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17 Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot':

2. Keki N Daruwalla2019,2021

1. Nitoo Das

2. Keki N Daruwalla

3. Manoj Das

4. CP Surendran,

5.sonnet by Shakespeare. Shakespeare, 'King John 1. Richard II, rhyme schemes?

6.Khushwant Singh's

7.Anita Desai was made into a film by Merchant Ivory Productions?

8.Raja Rao's works

9. character in Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' utters these lines?

1. Touchstone

2. Duke Senior

3. Orlando

4. Rosalind

10. Mulk Raj Anand's novel 'Coolie' published in 1936,2019

In which poem by Robert Browning does the speaker utter the given famous words?

2. My Last Duchess

Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 for:2021,2019

Who gives the following advice to whom in the play 'Hamlet' by Shakespeare?

"Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement. . . .

Neither a borrower nor a lender be."

4. Polonius to Laertes

'Orientalism', the work that was published in 1978 and played a key role in shaping

postcolonial studies, was written by:

Ans 1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. JM Coetzee

3. Edward Said

4. Albert Camus

What is the name of the English teacher in RK Narayan's 'The English Teacher', a

poignant autobiographical novel?

Ans 1. Raju

2. Swami
3. Krishna

4. Margayya

In Shakespeare's 'Henry IV, Part 1', the main characters are actually:

Ans 1. Falstaff, Bardolph and Henry IV

2. Prince Hal, Falstaff and Hotspur

3. Henry IV, Hotspur and Edmund Mortimer

4. Edmund Mortimer, Owen Glendower and Falstaff

Which latest book (published in July 2020) written by Ruskin Bond traces the2019.2021

beginning of his writing career in 1951?

Ans 1. A Room on the Roof

2. A Flight of Pigeons

3. Song of India

4. A Handful of Nuts

Which of Bernard Shaw's plays was adapted into the popular musical 'My Fair Lady',

which was also made into a motion picture?

Ans 1. Arms and the Man

2. Saint Joan

3. Man and Superman

4. Pygmalion

Shakespeare's 'Cymbeline' is called a "problem play" or a "tragicomedy" because:

Ans 1. the first part of the play has features of a tragedy while the second or later part has

those of a comedy

Who is "the shrew" in Shakespeare's play 'The Taming of the Shrew'?

Ans 1. Katherina Minola

Which of the following works by Vikram Seth was written entirely in metered, rhyming,

14-line stanzas?

Ans 1. An Equal Music

2. A Suitable Boy

3. Beastly Tales from Here and There

4. The Golden Gate

44 In which famous poem of Keats do we find these lines?

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter;”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

Ans 1. Ode to Psyche

3. Ode on a Grecian Urn

4. Ode to Autumn

In which poem by Irish poet WB Yeats do we come across the given lines?

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, . . .

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Ans 1. Easter 1916

2. The Second Coming

3. The Lake Isle of Innisfree

4. Sailing to Byzantium

The Nobel Panel of Judges praised his work as "vivid, often harrowing, but marked by

an evocative, poetically intensified diction." This first black African to be awarded the

Nobel Prize for Literature considered himself primarily:

Ans 1. a poet

2. a novelist

3. a playwright

4. a prose writer

Which of the following is from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

Ans 1. "We are such stuff/As dreams are made on; and our little life/Is rounded with a

sleep."

2. "All the world's a stage,/And all the men and women merely players."

3. "When we are born we cry that we are come/To this great stage of fools."

4. "Out, out, brief candle!/Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,/That struts and

frets his hour upon the stage

Q.50 Which novel of Salman Rushdie won him the Booker Prize (1981), the Booker of2021,2019

Bookers (1993) and the Best of the Booker (2008)?

Ans 1. Midnight's Children

2. Fury

3. Shame

4. The Golden House

Which Indian poet writing in English has written these lines in one of his poems, which

is typical of many of his poems?

Why world is fighting fighting

Why all people of world

Are not following Mahatma Gandhi

I am simply not understanding."

Ans 1. Kamala Das

2. Toru Dutt

3. AK Ramanujam

4. Nissim Ezekiel

Which of the following novels was written by Chinua Achebe after a long gap of over

twenty years from his previous novel?

Ans 1. Anthills of the Savannah

2. Arrow of God

3. No Longer at Ease

4. Things Fall Apart

Which of the following quotes is NOT from Robert Frost's poems?

