Q1. Which of the following is not written by John Keats ?
(a) Ode to Autumn
(b) The Eve of St. Agnes
(c) The Fall of Hyperion, A Dream
(d) Adonais
Answer: (d) Adonais
Explain: Adonais Shelley ने लिखी थी (Keats पर elegy).
Q2. Who succeeded Wordsworth as the Poet Laureate in 1850 ?
(a) Matthew Arnold
(b) Lord Tennyson
(c) Cardinal Newman
(d) Robert Browning
Answer: (b) Lord Tennyson
Explain: Wordsworth के बाद 1850 में Tennyson Poet Laureate बने।
Q3. The term ‘Negative Capability’ is associated with
(a) Wordsworth
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) John Keats
(d) Shelley
Answer: (c) John Keats
Explain: Keats ने imagination और uncertainty tolerate करने की क्षमता को “Negative Capability” कहा।
Q4. “Let us go then, you and I… Like a patient etherized upon a table.” Who wrote these lines?
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) John Keats
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Tennyson
Answer: (a) T.S. Eliot
Explain: ये The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock से है।
Q5. Who is the author of the poem ‘Sohrab and Rustam’ ?
(a) R.N. Tagore
(b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Raja Rao
(d) Arvind Adiga
Answer: (b) Matthew Arnold
Explain: Arnold की famous narrative poem है।
Q6. Which of the following is not a poem by Kamala Das ?
(a) The Freaks
(b) My Grandmother’s House
(c) Tejuri (Jejuri)
(d) A Hot Noon in Malabar
Answer: (c) Tejuri/Jejuri
Explain: Jejuri Arun Kolatkar का work है, Kamala Das का नहीं।
Q7. Which poem of Wordsworth has the subtitle “Growth of Poet’s Mind” ?
(a) Tintern Abbey
(b) The Prelude
(c) Ode on Intimation of Immortality
(d) Laodamia
Answer: (b) The Prelude
Explain: The Prelude का subtitle “Growth of a Poet’s Mind” है।
Q8. In which collection of Robert Frost “Birches” was published ?
(a) A Boy’s Will
(b) North of Boston
(c) Mountain Interval
(d) A Farther Range
Answer: (c) Mountain Interval
Explain: “Birches” इसी collection में है।
Q9. Which of the following works does not belong to Sarojini Naidu ?
(a) The Temple
(b) The Golden Threshold
(c) The Broken Wing
(d) The Bird of Time
Answer: (a) The Temple
Explain: बाकी तीन Sarojini Naidu की famous poetry collections हैं।
Q10. Which of the following poem has been written by Stephen Spender ?
(a) A Spring Wind
(b) Prayer Before Birth
(c) To My Daughter
(d) Ego
Answer: (c) To My Daughter
Explain: Spender का poem है; “Prayer Before Birth” Louis MacNeice का है।
Q11. To which century did Charles Lamb belong ?
(a) 16th Century
(b) 18th Century
(c) 19th Century
(d) 20th Century
Answer: (c) 19th Century
Explain: Lamb Romantic era/19th century essayist हैं।
Q12. What was the pen name of A.G. Gardiner ?
(a) H.H.
(b) O’Henry
(c) Elia
(d) Alpha of the Plough
Answer: (d) Alpha of the Plough
Explain: Gardiner का pseudonym यही था।
Q13. From whom did Francis Bacon derive his concept of essay ?
(a) Thomas Nashe
(b) Montaigne
(c) Sidney
(d) John Lyly
Answer: (b) Montaigne
Explain: Montaigne को modern essay का pioneer माना जाता है।
Q14. Which of the following is not a work of William Hazlitt ?
(a) The Plain Speaker
(b) Tales from Shakespeare
(c) Table Talk
(d) The Round Table
Answer: (b) Tales from Shakespeare
Explain: ये Charles & Mary Lamb का work है।
Q15. Which of the following belongs to A.G. Gardiner ?
