1. Betrayal is a play by _________.

(a) O’ Henry (b) Guy de Maupassant (c) Harold Pinter (d) Bernard Shaw
Answer: (c) Harold Pinter
Explain: Pinter का famous play.

2. Shaw’s play with Don Juan legend theme?

(a) Antony and Cleopatra (b) Man and Superman (c) Candida (d) The Devil’s Disciple
Answer: (b) Man and Superman
Explain: Don Juan in “Don Juan in Hell”.

3. Amitav Ghosh novel on malaria?

(a) Shadow Lines (b) Circle of Reason (c) In an Antique Land (d) Calcutta Chromosome
Answer: (d) Calcutta Chromosome
Explain: Malaria research plot.

4. Michael Henchard sells wife for?

(a) Five pounds (b) Five guineas (c) Ten pounds (d) Ten guineas
Answer: (b) Five guineas
Explain: Mayor of Casterbridge episode.

5. “Obituary” (A.K. Ramanujan) about his _____ (ironically)

(a) father (b) mother (c) brother (d) wife
Answer: (a) father
Explain: Irony on father’s legacy.

6. “Palanquin Bearers” appears in?

(a) Golden Threshold (b) Broken Wings (c) Awake (d) Bird of Time
Answer: (a) Golden Threshold
Explain: Naidu’s early collection.

7. Frost’s first professionally published poem?

(a) Two Roads… (b) Fire and Ice (c) My Butterfly: An Elegy (d) Stopping by Woods…
Answer: (c) My Butterfly: An Elegy
Explain: Earliest published.

8. Fisherman in Old Man and the Sea?

(a) Santiano (b) Santiago (c) Saintago (d) Saintiano
Answer: (b) Santiago
Explain: Protagonist name.

9. Raja Rao novel where Ramaswamy influenced by Vedanta/Shankaracharya?

(a) Cat and Shakespeare (b) Serpent and the Rope (c) Comrade Kirillov (d) Chessmaster…
Answer: (b) The Serpent and the Rope
Explain: Vedantic quest novel.

10. Pinter Nobel Prize year?

(a) 2000 (b) 2003 (c) 2005 (d) 2007
Answer: (c) 2005
Explain: Nobel Literature 2005.

11. First Indian English playwright with Sahitya Akademi Award?

(a) Toru Dutt (b) Vijay Tendulkar (c) Mahesh Dattani (d) Girish Karnad
Answer: (d) Girish Karnad
Explain: First among major playwrights.

12. “Upstart Crow” said by?

(a) Robert Laffan (b) Annat Jolianna (c) Robert Greene (d) Lucrence
Answer: (c) Robert Greene
Explain: Pamphlet attack on Shakespeare.

13. Which is a sonnet?

(a) The World is too much with us (b) We are Seven (c) Solitary Reaper (d) A Slumber…
Answer: (a)
Explain: Wordsworth sonnet.

14. Rosie character in which Narayan novel?

(a) The Guide (b) Financial Expert (c) Swami and Friends (d) Vendor of Sweets
Answer: (a) The Guide
Explain: Rosie/Marco/Raju.

15. “Grow old along with me…” from?

(a) Lady of Shallot (b) My Last Duchess (c) Rabbi Ben Ezra (d) Ulysses
Answer: (c) Rabbi Ben Ezra
Explain: Robert Browning.

16. Scholar Gipsy is _______.

(a) Arnold himself (b) native gipsy (c) former Oxford student (d) Arnold’s friend
Answer: (c) A former Oxford student
Explain: Story of Oxford scholar.

17. Not in Hamlet?

(a) Horatio (b) Gertrude (c) Olivia (d) Ophelia
Answer: (c) Olivia
Explain: Olivia is in Twelfth Night.

18. “Nightingale of India” called by?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Tagore (c) A.O. Hume (d) Annie Besant
Answer: (a) Mahatma Gandhi
Explain: Famous epithet.

19. “Hope is a good breakfast…” by?

(a) Hazlitt (b) A.G. Gardiner (c) Lamb (d) Bacon
Answer: (a) William Hazlitt
Explain: Hazlitt aphorism.

20. Not a work of Bertrand Russell?

(a) History of Western Philosophy (b) Problem of Philosophy (c) Table Talk (d) Conquest of Happiness
Answer: (c) Table Talk
Explain: Hazlitt’s title.

