Matching MCQ 2010-2020

Aug 31, 2026

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This document contains multiple-choice matching questions focused on English literature. It provides several code-based tasks where readers must pair novel titles or authors with correct symbols, characters, or works. Explanations follow the answers, describing literary plots, themes, publication details, and key symbols such as fog in Bleak House and comparative mythology in The Golden Bough. Topics include Victorian journalism, geological theory, and major novels and characters by authors like Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Henry Mayhew, and Salman Rushdie.

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Match List-I with List-II

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meter of trochaic trimeter.I ne tiith is in 1ambic nexameter,aiso Known as an Aiexanarine.ine rnyme scneme or eacnstanza is in the form ABABB.] # 46.Match List-I with List-II according to the code given below: | List-I(Novel) | List-I(Majorsymbol) | | --- | --- | | i.Dombey and Son | 1.fog | | ii.The Return of the Native | 2.train | | iii.Bleak House | 3.heath | | iv.Tess | 4.mist | Codes: iiiiv(A)214(B)43(C)24 i i 3 2 1 3 1 D)14 3 1 Answer:(A)[Dombey and Son(1948)is a novel by Charles Dickens.The novel reflects to some extentDickens'concerns with railway travel and the ‘railway mania',‘a fascination which had a strong ingredient of fearin it',and reflects ambivalence towards the effects of the railways-they generated prosperity and employment,but undermined older ways of living and encouraged speculation. Bleak House(1853)is a novelby Charles Dickens.It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels,containingone of the most vast,complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon.Two quiteeffective symbols in Bleak House are the fog and “the Roman"who points down from Mr.Tulkinghorn's ceilingand symbolizes the theme of retribution,of evil ultimately bringing ruin upon itself.The Bleak House fog is a becomes caught up in the life of the 18th and 19th centuries,holding court with the great poets (notably AlexanderPope).] # 3.Match List-I with List-I according to the code given below: | List-I | List-II | | --- | --- | | i.John Ruskin | 1.London Labour and the London Poor | | ii.Henry Mayhew | 2.The Golden Bough | | ii.Sir Charles Lyell | 3.Unto The Last | | iv.Sir James George Frazer | 4.The Principles of Geology | 504 BRUSHUPYOURENGLISHLITERATURE Codes:iiiiiv(A)324(B)2134(C)241 . 1 3 D)3142 Answer:(D)[London Labour and the London Poor is a work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew.Inthe 1840s he observed,documented and described the state of working people in London for a series ofarticles ina newspaper,the Morning Chronicle.The articles were initially collected into three volumes in 1851.In the early1950s,Punch published a series of articles based upon and to some extent parodying London Labour and theLondon Poor.In 1953 the articles,which were written by Alex Atkinson and illustrated by Ronald Searle werepublished in a single volume under the title The Big City or the New Mayhew. A wide-ranging,comparative study of mythology and religion The Golden Bough:A Study in ComparativeReligion is written by Sir James George Frazer.The book inspired the creative literature of the period.T.S.Eliotacknowledged indebtedness to Frazer in his first note to his poem The Waste Land.W.B.Yeats refers to Frazer'sthesis inhis poem“Sailing to Byzantium”.William Carlos Williams,Sigmund Freud,James Joyce,Ernest Hemingway, D.H.Lawrence,Aleister Crowley,Ezra Pound,William Gaddis,Mary Renault,Joseph Campbell,Roger Zelazny,Naomi Mitchison are some of the authors whose work shows the deep influence of The Golden Bough. Unto This Last is an essay on economy by John Ruskin,first published in December 1860 in the monthlyjounal Cornhill Magazine in four articles.Unto This Last had a very important impact on Gandhi's philosophy. Principles of Geology(1830-33)is a book by Charles Lyell.The book established Lyell's credentials as animportant geological theorist and popularised the doctrine ofuniformitarianism(first suggested by James Hutton).The central argument in Principles was that“the present is the key to the past”:that geological remains from thedistant past can,and should,be explained by reference to geological processes now in operation and thus directlyobservable.The book deeply influenced Charles Darwin.] # 57.The following aretwo lists of characters and the works in which we find them.Match them correctlyaccording to the code: List-II(Works) List-I(Characters) # 1.A Housefor Mr Biswas I.Rat

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What format do the questions use in this MCQ document?

The document uses code-based matching: List-I items must be paired with the correct List-II items, and then the answer code is selected.

Do the answers include explanations beyond just the letter code?

Yes. Each answer section provides short literary explanations, including publication years and thematic or symbolic points.

Which subjects from English literature are covered?

The questions cover novels, authors, and characters from multiple periods, including Victorian literature, myth and religion studies, and major 20th-century works.

Aug 31, 2026

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