English Literature - SET/NET/JRF - Practice Questions
Step I
- Read the questions carefully
Step II
- Try to understand the questions
Step III
1. Who is the shoemaker in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday?
a) Elen b) Simon Eyre c) Roger d) Ralph
2. A Mad World My Master is an example of _____
a) tragedy b) epic c) city comedy d) travelogue
3. Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts is modelled on _____
a) A City Madam b) A Trick to Catch the Old One c) Mousetrap d) Othello
4. Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller is a/an _____
a) epic novel b) epistolary novel c) gothic novel d) picaresque novel
5. Bacon says "crafty men condemn studies, _____ admire them, and wise men use them" Fill the
suitable word in the blank.
a) an extraordinary men b) simple men c) honourable men d) respectful men
6. Who is the author of the novel sequence, Pilgrimage?
a) Samuel Richardson b) Henry Fielding c) Dorothy Richardson d) Samuel Beckett
7. The title "Queen of Crime" is associated with _____
a) Jane Austen b) Charlotte Bronte c) Agatha Christie d) Virginia Woolf
8. The alter - ego of James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man _____
a) Marlow b) Stephen Dedalus c) Stephen Carew d) Stewart Parnell
9. Wole Soyinka received the Noble Prize in _____
a) 1987 b)1985 c) 1986 d) 1988
10. Identify the literary icon of American Literature who was described by the famous historian Saul K.
Padover as "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination"
a) Emerson b) Thomas Paine c) Thoreau d) Poe
11. Who is the author of the poem "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley?"
a) T.S. Eliot b) Ezra Bound c) W.B. Yeats d) Robert Frost
12. How many acts are there in Beckett's Happy Days?
a) 3 b) 2 c) 4 d) 5
13. Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarity are the characters who appear in Jack Kerouac's _____
a) Big Sur b) On the Road c) Desolation Angel d) The Dhurma Bums
14. Which one of the following is an adventure novel?
a) The Riddle of the Sands b) Live and Let Die c) The Scarlet Pimpernel d) The Thirty-Nine Steps
15. Who created the fictional character of Peter Pan?
a) C.S. Lewis b) Peter Aykroyd c) Peter Barry d) Ian Fleming
16. Identify the CORRECT STATEMENT of the followings.
a) The term 'pulp' was coined by Philip Roth
b) The term 'pulp' arrived from the cheap wood pulp paper
c) The term 'dime novel' was coined by Ann S. Stephens
d) The term 'dime novel was popular in the 17th century
17. _____ is NOT written by D.H. Lawrence
a) Bleak House b) The Lost Girl c) Women in Love d) Volmouth
18. _____ is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzerald
a) This Side of Paradise b) Night and Day c) Dope d) We
19. An acting company rehearsed the play in Lugui Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of An Author.
Identify the title of the play rehearsed.
a) Wake Up b) Never Alone c) Mixing It Up d) Turning Nothing
20. Back to Methuselah is a play by G.B. Shaw in which he has written a PREFACE. identify the title
of the PREFACE.
a) To Althea b) Reach c) The Infidel Halt Century d) To My Readers
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