21. “liberties… must be curtailed” occurs in Gardiner essay?

(a) On Superstitions (b) On the Rule of the Road (c) A Fellow Traveller (d) In Defence of Ignorance
Answer: (b) On the Rule of the Road
Explain: Famous quote.

22. Who called novel “comic epic in prose”?

(a) Fielding (b) Richardson (c) Dickens (d) Smollett
Answer: (a) Henry Fielding
Explain: Tom Jones preface.

23. Title “Far from the Madding Crowd” from poem?

(a) Solitary Reaper (b) Deserted Village (c) Lycidas (d) Elegy…
Answer: (d) Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
Explain: Gray’s line.

24. Mrs. Dalloway published in?

(a) 1925 (b) 1923 (c) 1921 (d) 1927
Answer: (a) 1925
Explain: Woolf novel.

25. Central character in Tagore’s The Post Office?

(a) Madhav (b) Amal (c) Sudha (d) The Doctor
Answer: (b) Amal
Explain: Sick boy awaiting letter.

26. Silence! The Court is in Session published?

(a) 1967 (b) 1962 (c) 1972 (d) 1976
Answer: (a) 1967
Explain: Marathi play publication year.

27. “The Necklace” written by?

(a) O’ Henry (b) Guy de Maupassant (c) Hemingway (d) Ruskin Bond
Answer: (b) Guy de Maupassant
Explain: Classic French short story.

28. “Delhi is not far” written by?

(a) Nehru (b) Khushwant Singh (c) Ruskin Bond (d) Shashi Deshpande
Answer: (b) Khushwant Singh
Explain: Essay/story title.

29. “The Pylon” gave nickname “Pylon Poets” to?

(a) Auden (b) MacNiece (c) Isherwood (d) Spender
Answer: (d) Stephen Spender
Explain: Left-wing poets tag.

30. First volume of poems by Kamala Das?

(a) Summer in Calcutta (b) The Descendents (c) Annamalai Poems (d) Old Playhouse…
Answer: (a) Summer in Calcutta
Explain: Debut collection.

31. Co-author with Charles Lamb of Tales from Shakespeare?

(a) Hazlitt (b) Mary Lamb (c) De Quincey (d) None
Answer: (b) Mary Lamb
Explain: Sister co-writer.

32. POS of ‘table’ in “Let us table the bill”?

(a) Noun (b) Verb (c) Adjective (d) Adverb
Answer: (b) Verb
Explain: to postpone/present (context).

33. Correct sentence:

(a) fastly… (b) fastly… (c) fast…slowly (d) rans…
Answer: (c)
Explain: “fast” adverb OK; “slowly” correct.

34. “The Lady of Shalott” by?

(a) Keats (b) Tennyson (c) Spender (d) Ramanujan
Answer: (b) Lord Tennyson
Explain: Victorian poem.

35. “Comedy of Menace” associated with?

(a) Shakespeare (b) Shaw (c) Pinter (d) Dattani
Answer: (c) Harold Pinter
Explain: Pinter’s dramatic style term.

36. Girish Karnad primarily wrote in?

(a) English (b) Marathi (c) Kannada (d) Malayalam
Answer: (c) Kannada
Explain: Original language.

37. One word: “description of how to make/build/achieve”

(a) Ideal (b) Utopia (c) Conflating (d) Blueprint
Answer: (d) Blueprint
Explain: plan/outline.

38. Literal meaning of “Hamartia/Lamartia” is

(a) tragic flaw (b) tragic error (c) catharsis (d) to miss the mark
Answer: (d) to miss the mark
Explain: Greek root meaning.

39. Antonym of Transparent

(a) Crystalline (b) Pellucid (c) Translucent (d) Opaque
Answer: (d) Opaque
Explain: not see-through.

40. Phrasal verb for losing consciousness

(a) pass away (b) pass out (c) pass up (d) pass through
Answer: (b) pass out
Explain: faint.

41. Correct spelling for checking dates/days

(a) Calander (b) Calandar (c) Calendar (d) Calender
Answer: (c) Calendar

42. Correct spelling:

(a) acommodation (b) accomodation (c) accommodation (d) accoomodation
Answer: (c) accommodation

43. Tense in passive: “Will the letter have been received by him?”

(a) Simple future (b) Future continuous (c) Future perfect (d) Future perfect continuous
Answer: (c) Future perfect
Explain: “will have been + V3”.

