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INDEX
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1. DECEMBER 2021 SHIFT 1 6

2. DECEMBER 2021 SHIFT 2 31
3. OCTOBER 2020 SHIFT 1 56
4. OCTOBER 2020 SHIFT 2 93
5. DECEMBER 2019 125
6. JUNE 2019 159
7. DECEMBER 2018 193
8. JULY 2018 231
9. NOVEMBER 2017 PAPER 2 265
10. NOVERBER 2017 PAPER 3 280
11. JANUARY 2017 PAPER 2 306
12. JANUARY 2017 PAPER 3 317
13. AUGUST 2017 PAPER 2 343
14. AUGUST 2017 PAPER 3 358
15. JULY 2016 PAPER 2 382
16. JULY 2016 PAPER 3 397
17. DECEMBER 2015 PAPER 2 423
19. JUNE 2015 PAPER 2 464
20. JUNE 2015 PAPER 3 479
23. JUNE 2014 PAPER 2 542
24. JUNE 2014 PAPER 3 560
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27. SEPTEMBER 2013 PAPER 2 636
28. SEPTEMBER 2013 PAPER 3 652
29. JUNE 2013 PAPER 2 679
30. JUNE 2013 PAPER 3 695
33. JUNE 2012 PAPER 2 761
34. JUNE 2012 PAPER 3 776
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2021 DECEMBER SHIFT 1
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
What can be the use of a poetry that has no true subject except the poet's own selfhood? The
traditional use of poetry in the Western world has been instruction through delight, where teaching
has meant the common truths or common deceptions of societal tradition, and where esthetic
pleasure has meant a fulfillment of expectations founded upon past joys of the same design.
But an individual psyche has its own accidents, which it needs to call truths, and its own necessity
for self recognition, which requires the pleasures of originality, even if those pleasures depend upon
a kind of lying against time, and against the achievements of the past. The use
of such poetry demands to be seen in a de-idealized way, if it is to be seen more truly
"The Use of Poetry" Harold Bloom.
1. What is meant by 'traditional use of poetry'?

(A) Promoting doubtful pleasure
(B) Promoting joyous expectations
(C) Promoting serious ideas
(D) Promoting social honesty in life
2. If 'selfhood' of a poet is the subject of poetry, then 'originality' shall spring from:
(A) creating ideal pleasures
(B) re-living the past joys
(C) some truth of untruths
(D) truth of self-recognition
3. In the context of the above which is closest to being true?

(A) There can be no use of poetry.
(B) Man may be the true subject of poetry.
(C) Poetry can have no true subject.
(D) The poet himself may be the subject.
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
No worst, there is none.

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief
Woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing
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Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering!
Let me be fell: force I must be brief."'
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
4. Beyond the intensity of known grief, there can be:

(A) no grief than being experienced.
(B) only a new pain more painful.
(C) only the twisted known pains.
(D) the griefs beyond limits of pain.
5. Which two of the following are true?

A. Not all know the intensity or depth of suffering.
B. Death does not put an end to our sufferings.
C. Suffering is seen as winds that hinder comfort.
D. Suffering's intensity or depth is in the mind.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) A and D only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
6. Which of the following best describes the meaning of the title of the poem, 'No worst, there is none.'?
(A) It is not worst because there is nothing.
(B) It is very bad as no one is there.
(C) No it is worst as nothing is there.
(D) Nothing can be so much bad as this.
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
'Justice' was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport
with Tess. And the D'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two
speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time,
absolutely motionless; the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had enough strength they
arose, joined hands again, and went on.
--Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
7. Who are the 'two speechless gazers'?
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(A) 'Liza-Lu and Angel Clare

(B) Parson Tringham and Mrs. d'Urberville
(C) Reverend James Clare and Mrs. Brooks
(D) Tess's two parents
8. How did the ‘sport with Tess' end?

(A) She was hanged.
(B) She died an untimely death.
(C) She was expelled from Wintoncester.
(D) The tormentor married her.
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
-- Shakespeare, The Tempest
9. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on' means:

(A) Human life is full of imaginary colours.
(B) Our life is a text of what happened.
(C) There is no substance to human life.
(D) We are a bundle of past reality.
10. 'This insubstantial pageant' refers to:

(A) a non-real performance.
(B) enactment with support structure.
(C) the destroyed mother earth.
(D) the shutdown of Globe theatre.
11. Match List I with List II
List I List II
(Author) (Form)
A. Pindar I. Epinici
B. Menander II. Old Comedy
C. Sappho III. Lyric Poetry
D. Aristophanes IV. New Comedy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
(A) A - I, B - III, C - II, D - IV,

(B) A - I, B - IV, C - III, D - II
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(C) A - II, B - I, C - IV, D - III

(D) A - III, B - IV,C - I, D – II
12.Which of the following novels has its epigraph taken from the Katha Upanishad?
(A) A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
(B) Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
(C) The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
(D) The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
13. Which of the following are novels by Ian McEwan?

A. Atonement
B. The Man with Two Left Feet
C. The Child in Time
D. The Rachel Papers
Choose the correct answer from the options given below: Options: -
(A) A and C only
(B) Band D only
(C) C and D only
(D) D and A only
14. Which of the following words refers to a sound that is associated with a particular meaning?
(A) phoneme
(B) phonemoid
(C) phonestheme
(D) phonic substance
15. Which two of the following are works by Gustave Flaubert?

A. The Temptation of Saint Anthony
B. Old Goriot
C. Therese Raquin
D. Sentimental Education

(A) A and C only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
16. Which two works in the following list are written by Aphra Behn?
A. Rover
B. Oroonoko
C. Soldier's Fortune
D. The Princess of Cleve
Choose the correct answer from the options given below: Options: -
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(A) A and B only

(B) A and C only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
17. In "Politics and the English Language" which two of the following 'tricks' are mentioned by George
Orwell as 'bad habits' of English use?
A. obsolete words
B. pretentious diction
C. dying metaphors
D. false modifiers
Choose the correct answer from the options given below: Options:-
(A) A and B only
(B) B and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
18. Which of these best describes Shyam Selvadurai's novel, Funny Boy?
(A) coming-of-age novel
(B) Novel of manners
(C) Picaresque novel
(D) Sentimental novel
19. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Unlike scientific research, literary research does not have specific materials for
investigation and scientific tools for reaching a conclusion and formulating a theory.
Statement II: Literary research consists of critical interpretations of an author's work to the exclusion
of biography and editing of texts.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given
below:
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
(C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
(D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
20. Which two of the following conform to liberal humanist thought?

A. Literature transcends the limits of the age of its origin and so is timeless.
B. Literature is untouched by the essential human nature which is unchanging.
C. Literature is devoid of any purpose to enhance life or promote human values.
D. Identity is a unique essence unaffected by environment and society.
(A) A and C only
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(B) A and D only

(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
21. Who is the author of the short story, "Beethoven Was One Sixteenth Black"?
(A) Andre Brink
(B) Bessie Head
(C) J. M. Coetzee
(D) Nadine Gordimer
List I List II
(First line) (Poet)
A. "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward I. G.M.Hopkins
the Iand ...
B. I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! II. Alfred Tennyson
C. I caught this morning morning's minion… III. D.G. Rossetti
D. Look in my face; my name is Might have- IV. Matthew Arnold
been...
E. The sea is calm tonight… V. Robert Browning

(A) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-V, E-IV
(B) A-II, B-V, C-I, D-III, E-IV
(C) A-III, B-IV, C-V, D-I, E-II
(D) A-IV, B-V, C-I, D-III, E-II
23. Which of the following statements best describes Terry Eagleton's views on literature?
(A) It is closely allied to religion in its significance and seriousness.
(B) It is involved in the reproduction of the dominant social order.
(C) Its primary purpose is to produce beauty and pleasure.
(D) Its raison d'etre is to reflect social reality directly.
List I List II
(Novel) (Author)
A. Don Quixote I. Machado de Assis
B. Sorrows of Young Werther II. Honore de Balzac
C. Lost Illusions IV. Goethe
D. Epitaph of a Small Winner IV. Miguel de Cervantes
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(A) A - I, B - III, C - II, D - IV

(B) A - II, B - I, C - III, D - IV
(C) A - III, B - I, C - IV, D - II
(D) A - IV, B - III, C - II, D - I

List I List II
(Play) (Playwright)
A. Bertolt Brecht I. Cat on a Hot Tin Roo
B. Tennessee Williams II. Life of Galileo
C. Vaclav Havel III. Miss Julie
D. August Strindberg IV. Temptation
(A) A - I, B - II, C - IV, D - III
(B) A - II, B - I, C - IV, D - III
(C) A - III, B - II, C - I, D - IV
(D) A - IV, B - III, C - I, D – II
26. Which of these does the book How to read Donald Duck identify as an important element in its
analysis of imperialist ideology in the Walt Disney comic book?
(A) heartless civilization
(B) impoverished royalty
(C) noble savage
(D) scientific magic
27. With which of these is Ngugi wa Thiongo generally associated?

(A) Decolonising the Body
(B) Decolonising the Mind
(C) Decolonising the Polity
(D) Decolonising the State
28. Which of these UK universities saw the first institutional incorporation of Cultural Studies?
(A) Bath Spa University
(B) Cambridge University
(C) Oxford University
(D) University of Birmingham

List I List II
(Author) (Text)
A. Sean O'Casey I. I'm Talking About Jerusalem
B. Dylan Thomas II. The Winslow Boy
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C. Terence Rattigan III. Juno and the Paycock

D. Arnold Wesker IV. In the Shadow of the Glen
E. J.M. Synge V. Under Milk Wood

(A) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-V, E-IV
(B) A-III, B-V, C-II, D-I, E-IV ,
(C) A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-V, E-I
(D) A-V, B-IV, C-II, D-I, E-III
30. Arrange the following lines of poetry in their chronological sequence:

A. "An aged man is but a paltry thing."
B. "The world is too much with us."
C. "Daddy, I have had to kill you."
D. "After great pain, a formal feeling comes -"
Choose the correct answer from the options given below Options:-
(A) B, D, A, C
(B) B, D, C, A
(C) D, B, A, C
(D) D, B, C, A
31. Arrange the following texts in the chronological order of publication.

A. This Bridge Called My Back
B. Sexual Politics
C. Gender Trouble
D. The Feminine Mystique

(A) B, D, A, C
(B) B, D, C, A
(C) D, A, B, C
(D) D, B, A, C
32. According to Longinus which two of the following qualities apply to 'great poetry'?
A. It must be the work of genius, an inspired person.
B. It must cause a feeling of melancholy in the reader.
C. It must employ devices of rhetoric.
D. It must please selectively and on special occasions.
(A) A and C only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and D only
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(D) C and D only
33. Which of the following poems by Robert Browning contains the lines, "Our interest's on the
dangerous edge of things. / The honest thief, the tender murderer, / The superstitious atheist…"?
(A) "A Death in the Desert"
(B) "Bishop Blougram's Apology"
(C) "Count Gismond"
(D) "Love Among the Ruins"
34. Charles Lamb used the pseudonym Elia for writing in which of the following periodicals?
(A) Athenaeum
(B) London Magazine
(C) The Edinburg Review
(D) The Quarterly Review
35. From whom does Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak borrow the term 'subaltern'?
(A) Friedrich Engels
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Louis Althusser
(D) Antonio Gramsci
36. Empiricist linguistics is concerned with :

(A) directly observable sense-data.
(B) innate language knowledge.
(C) investigation of the human mind.
(D) reason as a determinant of enquiry.
37. Who among the following is said to have believed that the Persian Gulf War (1990-91) never
happened?
(A) Jacques Derrida
(B) Jean Baudrillard
(C) Jurgen Habermas
(D) Zygmunt Bauman
38. Which of the following are features of the 'Theatre of the Absurd'?
A. emphasis on the central role of Godin the universe
B. presentation of futile actions devoid of any goal
C. portrayal of situations that point to the meaningfulness of life
D. lacking in conflicts and dramatic tensions
E. presenting players in a stasis or drift without definite roles

(A) A, Band D only
(B) A, C and E only
(C) B, C and D only
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(D) B, D and E only
39. What was the name of the journal published from Bowling Green University beginning 1969, which
carried essays on amusement parks, comics and detective films?
(A) Journal of Culture Studies
(B) Journal of Mass Culture
(C) Journal of Popular Culture
(D) Journal of Public Culture
40. Which of the following does the Subaltern Studies project contend?
A. Traditional historiography celebrated the role of the subalterns.
B. Traditional history of India's freedom movement celebrates the contribution of select icons.
C. Traditional historiography highlights the dominant strands of India's freedom struggle.
D. Subaltern Studies historiography highlights the dominant strands of India's freedom struggle.
(A) A and B only.
(B) A and C only.
(C) B and C only.
(D) B and D only.
41. Which of these did the Wood's Despatch ( 1854) seek to propagate?
A. Impart Western knowledge to Indians
B. Restrict access to English learning in India
C. Educate British officers in Sanskrit and Persian
D. Create a class of public servants
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) A and D only
(D) B and C only
42. Virginia Woolf's Orlando opens in 1588 and Orlando, a sixteenyearold boy, writes a poem called:
(A) "The Evergreen Tree"
(B) "The Magic Tree"
(C) "The Oak Tree"
(D) "The Poison Tree"
43. Who among the following, is known to have used elements from the Yakshagana tradition in his
theatre?
(A) Mahesh Dattani
(B) Badal Sircar
(C) Girish Karnad
(D) Mohan Rakesh
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44. Arrange the following plays in their chronological sequence:

A. Sergeant Musgrave's Dance
B. The Playboy of the Western World
C. Look Back in Anger
D. Man and Superman

(A) B, D, A, C
(B) B, D, C, A
(C) D, B, A, C
(D) D, B, C, A
45. Arrange the following journals in the chronological order in which they started publication.
A. The Tatler
B. The Examiner
C. The Review
D. The Spectator
(A) A, D, C, B
(B) B, A, D, C
(C) C, A, B, D
(D) C, A, D, B
46. Which of the following statements is true of the working group set up by the University Grants
Commission in 1978 to study the medium of instruction in higher education?
(A) It argued that English as a highly developed language was best suited for India's industrial and
scientific progress.
(B) It asserted that English had the potential to further polarize an already-divided nation along
socio-economic and intellectual fault lines.
(C) It observed that English need not be displaced as the medium of instruction although regional
languages were quite ready to take over its functions.
(D) It recommended a quicker switchover of the medium of instruction from English to Indian
languages.
47. Which among the following are the works of George Gissing?
A. New Grub Street
B. Agnes Grey
C. The Odd Women
D. Mary Barton
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
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(C) B and D only

(D) C and D only
48. Arrange the following periodicals in the chronological order in which they started publication:
A. The Spectator
B. The Tatler
C. The Rambler
D. The Critical Review
(A) A, B, C, D
(B) A, D, B, C
(C) B, A, C, D
(D) B, C, D, A
49. In "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown" Virginia Woolf:

(A) analyses the state of modern fiction by contrasting two generations of writers.
(B) criticises book buying preferences of the educated English class.
(C) presents modernity as a stable and coherent project uniting all artists.
(D) responds to E.M Forster's remarks on character in fiction.
50. Who among the following considered paraphrase as 'a heresy'?

(A) Cleanth Brooks
(B) Edmund Wilson
(C) I.A.Richards
(D) Percy Lubbock
51. Which two of the following conform to Northrop Frye's typology of literature?
A. Mythos of spring: Comedy
B. Mythos of summer: Satire
C. Mythos of autumn: Tragedy
D. Mythos of winter: Romance
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) B and D only
52. Which of the following poems contains John Donne's famous conceit bringing a parallel between
lovers and the hands of a compass?
(A) "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
(B) "A Valediction: Of Weeping"
(C) "Lovers Infinitenesse"
(D) "Negative Love"
53. Which of these constitutes the only extant trilogy from ancient Greek tragedy?
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(A) Agamemnon, Choephori, The Eumenides

(B) Agamemnon, Orestes, The Eumenides
(C) King Oedipus, Oedipus at Co/onus, Antigone
(D) King Oedipus, Orestes, Antigone

Statement I: Linguists, being primarily interested in the scientific study of language, approach
language dispassionately.
Statement II: Linguists are necessarily polyglots who bring their own biases to language study.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given
below:
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
(C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect.
(D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.
55. Who among the following edited The Cornhill Magazine?

(A) Anthony Trollope
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) Lewis Carroll
(D) William Makepeace Thackeray
56. Choose the right chronological sequence of the publication of the following books:
A. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
B. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
C. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
D. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
(A) A, B, D, C
(B) B, A, D, C
(C) C, D, B, A
(D) D, C, B, A
57. Erich Auerbach's Mimesis (1946) ends with a chapter on

(A) George Eliot's Middlemarch.
(B) James Joyce's Ulysses.
(C) Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
(D) Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God.
58. Who among the following represents the global spread of English diagrammatically as three
concentric circles?
(A) Braj B. Kachru
(B) David Crystal
(C) Jenny Cheshire
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(D) Salikoko Mufwene
59. In "The Function of Criticism" T.S.Eliot attacked J. Middleton Murry and similar critics for being
devotees of what he called:
(A) "the Inner Voice".
(B) "the Muse's Mystery".
(C) "the Romantic Impulse".
(D) "the Symbol Hunt".
60. Which of the following clusters is associated with what Julia Kristeva terms the 'semiotic'?
(A) Authority, order and patriarchy
(B) Displacement, slippage and condensation
(C) Logic, reason and power ,
(D) Repression, control and normalcy
61. Given below are two statements

Statement I: New Historicism stipulates that teleological connotations of history have to be
eschewed.
Statement II: New Historicism neither denies nor accepts totalizing explanations of historical events.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are false
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
(C) Statement I is false but Statement II is true
(D) Statement I is true but Statement II is false
62. Who among the following belong to the Chicago School of critics?
A. R. S. Crane
B. E. M. W. Tillyard
C. Elder Olson
D. Allen Tate
(A) A and C only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
63. Which of these constitute the preoccupations of the protagonist of Upamanyu Chatterjee's English,
August?
A. Marijuana
B. Magic
C. Monotheism
D. Marcus Aurelius
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(A) A and D only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
64. What might the speaker mean when he addresses 'Time' in a Shakespearean sonnet and
declares that "I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee "?
A. Time preserves human life.
B. With time comes change.
C. Time creates opportunities.
D. Time removes human life.

(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
65. Which two of the following are highlighted in relation to specific historical moments by Stephen
Greenblatt?
A. crisis of meaning
B. circulation of meaning
C. production of meaning
D. deferral of meaning
(A) A and B only
(B) B and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
66. Which two of the following concepts are deployed in the work of Frederic Jameson?
A. Pastiche
B. Hyperreal
C. Schizophrenia
D. Habitus
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
67. Which of these plays by Girish Karnad shares its theme with Thomas Mann's The Transposed
Heads?
(A) Tale Danda
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(B) Yayati, Option

(C) Nagamandala
(D) Hayavadana
68. Who, among the following, played the most significant role in mobilizing the concept of 'cultural
intermediaries'?
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Luis Althusser
(C) Pierre Bourdieu
(D) Jurgen Habermas

List I List II
(Poet) (Language)
A. Charles Baudelaire I. French
B. Heinrich Heine II. German
C. Sylvia Path III. English
D. Jose Marti IV. Spanish

(A) A - I, B - II, C - III, D - IV
(B) A - II, B - III, C - IV, D - I
(C) A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II
(D) A - IV, B - I, C - II, D - III
70. Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of their use in literary theory:
(A) gynesis
(B) scriptible
(C) negritude
(D) paratext
(A) A, B, C, D
(B) B, C, D, A
(C) C, A, D, B
(D) D, A, C, B
71. Who is the author of the essay "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool"?
(A) Aldous Huxley
(B) George Orwell
(C) Somerset Maugham
(D) Virginia Woolf
72. In "An Apology for Poetry" Sidney discusses the didactic function of poetry by comparing it to
philosophy and:
(A) aesthetics.
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(B) ethics.
(C) history.
(D) religion.
73. Which of these does Meenakshi Mukherjee propose as the possible target readership of early Indian
English novel?
A. A pan-Indian readership
B. A localized Indian readership
C. A British readership
D. The colonial administrator in India
(A) C and D only
(B) A and B only
(C) A and D only
(D) B and C only
74. What function of English is exemplified by the use of English in India as a "link language11 along
with a first language by stable bilinguals in welldefined social contexts?
(A) auxiliary
(B) complementary
(C) equative
(D) supplementary
75. Which two of the following are true according to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth
edition of the MLA Handbook?
A. If the title page of a book contains an imprint as well as the publisher's name, omit the imprint
and use the publisher's name.
B. While giving a URL copy it from the Web browser but omit http:// or https:/ /.
C. If a quotation extends to more than five lines set it off from the text as block indented an inch
from the left margin.
D. Long titles should be abbreviated using the first letter of key words typed in upper case without
intervening space.
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only

List I List II
(Essay) (Essayist)
A. "The Tory Fox-Hunter" I. Francis Bacon
B. "What I Believe" II. Joseph Addison
C. "The Death of the Moth" III. E.M.Forster
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D. "Of Ambition" IV. Virginia Woolf
(A) A -I , B -III, C -IV, D -II
(B) A -II, B -III, C -IV, D -I
(C) A -III , B -IV, C -II, D -I
(D) A -IV , B -I , C -II, D -III
77. Which of these poets wrote a poem that served to inspire W B Yeats to write his own poem, "When
you are Old"?
(A) Francois Villon
(B) Edmund Spencer
(C) Heinrich Heine
(D) Pierre de Ronsard
78. Which of the following are poems by Nissim Ezekiel that make fun of Indians' use of English?
A. "Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S."
B. "Philosophy"
C. "Very Indian Poem in Indian English"
D. "Jewish Wedding in Bombay"
E. "Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher"
(A) A and C only
(B) A, B and D only
(C) A, C and E only
(D) B and D only
79. Who, among these, does Gabriel Garcia Marquez name right in the beginning of his Nobel Prize
address?
A. Ferdinand Magellan
B. Christopher Columbus
C. Marco Polo
D. Antonio Pigafetta
(A) A and D only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only
80. Which of these questions would Cultural Studies be most interested in asking?
A. Who decides what is to be produced?
B. Who can afford the artifact?
C. How is the artifact marketed?
D. What is the register of speech in the artifact?
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(A) A, B and D only
(B) A, B and C only
(C) A, C and D only
(D) B, C and D only
81. 'Potato' is a sixteenth-century borrowing into English from:

(A) French.
(B) German.
(C) Norwegian.
(D) Spanish.
82. What 19th-century philosophical term of Russian origin did Friedrich Nietzsche use to describe the
disintegration of traditional morality in western society?
(A) absolutism
(B) anarchism
(C) cynicism
(D) nihilism
83. Which of the following are true of 'performance', as used in linguistic theory?
A. It is analogous to the Saussurean concept of langue.
B. It refers to the specific utterances of individual native speakers in actual situations.
C. It is an innate grammar that suggests humans' universal ability to use language.
D. It includes hesitations and unfinished structures arising out of psychological difficulties acting
upon the speaker.
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only

List I List II
(Character) (Novel)
A. Winston Smith I. Sons and Lovers
B. Paul Morel II. Ulysses
C. 'whiskey priest' III. Nineteen Eighty-four
D. Leopold Bloom IV. Decline and Fall
E. Paul Pennyfeather V. The Power and the Glory

(A) A-I, B-V, C-II, D-III, E-IV
(B) A-III, B-I, C-V, D-II, E-IV
(C) A-IV, B-III, C-V, D-II, E-I
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(D) A-V, B-I, C-IV, D-II, E-III

Statement I: In Waiting for Godot, it is Vladimir who questions the Boy who comes from Godot
towards the end of the two Acts.
Statement II: In Waiting for Godot, it is Estragon who says, "Nothing happens, nobody comes,
nobody goes, it's awful."
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
86. Who among the following compared 'the mind in creation' to 'a fading coal'?
(A) Coleridge
(B) Keats
(C) Shelley
(D) Wordsworth
87. What was poor Yorick in Hamlet?

(A) Actor
(B) Gravedigger
(C) Jester
(D) Soldier
88. Arrange the following language areas of the human brain in the order in which they involve in
hearing, understanding and saying a word:
A. arcuate fasciculus
B. anterior speech cortex
C. motor cortex
D. posterior speech cortex
(A) A, C, D, B
(B) B, A, D, C
(C) C, B, A, D
(D) D, A, B, C
89. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labeled
as Reason R
Assertion A : Postmodern narratives focus on the indeterminate and unstable nature of textuality and
subjectivity.
Reason R : Postmodern narrative acts regard narratives and characters as tentative representations of
writing and identity.
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(A) A is false but R is true

(B) A is true but R is false
(C) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of
(D) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A

List I List II
(Writer) (Book)
A. Bankimchandra Chatterjee I. Untouchable
B. Mulk Raj Anand II. Rajmohan 's Wife
C. Panchkouree Khan III. Stories from Indian Christian Life
D. Kamala Sathianadhan IV. The Revelations of an Orderly
(A) A - I, B - III, C - II, D - IV
(B) A - II, B - I, C - IV, D - III
(C) A - III, B - IV, C - II, D - I
(D) A - IV, B - I, C - II, D - III
91. Who is the author of the essay, "What Isn't Literature?"?

(A) E. D. Hirsch Jr.
(B) Hans-Georg Gadamer
(C) Paul Ricoeur
(D) Terry Eagleton
92. Arrange the following essays in the chronological order of publication.

A. T. S. Eliot, "The Function of Criticism"
B. Edgar Allan Poe, "The Philosophy of Composition"
C. Henry lames, "The Art of Fiction"
D. Virginia Woolf, "Modern Fiction"
(A) B, C, A, D
(B) B, C, D, A
(C) C, B, A, D
(D) C, B, D, A
93. Which two of the following stage directions are from Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party?
A. The living-room of a house on a seaside town.
B. A garbage pail on the ground next to the porch steps.
C. A light shows from upstairs bedroom, lower floor windows being dark.
D. He hangs the drum around his neck, taps it gently with the sticks, then marches round the table,
beating it regularly.
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(A) A and C only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only
94. Arrange the following characters in their chronological sequence of appearance:

A. Mirabell
B. Shylock
C. Jimmy Porter
D. Sir Epicure Mammon
(A) D, B, A, C
(B) B, D, A, C
(C) B, D, C, A
(D) D, B, C, A
95. In comparative philology and sometimes in modern phonology, what is the term used to refer to the
deletion of a vowel within a word?
(A) Aphaeresis
(B) Equi-deletion
(C) Paradigm
(D) Syncope

List I List II
(Text) (Author)
A. Modernity at large I. J. Urry
B. The Tourist Gaze II. E.W.Said
C. Culture and Imperialism III. C.L.R James
D. The Black Jacobins IV. Appadurai

(A) A -II, B -III , C -IV, D -I
(B) A -III , B-IV, C -II, D -I
(C) A -IV , B -I , C -II, D -III
(D) A -IV , B -III , C -II, D -I
97. Who among the following is the founder of the Survey of English Usage (SEU)?
(A) Bryan Garner
(B) Henry Watson Fowler
(C) Michael Swan
(D) Randolph Quirk
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98. Which two of the following writers does A. D. Hope address through his poetic responses in A Book
of Answers?
A. Tolstoy
B. Dostoevsky
C. Mallarme
D. Goethe
(A) A and C only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
99. In Noam Chomsky's definition of grammar which two features are drawn from mathematics ?
A. complexity
B. abstraction
C. transformation
D. generation
(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
100.Who among the following Dickens characters appears as a ghost?

(A) Daniel Quilp
(B) Dora Spenlow
(C) Esther Summerson,
(D) Jacob Marley
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ANSWER KEY
Q. No Ans Q. No Ans
1 B 51 B
2 C 52 A
3 D 53 A
4 C 54 C
5 A 55 D
6 B 56 C
7 A 57 C
8 A 58 A
9 C 59 A
10 A 60 B
11 B 61 D
12 D 62 A
13 A 63 A
14 C 64 C
15 B 65 B
16 A 66 B
17 B 67 D
18 A 68 C
19 B 69 A
20 B 70 --
21 D 71 B
22 B 72 C
23 B 73 A
24 D 74 B
25 B 75 A
26 C 76 B
27 B 77 D
28 D 78 A
29 B 79 A
30 A 80 B
31 D 81 D
32 A 82 D
33 B 83 D
34 B 84 B
35 D 85 B
36 A 86 C
37 B 87 C
38 D 88 D
39 C 89 C
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40 C 90 B
41 C 91 A
42 C 92 B
43 C 93 B
44 D 94 B
45 C 95 D
46 A 96 C
47 B 97 D
48 C 98 A
49 A 99 D
50 A 100 D
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2021 DECEMBER SHIFT 2
The aim of all solitude...is the same: to live more at leisure and at one’s ease. But people do
not always look for the right way. Often they think they have left business, and they have
only
changed it. There is scarcely less trouble in governing a family than in governing an entire
state: whatever the mind is wrapped up in it, it is all wrapped up in it, and domestic
occupations are no less importunate for being less important. Furthermore, by getting rid of
the court and the marketplace we do not get rid of the principal worries of our
life....Ambition, avarice, irresolution, fear and lust do not leave us when we change our
country....They often follow us even into the cloisters and schools of philosophy. Neither
deserts, nor rocky caves, nor hair shirts, nor fastings will free us of them.
-- Michel de Montaigne, “Of solitude”
1. Which of the following best captures the theme of the passage?

