71. The four humours in Ben Jonson’s tine were
(a) love, hate, laughter and sorrow
(b) choler, yellow bile, melancholy and black bile
(c) tear, blood, bile and saliva
(d) blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile
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72. Who is sick of ‘self-love’ in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night?
(a) Malvolio
(b) Sir Toby Belch
(c) Sir Andrew Aguecheek
(d) Olivia
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73. The sleep-walking scene occurs in
(a) King Lear
(b) Macbeth
(c) Othello
(d) The Merchant of Venice
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74. Where does the Third Act in Arms and the Man take place?
(a) Library
(b) Garden
(c) Army Camp
(d) Battlefield
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75. Choose the correct forms of the verbs given in the brackets :
It is very pleasant (wake) up and (hear) the rain (beat) on the windows.
(a) waking, hearing, beat
(b) wake, hearing, beat
(c) to wake, hear, beating
(d) to wake, to hear, beat
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76. Dryden’s all for Love is a retelling of shakespeare’s
(a) Antony and Cleopatra
(b) The Merchant of Venice
(c) Macbeth
(d) Twelfth Night
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77. Dryden’s All for Love is written in
(a) free verse
(b) blank verse
(c) rime
(d) heroic couplet
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78. Identify the correct sentence.
(a) She entered into the room without knocking at the door.
(b) She entered in the room without knocking at the door.
(c) She entered the room without knocking on the door.
(d) She entered into the room without knocking on the door.
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79. Fill in the blank :
Do you ever send ___ for things rather than buying them in shops?
(a) up
(b) out
(c) off
(d) through
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80. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists :
List-I List-II
A. Euphemism 1. A striking opposition or contrast of words or sentiments made in the same sentence
B. Antithesis 2. Description of a disagreeable thing by an agreeable name
C. Epigram 3. A statement that is made emphatic by overstatement
D. Hyperbole 4. A brief pointed saying frequently introducing antithetical ideas which excite surprise and arrest attention
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 1 4 3 2
(b) 3 2 1 4
(c) 4 3 2 1
(d) 2 1 4 3
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81. Who has described Bacon as “the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind”?
(a) Macaulay
(b) Alexander pope
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) Hugh walker
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82. Who is the essayist who called his essays ‘dispersed meditations’?
(a) A. G. Gardiner
(b) Bertrand Russell
(c) Joseph
(d) Francis Bacon
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83.who wrote under the pseudonym ‘Alpha of the Plough’ ?
(a) Charles Lamb
(b) Francis Bacon
(c) R. L. Stevenson
(d) A. G. Gardiner
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84. The word ‘Elia’ is associated with
(a) Thomas De Quincey
(b) William Hazlitt
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) Francis Bacon
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85. How much money does the narrator of the short story, The Luncheon have when the story opens?
(a) Sixty Francs
(b) Eighty Francs
(c) Seventy Francs
(d) Ninety Francs
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86. Who is credited for pioneering the Historical Novel?
(a) Laurence Sterne
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Walter Scott
(d) Henry Fielding
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87. The phrase ‘two inches of ivory’ is used for the plots of
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) Jane Austen
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88. Who is Pip’s tutor in London in Dickens Great Expectations ?
(a) Harold Pocket
(b) Walter Pocket
(c) Herbert Pocket
(d) Matthew Pocket
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89. Fielding’s Joseph Andrews parodies
(a) Gulliver’s Travels
(b) Tess
(c) Pamela
(d) Oliver Twist
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90. “Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain.”
The above statement occurs in
(a) Joseph Andrews
(b) Lord of the Flies
(c) The Mayor of Casterbridge
(d) Animal Farm
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