EDUCATIONWELL

 

Most Repeated Questions

121. Cranford is a novel by

1. Elizabeth Gaskell
2. Mary Browning
3. Harold pinter
4. Walter pater

122. Felix Holt is a work by

1. Elizabeth Gaskell 
2. George Eliot
3. Samuel Butler
4. F.R. Leavis

123. Matthew Arnold belongs to 

1. 18th century
2. 17th century
3. 19th century
4. 14th century

124. What is the subtitle of the novel Frankenstein?

1. The Prometheus
2. The Roman Prometheus
3. The Modern Prometheus
4. Prometheus unbound

125. Who wrote the novel Frankenstein?

1. PB Shelley
2. Mary shelley
3. Stern 
4. Mary Browning

126. Matthew Arnold gave the famous term of 

1. objective correlative
2. touchstone
3. primary imagination
4. composite imagination

127. Areopagitica was a famous pamphlet written by

1. Ben Jonson
2. John Milton
3. Joseph Addison
4. Thomas Carlyle

128. Who coined the term 'Metaphysical poets' to refer to the poets like John Donne, Cowley etc?

1. Dr. Johnson
2. Grierson
3. John Donne 
4. TS Eliot

129. In which play of Shakespeare does the grave-digger's Scene occur

1. Henry V
2. King Lear
3. Hamlet
4. Othello

130. The ideal of universal law, order, and tidiness so characteristic of 18th century can be attributed to 

1. Bacon
2. Virgil
3. Newton 
4. Heraclitus

131. Who mediates in the battle fought between the modern and the ancient books in Swift's The Battle of the Books?

1. Bee
2. Spider
3. Zeus
4. Aesop

132. Who represents the modern books in Swift' The Battle of the Books?

1. Bee
2. Spider
3. Zeus
4. Aesop

133. In the beginning Lemuel Gulliver, the protagonist of Swift's Gulliver Travels was 

1. engineer
2. surgeon
3. architect
4. sailor

134. Pope's An Essay on Man explores the relationship of 

1. humankind to the Newtonian universe
2. humankind to the god-created universe
3. man to man
4. man to God

135. How many characters are there in Dryden's cap of Dramatic Poesie?

1. Six
2. Twelve
3. Seven 
4. Four

136. The Hind and The Panther is a poem written by

1. Swift
2. Pope
3. Dryden 
4. Addison

137. How did Samuel Richardson characterise his novels?

1. Prose fiction
2. Fiction
3. A new species of writing
4. An imitative writing

138. Richardson's Pamela found a place on the 

1. vetican's index of prohibited books
2. vetican's index of popular books
3. neither A and B
4. the shelves of 10 Downing Street library

139. In order to inculcate reading habit in the general public during 18th century which significant measure was undertaken?

1. Reducing the price of the book
2. Establishing circulating libraries
3. Organising debates on the books
4. None of the above

140. Pamela was written in the style of 

1. allegory
2. romance
3. magic realist novel
4. epistolary novel

141. In Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding attempted to establish

1. third-person narrative
2. autobiographical novel
3. allegorical narrative
4. romantic narrative

142. Which of the following is a novel by Henry Fielding?

1. Roderick Random
2. Clarissa
3. Tristran Shandy
4. The life of Jonathan Wild the Great

143. The Alchemist is a work by

1. Dr. Johnson
2. Ben jonson
3. Philip Sidney
4. Thomas Middleton

144. Volpone depicts the unruly and unscrupulous life in 

1. London 
2. Lancashire
3. Rome
4. Venice

145. In the opening lines of Paradise lost Milton refers to

1. God's abode
2. Adam's creation
3. Eve's creation
4. Man's first disobedience

146. Samson Agonistes is a tragedy by

1. Ben jonson
2. Marvell
3. Milton
4. Donne

147. In which book did Mary Wollstonecraft brought to the fore slavery of women of all classes in human history?

1. Vindication of the Rights of Man
2. Female Biography 
3. Memoirs of Emma Courtney
4. The Age of Reason

148. In Romantic literature, the author wrote

1. on behalf of a special caste of people
2. as a man speaking to men
3. for a sensitive section of society
4. for the rustic people only

149. Many Romantic poets

1. continued to employ elements of Greek mythology in the works
2. scorned the blind imitation of classical models
3. stood for the autonomy of the creative imagination
4. all the above

150. In Book VIII of The Excursion Wordsworth records his impressions about

1. childhood only 
2. the ancient Roman civilization
3. a manufacturing district of northern England
4. none of the above