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                                     

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1. Byron's poem "Beppo" tells the story of _____ and _____

        a) Laura, Moris  b) Laura, Giuseppe  c) Helen, Moris  d) Helen, Giuseppe

2. Who appeared as a servant to Ignatius Loyola in the PREFACE of Thomas Middleton's A Game at         

    Chess?

    a) Wrong  b Correct  c) Error  d) Right

3. Who is the author of The Political Unconscious?

    a) Harold Bloom  b) Focault  c) Frederic Jameson  d) Paul De Man

4. 'Hetton Abbey' is the name of a/an _____ in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust

    a) Wall-picture  b) dog  c) ancestral home  d) animal toys showcase

5. Which of the following play traces the life of Mumanum Genus?

    a) The Life of Pi  b) The Castle of Otranto  c) The Castle of Perseverance  d) The Marshals

6. "Fears in Solitude" is a poem by _____

    a) Wordsworth  b) Coleridge  c) John Keats  d) Milton

7. Aphra Behn's Like Father, Like Son is based on _____

    a) Shakespeare b) Wordsworth  c) Thomas Randolf  d) Henry Fielding

8.  Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year was first published in _____

    a) 1712  b) 1798  c) 1722  d) 1772

9. Identify the play of Dryden which was written with the collaboration with Sir Robert Howard.

    a) The Indian Queen  b) The Wild Gallant  c) The Indian Emperor  d) The Mistaken Husband

10. David Lurie in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace is a Professor of _____

    a) Chemistry  b) Mathematics  c) English  d) Robotic Studies

11. Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters is a collection of _____

    a) prose  b) letters  c) poetry  d) short stories

12. What is the name of the narrator in Albert Camus's The Plague?

    a) James  b) Robert  c) Casicus  d) Unknown

13. The theory of "The Input Hypothesis" is associated with _____

    a) Bloom  b) Stephen Krashen  c) Sassure  d) Roland Barthes

14. Among Buchi Emechetta's novels, which one was dedicated to her mother?

    a) Second Class City  b) The Pride Price  c) The Slave Girl  d) The Joys of Motherhood

15. Who coined the term 'the comedy of menace?'

    a) David Nunan  b) Irving Wardle  c) Goldberg  d) Harold Pinter

16. Match the following

 Characters            Works

    i) Bobby Watson     - The Hermit

    ii) Jeanine                - Victims of Duty

    iii)  Choubert           - The Bald Soprano

    iv) Berenger             - The Killer

17. Rasselas in Dr. Johnson's Rasselas is the _____ son of the King of Abyssinia

    a) second  b) fourth  c) first  d) fifth

18. _____ is written in the form of 'epistolary'

    a) Pantomime  b) A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man  c) Humphry Clinker  d) Kite Runner

19. Alice Munroe received the Noble Prize in _____

    a) 2012  b) 2008  c) 2017  d) 2013

20. The famous poet who also wrote a one-act play entitled, In a Balcony. Identify the poet.

    a) Tennyson  b) Arnold  c) Browning  d) D.G. Rossetti

 

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