(A) Ruling a state is easier than managing a family.
(B) Solitude is one condition of peace with one self.
(C) The court and the marketplace must be got rid of
(D) Try what one may, no one can ever be at ease.
The aim of all solitude...is the same: to live more at leisure and at one’s ease. But people do not
always look for the right way. Often they think they have left business, and they have only
changed it. There is scarcely less trouble in governing a family than in governing an entire state:
whatever the mind is wrapped up in it, it is all wrapped up in it, and domestic occupations are no
less importunate for being less important. Furthermore, by getting rid of the court and the
marketplace we do not get rid of the principal worries of our life....Ambition, avarice,
irresolution,
fear and lust do not leave us when we change our country....They often follow us even into the
cloisters and schools of philosophy. Neither deserts, nor rocky caves, nor hair shirts, nor fastings
will free us of them.
2. The mistake human beings make is to:

(A) abjure solitude when desirable.
(B) abstain from restraining the mind.
(C) abstain from the love of leisure.
(D) exaggerate the value of family.
The aim of all solitude... is the same: to live more at leisure and at one’s ease. But people do not
always look for the right way. Often they think they have left business, and they have only
changed it. There is scarcely less trouble in governing a family than in governing an entire state:
whatever the mind is wrapped up in it, it is all wrapped up in it, and domestic occupations are no
less importunate for being less important. Furthermore, by getting rid of the court and the
marketplace we do not get rid of the principal worries of our life....Ambition, avarice,
irresolution,
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fear and lust do not leave us when we change our country....They often follow us even into the
cloisters and schools of philosophy. Neither deserts, nor rocky caves, nor hair shirts, nor fastings
will free us of them.
3. The “principal worries of our life” follow us if we:

A. detach our self from family life.
B. are deep into buying and selling.
C. mentally abstain from hustle and bustle.
D. are in to schools of philosophy.

(A) A and C only
(B) B and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
A Prayer for Old Age
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone;
From all that makes a wise old man
That can be praised of all;
O what am I that I should not seem
For the song's sake a fool?
I pray--for fashion's word is out
And prayer comes round again --
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.
- W.B.Yeats
4. In the second stanza the poet thinks of:

(A) what all earns all others’ praise.
(B) what all makes a wise old man.
(C) what he does not want to appear.
(D) what he thinks he is, a fool.
In the mind alone;
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- W.B.Yeats
5. Which one of the following best captures what we infer about the poet?
(A) He believes in the efficacy of prayer.
(B) He is a foolish young man who thinks wisely.
(C) He is an old man wise as old are.
(D) He is old but happy in not being wise.
In the mind alone;
- W.B.Yeats
6. Thoughts true for all time are:

(A) born of God’s care.
(B) felt deep inside the self.
(C) for all human hearts.
(D) imbued with logic of mind.
The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give
them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair
weather; winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to
preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new
meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them: A. D. had no concern with anno Domini,
but stood for anno Dombey—and Son.
- Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
7. The whole description is an example of:

(A) analogy.
(B) aporia.
(C) image.
(D) sarcasm.
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The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give
them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair
weather; winds blew for or against their enterprises; stars and planets circled in their orbits, to
preserve inviolate a system of which they were the centre. Common abbreviations took new
meanings in his eyes, and had sole reference to them: A. D. had no concern with anno Domini,
but stood for anno Dombey—and Son.
- Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
8. What is the ‘system’ of which Dombey and Son were the centre?
(A) The British political system
(B) The country’s commerce
(C) The family business
(D) The workings of nature
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide,
the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. --- Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the
thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
- Shakespeare, King Lear
9. Is man no more than this?’ means:

(A) Accomodated man is well endowed.
(B) As an animal, man is a superior animal.
(C) Man is far more than what he seems to be.
(D) Man is not as well endowed as some other animals.
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide,
the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. --- Ha! here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the
thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.
- Shakespeare, King Lear
10. Which one of the following best captures what Shakespeare means?
(A) Animals unlike man are more complex.
(B) Animals’ attributes are external.
(C) Man can accommodate same properties.
(D) Man just uses what animals possess.
11. Who is the author of The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story?
(A) Revathi
(B) Bama
(C) Mukta Sarvagod
(D) V. Geetha
12. Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with ‘speech acts’?
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(A) Franz Boas and Rudolf Camap

(B) J.L.Austin and John Searle
(C) Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker
(D) Paul Grice and Michael Devitt

List I(Book) List II
(Poet)
A. Anniversaries I. Abraham Cowley

B. The Temple II. John Donne
C. The Rehearsal Transpros’d III. George Herbert
D. Pindarique Odes IV. Andrew Marvell

(A) A-I; B-IV; C-II; D-III
(B) A-II; B-III; C-IV; D-I
(C) A-III; B-I; C-IV; D-II
(D) A-IV; B-II; C-I; D-III
14. Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in the chronological order of publication.
A. “The Wild Swans at Coole”
B. “The Second Coming”
C. “Among School Children”
D. “Adam’s Curse”

(A) A, C, D, B
(B) C, A, B, D
(C) C, A, D, B
(D) D, A, B, C
15. Which of these are generally taken to be true of Cultural Studies?

A. It is politically engaged.
B. It privileges text over context.
C. It has a symbiotic relationship with Formalism.
D. It studies the means of production of a text.

(A) A and C only
(B) A and D only
(C) A and B only
(D) B and D only
16. Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15th-century real-life
character, Vlad the Impaler?
(A) Count Dracula
(B) Peter Quint
(C) Prince Manfred
(D) Victor Frankenstein
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17. Who among the following says that ideology is “a representation of the imaginary relationship of
individuals to their real conditions of existence”?
(A) Fredric Jameson
(B) Herbert Marcuse
(C) Louis Althusser
(D) Terry Eagleton
18. Who among the following is associated with a ‘philosophy of praxis’?

(A) Antonio Gramsci
(B) Georg Lukacs
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Stuart Hall
19. Which two of the following are fallacious evaluations of poetry according to Matthew Arnold’s
“The Study of Poetry”?
A. contextual estimate
B. personal estimate
C. comparative estimate
D. historic estimate

(A) A and B only
(B) B and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
20. Arrange chronologically the following texts in terms of their years of first publication:
A. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
B. Coleridge and Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
C. Pablo Neruda’s Canto General
D. Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil

(A) A, B, C, D
(B) A, B, D, C
(C) B, C, A, D
(D) D, A, B, C
21. Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon’s political position?
(A) Colonialism will die a natural death sans any violent struggle against it.
(B) Peasants and social outcasts have little revolutionary potential in Africa,
(C) Social oppression in the third world is a matter more of race than of class.
(D) The African bourgeoisie can never succeed in the task of nation building.
22. In “The Life of Cowley” which two of the following criticisms were made by Samuel Johnson
against a group of writers he termed the ‘metaphysical poets’?
A. They made an inappropriate combination of wit and imagination.
B. Instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses.
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C. They neither copied nature nor life.

D. They never tried to be singular in their thoughts.

(A) A and B only
(B) B and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
23. Which of the following are novels by David Lodge?

A. The British Museum is Falling down
B. The Seven Sisters
C. Changing Places
D. Nice Work
E. Empire of the Sun

(A) A, B and C only
(B) A, C and D only
(C) B, D and E only
(D) C, D and E only
24. Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style?

(A) ARIEL
(B) MFS
(C) MHRA
(D) PMLA
25. Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child’s first language acquisition:
A. holophrastic
B. babbling
C. telegraphic speech
D. cooing

(A) A, C, D, B
(B) B, A, D, C
(C) C, B, A, D
(D) D, B, A, C
26. Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart as having been deployed in
Walt Disney comicbooks to propagate imperialist ideology?
(A) Deification
(B) Impoverishment
(C) Infantilisation
(D) Personification
27. Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright?

A. “Meditation on a Bone”
B. “Imperial Adam”
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C. “Woman to Man”
D. “The Old Prison”

(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
28. Which of the following is a dead language?

(A) Cantonese
(B) Frisian
(C) Gothic
(D) Yiddish
29. Arrange the following in their chronological order:

A. English replaces Persian as official language of the Company
B. Arrival of Charles Grant in India
C. Universities established in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras
D. Construction of Fort William in Calcutta

(A) B, A, D, C
(B) D, A, C, B
(C) D, B, A, C
(D) D, B, C, A
30. Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books:

A. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
B. Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
C. Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence
D. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

(A) A, D, B, C
(B) B, C, D, A
(C) C, A, D, B
(D) D, B, C, A

Statement I: The opening and closing lines of Waiting for Godot are spoken by Estragon.
Statement II: Towards the end of the play Waiting for Godot, Estragon echoes Pozzo’s
statement,
“They give birth astride of a grave . . .”
In light of the above statements,
choose the correct answer from the options given below

(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are true,
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32. Who, among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A. Elton John
B. Rabindranath Tagore
C. Bob Dylan
D. Bob Marley

(A) A and D only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only

Statement I: Language is not a reliable tool of communication, says deconstruction, but argues in
favour of a theory of sign as a self-sufficient union of signifier and signified.
Statement II: Deconstruction claims that language is non-referential since it refers neither to the
things in the world nor to our concepts of things but only to the play of signifiers.
choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct,
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
(C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect,
(D) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct,
34. Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky?

A. Syntactic Structures
B. Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
C. Language and Society
D. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
E. The Pragmatics of Politeness

(A) A and C only
(B) B and D only
(C) C and E only
(D) D and A only
35. Which book by J.G. Ballard is about a virus that freezes anything it comes in contact with?
(A) Concrete Island
(B) Kingdom Come
(C) The Crystal World
(D) The Drowned World
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List I(Book) List II(Author)
A. English, August I. Shyam Selvadurai

B. In Custody II. Anita Desai
C. Such a Long Journey III. Rohinton Mistry
D. Funny Boy IV. Upamanyu Chatterjee

(A) A - I, B - II, C - IV, D - III
(B) A - II, B - IV, C - I, D - III
(C) A - III, B - II, C - I, D - IV
(D) A - IV, B - II, C - III, D - I
List I(Novel) List II(Writer)

A. A Handful of Dust I. E. M. Forster
B. Brighton Rock II. Evelyn Waugh
C. Howard’s End III. D. H. Lawrence
D. The Plumed Serpent IV. Aldous Huxley
E. Those Barren Leaves V. Graham Greene

(A) I; B-IV; C-II; D-III; E-V
(B) A- II; B-V; C-I; D-III; E-IV
(C) A- III; B-I; C-V; D-II; E-IV
(D) A- V; B-II, C-IV, D-I; E-III
38. Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance:

A. dissociation of sensibility
B. unreliable narrator
C. theatre of cruelty
D. egotistical sublime

(A) B, D, A, C
(B) D, A, B, C
(C) D, A, C, B
(D) D, B, A, C
39. The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is:

(A) lexeme.
(B) morpheme.
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(C) phoneme.
(D) sememe.
40. Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are:
(A) homonyms.
(B) homografts.
(C) homologues.
(D) homophones.
41. Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication.

A. Longman’s Magazine
B. Cornhill Magazine
C. Blackwood’s Magazine
D. Bentley’s Miscellany

(A) B, C, A, D
(B) B, C, D, A
(C) C, B, A, D
(D) C, D, B, A
42. Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory:
A. phallogocentrism
B. locutionary act
C. interpellation
D. interpretive community
(A) A, D, C, B
(B) B, C, A, D
(C) C, B, D, A
(D) D, A, B, C
43. The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published
in:
(A) 1951.
(B) 1957.
(C) 1962.
(D) 1970.
44. Which of these departments did the Wood’s Despatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the
universities?
A. Arabic
B. English
C. French
D. Law

(A) A, B and D only
(B) A, B and C only
(C) A, C and D only
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(D) B, C and D only
45. Usage in “You have hissed the mystery lectures.” is an example of:
(A) error of lexical choice.
(B) inadvertent mistake.
(C) metathesis.
(D) spoonerism.
46. Which of these may be said to be true of the journal published from Bowling Green University
from 1969, which carried essays on Spiderman comics, rock music, and detective films?
A. It sought to highlight the importance of popular culture.
B. It sought to highlight the importance of elite culture.
C. It sought to buttress the canon by making it more elitist.
D. It sought to break down the dominance of ‘high’ culture.

(A) A and B only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
47. Arrange the following characters in the chronological order in which they appeared in Indian
literature.
A. Praneshacharya (Samskara)
B. Sakuni (Mahabharata)
C. Rusty (The Room on the Roof)
D. Gobar (Godan)

(A) B, A, C, D
(B) B, C, D, A,
(C) B, D, C, A
(D) B ,C,A,D
48. Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play?

(A) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(B) Love’s Labour’s Lost
(C) The Comedy of Errors
(D) The Taming of the Shrew
49. What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called?
(A) Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
(B) Centre for Contemporary Studies
(C) Centre for Culture Studies
(D) Centre for New Cultural Studies
50. Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes
the ambivalent position of considering it as both a blessing and a curse?
(A) Allen Tate
(B) F.R. Leavis
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(C) Harold Bloom

(D) T. S. Eliot
51. Which two of the following are works by I. A. Richards?

A. Concepts of Criticism
B. Science and Poetry
C. The Philosophy of Rhetoric
D. English Literature in Our Time and the University

(A) A and B only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
52. Which character in Hamlet utters the line: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”?
(A) Bernardo
(B) Ghost
(C) Horatio
(D) Marcellus
53. Who wrote the essay “My First Acquaintance with Poets”?
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) John Ruskin
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) William Hazlitt
54. Which of these are true of Raymond Williams’ Culture and Society?
A. It critiques the idea of high culture.
B. It overlooks the idea of high culture.
C. It defines culture as a way of life.
D. It equates culture with science.

(A) A and C only
(B) A and D only
(C) A and B only
(D) B and D only
55. Which two of the following essays form part of Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic Imagination:
Four Essays?
A. “From the History of Novelistic Discourse”
B. “Discourse in the Novel”
C. “Romance and Novel”
D. “Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel”

(A) A and B only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
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List I List II
Plays Playwrights
A. Madmen and Specialists I. Dennis Scott

B. The Sea at Dauphin II. Wole Soyinka
C. The Trial of Dedan Kimathi III. Derek Walcott
D. An Echo in the Bone IV. Ngugi wa Thiong’o

(A) A -II , B -III , C -I , D -IV
(B) A -II , B -III , C -IV , D - I
(C) A -III , B -I , C -IV , D -II
(D) A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -I
57. Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Ngugi wa Thiongo object to
in 1968?
A. the primacy of English literatures and cultures
B. the centrality of Africa in the Department of English
C. the primacy of orature in the syllabus
D. the focus on the study of the historic continuity of English literature

(A) A and D only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only
List I (Author) List II (Text)
A. Robert Browning I. Queen Mary

B.S. T. Coleridge II. The Second Mrs Tanqueray
C. A. W. Pinero III. Remorse
D. Alfred Tennyson IV. The Borderers
E. William Wordsworth V. Strafford

(A) A-II; B-IV; C-III; D-V; E-I
(B) A-III; B-V; C-II; D-I; E-IV
(C) A-IV; B-II; C-I; D-V; E-III
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(D) A-V; B-III; C-II; D-I; E-IV
59. Which two of the following are the earliest colonial publishing initiatives that apply to India?
A. Andrew Lang Colonial Book Series
B. Murray Colonial and Home Library Series
C. Colonial Library Series by Macmillan
D. Colonial Library Series by Chatto & Windus

(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
60. Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of
inadvertent errors made by copyists, printers and editors?
(A) dudwords
(B) ghostwords
(C) protowords
(D) pseudowords
61. Which of the following is true of mass media?

(A) It usually has a central, single source.
(B) It can affect a localised population only.
(C) It usually has multiple sources
(D) Its audience is in close proximity to its source.
62. In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to “Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul”?
(A) Book III
(B) Book IV
(C) Book VII
(D) Book XI
List I List II
(Text) (Author)
A. The Lie of the Land I. Alok Mukherjee

B. Masks of Conquest II. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
C. Rethinking English III. Gauri Viswanathan
D. This Gift of English IV. Svati Joshi

(A) A -I , B -III , C -IV , D -II
(B) A -II , B -III , C -IV , D -I
(C) A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -I
(D) A -IV , B -I , C -II , D -III
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64. Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English
literature?
(A) Brass-Spittoon
(B) Diamond-Jar
(C) Golden-Spoon
(D) Silver-Fork
List I(Poem) List II (Poet)
A. “The Road Not Taken ” I. Pablo Neruda
B. “Tonight I can Write the Saddest Lines ” II. Robert Frost
C. “I hear America Singing” III. Langston Hughes
D. "I, too, Sing America" IV. Walt Whitman

(A) A - I, B - II, C - III, D - IV
(B) A - II, B - I, C - IV, D - III
(C) A - III, B - II, C - IV, D - I
(D) A - IV, B - I, C - II, D - III
66. Which of these countries does Montaigne’s essay, “Of Cannibals,” focus on primarily?
(A) Borneo
(B) Brazil
(C) India
(D) Japan
67. With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil generally
associated?
A. Neo-classical
B. Symbolist
C. Modernist
D. Postmodernist

(A) A and D only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only
68. In “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” what is proposed by Matthew Arnold as the
essence of criticism?
(A) affirmation
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(B) cohesiveness
(C) disinterestedness
(D) judiciousness
69. Which two among the following condemned the transportation of 50000 slaves into England in
1771?
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Alexander Pope
C. Horace Walpole
D. Thomas Gray

(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
70. According to Ferdinand de Saussure, language is:

A. an interlocking structure.
B. a system of constant change.
C. a system of signs.
D. a self-standing formation.

(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
71. Which two of the following conform to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition
of the MLA Handbook?
A. Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage Books,
1991.
B. Kincaid, Jamaica. “In History.” Callaloo, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 620-26.
C. Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.
D. Wellek, Rene. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950, Yale UP, 1986.

(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
72. Who among the following has coined the term, ‘ecofeminism’?
(A) Monique Wittig
(B) Francoise d’Eaubonne
(C) Helene Cixous
(D) Marguerite Duras
73. Which among the following are examples of the Künstlerroman?
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A. The Portrait of a Lady

B. David Copperfield
C. Tom Jones
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and D only
(D) C and D only
74. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as
Reason R
Assertion A: The implied reader shifts attention from the real reading individual to a
disembodied
dimension of reception, intricately interwoven into the text.
Reason R: The ‘Dear Reader,’ invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the
distant reader.
choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
(A) A is correct but R is not correct
(B) A is not correct but R is correct
(C) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
(D) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
75. Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays?
(A) Dynamics of media
(B) Motivations of crime
(C) Workings of love triangles
(D) Workings of power
76. Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?
A. Estragon
B. Pozzo
C. Bassanio
D. Murphy

(A) A and B only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only
77. Which of the following narrative cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault’ s “What is an
Author?”?
(A) The Canterbury Tales
(B) The Decameron
(C) The Thousand and One Nights
(D) Tuti Namah,
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78. Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations without altering
the original title?
(A) Angela Carter
(B) Kathy Acker
(C) Peter Carey
(D) Shirley Jackson
79. In his recasting the canon of English poetry in New Bearings in English Poetry which of the
following pairs was downgraded by F.R.Leavis ?
(A) Browning and Arnold
(B) Milton and Shelley
(C) Pound and Hopkins
(D) Tennyson and Swinburne
80. What term did Bertolt Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional
theatre?
(A) epic theatre
(B) kitchen-sink theatre
(C) musical theatre
(D) proletarian theatre
81. Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence primarily seek to do?
A. To understand the Partition as something more than a political divide
B. To foreground a personal history of the Partition
C. To foreground the Partition as an event more tragic than the Holocaust
D. To find and unite families separated at the Partition

(A) A and B only
(B) A and D only
(C) B and C only
(D) C and D only

Statement I: All research being original and uninspired, it is rare for a researcher to begin a
project by deriving ideas from predecessors.
Statement II: Studying and documenting past work on a research topic stifles the continual
expansion of human knowledge.
In the light of the above statements,
choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct.
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.
(C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
83. Which of the following statements are true of English as used in India?
A. India is counted among the largest English-speaking communities in the world.
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B. No group, community or population of Indians claims English as its mother tongue.

C. More than fifty per cent of Indians speak English fluently.
D. English is the country’s principal language of commerce.
E. With the growing stature of Hindi as lingua franca, it has supplanted English as the link
language between the central government and the states.

(A) A and D only
(B) B and C only
(C) C and E only
(D) D and E only
84. Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English
literary history:
A. The Imagist poets
B. The Cavalier poets
C. The Movement poets
D. The Lake poets

(A) B, D, A, C
(B) B, D, C, A
(C) D, A, B, C
(D) D, B, A, C
List I(Writer) List II (Book)
A. Homi Bhabha I. Reading the Popular

B. T S Eliot II. The Location of Culture
C. Roland Barthes III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture
D. John Fiske IV. Image-Music-Text

(A) A - I, B - II, C - IV, D - III
(B) A - II, B - III, C - IV, D - I
(C) A - III, B - II, C - I, D - IV
(D) A - IV, B - II, C - III, D - I
86. Who wrote the short story, “The Voter”?

(A) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(D) Wole Soyinka
87. Which of the following are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson?
A. Jonson’s physiological interpretation of character and personality did not have any precedent.
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B. Taking after the practice of the Moralities and Interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae
aptronymically.
C. Chapman’s All Fools and Middleton’s A Trick to Catch the Old One belong to the genre of
Comedy of Humours that Jonson is said to have pioneered.
D. John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson in writing for a children’s
company of players.

(A) A and B only
(B) B and C only
(C) C and D only
(D) D and A only
List I(Library/Institute) List II

(Location)
A. Connemara Public Library I. Kolkata

B. Dhvanyaloka II. Chennai
C. Bhandarkar Oriental Institute III. Mysore
D. Asiatic Society IV. Pune

(A) A -I , B -III , C -IV , D -II,
(B) A -II , B -III , C -IV , D -I,
(C) A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -I,
(D) A -IV , B -I , C -II , D -III,
89. How does T.S.Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell’s “ Horatian Ode”?
(A) ‘a contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in principle’
(B) ‘a tough reasonableness beneath a slight lyric grace’
(C) ‘heterogeneity of materials compelled into unity’
(D) ‘telescoping of images and multiplied associations’
90. Who is the author of The Otherness of English: India’s Aunty Tongue Syndrome?
(A) Binoo K. John,
(B) Yamuna Kachru
(C) Probal Dasgupta
(D) S.K.Verma,
91. Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude?

(A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(B) Gabriela Mistral
(C) Jorge Luis Borges
(D) Octavio Paz
92. Who is the author of “The Typology of Detective Fiction”?

(A) G. K. Chesterton
(B) Tzvetan Todorov
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(C) Umberto Eco

(D) Vladimir Propp
List I(Text) List II(Author)
A. Advancement of Learning I. Susan Sontag

B. Past and Present II. Francis Bacon
C. English Traits III. Thomas Carlyle
D. Illness as Metaphor IV. R. W. Emerson

(A) A -I , B -III , C -IV , D -II
(B) A -II , B -III , C -IV , D -I
(C) A -III , B -IV , C -II , D -I
(D) A -IV , B -I , C -II , D -III
94. Who, in “The World as India,” argues that English can be the only common “unifying language”
of India?
(A) Anthony Burgess
(B) C. K. Ogden
(C) Noam Chomsky
(D) Susan Sontag
95. Which two are the works of Ted Hughes?

A. Wildtrack
B. Wodwo
C. Lupercal
D. Jack Straw’s Castle

(A) A and B only
(B) A and C only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only

Statement I: A pidgin is formed by two mutually unintelligible speech communities trying to
communicate using the most obvious features of each other’s language.
Statement II: Notwithstanding the number of years a pidgin is spoken, it can never become the
mother tongue of a community.
In the light of the above statements,
choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
(B) Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
(C) Statement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
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97. Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel?

(A) Balzac
(B) Flaubert
(C) Moliere
(D) Stendhal
98. Which of the following qualify for the label ‘cultural intermediary’ in the context of a
commercial film?
A. The film magazine columnist
B. The director
C. Fan clubs
D. The producer

(A) A and C only
(B) A and B only
(C) B and C only
(D) B and D only
99. Who is the author of Radiant Textuality?

(A) Jerome McGann
(B) Gerald Graff
(C) James Thorpe
(D) Richard D. Altick
100. Who among the following was of the view that poetry was only an imitation of an imitation and
therefore trivial?
(A) Aristotle
(B) Phaedo
(C) Plato
(D) Xenocrates
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Q. No Ans Q. No Ans
1 D 51 C
2 B 52 D
3 C 53 D
4 C 54 A
5 D 55 D
6 B 56 B
7 D 57 A
8 B 58 D
9 D 59 C
10 A 60 B
11 A 61 A
12 B 62 D
13 B 63 B
14 D 64 D
15 B 65 B
16 A 66 B
17 C 67 C
18 A 68 C
19 C 69 B
20 B 70 B
21 D 71 C
22 B 72 B
23 B 73 C
24 C 74 A
25 D 75 D
26 C 76 A
27 D 77 C
28 C 78 B
29 C 79 B
30 C 80 A
31 D 81 A
32 C 82 B
33 D 83 A
34 D 84 A
35 C 85 B
36 D 86 B
37 B 87 B
38 C 88 B
39 A 89 B
40 D 90 C
41 D 91 D
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42 B 92 B
43 A 93 B
44 A 94 D
45 D 95 C
46 B 96 C
47 D 97 D
48 D 98 A
49 A 99 A
50 C 100 C
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1.10.2020 ENGLISH – FN SHIFT
1. Which two terms from among the following are specifically linked to the work of
Pierre Bourdieu?
(a) habitus
(b) consciousness
(c) desire
(d) distinction
1. a and c only
2. a and d only
3. b and d only
4. c and d only
2. Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication:

(a) Advancement of Learning
(b) The Origin of Species
(c) On Heroes and Hero Worship
(d) The Lives of the Poets
1. d, a, c, b
2. d, a, b, c
3. a, d, c, b
4. a, d, b, c
3. A research hypothesis is:

(a) a proposition which is always true
(b) a provisional explanation of anything
(c) a theory which will be disproved by evidence
(d) a statement which is assumed to be true for the sake of argument
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
1. a and b only
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2. b and c only
3. b and d only
4. a and c only
4. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is
labelled as
Reason R
Assertion A: The introduction of English in India was primarily for the benefit and
consolidation of British power.
Reason R: English catered to the social and economic aspirations of the emerging
middle
class and urban elites in India.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given
below
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is true but (R) is false
4. (A) is false but (R) is true
5. '"Hari wrote a poem on the mountains". Which two of the following are admissible
statements about the above sentence?
(a) The sentence is an example of lexical ambiguity.
(b) The sentence is an example of structural ambiguity.
(c) The sentence involves two deep structures.
(d) The sentence involves two surface structures.
1. a and b only
2. b and c only
3. b and d only
4. c and d only
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6. Which one of the following Sherlock Holmes stories refers to a significant event in
English history?
1. "The Musgrave Ritual"

2. "The Speckled Band"
3. "The Solitary Cyclist"
4. "The Red-Headed League
7. Which two rivers are mentioned by Andrew Marvell at the beginning of "To His Coy
Mistress"?
(a) The Ganges

(b) Thames
(c) Humber
(d) The Jhelum
1. a and d only
2. a and b only
3. a and c only
4. b and c only
8. Harold Skimpole is a character in:
1. Bleak House
2. Dombey and Son
3. Great Expectations
4. Oliver Twist
9. Which one among the following is a set of the Metaphysical Poets?
1. John Dryden, George Herbert, and Alexander Pope

2. Henry Vaughan, John Dryden, and John Donne
3. John Donne, Henry Vaughan, and Andrew Marvell
4. Samuel Johnson, T.S. Eliot and Herbert Griers.on
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List I List II
Lines Poems
a. "Monuments of unaging intellect" i. "Leda and the Swan"
b. "In the foul rag-and-bone shop of ii. "Adam's Curse"
the heart "
c. "So mastered by the brute blood iii. "Sailing to Byzantium"
of the air"
d. "As weary-hearted as that hollow iv. "The Circus Animals' Desertion"
moon"
1. a - iii, b - iv, c - ii, d - i

2. a – iii, b - i, c- iv, d - ii
3. a - iii, b- iv, c - i, d - ii
4. a -ii, b - i, c - iv, d – iii
List I List II
Author Work
a. John Keats i. Alastor
b. William Wordsworth ii. Songs of Experience
c. P. 8. Shelley iii. Lamia
d. William Blake iv. The Excursion

1. a - iii, b - i, c - iv, d - ii
2. a - iii, b - iv, c - i, d - ii
3. a - i, b - iv, c - iii, d - ii
4. a - iv, b - ii, c - i, d – iii
12. Which of these statements describe correctly the basic assumption of

Structuralism?
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(a) Structuralism is concerned with signs and signification.

(b) A structuralist theory considers only verbal conventions and codes.
(c) Structuralism began in the works of Jacques Derrida that influenced the
20thcentury literary criticism.
(d) Structuralism challenges the long-standing belief that literature reflects a given
reality.
(e) All signs are arbitrary but without them we cannot comprehend reality.

