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351.	Noticeable magazines published by ....................were the Brahmonical Magazine,the Sambad KaumudiandMirat-ul-Akbar.
A.	Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B.	Toru Dutt
C.	,Sri Aurobindo
D.	Thomas Paine
Answer» B. Toru Dutt

Discussion

352.	Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj at ...............in 1828.
A.	Madras
B.	Kolkata
C.	Bombay
D.	Delhi
Answer» C. Bombay

Discussion

353.	...................was an Indian socio-educational reformer who was also known as‘Maker of Modern India’ and ‘Father of Modern India’ and ‘Father of the Bengal Renaissance.’
A.	Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B.	Subramanya Bharati
C.	Bhartendu Harishchandra
D.	Altaf Hussain Mali
Answer» B. Subramanya Bharati

Discussion

354.	.................. famous book ‘Anand Math’, the Bible of modern Bengali patriotism,provided very great inspiration to the people.
A.	Rabindranath Tagore’s
B.	Bankim Chandra’s
C.	Lakshminath Bezbarua’s
D.	Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar;s
Answer» C. Lakshminath Bezbarua’s

Discussion

355.	Wood's Education Despatch formed the basis of the education policy of east IndiaCompany's government in India since...........................
A.	1854
B.	1864
C.	1874
D.	1884
Answer» B. 1864

Discussion

356.	................, the founder of the Arya Samaj, gave the slogan, “India for the Indians”.
A.	Lord William Bentinck
B.	Swami Dayanand Saraswati
C.	Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer» C. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Discussion

357.	Macaulay’s minutes was accepted and ................issued his proclamation inn march1935 which set at rest all the controversies and led to the formulation of a policy which became the corner stone of all educational programmes during the British period in India.
A.	Lord William Bentinck
B.	Queen Elizabeth II
C.	Jonathan Duncan
D.	Warren
Answer» B. Queen Elizabeth II

Discussion

358.	William James founded The Asiatic Society of ...................in 1784.
A.	Bengal
B.	Madras
C.	Bombay
D.	Delhi
Answer» B. Madras

Discussion

359.	........................ is the process of international integration arising from theinterchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture.
A.	Arya Samaj
B.	Commonwealth
C.	NWO
D.	Globalization
Answer» E.

Discussion

360.	The symbol of the Commonwealth is.............. who is the Head of theCommonwealth.
A.	Queen Elizabeth II
B.	Warren Hastings
C.	Jonathan Duncan
D.	Macaulay,
Answer» B. Warren Hastings

Discussion

361.	The term ..................... refers to the emergence of a totalitarian government.
A.	NWO
B.	Commonwealth
C.	Globalization
D.	Arya Samaj
Answer» B. Commonwealth

Discussion

362.	.................... is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen EightyFour (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945).
A.	George Orwell
B.	Dylan Thomas
C.	Samuel Barclay Beckett
D.	Charles Sorely
Answer» B. Dylan Thomas

Discussion

363.	.................... was an Anglo-American poet, best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues,"
A.	Wystan Hugh Auden
B.	Isaac Rosenberg,
C.	Wilfred Owen
D.	Charles Sorely
Answer» B. Isaac Rosenberg,

Discussion

364.	........................ is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which theepisodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles,
A.	James Joyce
B.	T. S. Eliot
C.	W. H. Auden
D.	Edward Thomas
Answer» B. T. S. Eliot

Discussion

365.	.................... is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History (1934–1961).
A.	Arnold Joseph Toynbee
B.	W. B. Yeats
C.	Edward Martyn
D.	,D.H Lawrence
Answer» B. W. B. Yeats

Discussion

366.	................ 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work,
A.	E. M. Forster’s
B.	Tony Blair
C.	Gordon Brown
D.	,Edward Thomas
Answer» B. Tony Blair

Discussion

367.	................. most notable science fiction work is The Time Machine (1895),
A.	H. G. Wells’
B.	Clement Attlee
C.	Harold Wilson
D.	James Callaghan.
Answer» B. Clement Attlee

Discussion

368.	.........................was an English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for hisadvocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
A.	Thomas Henry Huxley
B.	Samuel Wilberforce
C.	Robert Chambers
D.	Richard Owen
Answer» B. Samuel Wilberforce

Discussion

369.	After the Second world war, which highlighted that so many people were deprivedand poor, the Liberal politician ....................identified five issues that needed to be tackled to make a better Britain.
A.	Ramsay MacDonal
B.	John Stuart Mill
C.	Keynes
D.	William Beveridge
Answer» E.

Discussion

370.	The Fabian Society took its name, suggested by one of its founding members,Frank Podmore, from the Roman General, Quintus Fabius Cunctator, who avoided a frontal attack on ..................army in the third century B.C., but used delaying tactics.
A.	David Lloyd George’s
B.	William Gladstone’s
C.	H. H. Asquith’s
D.	Hannibal’s
Answer» E.

