1. : Why did Thomas Carlyle love Emerson?
(A) Honesty
(B) Love for nature
(C) Kindness
(D) Philanthropy
2. : According to John J. Chapman, Emerson represents a protest against the tyranny of ______.
(A) Feudalism
(B) Democracy
(C) Monarchy
(D) Christianity
3. : In ______, Emerson has the phrase, “Little things are often filled with great beauty.”
(A) Nature
(B) American Scholar lecture
(C) Journal for March 1852
(D) Harvard Divinity School Address
4. : For Emerson, Nature served as a major source of which of the following?
(A) Inspiration
(B) Pain
(C) Joy
(D) Ecstasy
5. : According to ________; “Mysticism for mysticism’s sake”?
(A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(B) H. D. Thoreau
(C) Edgar Allan Foe
(D) Herman Melville
6. : Emerson’s central doctrine-that of ‘submission to emotion’ is inadmissible to
(A) LA. Richards
(B) F. R. Leavis
(C) Yvor Winters
(D) Wilson Knight
7. : Which of the following was promoted by H.D. Thoreau, like Emerson?
(A) Joy
(B) Pantheism
(C) Independence
(D) Kindness
8. : Hawthorne typically observes man in _____.
(A) Nature
(B) Society
(C) Variance with nature
(D) Woods
9. : Nathaniel Hawthorne is a writer of which of the following?
(A) Prose
(B) Drama
(C) Plays
(D) Fiction
10. : Who claimed that “the thyme and marjoram are yet not honey” while referring to Thoreau’s poems?
(A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(B) R.W. Emerson
(C) H.D. Thoreau
(D) Herman Melville
11. : What kind of writer was Henry David Thoreau?
(A) Satirical
(B) Poetical
(C) Rhetorical
(D) Conversational
12. : Who was claiming that Thoreau gathered surplus fruit from Emerson’s orchards?
(A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(B) Thomas Carlyle
(C) Herman Melville
(D) J.R. Lowell
13. : Thoreau’s poetry is comparable to Emerson’s in which of the following ways?
(A) Unsatisfactory
(B) Satirical
(C) Poetical
(D) Political
14. : Emblem, symbol, moral, analogy, type, image are the favourite words of
(A) Emerson
(B) Thoreau
(C) Hawthorne
(D) Melville
15. : Who called Nathaniel Hawthorne a ‘harmless Hawthorne”?
(A) R.W. Emerson
(B) H.D. Thoreau
(C) Edgar Allan Poe
(D) Herman Melville
16. : In _______, Melville leave the sea and far off places to write in the third person?
(A) Moby Dick
(B) Pierre
(C) Mardi
(D) Typee
17. : Which book of Melville reflects Shakespearean soliloquies?
(A) Moby Dick
(B) Brother
(C) Omoo
(D) Pierre
18. : Herman Melville wrote Typee and Omoo on the basis of his experiences of
(A) Forest life
(B) City life
(C) Sea
(D) Family life
19. : Who, regarding Hawthorne, posed this question: ‘Could he have been more self-assured”?
(A) Henry James
(B) Jack London
(C) Stephen Foster
(D) Mark Twain
20. : For _____, the sea is a great source of metaphor?
(A) R.W. Emerson
(B) Henry James
(C) H.D. Thoreau
(D) Herman Melville
21. : On which work does Melville castigate white civilisation?
(A) Omoo
(B) Moby Dick
(C) Mardi
(D) Typee
22. : Which of the following books of Melville is interesting to be studied as a preliminary to his ‘Moby Dick”?
(A) Typee
(B) Omoo
(C) White Jacket
(D) Mardi
23. : There are traces of Dickens in Herman Melville’s
(A) Dick
(B) Mardi
(C) Typee
(D) Bertleby the scrivener
24. : In Omoo, Melville takes up the narrative where he left it in
(A) Omoo
(B) Moby Dick
(C) Typee
(D) Mardi