The native country of Conrad is ________ .
(a) England
(b) France
(c) Germany
(d) Poland
Question’s Answer: Poland
Which is not a creation of Conrad?
(a) The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
(b) The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
(c) The Pacific Regions of Captain Cook
(d) Almayer’s Folly
Question’s Answer: The Pacific Regions of Captain Cook
The husband of Winnie was
(a) Michaelis
(b) Ossipon
(c) Verlock
(d) Karl Yundt
Question’s Answer: Verlock
Mrs. Verlock in Conrad’s The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad murdered her husband for Which reasons?
(a) Mrs. Verlock murdered her husband in a fit of madness
(b) Mr. Verlock had been the cause of her brother’s death
(c) Mrs. Verlock was in love with Ossipon who instigated her to murder
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Mr. Verlock had been the cause of her brother’s death
Mr. Verlock is a character in ehich novels of Conrad?
(a) The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
(b) The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
(c) Nostroma by Joseph Conrad
(d) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Question’s Answer: The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
In Conrad’s The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, Verloc has a brother-in-law, what is his name?
(a) Vladimir
(b) Heat
(c) Ossipon
(d) Stevie
Question’s Answer: Stevie
Verlockin Conrad’s The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is
(a) A Russian
(b) An Englishman
(c) A French
(d) A German
Question’s Answer: An Englishman
Conrad collaborated with Which novelists to write The Inheritors and Romance?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Henry James
(c) James Joyce
(d) Ford Madox Hueffer
Question’s Answer: Ford Madox Hueffer
Which characters in Conrad’s The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is the first secretary in an Embassy?
(a) Verlock
(b) Ossipon
(c) Michaelis
(d) Vladimir
Question’s Answer: Vladimir
Who was the Mr. Verlock in The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad by Joseph Conrad?
(a) A capitalist
(b) An anarchist
(c) A democrat
(d) None of them
Question’s Answer: An anarchist
In Conrad’s The Nigger of the Narcissus. What is the Narcissus?
(a) The name of a place
(b) The name of a forest
(c) The name of a character
(d) The name of a ship
Question’s Answer: The name of a ship
In Conrad’s Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, what is the profession of Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad?
(a) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad is an courtier in the court of the King of England
(b) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad is the chief mate of a ship called Patna
(c) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad is an Army General
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad is the chief mate of a ship called Patna
Which works of Joseph Conrad is a tale of Russian revolutionaries?
(a) Heart of Darkness
(b) Typhoon
(c) Youth
(d) Under Western Eyes
Question’s Answer: Under Western Eyes
Which is not a contemporary of Maugham?
(a) Joseph Conrad
(b) William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist)
(c) Aldous Huxley
(d) J.B. Priestley
Question’s Answer: William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist)
In Conrad’s The Nigger of the Narcissus, ‘nigger’ refers to a negro. Who is the negro?
(a) The Negro is an inhabitant of the island of Narcissus
(b) The Negro is an inhabitant of the forest Narcissus
(c) The nigger refers to one of the ship’s crew named James Wait
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: The nigger refers to one of the ship’s crew named James Wait
Where William Somerset Maugham was born?
(a) France
(b) England
(c) India
(d) Ireland
Question’s Answer: France
A Simple Tale is a subtitle of a detective work by Joseph Conrad, the name of which is
(a) The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
(b) The Mirror of the Sea
(c) Nostroma by Joseph Conrad
(d) A Set of Six
Question’s Answer: The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Who called Henry James the ‘Victorian of fine consciousness’?
(a) James Joyce
(b) Joseph Conrad
(c) G.M. Hopkins
(d) E.M. Forster
Question’s Answer: Joseph Conrad
To which period did Somerset Maugham belong?
(a) 16th century
(b) 20th century
(c) 18th century
(d) 17th century
Question’s Answer: 20th century
Which is a contemporary of Maugham?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Benjamin Disraeli
(c) David Herbert Lawrence
(d) English novelist “Henry Fielding”
Question’s Answer: David Herbert Lawrence
Which works is a creation of Maugham?
(a) Howard’s End
(b) Middlemarch
(c) “Brave New World”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
(d) Of Human Bondage
Question’s Answer: Of Human Bondage
Which works is not a creation of Maugham?
(a) The Rainbow
(b) Up at the Villa
(c) The Razor’s Edge
(d) Christmas Holiday
Question’s Answer: The Rainbow
Stream of consciousness novel is a product of which century?
(a) 18th century
(b) 20th century
(c) 17th century
(d) 16th century
Question’s Answer: 20th century
Which statements can be considered as correct about the technique of the Stream of consciousness novel?
(a) It has a well-organized plot structure
(b) It is directly or indirectly an interior monologue
(c) It has an interesting story in which incidents are arranged in a chronological ord
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: It is directly or indirectly an interior monologue
In which work of Joseph Conrad,Kurtz appears?
(a) The Nigger of the Narcissus
(b) The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
(c) Nostromo
(d) The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Question’s Answer: The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Larry is the main character in Which novels of Maugham?
(a) Christmas Holiday
(b) Of Human Bondage
(c) The Moon and the Six Pence
(d) The Razor’s Edge
Question’s Answer: The Razor’s Edge
Philip Carey is the main character in Which novels of Maugham?
