1) The document contains questions from a literary quiz contest organized by Tezpur University. It includes multiple choice questions testing knowledge about influential literary figures, movements, works and terms. 2) The questions cover topics ranging from famous writers like Shakespeare, Austen and Hemingway to literary periods like Romanticism and movements like Imagism. 3) The document also includes questions about Assamese literature, testing knowledge about prominent writers and their works from Assam.

1. Literary Quiz Contest Organized by the Literary & Cultural Forum Deptt. Of English & Foreign Languages Tezpur University

2. Quiz round # 1

3. 1. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker Sigmund Freud associated? a) eugenics b) psychoanalysis c) phrenology d) anarchism The correct answer is : b) psychoanalysis

4. 2. Assamese writer Rebati Mohan Dutta Chaudhury is popularly known as… a) Bihagi Kabi b) Ekhud Kakaidew c) Silabhadra d) Bakul Banar Kabi Ans: c)

5. 3. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound? a) a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page b) an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery c) an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery d) a neoplatonic poetics that stresses the importance of poetry aiming to achieve its ideal "form" The correct answer is : b) an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery.

6. 4. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature? a) automatic writing b) confused daze c) total recall d) stream of consciousness e) free association The correct answer is: d) stream of consciousness

7. 5. Which of the following became the most popular Romantic poetic form, following on Wordsworth's claim that poetic inspiration is contained within the inner feelings of the individual poet as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"? a) the lyric poem written in the first person b) the sonnet c) doggerel rhyme d) the political tract e) the ode The correct answer is: a) the lyric poem written in the first person

8. 6. Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I? a) Tudor b) Windsor c) York d) Lancaster e) Valois The correct answer is : a) Tudor

9. 7. Who introduced the art of printing into England? a) Elizabeth Eisenstein b) Johannes Gutenberg c) Henry VIII d) William Tyndale e) William Caxton The correct answer : e) William Caxton

10. 8. Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new "mythical method" in place of the old "narrative method" and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about "making the modern world possible for art"? a) Virginia Woolf's The Waves b) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness c) James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake d) E. M. Forster's A Passage to India e) James Joyce's Ulysses Ans: e)

11. 9. When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, written in 1928. a) 1930 b) 1945 c) 1960 d) 2000 Ans: c)

12. 10. This prominent literary figure of Assam came into the limelight with his poem “Xaap” in his college days. Who is he? a) Homen Borgohain b) Syed Abdul Malik c) Nabakanta Baruah d) Hiren Bhattacharya Ans: a)

13. 11. Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document? a) New Criticism b) Critical Inquiry c) Scientific Bibliology d) Higher Criticism e) New Historicism Ans: d)

14. 12. Which South-African novelist won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007? a) Orhan Pamuk b) Harold Pinter c) J. M. Coetzee d) Doris Lessing Ans: d)

15. 13. Who is the present president of Asom Sahitya Sabha? a) Nilamani Phukan b) Nagen saikia c) Arupa Patangia Kalita d) Kanaksen Deka Ans: d)

16. 14. Who began to ignite the embers of dissent against the Catholic church in November 1517 in a movement that came to be known as the Reformation? a) Anne Boleyn b) Martin Luther c) Pope Leo X d) Ulrich Zwingli e) John Calvin Ans: b) Martin Luther

17. 15. “Halodhia Soraye Baodhan Khay” is written by... a) Hiren Gohain b) Nabakanta Baruah c) Jatin Goswami d) Homen Borgohain Ans: d)

18. 16. Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism? a) art for intellect's sake b) art for God's sake c) art for the masses d) art for art's sake e) art for sale The correct answer is : d) art for art's sake

19. 17. Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s? a) Archbishop Cranmer b) Catherine of Aragon c) Elizabeth I d) Mary, Queen of Scots e) Mary Tudor Ans: e)

20. 18. What is the title of the 1 st volume of Dr. Hiren Gohain’s autobiography? a) Jibonor Batot b) Botahot Kor Godhuli Gopal c) Adha Likha Dastawez d) Jibon Jatra Ans: b)

21. 19. To what subgenre did the Senecan influence give rise, as evidenced in the first English tragedy Gorboduc , or Ferrex and Porrex ? a) villain tragedy b) poetic tragedy c) heroic tragedy d) revenge tragedy e) pastoral tragedy Ans: d)

22. 20. Who succeeded Elizabeth I on the throne of England? a) Elizabeth II b) Henry IX c) James I d) Charles I e) Mary, Queen of Scots Ans: c)

23. 21. Which hero made his earliest appearance in Celtic literature before becoming a staple subject in French, English, and German literatures? a) Beowulf b) Arthur c) Caedmon d) Augustine of Canterbury e) Alfred Ans: b)

