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

defined in 'the Oxford Companion
to 20th Century Poetry?
a. A poet of middleness
b. Capturing a sense of spiritual
marooness
c. 1 of the leading prairie poets
d. Has a few distinction as a critic
43. 'The Cambridge school' refers to
a group who emerged when?
a. The 1900's
b. The 1960's
c. The 1920's
d. The 1930's
44. Margaret Atwood was born in
which Canadian city?
a. Vancouver
b. Toronto
c. Ottowa
d. Montreal
45. Donne, Marvell, and Herbert are
among those known as the ______
poets.
A: metaphysical
B: realist
C: imagist
D: impressionist
E: surrealist
46. Which of the subsequent was NOT
considered 1 of the 4 humours
in medieval England?
A: black bile
B: phlegm
C: yellow bile
D: blood
E: tears
47. Why does Iago hate the title
figure in Shakespeare's Othello?
A: He despises Desdemona's dad.
B: He is in love with Desdemona.
C: Othello put Iago's dad in prison.
D: Othello accidentally killed Iago's
brother.s
48. Which of the subsequent novelists
wrote Middlemarch?
A: Jane Austen
B: Charles Dickens
C: George Eliot
D: Herman Melville
49. What is Swift's Modest
Proposal?
A: The Irish should win their
independence.
B: England should invade Ireland.
C: All of the Irish should be sold into
slavery.
D: The Protestant and Catholic churches
should combine.
E: Irish children should be fattened and
eaten by their parents.
50. What is the name provided to a
humorous poem with a rhyme
scheme of AABBA?
A: sonnet
B: limerick
C: panegyric
D: epigram
51. Who born in 1422:
a)William Caxton
b)Robert Henry
c)John Lyly
d)Thomas more
52. Utopia was 1st printed in:
a)1615
b)1516
c)1517
d)1518
53. Who translated Utopia in English
language:
a)Thomas More
b)Thomas lodge
c)Ralph Robinson
d)William Tyndale
54. The 1st complete version of
Bible in English language was made
by:
a)Wyclif
b)Thomas more
c)John Lyly
d)Robert Greene
55. Who took Degree at fifteen from
Cambridge in 1518?
a)Thomas Nash
b)Thomas More
c)Thomas lodge
d)Thomas Wyatt
56. Who wrote "Mirror for
Magistrates"?
a)Thomas Sacville
b)Thomas Wyatt
c)Thomas lodge
d)Thomas Kyde
57. Philip Sidney was born on 30th
November:
a)1553
b)1554
c)1555
d)1550
58. "Astrophel and Stella" is a:
a) Allegory
b) Epic
c)Sonnet
d)Ballad
59. Greville was biographer of:
a)Edmund Spencer
b)John Donne
c)Sir Philip Sidney
d)John Milton
60. "The Prince Of Poets in his
time", on whom grave the
inscription is given?
a)Sir Philip Sidney
b)John Milton
c)Edmund Spencer
d)John Donne
61. What is Faerie Queene:
a)An allegory
b)An epic
c)A ballad
d)A sonnet
62. In whose reign Morality plays
began?
a) Henry five
b) Elizabeth one
c) Henry six
d) Henry eight
63. Which book Edmund Spenser
dedicated to the Philip Sidney:
a) The Faerie Queene
b) The shepheaedes Calendar
c) Complaints
d) Colin Clouts come home again
64. Which poet was 1st who used
metaphysical poetry among his
contemporaries:
a) Edmund Spenser
b) John Milton
c) John Donne
d) Sir Philip Sidney
65.Thomas kyd (1558-95) achieved
great popularity with which of his
first work?
a) The Rare Triumphs of love and
fortune
b) The Spanish Tragedy
c) Jeronimo
d) Cornelia
66. Marlowe born in________
a) 1562
b) 1563
c) 1564
d) 1565
67. In "the tragic history of Doctor
Faustus". Faustus was a :
a) German scholar
b) French scholar
c) Spanish scholar
d) Greek scholar
68. Who wrote "The Massacre at
Paris"?
a) Shakespeare
b) Christopher Marlowe
c) Edmund Spenser
d) john Milton
69. After the death of Christopher
Marlowe who completed his
unfinished poem "Hero and
Leander"?
a) Shakespeare
b) Thomas Nash
c) George Chapman
d) Thomas More
70. Who succeeded Lyly?
a) Robert Greene
b) John Milton
c) Philip Sidney
d) Christopher Marlowe

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