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GK (Literature)

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Queen Victoria's reign, after whom the Victorian period is named, spans from

  1. 1833 - 1901

  2. 1837 - 1901

  3. 1840 - 1905

  4. 1843 - 1905


Correct Option: B

Pre- Raphaelite poetry is mainly concerned with

  1. narration and style

  2. narration and nature

  3. form and design

  4. form and value


Correct Option: C

Which of the following sequences is correct?

  1. Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, Middlemarch, The Return of the Native

  2. Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch, The Return of the Native

  3. Middlemarch, The Return of the Native, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond

  4. The Return of the Native, Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond


Correct Option: A

Who among the following is not a pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales?

  1. The Haberdasher

  2. The Tapyser

  3. The Blacksmith

  4. The Summoner


Correct Option: B

Which of the following was a periodical (strictly, a series of short papers) by Samuel Johnson?

  1. The Postman

  2. The Spectator

  3. The Rambler

  4. The Tatler


Correct Option: C

The mystery plays deal with

  1. The life of Christ

  2. The New Testament

  3. Psalms

  4. Apocrypha


Correct Option: B

Who among the following cautioned against the dangers of popular liberty?

  1. Mary Wollstonecraft

  2. Edmund Burke

  3. Thomas Hobbes

  4. John Locke


Correct Option: B

Swift's 'A Tale of a Tub' is a satire on

  1. science and philosophy

  2. art and morality

  3. dogma and superstition

  4. fake morals and manners


Correct Option: C

Bosola is the executioner in

  1. The Spanish Tragedy

  2. The Duchess of Malfi

  3. The White Devil

  4. The Jew of Malta


Correct Option: B

Which famous American classic opens with “Call me Ishmael”?

  1. Rip Van Winkle

  2. The Scarlet Letter

  3. The Grapes of Wrath

  4. Moby Dick


Correct Option: D

Allen Ginsberg's vision of America is inspired by

  1. Walt Whitman

  2. Robert Frost

  3. Ralph Waldo Emerson

  4. Edgar A. Poe


Correct Option: A

Who among the following represents the Sri Lankan diaspora?

  1. M.G. Vassanji

  2. Cyril Debydeen

  3. Michael Ondaatje

  4. Arnold H. Itwaru


Correct Option: C

The Theatre of Cruelty is associated with

  1. Stanislavosky

  2. Grotovsky

  3. Antonin Artand

  4. Eugino Barba


Correct Option: B

The Empire Writes Back is written by

  1. Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin and Ngugi Wa Thinngo

  2. Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin and Stephen Slemon

  3. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Chinua Achebe

  4. Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin and Gareth Griffiths


Correct Option: C

“Careless she is with artful Care/Affecting to seem unaffected” is an example of

  1. irony

  2. paradox

  3. simile

  4. metaphor


Correct Option: B

The expression 'Crown' for the monarchy' is an example of

  1. metonymy

  2. synecdoche

  3. irony

  4. metaphor


Correct Option: A

The Faerie Queene is based on

  1. Utopia

  2. Tottel's Miscellany

  3. Morte d'Arthur

  4. Orlando Furioso


Correct Option: C

Choose the correct chronological sequence of the following plays.

  1. King Lear, Othello, Macbeth and Hamlet

  2. Othello, Macbeth, King Lear and Hamlet

  3. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth

  4. Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth


Correct Option: C

Pope's 'Essay on Criticism' sums up the art of poetry as taught first by

  1. Aristotle

  2. Horace

  3. Longinus

  4. Plato


Correct Option: C

The concept of “madwoman in the attic” can be traced to

  1. the Tenant of Wildfell - Hall

  2. Villette

  3. Wuthering Heights

  4. Jane Eyre


Correct Option: C

Who among the Victorians is called “the prophet of modern society”?

  1. Ruskin

  2. Carlyle

  3. Macaulay

  4. Arnold


Correct Option: D
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