51. Identify the most suitable salutation for a business letter.
(a) Dear sirs
(b) Dear Friends
(c) Dear sir
(d) My Dear sir
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52. The opening lines of Paradise Lost are a good example of
(a) heroic couplet
(b) Miltonic inversion
(c) sprung rhythm
(d) hyperbole
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53. What was the leading principle in the age of the pope?
(a) Good sense
(b) Romantic thought
(c) Loose morals
(d) All of the above
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54. What is real name of Belinda in pope’s The Rape of the Lock?
(a) Cynthia Fermor
(b) Lucy Fermor
(c) Arabella Fermor
(d) Maria Fermor
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55. Who said, “poets are the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity cast upon the present”?
(a) P. B. Shelley
(b) Robert Browning
(c) W. H. Auden
(d) Lord Tennyson
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56. What term does keats use for the Grecian urn?
(a) Doctor
(b) Sociologist
(c) Artist
(d) Historian
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57. Who narrates the poem, My Last Duchess?
(a) Robert Browning
(b) An omniscient speaker
(c) The Duke
(d) The Visitor
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58. Which of the following characteristics describes the tone of Dover Beach best?
(a) Enthusiastic
(b) Hopeful
(c) pessimistic
(d) Tranquil
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59. The name of Ulysses’ son is
(a) Timothy
(b) Tithonus
(c) Telemachus
(d) Andronicus
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60. Complete the following line of W. B. Yeats :
Turning and turning in the widening ____.
(a) gyre
(b) grey
(c) circle
(d) street
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61. W. B. Yeats used ‘Byzantium’ as a symbol of
(a) romantic decadence
(b) physical well-being
(c) material progress
(d) artistic perfection
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62. In which poem does the title of Achebe’s novel, Things Full Apart occur?
(a) Ulysses
(b) Dover Beach
(c) Wants
(d) the second Coming
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63. Point out the Active Voice of the following sentence :
I would like him to be assisted.
(a) I would like that he may be assisted.
(b) I would wish that you should assist him.
(c) I would wish he should be assisted.
(d) I would like you to assist him.
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64. ‘A Game of Chess’. the second section in the Waste Land, is also the title of a play to which T. S. Eliot refers in his ‘Notes’. That play was written by
(a) Ben Jonson
(b) Marlowe
(c) Thomas kyd
(d) Thomas Middleton
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65. Which Upanishad does T. S. Eliot allude to in him monumental work, The Waste Land?
(a) mundaka
(b) Brihadaranyada
(c) Taittiriya
(d) Chhandogya
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66. The Waste Land concludes with a/an ____ word.
(a) English
(b) French
(c) Sanskrit
(d) German
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67. Imagism as a literary movement is associated with
(a) T. S. Eliot
(b) D. H. Lawrence
(c) E. E. Cummings
(d) T. E. Hulme
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68. Change the following sentence into passive Voice :
Somebody had cleaned my shoes and brushed my suit.
(a) My shoes were cleaned and my suit brushed.
(b) My shoes are cleaned and my suit brushed by somebody.
(c) my shoes have been cleaned and my suit brushed by somebody.
(d) my shoes has been cleaned and my suit brushed.
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69. Robert Frost was
(a) a British poet settled in America
(b) an American poet settled in England
(c) a Canadian poet settled in America
(d) an American poet settled in new England
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70. Stanley webber in The Birthday party pretends to be a one-time
(a) Flute player
(b) guitarist
(c) drummer
(d) pianist
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