List of top English Questions

Arrange the following in chronological order of their publication: A. Vallabhbhai Patel's For a United India: Speeches, B. Rajendra Prasad's India Divided, C. J.B. Kripalani's The Gandhian Way, D. Abul Kalam Azad's India Wins Freedom.
Given below are two statements: Assertion (A): Biography and memoir are different. Reason (R): Biography is written by the subject about himself or herself while memoir is a day-to-day record of the events in one's life written for personal use and satisfaction. Choose the most appropriate answer.
Who wrote the following lines: “My mother only said Thank God the Scorpion picked on me and spared my children.”
Match List-I with List-II: A. So Many Hungers, B. Combat of Shadows, C. Voices in the City, D. A Silence of Desire; I. Manohar Malgonkar, II. Bhabani Bhattacharya, III. Anita Desai, IV. Kamala Markandaya.
Which of the following statements are correct? A. Girish Karnad is known for his comic play Tughlaq. B. Girish Karnad is an actor, director and a playwright. C. Tughlaq is a historical play. D. Tughlaq is written on the life of Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq. E. Tughlaq was banned in Bombay for sometime.
Which Indian poet wrote: “Why not let me speak in any language I like? The language I speak becomes mine, its distortions, its queerness All mine, mine alone ...”
Arrange the following works in the chronological order of their year of publication: A. The English Teacher, B. The Financial Expert, C. Mr. Sampath, D. Waiting for the Mahatma.
Given below are two statements: Assertion (A): In a dramatic monologue, a single person utters a speech that makes up the whole poem. Reason (R): The speaker in a dramatic monologue interacts with one or more other people, but we know of the author's presence only from the clues in the discourse of the single speaker. Choose the most appropriate answer.
Who wrote “... to weep at every page, not for what he sees, but for what he sees, he sees. For me it's like a book of prayers”?
Match List-I with List-II: A. Matthew Arnold, B. John Milton, C. P.B. Shelley, D. Thomas More; I. Lycidas, II. Adonais, III. Utopia, IV. Culture and Anarchy.
Which of the following statements are correct? A. Jonathan Swift's Robinson Crusoe is a tragic work. B. Swift's The Battle of the Books is a satire upon both the parties in controversy. C. Swift's Tale of a Tub is a satire on humanity. D. Swift's Gulliver's Travels shows his bitterness against fate and society. E. Swift's Tale of a Tub is a satire on the churches of the day.
Arrange the following works in the chronological order of their publication: A. The Tempest, B. The Birthday Party, C. Betrayal, D. Prometheus Unbound.
Given below are two statements: Assertion (A): An epic is a long verse narrative on a comic subject, told in an informal style. Reason (R): An epic is a long verse narrative on a serious subject, told in a formal and elevated style. Choose the most appropriate answer.
Printing Press was brought to England by William Caxton in:
Match List-I with List-II: A. Francis Bacon, B. Samuel Johnson, C. George Orwell, D. Samuel Butler; I. New Atlantis, II. Rasselas, III. Erewhon, IV. Animal Farm.
Which of the following statements are correct? A. William Golding's Lord of the Flies was published in 1645. B. William Golding was awarded Nobel Prize for literature. C. Robinson Crusoe and Brave New World are William Golding's most notable works. D. Golding's Lord of the Flies is described as a dystopia. E. Nineteen Eighty Four is another dystopian work written by William Golding.
Arrange the following plays chronologically in the order of their publication: A. Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine, B. Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, C. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, D. John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.
Given below are two statements: Assertion (A): Voices in the City, although its canvas is large, the details fuller and diction richer, is nevertheless less satisfying than Cry, the Peacock. Reason (R): The reason is that Voices in the City is not contained by a single sensibility like Maya's in Cry, the Peacock. Choose the most appropriate answer.
The rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnet is:
Match List-I with List-II: A. Arms and the Man, B. To the Lighthouse, C. A Passage to India, D. The Waste Land; I. T.S. Eliot, II. E.M. Forster, III. Virginia Woolf, IV. George Bernard Shaw.
Which of the following statements are correct? A. Henrik Ibsen is known for writing problem plays. B. Ibsen's Huckleberry Finn talks about various kinds of subcultures. C. Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright. D. Young Man Luther is another work written by Ibsen. E. Ibsen's A Doll's House was published in 1879.
Arrange the following Ages/Periods in the history of English literature in chronological order: A. The Pre-Raphaelites, B. The Middle English Period, C. The Age of Sensibility, D. The Georgian Period.
Given below are two statements: Assertion (A): Gandhi thought that the village was the safe, sane unit of human association. Reason (R): Gandhi was the apostle of decentralisation. Choose the most appropriate answer.
Who amongst the following is not a Romantic poet?
Match List-I with List-II: A. Mary Wollstonecraft, B. John Stuart Mill, C. Margaret Fuller, D. Virginia Woolf; I. The Subjection of Women, II. A Vindication of the Rights of Women, III. A Room of One's Own, IV. Woman in the Nineteenth Century.