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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) .
| 251. |
...................... was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. |
| A. | Dante |
| B. | Robert Browning |
| C. | Paracelsus |
| D. | Wordsworth |
| Answer» B. Robert Browning | |
| 252. |
’The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems” was the first book of poetry penned by........................, which was published in 1849. |
| A. | Matthew Arnold |
| B. | Christina Rossetti |
| C. | William Wordsworth |
| D. | Henry James |
| Answer» A. Matthew Arnold | |
| 253. |
.....................published ‘Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems’ (1852) and ‘Poems: A New Edition’ (1853 |
| A. | G. K. Chesterton |
| B. | Oscar Wilde |
| C. | George Bernard Shaw, |
| D. | Matthew Arnold |
| Answer» D. Matthew Arnold | |
| 254. |
Apart from the poetry, ..................penned many prominent critical works, which includes ‘Essays in Criticism’ (1865), and ‘Culture and Anarchy’ (1869). |
| A. | Goethe |
| B. | Matthew Arnold |
| C. | William Wordsworth |
| D. | Charles Swinburne |
| Answer» B. Matthew Arnold | |
| 255. |
The Oxford movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of ............................. which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. |
| A. | England |
| B. | Ireland |
| C. | Switzerland |
| D. | USA |
| Answer» A. England | |
| 256. |
The ..................movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after its series of publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841. |
| A. | USA |
| B. | Ireland |
| C. | Switzerland |
| D. | Oxford |
| Answer» D. Oxford | |
| 257. |
..................... is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality. |
| A. | Capitalism |
| B. | Liberalism |
| C. | Communalism |
| D. | Communism |
| Answer» B. Liberalism | |
| 258. |
...................... rejected the notions, common at the time, of hereditary privilege, religion, absolute, and the Divine Right of Kings. |
| A. | Liberalism |
| B. | Capitalism |
| C. | Communalism |
| D. | Communism |
| Answer» A. Liberalism | |
| 259. |
The 17th-century philosopher ................... is often credited with founding liberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition. |
| A. | Thackeray |
| B. | A. |
| C. | Swinburne c) John Lock |
| D. | George Eliot |
| Answer» C. Swinburne c) John Lock | |
| 260. |
................. literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. |
| A. | Isaac Williams |
| B. | Robert Wilberforce |
| C. | Charles Dickens's |
| D. | William Palmer |
| Answer» C. Charles Dickens's | |
| 261. |
.................. was an English novelist of the 19th century is famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. |
| A. | A. C. Swinburne |
| B. | John Locke |
| C. | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| D. | George Eliot |
| Answer» C. William Makepeace Thackeray | |
| 262. |
In 1837, .......................came to London and became a regular contributor to Fraser’s Magazine. |
| A. | Thackeray |
| B. | John Locke |
| C. | A. C. Swinburne |
| D. | George Eliot |
| Answer» A. Thackeray | |
| 263. |
During his stay at Punch, ................wrote Vanity Fair, the work which placed him in the first rank of novelists. |
| A. | A. C. Swinburne |
| B. | John Locke |
| C. | Thackeray |
| D. | George Eliot |
| Answer» C. Thackeray | |
| 264. |
..............., was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. |
| A. | George Eliot |
| B. | John Locke |
| C. | A. C. Swinburne |
| D. | Thackeray |
| Answer» A. George Eliot | |
| 265. |
....................is the author of Adam Bede (1859), |
| A. | George Eliot |
| B. | John Locke |
| C. | A. C. Swinburne |
| D. | Thackeray |
| Answer» A. George Eliot | |
| 266. |
..................... was the author of, The Mayor of Caster bridge (1886), |
| A. | A. C. Swinburne |
| B. | John Locke |
| C. | Thomas Hardy |
| D. | Thackeray |
| Answer» C. Thomas Hardy | |
| 267. |
..............................., was an American writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. |
| A. | Thomas hardy |
| B. | Words worth |
| C. | Henry James |
| D. | Maurice Kinsley |
| Answer» C. Henry James | |
| 268. |
