The Global Open University 2012-1st Year M.A English Global open University of Modern Literature - Question Paper

jan, 2012
Duration: two Hours
Course: MA in English
Year: 1st Year
Paper Name: Modern Literature

ATTEMPT ALL THE beneath MENTIONED QUESTIONS:
1. Which of the subsequent words
define the prevailing attitude of
High-Modern Literature?
a. Skeptical
b. Authoritative
c. Impressionistic
d. Confident
2. Which Welsh poet wrote "Under
Milk Wood?"
a. Anthony Hopkins
b. Richard Burton
c. Tom Jones
d. Dylan Thomas
3. Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
a. Geoffrey Chaucer
b. Dick Whittington
c. Thomas Lancaster
d. King Richard II
4. Who wrote "The Hound of the
Baskervilles?"
a. Agatha Christie
b. H Ryder-Haggard
c. P D James
d. Arthur Conan Doyle
5. Wlliam Shakespeare is not the
writer of:
a. Titus Andronicus
b. Taming of the Shrew
c. White Devil
d. Hamlet
6. ___________is a late 20th
century play written by a woman?
a. Queen Cristina
b. Top Girls
c. Camille
d. The Homecoimg
7. Which of the subsequent authors
wrote historical novels?
a. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
b. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
c. William Wordsworth and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
d. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe
Shelley
8. Who wrote "Ten Little Niggers?"
a. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
b. Irvine Welsh
c. Agatha Christie
d. None of above
9. Which of the subsequent are
Thomas Hardy books?
a. The Poor Man and the Lady
b. The Return of Native
c. Chollttee
d. None of the above
10. Which of the subsequent is not a
work of John Keats?
a. Endymion
b. To a few ladies
c. To hope
d. None of above
11. Who wrote the poems, "On
death" and "Women, Wine, and
Snuff?"
a. John Milton
b. John Keats
c. P.B. Shelley
d. William Wordsworth
12. "Of Man's 1st disobedience,
and the fruit Of that forbidden tree
whose mortal taste Brought death
into the world, and all our woe, With
loss of Eden." This is an extract
from:
a. Paradise Lost
b. Paradise Regained
c. Samson Agonistes
d. Divorce Tracts
13. William Shakespeare was born
in the year:
a.1564
b.1544
c.1578
d.1582
14. Which of the subsequent is not a
Shakespeare tragedy?
a. Titus Andronicus
b. Othello
c. Macbeth
d. Hamlet
e. None of the above
15. Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale?'
a. George Bernard Shaw
b. John Dryden
c. Christopher Marlowe
d. William Shakespeare

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