Title: El-Lit QUIZ 2015
1- St. Thomas College of
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El-Lit Quest 2015
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2ROUNDS
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3ROUND I SHAKESPEARE
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4Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our
dramatic poets, Jonson was the Virgil, the
pattern of elaborate writing I admired him but I
love Shakespeare.Who made this comment?
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5Poor wounded name! My bosom as a bed
Shall lodge thee, taken from a play by William
Shakespeare called Two Gentlemen of Verona (I.ii.
115-116), appears as an epigraph in one of Thomas
Hardys novels. Which is that novel?
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6Of Cakes and Ale is a novel written by Somerset
Maugham. From which Shakespearean play does he
borrow the title ?
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7"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit ..."
(Act 2, Scene 6) is a quote taken from a
Shakespearean play. Which is that play?
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8The barge she sat in, like a burnishd throne,
burnd on the water. It is a famous line
adapted into The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot with
certain changes. Which is the Shakespearean
source text?
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9ROUND IIIDENTIFY THE PERSON
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10- Lifespan 1573-1637 . Born in Westminster, he is a
poet, dramatist, scholar and writer of court
masques. - Born as the posthumous son of a clergyman, he had
worked as a bricklayer under his stepfather. - In 1598 killed a fellow-actor in a duel but
escaped from gallows. - Wrote a masque glorifying Queen Elizabeth named
Cynthias Revels(1600). - Introduced the Comedy of Humours.
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11- Lifespan 1906-1989.Born in Ireland, he is a
playwright and novelist. - He had a lasting friendship with James Joyce and
his first published work was an essay on Joyce. - Awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1969
- Associated with the Theatre of the Absurd Play-
Waiting for Godot (1952)
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12- Lifespan 1865-1936.Born in Bombay, he is a
short-story writer, poet, and novelist. - Called as the Laureate of the Music Hall ,he
wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in
India and stories for children. - It is with him one especially associates the
political jingoisms of the White Mans Burden. - Received Nobel Prize in 1907 and he was the first
English writer to receive the award. Famous for
his The Jungle Books.
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13- A Scottish novelist, playwright and poet born in
Edinburgh (1771-1832). - In 1813 he was offered the position of Poet
Laureat. He declined, and the position went to
Robert Southey. - The Lay of the Last Minstrel, his first original
work. - Founder of the genre called historical novel.
- The author of Waverley novels.
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14- Poet and novelist born in Coventry (1922-85)
- He was a Librarian of the Brynmor Jones Library
at Hull University. - Belongs to the Movement group of 1950s and
was a lifelong friend of Kingsley Amis. - His first book is The North Ship(1945) and in
1946 published the novel Jill. - Wrote the famous poem church Going.
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15ROUND III CRITICISM
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16Bathos is an abrupt transition in style from the
exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous
effect. Who introduced this term?
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17Who observes that Shelleys Defence of Poetry is
a defence without an attack?
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18Matthew Arnold speaks of two desirable features
of good poetry in his essay Study of Poetry.
One is truth. Which is the other one?
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19Words too familiar or too remote, defeat the
purpose of a poet. Who expressed this opinion in
Life of Dryden?
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20To whom was The School of Abuse by Stephen
Gosson dedicated?
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21ROUND IV ARRANGE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
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22 A Voyage to Lilliput A Voyage to the Country of
the Houyhnhnms A Voyage to Laputa A Voyage to
Brobdingnag
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23 A Vindication of the Rights of Women Lyrical
Ballads Percys Reliques of Ancient English
Poetry French Revolution
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24Peasants Revolt Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical
Polity Le Morte DArthur Utopia
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25 A Dictionary of the English Language The
Defeat of Spanish Armada The Pilgrims Progress
Lives of the English Poets
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26 The Feminine Mystique Sexual Politics The
Second Sex The Subjection of Women
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27ROUND VAUDIO
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33ROUND VIFIND THE PAIR
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34Opening lines of novels
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The Unnamable
- The Outsider
- Jane Eyre
- There was no possibility of taking a walk that
day. - Mother died today. Or yesterday maybe, I dont
know. I got a telegram from the home Mother
deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours. - "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad,
Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that
distant afternoon when his father took him to
discover ice." -
- "Where now? Who now? When now?"
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35Plays
- The Double Dealer
- The Country Wife
- The Provokd wife
- The Man of Mode
- George Etheredge
- John Vanbrugh
- William Wycherley
- William Congreve
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36Lines from Poems
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Church Going
- Fern Hill
- The Road Not Taken
- Two roads diverged in a wood
- Time held me green and dying.
- Let us go then, you and I,
- A serious house on serious earth it is
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37Nationality
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Nigeria
- Australia
- Patrick White
- Nadine Gordimer
- Philip Michael Ondaatje
- John Pepper Clark
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38Spoke Persons
- Speaks for modern drama
- Speaks for ancient classical drama
- Speaks for French drama
- Speaks for English drama
- Lisideius
- Crites
- Neander
- Eugenius
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39ROUND VIIENIGMA
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40JOHN KEATS
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1 What is the epitaph of Keats? 2 In which poem
Keats used the term pleasure thermometer? 3Whic
h is the season not mentioned in Keats To
Autumn 4 The year in which Keats wrote his six
odes?
