Subject Specific (MCQs)
1. Robert Southey designated Byron and Shelley as:
a) The Symphony School
b) The Romantic Two
c) The Satanic School
d) Revolutionary Icons
2. Title of E.M Forster’s A Passage to India comes from:
a) Walt Whitman's poem
b) Henry Longfellow’s poem
c) Robert Lowell’s poem
d) Rudyard Kipling’s poem
3. The first writer to apply the term stream of consciousness in a literary context (about novels)
is:
a) William James
b) May Sinclair
c) Dorothy Richardson
d) Alexander Bain
4. Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by:
a) Christopher Marlowe
b) Richard Sheridan
c) Samuel Johnson
d) T.S Eliot
5. Paul de Man’s critical endeavor is marked by:
a) Marxist tilt
b) Formalist practices
c) Deconstructive attitude
d) None of these
6. “Thus conscience does make cowards of us all” occurs in Shakespeare’s:
a) Hamlet
b) Macbeth
c) Othello
d) King Lear
7. Who among the following belongs to the philosophical paradigm of Phenomenology?
a) Stephen Greenblatt
b) Edmund Husserl
c) Stanley Fish
d) Jacques Lacan
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8. Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities is about:
a) London and New York
b) New York and Paris
c) Paris and London
d) London and Moscow
9. Ernest Hemingway is the master of writing style known as:
a) Iceberg technique
b) Grand Style
c) Ornate writing
d) Defamiliarized discourse
10. Shakespearean Tragedy is written by:
a) Samuel Johnson
b) Jonathan Culler
c) A.C Bradley
d) David Daiches
11. A poem of mourning for an individual, or a lament for some tragic event, is called:
a) Elegy
b) Limerick
c) Villanelle
d) Haiku
12. --------- is one of the proponents and practitioners of New Criticism:
a) Sara Mills
b) Terry Eagleton
c) Allen Tate
d) Judith Butler
13. Robert Young belongs to:
a) Formalist paradigm
b) Eco-critical paradigm
c) Marxist paradigm
d) Postcolonial paradigm
14. Wordsworth’s The Prelude is composed in:
a) Heroic Couplet
b) Blank Verse
c) Rhyme Royal
d) Terza Rima
15. Who is called “the Father of Comedy” among the following Greek dramatists?
a) Sophocles
b) Aristophanes
c) Aeschylus
d) Euripides
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16. The Myth of Sisyphus is written by:
a) Jean Paul Sartre
b) Soren Kierkegaard
c) Karl Jaspers
d) Albert Camus
17. Rudyard Kipling’s Kim is set in:
a) England
b) Ireland
c) India
d) America
18. Closet Drama is:
a) Written to show social instability
b) A play in three Acts
c) Written to be read rather than performed
d) A play with fewer characters
19. Title of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart comes from:
a) W.B Yeats
b) S.T Coleridge
c) Lord Byron
d) Robert Browning
20. Bacchus is the god of:
a) Wine and vegetation
b) Archery and Medicine
c) Underworld
d) Sea and Waters
21. Alexandrine is a:
a) Two-foot line
b) Six-foot line
c) Five-foot line
d) Seven-foot line
22. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” occurs in:
a) Keats’s Endymion
b) Wordsworth’s Prelude
c) Coleridge’s Dejection: an Ode
d) Milton’s Paradise Lost
23. Meatless Days is written by:
a) Kamila Shamsi
b) Bapsi Sidhwa
c) Sara Suleri
d) G.C Spivak
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24. George Orwell’s 1984 is:
a) A dystopian novel
b) A Utopian romance
c) A stream of consciousness fiction
d) An autobiographical narrative
25. To His Coy Mistress is composed by:
a) Henry Vaughan
b) Richard Crashaw
c) Andrew Marvel
d) Abraham Cowley
26. Disgrace is written by:
a) Peter Carey
b) Rohinton Mistry
c) Vikram Seth
d) J.M Coetzee
27. Epiphany stands for:
a) A moment of revelation or illumination
b) A kind of ambiguity
c) A prosodic device for measuring meter
d) An ironic understatement
28. Which of the following novels belongs to the subgenre of Robinsonade?
a) Barchester Towers
b) Far from the Madding Crowd
c) Lord of the Flies
d) Finnegans Wake
29. In the literary context, Anaphora stands for:
a) Use of understatements
b) Stylistic deviations
c) Use of allegorical anecdotes
d) Repetition of a word or group of words in successive clauses
30. -------- is the proponent of Contrapuntal Reading:
a) Stanley Fish
b) Edward Said
c) Ahab Hassan
d) Terry Eagleton
31. Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist?
A. Ferdinand de Saussure
B. Viktor Shklovsky
C. Roland Barthes
D. Michel Foucault
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32. What do Claudius’s words, “Do it, England,” mean?
A. “Find out the cause of Hamlet’s madness”
B. “Attack Norway”
C. “Come help me”
D. “Kill Hamlet”
33. Milton’s “unholy trinity” of characters includes:
A. Error, temptation and Satan
B. Sin, death and temptation
C. Satan, sin and death
D. Sin, temptation and Satan
34. Satan’s name before he fell from heaven was:
A. Lucifer
B. Belial
C. Beelzebub
D. Michael
35. According to Plato, the moral purpose of art is:
A. To connect human beings with a higher ideal
B. To entertain those who enjoy it
C. To criticize society through satire
D. All of the above
36. `Which of the following texts is the BEST example of the argument that a work’s
meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author?
A. Plato’s The Republic
B. T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
C. Roland Barthes “The Death of the Author”
D. Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
37. Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning:
A. Copying
B. Criticism of life
C. Representation
D. Interpretation
38. Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of firstwave feminism?