44. Yeats poem ending “How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

(a) Byzantium (b) The Tower (c) Innisfree (d) Among School Children
Answer: (d) Among School Children
Explain: closing line.

45. The Last Essays of Elia published?

(a) 1833 (b) 1820 (c) 1823 (d) 1830
Answer: (a) 1833
Explain: Posthumous Elia essays.

46–100 (I’m continuing same format but super-short)

46. Munoo (14-year boy) created by

(a) Narayan (b) Raja Rao (c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) Adiga
Answer: (c) – Coolie hero.

47. Not part of Ibis Trilogy

(a) Sea of Poppies (b) River of Smoke (c) Flood of Fire (d) Hungry Tide
Answer: (d) – separate novel.

48. Eliza Doolittle appears in Shaw’s

(a) Pygmalion (b) Mrs Warren’s… (c) Man and Superman (d) Back to Methuselah
Answer: (a) – classic.

49. Elizabethan chronicle plays called

(a) Comedy of Humours (b) History Plays (c) Problem Plays (d) Interludes
Answer: (b) – “history plays”.

50. Incorrect part: “If you will eat…”

(a) If you will eat (b) your food (c) you will be allowed (d) to play cricket
Answer: (a) – condition clause में “will” नहीं।

51. “Teacher as well as students ___ gone”

(a) will (b) may (c) has (d) have
Answer: (c) has – subject “teacher”.

52. Correct:

(a) said will go (b) said would go (c) told that will (d) tell us would
Answer: (b) – reported speech.

53. Sign off:

(a) Your sincerely (b) Yours sincerely (c) Your’s sincerely (d) Yours sincerly
Answer: (b) – correct.

54. White Tiger Booker year

(a) 2007 (b) 2008 (c) 2009 (d) 2010
Answer: (b) – 2008.

55. A Room with a View by

(a) Woolf (b) E.M. Forster (c) Anand (d) Ghosh
Answer: (b) – Forster.

56. “Yes… the novel tells a story” said by

(a) Hardy (b) Woolf (c) Forster (d) Raja Rao
Answer: (c) – Aspects of the Novel.

57. Shaw’s first play

(a) Arms and Man (b) Devil’s Disciple (c) You Never Can Tell (d) Widowers’ Houses
Answer: (d) – first staged.

58. Ruskin Bond Sahitya Akademi year

(a) 1989 (b) 1990 (c) 1992 (d) 1994
Answer: (b) 1990 – award year.

59. Ballad stanza usually

(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 8
Answer: (b) – quatrain.

60. Donne “affects metaphysics” said by

(a) Dr Johnson (b) Dryden (c) Cowley (d) Cleveland
Answer: (a) Dr. Johnson – famous remark.

61. Catharsis means

(a) Purgation (b) Error (c) Discovery (d) Imitation
Answer: (a) – emotional cleansing.

62. Omniscient is one who

(a) present everywhere (b) infinite powers (c) knows everything (d) eats all food
Answer: (c) – all-knowing.

63. “hard and fast” means

(a) difficult problem (b) cannot be altered (c) speedy solution (d) difficult understand
Answer: (b) – fixed/rigid.

64. Remove “too”: The news is too good to be true.

(a) very good and true (b) so good that it cannot be true (c) good but not true (d) good and true
Answer: (b) – correct transformation.

65. Indirect: He said to me, “I don’t believe you”.

(a) told does not (b) said will not (c) told didn’t (d) told would not
Answer: (c) – backshifted “don’t”→“didn’t”.

66. “When I reach home, my children will be playing.”

(a) simple future (b) future continuous (c) future perfect (d) future perfect cont
Answer: (b) – will be + ing.

67. Wordsworth addresses sister in “Tintern Abbey” – name

(a) Susan (b) Maria (c) Dorothy (d) Lucy
Answer: (c) – Dorothy Wordsworth.

68. Not in Narayan’s The Guide

(a) Raju (b) Marco (c) Velan (d) Vasu
Answer: (d) – Vasu is in The Man-Eater of Malgudi.

69. Not a Deshpande short story

(a) First Lady (b) Miracle (c) Intrusion (d) Castaway
Answer: (d) The Castaway – not hers (as per common lists).

70. Not a pastoral elegy

(a) Adonais (b) Thyrsis (c) Lycidas (d) In Memoriam
Answer: (d) – Tennyson elegy, not pastoral.

71. Not generally associated with Ode

(a) addressed to someone (b) lyrical (c) laments death (d) serious/elevated
Answer: (c) – lamenting death is elegy trait.

72. Nearest meaning to “quote”

(a) Site (b) Cite (c) Sight (d) Chit
Answer: (b) Cite – quote/reference.

73. Not a synonym of accuse

(a) Allege (b) Charge (c) Defend (d) Indict
Answer: (c) Defend – opposite sense.

74. “To foot the bill” means

(a) reject (b) return (c) pay (d) accept
Answer: (c) – pay.

75. Incorrect sentence

(a) climate of Shimla is better than Kanpur (b) preferable to (c) You, he and I… (d) It is Sita who…
Answer: (a) – should compare “climate… than that of Kanpur”.

76. ‘water’ as adjective

(a) Water the plant (b) Bring some water (c) water animal (d) drink safe water
Answer: (c) – “water” modifies animal.

77. Reflexive pronoun

(a) mine (b) lame excuses (c) herself (d) he who…
Answer: (c) – herself.

78. Transitive verb sentence

(a) went mad (b) animals die (c) killed a snake (d) fallen asleep
Answer: (c) – takes object.

79. Not by Harold Pinter

(a) Birthday Party (b) Cocktail Party (c) Caretaker (d) Home Coming
Answer: (b) – Eliot’s play.

80. Where There’s a Will written by

(a) Karnad (b) Tendulkar (c) Dattani (d) Tagore
Answer: (c) Mahesh Dattani – popular comedy.

81. Eliot poem based on Fisher King legend

(a) Ash Wednesday (b) Hollow Men (c) Four Quartets (d) Waste Land
Answer: (d) – Fisher King motif.

82. Keats line “beaded bubbles winking…” figure

(a) Metaphor (b) Hyperbole (c) Simile (d) Alliteration
Answer: (d) Alliteration – “b” sound.

83. Hazlitt contributed to

(a) Edinburgh Review (b) Examiner (c) London Magazine (d) All
Answer: (d) – multiple journals.

84. “Some books are to be tasted…” by

(a) Bacon (b) Lamb (c) Russell (d) Kalam
Answer: (a) – Bacon, “Of Studies”.

85. Poetical form from folk literature

(a) Epic (b) Sonnet (c) Ballad (d) Ode
Answer: (c) – folk ballads.

86. Arms and the Man is

(a) Comedy (b) Tragedy (c) Anti-romantic comedy (d) Romantic comedy
Answer: (c) – anti-romantic.

87. Each of the following questions ___ further divided…

(a) has been (b) have been (c) have (d) has
Answer: (a) has been – “each” singular.

88. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood formed

(a) 1884 (b) 1784 (c) 1848 (d) 1856
Answer: (c) 1848

89. “vanished hand/voice still” refers to

(a) Arthur Henry Hallam (b) George King (c) villagers (d) Keats
Answer: (a) – Tennyson’s In Memoriam.

90. Third section of Waste Land

(a) Burial of Dead (b) Fire Sermon (c) Game of Chess (d) What Thunder Said
Answer: (b) The Fire Sermon

91. “Indian Weavers” represents ___ stages

(a) one (b) two (c) three (d) four
Answer: (c) three – birth/marriage/death.

92. Kamala Das also leading ___ writer

(a) Hindi (b) Malayalam (c) Tamil (d) Kannada
Answer: (b) Malayalam

93. Not a work by Bacon

(a) Hydriotaphia (b) Novum Organum (c) Instauratio (d) New Atlantis
Answer: (a) Hydriotaphia – Sir Thomas Browne.

94. Not a book by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

(a) Transcendence… (b) Ignited Minds (c) India 2020 (d) Indian Cultural Heritage
Answer: (d) – not his.