....................... is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts. |
| A. | Aestheticism |
| B. | Capitalism |
| C. | Communalism |
| D. | Communism |
| Answer» A. Aestheticism | |
| 269. |
........................ was humanist whose advocacy of “art for art’s sake” became a cardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism. |
| A. | Walter Horatio Pater |
| B. | John Keble |
| C. | Charles Marriott |
| D. | Richard Hurrell Froude |
| Answer» A. Walter Horatio Pater | |
| 270. |
................... began to write for the reviews and his essays on Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola,and Michelangelo, |
| A. | Walter Horatio Pater |
| B. | John Keble |
| C. | Charles Marriott |
| D. | Richard Hurrell Froude |
| Answer» A. Walter Horatio Pater | |
| 271. |
........................ is remembered for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, |
| A. | Oscar Wilde |
| B. | Walter Pater |
| C. | John Ruskin |
| D. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Answer» A. Oscar Wilde | |
| 272. |
................. wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to the absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage. |
| A. | Oscar Wilde |
| B. | Walter Pater |
| C. | John Ruskin |
| D. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Answer» A. Oscar Wilde | |
| 273. |
............................ wrote Man and Superman |
| A. | George Bernard Shaw |
| B. | Karl Marx |
| C. | John Ruskin |
| D. | Oscar Wilde |
| Answer» A. George Bernard Shaw | |
| 274. |
.................. wrote his critique of capitalism, Das Kapital, over a period of almost 30 years in the late 19th century. |
| A. | Karl Marx |
| B. | Oscar Wilde |
| C. | Lenin |
| D. | Mao |
| Answer» A. Karl Marx | |
| 275. |
The Fabian Society, established in .........................in 1884, |
| A. | Delhi |
| B. | Bagdad |
| C. | Beijing |
| D. | London |
| Answer» D. London | |
| 276. |
........................., unlike Marxists, advocated a gradual, non-revolutionary transition to socialism based on humanist foundations. |
| A. | Fabians |
| B. | Liberals |
| C. | Capitalists |
| D. | Communalists |
| Answer» A. Fabians | |
| 277. |
The Fabian Society took its name, suggested by one of its founding members, Frank Podmore, from the Roman General, Quintus Fabius Cunctator, who avoided a frontal attack on ..................army in the third century B.C., but used delaying tactics. |
| A. | David Lloyd George’s |
| B. | William Gladstone’s |
| C. | H. H. Asquith’s |
| D. | Hannibal’s |
| Answer» D. Hannibal’s | |
| 278. |
After the Second world war, which highlighted that so many people were deprived and poor, the Liberal politician ....................identified five issues that needed to be tackled to make a better Britain. |
| A. | Ramsay MacDonal |
| B. | John Stuart Mill |
| C. | Keynes |
| D. | William Beveridge |
| Answer» D. William Beveridge | |
| 279. |
.........................was an English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. |
| A. | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| B. | Samuel Wilberforce |
| C. | Robert Chambers |
| D. | Richard Owen |
| Answer» A. Thomas Henry Huxley | |
| 280. |
................. most notable science fiction work is The Time Machine (1895), |
| A. | H. G. Wells’ |
| B. | Clement Attlee |
| C. | Harold Wilson |
| D. | James Callaghan. |
| Answer» A. H. G. Wells’ | |
| 281. |
................ 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, |
| A. | E. M. Forster’s |
| B. | Tony Blair |
| C. | Gordon Brown |
| D. | ,Edward Thomas |
| Answer» A. E. M. Forster’s | |
| 282. |
.................... is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History (1934–1961). |
| A. | Arnold Joseph Toynbee |
| B. | W. B. Yeats |
| C. | Edward Martyn |
| D. | ,D.H Lawrence |
| Answer» A. Arnold Joseph Toynbee | |
| 283. |
........................ is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, |
| A. | James Joyce |
| B. | T. S. Eliot |
| C. | W. H. Auden |
| D. | Edward Thomas |
| Answer» A. James Joyce | |
| 284. |
.................... was an Anglo-American poet, best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues," |
| A. | Wystan Hugh Auden |
| B. | Isaac Rosenberg, |
| C. | Wilfred Owen |
| D. | Charles Sorely |
| Answer» A. Wystan Hugh Auden | |
