(Plz Refer to answer key at the end)
This is a
Very useful
UGC
PGT Teachers exam
and any other exam which contains multiple Choice
1. The epigraph
of The Waste Land is
borrowed from?
(A)
Virgil
(B)
Fetronius
(C)
Seneca
(D)
Homer
2. Who called ‘The Waste Land
‘a music of ideas’?
(A) Allen Tate
(B) J. C. Ransom
(C) I. A. Richards
(D) F. R
Leavis
3. T. S.
Eliot has borrowed the term ‘Unreal City ’
in the first and third sections from?
(A) Baudelaire
(B)
Irving Babbit
(C) Dante
(D)
Laforgue
4. Which
of the following myths does not figure
in The Waste
Land?
(A) Oedipus
(B)
Grail Legend
of Fisher King
(C)
Philomela
(D)
Sysyphus
5.
Joe Gargery is Pip’s?
(A)
brother
(B) brother-in-Jaw
(C)
guardian
(D)
cousin
6.
Estella is the daughter of?
(A) Joe
Gargery
(B) Abel
Magwitch .
(C) Miss
Havisham
(D)
Bentley Drumnile
7. Which
book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi?
(A)
Sesame and Lilies
(B) The
Seven Lamps of Architecture
(C) Unto
This Last
(D) Fors
Clavigera
8.
Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
(A)
Catholicism
(B)
Protestantism
(C)
Paganism
(D)
Buddhism
9. One important feature of Jane Austen’s style
is?
(A)
boisterous humour
(B)
humour and pathos
(C)
subtlety of irony
(D) stream of consciousness
10. The title
of the poem ‘The Second
Coming’ is taken from?
(A) The
Bible
(B) The
Irish mythology
(C) The
German mythology
(D) The
Greek mythology
11. The main character in Paradise Lost Book I and Book II is?
(A
God
(B)
Satan
(C) Adam
(D) Eve
(A)Susan
(B)Jane
(C)Gertrude
(D)
Emily
13. The
twins in Lord of the Flies are?
(A)Ralph
and Jack
(B)
Simon and Eric
(C)
Ralph and Eric
(D)
Simon and Jack
14.Mr.
Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a
(A)
lawyer
(B)
postman
(C)Judge
(D) School teacher
15. What
does ‘I’ stand for in the
following line?
‘To
Carthage then I
came’
(A)
Buddha
(B)
Tiresias
(C)
Smyrna Merchant
(D)
Augustine
16. The
following lines are an example……… of image.
‘The
river sweats
Oil and
tar’
(A)
visual
(B)
kinetic
(C)
erotic
(D)
sensual
17.
Which of the following novels has
the sub-title
‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
(A)
Vanity Fair
(B)
Middlemarch
(C) Wuthering Heights
(D)
Oliver Twist
(A) Mars
(B)
Hercules
(C) Zeus
(D)
Bacchus
19. Who invented the term
‘Sprung rhythm’?
(A)Hopkins
(B)Tennyson
(C)Browning
(D)Wordsworth
20.Who
wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’?
(A)
Browning
(B)
Tennyson
(C)
Swinburne
(D)
Rossetti
21.Which
of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue?
(A)
The Tempest
(B)
Henry IV, Pt I
(C)
Hamlet
(D)
Twelfth Night
22.
Hamlet’s famous speech
‘To be,or not to
be; that is the question’
occurs
in?
(A) Act II, Scene I
(B) Act III, Scene III
(C) Act IV, Scene III
(D) Act III, Scene I
23. Identify the character in The
Tempest who is referred to
asan honest old counselor
(A)
Alonso
(B)
Ariel
(C)
Gonzalo
(D)
Stephano
24. What
is the sub-title
of the play Twelfth Night?
(A) Or,
What is you Will
(B) Or,
What you Will
(C) Or,
What you Like It
(D) Or,
What you Think
25.
Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T. S.
Eliot,
is ‘artistic failure’?
(A) The
Tempest
(B)
Hamlet
(C)
Henry IV, Pt I
(D)
Twelfth Night
26. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I?
(A) Earl
of Northumberland
(B) Earl
of March
(C) Earl
of Douglas
(D) Earl
of Worcester
27.
Paradise Lost was originally
written in?
(A) ten
books
(B)
eleven books
(C) nine
books
(D)
eight books
(A)
Darcy
(B)
Wickham
(C)
William Collins
(D)
Charles Bingley
29. Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’?
(A)
William Wordsworth
(B)
P.B.Shelley
(C) S.
T. Coleridge
(D) John
Keats
30. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations?
(A)
Philip Pirrip
(B)
Filip Pirip
(C)Philip
Pip
(D)
Philips Pirip
31. The
novel The Power and the Glory is
set in?
(A)Mexico
(B) Italy
(C)France
(D) Germany
32.
Which of the following is Golding’s first novel?
(A) The
Inheritors
(B) Lord
of the Flies
(C)
Pincher Martin
(D)
Pyramid
33.Identify
the charact er who is a supporter of Women’s Rights
in Sons and Lovers?
(A) Mrs.
Morel
(B)
Annie
(C)
Miriam
(D)
Clara Dawes
34.
Vanity Fair is
a novel by?
(A) Jane Austen
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) W.
M. Thackeray
(D)
Thomas Hardy
35.
Shelley’s Adonais is an elegy on the death of?
(A) Milton
(B)
Coleridge
(C)
Keats
(D)
Johnson
36.
Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence?
(A) The
White Peacock
(B) The
Trespasser
(C) Sons
and Lovers
(D)
Women in Love
(A)
Nature
(B)
Dorothy
(C)
Coleridge
(D) Wye
38. Who,
among the following, is not the second
generation of
British
Romantics?
(A)
Keats
(B)
Wordsworth
(C)
Shelley
(D)
Byron
39.
Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?
(A) Work
Without Hope
(B)
Frost at Midnight
(C) The
Rime of the Ancient
Mariner
(D) Youth and Age
40. Identify the writer who was
expelled from Oxfor d
for circulating a pamphlet—
(A) P.
B. Shelley
(B)
Charles Lamb
(C)
Hazlitt
(D)
Coleridge
41.
Keats’s Endymion is dedicated to?
(A)
Leigh Hunt
(B) Milton
(C)
Shakespeare
(D)
Thomas Chatterton
42. The second series of Essays of Elia by
Charles Lamb was published in?
(A) 1823
(B) 1826
(C) 1834
(D) 1833
43.
Which of the following poets does not belong to the ‘Lake
School ’?
(A)
Keats
(B)
Coleridge
(C)
Southey
(D)
Wordsworth
44.Who,
among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital
School ,
(A)
Charles Lamb
(B)
William Wordsworth
(C)
Leigh Hunt
(D) S.
T. Coleridge
45. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’?
(A)
Tennyson
(8)
Charles Lamb
(C)
Lockhart
(D) T.
S. Eliot
46.
Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’was written in memory of?
(A) A.
H. Hallam
(B)
Edward King
(C)
Wellington
(D) P.
B. Shelley
47. Who,
among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement?
(A)
Robert Browning
(B) John
Keble
(C) E.
B. Pusey
(D) J. H.
Newman
48. Identify the work
by Swinburne which begins “when the hounds of spring are on winter’s
traces..”?
(A)
Chastelard
(B) A
Song of Italy
(C)
Atalanta in Calydon
(D)
Songs before Sunrise
49.
Carlyle’s work On Heroes,
HeroWorship and the Heroic in History
is a course
of?
(A) six
lectures
(B) five
lectures
(C) four
lectures
(D)
seven lectures
50. Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as
King’?
(A)
Johnson
(B)
Cromwell
(C)
Shakespeare
(D)
Luther
51. Identify the work
by Ruskin which began as
a defence of
contemporary landscape
art ist especially Turner?
(A) The
Stones of Venice
(B) The
Two Paths
(C) The
Seven Lamps of Architecture
(D)
Modem Painters
52. The term
‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to
describe the political
novels of?
(A)
Charles Dickens
(B)
Anthony Trollope
(C) W. H. White
(D) B. Disraeli
53. Identify the poet, whom
Queen Victoria ,
regarded as the perfect poet of ‘love and
loss’—
(A)
Tennyson
(B)
Browning
(C)
Swinburne
(D) D.
G. Rossetti
(A)
Spenserian Stanza
(B)
Ballad
(C)
OttavaRima
(D)
Rhyme Royal
55. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English
poetry?
(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt
(B)
William Shakespeare
(C) Earl
of Surrey
(D) Milton
56. The
Aesthetic Movement
which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by?
(A) The
Pre-Raphaelites
(B)
Ruskin
(C)
Pater
(D)
Matthew Arnold
57. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line
of Tennyson “Faith un-faithful kept him falsely true.”
(A)
Oxymoron
(B)
Metaphor
(C)
Simile
(D)
Synecdoche
58. W.
B. Yeats used the phrase
‘the artifice of eternity’ in his poem?
(A)
Sailing to Byzantium
(B) Byzantium
(C) The Second Coming
(D) Leda
and the Swan
59. Who is Pip’s friend in London ?
(A)
Pumblechook
(B)
Herbert Pocket
(C)
Bentley Drummle
(D)
Jaggers
60. Who is Mr. Tench in The Power
and the Glory?
(A) A
teacher
(B) A
clerk
(C) A
thief
(D) A
dentist
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D
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2
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A
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3
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C
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D
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C
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6
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A
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7
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C
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A
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9
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B
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A
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B
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C
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A
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A
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D
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C
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A
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D
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A
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C
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A
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D
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C
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B
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B
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A
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27
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D
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28
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B
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29
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C
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30
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C
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31
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A
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32
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B
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33
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A
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34
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C
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35
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C
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36
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37
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B
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38
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B
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39
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C
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40
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A
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D
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42
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D
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43
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A
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A
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45
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D
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A
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48
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C
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B
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B
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51
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D
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B
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D
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C
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C
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56
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D
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57
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A
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58
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A
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59
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D
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60
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C
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By Parag Kumar