All MCQs for Competitive Exams

271

Which of the following excerpts constitutes the opening line of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel 'Lolita'?

A

“Lolita, all at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other.”

B

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”

C

“Lolita, a cluster of stars palely glowed above us.”

D

“Lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.”

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272

To what historical anxiety does the line 'How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another' likely refer?

A

Fear of global nuclear war

B

Fear of the economic Great Depression

C

Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system

D

Fear of the AIDs crisis

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273

Which of the following novels was authored by E.M. Forster?

A

A Passage to India

B

Pale Fire

C

On the Road

D

Daniel Deronda

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274

Which condition was a prevalent psychological health consequence for soldiers surviving the trauma of trench warfare during World War I?

A

Shell shock

B

A and C only

C

Staph infections

D

Lyme disease

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275

What defines the Bloomsbury Group in the context of early 20th-century intellectual history?

A

A and C only

B

A group of artists who lived in London's Bloomsbury district

C

A community of people who survived World War II

D

A collective of notable figures including E.M. Forster, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf

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276

What is the primary thematic focus of Siegfried Sassoon’s poem 'To Victory'?

A

His ability to finally kill an enemy soldier

B

His safe return home

C

His death and escape from suffering.

D

The defeat of the Germans

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277

Which of the following poetic modes is not identified in Dr. Michael Webster's analysis of late 19th and early 20th-century poetry?

A

Genteel

B

Impressionist

C

Symbolist

D

Decadent

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278

How does Professor Hammer characterize Wallace Stevens’s poetry when he describes it as 'meta-poetry'?

A

Stevens’s poetry is primarily, though not explicitly, concerned with metaphysics.

B

Stevens’s poetry always addresses several different audiences.

C

Stevens’s poetry investigates its own rules.

D

Stevens’s poetry highlights an objective voice.

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279

Which of the following art movements is not classified as part of the Modernist tradition?

A

Realism

B

Dadaism

C

Surrealism

D

Symbolism

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280

Who is the author of the modernist novel 'Absalom, Absalom!'?

A

Fitzgerald

B

Hemingway

C

Faulkner

D

Steinbeck

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