List of top English Questions

"[...] I mean negative capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason [...]."
Based on this statement, which of the following options is/are correct? 
Negative capability is the ability to_____.
Which of the following statements is true of Magic Realism?
A widely used narrative technique, it allows narrators to temporarily inhabit the consciousness of any of their characters. It is called____.
Match the excerpts with the texts they have been taken from:
a"A son who will never be older than his i motherland - neither older nor younger. There shall be two heads - but you will only see one - there will be knees and a nose, a nose and knees."iA Suitable Boy
b"That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much." iiMidnight's Children
c"She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Niwas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show), she was Veena's love of music, Pran's asthma, Maan's generosity, [...] temperament of Bhaskar's grandchildren. Indeed, for all the Minister of Revenue's impatience with her, she was his regret." iiiThe God of Small Things 
d"Two or three years after the 1947 Partition, it occurred to the governments of India and Pakistan to exchange their lunatics in the same manner as they had exchanged their criminals. The Muslim lunatics in India were to be sent over to Pakistan and the Hindu and Sikh lunatics in Pakistan asylums were to be handed over to India."iv"Toba Tek Singh"
Match each fictional character with the author who created him:
aUriah HeepiJames Joyce
bStephen Dedalus ii Ivan Turgenev
cBazaroviiiFyodor Dostoevsky
dRaskolnikov ivCharles Dickens
Match the texts with the language they were originally written in:
aWaiting for a VisaiHindi
bThe Prisons we BrokeiiEnglish 
cThe Revenue Stamp: An AutobiographyiiiMarathi 
dJoothan: A Dalit's Life ivPunjabi
What do the following works have in common?
Andha Yug, The Second Turn, Parva, Sarpa Satra 
Which of the following novels is/are written by African-American women?
Which of the following is/are NOT composed by Kalidasa?
Which of these writers is/are associated with the Progressive Writers Association?
Which of the following is/are NOT based on a play by William Shakespeare?
Which of the following options is NOT the title of a play?
The literary term 'apostrophe' denotes:
Which of the following is NOT part of the Theban trilogy?
In the line, "What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?" "he" refers to_____.
Charulata is an adaptation of which work by Rabindranath Tagore?
Dorothea Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Hetty Sorel, Stephen Guest are all characters created by_____.
Eric Arthur Blair was born in Motihari, Bihar. He went on to become famous as an author of a dystopian work which introduced the terms 'Newspeak', 'Thoughtcrime', and 'Doublespeak'. He wrote under the pseudonym______.
Agatha Christie broke a fundamental rule of detective fiction in____.
"I started writing in Gikuyu language in 1977 after seventeen years of involvement Afro-European literature, in my case Afro-English literature ... wherever I have gone, particularly in Europe, I have been confronted with the question: why are you now writing in Gikuyu? Why do you now write in an African language?”
Identify the author of this passage.
The Madwoman in the Attic, the title of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's iconic feminist examination of Victorian literature, alludes to which classic novel?
On the basis of genre, which of the following does NOT belong in this group?
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is a/an____.
Which one of the following is a famous detective character created by Edgar Allan Poe?
Match the following pairs of fictional characters with the author who created them:
aPhileas Fogg and Jean Passepartout iWilliam Shakespeare
bDon Quixote and Sancho PanzaiiJules Verne 
cCandide and PanglossiiiMiguel de Cervantes
dDogberry and VergesivVoltaire