TNPSC General English - About the Poets and their various works
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
In 1987 Adrian Hilton acquired a guinness world record for rewiting the complete works of non-stops, enduring __ days without sleep
- (a)
Three
- (b)
Five
- (c)
Seven
- (d)
Eight
The edition produced by Yale University is called as
- (a)
Shakespeare's gods
- (b)
University of Shakespeare
- (c)
Yale Shakespeare
- (d)
Shakespeare our "era"
The works of Rabindranath Tagore consist of __ and __
- (a)
Production and Direction
- (b)
Poems and Novels
- (c)
Mechanical and Electrical
- (d)
All of the above
Internationally, ___ is Tagore's best-known collection of all time
- (a)
Gitanjali
- (b)
Mahayana
- (c)
Vedic period
- (d)
Charulata
Tagore was awarded the Nobel prize in __ for his book "Gitanjali"
- (a)
1914
- (b)
1913
- (c)
1918
- (d)
1921
Among Tagore's work, his novels are __
- (a)
Last-acknowledged
- (b)
Fine-acknowledged
- (c)
Least-acknowledged
- (d)
Trust-acknowledged
The only film directed by Rabindranath Tagore is
- (a)
Milan
- (b)
Lekin
- (c)
Uphaar
- (d)
Natir Puja
William Wordsworth period is from
- (a)
7th April 1770 - 23rd April 1850
- (b)
29th May 1770 - 21st April 1851
- (c)
31st May 1771 - 30th Oct 1853
- (d)
8th April 1770 - 23rd April 1850
Wordsworth in 1798 - 99 started an auto-bigraphical poem, which he never named but called as
- (a)
Poem to People
- (b)
Poem to Calridge
- (c)
Poem to God
- (d)
All of the above
Find the odd one out:
- (a)
Voices of the Night
- (b)
Birds of Passage
- (c)
There Books of Song
- (d)
Alice in Wonderland
H.W. Longfellow retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, living the remainder of his life in
- (a)
Newyork
- (b)
Massachusetts
- (c)
Virginia
- (d)
Arkansas
How many Biographies did Anna Louisa Walker edited?
- (a)
Only Two
- (b)
Only One
- (c)
Only Five
- (d)
Only Three
The volume of the poem by walker was printed in
- (a)
Ottawa
- (b)
Harvard
- (c)
London
- (d)
Montreal
Walker's second novel __ was published in 1875
- (a)
Washington
- (b)
Hollywood
- (c)
Tide-Man
- (d)
Man of Grace
Walker's fifth Novel 'Two rival lovers' was published in the year of
- (a)
1884
- (b)
1885
- (c)
1880
- (d)
1881
In 1989, Mrs.Coghill Senea was the __ of her second cousin's auto-biography
- (a)
Proof-reader
- (b)
Typist
- (c)
Editor
- (d)
All the done
Oscar Fingal o' Flaherite Wills Wilde is an __ writer and poet
- (a)
English
- (b)
Irish
- (c)
American
- (d)
Austrian
What is the full name of Pearl S. Buck?
- (a)
Pearl Simon Buck
- (b)
Pearl Syden Stricker Buck
- (c)
Pearl Sydney Buck
- (d)
Pearl Symcoss Buck
Match the following:
POETS | PLACE OF BIRTH |
Robert Frost | Ontario, Canada |
Archibald Lampman | Stratford-upon-Avon |
William Shakespeare | Bangalore, India |
V.K. Gokak | California, U.S.A |
- (a)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (b)
a b c d 4 1 2 3 - (c)
a b c d 2 4 3 1 - (d)
a b c d 3 2 4 1
Match the Place, Poet, Dramatist, Painter with suitable option
POETS | NOTABLE WORKS |
Robert frost | The Excursion |
William Wordsworth | North of Boston |
D. H. Lawrence | The Prophet |
Khalil Gibran | Sons and Lovers |
- (a)
a b c d 2 1 4 3 - (b)
a b c d 1 3 2 4 - (c)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (d)
a b c d 4 3 2 1
Match the following:
POETS | PERIODS |
D.H.Lawrence | 1885 - 1930 |
Annie Louisa Walker | 1836 - 1907 |
Elizabeth Browning | 1806 - 1861 |
H.W. Long Fellow | 1807 - 1882 |
- (a)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (b)
a b c d 4 3 2 1 - (c)
a b c d 3 2 1 4 - (d)
a b c d 2 4 1 3
Match the following:
POETS | FAMOUS - BOOKS |
Rabindranath Tagore | A Brush with Life |
Sathish Gujral | C.N. Annadurai |
Chetan Bhagat | Geethanjali |
Velaikari | Revolution 2020 |
- (a)
a b c d 4 3 2 1 - (b)
a b c d 3 1 4 2 - (c)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (d)
a b c d 2 4 1 3
Match the following:
POETS | EDUCATION |
Ruskin Bond | Christ Chruch, Oxford |
Lewis Caroll | Kenyon College |
Randell Jarrell | Yale university |
Stephen Vincent Benet | Bishop Cotton School |
- (a)
a b c d 4 1 2 3 - (b)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (c)
a b c d 2 3 4 1 - (d)
a b c d 3 4 1 2
Match the following:
POETS | RELATIONS |
R.K. Narayanan | Ellen and William |
Ruskin Bond Dodcson | Wilfred Longely |
Lewis Carroll | Dorothy |
William Wordsworth | R.K. Laxman |
- (a)
a b c d 2 3 4 1 - (b)
a b c d 1 2 3 4 - (c)
a b c d 4 1 2 3 - (d)
a b c d 3 4 1 2
H.W. Longfellow's first volume of poems named
- (a)
Eangeline
- (b)
Hiawatha
- (c)
Voices of the night
- (d)
A Pasalm of Life
The work 'Ballads' is written by
- (a)
Anne Louisa walker
- (b)
H.W. Longfellow
- (c)
Dougals Malloch
- (d)
V.K. Gokak
The work 'Eangeline' published by H.W. Longfellow in
- (a)
1847
- (b)
1855
- (c)
1858
- (d)
1841
V.K Gokak, a famous novelist and poet in
- (a)
Marathi
- (b)
Telugu
- (c)
Kannada
- (d)
Hindi
V.K. Gokak, was a professor of
- (a)
Kannada
- (b)
Hindi
- (c)
Telugu
- (d)
English
Which year the V.G. Gokak was awarded the Padmashree by the Government of India?
- (a)
1963
- (b)
1959
- (c)
1961
- (d)
1967