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Important Questions of Master Cadre Exam 

1. Who suggested the title of Wordsworth's long poem The prelude at the time of its publication in 1850?

1. Dorothy
2. Mary
3. Wordsworth himself
4. Coleridge

2.Who coined the term 'emotions recollected in tranquility?

1. Keats
2. Wordsworth 
3. Byron
4. Walter Scott

3. The poison tree in Blake's poem of the same title stands for

1. the forbidden tree of knowledge
2. the liberating power of Christian forgiveness
3. both A and B
4. an ordinary tree having poisoned bark

4. Who wrote Songs of Experience?

1. William Cooper
2. Robert Burns 
3. Fanny Burney 
4. William Blake

5. France: An ode is attributed to 

1. Wordsworth
2. Coleridge
3. Mary Shelley 
4. Mary Wordsworth

6. Waverley was written by

1. Walter Scott
2. Bishop Percy
3. Jane Austen
4. Walter Pater

7. In the novels like Mansfield Park and Persuation, Jane Austen introduced characters who were

1. Army officers
2. civil servants
3. naval officers
4. acclesiatical position holders

8. In Ivanhoe, The Talisman and The Betrothed, Walter Scott

1. upholds the medieval code of chivalry
2. questions the usefulness of the medieval code of chivalry
3. portrays his own world
4. none of the above

9. Byron's poetry is

1. informed by the contemplation of nature
2. informed by the feverish European nationalism stirred by French Revolution
3. informed by tranquil emotions
4. informed by his childhood memories

10. How many cantos did Byron add to his poem Childe Harold in 1816 and 1818?

1. Two
2. Four
3. One
4.  Five

11. In which essay did Shelley proclaim the function of poetry as essentially Social and the role of the poet as prophetic?

1. The spirit of Poetry
2. The Defence
3. A Defence of Poetry
4. Alastor

12. In Adonais, Shelley has paid tributes to

1. Wordsworth
2. Coleridge
3. Southey
4. Keats

13. The term "Negative capability" coined by Keats means

1. feeling repulsion and irritation over facts.
2. a man incapable of being in uncertainties, miseries, doubts etc.
3. a man capable of being in uncertainties, miseries, doubts etc.
4. none of above

14.  Which of the following is a not a work by Keats?

1. Lamia
2. The triumph of life
3. Isabella 
4. The eve of St. Agnes

15. Ode is a poem

1. written in morning
2. of a fixed length
3. written in form of an address
4. a plain simple lyric

16.  In Ode to the West Wind, Shelley describes the west wind as 

1. a hurricane only 
2. a wind laden with fragrance
3. destroyer
4. destroyer and preserver

17. How does Coleridge define the term 'Fancy'?

1. a mental activity which merely assembles and juxtaposes images and impressions
2. a mental activity which is of no use at all in poetic creation
3. a mental activity which fuses the images and impressions
4. a mental activity which follows the faculty of imagination

18. Which critical work is attributed to Coleridge?

1. Literaria Biographia
2. Biographia literaria
3. The imaginative Faculty
4. Fancy and Imagination

19. Whose works did Coleridge discuss while attempting to define creative imagination?

1. Dante
2. Milton
3. Shakespeare
4. Marlowe

20. Which of the following is a novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis?

1. The Monk
2. Alonzo the Brave
3. Babbitt
4. Dodsworth

21. Which of the following is the name of journal brought out by Leigh Hunt?

1. Examiner
2. The Tatler
3. Guardian
4. Times

22. In the eyes of Thomas Carlyle hero is a person who is 

1. brave and full of chivalry
2. lonely in his ventures
3. challenger of convention and of sham
4. treads the path resolutely already demarcated in history

23.  Which of the following is Not a work by Thomas Carlyle?

Of heroes, Hero- worship and Heroic in History

Sartor Resartus

The French Revolution

Confessions

24. Hard times by charles dickens is

1. a bitter satire on the effects of industrial revolution
2. a simple depiction of the effects of Industrial revolution
3. concerned with childhood memories only
4. an attempt to build a utopia

25. Pip is a character in 

1. Oliver Twist
2. Dombey and son
3. Great Expectations
4. Bleak House

26. Which of the following is a novel by Charlotte Bronte?

1. The Newcomes
2. The Professor
3. Vanity Fair
4. The Punch

27. Who worte the tract Culture and Anarchy?

1. James Mill
2. T.S Eliot
3. Hazlitt
4. Matthew Arnold

28. Which of the following is a constituent of the English as discussed in the tract Culture and Anarchy?

1. Laity
2. Barbarian aristocracy
3. middle class
4. Proletariate

29. Maggie Tulliver in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss is 

1. a simple but dull headed country lass
2. a girl full of serenity
3. an aspirer and a victim
4. a being given to the observance of social and religious code

30. Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book is also called

1. Verse novel
2. a drama
3. an ode
4. an allegiac writing

Answer keys:- 1-2, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, 5-2, 6-1, 7-3, 8-1, 9-2, 10-1, 11-3, 12-4, 13-3, 14-2, 15-3,16-4, 17-1, 18-2, 19-3, 20-1, 21-1, 22-3, 23-4, 24-1, 25-3, 26-2, 27-4, 28-2, 29-3, 30-1.