NTA NET ENGLISHFREE DIAGNOSTIC TEST

Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?

Direct Method is also known as

Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true ?

i) Edward II was written in the last year Marlowe's life.
ii) Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe's best play.
iii) His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second
iv) Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare

Who, among the following English play-wrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love?

K. Ogden and LA. Richards were repute, in the 1930s for introducing-

Teaching and learning is a journey from

If a researcher collects samples from the students of Chennai and identify the learning difficulties regarding English and proposes solution that research is known as _____.

“ Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for-

Among the following who is not part of Sadler commission which was formed to study the the problems of Calcutta University?

Pick the odd one out from the given information which is related to the year 1937:

List – I
A) Good sense is the body of poetic genius.
B) Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge
C) Literary criticism is a description and evalution of its object.
D) Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a tapestry as diverse poets have done.

List – II

1) Brooks, "The Formalist Critic"
2) Sidney, Defence /An Apology for Poetry
3) Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
4) Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

Codes are:

"He found it [English] brick and left it marble", remarked one great writer on another. Who were they?

What is a neologism?

The method of teaching English adopted at present in school curriculum is

Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by-

The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of

Arrange the following in the chronological order-

 i) Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women
 ii) Lyrical Ballads
 iii)  French Revolution
iv) Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?

In _____________ Parliament accorded the status of associate official language of India.

If a research is conducted collecting samples from a particular college, that sampling is known as ___.

Communicative Language Teaching replaced basically …

Scrutiny is a journal by ______.

According to ____________ , “English was the gift of goddess Saraswati to India and that in our anger and hatred we should not throw away the baby”.

Longinus believed sublimity is the echo of _____.

In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India?

In which of the following works does Mrs.Malaprop appear ?

Horace said: “Mediocrity is forbidden to poets alike by gods and men and booksellers”. It suggests

The last of Gulliver's Travels is to-

Who of the following poets is Australian?

FCA is in opposition to

“The Death of the Author” is a work by_____ .

Stephen Greeblatt’s Renaissance Self- Fashioning was published in _____.

List-I

(A) "So much depends/upon"
(B) "Because I could not stop for death ... "
(C) “O Captain! My Captain !"
(D) "Two roads diverged in a wood ... "


List – II

(1) Robert Frost  
(2) William Carlos Williams   
(3) Emily Dickinson     
(4) Walt Whitman

The correctly matched series would be- codes:

Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield are associated with______.

“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man” is an example of—

In 1986 _________ endorsed that the three language formula had ‘stood the test of time’.

The predominant tone and thrust of Jonatha Swift's "A Modest Proposal" are-

If a researcher analyzes R.K. Narayan’s all works that is an example of ______.

Which of the following is not true of Said's Orientalism ?

Environment and Social Theory  is a work by ______.

The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as-

Who wrote Mathew Arnold (1939) and E.M.Forster(1943) with acumen?

Material feminism studies inequality in terms of-

If Rushdies Midnight’s Children is taken for a P.HD research, that is an example of ___

Which is often described as the Magna Carta of English education in India.