J-3016

Question 1

Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude

Answer 1

CAMBRIDGE

Question 2

Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?

Answer 2

Thomas Heywood

Question 3

In William Congreve’s The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line : “One’s
cruelty is one’s power, and when one parts with one’s cruelty, one parts with one’s power.”

Answer 3

Millamant

Question 4

T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in

Answer 4

christianity

Question 5

By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag ?

Answer 5

Grildrig

Question 6

Grildrig - The name was given to gulliver by?

Answer 6

glumdalclitch

Question 7

Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up”?

Answer 7

Wilkins Micawber (David Copperfield)

Question 8

What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick?

Answer 8

Rachel

Question 9

The authors were greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle’s writings?

Answer 9

Charles Dickens

Elizabeth Gaskell

Question 10

Who narrates Heart of Darkness ?

Answer 10

unnamed narrator

Question 11

She Stoops to Conquer

Answer 11

Play by Oliver Goldsmith

Question 12

the subtitle of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

Answer 12

The Mistakes of a Night

Question 13

Which was first novel was written by Patrick White :

Answer 13

Happy Valley

Question 14

In King Lear for what reason does Kent assume a disguise?

Answer 14

To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him.

Question 15

What is a feminine rhyme?

Answer 15

A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed

Question 16

Venus Observed, The Lady’s Not for Burning

Answer 16

Christopher Fry

Question 17

Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question, The Work of Mourning,

Answer 17

Jacques Derrida

Question 18

In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in
Adam’s side ?

Answer 18

Adam

Question 19

Possession

Answer 19

A.S. Byatt

Question 20

A.S. Byatt’s n attempts the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets named?

Answer 20

Robert Browning

Christina Rossetti

Question 21

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by

Answer 21

Bernard Shaw

Question 22

John Milton’s description of gold as a “precious bane” (Paradise Lost, Book II) is best
described as

Answer 22

an oxymoron

Question 23

There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s

Answer 23

Jew of Malta

Question 24

Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities does Johnson believe Shakespeare to observe most successfully

Answer 24

Action

Question 25

Who among the following was praised and patronized as a “Ploughman Poet”?

Answer 25

Robert Burns

Question 26

Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a projection forward in time after a devastating atomic war?

Answer 26

The four Gated city

Question 27

Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta provide a fictionalized portrait of poor, young Nigerian women struggling to bring up their children in London?

Answer 27

Second Class Citizen | In the Ditch

Question 28

In John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress who keeps Christian’s head above water in the River of Death?

Answer 28

Hopeful

Question 29

In Thomas More’s Utopia which leisure pastimes is not a favourite among Utopians?

Answer 29

Dicing and cards

Question 30

In which year did the Great Exhibition take place?

Answer 30

1851

Question 31

Queen Mab

Answer 31

Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelle

Question 32

The Excursion

Answer 32

Poem by William Wordsworth

Question 33

Milton

Answer 33

Poem by William Blake

Question 34

Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is a defence of

Answer 34

old age against youth

Question 35

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of which they are a part, are made up of three social groups or “estates”. What are the three estates ?

Answer 35

Nobility, church and commoners

Question 36

Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave?

Answer 36

Beloved

Question 37

Who translated Homer?

Answer 37

Alexander Pope

Question 38

Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy is a

Answer 38

coming of age story

Question 39

When was the English ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses lifted?

Answer 39

1936

Question 40

Thomas Carew’s Poems appeared in print in 1640 and contain a variety of amorous addresses to and reflections on, a fictional mistress known as?

Answer 40

Celia

Question 41

Waterland

Answer 41

Novel by Graham Swift

Question 42

Darkness Visible

Answer 42

William Golding

Question 43

Hawksmoor

Answer 43

Novel by Peter Ackroyd

Question 44

Grimus: Roman

Answer 44

Novel by Salman Rushdie