1. a, c and e only
2. a, d and e only
3. a, b and c only
4. a, b and e only
13. Who among the following coined the dictum, "the medium is the message"?
1. Raymond Williams
2. Erving Goffman
3. Marshall McLuhan
4. John Fiske
14. Who among the following theorists particularly emphasized the social and
historical dimensions of a text 's reception?
1. Wolfgang Iser
2. Stanley Fisli
3. Hans Robert Jauss
4. Pierre Bourdieu
15. Which British administrator sought "to make everything as English as possible in a
country which resembles England in nothing", as recorded by Sir Thomas Munro?
1. Lord Bentick
2. Lord Hastings
3. Lord Cornwallis
4. Lord Wellesley
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16. Which of the following novels is structured into a poem of 999 lines, preceded by
a
Foreword, followed by a Commentary and an Index?
1. Ragtime
2. Pale Fire
3. The Inner Side of the Wind
4. Hourglass
17. Who among the following linguists proposed the terms, 'competence· and
·performance'?
1. Noah Webster
2. Steven Pinker
3. Roman Jakobson
4. Noam Chomsky
18. Who said of the blank verse, quoting an unnamed critic, that it is " ... verse only to
the eye",
adding further that it '"has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers"?
1. John Dryden
2. Alexander Pope
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. Samuel Johnson
19. Which of the following are the major themes in William Congreve's The Way of the
World?
1. jealousy and revenge

2. love and intrigue
3. intrigue and death
4. love and loyalty
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20. Arrange the following plays in the chronological order of publication:

(a) All for Love
(b) Venice Preserved
(c) The School for Scandal
(d) The Country Wife
1. b, c, a, d
2. d, a, b, c
3. c, b, d, a
4. a, d, c, b
21. Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin deals with the trauma of a rape
victim who says
"Even so distant, I can taste the grief"?
1. "Deceptions"
2. "Faith Healing"
3. "Sad Steps"
4. "Wild Oats"
22. Which one of the following assumptions best expresses the position of Post-
Structuralist
criticism?
1. Definite structures underlie empirical events.

2. Language is representational.
3. Apprehension of reality is a construct.
4. Knowledge operates according to procedures that are axiomatic.
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23. Which book of Paradise Lost incorporates the speech rhythms of Adam and Eve's
marital
quarrel?
1. Book 4
2. Book 6
3. Book 7
4. Book 9
List I List II
Linguist Concept
a. Paul Grice i. language death
b. Edward Sapir ii. linguistic signs
c. Ferdinand de Saussure iii. linguistic relativity
d. Nancy Dorian iv. cooperative principle
1. a - i, b - iii, c – ii, d - iv
2. a - iv, b - iii, c - ii, d - i
3. a - iii, b - iv, c - i, d - ii
4. a - iii, b - iv, c - ii, d – i
25. The Duchess of Malfi is based on :
1. a French romance
2. an Italian novella
3. a German fable
4. a Scottish chronicle
26. Which one of these statements defines the scope of semiotics?
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1. Semiotics studies the sound systems of a language.

2. Semiotics is a study of sign systems.
3. Semiotics studies human sign system only.
4. Semiotics is a study of non-human sign systems only
27. Which two of the following books are explorations of the art of the novel by
novelists?
(a) The Brief Compass
(b) The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
(c) The Visionary Company
(d) Testaments Betrayed
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
1. a and b only
2. a and c only
3. b and c only
4. b and d only
28. Arrange the following plays in their chronological order:
(a) The Country Wife

(b) Cymbeline
(c) The Spanish Tragedy
(d) The Rivals
1. b, a, c, d
2.b, c, d, a
3. c, b, a, d
4.c, a, b, d
29. As mentioned in "My First Acquaintance with Poets" which poet does William
Hazlitt describe as the "only person I ever knew who answered the idea of a man of
genius"?
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1. Coleridge
2. Wordsworth
3. Byron
4. Shelley
30. Arrange the following 18th -century magazines in the chronological order of
publication:
(a) The Critical Review
(b) The Monthly Review
(c) The Gentleman's Magazine
(d) The Rambler
1. a, d, b, c
2. d, a, b, c
3. b, a, c, d
4. c, b, d, a
(a) Crome Yellow

(b) Sons and Lovers
(c) Mrs Dalloway
(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1. b, a, d, c
2. a, b, d, c
3. a, c, b, d
4.b, d, a , c
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32. Which two of the following statements are applicable to 'metalanguage'?

It is:
(a) a technical language which describes the properties of language.
(b) known as a 'first-order' language.
(c) a 'second-order' language that replaces a 'first-order' language with metaphors.
(d) a 'second-order' language.
1. a and b only
2. c and d only
3. a and d only
4. b and c only
33. To which mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue of Dr.

Faustus?
1. Perseus
2. Theseus
3. Icarus
4. Achilles
34. Which two text s among the following are linked to literary feminism?
(a) A Small Place

(b) The Yellow Wallpaper
(c) Emma
(d) A Room of One's Own
1. a and d only
2. c and d only
3. b and d only
4. a and c only
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labelled as
Reason R
Assertion A: Research methods are a range of tools that are used for different types of
inquiry.
Reason R: The tools used in research are products of the situations in which they are
applied.
below:
2. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is true but (R) is false
4. (A) is false but (R) is true
36. Who among the following wrote Mazeppa, a long narrative poem about a
seventeenth-century military leader of Ukraine?
1. William Cowper
2. Lord Byron
3. P.B. Shelley
4. S. T. Coleridge
37. Which two characters/ speakers among the following exhibit the studious
abstraction of
scholars?
(a) Shylock
(b) Hamlet
(c) II Penseroso
(d) Mosca
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1. a and d only
2. b and c only
3. c and d only
4. a and c only
38. What game do the characters play in Act II of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party?
1. A game of chess
2. A game of cards
3. Blind man's buff
4. Musical chairs
39. Which two of the following inspired the rise of the periodical essay?
(a) Robert Burton

(b) Francois Rabelais
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) Michel de Montaigne
1. c and a only
2. a and b only
3. c and d only
4. b and d only
40. Poetry according to Sir Philip Sidney is of three kinds. They are:
1. Religious, dramatic, romantic

2. Classical, romantic, neo-classical
3. Philosophical, imaginative, narrative
4. Religious, philosophical, imaginative
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41. Which one of the following statements is true about Aristotle's poetics?
1. He asserted the value of poetry by integrating rhetoric and imitation (mimesis).

2. He asserted the value of poetry by focusing on both rhetoric and imitation (mimesis).
3. He asserted the value of poetry by giving preference to rhetoric over imitation
(mimesis).
4. He asserted the value of poetry by focusing on imitation (mimesis) rather than
rhetoric.
42. Which two of the following events are described in Samuel Pepys's Diary?
(a) The Plague in London

(b) The Great Fire of London
(c) The War of Spanish Succession
(d) Essex Rebellion
1. a and b only
2. a and c only
3. b and c only
4. b and d only
43. Who among the following presented the concept of ·multi-accentuality' of the sign,
saying
that signs possess an 'inner dialectical quality' and ·evaluative accent'?
1. Roland Barthes
2. Stuart Hall
3. Jacques Derrida
4. Valentin Voloshinov
Statement I: Consumption is an outcome of self- interest and a maximization of

personal
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pleasure.
Statement II: There are strong correlations between social status and such things as
housing
styles, musical tastes and food preferences.
below:
1. Both Statement I and Statement II are true

2. Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3. Statement I is correct but Statement II is false
4. Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is true
Statement I: The Orientalists in British India were not sympathetic towards India's
ancient
learning.
Statement II: William Jones thought that in "imagination", "ratiocination", and

philosophy,
Indians were by no means inferior to Europeans.
below
1. Both Statement I and Statement II are true

2. Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3. Statement I is correct but Statement II is false
4. Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is true
46. Who among the following was the first Director of the Central Institute of English
and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad (now EFL University)?
1. Prof V.K. Gokak

2. Prof C.D. Narasimhaiah
3. Prof C.J. Daswani
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4. Prof K. R. S. Iyengar
47. On December 11, 1823, Rammohan Roy addressed a letter to the British authority
which
pleaded for modern western education and is considered historically important for the
introduction of English education in India. Who was the letter addressed to?
1. Lord Amherst
2. Lord Minto
3. Lord Macaulay
4. Lord Bentick
(a) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

(b) Course in General Linguistics
(c) Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
(d) How to Do Things with Words
1. d, b, a, c
2. c, b, a, d
3.b, d, a, c
4. b, a, d, c
49. Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of emergence:
(a) Heresy of Paraphrase

(b) Stream of Consciousness
(c) Practical Criticism
(d) Defamiliarization
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1. d, b, c, a
2.b, d, a, c
3. b, d, c, a
4.d, c, b, a
50. The deductive method differs from the inductive method in drawing its conclusions
from :
1. verification
2. particular instances
3. applications
4. general truths
51. Who among the following is known to have popularized the term 'glocalization'?
1. Ronald Robertson
2. Francis Fukuyama
3. John Urry
4. John Tomlinson
52. Which two poems in the following list are examples of dramatic monologue?
(a) Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses·

(b) Philip Larkin, "Church Going"
(c) Carol Ann Duffy, "Medusa"
(d) Katherine Philips, "A Married State"
1. a and d only
2. b and c only
3. c and d only
4. a and c only
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53. Which two of the following aspects are to be scrupulously followed to avoid the
trap of
plagiarism?
(a) subjectivity
(b) acknowledgement
(c) citation
(d) interpretation
1. a and b only
2. a and c only
3. c and d only
4. b and c only
54. Which two of t he following are the titles of the sections in Thomas De Quincey's
"The English
Mail - Coach"?
(a) The Glory of Mobility

(b) The Vision o f Sudden Death
(c) The Glory of Motion
(d) The Vision o f Unexpected Truth
1. a and b only
2. a and d only
3. b and c only
4. b and d only
55. In Anxiety of Influence which of the following definitions is given by Harold Bloom
to explain
the term, 'clinamen'?
1. poetic hyperbole
2. poetic misprision
3. poetic sublime
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4. poetic supplement
56. Lala Kanshi Ram is a character in:
1. Arun Josh i's The Apprentice

2. Chaman Nahal's Azadi
3. Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain
4. Kamala Markandaya's A Handful of Rice
57. Which one of the following essays holds that "As a method, realism is a complete
failure"?
1. Virginia Woolf, "The Mark on the Wall"

2. Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying"
3. D. H Lawrence, "Why the Novel Matters"
4. Mary McCarthy, "My Confession
58. Arrange the following women novelists in the chronological order (by date of birth):
(a) Anne Bronte

(b) Jane Austen
(c) Ann Radcliffe
(d) Fanny Burney
(e) Maria Edgeworth
1. b, a, d, c, e
2. c, d, b, e, a
3. d, c, e, b, a
4. a, b, c, e, d
59. Which one of the following is correct about Saussure's analysis of language?
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1. La langue is the system of a language.

2. Parole focuses on language as a system at a particular time.
3. La langue is the particular instance of speech and writing.
4. Parole is the study of language over a period of time.
60. Which two terms among the following are associated with formalist criticism?
(a) aura
(b) actant
(c) narratee
(d) defamiliarization
(e) foregrounding
1. a and c only
2. b and d only
3. b and c only
4. d and e only
61. Which two of t he following oppositions are best evoked by Hamlet's utterance -
"To be or not
to be"?
(a) between life and death

(b) between action and emotion
(c) between affirmation and confirmation
(d) between doing and abstaining from doing
1. a and d only
2. b and d only
3. c and a only
4. d and c only
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62. Which according to Thomas Hobbes is the only ·science· God has bestowed on
mankind, that
informs the structure of his monumental work, Leviathan?
1. Astronomy
2. Architecture
3. Occult sciences
4. Geometry
63. Which one of the following statements is appropriately true of Harold Pinter's
plays?
1. Menace is in the air and it leads to bloody violence.

2. Menace is in the air and it is realized through the female characters.
3. Menace is in the air, but it is not pinned down, or explained.
4. Menace is in the air and anarchy follows in a systematic manner
64. Who among the following believed that rhyme is not an integral part of poetry?
(a) William Wordsworth

(b) Horace
(c) Samuel Daniel
(d) Philip Sidney
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
1. a and c only
2. b and d only
3. a and d only
4. d and c only
65. Which two of the following works does Walter Pater regard as examples of "great
art" in his essay "Style"?
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(a) Iliad
(b) The Divine Comedy
(c) Les Miserables
(d) Faust
1. a and b only
2. a and d only
3. b and c only
4. b and d only
66. Which one of the following best explains the term 'paralanguage'?
1. The ways in which people mask what they mean by the words they use
2. The ways in which people show what they mean other than by the words they use
3. The ways in which words carry meanings unintended by the speaker
4. The ways in which the silence underlying speech communicates wrong meanings
67. Which one of the following journals publishes articles related to critical theory
exclusively?
1. Salmagundi
2. Diacritics
3. Cal/a/oo
4. Grand Street
68. Match List I with List 11
List I List II
Critics Text
a. Horace i. A Defence of Rhyme
b. John Dryden ii. Timber: or, Discoveries
c. Samuel Daniel iii. Ars Poetica
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d. Ben Jonson iv. Of Dramatic Poesy

1. a - ii, b - i, c - iv, d - iii

2. a - iii, b - iv, c -ii, d - i
3. a - iii, b - iv, c - i, d - ii
4. a - ii, b - iv, c - i , d – iii
69. Which two of the following strictly follow the parameters of documentation
prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook?
(a) Nun berg, Geoffrey, editor. The Future of the Book. U of California P, 1996.
(b) Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Trans. Thomas Colchie, London: Vintage,
1991.
(c) Nunberg, Geoffrey, ed. The Future of the Book. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.
(d) Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Translated by Thomas Colchie, Vintage
Books, 1991.
1. a and b only
2. a and c only
3. a and d only
4. b and c only
70. Which two of the following poems are by Robert Browning?
(a) "Locksley Hall"

(b) "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
(c) 'The Lady of Shalott"
(d) "Two in the Campagna"
1. a and d only
2. b and c only
3. a and c only
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4. b and d only
71. Which two of the following dramatists are associated with the Epic Theatre?
(a) Fernando Arrabal

(b) Bertolt Brecht
(c) Arnolt Bronnen
(d) James Saunders
1. a and b only
2. b and c only
3. a and d only
4. b and d only
72. What is the subject of Ivan's controversial essay in Brothers Karamazov?
1. Transubstantiation
2. The evils of clergy
3. The Eucharist
4. Ecclesiastical courts
List I List II
Word Borrowed Source Indian Language
a. mongoose i. Tamil
b. loot ii. Malayalam
c. curry iii. Hindi/ Urdu
d. betel iv. Marathi
Choose the correct answer from the options giv en below:
1. a - iv, b - iii, c - i, d - ii
2. a - iv, b- ii, c - i, d - iii
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3. a - ii, b - iii, c - iv, d - i

4. a - ii, b - i, c - iv, d – iii
List I List II
Terms Theorists
a. Superreader i. Michel Foucault
b. Biopower ii. Mikhail Bakhtin
c. Bricolage iii. Michael Riffaterre
d. Chronotope iv. Claude Levi-Strauss
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1. a - iii, b - ii, c - iv, d - i

2. a - iii, b - i, c - iv, d - ii
3. a - iv, b- i, c - iii, d - ii
4. a - ii b - i, c - iv, d – iii
75. In which of the Bog poems does Seamus Heaney sp eak about the "perishable
treasure" of a body "Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible"?
1. "Bog Queen"
2. "Grauballe Man"
3. "Punishment"
4. "Strange Fruit"
List I List II
Essayist Essay
a. George Orwell i. "On the Artificial Comedy of the
Last Century"
b. Michel de Montaigne ii. "Why I Write"
c. Charles Lamb iii. "A Modest Proposal"
d. Jonathan Swift iv. "On the Cannibals"
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1. a - iii, b - iv, c - iii, d - i
2. a - ii, b - iv, c - i, d - iii
3. a - iv, b - iii, c - ii, d - i
4. a - ii, b - iii, c - i, d – iv
77. Who makes the following speech in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot?
"Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger
puts on the forceps."
1. Estragon
2. lucky
3. Vladimir
4. Pozzo
78. Who among the following are the two great masters of the French language that
T. S Eliot contrasts with Dryden and Milton in "The Metaphysical Poets"?
(a) Francois Villon

(b) Jean Racine
(c) Charles Baudelaire
(d) Arthur Rimbaud
1. a and c only
2. a and d only
3. b and c only
4. b and d only
79. Macaulay's Minute of 1835 sought to:
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(a) promote European literature and science among the natives.

(b) impart knowledge of English literature and science through translated texts.
(c) encourage branches of native learning by more useful studies.
(d) stop expenditure on the publication of oriental works and spend funds only on
English education.
1. a and d only
2. b and d only
3. a and c only
4. b and c only
80. Who among the following feminist theorists posited a separate realm of female
experience captured in a style of writing different from men's?
(a) Elaine Showalter
(b) Luce lrigaray
(c) Kate Millett
(d) Simone de Beauvoir
(e) Helene Cixous
1. a, c and d only
2. b and d only
3. c, d and e only
4. b and e only
81. According to his essay "Civil Disobedience", what two things did Thoreau learn
from the night he spent in jail?
(a) He concluded that the State is ultimately weak.

(b) He realized that captivity inspires courage.
(c) He realized that the neighbours are only friends during good times.
(d) He concluded that captivity brings wisdom about human affairs.
1. a and b only
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2. a and c only
3. a and d only
4. c and d only
List I List II
Author Text
a. Thomas Pynchon i. G.
b. Howard Jacobson ii. V
c. Anthony Burgess iii. J
d. John Berger iv. M/f
1. a - ii, b - IV, c - i, d - iii

2. a - ii, b - iii, c - iv, d - i
3. a - ii, b - iii, c - i, d - iv
4. a - iv, b -iii, c - i, d – ii
83. The lives of which of the following writers have been the subject matter of novels
by Anthony Burgess?
(a) Milton
(b) Marlowe
(c) Shelley
(d) Keats
1. a and b only
2. a and d only
3. b and c only
4. b and d only
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labelled as Reason R
Assertion A: Signs are never neutral or innocent.
Reason R: In all cases signs are organized into systems that convey some meaning.
below
1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

2. Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. A is true but R is false
4. A is false but R is true
85. Who is the author of "A Fragment" (1819), one of the earliest vampire stories in
English?
1. P.B. Shelley
2. Lord Byron
3. Bram Stoker
4. Mary Shelley
86. Arrange the following authors in the chronological order of their birth:
(a) Oscar Wilde

(b) William Langland
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer
(d) John Dryden
(e) Alexander Pope
1. b, c, d, e, a
2. a, b, c, e, d
3. b, c, d, a, e
4. c, b, a, d, e
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87. Which among the following novels includes a questionnaire for the reader such as
"Do you like the story so far? Yes ( ) No ( )"?
1. Mantissa by John Fowles
2. Water/and by Graham Swift
3. Snow White by Donald Barthelme
4. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by ltalo Calvino
88. Match List I w ith List 11
List I List II
Terms Theorists
a. arche-ecriture i. Julia Kristeva
b. cyborg ii. Donna Haraway
c. genotext iii. Friedrich Schleiermacher
d. hermeneutic circle iv. Jacques Derrida
Choose the correct answer from the opt ions given below:
1. a- iv, b -ii, c - i, d - iii

2. a – iii, b - i, c - ii, d - iv
3. a - iii, b - ii, c - iv, d - i
4. a - iv, b - i, c - ii, d – iii
89. Arrange the following critical works in their chronological order of publication:
(a) ·Preface to Lyrical Ballads"

(b) A Defence of Rhyme
(c) "Life of Cowley"
(d) "The Frontiers of Criticism"
1. a, c, b and d
2. b, a, c and d
3. b, c, a and d
4. c, a, d and b
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List I List II
Author Text
a. Michel de Certeau i. Distinction
b. John Fiske ii. Reading the Romance
c. Pierre Bourdieu iii. Understanding Popular Culture
d. Janice Radway iv. The Practice. of Everyday life
1. a - iv b - i, c - ii, d - iii
2. a - iii, b - iv, c - i, d - ii
3. a - iv. b - iii, c - I, d - II
4. a - iii, b - i c - iv d – ii
Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
Daybreak
At dawn she lay with her profile at that angle

Which, sleeping, seems the stone face of an angel;
Her hair a harp the hand of a breeze follows
To play, against the white cloud of the pillows.
Then in a flush of rose she woke, and her eyes were open,
Swimming with blue through the rose flesh of dawn.
From her dew of lips, the drop of one word
Fell, from a dawn of fountains, when she murmured
'Darling,' - upon my heart the song of the first bird.
'My dream glides in my dream,' she said, 'come true.
I waken from you to my dream of you.'
0, then my waking dream dared to assume
The audacity of her sleep. Our dreams
Flowed into each other's arms, like streams.
- Stephen Spender
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91. Which among the following best describes the lady's face as · At dawn she lay ... "
asleep?
1. Her face appears to be that of a stone sculpture's.

2. The side-view of her face appears to be that of a sculpted angel's.
3. Her face appears to be that of a stone-angel.
4. The side-view of her face appears to be that of an angel's,
List I List II
Item What it is an examp'le of
a. 'Her hair a harp' i. Simile
b. 'the hand of a breeze' ii. Metaphor
c. ·seems the stone face' iii. Oxymoron
d. 'my waking dream' iv. Synecdoche
1. a-ii, b - iv, c - i, d - iii

2. a - iv, b - ii, c - iii, d - i
3. a - iv, b - iii, c - ii, d - i
4. a- i, b - iv, c - ii, d – iii
List I List II
The Item What it is an example of
a. 'Her hair ' i. player
b. 'pillows· ii. 'a harp·
c. 'breeze · iii. 'rose·
d. 'cheeks' iv. 'cloud'
1. a - i, b - II, c - IV, d - Ill

2. a - iii, b - i, c - ii, d - iv
3. a - ii, b- iv, c - i, d - iii
4. a - iv, b - iii, c - i, d – ii
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Logic cannot have any empirical part; that is, a part in which the universal and
necessary laws of thought should rest on grounds taken from experience; otherwise
it would not be logic, i.e, a canon for the understanding or the reason, valid for all
thought, and capable of demonstration. Natural and moral philosophy, on the
contrary, can each have their empiric.al part, since the former has to determine the
laws of nature as an object of experience; the latter the laws of the human will, so
far as it is affected by nature: the former, however, being laws according to which
everything does happen; the latter, laws according to which everything ought to
happen. Ethics, however, must also consider the conditions under which what ought
to happen frequently does not. - Immanuel Kant
94. Based on the given passage which two of the following statements are correct?
(a) For natural philosophy, nature influences the laws.

(b) For moral philosophy, nature is to be experienced.
(c) Natural philosophy does not describe how things actually do happen.
(d) Moral philosophy accounts for what should be.
1. a and c only
2. b and d only
3. c and d only
4. a and d only
95. "Logic cannot have any empirical part", because:
(a) Laws of thought are subjective.

(b) it propounds laws whose applicability can be shown.
(c) its laws are valid for all thought.
(d) its laws are valid for everyone's experience.
1. a and d only
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2. b and c only
3. a and c only
4. b and d only
And the creature run from the cur?

There thou m ightst beh old the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. -
Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody ha nd!
Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip
thine own back; Thou hotly lust'st to use
her in that kind
For which thou whipp'st her. The u surer hangs the
cozener. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and fu rr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin
with gold, And the strong lance of justice
hurtless brea ks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
- King Lear
96. In the passage, the church officer is asked to whip his own back rather than the
prostitute's because:
1. As a religious man he should punish himself for others' sins,

2. He at one time had lusted after her.
3. Men like him make them prostitutes.
4. He does not have the authority to whip a woman.
97. The two sentences in the lines from "Through tatter'd clothes .. .' to " ... straw doth
pierce it' deal with two foibles, (i) vice and (ii) sin. About these two, the speaker says
that
1. Vice afflicts all but sin afflicts only the weak.

2. Sin afflicts all but vice afflicts only the strong.
3. Sin and vice are seen in both the weak and the strong.
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4. Sin and vice are palpable in the weak and impalpable in the strong
98. Who speaks these lines and to whom?
1. Edgar to Lear
2. Goneril to Edgar
3. Lear to Gloucester
4. Gloucester to Lear
The surgeon deposited it in her arms. She imprinted her cold, white lips passionately
on its forehead; passed her hands over her face; gazed wildly around; shuddered; fel
l back - and died. They chafed her breast, hand s, temples; but the blood had stopped
forever. They talked of hope and comfort. They had been stra ngers too long. 'It's all
over, Mrs. Thingu m my!', said the surgeon at last.
Dickens, Oliver Twist
99. The implication of' they had been strangers too long" is:
1. Those who spoke of 'hope and comfort' had been strangers too long.
2. 'Hope' had been stranger to 'comfort• for too long.
3. 'Hope and comfort• had been stranger to the patient too long.
4. 'Hope and comfort' had been strangers to the surgeon, nurse and the patient too
long.
100. In the expression, · passed her hands over her face", the 'face is of:
1. The lady surgeon

2. The child
3. The nurse
4. The patient
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1.Arrange the following 19th Century magazines in the chronological order of their publication
a.The London Magazine

b.Quarterly Review
c.The Spectator
d.Edinburgh Review

(A) a, d, c, b
(B) b, a, d, c
(C) d, b, a, c
(D) c, d, b, a
2.A deconstructive reading of a text shows that
a. text is to be read always in a context

b .There is nothing except the text
c. A text may betray itself
d. A text may possess an ascertainable meaning
e. There is an endless postponement of meaning

(A)a, b, and c only
(B)c, d and e only
(C)b, c, and e only
(D)b, c and d only
3.Which two of the following edited the defining work of third-wave feminism, ThisBridge Called My Back: Writings
by Radical Women of Color?
a.Audrey Lorded
b.Barbara Smith
c.Gloria Anzaldua
d.Cherrie Moraga

(A)a and b only
(B)c and d only
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(C)a and c only

(D)b and d only
4.Given below are two statements: One is labeled as Assertion A and the other is labeled
As Reason R.
Assertion (A): English today is not only 'the language we teach but also the subject that enables its learners to become
subtle and tough minded readers
Reason (R): Students are encouraged to think and analyze the historical and Ontological status of the texts they read
and how best to read them.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(A) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A

(B) Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
(C) A is correct but R is not correct
(D) A is not correct but R is correct
5.Which two of the following plays are mentioned in T.S. Eliot's ''Tradition and Individual Talent"?
a. Agamemnon
b. Antigone
c. Othello
d. Dr. Faustus
Choose the correct answer· from the options given below:

(A)a and d only
(B) a and c only
(C) b and c only
(D)b and d only
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6.Who is the author of the short play, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets?
(A) Ben Jonson

(B)George Bernard Shaw
(C)Oscar Wilde
(D)Oliver Goldsmith
7.In which short story does the narrator witness a consumptive young man named Mr. Shaynor recreate The Eve of St.
Agnes'' in a trance?
(A)E.M. Forster's the Eternal Moment'"

(B)Rudyard Kipling's "wireless"
(C)Somerset Maugham's ""The Creative Impulse"
(D)Aldous Huxley's "the Bookshop"
8. Who among the following critics is said to have developed the notion of “interactive communities”?
(A) Terry Eagleton

(B) Jane Tompkins
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Stanley Fish
9.Match List I with List II
List I List II
Authors Works
(a)Ferdinand de Sausure (i)Two Aspects ·of language andtwo
types of Aphasic Disturbances.
(b)Edward Sapir (ii)Of Grammatology
(c)Jacques Derrida (iii) A Course in. General Linguistics
(d)Roman Jakobson (iv)Language

(A)(a)-(iii), (b)-(ii). (c)-(i).(d)-(iv)
(C)(a)-(iii). (b)-(iv). i(c)-(ii). (d)-(i)
(B)(a)-(ii), (b)-(i). (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(D)(a)-(iv). (b)-(i). (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)
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10. Who among the following drew Attention to the role of print languages in enabling the riseand spread of
nationalism?
(A)Ernest Gellner
(B)Charles Jenks
(C)Benedict Anderson
(D)Frederic Jameson
11.Metaphor differs from simile in that
(A) A comparison in metaphor is usually explicit whereas in simile it is implicit

(B) A comparison in metaphor is usually implicit whereas in simile it is explicit
(C) Neither metaphor nor simile is rooted in comparison
(D) Simile involves superimposition while metaphor involves comparison
12.Which one of the following statements by Roman Jacobson is true about metaphor and metonymy?
(A) Metaphor is alien to the continuity disorder whereas metonymy is alien to similarity disorder
(B) Metaphor is alien to the similarity disorder and metonymy to the continuity disorder
(C) Metaphor is alien to both similarity disorder and continuity disorder and Metonymy is common to both
(D) Metaphor is common to both similarity disorder and continuity disorder but metonymy is alien to both
13.Who is the author of The Complete Plain Words?
(A)Samuel Jhonson
(B)Daniel Jones
(C)Ernest Gowers
(D)Michael Everson
14.Which one of these essays by Ezra Pound defines an Image as "that which presents an intellectual and emotional
complex in an instant of time'"?
(A) “A Retrospect”
(B) "The Tradition”
(C) “The Renaissance”
(D) "How to Read”
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15.Which of the following characters instruct Faustus in the dark arts?
(A)Robin and Rafe

(B)Cornelius and Valdes
(C)Wagner and Bruno
(D)Old Man and Evil Angel
16. In his ...Self-Reliance" which two qualities does Emerson refer to as “the Chancellors of God"?
(a)Truth
(b)Cause
(c)Spirit
(d)Effect
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(A) (a) and (b) Only

(B) (a) and (c) Only
(C) (b) and (c) Only
(D) (b) and (d) Only
17.Which two of the following novels are part of Paul Auster's New York Trilogy?
(a)The Book of illusions

(b)Ghosts
(c)The Locked Room
(d)Winter Journal

(A)(a) and (b)Only
(B)(a) and (c) Only
(C)(b) and (c) Only
(D)(b) and (d) Only
18.Match List I " with List II’
List I List II
Concepts Theorists
a) Competence/Performance (i)Noam Chomsky
b) Signifier / Signified (ii) Roman Jakobson
c) Metaphor / Metonomy (iii)Louis Hjelmslev
d)Content/Expression (iv) Ferdinand de Saussure
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(A)(a)-(iii), (b)-(ii). (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)

(B)(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)
(C)(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv). (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(D)(a)-(i), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii). (d)-(iii)
19. Who among the following theorists defines novel as 'a phenomenon multiform in style and variform in speech and
voice..?
(A) E.M. Forster