(a) Of Human Bondage
(b) Christmas Holiday
(c) The Razor’s Edge
(d) The Moon and the Six Pence
Question’s Answer: Of Human Bondage
Which novels of Maugham can be called autobiographical?
(a) Liza of Lambeth
(b) The Painted Veil
(c) The Trembling of a Leaf
(d) Of Human Bondage
Question’s Answer: Of Human Bondage
With which novel of Huxley will you associate the following statement: “It is set in Italy and studies the acquisitive nature of women through the character of Mrs. Aldwinkle”?
(a) Point Counter Point
(b) “Crome Yellow”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
(c) Those Barren Leaves
(d) Antic Hay
Question’s Answer: Those Barren Leaves
In which novel, Huxley mocks at the corrupting influence of wealth in the new world!
(a) Antic Hay
(b) “Crome Yellow”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
(c) “Time must have a Stop”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
(d) “Brave New World”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
Question’s Answer: “Time must have a Stop”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
Huxley wrote a novel ______ and is inspired by the message of Bhagwat Geeta.
(a) “The Perennial Philosophy”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
(b) “Time must have a Stop”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
(c) “Brave New World”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
(d) “Crome Yellow”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
Question’s Answer: “The Perennial Philosophy”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
The term ‘musicalization of fiction’ is linked with which novelists?
(a) James Joyce
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) E.M. Forster
(d) Aldous Huxley
Question’s Answer: Aldous Huxley
Graham Greene belongs to which century?
(a) 17th century
(b) 18th century
(c) 20th century
(d) 19th century
Question’s Answer: 20th century
______ is not a contemporary of Aldous Huxley?
(a) E.M. Forster
(b) James Joyce
(c) William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist)
(d) Virginia Woolf
Question’s Answer: William Makepeace Thackeray (British novelist)
The autobiography of Graham Greene is ______.
(a) Babbling April
(b) The Revolver in the Cupboard
(c) A Sort of Life
(d) “The Man Within”, A Novel by Graham Greene
Question’s Answer: A Sort of Life
Which writer is a contemporary of Graham Greene?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) George Orwell
(c) Joseph Conrad
(d) Thomas Hardy
Question’s Answer: George Orwell
In Greene’s “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene Which characters was the old love of Bendrix?
(a) Isabel
(b) Dorothy
(c) Jones
(d) Sarah
Question’s Answer: Sarah
In Greene’s “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene Which characters was the husband of Sarah?
(a) Warburton
(b) Bendrix
(c) Ralph
(d) Henry
Question’s Answer: Henry
Which novels is a creation of Graham Greene?
(a) The Portrait of a Youngman as an Artist
(b) “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James
(c) “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(d) Animal Farm
Question’s Answer: “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene
Which novels is not a creation of Graham Greene?
(a) “The Man Within”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(b) “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(c) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
(d) “The Quiet American”, A Novel by Graham Greene
Question’s Answer: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Bendrix is the main character in which of the following novels of Graham Greene?
(a) “The Man Within”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(b) “The Heart of the Matter”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(c) “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(d) “The Quiet American”, A Novel by Graham Greene
Question’s Answer: “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene
Which statements can be considered as correct about Graham Greene as a novelist?
(a) Graham Greene is novelist a social
(b) Greene is predominantly a religious writer
(c) Graham Greene is a satirist
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Greene is predominantly a religious writer
Major Scobie is a character in Which novels of Graham Greene?
(a) “The Heart of the Matter”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(b) “The Quiet American”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(c) “The Man Within”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(d) “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene
Question’s Answer: “The Heart of the Matter”, A Novel by Graham Greene
Graham Greene’s May We Borrow Your Husband is a collection of
(a) Essays
(b) Poems
(c) Novella
(d) Short stories
Question’s Answer: Short stories
Which book of Graham Greene is a satire on contemporary spy novels?
(a) Novella
(b) A Gun for Sale
(c) The Third Man
(d) Shades of Greene
Question’s Answer: Novella
Ida is a character in Which novels of Graham Greene?
(a) “The Heart of the Matter”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(b) The Power and the Glory
(c) “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(d) Brighton Rock
Question’s Answer: Brighton Rock
Helen is a character in Which novels of Graham Greene?
(a) “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(b) Brighton Rock
(c) “The Heart of the Matter”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(d) The Power and the Glory
Question’s Answer: “The Heart of the Matter”, A Novel by Graham Greene
In the context of Green’s “The Heart of the Matter”, A Novel by Graham Greene who is the wife of Scobie?
(a) Helen
(b) Dorothy
(c) Isabel
(d) Louise
Question’s Answer: Louise
Who is the detective in Greene’s “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene?
(a) Henry
(b) Parkis
(c) Bendrix
(d) Sarah
Question’s Answer: Parkis
With which novel of Greene will you associate the following statement: ‘This novel has the background of the Spanish Civil War’?
(a) The Confidential Agent
(b) The Power and the Glory
(c) “The Heart of the Matter”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(d) “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene
Question’s Answer: The Confidential Agent
Which one is a correct comedy of manners and one of the best plays of Somerset Maugham?
