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For The Unfallen is a book of poems written by
1) Ted Hughes
2) Sylvia Plath
3) Geoffrey Hill
4) A. E. Housman
Answer: 3) Geoffrey Hill
Match List I with List II:
List I
[1] “Faces along the bar/cling to their average day.” [2] “The awful daring of a moments surrender.” [3] “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks.” [4] “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.”List II
[1] Wilfred Owen [2] T.S. Eliot [3] Allen Ginsberg [4] W.H. AudenChoose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III) [2] (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II) [3] (A)-(I), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(III) [4] (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)Answer: [1] (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
Match List I with List II
List I
[A] Stephen spender [B] W.H. Auden [C] John Masefield [D] Edward ThomasList II
[I] Cargoes [II] Consider [III] Adlestrop [IV] The pylonsChoose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV [2] A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III [3] A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III [4] A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-IIAnswer: [2] A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: According to W.H. Auden. The Importance of being earnest is the purest example in English literature of a ‘verbal opera’.
Statement II: Oscar Wilde possessed profound insight into the range of the arts that in a combined form make theatre performance possible.
In the light of the above statement.
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 trueAnswer: [1] Both statement I and statement II are true
Q.25) Match List I with List II
List I List II
A) Lions and Shadows I W. H. Auden
B) The Still Centre II Louis MacNeice
C) Translation of Agamemnon III Stephen Spender
D) The Sea and the Mirror IV Christopher Isherwood
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
2) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
3) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
4) (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
Answer: 1) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
The following lines are from one of the poems of D. H. Lawrence. Identify the poem?
“And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords
Of life.
And I have something to expiate;
A pettiness.
1) Bat
2) Snake
3) Mosquitoe
4) Cypresses
Answer:2) Snake
Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following poems of Louis McNeice were published:
A) “Sunday Morning”
B) “Bagpipe Music”
C) “Star-Gazer”
D) “Entirely”
E) “Prayer Before Birth”
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B, D, E, C
2) B, E, A, C, D
3) C, D, E, B. A
4) D, B, C, A, E
Answer:1) A, B, D, E, C
Which two are the works of Ted Hughes?
(a) Wild track
(b) Wodwo
(c) Lupercal
(d) Jack Straw’s Castle
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] (a) and (b) only [2] (a) and (c) only [3] (b) and (c) only [4] (b) and (d) onlyAnswer: 3
Which of the following works are written by John Dennis?
A) The Advancement and Reformation of Modern Poetry
B) The Christian Hero
C) The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry
D) The Conscious Lovers
E) An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1) A, B and C
2) A, C and E
3) B, C and D
4) C, D and E
Answer: 2) A, C and E