(a) The Essays of Elia
(b) Sketches and Essays
(c) Pillars of Society
(d) Wit and Humour
Answer: (c) Pillars of Society
Explain: “Essays of Elia” Charles Lamb की है।
Q16. Train to Pakistan is written by
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) M.K. Gandhi
(c) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(d) None of these
Answer: (a) Khushwant Singh
Explain: Partition novel.
Q17. That Long Silence is a work by
(a) Khushwant Singh
(b) Shashi Deshpande
(c) Mulk Raj Anand
(d) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Answer: (b) Shashi Deshpande
Explain: feminist domestic realism का landmark novel.
Q18. Bertrand Russell was born in the year
(a) 1885
(b) 1890
(c) 1857
(d) 1872
Answer: (d) 1872
Explain: Russell 1872–1970.
Q19. A History of Western Philosophy was written by
(a) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(b) M.K. Gandhi
(c) Bertrand Russell
(d) T.S. Eliot
Answer: (c) Bertrand Russell
Explain: Russell का famous philosophy book.
Q20. Wings of Fire is an
(a) Autobiography
(b) Analytical poem
(c) Anthology of poems
(d) None of these
Answer: (a) Autobiography
Explain: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam की life story.
Q21. A Room of One’s Own was written by
(a) Ruskin Bond
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) William Hazlitt
(d) Arundhati Roy
Answer: (b) Virginia Woolf
Explain: women and writing पर classic essay.
Q22. Who has created the famous character ‘Rosie’ in his novel ?
(a) Raja Rao
(b) R.K. Narayan
(c) Mulk Raj Anand
(d) Amitav Ghosh
Answer: (b) R.K. Narayan
Explain: The Guide की Rosie.
Q23. In which year was Arvind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger awarded the Man Booker Prize ?
(a) 2007
(b) 2008
(c) 2009
(d) 2010
Answer: (b) 2008
Explain: Booker 2008 winner.
Q24. Who among the following novelists has written about the opium war ?
(a) Arvind Adiga
(b) Raja Rao
(c) Shashi Tharoor
(d) Amitav Ghosh
Answer: (d) Amitav Ghosh
Explain: Ibis Trilogy (opium trade/war backdrop).
Q25. Which among the following was a novel written by Henry Fielding ?
(a) Tom Jones
(b) Evelina
(c) Camilla
(d) The Wanderer
Answer: (a) Tom Jones
Explain: Fielding’s major novel.
Q26. Which was the first published novel of Thomas Hardy ?
(a) Under the Greenwood Tree
(b) Desperate Remedies
(c) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(d) Far From the Madding Crowd
Answer: (b) Desperate Remedies
Explain: Hardy का debut novel.
Q27. Who among the following novelists began his literary career as a dramatist ?
(a) Henry Fielding
(b) Samuel Richardson
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Lawrence Sterne
Answer: (a) Henry Fielding
Explain: Fielding पहले playwright थे, फिर novelist बने।
Q28. When was E.M. Forster’s novel, A Passage to India first published ?
(a) 1910
(b) 1905
(c) 1915
(d) 1924
Answer: (d) 1924
Explain: Forster का most famous novel.
Q29. Which of the following is not a work of Amitav Ghosh ?
(a) The Hungry Tide
(b) The Circle of Reason
(c) Last Man in Tower
(d) The Shadow Lines
Answer: (c) Last Man in Tower
Explain: ये Aravind Adiga का novel है।
Q30. In which of the following plays of Bernard Shaw, Marchbanks appears as a character ?
(a) Man and Superman
(b) Candida
(c) Getting Married
(d) The Doctor’s Dilemma
Answer: (b) Candida
Explain: Marchbanks “poet” character है।
Q31. “There is a soul of goodness in things evil…” Who has written it ?
(a) Ben Jonson
(b) Christopher Marlowe
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) G.B. Shaw
Answer: (c) William Shakespeare
Explain: Shakespeare के play Henry V में आता है।
Q32. “It is a tale told by an idiot…” Which play?
(a) Hamlet
(b) King Lear
(c) Othello
(d) Macbeth
Answer: (d) Macbeth
Explain: Macbeth का famous nihilistic speech.
Q33. Who translated Vijay Tendulkar’s Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe as Silence! The Court is in Session ?
