PGT English Mock Test 17

1. In The Merchant of Venice who sings the song, "Tell me, where is fancy bred?"re

2. Maraine listens to the song, "Take, O take those lips away." in the play-

3. Balthazar is a character from-

4. The Spenserian stanza has: (PGT-13)

5. An iambic pentameter line contains: (PGT-2000)

6. The 'Tambic Pentameter' implies which of the following: (PGT-05)

7. Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; The above lines have been written in- (TGT-10)

8. An Alexandrine is a verse line in - (TGT-10)

9. Who opined "Classicism is health; Romanticism is disease" to convey that Classicism is the means of controlling art?

10. A prose composition with a focused subject of discussion" or a "long, systematic discourse:

11. The word 'essay' derives from the French word Essai which means:

12. The first English comedy Ralph Roister Doister was probably first performed about -

13. Who popularised the comedy of humours by writing the popular satirical plays - Every Man in His Humour, (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614)?

14. Choose the correct figure of speech in the following sentence: (PGT-09) "The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven."

15. Where did Shakespeare retire to?

16. Which of these phrases appears on gravestone?

17. On the title page, Milton wrote that the piece was a "Dramatic Poem" instead of it being a drama. This work was:

18. In writing the poem, Milton, in choosing the character of Samson as his hero, was also illustrating his own blindness, which afflicted him in his later life. This poem was:

19. Who said that Paradise Regained is "practically sui generis" in its poetic execution?

20. Who wrote the critical work The Return to Eden: Five Essays on Milton's Epics?

21. Who said to Milton, "Thou hast said much here of Paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise found?".

22. Who said about the poem "The Canonization" that the entire poem gives "a new twist to one of the most worn conventions of Elizabethan love poetry" by expanding "the lover-saint conceit to full and precise definition"?

23. What's the name of the sylph who is assigned to guard Belinda's watch?

24. God's is the wind' and 'Art thou poor' are two songs composed by- it a language?"

25. Who "found English a dialect and left

26. What is 'rhyme-royal' ?

27. The Hundred Years' war ended in the year-

28. The word 'renaissance' seems to have been first in the book named

29. The birth-place of 'renaissance' was-

30. Which dialect is the source language of English ?

31. What's the name of the sylph who is assigned to guard Belinda's "fav'rite Lock"?

32. What's the name of the woman in attendance at the Hampton Court party; one who lends the Baron the pair of scissors with which he cuts Belinda's hair, and later delivers a moralizing lecture?

33. When did Thomas Gray die?

34. Where was Gray buried?

35. "She gave me eyes, she gave me cars; And humble cares, and delicate fears." Were in reference to:

36. Where and when did Wordsworth meet Sir Walter Scott?

37. How many times Wordsworth visited Europe?

38. The theme of "The World is Too Much With Us" is:

39. What is the sub-title of Shelley's Alastor? (PGT-09)

40. The following lines are taken from- (PGT-04) "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness'

41. A long romance entitled Endymion is written by- (PGT-05, 10)

42. To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield The above lines are taken from:

43. "Who are wise in love/ Love most, say least" The above lines are taken from:

44. When was Robert Browning's son born? (The child was nicknamed "Penini" or "Pen")

45. Matthew Arnold's Shorab and Rustom is taken from a story-

46. Who wrote Shorab and Rustom?

47. 'A Vision' is a philosophical work of Yeats. He wrote it with the help of-

48. 'The Waste Land' is dedicated to:

49. In which of his poem Eliot follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, and employs many literary and cultural allusions from the Western canon, Buddhism and the Hindu Upanishads?

50. The major portion of 'The Waste Land' is written in: