A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On - The term ‘the Palliser Novels’ is used to describe the political novels of ______________?
A. Charles Dickens
B. Anthony Trollope
C. W. H. White
D. B.Disraeli - How is “Jane Eyre” different from the novels of the first wave of English Gothic novels ?
A. Its protagonist is at risk for sexual transgression.
B. It is a Bildungsroman.
C. It explains strange phenomena.
D. The theme of imprisonment is prominent. - Why was the alliterative revival associated with nationalism and nostalgia ?
A. The stories of King Arthur made all English people nostalgic.
B. Metrical poetry simply got boring.
C. Alliterative poetry was much easier to write.
D. Alliterative poetry was associated with a world before the French influence, a world before the Conquest - The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” ends with the following lines: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest/To children ardent for some desperate glory,/The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est/ Pro patria mori.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
A. Brooke’s inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize
the distance between the ideals ofWestern civilization and its realities.
B. These lines suggest the author’s anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.
C. In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.
D. All of the above - Which of th following novels is called a “Novel without a hero” ?
A. Vanity Fair
B. Mill on the Floss
C. Northanger Abbey
D. Pickwick Papers - Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ?
A. A teacher
B. A clerk
C. A thief
D. A dentist - The novel The Power and the Glory is set in ?
A. Mexico
B. Italy
C. France
D. Germany - Wanders in that happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically To a lute’s well-tunéd law, Round about a throne, where sitting (Porphyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting, The sovereign of the realm was seen. What does Porphyrogene mean ?
A. Born to be free
B. Inflicted with the disease Porphyria
C. Of royal birth
D. Wearing purple robes - Which of the following writers wrote historical novels ?
A. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
B. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
