00190--UGC-NET, English Literature Objective Type Question Answers 61 to 75

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61)      “…the error of evaluating a poem by its effects—especially its emotional effects—upon the reader” is:

A.      Affective Fallacy

B.      Intentional Fallacy

C.      Both A and B

D.     Pathetic Fallacy

Answer: …………………………………………

62)      Match A with B

                        A                                             B

a. Robert Penn Warren                   1. Ode to the Confederate Dead

b. Allen Tate                                     2. Understanding Poetry

c. John Crowe Ransom              3. Literary Criticism: A Short History

d. W.K. Wimsatt                                       4. The New Criticism

A.      a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

B.      a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1

C.      a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3

D.     a-1, d-4, c-2, d-3

Answer: ……………………………………………

63)      Marlowe’s all four great tragedies share two features in common.  Which are they?

1.      Magic Realism

2.      Theme of overreaching

3.      Blank Verse

4.      Romantic presentation

A.      Only 1, 2 and 3

B.      Only 3 and 4

C.      Only 2, 3 and 4

D.     Only 2 and 3

Answer: ………………………………………..

64) Who said that the writer should be “outside the whale”, because otherwise, the state or society could swallow the writer up, as the whale had swallowed Jonah.

A.      Andrew Marvell

B.      S.T.Coleridge

C.      T.S.Eliot

D.     George Orwell

Answer: ……………………………..

65) “I have used similitude.” Who said this about his which work?

A.      Thomas Hobbes about ‘Leviathan’.

B.      Bunyan about ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’

C.      Milton about ‘Paradise Lost’

D.     Alexander Pope about ‘The Dunciad’

Answer: …………………………………

66)   Which of the following is wrong?

A.      Jonathan Swift—A Modest Proposal—Pamphlet—1728

B.      Samuel Johnson—The Vanity of Human Wishes—Imitation of Juvenal’s 10^th satire

C.      Robinson Crusoe—Friday—Colonialism

D.     Henry Feilding—Tom Jones—Story of a foundling

Answer: ……………………………………….

67) The two gentlemen in the Two Gentlemen of Verona are
(a) Douglas and Calvin
(b) Valentine and Protons
(c) Henry Bailey and Davenant
(d) Lovelace and Herrick
Answer: …………………………….
68) Who popularized the inductive method for arriving at a conclusion through his Novum Organum?
(a) Ben Jonson
(b) Francis Bacon
(c) Addison and Steele
(d) Dr. Johnson
Answer: …………………….
69)  Thomas Hardy’s life and career are obliquely depicted in:
A. The Return of the Native
B. Jude the Obscure
C. Tess of the d’ Urbervilles
D. The Mayor of Casterbridge
Answer: …………………………….
70) Which of the following statements is/are wrong based on the novel “Heart of Darkness”?
1. Kurtz pretends to be mad.
2. The novel opens on the mouth of the Thames.
3. Marlow is the hero-narrator of the tale
4. Chinu Achebe denounced this novel as “bloody racist”.

A. Only 1
B. Only 2
C. Only 3 and4
D. Only 4
Answer: ………………….

71)       “The humblest craftsman over near the Aemilian school will model fingernails and imitate waving hair in bronze; but the total work will be unhappy because he does not know how to represent it as a unified whole. I should no more wish to be like him, if I desired to compose something, than to be praised for my dark hair and eyes and yet go through life with my nose turned awry. You who write, take a subject equal to your powers, and consider at length how much your shoulders can bear. Neither proper words nor lucid order will be lacking to the writer who chooses a subject within his powers. The excellence and charm of the arrangement, I believe, consists in the ability to say only what needs to be said at the time, deferring or omitting many points for the moment. The author of the long-promised poem must accept and reject as he proceeds.”

Horace here:

A.      Gives advice

B.      Criticises

C.      Evaluates

D.     Inspires

Answer: ……………………..

72)      “The ancient poets animated all sensible objects with gods or geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive.

“And particularly they studied the genius of each city and country, placing it under its mental deity.

“Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of, and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects: thus began priesthood; choosing forms of worship from poetic tales.

“And at length they pronounced that the gods had ordered such things.

“Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

                                    ……………….

Who speaks here?

A.      Addison

B.      Matthew Arnold

C.      William Blake

D.     Alexander Pope

Answer: ………………………………….

73)      “I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke on various subjects; several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement especially in literature and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously-I mean negative capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason-Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge.”

This is taken:

A.  from Letter to Benjamin Bailey.

A.      from Letter to George and Thomas Keats .

B.      from Letter to John Taylor .

C.      from Letter to Richard Woodhouse.

Answer: ……………………..