95. Woolf book on women writers’ space/finance

(a) Mrs Dalloway (b) Jacob’s Room (c) The Years (d) A Room of One’s Own
Answer: (d)

96. Twelfth Night subtitle

(a) As You Will (b) What You Will (c) As You Wish (d) What You Wish
Answer: (b) What You Will

97. Candida subtitle

(a) Mystery… (b) Drama… (c) Romance… (d) Melodrama…
Answer: (c) Romance in Three Acts

98. Tagore play protesting machinery on civilization

(a) Ascetic (b) Sacrifice (c) Chitra (d) Mukt-Dhara
Answer: (d) Mukt-Dhara

99. O’Henry real name

(a) Wilson Sidney Parker (b) Arthur Sidney Pinto (c) William Sidney Porter (d) Oliver Henry
Answer: (c)

100. Hemingway awarded ____ in 1954

(a) Pulitzer (b) Magsaysay (c) Nobel (d) Booker
Answer: (c) Nobel Prize

101–105 (Poem: “Death be not proud”)

101. ‘poor death’ figure
(a) Metonymy (b) Synecdoche (c) Metaphor (d) Personification
Answer: (d) Personification
Explain: Death treated like person.

102. thee/me/be/so/flow/go are
(a) Inversion (b) Rhyming words (c) Collocation (d) Repetition
Answer: (b) Rhyming words
Explain: end-rhyme pattern.

103. Style of poem
(a) Argumentative (b) Aphoristic (c) Lyrical (d) Dramatic
Answer: (a) Argumentative
Explain: speaker argues with Death.

104. repetition of ‘th’ =
(a) Assonance (b) Alliteration (c) Repetition (d) Synecdoche
Answer: (b) Alliteration

105. Language is example of ____ English
(a) Old (b) Middle (c) Early Modern (d) Modern
Answer: (c) Early Modern

106. Renaissance starting place customarily

(a) Italy (b) Germany (c) Russia (d) America
Answer: (a) Italy

107. “heterogeneous ideas yoked by violence together” said by

(a) Keats (b) Dryden (c) T.S. Eliot (d) Dr Johnson
Answer: (d) Dr. Johnson

108. Deconstruction developed by

(a) Heidegger (b) Kafka (c) Derrida (d) Levi-Strauss
Answer: (c) Jacques Derrida

109. 3 quatrains + couplet sonnet popularized by

(a) Spenser (b) Shakespeare (c) Petrarch (d) Keats
Answer: (b) Shakespeare

110. One-word: absent without permission

(a) Negligent (b) Careless (c) Casual (d) Truant
Answer: (d) Truant

111. Synonym of grovel

(a) Rampant (b) Cower (c) Source (d) Glow
Answer: (b) Cower

112. Not an antonym of toxic

(a) Safe (b) Salubrious (c) Invigorating (d) Munificent
Answer: (d) Munificent
Explain: generous, not “non-toxic”.

113. back to square ___

(a) one (b) two (c) three (d) ten
Answer: (a) one

114. pull ___ (recover)

(a) up (b) through (c) by (d) at
Answer: (b) through

115. Passive: You can play with these cubs quite safely.

(a) …played with you… (b) …are played… (c) …can be played with quite safely (d) …safe for your playing…
Answer: (c)

116. Narration: “Will you like to have lunch…”, he said to me.

(a) invites me… (b) asked if I would like… (c) wants to know… (d) said would I like…
Answer: (b)

Passage (117–120)

117. “blind reverence” suggests

(a) superstition (b) uncritical regard (c) criticism (d) scepticism
Answer: (b)

118. What cuts off roots of national growth?

(a) thinking present (b) thinking future (c) reimagining past (d) dissociating past from present/future
Answer: (d)

119. “Nationalism had had its day” means

(a) always existed (b) days are over (c) never existed (d) leads to internationalism
Answer: (b)

120. “inevitably” means

(a) urgently (b) swiftly (c) unavoidably (d) wrongly
Answer: (c)

121. “Existence precedes essence” associated with

(a) Plato (b) Russell (c) Jean-Paul Sartre (d) Kant
Answer: (c)

122. “an axe to grind” means

(a) selfish interest (b) journey prep (c) destroy (d) borrow
Answer: (a)

123. Antonym of conceal

(a) revive (b) retreat (c) reveal (d) hide
Answer: (c)

124. Passive: “Do you understand what I mean?”

(a) What me mean… (b) Was… (c) What I meant… (d) What is meant by me is understood by you
Answer: (d)

125. Apostate is person who

(a) austere life (b) changed faith (c) hates mankind (d) doesn’t believe God
Answer: (b)

126. “dreaming dreams…” figure

(a) Simile (b) Metaphor (c) Alliteration (d) Pun
Answer: (c) Alliteration
Explain: “dreaming dreams” sound repetition.

127. Not a structure of a letter

(a) Date (b) Salutation (c) Signature (d) Paraphrase
Answer: (d)

128. “The Striders” poem by

(a) A.K. Ramanujan (b) Kamala Das (c) Spender (d) Arnold
Answer: (a)

129. Matthew Arnold known as

(a) poet/dramatist (b) poet/critic (c) poet/novelist (d) poet/painter
Answer: (b)

130. Tennyson belongs to

(a) Victorian (b) Romantic (c) Classical (d) Modern
Answer: (a)

131. Lucy poems written by

(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Wordsworth (d) Arnold
Answer: (c)

132. Lyrical Ballads published

(a) 1750 (b) 1795 (c) 1798 (d) 1850
Answer: (c) 1798

133. “Crafty men condemn studies…” essay author

(a) Gandhi (b) Bacon (c) Khushwant (d) Lamb
Answer: (b) Francis Bacon

134. Stream of consciousness technique

(a) Great Expectations (b) Mrs Dalloway (c) Howards End (d) Return of Native
Answer: (b)

135. Arundhati Roy second novel title

(a) God of Small Things (b) White Tiger (c) Glass Palace (d) Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Answer: (d)

136. Tom Jones is a

(a) Historical (b) Gothic (c) Picaresque (d) Detective
Answer: (c)

137. Marabar Caves mentioned in

(a) Swami and Friends (b) A Passage to India (c) Chessmaster… (d) Binding Vine
Answer: (b)

138. Ruskin Bond first novel

(a) Strangers in the Night (b) Room on the Roof (c) Maharani (d) Vagrants…
Answer: (b)

139. Partition novel?

(a) Guide (b) Shadow Lines (c) Calcutta Chromosome (d) God of Small Things
Answer: (b)
Explain: Partition/communal memory theme.

140. First Folio printed in

(a) 1616 (b) 1623 (c) 1660 (d) 1715
Answer: (b)

141. “green-eyed monster” in which play?

(a) Lear (b) Hamlet (c) Othello (d) Macbeth
Answer: (c)

142. Tagore’s Chitra has how many Acts?

(a) Two (b) Five (c) One (d) Three
Answer: (c) One

143. Award Ruskin Bond did not receive

(a) Padma Shri (b) Booker Prize (c) Padma Bhushan (d) Sahitya Akademi
Answer: (b)

144. Shashi Deshpande writes in

(a) Hindi (b) Kannada (c) Marathi (d) English
Answer: (d)

145. “Snows of Kilimanjaro” by

(a) O’Henry (b) Wilde (c) Hemingway (d) Twain
Answer: (c)

146. “Keats was a Greek” comment by

(a) Byron (b) Coleridge (c) Shelley (d) Arnold
Answer: (a) Byron

147. Gyanpeeth Award 2019

(a) Kiran Desai (b) Arundhati Roy (c) Amitav Ghosh (d) Shashi Deshpande
Answer: (d) Shashi Deshpande

148. “Life is a farce” in Arms and the Man said by

(a) Raina (b) Bluntschli (c) Louka (d) Sergius
Answer: (b) Bluntschli

149. “mixture of opposites” in Tughlaq

(a) Aziz (b) Barani (c) Tughlaq (d) Kazi
Answer: (c) Tughlaq

150. Play Tara writer

(a) Tendulkar (b) Karnad (c) Tagore (d) Mahesh Dattani
Answer: (d)

151. Essayist who wrote in English and Latin

(a) Bacon (b) Lamb (c) Russell (d) Gardiner
Answer: (a) Francis Bacon

152. Short story by Shashi Deshpande

(a) A Liberated Woman (b) Writing from the Margin (c) Binding Vine (d) Small Remedies
Answer: (a)
Explain: short story title.

153. Genre associated with Horace Walpole

(a) Dystopian (b) Thriller (c) Memoir (d) Gothic novel
Answer: (d)

154. “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting” in

(a) Tintern Abbey (b) Ode on Intimations… (c) World too much… (d) We are Seven
Answer: (b)

155. Emilia in Othello is

(a) wife of Roderigo (b) Cassio (c) Iago (d) Othello
Answer: (c)

156. “I came, I saw, I conquered” example of

(a) Zeugma (b) Chiasmus (c) Syllepsis (d) Anaphora
Answer: (d) Anaphora
Explain: repeated “I” at start.