(a) Mrs. Dot
(b) Jack Straw
(c) The Constant Wife
(d) The Circle
Question’s Answer: The Circle
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce may be called
(a) An autobiographical novel
(b) A historical novel
(c) A political novel
(d) A picaresque novel
Question’s Answer: An autobiographical novel
In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce, the novelist himself is represented by Which characters?
(a) Parnell
(b) Father Dolan
(c) Father Arnall
(d) Stephen Dedalus
Question’s Answer: Stephen Dedalus
Which was the first to use the phrase ‘Stream of Consciousness?
(a) James Joyce
(b) Walter Allen
(c) William York Tindall
(d) William James
Question’s Answer: William James
Which characters is the father of Stephen in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce?
(a) Michael
(b) Charles
(c) Simon
(d) Parnell
Question’s Answer: Simon
Stephen in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce divides art into a development of three forms. These three forms are
(a) Comedy, tragedy and tragicomedy
(b) Lyrical, epic and ballad
(c) Lyrical, epic and ballad Lyrical, epic and dramatic
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Lyrical, epic and dramatic
In which types will you keep the novels of James Joyce?
(a) Victorian novel
(b) Picaresque novel
(c) Stream of consciousness novel
(d) Gothic novel
Question’s Answer: Stream of consciousness novel
Maugham’s A Man of Honour is a
(a) Realistic tragedy
(b) Realistic comedy
(c) Restoration comedy
(d) Bitter comedy
Question’s Answer: Realistic tragedy
Which is a contemporary of James Joyce?
(a) Daniel Defoe
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) English novelist “Henry Fielding”
(d) Virginia Woolf
Question’s Answer: Virginia Woolf
Which is not a contemporary of James Joyce?
(a) Mrs. Dorothy
(b) Marcel Proust
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) Charles Dickens
Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens
Who is the character in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce that recalls his experiences of his
childhood days?
(a) Aunt Dante
(b) Eileen Vance
(c) Charles
(d) Stephen Dedalus
Question’s Answer: Stephen Dedalus
In “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus wants to marry Which characters?
(a) Eileen Vance
(b) Mrs. Riordan
(c) May Dedalus
(d) Dante
Question’s Answer: Eileen Vance
In “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce, the title of the novel refers to Which characters?
(a) Stephen
(b) Davin
(c) Lynch
(d) Cranly
Question’s Answer: Stephen
Which novels of by James Joyce was banned for obscenity?
(a) Finnegans Wake
(b) Dubliners
(c) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce
(d) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
Question’s Answer: Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker is a character in which novels of James Joyce?
(a) Finnegans Wake
(b) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
(c) Dubliners
(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce
Question’s Answer: Finnegans Wake
Which James Joyce novels depict Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and his family’s dreams and nightmares?
(a) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
(b) Dubliners
(c) Finnegans Wake
(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce statements is correct of James
Question’s Answer: Finnegans Wake
Leopold Bloom is the protagonist in Which novels of Joyoe?
(a) Finnegans Wake
(b) Dubliners
(c) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce
(d) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
Question’s Answer: Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
In Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce each episode coincides with Which classical books?
(a) Homer’s Odyssey
(b) Dante’s Divine Comedy
(c) Virgils’s Aenid
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Homer’s Odyssey
Which characters in Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce denotes Odysseus in Homer’s Epic?
(a) Bloom
(b) Stephen
(c) Melly
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Bloom
In “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, a Novel by James Joyce, who was the Latin teacher that punished Stephen?
(a) Wells
(b) Parnell
(c) Father Dolan
(d) Michael
Question’s Answer: Father Dolan
James Joyce’s novel Dubliners, which began in 1900, was published in which year?
(a) 1914
(b) 1933
(c) 1919
(d) 1906
Question’s Answer: 1906
James Joyce’s work Exiles is a
(a) Novel
(b) Essay
(c) Play
(d) Poem
Question’s Answer: Play
Which of the following novels is based on Homer’s
(a) The Wasteland
(b) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
(c) Mrs. Dalloway
(d) Brave New World
Question’s Answer: Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
Which novels is a creation of Virginia Woolf?
(a) Pride and Prejudice
(b) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
(c) Wuthering Heights
(d) Mrs. Dalloway
Question’s Answer: Mrs. Dalloway
Which novel of James Joyce is set in a single day?
(a) Dubliners
(b) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
(c) Finnegans Wake
(d) Stephen Hero
Question’s Answer: Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
Virginia Woolf was the daughter of an eminent Victorian critic and scholar.Who was he?
(a) Matthew Arnold
(b) Carlyle
(c) Leslie Stephen
(d) John Ruskin
Question’s Answer: Leslie Stephen
Virginia Woolf belonged to ________centrury.
(a) 17th
(b) 20th
(c) 18th
(d) 19th
Question’s Answer: 20th century
Which is contemporary of Virginia Woolf?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Eliot (English novelist)
(c) Aldous Huxley
(d) Charlotte Bronte
Question’s Answer: Aldous Huxley
Which novels is not a creation of Virginia Woolf?
