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1.Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For
heres a tun of midnight-work to come, Og, from a
treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe, andliquordevrychink . Goodly and great he rails behind
his link.
In the above extract from Absalom and Achitophel Og is
(A) Elkanah Settle
(B) Lord Harvey
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Joseph Addison
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2.Unless wariness be used, as good almost
kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a
man kills a reasonable creature, Gods
image, but he who destroys a good book,
kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it
were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden
to the earth; but a good book is theprecious life-blood of a master spirit.
Where is the passage from ?
(A)Miltons Areopagitica
(B) Sidneys Apologie for Poetry(C) Drydens Preface to the Fables
(D) Marvells The Rehearsal Transposed
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3.Which of the following statements is
not true of Laurence Sternes TristramShandy ?
(A) It has a linear plot.
(B) It opens and ends with the theme
of birth.
(C) It contains a trip to France.
(D) It contains a marbled page.
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4.What is a mock-heroic poem ? A mock-
heroic poem
(A)mocks at heroic pretensions in poets
and critics
(B) mocks heroism, an exaggerated
virtue in all epics(C) uses a heroic style to deride airs and
affectations
(D) uses a mocking style to deride heroes
and hero-worship
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5.In The Rape of the Lock Pope
repeatedly compares Belinda to(A) the sun
(B) the moon
(C)the north star(D)(D) the rose
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6.Who, among the following is
credited with the making of the firstauthoritative Dictionary of the English
Language ?
(A)Bishop Berkeley(B) Samuel Johnson
(C)Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole
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7.In Drydens Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(1668), who opens the discussion onbehalf of the ancients ?
(A) Lisideius
(B) Crites
(C) Eugenius
(D) Neander
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8.Whom does Alexander Popesatirise in the portrait of Sporus ?
(A) Lady Wortley Montague
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Lord Shaftsbury
(D) Lord Harvey
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9.Which of the following novels has
a great impact on the formalexperimentation in contemporary
fiction ?
(A) Thomas Nashes The
Unfortunate Traveller
(B) Henry Fieldings Tom Jones
(C) Laurence Sternes Tristram
Shandy(D) Samuel Richardsons Pamela
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10.Assertion (A) : Dr Johnsons The Lives of the
Poets carries critical and biographical studies
of poets he admired. It does not, however,
carry a life of William Wordsworth.
Reason (R) : Dr. Johnson singled out poets
whom he not only admired but also adored.
This explains his omission of Wordsworth.
(A) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
(B) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(C) (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.
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11.What is the correct chronological
sequence of the following ?
(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph
Andrews, Tristram Shandy
(B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy,Pamela, Moll Flanders
(C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders,
Pamela, Joseph Andrews
(D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, JosephAndrews, Tristram Shandy
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12.MacFlecknoe is an attack
on Drydens literary rival,(A) Richard Flecknoe
(B) Thomas Shadwell
(C) John Wilmot(D) Matthew Prior
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14. Which among the followingworks by Daniel Defoe landed him
in prison and the pillory ?
(A) The True-Born Englishman
(B) Captain Singleton
(C) The Shortest Way with
Dissenters
(D) Moll Flanders
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15.In the summer of 1712, The Spectator
published a series of essays on ThePleasures of Imagination, written by
(A) Richard Steele
(B) John Dennis
(C) John Locke(D) Joseph Addison
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16. One of the most important themes the
speakers debate in Drydens An Essay onDramatic Poesy is______.
(A) European and non-European perceptions
of reality.
(B) English and non-English perceptions of
reality.
(C) the relative merits of French and English
theatre.
(D) the relative merits of French and English
poetry.
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17.Which of the following statements on
John Dryden is incorrect ?
(a) John Milton and John Dryden werecontemporaries.
(b) Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton
fiercely opposed monarchy.
(c) Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal
Emperor Humayun.
(d) Dryden was appointed the Poet
Laureate of England in 1668.
(A) (a) is incorrect.
(B) (d) is incorrect.(C) (c) is incorrect.
(D) (b) and (c) are incorrect.
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18.The Augustan Age is called so because(A) King Augustus ruled over England
during this period
(B) The English writers imitated the
Roman writers during this period(C) The English King was born in the
month of August
(D) This was an age of sensibility
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20.The last of Gullivers Travelsis to
(A)The Land of the
Houyhnhnms(B) The Land of Homosapiens
(C) The Land of the Hurricanes
(D) The Newfound Land
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21. John Drydens Absalom and
Achotophel is a
(A)religious tract
(B) political allegory
(C) comic verse epic
(D) comedy
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22.Match the following authors with their
respective works with the help of the code
given below :ListI ListII
I. Oliver Goldsmith 1. The Vanity of Human
Wishes
II. John Gay 2. The Vicar of Wakefield
III. Samuel Johnson 3. She Stoops to Conquer
IV. Richard Sheridan 4. The Beggars Opera
Code :
I II III IV
(A) 1 4 3 2(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 2 4 1
(D) 4 3 2 1
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23.Read the following statement and the
reason given for it. Choose the right
response.
Assertion (A) : Gullivers Travels earned
Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a
misanthrope.Reason (R) : Swift in the novel was
neutral to the image of man.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is
the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) isnot the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is tru
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25.Identify the work below that does
not belong to the literature of the
eighteenth century:
(A) Advancement of Learning(B)Gullivers Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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26.Tom Paines The Rights
of Man was published in(A) 1790
(B) 1791
(C) 1792(D) 1793
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27.Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in
the portrait of Sporus ?(A) Lady Wortley Montague
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Lord Shaftsbury
(D) Lord Harvey
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28.Verses on the Death of Dr.
Swift is written by
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) John Gay(D) Jonathan Swift
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29. In The Rape of the Lock, Belindas
lapdog is named
(A) Luck
(B) Shock
(C) Pluck(D) Muck
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30.The English satirist who used the sharp
edge of praise to attack his victims was
(A) Ben Jonson(B) John Donne
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler