1) Andrea del Sarto is a poem by Robert Browning, published in his poetry collection ___________.
A:) The Last Ride Together
B:) Fra Lippo Lippi
C:) Old Pictures in Florence
D:) Men and Women
springline- Correct option D:) Men and Women
2) Alchemy is the process of turning
A:) metal into gold
B:) bronze into iron
C:) steel to copper
D:) iron to gold
springline- Correct option A:) metal into gold
3) One in the glass of blessings from the poem The Pulley is incorrect. Find it.
A:) wisdom
B:) wealth
C:) strength
D:) beauty
springline- Correct option B:) wealth
4) The epigraph of “Adonais” is followed by Shelley’s preface to the poem, which quotes the lines from Greek poem, ______________.
A:) Lament for Bion
B:) The Wife’s Lament
C:) Book of Lamenting
D:) Lament in Bible
springline- Correct option A:) Lament for Bion
5) “Poetry is a ________ which makes beautiful that which is distorted” – Fill in the right word to complete the statement from Shelley’s defense masterpiece.
A:) Magic lamp
B:) Cauldron
C:) Mirror
D:) Water
springline- Correct option C:) Mirror
6) Who is the Priest of Isis in Dryden’s All For Love?
A:) Alexas
B:) Serapion
C:) Dolabella
D:) Iras
springline- Correct option B:) Serapion
7) In the historical tragedy Antony and Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare, who kills Pacorus and has finally avenged the death of Marcus Crassusand beaten the Parthians?
A:) Ventidius
B:) Lepidus
C:) Mark Antony
D:) Octavius Caesar
springline- Correct option A:) Ventidius
8) “It was almost sacrilegious climbing a birch tree till it bent, till it gave and swooped to the ground” -Who is the speaker of the given statement?
A:) Lucy Larcom
B:) C. D. Lewis
C:) Robert Frost
D:) none
springline- Correct option C:) Robert Frost
9) “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” witnesses multiple out casts and run-aways. On par with that, which of the following characters runs away to marry Harney Shepherdson?
A:) Judith Loftus
B:) Sophia Grangerford
C:) Miss Watson
D:) Mary Jane Wilks
springline- Correct option B:) Sophia Grangerford
10) What present did Stanley gave for Blanche on her birthday in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire?
A:) ticket to Laurel
B:) pendant
C:) ring
D:) none
springline- Correct option A:) ticket to Laurel
11) What according to Bacon is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature turns to, the more ought law to weed it out”?
A:) avenge
B:) revenge
C:) action
D:) offence
springline- Correct option B:) revenge
12) The opening line of the poem Byzantium is
A:) Before me floats an image, man or shade
B:) The unpurged images of day recede
C:) call it death-in-life and life-in-death
D:) All that man is
springline- Correct option B:) The unpurged images of day recede
13) The poem, ;Because I could not stop for Death' written by the American poet Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is a close encounter of_____________ and ______________.
A:) death and immortality
B:) death and freedom
C:) love and lust
D:) life and death
springline- Correct option A:) death and immortality
14) Choose the correct literary device used in the following poetic lines taken from the poem, Birches written by Robert Frost. “Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground / Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair / Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.”
A:) Metaphor
B:) Simile
C:) Anaphora
D:) Assonance
springline- Correct option B:) Simile
15) Who in Biographia Literaria, Chapter 17 says that Wordsworth’s language is unfit for poetry?
A:) Professor Harvey
B:) Coleridge
C:) Bishop John
D:) Hooker
springline- Correct option B:) Coleridge
16) “Where, like a pillow on a bed /A pregnant bank swell’d up to rest/ The violets reclining head, Sat we two, one another’s beat” . The pillow on a bed is …….
A:) river bank
B:) sea shore
C:) backwaters
D:) boat house
springline- Correct option A:) river bank
17) Who was Napoleon Letsitsi hired by James Jarvis in the novel Cry, the beloved country written by Alan Paton?
A:) agricultural demonstrator to help teach farming and care of the earth to the people of Ndotsheni
B:) agricultural labourer to take care of the land of Ndotsheni
C:) milkman to make flourish Ndotsheni again
D:) new farm manager of James’s farm to help all the people working in the farm
springline- Correct option A:) agricultural demonstrator to help teach farming and care of the earth to the people of Ndotsheni
18) Why was Munoo thrown out of Babu Nathoo Ram’s house in the novel Coolie, written by Mulk Raj Anand?
A:) As he tried to seduce Sheila
B:) As he tried to steal their money and gold
C:) As he sneaked in and ate their food
D:) As he had bitten Sheila’s cheeks
springline- Correct option D:) As he had bitten Sheila’s cheeks
19) Meta narratives are also called
A:) super narratives
B:) mini narratives
C:) sub narratives
D:) elective narratives
springline- Correct option A:) super narratives
20) Which of the following works influenced Coleridge to write “Kubla Khan”?
A:) Samuel Johnson’s “Idler”
B:) Samuel Peppy’s Diary
C:) Samuel Butler’s “Unconscious Memory”
D:) Samuel Purchas’s “Pilgrimage”
springline- Correct option D:) Samuel Purchas’s “Pilgrimage”
21) What is the tone of the speaker in the poem Dover Beach?
