TGT English Mock Test 4

1. Who is of the view that "Matthew Arnold thinks too much of the uses of literature and too little of its pleasure ?" works of-

2. The War of the Roses appears in the

3. War of the Roses' took place during

4. When did W.B. Yeats receive Nobel Prize for literature?

5. Which book aroused interest in T.S. Eliot in the poetry of Laforgue, a French symbolist?

6. Which statement is not correct?

7. W.H. Auden was born in-

8. Philip Larkin was an English poet, novelist, and

9. Philip Larkin was the only son of and

10. What is the title of Whitman's novel published in 1842?

11. Dickinson was an

12. Who of the family members of Dickinson could understand her very well?

13. "I might be called a synecdochist; for I prefer that figure of speech in synecdoche in poetry which we use a part for the whole." Who said?

14. Robert Frost's favourite figure of Speech was -

15. Which work of Rabindranath Tagore is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works?

16. Which work of Rabindranath Tagore has its central theme as devotion, and its motto as 'I am here to sing the songs"?

17. Nissim Ezekiel received Sahitya Akademi Award in the year-

18. Ezekiel dedicated his second volume of Poems "Sixty Poems" to-

19. Which poem begins with the lines: Father, when he passed on, left dust on a table of papers, left debts and daughters,

20. What is the point of view (narration technique) in the poem "Obituary"?

21. Why is Banquo up late?

22. What cerie vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?

23. What does Macbeth hear a voice saying?

24. The War of the Roses' is called by that name because

25. A carol is a type of

26. Carols were developed in the introduced century.

27. Who introduced Eclogues in England ?

28. Eclogues basically had its birth-

29. Who fell in love with Lady Beaufort ?

30. Who was Lady Jane Beaufort ?

31. Why does Lady Macbeth say she didn't kill the king herself?

32. How does Lady Macbeth feel about how Macbeth carried out the murder?

33. Contemporary dramatists violated-

34. Who said these words "Bear my wife company till I come.":

35. Ben Jonson wanted to reform the evils society through the weapon of

36. What is Old Knowell most concerned about?

37. Who is Old Knowell's servant?

38. Who referred to Dryden as "the master of the middle style" with a view to his poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet?

39. Who first attacked on Dryden's reputation complaining that Dryden's descriptions of natural objects in his translations from Virgil were much inferior to the originals?

40. Which popular Romantic poet owed something for his "Intimations of Immortality" to Dryden's "Alexander's Feast"?

41. Catherine has what installed in the Petkoff house?

42. The Serbs are allied with members of which empire?

43. Galsworthy's tragedies are called-(TGT-09)

44. Several of Galsworthy's early novels were written under a pseudonym of- (TGT-01)

45. Harold Pinter was fined for refusing national service as a

46. In 1956 Harold Pinter married actress-

47. Harold Pinter left his first wife Merchant in 1975 and married author-

48. Which best describes Yank's job aboard the ship?

49. Which Fireman (in Hairy Ape) talks about Marxist ideas?

50. Who among the following was conferred Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India and won four Filmfare Awards, of which three are Filmfare Award for Best Director - Kannada and the fourth a Filmfare Best Screenplay Award?