(a) To the Light House
(b) Mrs. Dalloway
(c) Adam Bede
(d) Night and Day
Question’s Answer: Adam Bede
The novels of Virginia Woolf may be kept in Which categories?
(a) Picaresque novel
(b) Dorothy Samuel Richardson
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Historical novel
Question’s Answer: Jane Austen
Which is not à contemporary of Virginia Woolf?
(a) E.M. Forster
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Elizabeth Bower
(d) Dorothy Samuel Richardson
Question’s Answer: Jane Austen
Which of the following novels of Virginia Woolf is known as a prose poem?
(a) The Voyage Out
(b) The Waves
(c) Mrs. Dalloway
(d) Night and Day
Question’s Answer: The Waves
Which work of Woolf traces the life from Elizabethan to Modern times?
(a) Orlando: A Biography
(b) To the Light House
(c) Flush
(d) The Years
Question’s Answer: Orlando: A Biography
Which was the first novel of Virginia Woolf?
(a) Jacob’s Room
(b) Night and Day
(c) The Voyage Out
(d) Mrs. Dalloway
Question’s Answer: The Voyage Out
Which statements can be considered as correct about Virginia Woolf’s plot structure?
(a) The incidents are arranged in a chronological sequence
(b) There is no attempt at organized story telling in the novel
(c) The novel has well-knit a organised plot
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: There is no attempt at organized story telling in the novel
The experiences of Professor Ramsay and his wife have been described in which novel of Woolf?
(a) Mrs. Dalloway
(b) The Waves
(c) Orlando
(d) To the Light House
Question’s Answer: To the Light House
Which books by Virginia Woolf feature a vacation on an island in the Hebrides?
(a) The Voyage Out
(b) Night and Day
(c) Mrs. Dalloway
(d) To the Light House
Question’s Answer: To the Light House
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Smith are characters in which of the novels of Woolf?
(a) Mrs. Dalloway
(b) To the Light House
(c) The Voyage Out
(d) Night and Day
Question’s Answer: Mrs. Dalloway
George Orwell firmly believed ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’. This statement is taken from ____.
(a) George Orwell
(b) Abraham Lincoln
(c) Lord Acton
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Lord Acton
Which statements is correct about George Orwell’s Animal Farm?
(a) It is a satire on Russian Revolution
(b) It is a satire on French Revolution
(c) It is an allegory on the American War of Independence
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: It is a satire on Russian Revolution
Which authors was born in India?
(a) James Joyce
(b) George Orwell
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Henry James
Question’s Answer: George Orwell
To which period will you associate George Orwell with?
(a) 17th Century
(b) 20th Century
(c) 19th Century
(d) 18th Century
Question’s Answer: 20th Century
Which novels is a creation of George Orwell?
(a) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
(b) Burmese Days
(c) A Portrait of a Lady
(d) Of Human Bondage
Question’s Answer: Burmese Days
Which novels is not a creation of George Orwell?
(a) A Clergyman’s Daughter
(b) “The Heart of the Matter”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(c) Nineteen Eighty Four
(d) Animal Farm
Question’s Answer: “The Heart of the Matter”, A Novel by Graham Greene
Eric Blair is the original name of Which writers?
(a) George Orwell
(b) James Joyce
(c) Henry James
(d) David Herbert Lawrence
Question’s Answer: George Orwell
Animal Farm is George Orwell’s indictment of Which?
(a) Socialism
(b) Communism
(c) Monarchy
(d) Democracy
Question’s Answer: Communism
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” This statement is taken from which of the following works of George Orwell?
(a) Nineteen Eighty Four
(b) Burmese Days
(c) A Clergyman’s Daughter
(d) Animal Farm
Question’s Answer: Animal Farm
In Orwell’s Animal Farm Which characters raises the animals to a rebellion?
(a) Farmer Jones
(b) Old Major
(c) Snowball
(d) Napoleon
Question’s Answer: Old Major
In Orwell’s Animal Farm the animals rebelled against
(a) Old Major
(b) Farmer Jones
(c) Snowball
(d) Napoleon
Question’s Answer: Farmer Jones
re of Orwell’s Animal Farm ‘humans’ represent Marx’s capitalists and ‘animals’ represent
(a) Upper class of society
(b) The rulers
(c) The common mass of people
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: The common mass of people
In the satire of Orwell’s Animal Farm Stalin is represented by Which characters?
(a) Farmer Jones
(b) Snowball
(c) Napoleon
(d) Old Major
Question’s Answer: Napoleon
In Orwell’s Animal Farm, after Snowball is banished who takes over the control of the Animal Farm?
(a) Squealor
(b) Benjamin
(c) Boxer
(d) Napoleon
Question’s Answer: Napoleon
In Orwell’s Animal Farm the Tsar of Russia is represented by Which characters?
(a) Napoleon
(b) Snowball
(c) Fredarick
(d) Mr. Jones
Question’s Answer: Napoleon
Which works is a creation of Henry James?
(a) The Portrait of a Young Man as an Artist
(b) Daisy Miller
(c) Of Human Bondage
(d) “The Heart of the Matter”, A Novel by Graham Greene
Question’s Answer: Daisy Miller
Which may be Henry James’ view on art?