| 285. |
.................... is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen EightyFour (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945). |
| A. | George Orwell |
| B. | Dylan Thomas |
| C. | Samuel Barclay Beckett |
| D. | Charles Sorely |
| Answer» A. George Orwell | |
| 286. |
........................ is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. |
| A. | Arya Samaj |
| B. | Commonwealth |
| C. | NWO |
| D. | Globalization |
| Answer» D. Globalization | |
| 287. |
The term ..................... refers to the emergence of a totalitarian government. |
| A. | NWO |
| B. | Commonwealth |
| C. | Globalization |
| D. | Arya Samaj |
| Answer» A. NWO | |
| 288. |
The symbol of the Commonwealth is.............. who is the Head of the Commonwealth. |
| A. | Queen Elizabeth II |
| B. | Warren Hastings |
| C. | Jonathan Duncan |
| D. | Macaulay, |
| Answer» A. Queen Elizabeth II | |
| 289. |
William James founded The Asiatic Society of ...................in 1784. |
| A. | Bengal |
| B. | Madras |
| C. | Bombay |
| D. | Delhi |
| Answer» A. Bengal | |
| 290. |
Macaulay’s minutes was accepted and ................issued his proclamation inn march 1935 which set at rest all the controversies and led to the formulation of a policy which became the corner stone of all educational programmes during the British period in India. |
| A. | Lord William Bentinck |
| B. | Queen Elizabeth II |
| C. | Jonathan Duncan |
| D. | Warren |
| Answer» A. Lord William Bentinck | |
| 291. |
Wood's Education Despatch formed the basis of the education policy of east India Company's government in India since........................... |
| A. | 1854 |
| B. | 1864 |
| C. | 1874 |
| D. | 1884 |
| Answer» A. 1854 | |
| 292. |
................, the founder of the Arya Samaj, gave the slogan, “India for the Indians”. |
| A. | Lord William Bentinck |
| B. | Swami Dayanand Saraswati |
| C. | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| Answer» B. Swami Dayanand Saraswati | |
| 293. |
.................. famous book ‘Anand Math’, the Bible of modern Bengali patriotism, provided very great inspiration to the people. |
| A. | Rabindranath Tagore’s |
| B. | Bankim Chandra’s |
| C. | Lakshminath Bezbarua’s |
| D. | Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar;s |
| Answer» B. Bankim Chandra’s | |
| 294. |
...................was an Indian socio-educational reformer who was also known as ‘Maker of Modern India’ and ‘Father of Modern India’ and ‘Father of the Bengal Renaissance.’ |
| A. | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| B. | Subramanya Bharati |
| C. | Bhartendu Harishchandra |
| D. | Altaf Hussain Mali |
| Answer» A. Raja Ram Mohan Roy | |
| 295. |
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj at ...............in 1828. |
| A. | Madras |
| B. | Kolkata |
| C. | Bombay |
| D. | Delhi |
| Answer» B. Kolkata | |
| 296. |
Noticeable magazines published by ....................were the Brahmonical Magazine, the Sambad KaumudiandMirat-ul-Akbar. |
| A. | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| B. | Toru Dutt |
| C. | ,Sri Aurobindo |
| D. | Thomas Paine |
| Answer» A. Raja Ram Mohan Roy | |
| 297. |
......................, Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. |
| A. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| B. | Robert Graves, |
| C. | Ivor Gurney |
| D. | Siegfried Sassoon |
| Answer» A. Rabindranath Tagore | |
| 298. |
.................................. founded, Visva-Bharati University. |
| A. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| B. | Mrs Annie Besant, |
| C. | Mahadev Govind Ranade |
| D. | Rousseau, |
| Answer» A. Rabindranath Tagore | |
| 299. |
Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are ......................his best-known works, |
| A. | Rabindranath Tagore’s |
| B. | Robert H. Ross |
| C. | Richard Aldington |
| D. | Laurence Binyon |
| Answer» A. Rabindranath Tagore’s | |
| 300. |
"I am not a man of letters," wrote .................in one of his missives from jail to his daughter Indira, but of course he was. |
| A. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| B. | Ibn Battutah |
| C. | Marx, |
| D. | Oswald Spengler |
| Answer» A. Jawaharlal Nehru | |
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