What do the ‘Karaka trees’ in the short story ‘The Garden Party’ symbolize?

• A) Haunted house
• B) None of the above
• C) Children
• D) Deserted place

The three major groups of poets in 1950s were:

• A) ‘The New Generation’, ‘The Group’ and ‘The Surrealist’
• B) ‘The Movement,’ ‘The Group’ and ‘Extremist Art’
• C) 'The Group’, ‘Extremist Art’ and ‘The New Generation’
• D) ‘The Surrealist’, ‘The Movement’ and ‘The Group’

The sentence, ‘No doubt somebody would have noticed if she hadn't been there; she was part of the performance after all’ has been taken from:

• A) The Garden Party
• B) Miss Brill
• C) The Oval Portrait
• D) The Necklace

"…. Poetry (is) the best words in their best order" it is the definition of poetry by _____________.

• A) John Keats
• B) William Wordsworth
• C) S.T. Coleridge
• D) Shelley

Choose the correct option.

A stanza consisting of eight lines in a sonnet is called ---------------.

• A) Octave
• B) Tercet
• C) Sestet
• D) Quatrain

Choose the correct option.

The title of the story ‘Miss Brill’ provides an example of the author's__________.

• A) grandiloquence and life
• B) ingenuity and attention to detail
• C) transgression and progression
• D) dream and actuality

Which literary device has been used in the following statement?

"Tuk-tuk-tuk," clucked cook like an agitated hen.

• A) Metaphor
• B) Personification
• C) Onomatopoeia
• D) Simile

One common feature in the writings of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Wolf and James Joyce is:

• A) Use of natural imagery
• B) Stream of consciousness technique
• C) Themes of political corruption
• D) Depiction of pastoral scenery

_______ defines Poetry as:"Poetry (is) the best words in their best order".

• A) Shelley
• B) Arnold
• C) Coleridge
• D) Keats

Katherine Mansfield is considered a/an _______of the avant-garde in short fiction.

• A) opponent
• B) pioneer
• C) critic
• D) supporter

Choose the correct option.

‘A Poison Tree’ is a simple narrative in the form of a _________.

• A) rhyme
• B) account
• C) couplet
• D) parable

Choose the correct option.

______ can rightly be called the early leader of romanticism in the English poetry.

• A) Robert Frost
• B) William Wordsworth
• C) P.B Shelley
• D) John Keats

Who wrote ‘An Evening Walk’ and ‘Descriptive Sketches’?

• A) Robert Frost
• B) Wordsworth
• C) P.B Shelley
• D) John Keats

In which poem, Wordsworth grandly proclaims that, ‘the Child is the Father of the Man’?

• A) Tyger
• B) To the Cuckoo
• C) The Rainbow
• D) The World is too much with us

The poem ‘London’ was written during the times of the -------------revolution.

• A) Iranian
• B) London
• C) French
• D) Cuban

The poem ‘The World is Too Much With Us’ is a/an ----------------- sonnet.

• A) Occitan
• B) Spenserian
• C) English
• D) Petrarchan

For --------------, ‘nature’ was a greatest source of spiritual consolation and a channel of escape from all the worries and woes of this world.

• A) John Keats
• B) None of the above
• C) Wordsworth and John Keats
• D) P.B Shelley and Robert Frost

Choose the correct option.

The tone of the poem ‘London’ is _________.

• A) serene and calm
• B) sorrowful and sad
• C) sensational and thrilling
• D) happy and vibrant

What does the imagery of the ‘mind –forged manacles’ symbolize in the poem ‘London’?

• A) Imprisonment
• B) Mental illness
• C) Authority’s restrictions
• D) Illusions

Wordsworth can rightly be called as the ________________ of romanticism.

• A) early leader
• B) follower
• C) successor
• D) None of the above