(a) Art is for art’s sake
(b) Art is merely craftsmanship and beauty
(c) Life is chaotic and art is selective
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Life is chaotic and art is selective
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, animals turn on Mr. Jones and his men and drive them off the farm. This incident allegorically refers to
(a) The French Revolution
(b) The War of American Independence
(c) The Russian Revolution of 1917
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: The Russian Revolution of 1917
Animal Farm in Orwell’s Animal Farm denotes Which countries?
(a) France
(b) Russia
(c) England
(d) Germany
Question’s Answer: Russia
Which conclusions is seen to be drawn by Orwell in his Animal Farm?
(a) Animals ae better than human beings
(b) What began as Utopia as heaven on earth, has ended as the opposite
(c) Human beings treat animals very cruelly
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: What began as Utopia as heaven on earth, has ended as the opposite
Which novels of Orwell may be called an autobiographical novel?
(a) Down & Out in London & Paris
(b) Nineteen Eighty Four
(c) Animal Farm
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Down & Out in London & Paris
Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegory. Characters are symbolic. Which. characters stands for Marx
and the principles of Marxism?
(a) Farmer Jones
(b) Fredrick
(c) Old Major
(d) Snowball
Question’s Answer: Old Major
In the sati
Which novels of Orwell has a grim story of attempted escape from the rat race of striving for material success?
(a) Nineteen Eighty Four
(b) Animal Farm
(c) Keep the Aspidistra Flying
(d) Down & Out in London & Paris
Question’s Answer: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Like Animal Farm Which novels of Orwell is cast in the form of an animal satire?
(a) Homage to Catalonia
(b) Nineteen Eighty Four
(c) Burmese Days
(d) A Clergyman’s Daughter
Question’s Answer: Nineteen Eighty Four
To which period does Henry James belong?
(a) Early Nineteenth Century
(b) Late Twentieth Century
(c) Late Nineteenth Century
(d) Eighteenth Century
Question’s Answer: Late Nineteenth Century
Which works is not a creation of Henry James?
(a) “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene
(b) The Golden Bowl
(c) “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James
(d) The Wings of the Dove
Question’s Answer: “The End of the Affair”, A Novel by Graham Greene
In “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James who is the lady?
(a) Mrs. Touchett
(b) Henrietta Stackpole
(c) Isabel Archer
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Isabel Archer
Which characters in “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James had proposed to Isabel Archer for
marriage, but the proposal was rejected?
(a) Casper Goodwood
(b) Mr. Touchett
(c) Ralph
(d) Lord Warburton
Question’s Answer: Lord Warburton
Which works is a creation of Conrad?
(a) The Golden Gate
(b) The Lord of Flies
(c) “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James
(d) Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Question’s Answer: Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Conrad later adopted the citizenship of Which countries?
(a) Poland
(b) England
(c) Germany
(d) France
Question’s Answer: England
When Conrad was born
(a) The Second World War was going on
(b) Poland was a free country
(c) Poland was a superpower
(d) Poland was occupied by Russia
Question’s Answer: Poland was occupied by Russia
By profession,Conrad was a
(a) Doctor
(b) Teacher
(c) Sailor
(d) Priest
Question’s Answer: Sailor
Joseph Conrad belong to ________ period.
(a) Late 19th and early 20th century
(b) Restoration period
(c) Elizabethan period
(d) Jacobean period 20th century
Question’s Answer: Late 19th and early 20th century
Which works is not a creation of Conrad?
(a) The Nigger of the Narcissus
(b) The Great Tradition
(c) The Shadow Line
(d) Nostromo
Question’s Answer: The Great Tradition
Which statements about Conrad is correct?
(a) Conrad was a modernist
(b) Conrad was a Victorian novelist
(c) Conrad was a modernist novelist
(d) Conrad was a war dramatist novelist
Question’s Answer: Conrad was a modernist novelist
Who left a legacy of 10,000 pounds for Isabel Archer in “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James?
(a) Mr. Touchett
(b) Osmond
(c) Casper Goodwood
(d) Mr. Warburton
Question’s Answer: Mr. Touchett
Which characters in “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James made a proposal of marriage to Isabel Archer and it was accepted?
(a) Casper Goodwood
(b) Mr. Warburton
(c) Ralph
(d) Osmond
Question’s Answer: Osmond
Which characters in “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James” is the daughter of Osmond?
(a) Madam Merle
(b) Henrietta
(c) Isabel
(d) Pansy
Question’s Answer: Pansy
Pansy in “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James was in love with Which characters?
(a) Rosier
(b) Ralph
(c) Lord Warburton
(d) Casper Goodwood
Question’s Answer: Rosier
In “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James Isabel’s marriage with Osmond was
(a) Happy marriage
(b) Money
(c) A marriage only to get
(d) Unhappy marriage
Question’s Answer: Unhappy marriage
What is ‘Cardinal Jamesian Sin’?
(a) It is a total appropriation of another person’s life for egotistical ends
(b) It is the infidelity of a husband to his wife
(c) It is the infidelity of a wife to her husband
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: It is a total appropriation of another person’s life for egotistical ends
Pansy’s father Osmand in “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James wants her daughter to marry Which characters?
