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2. Keki N Daruwalla2019,2021
1. Nitoo Das
2. Keki N Daruwalla
3. Manoj Das
4. CP Surendran,
6.Khushwant Singh's
1. Touchstone
2. Duke Senior
3. Orlando
4. Rosalind
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?
4. Polonius to Laertes
'Orientalism', the work that was published in 1978 and played a key role in shaping
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
Ans 1. Raju
2. Swami
3. Krishna
4. Margayya
In Shakespeare's 'Henry IV, Part 1', the main characters are actually:
Which latest book (published in July 2020) written by Ruskin Bond traces the2019.2021
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',
2. Saint Joan
4. Pygmalion
Ans 1. the first part of the play has features of a tragedy while the second or later part has
those of a comedy
Which of the following works by Vikram Seth was written entirely in metered, rhyming,
14-line stanzas?
2. A Suitable Boy
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
4. Ode to Autumn
In which poem by Irish poet WB Yeats do we come across the given lines?
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
Ans 1. a poet
2. a novelist
3. a playwright
4. a prose writer
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
Q.50 Which novel of Salman Rushdie won him the Booker Prize (1981), the Booker of2021,2019
2. Fury
3. Shame
Which Indian poet writing in English has written these lines in one of his poems, which
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
2. Arrow of God
3. No Longer at Ease
Ans 1. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to
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
4. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --/I took the one less travelled by, /And that
In which poem by Ted Hughes, the Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 1984 to 1998, do
2. Hawk Roosting
4. Thought Fox
2. Emma
3. Persuasion
The ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ was a movement identified with well-known playwrights
EXCEPT:
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
“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression
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."
4. "When beggars die, there are no comets seen: / Heavens themselves blaze forth
Who or what does Shelley call "Destroyer and Preserver", "Uncontrollable", and a
2. The Skylark
3. Ozymandias
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?
2. Lyrical Ballads
4. Dejection: An Ode
Which of the following characters is NOT a part of Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' but
2. Roger Chillingworth
3. Arthur Dimmesdale
Which of the following novels of Walter Scott was NOT set in Scotland?
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
2. Germaine Greer
3. Patrick White
4. Neville Shute
Othello has just murdered Desdemona. Then he stabs himself and dies on her body.
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
2. Oliver Twist
4. Bleak House
In which poem by Emily Dickinson do we come across the given vividly descriptive
lines?
In Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' (Act 1, Scene 3), which of the following is NOT predicted
by the witches?
Arundhati roy
Amitav ghosh
Salman rusdie
Sidney
Chaucer
spencer
Thomas more
Keats
Coleride
Samuel
jonson
wordsworth
verginia wolf
khuswant singh
shakespears Othello
joan of arch
Chetan vagat2019
Margaret atwood
Walt Whitman
Hungry tide
Night of scorpion
Vkram seth
Hardy
Bonte sisters
Wudering hights
Twelth night
Verginia wolf
Henry jaemes
1984
Epithelemion
Tomsoyer
Mobi dick
Ralf emertion
Mark twin
Arbind adiga
Sarojini naidu
Nadine godimer
China achibe