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Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For heres a tun of midnight-work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe, and liquord evry chink . Goodly and great he rails behind his link. In the above extract from Absalom and Achitophel Og is (A) Elkanah Settle (B) Lord Harvey (C) Thomas Shadwell (D) Joseph Addison

2.Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, Gods image, but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit. Where is the passage from ? (A)Miltons Areopagitica (B) Sidneys Apologie for Poetry (C) Drydens Preface to the Fables (D) Marvells The Rehearsal Transposed

3.Which of the following statements is not true of Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy ? (A) It has a linear plot. (B) It opens and ends with the theme of birth. (C) It contains a trip to France. (D) It contains a marbled page.

4.What is a mock-heroic poem ? A mockheroic poem (A) mocks at heroic pretensions in poets and critics (B) mocks heroism, an exaggerated virtue in all epics (C) uses a heroic style to deride airs and affectations (D) uses a mocking style to deride heroes and hero-worship

5.In The Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to (A) the sun (B) the moon (C)the north star (D)(D) the rose

6.Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language ? (A)Bishop Berkeley (B) Samuel Johnson (C)Edmund Burke (D) Horace Walpole

7.In Drydens Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of the ancients ? (A) Lisideius (B) Crites (C) Eugenius (D) Neander

8.Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in the portrait of Sporus ? (A) Lady Wortley Montague (B) Joseph Addison (C) Lord Shaftsbury (D) Lord Harvey

9.Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation in contemporary fiction ? (A) Thomas Nashes The Unfortunate Traveller (B) Henry Fieldings Tom Jones (C) Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy (D) Samuel Richardsons Pamela

10.Assertion (A) : Dr Johnsons The Lives of the Poets carries critical and biographical studies of poets he admired. It does not, however, carry a life of William Wordsworth.

Reason (R) : Dr. Johnson singled out poets whom he not only admired but also adored. This explains his omission of Wordsworth. (A) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct. (B) (A) is true but (R) is false. (C) (A) and (R) are true. (D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.

11.What is the correct chronological sequence of the following ? (A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy (B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, Moll Flanders (C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews (D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy

12.MacFlecknoe is an attack on Drydens literary rival, (A) Richard Flecknoe (B) Thomas Shadwell (C) John Wilmot (D) Matthew Prior

13.Eighteenth century writers used satire frequently for (A) attacking human vices and follies. (B) inciting the reading public. (C) glorifying the culture of the upper classes. (D) pleasing their women readers.

14. Which among the following works by Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the pillory ? (A) The True-Born Englishman (B) Captain Singleton (C) The Shortest Way with Dissenters (D) Moll Flanders

15.In the summer of 1712, The Spectator published a series of essays on The Pleasures of Imagination, written by (A) Richard Steele (B) John Dennis (C) John Locke (D) Joseph Addison

16. One of the most important themes the speakers debate in Drydens An Essay on Dramatic Poesy is______. (A) European and non-European perceptions of reality. (B) English and non-English perceptions of reality. (C) the relative merits of French and English theatre. (D) the relative merits of French and English poetry.

17.Which of the following statements on John Dryden is incorrect ? (a) John Milton and John Dryden were contemporaries. (b) Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton fiercely opposed monarchy. (c) Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal Emperor Humayun. (d) Dryden was appointed the Poet Laureate of England in 1668. (A) (a) is incorrect. (B) (d) is incorrect. (C) (c) is incorrect. (D) (b) and (c) are incorrect.

18.The Augustan Age is called so because (A) King Augustus ruled over England during this period (B) The English writers imitated the Roman writers during this period (C) The English King was born in the month of August (D) This was an age of sensibility

19. The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swifts A Modest Proposal are (A) comic (B) solemn (C) hortatory (D) irony

20.The last of Gullivers Travels is to (A)The Land of the Houyhnhnms (B) The Land of Homosapiens (C) The Land of the Hurricanes (D) The Newfound Land

21. John Drydens Absalom and Achotophel is a (A)religious tract (B) political allegory (C) comic verse epic (D) comedy

22.Match the following authors with their respective works with the help of the code given below : List I List II I. Oliver Goldsmith 1. The Vanity of Human Wishes II. John Gay 2. The Vicar of Wakefield III. Samuel Johnson 3. She Stoops to Conquer IV. Richard Sheridan 4. The Beggars Opera Code : I II III IV (A) 1 4 3 2 (B) 2 4 1 3 (C) 3 2 4 1 (D) 4 3 2 1

23.Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response. Assertion (A) : Gullivers Travels earned Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a misanthrope. Reason (R) : Swift in the novel was neutral to the image of man. (A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation. (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation. (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. (D) (A) is false, but (R) is tru

24.John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeares (A)Troilus and Cressida (B) The Merchant of Venice (C) Antony and Cleopatra (D) Measure for Measure

25.Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth century: (A) Advancement of Learning (B)Gullivers Travels (C) The Spectator (D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

26.Tom Paines The Rights of Man was published in (A) 1790 (B) 1791 (C) 1792 (D) 1793

27.Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in the portrait of Sporus ? (A) Lady Wortley Montague (B) Joseph Addison (C) Lord Shaftsbury (D) Lord Harvey

28.Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift is written by (A) Alexander Pope (B) Samuel Johnson (C) John Gay (D) Jonathan Swift

29. In The Rape of the Lock, Belindas lapdog is named (A) Luck (B) Shock (C) Pluck (D) Muck

30.The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to attack his victims was (A) Ben Jonson (B) John Donne (C) John Dryden (D) Samuel Butler