A:) pessimistic
B:) panglossian
C:) misanthropic
D:) cynical
springline- Correct option A:) pessimistic
22) Who is Mars in the below line? “Where Mars did mate the Carthaginians;”
A:) God of peace
B:) God of War
C:) God of vine
D:) God of love
springline- Correct option B:) God of War
23) At what age of the persona her father died in the poem Daddy written by American Confessional poet Sylvia Plath?
A:) when she was ten years old.
B:) when she was nine years old.
C:) when she was eight years old.
D:) when she was seven years old.
springline- Correct option A:) when she was ten years old.
24) What was the worth of Willy Loman’s insurance, for which he committed suicide, perceiving that it was a fine choice as he could provide his sons with a lump sum to begin their life in a better way?
A:) 2000
B:) 200,000
C:) 20,000
D:) 2,000,000
springline- Correct option C:) 20,000
25) Epithalamion in Greek means
A:) wishing the bride for her wedding
B:) an invocation to the Muses
C:) a song upon the threshold of the bridal chamber
D:) hope for a joyful day
springline- Correct option C:) a song upon the threshold of the bridal chamber
26) Whose unexpected death does Emma believe may improve Harriet's chances with Frank Churchill?
A:) Mr. Weston
B:) Robert Martin
C:) Mrs. Churchill
D:) Jane Fairfax
springline- Correct option C:) Mrs. Churchill
27) In the mid- and the late sixteenth century numerous Italian romances of stories, some of which were used by Shakespeare as sources for his plays, were translated into English, and at about the same time, it may be recalled, the sonnet form was introduced into England from Italy by the Earl of Surrey and____?
A:) Sir Thomas Wyatt
B:) Sir Walter Scott
C:) Thomas Moore
D:) Harold Pinter
springline- Correct option A:) Sir Thomas Wyatt
28) Among the following who coined the term gynocritics, which means the study of gynotexts?
A:) Anna Julia Cooper
B:) Kate Roiphe
C:) Naomi Wolf
D:) Elaine Showalter
springline- Correct option D:) Elaine Showalter
29) In Chapter 8 of the novel “Great Expectations” Estella brought some bread, meat and a little mug of beer on the stones of yard and gave Pip the bread and meat without looking at him, as insolently as if he were a _____ in disgrace.
A:) monkey
B:) dog
C:) lamb
D:) parrot
springline- Correct option B:) dog
30) In the historical play Henry IV, Part-1 written by William Shakespeare, who goes to the Shrewsbury Battle to fight against king’s men without the support of Northumberland, Glendower, and Mortimer?
A:) Sir Michael
B:) Young Percy
C:) Prince Hal
D:) Prince John
springline- Correct option B:) Young Percy
31) The first scene of the drama, “The Hairy Ape” begins with ‘a cacophony of sounds through the firemen’s forecastle of an ocean liner’, marking them as a primitive being. What kind of primitives would concede this crew?
A:) Homosapiens
B:) Homo-erectus
C:) Homo-Habilis
D:) Homo-Neanderthal
springline- Correct option D:) Homo-Neanderthal
32) Ironic, Aeolic, Arcadian – Cyprian, Doric, Northwest Greek. These are the five principal dialectal groups. These dialects are belongs to the language of _________.
A:) Hindi
B:) English
C:) Greek
D:) Latin
springline- Correct option C:) Greek
33) Wordsworth’s “Immortality Ode” influenced his close associate Coleridge to write a sensitive work. Identify the work born under the influence of the former.
A:) Kubla Khan
B:) Dejection
C:) Christabel
D:) A Rime of the Ancient Mariner
springline- Correct option B:) Dejection
34) As a result of further research Jacob Grimm formulated a law which he declared underlay the change, and this law has become known to students of language as Grimm's Law. Actually it was not quite accurate, or rather it was accurate as far as it went, but it did not account for all the changes in question. This deficiency was later made up by _____?
A:) tort law
B:) Verner Law
C:) contract Law
D:) Jacob Law
springline- Correct option B:) Verner Law
35) Among the following what are the names of newspapers owned by Lokmanya Balagangadhar Tilak that took active participation in freedom struggle? (a.) Kesari, (b.) Swadesi, (c.) Moderates, (d.) Mahrattes.
A:) a and b only
B:) b and c only
C:) c and d only
D:) d and a only
springline- Correct option D:) d and a only
36) In Part II of the novel “Jude the Obscure” Jude’s old and embittered aunt lay unwell at Marygreen, and on the following Sunday he went to see her. His aunt’s little ______ business had been sold to a neighbour.
A:) weaving
B:) bakery
C:) catering
D:) lending
springline- Correct option B:) bakery
37) In the novel Kanthapura written by Raja Rao, Rangè Gowda declares Moorthy “our president” and Seenu jokingly declares Rangè Gowda _____________________
A:) “our second-president”
B:) “our head and Guide”
C:) “Lord protectorate”
D:) “our Super-President and Protector”
springline- Correct option D:) “our Super-President and Protector”
38) Larins Sahib won ________________________in 1968, offered by the Theatre Group, Bombay. It was first produced by Deryck Jeffereis at the Bhulabhai Theatre, Bombay in July 1969.