(a) Priya Adarkar
(b) Badal Sircar
(c) Mohan Rakesh
(d) Vijay Tendulkar
Answer: (a) Priya Adarkar
Explain: English translation credit.
Q34. Which of the following was the first play by Harold Pinter ?
(a) The Room
(b) The Birthday Party
(c) The Caretaker
(d) Lover
Answer: (a) The Room
Explain: Pinter का earliest play.
Q35. In which year was Chitra, the famous play by R.N. Tagore, first published ?
(a) 1911
(b) 1912
(c) 1913
(d) 1915
Answer: (c) 1913
Explain: English Chitra around 1913 publication.
Q36. When was Mahesh Dattani’s play Dance Like a Man first performed ?
(a) 1985
(b) 1988
(c) 1989
(d) 1991
Answer: (c) 1989
Explain: Late 80s staging, widely cited as 1989.
Q37. In which year did the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays appear ?
(a) 1620
(b) 1622
(c) 1623
(d) 1632
Answer: (c) 1623
Explain: First Folio = 1623.
Q38. Who said Shakespeare knew “Small Latin and Less Greek” ?
(a) Robert Greene
(b) Thomas Kyd
(c) Dr. Samuel Johnson
(d) Ben Jonson
Answer: (d) Ben Jonson
Explain: Jonson ने Shakespeare पर ये comment किया।
Q39. In The Tempest, Prospero is the Duke of
(a) Milan
(b) Kent
(c) Edinburgh
(d) Naples
Answer: (a) Milan
Explain: Prospero, Duke of Milan.
Q40. Who among the following was not a University Wit ?
(a) Robert Greene
(b) Thomas Nashe
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) George Peele
Answer: (c) Francis Bacon
Explain: Wits: Greene, Nashe, Peele आदि; Bacon typically included नहीं।
Q41. In which year was The God of Small Things first published ?
(a) 1997
(b) 1998
(c) 2000
(d) 2001
Answer: (a) 1997
Explain: Arundhati Roy debut novel (1997).
Q42. Which was the first short story written by Ernest Hemingway ?
(a) Up in Michigan
(b) Indian Camp
(c) The End of Something
(d) The Battler
Answer: (a) Up in Michigan
Explain: Written early; exam में अक्सर इसे “first written” माना जाता है।
Q43. Angry River is written by
(a) Hemingway
(b) Karnad
(c) Ruskin Bond
(d) Mahesh Dattani
Answer: (c) Ruskin Bond
Explain: Ruskin Bond की short work/story.
Q44. In which year was Guy de Maupassant born ?
(a) 1840
(b) 1845
(c) 1852
(d) 1850
Answer: (c) 1852
Explain: Maupassant 1852–1893.
Q45. Velutha is a prominent character in the novel of
(a) Hemingway
(b) Ruskin Bond
(c) Arundhati Roy
(d) Shashi Deshpande
Answer: (c) Arundhati Roy
Explain: The God of Small Things का major character.
Q46. Which novel is not by Shashi Deshpande ?
(a) Small Remedies
(b) That Long Silence
(c) Roots and Shadows
(d) Nectar in a Sieve
Answer: (d) Nectar in a Sieve
Explain: ये Kamala Markandaya का novel है।
Q47. Santiago is a character described by
(a) O’Henry
(b) Hemingway
(c) Ruskin Bond
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) Hemingway
Explain: The Old Man and the Sea का Santiago.
Q48. The first printing press was introduced by
(a) Caxton
(b) Milton
(c) Bacon
(d) Shakespeare
Answer: (a) Caxton
Explain: William Caxton brought printing press to England.
Q49. Who is associated with theory of Deconstruction ?
(a) Maud Badkin
(b) Gayatri C. Spivak
(c) Allen Tate
(d) Jacques Derrida
Answer: (d) Jacques Derrida
Explain: Deconstruction का founder.
Q50. In which year was the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood established ?
(a) 1845
(b) 1846
(c) 1848
(d) 1849
Answer: (c) 1848
Explain: PRB formed in 1848.