(B)Henry James
(C)Mikhail Bakhtin
(D)Eric Auerbach
20."'Nice day again, isn't it?" This sentence is an example of:
(A)Code-switching
(B)Multiple negation
(C)Phatic communication
(D)Nominalization
21.Who was Milton's model when he recast the first edition (1667) of Paradise Lost in 10 books to 12 books of the
second edition (1674)?
(A)Lucan
(B)Ovid
(C)Virgil
(D)Homer
22.In which Act of William Congreve's The Way of the World does the Proviso scene between Mirabell and Millamant
take place?
(A)Act I
(B)Act II
(C)Act III
(D)Act IV
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List I List II
Novel Character
(a)Barnaby Rudge (i)Miss La Creevy
(a)Little Dorrit (ii)Miss Dolly
(b)Nicholas Nickleby (iii)Mrs. Boffin
(c)Our Mutual Friend (iv)Mrs. Flintwinch
(A) (a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)

(B)(a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
(C)(a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), d)-(iii)
(D)(a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)
24.In "Advancement of learning " Francis Bacon divides poetry into three divisions :
(A)Philosophical, religious, imaginative

(B) Epic, dramatic, lyrical
(D) Narrative, representative, allusive
(D) Odes, sonnets, eclogues
25.Which two of the following words are borrowed into English from Czech?
(a)pistol
(b)robot
(c)sauna
(d)coach

(A)(a) and (b) Only
(B)(a) and (c) Only
(C)(b) and (c) Only
(D)(a) and (d) Only
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List I List II
Terms Theorists
(a)Heteroglossia (i)Michel Foucault
(b)Heterotopia (ii)Louis Althusser
(c)Grand Narrative (iii)Mikhail Bakhtin
(d)Interpellation (iv)Jean-Francois Lyotard

(A)(a)-(ii). (b)-(i), (c)-(iv).(d)-(iii)
(B)(a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
(C)(a)-(iii). (b)-(i). (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
(D)(a)-(iv). (b)-(i). (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)
27.Which of the following statements is correct in relation to Shakespeare's works?
(A)The Folio edition appeared in the sixteenth century and the 'quartos' appeared in the seventeenth century
(B)The 'quartos' appeared during his lifetime and the Folio edition appeared posthumously
(C)The Folio edition appeared during his lifetime and the 'quartos' appeared posthumously
(D)The 'quartos' refer to works written between 1594 and 1599, and the Folio includes works written between 1608
and 1613
28.Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin ends "with the line -Never such innocence again.'?
(A) "An Arundel Tomb"

(B) “MCMXIV"
(C) "This Be the Verse"
(D) “Aubade”
29.Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication
(a)Modern English Usage

(b)Proposals for Perfecting the English Language
(c)Usage and Abusage
(d)An American Dictionary of the English Language
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(A)(d), (b), (c), (a)

(B)(b), (c), (d), (a)
(C)(b). (d), (a), (c)
(D)(d), (c), (a), (b)
30.In Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party, who suggests the idea of having a birthday party?
(A)Meg
(B)Goldberg
(C)Lulu
(D)McCann
31.Which of these following statements are true about Pidgin and Creole?
(a)Pidgin begins as Creole and eventually becomes the first language of a speech community
(b)Creole begins as Pidgin and eventually becomes the first language of a speech community
(c)Pidgin is simple but a rule governed language developed for communication whereas Creole is
free from grammatical rules.
(d)Pidgin and Creole evolve successively out of a situation where speakers, of mutually unintelligible
languages develop a shared language for, communication (often based on one of those languages)
(A) (a) and (b) Only

(B) (b) and (d) Only
(C) (c) and (d) Only
(D) (a) and (d) Only
32. Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion (A) : Understanding the meaning of any cultural form would not simply locate it
within a specific culture.
Reason (R): Cultural forms are best studied in terms of how these fit into the intersection between different cultural
networks.
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In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(A)Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(B)Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
(C)(A) is correct but (R) is not correct
(D) (A) is not correct but (R) is correct
33.Which two poems in the following list are Odes written in the Horatian manner?
(A) Ben Johnson, "To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir. H. Morison"
(B)Andrew Marwell 'Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland''.
(C)Alexander Pope, "Ode on Solitude"
(D)Alfred 'Tennyson, "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington"
(A)(a) and (b) Only

(B)(b) and (c) Only
(C)(c) and (d) Only
(D)(a) and (d) Only
34.Given below are two statements :
Statement I: The Education Commission (1964-66) recommended the removal of English as a medium of instruction at
the college level.
Statement II: English is still larger the language of administration and jurisprudence in India.
In the light of the above statements, choose the Correct answer from the options given below :
(A)Bath Statement I and Statement II are true

(B)Both Statement I and Statement Il is false
(C)Statement I is correct but Statement II is false
(D)Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is true
35.Which two of the following meanings are admissible for the following sentences:
''You do not know how good oysters taste"
(a)You do not know that oysters taste good as food

(b)You do not know how the oysters taste when cooked
(c)You do not know what the oysters taste when they eat
(d)You do not know how the good oysters taste when they eat
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Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(A) (d) Only

(B) (b) and (d)
(D) (c) and (d) Only
36.Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Cultures and cultural meanings are the same the world over.
Statement II : It is impossible to divide the world into exclusive cultural blocs In the light of the above statements.
choose the Correct answer from the options given below:
(A)Both Statement I and Statement II are true

(B)Both Statement I and Statement II is false
(C)Statement I is correct but Statement II is false
(D)Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is true
37.Which of the following journals deals with the analysis of only theoretical concepts?
(A) Granta
(B) Manoa
(C) Boundary
(D) Arethusa
38.Which two of the following essays have proved particularly productive in the disciplinary practices of Cultural
Studies?
(A) Laura Mulvey. ''Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
(B) Viktor Shklovsky, "Art as Technique"
(C) Sigmund Freud. "The Uncanny"
(D) Stuart Hall. "Encoding/decoding"
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(A)(a) and (b) Only
(B)(a) and (d) Only
(C)(b) and (c) Only
(D)(a) and (c) Only
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39. Who among the following called the 'Poetasters', ''The rhyming friends'?
(a) Lucan
(b) Horace
(b) Pinder
(d) plato
40. Mr. Pumblechook is a character in:
(a) Little Dorret

(b) Nicholas Nickleby
(c) Hard Times
(d) Great Expectations
41.Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publication :
(a)Past and Present

(b)Leviathan
(c)Unto This Last
(d)The Life of Samuel Johnson

(A)(b), (d), (a). (c)
(B)(c), (d), (a), (b)
(C)(b). (a). (d).(c)
(D)(c), (a), (d). (b)
42.To which of these boarding schools is Jane Eyre sent by her aunt Mrs. Reed?
(A) Lowood School

(B) Hailsham school
(C) Abbey Mount
(D) Greyfriar's School
43.Arrange the following critical works in the chronological order of publication:-
(a)"Preface to Lyrical Ballads"

(b)A Defence of Rhyme
(c)'Life of Cowey''
(d)''Frontiers of Criticism"
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(A)(a), (c), (b) and (d)
(B)(b), (a), (c), and (d)
(C)(b), (c), (a), and (d)
(D)(c), (a), (d) and (b)
44.Match List I With List II
List I List II
Text Author
a. After Amnesia i. Gauri Viswanathan
b. The Indianization of English ii. Harish Trivedi
d. Masks of Conquest iii. G.N. Devy
e. Colonial Transactions iv. B.B. Kachru

(A)(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(B)(a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c) -(i), (d)-(iii)
(C)(a)-(iii). (b)-(iv). (c)-(i). (d)-(ii)
(D)(a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
45.Who among the following coined the term. 'aesthetics'?
(A) Arthur Danto

(B)Alexander Baumgarten
(C)Immanuel Kant
(D) David Hume
46. The two broad divisions of reality in Plato's theory of reality are:
(A) visible and assumable

(B) Intelligible and opinable
(C) visible and intelligible
(D) intelligible and shadows
47.Which two of the following plays were written by John Osborne?
(a) Look Back in Anger

(b) Loot
(c) Funeral Game
(d) Dejavu
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(A)(a) and (b) Only
(C) (a) and (d) Only
(D)(b) and (c) Only
48.Which two of the following periodicals are devoted to feminist theoretical discussion?
(a) Spectrum
(b) Signs
(c) Chrysalis
(d) Transition

(A) (b) and (c) only
(B) (b) and (d) only
(C)(a) and (d) Only
(D)(b) and (c) Only
49.Who among the following refutes Plato’s charge that poets are liars, by arguing that thepoet nothing affirms. and
therefore never lieth”
(A) John Dryden

(B) Philip Sidney
(C) George Puttenham
(D) Richard Hooker
50. Joyce Cary's The Horse's mouth, considered by many to be his masterpiece, is part of a trilogy of novels,Which
two titles from the following list belong to this trilogy?
(a) Aissa Saved

(b) To Be a Pilgrim
(c) Herself surprised
(d) Charley Is My Darling
(A) (b) Only

(B) (b)and (c) Only
(C) (c) and (d) Only
(D) (a) and (d) Only
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List: I List: II
Institutions Locations
a. The Bhandarkar Oriental Research i. Shimla
Institute
b. Indian Institute of Advanced Study ii. New Delhi
c. National Library of India iii. Kolkatta
d. Nehru Memorial museum and Library iv. Pune
(A)(a)-(iii). (b)-(iv). (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)

(B)(a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
(C)(a)-(iv), (b)-(i). (c)-(iii). (d)-(ii)
(D)(a)-(i). (b)-(iv). (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)
52. Who among the following held that '"the peop1le of Hindustan"' are "a race of men lamentably degenerate and base,
retaining but a feeble sense of moral obligation..."?
(A) Charles Wilkins

(B) Thomas Macaulay
(C)Charles Grant
(D)David Hare
53. Arrange in the chronological order of publication :
(a)The Unfinished Man

(b)Gitanjali
(c)Jejuri
(d)The Sceptred Flute
(A) (b). (a). (d). (c)

(B) (b). (d), (a), (c)
(C)(b). (d), (a), (c)
(D) (b), (d), (c). (a)
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List I List II
Author Autobiography/Memoir
a. Pablo Neruda i. Under My Skin
b. Graham Greene ii. Speak, Memory
c. Doris Lessing iii. Memoirs
d. Vladimir Nabakov iv. A Sort of Life

(A) (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i). (d)-(ii)
(B) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-i)
(C) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv). (c)-(i), (d)-(i)
(D) (a)-(ii). (b)-(iv). (c)-(i). (d)-(ii)
55.Which of the following information has now been excluded while making an entry for a book in the 8th edition
of MLA Hand book for Writers of Research Papers?
(A)Year of publication
(B)Place of publication
(C)Name of the publisher
(D)Omission of subtitle
56.Which two of the following are part of Virginia Woolf's collection of autobiographical essays?
(a)"A Will to Word It"

(b)"A Sketch of the Past"
(c)"A Faint Hue of the Past
(d)"Am I a Snob"

(A)(a) and (b) Only
(B) (b) And (c) Only
(C) (a) and (c) Only
(D)(b) and (d) Only
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57.While assembling a working bibliography which two of the following reference sources will be particularly useful to
a literary researcher?
(a)MLA International Bibliography

(b)New Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry and Poetics
(c)Library of Congress Catalogue
(d)Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature

(A)(a) and (b) only
(B) (b) and (c) only
(C) (a) and (d) only
(D)(c) and (d) only
58.What is the content of the suitcases that Lucky carries in the second Act of Waiting For Godot?
(A)Books
(B)Pozzo's Clothing
(C)Sand
(D)Tiny Skulls
59.Which of the following short stories by Jorge Luis Borges has its epigraph from The Anatomy of Melancholy?
(A)"Borges and I
(B) "Death and the Compass"
(C) "The Library of Babel"
(D)"The Garden of Forking Paths"
60.Which of the following is the correct sequence of stages in empirical research?
(a)Data Collection
(b)Hypothesis
(c)Validation
(d)Findings
(e)Analysis
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(A)(a). (e), (d), (b) and (c)

(B) (b). (a), (e), (c) and (d)
(C) (b). (c), (a). (d) and (e)
(D)(a). (c). (b). (e) and (d)
List I List II
Poet Poem
(a)John Donne (i)"The Retreat"
(b)Andrew Marvell (ii)"A Valediction of Weeping"
(c)George Herbert (iii)"The Garden"
(d)Henry Vaugham (iv)"The Collar"

(A)(a)-(iv). (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii). (d)-(i)
(B)(a)-(iv). (b)-(i). (c)-(ii). (d)-(ii)
(C)(a)-(ii). (b)-(iv). (c)-i). (d)-(iii)
(D)(a)-(ii). (b)-(iii). (c)-(iv). (d)-(i)
62.Which of the following is true in relation to Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene?
A)A letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh was prefixed to the 1590 edition of the poem
(B)A letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh was appended to the 1590 edition of the poem
(C)A letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh was prefixed to the 1596 edition of the poem
(D)A letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh was appended to the 1596 edition of the poem
63.Which two of the following works are Daniel Defoe's historical narratives?
(a)History of the Rebellion

(b)Meditations on a Broomstick
(c)A Journal of the Plague Year
(d)Memories of a Cavalier
(1) (A) and (B) Only

(2) (B) and (C) Only
(3) (B) and (D) Only
(4) (C) and (D) Only
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64.Arrange the following novels in the chronological order of their publication:
a. The White Tiger

b. A Tiger for Malgudi
c. A Suitable Boy
d. Heat and Dust

(A)(d). (b). (c). (a)
(B) (b), (d), (c). (a)
(C) (b). (c). (a). (d)
(D)(b). (c), (d). (a)
65.Which agency among the following was of the view that use of English divides the people into two nations, the few
who govern and the many who are governed"?
(A) The Kunzru Committee (1955)

(B) The Education Commission (1948)
(C) The Education commission (1964-66)
(D) The working Group (UGC) on Regional Languages (1978)
66.Which of the following short stories by Edgar Allan Poe has a narrator who has a rival with the same name and
uncanny physical resemblance?
(A) bilop Frog"

(B) "William Wilson"
(C) "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"
(D) "The Imp of the Perverse"
67.Language allows us to talk about the things and events not present in immediate environment. Which of the
following terms describes this property of language?
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(A) Arbitrariness
(B) Displacement
(C) Productivity
(D) Discreteness
68.Which agency among the following made a distinction between the teaching of English as a skill and the teaching of
English literature?
(A) The university Education Commission. 1948-49

(B) The Secondary Education Commission, 1952-53
(C) Indian Universities Commission. 1902
(D) The Edulation Commission, 1964-66.
69.Which one of the following captures accurately the view of Frankfart School of Critical Theory?
(A) The culture industries in still in their mass audiences a capacity to question and transform
(B)The culture industries engender passivity and conformity among their mass audiences
(C)Power and culture are two distinct modes of social articulation, separate from each other
(D)The analysis of culture should be divorced from politics and power relations
70.Which two of the following features shall apply to Roland Barthes's notion of a 'writerly text?
(a)In case of writerly text, the reader accepts the meaning without too much reading effort
(b)A writerly text tends to focus attention on what is written
(c)A writerly text makes the reader a produce
(d)A writerly text tends to be self-conscious.

(A)(a) and (b) Only
(B) (b) and (c) Only
(D)(c) and (d) Only
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71.Which two of the following are non-fictional works by Peter Ackroyd?
(a)Escape from Earth

(b)The Great Fire of London
(c)The English Ghost
(d)English Music
(A)(a) and (b) Only

(D)(b) and (d) Only
72.Arrange these autobiographical texts in the chronological order of publication :
(a)Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

(b)My Experiments with Truth
(c)Prison and Chocolate Cake
(d)My Story
(A) (d). (a), (c), (b)

(B) (c). (b). (a), (d)
(C) (b). (a). (c), (d)
(D)(b). (c). (a). (d)
73.Which two of the following were published in the year 1859?
(a)On the Origin of Species

(b)A Tale of Two Cities
(c)Alice in Wonderland
(d)Silas Marner

(A)(a) and (b) Only
(D)(b) and (d) Only
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74.Who wrote the essay "Naipaul's India and Mine" (1984) as a reply to V.S. Naipaul's An Area ofDarkness?
(A)A.K. Ramanujan
(B)Nissim Ezekiel
(C)Nayantara Sahgal
(D)Mahesh Dattani
75.Which two of the following are Samuel Johnson's statements about metaphysical poets?
(a)they were singular in their thoughts

(b)they were careful in their diction
(c)they effected combination of dissimilar images
(d)they avoided occult resemblances
(A) (b) and (c) Only
(B) (c) and (d) Only
(C) (b) and (a) Only
(D) (a) and (c) Only
76.Which of the following groups of words correctly states the stages of communication as envisioned byStuart Hall in
his essay "Encoding. Decoding"?
(A)Production, transference, circulation, contact, reproduction

(B)Production, circulation, realisation, consumption, reproduction
(C)Production, circulation, distribution, consumption, reproduction
(D)Production, dissemination, transference, consumption, reproduction
77.Arrange the following in their chronological order of publication:
(a)The Pisan Canto

(b)Ballad of Reading Goal
(c)Mourn not for Adonais
(d)First step up Parnassus
(e)The Complaint of Troilus
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(A)(e). (d). (b). (c). (a)

(B) (b). (c). (a). (e), (d)
(C) (c). (a). (b). (d), (e)
(D)(e). (d). (c). (b). (a)
78.What does the titular Setebos in Robert Browning's "Caliban upon Setebos" refer to?
(A)The original name of Sycorax, Caliban's mother

(B)The brutal god in whom Caliban believes
(C)The name of the island in which Caliban lives
(D)The monster whom Caliban is afraid of
List I List II
Word Borrowed Source Language
a. Caste (i)Norse
b. Beef (ii)German
c. Blunder (iii)Portuguese
d. Flak (iv)French
(A)(a)-(iii). (b)-(i). (c)-(iv). (d)-(ii)

(B)(a)-(ii). (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii). (d)-(i)
(C)(a)-(iii). (b)-(iv). (c)-(i). (d)-(ii)
(D)(a)-(ü). (b)-(iv). (c)-). (d)-(iii)
80. Arrange the following plays in their chronological order:
(a)The Tempest
(b)All For Love
(c) Volpone
(d)The School for Scandal

(A)(a). (c). (b). (d)
(B) (c). (a), (b). (d)
(C) (c). (b). (a), (d)
(D)(a), (d). (b). (c)
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81.Which two of the following are the interludes in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga (1922)
(a)To Let
(b)Indian Summer of a Forsyte
(c)Awakening
(d)In Chancery

(A)(a) and (b) Only
(D)(b) and (d) Only
82.Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion (A):No piece of research will be the first of its kind
Reason (R): The reliability of progress in knowledge is dependent on the honesty of the researchers.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A)Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(B)Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false
(D)(A) is false but (R) is true
83.Which two of the following citations conform to the documentation format of the eighth edition of theMLA Hand
book?
(a)Baron, Naomi S. "Redefining Reading: The impact of Digital Communication Media".PMLA, vol 128,no.1,
Jan.2013,PP. 193-200.
(b)Adichie, Chimamanda Ngosi. "On Monday of Last Week", The Thing Around Your Neck.London: Knopf, 2009. 74-
94
(c)Baron, Naomi S. "Redefining Reading: The impact of Digital communication Media".PMLA 128.1 (2013): 193-200.
(d)Adichie, Chimamanda Ngosi "On Monday of Last Week". The Thing Around Your NeckAlfred A. Knopf, 2009, PP.
74-94

(A)(a) and (b) only
(B) (a) and (d) only
(C) (b) and (c) only
(D)(c) and (d) only
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84.Inductive method differs from deductive method in drawing its conclusion from
(A)Verification
(B)Particular instances
(C)Applications
(D)General truths
85.How does Christ respond to the Grand Inquisitor's accusations in Brothers Karamazov?
(A)He kneels before the Grand Inquisitor

(B)He kisses the Grand Inquisitor on his lips
(C)He begins to weep in remorse
(D)He says. "Mea culpa, mia culpa, mia maxima culpa"
List I List II
Critics Essays
(a)L.C. Knights (i)The Study of Poetry"
(b)Lionel Trilling (ii)" Restoration Comedy: The Reality and the Myth
(c)Matthew Arnold (iii)" poetry for poetry’s sake”
(d)A.C. Bradley (iv)"The Sense of the Past"
(A)(a)-(iii). (b)-(iv),. (c)-(i). (d)-(ii)

(B)(a)-(ii). (b)-áv), (c)-(i). (d)-(iii)
(C)(a)-(iv). (b)-(i). (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
(D)(a)-(iv). (b)-(iii), (c)-(i). (d)-(i)
87.In which two of the following plays does the blind seer, Tiresias, appear?
(a)Oedipus the King

(b)Agamemnon
(c)Antigone
(d)Oedipus at Colonus
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(A)(a) and (b) Only
(D)(c) and (d) Only
88.Which two of the following poets defended poetry against Plato's denigration of Poetry?
(a)John Dryden
(b)P.B. Shelley
(c)T.S. Eliot
(d)Philip Sidney
(A)(b) and (d) Only

(B) (a) and (b) Only
(D)(c) and (a) Only
89.Who among the following has coined the term, 'genderlect?
(A)Lydia Callis
(B)Kate Burridge
(C)Deborah Tannen
(D)Mary Haas
90.Which two of the following poems by Seamus Heaney come under his Bog Poems?
(a)"Personal Helicon"
(b)"Punishment"
(c)"The Early Purges"
(d)"Tollund Man
(A)(a) and (b) Only

(D)(b) and (d) Only
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comprehension
WHEN I'M ALONE
When I'm alone' - the words tripped off his tongue As though to be alone were nothing strange. When I was young', he
said, when I was young ...'
I thought of age, and loneliness, and change, I thought how strange we grow when we're alone, And how unlike the
selves that meet, and talk, And blow the candles out, and say good-night, Alone ..The word is life endured and known. It
is the stillness where our spirits walk And all but in most faith is overthrown.
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
91.For the poet, Being alone' is a condition conducive to
(A)happiness of the self

(B) becoming different from others
(C) growing up in an unexpected way
(D)thinking in a strange way
92.For the speaker of the words When I'm alone', being alone is
(A)The normal fate of a human being all his life

(B)The normal fate of a human being when he is young
(C)Not unlike being with others whom we meet
(D)Not strange as a person should feel alone
93.Which two of the following statements aptly captures the meaning of 'Alone' for thinking beings?
(A)Meeting talking and bidding goodnight

(B)Quietude and calmness of self
(C)Life lived and understood
(D)Becoming free from faith

(A)(a) and (b) Only
(B)(b) and (c) Only
(C)(c) and (a) Only
(D)(d) and Only
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94.Read the following passage and answer questions that follow
Poetry, as a mania - one of Plato's two higher forms of "divine" mania - has, in all its species, a mere insanity incidental
to it, the "defect of its quality", into which it may lapse in its moment of weakness; and the insanity which follows a
vivid poetic anthropomorphism like that of Rossetti may be noted here and there in his work, in a forced and almost
grotesque materialising of abstractions, as Dante also became at times a mere subject of the scholastic realism of the
Middle Age.
Walter Pater
In the above, passage poetry is described as one of Plato's two higher forms of divine madness. Which is the other one?
Choose the correct option?

(A)Beloved
(B)Love
(C) Jealously
(D)Lover
95.Read the following passage and answer questions that follow

Poetry, as a mania - one of Plato's two higher forms of "divine" mania - has, in all its species, a mere insanity incidental
to it, the "defect of its quality", into which it may lapse in its moment of weakness; and the insanity which follows a
vivid poetic anthropomorphism like that of Rossetti may be noted here and there in his work, in a forced and almost
grotesque materialising of abstractions, as Dante also became at times a mere subject of the scholastic realism of the
Middle Age.
Walter Pater
In Rossetti, the forced personifications may be :
(a)an incidental defect of poetic quality

(b)examples of a madness of thought
(c)an exaggerated concretisation of things
(d)a divinely inspired poetic expression
(A)(a) and (b) Only

(B)(d) and (c) Only
(C)(b) and (a) Only
(D)(c) and (a) Only
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96.Read the following passage and answer questions
I do entreat your grace to pardon me.

I know not by what power I am made bold,
Nor how it may concern my modesty.
In such a presence here to plead my thoughts:
But I beseech your grace that I may know
The worst that may be fall me in this case.
If I refuse to wed Demetrius.
--A Midsummer's Night Dream
Who was in love with Demetrius?
(A)Hippolyte
(B)Helena
(C)Thisbe
(D)Hermia
97.I do entreat your grace to pardon me.

Who is the speaker of the above lines?
(A)Helena
(B)Thisbe
(C)Peasblossom
(D)Hermia
98.I do entreat your grace to pardon me.

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The above lines are addressed to
(A)Theseus
(B)Egeus
(C)Oberon
(D)Plilostrate
99.Read the following and the answer the questions that follow
He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged
before him, one after another, to see what they contained. Say, good M'Choakumchild. When from thy boiling store,
thou shalt fill each jar brim full by and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking
within - or sometimes only maim him and distort him.
Dickens Hard Times
In the expression "... looking into all the vessels ranged before him...". which one of the following devices is used?
(A)Synecdoche
(B)Metonymy
(C)Metaphor
(D)Simile
100.. Read the following and the answer the questions that follow
He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged
before him, one after another, to see what they contained. Say, good M'Choakumchild. When from thy boiling store,
thou shalt fill each jar brim full by and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking
within - or sometimes only maim him and distort him.
Dickens Hard Times
Fancy' is opposed to which two of the following?
(a)Emotion
(b)Reason
(c)Fact
(d)Imagination

(A)(b) and (c) Only
(B) (c) and (d) Only
(D)(b) and (d) Only
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Answer key
Q.NO ANS Q.NO ANS

