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Practice Questions- SET/NET/JRF in English Literature

Practice Questions- SET/NET/JRF in English Literature Instructions In this question, you will have 20 practice questions from English Literature & Language Each question has 4 choices  Select one correct answer from the choices given  Read all the Questions carefully Find the correct answers for all the questions                                       Submit your answers in the comment box             1. Byron's poem "Beppo" tells the story of _____ and _____          a) Laura, Moris  b) Laura, Giuseppe  c) Helen, Moris  d) Helen, Giuseppe

NET/SET/JRF PRACTICE QUESTION ON ENGLISH LITERATURE


NET/SET/JRF PRACTICE QUESTION 20/20
ON
ENGLISH LITERATURE

1. Who wrote the collection of poetry Leaves of Grass?
    a) T.S. Eliot  b) Walt Whitman  c) Milton  d) Arnold

2. Which among the following novels is an autobiography?
    a) Jude the Obscure  b) Good-Bye to All That  c) Far from the Madding Crowd  d) The Mayor of            Casterbridge

3. _____ is the debut collection of poetry by Philip Larkin
    a) Jill  b) A Girl in Winter  c) The North Ship  d) The Less Deceived

4. The poem "Song of Myself" is written in _____
    a) heroic couplet  b) free verse  c)blank verse  d) rhyme royal

5. The name "The Inklings" is associated with _____
    a) the magazine  b) the newspaper  c) the informal literary discussion group  d) the coffee-house

6. Surprised by Joy is an autobiographical work by _____
    a) D.H. Lawrence  c) Joseph Conrad  c) C.S. Lewis  d) Philip Roth

7. The sentence 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" occurs in the poem _____
    a) Sacred Emily  b) To His Coy Mistress  c) Four Quartets  d) To Althea

8. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a/an _____
    a) sailor  b) doctor  c) ivory trader  d) elephant rider

9. Anna Tellwright is a character in _____
    a) Anna of the Five Towns  b) The Old Wives' Tale  c) Clayhanger  d) Riceyman Steps

10. The Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk received the Noble Prize in Literature in _____
    a) 2011  b) 2007  c) 2001  d) 2006

11. One of the following is NOT a part of The New York Trilogy. Identify it.
    a) City of Glass  b) Ghosts  c) Mirror  d) The Locked Room

12. Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient received the Booker Prize in _____
    a) 2002  b) 2019  c) 1899  d) 1992

13. Wilfred Owen's "Strange Meeting" is written in _____
    a) free verse  b) blank verse  c) pararhyme  d) Spenserian stanza

14. _____ brags that he has killed his father in J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World
    a) Shawn Keogh  b) Christy Mahon  c) Widow Quin  d) Margaret Flaherty

15. Whom did the Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic,         pose and poise?"
    a) G.B. Shaw  c) Noel Coward  c) Sean O' Casey d) Thomas Hardy

16. Stevens in The Remains of the Day is a/an _____
    a) butler  b) tailor  c) engine operator  d) pimp

17. Who is a magician in the novel TheMagician?
    a) Nick  b) Oliver Haddo  c) Joseph Haddo  d) John Witch

18. The Club of Queer Trades is a/an _____
    a) epic  b) collection of prose  c) collection of stories  d) collection of poetry

19. J.M Barrie is a/an _____ writer
    a) American  b) Australian  c) Scotland  d) British

20. John Bul's Other Island is a comedy by G.B. Shaw about _____
    a) London  b) Africa  c) Ireland  d) India

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