General Awareness : Forthcomming Exam 2008
1. Which of the following sequences is correct?
(a) Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, Middlemarch, The Return of the Native
(b) Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch, The Return of the Native
(c) Middlemarch, The Return of the Native, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond
(d) The Return of the Native, Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond
2. Queen Victoria’s reign, after whom the Victorian period is named, spans-
(a) 1833 – 1901
(b) 1837 – 1901
(c) 1840 – 1905
(d) 1843 – 1905
3. Pre- Raphaelite poetry is mainly concerned with -
(a) narrative and style
(b) narrative and nature
(c) form and design
(d) form and value
4. The concept of “mad woman in the attic” can be traced to-
(a) The Tenant of Wildfell- Hall
(b) Villette
(c) Wuthering Heights
(d) Jane Eyre
5. Who among the Victorians is called “the prophet of modern society” ?
(a) Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Macaulay
(d) Arnold
6. Who among the following is not a pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales?
(a) The Haberdasher
(b) The Tapyser
(c) The Blacksmith
(d) The Summoner
7. Bosola is the executioner in -
(a) The Spanish Tragedy
(b) The Duchess of Malfi
(c) The White Devil
(d) The Jew of Malta
8. The mystery plays deal with -
(a) The life of Christ
(b) The New Testament
(c) Psalms
(d) Apocrypha
9. The Faerie Queene is based on -
(a) Utopia
(b) Tottel’s Miscellany
(c) Morte d’ Arthur
(d) Orlando Furioso
10. Choose the correct chronological sequence of the following plays-
(a) King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet
(b) Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet
(c) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
(d) Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth
11. Pope’s ‘Essay on Criticism’ sums up the art of poetry as taught first by-
(a) Aristotle
(b) Horace
(c) Longinus
(d) Plato
12. Swift’s Tale of a Tub is a satire on -
(a) Science and philosophy
(b) Art and morality
(c) Dogma and superstition
(d) Fake morals and manners
13. Dr. Johnson started -
(a) The Postman
(b) The Spectator
(c) The Rambler
(d) The Tatler
14. Who among the following cautioned against the dangers of popular liberty?
(a) Mary Wollstonecraft
(b) Edmund Burke
(c) Thomas Hobbes
(d) John Locke
15. Which famous American classic opens with “Call me Ishmael”?
(a) Rip Van Winkle
(b) The Scarlet Letter
(c) The Grapes of Wrath
(d) Moby Dick
16. Allen Ginsberg’s Vision of America is inspired by -
(a) Walt Whitman
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(d) Edgar A. Poe
17. Who among the following represents the Sri Lankan diaspora ?
(a) M.G. Vassanji
(b) Cyril Debydeen
(c) Michael Ondaatje
(d) Arnold H. Itwaru
18. Out of Africa is a film adaptation of a work by -
(a) Alice Walker
(b) Margaret Lawrence
(c) Margaret Atwood
(d) Alice Munro
19. The Empire Writes Back was written by -
(a) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Ngugi Wa Thinngo
(b) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Stephen Slemon
(c) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Chinua Achebe
(d) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Gareth Griffiths
20. The Theatre of Cruelty is associated with -
(a) Stanislavosky
(b) Grotovsky
(c) Antonin Artand
(d) Eugino Barba
21. A particle is -
(a) A patchwork of words, sentences, passages
(b) A satirical poem
(c) A love song
(d) A collection of lines from different poems
22. “Careless she is with artful Care/ Affecting to seem unaffected” is an example of -
