Name: AIMS Marks: 25
Roll No: AMAZON INSTITUTE OF METICULOUS STUDIES Time: 25m
Lecture reship Test English
Question No: 1 Choose the correct option.
1Who introduced the art of printing into England?
(a)Elizabeth Eisenstein (b) Johannes Gutenberg (c) Henry VIII (d) William Caxton
2The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign was celebrated in:
(a )1842 (b) 1837 (c)1871 (d)1859
3What was the intended target of the Gun- powder Plot in 1605?
(a)Westminster Abbey (b) Tower Bridge (c) the Houses of Parliament (d) Buckingham Palace
4What was the tile of Thomas Hobbes’s defence of absolute sovereignty based on a theory of social contract?
(a)The Litany in a Time of Plague (b) Utopia (c) Leviathan (d) the Advancement of Learning
5According to Samuel Johnson, \No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for :
(a)love.\ (b)honor.\ (c)money.\ (d)his party.\
6Who was deposed from the English throne in the Glorious, or Bloodless, Revolution in 1688?
(a)Elizabeth I (b) James II (c) George II (c) William and Mary
7Who began the tradition of revenge play ?
(a)George Peele (b) Samuel Daniel (c)Phineas fietcher (d)Thomas kyd
8Which bird did the Ancient Mariner kill?
(a)Seagull (b) Albatross (c) Humming Bird (d) Crow
9Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
(a)Addison (b) Bunyan (c) Crabbe (d)Dryson
10Which of the following is a typically Ro- mantic poetic form?
(a) The fractal (b) the figment (c) the fragment (d) The aubade.
11According to Samuel Johnson, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for :
(a)love." (b) Honor." (c) Money." (d) His party
12Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection?
(a) the heroic couplet (b)blank verse (c)free verse (d)the ode
13In which county was Jane Austin born?
(a)Sussex (b) Hampshire (c) Yorkshire (d) Norfolk
14How many lines are there in a Sonnet?
(a)10 (b)16 (c)14 (d)22
15Who exemplified the role of the “peasant poet"?
(a)John Clare (b) John Keats (c) Robert Burns (d) A and C only
16Who wrote: “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive."?
(a)Lord Byro (b) Oscar Wilde (c) Robert Browning (d) William Wordsworth
17How many children were there in the Bronte family?
(a)3 (b)4 (c)5 (d)6
18Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?
(a) Opium (b) dreams (c) childhood (d) all
19What is the name for the process of dividing land into privately owned agricultural holdings?
(a) Partition (b) segregation (c) enclosure (d) division
20Which poet, critic and translator brought England a modern literature between 1660 and 1700?
(a)Addison (b) Bunyan (c) Crabbe (d) Dryden
21Complete this famous quote by John Dry- den: “Who think too little, and who talk too”
(a) Often (b) long (c) much (d) fast
22Whose great Dictionary, published in 1755, included more than 114,000 quotations?
(a)William Hogarth (b) Jonathan Swift (c) Samuel Johnson (d) Ben Jonson
23Which philosopher had a particular influence on Coleridge?
(a)Aristotle (b) Duns Scouts (c) David Hume (d) Immanuel Kant
24Which of the following authors promoted versions of socialism?
(a)William Morris (b) John Ruskin (c) Edward FitzGerald (d) all but C
25Heathcliff is a character from
(a)Emma (b) Jane Eyre (c) Vanity Fair (d) Wuthering Heights