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British History, Novels And Prose – Previous Year UGC-NET
1. Here’s a famous exchange from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Silver Blaze:
‘Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?’
‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’
‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’
‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’
‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’
What was Sherlock Holmes’ response?
2. Who, among the following writers, is known for his unforgettable sense of humour and comedy?
3. Which nineteenth-century work bears these lines from Paradise Lost as epigraph?
“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
4. In Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, how does the titular character die?
5. The narrators of Oroonoko are:
I. a woman
II. Oroonoko
III. a purported eyewitness of the events described
IV. Trefy
The right combination according to the code is:
6. The narrative of this novel is a meticulous, present-tense account of a woman with a death-wish who plots the circumstances of her own violent murder. Identify the novel.
7. The library where the “Battle of Books” takes place is _______.
8. In More’s Utopia, the fictional traveller Raphael Hythloday’s second name in Greek means:
9. Essays of Elia was published in:
10. Which of the following is an example of homosexual fiction?
11. The ‘Condition of England’ literature refers to:
12. “All fiction for me is a kind of magic or trickery – a confidence trick.” The statement has been made by:
13. Samuel Butler’s Erewhon is an example of:
14. The Victorian period refers to the reign of Queen Victoria of England during:
15. In which of the following novels by Conrad do the Gould couple and Decoud appear as characters with Costaguana as the setting?
16. In November 1910 in an exhibition organized by Roger Fry, the paintings of three painters were displayed. Identify the painters:
17. Religious controversies in England particularly during the 15th century led to the promotion of:
18. Choose the right chronological sequence below:
19. To whom does Francis Bacon offer the following piece of advice?
“Let him sequester himself from the Company of his Countrymen, and diet in such Places, where there is good company of the Nation… Let him upon his Removes, … procure Recommendation, to some person of Quality, residing in the Place, whither he removeth…”
20. In his masterpiece, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, Richard Hooker affirmed the Anglican tradition as that of a “threefold cord not quickly broken.” He specifically referred to the following EXCEPT:
21. A significant development in 1662 was the establishment of The Royal Society in England. The main purpose of the society was:
22. How would one best describe Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus (1833)?
23. Which of the following novels opens with the description of an accident to a hot-air balloon?
24. Match the columns:
Authors:
(a) Robert Burton
(b) Richard Hooker
(c) Thomas Browne
(d) Thomas Nashe
Works:
(i) Urn Burial
(ii) The Unfortunate Traveller
(iii) The Anatomy of Melancholy
(iv) Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie
(a) (b) (c) (d)
25. Martha Quest was written by:
26. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes was a great achievement by Edward Gibbon. It was published between 1776 and 1788, two significant dates that:
27. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is a significant work in ______ volumes.
28. Which of the following novels of Joseph Conrad is set in Malay?
29. Which novel by Joseph Conrad presents a young captain who like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner is haunted by the “vision of a ship drifting in calm and swinging in light airs, with all the crew dying slowly about her decks” and who feels “the sickness of my soul… the weight of my sins… my sense of unworthiness”?
30. Who wrote the screenplay for the film version of John Fowles’s novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman?
31. Identify the one erroneous statement on Neoclassicism listed below:
32. What did Anthony Trollope seek to criticize through the character Mr. Slope?
33. Which of the following statements on the Hogarth press is FALSE?
34. Which of W.M. Thackeray’s novel’s closing sentence is this? “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or, having it, is satisfied?”
35. The novel Mary Barton is written by:
36. Towards the end of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust the protagonist Tony Last is trapped in the jungle by the calculating crazy Mr. Todd who forces him to read and reread the novels of a particular author. Waugh has also written a short story dealing with Tony’s singular experience in the jungle. Who is the novelist referred to and what is the title of the short story?
37. Which British King, having defeated the Viking invaders, consciously used the English language to create a sense of national identity and retain political control over independent countries?
38. In “Politics and the English Language” George Orwell provides a list of rules to aid in curing the English language. What is the final rule?
