301. Which of the following traditions was an important influence on Louis Zukofskys poetry ?
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A. Kabalistic Judaism

B. American Romanticism

C. Taoism

D. British Neo-Classicism

302. Which work was completed last ?
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A. George Herberts The Temple

B. William Shakespeares Tempest

C. Ben Jonsons Volpone

D. John Miltons Paradise Lost
303. Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period ?
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A. The Exclusion Bill Crisis

B. Charles II was restored to the throne

C. The French Revolution

D. The Great Fire of London

305. Which of the following statements accurately compares Rupert Brookes The Soldier and Siegfried Sassoons The Rear Guard ?
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A. Both poems praise Britains military power and its imperial ambitions.

B. Both poems describe Britains civilizing mission in the world.

C. Both poems seek to respond to the harsh political and military realities of their day.

D. Both poems romanticize war and glorify the life of the soldier.

306. Which of the following statements best characterizes the role played by Gertrude Stein in American modernism ?
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A. Stein was a proponent of low modernism.

B. Stein was an opponent of vanguard trends.

C. Stein was primarily a muse for modernist poets.

D. Stein was a crucially important figure in the Paris migr community.
307. What do you mean by Heroic Couplet ?
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A. a poem of lamentation

B. a song for mourning

C. a two line stanza

D. a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
308. This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century ?
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A. E.M. Forsters A Room With A View

B. Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway

C. Thomas Hardys Tess of the DUrbervilles

D. Henry Jamess The Ambassadors

309. Who wrote Crime and Punishment ?
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A. Shelley

B. Byron

C. Dostoyevsky

D. Tolstoy

310. Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare ?
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A. All of them

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. John Milton

D. Lord Tennyson

311. In Memoriam is _______________?
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A. neither

B. an ode

C. an elegy

D. a sonnet

312. Who was a friend of John Milton ?
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A. Andrew Marvell

B. John Donne

C. John Dryden

D. Alexander Pope

314. What is the feature of Romantic poetry ?
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A. Modernism

B. Post-modernism

C. None of the above

D. Imagination
315. Which of the following statements best characterizes the difference between Futurism and Vorticism ?
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A. Members of both movements were fascinated by speed and dynamism, but unlike the Futurists, Vorticists did not celebrate technology and industrialization.

B. Futurism was a politically-inclined movement, whereas Vorticism was free of all political entanglements.

C. Futurism lasted for several decades, whereas Vorticism was short-lived.

D. Vorticists celebrated technology and industrialization, whereas Futurists explored impending cultural challenges regarding technology and industrialization.

316. Who is the writer of the poem A Grammarians Funeral ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. Wordsworth

C. Shelley

D. Robert Browning
317. Yeats was______________?
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A. Both

B. Victorian poet

C. a modern poet

D. None of these

318. What was the nationality of OscarWilde ?
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A. French

B. Irish

C. English

D. Scottish

319. On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared_________________?
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A. The Valley of Fear

B. The Sign of the Four

C. A Study in Scarlet

D. The Hound of the Baskervilles

321. What is anthology ?
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A. collection of poems

B. study of poetry

C. fish cultivation

D. collection of insects

322. According to W.E.B. Dubois in his Atlantic Monthly essay, The Strivings of the Negro People, what are some of the personal consequences for an African- American living in a racist society at the beginning of the 20th century ?
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A. Feeling like an outcast in your own house

B. Wrapping yourself in the armor of anger and resentment

C. All of the above

D. Becoming a stuttering sycophant just to survive

323. James Joyces famous novel_____________?
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A. Tom Jones

B. Rebecca

C. Roots

D. Ulysses
324. In Memoriam by Tennyson is________________?
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A. a collection of elegies

B. a dramatic lyric

C. a lyric

D. an elegy
325. Poet Alexander Popes famous work_________________?
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A. Spectator

B. The Deserted Village

C. Man was made to mourn

D. The Rape of Lock
326. I count religion but a childish toy is a line from Marlowes play______________?
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A. Tamburlaine

B. Dr. Faustus

C. Edward II

D. The Jew of Malta
327. Which of the following literary devices is most prominent in Gertrude Steins poem New ?
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A. Circumlocution

B. Metaphor and allusion

C. Simile

D. Assonance and word repetition
328. Who is the writer of The Charge of the Light Brigade ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. A. Lord Tennyson

D. Christopher Marlowe

329. Who wrote Beauty is truth, truth beauty ?
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A. wordsworth

B. Shakespeare

C. Eliot

D. John Keats
330. Lycidas is written by_____________?
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A. Alexander Pope

B. John Milton

C. Henry Fielding

D. Thomas Hardy

334. Vanity Fair is a novel by_______________?
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A. Thackeray

B. Fielding

C. Scott

D. Dickens

335. Tales from Shakespeare is written by________________?
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A. Lawrence

B. Shakespeare

C. Lamb

D. Mary Anne Evans

337. Which one of the following is a comedy ?
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A. Alls Well that Ends Well

B. Hamlet

C. Antony and Cleopatra

D. Timon of Athens

338. What does Gertrude Steins term the Lost Generation designate ?
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A. It refers to a group of talented American migr writers who lived in Europe after World War I.

B. It refers to the young generation whose coming of age was interrupted by World War I.

C. It refers to English poets who sought refuge in New York City after World War I ended.

D. Both A and B
339. Hearing a colour or Seeing a smell is an example of______________?
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A. Contrast

B. Synaesthesia

C. Oxymoron

D. Sensuousness

341. In 1905, VirginiaWoolf began to write for which publication ?
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A. Reader Magazine

B. The Ladys Home Journal

C. Strand Magazine

D. The Times Literary Supplement
342. The 18th century work Tom Jones was written by whom ?
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A. John Donne

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Tobias Smollett

D. Henry Fielding
343. On liberty was written by_______________?
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A. Godwin

B. Carlyle

C. Macaulay

D. Mill
344. Who is the author of The Origin of Species ?
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A. Charles Darwin

B. A. Pope

C. O. Goldsmith

D. T. Hardy

345. Professor Hammer argues that Hart Cranes poem Voyages is a complex reply to which of the following modernist works ?
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A. Ezra Pounds Cantos

B. Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers

C. T.S. Eliots The Waste Land

D. T.S. Eliots A Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

346. Which period of literature came first ?
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A. Victorian

B. Regency

C. Restoration

D. Romantic

347. James Joyces narrative technique is known as______________________?
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A. stream of consciousness

B. Objective Co-relative

C. psycho-analysis

D. Symbolism and Mysticism

348. In T.S. Eliots essay called Tradition and Individual Talent, he argues that the progress of an artist consists of which of the following ?
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A. Continual transformation of the personality

B. Continual identification with the past

C. Continual expansion of the personality and its diverse elements

D. Continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality
349. Who is the writer of Harold ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. A. Lord Tennyson

D. Christopher Marlowe

350. Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?
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A. The Restoration

B. The Age of Sensibility

C. Jacobean Age

D. The Augustan Age