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Who among the following is the author of the collection of stories named Reginald in Russia?
1) Hector Hugh Munro ‘Saki’
2) Leo Tolstoy
3) Oscar Wilde
4) William Carlos Williams
Answer:1) Hector Hugh Munro ‘Saki’
Statement I: Constantin Stanislavski collaborated with Anton Chekhov to stage dramas on stage)
Statement II: The book My Life in Art was written by Constantin Stanislavski.
In the light of the statements given above choose the correct answer given below:
1) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
2) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
3) Statement I is true and Statement II is false
4) Statement I is false and Statement II is true
Answer: 2) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Some of the following poets adorned the Oxford Professor of Poetry Chair:
A) James Fenton
B) Margaret Atwood
C) Seamus Heaney
D) Anne Sexton
E) Paul Muldoon
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) B, C and D
2) A, B and C
3) A, C and E
4) C, D and E
Answer: 3) A, C and E
Which of the following statement(s) best describe Anna Karenina’s situation and worldview?
(A) Anna is deeply committed to the family and children
(B) Anna’s choices were more an outcome of passion and instinct
(C) Anna accepted the exile to which she was condemned
(D) Anna’s passionate spirit and determination to live life at her own terms make her so unique
(E) She became a victim of rampant patriarchal forces
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(1) (A), (C) and (D) Only
(2) (A), (B) and (E) Only
(3) (A), (D) and (E) Only
(4) (A), (B) and (D) Only
Answer: (3) (A), (D) and (E) Only
“All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” It is the opening line of the novel:
(1) Anna Karenina
(2) War and Peace
(3) Nineteen Eighty-Four
(4) Jane Eyre
Answer: (1) Anna Karenina
What among the following is not true about Anna Karenina?
(1) The novel was published in 1872.
(2) The novel is written in eight parts.
(3) It tells the story of two major characters, Anna and Konstantin Levin.
(4) The novel is revolutionary in its treatment of women.
Answer: (1) The novel was published in 1872.
Match List – I with List – II.
List – I (Story) List – II (Author)
(A) “A Simple Heart” (I) Joseph Conrad
(B) “An Outpost of Progress” (II) Gustave Flaubert
(C) “Six Feet of the Country” (III) R.K. Narayan
(D) “A Horse and Two Goats” (IV) Nadine Gordimer
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)
(2) (A)-(II), (B)-(1), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
(3) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
(4) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
Answer: (2) (A)-(II), (B)-(1), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
“I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased.”
These are the opening lines of:
(1) Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera
(2) Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground
(3) Albert Camus The Plague
(4) Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year
Answer: (2) Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground
