TGT English Mock Test 27

1. Who wrote Lives of the English Poets?

2. John Bunyan wrote an autobiography. Identify it.

3. Tradition and Individual Talent is from the pen of:

4. Who referred to T.S. Eliot's style as "Poetic shorthand"?

5. Which of T.S. Eliot's poems is based on musical pattern?

6. In this poem Auden doesn't follow the traditions of an elegy. He treats the subject matter-

7. How many stanzas are there in the poem "Wants"?

8. Who among these is called a 'home-spun philosopher"? (PGT-04)

9. Dickinson talked to visitors through a half-closed..

10. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." Who said it?

11. Celil Day Lewis observes that the simplicity of his verse is the simplicity - not of nature - but of a so serious and profoundly critical spirit." Who was he?

12. Which of the following collections of poems is written by Kamala Das? (PGT-2000)

13. Who among the following writers did recently change his/her religion?

14. Which of Portia's caskets bears the inscription "Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath"?

15. What is inside the gold casket which the prince of Morocco opens?

16. What rumor do Salarino and Solanio discuss and then seek to have confirmed by Shylock? (PGT-2000)

17. Tubal reports Jessica has stolen a ring of Shylock's. What does she trade the ring for?

18. What cheers up Shylock after hearing of his daughter's theft?

19. The main difference between Ben Jonson and Shakespeare is of

20. "Ben Jonson comedies are full of humour" who says SO?

21. Who is Edward Kno'well in the play 'Everyman in his humour'?

22. Who is Brainworm?

23. Which type of character is of Old Kno'well?

24. Whom did Wordsworth call "Stern Daughter of the Voice of God" ?

25. About what is Wordsworth talking in the line "Oh ! pleasant exercise o hope and joy !"

26. Which poem of Wordsworth has the 4C following ending lines ? "But in the very world, which is the world of all of us,-the place where in the end We find our happiness, or not at all."

27. Wordsworth's poem "It is a Beau- teous Evening Calm and Free" is a--

28 Which poem of Wordsworth is a story of a woman whose lover has betrayed her ?

29. Wordsworth's married his cousin Mary Hutchinson in the year-

30. In Wordsworth's Poem "She was a Phantom of Delight", who is she ?

31. Aureng-zebe is a Restoration tragedy by. written in 1675. It is based loosely on the figures of Aurangzeb (Aureng-zebe), the then-reigning Mughal Emperor of India; his brother, Murad Baksh (Morat); and their father, Shah Jahan (Emperor). Noleg most performed play.

32. All for Love; or, the World Well Lost, is a 1677 heroic which is now his best-known and

33. All for Love is a Heroic Tragedy written in-

34. "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.." This line is taken from:

35. In Irrational the knot in question is:

36. The lesson underlying this play is that in the ordinary course of the life idealism should not be carried too far because it does not play to be an extreme idealist in the world of realities. The play is-

37. The play is a social tragedy based upon caste feelings. The subject of this tragedy is that strong family traditions and prestige must be maintained at all costs and should not be sacrificed for any feelings. Conscience can be sacrificed at the altar of family prestige and traditions. The play is-

38. Different kinds of loyalties are presented in this play. The most noticeable being the loyalty to race, loyalty to friendship, professional loyalty and lastly the loyalty to married life. The play is-

39. In which Harold Pinter's play the following characters occur Petey, Meg, Stanley, Lulu, Goldberg, McCann?

40. Which play of Harold Pinter is about Stanley Webber, an erstwhile piano player who lives in a rundown boarding house run by Meg and Petey Boles, in an English seaside town?

41. In 1993, who received the Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech?

42. Who among the following used the pseudonym Matt Wayne?

43. Who among the following created a controversy by claiming that Rabindranath Tagore, who wrote India's national anthem, was a great poet but a second-rate playwright?

44. In November 2015, during celebrations marking the anniversary of 18th-century Muslim ruler Tipu Sultan's birth, who stated that Bangalore International Airport should have been named after Tipu Sultan instead of Kempe Gowda? This created a furore among many people and he had to apologise the following day.

45. The only essay of Francis Bacon which is personal is-

46. What does Bacon mean by the phrase that some books are to "be read by a deputy"

47. Who is referred as "a man of great probity, wit, and understanding"?

48. Who is the character being discussed in the lines- "His taste for books is a little too just for the age he lives in; he has read all, but approves of very few"?

49. Who among the following is "a merchant of great eminence in the city of London"?

50. Which paper Gardiner resigned in 1919 over a disagreement with the owner?