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In the last twenty years of the 18th century, England produced two great romantic poets. They are:
Johnson and Blake
Blake and Burns
Pope and Goldsmith
Gray and Young
Why was Daniel Defoe arrested in May 1703?
Translating the Bible into English
Writing the pamphlet The Shortest Way of Dissenters
Not paying debts
Piracy
Jack Worthing, the central character in The Importance of Being Earnest, is found as a baby in a handbag in the cloakroom of which railway station?
Euston
Victoria
Waterloo
Paddington
Which of the following best summarizes the relationship between Fowler, Pyle, and Phuong in The Quiet American?
Love triangle
Good friends
Enemies
Colleagues
Who or what were Eye Witness, Andrew Morton, T. Tayor, and Merchant?
Pen names of Daniel Defoe
Colleagues of Daniel Defoe
Friends of Daniel Defoe
Enemies of Daniel Defoe
Who wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles?
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
H. Rider Haggard
P. D. James
Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled?
First Impressions
Last Impressions
False Impressions
True Impressions
Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who was often called the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Shakespeare
William Morris
William Wordsworth
William Blake
Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Sense and Sensibility
Sanditon
In Pride and Prejudice, we initially dislike but later tend to like?
Bingley
Wickham
Darcy
Mr. Bennet
Where did O. Henry work as a teller?
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
ANZ Grindlays Bank, Atlanta
First National Bank, Austin
First American Bank, Washington
Where did O. Henry flee to avoid trial?
Brazil
Canada
Honduras
England
Where did O. Henry die?
Philadelphia
New York
Austin
London
Which story by O. Henry deals with kidnappers who find the kidnapped boy a nuisance and want to return him with money?
Christmas by Injunction
The Cop and the Anthem
The Duplicity of Hargraves
The Ransom of Red Chief
How many dollars does Della get for her hair in The Gift of the Magi?
80
60
20
40
What is a sonnet?
A poem of six lines
A poem of fourteen lines
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is a:
Lyrical poem
Lyrical prose
Sonnet
Romance in prose
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Personification
Hyperboles
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
What is the title of Wilde’s only novel?
The Picture of Damien Gray
The Picture of Declan Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dominic Gray
The main features of Critical Realism in England were:
All of the above
These writers used the novel as a means to protest against the evils in contemporary social and economic life and to picture the world in a realistic way
The critical realists introduced new characters into literature
Critical Realism should depict typical characters in typical circumstances
What does Jim buy for Della in The Gift of the Magi?
Combs
Gold chain
Diamond ring
Silver bracelet
Which story by O. Henry deals with sacrifices a husband and wife make for buying Christmas presents for each other?
Heart of the West
Let Me Feel Your Pulse
The Gentle Grafter
The Gift of the Magi
Which humorous weekly was started by O. Henry?
The Rolling Stone
Shankar’s Weekly
Eve’s Weekly
Funny Times
When was O. Henry born?
14 April 1865
3 June 1868
January 1870
11 September 1862
The main literary stream of the 18th century was:
Naturalism
Sentimentalism
Neo-classicism
Romanticism
What was O. Henry’s real name?
William Sidney Porter
Henry Ford
Clark Gable
Arthur Kent
Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth-century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism?
Art for God’s sake
Art for art’s sake
Art for the masses
Art for intellect’s sake