1 C 51 C
2 C 52 C
3 B 53 D
4 A 54 D
5 B 55 B
6 B 56 D
7 B 57 C
8 D 58 C
9 C 59 C
10 C 60 B
11 B 61 D
12 B 62 B
13 C 63 D
14 A 64 A
15 B 65 B
16 D 66 B
17 C 67 B
18 D 68 D
19 C 69 B
20 C 70 D
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21 C 71 B
22 D 72 C
23 C 73 A
24 C 74 B
25 A 75 D
26 C 76 C
27 B 77 DROPPED
28 B 78 B
29 C 79 C
30 B 80 B
31 B 81 C
32 A 82 B
33 B 83 DROPPED
34 D 84 B
35 A 85 B
36 D 86 C
37 C 87 B
38 C 88 A
39 DROPPED 89 C
40 D 90 D
41 A 91 C
42 A 92 A
43 C 93 B
44 C 94 B
45 B 95 D
46 C 96 B
47 C 97 D
48 A 98 A
49 B 99 C
50 B 100 A
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Q.1 Which among the following group of writers is labeled as “University Wits”?
1. Thomas Lodge, Thomas Wilson, Walter Raleigh
2. John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, George Peele
3. Thomas kyd, Francis Beaumont, John Lyly
4. Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe
Q.2 which cultural analyst has combined the study of different dimensions of youth
culture with commentary on developments in cultural theory and politics?
1. Angela Mc Robbie
2. Donna Horraway
3. Linda Hutcheon
4. Julia Kristeva
Q.3 Give Below are two statements one is labeled as Assertion (A) and the other is
labeled as Reason (R) Assertion (A): Only actual research develops research skills.
Reasons (R): Information is discrete, whereas knowledge consists of a network of
connections.
In the light of the above two statements, choose the correct option:
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Both (A) and (R) true and is not the correct explanation of (A)
3. (A) is true, but is (R) false
4. (A) is false, but is (R) true
Q.4 which of the following is a collaborative work of W.H. Auden and Christopher
Isherwood?
1. Letters from Iceland
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2. The Dance of Death
3. The Ascent of F6
4. The Orators
Q.5 Who among the following prose writers of the Romantic period authored “On
Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts”?
1. Charles Lamb
2. Walter Savage Lander
3. Thomas De Quincey
4. Anne Radclife
Q.6 In which of the following essays did Charles Lamb _rst use the
pseudonym/persona, Elia?
1. “My First Play”
2. “The Two Races of Men”
3. “New Year’s Eve”
4. “The South Sea House”
labeled as Reason (R) Assertion (A): Many modern British writers infused their works
with an entrance sense of uncertainty, disillusionment and despair.
Reasons (R): The Waste Land ends in a furry of random allusions.
3. (A) is true, but is (R) false
4. (A) is false, but is (R) true
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Q.8 Which two of the following works were published after 1947?
1. The Dark Room
2. Sampath: A Printer of Malgudi
3. Seven Summers
4. The Big Heart
Q.9 Which one of the following observations of “Lost Generation”. A term coined by
Gertude Stein, is correct?
1. German Jews who survived the Second World War and went to Israel
2. The American expatriates in Europe after the First World War
3. The Irish Freedom fighters of the early Twentieth Century
4. The European living in America
labeled as Reason (R) Assertion (A): Dialects are the bread range of social as well as
regional varieties Reasons (R): A dialect describes variations not only at the
phonological level, but also at the levels of texts and syntax.
3. (A) is true, but is (R) is false
4. (A) is false, but is (R) is true
Q.11 Which of the following work by Henry Fielding begins as a parody of Samuel
Richardson’s Pamela?
1. Tom Jones
2. Don Quixote
3. Amelia
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4. Joseph Andrews
Q.12 Which of the following statements is correct?
1. Langue is the language system, and Parole, the individual usage.
2. Langue is the language usage, and Parole, the individual system.
3. Langue is the language in abeyance, and Parole, the individual application.
4. Langue is the language collective, and Parole, the individual deviation.
Q.13 Of the five conditions of the Sublime, according to Longinus, the most
important condition is:
1. Vigorous treatment of passions
2. Majesty of the structure
3. A lofty cast of mind
4. A wide range of thoughts
Q.14 What is the correct chronological order of the publication of the following?
1. German Grammar (Jacob Grimm)
2. Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek
Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic and German (Franz Bopp)
1. An Investigation into the Origin of Old Norse or Icelandic Language (Rasmus
Rask)
2. Concerning the Conjugation System of the Sanskrit Language in Comparison with
those of the Greek, Latin, Persian and German Language (Franz Bopp)
1. (a), (b), (c) and (d)
2. (b), (c), (d) and (a)
3. (c), (d), (a) and (b)
4. (d), (c), (b) and (a)
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Q.15 The following is a list of key critical terms. Which is the right chronological order
of their formulation?
1. Langue- the unconscious- difference- heresy of paraphrase
2. The unconscious- langue- heresy of paraphrase- difference
3. Difference- langue-heresy of paraphrase- the unconscious
4. Langue- difference- the unconscious- heresy of paraphrase
Q.16 which of the following characters in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour Last over uses
formal Latinate diction?
1. Holofernes
2. Dull
3. Costard
4. Moth
Q.17 Which one of the following has two heroes with the same name?
1. The Island of the Mighty
2. The German Goddess
3. Animal Farm
4. Armadale
Q.18 Which of the following plays by T.S Eliot is in the correct chronological order of
publication?
1. Murder in the Cathedral- The Family Reunion- The Cocktail Party- The
Confidential Clerk
2. The Cocktail Party- The Confidential Clerk- The Family Reunion – Murder in the
Cathedral
3. The Family Reunion- The Cocktail Party- Murder in the Cathedral- The
Confidential Clerk
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4. The Confidential Clerk- Murder in the Cathedral- The Cocktail Party- The Family
Reunion
Q.19 Which of the following describes Foucault’s views on knowledge?
1. Knowledge is not metaphysical or transcendental
2. Knowledge is not a matter of perspective.
3. Knowledge is not pure or neutral but is always from a point of view
4. Knowledge is unconstrained by regimes of power
Q.20 which of the following periods of English Literature is also called “Puritan
Interregnum”?
1. The Neoclassical Period
2. The Caroline Age
3. The Restoration
4. The Commonwealth Period
Q.21 Which of the following _ctional characters is in the right Chronological order?
1. Uncle Toby- Man Friday- Stephen Dedalus- Miss Havisham
2. Stephen Dedalus- Man Friday – Uncle Toby- Miss Havisham
3. Man Friday- Uncle Toby- Miss Havisham –Stephen Dedalus
4. Miss Havisham- Uncle Toby- Stephen Dedalus- Man Friday
Q.22 Who among the following has written a series of poems entitled. “Very Indian
Poems in Indian English”?
1. Vikram Seth
2. Arun Kolatkar
3. Nissim Ezekiel
4. Keki N Daruwalla
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Q.23 Who made the remark: “Great literature is simply language charged with
meaning to the utmost possible degree”?
1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. Ezra Pound
3. B. Yeats
4. S. Eliot
Q.24 Which of the following stylistic features characterize spoken discourse?
1. Greater use of explicit connectives
2. Greater dependence on verbal connectives
3. Greater syntactic embedding
4. Greater use of fillers and repitions
Choose the correct option:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Q.25 Which two of the correctly describe the features of Wuthering Heights?
1. Flash backs and time shifts
2. Oedipal obsessions
3. Magic and ritual
4. Acute evocation of place
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (a) and (d)
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4. (c) and (d)
Q.26 Who among the following are associated with the ‘Jazz Age’?
1. Ernest hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald
2. Scott _tzgerald and John Dos Passos
3. John das passos and Sherwood Anderson
4. Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson
Q.27 The key _gures in the development of British cultural studies are
1. Richard Hoggard
2. Raymond Williams
3. Stuard Hall
4. Lawrence Grossberg
The most appropriate option is:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a),(b) and (c)
4. (b),(c) and (d)
Q.28 Which two of the following are autobiographical narratives?
1. Kanthapura
2. Meatless Days
3. Prison and Chocolate Cake
4. The God od small things
The correct option is:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a) and (c)
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4. (c) and (d)
Q.29 In the following list, which two actors belong to the Elizabethan period?
1. Richard Burbage
2. Will kempe
3. David Garrick
4. John Kemble
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (a) and (b)
4. (c) and (d)
Q.30 How many tales and pilgrims are there in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?
1. 24 pilgrims and 23 tales
Q.31 Match the types of writing with their descriptions:
(a) exegesis
I. Writing about saints’ lives
(b) invective
II. Detailed explanation of
a passage
(c) hagiography
III. A defence or
justi_cation of one’s actions and beliefs
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(d) apology
IV. A bitterly critical attack of something
1. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
2. (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
4. (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
Q.32 Match the works with authors
a) Homi bhabha i. Saving the text
b) Geoffrey Hartman ii. The location of cultute
c) Edward said iii. Desire in language
d) Julia Kristeva iv. Culture and imperialism
1. (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
2. (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
3. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
4. (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)
Q.33 which two concepts developed by the French sociologist pierre bourdieu, have
become increasingly influential in cultural studies?
1. Dissemination
2. Gynesis
3. Cultural capital
4. Habitus
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (c)
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3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Q.34 Which of the following is the correct chronological order of publication of the
following poems?
1. Lamia- Paradise lost- Alastor- The dunciad
2. The dunciad- Alastor- Lamia- Paradise lost
3. Alastor- The dunciad- Paradise lost- Lamia
4. Paradise lost- The dunciad- Alastor- Lamia
Q.35 What is the chronological order of the appearance of the following periodicals?
1. The tattler
2. The spectator
3. The Examiner
4. The reflector
1. (b), (a), (d) and (c)
2. (c), (b), (a) and (d)
3. (a), (b), (c) and (d)
4. (d), (a), (b) and (c)
Q.36 Match the periodicals with their writers/ contributors
a) The Rambler i. Charles Dickens
b) Macmillan’s Magazine ii. Samuel Johnson
c) The guardian iii. David Masson
d) Bentley’s Miscellany iv. Richard Steele
1. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
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2. (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
3. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
4. (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
Q.37 In which of the following works is the character ‘Ariel’ an exclusion?
1. The tempest
2. Paradise lost
3. The rape of the lock
4. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Q.38 Which two aspects of cultural diffusion in the Age of Globalization need to be
addressed by pedagogy of language in general and of English in particular?
1. Uni directionality
2. Multi directionality
3. Complex and extensive
4. Simplistic and abbreviated
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (d) and (a)
Q.39 Which of the following set of characters in Charles Dickens’ novels is in the right
chronological order?
Bounderby – David Copper_eld- Mrs. Mann- Nathaniel Winkle
David Copper_eld- Mr. Bounderby- Nathaniel Winkle- Mrs. Mann
Nathaniel winkle- Mrs. Mann- David Copper_eld- Mr. Bounderby
Mann- David Copper_eld- Nathaniel winkle- Mr. Bounderby
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Answer: 3
Q.40 Which two principal kinds of melancholy are proposed by Robert Burton in
volume III of Anatomy of melancholy?
1. ‘Love’
2. ‘Religious’
3. ‘Morbid’
4. ‘Psychic’
1. (a) and (b)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (b) and (d)
4. (c) and (d)
Q.41 Match the works with authors:
a) Bodies that matter i. Camille paglia
b) A world of di_erence ii. Elaine showalter
c) A literature of their own iii. Barbara Johnson
d) Vamps and thamps iv. Judith butler
1. (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
2. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
4. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
Q.42 Match the following technological advancements impacting learning and
teaching of language with their corresponding years:
a) Hypertext markup language (HTML) i. 2004
b) Streaming of video on theinternet ii. 2003
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c) My space.com iii. 1991
d) Facebook iv. 1997
1. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
2. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
3. (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
4. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
Q.43 Examples of poetic compounding are found in the work of which two modernist
writers?
1. Graham Greene
2. James Joyce
3. Gerard Manley Hopkins
4. Stephen spender
1. (c) and (d)
2. (a) and (b)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (a) and (c)
Q.44 Which British administrator passed a resolution for the “Promotion of European
literaters and science among the natives of India”?
1. Lord Hastings
2. Lord Cornwallis
3. Lord Bentinck
4. Lord hardinage
Q.45 In which one of the following Middle English poems is Hector a character?
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1. Troilus and Cressida
2. Piers plowman
3. The seafarer
4. Beowulf
Q.46 Which two of the following poems can be categorized as poems belonging to
the neo-classical period of English literature.
1. “The ring and the book”
2. “The Vanity of human wishes”
3. “Cato”
4. “Lamia”
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (d)
Q.47 Which of the following arrangements of prose-pamphlets is in the right
1. The shortest way with dissenters – A modest proposal – Areopagitica – Reflections
on the revolution in France
2. A modest proposal – The shortest way with dissenters- Areopagitica –
Reflections on the revolution in France
3.Areopagitica- The shortest way with dissenters – A modest proposal–
Reflections on the revolution in France
4. Areopagitica – Reflections on the revolution in France- The shortest way with
Dissenters – A modest proposal
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Q.48 Which arrangements of D.H Lawrence’s novels is in the correct chronological
sequence?
1. Kangaroo- The Plumed Serpent- Sons and Lovers – The rainbow
2. Sons and Lovers – The rainbow- Kangaroo- The Plumed Serpent
3. The rainbow- The Plumed Serpent- Kangaroo- Sons and Lovers
4. The rainbow- Kangaroo- The Plumed Serpent- Sons and Lovers
Q.49 Which three of the following poets figure in William Dunbar’s lament for the
makers?
1. Geoffrey Chaucer
2. John Gower
3. Robert henryson
4. William Langland
Choose the most appropriate option:
1. (a), (b) and (d)
2. (a), (b) and (c)
3. (b), (c) and (d)
4. (a), (c) and (d)
Q.50 Match the author with the text:
a) Rita Kothari i. The queen’s hinglish
b) Probal dasgupta
ii. The indianization of
English
c) Braj b. kachru iii. Translating India
d) Baljinder k. mahal
iv. The otherness of
English
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1. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
2. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
4. (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
Q.51 Which combination in the following constitutes the trilogy oresteia?
1. Agamemnon, The Persians, Eumenides
2. The Persians, The suppliants, Agamemnon
3. Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
4. Seven against Thebes, Agamemnon, The suppliants
Q.52 In paradise lost Milton invokes his ‘heavenly muse’, ‘urania’, at the beginning of
which two books?
1. Book I
2. Book IV
3. Book IX
4. Book VII
1. (a) and (d)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Q.53 Who among the following proposed that the English Language is “man made”,
not “woman made”?
1. Mary Has
2. Dorothy L Sayers
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3. Dale Spender
4. Carol Chomsky
Q.54 Which two of the following statements are applicable to feminist criticism?
1. Recuperate the female writers ignored by the canon
2. Fully endorse the social construction of gender
3. Valorize the traditional canon uncritically
4. Mostly reject the essentialising of ‘male’ and ‘female’
Choose the correct option
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a) and (d)
4. (a) and (c)
labeled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): The Primary component in novelistic forms is a plot that evolves
coherently from its beginning to a end in which all complications are resolved.
Reasons (R): The novel is constituted by a multiplicity of divergent and contending
social voices that achieve their full significance only in the process of their dialogic
interaction both with each other and with the voice of the narrator.
3. (A) is true, but (R) false
4. (A) is false, but (R) true
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Q.56 What does Socrates mean when in Plato’s Ion, he says “Poets are nothing but
the interpreters of gods”?
1. The Poets are the markers of their poems
2. The Poets are acutely aware of gods in composing their poems
3. The Poets are divinely possessed when they compose their poems
4. The Poets first hear what gods say then put than into words
Q.57 Now often did Richard Steel’s Tatler appear every week and how many issues of
Tatler I total were published?
1. Two times a week; 171 issues
2. Once a week; 151 issues
3. Three times a week; 271 issues
4. Three times a week; 26 issues
Q.58 Which one of the following novels by Kingsley Amis represents its protagonist
as an ‘angry young man’?
1. I Like it Here
2. Lucky Jim
3. The Biographer’s Moustache
4. The Great Man
Q.59 Who are the co-editors of Chutneyfying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish?
1. Jamuna Kachru
2. Rita Kothari
3. Rupert Snell
4. Alastair Pennycook
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Q.60 Which two aspects of cultural diffusion in the Age of Globalization need to be
addressed by pedagogy of language in general and of English in particular?
1. Uni Directionality
2. Multidirectionality
3. Complex and extensive
4. Simplistic and abbreviated
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (d) and (a)
Q.61 From whose work did John Milton take the epigraph to his Areopagitica?
1. Sophocles
2. Euripides
3. Plato
4. More
Q.62 Match the author with the story:
a) Edgar Allan Poe
i. “The Fall of the House of Usher”
b) E.M Forster ii. “The Prophet’s Hair”
c) Katherine Mans_eld iii. “The Garden Party”
d) Salman Rushdie
iv. “The Celestial Omnibus”
1. (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii),(c)-(i),(d)-(iv)
2. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii),(c)-(i),(d)-(ii)
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3. (a)-(i), (b)-(iv),(c)-(iii),(d)-(ii)
4. (a)-(ii), (b)-(i),(c)-(iv),(d)-(iii)
Q.63 Which two of the following are associated with Deconstruction?
1. Jacques Derrida
2. Raymond Williams
3. Paul De Man
4. Jonathan Dolli more
1. (a) and (b)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (a) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Q.64 In the UNESCO definition, a ‘Pamphlet’ is an unbound publication that is not a
periodical and contains:
1. No fewer than 5 and no more than 48 pages
Q.65 How Many syllables are there in the word intransigently?
1. Three
2. Six
3. Five
4. Four
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Q.66 Which two names from R.M Ballantyne’s Coral Island are repeated in William
Golding’s reworking of the same text as Lord of the Flice?
1. Ralph
2. Roger
3. Jack
4. Simon
1. (a) and (d)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Q.67 Which one of W.M Thackeray’s novels has the following as the closing
sentence? “Which of us I happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or having
it is satisfied”?
1. The Luck of Barry Lyndon
2. Pendennis
3. Vanity Fair
4. The History of Henry Esmond
Q.68 Match the poet with the opening line of the poem.
a) Shelley
i. I cry your mercy- pity love! Aye, love!
b) Coleridge
ii. The world is too much with us
c) Keats
iii. O world, O life, O time
d) Wordsworth
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iv. When true love burns desire is Love’s pure _ame
1. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
2. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
4. (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
Q.69 Which of the following books carried the additional title Sermon on the Sea?
1. The Religion of Man by Tagore
2. Essay on the Gita by Aurobindo
3. Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule by Gandhi
4. Christ and Satyagraha by Elwin
Q.70 Which two of the following novels deal with the theme of apartheid?
1. Purple Hibiscus
2. July’s People
3. Cry, The Beloved Country
4. The Mimic Men
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (a) and (d)
Q.71 Which of the following descriptions delineate Roman a Clef (Novel with key)?
1. A novel depicting the life of an artist from childhood to maturity
2. A novel using the altered names of the actual people of the time
3. A novel describing historical incidents with _ctional characters
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4. A novel giving the e_ect of realism by highlighting the social problems of the time
Q.72 Match the theorist with the text:
a) John Fiske i. Distinction
b) Michel de Certeau
ii. The Postmodern Condition
c) Pierre Bourdieu
iii. Reading the Popular
d) Jean Francois Lyotard
iv. The Practice of Everyday Life
1. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
2. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
4. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
Q.73 Which of the following tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales deals with the
murder of a child by Jews?
1. “The Monk’s Tale”
2. “The Second Nun’s Tale”
3. “The Prioress’s Tale”
4. “The Shipman’s Tale”
Q.74 Who did the following? “Discursive practice are not purely and simply modes of
manufacture of discourse. They take shape in technical ensembles, in institutions, in
behavioral schemes, in types of transmission and dissemination in pedagogical forms
that both impose and maintain them”
1. Roland Barthes
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2. Michel Foucault
3. Homi K. Bhabha
4. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Q.75 Which three of the following writers are associated with ‘kitchen sink drama’?
1. Arnold Wesker
2. John Arden
3. Shelagh Delaney
4. John Osborne
Choose the most appropriate option:
1. (a), (b) and (d)
2. (a), (b) and (c)
3. (b), (c) and (d)
4. (a), (c) and (d)
Q.76 Which of the following combinations best describes the typical methodology of
literary research?
1. Direct, empirical and quantitative
2. Phenomenological, speculative and abstract
3. Textual, critical and historical
4. Synoptic, conceptual and speculative
Q.77 Following Plato, which two of the following statements about
‘Phantasm and Semblance’ are correct?
1. ‘Phantasm’ is an image, while ‘Semblance is the real object’.
2. ‘Phantasm’ is the real object while ‘Semblance is only a resemblance’.
3. ‘Phantasm’ unlike semblance has the same proportional as the object.
4. Semblance is unreal’ but looks ‘real’ as compared to phantasm.
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1. (b) and (c)
2. (c) and (d)
3. (a) and (b)
4. (d) and (a)
Q.78 What is the order of publication of the following books of Noam Chomsky?
1. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
2. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
3. Syntactic Structures
4. Knowledge of Language
1. (d), (c), (b),(a)
2. (b), (c), (d), (a)
3. (c), (b), (a), (d)
4. (a), (b), (c), (d)
labeled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): Cultural Studies is simply the study of culture as a discrete entity
divorced from its social and political context.
Reasons (R): Cultural Studies aim to understand Culture in all its complex forms and
to analyse the Social and Political context within which it manifests itself.
3. (A) is true, but (R) is false
4. (A) is false, but (R) is true
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Q.80 Which term among the following will be applicable to a situation in which a
character initiates a scheme which depends for its success on the ignorance of the
poem against whom it is directed?
1. Con_ict
2. Intrigue
3. Ally
4. Foil
Answer: 2
Q.81 Which two of the following novels belong to the Victorian Age in English
Literature?
1. Pendennis
2. The Way of All Flesh
3. The Battle of the Books
4. Barchester Towers
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (d)
Q.82 Which one of the following titles of Robert Browning’s works means to disport
in the open air, to amuse oneself at random
1. Jocoseria
2. “Andrea del Sarto”
3. “Abt Voglet”
4. Asolando
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Q.83 Match the characters with the play:
a) Donalbain i. King Lear
b) Claudio ii. Macbeth
c) Nerissa iii. Merchant of Venice
d) Goneril iv. Measure for Measure
1. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
2. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
3. (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
4. (a)-(i), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
Q.84 Which of the following is the proper explanation of the concept of “Freytag’s
Pyramid”?
1. Analysis of the plot of a drama
2. Analysis of the characters of a drama
3. Analysis of the theme of conflict between a woman and two men in drama
4. Analysis of the different types of drama
Q.85 Which of the following movements was Arthur Symons was referring to as ‘an
interesting disease’ and ‘an over subtilizing refinement upon refinement’?
1. Celtic Revival
2. Romantic Movement
3. Decadence
4. Feminism
Answer: 3
Q.86 Who among the following theorists believes that the proliferation of television
images is producing a cultural condition a kin to ‘historical amnesia’?
1. Jean Baudrillard
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2. Ihab Hassan
3. Frederic Jameson
4. Daniel Bell
Q.87 Which of the following plays by Ben Jonson ends with the performamce of a
puppet play in imitation of Marlowe’s Hero and Leander?
1. The Alchemist
2. Volpone
3. Bartholomew Fair
4. Every Man in His Humour
Q.88 Which two of the following plays were written by Thomas Heywood?
1. Gorboduc
2. The Play called the Four P.P
3. The Play of the Weather
4. The Spanish Tragedy
1. (a) and (b)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (c) and (d)
Q.89 Which of the following is true of Aristotle’s Critical Position?
1. Writers are likely to be mere entertainers who appeal to the emotions and
passions of the audience.
2. Texts created by poets are almost inevitably inaccurate and defective as limitations
3. The best artitistic texts will be both complex and uni_ed: every part of the work will
be essential to it and will be linked to every other part.
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4. Texts should be judged on the basis of how accurately they imitate philosophical
truth.
Q.90 In the following list, which two journals relate to the field of postcolonial
literature?
1. Kunapipi
2. Interventions
3. Daedalus
4. Clio
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (b)
Q.91 Read the following poem and answer the questions:
HOME IS SO SAD
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped to the comfort of the last to go As if to
win them back. Instead, bereft of anyone to please, it withers so, having no heart to
put aside the theft. And turn again to what is started as, a joyous shot at how things
ought to be, Long fallen wide. You can see how it was: Look at the pictures and the
cutlery. The music in the piano stool. That vase.
Q 91. Why is the ‘home’ ‘Sad’?
1. Because it has waited in vain
2. Because its joy has faded
3. Because it remains unchanged
4. Because it is devoid of resident
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Q92. There is a ‘thief’ in the poem. Who is that ‘thief’?
1. The time that ticks away
2. The fate that overpowers
3. The tenant who leaves
4. The past that beckons
Q93. Why has the ‘home’ ‘withered’?
1. Because everything has to fade sooner or later
2. Because it has no longer the reason to be what it was
3. Because it is an organic entity in any case
4. Because it has been betrayed categorically
Q94. How was the home before it became ‘sad’?
1. It was as it would be
2. It was as it shall be
3. It was as it should be
4. It was as it could be
Read the following passage and answer the questions:
Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us
human. If we realized the horror and weight of lying, we would see that it is more
worthy of the stake than other crimes. I find that people normally waste time quite
inappropriately punishing children for innocent misdemeanors formenting them for
thoughtless actions which lead nowhere and leave no trace. It seems tome that the
only faults which we should vigorously attack as soon as they arise and start to
develop are lying and little below that, stubbornness. Those faults grow up with the
children. Once let the tongue acquire the habit of lying and it is astonishing how
impossible it is to make it give it up. That is why some otherwise decent men are
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object slaven to it. One of my tailors is a good enough fellow, but I have never heard
him once speak the truth, not even when it would help him, if he did so.
Q95. ‘Lying’ is a fault that should be punished only
1. When the first lie is uttered
2. When it becomes convenient
3. When it becomes stubborn
4. When it begins to turn into a habit
Q96. It is suggested in the passage that the tailor does never speak the truth because
1. He cannot keep the word he gives
2. He does not know lying is a crime
3. He thinks lying will help him.
4. He is a slave of his profession
Q97. According to the author “thoughtless actions”
1. Torment others
2. Are strictly not misdemeanors
3. Mean nothing and are soon forgotten
4. Are punishment for children
Q98. How does ‘lying’ affect human relationships?
1. It makes the relationships ‘human’
2. It reduces the a�nity among people
3. It promotes togetherness among diverse people
4. It does not affect at all as it is merely words
Q99. Read the following passage from Antigone and answer question
Creon: And yet wert bold enough to break the law
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Antigone: Yea, for these laws were not ordained by Zeus.
And she who sits enthroned with gods below,
Justice enacted not these human laws.
Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man,
Could’st by a breath annual and override.
The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven
The three kinds of laws implicit in Antigone’s response are:
1. Human, unwritten, written
2. Of Gods, of Zeus, of Justice
3. Of Gods, of Justice, of Man
4. Of Man, of Heaven, Of Zeus
Q.100 Read the following passage and answer the question
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was
the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredibility, it
was the season of light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it
was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short,
the period was far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities
insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of
comparison only.
The Age described in the above passage is best described as the Age of
1. Parallelisms
2. Inconsistencies
3. Contraries
4. Anomalies
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Answer Key (1-100)
Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 1 11 4 21 3 31 1 41 1 51 3 61 2 71 2 81 4 91 1
2 1 12 1 22 3 32 2 42 3 52 1 62 3 72 1 82 4 92 3
3 2 13 3 23 2 33 3 43 1 53 3 63 2 73 3 83 2 93 2
4 3 14 3 24 4 34 4 44 3 54 3 64 1 74 2 84 1 94 3
5 3 15 2 25 3 35 3 45 3 55 2 65 3 75 4 85 3 95 4
6 4 16 1 26 4 36 3 46 2 56 3 66 2 76 3 86 3 96 1
7 2 17 4 27 3 37 4 47 3 57 3 67 3 77 2 87 3 97 3
8 2 18 1 28 2 38 All 48 2 58 2 68 1 78 3 88 3 98 2
9 2 19 3 29 3 39 3 49 2 59 3 69 3 79 2 89 3 99 3
10 2 20 4 30 All 40 1 50 2 60 2 70 3 80 2 90 4 100 3
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June 2019
Q1. In which of the following paired terms, the relationship between the active and
passive forms of a sentence can be best established?
1. Deep structure—Surface structure
2. Signifier signified
3. Metaphor—Metonymy
4. Syntagmatic—Paradigmatic
Q2. For which one of the following reasons, in Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of
Dorian Gray, Gray breaks down when he sees his finished portrait?
1. Overwhelmed by the beauty of the portrait
2. Overjoyed by the feeling that his beauty will be known to all
3. Distraught by the fact that his beauty will fade while the portrait stays beautiful
4. Distraught by the badly drawn portrait
Q3. By which two of the following processes, according to Michel Foucault, does
power operate?
(a) By right rather than technique
(b) By normalization rather than law
(c) By control rather than punishment
(d) By repression rather than agreement
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (b) and (d)
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Q4. Identify the two names from the following who are associated with
Hermeneutics:
(a) Edmund Husserl
(b) E. D. Hirsch
(c) Martin Heidegger
(d) Stephen Greenblat
1. (a) and (c)
2. (a) and (b)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (b) and (d)
Q5. “He that is not with us is against us. He that is not against us is with us.” Who
said this?
1. Charles Lamb
2. Samuel Johnson
3. Francis Bacon
4. R. W. Emerson
Q6. In Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock who among the following painters is the
subject of conversation among the perambulating women?
1. da Vinci
2. Raphael
3. Michelangelo
4. Donatello
Q7. Who is the author of the essay, The Rationale of the Copy-Text?
1. Fredson Bums
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2. W. W. Greg
3. R. B. McKerrow
4. Paul Maas
Q8. In Which of Anita Desai’s novels does an insane wife kill her husband?
1. Voices in the City
2. In Custody
3. Cry, The Peacock
4. Baumgartner’s Bombay
Q9. Which one of the following novels of Jane Austen was abandoned unfinished?
1. Northanger Abbey
2. Persuasion
3. The Watsons
4. Emma
Q10. “Culture is ordinary: that is the first fact.” Which one of the following is the
source of this statement?
1 The Country and the City
2. Resources of Hope
3. The Long Revolution
4. Keywords
Q.11 Which of the following books is written by an Englishman in universal Latin, is
further added to by the Flemish Peter Giles, is revised by the Dutch Erasmus, is
printed at Louvain in 1516, later at Paris, still later at Basie, where it was illustrated by
two woodcuts from the hand of the German Holbein?
1. The Golden Legend
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2. Confessio Amantis
3. Utopia
4. Erewhon
Q12.Which of the following two points Were emphasised by ‘Wood’s Despatch of
