Practice Questions - SET/NET/JRF-English Literature

Practice Questions

SET/NET/JRF-English Literature

       Match the following

               Famous line                                                      Work

a)    The ruinous of deeds of the ravaging foe – Piers the Plowman

b)   If no love is, God , what feel I so? – Confessio Amantis

c)    One morning, on Malvern hills – The Millers Tale

d)   A lusty life with her he had – Beowulf

        Which character is FIRST described in Chaucer’s Prologue?

a)    A miller  b) a knight  c) a monk  d) a prioress

       _____  is the author of The Bruce , earliest text in Scottish that celebrates the hero Robert Bruce

a)    William Dunbar  b) John Gower  c) John Barbour  d) King James I

          The following line “the fear of death troubles me” comes in         _____

a)    Arcadia  b) Lament for the makers  c) V  d) The Fall of Princess

        “Amorvincit” in Chaucer’s The Prioress Tale means _____

a)    All is well  b) love conquers all  c) a good looking omnibus  d) a swan

        How many sonnets are there in Sidney’s Astrophel  and Stella?

a)    88  b) 78  c) 108  d) 180

 

        Who says the following line " A Wise man will make more    opportunities than he finds?"

               a) Shakespeare   b) Milton  c) Chaucer  d) Bacon

        Who described Shakespeare as “upstart crow”?

a)    Sir Walter Raleigh  b) Sir Thomas Browne  c) Robert Greene  d) Milton

        _____ has collaborated with Ben Jonson, Marlowe, Robert Greene

a)    William Dunbar  b) John Locke  c) Robert Burton  d) Thomas Nashe

Who is associated with the Geneva Bible which familiar with Shakespeare?

a)    William Tyndale  b) Miles Coverdale  c) King James I  d) all the above

Hubert is another name of _____ used in Chaucer’s The Prologue?

a)    the clerk  b) the monk  c) the friar  d) a sergeant

       Who plays the music organ bagpipe in The Prologue?

a)    The monk  b) The wife of Bath  c) The friar  d) the carpenter

      The author of Religion and Literature _____

a)    Arnold  b) T.S. Eliot  c) Brooks  d) Tate

        One of the followings is not a Cavalier Poet, identify it.

a)    Carew  b) Andrew Marvel  c) Robert Herrick  d) Sir John Suckling

       Ben Jonson’s Epicone takes place in the home of _____

a)    Robert  b) Morose  c) Parson  d) Mute

1   The following is taken from the famous play from Jacobean Drama. Identify the play.👉

“ Come, violent death, serve for mandragora to make me sleep”

     a)    The Revenger’s Tragedy  b) The Duchess of Malfi  c) A Game at Chess d) A Woman killed            with   Kindness

Match the following

       Works                                        Authors

a) Seven Types of Ambiguity  - A.S. Byatt

b) The Well Wrought-Urn  -  Northrop Frye

c)The Anatomy of Criticism  -  William Empson

d) Portraits in Fiction  -  Cleanth Brooks

 ‘Aporia’ is a term associated with _____

a) Paul de Man  b) Roland Barthes  c) Foucault  d) Derrida

 Which novel of Samuel Butler attacked the hypocrisy of the Victorian era?

a) Waiting for Godot  b) The Way of All Flesh  c) Life and Habit  d) Erewhon

_____ is associated with the terms “readerly” and “writerly” in literary theory.

a) Derrida  b) Allen Tate  c) Roland Barthes  d) Arnold

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