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MA in Enslish: Admission Test.

l. The 'Great Exhibition' at Hyde park was held in:
a. 1837
b. 1851
c. 1870
d. 1882

2. What Malgudi is to R.K. Narayan, Macondo is to:
Italo calvino
Makarand paranjape
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
saadat Hasan Manto


In which city did the ,Peterloo Massacre, of l6th August I 8 l 9 take place?
a. Paris
b. London
c. Birmingham
d. Marrchester

'Cassandra' is a feminist text by:
a. Mary Wollstonecraft
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Haniet Taylor
d. Virginia Woolf

which of the following theorists has wriften a book cafied Foucault,s pendurum
a. Umberto Dco
b. Michel Foucault
c. Jacques Derrida
d. Roland Barthes

6. Anthony Burge ss's novel A Dead Man in Deptford is based on the life of:
a. Marston
b. Marlowe
c. Middleton
d. Shakespeare

7. The King James version ofthe Bible is dated:
a. 1516
b. 1564
c. 16l I
d. t623

8. 'The Harlot's Progress' is a work by:
a. Bunyan
b. Hogarth
c. Blake
d. Dickens

9. The first Reform Bill was passed in:
a. 1832
b. 1857
c. 1865
d. 1879

10. A famous nineteenth-century editor ofShakespeare was:
a. Theobald
b. Bowdler
c. Malone
d. Muir

I l. Thomas Berger's novel Robert Crews is an adaptation of:
a' The swiss Family Robinson
b. Robinson Crusoe
c. Foe
d. Gulliver's Travels


12. structuralists are interested in understanding ideas as structured on the principle of binary
a. oppositions
b. collaborations
c. allegiances
d. convergences

13. which comet has been described in Jules veme's science fiction novel off on a ComefI
a. Donati
b. Coggia
c. Tebbuft
d_ Gallia

14. Charlotte Bronte dedicated Jane Eyre to:
a. Emily Bronte
b. George Eliot
c. Thackeray
d. Dickens

I 5. which of the fof lowing works was not written by chaucer:
a. The Book of the Duchess
b. Legend of Good Women
c. A Group of Noble Dames
d. Troilus and Crisevde

16. The phrase'survival ofthe fittest'was coined by:
a. Wallace
b. Spencer
c. Darwin
d. Huxley

17. The Comtry Without o Post Ofice is a book of poems written by:
a. Agha Shahid Ali
b. Maxim Gorky
c. Arun Kolatkar
d. Benjamin Zephaniah

MA English Admission Test Question Paper of the President University