A. Helen Cixous
B. Judith Butler
C. Lucy Irigaray
D. Mary Wollstonecraft
39. Franz Fanon’s works include which of the following titles?
A. Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961).
B. Power, Power, Power (1951) and How Colonisation Happened (1960).
C. The Way to Prosperity (1955) and The Colonised (1975).
D. Colonies (1980) and Post-Colonial Theory (1990).
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40. Samuel Huntington is associated with...
A. The Clash of Civilizations
B. The End of History
C. The End of Ideology
D. The New World Order
41. The idea that feminist goals cannot be realized without the destruction of economic
inequalities is associated with:
A. liberal feminism.
B. socialist feminism.
C. radical feminism.
D. postmodernism.
42. Postmodernists typically argue that...
A. ‘Universalist’ narratives which attempt to explain the world are invariably false
B. The world is socially constructed in a variety of ways
C. Differences of viewpoint should be celebrated not deplored
D. All of the above
43. Art for Art sake was advocated by:
A. Ruskin
B. Pater
C. Carlyle
D. Newman
44. Which of these is the author who was famous for his collection of essays, “The Souls of
Black Folk”?
A. William English Walling
B. Frances Blascoer
C. Oswald Garrison Villard
D. W.E.B. DuBois
45. Which novel did Zora Hurston write that told the tale of a character named Janie who falls in
love with a man nicknamed “Tea Cake”?
A. Their Eyes Were Watching God
B. Tell My Horse
C. Moses, Man of the Mountain
D. Seraph on the Suwanee
46. Anita Desai’s Where Shall We Go This Summer has been compared to Virginia Woolf’s:
A. To the Lighthouse
B. The Voyage Out
C. The Waves
D. Night and Day
47. In Saul Bello’s novel Herzog (1964), Moses Herzog is a:
A. Christian
B. Hindu
C. Jew
D. African American
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48. Rabbit Angstrom novels are written by:
A. Harper Lee
B. John Updike
C. Henry Miller
D. R. Ellison
49. The first African American woman who won the Noble Prize in literature was
A. Toni Morrison
B. Harper Lee
C. Maya Angelou
D. Lorraine Hansberry
50. The Moor’s Last Sigh is a famous work of:
A. Salman Rushdie
B. Amitav Ghosh
C. Chetan Bhagat
D. R. K. Narayan
51. Which of the following is in MLA bibliography format (for book)?
A. Author’s last name, first initial. Book title. Additional information. City of
publication: Publishing company. Publication date.
B. Author’s last name, first name. Book title. Additional information. City of publication:
Publishing company, Publication date.
C. Author’s last name, first initial. (Publication date). Book title. Additional information.
City of Publication: Publishing company.
D. Author’s first name, last initial. (Publication date). Book title. Additional information.
City of publication: Publishing company.
52. Sophocles is one of ____________ ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived:
a. five
b. four
c. three
d. None of the above
53. Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the
appearance of the ________
a. Symbolists
b. Imagists
c. Expressionists
d. Surrealists
54. Theatre in the Victorian era is regarded as history of theatre during the era ruled by
Queen Victoria from ___________________.
a. 1835 to 1901
b. 1836 to 1901
c. 1837 to 1901
d. 1838 to 1901
55. In Greek Tragedy the discovery or a change from the state of ignorance to that of
knowledge is known as:
a. Hamartia
b. Anagnorisis
c. Peripeteia
d. None of the above
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56. According to _______________ “…there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference
between the language of prose and metrical composition.”
a. Coleridge
b. Wordsworth
c. Keats
d. None of the above
57. The lines
“From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire”
are written by:
a. Robert Frost
b. Edgar Allen Poe
c. Walt Whitman
d. None of the above
58. In Marxist theory, interpellation is an important concept regarding the notion of ideology.
It is associated in particular with the work of French philosopher _________________
a. Karl Marx
b. Friedrich Engels
c. Louis Althusser
d. Roland Barth
59. The poems “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Strange Meeting” were written by:
a. Edward Thomas
b. Isaac Rosenberg
c. Wilfred Owen
d. Charles Sorley
60. Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury derives its title from Shakespeare’s play:
a. Henry IV
b. Macbeth
c. Hamlet
d. Othello
61. E. E. Cummings is a well-known modernist ______________________ poet, painter,
essayist, author, and playwright of the 20th century.
a. Austrian
b. Australian
c. American
d. Argentinian
62. A reflection of Maud Gonne can be seen in the literary works by:
a. G. B. Shaw
b. W. B. Yeats
c. T. S. Eliot
d. None of the above
63. Louise Michelle Rosenblatt is a well-known theorist on ___________________ criticism.
a. Formalist
b. Structuralist
c. Reader-response
d. Deconstructionist
64. Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and:
a. semiotician
b. phonetician
c. physician
d. none of the above
65. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is written by:
a. Zora Neale Hurston
b. Maya Angelou
c. Toni Morrison
d. Alice Walker
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66. In the novel Moby Dick by Herman Moby Dick is the name of the great white:
a. Shark
b. Sword fish
c. Whale
d. Marlin
67. A figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something
closely associated with that thing or concept is known as:
a. metaphor
b. metonymy
c. hyperbole
d. anaphora
68. What is practical criticism?
A. The close analysis of poems without taking account of any external information
B. A movement which wished to make literary criticism more relevant
C. The study of ambiguity
D. Criticism of a poem by a living poet with a view to making him or her rewrite it
69. A device in literature where an object represents an idea is:
A. Narrator
B. Parody
C. Symbolism
D. Theme
70. Unintentional use of an inappropriate word similar in sound to the appropriate word,
often with a humorous effect is:
A. Naturalism
B. Modernism
C. Malapropism
D. Postmodernism
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