Which of the following sets consists of exclusively English thinkers? (English Lecturer Paper 2013)
(a) Newton, Hobbes, Locke
(b) Locke, Hume, Kant
(c) Locke, Smith, Kant
(d) Goethe, Paine, Franklin
Answer. a
Who ascended to throne during the Glorious Revolution? (English Lecturer Paper 2011)
(a) Louis XIV
(b) Charles I
(c) James II
(d) William and Mary
Answer. d
Which metrical form was Pope said to have brought to perfection? (Lecturer 2016)
(a) heroic couplet
(b) blank verse
(c) free verse
(d) the ode
Ans: A
Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798? (Lecturer 2013)
(a) Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake
(b) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
(c) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
Ans: C
Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states? (Lecturer 2015)
(a) Opium
(b) Dreams
(c) Childhood
(d) All of these
Ans: D