Jonathan Swift

Which of the following are true in the context of Jonathan Swift?

A) He was born in Dublin and studied at Kilkenny Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin

B) He co-authored a book with Samuel Johnson

C) He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1695

D) He was a member of Kit-Cat Club

E) He wrote the sensational novel Lady Audley’s Secret

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and D

2) B and C

3) C and D

4) A and C

Answer: 4) A and C

Match List I with List II

LIST I

A When I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, and must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect. The country round appeared like a continued garden, and the inclosed fields, which were generally forty-foot square, resembled so many beds of flowers.

B There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.

C Having to no purpose used all peaceable endeavors, the collected part of the semen, raised and inflamed, became adult, converted to choler, turned head upon the spinal duct, and ascended to the brain.

D Sweeping from butchers’ stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drowned puppies, stinking sprats, all drenched in mud, Dead cats, and turnip tops, come tumbling down the flood.

List II

I A Description of a City Shower
II Gulliver’s Travels
III A Modest Proposal
IV A Tale of Tub

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

Thomas Hardy

Which of the following novels of Thomas Hardy was first published in an abridged form as Hearts Insurgent?

(1) The Mayor of Casterbridge

(2) Jude the Obscure

(3) Far From the Madding Crowd

(4) The Return of the Native

Answer: (2) Jude the Obscure

Match List – I with List – II.

List – I (Novel)

(A) The Castle of Otranto

(B) Tess of the d’Urbervilles

(C) Frankenstein

(D) Vanity Fair

List – II (Subtitle)
(I) A Pure Woman
(II) The Modern Prometheus
(III) A Novel without A Hero
(IV) A Gothic Story

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

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

Arrange the following novels in chronological order of publication:

A) Jude the Obscure

B) Tess of the D’Urbervilles

C) Under the Greenwood Tree

D) A Pair of Blue Eyes

E) Far From the Madding Crowd

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) C, D, E, B and A

2) D, E, A, C and B

3) E, A, C, D and B

4) A, B, C, D and E

Answer: 1) C, D, E, B and A

Find the chronological order of Thomas Hardy’s poetry publications:

A) “Channel Firing”

B) “The Darkling Thrush”

C) “In Time of the Breaking of Nations”

D) “He Never Expected Much”

E) “A Trampwoman’s Tragedy”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B, C, D, E

2) B, E, A, C, D

3) C, D, E, B. A

4) D, B, C, A, E

Answer: 2) B, E, A, C, D

“So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman’s shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling, and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that shabby corner of God’s allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkard, suicides and others of the conjecturally damned are laid)”

From which novel is this excerpt taken?

1) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

2) Tess by Thomas Hardy

3) Great Expectation by Charles Dickens

4) Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Answer: 2) Tess by Thomas Hardy

Which of the novelists have been correctly matched with their works?

A) Thomas Hardy – The Return of the Native

B) Charles Dickens – The History of Henry Esmond

C) Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway

D) George Eliot – Northanger Abbey

E) Charlotte Bronte – The Professor

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) C, D and B

2) A, C and E

3) B, C and D

4) C, D and E

Answer: 2) A, C and E

Arrange the correct chronological sequence in which the following texts were published:

A) Tess of the D’Urbervilles

B) Kim

C) The Old Wives’ Tale

D) The Time Machine

E) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, D, B, C, E

2) D, A, C, B, E

3) B, D, A, C, E

4) A, C, B, E, D

Answer: 1) A, D, B, C, E