1854’?
(a) Teaching of the English language along with the study of vernacular language
(b) Compulsory inclusion of Christianity in the curriculum
(c) The gradual Withdrawal of government patronage from Indian languages
(d) The importance of female education
1. (a) and (d)
2. (a) and (b)
3. (a) and (c)
4. (b) and (c)
Q.13 What is the name of the poetic style characterized by short staccato rhymed
lines, as shown below?
What can it avayle
To dryve forth a snayie,
Or to make a sayle
Of a herynges tayle?
1. Cranmerish
2. Wolseyan
3. Chaucerian
4. Skeltonic
Q.14 Which one of the following is the right definition of ‘peer review“?
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1. A post-publication process in which the work is submitted to a panel of reviewers
for ascertaining quality
2. A pre-publication process in which work submitted for publication is evaluated for
quality by experts in the field
3. A pre-publication process in which work submitted for publication is accompanied
by recommendation of other experts in the field
4. A post-publication process in which the work is submitted for a professional
review
Q.15What is the meaning of ‘langue’ in Saussurean linguistics?
1. Individual speech acts
2 An organized system of differences
3. The dialectic between thought and speech
4. Language in the abstract sense
Q.16“The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and
Joseph Conrad.” Which one of the following critical texts begins with the above
assertion?
1. Walter Allen, The English Novel
2. Terry Eagleton, The English Novel
3. F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition
4. Ian Watt, Rise of the Novel
Q.17 “The last temptation is the greatest reason to do the right deed for the wrong
reason.” (T . S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral)
Why is the ‘temptation’, ‘treason’ for the speaker of the lines?
1. It is only self-serving
2. It is not intended
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3. It violates a norm
4. It is conspiratorial
Q18. Match the works with Authors: Works
(a) Image-Music-Text
(b) Why Marx was Right
(c) Mirror and the Lamp
(d) Culture and Society
(i) M. H. Abrams
(ii) Raymond Williams
(iii) Roland Barthes
(iv) Terry Eagleton
Choose the correct option from those given below:
1- (a)-(i); (b)-(ii); (c-iv); (d-iii)
2- (a)-(iv); (b-iii); (c-ii); (d)-(i)
3- (a)-(ii); (b)-(i); (c)-(iii); (d)-(iv)
4- (a)-(iii); (b-iv); (c-i); (d-ii)
Q19.What was Gramsci’s term for cultural consensus supporting capitalism?
1. Monopoly
2. Ideology
3. Discourse
4. Hegemony
Q20.Which one of the following paired terms is correct in its explication?
1. Phonology—Sound system
2. Semiology—Ordering of speech sounds
3. Etymology—Sign system
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4. Morphology—Evolution of words
Q21. From among the following, identify the two correct statements in
Johnson’s criticism of Shakespeare:
(a) His Athenians are not sufficiently Greek and his kings not completely royal.
(b) He sacrifices virtue to convenience and is more careful to please than to instruct.
(c) He adheres to strict chronology and gives to one age or nation only its own
customs and opinions.
(d) He sacrifices reason, property and truth to pursue even a poor and barren
quibble.
1. (a) and (b)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Q22. Who among the following analysed the naturalizing of connotative meanings
into myths?
1 Michel Foucault
2. Roman Ingarden
3. J. Hillis Miller
4. Ronald Barthes
Q23. Match the following items/ideas with the writers who first
used/popularized them :
(a) The Frontier Thesis
(b) The Lost Generation
(c) Third Space
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(d) Structure of Feeling
(i) Raymond Williams
(ii) Homi Bhabha
(iii) F. J. Turner
(iv) Gertrude Stein
Choose the correct option from those given below :
1 (a)-(iv); (b)-(i); (c)-(ii); (d)-(iii)
2 (a)-(iii); (c)-(i); (c)-iv); (d)-(ii)
3 (a)-(iii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(ii); (d)-(i)
4- (a)-(i); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(ii)
Q24.Which of the following plays 18 characterized by the exclusivity of a Single
character talking to himself?
1. A Streetcar Named Desire
2. Equus
3. The Misanthrope
4. Krapp’s Last Tape
Q25.Which of the following aptly names the language resulting from the contact of
two mutually unintelligible language systems?
1. Creole
2. Dialect
3. Colloquial
4. Pidgin
Q26.What, according to Raymond Williams, is the right description of the term
‘Cultural Materialism’?
1. The cultural e�ect that religion has in social life
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2. The political e�ect that matter has in social lives
3. The material e�ect that culture has in wider social life
4. The e�ect of social life in cultural situations of uncertainty
Q27. Which one of the following is the source of the passage given below? “I have
observed with growing anxiety the career of this word culture during the past six of
seven years. We may find it natural, and significant, that during a period of
unparalleled destructiveness, this word should come to have an important role...”
1. F. R Leavis, Mass Civilization and Minority Culture
2. T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
3. Raymond Williams, Culture and Society
4. Stuart Hall, Cultural Representations and Signifizing Practice
Q28. Which of the following sociologists’ ideas on the practice of receiving and
giving gifts are used by J. Hillis Miller to reinforce her arguments in the essay, Critic
as Host.
1. Emile Durkheim
2. Max Weber
3. Marcel Mauss
4. Daniel Bell
Q29. What is the meaning of Ziauddin Sardar’s statement? “Cultural studies started
as a dissenting intellectual tradition outside academia, dedicated to exposing power
in all its cultural forms. But it has now become a discipline and a part of the academic
establishment and its power structure.”
1. Devolution
2. Displacement
3. Instuitionalization
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4. Dissension
Q30. Which artistic technique best describes the interplay of light and shade in the
following lines?
“I have looked at it so long
I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over
A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.”
1. Collage
2. Flashback
3. Montage
4. Chiaroscuro
Q31. Identify the stage that falls between the imaginary and symbolic stages
according to Jacques Lacan :
1. Middle stage
2. Minor stage
3. Medieval stage
4. Intermediate stage
Q32. Who’s the author of the short story, The Ghost of Firozsha Bang?
1. Vikram Seth
2 V. S. Naipaul
3. Kiran Desai
4. Rohinton Mistry
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Q33. Which one of the following correctly describes the meaning of Macbeth’s words
‘Life is but a walking shadow’?
1. Life is just devoid of light
2. Life is just devoid of substance
3. Life is just devoid of spirit
4. Life is just devoid of stability
Q34. Who among the following is celebrated in John Keats’s Lines on the Mermaid
Tavern?
1. Jack, the Ripper
2. Bryson of the Park
3. Jack, the Giant-Killer
4. Robin Hood
Q35. Who among the following is mourned in Walt Whitman’s 0 Captain! My
Captain!?
1. R. W. Emerson
2. John Keats
3. P. B. Shelley
4. Abraham Lincoln
Q36. Which type of textual copy is concerned with an assessment of the physical
details of the books and their exact relationship to the condition in which the book
was planned to appear at the time of its initial publication?
1. Real copy
2. Ideal copy
3. Initial copy
4. Base copy
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Q37.Which of the following works is reviewed in George Orwell’s essay, Inside the
Whale?
1. Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer
2. James Joyce’s Ulysses
3. D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
4. Anais Nin’s Delta of Venus
Q38. Which novel by J . G. Farrell describes the experiences of a polio Victim?
1. Troubles
2. The Singapore Grip
3. The Lung
4. The Hill Station
Q39.Which two writers have written essays on the defence of poetry?
(a) Sir Philip Sidney
(b) P. B. Shelley
(C) Mathew Arnold
(d) T. S. Eliot
l. (a) and (d)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (b)
Q40. Considering the story of the novel, what does the title Dombey and Son stand
for?
1. It suggests the choice between a son and a daughter
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2. It suggests the commercial aspect of life
3. It suggests the opposition between a father and a son
4. It suggests the importance of a dynasty
Q41. What term used by Ferdinand de Saussure corresponds to Noam Chomsky’s
term ‘performance’?
1. Difference
2. Parole
3. Paradigm
4. Langue
Q42. While looking for publication details of a book, a researcher may consult the
book’s copyright page, which may appear
1. just after the cover
2. usually the reverse of the title page
3. invariably the reverse of the title page
4. just before the title page
Q43. Match each of the following concepts/objects with the corresponding
description:
(a) Farce
(b) Props
(c) Music hall
(d) Closet drama
(i) Articles and objects used on the stage
(ii) Drama written to be read rather than acted
(iii) Characterized by broad humour, wild antics, slapsticks etc.
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(iv)Variety entertainment of songs, comic turns that _ourished in England through the
late 19th Century.
Choose the correct option from those given below:
1.(a-iv); (b-ii); (c-i); (d-iii)
2.(a-iii);(b-i); (c-iv); (d-ii)
3.(a-i); (b-iii); (C-ii); (d-iv)
4.(a-ii) (b-iv); (C-iii); (d-i)
Q44. From which Greek word does the term ‘comedy’ derive and what does it mean?
1. Comedia, largeness of heart
2. Komoidia, revel-song
3. Comedies, commodious
4. Komedieon, light foolery
Q45. Identify the author in whose works the character Ashenden appears many
times:
1. Dorothy Sayers
2. Daniel Defoe
3. D. H. Lawrence
4. Somerset Maugham
Q46. What, in sum, is Sidney’s point in the following?
“Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done;
neither with pleasant rivets, fruitless trees, sweet—smelling flowers, not what so ever
else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets
only deliver a golden” (Philip Sidney)
1. Works of art are superior to the natural world they represent
2. Works of art can often compete with the natural world represented by them
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3. Neither the poets nor the natural world they set forth equal nature’s rich tapestry
4. The natural world is far superior to the works of art that represent it
Q47. Which one of the following groups of novelists has, in the given order,
Captain Ahab, Hester Prynne, Roderick Usher and Daisy Miller as characters in their
novels?
1. Henry James, Edgar A. Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville
2. Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar A. Poe, Henry James
3. Edgar A. Poe, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville
4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar A. Poe, Henry James, Herman Melville
Q48. Which version of the Lyrical Ballads was the first one to have the Preface by
Wordsworth?
1. 1798
2. 1800
3. 1802
4. 1804
Q49. In which play, other than Julius Caesar, has Shakespeare depicted the Romans
better than the Roman writers themselves have done?
1. Troilus and Cressida
2. Coriolanus
3. Romeo and Juliet
4. Two Gentlemen of Verona
Q50. Given below are two statements—one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
is labelled as Reason (R): Assertion (A) : Instances of beliefs triggering action are
present in social life and may give rise to problems in determining ‘causality’.
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Reason (R) : Beliefs may not be accompanied by or give rise to logically appropriate
actions, and actions may occur which are consistent with motivations and intentions,
but they often, if not usually, also have unanticipated outcomes. In the light of the
above two statements choose the correct option:
2. Beth (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
Q51. Read the following lines:
IN A STATION OF THE METRO
The apparition of these faces in the crowd :
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Which of the following poetic programmes is illustrated by the above lines?
1. The Movement
2. Naturalism
3. Symbolism
4. Imagism
Q52. Who of the following are being talked about in the following lines?
“. .. you seem to misunderstand me,
By each at once her choppy finger laying
Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so.”
1. The plebeians in Coriolanus
2. The sisters in King Lear
3. The Witches in Macbeth
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4. The players in Hamlet
Q53. Which of the following novels by Iris Murdoch tells the story of an ageing
theatre celebrity who withdraws into a life of seclusion and writes a
diary/journal/novel?
l. The Sandcastle
2. Under the Net
3. The Sea, the Sea
4. Flight from the Enchanter
Q54.What does ‘Harlem Renaissance’ refer to?
1. A scientific and rational ethos, including freedom from superstition, in 18th century
Europe.
2. The flourishing of African American literature in the 19205 and 19305
3. A church system, overseen by a governing hierarchy of four courts, championed by
the English Puritans
4. The revelation of Christ to the Gentiles in the persons of the Magi
Q55. “To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lighting.” About which
Shakespearean actor Coleridge wrote the above line?
1. David Garrick
2. Richard Burbage
3. John Philip Kemble
4. Edmund Kean
Q56. What is ‘euphmism’?
1. Eulogical and adulatory style of writing
2. Discursive and hortatory style of writing
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3. Pompous and a_ected style of writing
4. Exalted and gland style of writing
Q57. What is the Priest’s entreaty to Oedipus in the opening scene of Oedipus Rex?
1. To liberate Thebes from the domination of the Sphinx
2. To rid Thebes of the plague that afflicts its people
3. To afford the Thebans the luxury of newer forms of worship
4. To send Creon to seek advice from the oracle of Delphi oracle
Q58. Match the following journals with their distinguishing aims and methods of
scholarship:
(a) Obsidian
(b) Clio
(c) Interventions
(d) Sign
(i) Literature, history and the philosophy of history
(ii) Literature and arts in the African diaspora
(iii) Feminist writing
(iv)Postcolonial Writing
Choose the correct option fiorn those given below :
1. (a)-(ii);(b)-(i);(c)-(iv); (d)-(iii)
2. (a)-(iv); (b)-(iii); (c)-(i); (d)-(ii)
3. (a)-(ii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(i); (d)-(iii)
4. (a)-(iii); (b-i); (c)-(iv); (d)-(ii)
Q59. Who among the following established and popularised the concept of ‘Cardinal
Vowels”?
l. A. S. Homby
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2. E. V. Lucas
3.Danial Jones
4. C. J. Dodson
Q60. Which one of the following arrangements of poets is in the correct
1. William Langland, William Dunbar, Layamon
2. William Langland, Layamon, William Dunbar
3. Layamon, William Langland William Dunbar
4. William Dunbar, Layamon, William Langland
Q61. Who speaks the following lines and to whom?
“0, look upon me, sir,
And hold your hands in benediction o’er me.
No, sir, you must not knee
1. Kent to Lear
2. Cordelia to Lear
3 Goneril to Lear
4. Regan to Kent
Q.62 Match the Novelist with the Publisher :
(a) Laurence Sterne
(b) Henry Fielding
(c) Frances Burney
(d) Daniel Defoe
(i) Thomas Lowndes
(ii) Andrew Millar
(iii) William Taylor
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(iv) Robert Dodsley
1. (a)-(iii); (b)-(i); (c)-(ii); (d)-(iv)
2. (a)-(ii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(i); (d)-(iii)
3. (a)-(iv); (b)-(ii); (c)-(i); (d)-(iii)
4. (a)-(ii); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(i)
Q63. All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have
(the idea of) what ugliness is; they all know the skill of the skillful, and in doing this
they have (the idea of) what the want of the skill is. So it is that existence and non-
existence gave birth to (the idea of) the other; that difficulty and ease produce (the
idea of) the other; that the length and shortness fashion out the one figure of the
other; that (the idea of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of one with the
other; that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of
one with another; and that: being before and behind give the idea of one following
another. Which one of the following is the correct meaning of the ominous little
phrase ‘the idea of in the first sentence of the passage?
1. Prior Knowledge
2. Prior imagination
3. Prior confirmation
4. Prior rejection
Q64. Why did T. S. Eliot assert that Virgil, not Homer, is the poet of Europe?
1. There are some initial moral concerns in Virgil
2. Virgil belongs to the Roman period
3. Homer was a pagan who was a renegade
4. Virgil wrote in Latin while Homer wrote in Greek
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Q65. Match the critics and their works: Critics Works
(a) Edward Said
(b) Terry Eagleton
(c) Francis Mulhern
(d) K. M. Newton
(i) The Illusion: of Postmodernism
(ii) Contemporary Marxist Criticism
(iii) Theory into Practice
(iv)Culture and Imperialism
1. (a-iv); (b-i); (c-ii); (d-iii)
2.(a-iv); (b-i); (c-iii); (d-ii)
3.(a-ii); (b-i); (c-iv); (d-iii)
4. (a-i); (b-ii); (c-iii); (d-iv)
Q66. Which of the following combinations correctly de_nes the phonological system
of Indian English in relation to Standard English?
(a) Absence of aspirated consonants
(b) Simplified vowel system
(c) Similar international pattern
(d) Presence of voiced aspirated consonants
Choose the correct option :
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (c) and (a)
4. (b) and (c)
Q67. Which of the following is the accurate description of ‘dramatic irony”?
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1. A character’s knowledge or expectation is contradicted by what the audience
knows, or by the outcome of events
2. An audience knows or expects something to happen but the events on stage turn
out to be different
3. Ironic events and expectations of actual actions and results converge in drama and
the audience feels rewarded
4. A dramatist’s irony reinforces his actors’ performance, thereby fulfilling audience
expectations
Q68. What is being described by Wordsworth in the following lines from his
poem, The Thorn?
I’ve measured it from side to side;
’Tis three feet long and two feet wide.
1. Fallen bough
2. A cradle
3. A small cot
4. An Infant’s grave
Q69. Which of the following poets does William Hazlitt call ‘Don Quixote-like’ in his
essay, My First Acquaintance with Poets?
1. William Wordsworth
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. William Cowper
4. Lord Byron
Q70. Which of the following poems by Thomas Hardy was originally titled By the
Century’s Deathbed?
1. The Minute Before Meeting
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2. Neutral Tones
3. The Darkling Thrush
4. The Oxen
Q71. The medieval English university organised its studies based on the seven liberal
arts Three of these, the trivium, referred to the study of
1. arithmetic, geometry, music
2. astronomy, music, logic
3. geometry, grammar, music
4. grammar, logic, rhetoric
Q72. Given below are two statements—one is labelled as Assertion (A) and
the other is labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : The dialects of English that have resulted from the regional
separation of English-speaking communities have not acquired the status of
languages.
Reason (R) : The Germanic dialects that are now Dutch, English, German, Swedish
etc., have become distinct owing to geographical dispersion.
In the light of the above two statements choose the correct option:
2. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
Q73.Which of the following statements best describes T.S. Eliot’s assertion that
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is an ‘artistic failure”?
1. Hamlet’s emotion is not adequately objectified
2 Hamlet’s feelings far outweigh the release of his emotions
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3. Hamlet’s obsession should have been within representational limits
4. Hamlet’s indecisiveness slows the steady progress of action
Q74. Which of the following correctly describes ‘black humour’ as a morbid and
provocative treatment of
1. old age and disease
2. youth and passionate love
3. death and disease
4. childhood and accident
Q75.Which of the following statements is true in terms of distribution of metrical
feet?
1. Anapaestic is to Dactylic as Trochaic is to Iambic
2. Trochaic is to Anapaestic as Dactylic is to Iambic
3. Iambic is to Trochaic as Anapaestic is to Dactylic
4. Dactylic is to Trochaic as Iambic is to Anapaestic
Q76.Which two titles from among the following deal with issues related to the
institutionalisation of English in post-independence India?
(a) Provocations
(b) Professing Literature
(c) The Lie of the Land
(d) The Muse Unchained
The right combination according to the code is
1. (a) and (d)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (b) and (c)
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4 (c) and (d)
Q77.Which of the following propositions refers to the recommendations of
Charles Grant?
1. The introduction of English as the medium of instruction in an Indian system of
education that included literature, art and craft
2. The introduction of English as the medium of instruction from lower levels in a few
states as an experiment
3. The introduction of English as the medium of instruction in a Western system of
education that included literature, natural sciences and mechanical inventions
4. The introduction of English as the medium of instruction in regional medium
institutions that included only literature
Q78.Which writer applied the term ‘cultural poetics’ to his own critical contribution to
make literature and arts as part of social practice?
1. Stephen Greenblatt
2. Mikhail Bakhtin
3. Jonathan Dollimore
4. Raymond Williams
Q79. Who says the following lines and to whom?
“If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i’ th’ other,
And I will look on both indi�erently.”
1. Octavius to Antony
2. Hamlet to Claudius
3. Brutus to Cassius
4. Casca to Calpumia
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Q80.Who among the following explored the shifting and contested power relations,
knowledge and the human body?
1. Louis Althusser
2. Cli�ord Geertz
3. Jacques Lacan
4. Michel Foucault
Q81.Match the character with the novel:
Character Novel
(a) Kate
(b) Florence
(c) Miss Havisham
(d) Agnes
(i) Great Expectations
(ii) Nicholas Nickleby
(iii) David Copperfield
(iv)Dombey and Son
1. (a)-(i); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(ii)
2. (a)-(ii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(i); (d)-(iii)
3. (a)- (iii); (b)-(i); (c)-(ii); (d)-(iv)
4. (a-iv); (b)-(ii); (c)-(iii); (d)-(i)
Q82.The Sadler Commission Report (1917—1919) was critical of the quality of
students graduating harm the university and had very perceptive remarks on English
and the use of mother tongue in Indian education. What was this Commission
appointed for?
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1. To examine the functioning of the Directorate of Public Instruction in Delhi
2. To study the problems of Calcutta University
3. To investigate and recommend teaching methods of languages generally
4. To evolve a three-language formula for the Indian schools
Q83.Who wrote a guide called How to Write a Doctoral Thesis: The Humanistic
Subjects, considered equal in standard to the American MLS Handbook or The
Chicago Manual of Style?
1. Alain Robbe-Grillet
2. Cesare Pavese
3. Umberto Eco
4. Leo Spitzer
Q84. Which of the following descriptions fits the unit of verse, Dacyl?
1. One stressed syllable followed by three unstressed syllables
2. One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
3. Two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable
4. Two stressed syllables followed by two unstressed syllables
Q85. Match the books with the writers:
(a) The Madwoman in the Attic
(b) The Wretched of the Earth
(c) Shakespearean Negotiations
(d) Is There a Text in This Class?
(i) Frantz Fanon
(ii) Stephen Greenblatt
(iii) Stanley Fish
(iv) Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
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1. (a)-(iii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(i); (d)-(ii)
2. (a)-(i); (b)-(ii); (c)-(iii); (d)-(iv)
3. (a)-(iv); (b)-(i); (c)-(ii); (d)-(iii)
4. (a)-(ii); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(i)
Q86.Who is referred to as ‘beast’ in the quote ‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat!
Spill his blood’ in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
1. Ralph
2. Piggy
3. Simon
4. Roger
Q87.Which among the following clusters matches the prose style that came to be
known as ‘CaIylese’?
1. Capital letters, exclamation marks, phrases in German
2. Question marks, long sentences, phrases in French
3. Frequent ellipses, Latin sayings, comic non-sequitors
4. Biblical phrases, capital letters, missing letters
Q88. Which one of the following of Plato’s beliefs/acts was Shelley countering by
saying that ‘poets are the acknowledged legislators of mankind”?
1. Banishment of poets from the republic
2. Distrust of value of poetry for mankind
3. Preference for legislators over poets
4. Description of poets as mad men
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Q89. It is an axiom in mental philosophy, that we can think of nothing which we have
not perceived When I say that we can think of nothing, I mean we can imagine
nothing, we can reason of nothing, we can remember nothing, we can foresee
nothing. The most astonishing combinations of poetry, the subtlest deductions of
logic and mathematics, are no other than combinations which the intellect makes of
sensations according to its own laws. A catalogue of all the thoughts of the mind,
and of all their possible modifications, is a cyclopaedic history of the universe.
According to the writer, perception is the basic epistemology. Which one of the
following is the other accepted epistemology?
1. Language
2. Experience
3. Inference
4. Simile
Q90. According to the passage given, which of the following correctly captures the
meaning of ‘a cyclopaedic history of the universe’?
1. The knowledge about the universe from its beginning to its possible end
2. A catalogue of rivers, mountains and continents
3. Statements about the universe based on logic and mathematics
4. A published encyclopaedia of the universe
Q91.Which of the following correctly list the two novels figuring the writer as a public
figure, as a celebrity and as grist for the academic mill?
1. Rabbit Redux and Rabbit, Run
2. Rabbit is Rich and The Coup I
3. Of the Farm and The Centaur
4. Bech: A Book and Bech is Back
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Q92. Which one of the following words best describes the heroes of Cervantes’ Don
Quixote, Mark Twain’s The Adventure: of Tom Sawyer and Thomas Mann’s The
Confessions: of Felix Krull”?
1. Ficelle
2. Picaro
3. Mannequin
4. Philanderer
Q93. Given below are two statements—one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
is labelled as Reason (R): Assertion (A): Language constructs meaning.
Reason (R): Language structures meanings depending on the speaking subjects’
perception, context and auditor(s).
In the light of the above two statements choose the correct option:
2. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
Q94. Who among the following is one of the University Wits?
1. Thomas Hooker
2. Thomas Nashe
3. Michael Drayton
4. William Harvey
Q95. In the study of AngIo-American literatures, certain distinguished names in
critical/editorial scholarship become synonymous with famous writers and periods of
literary history.
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Match the following names with their respective areas of scholarship:
(a) Edward Mendelson
(b) Jerome McGann
(c) Stanley Fish
(d) Hugh Kenner
(i) John Milton
(ii) Ezra Pound
(iii) W. H. Auden
(iv)Textual Scholarship
1. (a)-(ii); (b)-(i); (c)-(iv); (d)-(iii)
2. (a)-(iii); (b)-(iv); (c)-(i); (d)-(ii)
3. (a)-(iv); (b-iii); (c)-(ii); (d)-(i)
4. (a)-(iii); (b)-(ii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(i)
Answer: 2
Q96. Match the play with the subject matter of the play :
(a) The Doctor’s Dilemma
(b) You Never Can Tell
(c) Candida
(d) Arms and the Man
(i) Flouting of stage conventions
(ii) Satire on military heroes
(iii) Devaluation of social traditions
(iv) Mockery of physicians’ ignorance
l. (a)-(ii); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(i)
2. (a)-(iii); (b)-(i); (c)-(iv); (d)-(ii)
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3. (a)-(i); (b)-(ii); (c)-(iii); (d)-(iv)
4. (a)-(iv); (b)-(iii); (c)-(i) (d)-(ii)
Comprehension (Q97-Q100)
THE GROCER’S CHILDREN
The grocer’s children
eat day-old bread,
moldy cakes and cheese,
sot: black bananas
on stale shredded Wheat,
weeviled rice, their plates
heaped high with wilted
greens, bruised fruit,
surprise treats
from unlabelled cans,
tainted meat.
The grocer’s children
never go hungry.
Q97.Which of the following words best describes the last sentence of the poem?
1. Ironic
2. Paradoxical
3. Pathetic
4. Disdainful
Q98. Whose point of view seems to have been stated in the poem?
1. The Grocer’s
2. The children’s
3. The narrator’s
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4. The poet’s
Q99. What is suggested by the word ‘tainted’ in line 11?
1. Tinctured
2. Cooked
3. Spoiled
4. Boiled
Q100. How does the poem achieve its effect?
1. It lists a number of grocery items which do not have any tangible nutritive benefit
2. It presents a series of inedible fare in the face of the basic need to eat
3. It strays away from the tongue-in—cheek beginning to state the obvious
4. It posits the circumspect existence of a reasonable plan to alleviate hunger
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Answer Key (1-100)
1 1 11 3 21 4 31 All 41 2 51 4 61 2 71 4 81 2 91 4
2 3 12 1 22 4 32 4 42 2 52 3 62 3 72 2 82 2 92 2
3 2 13 4 23 3 33 2 43 2 53 3 63 1 73 1 83 3 93 1
4 1 14 2 24 4 34 4 44 2 54 2 64 1 74 3 84 2 94 2
5 3 15 1,4 25 4 35 4 45 4 55 4 65 1 75 3 85 3 95 2
6 3 16 3 26 3 36 2 46 1 56 3 66 2 76 2 86 3 96 4
7 2 17 1 27 2 37 1 47 2 57 2 67 1 77 3 87 1 97 1
8 3 18 4 28 3 38 3 48 2 58 1 68 4 78 1 88 3 98 3
9 3 19 4 29 3 39 4 49 2 59 3 69 1 79 3 89 3 99 3
10 2 20 1 30 4 40 1 50 1 60 3 70 3 80 4 90 1 100 2
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December 2018
Q1.The term ‘Digger’ is associated with a group of agrarian communists who
flourished in England in 1649-50 and were led by
1. Laurence Clarkson
2. Gerrard Winstanley
3. George Fox
4. John Lilburne
Q2. Who viewed Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge as representatives of a “sect of
poets …. Dissenters from the established systems in poetry and criticism” who
constituted “the most formidable conspiracy against sound judgement in matters
political”?
1. Henry Vaughhan
2. Francisco Franco
3. Ralph Vaughan
4. Francis Jeffrey
Q3. This poet was of the Auden generation and was only briefly a member of the
Communist party. In his poem, ”The Pylons”, he averred that the Pylons are “Bare like
nude giant girls that have no secrets”. This prompted the label, Pylon poets, for the
new generation of poets who were happy to use the gas works or pistons of a steam-
engine as poetic imagery. (Name this poet.)
1. Cecil Day Lewis
2. Christopher Isherwood
3. Stephen Spender
4. Louis MacNeice
Q.4. Which of the following is the most accurate description of Butler English ?
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1. A dialect of English spoken by the descendants of Anglo-Indians.
2. A pidgin, also called “Kitchen English” spoken by South Asians in Europe.
3. A minimal pidgin that emerged during colonial times in the Madras Presidency
4. Any non-grammatical variety of English used by menials in Commonwealth
countries.
Q5.S.T. Coleridge “Dejection: An Ode” opens with an epigraph which is a refrence to
a ballad. Identify the ballad.
1. “Ballad of the Goodly Fere”
2. “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
3. “Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence”
4. “Ballad of the Gibbet”
Q6.What is the delicate balancing act of Andrew Marvell’s “Horation Ode”?
1. Praising Roman virtues while endorsing Christian beliefs.
2. Celebrating the Restoration while regretting the frivolity of the new regime.
3. Praising feminine virtues while mocking the _xation on chastity.
4. Celebrating Cromwell’s victories while inviting sympathy for the executed King.
Q7.Who among the ancients prescribed that poetry should both instruct and delight?
1. Longinus
2. Plotinus
3. Aristotle
4. Horace
Q8.Braj Kachru has observed a tendency among Indian-English speakers and writers
to use hybridized lexical items. One example of this is
1. Jugarh
2. Ping-pong
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3. Chaywallah
4. Lathi-charge
Q9. Identify the Fireside poets of the US.
1. William Cullen Bryant, H.W. Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes
2. T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams
3. Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Seaton
4. Amy Lowell, Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley
Q10. Evelina was published in 1778
1. posthumously
2. using the name Fanny Burney
3. anonymously
4. under apseudonym
Q11. Allen Tate once made a useful distinction between structure and texture. The
distinction referred to
1. The main line of a narrative, argument, etc., and the rhetorical, stylistic,
metaphorical and other devices respectively.
2. The devices employed to enlighten objects and materials in a narrative, and the
objects and material themselves, respectively.
3. Objects and materials on which a narrative casts light, and the devices employed
to enlighten them respectively.
4. The rhetorical, stylistic, metaphorical and other devices, and the main line of a
narrative, argument, etc., respectively
Q12. Match the poem with the opening lines:
(a) “Ode to Psyche”
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(b) “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
(c) “Ode to a Nightingale”
(d) “Ode on Melancholy”
(1) “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of
Hemlock I had drunk,”
(2) “No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its
Poisonous wine,”
(3) “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and Slow
time,”
(4) “O Goddess ! hear these tuneless numbers, by sweet enforcement and
Remembrance dear,”
1. (a)-(4), (b)-(1), (c)-(3), (d)-(2)
2. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(2), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
4. (a)-(1), (b)-(3), (c)-(2), (d)-(4)
Q13. Match the character with the play:
(Character)
(a) Dorimant
(b) Lady Fidget
(c) Malevole
(d) Vernish
(Play)
(1) The plain Dealer
(2) The Man of Mode
(3) The Country Wife
(4) The Malcontent
1. (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
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2. (a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(2), (b)-(4), (c)-(3), (d)-(1)
4. (a)-(4), (b)-(1), (c)-(3), (d)-(2)
Q14. What comes “after great pain” in the famous Emily Dickinson poem ?
1. The letting go
2. A concrete simplicity
3. Substantial light
4. A formal feeling
Q15. The “grammer bullies” – you read them in places like the New York
Times – and they tell you what is correct. You must never use “hopefully, we will be
going there on Thrusday.” That is incorrect and wrong and you are basically an
