Quiz 1 - UGC NET/JRF English
(a) The Plight of the Blacks
(b) A Man against Slavery
(c) Life Among the Lowly
(d) Story of the Downtrodden
2. Name the founder of the Chicago School of criticism.
(a) I. A. Richards
(b) F.R. Leavis
(c) William Empson
(d) R.S. Crane
3. In which year did King James I declare himself King of Great Britain?
(a) 1603
(b) 1604
(c) 1605
(d) 1606
4. RUR, an experimental play in which the term ‘robot’ first appeared is by ______.
(a) Antonin Artaud
(b) H.G. Wells
(c) Bertolt Brecht
(d) Karel Capek
5. Who defined Romanticism as “the renaissance of wonder”?
(a) S. T. Coleridge
(b) Wilson Knight
(c) Theodore Watts Dunton
(d) William Blake
6. Name G.K. Chesterton’s priest‐detective.
(a) Father James
(b) Father Brown
(c) Father Henry
(d) Father Augustine
7. Which is the first work of the sci‐fi‐horror genre?
(a) The Time Machine
(b) Psycho
(c) Frankenstein
(d) The Invisible Man
8. Which Victorian novelist is regarded the father of the sensation novel, a precursor
of the detective fiction?
(a) Wilkie Collins
(b) Henry James
(c) Benjamin Disraeli
(d) H.G. Wells
9. Who compiled the Cambridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional Usage?
(a) Daniel Jones
(b) Miriam Webster
(c) Eric Partridge
(d) Margaret Drabble
10. ______ was the first biographer to use Freudian insights in his analysis.
(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) Lytton Strachey
(c) James Boswell
(d) Margaret Cavendish
11. Which literary scholar wrote Towards Greek Tragedy?
(a) Edmund Burke
(b) William Ridgeway
(c) William Hazlitt
(d) Brian Vickers
(b) William Ridgeway
(c) William Hazlitt
(d) Brian Vickers
12. Which mathematician/ scholar wrote the work The Impact of Science on Society?
(a) Newton
(b) Russell
(c) Descartes
(d) Rousseau
13. What is the major concern of Arnold’s Literature and Dogma?
(a) Criticism
(b) Culture
(c) Theology
(d) Society
14. Which Modernist writer wrote the poem “Coriolanus”?
(a) T. S. Eliot
(b) Dylan Thomas
(c) Louis MacNeice
(d) Stephen Spender
15. “The Figure a Poem Makes” is an essay by the Pulitzer winning writer________.
(a) Allan Poe
(b) Walt Whitman
(c) John Crowe Ransom
(d) Robert Frost
16. Which is the first archaeological treatise in English?
(a) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(b) Hydriotaphia
(c) The Antiquary
(d) Anatomy of Melancholy
17. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is dedicated to which contemporary American
writer?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(b) Edgar Allan Poe
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(d) James Fenimore Cooper
18. A.C. Bradley’s 10 essay collection Shakespearean Tragedy was published in which
year?
(a) 1920
(b) 1909
(c) 1917
(d) 1904
19. Where was the essay “Hamlet and his Problems,” which regards Hamlet as an
artistic failure, originally published?
(a) The Criterion
(b) The Egoist
(c) The Sacred Wood
(d) TLS
20. Who called Henry James, “the Victorian of fine consciousness”?
(a) Matthew Arnold
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) Joseph Conrad
(d) Thomas Hardy
21. Swansea in South Wales figures in the works of ___________.
(a) Dylan Thomas
(b) Seamus Heaney
(c) Kingsley Amis
(d) Ezra Pound
22. Samuel Butler’s Hudibras is an attack ________.
(a) Chivalry
(b) Kingship
(c) Puritanism
(d) Colonialism
23. Who coined the term ‘Imagism’?
(a) Charles Baudelaire
(b) Immanuel Kant
(c) Ezra Pound
(d) T. S. Eliot
24. Which century is known as the age of circulating libraries?
(a) 16 th
(b) 17 th
(c) 18 th
(d) 19 th
25. Who authored the long essay commenting on the Porter Scene in Macbeth?
(a) Richard Steele
(b) Thomas de Quincey
(c) Oliver Goldsmith
(d) Dover Wilson
Answers:
1. (c) Life among the Lowly
2. (d) R.S. Crane
3. (b) 1604
4. (d) Karel Capek
5. (c) Theodore Watts Dunton
6. (b) Father Brown
7. (c) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
8. (a) Wilkie Collins
9. (c) Eric Partridge
10. (b) Lytton Strachey
11. (d) Brian Vickers
12. (b) Bertrand Russell
13. (c) Theology
14. (a) T.S. Eliot
15. (d) Robert Frost
16. (b) Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial byThomas Browne
17. (c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
18. (d) 1904
19. (c) The Sacred Wood
20. (c) Joseph Conrad
21. (a) Dylan Thomas
22. (c) Puritanism
23. (c) Ezra Pound
24. (c) 18 th
25. (b) Thomas de Quincey