A:) the Sultan Padamsee Prize
B:) the Gyanpeeth Award (Jnanpith Award)
C:) the Rabindra Puraskar Award
D:) the Sahitya Akademi Award
springline- Correct option A:) the Sultan Padamsee Prize
39) In England the behaviour of the Decadence was manifested by the poems of
A:) Matthew Arnold
B:) Algernon Charles Swinburne
C:) Coleridge
D:) Wordsworth
springline- Correct option B:) Algernon Charles Swinburne
40) Whose critical writing was the most prominent work of Russian formalism where he defines the techniques of art which writers employed to produce specific effects.
A:) Victor Shkolvsky
B:) Jerome McGann
C:) Juliet Mitchell
D:) Helene Cixous
springline- Correct option A:) Victor Shkolvsky
41) Choose the correct pair:
A:) Direct Method – Field Linguistics
B:) Method of Eliciting date – Computational Linguistics
C:) Comparative method – Historical Linguistics
D:) Participant Observation – Language Teaching
springline- Correct option C:) Comparative method – Historical Linguistics
42) Which literary piece of Johnson is appreciated as “a drama in style, inelegantly splendid and tediously instructive”, to which he also added “it is deficient as a drama, as it’s action is not probable.”?
A:) L’ Allegro
B:) Comus
C:) Il Pensroso
D:) Lycidas
springline- Correct option B:) Comus
43) When Hazlitt reached the venue to listen to Coleridge, the organ was playing the _____th psalm, following which Coleridge was about to speak.
A:) 96
B:) 110
C:) 100
D:) 101
springline- Correct option C:) 100
44) Thou therefore take my brand Excalibur,/Which was my pride:, What does the word Excalibur in the lines from Tennyson’s Morte d Arthur mean?
A:) boat
B:) sword
C:) knife
D:) string
springline- Correct option B:) sword
45) “It is so painful in you, Celia that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals...”The above quote is extracted from the work “Middlemarch”. Identify the speaker.
A:) Dorothea
B:) Rosamond
C:) Ladislaw
D:) Mr. Casaubon
springline- Correct option A:) Dorothea
46) “ For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered....” The above quote is taken from the work “Macbeth” identify the speaker.
A:) Second witch
B:) Lady Macbeth
C:) First witch
D:) Macbeth
springline- Correct option D:) Macbeth
47) In the comedy Measure for measure written by William Shakespeare, how Mariana lost her dowry due to which her betrothal with Angelo was cancelled?
A:) Mariana lost her dowry in a shipwreck that killed her brother.
B:) A week before her marriage, Mariana’s properties were sued by the royal bank.
C:) her father lost all the dowry in gambling.
D:) Angelo cunningly thieved her dowry to stop the marriage.
springline- Correct option A:) Mariana lost her dowry in a shipwreck that killed her brother.
48) Who among the following are the three of the Pequod’s boats as headsmen in the novel Moby Dick? (a) Starbuck; (b) Stubb; (c) Flash; (d) Pip.
A:) a, b and d
B:) b, c and d
C:) a, b and c
D:) none of the above
springline- Correct option C:) a, b and c
49) At the end of the play Mukta-dhara, written by Tagore, what happens to the dam?
A:) The dam is built even more stronger to take revenge on the people of Shiv-tarai and the Yuvaraja.
B:) The dam is broken and the water rushes and falls downwards the plains of Shiv-tarai.
C:) The dam is broken by the people of Shiv-tarai.
D:) The Yuvaraja is given as a human sacrifice to the ever-strongest dam.
springline- Correct option B:) The dam is broken and the water rushes and falls downwards the plains of Shiv-tarai.
50) What is the subtype of the modern problem play in which the social issue is not incorporated into a plot but expounded in the give and take of a sustained debate among the characters?
A:) propaganda play
B:) discussion play
C:) high comedy
D:) low comedy
springline- Correct option B:) discussion play
51) The European is the novel, that forms the clash between
A:) the European and African mind
B:) the American and European mind
C:) the American and Australian mind
D:) the England and European mind
springline- Correct option B:) the American and European mind
52) The two main process of morphology are:
A:) nominalization and verbalization
B:) inflection and word ordering
C:) derivation and complementation
D:) inflection and derivation
springline- Correct option D:) inflection and derivation
53) William Faulkner in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, strongly advice the serious writers to remind people about their past consists which of the following, (a)courage (b)pity (c)honor (d) compassion (e)hope (f)sacrifice (g)pride
A:) a, b, c, d, e and g
B:) a, c, e and g
C:) c and g
D:) all the above
springline- Correct option D:) all the above
54) Why the persona’s mother thanked the God at the end of the poem Night of the Scorpion written Nissim Ezekiel?
A:) Ezekiel’s mother thanked the God for the birth of the new land Israel.
B:) It was ritual of Jews to thank the God at the end of all the day.
