ARIGNAR ANNA COLLEGE (ARTS & SCIENCE),KRISHNAGIRI

PG & RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

INTERNAL ASSESSMENT – II
CLASS: II MA ENGLISH TIME: 1.30 HRS
SUBJECT: ENGLISH LITERATURE FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION MARKS: 50
SUBJECT CODE: 21PEN
I. Answer all the multiple choice questions given below. (50x1= 50)
Which age was referred bysaintsbury the peace of the Augustans?
a) The age of Milton b) The age of pope c) The age Dryden d) The age of Tennyson
2.In the 18th century the status of women was ________
a) Moderately high b)very high c) low d) that of a slave
3. Who was the 1st to call the age of pope and Johnson as the “the augustan age”?
a) Steele b)Goldsmith c)Johnson d)Burke
4. Who among the following was associated with The Tatler?
a)Lamb b)Johnson c) Richard Steele d)Arnold
5.Who was first crowned the Hero of the Dunceland in dunciad?
a)Arbuthnot b)Atticus c)Theobald d) Cibber
6.Which of the following pre-romantic poets wrote the seasons?
a)Collins b)Gray c)Thomson d)Goldsmith
7.Thomson’s castle of indolence has been written in _______
a) Blank verse b) Free verse c)Spenserian stanza d)sonnets
8. The two most important poems Oliver Goldsmith are ____________
a)The task and the traveler b) The traveler and the deserted village
c) The deserted village and the Task d) The Task and the Revolt and Islam
9.The vision of Mirza and public credit are popular allegories by
a)Goldsmith b) Addison c)Steele d)Johnson
10. Who called Addison prose as ‘’Attic and Asiatic’’?
a)Johnson b)Steele c)Arnold d)Addison himself
11. As a contributor to The Spectator Steele was mostly a censorious critic of _______
A)poetry b)drama c)prosefiction d)satire
12. The history of a Young lady is subtitle of ________
a) Moll flanders b) Pamela c) Clarissa d)none of these
13. Who called Dr.Johnson as “the hero as the man of letters” ?
a) Thomas Carlyle b) Boswell c)Arnold d) Eliot
14. Who is author of on Heroes and hero workship?
A)Tennyson b)dickens c)Carlyle d)Thackeray
15. Dicken’s first full scale work of fiction was ______
a)sketches by Boz b)pickwick papers c) Nicholas nickel d)master clock
16. In charlotte Bronte ‘s Jane rejects the proposal of _______
a)Rochaster b)St.john river c)Patric d) Both a and b
17. Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as the poet laureate in ________
a) 1843 b)1847 c)1850 d)1860
18. Who is the first lover of Dorothea ,whom sherejects, in the Middlemarch _______
a)Baulstrode b)Fred c)Casaubon d)Chewtham
19.Chaucer died in ________
a)1340 b)1440 c)1400 d) 1401
20. Who is called the father of English poetry _______
a)Chaucer b)Shakespeare c)spencer d) William Blake
21.’’Confession Amantis’’ is a famous work of _________
a)John Gower b) Malory c)Wycliffe d) Wordsworth
22. Sir Thomas Wyatt was descended from _________
a)An Ancient Yorkshire family b)An early Wyatt family
c)A Duke of Norflok family d) Duke of Warwickshire
23.The basic meaning of the work essay is _________
a)attempt b)hardwork c)composition d) Creative
24.Bacon’s style is popularly known as _______
a) Simple style b)Aphoristic style c)Ornate style d) Moderate style
25.The university Wits were so called because ________
a)They were employed by Universities b)They had University education
c)They played the role of academic in the plays. D) University Education
26.The comedy Campaspe was written by ________
a)Shakespeare b)Greene c)Lyly d) Kyd
27.Shakespeare was indebted to Kyd for his _______
a)Hamlet b)Othello c)Macbeth d) Julius Ceasar
28.Who attacked Shakespeare as an ‘’Upstart Crow’’________
a)Peele b)Marlow c)Greene d) Kyd
29.The greatest tragedies of Shakespeare belong to ___________ period.
a)First b)Second c)Third d) Fourth
30. __________is the major theme of Shakespeare’s last play
a)Love b)Friendship c)Reconciliation d) Companion
31.Who influenced Shakespeare’s final play?
a)Seneca b)Beaumont&Fletcher c)Kyd d) Sterne
32.All humour comedies of Johnson are set in ______
a)London b)Paris c) Spain d) France
33.Morose appears in Ben Johnson’s play ________
a)Epicoene b)Volponec)Alchemist d) Epicurne
35.The term ‘Metaphysical poetry’was used by----------------------------to refer ti the school of donne
a)Dryden b) Johnson c)Hebert d) Hubert
36.Milton is the greatest product of ________
a)The Elizabethan age b)The puritan age c)The Neo classical age d) Middle Age
37.Milton became Latin secretary to _______
a)Charles 1 b)Oliver Cromwell c)Charles II d) Marlowe
38. Milton’s Compus is a _______
a)Drama b)Poem c) Masque d) Court
39.Which of the following is Milton Lyric _______
a)A paradise regained b)Compus c)On the morning of Christ nativity d) Paradise lost
40.’’On his blindness’’ is Milton’s _______
a)Sonnet b) Ode c) Elegy d) Poem
41.Neo classical poets write about _____
a) Nature b)Forests c) Towns d) Rural
42.Neo classical poetry is _______
a)Imaginative b) Intellectual c) Emotional d) Rational
43.Dryden’s hind and the panther is ________
a) Satirical poem b) Doctrinal poem c)Lyrical poem d) Epic poem
44.’The Rape of the lock ‘by pope is ________
a)Mock epic b)lyric c) literary epic d) ode
45. _________ is a satire on bad poets
a) The Dunciad b) The rape of the lock c) Essay on man d) Essay on Humour
46. The essay form was first introduced by ______
a) Montaigue b) Bacon c)Addison d) Steele
47. Addison and Steele wrote _______
a)625 b)635 c)645 d) 650
48. Addison’s cato is a ______
a) Comedy b) Tragedy c)opera d) Epic
49. The vanity of human wishes is Johnson’s _____
a)poem b)drama c)essay d) Story
50. Sheridan was born in ______
a)1750 b)1751 c)1752 d) 1753