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41JOHN MILTON
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1 When was Miltons political tract
Areopagitica, for the freedom of press
published? 2 Whose death is mourned in Miltons
Lycidas? 3 In which book of Paradise Lost we see
the Paradise of Fools? 4Which metaphysical poet
was appointed as Miltons assistant ?
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42ALEXANDER POPE
- 1 Where does the battle between the ancients and
- the moderns take place in The Battle of Books?
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- 2 Under what name is Addison portrayed in
- An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot?
- 3 True ease in writing comes from art, not
chance, - As those move easiest who have learned to
dance. - Which is the source text of this famous line?
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- What is described by Pope as What oft was
- thought, but ne'er so well express'd?
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43ROBERT BROWNING
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- 1 Which is the form of poetry that is perfected
by - Browning?
- 2 In which poem do we read the world and lifes
- too big to pass for a dream.?
- 3 Andrea del Sarto is a poem by Browning.
- Who/ what is Andra del Sarto?
- Which is the poem Browning wrote under
- Shelleys influence and was published
- anonymously in 1833?
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44 T. S. ELIOT
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1 Which is Eliots first poem after his
conversion into Anglo-Catholicism? 2The first
title of The Waste Land was He Do the Police in
Different Voices. From where was this title
borrowed? 3 Name the essay in which Eliots
comparison of poet to a catalyst in chemical
reaction appears? 4 What is the title of
Eliots first collection of criticism published
in 1920?
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45ROUND VIII INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
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46Savitri is an epic written by Aurobindo having
24,000 lines. What is its complete title?
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47The Golden Gate is a verse novel written in
Onegin stanza. Who is the author of the novel?
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48One of the plays by Girish Karnad is an allegory
on the Nehruvian era which started with
ambitious idealism and ended up in
disillusionment. Which is that play?
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49R. K. Narayan re-creates the Myth of Bhasmasura
in one of his novels. Which is that novel?
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50Bianca, published in 1878 marked a turning point
in Indian English fiction was written by a
writer who was influenced by Keats to a great
extend. Who is that Indian English writer?
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51ROUND IX AUDIO-VISUAL
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52THANK YOU
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53JOHN DRYDEN
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54Tess of the dUrbervilles
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55Twelfth Night
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56The Merchant of Venice
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57Antony and Cleopatra
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58BEN JONSON
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59SAMUEL BECKETT
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60RUDYARD KIPLING
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61SIR WALTER SCOTT
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62PHILIP LARKIN
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63ALEXANDER POPE
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64THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
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65HIGH SERIOUSNESS
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66DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
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67PHILIP SIDNEY
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68A Voyage to Lilliput A Voyage to Brobdingnag A
Voyage to Laputa A Voyage to the Country of the
Houyhnhnms
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69 Percys Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
1765 French Revolution 1789 A Vindication of the
Rights of Women1792 Lyrical Ballads 1798
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70Peasants Revolt 1381 Le Morte DArthur
(1485) Utopia (1515) Of the Laws of
Ecclesiastical Polity (1594)
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71The Defeat of Spanish Armada 1588 The Pilgrims
Progress 1678 A Dictionary of the English
Language 1755 Lives of the English Poets 1779-81
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72The Subjection of Women 1869 The Second Sex 1949
The Feminine Mystique 1963 Sexual Politics
1970
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73- Jane Eyre
- The Outsider
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The Unnamable
- There was no possibility of taking a walk that
day. - Mother died today. Or yesterday maybe, I dont
know. I got a telegram from the home Mother
deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours. - "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad,
Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that
distant afternoon when his father took him to
discover ice." -
- "Where now? Who now? When now?"
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74- George Etheredge
- John Vanbrugh
- William Wycherley
- William Congreve
- The Man of Mode
- The Provokd wife
- The Country Wife
- The Double Dealer
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75- The Road Not Taken
- Fern Hill
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Church Going
- Two roads diverged in a wood
- Time held me green and dying.
- Let us go then, you and I,
- A serious house on serious earth it is
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76- Patrick White
- Nadine Gordimer
- Philip Michael Ondaatje
- John Pepper Clark
- Australia
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Nigeria
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77- EugeniuS
- Crites
- Lisideius
- Neander
- Speaks for modern drama
- Speaks for ancient classical drama
- Speaks for French drama
- Speaks for English drama
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78Here lies one Whose Name was writ in Water.
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79Endymion
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80 Winter
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83Edward King
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84Book III
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85Andrew Marvell
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86St. James Library
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87Atticus
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88An Essay on Criticism
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89 True Wit
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90Dramatic Monologue
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91Fra Lippo Lippi
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92Italian painter from Florence
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93Pauline
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94Ash Wednesday
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95Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend
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96Tradition And the Individual Talent
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97The Sacred Wood
ROUND VIIIINDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
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98A Legend and a Symbol
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99Vikram Seth
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100Tughlaq
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101The Man-Eater of Malgudi
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102TORU DUTT
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