C:) The mother thanked the God for the scorpion picked her and spared her children.
D:) She was thankful to the God for forgiving his sceptic husband.
springline- Correct option C:) The mother thanked the God for the scorpion picked her and spared her children.
55) Who never feels practically that he is mortal.
A:) Charles Lamb
B:) Young man till thirty
C:) Very old man
D:) The Elders
springline- Correct option B:) Young man till thirty
56) The rural life of ancient Greece was depicted in one of the poems by John Keats called
A:) Ode to Nightingale
B:) Ode to Autumn
C:) Ode on a Grecian Urn
D:) Ode to Indolence
springline- Correct option C:) Ode on a Grecian Urn
57) How does Shelley relate the climatic moments often used in his poetry to the poems as wholes which are instant when the poet’s feelings overwhelm him and overwhelm his poem?
A:) Shelley typified climatic moments both in his work and his life, with an emphasis on emancipation, democracy, and free love. For the Romantics, scientific and rational understanding of the world was a limited mode of thinking.
B:) Shelley’s words “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” in “Ode to the West Wind,” is one such moments which shows both the power of the outside world to affect Shelley’s inner feelings, and the power of these feelings in and of themselves—Shelley responded very intensely to the world, and in his poems the world is a place to which one can respond only intensely.
C:) The most obvious example of such a climactic moment is the speaker’s collapse at the beginning of the third stanza of “The Indian Serenade.”
D:) As Shelley explains in his essay A Defence of Poetry, he believes that poetry expands and nurtures the imagination, and that the imagination enables sympathy, and that sympathy, or an understanding of another human being’s situation, is the basis of moral behavior.
springline- Correct option B:) Shelley’s words “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” in “Ode to the West Wind,” is one such moments which shows both the power of the outside world to affect Shelley’s inner feelings, and the power of these feelings in and of themselves—Shelley responded very intensely to the world, and in his poems the world is a place to which one can respond only intensely.
58) Which of the following emotions of the persona is associated with the tree in the poem Our Casuarina Tree?
A:) Isolation
B:) Nostalgia
C:) Fear
D:) Solitude
springline- Correct option B:) Nostalgia
59) Which is a theory holds that the beginnings of language are to be found in the sense of rhythm which seems to have been innate in man from a very primitive stage of his existence and by which he is related to the rest of the universe, which is essentially rhythmical?
A:) The yo-he-ho theory
B:) The Ding-Dong theory
C:) The Pooh-Pooh theory
D:) The Bow-wow theory
springline- Correct option B:) The Ding-Dong theory
60) Catharsis means _______.
A:) Glorification
B:) Purification
C:) Sympathy
D:) Controlled situation
springline- Correct option B:) Purification
61) The separation of words into syllables is called:
A:) componential Analysis
B:) Neutralization
C:) Syllabification
D:) IC Analysis
springline- Correct option C:) Syllabification
62) Speech sounds - ___________
A:) Semiotics
B:) Phonetics
C:) Socio-linguistics
D:) Linguistics
springline- Correct option B:) Phonetics
63) Which of the characters in The Canterbury Tales, on his/her way to Sunday mass, wraps his/her head in scarves that the narrator says must weigh ten pounds.
A:) The Second nun
B:) The Man of Laws
C:) The Wife of Bath
D:) The Prioress
springline- Correct option C:) The Wife of Bath
64) “The rest so far as Cynthia doth shend, the lesser stars.”, Who is Cynthia?
A:) The nymhhs
B:) The moon
C:) Queen Elizabeth
D:) Elisa
springline- Correct option B:) The moon
65) Who thinks that Eve should be worshipped as “a Goddess among Gods”?
A:) God
B:) Adam
C:) Satan
D:) Gabriel
springline- Correct option C:) Satan
66) According to Wordsworth, which of the elder writers’ works were neglected because of “frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse”?
A:) Milton
B:) Shakespeare
C:) Both A and B
D:) None
springline- Correct option C:) Both A and B
67) “He must learn them again… He must teach himself… He writes not of love…He writes not of the heart…”. – Identify the syntactical device used in the given line, from Faulkner’s banquet speech.
A:) Anadiplosis
B:) Anaphora
C:) Aphorismus
D:) Aporia
springline- Correct option B:) Anaphora
68) In the poem ‘The Looking-glass’ written by Kamala Das, the poet says that it is easy to make a man love her (a woman). A woman needs to accept the man’s admiration and praise for her body. But a woman also needs a man in order to please her body as while in the bathroom, she should look at___________________________ (1) the perfection of his limbs, (2) his eyes reddening under the shower, (3) his shy walk across the bathroom floor, (4) dropping towel, (5) the jerky way he urinates.
A:) 1, 2, 3
B:) 2, 3, 5
C:) 3, 4, 5
D:) All the above
springline- Correct option D:) All the above
69) What is the soul of tragedy in accordance with the Aristotle’s Poetics?
A:) Plot
B:) Diction
C:) Spectacle
D:) Thought
springline- Correct option A:) Plot
70) The horse and falcon in The Archetypes of Literature stand for
A:) chivalry
B:) loyalty
C:) valor
D:) kindness
springline- Correct option A:) chivalry
71) The poem The Rape of the Lock is written in
A:) heroic couplets
B:) octa syllabic couplets
C:) alliterative rhyme
D:) acrostic verse
springline- Correct option A:) heroic couplets
72) In the Rape of the Lock, why does Umbriel travel to the Cave of Spleen?
A:) To imprison Ariel for failing at his duty to protect Belinda
B:) To secure devices to increase Belinda's sorrows
C:) To commune with other Gnomes about Belinda's misfortunes
D:) To find a sufficient punishment for the Baron
springline- Correct option B:) To secure devices to increase Belinda's sorrows
73) A. K. Ramanujan published his poem A River in his magnum opus __________.
A:) Second Sight
B:) Hymns for the Drowning
C:) The Striders
D:) Folktales from India
springline- Correct option C:) The Striders
74) Identify the odd one among the following:
A:) Pictograph
B:) Ideograph
C:) Logograph
D:) Calligraphy
springline- Correct option D:) Calligraphy
75) “Samson Agonistes” is received as an apocalyptic work and morally disgusting because of the destruction of the temple of Dagon. This temple belonged to ___________.
A:) Christians
B:) Jews
C:) Philistines
D:) Puritans
springline- Correct option C:) Philistines
76) Who promised Hastings to help for the elopement with new horses?
A:) Tony
B:) Marlow
C:) Landlord
D:) Hardcastle
springline- Correct option A:) Tony
77) In the poem The Soul’s Prayer written by Sarojini Naidu, the persona requests the God to reveal ________.
A:) secrecy of womanhood
B:) mysteries of creation
C:) the mysteries of life and death
D:) the knowledge of heavenly bodies
springline- Correct option C:) the mysteries of life and death
78) According to Empson, in his Seventh Type of Ambiguity, who became a Jesuit and burnt his early writings?
A:) Hopkins
B:) Walter Raleigh
C:) Walter Scott
D:) Eliot
springline- Correct option A:) Hopkins
79) John Keats is one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from______________.
A:) Died of sepsis from an infected mosquito bite.
B:) pneumonia
C:) poor sanitation and water quality at Haworth.
D:) Tuberculosis
springline- Correct option D:) Tuberculosis
80) To whom did old man say ‘I love you and respect you very much’?
A:) Manolin
B:) Marlin
C:) Joe DiMaggio
D:) Old man’s wife
springline- Correct option B:) Marlin
81) What is the alternative title of the poem ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
A:) A Heroic-Comical Poem in Two Cantos
B:) A Heroic-Comical Poem in Three Cantos
C:) A Heroic-Comical Poem in Four Cantos
D:) A Heroic-Comical Poem in Five Cantos
springline- Correct option D:) A Heroic-Comical Poem in Five Cantos
82) According to Spenser, Elizabeth was ________in The Faerie Queene.
A:) Glorianna
B:) Acrasia
C:) Belphoebe
D:) Una
springline- Correct option A:) Glorianna
83) In Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, how does Hieronimo deduce that it was Lorenzo and Balthazar who murdered his son?
A:) Lorenzo’s letter
B:) Pedringano’s letter
C:) Bell Imperia’s letter
D:) Horatio’s scarf
springline- Correct option B:) Pedringano’s letter
84) 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.' This quote is taken from the book of Job. Which of the following statements is true about this quote?
A:) Job says this in the epilogue after the accusation of his friends
B:) Job says this in the Prologue as a reply to his wife’s accusation
C:) Job says this in the Prologue after he hears that he had lost everything
D:) Job says this as a reply to his friends
springline- Correct option C:) Job says this in the Prologue after he hears that he had lost everything
85) In To His Coy Mistress, the youthful skin of the mistress is compared with
A:) dew
B:) sun rays
C:) rainbow
D:) rose
springline- Correct option A:) dew
86) One of the shepherds of the Delectable Mountain in The Pilgrims Progress is incorrect. Find it.
A:) Sincere
B:) Wealth
C:) Knowledge
D:) Experience
springline- Correct option B:) Wealth
87) Henry Fielding wrote the novel Tom Jones comprising …….. books
A:) twenty
B:) eighteen
C:) sixteen
D:) fourteen
springline- Correct option B:) eighteen
88) Congreve in his masterpiece, “The Way for the World”, uses two quotes from the satire one of the classical writers, as epigraphs for the play. Identify the Classicist.
A:) Virgil
B:) Plato
C:) Horace
D:) Sophocles
springline- Correct option C:) Horace
89) Sheridan’s “The School for Scandal”, was primarily produced to serve comical delight and to take a chance to revive the comedies, of which of the following Restoration writers?
A:) William Wycherley
B:) William Congreve
C:) Sir John Vanbrugh
D:) George Etherege
springline- Correct option B:) William Congreve
90) Identify the year in which the final version of “Prelude” with its 14 books was published.
