PGTRB ENGLISH NEW SYLLABUS TEST - 2

 

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 PGTRB ENGLISH TEST - 2 

1. Who is regarded as the father of Deconstruction?

A) Roland Barthes
B) Jacques Derrida
C) Jane Austen
D) Virginia Woolf

ANSWER (B) Jacques Derrida

2. Who called the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales "The Prologue to Modern Fiction"?

A) Saintsbury
B) William J. Long
C) Chesterton
D) Lewis

ANSWER (B) William J. Long

3. Who called Chaucer the first great humorist in English literature?

A) C. S. Lewis
B) John Milton
C) John Dryden
D) Arnold

ANSWER (C) John Dryden

4. Who praised Chaucer's humanity and psychological insight in The Allegory of Love?

A) Chaucer
B) C. S. Lewis
C) Spenser
D) T. S. Eliot

ANSWER (B) C. S. Lewis

5. Who introduced the concept of the "Death of the Author"?

A) Roland Barthes
B) Derrida
C) Arnold
D) T. S. Eliot

ANSWER (A) Roland Barthes

6. A Room of One's Own was written by __________?

A) Simone de Beauvoir
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Elaine Showalter
D) Sandra Gilbert

ANSWER (B) Virginia Woolf

7. According to Aristotle, tragedy is an imitation of __________?

A) Gods
B) Human action
C) Nature only
D) History

ANSWER (B) Human action

8. Postcolonial criticism is associated with __________?

A) Edward Said
B) I. A. Richards
C) Elaine Showalter
D) Longinus

ANSWER (A) Edward Said

9. Which critical approach emphasizes close reading of the literary text itself?

A) Marxist Criticism
B) New Criticism
C) Feminist Criticism
D) Postcolonial Criticism

ANSWER (B) New Criticism

10. The Second Sex was written by ___________?

A) Virginia Woolf
B) Simone de Beauvoir
C) Elaine Showalter
D) Kate Millett

ANSWER (B) Simone de Beauvoir