II; (b)-V; (c)-I; (d)-III; (e)-IV

[3] (a)-III; (b)-V; (c)-I; (d)-III; (e)-IV

[4] (a)-V; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-I; (e)-III

Answer: 2

Which of the following works is set in the backdrop of the religious persecution in Mexico?

[1] The power and the glory

[2] For whom the bell tolls

[3] In our time

[4] All of the above

Answer: [1] The power and the glory

Match List I with List II

List I List II

A) Graham Greene I Down and Out in Paris and London

B) Daniel Defoe II The Grass is Singing

C) George Orwell III A Journal of the Plague Year

D) Doris Lessing IV A Sort of Life

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(III)

2) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

3) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

4) (A)-(III). (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

Answer: 2) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

Samuel Pepys

Who among the following is exclusively associated with diary writing in English?

[1] Samuel Pepys

[2] Samuel Johnson

[3] Ben Johnson

[4] Samuel Richardson

Answer: [1] Samuel Pepys

Who among the following, after watching the performance of William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, observed that “it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my lifE”

1) John Evelyn

2) Samuel Pepys

3) John Dryden

4) Robert Greene

Answer: 2) Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys’ claim to fame rests on his

1) Biography

2) Autobiography

3) Diary

4) Speculative Fiction

Answer: 3) Diary