NET MODEL QUESTIONS-TRY YOUR ANSWERS.

Unit – I British Literature

51. “Here’s God’s Plenty” which work does Dryden refer to

A. Spenser

B. Chaucer

C. Marlowe

D. Shakespeare

52. In which stanza does the refrain in Epithalamion change?

A. 17

B. 18

C. 19

D. 20

53. “A Good advice for Satan’s Kingdom” who said these words with special reference to Bacon’s Essays.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Charles Lamb

C. William Blake

D.

54. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless tower of Ilium?

Whose face is referred to?

A. Desdemona’s

B. Viola’s

C. Mirranda’s

D. Helen’s

55. “Ha, I like not that” whose words are there?

A. Othello

B. Iago

C. Emilia

D. Desdemona

56.

The word “Sans” in seven ages of man (As you like it) is from

A. Greek language

B. French Language

C. English Language

D. Spanish Language

57. Moving of the earth brings harmes as what science is referred to herein Done fears

A. Geography

B. Geology

C. Seismology

D. Physiology

58. Who is the speaker of the statements?

A. Beical

B.  Beelzehud

C. Moloeu

D. Satan

59. The Editor of Shakespeare’s plays is

A. Pope

B. Theobald

C. Warburton

D. All of them

60. Song made in lieu of many ornaments with which my love should duly have been deci” What is the title of the song?

A.       Amoretti

B. Epithalamion

C. Prothalamion

D. The Faerie Queene

61. Who was responsible for the publication of The Vicar of Wakefield

A.  Addision

B. Steel

C. Goldings

D. Dr. Johnson

62. What is the red name of Elia?

A.  Charles Lamb

B. Bacon

C. Hazlitt

D. Goldsmith

63. Which Character of Macbeth suffers from somnambulism

A. Lady Macbeth

B. Lady Macduff

C. Macbeth

D. Banquet

64. Gnomes are the sprints of

A. Earth

B. Air

C. Fire

D. Water

65. George Eliot was the pen name adopted by

A. Virginia Woolf

B. Mary Anna Evans

C. Charles Lamb

D. Greene

66. Who made the famous statement “Shakespeare has no heroes but only heroines”

A. Ruskin

B. Carlyle

C. Johnson

D. Dryden

67. Which of the following poems ends with a moving address to the poet’s sides?

A.  Prelude

B. Michael

C. Upon Westminster’s Bridge

D. Tintern Abbey lines

68. The poem “Andreo del Sarto” is an example of

A. Dramatic Monologue

B. Ode

C. Elegy

D. Ballad

69. Duncan was to this of

A. England

B. Scotland

C. Ireland

D. None of them

70. If ______ comes can spring he talks

A. Autumn

B. Summer

C. Spring

D.  Winter

Unit- II American Literature

71. Willy Loman appears in the play

A. The Crucible

B. Death of a Sa;esman

C. All My sons

D. The Prize

72. The Hairy Ape uses the technique of _____________________

A. symbolism

B. absurd

C. expressionism

D. surrealism

73.  The tragic protagonist in The Hairy Ape is

A. Yank

B. Paddy

C.  Lors

D. The second Engineer

74. The bird referred to in When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom” is the

A. Lark

B. Thrush

C. Raven

D. Skylark

75.  The scholar is the right state according to Emerson is a

A. mere thinker

B. man thinking

C. borrower of other men’s ideas

D. parrot of other’s thoughts

76. The major symbol in “When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is

A. Star

B. Lilac

C. Bird

D. all of these

77. In “Because I could not stop for Death” death is

A. a friend

B. an enemy

C. a suitor

D. a driver

78. Who is the author of the poem “Birches”?

A. Whitman

B. Emerson

C. Robert Frost

D. Poe

79.In which poem of Robert Frost does the following lines occur, “The earth is the best place for love making.”