Q51. In which century did the Renaissance begin in Italy ?
(a) 13th
(b) 14th
(c) 15th
(d) 16th
Answer: (b) 14th Century
Explain: Italy में early Renaissance 14th century से माना जाता है।
Q52. Who wrote the novel The Voyage Out ?
(a) Virginia Woolf
(b) E.M. Forster
(c) Harold Pinter
(d) Amitav Ghosh
Answer: (a) Virginia Woolf
Explain: Woolf का first novel.
Q53. “A form of verse adopted for singing… simple narrative form” is called
(a) Ode
(b) Ballad
(c) Epic
(d) Elegy
Answer: (b) Ballad
Explain: Ballad = narrative song-like poem.
Q54. Heroic couplet consists:
(a) 7 feet line
(b) 7 lines stanza
(c) 7 syllable line
(d) Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs
Answer: (d)
Explain: Heroic couplet = rhyming iambic pentameter pair.
Q55. Who pioneered heroic couplet in English ?
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer
(b) William Langland
(c) John Dryden
(d) John Milton
Answer: (a) Geoffrey Chaucer
Explain: Early use/pioneering credit Chaucer को दिया जाता है।
Q56. “’Tis more to guide than spur the Muse’s steed…” Who wrote these lines?
(a) Chaucer
(b) Donne
(c) Pope
(d) Wordsworth
Answer: (c) Pope
Explain: Alexander Pope की poetic advice style lines.
Q57. Shashi Deshpande won Sahitya Akademi Award for:
(a) A Matter of Time
(b) Roots and Shadows
(c) That Long Silence
(d) The Bending Vine
Answer: (c) That Long Silence
Explain: इसी के लिए Sahitya Akademi Award.
Q58. The term ‘ecological imperialism’ was coined by
(a) Vandana Shiva
(b) Laurence Buell
(c) Paulo Freire
(d) Alfred Crosby
Answer: (d) Alfred Crosby
Explain: Ecological imperialism concept Crosby से associated.
Q59. The book Science and Poetry is written by
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) I.A. Richards
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Charles Darwin
Answer: (b) I.A. Richards
Explain: Richards language/criticism में major name.
Q60. The World My Wilderness (Rose Macaulay) is categorised as
(a) Post-War novel
(b) Gothic novel
(c) Victorian novel
(d) Wessex novel
Answer: (a) Post-War novel
Explain: WWII aftermath setting/theme.
Q61. The Pre-Raphaelite movement in literature was basically inspired by
(a) Music
(b) Architecture
(c) Painting
(d) Politics
Answer: (c) Painting
Explain: PRB visual arts roots से आया।
Q62. The Lyrical Ballads was first published in
(a) 1798
(b) 1802
(c) 1805
(d) 1789
Answer: (a) 1798
Explain: Wordsworth-Coleridge milestone.
Q63. Who is not associated with Metaphysical school?
(a) John Donne
(b) George Herbert
(c) Henry Vaughan
(d) John Milton
Answer: (d) John Milton
Explain: Milton metaphysical group में नहीं आते।
Q64. Which novel is not a Gothic novel?
(a) The Castle of Otranto
(b) The Old English Baron
(c) The Italian
(d) Pride and Prejudice
Answer: (d) Pride and Prejudice
Explain: Austen social comedy/realism, Gothic नहीं।
Q65. “The Sceptred Flute” is the collected poems of
(a) Toru Dutt
(b) Sri Aurobindo
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) A.K. Ramanujan
Answer: (c) Sarojini Naidu
Explain: Naidu’s poems collected under that title.
Q66. One who settles in another country
(a) Migrant
(b) Immigrant
(c) Native
(d) Parasite
Answer: (b) Immigrant
Explain: Immigrant = enters & settles in a new country.
Q67. One who looks at everything from a personal point of view
(a) Egocentric
(b) Quixotic
(c) Sadistic
(d) Complacent
Answer: (a) Egocentric
Explain: Self-centered viewpoint.
Q68. Meaning of ‘modus operandi’
(a) conditions of human mind
(b) Work is worship
(c) manner of operating/proceeding
(d) tending to cause sleep
Answer: (c)
Explain: Latin phrase = “method of working”.
