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Important Questions of Master Cadre Exam 

91. Which part of England lies in the background of hardy's novel?

1. Lancanshire 
2. Wessex
3. Hondurus Island
4. Manchester 

92. Which work of anthropology did TS Eliot use for writing his famous poem 'The waste land'?

1.  the golden bough
2.  Amongst the trobriands
3.  culture studies
4.  structural and anthropology

 93. Virginia woolf is a Pioneer in the technique of 

1. stream of consciousness 
2. sociological novels
3. stream of unconsciousness
4. Surrealism

95.  James Joyce was form 

1. England 
2. Ireland
3.  Scotland 
4. London

96. 'Psychoanalysis and the unconscious' (1921) and the 'Fantasia of unconsciousness' (1922) are two essays by 

1. Sigmund Freud
2.  HG Wells
3.  Virginia woolf
4.  DH Lawrence 

97. William Golding's 'Lord of the flies' is a set

1.  in Metropolitan city
2.  in an African African forest
3.  on a desert Island
4.  in an Asiatic village

 98. Endgame is a play by 

1. Samuel backett
2.  synge
3.  GB Shaw
4.  WB Yeats

99. 'Exiles' is a play by

1.  James Joyce
2.  O' Casey
3.  Shaw
4.  ibsen 

100. The confidential clerk is a play by

1.  GB Shaw
2.  WB Yeats
3.  Harold pinter
4.  TS Eliot

101.  'A room of one's own' is a work by 

1. Virginia woolf 
2. James Joyce
3.  Philip larkin 
4. Mary Shelley

102.  The first two volume of Ted Hughes poems express

1.  a simple fascination for the forest
2. an affinity with the Gothic world 
3. and awareness of affinities between animal and human life
4.  none of the above 

102. 'Not Waving But Drowning'   is a collection of poem by 

1. Doris lessing 
2. Steve Smith 
3. Matthew Arnold
4.  Samuel Beckett

 103. Seamus Heaney is

1.  Italian poet
2.  is an Irish poet
3.  a Welsh poet
4.  an American poet 

104. 'High windows'  is a collection of poem by

1. Philip larkin 
2. Doris lessing 
3. Eavan boland
4. F.R. leavis

105. 'Burmese day' is a novel by

1. koestler
2. Thackrey
3. George orwell
4. William Empson

 106. In Grahem green's 'The power and the glory' as the reader encounters

1.  the ancient America 
2. a lesser known  Asiatic country 
3. Poland 
4. violently restless Mexico

107.  'The Golden Notebook'  is a

1.  collection of essay
2.  A collection of poem
3.  a diary
4.  novel 

108. 'The four Gate city' is a novel by

1.  Doris lessing 
2. Graham Greene 
3. Salman Rushdie 
4. Stephen leacock 

109. 'Tales from ovid: a twenty four passage from the metamorphoses' is by

1.  Ted Hughes 
2. Steve Smith
3.  Seamus Heaney
4.  Eavan boland 

110. 'The professor" is a novel by 

1. Doris lessing
2.  V.S Naipaul
3.   Charlotte bronte 
4. Jonathan Swift

111.'Rochester' is a character

1.   bleak house
2.  the return of native
3.  Solitary Reaper
4. Jane Eyre

112.  In Emily bronte's 'Wuthering height'  Wuthering height is the name of

1.  a hill
2.  House 
3. road
4.  a mountain range 

113. 'The novel of the Charlotte bronte emerged from the life in 

1. London 
2. Dublin
3. Yorkshire
4.  Scotland

114.  'Hard time' is a bitter critique of 

1. renaissance
2. reformation
3.  industrial revolution 
4.  feudalism

115. 'Deans'  is a the name of family in

1.  The Mill on the floss
2. Felix Holt
3.  the tale of two cities
4. Jude the Obscure

116. Charles dickens was influenced deeply by the writing of

1.  Ruskin
2.  Carlyle
3. Copernicus
4. Bacon

 117. 'The Parish boy's progress' is the subtitle of the novel of 

1. David Copperfield 
2. Pickwick papers
3. the tale of two cities 
4. Oliver twist

118. Which of the following is a novel by Walter Scott ?

1. Northanger Abbey
2.  Tales of the hall
3.  Gothic tales
4.  the tailsman

119.  Jane Austen's 'Emma' came out in

1. 1816
2. 1830
3. 1835
4. 1850

 120. 'Principle of literary criticism' is a critical work by

1.  T.S. Eliot
2.  S.T Coleridge
3.  I.A. Richards 
4. William Empson

121.  'The Sared wood'  is the title of the collection of critical essay by 

1.  T.S. Eliot
2.  S.T Coleridge
3.  I.A. Richards 
4. William Empson

122.  'Literary lapses' is a work by

1.  FR leavis 
2. Stephen leacock 
3. Addison
4.  Lamp 

123. The critical journal 'Scrutiny' was founded by

 