(a) Irony
(b) Paradox
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphor
23. A metrical foot containing a stressed, followed by an unstressed, syllable is-
(a) Anapaest
(b) Iamb
(c) Trochee
(d) Dacty 1
24. The rhyme scheme of a Spenserian sonnet is -
(a) abba, cbcb, cdcd, ee
(b) abab, bccb, ccdd, ee
(c) aabb, bcbc, ccdd, ee
(d) abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee
25. Using the expression ‘Crown’ for the monarchy is an example of -
(a) Metonymy
(b) Synecdoche
(c) Irony
(d) Metaphor
26. Who is the thefirst prime minister of theFederal DemocraticRepublic of Nepal?
(a) Girija Prasad Koirala
(b) Ishwar Pokhrel
(c Pushpa Kumar Dahal Prachand
(d) Sher Bahadur Deoba
27. Samuel Beckett wrote -
(a) Volpone
(b) Mother Courage and Her Children
(c) A Doll’s House
(d) Endgame
28. Which one of the following author-book pairs is correctly matched?
(a) Elfride Jelinek – The Pianist
(b) J.M. Coetzee- Shame
(c) Saul Bellow – Herzog
(d) Salman Rushdie – Disgrace
29. The Plough and the ‘Stars’ was written by -
(a) G.B. Shaw (b) Sean O’Casey
(c) Lady Gregory
(d) J.M. Synge
30. Willy Loman is a character in-
(a) Waiting for Godot
(b) A Doll’s House
(c) The Cherry Orchard
(d) The Death of a Salesman
31. John Evellyn and Samuel Pepys were the famous writers of -
(a) Editorials
(b) Letters
(c) Essays
(d) Diaries
32. The subtitle of Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel is -
(a) There was no subtitle
(b) A Poem
(c) A Satire
(d) A satire on the True Blue Protestant Poets
33. Who of the following is not a periodical essayist?
(a) Richard Steele
(b) Lancelot Andrews
(c) Joseph Addison
(d) Jonathan Swift
34. “Did he who made the Lamb made thee” appears in-
(a) ‘Introduction’
(b) ‘ The Tyger’
(c) ‘Chimney Sweeper’
(d) ‘London’
35. Which of the following thinker- concept pairs is rightly matched?
(a) I.A. Richards – Archetypal criticism
(b) Northrop Frye-Practical criticism
(c) Jacqes Devide – New Historicism
(d) Stanley Fish – Reader Response
36. “Essays of Eila” are-
(a) Economic disparity
(b) Literary criticism
(c) Political ideology
(d) Personal impressions
37. Which of the following thinker – concept pairs is rightly matched?
(a) Mamata – Vakrokti
(b) Abhinava Gupta- Kavya Alankar
(c) Bharata – Natya Shastra
(d) Vaman – Dhwanyaloka
38. Choose the correct sequence of the following schools of criticism -
(a) Deconstruction, New Criticism, Structuralism, Reader Response
(b) Reader Response, Deconstruction, Structuralism, New Criticism
(c) New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader Response
(d) Structuralism, New Criticism, Deconstruction, Reader Response
39. ‘Peripeteia’ means -
(a) Tragic flaw
(b) Recognition of error
(c) Purgation of emotion
(d) Reversal of fortune
40. ‘Gynocriticism’ focuses on -
(a) Criticism of male writers by women writers
(b) Criticism on women
(c) Criticism by women
(d) Women as writers
41. Samuel Butler’s Hudibras is modeled upon -
(a) Don Quixote
(b) Endymion
(c) Annus Mirabilis
(d) Pilgrim’s Progress
42. Who was the last of the Christian Humanists?
(a) John Bunyan
(b) Oliver Cromwell
(c) John Milton
(d) Richard Crashaw
43. The narrative of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura is based on-
(a) The Ramayana
(b) The Mahabharata
(c) Puranas
(d) Shastras
44. Which of the following author- book pairs is correctly matched?
(a) Arundhati Roy Algebra of Infinite Justice
(b) Shashi Tharoor - Trotter’s Name
(c) C.L.R. James- The English Patient
(d) David Madouf- The Cityof Djins
45. Who wrote ‘A tiger does not proclaim its tigretude’ ?
(a) Derek Walcott
(b) Soyinka
(c) Achebe
(d) Ngugi
46. ‘Jindiworobak’ movement relates to -
(a) Caribbean literature
(b) Canadian literature
(c) Australian literature
(d) New Zealand literature
47. The Montreal group of poets championed the cause of-
(a) Modernist poetry
(b) Imagist poetry
(c) Symbolist poetry
(d) Nature poetry
48. The figure of the ‘Abyssinian Maid’ appears in-
(a) ‘Kubla Khan’
(b) ‘Frost at Midnight’
(c) ‘Dejection : an Ode’
(d) ‘Christabel’
49. Coleridge’s statement that imagination “dissolves, diffuse, dissipates in order to recreate” relates to -
(a) secondary imagination
(b) esemplastic imagination
(c) fancy
(d) primary imagination
50. Who among the following is the acting President of Pakistan ?
(a) Parvez Musharraf
(b) Mohammedmian Soomro
(c) Ashif Zardari
(d) Nawaz Sharif
ANSWERS
ANSWERS
1. (a) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (c) 5. (d)
6. (b) 7. (b) 8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (c)
11. (c) 12. (c) 13. (c) 14. (b) 15. (a)
16. (a) 17. (c) 18. (b) 19. (c) 20. (b)
21. (a) 22. (b) 23. (c) 24. (d) 25. (a)
26. (c) 27. (d) 28. (c) 294. (b) 30. (d)
31. (d) 32. (b) 33. (d) 34. (c) 35. (d)
36. (d) 37. (c) 38. (b) 39. (d 40. (d)
41. (a) 42. (a) 43. (c) 44. (a) 45. (c)
46. (a) 47. (a) 48. (a) 49. (d) 50. (b)
