1. Identify the work below that
does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century:
(A) Advancement of
Learning
(B) Gulliver’s
Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Answer:
(A) Advancement
of Learning
Notes:
Advancement of
Learning (Francis Bacon – Essay 17th C.)
Gulliver’s
Travels ( Jonathan Swift – Fictional Travelogue – 1726 - 18th
C.)
The Spectator (
Journal – 1711 - 18th C. by Addison and Steele)
An Epistle to Dr.
Arbuthnot (Poem by Alexander Pope 1735 - 18th C.)
2. Which, among the following, is
a place through which John Bunyan’s Christian does NOT pass ?
(A) The Slough of
Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C) The Valley of
Humiliation
(D) Vanity Fair
Answer: (B) Mount Helicon
Notes:
The Slough
of Despond : a deep bog into which the character Christian
sinks under the weight of his sin
Mount
Helicon is a mountain in the region of Thespiai in Boeotia,
Greece celebrated in Greek mythology.
The Valley of
Humiliation :The place where Christian encountered Apollyon, just
before he came to the “Valley of the Shadow of Death.”
Vanity Fair : a
great and ancient festival in the city of Vanity where tawdry
products are traded and Beelzebub is worshipped. At Vanity Fair, the
characters Faithful and Christian are mocked, smeared with dirt, and
thrown in a cage. They are condemned to death for belittling
Vanity’s false religion. Faithful is burned at the stake and
carried off to heaven but Christian from there.
( Vanity Fair is
also the title of a novel without a hero by William Makepeace
Thackeray, first published in 1847–48)
3. The period of Queen Victoria’s
reign is
(A) 1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(C) 1830–1901
(D) 1837–1900
Answer:
(B) 1837–1901
Notes:
Queen
Victoria's nearly 64-year reign (1837-1901) was the
longest in British history.
4. Which of the following
statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true ?
(A) It carried
only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge’s The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner.
(B) It also
carried pastoral and other poems.
(C) It carried a
“Preface” which Wordsworth added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard.
Answer:
(D) It also
printed from Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
5. One of the following texts was
published earlier than 1955. Identify the text:
(A) William
Golding, The Inheritors
(B) Philip Larkin,
The Less Deceived
(C) William
Empson, Collected Poems
(D) Samuel Becket,
Waiting for Godot
Answer:
(D) Samuel
Becket, Waiting for Godot
Notes:
William
Golding, The Inheritors (1955 Golding's Second concerns
the extinction of one of the last remaining tribes of Neanderthals at
the hands of the more sophisticated (and malevolent) Homo sapiens
)
Philip
Larkin, The Less Deceived (1955 his best known poems"Church
Going," - visit of a cyclist to a church , and "Toads"
– where we see the man beaten by work )
William Empson, Collected Poems ( (1949; rev. ed. 1955)
- William Empson is best known for his Seven Types of Ambiguity
(1930; rev. ed. 1953), an influential critical works which insisted a
close examination of poetic texts. The book helped lay the foundation
for New Criticism.)
Samuel
Becket, Waiting for Godot (initial production in 1953)
6. Who among the poets in
England
during the 1930s had left–leaning
tendencies ?
(A) T. S. Eliot,
Ezra Pound,
Richard Aldington
(B) Wilfred
Owen,
Siegfried
Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
(C) W. H. Auden,
Louis MacNeice,
Cecil Day Lewis
(D) J. Fleckner,
W. H. Davies,
Edward Marsh
Answer:
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice,
Cecil Day Lewis
Notes:
T. S. Eliot
: Early modernist poet - Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock (1915) was considered a masterpiece of the Modernist
movement
Ezra Weston
Loomis Pound: an American expatriate poet and critic of the
early modernist movement. His contribution to poetry began
with his promotion of Imagism
Imagists stressed
clarity, precision and economy of language.
Richard
Aldington
( modernists and imagists, Richard Aldington best
known for his nove “Death of a Hero”)
Wilfred
Owen,
Siegfried
Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
:War poets in England
War poets
were English poets who were also soldiers, writing about
their experiences of war. The term, which is applied especially to
those in military service during World War I.
A number of them
died on the battlefield, most famously Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas,
Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, and Charles Sorley.
W. H. Auden,
Louis MacNeice,
Cecil Day Lewis
were also known as Auden
Group
W. H. Davies
and
Edward Marsh
were also known as Georgian poets – who
wrote in a series of anthology