A:) 1799
B:) 1805
C:) 1818
D:) 1850
springline- Correct option D:) 1850
91) The cryptic short form “DA” appears in three places in “The Wasteland”. It stands for the Sanskrit words ‘Datta’, ‘Dayadhvam’ and ‘Damyata’. Pick the meanings of these words in the right order.
A:) Control, Give, Sympathize
B:) Sympathize, Control, Give
C:) Give, Sympathize, Control
D:) Control, Sympathize, Judge
springline- Correct option C:) Give, Sympathize, Control
92) “Every nation, every race has not only its own creative but its own critical turn of mind....”The above quote is taken from the work ____
A:) The Hero as a Man of Letters
B:) Tradition and Individual Talent
C:) The Wasteland
D:) The Study of Poetry
springline- Correct option B:) Tradition and Individual Talent
93) “Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife...”The above quote appears in Chapter ____ of “Window” in the novel “To the Lighthouse”.
A:) Chapter II
B:) Chapter VI
C:) Chapter IX
D:) Chapter XI
springline- Correct option B:) Chapter VI
94) In Part 2 Chapter 3 of the novel “The Power and the Glory”, after the priest has confesses his identity to the group, the pious woman tries to convert him, seeing him as a possible “_____ thief”.
A:) good
B:) bad
C:) cunning
D:) cruel
springline- Correct option A:) good
95) Which of the following statements regarding the second part of the poem ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’ written by G.M. Hopkins is true?
A:) The nun is compared to Doves
B:) The nun is compared to Virgin Mary
C:) Jesus Christ is described as the Supreme Lover
D:) The storm is a curse from heaven
springline- Correct option B:) The nun is compared to Virgin Mary
96) In the play The Tempest, written by Shakespeare, there is a reference to Hymen’s torch. Who is Hymen?
A:) Hymen is the Greek God of Marriage
B:) Hymen is the Greek Goddess of pleasure
C:) Hymen is the Greek God of Ecstasy
D:) Hymen is the Greek God of thieves
springline- Correct option A:) Hymen is the Greek God of Marriage
97) In what form does the second part of The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities was written by James Thurber?
A:) essay
B:) verse
C:) question and answer
D:) prose
springline- Correct option C:) question and answer
98) Nneka, of the novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, is the first child born to Okonkwo in Mbanta and ‘Nneka’ means____________
A:) ‘Begotten in the wilderness’
B:) ‘Mother is Supreme’
C:) ‘the daughter from God’
D:) ‘the spirit of Hope’
springline- Correct option B:) ‘Mother is Supreme’
99) Which of the following statements regarding Nataraja is true, according to the essay ‘the Dance of Shiva’ written by Ananda Coomaraswamy? (1) Nataraja’s right foot is planted on the demon Muyalaka, (2) He wears a man’s earring in the right ear, (3) He wears a woman’s earring in the left ear, (4) One of his hands holds the drum (udukkai), (5) One of his hands holds fire.
A:) 1, 2, 3
B:) 2, 3, 5
C:) 2, 3, 4, 5
D:) All
springline- Correct option D:) All
100) In the play, Ned Kelly, written by Douglas Stewart, Kelly gang threaten the workers at _______________________, at the gunpoint to damage the railway track.
A:) Asquith railway Station
B:) Glenrowan railway station
C:) Cronulla railway station
D:) Kempsey railway station
springline- Correct option B:) Glenrowan railway station
101) Muhammad tells his Step-mother that Ain-ul-Mulk, the companion of his childhood and his fellow champion in chess, is marching on Delhi with__________________, in Scene two of the play, Tughlaq, written by Girish Karnad.
A:) an army of thirty thousand soldiers
B:) an army of forty thousand soldiers
C:) an army of seventy thousand soldiers
D:) an army of fifty thousand soldiers
springline- Correct option A:) an army of thirty thousand soldiers
102) What waited outside the station to get stuffed with their trunks, when Krishna’s wife and daughter arrived in the second chapter of the novel, The English Teacher written by R. K. Narayan?
A:) A Victoria Carriage
B:) A Tricycle
C:) A Taxi
D:) A Chaise
springline- Correct option A:) A Victoria Carriage
103) Among the following what is the name of the boy in Earnest Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea?
A:) Dick
B:) John
C:) Manolin
D:) Maggio
springline- Correct option C:) Manolin
104) Who among the following is the Guest of Honour of Sultan and comes under the descendant of Khalif Abbasid according to Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq?
A:) Ghiyas-ud-din
B:) Fakr-ud-din
C:) Shams-ud-din
D:) Zia-ud-din
springline- Correct option A:) Ghiyas-ud-din
105) Achebe quotes from ______________, the Ghanaian Professor of philosophy to make his conception of the literature clearer, “Just as African Scientists undertake to solve some of the scientific problems of Africa…Why should African literary creators be exempted from the services that they themselves recognize as genuine…” in his essay ‘The Novelist as Teacher.’
A:) William Abraham
B:) William Clinton
C:) Lawrence Bobo
D:) Daniel Agbiboa
springline- Correct option A:) William Abraham
106) In the essay The Sense of the Past by Lionel Trilling ………….. is the diving instinct for the relation of the valuation to the operating forces.