(a) Ralph
(b) Casper Goodwood
(c) Lord Warburton
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Lord Warburton
Garden court in “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James is
(a) The name of a female character
(b) The name of the estate owned by Mr. Touchett
(c) The name of a male character loved by Isabel Archer
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: The name of the estate owned by Mr. Touchett
In “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James who is the step mother of Pansy?
(a) Henrietta
(b) Isabel
(c) Mrs. Touchett
(d) Madam Merle
Question’s Answer: Isabel
Mr. Osmond in “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James wanted her daughter Pansy to marry Lord Warburton for Which reasons?
(a) Lord Warburton was temperamentally suited to her
(b) Lord Warburton was wealthy
(c) Lord Warburton was very gentle
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Lord Warburton was wealthy
In “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James Isabel’s choice of Osmond as her husband may be compared with Which in Hardy’s Far From
the Madding Crowd?
(a) Bathsheba’s choice of Sergeant Troy
(b) Bathsheba’s choice of Boldwood
(c) Bathsheba’s choice of Gabriel Oak
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Bathsheba’s choice of Sergeant Troy
In “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James Osmond had happily married Isabel for Which reasons?
(a) For her wealth beautiful
(b) She was extremely
(c) To bring a mother for his daughter
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: For her wealth beautiful
Which characters in “The Portrait of a Lady”, a Novel by Henry James has committed the ‘Cardinal Jamesian Sin’?
(a) Ralph
(b) Osmond
(c) Mr. Warburton
(d) Mr. Goodwood
Question’s Answer: Osmond
Which statements is correct about Henry James’ novel Tragic Muse?
(a) It is a story of a man fighting against the hostile forces of life’
(b) It is a beautiful love story
(c) It portrays the contact of Americans with European life
(d) It is a study of English life
Question’s Answer: It is a study of English life
Rudyard Kipling was born in Which countries?
(a) England
(b) Ireland
(c) America
(d) India
Question’s Answer: India
Just So Stories is a story collection by
(a) Tennyson out
(b) Poe
(c) Mark Twain
(d) Kipling
Question’s Answer: Kipling
Kipling’s novel Stalky & Co. came in
(a) 1891
(b) 1880
(c) 1822
(d) 1899
Question’s Answer: 1899
Kipling produced his classic story Puck of Pook’s Hill in
(a) 1902
(b) 1895
(c) 1910
(d) 1906
Question’s Answer: 1906
Which statements can be considered as correct about Rudyard Kipling?
(a) Kipling’s fame rests principally on his short stories dealing with India, the sea, the jungle and its beast
(b) Kipling’s novels have fantasy stories
(c) Kipling’s novels are criticism of Indian society
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Kipling’s fame rests principally on his short stories dealing with India, the sea, the jungle and its beast
Kipling belong to ____century.
(a) 19th
(b) 20th
(c) 18th
(d) 17th
Question’s Answer: 20th century
Which writers is a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling?
(a) Richardso7n
(b) Joseph
(c) Scottish poet “Tobias Smollett”
(d) English novelist “Henry Fielding”
Question’s Answer: Joseph
Which writers is not a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling?
(a) Arnold Bennett
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) H.G. Wells
(d) John Galsworthy
Question’s Answer: Charles Dickens
Which novels is the creation of Kipling?
(a) The Golden Bowl
(b) The Light that Failed
(c) “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster
(d) Of Human Bondage
Question’s Answer: The Light that Failed
Which novels is not written by Kipling?
(a) The Portrait of the Artist as a Youngman
(b) The Seven Seas
(c) Kim
(d) The Light that Failed
Question’s Answer: The Portrait of the Artist as a Youngman
Which statements is correct about Henry James’ early novel Daisy Miller?
(a) It is a beautiful love story
(b) It is a story of a man fighting against the hostile forces of life
(c) It portrays the contact of Americans with European life
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: It portrays the contact of Americans with European life
Mowgli is a character in Which novels of Rudyard Kipling?
(a) The Light that Failed
(b) The Jungle Books
(c) Kim
(d) Puck of Pook’s Hill
Question’s Answer: The Jungle Books
In Kipling’s The Plain Tales From Hills, the ‘Hills’ stands for which the following cities?
(a) Mussoorie
(b) Nainital
(c) Simla
(d) Ooty
Question’s Answer: Simla
Rudyard Kipling, born in 1865 in Bombay, pass away in
(a) 1917
(b) 1927
(c) 1942
(d) 1936
Question’s Answer: 1936
Which of Kipling’s poems is an English version of Indian lullaby?
(a) “Our Lady of the snows”
(b) “Gungadin”
(c) “Mother O’Mine”
(d) “Shiva and the Grasshopper”
Question’s Answer: “Shiva and the Grasshopper”
Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem in cockney dialect. What is the name of the poem?
(a) “Fuzzy Wuzzy”
(b) “Mandalay”
(c) “Danny Deever”
(d) None of the above
Question’s Answer: “Fuzzy Wuzzy”
Kipling’s Just So Stories was published in
(a) 1918
(b) 1919
(c) 1920
(d) 1902
Question’s Answer: 1902
The River of Arrow’ is mentioned in the novel
(a) Hurry on Down
(b) Heart of Darkness
(c) Eveline
(d) Kim
Question’s Answer: Kim
Which characters in “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster is the prospective flance of Heaslop?