24. 22. Who would be called the English Homer and father of English poetry? a) Bede b) Sir Thomas Malory c) Geoffrey Chaucer d) Caedmon e) John Gower Ans: c)

25. 23. What is the first Assamese novel to win Sahitya Academy Award? a) Mrityunjai b) Yaruingam c) Aximot Zar Heral Xima d) Nahoror Niribili Saa Ans: b)

26. 24. Which influential medieval text purported to reveal the secrets of the afterlife? a) Dante's Divine Comedy b) Boccaccio's Decameron c) The Dream of the Rood d) Chaucer's Legend of Good Women e) Gower's Confessio Amantis Ans: a)

27. 25. Famous Assamese novel “Maharathi” written by Chandraprasad Saikia is based on the life of which character? a) Arjun b) Bhim c) Karna d) Duryodhan Ans: c)

28. 26. Which two Indian writers are among the six shortlisted novelists for the 2008 Man Booker prize? a) Amitav Ghosh & Aravind Adiga b) Shashi Tharoor & Vikram Chandra c) Shashi Deshpande & Agha Shahid Ali d) Raja Rao & Girish Karnad Ans: a) Amitav Ghosh for his novel Sea of Poppies & Aravind Adiga for his debutant novel The White Tiger

29. 27. Who is the current chief editor of “Gariaxi” magazine? a) Harekrishna Deka b) Hemanta Barman c) Kanaksen Deka d) Tilak Hazarika Ans: a)

30. 28. Which Italian novelist gained enormous response from international readers through his novels “ The Name of the Rose ”, “ Foucault’s Pendulum ” and “ The Island of the Day Before ”? a) José Saramago b) Gabriel García Márquez c) Aldo Manutius d) Umberto Eco Ans: d)

31. 29. What was the name of Don Quixote's horse? a) Bucephalus b) Rosinante c) Cathederis d) La Mancha Ans: b)

32. 30. What was the setting for Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"? a) The Greek War of Independence b) Russia's October Revolution c) Czarist Russia in the late 1800s d) The post-war World War II military dictatorship in Greece Ans: b)

33. 31. Noted for his "Art of Love," who was banished to a remote outpost on the Black Sea in AD 8 on charges of immorality? a) Horace b) Ovid c) Virgil d) Cicero Ans: b)

34. 32. Gustave Flaubert's most famous book got him charged with immorality, because its main character is an adulteress. Who was she? a) Mata Hari b) Emma Bovary c) Lady Chatterley d) Anna Karenina Ans: b)

35. 33. Which writer lost use of his left hand at the Battle of Lepanto, was once kidnapped by Barbary pirates and started his masterpiece while sitting in jail? a) Leo Tolstoy b) Voltaire c) Geoffrey Chaucer d) Miguel de Cervantes Ans: d)

36. 34. "... A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is said by which character of a Shakespearen play? a) Lady Macbeth b) Richard II c) Hamlet d) Juliet Ans: d)

37. 35. What is similar between the two Assamese novels “Dhanya Nara Tanu Bhaal” and “Zakeri Nahike Upam”? a) Both are Jnanpeeth award winner. b) Both are written by the same author. c) Both are based on the life of Sankardev. d) Both are published in the same year. Ans: c)

38. 36. Which Shakespearean play follows the adventures of identical twin brothers, both named Antipholus? a) As You Like It b) The Comedy of Errors c) Much Ado About Nothing d) The Two Gentlemen of Verona Ans: b)

39. 37. During which war did the battle take place that inspired Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade"? a) Napoleonic Wars b) Boer War c) World War I d) Crimean War Ans d)

40. 38. Which of these playwrights won the Pulitzer Prize four times, as well as the 1936 Nobel Prize for literature? a) Eugene O'Neill b) Ernest Hemingway c) Tennessee Williams d) William Faulkner Ans: a)

41. 39. Whose autobiography is “Mor Hridoy Ekhan Yoddhakhetra”? a) Kanaksen Deka b) Hiren Bhattacharya c) Homen Borgohain d) Bhabendranath Baruah Ans: c)

42. 40. Why was playwright Ben Jonson thrown in jail in 1598? a) Stealing bread b) Divorcing his wife c) Killing an actor in a duel d) Plagiarizing Shakespeare Ans: c)

43. 41. Which Jane Austen novel was originally titled "Elinor and Marianne"? a) Emma b) Mansfield Park c) Pride and Prejudice d) Sense and Sensibility Ans: d)

44. 42. What type of fish is caught by the old man in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"? a) Shark b) Whale c) Sawfish d) Marlin Ans: d)