EDUCATIONWELL

MASTER CADRE 2022  QUESTIONS

1. A 'conceit' in metaphysical poetry is 

1. metaphor
2. a symbol
3. a far-fetched metaphor
4. a part of speech

2. Milton's Paradise lost came out in

1. 1660
2. 1708
3. 1667
4. 1718

3. Lycidas is a work by

1. Alexander pope
2. John Milton
3. Marvel
4. John Donne

4. In Paradise Regained, Milton wrote about the temptation of 

1. Jesus
2. Adam
3. Eve
4. Michael

5. Who wrote the poem Milton in 1804?

1. Cowper
2. William Blake
3. Wordsworth
4. Shelley

6. In Biographia Literaria, Coleridge distinguishes between

1. Consciousness and unconscious
2. Mind and body
3. Matter and metaphysics
4. Fancy and imagination

7. An aspect of the meaning of Blake's Song of the Innocence and Experience pertains to 

1. a simple depiction of nature
2. human will
3. possibility of progress to a higher innocence
4. None of the Above

8. The poem Poison Tree was entitled in Blake's manuscript as

1. Christian Forbearance
2. Christian
3. The Fall
4. The Temptation

9. Blake's works can be seen to be derived from

1. Scottish mythology
2. hymnological tradition
3. lyrical tradition
4. religious tradition

10. Who wrote the essay the The Constitution of Church and State?

1. William Wordsworth
2. Tennyson
3. John Donne
4. Coleridge

11. In which novel of Jane Austen do naval officers appear as characters?

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Mansfield Park
3. Sense and Sensibility
4. Emma

12. Jane Austen's Novels show

1. passionate rejection of conservative values
2. Rejection of Christian values
3. Affirmation of the virtues of restraint
4. No insistence on propriety

13. Waverley is considered a novel by

1. Richardson
2. Thackeray
3. Hardy 
4. Scott

14. Childe Harold appeared in two cantos in 1812. How many were added to it 1816 and 1818?

1. Ten
2. Two
3. Seven 
4. Three

15. Don Juan is a poem by

1. Ben Jonson 
2. Marlowe
3. Byron
4. Robert Southey

16. 'Wit' in John Donne's poetry means

1. Sharp intellect only 
2. ironic wisdom
3. satire
4. free play of intelligence and delight in intellectual games

17. Areopagitica is a pamphlet written by

1. Milton 
2. Bacon
3. Jonson
4. Addison

18. Parson Adams is a character in one of the novels of 

1. Richardson 
2. Fielding
3. Scott
4. Conrad

19. Lines written of a few miles above Tintern Abbey appeared as a part of 

1. The Prelude 
2. The Excursion
3. Lyrical Ballads 
4. None of the above

20. In Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth chose to describe

1. human love 
2. industrial life
3.  humble and rustic life
4. none of the above

21. Book VIII of The Excursion records Wordsworth's impressions of 

1. his school 
2.  the place of his birth
3. the natural beauty
4. a manufacturing district of England

22. Who is the author the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism?

1. Shelley 
2. Keats 
3. Milton 
4. Arnold

23. The Eve of St. Agnes is a poem by

1. Byron
2. Scott
3. Keats
4. Marlowe

24. Keats's The Fall of Hyperion: A dream is the story of the resistance of the titans to

1. The natural fury
2. new order of the Gods
3. the flux of the material universe
4. the world of imagination

25. Adonais is a tribute by Shelley to 

1. Dante
2. Petrarch
3. Keats
4. Shakespeare

26. The author of The Ring and The Book is 

1. Robert Browning
2. Alfred Tennyson
3. Matthew Arnold
4. Elizabeth Browning

27. The Ring and The Book retells the story of an Italian murder trial from the perspective of 

1. The lawyer
2. The pope
3. Roman citizens
4. all of them

28. A Series of lectures entitled Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History are attributed to 

1. Joseph Addison
2. Matthew Arnold
3. Thomas Carlyle
4. Ruskin

29. Who was among the first critics to write about the elusive smile of Mona Lisa?

1. William Hale White
2. Walter Pater
3. Oscar Wilde 
4. WB Yeats

30. Who was known as the Lady of the Lamp?

1. Florence Nightingale
2. EB Browning
3. George Eliot
4. Virginia Woolf