157. “The Last Leaf” by

(a) O’ Henry (b) Maupassant (c) Ruskin Bond (d) Roy
Answer: (a)

158. Karnad play on body vs mind supremacy

(a) Fire and Rain (b) Nagamandala (c) Hayavadana (d) Tughlaq
Answer: (c)

159. “I describe not men but manners…” said by

(a) Hardy (b) Raja Rao (c) Fielding (d) Forster
Answer: (c) Henry Fielding

160. Forster’s book documenting Indian experiences

(a) Two Cheers… (b) Hill of Devi (c) Marianne Thornton (d) Abinger Harvest
Answer: (b) The Hill of Devi

161. A Passage to India published

Stanza (162–165) “A Bird came down the walk” (Emily Dickinson)

162. Poem about

(a) fight poet vs bird (b) natural actions + reactions (c) bird eating beetle (d) bird teaching
Answer: (b)

163. Antonym of cautious

(a) attentive (b) careful (c) careless (d) intelligent
Answer: (c) careless

164. Bird did with feathers

(a) cleaned (b) spread and flew/rowed home (c) protect (d) push beetle
Answer: (b)

165. Bird did with crumb

(a) ate (b) bit halves (c) did not take (d) gave to worm
Answer: (c)
Explain: flies away cautious.

166. Transitive verb sentence

(a) dog went mad (b) animals die (c) man killed snake (d) fallen asleep
Answer: (c)

167. “To be or not to be…” spoken by

(a) Lear (b) Othello (c) Prospero (d) Hamlet
Answer: (d)

168. “Two roads diverged…” by

(a) Eliot (b) Spender (c) Frost (d) Wordsworth
Answer: (c) Robert Frost

169. Me, The Jokerman essays by

(a) Gardiner (b) Khushwant Singh (c) Hazlitt (d) Lamb
Answer: (b) Khushwant Singh

170. Autobiographical novel by Mulk Raj Anand

(a) Seven Summers (b) Two Leaves… (c) The Village (d) Coolie
Answer: (a) Seven Summers

Passage (171–174)

Direction : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions (Q. No. 171 to 174)

that follow :

In the wealthier nations, newspapers were produced in such large numbers as to bring about the

emergence of what is called the mass circulation press. Advances in education had made literacy

progress and more people were able to buy newspapers, both because wages had risen and

because the newspapers were cheaper. Other factors favouring the mass press include the

adoption of new printing techniques which introduced long runs, circulation by railways and

other fast means of transport, the financial support provided by advertising, and, not least, the

increased flow of up-to-date news transmitted by telegraph, telephone, fax and e-mail services.

171. “mass circulation press” means

(a) owned by many (b) responds opinions (c) large circulation (d) popular
Answer: (c)

172. NOT a reason for emergence

(a) growth education (b) better economic (c) newspapers more interesting (d) cheaper
Answer: (c)
Explain: passage में नहीं।

173. Did NOT help increased flow of news

(a) telegraph/telephone (b) fax (c) email (d) television
Answer: (d)

174. Antonym of up-to-date

(a) latest (b) outdated (c) old fashioned (d) slow
Answer: (b) outdated

175. Heroic couplet dominant metre in

(a) 16th (b) 17th (c) 18th (d) 19th
Answer: (c) 18th century

176. Incorrect sentence

(a) It is I… (b) You and Ram… (c) most extreme poverty (d) sold furniture
Answer: (c)
Explain: “a case of extreme poverty” / “the most”.

177. Correct sentence

(a) enjoyed the theatre (b) freeship for merit (c) Why did you kill him? (d) careful of his money
Answer: (c)
Explain: (d) should be “careful of one’s money”.

178. Correct sentence

(a) two breads (b) Law and order are maintained (c) said he is reading (d) wrote with fountain pen
Answer: (d)
Explain: others have usage issues.

