Literary Criticism Previous Year Questions UGC-NET

Who among the following refers to “high seriousness” as a quality of a great poet and quotes john Milton to prove the same?

[A] T. S Eliot

[B] Ezra pound

[C] Matthew Arnold

[D] I. A. Richards

[E] G. M. Hopkins

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] D and E only

[4] C only

Answer: [4] C only

In “The function of Criticism at the present Time” what is proposed by Matthew Arnold as the essence of criticism?

[1] Affirmation

[2] Cohesiveness

[3] Disinterestedness

[4] Judiciousness

Answer: 3

Which of these countries does Montaigne’s essay, “Of Cannibals, “focus on primarily?

[1] Borneo

[2] Brazil

[3] India

[4] Japan

Answer: 2

In “The life of Cowley” which two of the following criticisms were made by Samuel Johnson against a group of writers he termed the ‘metaphysical poets?

(a) They made an inappropriate combination of wit and imagination.

(b) Instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses.

(c) They neither copied nature nor life.

(d) They never tried to be singular in their thoughts.

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 2

Match list-I and list-II:

List-I(Text)

(a) Advancement of learning

(b) Past and Present

(c) English Traits

(d) Illness as Metaphor

List-II(Author)

I. Susan Sontag

II. Francis Bacon

III. Thomas Carlyle

IV. R.W. Emerson

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

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

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

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

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

Answer: 2

How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell’s “Horatian Ode”?

[1] ‘A contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in principle’.

[2] ‘A tough reasonableness beneath a slight lyric grace’.

[3] ‘Heterogeneity of materials compelled into unity’

[4] ‘Telescoping of images and multiplied associations’

Answer: 2

Which two of the following fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold’s “The study of poetry”?

(a) Contextual estimate

(b) Personal estimate

(c) Comparative estimate

(d) Historic estimate

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

In his recasting the canon of English poetry in new bearings in English poetry which of the following pairs was downgraded by F.R. Leavis?

[1] Browning and Arnold

[2] Milton and Shelley

[3] Pound and Hopkins

[4] Tennyson and Swinburne

Answer: 2

Who among the following was of the view that poetry was only an imitation of an imitation and therefore trivial?

[1] Aristotle

[2] Phaedo

[3] Plato

[4] Xenocrates

Answer: 3

Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication:

(a) Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

(b) Coleridge and Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads

(c) Pablo Neruda’s Canto General

(d) Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (b), (c), (d)

[2] (a), (b), (d), (c)

[3] (b), (c), (a), (d)

[4] (d), (a), (b), (c)

Answer: 2

Who wrote the essay “My First Acquaintance with Poets”?

[1] Charles Lamb

[2] John Ruskin

[3] Thomas De Quincey

[4] William Hazlitt

Answer: 4

Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance:

(a) Dissociation of Sensibility

(b) Unreliable Narrator

(c) Theatre of Cruelty

(d) Egotistical Sublime

Choose The correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (d), (a), (c)

[2] (d), (a), (b), (c)

[3] (d), (a), (c), (b)

[4] (d), (b), (a), (c)

Answer: 3

“It caught to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom, or that which is established because it is right from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact”.

The above passage considered to be the death” knell of the neo-classical criticism is attributed to _____

[1] John Dryden

[2] Alexander pope

[3] Samuel Johnson

[4] Joseph Addison

Answer: [3] Samuel Johnson

Which of the following statement hold true with respect to Alexander pope’s essay on criticism”?

[A] It is “an inquiry into the nature and value of poetry”.

[B] It presents “a series of generalizations about good taste”.

[C] It explores the challenges of impartial and just criticism.

[D] It underlines the traits of “the good critic”.

[E] It critically reflects on Plato’s rejection of poetry.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A and B only

[2] B and C only

[3] A, B, C and E only

[4] B, C and D only

Answer: [4] B, C and D only

Given below are two statements:

Statement I: The term ‘Negative capability’ was coined by john Keats.

Statement II: While analysing the term ‘Dissociation of sensibility’, T.S. Eliot proclaims that hamlet is an artistic failure.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

[1] Both statement I and statement II are true

[2] Both statement I and statement Ii are false

[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false

[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true

Answer: [3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false

Given below are two statements:

Statement I: The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming sustaining and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Statement II: No man has ever been a great poet without being, at the same time, a great critic.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

[1] Both statement I and Statement II are true

[2] Both statement I and Statement II are false

[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false

[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true

Answer: [3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false

Who defined ‘hamartia’ as ‘tragic flaw’?

[1] Aristotle

[2] Dr. Samuel Johnson

[3] Matthew Arnold

[4] A.C. Bradley

Answer: [1] Aristotle

Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Dr. Johnson had an inclination toward the tory political ideology.

Statement II: Dr. Johnson strongly believed in transcendental scepticism.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

[1] Both statement I and Statement II are true

[2] Both statement I and Statement II are false

[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false

[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true

Answer: [1] Both statement I and Statement II are true

Which of the following is not true about “Lyrical ballads”?

[1] It is a manifesto of romantic poetry

[2] It turns English poetry away from the social and intellectual sophistication of the seventeenth and the eighteenth-century poetry

[3] It takes poetry out of the confines of reason and intellect to the unravished and unspoilt beauties of nature

[4] It is very particular about the form and structure of a poem

Answer: [4] It is very particular about the form and structure of a poem

The “ancient and modern quarrel” in western literary criticism appears during

[1] 100BC

[2] Fifth century CE

[3] Sixteenth century CE

[4] Twentieth century CE

Answer: [3] Sixteenth century CE [4] Twentieth century CE

Which of the following are Plato’s main objections against poetry?

[A] The poet is an imitator.

[B] The poet is incapable of bravery.

[C] The poet, by fueling passions and emotions, weakens the reasoning capacity of the citizens.

[D] The poet is less responsible

[E] The poet has no knowledge of the world.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A, C and E only

[2] A and B only

[3] B and D only

[4] E and D only

Answer: [1] A, C and E only

A. L. Tennyson in the following lines:

“Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

And the thoughts of men are widen’d with the process of the suns”

[1] Reflects upon secularism

[2] Reflects upon evolutionary faith

[3] Reflects upon utilitarianism

[4] Reflects upon materialism

Answer: [2] Reflects upon evolutionary faith

What does Aristotle mean by the phrase “language with pleasurable accessories” in his definition of tragedy?

[A] A language full of pompous vocabulary

[B] An embellished language

[C] A language full of rhythm and harmony

[D] A language superadded with song

[E] Emotive language

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A and B only

[2] B and E only

[3] C and D only

[4] A, B and D only

Answer: [3] C and D only

Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning attempted to draw a distinction between two kinds of ‘truth’. Which are these?

1) Theological Truth and Scientific Truth

2) Theological Truth and Aesthetic Truth

3) Aesthetic Truth and Objective Truth

4) Metaphysical Truth and Aesthetic Truth.

Answer: 1) Theological Truth and Scientific Truth

“I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee- Houses.”

To whom do you attribute this famous statement?

1) Dr Samuel Johnson

2) Joseph Addison

3) Charles Lamb

4) Alexander Pope

Answer: 2) Joseph Addison

Dr Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language was published in

1) 1751

2) 1753

3) 1755

4) 1757

Answer: 3) 1755

An Essay on the Principles of Human Action was written by

1) Charles Lamb

2) Jean Jacques Rousseau

3) William Godwin

4) William Hazlitt

Answer: 4) William Hazlitt

Identify the correct ones among the following:

A) The Apologie for Poetrie was written by Sir Philip Sidney.

B) Sir Philip Sidney wrote the Apologie for Poetrie as a counterblast to Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse

C) Stephen Gosson wrote The School of Abuse in the euphuistic style

D) Sidney’s style was characterised by neoclassical restraint.

E) Sidney and Gosson wrote their critical treatise in the eighteenth century.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B and C only.

2) A, C and D only.

3) A, D and E only.

4) A, C and E only.

Answer: 1) A, B and C only.

Which of the following works have NOT been written by Thomas Carlyle?

