Learning Objective Type Questions - English Literature for NET/SET/JRF - Answer Key

Answer Key (post-dated -30/06/2020)

Learning Objective Type Questions 

    English Literature for NET/SET/JRF 

1. Who says "Purs is the erchedekenes hell" in Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales?

a) The Wife of Bath                      b) The Pardoner

c) The Nun's Priest                       d) The Summoner

2. Who among the following is a Cavalier Poet?

a) Richard Lovelace                      b) Samuel Butler

c) John Milton                               d) John Donne

3. Identify the writer who conceived of the mind as a tabula rasa

a) Edmund Spenser                                    b) John Locke

c) Coleridge                                               d) Arnold

4. The theme of Wordsworth's "Immortality Ode" was applied by _____ in his "The Retreat"

a) Andrew Marvell                  b) John Donne

       c) John Milton                       d) Henry Vaughan

5. Which work of Milton did protest against a law regulating the publication of books?

a) Paradise Lost                                     b) Paradise Regained

c) Aeropagitica                                      d) Arcadex

6. The writers Horace Walpole, Willliam Beckford and Ann Radcliffe are all associated with the writings of the _____

a) Romantic novels                                  b) Picaresque novels

d) Gothic novels                                      d) Sentimental novels

7. Who wrote the poem Hyperion?

a) John Donne                                          b) John Keats

c) John Milton                                          d) John Locke

8. Who published the poetry of Hopkins after his death?

a) Francis Bacon                                       b) Robert Bridges

c) D.G. Rosseeti                                        d) Dr. Johnson

9. ______ has two alternative endings

a) The French Lieutenant Woman         b) Midnight’s Children

c) A Passage to India                             d) Ulysse

 

10. The Phrase “ Call me Ishmael” appears Herman Melville’s _____

a) Moby Dick                                    b) Old man and the Sea

c) Voyage to England                     d) Gulliver’s Travel

 

11. Who among the following writers’ novels were written during Napoleonic wars ?

a) Anita Desai                                                       b) Jane Austen

c) T.S. Eliot                                                                d) Vikram Seth 

 

12. V.S Naipaul’s The Enigma of the Arrival is set in _____

a) England                                                      b) India

c) America                                                      d) Africa

 

13. Who is the author of Thy Hand Great Anarch?

                       Ans: Nirad. C. Chaudhuri

14. Arthur Dimmesdale is character appears in _____

a) A Bend in the River                                                                     b) Vanity Fair

c) The Scarlet Letter                                                                        d) Felix Holt

 

15. Which among the political event divided the writers of Nigeria?

a) Apartheid                                                                                   b) The Biafran Civil War

c) The World War I                                                                       d) The Boer War

 

16. Match the following

                  Author                                                                     Country

a)      Nadine Gordimer                                                                        Irish

b)      Vikram Seth                                                                                India

c)      W. B. Yeats                                                                               Nigerian

         Wole Soyinka                                                                       South African

17. _____ was a leading American Beat Poet

a) Robert Frost                                                                                 b) Allan Ginsberg

c) Byron                                                                                          d) Sylvia Plath

 

18. The meaning of ‘peripeteia’ is _____

a) good luck                                                                                    b) fate

c) reversal of fortune                                                                       d) discovery

 

19. Who associated with the critical term ‘paradox?’

a) Edward Said                                                                                 b) Brooks

c) Allen Tate                                                                                     d) Derrida

 

20. The sequence of sonnets, Amoretti, was addressed to _____

a) Queen Elizabeth II                                                                         b) Elizabeth Boyle

c) Stella                                                                                              d) Gower      

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