A:) Cultural sense
B:) Philosophical sense
C:) Psychological sense
D:) Historical sense
springline- Correct option D:) Historical sense
107) According to the critical work, The Four Kinds of Meaning, anger, fear, joy and sorrow are
A:) determiners
B:) interjections
C:) emotions
D:) adjectives
springline- Correct option C:) emotions
108) Which method of teaching English is used in England and in some public schools in India and is generally used in association with Alphabetic method?
A:) Story method
B:) Phonic method
C:) Sentence method
D:) Phrase method
springline- Correct option B:) Phonic method
109) What was the name of Linton’s bulldog in the novel Wuthering Heights which bites Cathrine on her first visit to Thrushcross Grange?
A:) Candy
B:) Pugg
C:) Barker
D:) Skulker
springline- Correct option D:) Skulker
110) In the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? written by Edward Albee, how many children are there in George and Martha’s home?
A:) One boy
B:) Two girls
C:) One girl
D:) none
springline- Correct option D:) none
111) Which concept of intelligence addresses the problem of meaning and value?
A:) Academic Intelligence (IQ)
B:) Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
C:) Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)
D:) Cultural Intelligence (CQ)
springline- Correct option C:) Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)
112) Which of the following may not be a barrier in education for social change?
A:) Caste and ethnicity
B:) Language
C:) Regionalism and religion
D:) Scientific attitude
springline- Correct option D:) Scientific attitude
113) Peer group membership has high educational implications during
A:) Childhood
B:) Later childhood
C:) Adolescence
D:) Adulthood
springline- Correct option C:) Adolescence
114) Who advanced the concept of ‘creative self’ as the most essential aspect of one’s personality?
A:) Allport
B:) Adler
C:) Freud
D:) Jung
springline- Correct option B:) Adler
115) ‘Defense Mechanisms’ are used by an individual
A:) to solve personal problems
B:) to avoid unpleasant situations
C:) to promote adjustment process
D:) to counter the hostility of others
springline- Correct option C:) to promote adjustment process
116) The responsibility of vocational education at higher education level in U.S.A has been the concern of:
A:) All colleges
B:) Federal colleges
C:) State run colleges
D:) Community colleges
springline- Correct option D:) Community colleges
117) In which country the educational system is envisioned as a partnership between states and the central government?
A:) Russia
B:) Great Britain
C:) U.S.A
D:) India
springline- Correct option D:) India
118) Which county is the pioneer of distance education course at higher education level?
A:) India
B:) Britain
C:) America
D:) Australia
springline- Correct option B:) Britain
119) In the long run which leadership style is most effective?
A:) Autocratic
B:) Participate
C:) Transactional
D:) Transformational
springline- Correct option D:) Transformational
120) A gifted child will tend to surpass the average child in which of the following areas?
A:) Physical health and well being
B:) Social maturity and poise
C:) Academic achievement
D:) Breadth of interest and general versality
springline- Correct option C:) Academic achievement
121) In which area do deaf children tend to show relative inferiority as compared to hearing children?
A:) Socio-emotional development
B:) Language development
C:) Personal and social development
D:) Academic progress
springline- Correct option B:) Language development
122) Autosomal disorder are those:
A:) Resulting from a defect with 23rd pair of chromosomes and involves a pinched X-chromosome.
B:) Resulting from a defect in the 22nd pairs of chromosomes that are not related to gender
C:) Resulting from a defect due to chronic genetic disorder
D:) Resulting from an inherited metabolic disorder.
springline- Correct option B:) Resulting from a defect in the 22nd pairs of chromosomes that are not related to gender
123) Which school of philosophy in education will plead affinity with Darwinian theory of evolution?
A:) Existentialism
B:) Naturalism
C:) Idealism
D:) Pragmatism
springline- Correct option B:) Naturalism
124) Which of the following Article of Indian Constitution lays down that education of Children aged 6-14 years is a Fundamental Right?
A:) Article 21 A
B:) Article 45
C:) Article 51 A
D:) Article 42
springline- Correct option A:) Article 21 A
125) Which of the following practices leads to social exclusion?
A:) Reservation of seats for SC and ST children
B:) Special schools for blind
C:) Provision of mid-day meal
D:) Posting of at least one female teacher in every school
springline- Correct option B:) Special schools for blind
126) In Gagne’s hierarchy of learning which of the following learning types will form a part of chain learning?
A:) Concept learning
B:) Problem solving learning
C:) Rule learning
D:) Signal learning
springline- Correct option D:) Signal learning
127) In dealing with which of the following categories of children, social equity becomes an important consideration?
A:) Gifted children
B:) backward children
C:) Mentally retarded children
D:) Creative children
springline- Correct option C:) Mentally retarded children
128) Who is an arch advocate of trait theory of personality?
A:) Sheldon
B:) Kretschmer
C:) Jung
D:) Allport
springline- Correct option D:) Allport
129) Which of the following is intimately associated with mental health?