A) Of Heroes and Hero-Worship

B) The French Revolution

C) Of Human Bondage

D) The Hour and the Man

E) Hudibras

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and B only.

2) A and C only.

3) A and D only.

4) A and E only.

Answer: 1) A and B only.

Which of the following works have NOT been authored by John Stuart Mill?

A) Subjection of Women

B) Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform

C) Past and Present

D) Explorations

E) On Liberty

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and B only.

2) A and E only.

3) C and D only.

4) B and E only.

Answer: 3) C and D only.

Identify the correct pairs:

A) Aristotle Rhetoric

B) Quintilian – Oratorical Institutions

C) C) Brooks and R. P. Warren – Understanding Fiction

D) Allen Tate – The Verbal Icon

E) Harold Bloom – The Great Tradition

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B and C only.

2) A, B and D only.

3) B, C and E only.

4) B, D and E only.

Answer: 1) A, B and C only.

Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:

A) Boswell’s Life of Johnson

B) Hobbes’s Leviathan

C) Pepys’s Diary

D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

E) Locke’s Human Understanding

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) B, C, D, E, A

2) A, C, D, E, B

3) C, D, A, B, E

4) D, E, A, C, B

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

Given below are two statements:

Statement I: “Anagenesis” is the final part of the drama just after the climax in which there is resolution for any conflicts left in the plot.

Statement II: “Anagenesis” is the turning point of the play where audience observes unpredictable change in the play.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true

2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false

3) Statement I is true but Statement II is false

4) Statement I is false but Statement II is true

Answer: 4) Statement I is false but Statement II is true

What did Matthew Arnold imply by the term “Hebraism” in his Culture and Anarchy?

1) Moral education

2) Intellectual autonomy

3) Rational outlook

4) Pragmatic attitude

Answer: 1) Moral education

In An Essay on Criticism, Pope

A) analyses the causes of faulty criticism and praises the great critics of the past. B) analyses the causes of faulty criticism and characterises the good critiC)

C) analyses the structure of a good essay and praises the great critics of the past.

D) analyses the structure of a good essay and suggest how such an essay could be converted into good criticism.

E) analyses the merits of the poetry of Wordsworth and praises the great critics of the past.

Which of the above statements are correct?

1) A and B

2) A, B, and C

3) C, D and E

4) A and D

Answer: 1) A and B

Match List I with List II

LIST I LIST II

A) Plato I. Rhetoric

B) Aristotle II. Symposium

C) P. B Shelley III. Apology of Poetry

D) Philip Sydney IV. Defence of Poetry

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A-I, B-II, C-III, DIV

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

3) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D – I

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

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

Match List I with List II

LIST I LIST II

A) “Negative Capability” I. Matthew Arnold

B) “Sweetness and light” II. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C) “Esemplastic” III. T.S. Eliot

D) “Dissociation of Sensibility” IV. John Keats

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

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

Arrange the works in chronological sequence:

A) Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy

B) Thomas Browne’s The Anatomy of Melancholy

C) Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan

D) Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance

E) PB Shelley’s Defense of Poesie

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) B, C, E, A, D

2) A, B, C, D, E

3) C, D, E, A, B

4) D, C, B, A, E

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

Who, among the following, wrote about Charlotte Brontë that her mind contained ‘nothing but hunger, rebellion, and rage’?

1) Elizabeth Gaskell

2) Matthew Arnold

3) Charles Dickens

4) Mary Shelley

Answer: 2) Matthew Arnold 

Who proposed the idea that the mind at the time of birth is like a blank slate or tabula rasa?

1) John Locke

2) J S Mill

3) Bertrand Russell

4) Francis Bacon

Answer: 1) John Locke

Which of the following works have been authored by Thomas Carlyle?

