2012

35. Who is the author of The Waste Lana?

A. George Bernard Shaw.

B. W.B. Yeats.

C. Dylan Thomas.

D. T.S. Eliot.

36. Which of the following novelists wrote The Sound and the Fury?

A. William Faulkner.

B. Ernest Hemingway.

C. Scott Fitzgerald.

D. John Steinbeck.

2011

35. Virginia Woolf was an important female      in the 20^th-century England. 

A. poet    B. biographer    C. playwright    D. novelist

36.         refers to a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero in a nation’s history .

A. Ballad   B. Romance    C. Epic    D. Elegy

37. Which of the following best explores American myth in the 20^th century?

A. The Great Gatsby    B. The Sun Also Rises  

C. The Sound and the Fury    D. Beyond the Horizon 

2010

35.      is best known for the technique of dramatic monologue in his poems.

A. William Blake    B. W. B. Yeats    C. Robert Browning    D. William Wordsworth

36. The Financier is written by      .

A. Mark Twain    B. Henry James    C. William Faulkner    D. Theodore Dreiser

37. In literature a story in verse or prose with a double meaning is defined as      .

A. allegory    B. sonnet    C. blank verse    D. rhyme  

2009

35. Ode to the West Wind was written by

   A. William Blake.   B. William Wordsworth.

   C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.   D. Percy B. Shelley.

36. Who among the following is a poet of free verse?

   A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.   B. Walt Whitman

   C. Herman Melville   D. Theodore Dreiser

37. The novel Sons and Lovers was written by

   A. Thomas Hardy   B. John Galsworthy

   C. D. H. Lawrence   D. James Joyce

2008

35. The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury is an important poetic work by

   A. William Langland   B. Geoffrey Chaucer

   C. William Shakespeare   D. Alfred Tennyson

36. Who wrote The American?

   A. Herman Melville   B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

   C. Henry James   D. Theodore Dreiser

37. Which of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain Except

   A. George Eliot   B. Iris Jean Murdoch

   C. Doris Lessing   D. Muriel Spark

2007

35. Which of the following novels was written by Emily Bronte?

   A. Oliver Twist   B. Middlemarch

   C. Jane Eyre   D. Wuthering Heights

36. William Butler Yeats was a(n)      poet and playwright.

   A. American   B. Canadian

   C. Irish   D. Australian

37. Death of a Salesman was written by

   A. Arthur Miller   B. Ernest Hemingway

   C. Ralph Ellison   D. James Baldwin

2006

35. Which of the following writers is a poet of the 20th century?

   A. T.S. Eliot   B. D.H. Lawrence   C. Theodore Dreiser   D. James Joyce

36. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is written by ______.

   A. Scott Fitzgerald           B. William Faulkner 

C. Eugene O’Neill           D. Ernest Hemingway

37. ______ is defined as am expression of human emotion which is condensed into 14 lines.

   A. Free Verse       B. Sonnet            C. ode            D. Epigram

2005

35. The novel Emma is written by _______ .

   A. Mary Shelley                B. Charlotte Bronte

   C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell           D. Jane Austen

36. Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?

   A. William Wordsworth       B. George Elliot

   C. George C. Byron.          D. Percy Bysshe Shelley .

37. William Sidney Porter, known as O. Henry, is most famous for______ .

   A. his poems     B. his plays    C. his short stories    D. his novels

2004

35. Of all the 18th century novelists, ______ was the first to set out , both in theory and practice , to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

   A. Daniel Defoe      B. Samuel Johnson      C. Oliver Goldsmith    D. Henry Fielding

36. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.

   A. International theme   B. waste-land imagery   C. local color    D. symbolism

37. Hemingway’s writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experiences______.

   A. in his childhood      B. in the war          C. in America        D. in Africa

2003

35. Which of the following writings is not the work by Charles Dickens?

   A. A Tale of Two Cities.  B. Hard Times.      C. Oliver Twist.      D. Sons and Lovers.

36. _____ is a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period.

   A. Sinclair Lewis       B. Eugene O’Neill   C. Arthur Miller     D. Tennessee Williams

37. ______ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

   A. Ernest Hemingway   B. F. Scott Fitzgerald  C. William Faulkner  D. Ezra Pound

2002

35. The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.

   A. Romanticism   B. Classicism    C. Renaissance      D. Enlightenment

36. Which of the following figures does not belong to “The Lost Generation”?

   A. Ezra Pound    B. William Carlos Williams.  C. Robert Frost   D. Theodore Dreiser

37. Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?

   A. J.D. Salinger   B. Ezra Pound   C. Richard Wright    D. Ralph Ellison

2001

35. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and ______.

  A. Henry David Thoreau          B. Washington Irving

  C. Nathaniel Hawthorne           D. Walt Whitman

36. Of the following poems by T. S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?

  A. Poems 1909-1925.                         B. The Hollow Men.

C. Prufrock and Other Observations.             D. The Waste Land.

37. The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to ______ .

  A. The Great Gatsby                          B. The Sun Also Rises

  C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn           D. Moby-Dick

2000

35. ______ is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.

  A. Henry James                             B. Emily Dickinson

  C. William Dean Howells                     D. Mark Twain

36. Ezra Pound’s long poem       contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.

  A. The Waste Land                          B. The Cantos

  C. Don Juan                               D. Queen Mab

37. Of the following writings by James Joyce, which is a prime example of modernism in literature?

  A. Ulysses                                B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  C. Dubliners                              D. Finnegans Wake

1999

35.       not only continued to express and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.

     A. George Eliot                      B. Thomas Hardy

    C. D. H. Lawrence                    D. Charles Dickens

36. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is following except______ .

   A. religion                         B. love and marriage

   C. life and death                    D. war and peace

37. In 1954,______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.

  A. T.S. Eliot                       B. Ernest Hemingway

  C. John Steinbeck                   D. William Faulkner

1998

35. In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told his experience in ______ .

  A. Lilliput                        B. Brobdingnag

  C. Houyhnhnm                    D. England

36. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for ______ .

   A. Adultery          B. Angel          

C. Amiable          D. All the above

37. Who is the author of the work: “The Grapes of Wrath”?

  A. John Steinbeck.        B. Eugene O’Neil.   

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald.      D. Theodore Dreiser.