179. Novel based on Fielding’s first wife Charlotte Cradock

(a) Jonathan Wild (b) Amelia (c) Shamela (d) Joseph Andrews
Answer: (b) Amelia

180. Subtitle of Gitanjali

(a) Song Offerings (b) Offerings to the Divine (c) Man and God (d) Divine Poems
Answer: (a) Song Offerings

181. Karnad play on casteism stigma

(a) Hayavadana (b) Tale-Danda (c) Yayati (d) Naga-Mandala
Answer: (b) Tale-Danda

182. Quote refers to which character (Anand)?

(a) Munoo (b) Lalu (c) Bakha (d) Gangu
Answer: (c) Bakha
Explain: Untouchable.

183. Keats lines “Away! Away! … viewless wings of poesy” addresses

(a) Fanny (b) Leigh Hunt (c) Nightingale (d) Brown
Answer: (c) Nightingale
Explain: Ode to a Nightingale.

184. ‘Bridget’ imaginary name for sister in essays by

(a) Gardiner (b) Russell (c) Bacon (d) Charles Lamb
Answer: (d) Charles Lamb

185. Negative capability associated with

(a) Eliot (b) Coleridge (c) Arnold (d) Keats
Answer: (d) John Keats

186. “April is the cruelest month” written by

(a) Yeats (b) T.S. Eliot (c) Keats (d) Arnold
Answer: (b) T.S. Eliot
Explain: The Waste Land.

187. “Speech is silver but silence is golden” figure

(a) Epigram (b) Oxymoron (c) Hyperbole (d) Antithesis
Answer: (d) Antithesis
Explain: contrast speech vs silence.

188. Strophe–antistrophe–epode form is

(a) Ode (b) Ballad (c) Epic (d) Lyric
Answer: (a) Ode
Explain: Pindaric ode structure.

189. Balram Halwai character in

(a) Last Man in Tower (b) Inheritance of Loss (c) Interpreter of Maladies (d) White Tiger
Answer: (d) The White Tiger

190. Complete title “India 2020…”

(a) A Vision for the New Millennium (b) Futuristic Vision (c) New Approach (d) Ignited Minds
Answer: (a)

191. ‘Alpha of the Plough’ pseudonym is

(a) Hazlitt (b) A.G. Gardiner (c) Forster (d) Lamb
Answer: (b)

192. Autobiography of R.K. Narayan

(a) My Life (b) Revenue Stamp (c) My Days (d) Heat and Dust
Answer: (b) My Days ✅
Explain: Narayan’s memoir = My Days.
(Option list में “My Days” है, तो सही वही होगा.)

193. Meaning of “Carry out”

(a) execute (b) manage (c) carry away (d) happen
Answer: (a) to execute

194. One-word: indirect/evasive expression

(a) Circumlocution (b) Circumscribe (c) Circumvent (d) Circumspect
Answer: (a) Circumlocution

195. Idiom “Over head and ears”

(a) Confused (b) Worried (c) very high (d) deeply
Answer: (d) Deeply
Explain: usually “deeply in (love/debt)”.

196. “Resolution and Independence” by

(a) Shelley (b) Coleridge (c) Blake (d) Wordsworth
Answer: (d)

197. Antonym of Profane

(a) Profess (b) Sacred (c) Detain (d) Profound
Answer: (b) Sacred

198. “French Chekhov” short story writer

(a) O’ Henry (b) Maupassant (c) Bond (d) Hemingway
Answer: (b) Guy de Maupassant

199. ‘Dissociation of Sensibility’ coined by

(a) Keats (b) Arnold (c) Eliot (d) Yeats
Answer: (c) T.S. Eliot

200. Bacon: “if a man’s wit be wandering let him study ____”

(a) Mathematics (b) History (c) Philosophy (d) Logic
Answer: (a) Mathematics
Explain: Bacon, Of Studies.

Important Writers (इस पेपर के हिसाब से सबसे इंपॉर्टेंट)

Drama/Play: Harold Pinter, Bernard Shaw, Girish Karnad, Mahesh Dattani, Vijay Tendulkar, Tagore, Shakespeare
Poetry/Criticism: John Keats, T.S. Eliot, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Yeats, Matthew Arnold, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, A.K. Ramanujan, Robert Frost, John Donne (via Johnson comment)
Novel/Prose: Amitav Ghosh, Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Arvind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, Ruskin Bond
Essay/Philosophy: Francis Bacon, William Hazlitt, A.G. Gardiner, Bertrand Russell, Sartre