A) Chartism

B) Past and Present

C) The French Revolution

D) Suspiria de Profundis

E) The English Mail Coach

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B and C

2) B, C and D

3) A, B and D

4) C, D and E

Answer: 1) A, B and C

Arrange the correct chronological sequence of the publication of the following texts:

A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy

B) A Room of One’s Own

C) Culture and Anarchy

D) The Lives of the Poets

E) “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, D, E, C, B

2) D, A, E, B, C

3) A, C, D, E, B

4) E, D, C, A, B

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

Match List I with List II

List I List II

A) Egotistical Sublime I Matthew Arnold

B) Willing Suspension of Disbelief II Joseph Addison

C) Touchstone III John Keats

D) Pleasures of the Imagination IV Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

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

What is the correct chronological sequence of the following texts?

A) “The Advancement of Learning”

B) “An Apologie for Poetry”

C) “The Uses of the Spectator”

D) “My Relations”

E) “How it Strikes a Contemporary”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B, C, D, E

2) B, A, C, D, E

3) C, A, D, E, B

4) D, C, B. A, E

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

Match List I with List II

List I List II

A) Response to Stephen Gosson I Aristotle

B) The Individual Talent II Matthew Arnold

C) Catharsis III T.S. Eliot

D) Sweetness and Light IV Philip Sidney

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

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

Given below are two statements:

Statement 1: Criticism is the construction of a judgment about the negative or positive qualities of someone or something?

Statement 2: Criticism can be theoretical, practical, impressionistic, affective, prescriptive, or descriptive.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer given below:

1) Statement 1 is true but Statement 2 is false.

2) Statement 1 is false but Statement 2 is true.

3) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are false

4) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.

Answer: 4) Both Statement 1 and Statement 2 are true.

Thomas Hobbes’s philosophical tract Leviathan was first published in

1) 1631

2) 1641

3) 1651

4) 1661

Answer: 3) 1651

The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas is written by

1) James Joyce

2) Umberto Eco

3) Walter Pater

4) Matthew Arnold

Answer: 2) Umberto Eco

Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning was dedicated to

1) King James I

2) King Henry IV

3) King Richard II

4) Queen Elizabeth I

Answer: 1) King James I

An Account of the Life of Mr Richard Savage, Son of the Earl Rivers (1744) was the first major biography published by

1) Alexander Pope

2) Joseph Addison

3) Samuel Johnson

4) James Boswell

Answer: 3) Samuel Johnson

The debate on ‘the condition of England question’ was initiated by

1) William Hazlitt

2) Walter Bagehot

3) Thomas Carlyle

4) Matthew Arnold

Answer: 3) Thomas Carlyle

Which among the following was not recognized as a major dialogue of Plato?

1) Crito

2) Phaedo

3) Symposium

4) Metaphysics

Answer:4) Metaphysics

Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works were published:

A) Reflections on the Revolution in France

B) Preface to Shakespeare

C) The Social Contract

D) Treatise on Human Nature

E) Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Choose the correct answer from the following options:

1) A, B, C, D, E

2) C, A, B, E, D

3) D. E, C, B. A

4) B, C, A, D, E

Answer: 3) D. E, C, B. A

From which poem are the following lines extracted?

“Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools. In search of wit these lose their common sense, And then turn critics in their own defense”

1) Mac Flecknoe

2) Hudibras

3) An Essay on Criticism

4) An Essay on Dramatick Poesy

Answer:3) An Essay on Criticism

Of which of the following was Charles Dickens the founding editor?

A) North and South

B) The Newcomes

C) Household Words

D) The Way We Live Now

E) All the Year Round

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and C

2) B and D

3) C and E

4) D and E

Answer:3) C and E

Who among the following was the author of The Voyage of the Beagle?

1) Matthew Arnold

2) Charles Darwin

3) John Henry Newman

4) John Stuart Mill

Answer:2) Charles Darwin

Arrange the following writers chronologically in accordance with their years of birth:

A) James Boswell

B) Edward Gibbon

C) Samuel Johnson

D) Edmund Burke

E) Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Choose the correct answer from the following options:

1) C, D, B, A, E.

2) C, A, B, E, D

3) A, C, B, D, E

4) B, C, A, D, E

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

Who among the following acknowledged that poetry is formed from the same elements as prose; the difference lies in the different combination of these elements and the difference of purpose?

