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1.Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For

heres a tun of midnight-work to come, Og, from a

treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe, andliquordevrychink . Goodly and great he rails behind

his link.

In the above extract from Absalom and Achitophel Og is

(A) Elkanah Settle

(B) Lord Harvey

(C) Thomas Shadwell

(D) Joseph Addison


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2.Unless wariness be used, as good almost

kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a

man kills a reasonable creature, Gods

image, but he who destroys a good book,

kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it

were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden

to the earth; but a good book is theprecious life-blood of a master spirit.

Where is the passage from ?

(A)Miltons Areopagitica

(B) Sidneys Apologie for Poetry(C) Drydens Preface to the Fables

(D) Marvells The Rehearsal Transposed


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3.Which of the following statements is

not true of Laurence Sternes TristramShandy ?

(A) It has a linear plot.

(B) It opens and ends with the theme

of birth.

(C) It contains a trip to France.

(D) It contains a marbled page.


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4.What is a mock-heroic poem ? A mock-

heroic poem

(A)mocks at heroic pretensions in poets

and critics

(B) mocks heroism, an exaggerated

virtue in all epics(C) uses a heroic style to deride airs and

affectations

(D) uses a mocking style to deride heroes

and hero-worship


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5.In The Rape of the Lock Pope

repeatedly compares Belinda to(A) the sun

(B) the moon

(C)the north star(D)(D) the rose


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6.Who, among the following is

credited with the making of the firstauthoritative Dictionary of the English

Language ?

(A)Bishop Berkeley(B) Samuel Johnson

(C)Edmund Burke

(D) Horace Walpole


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7.In Drydens Essay of Dramatic Poesy

(1668), who opens the discussion onbehalf of the ancients ?

(A) Lisideius

(B) Crites

(C) Eugenius

(D) Neander


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8.Whom does Alexander Popesatirise in the portrait of Sporus ?

(A) Lady Wortley Montague

(B) Joseph Addison

(C) Lord Shaftsbury

(D) Lord Harvey


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9.Which of the following novels has

a great impact on the formalexperimentation in contemporary

fiction ?

(A) Thomas Nashes The

Unfortunate Traveller

(B) Henry Fieldings Tom Jones

(C) Laurence Sternes Tristram

Shandy(D) Samuel Richardsons Pamela


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10.Assertion (A) : Dr Johnsons The Lives of the

Poets carries critical and biographical studies

of poets he admired. It does not, however,

carry a life of William Wordsworth.

Reason (R) : Dr. Johnson singled out poets

whom he not only admired but also adored.

This explains his omission of Wordsworth.

(A) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.

(B) (A) is true but (R) is false.

(C) (A) and (R) are true.

(D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.


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11.What is the correct chronological

sequence of the following ?

(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph

Andrews, Tristram Shandy

(B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy,Pamela, Moll Flanders

(C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders,

Pamela, Joseph Andrews

(D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, JosephAndrews, Tristram Shandy


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12.MacFlecknoe is an attack

on Drydens literary rival,(A) Richard Flecknoe

(B) Thomas Shadwell

(C) John Wilmot(D) Matthew Prior


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14. Which among the followingworks by Daniel Defoe landed him

in prison and the pillory ?

(A) The True-Born Englishman

(B) Captain Singleton

(C) The Shortest Way with

Dissenters

(D) Moll Flanders


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15.In the summer of 1712, The Spectator

published a series of essays on ThePleasures of Imagination, written by

(A) Richard Steele

(B) John Dennis

(C) John Locke(D) Joseph Addison


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16. One of the most important themes the

speakers debate in Drydens An Essay onDramatic Poesy is______.

(A) European and non-European perceptions

of reality.

(B) English and non-English perceptions of

reality.

(C) the relative merits of French and English

theatre.

(D) the relative merits of French and English

poetry.


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17.Which of the following statements on

John Dryden is incorrect ?

(a) John Milton and John Dryden werecontemporaries.

(b) Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton

fiercely opposed monarchy.

(c) Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal

Emperor Humayun.

(d) Dryden was appointed the Poet

Laureate of England in 1668.

(A) (a) is incorrect.

(B) (d) is incorrect.(C) (c) is incorrect.

(D) (b) and (c) are incorrect.


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18.The Augustan Age is called so because(A) King Augustus ruled over England

during this period

(B) The English writers imitated the

Roman writers during this period(C) The English King was born in the

month of August

(D) This was an age of sensibility


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20.The last of Gullivers Travelsis to

(A)The Land of the

Houyhnhnms(B) The Land of Homosapiens

(C) The Land of the Hurricanes

(D) The Newfound Land


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21. John Drydens Absalom and

Achotophel is a

(A)religious tract

(B) political allegory

(C) comic verse epic

(D) comedy


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22.Match the following authors with their

respective works with the help of the code

given below :ListI ListII

I. Oliver Goldsmith 1. The Vanity of Human

Wishes

II. John Gay 2. The Vicar of Wakefield

III. Samuel Johnson 3. She Stoops to Conquer

IV. Richard Sheridan 4. The Beggars Opera

Code :

I II III IV

(A) 1 4 3 2(B) 2 4 1 3

(C) 3 2 4 1

(D) 4 3 2 1


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23.Read the following statement and the

reason given for it. Choose the right

response.

Assertion (A) : Gullivers Travels earned

Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a

misanthrope.Reason (R) : Swift in the novel was

neutral to the image of man.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is

the correct explanation.

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) isnot the correct explanation.

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is tru


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25.Identify the work below that does

not belong to the literature of the

eighteenth century:

(A) Advancement of Learning(B)Gullivers Travels

(C) The Spectator

(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot


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26.Tom Paines The Rights

of Man was published in(A) 1790

(B) 1791

(C) 1792(D) 1793


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27.Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in

the portrait of Sporus ?(A) Lady Wortley Montague

(B) Joseph Addison

(C) Lord Shaftsbury

(D) Lord Harvey


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28.Verses on the Death of Dr.

Swift is written by

(A) Alexander Pope

(B) Samuel Johnson

(C) John Gay(D) Jonathan Swift


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29. In The Rape of the Lock, Belindas

lapdog is named

(A) Luck

(B) Shock

(C) Pluck(D) Muck


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30.The English satirist who used the sharp

edge of praise to attack his victims was

(A) Ben Jonson(B) John Donne

(C) John Dryden

(D) Samuel Butler

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