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A Survey in English Literature II (part one)

For Literature Students

Direction: Choose the best choice and mark it on your answer sheet.

1. The Longest Journey is a(n) …………………… .

a. poem by E.M. Forster b. play by W.H. Auden

c. novel by H.H. Auden d. novel by E.M. Forster

2. Journey of the Magi is a(n) ……………… written by ………………… .

a. poem / T.S. Eliot b. short story / H. Auden

c. dramatic work / E.M. Forster d. play / William Butler Yeats

3. Kangaroo is a(n) ……………… written by ……………… in ……………… .

a. poem / Yeats / 20th century

b. play / Yeats / twentieth century

c. novel / D.H. Lawrence / twentieth century

d. short story / D.H. Lawrence / nineteenth century

4. Nostroma is a(n) ……………… written by ……………… in ……………… .

a. novel / D.H. Lawrence / twentieth century

b. novel / Joseph Conrad / early twentieth century

c. play / Joseph Conrad / late twentieth century

d. long story / James Joyce / the second half of 20th century

5. The Dynasts is a(n) ……………… written by ……………… in ……………… .

a. play / T.S. Eliot / twentieth century

b. long novel / George Eliot / late eighteenth century

c. epic drama / Thomas Hardy / twentieth century

d. epic long poetry / Tennyson / early nineteenth century

6. “Modern Painter” and “Martin Chuzzlewit” are respectively written by ……………… and

……………… .

a. John Ruskin / Charles Dickens

b. Mathew Arnold / George Eliot

c. Lord Alfred Tennyson / Thomas De Quincey

d. Thomas Sterne Eliot / Gerard Manley Hopkins

7. My Fair Lady and Heartbreak House are both …………………… written by …………… .

a. film scripts / T.S. Eliot

b. novels / George Bernard Shaws

c. sort of epic poems / William Butler Yeats

d. popular musical comedy / George Bernard Shaw

8. Lives of the Poets, Lyrical Ballads and Oriental Tales are respectively written by …………..,

………………, and ……………… .

a. Samuel Johnson / William Wordsworth / Byron

b. Samuel Johnson / Lord Byron / Samuel Johnson

c. Samuel Johnson / William Wordsworth / Coleridge

d. George Gordon / Lord Byron / Wordsworth

9. Plumed Serpent, Biographia Literaria, and Idylls of the Kings are respectively written by

……………, ………………, and ……………… .

a. Bernard Shaw / Wordsworth / Lord Tennyson

b. George Eliot / Mathew Arnold / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

c. D.H. Lawrence / Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Lord Tennyson

d. Thomas Carlyle / Lord Tennyson / Thomas De Quincey

10. Men and Women is a(n) ……………… written by ……………… in ………………… .

a. collected poems / Thomas Carlyle / 19th century

b. collection of poems / Robert Browning / nineteenth century

c. comic five act play / Robert Browning / nineteenth century

d. average man drama / Percy Bysshe Shelly / nineteenth century

11. “Those rules of old discovered, not devised,

Are Nature, still, but Nature methodized

Nature, like liberty, is but restrained

By the same laws which first herself ordained.”

The above lines of our poet indicate that ………………………… .

a. ancient men discovered nature

b. liberty is represented by old goddesses

c. man can not make himself ordained

d. nature is well ordered but the rules found later

12. “…, and we rose in the dark

And got with our bags and our brushes to work.” [William Blake]

The above lines are from ……………… and indicate that …………………… .

a. The Chimney Sweeper / miserable life of poor children

b. The Divine Image / Heavenly lives of the devoutees

c. The Nurse’s Song of Innocence / Roses’ life in Heaven

d. The Garden of Love / Gardeners’ care of their work

13. “O Rose, thou art sick

The invisible Worm

That flies in the night

In howling storm”

The above lines are from ……………… by …………… and may suggest that …………... .

a. The Garden of Love / Blake / love

b. The Roses of Night / Wordsworth / sex appeal

c. The Sick Rose / Blake / the oppressed are passive

d. Chapels in Rose Gardens / Blake / Nights are dangerous in howling storms

14. William Blake actually reveals an ugly world of poverty, disease and prostitution in his

……………………… .

a. Songs of Innocence b. Songs of Experience

c. Marriage of Heaven and Hell d. Vision of Last Judgement

15. William Blake was a(n) ……………… who lived in ……………… and ………………… .

a. neoclassical poet / France / died in England

b. classical dramatist / nineteenth century England / drew dragons

c. giant symbolist poet / eighteenth century France / wrote some plays

d. outstanding poet / 17th century England / created imaginative paintings

16. “My First Acquaintance” is written by …………………… .

a. William Blake b. William Hazlitt

c. William Wordsworth d. Smuel Taylor Coleridge

17. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a(n) …………… written in …………. by …………… .

a. ballad / seven parts / Coleridge

b. versed poem / eight parts / Wordsworth

c. long verse paragraph / seven parts / Lord Byron

d. dramatic monologue / five parts / William Wordsworth

18. “Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measure less to man

Down to a sunless sea.”

In the first line of the above lines from ………………, Alph ………………………… .

a. Ancient Mariner / is a river in Switzerland

b. The Picture of the Sea / refers to a lake in England

c. Kubla Khan / alludes to the Greek river of poetry

d. Ozymandias / is a river in Skinderia drived from the North Ionian sea

19. “The Map of Love” is a(n) ……………… by ……………… who is a(n) ……………… .

a. collected poems / Auden / Scottish writer

b. dramatic poet / Dylan Thomas / Irish poet

c. poetic work / W.B. Yeats / English poet

d. poetic work / Dylan Thomas / Welsh poet

20. “Musée des Beaux Art” by W.H. Auden originally refers to …………………… .

a. Athens

b. The Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels

c. The whole Museums of Rome and Athens

d. All Museums of Fine Arts in Rome, Athens and Paris

21. “In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisure from the disaster; the plowman may

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,

But for him it was not an important failure – the sun shone …” [Auden’s]

In the first line of the above poem “Icarus” is an allusion to ……………………… .

a. Milton’s work

b. Wordsworth’s hero who failed

c. Daedalus’s son who ventured too near the sun

d. Promateus’s enemy who had fought the great vulture

22. Three famous items are associated with William Wordsworth; they are ……………… .

a. The Preludes, French Revolution, and The Everlasting No

b. French Revolution, Sartor Resartus, and Dorothy

c. Scottish Calvinism, Sartor Resartus, and Lyrical Ballads

d. English Lake District, Lyrical Ballads, and Dorothy

23. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a book written by …………………… in

………………… .

a. Edward Gibbon / the second half of eighteenth century

b. Lewis Grassic Gibbon / the late nineteenth century

c. Wilfred Wilson Gibson / the early twentieth century

d. William Gifford / the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century

24. Amongst other things, to understand Thomas Carlyle’s role as social critic, historian, and

………………… it is essential to understand his attitude towards ………………… .

a. scientist / epistemologist

b. biographer / religion

c. physician / socio-political philosopher

d. philologist / religious astronomer

25. The first English author in note to be connected with Marxism was ……………… who was

a(n) ……………… and …………………… .

a. Marx / philosopher / economist

b. Angleton / poet / socialist critic

c. Gustave Doré / journalist / poet

d. William Morris / painter / poet