Discussion

371.	........................., unlike Marxists, advocated a gradual, non-revolutionary transitionto socialism based on humanist foundations.
A.	Fabians
B.	Liberals
C.	Capitalists
D.	Communalists
Answer» B. Liberals

Discussion

372.	.................. wrote his critique of capitalism, Das Kapital, over a period of almost30 years in the late 19th century.
A.	Karl Marx
B.	Oscar Wilde
C.	Lenin
D.	Mao
Answer» B. Oscar Wilde

Discussion

373.	The Fabian Society, established in .........................in 1884,
A.	Delhi
B.	Bagdad
C.	Beijing
D.	London
Answer» E.

Discussion

374.	............................ wrote Man and Superman
A.	George Bernard Shaw
B.	Karl Marx
C.	John Ruskin
D.	Oscar Wilde
Answer» B. Karl Marx

Discussion

375.	................. wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence forEngland due to the absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage.
A.	Oscar Wilde
B.	Walter Pater
C.	John Ruskin
D.	George Bernard Shaw
Answer» B. Walter Pater

Discussion

376.	........................ is remembered for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray,
A.	Oscar Wilde
B.	Walter Pater
C.	John Ruskin
D.	George Bernard Shaw
Answer» B. Walter Pater

Discussion

377.	................... began to write for the reviews and his essays on Leonardo daVinci, Sandro Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola,and Michelangelo,
A.	Walter Horatio Pater
B.	John Keble
C.	Charles Marriott
D.	Richard Hurrell Froude
Answer» B. John Keble

Discussion

378.	....................... is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasisof aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts.
A.	Aestheticism
B.	Capitalism
C.	Communalism
D.	Communism
Answer» B. Capitalism

Discussion

379.	........................ was humanist whose advocacy of “art for art’s sake” became acardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism.
A.	Walter Horatio Pater
B.	John Keble
C.	Charles Marriott
D.	Richard Hurrell Froude
Answer» B. John Keble

Discussion

380.	..............................., was an American writer who spent most of his writing careerin Britain.
A.	Thomas hardy
B.	Words worth
C.	Henry James
D.	Maurice Kinsley
Answer» D. Maurice Kinsley

Discussion

381.	..................... was the author of, The Mayor of Caster bridge (1886),
A.	A. C. Swinburne
B.	John Locke
C.	Thomas Hardy
D.	Thackeray
Answer» D. Thackeray

Discussion

382.	....................is the author of Adam Bede (1859),
A.	George Eliot
B.	John Locke
C.	A. C. Swinburne
D.	Thackeray
Answer» B. John Locke

Discussion

383.	..............., was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of theleading writers of the Victorian era.
A.	George Eliot
B.	John Locke
C.	A. C. Swinburne
D.	Thackeray
Answer» B. John Locke

Discussion

384.	During his stay at Punch, ................wrote Vanity Fair, the work which placed himin the first rank of novelists.
A.	A. C. Swinburne
B.	John Locke
C.	Thackeray
D.	George Eliot
Answer» D. George Eliot

Discussion

385.	In 1837, .......................came to London and became a regular contributor toFraser’s Magazine.
A.	Thackeray
B.	John Locke
C.	A. C. Swinburne
D.	George Eliot
Answer» B. John Locke

Discussion

386.	.................. was an English novelist of the 19th century is famous forhis satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.
A.	A. C. Swinburne
B.	John Locke
C.	William Makepeace Thackeray
D.	George Eliot
Answer» D. George Eliot

Discussion

387.	................. literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The PickwickPapers.
A.	Isaac Williams
B.	Robert Wilberforce
C.	Charles Dickens's
D.	William Palmer
Answer» D. William Palmer

Discussion

388.	The 17th-century philosopher ................... is often credited with foundingliberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition.
A.	Thackeray
B.	A.
C.	Swinburne c) John Lock
D.	George Eliot
Answer» D. George Eliot

Discussion

389.	...................... rejected the notions, common at the time, of hereditaryprivilege, religion, absolute, and the Divine Right of Kings.
A.	Liberalism
B.	Capitalism
C.	Communalism
D.	Communism
Answer» B. Capitalism

Discussion

390.	..................... is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideasof liberty and equality.
A.	Capitalism
B.	Liberalism
C.	Communalism
D.	Communism
Answer» C. Communalism

Discussion

391.	The ..................movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after itsseries of publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841.
A.	USA
B.	Ireland
C.	Switzerland
D.	Oxford
Answer» E.

Discussion

392.	The Oxford movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of............................. which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.
A.	England
B.	Ireland
C.	Switzerland
D.	USA
Answer» B. Ireland

Discussion

393.	Apart from the poetry, ..................penned many prominent critical works, whichincludes ‘Essays in Criticism’ (1865), and ‘Culture and Anarchy’ (1869).
A.	Goethe
B.	Matthew Arnold
C.	William Wordsworth
D.	Charles Swinburne
Answer» C. William Wordsworth

Discussion

394.	.....................published ‘Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems’ (1852) and‘Poems: A New Edition’ (1853
A.	G. K. Chesterton
B.	Oscar Wilde
C.	George Bernard Shaw,
D.	Matthew Arnold
Answer» E.