Q69. Synonym of “diligent”
(a) Intelligent
(b) Wise
(c) Talented
(d) Hard-working
Answer: (d) Hard-working
Explain: Diligent = मेहनती.
Q70. Antonym of ‘Captivity’
(a) Slavery
(b) Freedom
(c) dependent
(d) bondage
Answer: (b) Freedom
Explain: Captivity का opposite freedom.
Q71. Idiom: ‘The heat of the day’
(a) burning issue
(b) warm and hot day
(c) bright sunshine
(d) summer season
Answer: (c) bright sunshine
Explain: Midday/तेज़ धूप का sense.
Q72. Correct spelling
(a) Begining
(b) Beginning
(c) Beggining
(d) Bigining
Answer: (b) Beginning
Q73. Correct spelling
(a) Symetrical
(b) Symmetrical
(c) Symatrical
(d) Symmatrical
Answer: (b) Symmetrical
Q74. Figure of speech: “He watches… And like a thunderbolt he falls.”
(a) Hyperbole
(b) Personification
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphor
Answer: (c) Simile
Explain: “like” used, comparison clear.
Q75. “shot heard around the world” figure of speech
(a) Metaphor
(b) Simile
(c) Personification
(d) Hyperbole
Answer: (d) Hyperbole
Explain: Exaggeration for effect.
Q76. Figure of speech representing sound it describes
(a) Simile
(b) Onomatopoeia
(c) Metaphor
(d) Hyperbole
Answer: (b) Onomatopoeia
Explain: buzz, hiss, bang types.
Q77. Not an essential component of a formal letter
(a) Sender’s address
(b) Greeting
(c) Closure
(d) None of these
Answer: (d) None of these
Explain: Formal letter में ये सब essential components हैं।
Q78. Suitable closure for a formal letter sent to a close friend
(a) Yours faithfully
(b) Yours sincerely
(c) Warm Regards
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Warm Regards
Explain: Close friend के लिए friendly closure; formal ones official tone देते हैं।
Q79. ________ my friends knew I was getting married.
(a) Not of much
(b) Not many
(c) Not much
(d) Not many of
Answer: (d) Not many of
Explain: “Not many of my friends…”
Q80. The government has introduced ________.
(a) a children’s clothes tax
(b) a tax on children clothes
(c) a children clothes tax
(d) a tax on children’s clothes
Answer: (d) a tax on children’s clothes
Explain: possession shows with apostrophe.
Q81. I still feel very tired ______ in the morning.
(a) when I wake up
(b) as I wake up
(c) when I will wake up
(d) while I wake up
Answer: (a) when I wake up
Explain: correct time clause.
Q82. invited to give ______ prizes
(a) on
(b) of
(c) upon
(d) away
Answer: (d) away
Explain: give away prizes = distribute.
Q83. ‘Mitigate’ means
(a) Gruesome
(b) Harmful
(c) Lessen
(d) Increase
Answer: (c) Lessen
Explain: mitigate = reduce severity.
Q84. Indirect narration: She said to me, “What can I do for you?”
(a) She asked me what she could do for me.
(b) She asked me what can she do for me.
(c) She told me what she can do for me.
(d) None of these
Answer: (a)
Explain: “can” becomes “could”, question becomes statement form.
Q85. Ballad meter traditionally consists of how many lines?
(a) 3
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 8
Answer: (b) 4
Explain: Ballad stanza = 4 lines (common meter).
Q86. ‘Hamartia’ means
(a) Fatal Flaw
(b) Discovery
(c) Emotion
(d) Evil
Answer: (a) Fatal Flaw
Explain: tragedy hero’s error/flaw.
Q87. ‘Win laurels’ means
(a) Honest person
(b) Reluctantly
(c) Win fame
(d) To fight
Answer: (c) Win fame
Explain: laurels = honour/praise.
