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Tribhuvan
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Multiple
Choice Questions
1. A
sad poem that commemorates the loss or death of someone is called...
A) A sentimental poem
B) A mock epic
C) An elegy
D) Bathos
Answer: C
2.
The playlet that Hamlet stages
for Claudius is...
A) The slaying of Lucianus
B) Vice of kings
C) The murder of Hamlet
D) The murder of Gonzago
Answer: D
3.
What do you mean by the study of
articulation, transmission and reception of speech sound?
A) Syntax
B) Linguistics
C) Morphology
D) Phonetics
Answer: D
4.
What do the following lines shade
light on?
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon lover
A) Wordsworth's passion of nature
B) Shakespeare’s supernatural element
C) Coleridge’s supernatural element
D) Keats’s Hellenism
Answer: C
5.
What is the meaning of the term
"peri peteia" as used by Aristotle in his poetics?
A) Consistency in the life of protagonists
B) Reversal in the fortune from happiness to disaster
C) Complication in the event
D) Confusion in the mind of the character
Answer: B
6.
For Coleridge what is it that
"dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate, or where this
process is rendered impossible, yet still, at all events, it struggles to
idealize and to unify"?
A) Sensibility
B) Fancy
C) Primary imagination
D) Secondary imagination
Answer: D
7.
In post colonial literary theory,
what term refers to the appropriation and distortion of the culture of a
colonized people?
A) Subaltern
B) Mimicry
C) Othering
D) Hybridity
Answer: B
8.
Which of the following authors
does not belong to British Romantic period?
A) Robert Southey
B) Robert Browning
C) William Wordsworth
D) Mary Shelley
Answer: B
9.
The poetic line "And trouble
deaf heaven with my bootless cries" consists of which of the following
figures of speech?
A) Bathos
B) Hyperbole
C) Synecdoche
D) Personification
Answer: D
10.
What according to TS Eliot is the
best scene of objective correlative in Shakespeare's Macbeth?
A) The porter scene
B) The battle scene
C) The sleep walking scene
D) The dagger scene
Answer: C
11.
"Affect Theory" is
attributed to.....
A) Cathy Caruth
B) Geoffrey Hartman
C) Silvan Tomkins
D) Jonathan Culler
Answer: C
12.
What is significant about the
drama Oedipus Rex?
A) It is known for its portrayal of hero's moral dilemma in war
B) It exemplifies the use of dramatic irony, where the audience knows the
protagonist's fate long before he does
C) It introduces the concept of tragicomedy, blending both tragedy and humour
D) It focuses on the struggle between love and duty in the protagonist's life
Answer: B
13.
Which literary theory did Slavoj
Zizek help to develop or expand?
A) Postcolonial theory
B) Psychoanalytic theory
C) Reader-response theory
D) Structuralism
Answer: B
14.
In Sophoclean tragedy, the
catastrophe is caused by.....
A) The jealousy of god
B) By willing to believe rumor
C) The violation of the principles of order
D) By the flow of over-ambitiousness
Answer: A
15.
Which of the following words
refers to works quoted?
A) Op cit
B) Ad hoc
C) Ibid
D) Qv
Answer: A
16.
Which of the following is not an
example of imagery in literature?
A) Describing the scent of freshly baked bread wafting through the air
B) Detailing the protagonist's inner thoughts and reflections on life
C) Depicting the vibrant colours of sunset over the ocean
D) Illustrating the sound of leaves rustling in the wind on a quiet evening
Answer: B
17.
Which of the following is an
example of an oxymoron?
A) Bittersweet
B) Dancing in the rain
C) Raining cats and dogs
D) Silent spring
Answer: A
18.
When we experience all the issues
of a novel brought to a satisfactory state, we call it.....
A) Denouement
B) Resolution
C) Wind-up
D) Climax
Answer: B
19.
Choose the best option to
complete the sentence, "I suggested him....."
A) to pursue Ph.D.
B) a remedial exercise in grammar
C) the importance of being honest
D) that he should consult the faculty
Answer: D
20.
Which of the following is an
example of onomatopoeia?
A) Fast
B) Bark
C) Quiet
D) Murmur
Answer: B
21.
Which of the following refers to
people or works that are experimental, innovative, and anti-establishment in
arts and culture?
A) Avant-gardism
B) Anachronism
C) Surrealism
D) Vernacular
Answer: A
22.
"Let us go then, you and I,/
When the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherized upon a
table." The author of these poetic lines also wrote.....
A) Saturday Morning
B) Tradition and Individual Talent
C) Because I couldn't stop for Death
D) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Answer: B
23.
Which of the following is not
true about "textual criticism"?
A) It is primarily concerned with authentication and attribution
B) It is informed by the philological tradition
C) It calls for focusing on the text itself
D) It relies on information such as the history of a text and its subsequent
editions
Answer: D
24.
A good paragraph in a research
paper must have the following features, except...
A) Coherence
B) Adequate development
C) Unity
D) Exemplification
Answer: D
25.
The following are the main
features of academic writing, except...
A) Hedging
B) Objectivity
C) Circularity
D) Explicitness
Answer: C
26.