39. What three Germanic tribes invaded Britons in the fifth century AD, bringing with them the roots of modern English?
40. Which of the following statements best describe the narrative perspective employed in Thomas More’s Utopia?
I. First-person narration by Raphael Hythloday
II. Third-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More
III. First-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More
IV. Third-person narration by Raphael Hythloday
The right combination according to the code is:
41. In the middle of the story the narrator in Oroonoko digresses from the central tale of Oroonoko’s revolt and tells of various expeditions taken in company with Oroonoko. What is the purpose of these digressions, according to the narrator?
42. In Beowulf, Beowulf accuses Unferth of:
I. pagan beliefs
II. killing his own “kith and kin”
III. “unchecked atrocity”
IV. unprovoked war
The right combination according to the code is:
43. In his well-known essay “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell provides representative examples of what common faults?
44. Which Victorian novel has the subtitle “New Foes with an Old Face”?
45. Who among the following wrote a book on the life and works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti?
46. After the Norman Conquest of 1066, Norman French was the dominant language used by:
47. In More’s Utopia there are 54 cities, all built on a similar plan and distributed over the island such that each city is surrounded by agricultural lands. Who does the agricultural labour in Utopia?
48. Early in Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust, while Tony and his young son, John Andrew, walk to the church, John tells his father a story he has heard from the stable manager, Ben about a mule “who had drunk his company’s rum ration” in the First World War and subsequently died. What is the mule named?
49. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is notorious for its many digressions across nine volumes and its failure to deliver a complete autobiography. In which volume does Tristram Shandy finally recount his birth?
50. In which of these prisons is Defoe’s character, Moll Flanders born?
51. Years before, Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopia, Nineteen Eighty Four got an evidence of the party’s dishonesty. What is it?
52. Which of the following plays by David Hare is NOT part of a trilogy of ‘state of the nation’ plays?
53. In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim’s brother Tom describes the oppression of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he visited. This episode is inspired by a letter Laurence Sterne received from a black man. Sterne’s reply became an integral part of 18th century abolitionist literature. Name the person who wrote the aforementioned letter to Sterne.
54. “Britons will never be slaves!” – felt proud Britons in the eighteenth century. A great many Britons, though, had no qualms about owning slaves and profiting from them. Who among the following British authors self-consciously engaged with the issue of slavery in some poems?
I. Hannah More
II. Mary Collier
III. Anna Seward
IV. Anna Yearsley
The right combination according to the code is:
55. Which of the following adjectives will not apply to Becky Sharp, a major character in Vanity Fair?
56. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are?
57. Identify the correct chronological sequence of the following early English texts:
58. Which of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels are set mostly in Japan?
I. The Unconsoled
II. The Remains of the Day
III. An Artist of the Floating World
IV. A Pale View of Hills
The right combination according to the code is:
59. Which among the following texts purports to be the autobiography of a mad German philosopher edited by an equally fictitious editor?
60. What does the title Morte d’Arthur mean?
61. Read the following statements:
Assertion (A):
Characters in novels are people whose secret lives are visible or might be visible. We are people whose secret lives are invisible.
Reason (R):
Even when novels are about wicked people, they can solace us; they suggest a more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of seeing clearly and of power.
In the light of the statements above:
62. ‘Imagism’ is associated with:
63. Which of the following is written by Samuel Butler?
64. Who of the following is known for aphoristic prose style?
65. The Confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by:
66. Ireland emerges as the most important metaphor in:
67. The major contribution of the Restoration period is in the field of:
68. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner is a novel by:
69. The term ‘Victorian’ evokes the attitudes of:
70. The French Revolution had a significant impact on:
71. The most important of the ‘evolutionists’ during the Victorian period was:
72. The word ‘nature’ in the eighteenth century literature stands for:
73. Who is given credit for first using the term “romantic”?
74. Sartor Resartus is a text by:
75. Victorian Age witnessed a clash between:
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76. The historical novel began in:
77. Jabberwocky is a character in:
78. Doris Lessing’s interest in __________ is widely recognized:
79. The following writers have something in common. What is it?
Writers:
Mary Seacole J.A. Froude
Mary Kingsley Anthony Trollope
(I) They are all Victorians
(ii) They are all writers of children’s fiction
(iii) They are all members of one literary guild
(iv) They are all travel writers
80. What century is variously called The Age of Enlightenment, The Age of Sensibility, The Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and Reason?
