English Literature MCQs

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Which of the following authors is NOT considered to be a practitioner of “Magical Realism” ?


aGabriel Garcia Marquez

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bIsabel Allende

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cJames Joyce

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dAllejo Carpentier

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View Answer James Joyce

According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” which of the following is true of “tradition ?”


aIn English literature, we cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition;” at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.”

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bTradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.

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cAll of the above

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dA and B only

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View Answer A and B only

Of the following, who was NOT a well known modernist author ?


a James Joyce

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bVoltaire

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cVirginia Woolf

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dY.B. Yeats

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View Answer Voltaire

Which of the following is true of Charles Baudelaire’s “Bénédiction” ?


aIt was originally written in English.

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bIt celebrates the almost divine power of the poet.

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cIt suggests that poetry is demonic in nature.

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dBoth A and B

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How may W.B. Yeats’ poem, “The Second Coming,” be interpreted ?


aAs an interpretation of the Biblical Second Coming of Christ

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bAs an attempt to support European colonialism in Africa

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cAs a howl of despair concerning the current state of the world

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dBoth A and C

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View Answer Both A and C

Which Post-Colonial theorist employs an extended analysis of the term “Orientalism” ?


aEdward Said

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bArundhati Roy

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cSalman Rushdie

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dHomi Bhaba

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View Answer Edward Said

Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine India’s post-colonial situation ?


aRavinder Reddy

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bRummana Hussain

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cDadabhai Naoroji

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dA and B only

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View Answer A and B only

According to Dr. Dino Felluga’s “General Introduction to Postmodernism,” Roland Barthes, in his work “The Death of the Author,” argues which of the following points ?


a“The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text.”

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b“Once the Author is gone, the claim to “decipher” a text is quite simple.”

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c“A text never consists of multiple writings, it is always the product of a monolithic culture.”

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dBoth A and B

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Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction ?


aRaymond Williams

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bJacques Derrida

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cFredric Jameson

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dBoth A and B

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View Answer Jacques Derrida

Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “To Victory” is concerned primarily with which of the following themes ?


aHis safe return home

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bThe defeat of the Germans

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cHis death and escape from suffering.

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dHis ability to finally kill an enemy soldier

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View Answer His safe return home

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