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Important Questions of Master Cadre Exam 

31. What inspired Robert Browning to write The Ring and the Book?

1. Greek mythology
2. Happenings in France during Robespierre's reign
3. King Arthur
4. A Rome Murder Trial

32. In his socially relevant writings John Ruskin wrote about

1. atheism
2. contemporary economic conditions
3. recovery of Christian social ideals
4. political debates

33. Walter Pater was influenced by

1. Pre-Raphaelites
2. Renaissance painters only
3. Rousseau
4. Gustav Flanbert

34. In his Studies in the History of Renaissance Walter Pater wrote about

1. Roman arches
2. Leonardo da Vinci
3. Virgil
4. Heraclitus

35.  What is the subtitle of Hardy's famous novel Tess?

1. An impure woman
2. a pure woman
3. a chaste woman
4. none of the above

36. Which part of England forms the background of Hardy' s novels?

1. London
2. Northern Industrialized England
3. Lancashire
4. Wessex

37. Who among the following was a member of the "Memoir Club" formed in 1920?

1. Virginia Woolf
2. T.S. Eliot
3. W.B. Yeats
4. H.G. Wells

38. Virginia Woolf's Novels attempt to

1. present specific characterization of individuals with stable identity
2. dissipate the characters
3. reintegrate the human experience in an aesthetic form
4. both B and C

39. In his novels D.H. Lawrence associates human freedom with

1. controlled and tamed nature
2. untrained and unacknowledged might of nature
3. anti nature
4. the established code of sexual ethics

40. Ursula is a character in

1. The Rainbow
2. Sons and Lovers
3. Woman in love
4. Kangaroo

41. Who was the early mentor of T.S. Eliot?

1. John Dowell
2. Galsworthy
3. Ezra Pound
4. Charles maurras

42. On which philosopher did T.S Eliot write his doctoral thesis?

1. F.H. Bradley 
2. Bergson
3. Kant
4. Thomas Acquinas

43. Name of book written by Jessie Weston which is mentioned in the notes given at the end of The Waste Land?

1. Ritual and Romance
2. Ritual and Romance: An anthropological Study
3. A Survey of Rituals
4. From Ritual to Romance

44. James Joyce was from

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

45. Which of the following is Not a work by James Joyce?

1. Of Human Bondage
2. A Portrait of the artist as a young man
3. Ulysses
4. Finnegans Wake

46. The Voyage out is a novel by

1. James joyce
2. Joseph conrad
3. E.M. forster
4. Virginia Woolf

47. Where was Joseph Conrad Born?

1. Romania
2. Poland
3. Austria
4. England

48. In   Conrad's Heart of Darkness, imperialism is sought to be presented as 

1. merely brutish
2. ideal
3. as a venture imbued with brutish idealism
4. as given to senseless expansion only

49. Which of the following is attributed of G.B. Shaw?

1. Essays in Socialism
2. Utopian Socialism
3. Fabian Essays in Socialism
4. Scientific Socialism

50. Which of the following is not a work by G.B. Shaw?

1. The immortal Hour
2. Major Barbara
3. The Quintessence of Ibsenism
4. Back to Mothuselah

51. W.B. Yeats was

1. a poet
2. a playwright
3. both a poet and playwright
4. a novelist

52. With which event was Yeats's faith in the heroic character of country restored?

1. acts of valour by Irish soldiers in First world war
2. The Easter rising of 1916
3. Dublin Rising 
4. None of above

53. E.M. Forster was a close associate of 'Bloomsbury Group'. Who is considered to be one of  the founders of this group?

1. Empson
2. Matthew Aronld
3. Shaw
4. Virginia Woolf

54.   Godbole is a character in 

1. A passage of India
2. Howard End
3. Maurice
4. The Bachelor of Art

55. Beckett's play Waiting for Godot was staged in London in

1. 1950
2. 1955
3. 1944
4. 1959

56. Which of the following in Not a novel by Samuel Backett?

1. Molloy
2. Luther
3. Malone Dies
4. The Unnamable

57. Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party presents a situation in which the protagonist is threatened to indictment for unexplained crimes. This situation is 

1. Faustian
2. Like that of hamlet
3. Kafkaesque
4. Sartrian

58.  Which of the following is not a play by Harold Piner?

1. The caretaker
2. The old and the young
3. The lover
4. Party time

59.  I.A. Richard is known for his work

1. Literary theory
2. New criticism
3. Modern criticism
4. Practical criticism

60.  I. A. Richard's co-author for the book The Meaning of Meaning was 

1. Cleanth brooks
2. William Empson
3. Lunacharsky
4. Charles K. ogden

Answer keys:- 31-4, 32-3, 33-2, 34-2, 35-2, 36-4, 37-1, 38-4, 39-2, 40-1, 41-3, 42-1, 43-4, 44-3, 45-1, 46-4, 47-2, 48-3, 49-3, 50-1, 51-3, 52-2, 53-4, 54-1, 55-2, 56-2, 57-3, 58-2, 59-4, 60-4.