IMP QUESTION FOR LITERATURE

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   ‘Incunabula’ refers to 
• (A) books censured by the Roman Emperor
• (B) books published before the year 1501
• (C) books containing an account of myths and rituals
• (D) books wrongly attributed to an author
• (Incunabula is a collective term denoting books printed before the year 1501. The study of incunabula is important as a source of information regarding the early development of the art of typography, and also because priceless items of incunabula include the first printed versions of many classical, medieval, and Renaissance works.)
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•  The most notable achievement in Jacobean prose was
• (A) Bacon’s Essays
• (B) King James’ translation of the Bible
• (C) Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy
• (D) None of the above
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•  The Court of Chancery is a setting in Dickens’
• (A) Little Dorrit
• (B) Hard Times
• (C) Dombey and Son
• (D) Bleak House
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•  The statement ‘I think, therefore, I am’ is by
• (A) Schopenhauer
• (B) Plato
• (C) Descartes
• (D) Sartre
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• (French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician René Descartes publishes Philosophical Essays in 1637. Descartes applies the rational inquiry of science to philosophy and argues that one can only be certain of one’s own existence. All else derives from this basic premise which Descartes states as cogito ergo sum (Latin for “I think, therefore I am”).)
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• Verse that has no set theme – no regular meter, rhyme or stanzaic pattern is
• (I) open form
• (II) flexible form
• (III) free verse
• (IV) blank verse
• The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is
• (A) I, II and III are correct
• (B) III and IV are correct
• (C) II, III and IV are correct
• (D) I and III are correct
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•  Which is the correct sequence of publication of Pinter’s plays ?
• (A) The Room, One for theRoad, No Man’s Land, The Homecoming
• (B) The Homecoming, NoMan’s Land, The Room,One for the Road
• (C) The Room, The Homecoming, No Man’s Land, One for the Road
• (D) One for the Road, TheRoom, The Homecoming,No Man’s Land
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• (The Room(1957),The Homecoming (1964), The Basement (1966),  No Man’s Land (1974), One for the Road (1984).) 
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•  Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language was published in the year
• (A) 1710
• (B) 1755
• (C) 1739
• (D) 1759
• (The Dictionary of the English Language appeared in 1755.) 
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• The literary prize, Booker of Bookers, was awarded to
• (A) J.M. Coetzee
• (B) Nadine Gordimer
• (C) Martin Amis
• (D) Salman Rushdie
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•  In Keats’ poetic career, the most productive year was
• (A) 1816
• (B) 1817
• (C) 1820
• (D) 1819
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• (Keats’s great creative outpouring came in the year of 1819, when he composed a group of five odes.) 
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•  Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in
• (A) three cantos
• (B) four cantos
• (C) five cantos
• (D) two cantos
• ( Pope’s most famous poem, The Rape of the Lock (first published 1712; revised edition published 1714), is a fanciful and ingenious mock-heroic work based on a true story.)
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• . Stephen Dedalus is a fictional character associated with
•  I. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• II. Sons and Lovers
• III. Ulysses
• IV. The Heart of Darkness
• The correct combination for the above statement according to the code is
• (A) I & II
• (B) I, II & III
• (C) III & IV
• (D) I & III
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• (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi autobiographical novel and Ulysses is focused on the events of a single day and related them to one another in thematic patterns based on Greek mythology. Both figure Stephen Dedalus as a lead role.) 
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•  In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls for his
• (A) ignorance
• (B) pride
• (C) courage
• (D) drunkenness
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• (Becoming an isolated madman—and some critics have compared Ahab with Shakespeare’s King Lear—Ahab battles his evil forces alone and is destroyed as a result.) 
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•  The first complete printed English Bible was produced by
• (A) William Tyndale
• (B) William Caxton
• (C) Miles Coverdale
• (D) Roger Ascham
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• (In 1535 AD, Myles Coverdale's Bible; The first complete Bible was printed in the English Language)
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• Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton is sub-titled
• (A) The Two Nations
• (B) A Tale of Manchester Life
• (C) A Story of Provincial Life
• (D) The Factory Girl
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• ( Mary Barton sub-titled as A Tale of Manchester Life (1848) examines the schism between rich and poor in industrial Manchester, England, during the 1840s.)
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•  Some of the Jacobean playwrights were prolific. One of them claimed to have written 200 plays. The playwright is
• (A) John Ford
• (B) Thomas Dekker
• (C) Philip Massinger
• (D) Thomas Heywood
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• (Thomas Heywood (1574?-1641), according to his own testimony, wrote more than 220 plays for the English stage. Although not always tightly constructed and sometimes resorting to cliché, His plays exhibit a remarkable talent for dramatic and fanciful situations and pleasing an audience. Heywood's best plays are A Woman Killed with Kindness (performed 1603, printed 1607), The Fair Maid of the West (1631) and The English Traveller (1633). ) 
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•  The concept of “Star-equilibrium” in connection with man-woman relationship appears in
• (A) Women in Love
• (B) Maurice
• (C) Mrs. Dalloway
• (D) The Old Wives’ Tales
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•  Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage attacked among others.
• (A) John Bunyan
• (B) Thomas Rhymer
• (C) William Congreve
• (D) Henry Fielding
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• <Note: When the work of Congreve and his colleagues was attacked by the clergyman Jeremy Collier as licentious, Congreve replied with Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations (1698). >
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• The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the Great Exhibition, was designed by
• (A) Charles Darwin
• (B) Edward Moxon
• (C) Joseph Paxton
• (D) Richard Owen
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• < Note: Crystal Palace, famous exhibition hall was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, England. Because of its great size and its innovative use of glass and iron in prefabricated units, it was a milestone in the development of modern architecture. >
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•  Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings of
• (A) G.B. Shaw
• (B) Noel Coward
• (C) Tom Stoppard
• (D) T.S. Eliot
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•  In which of his voyages, Gulliver discovered mountain-like beings?