74)      Well, we are all condamnes. as Victor Hugo says: "les hommes sont tous condamnes a mort avec des sursis indejinis ":  we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest in art and song. For our one chance is in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time. High passions give one this quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, political or religious enthusiasm. or the "enthusiasm of humanity." Only, be sure it is passion, that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

This is from:

A. Is There a Text in This Class?

B. The Contingency of Language

C. Studies in the History of the Renaissance

D. The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles

Answer: ………………………….

75)            Or, after dark, will dubious women come

               To make their children touch a particular stone;

               Pick simples for a cancer; or on some

               Advised night see walking a dead one?

               Power of some sort will go on

               In games, in riddles, seemingly at random;

               But superstition, like belief, must die,

               And what remains when disbelief has gone?

This is taken from Philip Larkin’s 

A.      The Less Deceived

B.      An Arundel Tomb

C.      Church Going

D.     Toads

Answer: …………………………….

ANSWERS:

61-A
62-C
63-D
64-D
65-B
66-A
67-B
68-B
69-B
70-A
71-A
72-C
73-B
74-C
75-C

00188--UGC-NET, English Literature Objective Type Question Answers 41 to 50 [English Literature free notes]

41)  “ Hudibras” is:

1. an English mock heroic and narrative poem

2. from the 17th century

3. written by Samuel Butler

4. from the 18^th century

A. Only  1, 3 and 4

B. Only 1 and 3

C. Only 1, 2 and 3

D. Only 1 and 4

Answer: ………………………

42) Match A with B

                        A                                                          B

a. The Prelude                                                 1. T.S.Eliot

b. Preludes                                                      2. Wordsworth

c. Ode On The Nativity                                   3. Matthew Arnold

d. Tristram and Iscult                                      4. Milton

A. a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

B. a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2

C. a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4

D. a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3

Answer: ………………………………….

43)      “Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colors; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects.”

This is taken from:

A.      The Study of Poetry

B.      The Salon of 1859

C.      Studies in the History of the Renaissance

D.     On the Pleasures of the Imagination

Answer: ………………………….

44) Match A with B

                        A                                                          B

a. Thyrsis                                             1. Elegy on John Keats

b. In Memoriam                                  2. Elegy on Hugh Clough

c. Adonias                                            3. Elegy on Edward King

d. Lycidas                                            4. Elegy on Henry Hallam

A. a-1, b-4, c-2, d-3

B. a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1

C. a-3, b-1, c-4, d-1

D. a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3

Answer: ……………………………

45)      Match A with B

            A                                              B

a.  Autolycus                             1.  Aldous Huxley

b.  Mark Twain                         2. Samuel Cemens

c. George Eliot                        3. Mary Ann Evans

d. Elia                                                  4. Charles Lamb

A.      a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4

B.      a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3

C.      a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4

D.     a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1

Answer: …………………………………….

46) Cynewulf is :

1. one of the 12 Anglo-Saxon poets

2. an epic

3. a parody of Beowulf

4. the author of ‘Juliana’ and ‘Elene’

A. Only 1

B. Only 1, 2 and 3

C. Only 3

D. Only 1 and 4

Answer: ……………………………………

47)      “Having thus explained a few of my reasons for writing in verse, and why I have chosen subjects from common life, and endeavored to bring my language near to the real language of men, if I have been too minute in pleading my own cause, I have at the same time been treating a subject of general interest; and for this reason a few words shall be added with reference solely to these particular poems, and to some defects which will probably be found in them. I am sensible that my associations must have sometimes been particular instead of general, and that, consequently, giving to things a false importance, I may have sometimes written upon unworthy subjects; but I am less apprehensive on this account, than that my language may frequently have suffered from those arbitrary connections of feelings and ideas with particular words and phrases, from which no man can altogether protect himself.”

This is taken from:

A.      An Essay on Criticism

B.      Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads

C.      Biographia Literaria

D.     A Defense of Poetry

Answer: …………………….

48) According to Longinus which are the sources of sublimity that cannot be cultivated?

1.      Dignity of Composition

2.      Appropriate use of Figures

3.      Capacity for strong emotion

4.      Nobility of Diction

5.      Grandeure of Thought

A.      Only 1, 2, and 5

B.      Only 3 and 4

C.      Only 2, 4 and 5

D.     Only 3 and 5

Answer: ……………………………………..

49) According to S.T. Coleridge:

1.      Primary imagination has the “esemplastic” power.

2.      On the way to the supernatural from natural if the poet fails to carry on he ends up as a “materialist”.

3.      Allegory is superior to symbol.

4.        Being an ‘organic whole’ is the quality of good poetry.

A.      Only 2, 3 and 4

B.      Only 1, 2 and 3

C.      Only 2 and 4

D.     1, 2, 3 and 4

Answer: ……………………………

50) Who translated the “Seafarer”?