ignorant pig if you say it. This is judgementalism . The game that is being played
there is a game of social class. It has nothing do with the morality of writing and
speaking and thinking clearly, of which George Orwell, for instance, talked so well.
To which famous essay of Orwell does the author refer here?
1. “Inside the Whale”
2. “Politics and the English Language
3. “Re_ections on Gandhi”
4. “Why I Write”
Q16. In the spring of 1941, Nikos Kazantzakis embarked on one of his most
ambitious projects, a play known as Yangtze. What English/Greek title is it now
known as?
1. Buddha
2. Brobdingnag
3. Zoroaster
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4. Zorb
Q17. One of the less noticed and acknowledged distinction of The
Canterbury Tales is that
1. Instead of revealing England’s divisions, it reveled in its diversity.
2. It upheld the idea that we cannot divorce poetry from knowledge because poetry
itself is an object of knowledge
3. It alerted us to the term auctor, someone who is both ‘an originator, or one who
gives increase’, the best description for Chaucer himself.
4. It married domesticity to divinity, the baker’s Loaf with the bread of life.
Q18.The following epitaph was written by Rudyard Kipling during the war of 1914-18.
HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE
This man is his own country prayed we know not to what Powers.
We pray Them to reward him for his bravery in ours.
“Powers” here refers to _______, “then” to______, and “ours” to______.
1. The Hindus, the French, the British
2. The divine, Powers, our country
3. The military, the Hindu sepoys, Powers
4. Authorities, his compatriots, our country
Q.19. Which Walter Scott novel is set in France in the _fteenth century ?
1. Redgauntlet
2. Ivanhoe
3. The Antiquarry
4. Quentin Durward
Q20.In which work does William Blake say that Milton was “a true poet and
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of devil’s party without knowing it” ?
1. “London”
2. “Songs of Innocence”
3. “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
4. “The Chimney Sweeper”
Q21.Which of the following themes was not common to the works of Cavelier poets
such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, James
Shirley, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick?
1. Loyalty to the king
2. Country ideals of the good life
3. Pious devotion to religious virtues
4. Carpe diem
Q22. Who among the following are referred to as the “Scottish Chaucerians”?
(a) Thomas Hoccleve
(b) Robert Henryson
(c) John Lydgate
(d) William Dunbar
The right combination according to the code is :
1. (a) and (b)
2. (c) and (d)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (b) and (d)
Q23.The enigmatic castle which K. attempts to reach in vain in Franz Kafka’s Castle
belongs to
1. Count Westwest
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2. Count Aloofwest
3. Count Eastwest
4. Count Stangewest
Q24. Which of the following statements is true of The Way of the World?
1. The Way of the World failed on stage.
2. Millamant and Mirabell fail to obtain the consent of Millamant’s aunt for their
marriage
3. The Way of the World presents a heroine pretending to love an older man.
4. The Way of the World was performed and published in 1702.
Q25.Which of the following would not be invoked to describe a form of new
Historicist criticism?
1. Archaeology of social constructs
2. Genealogy of patriarchal discourse
3. Cultural materialism
4. Post-structural recovery of authorial intent
Q26. Match the following authors with the novels :
(Name of Author)
(1) Inheritance
(2) Listening Now
(3) Sister of My Heart
(4) The Hero’s Walk
(Name of Novel)
(a) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
(b) Anita Rau Badami
(c) Anjana Appachana
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(d) Indira Ganesan
1.(a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
2.(a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
3.(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
4.(a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)
Q27.The Romantic period produced a fair amount of dramatic criticism. A notable
examples is “on the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth.” Who is the author?
1. Thomas de Quincey
2. Edmund Kean
3. William Hazlitt
4. William Charles Macready
Q28. In his Practical Criticism I.A. Richards suggests that there are several kinds of
meanings and that the “total meaning” is a blend of contributory meanings which are
of different types. He identified four kinds of meaning, or the total meaning of a
word depends upon four factors. Choose the right combination as proposed by
Richards.
1. Sense, feeling, Tone and Matter
2. Image, Feeling, Tone and Intention
3. Sound, Sense, Tone and Matter
4. Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention
Q29. The following lines are W.B. Yeats’s metaphor for an old man:
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
Here, the aged man is _____, and his “soul … in its mortal dress,” is _______.
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1. Point, counterpoint
2. Tenor, vehicle
3. Analogy, analogue
4. Vehicle, tenor
Q30.Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveler is narrated by
1. Ben Lyte, a coarse Papist
2. Jack Wilton, an English page
3. Peter Marston, a sworn Calvinist
4. Philip Foxe, an English highwayman
Q31. Read the following passage and answer the questions:
I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it
in railway trains, or an the top of omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had
to close it lest some stranger would see how much it moved me. These lyrics – which
are in the original, my … (Indian friends) tell me, full of subtlety of rhythm, of
untranslatable delicacies of colour, of material invention – display in thought a world
I have dreamed of all my life long. The work of a supreme culture, they yet appear as
much a growth of the common soil as the grass and the rushes. A tradition, where
poetry and religion are the same thing, has passed through the centuries, gathering
from learned and unlearned metaphor and emotion, and carried back again to the
multitude the thought of the scholar and the noble. If the civilization of Bengal
remains unbroken, if that common mind which – as one divines – runs through all, is
not, as with us, broken into a dozen minds that know nothing of each other,
something even of what is most subtle in these verses will have come, in a few
generations, to the beggar on the roads.
— W.B. Yeats, from Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali
Q31. In this passage, Yeats praises Indian culture primarily because it
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1. Is accessible to Westernes though it is rooted in a di�erent religious tradition.
2. Has been _exible enough to survive a transition into the modern world.
3. Embodies values and gives rise to art that can be shared by people of all classes.
4. Re_ects a marvellous eclecticism in drawing from many disparate cultures.
Q32.Which of the following had the alternative title Things as They Are?
1. Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
2. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
3. Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley
4. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
Q33. In imitation of which classical poet did Samuel Johnson write his
London and The Vanity of Human Wishes?
1. Horace
2. Homer
3. Juvenal
4. Tasso
Q34. Identify the character, a black-eyed dwarf who “constantly revealed a few
discoloured fangs that were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the aspect of a
panting dog”.
1. Mulberry Hawk in Nicholas Nickleby
2. Rigand in Little Dorrit
3. Mr. Crook in Bleak House
4. Daniel Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop
Q35. There are helpers and harmers among fellow-pilgrims in Christian’s journey in
Pilgrim’s Progress. Who among the following is not a helper?
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1. Mr. Worldly Wiseman
2. Good Will
3. The Interpreter
4. The Evangelist
Q36. Adherents of the fourteenth century religious movement associated with
vernacular preaching, translation of New Testament into English, and challenges to
the authority of priests and bishops were called
1. Levellers
2. Deists
3. Lollards
4. Agnostics
Q37. Match the term with the theorist:
(Term)
(a) Negritude
(b) Womanism
(c) Interpellation
(4) Louis Althusser
(Theorist)
(1) Alice Walker
(2) Jurgen Habermas
(3) Aime Cesaire
(d) Public Sphere
1. (a)-(2), (b)-(1), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)
2. (a)-(3), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(1), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)
4. (a)-(3), (b)-(1), (c)-(4), (d)-(2)
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Q38. In his essay “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (1864)
Matthew Arnold contended that
1. Creative and critical powers should be ranked equally
2. Creative and critical powers are not comparable in any way
3. Critical power should be ranked higher than creative power
4. Creative power should be ranked higher than critical power
Q39. David Malouf’s novel Ransom is based on
1. a war memoir by Edmund Blunden
2. an episode in The Mahabharata
3. a war poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
4. an episode in the Trojan war
Q40.The title of Dylan Thomas’s Deaths and Entrances was taken from
1. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
2. John Donne’s “Death’s Duell”
3. Rudyard Kipling’s “A Death-Bed”
4. T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral
Q41. What type of writing Walter Pater de�ne as “the special and opportune art of
the modern world”?
1. The lyric
2. Comic drama
3. The novel
4. Non_ction prose
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Q42. It was the first narrative on the life of a black woman slave to be published in
England in 1831. It has profound influence on the abolition movement in Britain.
Identify the book and its author
1. Mary Prince – The History of Mary Prince
2. Mattie Jane Jackson – The Story of Mattie J. Jackson
3. Elizabeth – Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a coloured Woman
4. Harriet Jacobs – Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Q43. 1992 demolition of the disputed structure in Ayodhya produced two
controversial literary responses. Identify them.
1. Out of Place, The Algebra of In_nite Justice
2. Annals and antiquities, between Sunlight and Shadows
3. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Lajja
4. Chronicles of a Riot Foretold, Shame
Q44. What is peculiar about the reference in the following in the some poets’ names
in the plural?
“it is a freezing, bleak day in January, and I am looking for poetry. I see a few
Chaucers, a few Shakespeares, and a hardcover, three-dollar History of
Modern Poetry published in 1987.”
1. Standard reference to more texts of one poet.
2. Unusual; awkward metaphors no longer in use.
3. Usually refer to biographies of the poets in question.
4. Synecdochic use; names for their respective works.
Q45. Deconstructionist critics argue that texts are never free from
1. The equivocal and ironically unstable worldview of the author.
2. The material conditions that determine the production and reception.
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3. The interpretations bestowed by the totalizing critic.
4. Distortions inherent in the rhetoricity of language.
Q46. “What is honour? A word. What is that word honour? Air. A trim reckoning!
Who hath it? He that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. is
it insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. why?
Detraction will not suffer it. – therefore, I’ll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon;
and so ends my catechism.”
Which character in the following Shakespearce’s dramas made this statement about
honour?
1. Claudius in Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
2. Falstaff in King Henry four-part 1
3. Hotspur in King Henry four-part 1
4. Hamlet in Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
Q47.Why did Plato banish the poet from his ideal state?
1. Poetry makes an arti_cial distinction between form and content
2. Poetry deals with form, to the neglect of content.
3. The poet can never produce a completely accurate replica of the reality it seeks to
represent, and (moreover) the purpose of art is not to describe reality but to change
it.
4. In representing the sensual aspects of reality, the poet fails to discern the
transcendent reality behind mere appearance.
Q48. “Search the heads of the greatest rivers in the world, you shall find them but
bubbles of water.” Who is the author of this line?
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Francis Bacon
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3. John Webster
4. R.B. Sheridan
Q49. Match the character with the work:
(Characters)
(1) Sons and lovers
(2) Kangaroo
(3) Women in love
(4) The Rainbow
(Name of work)
(a) Rupert Birkin
(b) Lydia Lensky
(c) Miriam Leivers
(d) Richard Somers
1. (a)-(1), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(3)
2. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
3. (a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
4. (a)-(4), (b)-(1), 9c)-(2), (d)-(3)
Q50. Read the passage given below
Ah, what a tri_e is a heart,
If once into love’s hands it come!
All other griefs, allow a part
To other griefs, and ask themselves but some;
They come to us, but us love draws;
He swallows us and never chaws;
By him, as by chain’d shot, whole ranks do die;
He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry.
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– John Donne, 1633
Which sentence best paraphrases line of the passage above?
1. Love tends to grab us and never let go.
2. Distress comes in many forms, but none lasts as long as heartache.
3. Unbidden pain a�icts us, but we are lured by love.
4. Emotions can damage us, but none as severely as love.
Q51.Which ancient writer’s name is directly mentioned in Lord Byron’s poem “the
Isles of Greece”?
1. Euripides
2. Sophocles
3. Aeschylus
4. Sappho
Q52.What attitude towards death would you �nd in such poems as Tennyson’s
“crossing the bar,” Whitman’s “Death Carol,” and Kipling’s “L’Envoi”?
1. Resignation
2. Despair
3. Hope
4. Protest
Q53. One of the most flexible metres, ________is a five foot line. It was introduced by
Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century and has since then become the
commonest of metres in English poetry.
1. Iambic
2. Trochaic
3. Hexameter
4. Pentameter
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Q54.The titular figure of Federico Garcia Lorca’s elegy “Lament for Ignacio
Sanchez Mejias” was
1. a revolutionary who was associated with Che Guevara
2. a popular priest and poet
3. a spy who helped the revolutionaries during the Spanish Civil War
4. a popular matador and writer
Q55.The fault of Cowley and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphysical race is
that of pursuing his thoughts to their ramifications, by which he loses the grandeur
of generality; for of the greatest things the parts are little ; what is little can be but
pretty, and by claiming dignity becomes ridiculous. Thus all the power of description
is destroyed by a scrupulous enumeration; and the force of metaphors is lost, when
the mind by the mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the
secondary sense, more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to
which it is applied.
What Dr. Johnson actually faults here is:
1. The metaphysical insistence on the particular than the general.
2. The force of metaphors that blunts description
3. The mind that goes astray toward the original
4. The metaphysical poets’ tendency to saunter away.
Q56.In Marlow’s Doctor Faustus, what books does Valdes council Faustus to study in
preparation for conjuring up spirits?
(a) the works of Bacon and Abanus
(b) the Hebrew Psalter and New Testament
(c) the works of Ovid and Homer
(d) the works of Baxter and Horst
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The right combination according to the code is:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a) and (d)
4. (a) and (c)
Q57. Match the following concepts with their definitions:
(Concepts)
(a) Collocation
(b) Corpus
(c) Hyponymy
(d) Matrix
(Definitions)
(1) A semantic relationship of one-to-many
(2) A grid used in lexical analysis
(3) A combination of two lexical items in a grammatical pattern
(4) A large body of texts
1. (a)-(1), (b)-(3), (c)-(4), (d)-(2)
2. (a)-(4), (b)-(2), (c)-(3), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(3), (b)-(1), (c)-(2), (d)-(4)
4. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
Q58. Who among the following exemplified the role of the “peasant poet”?
(a) John Clare
(b) John Keats
(c) William Cobbett
(d) Robert Burns
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1. (a) and (b)
2. (c) and (d)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (a) and (4)
Q59. “The good thing about words, “Hanif Kureishi remarks in “loose tongues”, “is
that their final effect is incalculable. […] you can never know what your words might
turn out to mean for yourself or for someone else; or what the world they make will
be like. Anything could happen. The problem with silence is that we know exactly
what it will be like.”
Kureishi, in sum, suggests:
(a) There is always some risk involved in writing/speaking.
(b) It is better to avoid using words than to risk miscommunication.
(c) Words being predictable, are always open to misinterpretation.
(d) The unpredictable, in deed, is the strength of words.
Determine the correct combination according to the code:
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (a) and (d)
Q60.Which interpretation of Keats’s “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” best represents
the mimetic perspective?
1. The line is an ironic quotation, the equation of “beauty” and “truth” as “all we know
on earth” suggests that reality is an illusory concept and that the primary function of
art is to construct a world within an aesthetic reality of its own.
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2. Those aspects of reality which we perceive to be “beautiful” are the only worthy
subject matter of the artist, and it is the artist’s job to observe closely and isolate
those sublime elements from the flux of the mundane.
3. The author’s arbitrary imposition of order upon the chaotic impressions of reality
constitutes the only “truth” in a work of art.
4. A work of literature is “beautiful” insofar as it orders an accurate representation of
its subject matter, with fully realized characters and vivid description of events.
Q61. Fill in the blanks
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
________ in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last _______ of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That _______ and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is _______ no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
Fill in the blanks. Choose the set that carries the correct words.
1. Walks. Breath, creeps, shown
2. Creeps, syllable, struts, heard
3. Moves, syllable, frowns, heard
4. Creeps, moment, struts, seen
Q62. What is an “implied reader”?
1. The ideal audience envisioned by the author and to whom the work of literature is
supposedly addressed.
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2. A reader who embodies all those predispositions necessary for a literary work to
exercise its effect.
3. The ideal reader of a work of literature which is approximated over time by
successive responses of generations of actual readers.
4. The ideal “average” reader who can approach a work of literature with no
preconceived ideas about the author’s life, the time of composition, etc.
Q63. Read the lines from the poem
Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care
To tend the homely, slighted Shepherd’s trade,
And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ?
Were it not better done, as others use,
To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,
Or with the tangles of Neaera’s hair ?
Who are Amaryllis and Neaera in the above extract from John Milton’s “Lycidas”?
1. Both were goddesses of love and war respectively appearing in Greek pastoral
poetry.
2. Amaryllis is a shepherdess mentioned in Shakespearce’s romantic comedies;
Neaera, a minor character in love’s Labour’s lost
3. Amaryllis is a shepherdess mentioned in ancient pastoral poetry, notably in Virgil’s
eculogues; Neaera, a nymph who appears in Virgil’s Eclogues.
4. Both were one-time lovers of Lycidas, the dead shepherd.
Q64. “The chapter on the fall of the rupee you may omit. It is somewhat too
sensational. Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side.” The fall of
the Indian rupee in the _nal decades of 19 century is referred to in one of Oscar
Wilde’s plays . identify the play.
1. The importance of being earnest
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2. Lady Windermere’s fan
3. An Ideal Husband
4. A Woman of no importance
Q65. “Why don’t we have a little game? Let’s pretend that we’re human beings, and
that we are actually alive.”
This passage forms part of
1. Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap
2. John Osborne’s look Back in anger
3. Samuel Beckett’s waiting for Godot
4. Harold Pinter’s the birthday party
Q66. What tone will be best suited to the following poem ?
THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH AGE
Through leaves are many , the root Is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and _owers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.
1. Regret
2. Excitement
3. Revulsion
4. Exultation
Q67. Match the author with the title:
(Author)
(a) Alan paton
(b) Ngugi wa thiong’o
(c) Teju cole
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(d) Wole Soyinka
(Title)
(1) open city
(2) cry, the beloved country
(3) a grain of wheat
(4) the interpreters
1. (a)-(3), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
2. (a)-(1), (b)-(3), (c)-(4), (d)-(2)
3. (a)-(2), (b)-(2), (c)-(1), (d)-(4)
4. (a)-(3), (b)-(1), (c)-(4), (d)-(2)
Q68.Which of the following is the most accurate statement by W.E.B. Du Bois’s
famous articulation of the ‘twoness’ of black Americans?
1. “it is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this scene of always lokking
at one’s self through the eyes of others.”
2. “This sense of always looking at one’s self, a peculiar sensation through the eyes is
double consciousness.”
3. “Through the eyes of others, this sense of always looking at one’s self, we acquire
the double-consciousness.”
4. “this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the
eyes of others, is a peculiar sensation.”
Q69. Match the plays to their setting:
(a) Krapp’s last tape
(b) Happy days
(c) Waiting for Godot
(d) Endgame
(1) a country road;a tree
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(2) bare interior; two small windows high up ; grey light
(3) expanse of scorched grass forming a low mound; blinding light
(4) a laze evening in future, white light.
1. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
2. (a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(4)
3. (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
4. (a)-(2), (b)-(4), (c)-(3), (d)-(1)
Q70. Albert Camus borrows the following epigraph to his novel The Plague
form________
“it is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another , as it is to
represent anything that really exists by that which exists not,”
1. James Hogg’s The Confessions of a Justi_ed Sinner
2. Jeremy Bentham’s the principles of morals and legislation
3. Robert Burton’s the anatomy of melancholy
4. Daniel Defoe’s robinson crusoe
Q71. “We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single “theological”
meaning (the “message” of the Author-god) but a multidimensional space in which a
variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash . . . . literature . . . . by
refusing to assign a “secret”, an ultimate meaning, to the text (and to the world as
text) liberates what may be called an anti-theological activity , that is truly
revolutionary since to refuse to _x meaning is, in the end to refuse god and his
hypostasesreason, science, law.” The passage comes from which of the following
essays?
1. “tradition and individual talent” by T.S. eliot
2. “discource in the novel “ by Mikhail bakhtin
3. “what is an author?” by Michel Foucault
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4. “the death of the author” by roland barthes
Q72. The Norman Conquest was a signi_cant landmark in English history.
What French did the Normans speak and what was it known as?
1. They spoke a dialectal French (also called Anglo-Frisian), somewhat closer to the
Parisian.
2. They spoke Norman French (Anglo-Norman). Theirs was certainly not the standard
French.
3. They spoke standard French (of mainland France). Their French was very sweet and
musical.
4. They spoke normal French, rather distinct from Anglo-Norman, another standard
language.
Q73. Nicholas Nickleby _rmly established Charles Dickens as a dominant novelist of
his time and the book as an unrivalled literacy phenomenon. To celebrate the
completion of the book, a painter noted that there had been nothing comparable to
him since the days of Samuel Richardson. Identify the painter.
1. Leonard Woolf
2. David Wilkie
3. John Cruickshank
4. Ernest Dawson
Q74. Match the writer with the work:
(Name of work)
(1) Leviathan
(2) The Practice of Piety
(3) The Art of English Poesy
(4) The History of the Royal Society
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(Writer)
(a) George Puttenham
(b) Thomas Spart
(c) Lewis Bayly
(d) Thomas Hobbes
1. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
2. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(2), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(2), (d)-(1)
4. (a)-(3), (b)-(2), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
Q75.Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?
1. Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random
2. Ann Radcli�e’s The Italian
3. Mathew Lewis’s The Monk
4. William Beckford’s Vathek
Q76. Jonathan Swift arrived in London in 1710 and confronted a rapidly changing
world in the new Tory ministry. His reactions to this world are vividly recorded in his
journal to Stella, a series of letters addressed to
(a) Hester Vanhomrigh
(b) Esther Johnson
(c) Rebecca Dingley
(d) Lady Mary Montagu
1. (b) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (b)
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Q77. __________ read Adam Bede with such pleasure that she not only keenly
recommended it to her relatives but also commissioned two paintings of scenes from
the novel.
1. Horace Nightingale
2. George Eliot
3. Margaret Cavendish
4. Queen Victoria
Q78.Which of the following statements on Rajmohan’s Wife is not true?
1. Bankim Chandra published it soon after serialization and was elated in seeing its
first copy.
2. The novel was serialized in 1864 in a short-lived magazine in Calcutta.
3. By common consent, Rajmohan’s Wife is the first novel in English published by an
Indian.
4. His vivid descriptions of the routine of Bengali households reveal a lot about the
nineteenth century.
Q79. In Thomas Moore’s Utopia (Book2), the reader is told that in this new world
there are few mistakes in marriage because
1. there is an extensive courtship period preceding the actual wedding.
2. the family gods are invoked before finalizing the nuptials.
3. there is a community get together where prospective husbands and wives
announce wedding plans endorsed by elders.
4. prospective husbands and wives see one another naked before agreeing to the
match.
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Q80. “Reality is that nothing happens. How many of the events of history have
occurred, ask yourselves, for this and for that reason, but for no other reason,
fundamentally, than the desire to make things happen? I present to you History, the
fabrication, the diversion, the reality-obscuring drama.”
Which postmodern novel thus subverts the truth claims of traditional historiography?
1. A.S. Byatt’s possession
2. John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman
3. Graham Swift’s Waterland
4. Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient
Q81. In which of his novels does Italo Calvino construct his narrative through a tarot
pack of cards and re-interpret the Western canon providing new versions of Oedipus
Rex, Faust, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear?
1. The Castle of Crossed Destinations
2. Our Ancestors
3. Invisible Cities
4. The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Q82. Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware Beware
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
Lines 4 and 5 in the above evoke:
1. Christ’s resurrection
2. The fairy-tale of a girl in the woods
3. The myth of the phoenix
4. The legend of the Lady of the Lake
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Q83. which post-war British poet ends a poem with the line , “get stewed : books are
aload of crap”?
1. Philip Larkin
2. Ted Hughes
3. Thom Gunn
4. Craig Raine
Q84. Arnold Wesker is associated with “kitchen-sink drama”, a rather condescending
title applied to the then new-wave realistic drama depicting the family lives of
working-class characters on stage and in broadcast plays. Two of the following plays
begin with one character doing the dishes in a kitchen sink. Identify the pair.
(a) the Kitchen
(b) chicken soup with barley
(c) roots
(d) menace
1. (b) and (d)
2. (a) and (d)
3. (a) and (b)
4. (b) and (c)
Q85. Early African-American texts like slave narratives were often described as told to
narratives as their ‘authors’ dictated their experiences. The persons who noted down
these experiences are
1. Amanuenses
2. Abolitionists
3. Translators
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4. Slave-drives
Q86. Which of the following poems is quoted as the epigraph to A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry?
1. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
2. “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”
3. “The Big Sea”
4. “I, too, Sing America”
Q87. As a boy growing up in Squire Allworth’s estate, Tom gets one of the following
characters into trouble. Identify the character
1. Partridge
2. Black George
3. Nightingale
4. Blifil
Q88.During the Raj, the British viewed their rule in terms of a thankless duty to uplift
the downtrodden and inculcate order into Oriental minds. The mission to civilize the
“silent, sullen peoples” of the east was a burden imposed upon them by destiny.
The last observation is a fairly obvious allusion to
1. J.R. Ackerley’s Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal
2. Flora Annie Steel’s “The Garden of Fidelity
3. Maud Diver’s the Englishwoman in India
4. Rudyard Kipling’s “the White Man’s Burden”
Q89. Read the passage given below
“Full many a lady
I have eye’d with best regard: and many a time
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The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues
Have I liked several women; never any
With so full soul, but some defect in her
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow’d,
And put it to the foil. But you, O you,
So perfect and so peerless , are created
Of every creature’s best.”
This passage admiring the perfect matching of inner and outward beauty of a
woman is taken from
1. Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus
2. John Webster’s The Duchess of Mal_
3. Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women
4. Shakespeare’s Tempest
Q90. I, Allan Sealy’s the Trotter-Nama traces the history of the Anglo-Indian
community in a chronicle of seven generations of the Trotter family, told by the
seventh Trotter. This narrator is
1. a quack in the Indian outback
2. a forget of Indian miniatures
3. an accountant in the Indian army.
4. a collector of rare manuscripts.
Q91. Mango Souffle , India’s first major gay themed fillm, is an adaptation of Mahesh
Dattani’s play
1. Do the Needful
2. Bravely Fought the Queen
3. Dance like a Man
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4. On a Muggy Night in Mumbai
Q92. In this novel by Graham Greene a double agent uses classic works of fiction to
encode secret information. “He put Clarissa Harlowe back in the bookcase” is the first
clue to his treachery. Then he draws on War and Peace and The Way We Live Now as
matrices for secretly transmitting information.
Identify the novel.
1. The Man Within
2. Our Man in Havana
3. The Human Factor
4. The confidential Agent
Q93. In an ode, William Collins lamented the passing of a contemporary poet. The
ode began with the line: “In yonder grave a Druid lies.” Name the poet whose
passing Collins Laments.
1. James Thomson
2. William Cowper
3. Alexander Pope
4. Thomas Gray
Q94. In tradition ELT methods and materials, the native speaker is elevated and
idealized against stereotyped non-native speakers. This tendency is dubbed ______ by
Adrian Holliday.
1. Native speakerism
2. The non-native fallacy
3. The near-native fallacy
4. The native-speaker bias
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Q95.Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian Era?
1. The Married Women’s property Rights Act
2. A series of Factory acts
3. The Custody Act
4. The Women’s Suffrage Act
Q96. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
labelled as Reason(R). Read the statements and choose the correct answer using the
code given below: Assertion (A) : Gender studies do not see an urgent need to help
us navigate the various pitfalls of racism, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, and plain
ignorance that flow from using “culture” as an explanatory tool.
Reason (R): Issues relating to Women’s rights, gender roles, sexuality and family
obligations are centrally implicated in the so-called clash of civilizations between
Christianity or Secularism, and Islaam.
1. (A) is only partly addressed in (R)
2. (R) does not follow logically from (A).
3. (R) is (A) and vice versa
4. (A) and (R) are most logically related.
Q97.The en-ending to denote the plural nous (as is oxen, children, brethren) has
survived from the
1. Middle English hymnals and chants in English parishes
2. Anglo-Norman case of making plural nouns
3. Odd Middle-English pronouncing custom of plurals
4. Old English practice of making plural nouns
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Comprehension: (Q98-Q100)
The following is an extract from a famous play. Read it carefully to answer questions
that follow.
Maid : [from the hall doorway] ma’am, a lady to see you –
Nora: all right, let her come in.
[...the maid shows in MRS. LINDE, dressed in travelling clothes, and shuts the door
after her.]
Mrs. Linde : [in a dispirited and somewhat hesitant voice] Hello, Nora.
Nora : hello –
Mrs Linde: you don’t recognize me.
Nora : no, I don’t know – but wait , I think – what ! what ! is it really you ?
Mrs linde : yes its me
Nora : Kristine ! to think I didn’t recognize you. But then , how could i?
How you’ve changed, Kristine !
Mrs. Linde : yes, no doubt I have. In nine – ten long years.
Nora: it is so long since we met ! yes, it’s all of that. Oh, these last eight years have
been a happy time, believe me. And so now you’ve come in to town, too. Made the
long trip in the winter. That took courage.
Mrs linde : I just got here by ship this morning .
Nora: to enjoy yourself over Christmas , of course. Oh,how lovely !yes, enjoy
