Pacific University Ph.D. Admission Test English Sample Question Paper
Name of the University : Pacific University
Exam : Ph.D. Admission Test
Degree : PhD
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Name of the Subject : English
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Instructions for Candidates
** Attempt all 50 questions, each question carry 02 marks.
** There is no negative marking.
** Please write the correct answer in the form of A/B/C/D at appropriate given place with blue/black pen.
Sample Questions
Q.1 Who was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge ?
(a) Southey
(b) Walter Scott
(c) Hazlitt
(d) Swineburne [ ]
Q.2 “When my love swears that she is made of truth / I do believe her, through I know she lies”.
The another of these lines is ………
(a) Philip Sidney
(b) Edmund Spenser
(c) Christpher Marlowe
(d) William Shakespeare [ ]
Q.3 “Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
The above lines appear in …………….
(a) Mac Flecknoe
(b) Absalom and Achitphel
(c) Essay on Man
(d) Alexander’s Feast [ ]
Q.4 Every man is …………….
(a) a medieval pay based on a episode from the bible.
(b) a medieval morality play
(c) a Tuder interlude
(d) a miracle play [ ]
Q.5 “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift “was written by ………….
(a) Jonathan Swift
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Samuel Johson
(d) James Boswel [ ]
Q.6 “He’s not the brightest man in the world” is an example of :
(a) Chiasmos
(b) Hyperbole
(c) Litotes
(d) Simile [ ]
Q.7 The term diaspora was originally applied to the following ethnic group.
(a) Jews
(b) Muslims
(c) Hindus
(d) French Canadians [ ]
Q.8 Which of the following is a major Jacobean play ?
(a) Everyman
(b) Gorboduc [ ]
(c) Romeo and Juliet
(d) The Duches of Malfi [ ]
Q.9 “Ripeness is all” is a line from ………………
(a) Hamlet
(b) King Lear
(c) Othello
(d) Macbeth [ ]
Q.10 Who made first authoritatice dictionary of the english language ?
(a) Bishol Birkely
(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Edmund Burkey
(d) Horace Walpole [ ]
Q.11 Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy ?
(a) The Canterbury Tales
(b) The Book of the Dutches
(c) The House of Fame
(d) Legend of Good Women [ ]
Q.12 The verse form of Byron’s childe Harold was influenced by :
(a) Milton
(b) Spencer
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Pope [ ]
Q.13 Who among the following is not a practitioner of Jacobean tragedy ?
(a) George Villiers
(b) John Marston
(c) John Webster
(d) Thomas Middleton [ ]
Q.14 In Keats’ poetic career, the most producitv year was
(a) 1816
(b) 1817
(c) 1820
(d) 1819 [ ]
Q.15 Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in ………….
(a) Three cantos
(b) Four cantos
(c) Five cantos
(d) Two cantos [ ]
Q.16 Some of the Jacobean playwrights were prolific. One of them claimed to have written 200 plays. The playwright is ……………
(a) John Ford
(b) Thomas Dekker
(c) Philip Massinger
(d) Thomas Heywood [ ]
Q.17 Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings of ………
(a) G.B.Shaw
(b) Noel Coward
(c) Tom Stoppard
(d) T.S. Eliot [ ]
Q.18 Which of the following I not a character in ” The Scarlett Letter.
(a) Miranda
(b) Hester Pryne
(c) Dimmesdale
(d) Chillingworth [ ]
Q.19 To Whom is Mary Shelley’s famous work Frankenstein dedicated.
(a) Lord Byron
(b) Claire Clairmont
(c) Willian Godwin
(d) P.B. Shelley [ ]
Q.20 The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to attack his victims was.
(a) Ben Johnson
(b) John Donne
(c) John Dryden
(d) Samuel Bulter [ ]
Q.21 In a 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria Frances Jeffrey’s coined the term ‘Lake School of Poets’s grooping ………….
(a) Wordsworth, Coleridge, Crabbe
(b) Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron
(c) Wordsworth, Coleridge, Hazlitt
(d) Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey [ ]
Q.22 Who among the following women writers’ famously imagined the plight of shakespeare’s sister ?
(a) George Eliot
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) Irish Murdoch
(d) Frances Burney [ ]
Q.23 ‘Ralph Roister Doister’ is generally believed to be the first English …………….
(a) Comedy
(b) Tragedy
(c) Historical play
(d) Romance [ ]
Q.24 Which among the following plays by Christopher Marlowe has epic features ?
(a) Doctor Faustus
(b) Edward II
(c) Hero and Leander
(d) Tamurlaine [ ]
Q.25 A “Curtal sonnet” consists of :
(a) 11 lines
(b) 12 lines
(c) 13 lines
(d) 14 lines