81. Politics and the English Language is an essay by:
82. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the Great Exhibition, was designed by:
83. The Augustan Age is called so because:
84. Reformation was predominantly a movement in:
85. Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species was published in the year:
86. Who among the following Victorian poets disliked his middle name?
87. Which among the following works by Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the pillory?
88. About which nineteenth century English writer was it said that “He had succeeded as a writer not by conforming to the Spirit of the Age, but in opposition to it”?
89. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian novel called:
90. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched?
91. My First Acquaintance with Poets, an unforgettable account of meeting with literary heroes, is written by:
92. Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton is sub-titled:
93. Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation in contemporary fiction?
94. Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood?
95. The Enlightenment believed in the universal authority of:
96. Which of the following is not an apocalyptic novel?
97. “It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen” – is the opening sentence of:
98. The subtitle of William Godwin’s Caleb Williams is:
99. “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” is a longer essay by:
100. Which of the following is not about a dystopia?
101. The author of the pamphlet Short View of Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) was:
102. The Castle of Otranto is an example of:
103. You Can’t Do Both is a novel by:
104. Margaret Drabble is the author of:
105. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes its title to:
106. The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in:
107. The Enlightenment was characterized by:
108. Match the following pairs of books and authors:
Books:
I. Condition of the Working Class in England
II. London Labour and the London Poor
III. Past and Present
IV. Unto This Last
Authors:
i. John Ruskin
ii. Henry Mayhew
iii. Thomas Carlyle
iv. Friedrich Engels
Codes: I II III IV
109. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by:
110. Madam Merle is a character in:
111. Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.
112. Which among the following novels has more than one ending?
113. Who among the following is not an Irish writer?
114. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after:
115. It is unimaginable that all the following events happened in one year. Identify the year:
Events:
1. Arthur Evans discovered the first European civilization; his excavations in Crete revealed a culture that was far older than either Attic Greece or Ancient Rome.
2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published the Oxford Book of English Verse.
3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train at Gare d’ Orsay, Paris.
4. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.
5. Hugo de Vries identified what would later come to be called genes.
6. Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams.
7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain.
116. “Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.” This is the epigraph to:
117. The Elizabethan Settlement established during the reign of Elizabeth I:
I. ensured the supremacy of the Church of England.
II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the authority of the Pope.
III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be part of the Anglican church.
IV. created a group known as the Roundheads.
The correct combination according to the code is:
118. The following postmodernist novel has an unusual protagonist whose gender is not revealed. So much so, that we keep wondering whether that person’s relationships are homo/hetero-sexual:
119. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the ‘beast’ is actually the evil inside the boys themselves and it is that which is breaking things up?
120. Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorian feeling prevalent in the early twentieth century?
I. Eminent Victorians
II. Jungle Book
III. Philistine Victorians
IV. The Way of All Flesh
The correct combination according to the code is:
121. How does John Stuart Mill define ‘happiness’?
122. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe”?
123. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness presents two conflicting discourses present in his own culture. Identify the two discourses from the following:
124. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil particularly regarding the issue of religion just after the Restoration?
125. How does Lord Jim end?
126. “Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books.” To which of the following authors can we attribute the above admission?
127. Modernism has been described as being concerned with “disenchantment of our culture with culture itself”. Who is the critic?
128. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from:
129. Match the author with the work:
Authors:
I. Kingsley Amis
II. Allan Sillitoe
III. Doris Lessing
IV. Jean Rhys
Works:
1. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
2. The Golden Notebook
3. The Left Bank
4. Lucky Jim
Code: I II III IV
130. Which of the following statements best describes Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici?
131. Which one of the following best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era?
132. With Bacon the essay form is:
133. Evelyn Waugh’s Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about:
134. Who coined the phrase “The Two Nations” to describe the disparity in Britain between the rich and the poor?
135. Sir Thomas More creates the character of a traveller into whose mouth the account of Utopia is put. His name is:
136. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy contains:
137. The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was:
138. Evelina was published in 1778:
139. The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to:
140. Which character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is scientific”?
141. Which of the following novels by H.G. Wells is about the condition of England as Empire?
142. “Jabberwocky” is a creation in:
143. The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by:
144. A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World is the sub-title of:
145. Which of the following cannot be classified as fantasy fiction?
146. In Jeremy Collier’s 1698 pamphlet attacking the immorality and profaneness of the English stage, who among the following was the principal target?
147. It has been described as a “novel without predecessors”, the product of an original mind and became immediately popular. It is a peculiar blend of pathos and humour, though the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point of becoming offensively sentimental. The novel was published in 1760. What is the name of the novel?
148. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a printer. He remained a printer throughout his life. He was asked to prepare a series of modern letters for those who could not write for themselves. This humble task taught him the art of expressing himself in letters. Who is the novelist?
149. “Competence to age is supplementary to youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had. We must ride where we formerly walked: live better and be softer and shall be wise to do so – than we had means to do in the good old days you speak of.” Who speaks these words and to whom?
150. Which of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance?
151. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela or Virtue Rewarded?
152. An English architect and stage-designer – Beginning 1605, joined Jacobean court to design masques — contributed significantly to the spectacular theatre which succeeded the commonwealth after his death – the first designer to use revolving screens to indicate scene-changes on the English stage. Identify this artist/designer.
153. Chartism, a political movement that took its name from the People’s Charter had six points. Identify the one point on the following list that was NOT Chartist:
Potential Chartist Points:
(a) universal manhood suffrage
(b) equal electoral districts
(c) comprehensive insurance scheme for labour
(d) vote by secret ballot
(e) payment of MPs
(f) no property qualifications for MPs
(g) Annual parliaments
154. The ‘monster’ in Frankenstein is NOT responsible for the death of:
155. To whom is Mary Shelley’s famous work Frankenstein dedicated?
156. The following is the classic ending of a celebrated novella in English:
“I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. ‘I’ve got out at last’, said I, “in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the papers, so you can’t put me back!” Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”
157. Samuel Johnson’s “Dissertation upon Poetry” is part of which of his following works?
158. In Tristram Shandy the narrator’s presentation of his life and opinions is:
159. Samuel Pepys began his diary on:
160. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Victorian Age?
161. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects:
162. In medieval England a __________ was understood to be a trained craftsman, one who worked under a master who owned the business.
163. Identify the TRUE statement on Thomas More’s Utopia.
164. The ascension of King James I in __________ inaugurated the Jacobean age.
165. “It used to be said,” began a famous English writer, “everyone had a novel in them… Just now, though, in 1999, you would probably be obliged to doubt the basic proposition: What everyone has in them, these days, is not a novel but a memoir”. Identify the source:
166. Ernest Pontifex is a character in:
167. What is common to writers such as Sam Selvon (The Lonely Londoners), Timothy Mo (Sour Sweet), and Hanif Kureishi (The Black Album)?
168. From the following list identify the two novels published by John Henry Newman:
I. The Grammar of Assent
II. Apologia pro vita sua
III. Loss and Gain
IV. Callista
The right combination according to the code is:
169. In More’s Utopia what religion is practised by the Utopians?
170. Where does Conrad’s Heart of Darkness begin?
171. Who among the following addresses the reader in a substantial Preface to Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy?
172. Which of the following is NOT written by Rudyard Kipling?
173. Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym that refers to:
174. Who among the following was born in India?
175. Who narrates Heart of Darkness?
176. Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a projection forward in time after a devastating atomic war?
177. In Thomas More’s Utopia which of the following leisure pastimes is not a favourite among Utopians?
178. In which year did the Great Exhibition take place?
179. Match the novelists with their work:
Novelists:
I. William Golding
II. Salman Rushdie
III. Graham Swift
IV. Peter Ackroyd
Works:
A. Grimus
B. Hawksmoor
C. Darkness Visible
D. Waterland
I II III IV
180. Which of the following works Daniel Defoe offered his readers as a collection of “Strange Surprising Adventures”?
181. Richardson’s Pamela had its origin in:
182. In the second ending of John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman Charles Smithson’s lawyer finds that Sarah has been living in the house of:
183. Match the author with the work:
Author:
A. John Locke
B. William Dampier
C. Jeremy Collier
D. Thomas Rhymer
Work:
I. A Short View of the Immorality and Profanity of the Stage
II. Two Treatises on Government
III. A Short View of Tragedy
IV. Voyages
A B C D
184. In Frances Burney’s novel, Evelina, the eponymous heroine comes out in society in two locations. They are:
Locations:
(a) Bath
(b) Bristol
(c) Leeds
(d) London
The right combination according to the code is:
185. The title of Sir Thomas Browne’s famous treatise, Religio Medici means:
186. Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is set in:
187. Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of the characters in:
188. Which of the following is NOT true of the ideal state in Thomas More’s Utopia?
189. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies which of the following characters is put to death?
190. The years in English literary history between 1649 and 1660 are known as:
191. Which of the following was not a dialect of Old English?
192. Anthony Burgess’s last novel, published in 1993, is called A Dead Man in Deptford. Who is the central character to whom the title refers?
193. Who among the following is the author of Account of the Augustan Age in England (1759)?
194. Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians carries biographical sketches of writers and public figures. Identify the list below that correctly mentions those Eminent Victorians.
195. Sir Thomas Browne’s Urn Burial was prompted by:
196. Fanny Burney’s Evelina carries the subtitle:
197. Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy was published in 1621 and expanded and altered in _________________ subsequent editions:
198. During the years 1830 to 1850, the illusion of peace in Victorian England was broken by such incidents as:
199. In 1660, a group of 12 people including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren formed what they called the Royal Society. In 1663, it became The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. What was the Society’s motto?
200. During the reign of Norman Kings, it was fashionable to speak ___________ in upper-class circles in England.
201. The “grammar bullies” – you read them in places like the New York Times – and they tell you what is correct. You must never use “hopefully, we will be going there on Thursday.” That is incorrect and wrong and you are basically an ignorant pig if you say it. This is judgmentalism. The game that is being played there is a game of social class. It has nothing to do with the morality of writing and speaking and thinking clearly, of which George Orwell, for instance, talked so well. To which famous essay of Orwell does the author refer here?
202. The Romantic period produced a fair amount of dramatic criticism. A notable example is “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth.” Who is the author?
203. It was the first narrative on the life of a black woman slave to be published in England in 1831. It has profound influence on the abolition movement in Britain. Identify the book and its author:
204. “The good thing about words,” Hanif Kureishi remarks in “loose tongues”, “is that their final effect is incalculable. […] you can never know what your words might turn out to mean for yourself or for someone else; or what the world they make will be like. Anything could happen. The problem with silence is that we know exactly what it will be like.” Kureishi, in sum, suggests:
Analysis Options:
(a) There is always some risk involved in writing/speaking.
(b) It is better to avoid using words than to risk miscommunication.
(c) Words being predictable, are always open to misinterpretation.
(d) The unpredictable, indeed, is the strength of words.
Determine the correct combination according to the code:
205. The Norman Conquest was a significant landmark in English history. What French did the Normans speak and what was it known as?
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206. Match the writer with the work:
Name of work:
(1) Leviathan
(2) The Practice of Piety
(3) The Art of English Poesy
(4) The History of the Royal Society
Writer:
(a) George Puttenham
(b) Thomas Sprat
(c) Lewis Bayly
(d) Thomas Hobbes
207. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?
