El-Lit QUIZ 2015

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El-Lit Quest 2015
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ROUND I SHAKESPEARE
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Shakespeare 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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Poor 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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Of Cakes and Ale is a novel written by Somerset
Maugham. From which Shakespearean play does he
borrow the title ?

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"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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The 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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ROUND IIIDENTIFY THE PERSON
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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ROUND III CRITICISM
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Bathos is an abrupt transition in style from the
exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous
effect. Who introduced this term?

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Who observes that Shelleys Defence of Poetry is
a defence without an attack?

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Matthew 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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Words too familiar or too remote, defeat the
purpose of a poet. Who expressed this opinion in
Life of Dryden?

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To whom was The School of Abuse by Stephen
Gosson dedicated?

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ROUND IV ARRANGE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
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A Voyage to Lilliput A Voyage to the Country of
the Houyhnhnms A Voyage to Laputa A Voyage to
Brobdingnag
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women Lyrical
Ballads Percys Reliques of Ancient English
Poetry French Revolution
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Peasants Revolt Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical
Polity Le Morte DArthur Utopia
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A Dictionary of the English Language The
Defeat of Spanish Armada The Pilgrims Progress
Lives of the English Poets
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The Feminine Mystique Sexual Politics The
Second Sex The Subjection of Women
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ROUND VAUDIO
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ROUND VIFIND THE PAIR
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Opening 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."
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• "Where now? Who now? When now?"
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Plays

• 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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Lines 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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Nationality

• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Nigeria
• Australia

• Patrick White
• Nadine Gordimer
• Philip Michael Ondaatje
• John Pepper Clark

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Spoke 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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ROUND VIIENIGMA
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JOHN 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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JOHN 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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ALEXANDER POPE

• 1 Where does the battle between the ancients and
• the moderns take place in The Battle of Books?
• 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?
• What is described by Pope as What oft was
• thought, but ne'er so well express'd?

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ROBERT 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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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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ROUND VIII INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
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Savitri is an epic written by Aurobindo having
24,000 lines. What is its complete title?
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The Golden Gate is a verse novel written in
Onegin stanza. Who is the author of the novel?

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One 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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R. K. Narayan re-creates the Myth of Bhasmasura
in one of his novels. Which is that novel?

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Bianca, 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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ROUND IX AUDIO-VISUAL
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JOHN DRYDEN
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Tess of the dUrbervilles
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Twelfth Night
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The Merchant of Venice
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Antony and Cleopatra
ROUND II IDENTIFY THE PERSON
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BEN JONSON
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SAMUEL BECKETT
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RUDYARD KIPLING
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SIR WALTER SCOTT
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PHILIP LARKIN
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ALEXANDER POPE
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THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK
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HIGH SERIOUSNESS
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DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
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PHILIP SIDNEY
ROUND IV ARRANGE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
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A Voyage to Lilliput A Voyage to Brobdingnag A
Voyage to Laputa A Voyage to the Country of the
Houyhnhnms
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Percys Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
1765 French Revolution 1789 A Vindication of the
Rights of Women1792 Lyrical Ballads 1798
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Peasants Revolt 1381 Le Morte DArthur
(1485) Utopia (1515) Of the Laws of
Ecclesiastical Polity (1594)
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The 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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The Subjection of Women 1869 The Second Sex 1949
The Feminine Mystique 1963 Sexual Politics
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• 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."
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• "Where now? Who now? When now?"

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• 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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• 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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• Patrick White
• Nadine Gordimer
• Philip Michael Ondaatje
• John Pepper Clark

• Australia
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Nigeria

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• 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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Here lies one Whose Name was writ in Water.
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Endymion
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Winter
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1819
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JOHN MILTON
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Edward King
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Book III
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Andrew Marvell
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St. James Library
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Atticus
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An Essay on Criticism
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True Wit
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Dramatic Monologue
ROBERT BROWNING
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Fra Lippo Lippi
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Italian painter from Florence
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Pauline
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Ash Wednesday
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Charles Dickens Our Mutual Friend
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Tradition And the Individual Talent
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The Sacred Wood
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A Legend and a Symbol
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Vikram Seth
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Tughlaq
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The Man-Eater of Malgudi
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TORU DUTT
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