A.      A.L. Tennyson

B.      Ezra Pound

C.      T.S.Eliot

D.     Sylvia Plath

Answer: …………………………

ANSWERS:

41-C

42- D

43-D

44-D

45-A

46-D

47-B

48-D

49-C

50-B

00185--UGC-NET, English Literature Objective Type Question Answers 11 to 20

11)           That moment she was mine, mine, fair,

       Perfectly pure and good: I found

A thing to do, and all her hair

       In one long yellow string I wound

       Three times her little throat around,

And strangled her. No pain felt she;

       I am quite sure she felt no pain. 

These lines stand for the speaker’s:

A.      true love

B.      dilemma

C.       pride

D.     abnormal psychology

Answer: ………………………………………

12)   But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

               Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

               A savage place! as holy and enchanted

               As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted

               By woman wailing for her demon lover!

These line are taken from:

A.      Christabel

B.      Dejection: An Ode

C.      The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

D.     Kubla Khan

Answer: ……………………………

13)       In his story Sarrasine Balzac, describing a castrato disguised as a woman, writes the following sentence: 'This was woman herself, with her sudden fears, her irrational whims, her instinctive worries, her impetuous boldness, her fussings, and her delicious sensibility.' Who is speaking thus? Is it the hero of the story bent on remaining ignorant of the castrato hidden beneath the woman? Is it Balzac the individual, furnished by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman? Is it Balzac the author professing 'literary' ideas on femininity? Is it universal wisdom? Romantic psychology? We shall never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing.

This paragraph advocates:

A.      Structuralism

B.      Post-structuralism

C.      Formalism

D.     Expressionism

Answer: ………………………………………………………….

14)  Match A with B

                        A                                                          B

a. Eugenius                              1.Speaks for the French drama

b. Crites                                   2. Speaks for the English drama

c. Lisideius                               3. Speaks for the ancient drama

d. Neander                              4. Speaks for the modern drama

A.      a-4, b-2, c-1, d-3

B.      a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3

C.      a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

D.     a-2, b-3, c-4, d-1

Answer: ………………………………..

15)  Match A with B

                        A                                                                 B

            a. Surrealism                                                 1. Lord Byron

            b. Stream of Consciousness                          2. T.S. Eliot

            c. Romanticism                                            3. Dylan Thomas

            d. Modernism                                               4. James Joyce

A. a-1, b-3, c-4, d-2

B. a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1

C. a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2

D. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4

Answer: ………………………………

16)    

“ Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory. and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true. Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared, were called, in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets: a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters.”

This is from:

A.      Art of Poetry

B.      An Apology for Poetry

C.      An Essay on Criticism

D.     A Defense of Poetry

Answer: ……………………………..

17)  Match the lines with the authors.

a.       The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

b.      The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom;

The land of apparitions, empty shades!

c.       Wild shrieks have issued from the hollow tombs;

Dead men have come again, and walked about;

And the great bell has tolled, unrung and untouched.

d.      "When men my scythe and darts supply

How great a King of Fears am I!"

1.      Robert Blair        2. Thomas Parnell       

 3. Thomas Grey           4.Edward Young

A.    a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4

B.     a-3, b-4, c-1. d-2

C.     a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4

D.    a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3

Answer: …………………..

18)  

            “But though it is in terms of structure that we must describe poetry, the term structure is certainly not altogether satisfactory as a term. One means by it something far more internal than the metrical pattern, say, or than the sequence of images. The structure meant is certainly notform in the conventional sense in which we think of form as a kind of envelope which "contains" the "content." The structure obviously is everywhere conditioned by the nature of the material which goes into the poem.”

The author is:

A.      John Crowe Ransome

B.      William Empson

C.      Cleanth Brooks

D.     I.A.Richards

Answer: …………………………….

19)       It will be convenient at this point to introduce two definitions. In a full critical statement which states not only that an experience is valuable in certain ways, but also that it is caused by certain features in a contemplated object, the part which describes the value of the experience we shall call the critical part. That which describes the object we shall call the technical part.

This is taken from:

A.      Seven Types of Ambiguity             B. The Heresy of Paraphrase

C.  The Principles of Literary Criticism                 D. The New Criticism

Answer: ……………………………

20)       The loveliest and the last,
The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew
Died on the promise of the fruit.

The context is:

A.      The death of Edward Young

B.      The death of Mary Shelley

C.      The death of Fanny Brawne

D.     The death of Keats

Answer: ………………………………

ANSWERS:

11-D

12-D

13-B

14-C

15-C

16-D

17-B

18-C

19-C

20-D