208. In Thomas More’s Utopia (Book 2), the reader is told that in this new world there are few mistakes in marriage because:
209. “Reality is that nothing happens. How many of the events of history have occurred, ask yourselves, for this and for that reason, but for no other reason, fundamentally, than the desire to make things happen? I present to you History, the fabrication, the diversion, the reality-obscuring drama.” Which postmodern novel thus subverts the truth claims of traditional historiography?
210. As a boy growing up in Squire Allworthy’s estate, Tom gets one of the following characters into trouble. Identify the character.
211. Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian Era?
212. 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?
213. “He that is not with us is against us. He that is not against us is with us.” Who said this?
214. Who is the author of the essay, The Rationale of the Copy-Text?
215. Which of the following books is written by an Englishman in universal Latin, is further added to by the Flemish Peter Giles, is revised by the Dutch Erasmus, is printed at Louvain in 1516, later at Paris, still later at Basel, where it was illustrated by two woodcuts from the hand of the German Holbein?
216. Which of the following works is reviewed in George Orwell’s essay, Inside the Whale?
217. Which novel by J. G. Farrell describes the experiences of a polio victim?
218. Which of the following novels by Iris Murdoch tells the story of an ageing theatre celebrity who withdraws into a life of seclusion and writes a diary/journal/novel?
219. Match the Novelist with the Publisher:
Novelist:
(a) Laurence Sterne
(b) Henry Fielding
(c) Frances Burney
(d) Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
(i) Thomas Lowndes
(ii) Andrew Millar
(iii) William Taylor
(iv) Robert Dodsley
220. The epithet “a comic epic in prose” is best applied to:
221. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following?
222. Which of the following poets does William Hazlitt call ‘Don Quixote-like’ in his essay, My First Acquaintance with Poets?
223. Who is referred to as ‘beast’ in the quote ‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood’ in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies?
224. In which of the following essays did Charles Lamb first use the pseudonym/persona, Elia?
225. What was Charles Lamb’s connection with India?
226. Which of the following work by Henry Fielding begins as a parody of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela?
227. Which one of the following has two heroes with the same name?
228. Which of the following periods of English Literature is also called “Puritan Interregnum”?
229. Who made the remark: “Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree”?
230. Which two principal kinds of melancholy are proposed by Robert Burton in volume III of Anatomy of Melancholy?
Types:
(a) Love
(b) Religious
(c) Morbid
(d) Psychic
231. Which two names from R.M. Ballantyne’s Coral Island are repeated in William Golding’s reworking of the same text as Lord of the Flies?
Names:
(a) Ralph
(b) Roger
(c) Jack
(d) Simon
232. Which one of W.M. Thackeray’s novels has the following as the closing sentence? “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or having it is satisfied”?
233. Which two of the following novels belong to the Victorian Age in English Literature?
Novels:
(a) Pendennis
(b) The Way of All Flesh
(c) The Battle of the Books
(d) Barchester Towers
234. Which two of the following are the titles of the sections in Thomas De Quincey’s ‘The English Mail – Coach’?
Sections:
A. The Glory of Mobility
B. The Vision of Sudden Death
C. The Glory of Motion
D. The Vision of Unexpected Truth
235. Which two of the following inspired the rise of the periodical essay?
Influences:
A. Robert Burton
B. François Rabelais
C. Francis Bacon
D. Michel de Montaigne
236. Which one of the following essays holds that “As a method, realism is a complete failure”?
237. Which two of the following books are explorations of the art of the novel by novelists?
Books:
A. The Brief Compass
B. The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
C. The Visionary Company
D. Testaments Betrayed
238. Which two of the following events are described in Samuel Pepys’s Diary?
Events:
A. The Plague in London
B. The Great Fire of London
C. The War of Spanish Succession
D. Essex Rebellion
239. The lives of which of the following writers have been the subject matter of novels by Anthony Burgess?
Writers:
A. Milton
B. Marlowe
C. Shelley
D. Keats
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