A:) Absence of anxiety
B:) Keeping one’s desires in abeyance
C:) Resources for gratifying needs
D:) Ability to defer gratification of needs
springline- Correct option D:) Ability to defer gratification of needs
130) According to Sri Aurobindo the human mind:
A:) has evolved to its maximum limit
B:) is still in the process of evolution
C:) has evoked to the level of ‘Sat-chi-Anand’
D:) is in need of proper education for evolving
springline- Correct option B:) is still in the process of evolution
131) The concept of ‘Equality of educational opportunity’ implies
A:) Identical educational opportunity to each and every child irrespective of differeces
B:) Everybody to be given his/her due
C:) providing educational facilities to all
D:) Education on the basis of ability neutralizing negative factors.
springline- Correct option D:) Education on the basis of ability neutralizing negative factors.
132) Which of the following features belong to intellectual development during adolescence stage?
A:) Moral development
B:) Conflict in motivation
C:) Capacity for convergent and divergent thinking
D:) Hero-worship
springline- Correct option C:) Capacity for convergent and divergent thinking
133) The term ‘habit family hierarchy’ was used to explain leaning situations by whom?
A:) Pavlov
B:) Tolman
C:) Hull
D:) Skinner
springline- Correct option C:) Hull
134) For the concept of Emotional Intelligence which theory of intelligence is considered to be the fore-runner?
A:) Thrustone’s Multiple factor theory
B:) Vernon’s hierarchical structure theory
C:) Burt’s Group factor theory
D:) Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligence
springline- Correct option D:) Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligence
135) Anoxia is one of the causes of
A:) Mental retardation due to deprivation of oxygen at birth
B:) Physical disability due to weakness
C:) Hard of hearing due to bacterial infection
D:) Speech impairment due to psychological cause
springline- Correct option A:) Mental retardation due to deprivation of oxygen at birth
136) Which of the following is not characteristic of the intellectually challenged child?
A:) He/She tends to be retarded in his/her physical development
B:) He/She is above average in sensory motor and artistic aptitude
C:) He/She is lacking in ability to conceptualize and generalize
D:) He/She tends to display socially undesirable traits very often
springline- Correct option B:) He/She is above average in sensory motor and artistic aptitude
137) Down’s syndrome is a
A:) physical disorder
B:) mental disorder
C:) genetic disorder
D:) personality disorder
springline- Correct option C:) genetic disorder
138) Establishment of DIETs was the result of one of the recommendations of
A:) Indian Education Commission (1882)
B:) University Education Commission (1948-49)
C:) Secondary Education Commission (1952-53)
D:) National Policy on Education (1986)
springline- Correct option D:) National Policy on Education (1986)
139) ‘Animals are trained but teacher are educated’ was the observation made by
A:) W.H. Kilpatrick
B:) John Dewey
C:) Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
D:) Swami Vivekanand
springline- Correct option A:) W.H. Kilpatrick
140) Development of creative thinking begins at what stage?
A:) Infancy
B:) Childhood
C:) Adolescence
D:) Adulthood
springline- Correct option B:) Childhood
141) Abbreviation for ASI
A:) The Archaeological Survey of India
B:) Association of Science Industries
C:) The Aviation of Science Investigation
D:) Agricultural Seeds Inspection
springline- Correct option A:) The Archaeological Survey of India
142) Sekkizhar called ______ as‘ Thanporunai Punal Naadu’.
A:) Tamilnadu
B:) Thirunelveli
C:) Tanjavur
D:) Madurai
springline- Correct option B:) Thirunelveli
143) South Indian Oxford of Tamil Nadu is _________.
A:) Namakkal
B:) Madras Presidency
C:) Palayam Kottai
D:) Pattukkotai
springline- Correct option C:) Palayam Kottai
144) Who is portrayed as ‘Rasika Mani’
A:) Kumara Kurubar
B:) Bharathiar
C:) Kadikai Muthu Pulavar
D:) T.K. Chithambaranathar
springline- Correct option D:) T.K. Chithambaranathar
145) Keezhadi located in the district _______
A:) Trichy
B:) Theni
C:) Madurai
D:) Kaniyakumari
springline- Correct option C:) Madurai
146) Who said that wisdom grows from the family, and that the foundation of society is the disciplined individual in an orderly family?
A:) Confucius
B:) Lao-Tse
C:) Gautama Buddha
D:) Ajivika
springline- Correct option A:) Confucius
147) Cultural development that took place rapidly after Alexander’s death 323 BC (BCE) is called ________.
A:) Roam Civilization
B:) Mesabadomia Civilization
C:) Confusian Civilization
D:) Hellenistic Civilization
springline- Correct option D:) Hellenistic Civilization
148) This molten rock inside the Earth is called ______.
A:) Igneous
B:) Core
C:) Lava
D:) Magma
springline- Correct option D:) Magma
149) The point of origin of an Earthquake is called ______.
A:) Epicentre
B:) Focus
C:) Hydrocenter
D:) Waves
springline- Correct option B:) Focus
150) It extends to a height of about 50km above earth surface. Since this layer is a concentration of ozone molecules, it is also referred as ozonosphere.
A:) Stratosphere
B:) Mesosphere
C:) Thermosphere
D:) Troposphere
springline- Correct option A:) Stratosphere