(a) Mrs. Moore
(b) Adela Quested
(c) Stella
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Adela Quested
Which characters in “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster is the Principal of the Government College?
(a) Dr. Aziz
(b) Prof. Godbole
(c) Mr. Fielding
(d) Ronny Heaslop
Question’s Answer: Mr. Fielding
Which is a contemporary of Forster?
(a) Daniel Defoe
(b) David Herbert Lawrence
(c) Richardso7n
(d) Charles Dickens
Question’s Answer: David Herbert Lawrence
Which is not a contemporary of Forster!
(a) Walter Scott
(b) Virginia Woolt
(c) Aldous Huxley
(d) James Joyce
Question’s Answer: Walter Scott
Which works is a creation of Forster?
(a) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(b) Hard Times
(c) The Return of the Native
(d) Robinson Crusoe
Question’s Answer: Where Angels Fear to Tread
Which works is not a creation of Forster?
(a) Women in Love
(b) The Longest Journey
(c) A Room With a View
(d) “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster
Question’s Answer: Women in Love
Dr. Aziz is a character in which novels of Forster?
(a) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(b) A Room with a View
(c) The Longest Journey
(d) “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster
Question’s Answer: “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster
Which of Kipling’s lyrics offended the feelings of another country and
destroyed foreign relations?
(a) “Mandalay”
(b) “Danny Deever”
(c) “Lord Robert”
(d) “The Ballad of the Red Earle”
Question’s Answer: “The Ballad of the Red Earle”
Mrs. Moore in “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster was the mother of Which characters?
(a) Dr. Aziz
(b) Prof. Godbole
(c) Adelu
(d) Ronny Heaslop
Question’s Answer: Ronny Heaslop
In “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster, there is reference to some caves. It is Which of the following caves?
(a) Ajanta and Ellora Caves
(b) Marabar Caves
(c) Elephanta Caves
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Marabar Caves
Dr. Aziz in “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster was arrested.
What was the charge against him?
(a) Dr. Aziz had attacked Adela in Marabar Caves.
(b) Dr. Aziz had murdered Adela in Marabar Caves.
(c) Dr. Aziz had committed a rape upon Mrs. Moore.
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Dr. Aziz had attacked Adela in Marabar Caves
In “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster. what was the conclusion of the Trial going against Dr. Aziz?
(a) Adela withdrew all charges against him and he was acquitted
(b) Dr. Aziz was sentenced to life imprisonment
(c) Dr. Aziz was sentenced to death
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Adela withdrew all charges against him and he was acquitted
In “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster. Mr. Fielding was happily married to Which characters?
(a) Stella
(b) Adela
(c) Mrs. Moore
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Stella
“A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster has been divided into three sections. These three sections are
(a) Mosque, Church and Temple
(b) Mosque, Caves and Temple
(c) Hindus, Muslims and Christians
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Mosque, Caves and Temple
In Forster’s Howard’s End, Howard’s End is the name of a
(a) Bridge
(b) Town
(c) House
(d) Road
Question’s Answer: House
Margaret Schlegel is a character in Which novels of Forster?
(a) “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster
(b) Howard’s End
(c) The Longest Journey
(d) Where Angels Fear to Tread
Question’s Answer: Howard’s End
Which women was instrumental in launching Lawrence as a writer?
(a) Frieda Weekly
(b) His mother, Lydia
(c) Jessica Chambers
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Jessica Chambers
In which of David Herbert Lawrence’s novel the story has been narrated by Cyril Beardsall?
(a) Sons and Lovers
(b) The Rainbow
(c) The White Peacock
(d) Women in Love
Question’s Answer: The White Peacock
Margaret Schlegel Forster’s in Howard’s End is happily married to Which characters?
(a) Wilcox
(b) Adela Quested
(c) Dr. Aziz
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Wilcox
In the context of “A Passage to India”, A Novel by E. M. Forster. Stella was the daughter of which characters?
(a) Mr. Fielding
(b) Ronny Heuslop
(c) Adela
(d) Mrs, Moore
Question’s Answer: Mrs, Moore
Which of these is not a novelist of ‘Stream of Consciousness Techniques”?
(a) David Herbert Lawrence
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) James Joyce
(d) Forster
Question’s Answer: Forster
‘Religion by the Blood’ is a phrase which is linked with
(a) David Herbert Lawrence
(b) Conrad
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) James Joyce
Question’s Answer: David Herbert Lawrence
In Which centuries David Herbert Lawrence was born?
(a) 19th century
(b) 18th century
(c) 17th century
(d) 20th century
Question’s Answer: 19th century
In Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers the protagonist reflects Oedipus Complex. Which can be
linked with Oedipus Complex?
(a) Abnormal attachment of a son for his mother
(b) Abnormal attachment of a daughter for her father
(c) Abnormal attachment of a son for his father
(d) Abnormal attachment of daughter for her mother
Question’s Answer: Abnormal attachment of a son for his mother
Which novels was the creation of David Herbert Lawrence?
