Practise Test #4

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Literary Knowledge Challenge

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Match characters with their creators

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Tagore’s brief chat with ------ was recorded and known as ‘Note on the Nature of Reality’.

Einstein

Edison

Ruskin

Emerson

Match the term with the statement :

i. Fiction that includes within itself commentary on its own narrative or linguistic identity	(a) Assonance
ii. A line of a poem which is repeated in the course of a poem, usually at the end of a stanza	(b) Transferred epithet
iii. The rhyming of vowel sounds without the rhyming of consonants	(c) Refrain
iv. My host handed me a hospitable glass of wine	(d) Metafiction

(i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-d

(i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-c, (iv)-a

(i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b

(i)-a, (ii)-d, (iii)-c, (iv)-b

Which poem of Wallace Stevens opens with the line, “call the roller of big cigars”?

�Sunday Morning”

�The Emperor of Ice-cream”

�The Snow Man”

�It Must Give Pleasure”

Osborne’s Look Back in Anger marked a new voice on the British stage by virtue of its reaction against :

The problem of unemployment

Existing affected drawing room comedies

The problem of overcrowding in cities

Absurd theatre

The King and the Duke are comic villains in :

Tom Sawyer

Huckleberry Finn

Puddenhead Wilson

The Prince and the Pauper

Match the following characters with the authors :

i. Becky Sharp	(a)George Orwell
ii. Snowball	(b)Thackeray
iii. Thomas Becket	(c)James Joyce
iv. Stephen Dedalus	(d)T.S. Eliot

(i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

(i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c

(i)-a, (ii)-b, (iii)-d, (iv)-c

(i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-c, (iv)-d

Which of the following descriptions is NOT used for the eighteenth century?

Augustan age

Age of good sense

Neo-classical period

The sentimental age

'Sir Fretful Plagiary' appears in Sheridan’s :

The Critic

The Rivals

The School for Scandal

A Trip to Scarborough

Which among the following is a work of Christopher Marlowe?

The Jew of Malta

Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay

A New Way to Pay Old Debts

A Woman Killed with Kindness

Duessa is an allegorical character in :

The Faerie Queene

The Piligrim’s Progress

The Canterbury Tales

The Shepherd’s Calender

�Yet dearly I Love you, and would be loved fain, But am betrothed unto your enemy.” In these lines written by Donne, the ‘enemy’ can be interpreted as :

Evil

The Sensual Life

The Rival

Both 'Evil' and 'The Sensual Life'

�Ay, as wife, spouse, my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweet heart, and the rest of that nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar’. These comments on married life appear in :

Taming of the Shrew

The Way of the World

The Rivals

The Country Wife

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