ENGLISH-2019-Feb - 120 MINUTES - Multiple Choice Questions

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English exam paper on literary knowledge presented as multiple-choice questions with a total time of 120 minutes. The questions cover major authors, works, quotations, and literary movements, including Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare’s life and publications, Paradise Lost, Victorian literature, and Modernism. Other items address plays by Webster, Ibsen, and Dickens, poetry by Wordsworth, Byron, Yeats, and Hopkins, and key publishers or cultural institutions. Answers are selected from A–D options for each prompt.

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Multiple Choice Questions

Timed Section (120 Minutes)

A 19207 120 MINUTES 1. How many pilgrims, according to Chaucer, were part of the company that arrived atthe Tabard as he lay there? A) 27 B) 28 C) 29 D) 30 2. Who was the first to print The Canterbury Tales? A) John Gower B) John Lydgate C) Robert Large D) William Caxton 3. Prothalamion can be considered‘a------song’: A) nuptial B) nubile C) marischal D) martial 4. The main collaborator of John Webster, the Jacobean writer, was: A) Thomas Dekker B) Thomas Middleton C) John Fletcher D) John Ford 5. The theatre in which Shakespeare is said to have had a proprietary interest: A) Red Lion B) Red Bull C) Theatre D) Globe 6. Shakespeare relied on the translation of Plutarch’s Lives by: A) Sir Thomas Lucy B) Sir Thomas More C) Sir Thomas North D) Sir Thomas Brown 7. The first published edition of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623 is called the first: A) Folio B) Quarto C) Octavo D) Demi-octavo 8. “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love” is the opening line of: A) The Beatification B) The Canonization C) The Betrothal D) The Resurrection 9. The‘greater Man’ referred to at the beginning of Paradise Lost is: A) Adam B) Eve C) Satan D) Christ 10. Mr Pinchwife is the jealous husband in: A) Man of Mode B) The Old Batchelour C) The Country Wife D) The Way of the World 11. The Tatler was launched in 1709 by: A) Richard Steele B) Joseph Addison C) James Boswell D) Samuel Pepys 12. Mac Flecknoe is a lampoon on: A) Colley Cibber B) Thomas Shadwell C) Ben Jonson D) Dr Johnson 13. Wordsworth has said that poetry is the‘spontaneous overflow’of powerful: A) emotions B) things C) reflections D) recollections 14. Lines from the “Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence” are quoted as the epigraph to: A) The Prelude B) Ode on Intimations of Immortality C) Dejection: An Ode D) Areopagitica 15. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an autobiographical work by: A) Voltaire B) Rousseau C) Montesquieu D) Byron 16. The Modern Prometheus is part of the title: A) Frankenstein B) Mysteries of Udolpho C) Melmoth the Wanderer D) Dracula 17. Northanger Abbey is a satire on the---------novel: A) dramatic B) baroque C) gothic D) grotesque 18. Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays and On the English Comic Writers are works by: A) Sir Walter Scott B) William Hazlitt C) Leigh Hunt D) Robert Southey 19. The Victorian Compromise and its Enemies is the opening chapter of The Victorian Age in Literature by: A) G.K. Chesterton B) Thomas Carlyle C) Arnold Toynbee D) H.G. Wells 20. The members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were primarily: A) poets B) painters C) musicians D) critics 21. Apologia Pro Vita Sua is a defence of the life and opinions of: A) Charles Kingsley B) Oscar Wilde C) A.C. Swinburne D) J.H. Newman 22. The death of Little Nell in Dickens’novel--------is unfailingly mentioned in any discussion of ‘Victorian sentimentality’: A) David Copperfield B) Nicholas Nickleby C) A Christmas Carol D) The Old Curiosity Shop 23. “--------was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.” Complete the quote, choosing from the words below: A) ‘Justice’ B) ‘Enough’ C) ‘All’ D) ‘Nothing’ 24. George Bernard Shaw was one of the founders ofthe: A) British Museum B) National Gallery C) Fabian Society D) Saturday Review 25. The poetry of G.M. Hopkins was collected and published after the poet’s death by his friend: A) Max Brod B) Robert Bridges C) Cardinal Newman D) Coventry Patmore 26. “If I should die, think only this of me;/That there’s some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England.” These are lines from the poem by: A) Wilfred Owen B) Siegfried Sassoon C) Rupert Brooke D) Rudyard Kipling 27. Who among of the‘Pink poets’was named Poet Laureate: A) Stephen Spender B) W.H. Auden C) Cecil Day Lewis D) Louis MacNeice 28. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” is a line from a p

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The questions focus on English literature and criticism, including authors, plays, poems, quotations, and literary movements.

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