In rhetorical triangle, ethos
refers to...
A) Credibility of the writer
B) The clarity of the claim
C) Impact of the message on the reader
D) Best reasons
Answer: A
27.
The much quoted opening line
"it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness" comes from which of the following
novels?
A) Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd
B) Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities
C) George Eliot's Mill on the Floss
D) Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Honor
Answer: B
28.
Which of the following critics
does not belong to new critical tradition?
A) J. Hillis Miller
B) Cleanth Brooks
C) W.K. Wimsatt
D) John Crowe Ransom
Answer: A
29.
Which of the following sentences
contains a metaphor?
A) The rain tapped softly on the window, like a visitor at the door
B) The wind howled through the night, shaking the trees
C) She ran as fast as a cheetah to catch the bus
D) His ideas were a breath of fresh air in the meeting
Answer: D
30.
The argument, "if you do all
the homework conscientiously that is sufficient for you to do well in this
course you are doing all the homework conscientiously. So you will do well in
this course", is an example of which of the following types of reasoning?
A) Side-by-side reasoning
B) Lateral reasoning
C) Chain reasoning
D) Joint reasoning
Answer: C
31.
When the audience is made aware
of a disparity between the facts of a situation and the characters'
understanding of it, the result is...
A) Comic relief
B) Dissociation of sensibility
C) Dramatic irony
D) Pathetic fallacy
Answer: C
32.
Which of the following does not
belong to Renaissance?
A) Rediscovery of the ancient classics of Greece and Rome
B) Acceptance of the dignity of an individual rational man
C) Influx of scholarship from Byzantium into Western Europe
D) Adherence to the medieval scholastic tradition
Answer: D
33.
God made the country, but man
made the town is an example of...
A) Antithesis
B) Parable
C) Epigram
D) Proverb
Answer: A
34.
Which of the following is not an
example of foregrounding in literature?
A) The use of unusual syntax to draw attention to a character’s thoughts
B) Employing vivid imagery to emphasize the setting of a story
C) Using complex vocabulary to make the text harder to understand
D) Repeating a specific phrase throughout the text to highlight a theme
Answer: C
35.
Which of the following is an
example of post-postmodern writing?
A) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
B) Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
C) Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
D) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Answer: D
36.
Who is the author of the famous
dictum, “The linguistic sign unites, not a thing and a name, but a concept and
a sound-image”?
A) Roman Jakobson
B) Noam Chomsky
C) Ferdinand de Saussure
D) Benjamin Lee Whorf
Answer: C
37.
Which of the following works of
art is an example of magic realism?
A) The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali
B) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
C) Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
D) The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
Answer: B
38.
“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend
me your ears!” This line in the speech by Mark Antony in Shakespeare’s play
Julius Caesar contains which of the following figure of speech?
A) Metaphor
B) Bathos
C) Hyperbole
D) Metonymy
Answer: D
39.
Name the critic who enunciated
the doctrine of deconstruction.
A) J. H. Miller
B) Geoffrey Hartman
C) Jacques Derrida
D) M. H. Abrams
Answer: C
40.
For which particular essay of T.
S. Eliot is often cited by scholars?
A) The metaphysical poetry
B) The study of poetry
C) Tradition and individual talent
D) Greek heroes
Answer: C
41.
Subject matter of mystery play is
based on…
A) Play based on the stories of the Bible
B) Life of saints
C) Legend
D) Historical characters
Answer: A
42.
The term “Post Modernism” was
first used in connection with…
A) Literature
B) Music
C) Architecture
D) Painting
Answer: D
43.
What does the term “Anagnorisis”
mean as used by Aristotle in his Theory of Tragedy?
A) Working of fate against the hero
B) Change in fortune of hero’s from good to bad
C) The hero’s recognition of his tragic flaw
D) The hero’s ignorance about his tragic flaw
Answer: C
44.
According to Julia Kristeva in
Marxist philosophy, the condition of proletariats at false consciousness is…
A) Symbolic
B) Semiotic
C) Class conflict
D) Basic
Answer: B
45.
The war poets Rupert Brooke,
Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg all fought in the First
World War and all were killed except…
A) Brooke
B) Owen
C) Sassoon
D) Rosenberg
Answer: C
46.
Who is the author of the
diasporic novel Jasmine?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Bharati Mukharjee
C) Manjushree Thapa
D) Michael Ondaatje
Answer: B
47.
According to Plato, how many
stages of cognitive ladder are there that represent a hierarchy of knowledge?
A) five
B) four
C) three
D) two
Answer: B
48.
Use of clues in a literary work
that suggest events yet to occur is called...
A) foreshadowing
B) glorification
C) symbolism
D) personification
Answer: A
49.
“Ideology” as a concept was at
first developed by...
A) Terry Eagleton
B) Luis Althusser
C) John Frow
D) Karl Marx
Answer: D
50.
Literary historians have made the
phrase “Sociology of Literature” popular. What type of literature does the
phrase suggest?
A) social aspect of literature
B) image of society in literature.
C) book and society
D) relation of literary work with social and cultural context: class, gender,
political and economic interests
Answer: D
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