A. West Running Brook

B. Mending Wall

C. The Road not Taken

D. Birches

80. In the title poem “Black Panthers” the term panthers refers to

A. the Blacks

B. the Niggers

C. the African - American

D. all of these

81.The author of the poem “Buffalo Bill’s Defunct” writes his name

A. in small letter

B. initials in small letters

C. without punctuation

D. all of these

82. Buffalo Bills

      defunct

      used to ride a silver smooth stallion

      The figure of speech used here is

A. Alliteration

B. Assonance

C. Onomatopoeia

D. Antithesis

83. In “Civil Disobedience” Thoreau advocates

A. violent resistance

B. passive resistance

C. violence of all Kinds

D. terrorist tactics

84.”The jail can imprison the body but not the mind” this is the view of

A. Walt Whitman

B. Emerson

C. Thoreau

D. Dreiser

85. Who is the author of the famous novel The Colour Purple

A. Ambrose Bierce

B. Alice Walker

C. Hemmingway

D. Saul Bellow

86. “The Mirror” in Sylvia Plath’s title poem stands for

A. God

B. Lake

C. Specles

D. All of them

87.The Glass Menagerie is a/an

A. memory play

B. absurd play

C. tragic- comedy

D. romantic comedy

88. The narrator of the story in The Glass Menagerie is

A. Wingfield

B. Amande

C. Tom

D. Taura

89. Who is the protagonist of the novel The Old Man and the Sea

A. Santiago

B. Manolin

C. Carlus

D. Diplaggio

90. Mark Twain’s pen name is

A. Samuel Beckett

B. Samuel Lionel Clemens

C. Samuel Mark Clemens

D. Samuel Tailor Clemens

Unit- III Commonwealth Literature

91.The poem “Australia” was written by

A. A.D. Hope

B. Judith Wright

C. Campel

D. Kath Walker

92. Derek Walcott is the author of

A. The Fall of the House of Usher

B. Ruins of a Great House

C. Small-scale Reflection on a Great House

D. My Grandmother’s House

93. Who is the author of “Clock and Heart”?

A. Gabriel Okara

B. A.D. Hope

C. Judith Wright

D. Katherine Mansfield

94. “The Cinnamon Peeler” is a poem written by

A. a Canadian poet

B. a Nigerian poet

C. an Indian poet

D. an American Poet

95. “The Cinnamon Peeler” is written

A. in confessional vein

B. in a philosophical vein

C. in a psychological vein

D. in a spiritual vein

96.”Once upon a Time” by Gabriel Okara makes a

A. a nostalgic peep into the innocence of the past

B. a nostalgic peep into the hypocrisy of the past

C. a study of the spirituality

D. a nostalgic pe ep into the innocence of the past and the decadence of the present.

97. Bliss and other stories was written by __________________ writer

A.      Australian

B. New Zealand

C. Carrabin

D. Indian

98. Things Fall Apart is a title taken form

A. Yeats

B. Keats

C. Eliot

D. Auden

99. Who is the author of the novel Surfacing?

A. V.S. Naipal

B. Salman Rushdie

C. Margaret Atwood

D. Kiran Desai

100. Among the following one is not the novel of Patrick White

A.  Voss

B. The Eye of the Storm

C. Riders in the chariot

D. Riders to the Sea

101. Who is the author of the novel A House for Mr. Biswas

A. V.S. Naipal

B. Salman Rushdie

C. Margaret Atwood

D. Patrick White

102.Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel  is a

A. Tragedy

B. Romance

C. Satirical Comedy

D. Tragi-Comedy

103. Wole Soyinka is a Nature of

A. South Africa

B. Ethiopia

C. Nigeria

D. Kenya

104. In Things Fall Apart Okonkwo has

A. eleven wives and three children

B. three wives and eleven children

C. one wife and eleven children

D. two wives and two children

105. Patrick white is a

A. Caribbean writer

B. Canadian wtiter

C. Australian Writer

D. Nigerian writer

106. Surfacing is a novel in

A. Canadian literature

B. Australian literature

C. African literature

D. New Zealand literature

107. The author of the poem “Ruins of a Great House” is called the finest, the most complete of the West Indian poets by

A. William Walsh

B. C.D. Narasimahiah

C. Srinath

D. M.K.Naik

108. A.D. Hope calls the British colonies

A. Exploiters

B. rollers

C. burglane

D. all of these

109. Bliss and other stories is

A. a novel

B. a collection of short stories

C. a short fiction

D. an Anthology of prose pieces

110. “Once upon a Time” revels the

A. hypocrisy of the man

B. sincerity of the man

C. honesty of the man

D. integrity of the man

Unit- IV Indian Writing in English

111. “Our Causarina Tree” is associated with the memory of

A. Toru Dutt’s mother

B. Toru Dutt’s father

C. Toru Dutt’s aunt

D. Toru Dutt’s brother and Sister

112. Sri Aruobindo’s “The Tiger and the Deer” is

A. an autobiographical poem

B. a philosophical poem

C. a psychological poem

D. a poem highlighting Indian Culture

113. The sub-title of Gitanjali is

A. Hymn to God

B. Hymn to soul

C. Song Offerings

D. All of these

114. “The Queen’ Rival” is a poem by

A. Toru Dutt

B. Sarojini Naidu

C. Kamala Das

D. Mamta Kalia

115. In the poem Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher the birdwatcher means  an/ a

A. Ornithologist

B. botanist

C. Geologist

D. Philologist

116. The line “Things come in everyday to lose themselves among other things”  occurs in the poem

A. A River

B. History

C. Breaded Fish

D. Small-scale Reflections on a great House

117. In the poem “My Grandmother’s House” my Grandmother stands for.

A. Ammalu

B. Balamani Amma

C. Rukkmani

D. None of these

118. “River, Once” is a poem taken from the section____________ in Parthasarathi’s Rough Passage

