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Name of the Exam : Entrance Test
Department : MA English Literature
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Year : 2013
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English Literature Entrance Test Question Paper

1. Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain’?
(a) Walter Pater
(b) A. C. Swinburne
(c) Matthew Arnold
(d) T. S. Eliot

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2. Harold Nicholson described which poet as “Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners.”
(a) E. E. Cummings
(b) T. S. Eliot
(c) John Greenleaf Whittier
(d) Walt Whitman

3. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?
(a) Boer War
(b) Second World War
(c) Korean War
(d) First World War

4. What was strange about Emily Dickinson?
(a) She rarely left home
(b) She wrote in code
(c) She never attempted to publish her poetry
(d) She wrote her poems in invisible ink

5. Which American writer published ‘A brave and startling truth’ in 1996?
(a) Robert Hass
(b) Jessica Hagdorn
(c) Maya Angelou
(d) Micheal Palmer

6. Who wrote about the idyllic ‘Isle of Innisfree’?
(a) Dylan Thomas
(b) Ezra Pound
(c) W. B. Yeats
(d) E.E.Cummings

7. A pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
(a) rhyme scheme
(b) meter
(c) alliteration
(d) none of the above

8. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poet’s time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general?
(a) Mary Wollstonecraft
(b) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(c) Samuel Johnson
(d) William Wordsworth

9. The theme of Tennyson’s Poem ‘The Princess’ is?
(a) Queen Victoria’s coronation
(b) Industrial Revolution
(c) Women’s Education and Rights
(d) Rise of Democracy

10. Alexander Pope coined many a modern day cliché. Which of the following did not originate with him?
(a) To err is human, to forgive divine
(b) Let not the sun go down upon your wrath
(c) A little learning is a dangerous thing
(d) Fools rush in where angels fear to tread A poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters

11. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements?
(a) supernatural phenomenon
(b) perversion and sadism, often involving a maiden’s persecution
(c) plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes secret passages, decaying mansions, gloomy castles, and dark dungeons
(d) all of the above

12. Which of the following statements is not accurate description of Old English Poetry?
(a) Romantic love is a guiding principle of moral conduct.
(b) Its formal and dignified use of speech was distant from everyday use of language.
(c) Irony is a mode of perception, as much as it was a figure of speech.
(d) Christian and pagan ideals are sometimes mixed.

13. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife?
(a) Dante’s Divine Comedy
(b) Boccaccio’s Decameron
(c) The Dream of the Rood
(d) Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women

14. Who is the author of Piers Plowman?
(a) Sir Thomas Malory
(b) Margery Kempe
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer
(d) William Langland

15. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
(a) the short story
(b) the heroic epic
(c) the morality play
(d) the romance

16. How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil?
(a) 16
(b) 20
(c) 24
(d) 28

17. Marlowe’s play ‘Tamburlaine the Great’ was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler?
(a) Zhu Yuanzhang
(b) Genghis Khan
(c) Timur
(d) Kublai Khan

18. What is the meaning of “Renaissance”:
(a) Rebirth, revival and re-awaking
(b) Reveal, revel and reverie
(c) Raillery, renunciation and recoup
(d) None of the above

19. Which of the following are University Wits?
(a) John Gower and Robert Peele
(b) John Skelton and Thomas lodge
(c) John Lyly and Robert Greene
(d) John Donne and Thomas Nashe

20. What is Faerie Queene?
(a) An allegory
(b) An epic
(c) A ballad
(d) A sonnet