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My Fair Lady, the American musical film released in 1964 was an adaptation of the play

by G.B. Shaw.
A) Back to Methuselah B) Candida
©) Doctor's Dilemma D) Pygmalion

Which of the following are correctly matched with regard to the themes of the Sonnets of
Shakespeare ?

1. Sonnet 1 a. True minds in love know that love never changes, but lasts
forever

2. Sonnet 18 b. When | call to mind the past, | grieve; but when | think of you
my grief ends

3. Sonnet 30 c. Beauty should procreate

4. Sonnet 116 d. My poetry turns you into an eternal summer in which you will
be forever beautiful

A) 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a B) 1-a, 2-d, 3-c, 4-b

C) 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c D) 1-c, 2-d, 3-b, 4-a

Salman Rushdie’s technique of magical realism in his novels is said to have been learned
from the Latin American writers such as

A) Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

B) Judith Ortiz Cofer and Jose Luis

C) Isabel Allende and Roberto Bolano

D) Eduardo Machado and Leonardo Padura

Which of the following statements regarding Dryden’s mock-heroic poem, Mac Flecknoe

is/are correct ?

1. The target of this satire is Richard Flecknoe, the prolific, untalented writer.

2. The phrase, “true-blue-protestant poet” in the subtitle of the poem, hints at the
Whiggism of Thomas Shadwell.

3. Dryden presents the playwright Shadwell as the son and successor of Richard
Flecknoe.

4. The poem abounds in literary allusions to Roman legend and history, Aeneid,
Paradise Lost and the Bible.

A) 1 and 2 only 8) 3 and 4 only C) 1, 2 3 D) 2,3 and 4

The original title of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe published in 1719 is
A) The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe

B) The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

C) The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

D) The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Written by Himself

Who among the following novelists described his/her own novels as “pictures of domestic
life in country villages” ?
A) Charles Dickens 8) Emile Bronte C) Jane Austen D) Thomas Hardy

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