A. Exile

B. Trial

C. Home Coming

D. None of these

119. In Jayanta Mahapatra’s poem “Hunger”, the hunger stands for

A. food

B. sex

C. power

D. food and sex

120. Who describes Nehru’s “Discovery of India” as a semi-historical work

A. C.D. Narasimhaiah

B. M.K. Naik

C. K.R.Srinivasa Iyengar

D. William Walsh

121. “The Autobiography of unknown Indian” is dedicated to the memory of        .

A. Mahatma Gandhi

B. the British Empire in India

C. Jawaharlal Nehru

D. Indira Gandhi

122. Abdual Kalam is the author of_________________

A. My Story

B. The Revenue Stamp

C. My Days

D. The Wings of Fire

123. “The Fire and the Rain” is an Indian English drama by

A. Anita Desai

B. Nissim Ezekiel

C. Girish Karnard

D. Vijay Tendulkar

124. Mhesh Dattani’s play______________ deals with Hindu-Muslim conflict

A. Tughlaq

B. Train to Pakistan

C. Azadi

D. Final Solutions.

125. The wife of the English teacher in R.K Narayan’s title novel

A. Rosie

B. Sushila

C. Nalini

D. Gowri

126. The protagonist in Coolie died of

A. Cancer

B. Cholera

C. Consumption

D. Cordial arrest

127. Cry, the Peacock by Anita Desai is a

A. Psychological novel

B. Autobiographical novel

C. Philosophical novel

D. Archetypal novel

128. Arundhathi Roy’s God of Small Things won

A. the booker Prize

B. Sahitya Akademi Award

C. Order for Meri

D. Pulitzer Prize

129. Who wrote the novel Jasmine?

A. Meenakshi Mukherjee

B. Bharathi Mukherjee

C. Kamla Markandaya

D. Kiran Desai

130. Who is the narrator of the novel Midnight’s Children?

A. Salman Sinai

B. Ahmed Ali

C. Mohamed Ali

D. Iqbal

Unit- V ELT, Literary Trends and Movements

131. Thomas Grey’s line “The Ploughman homeward plods his weary way” is in _____________ pentameter.

A. Dactylic

B. Trochaic

C. Iambic

D. Spondaic

132. Identify the figure of speech used in the lines:

The unravished bride of quietness / Thou foster child of silence and slow time.

A. Simile

B. Metaphor

C. Alliteration

D. Assonance

133. There is book on the table. The question tag is, ________________

A. Is it there?

B. Isn’t there?

C. Isn’t it?

D. Isn’t there?

134. Pure vowels are otherwise called

A. Vowel glides

B. Diphthongs

C. Phonemes

D. Monopthongs

135 . The word’spring’ has the syllabic structure of ___________________

A. CCCVCC

B. CVC

C. VC

D. CCVCC

136. Distinctive sound unit is called__________

A. Monopthong

B. Dipthong

C. Morpheme

D. Phoneme

137. There are____________ voiceless consonants in English.

A. 12

B. 8

C. 15

D. 9

138. T.G stands for

A. Transformation

B. Generative

C. Both B and A

D. None of them

139. /h/ is a 

A. Dental

B. Nasal

C. Alveolar

D. Glottal

140. English belongs to _______________ group of the Germanic branch of Indo-European family.

A. West Germanic

B. East Germanic

C. North Germanic

D. None of them

141. Standard English rose from the following dialect:

A. Northern Midland

B. East Midland

C. West Midland

D. Southern Midland

142. Spot out the error:

I am sorry I did not know you have left here when you came to see me last Thursday

                        A                     B                                 C                                 D

A. A

B.B

C. C

D. D

143. Who says “Criticism is as inevitable as breathing”?

A. Northrope Frye

B.I. A Richards

C. T.S. Eliot

D. Samuel Jhonson

144.  The Preface To lyrical Ballads was written by

A. Shelley

B. Dryden

C. Arnold

D. Wordsworth

145. Shelley’s Defence of Poetry was written in reply to

A. The Peacock’s Essays

B. Gosson’s School of Abuse

C.  Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballada

D. Arnold’s The Defence of Poetry

146. The standardization of spelling was attend with the advent of

A. Renaissance

B. Reformation

C. Printing Press

D.  Shakespeare

147. “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion” this is a word of __________

A. I. A Richard

B. T.S. Eliot

C. Arnold

D. Sydney