(a) The Scientific Man
(b) The Golden Gate
(c) The White Peacock
(d) “Brave New World”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
Question’s Answer: The White Peacock
Which statements can be considered as correct about Lawrence’s The White Peacock?
(a) Cyril Beardsall, in the novel, is a pen-portrait of the novelist himself
(b) The novel deals with the happy relationship existing between the two sexes
(c) The novel is about love for birds specially white peacock
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Cyril Beardsall, in the novel, is a pen-portrait of the novelist himself
Which is the theme of Lawrence’s The Rainbow?
(a) The novel deals with the love affair of Siegmund and Helen
(b) The novel deals with the love affair of George Saxton and Lettie
(c) The Rainbow traces the history of three generations of the Brangwens living on the marsh farm
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: The Rainbow traces the history of three generations of the Brangwens living on the marsh farm
Which novels of David Herbert Lawrence is a sequel to his novel “The Rainbow”?
(a) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(b) Sons and Lovers
(c) Women in Love
(d) The White Peacock
Question’s Answer: Women in Love
In Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover Which characters is Lady Chatterley’s lover?
(a) Clifford Chatterley
(b) Paul
(c) Mellors
(d) Siegmund
Question’s Answer: Mellors
In Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, who is the mother of Paul?
(a) Annie
(b) Miriam
(c) Clara
(d) Gertrude
Question’s Answer: Gertrude
Which statements can be considered as correct about Gertrude in the context of Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers?
(a) Gertrude neglected her children for the love she had for her husband
(b) Walter Morel was a responsible bread winner for the family
(c) Gertrude had a very unhappy marital life and her only solace lay in her children
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Gertrude had a very unhappy marital life and her only solace lay in her children
Which novel did David Herbert Lawrence call ‘thought adventure”?
(a) Kangaroo
(b) The Trespasser
(c) The Rainbow
(d) The White Peacock
Question’s Answer: Kangaroo
David Herbert Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow which was banned for obscenity appeared in
(a) 2010
(b) 1929
(c) 1934
(d) 1915
Question’s Answer: 1915
Which novels was not a creation of David Herbert Lawrence?
(a) Sons and Lovers
(b) Lolita
(c) The Rainbow
(d) The Trespasser
Question’s Answer: Lolita
Miriam Leivers was in love with Which characters in Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers?
(a) Arthur
(b) William
(c) Baxter Dawes
(d) Paul
Question’s Answer: Paul
Sons and Lovers may be taken as
(a) A criticism of the contemporary society
(b) Expression of the political convictions of the author
(c) An autobiographical novel
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: An autobiographical novel
In Which manner Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers ends?
(a) Mrs. Morel dies of cancer and Paul’s life sinks into insubstantiality and shadowiness
(b) Paul is happily married to Clara
(c) Paul is happily married to Miriam
(d) None of these
Question’s Answer: Mrs. Morel dies of cancer and Paul’s life sinks into insubstantiality and shadowiness
Which characters in Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers is drawn after Lawrence’s mother?
(a) Miriam
(b) Clara
(c) Gertrude Morel
(d) Annie
Question’s Answer: Gertrude Morel
Which characters in Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers reflects the novelist himself?
(a) William
(b) Arthur
(c) Baxter Dawes
(d) Paul
Question’s Answer: Paul
According to_____, “All I want is to answer my blood direct”.
(a) W.H. Davis
(b) W.H. Hudson
(c) David Herbert Lawrence
(d) Wystan Hugh Auden
Question’s Answer: David Herbert Lawrence
Which begins with: ‘Ours is essentially a tragic age’?
(a) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(b) Sons and Lovers
(c) The Rainbow
(d)Women in Love
Question’s Answer: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Which authors is a contemporary of Aldous Huxley?
(a) Thomas Carlyle
(b) W.S. Maugham
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) George Meredith
Question’s Answer: W.S. Maugham
Which works is a creation of Huxley?
(a) “Crome Yellow”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
(b) Tristram Shandy
(c) Ulysses,a Novel by James Joyce
(d) Howard’s End
Question’s Answer: “Crome Yellow”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
Which works is not a creation of Huxley?
(a) Mrs. Dalloway
(b) Antic Hay
(c) Those Barren Leaves
(d) “Crome Yellow”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
Question’s Answer: Mrs. Dalloway
Which of Huxley’s novels are about the Wimbush family and their young hero Denis?
(a) Antic Hay
(b) Those Barren Leaves
(c) Point Counter Point
(d) “Crome Yellow”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
Question’s Answer: “Crome Yellow”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
Which of Huxley’s novel is a humorous commentary on modern society?
(a) Those Barren Leaves
(b) Antic Hay
(c) “Crome Yellow”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley’
(d) Point Counter Point
Question’s Answer: “Crome Yellow”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley’
Aldous Huxley imagines a world without disease, without pain, without emotion and without spiritual life in one of his famous novel and the novel is _______.
(a) “Time must have a Stop”, A Novel by Aldous Huxley
(b) After Many a Summer
(c) Brave New World
(d) Point Counter Point
Question’s Answer: Brave New World