PG TRB ENGLISH Study Material – 08

1.  Which of the following novels of Muriel Spark is best known?

• Not to Disturb
• The Ballad of Pekham Rye
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie  
• The Driver’s Seat

2.  Jill a novel) was written by 

• Philip Larkin 
• Sylvia Plath
• Muriel Spark 
• Iris Murdoch

3. Who among the following represents the ―Movement‖ of the 1950‘s?

• Dylan Thomas
• Philip Larkin
• Tom Gunn
• Ted Hughes

4.  Who among the following is not a ―Movement‖ writer?

• Philip Larkin
• Kingsley Amis
• Dylan Thomas 
• Donald Davie

5. Which of the following volumes of poetry by Philip Larkin was his first?

• The Less Deceived
• The Whitsun Wedding
• High Windows
• The North Ship

6. The music of the ―Beatles‖ represented

• Cult of Youth
• Culture of sobriety
• High moral seriousness
• Low, irreverent life

7.  James Bond novels 1953-1964) were written by

• John Wain
• Ian Fleming
• William Golding
• Somerset Maugham

8. Who wrote Saturday Night and Sunday Morning?

• Graham Greene
• John Wain
• Alan Sillitoe
• William Golding

9. Who is the author of The Golden Notebook?

• Vikram Seth
• Margaret Drabble
• Iris Murdoch
• Doris Lessing

10.  Marth a Quest appears in the work of

• Jane Austen
• Doris Lessing
• George Eliot
• Galsworthy