1.  FR leavis 
2. Stephen leacock 
3. Addison
4.  Lamp 

124. Who give the critical term 'Touchstone'?

1. TS Eliot 
2. John Dryden 
3. Philip Sidney
4. Mathew Aronld

 125.  'A bend in the river' is the novel by

1. V.S Naipaul
2.   George Orwell
3.  William golding
4.  Elizabeth gaskell

 126. William  Empson was the one of the exponents of 

1. formalism 
2. Marxist criticism 
3. new criticism
4.  traditional criticism 

127. Who gave the terms referential and emotive languages?

1. Saussure
2. Chomsky
3. I.A. Richards
4. Cleanth Brooks

128. 'The birthday party' is a play by

1.  GB Shaw
2.  harold painter 
3. James Joyce
4.  conrad

129. 'Seven types of Ambiguity' is a critical work by 

1. Cleanth Brooks
2.  I.A. Richards
3. Matthew Arnold
4.  William Empson

130.  'Aziz' is a character in the novel

1.  a band of the river
2.  the satanic verses
3. coolie
4.   a passage of India

 131. Joseph Conrad was an English novelist but he was born in

1.  Cxzekoslovakia
2.  Poland
3.  Romania
4. India 

132. In which novel by Joseph conrad Marlow is a character

1.  lord Jim 
2. under Western eyes
3.  heart of darkness 
4. nostromo 

133. 'Culture and anarchy' is a work on culture by

1.  TS Eliot 
2. Miss Jessie Weston
3.  Frazer 
4. Matthew Arnold 

134. Which of the following is not a play by GB Shaw?

1.  man and the Superman
2.  the duchess of the padua
3. Mrs.warren's profession
4.  candida a mystery

135.  GB Shaw was

1.  a febian 
2. a communist 
3. a chartist
4. a trade unionist

136. Salman's Rushdie's 'Midnight's children' depicts

1. British Raj's realities 
2. India's transitions from Raj to republic
3.  only the authors attempt to create a new English language 
4. none of the above

137. In which novel of Raja Rao there is reference to Shaheed Bhagat Singh?

1. the serpent and the rope
2.  kanthapura
3.  the cat and the Shakespeare 
4. comrade kirilov

138. The serpent in the title of the Raja Rao's 'The serpent and the rope' stand for

1.  illusion 
2. reality 
3. on a reptile
4.  knowledge

 139. Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic verses"  was came out in 

1. 1981
2. 1983
3. 1987
4. 1988

140.  How else was Tagore known beside his name Rabindranath? 

1. Guruji
2. Gurudev
3. Swami
4. Guru

141. After which incident did Tagore  returned the title of 'Sir' bestowed  upon him by the Raj?

1. chauri- chaura incident
2.  black hole incident 
3. division of Bengal
4.  Jallianwala Bagh incident

 142. Where was the R.K. Narayan born?

1.  Chennai
2.  Mysore
3.  Bangalore
4.  London

143. Which Indian  classical work did R.K. Narayan render in simple narrative manner for the common readers?

1. Bhagwat Puran 
2. Geeta 
3. Panchatantra tales 
4. Ramayana 

144. Which of the following is not a work by RK Narayan?

1.  the man eater of Malgudi
2.  the Madras square
3.  the vendor of sweets 
4. waiting for the Mahatma

145. How was Sarojini Naidu popularly known?

1.  cookoo of India 
2. nightingale of India
3.  iron lady of India 
4. none of the above

146. Which of the following is the first published book of poems by Sarojini Naidu?

1.  the golden threshold
2.  the bird of the time
3.  the broken wing 
4. the sceptred field 

147. "In custody" is a novel by  

1. Amitav Ghosh
2.  Salman Rushdie
3.  Joseph Conrad
4. Anita Desai

148.  Who is the protagonist of Anita Desai's Cry the Peacock'? 

1. Savitri
2. Sri
3. Ahalya
4. Maya

149. The celebrated "History of the sikhs" by Khushwant Singh is in

1.  one volume
2. two volume
3.  three volume
4. four volume

150.  Which English magazine did Khushwant Singh edit?

1.  Outlook
2.  India Today
3.  the illustrated weekly of India
4. Caravan

Answer keys:- 91-b, 92-a, 93-a, 94-b, 95-d, 96-c, 97-a, 98-a, 99-d, 100-a, 101-c, 102-b, 103-b, 104-a, 105-c, 106-d, 107-d, 108-a, 109-a, 110-c, 111-d, 112-b, 113-c, 114-c, 115-a, 116-b, 117-d, 118-d, 119-a, 120-c, 121-a, 122-b, 123-a, 124-d, 125-c, 126-c, 127-c, 128-b, 129-d, 130-d, 131-b, 132-c, 133-d, 134-b, 135-a, 136-b, 137-b, 138-a, 139-d, 140-b, 141-d, 142-a, 143-d, 144-b, 145-b, 146-a, 147-d, 148-d, 149-b, 150-b.