Passage (Hitler) MCQs
Q88. “A man who has no ears or eyes” is like
(a) man having sense of history
(b) man who has no sense of history
(c) extra knowledge
(d) passionate interest in history
Answer: (b)
Explain: passage में direct comparison है।
Q89. Hitler showed his familiarity with
(a) scientific facts
(b) Indian history
(c) European history
(d) none of these
Answer: (c) European history
Explain: passage says “course of European history”.
Q90. Hitler derived his sense of mission from
(a) love of mankind
(b) contemporary society
(c) religion of past
(d) his sense of history
Answer: (d)
Explain: passage line: mission derived from sense of history.
Q91. Rise and fall of civilization fascinated
(a) Hitler
(b) Scientists
(c) Alexander
(d) None
Answer: (a) Hitler
Explain: “Hitler was fascinated…”
Q92. Hitler was born at a moment when
(a) bourgeois world integrating
(b) everything liberally treated
(c) bourgeois world disintegrating
(d) none
Answer: (c)
Explain: passage directly says disintegrating.
Poem stanza (river) MCQs
Q93. Figure of speech in the stanza
(a) Personification
(b) Metonymy
(c) Metaphor
(d) Simile
Answer: (a) Personification
Explain: river को human actions दिए: voice, squats, fingering rags.
Q94. Meaning of ‘incognito’
(a) in full splendour
(b) in flood
(c) in disguise
(d) silently
Answer: (c) in disguise
Q95. Synonym of ‘rubbish’
(a) Soil
(b) Sandstone
(c) Useful thing
(d) Garbage
Answer: (d) Garbage
Q96. A Defence of Poetry is written by
(a) Wordsworth
(b) P.B. Shelley
(c) John Keats
(d) Lord Byron
Answer: (b) P.B. Shelley
Explain: Shelley का famous essay.
Q97. Who wrote ‘Introduction’ to Gitanjali (Tagore)
(a) W.B. Yeats
(b) Ezra Pound
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) I.A. Richards
Answer: (a) W.B. Yeats
Explain: Yeats wrote the introduction.
Q98. In which year was Fielding’s novel Amelia first published?
(a) 1749
(b) 1751
(c) 1743
(d) 1742
Answer: (a) 1749
Explain: Amelia = 1749.
Q99. English Romantic poets were influenced by
(a) Oxford Movement
(b) Darwinism
(c) Peasants’ movement
(d) French Revolution
Answer: (d) French Revolution
Explain: major ideological influence.
Q100. Who wrote Private Life of an Indian Prince?
(a) R.K. Narayan
(b) Raja Rao
(c) Mulk Raj Anand
(d) Amitav Ghosh
Answer: (c) Mulk Raj Anand
Explain: Anand’s novel.
Important Writers and Books Summary (इस पेपर में बार-बार आने वाले)
Romantic / Victorian / Modern English
- John Keats: Odes, Negative Capability
- Wordsworth: The Prelude, Lyrical Ballads context
- Tennyson: Poet Laureate (1850)
- T.S. Eliot: Prufrock lines
- Matthew Arnold: Sohrab and Rustum
- Robert Frost: “Birches” (Mountain Interval)
- Shakespeare: Macbeth, Henry V, First Folio 1623, Ben Jonson quote
- Bernard Shaw: Candida (Marchbanks)
- Harold Pinter: The Room
- P.B. Shelley: A Defence of Poetry, Adonais (Shelley)
- Bertrand Russell: birth year 1872, History of Western Philosophy
- Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own, The Voyage Out
Indian Writing in English
- Sarojini Naidu: The Golden Threshold, The Bird of Time, The Broken Wing
- Kamala Das: “The Freaks”, “My Grandmother’s House”, “A Hot Noon in Malabar”
- R.K. Narayan: The Guide (Rosie)
- Shashi Deshpande: That Long Silence (award), Roots and Shadows, Small Remedies
- Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan
- Amitav Ghosh: Opium-war related novels (Ibis Trilogy), The Hungry Tide, The Shadow Lines
- Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger (Booker 2008), Last Man in Tower
- Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (Velutha)
- Ruskin Bond: Angry River
- Mulk Raj Anand: Private Life of an Indian Prince
- Tagore: Chitra, Gitanjali intro by Yeats
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