Discussion

395.	’The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems” was the first book of poetry pennedby........................, which was published in 1849.
A.	Matthew Arnold
B.	Christina Rossetti
C.	William Wordsworth
D.	Henry James
Answer» B. Christina Rossetti

Discussion

396.	...................... was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramaticmonologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
A.	Dante
B.	Robert Browning
C.	Paracelsus
D.	Wordsworth
Answer» C. Paracelsus

Discussion

397.	................. excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "TheCharge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar".
A.	Matthew Arnold
B.	Carlyle
C.	Ruskin
D.	Alfred Tennyson
Answer» E.

Discussion

398.	.................... of Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one ofthe most popular British poets.
A.	Alfred Tennyson
B.	Carlyle
C.	Ruskin
D.	Matthew Arnold
Answer» B. Carlyle

Discussion

399.	................. - was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced.
A.	John Clare
B.	Coleridge
C.	, Shelley,
D.	Keats
Answer» B. Coleridge

Discussion

400.	...................... wrote the popular hymns "Lead, Kindly Light" and "Praise to theHoliest in the Height" (taken from Gerontius).
A.	John Henry Newman
B.	Dickens,
C.	Trollope,
D.	Thackeray
Answer» B. Dickens,

Discussion

Explore topic-wise MCQs in UPSC IAS Exam.

Noticeable magazines published by ....................were the Brahmonical Magazine,the Sambad KaumudiandMirat-ul-Akbar.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj at ...............in 1828.

...................was an Indian socio-educational reformer who was also known as‘Maker of Modern India’ and ‘Father of Modern India’ and ‘Father of the Bengal Renaissance.’

.................. famous book ‘Anand Math’, the Bible of modern Bengali patriotism,provided very great inspiration to the people.

Wood's Education Despatch formed the basis of the education policy of east IndiaCompany's government in India since...........................

................, the founder of the Arya Samaj, gave the slogan, “India for the Indians”.

Macaulay’s minutes was accepted and ................issued his proclamation inn march1935 which set at rest all the controversies and led to the formulation of a policy which became the corner stone of all educational programmes during the British period in India.

William James founded The Asiatic Society of ...................in 1784.

........................ is the process of international integration arising from theinterchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture.

The symbol of the Commonwealth is.............. who is the Head of theCommonwealth.

The term ..................... refers to the emergence of a totalitarian government.

.................... is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen EightyFour (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945).

.................... was an Anglo-American poet, best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues,"

........................ is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which theepisodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles,

.................... is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History (1934–1961).

................ 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work,

................. most notable science fiction work is The Time Machine (1895),

.........................was an English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for hisadvocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

After the Second world war, which highlighted that so many people were deprivedand poor, the Liberal politician ....................identified five issues that needed to be tackled to make a better Britain.

The Fabian Society took its name, suggested by one of its founding members,Frank Podmore, from the Roman General, Quintus Fabius Cunctator, who avoided a frontal attack on ..................army in the third century B.C., but used delaying tactics.

........................., unlike Marxists, advocated a gradual, non-revolutionary transitionto socialism based on humanist foundations.

.................. wrote his critique of capitalism, Das Kapital, over a period of almost30 years in the late 19th century.

The Fabian Society, established in .........................in 1884,

............................ wrote Man and Superman

................. wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence forEngland due to the absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage.

........................ is remembered for his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray,

................... began to write for the reviews and his essays on Leonardo daVinci, Sandro Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola,and Michelangelo,

....................... is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasisof aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts.

........................ was humanist whose advocacy of “art for art’s sake” became acardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism.

..............................., was an American writer who spent most of his writing careerin Britain.

..................... was the author of, The Mayor of Caster bridge (1886),

....................is the author of Adam Bede (1859),

..............., was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of theleading writers of the Victorian era.

During his stay at Punch, ................wrote Vanity Fair, the work which placed himin the first rank of novelists.

In 1837, .......................came to London and became a regular contributor toFraser’s Magazine.

.................. was an English novelist of the 19th century is famous forhis satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.

................. literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The PickwickPapers.

The 17th-century philosopher ................... is often credited with foundingliberalism as a distinct philosophical tradition.

...................... rejected the notions, common at the time, of hereditaryprivilege, religion, absolute, and the Divine Right of Kings.

..................... is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideasof liberty and equality.

The ..................movement's philosophy was known as Tractarianism after itsseries of publications, the Tracts for the Times, published from 1833 to 1841.

The Oxford movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of............................. which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.

Apart from the poetry, ..................penned many prominent critical works, whichincludes ‘Essays in Criticism’ (1865), and ‘Culture and Anarchy’ (1869).

.....................published ‘Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems’ (1852) and‘Poems: A New Edition’ (1853

’The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems” was the first book of poetry pennedby........................, which was published in 1849.

...................... was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramaticmonologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

................. excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "TheCharge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar".

.................... of Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one ofthe most popular British poets.

................. - was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced.

...................... wrote the popular hymns "Lead, Kindly Light" and "Praise to theHoliest in the Height" (taken from Gerontius).