EDUCATIONWELL

 

Important Questions of Master Cadre Exam 

 46. In Marlowe's Plays

1. Imaginative ambition reigns supreme
2. Imaginative ambition is there but it finds its limits also
3. simply challenges the old values
4. none of the above

47. Behind Shakespeare's history plays and two tragedies 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear' lies a work by Holinshed entitled

1. Stories
2. Tales
3. Histories
4. Chronicles

48. Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' both blends and opposes

1. The old and the new
2. The pagan and the Christan
3. The roman and the Gothic
4. All the above

49. Who wrote and poem 'Venus and Adonis'?

1. Thomas kyd
2. Edmund Spencer
3. William Shakespeare
4. Ted Hughes

50. Which of the English novelists was influenced by the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach?

1. Henry Fielding 
2. George Eliot
3. Thomas Hardy
4. E.M. Froster

51 'Negative Capability' is a term coined by

1. John Keats 
2. P.B. Shelley
3. Grierson
4. T.S. Eliot

52. The essay 'Politics and the English Language' was written by

1. I. A. Richards
2. George Eliot
3. Philip Larkin 
4. Leigh Hunt

53. The poetic expression 'still, sad music of humanity' is by

1. William wordsworth
2. S.T. Coleridge
3. John Keats
4. Ben Jonson

54. Who is the author of ' The Ring and the Book'?

1. Elizabeth browning
2. Robert browning
3. Alfred Tennyson
4. None of the above

55. The mythological work of William Blake is known as 

1. Christian books
2. Religious books
3. Prophetic Books
4. Apoclyptic Books

56. Blake's 'The Poison Tree' is both the forbidden tree of knowledge and a metaphor of 

1. Sentimentalised emotion
2. Repressed emotion
3. forbearance 
4. Pagan love

57. 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' was written by

1. Elizabeth gaskel
2. George Eliot
3. Mary Shelley
4. Mary Wollstonecraft

58. 'Lyrical Ballads' apeared in

1. 1789
2. 1792
3. 1879
4. 1798

59. Subtitle of Wordsworth's poem 'Michael' is 

1. A Romantic poem
2. A Gothic poem
3. A Christian poem
4. A Pastoral poem

60. In Jane austen's 'Persuation' there are characters who are

1. Naval officers
2. Air force officers
3. Revenue officers 
4. All the above

61. Keats' 'ode to Nightingale' takes as its subject the 'full-throated ease' of the singing of the nightingale and its contrast with the 

1. aching numbness of the human observer
2. aching sleep of the human observer 
3. happy world
4. 'aching sportfulness' of the human observer

62. 'Clarissa; or, The History of a young Lady' is a novel by

1. Henry Fielding 
2. Jane Austen
3. Elizabeth Browning
4. Samuel Richardson

63. 'The history of Sir Charles Grandison' is a novel by

1. Henry Fielding 
2. Jane Austen
3. Elizabeth Browning
4. Samuel Richardson

64. Pope's 'An Essay on Man' explores the relationship of human beings to nature, creature to creature to creator through

1. destiny
2. a pervasive Newtonian universe
3. no agency whatsoever
4. a goldy figure

65. 'Edward II' is a play by

1. Shakespeare
2. Harold pinter
3. Marlowe
4.  Walter Pater

66. Milton's Aeropagitica' argues for a

1. monarchical state
2. broader constitutional liberty
3. catholic government
4. an oligarchical state

67. Milton's 'Paradise Lost' has

1. X Books
2. XII Books
3. XIV Books
4. XV Books

68. Alexender Pope wrote the epitaph for a m an of science. Who was he?

1. Bacon 
2. Leonardo De Vinci
3. Locke
4. Newton

69. Swift's 'A Tale of a Tub' is a story of three brothers. They represent

1. Roman Catholicism
2. Anglicanism
3. Calvinistic dissent
4. All of the above

70. Who is the author of the poem ' Hero and 'Leander' ?

1. Marlowe
2. Shakespeare
3. T.S. Eliot
4. Pope

71. Which classical authority the poet turned to while writing the poem 'Hero and Leander'?

1. Virgil
2. Ovid
3. Democritus
4. Tasso

72. Which of the following is NOT a  work by Ben jonson?

1. Volpone 
2. All's well that Ends well
3. The Alchemist
4. Bartholomew

73. Wordsworth started writing 'The Prelude' in 1799. But when was it published?

1. 1850
2. 1805
3. 1839
4. 1799

74. Wordsworth did not write 'The Prelude' under the same title. Then who gave this title to this autobiographical poem?

1. His sister
2. His wife
3. Colerige
4. Keats

75. Who amongst the English literary figures claimed to have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries to Clubs, tea-tables and coffee houses?

1. Steele 
2. Locke
3. Addison
4. Bacon

76. Who is the author of 'Felix Holt'?

1. Dickens
2. Ben jonson
3. Mary lamb
4. George Eliot

77. To Whom is the series of lectures entitled 'On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History' attributed?

1. Thomas Carlyle
2. Chales lamb
3. F.R. Leavis
4. Leigh Hunt

78. Who amongst the critics pointed to the elusive smile of Mona Lisa in his critical work?

1. Mathew Gregory lewis 
2. F.R. Leavis
3. Walter Pater
4. I.A. Richards

79. John Ruskin was

1. a poet
2. an art critic
3. a playwright
4. a painter

80. Which famous Indian did john ruskin influence?

1. Tagore
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. Tilak
4. Ambedkar

81. 'Marius the Epicurean' is a historical novel by

1. Thomas Hardy 
2. Mary Sinclair
3. Mark Rutherford 
4. Walter Pater

82. 'Unto this Last' by John Ruskin is an effort to

1. uphold the rationalist thought 
2. look toward the ancient times for a solution to resolve modern problems
3. explain plationic philosophy
4. apply basic Christian values to a mechanized urban civilization

83. The 1837 work 'The French Revolution' is by 

1. Thomas Carlyle
2. John Ruskin
3. Mark Bloch 
4. Sartre

84. 'Studies in the History of the Renaissance' is a collection of essays by

1. Walter Pater
2. Oscar Wilde
3. W.B. Yeats
4. John Ruskin

85. The first recognition of Sir Walter Scott Through his work 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' was as

1. a playwright
2. an essayist
3. a novelist
4. a poet

86. Name the critic who saw the worth of the individual talent of a poet within the encompassing poetic tradition running into the ancient past.

1. W.B. yeats
2. John Miltion
3. T.S. Eliot
4. Swinburne

87. Godbole is a character in 

1. Howard End 
2. A passage to India
3. Coolie
4. Malgudi Days

88. Besides being a poet, W.B. Yeats also became famous for his contribution to 

1. Journalism
2. music
3. Poetic drama
4. economics

89. 'Aspects of the Novel' is a critical work by 

1. Ted Hughes
2. Joseph conrad
3. E.M. Forster
4. Virginia Woolf

90. What is the subtitle of Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles?

1. Pure Woman
2. Rural Woman
3. The Woman
4. Christian Woman

Answer keys:- 46-b, 47-b, 48-d, 49-c, 50-b, 51-a, 52-b, 53-a, 54-b, 55-c, 56-c, 57-d, 58-d, 59-d, 60-a, 61-a, 62-d, 63-d, 64-a, 65-c, 66-b, 67-b, 68-d, 69-d, 70-a, 71-b, 72-b, 73-a, 74-b, 75-c, 76-d, 77-a, 78-c, 79-b, 80-b,  81-d, 82-d, 83-a, 84-b, 85-a, 86-c, 87-b, 88-c, 89-c, 90-a.