QUESTION BANK

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•  Who among the following is a Cavalier poet ?
• (A) Henry Vaughan
• (B) Richard Crashaw
• (C) John Suckling
• (D) Anne Finch
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•  Which play of Wilde has the subtitle, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People ?
• (A) A Woman of No Importance
• (B) Lady Windermere’s Fan
• (C) The Importance of Being Earnest
• (D) An Ideal Husband
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•  Which of the following plays is not written by Wole Soyinka ?
• (A) The Lion and the Jewel
• (B) The Dance of the Forests
• (C) Master Harold and the Boys
• (D) Kongi’s Harvest
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• (Master Harold and the Boys is written by Athol Fugard, South African playwright, director, and actor.)
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•  Which of the following plays by William Wycherley is in part an adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope ?
• (A) The Plain Dealer
• (B) The Country Wife
• (C) Love in a Wood
• (D) The Gentleman Dancing Master
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• . ‘Inversion’ is the change in the word order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this book I like. Another term for inversion is 
• (A) Hypallage
• (B) Hubris
• (C) Haiku
• (D) Hyperbaton
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•  The religious movement Methodism in the 18th century England was founded by
• (A) John Tillotson
• (B) Bishop Butler
• (C) Bernard Mandeville
• (D) John Welsey
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• (Methodism, worldwide Protestant movement dating from 1729, started when a group of students at the University of Oxford, England, began to assemble for worship, study, and Christian service.) 
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•  My First Acquaintance with Poets, an unforgettable account of meeting with literary heroes, is written by
• (A) Charles Lamb
• (B) Thomas de Quincey
• (C) Leigh Hunt
• (D) William Hazlitt
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• The figure of the Warrior Virgin in Spenser’s Faerie Queene is represented by the character
• (A) Britomart
• (B) Gloriana
• (C) Cynthia
• (D) Duessa
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• (The hero of Book III, the female warrior virgin, who represents Chastity. )
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•  The book Speech Acts is written by
• (A) John Austin
• (B) John Searle
• (C) Jacques Derrida
• (D) Ferdinand de Saussure
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• (John Searle's The book Speech Acts is an essay in the Philosophy of Language.)
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•  Which among the following is not a sonnet sequence ?
• (A) Philip Sydney – Astrophel
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• (B) Samuel Daniel – Delia
• (C) Derek Walcott – Omeroos
• (D) D.G. Rossetti – The House
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• (Derek Walcott, born in 1930, West Indian poet, playwright, and Nobel laureate, who is known for his vivid portrayal of Caribbean culture and his inventive use of language wrote the epic poem Omeroos 
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