Fourth Sem - Modern English Literature

            MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE
                        QUESTION BANK

1. ‘This man had kept a school……’ Who is referred to here by W B Yeats?
a) Patrick Henry Pearse b) Thomas MacDonagh
c) Major John MacBride d) Maud Gonne
2. Ted Hughes was honoured with the Poet Laureateship in the year------- a)1989 b)1984 c)1979 d) 1978
3. The poem The Thought fox is taken from the collection---------- a)Widow b)Hawk in the Rain
c)Crow d) The Rain Horse
4. The opening lines of Journey of the Magi are a quotation from----- a) Lancelot Andrewes's 1622 Nativity sermon b) the Fly
c) Cannonization d) Mathews
5. ‘The black sailed ship’ metaphorically alludes to…………….
a)birth b)death c) resurrection d) fall
6. Name the theatre found by W. B Yeats?
a)Globe Theatre b)Abbey Theatre
c) Greek Theatre d) Theatre of Maud Gonne
7. The prototype of modern Angry Young Man in the play Look Back in
Anger?
a)Cliff b)Colonel Redfurn
c)Jimmy Porter d) John Graham
8. Name the German dramatist most associated with epic theatre?
a)Eugene O'Neill b)Bertolt Brecht
c)Benjamin Fondane d)Elmer Rice
9. The term avant-garde literally means------- a) Advance-guard b) Carry on guards
c) Cheers Guards d) Come on guards
10.The anthology New Lines was edited by----------- a) Catherine b) Robert Brook
c) Philip Larkin d) Robert Conquest
11.Virginia Wolf belongs to the famous----------- group.
a) Clapham Group b) Bloomsbury Group
c) Feminist Group d) London Group
12.--------- is Sarah Woodruff’s alleged French lover.
a) Varguennes b) Ernestina Freeman
c) Charles Smithson d) Sam Farrow
13.The serving hatch in the play by Harold Pinter is alluded to by the term---- a) Dumb Waiter b) love c) Birthday Party
14.An example of oxymoron in Easter 1916.
a) Terrible Beauty b) horse-hoof slides
c) green is worn d) vainglorious lout
15.“That Woman’s days were spent… .” who is the woman referred to here
by Yeats in the poem Easter 1916?
a)Maud Gonne b)Countess Markieviz c)Mrs Tanner
16.‘He had done most bitter wrong’—To whom was the wrong done?
a)W.B Yeats b) Thomas MacDonagh
c) Major John MacBride d) Maud Gonne
17.------ was the verse memoir for Plath written by Ted Hughes.
a) Cave Birds b)Birthday Letters
c) River d)Moor Town
18.‘Watching from a bluff the sparkling armada of ------draw near’
a) Promises b)Faith c) Hope d)Trust
19.Harold Pinter’s plays are typical examples of comedy of …….
a) menace b)manners c)humours d) life
20.In Dumb Waiter Ben and Gus quarrel over the phrase------- a)Lighting the kettle b) capitalist slavery
c) naked vulnerability d) life’s burden
21.In Easter 1916 Yeats commemorates -------in Dublin on 24 April 1916.
a) Uprising b) Marriage party c) battle d) Religious function
22.Marchbanks is a character from G B Shaw’s play……….
a)Pygmalion b)Arms and the Man c)Candida d) The irrational knot
23.Name one of the processes in reading according to Virginia Woolf?
a) Reading as closely as possible b) Reading for understanding c) reading for mirth
24.Expressionism originated in __________. a)France b)Germany c)Italy d)England
25.Name the character mentioned as the mistress of Jimmy Porter.
a)Helena Charles b)Alison c)Madeline d) Lisa
26.Sarah Woodruff enjoys an artistic, creative life in the house of ----------in the
last part of French Lieutenant’s Woman.
a) Rosetti b)Rose c)Magnum d) Freeman
27.The essay ‘How should One Read a Book’ appears in------ a) The Common Reader: Second Series b) Orlando: A Biography . c) Mrs Dollway d) To the Lighthouse
28.The Magi are the three wise men from the east who travelled to----- a) Bethalhem b)Israel c) Jerusalem d) Rome
29.Who among the following is Alison’s father
a)Colonel Redfern b)Webster c)Nigel d) Morgan
30.The winged horse mentioned in the poem ‘Easter 1916’
a) Pegasus b) Sleipinir c) unicorn d) Hippocampus
31.The autobiographical novel “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is
being written by__________. a)D.H Lawrence b)Thomas Hardy c)James Augustine Joyce
d) Virginia Woolf
32.The rhythm used by Auden in ‘The Unknown Citizen’ resembles
Hopkins’_____________. a)Sprung Rhythm b) Couplets c)Blank Verse d) Pentametre
33.Who coined the word ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?
a)Albert Camus b)Franz Kafka c)Martin Eslin d) Robert
Conquest
34.The movement started as a reaction against realism
a)Impressionism b)Imagism c)Expressionism
35.Who among the ones you have studied is known as ‘animal poet’?
a)W.H Auden b)Ted Hughes c)W.B Yeats
36.According to Woolf the best way to understand a novel is to---------- what
we have read
a)criticize b)compare c)write d) analyse
37.“Stream of Consciousness” is a phrase used by William James in his
a)Principles and Psychology b). Psychology c). Psycho
38.In Dumb Waiter Ben and Gus wait for the orders of------ a)Charles b)Wilson c)Peter
39.“Phedre” is a dramatic tragedy written by
a)Jean Racin b)Daniel Defoe c)David Garrick
40.Who is considered as the ‘ moral compass’ in the play “Look Back in
Anger”
a)Alison b)Mrs Tanner c)Helena Charles
41.Name Joyce’s only collection of short stories
a)The Dubliners b) Ulysses c)the portrait d) Araby
42.The short story “Araby” is narrated by
a)a boy b) an young woman c) an elderly d) author
43.Mention the name of pawnbroker’s widow in the story “Araby”
a)Mrs.Mercer b) Mrs. Pekker c) Mrs. Sampson
d) Mrs. Heidegger
44.Who wrote the screen play Karel Reisz’ Adaptation of “ The French
Lieutenant’s Woman”
a) Harold Pinter b) Bernard Shaw c)Henrik Ibsen
d) Virginia Woolf
45.The short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner” appeared in
a)New Lines b)Harper’s Bazaar c) Horse Collections
d) Mariner’s Win
46.The narrative technique usually employed by James Joyce___________. a)stream of consciousness b) symbolism c) Imagism d) modernism
47.The young gardener in Paul’s house __________. a)Oscar Cresswell b)Hester c)Bassett
48.Theme of Look Back in Anger is____________.
a)greed, love, luck ,neglect b)lost childhood
49.Paul felt that the house was whispering
a)luck is the secret of success b)there must be more money c)money
is the root of all evil d)money is powerful
50.We find Ben in “The Dumb Waiter” as
a)dominant and superior b)repentant and remorseful c)doubtful and
hesitant d)frightened and cowardly
51.The haired murderers in the play “The Dumb Waiter”
a)Lucky and Pozzo b)Ben and Gus c)Wilson and Ben
52.Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” was first performed in the year
a)1945 b)1950 c)1954 d)1956
53.Author of “A Room of One’s Own”
a)E.M Forster b)Sylvia Plath c)D.H Lawrence d)Virginia Woolf
54.Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter” resembles
a)Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” b)Kafka’s “The Trial”
55.The early stories in Joyce’s “Dubliners” have -------- as protagonists
a)women b)Irish peasants c)children d)mythical characters
56.--------------- is the only play published by James Joyce
a)Exiles b)The Dead c)The Black Sun d)Chamber Music
57.Who among the following is a Movement poet?
a)Elizabeth Jennings b)Ted Hughes c)T.S Eliot d)W.H Auden
58.“Dubliners” was first published in the year
a) 1912 b) 1914 c) 1918 d) 1921
59.The term “absurd” means
a)sense of senselessness b)Feeling nothing c)feeling nowhere
60.Which 20th century novelist made extensive use of Epiphany?
a) James Joyce b) D.H Lawrence c) E.M Forster
61.Stream of Consciousness novel is a product of
a) 18 c b) 16c c) 17c d) 20c
62.Virginia Woolf was the daughter of an eminent critic and scholar. Who
was he?
a)Matthew Arnold b)Carlyle c)John Ruskin d)Leslie Stephen
63.Who has been called the leader of Angry Young Men?
a)Alan Sillitoe b)John Wain c)Colin Wilson d)John
Osborne
64.Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in
a)1903 b)1910 c)1917 d)1923
65.The most famous play of Angry Young Men Movement
a)Room at the Top b)Lucky Jim c)The Outsider d)Look Back in
Anger
66.Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” occurs in his
a)Ariel Poems b)Poems (1920) c)The Wasteland d)Four Quartets
67.Surrealism is associated with……..
a) Andre Breton b)Martin Eslin c)Strindberg
68.Imagism
a)Ezra Pound b)Kafka c) Eliot
69.Surrealist Manifesto belongs to
a)Andre Breton b)Ezra Pound c)Joyce
70.“The Cry”, painting by Edward Munch is an example of…..
a)Imagism b) Expressionism c)Surrealism

                  ANSWER KEY
1. a) Patrick Pearse
2. b) 1984
3. b) Hawk in the Rain
4. a) Lancelot Andrews
5. b) Death
6. b) Abbey
7. c) Jimmy Porter
8. b) Bertolt Brecht
9. a) Advance-guard
10. d) Robert Conquest
11. b) Bloomsbury
12. a) Varguennes
13. a) Dumb Waiter
14. a)Terrible Beauty
15. b) Countess Markieviz
16. d) Maud Gonne
17. b) Birthday Letters
18. a) promises
19. a) Menace
20. a) lighting the kettle
21. a)uprising
22. c)Candida
23. a) reading as closely as possible or to compare
24. b) Germany
25. b) Madeline
26. a) Rosetti
27. a) The Common Reader: Second Series
28. a) Bethlahem
29. a)Colonel Redfern
30. a)Pegasus
31. c) James Augustine Joyce
32. a) Sprung Rhythm
33. c) Martin Eslin
34. c) Expressionism
35. b) Ted Hughes
36. c) Write
37. a) Principles and Psychology
38. b) Wilson
39. c) David Garrick
40. c) Helena Charles
41. a) Dubliners
42. a) a boy
43. a) Mrs. Merces
44. a) Harold Pinter
45. b) Harper’s Bazaar
46. a) Stream of Consciousness
47. c) Bassett
48. b) Lost childhood
49. c)money is the root of all evil
50. a)dominant and superior
51. b) Ben and Gus
52. b) 1950
53. d) Virginia Woolf
54. Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”
55. a) Children
56. c) Exiles
57. a) Elizabeth Jennings
58. b) 1914
59. a) sense of senselessness
60. a) James Joyce
61. d) 20c
62. d) Leslie Stephen
63. d) John Osborne
64. d) 1923
65. d) Look Back in Anger
66. a) Ariel Poems
67. a) Andre Breton
68. a) Ezra Pound
69. a) Andre Breton
70. b) Expressionism

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