1) John Dryden

2) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3) Alexander Pope

4) Philip Sydney

Answer:2) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who among the following translated Aristotle’s Poetics in Latin?

1) Giorgio Valla

2) Pierre Corneille

3) Hugh Tredennick

4) W. Hamilton Fyfe

Answer:1) Giorgio Valla

In which year was Edmund Burke’s Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful published?

1) 1742

2) 1744

3) 1750>

4) 1757

Answer: 4) 1757

Who among the following was NOT one of the original members of Johnson’s Literary Club?

1) Oliver Goldsmith

2) John Dryden

3) Edmund Burke

4) John Hawkins

Answer:2) John Dryden

Which of the following were written by Thomas Love Peacock?

A) Headlong Hall

B) Nightmare Abbey

C) Imaginary Conversations

D) The Spirit of the Age

E) Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare

Choose the Correct answer from the options given below

1) A and B

2) B and D

3) C and D

4) D and E

Answer:1) A and B

Who was the author of Novum Organum?

1) Robert Burton

2) Francis Bacon

3) Thomas Browne

4) Montaigne

Answer:2) Francis Bacon

LIST I LIST II

A Purushottam Lal I Speaking of Siva

B Adil Jussawalla II The Man of Dharma and the Rasa of Silence

C A.K. Ramanujan III Rough Passage

D R. Parthasarathy IV Missing Person

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

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

Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Unlike Plato, Aristotle considers that poetry at its best requires great skill, and also differentiates between good and bad poetry on clear and systematic aesthetic grounds.

Statement II: Aristotle accepts Plato’s insight that the emotions are important to poetry, but rejects Plato’s distrust of the emotions.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer given below:

1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true

2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false

3) Statement I is true but Statement II is false

4) Statement I is false but Statement II is true

Answer:1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true

Who among the following had observed in the pamphlet titled ‘Plays Confuted in Five Actions’ (1582), “I may boldly say it, because I have seen it, that… bawdy comedies in Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish, have been thoroughly ransacked to furnish the playhouses in London.”

1) Ben Jonson

2) George Gascoigne

3) Stephen Gosson

4) George Farquhar

Answer: 3) Stephen Gosson

Which of the following books were published in the year 1791?

A) Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations

B) James Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson

C) Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language

D) Burke’s Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents E. Paine’s The Rights of Man

Choose the Correct answer from the options given below

1) A and C

2) B and E

3) C and D

4) D and E

Answer:2) B and E

Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works of T. S. Eliot were first published:

A) The Sacred Wood

B) Notes towards the Definition of Culture

C) The Metaphysical Poets

D) The Function of Criticism

E) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) C, D, A, E, B

2) D, C, A, B, E

3) A, C, D, E, B

4) B. A, C, D, E

Answer:3) A, C, D, E, B

All writers since Chaucer have come from the middle class… have had good, at least expensive education….”

Where has Virginia Woolf explained it?

(1) Mrs. Dalloway

(2) To the Lighthouse

(3) The Leaning Tower

(4) A Room of One’s Own

Answer: (3) The Leaning Tower

Who among the following declared in 1920 that “there is no longer any intellectual life in England”?

(1) Dorothy Richardson

(2) Virginia Woolf

(3) Ezra Pound

(4) T.S. Eliot

Answer: (3) Ezra Pound

Which among the following are not mentioned as the aspects of the novel by E.M. Forster?

(A)tory

(B) Imagination

(C) Plot

(D) Harmony

(E) Prophecy

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A) and (C) Only

(2) (C) and (E) Only

(3) (A) and (E) Only

(4) (B) and (D) Only

Answer: (4) (B) and (D) Only

Which work of Francis Bacon explains the new logic or inductive method of reasoning?

(1) Apophthegms

(2) The History of Henry VII

(3) Novum Organum

(4) De Augmentis Scientiarum.

Answer: (3) Novum Organum

“Did not Shakespeare hate and despise Iago and Edmund?”

Identify the book in which this question has been mentioned.

(1) An Apology for Poetry

(2) Kings of Norway

(3) Fool of Quality

(4) Aspects of Poetry

Answer: (4) Aspects of Poetry