Ans 1. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to

go before I sleep, /And miles to go before I sleep."

2. "Before I built a wall, I'd ask to know/What I was walling in or walling out, . . .

/Something there is that doesn't love a wall, /That wants it down. . . ."

3. "Home is where one starts from. As we grow older/The world becomes stranger, the

pattern more complicated/Of dead and living. . . . "

4. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --/I took the one less travelled by, /And that

has made all the difference."

The principal source of 'Antony and Cleopatra' for Shakespeare was:

Ans 1. Sir Thomas North's translation of 'Plutarch's Lives . . .'

2. Raphael Holinshed's 'Chronicles'

3. The chronicles of Edward Hall

4. Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses

In which poem by Ted Hughes, the Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 1984 to 1998, do

we find the given lines?

"The sun is behind me.

Nothing has changed since I began.

My eye has permitted no change.

Ans 1. The Jaguar

2. Hawk Roosting

3. The Hawk in the Rain

4. Thought Fox

62 Which novel of Jane Austen opens with the given sentence?

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good

fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Ans 1. Sense and Sensibility

2. Emma

3. Persuasion

4. Pride and Prejudice

The ‘postmodern’ philosophy is characterised by:

Ans 1. a belief in an objective natural reality

2. a broad scepticism and relativism, as well as a general suspicion of reason

3. a faith in science and technology as a means of achieving human progress

4. an acceptance of the philosophical tenets of the Enlightenment

The ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ was a movement identified with well-known playwrights

EXCEPT:

Ans 1. Jean Genet

2. Eugene Ionesco

3. John Osborne

4. Tom Stoppard

Q.65 Which romantic poet made the given observation in his preface to a collection of

poems written by him and another romantic poet?

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression

which is in the countenance of all Science.”

Ans 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2. PB Shelley

3. William Wordsworth

4. William Blake

Question

Which of the following is NOT an exact quote from Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'?

Ans 1. "Cowards die many times before their deaths, / The valiant never taste of death but
once."

2. "There is a tide in the affairs of men."

3. "That was the most unkind cut of all."

4. "When beggars die, there are no comets seen: / Heavens themselves blaze forth

the death of princes."

Who or what does Shelley call "Destroyer and Preserver", "Uncontrollable", and a

"fierce" and "impetuous" spirit?

Ans 1. The West Wind

2. The Skylark

3. Ozymandias

4. The Atlantic Ocean

Question

The following poems were written by Coleridge all by himself except one, which was a

collaborative work with another romantic poet. Which one was it?

Ans 1. Kubla Khan

2. Lyrical Ballads

3. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

4. Dejection: An Ode

Which of the following characters is NOT a part of Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' but

belongs to another novel of his?

Ans 1. Hester Prynne

2. Roger Chillingworth

3. Arthur Dimmesdale

Which of the following novels of Walter Scott was NOT set in Scotland?

Ans 1. The Antiquary

2. Waverley

3. The Talisman

4. Guy Mannering

Which romantic poet is well known for two of his poetic collections, 'Songs of
Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience'?

Ans 1. PB Shelley

2. William Wordsworth

3. John Keats

4. William Blake

Which Australian writer wrote the novels: 'The Tree of Man' (1955), 'Voss' (1957) and

'Riders in the Chariot' (1961)?

Ans 1. Judith Wright

2. Germaine Greer

3. Patrick White

4. Neville Shute

Othello has just murdered Desdemona. Then he stabs himself and dies on her body.

What are his last words just before he kills himself?

Ans 1. "If it were now to die, Twere now to be most happy, . . ."

2. "I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: No way but this; killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

Which of the following works of Charles Dickens was first published as a comic serial

narrative that would accompany an artist's engravings?

Ans 1. Great Expectations

2. Oliver Twist

3. The Pickwick Papers

4. Bleak House

In which poem by Emily Dickinson do we come across the given vividly descriptive

lines?

"He glanced with rapid eyes

That hurried all around--

They looked like frightened Beads, I thought,

He stirred his Velvet Head . . ."

Ans 1. A Bird, Came Down the Walk

2. I Heard a Fly Buzz

3. The Soul Selects Her Own Society

4. I Like to See It Lap the Miles

In Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' (Act 1, Scene 3), which of the following is NOT predicted

by the witches?

Ans 1. Macbeth would become the Thane of Glamis.

3. Macbeth would become the Thane of Cawdor.

4. Macbeth would kill King Duncan and become king.

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