• (A) The land of the Lilliputians
• (B) The land of the Brobdingnagians
• (C) The land of the Laputans
• (D) The land of the Houyhnhnms
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• < Note: Brobdingnag is the nation of giants visited by Gulliver in Part II. The people are sixty feet tall and everything else in their land is sized in proportion, on a scale of one foot to one inch. Though the giants of Brobdingnag are repulsive to look at closely, they are sound in their politics in many ways. The king of that land felt “whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together.” The king of Brobdingnag is not only much like Swift’s mentor, Sir William Temple, he is both a Tory mouthpiece and a humanist, and possibly Swift’s ideal of a good monarch.>
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•  Although Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney writes in English, in voice and subject matter, his poems are
• (A) Welsh
• (B) Scottish
• (C) Irish
• (D) Polish
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• < Haney’s poetry, beginning with Death of a Naturalist (1966), is rooted in the physical, rural surroundings of his childhood in Northern Ireland. >
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• To whom is Mary Shelley’s famous work Frankenstein dedicated?
• (A) Lord Byron
• (B) Claire Clairmont
• (C) William Godwin
• (D) P.B. Shelley
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• <Some scholars have identified Frankenstein as the source of the genre of science fiction, which seeks to define the place of man in the universe. Both the idea of a 'mad scientist' and the concept of creating a person in a laboratory originated with Frankenstein. Following Mary Shelley's lead, authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, and, more recently, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury have created horror stories whose protagonists face problems brought about by science gone awry.>
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• Which among the following poems by Philip Larkin records his impressions while traveling to London by train?
• (A) “Aubade”
• (B) “Church Going”
• (C) “The Whitsun Wedding”
• (D) “An Arundel Tomb”
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• < “At first, I didn't notice what a noise 
• The weddings made 
• Each station that we stopped at: sun destroys 
• The interest of what's happening in the shade.”- “The Whitsun Wedding”>
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•  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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• One of the most famous movements of direct address to the reader – “Reader, I married him” – occurs in
• (A) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
• (B) Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
• (C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
• (D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch
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• < Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre CHAPTER XXXVIII--CONCLUSION
• Reader, I married him.  A quiet wedding we had:  he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.  When we got back from church, I went into the kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John cleaning the knives, and I said ->
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• Sexual jealousy is a theme in Shakespeare’s
• (A) The Merchant of Venice
• (B) The Tempest
• (C) Othello
• (D) King Lear
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• <Othello is a tragedy on the theme of Sexual jealousy by English playwright William Shakespeare. It was written in about 1604 and first performed that year for King James I at Whitehall Palace in London.  >
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• The title, The New Criticism, published in 1941, was written by
• (A) Cleanth Brooks
• (B) John Crowe Ransom
• (C) Robert Penn Warren
• (D) Allan Tate
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•  Which of the following is not a Revenge Tragedy?
• (A) The White Devil
• (B) The Duchess of Malfi
• (C) Doctor Faustus
• (D) The Spanish Tragedy
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• < The White Devil: John Webster’s great tragedy The White Devil, produced in 1612 depicts a world of extravagant passions, dark intrigue, and fratricidal violence. Despite its melodramatic themes, Webster's The White Devil is redeemed by his soaring poetic dialogue and his grasp of human psychology.
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• The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster’s great tragedy The White Devil staged about 1614 is even better than The White Devil.
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• The Spanish Tragedy:Thomas Kyd ‘s Spanish Tragedy (1589?) is best Senecan Revenge Tragedy in the use of shocking and horrifying melodramatic situations.>
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•  Who of the following playwrights rejects the Aristotelian concept of tragic play as imitation of reality?
• (A) G.B. Shaw
• (B) Arthur Miller
• (C) Bertolt Brecht
• (D) John Galsworthy
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• < Brecht's narrative style, which he called epic theater, was directed against the illusion created by traditional theater of witnessing a slice of life. Instead, Brecht encouraged spectators to watch events on stage dispassionately and to reach their own conclusions. To prevent spectators from becoming emotionally involved with a play and identifying with its characters, Brecht used a variety of techniques. Notable among them was the Verfremdungseffekt (alienation or estrangement effect), which was achieved through such devices as choosing (for German audiences) unfamiliar settings, interrupting the action with songs, and announcing the contents of each scene through posters. Brecht temporarily returned to a more traditional dramatic mode in Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches (1941; The Private Life of the Master Race, 1944), an attack on the fascist government of Germany under Hitler. >
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•  The label ‘Diasporic Writer’ can be applied to
• I. Meena Alexander
• II. Arundhati Roy
• III. Kiran Desai
• IV. Shashi Deshpande
• The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is
• (A) I and IV are correct.
• (B) II and III are correct.
• (C) I, II and IV are correct.
• (D) I and III are correct.
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• The letter ‘A’ in The Scarlet Letter stands for
• I. Adultery
• II. Able
• III. Angel
• IV. Appetite
• The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is
• (A) I and II are correct.
• (B) II and III are correct.
• (C) I, II and IV are correct.
• (D) I, II and III are correct.
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• < Scarlet Letter "A" represents the act of adultery that she has committed and it is to be a symbol of her sin—a badge of shame—for all to see. WIKI>
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•  A monosyllabic rhyme on the final stressed syllable of two lines of verse is called
• (A) Moonshine
• (B) Feminine rhyme
• (C) Masculine rhyme
• (D) Eye rhyme