ourselves we’ll do that . but take your coat off .You are not still cold? There now, lets
get cozy here by the stove. No, the easy chair there ! I will take the rocker here. Yes,
now you have your old look again; it was only in that first moment. You are a bit
more pale, Kristine – and maybe a bit thinner.
Mrs Linde : and much, much older nora.
Nora: yes, perhaps a bit older ; a tiny, tiny bit ; not much at all. Oh, but thoughtless
me, to sit here , chattering away. Sweet, can u forgive me?
Mrs Linde: what do you mean?
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Nora: you have become a widow.
Mrs Linde : yes, three years ago.
Nora: I knew it, of course; I read it in the papers. Oh, Kristine, you must believe me; I
often thought of writing you then, but kept postponing it, and something always
interfered
Mrs Linde: nora , dear, I understand completely.
Nora: it was awful of me. You poor thing, how much you have gone through. And he
left you nothing?
Mrs Linse: no
Nora: and no children?
Mrs Linde: no.
Nora: nothing at all then?
Mrs Linde: not even a sense of loss to feed on.
Nora: but how could that be?
Mrs Linde: oh, sometimes it happens, Nora.
Nora: so completely alone. How terribly hard that must be for you. I have three lovely
children. You can’t see them now; they are out with the maid.
Q98. “Not even a sense of loss to feed on” implies that
1. Mrs. Linde is given over to feeding on sorrow.
2. Mrs.Linde is completely devoid of all feeling.
3. Mrs.Linde is sentimentally attached to an irretrievable past
4. Mrs. Linde’s severance from her tragic pair is total.
Q99. Identify the play of which this section is an excerpt.
1. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
2. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
3. Wit by Margaret Edson
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4. The importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Q100.Which of the following description best applies to the above extract?
1. Friends comparing notes and counting losses in a meeting sudden and
unanticipated.
2.the sense of loss inevitable with the passage of time and the imperceptible
dissolution of the conventional marriage.
3. A chance meeting between old friends which leaves one puzzling over the
inexplicable losses the other suffered.
4. A meeting of two friends – one married, the other unmarried after a gap of years
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Answer Key(1-100)
1 2 11 1 21 3 31 3 41 4 51 4 61 2 71 4 81 1 91 4
2 4 12 3 22 4 32 4 42 1 52 3 62 2 72 2 82 3 92 3
3 3 13 2 23 1 33 3 43 3 53 4 63 3 73 2 83 1 93 1
4 3 14 4 24 1 34 4 44 4 54 4 64 1 74 2 84 4 94 1
5 3 15 2 25 4 35 1 45 4 55 4 65 2 75 1 85 1 95 4
6 4 16 1 26 3 36 3 46 2 56 1 66 1 76 1 86 2 96 2
7 4 17 1 27 1 37 4 47 4 57 4 67 3 77 4 87 2 97 4
8 4 18 2 28 4 38 4 48 3 58 4 68 1 78 1 88 4 98 4
9 1 19 4 29 2 39 4 49 2 59 4 69 3 79 4 89 4 99 1
10 3 20 3 30 2 40 2 50 3 60 4 70 4 80 3 90 2 100 3
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Q1. Which narrative poem by Lord Tennyson presents the story of a fisherman turned
Merchant sailor who, after a shipwreck, is marooned on a desert island?
1.”Crossing the Bar”
2.”Tithonus”
3.”Enoch Arden”
4.”Maud”
Q2. In “Memorial Verses” Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. Who are
they?
1. Goethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth
2. Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton
3. Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth
4. Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron
Q3. Who among the following English playwrights wrote screenplays on novels such
as Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, John Fowles’s French Lieutenant’s Woman,
and Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale ?
1. John Arden
2. Edward Bond
3. Harold Pinter
4. David Hare
Q4. The years in English literary history between 1649 and 1660 are known as
1. the Neo-Classical period
2. the Commonwealth period
3. the Stuart period
4. the Jacobean period
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Q5. In R.K. Narayan’s Swami and Friends, which game offers Swami the best kind of
emotional release from the strains and pressures of disagreeable circumstances?
1. Cricket
2. Football
3. Tennis
4. Hockey
Q6. William Blake expressed the importance of the particular when he said that “To
Generalize is to be ____________. To Particularize is the alone Distinction of Merit.” Fill
in the blank.
1. An Idiot
2. A Poet
3. A Dreamer
4. A Skunk
Q7. Which of the following was not a dialect of Old English ?
1. Irish
2. Northumbrian
3. Mercian
4. Kentish
Q8. Anthony Burgess’s last novel, published in 1993, is called A Dead Man in
Deptford. Who is the central character to whom the title refers ?
1. Sir Walter Raleigh
2. Sir Philip Sidney
3. Christopher Marlowe
4. Earl of Southampton
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Q9. Choose the chronological order:
1. William Caxton prints the first English book – William Shakespeare’s First Folio –
John Milton’s Areopagitica – “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets).
2. “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets) – William Shakespeare’s First Folio –
William Caxton prints the first English book – John Milton’s Areopagitica.
3. William Caxton prints the first English book – “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and
Sonnets) – William Shakespeare’s First Folio – John Milton’s Areopagitica.
4. William Shakespeare’s First Folio – John Milton’s Areopagitica – William Caxton
prints the first English book – “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets).
Q10. What does the phrase ut pictura poesis from Horace’s Art of Poetry mean?
1. “as in painting, so in poetry”.
2. “poetry beggars pictorial description” .
3. “as in poetry, so in painting” .
4. “picture above all poetry” .
Q11. Who among the following is the author of Account of the Augustan Age in
England (1759) ?
1. John Gay
2. William Hazlitt
3. Oliver Goldsmith
4. Samuel Johnson
Q12. In how many parts did Cervantes publish his novel, Don Quixote ?
1. Three
2. Five
3. Two
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4. Twelve
Q13. Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians carries biographical sketches of writers and
public figures. Identify the list below that correctly mentions those Eminent
Victorians.
1.Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon.
2.A.E.W. Mason, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, Matthew Arnold, Robert Bridges.
3.E.F. Benson, Cardinal Manning, Lord Tennyson, Beatrice Webb.
4.George Harding, General Gordon, Robert Browning, Mrs Humphrey Ward.
Q14. One of the following statements about the eponymous saint of Dryden’s
“Song for St. Cecilia’s Day” is incorrect. Identify that Statement.
1. St. Cecilia’s was a Roman Lady, an early Christian martyr.
2. St. Cecilia’s was an Armenian devotee of the Christian Faith.
3. St. Cecilia’s festival is celebrated on 22 November in England.
4. St. Cecilia’s was a patroness of music who was fabled to have invented the organ.
Q15. Which of the statements on Michael Robert’s Faber Book of Modern
Verse (1936) is not true ?
1. His anthology canonized modern poetry and poets for quite some decades.
2. The Collection begins with the poems of Robert Bridges.
3. Roberts omitted the Georgian poets in his anthology.
4. Yeats, Eliot and Pound find a place in the Faber Book of 1936.
Q16. Who among the following proposed that the First Gulf War had never taken
place, it was simply a hyperreal, media-generated spectacle?
1.Richard Rorty
2.Jean-Francois Lyotard
3.Jean Baudrillard
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4.Umberto Eco
Q17. Sir Thomas Browne’s Urn Burial was prompted by
1. The Discovery of ancient buial-urns near Norwich.
2. The Contemporary researches on burial rites in Norway.
3. The Death of St. Francis of Assissi and his burial.
4. The Publication of the English Book of Common Prayer.
Q18. Identify from the among the following list those that cannot be called War
Fiction.
A. A Modern Instance
B. Catch – 22
C. The Age of Innocence
D. The Naked and the Dead.
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a) and (c)
4. (b) and (d)
19. Who among the following writers was not the one Identified with The Movement
of the 1950’s England
1. Roy Fuller
2. Kingsley Amis
3. Philip Larkin
4. Donald Davie
Q20. Which of the following novels does not belong to Nuruddin’s Farah’s
Blood In the Sun Trilogy ?
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1. Maps
2. Knots
3. Gifts
4. Secrets
Q21. In the following series, which one has all the poets correctly matched in the
poems ?
1. Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” ; Ramanujan, ” Small-Scale Re�ections on a
Great house” ; Dutt, “Sunset at Puri” ; Mahapatra, “Our Casurina Tree” .
2. Ezekiel, “Sunset at Puri” ; Ramanujan, “Small-Scale Reflections on a Great house”
; Dutt, “Our Casurina Tree” ; Mahapatra, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” .
3. Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” ; Ramanujan, “Sunset at Puri” ; Dutt, “Our
Casurina Tree” ; Mahapatra, “Small-Scale Reflections on a Great house” .
4. Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” ; Ramanujan, “Small-Scale Reflections on a
Great house” ; Dutt, “Our Casurina Tree” ; ; Mahapatra, “Sunset at Puri” .
Q22. From among the following, identify the incorrect observation regarding
Ferdinand de Saussure’s seminal distinction between language and parole.
1. Parole is the particular language system,the elements, the elements of which we
learn as children, and which is codified in our grammars and dictionaries, whereas
langue is the language-occasion (what A says to B).
2. A language consists in the interrelationship between Langue and Parole.
3. Saussure made this crucial distinction in a study called A Course in General
Linguistics (1916).
4. Langue is the particular language-system, the elements of which we learn as
children, and which is codified in our grammars and dictionaries, whereas Parole is
the language-occasion (what A says to B).
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Q23. John Heywood wrote a farcical Interlude called The Four P’s.
1. a Palmer, a Pedlar, a Pothecary, a Packer
2. a Printer, a Pedlar, a Pothecary, a Palmer
3. a Pedlar, a Parson, a Palmer, a Pothecary
4. a Palmer, a Pardoner, a Pothecary, a Pedlar
Q24. In the mechanical drill method of second language acquisition :
(a) The learner has the freedom to from many responses.
(b) The learner’s response is totally controlled.
(c) Comprehension of the item by the learner is not required.
(d) Comprehension of the item by the learner is obligatory.
The right combination according to the Code is:
1. (a) and (d)
2. (a) and (c)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (b) and (d)
Q25. Thou will not wake
Till i thy fate shall overtake;
Till age, or grief, or sickness must
Marry my body to that dust
It so much loves; and fill the room
My heart keeps empty in the Tomb.
Stay for me there; I will not fail
To meet thee in that hollow Vale.
And think not much of my delay;
I am already on the way.
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Which of the following readings do you and appropriate to the spirit of the lines
above?
1. In that inter space between the lines, the ending of one and the beginning of
another, there is a silent internal language, the poem’s language-within-language,
tacitly signaled through the deployment of rhymed space.
2. Ageing and dying are of course helplessly passive ; but here love make them as
though they were now also willing things in the husband eager to join his dead wife.
Through simple intimate tones of the shared earthly life – stay for me, wait for me, I
will not fail- he not only imagines her but imagines her thinking for him.
3. The lyric voice here can feel the poem speaking back to him – in the cold lineal
stare of ‘there was nothing in my belief’ – even as his dead wife did not. It is as
though the poem itself then demands his response, in order to be able to move from
one line to another. To attempt that movements in keeping the poem’s space alive,
the lyric voice asserts, “I will not fail/to meet there in that hallow Vate.”
4. My whole nature was so penetrated with grief and humiliation of such
considerations, That, even now, famous and caressed and happy as I am, I often
forget to my dream that i have a dear wife who died, leaving me alone in this world.
Even that I am a man, and now I wander desolately back to that time of our lives
when my wife and I shared moments of bliss.
Q26. Match the characters with the novels:
(a) Arthur Seaton (i) Top Girls
(b) Marlene (ii) The Golden Notebook
(c) Anna Wulf (iii) The Swimming Pool Library
(d) Beckwith (iv) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
1. (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
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2. (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
3. (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
4. (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
Q27. The very last passage of a novel is given below. Identify the novel.
“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the Millionth time the reality of experience
and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
April 27. Old father, Old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.”
1. To the light house
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3. Maurice
4. Almayer’s Folly
Q28. Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis is about a utopian state called
1. Asgard
2. Avalon
3. Bensalem
4. Baltia
Q29. The 1950’s saw the rise of backlash against modernism and against New
Romanticism that became known as The Movement. Which of the following little
magazines came to be associated with The Movement?
(a) Departure
(b) New Verse
(c) London Mercury
(d) New Poems
1. (a) and (b)
2. (c) and (d)
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3. (a) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Q30. The error of interpreting a literary work by referring to evidence outside of
itself, such as the design and purpose of the author is called
1. Affective fallacy
2. Intentional fallacy
3. Authorial fallacy
4. Synecdochic fallacy
Q31. A.R. Ammons parodies a famous poemin his “Swoggled”
I’d rather
be
suckled by
an
outworn pagan
than
get my horn
wreathed in
an
old Triton.
Which poet, which poem ?
1. John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
2. John Milton, “On His Blindness”
3. William Wordsworth, “The World is Too Much with Us”
4. Elizabeth B. Browning, “How do I Love Thee…?”
Q32. Fanny Burney’s Evelina carries the subtitle:
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1. or a Naive Lady’s Entrance into the World.
2. or a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World.
3. or a Young Lady’s Exit into the World.
4. or a Bold Lady’s Entrance into the Hall.
Q33. What does Philip Sidney call poet-haters in his Defence of Poesie ?
1. Misogynists
2. Misanthropes
3. Misnomers
4. Mysomousoi
Q34. Who, among the following raises the following painful question of longing and
belonging?
“Where shall I turn, divided to the vein ?
i who have cursed
The drunken o�cer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?”
1. Derek Walcott
2. Louise Bennett
3. Kamau Brathwaite
4. Wole Soyinka
Q35. In the 1940’s, a critic and a philosopher produced two influential and
controversial papers called “The Intentional Fallacy” and “The Affective Fallacy”.
Identify Them
(a) Cleanth Brooks
(b) Monroe C. Beardsley
(c) William K. Wimsalt Jr.
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(d) R.P. Blackmur
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (c) and (d)
Q36. Philip Larkin’s “Sad Steps” notices “The way the moon dashes through clouds
that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke to stand apart…”
The poem alludes to :
1. Coleridge’s “Dejection : An Ode”
2. The moonlit scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
3. Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella
4. T.S. Eliot’s ‘Morning at the Window”
Q37. Match the following opening lines with their respective titles:
(a) “I leant upon a coppice gate” (i) “Thirteen Blackbirds”
(b) “A Sudden blow: the great wings (ii) “Sympathy” beating still….”
(c) “Among twenty snowy mountains” (iii) “The Darkling Thrusts”
(d) “I know what the caged bird feels, (iv) “Leds and the Swan” alas…”
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
1. (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
2. (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
3. (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
4. (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
Q38. Identify the titles that were published in the 1920’s
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(a) Look, Stranger!
(b) The Tower
(c) The Waste Land
(d) The Road to Wigan Pier
Code:
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (b) and (d)
4. (c) and (d)
Q39. This novel is dedicated. “To the railroad of bones” and has as its epigraph the
line,
“I am the woman they give dead women’s clothes to” from Christine Gelineau’s
“Inheritance”
Identify the novel
1. African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou
2. The Chibok Girls by Helon Habila
3. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
4. The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Q40. An English poet couldn`t help the excitement that an historical event caused in
his life-time:
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven
Which poet? What ‘dawn’?
1. W.H Auden; the Spanish Civil War
2. Lord Tennyson; the Jubilee of Queen Victoria`s reign
3. William Wordsworth; the French Revolution
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4. William Blake; the Industrial Revolution
Q41. Which novel by John Banville tells the story of a group of travelers who arrive
on a small island and stumble upon the house of Prof. Kreutznaer whose relationship
to a painting entitled The Golden World by a fictional Dutch artist named Vaublin
plays a central role?
1. Ghosts
2. The Sea
3. The Ark
4. Eclipse
Q42. Identify the two plays usually paired for their critique of the politics of language
and acts of police interrogation
1. Earthly Powers, The Wanting Seed
2. Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots
3. Left-handed Liberty, The Hero Rises
4. One for the Road, Mountain Language
Q43. Semiotics originated mainly in the works of two theorists. They are:
a. Charles Sanders Peirce
b. Mikhail Bakhtin
c. Ferdinand de Saussure
d. Valentin Voloshinov
The right combination according to the code is ______________ .
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a) and (c)
4. (c) and (d)
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Q44. Robert Burton`s Anatomy of Melancholy was published in 1621 and expanded
and altered in _________________ subsequent editions
1. two
2. four
3. six
4. Five
Q45. Which of the following magazines self consciously created an identity for
Vorticists, a group of painters, sculptors and writers?
1. Blast
2. The Egoist
3. The Criterion
4. New Age
Q46. “In Every cry of every Man,
In every Infant’s cry of fear
In every voice, in every ban….”
The _gure of speech characterized by repetition of words or group of words at the
beginning of consecutive sentence is called
1. Apostrophe
2. Anaphora
3. Incremental Repetition
4. Alliteration
Q47. At whose behest does the Redcrosse Knight undertake his quest in The Faerie
Queene ?
1. Gloriana’s
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2. Una’s
3. Duessa’s
4. Prosperine’s
Q48. In which city did John Ruskin see a paradigm for Victorian Britain ?
1. Vienna
2. Venice
3. Rome
4. Paris
Q49. Which novel of Kazuo Ishiguro is narrated by a Japanese widow living in
England and draws on the destruction and rehabilitation of Nagasaki ?
1. An Artist of the Floating World
2. The Unconsoled
3. A Pale View of Hills
4. When We Were Orphans
Q50. Which novels opens thus:
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will
be held by anyone else, these pages must show.”
1. Tristram Shandy
2. Lady Audley’s Secret
3. David Copper_eld
4. Fitz-Boodle’s Confessions
Q51. Traces of the Morality plays are discernible in a play like Dr. Faustus, traces such
as
1. Vernacular songs adapting secular themes
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2. Its Soliloquizing Protagonist, Good and Bad Angels and its _nal moral.
3. Its Refrains from the Corpus Christi Carol, the complaint of Christ, the lover of
mankind.
4. Its Rhythmical prose, and the presence of a larger narrative rhythm in the
Morality plays.
Q52. The branch of philosophy that asks the question, “How do we know what we
know is?”
1. Ontology
2. Epistemology
3. Eschatology
4. Phenomenology
Q53. The eighteenth century practice in “England of book selling was midway
between direct patronage and impersonal sales. A patron paid half the cost of a
book before publication and half on delivery. The author of the book received these
payments directly. The patron’s name appeared in the preface for the book
published in this manner.
This practice was known as
1. Subscription
2. Contribution
3. Pre-publication
4. Remaindering
Q54. Oxford India has published a volume of Premchand translations inEnglish, The
Oxford India Premchand. Who among the following is not one of the translators?
1. David Rubin
2. Alok Rai
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3. Gillian Wright
4. Christopher King
Q55. Which of the two novels of Jane Austen have the spa town of Bath as a primary
location?
(a) Emma
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Northanger Abbey
(d) Persuasion
1. (a) and (d)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (b)
Q56. In the communicative approach to ELT, the development of language learning
or teaching involves a shift;
(a) from form-based to a meaning-based approach
(b) from an electic approach to a rigid method
(c) from teacher-centered to learner-centered classes
(d) from broad-based competence to specific needs
1. (b) and (d)
2. (a) and (d)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (a) and (c)
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Q57. The four Moral Essays of Alexander Pope are addressed to carefully selected
figures. Identify
1. Timons, Newton, Martha Blount, Wellington
2. Lord Cobham, Robert Walpole, Houghton Hall, Chandos
3. Martha Blount, Lord Cobham, Bathurst, Burlington
4. William III, John Haydn, Joseph Addison, John Dennis
Q58. Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children presents the war-torn Europe
as its protagonist as she follows troops with her canteenwagon.
What is the real name of Mother Courage ?
1. Paula Danckert
2. Anna Fierling
3. Jane Vanstone
4. Jani Lauzon
Q59. From among the following, identify the journal that publishes articles on English
language teaching and learning.
1. University of Toronto Quarterly
2. Agenda
3. TESOL Quarterly
4. English Language Notes
Q60. Arrange the following Elegies in English in Chronological order:
1. “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard” – “Adonais” – “Thyrsis” – “In Memoriam”
2. “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard” – “Adonais” – “In Memoriam” – “Thyrsis”
3. “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard” – “In Memoriam” – “Adonais” – “Thyrsis”
4. “Adonais” – “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard” – “In Memoriam” – “Thyrsis”
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Q61. Who is the only one of Milton’s contemporaries to be mentioned by name in
Paradise Lost ?
1. Francis Bacon
2. Johannes Vermeer
3. Galileo
4. King Charles
Q62. K.S. Maniam is a major writer of Indian origin, writing in English, born and living
in Malaysia.
Identify two of his novels from the following list.
(a) The Rice Mother
(b) The Return
(c) Touching Earth
(d) Between Lives
1. (a) and (d)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Q63. What did Thomas Perey collect in his Reliques ?
1. Medieval Folklore and lyrics of the Midlands
2. Old songs, ballads, and romances in English and Scots
3. Highland lore, mostly oral wisdom of the Scots
4. Romantic idylls. sonnets and odes
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64. Nirad Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian concludes with an essay
on the course of Indian history. But in the penultimate chapter Chaudhuri concludes
the account of events in his life. How does this narrative end?
1. Chaudhuri ties the knot with his childhood sweetheart and moves from Calcutta to
Delhi.
2. Chaudhuri obtains a job in the military accounts department and gives it up
because he finds it soul-destroying.
3. Chaudhuri joins the editorial team of a Calcutta newspaper and is upset over the
drudgery of a reporter’s life.
4. Chaudhuri rushes to his ancestral village Bangram on receiving the news of the
death of his uncle and recalls his past life.
Q65. In John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, Amans, the lover makes his confession to
the priest named
1. Verito
2. Genius
3. Amor
4. Phoebe
Q66. In Eugene Ionesco’s Chairs, the absurdity is not much in the banal words that
are uttered
1. in the large scale use of frightening stage props and lighting effects.
2. in the absurdist interpretation of them by character after character.
3. in the fact that they are spoken to an ever-growing number of empty chairs.
4. in the fact that they are spoken time and again by members of the audience.
Q67. A half-sentence in Purchas his Pilgrimage triggered of “Kubla Khan”.
Whose work was Purchas hid Pilgrimage?
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1. Robert Herrick, the poet’s
2. John Hakluyt’s, the collector of traveler’s tales
3. Samuel Purchas, the London Parson’s
4. Edward Purchas, the globe-trotter’s
Q68. Based on the life of a thirteenth-century troubadour, from among the following
identify the work, that marked a catastrophic failure in Robert Browning’s poetic
career, earning him a reputation for impenetrable diffculty?
1. Paracelsus
2. Sordello
3. The Ring and The Book
4. Pauline
Q69. In Tristram Shandy, the Author’s preface
1. is hawked to the highest bidder.
2. appears in-between chapters 13 and 14 in Volume II.
3. is printed in italics in all editions.
4. appears in-between chapters 10 and 11 in Volume I.
Q70. Evelyn Waugh once complained that T.S. Eliot Poems, 1909-1925 was
“marvelously good, but very hard to understand,” The most pessimistic novel Waugh
wrote was called ____________ and he owed the title to ___________
1. Black Mischief – “Sweeney among the Nightingales”
2. Scoop – “Morning At the Window”
3. Prancing Nigger – Ash Wednesday
4. A Handful of Dust – The Waste Land
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Q71. During the years 1830 to 1850, the illusion of peace in Victorian England was
broken by such incidents as
1. the Revolution in France and the Chartist Movement in England.
2. the General Strike of 1835 and the Rail Tragedy of 1847.
3. the visionary libertarianism of poets and the lawless embodiment of revolution.
4. the disaster of the Indian Mutiny and the incompetent bungling of the Crimean
War
Q72. Gulliver receives the following response when he boasts about his countrymen:
“….the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl
upon the face of the earth.” Whose response?
1. The King of Lilliput’s
2. The King of Brobdingnag’s
3. The Governor of Glubbdubrib’s
4. The first of the Houyhnhnm’s he meets.
Q73. In the Inferno Dante, as he travels through the various circles of the hell finds
Judas who is unable to speak. What is the reason behind this?
1. His tongue is transformed into a coiled snake.
2. His head is battered and so he cannot open his mouth.
3. Lucifer is chewing on his head.
4. His tongue is pulled out and nailed on the tree of sin.
Q74. Assertion (A) : Our reality is linguistic, a language mediated reality.
Reason (R) : Our perception and understanding of reality are largely constructed by
the words and other signs we use.
In the light of the statements above,
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
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2. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
3. (A) is true but (R) is false.
4. (A) is false but (R) is true.
75. In his book, In theory, Ajiaz Ahmed works out the relations between the three
entities:
1. Classes, Nations, Literature’s.
2. Regions, Nation, Languages.
3. State, Religions. Gender.
4. Literature, Print, Theory.
76. In 1660, a group of 12 people including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren
formed what they called the Royal Society. In 1663, it became The Royal Society of
London for Improving Natural Knowledge. What was the Society’s motto?
1. “In Him we trust”
2. “In the words of no one”
3. “Lighted to lighten”
4. “Love conquers all”
Q77. Of whom did W.B. Yeats say that “We were the last Romantics”?
1. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
2. The Imagiste poets
3. His Friends in the Irish Literary Revival.
4. Himself and his lady love, Maud Gonne
Q78. Who wrote The Wandering Jew, a poem in four cantos and the short lyric, “The
Wandering Jew’s Solilquy”?
1. S.T. Coleridge
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2. Lord Byron
3. Thomas Gray
4. P.B. Shelley
Q79. Where, according to T.S. Eliot, are we likely to find “not only the best, but the
most individual parts of a poet’s work”?
1. in the poet’s juvenilia or rejected drafts.
2. in the best anthologies and scrap-books.
3. in those parts where the dead poets assert their immortality.
4. in those parts where the living poets depart from their ancestors.
Q80. Which of the following is true of The Canterbury Tales ?
1. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates Sir Thopas Tale only.
2. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates The Tale of Melibee only.
3. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates Sir Thopas Tale and The Tale of Melibee .
4. Chaucer, the pilgrim does attempt to narrate an unnamed tale but abruptly stops
due to the intervention of the other pilgrims.
Q81. During the reign of Norman Kings, it was fashionable to speak ___________ in
upper-class circles in England.
1. Norse
2. Latin
3. Danish
4. French
Q82. Who, among e following, collaborated with Purohit Swami in translating the Ten
Principal Upanishads into English ?
1. Christopher Fry
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2. Aldous Huxley
3. Lawrence Durrell
4. W.B. Yeats
Q83. What unique distinction does Ben Jonson’s “To Penshurst” have in the English
literary canon ?
1. It is the only distinguished poem in English addressed to the Lords of
Penshurst.
2. It celebrates Philip Sidney’s elevation to knighthood, Sidney being the youngest
scion of the family.
3. It is one of the first English poems celebrating a specific place, a forerunner to
Cooper’s Hill and Windsor Forest.
4. It is the _rst poem in an elegiac series that late Elizabethan poets began on the
demise of the Lord of Penshurst.
Q84. It is well known that in many of his plays, To Stoppard has consciously drawn
upon earlier, often reputed works. Match the following Stoppard plays with earlier
works whose spirit seems to have informed them.
(a) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (i) Hamlet
(b) Indian Ink (ii) A Passage to India
(c) Inspector Hound (iii) The Mousetrap
(d) Travesties (iv) Importance of Being Earnest
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
1. (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
2. (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
3. (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
4. (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
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Q85. After discovering the truth about his heinous crimes committed in the past,
what does Oedipus request as his punishment?
1. Exile
2. Castration
3. Decapitation
4. Blindness
Q86. How does Women in Love open?
1. Rupert Birkin, Lawrence’s alter ego, is taking a walk in the English Countryside.
2. The Brangwean sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, are “working and talking”.
3. The wedding party gathers at short lands, the Criches’s home.
4. The last lesson is in progress, “peaceful and still” in Ursula’s classroom.
Q87. Samuel Johnson has the following to say about an English poet:
“These images are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments :
they strike, rather than please. The images are magni�ed by a�ectation : the
language is labored into harshness. The mind of the writer seems to work with
unnatural violence -‘Double, double, toil and trouble’. He has a kind of strutting
dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and
there is too little appearance of ease and nature.”
Identify the poet.
1. Thomas Gray
2. John Dryden
3. John Milton
4. Thomas Wyatt
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Q88. “Take the smoking disclaimer issue” begins Vishal Bharadwaj. “Putting a
disclaimer every time somebody smokes on screen is not an answer. If M.F. Hussain
had painted a man with a cigar, would you have asked him to put the disclaimer,
“Cigarette smoking is injurious to health” on the painting”?
The point Bharadwaj makes with his rhetorical question is the following:
1. The smoking disclaimer is ine�ectual because M.F. Hussain’s painting wouldn’t
have carried it.
2. The smoking disclaimer on objects perceived as ‘art’ is simply superfluous.
3. The smoking disclaimer is ine�ectual because ‘art’ entertains but does not instruct.
4. The smoking disclaimer on screen or on M.F. Hussain painting distracts us from
enjoying art.
Q89. According to ________ certain verbs actually :perform” an act when they are
uttered.
1. Speech Act theorists such as Austin and Searle.
2. Russian Formalists such as Shklovsky and Propp.
3. Language theorists such as Sapir and Whorf.
4. Cognitive Linguists suc
Q90. Haunted castles, strange noises and an acceptance of the supernatural with all
its trappings mark _____________________
1. meta_ction
2. fantasy _ction
3. epistolary _ction
4. gothic _ction
Q91. …. sure it waits upon
Some god o` the` island. Sitting on a bank
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Weeping again the King my father`s wrack
This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air. Thence I have followed it,
Or it hath drawn me rather…
Which of the following statements on this passage are true?
a. These lines, spoken by Edgar in King Lear, are part of a long speech delivered on
the heath
b. These lines, spoken by Ferdinand in The Tempest, describe Ariel`s music
c. The passage reappears in an altered and ironic version in T.S Eliot`s Waste Land
d. The passage reappears verbatim in W.H Auden`s Sea and the Mirror
The correct answer according to the code is:
1. (a) and (d)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (c)
Q92. Arrange the following plays of Shakespeare according to their periods
(early, middle, late…) of composition
1. As You Like It, Love Labours Lost, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, Midsummer
Night`s Dream
2. Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, Midsummer Night`s Dream, Love `s Labours
Lost, As You Like It
3. Love `s Labours Lost, Midsummer Night`s Dream, As You Like It, Antony and
Cleopatra, The Tempest
4. Midsummer Night`s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, As You Like It,
Love `s Labours Lost
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Q93. Who among the following is not a reader-response critic?
1. Maud Bodkin
2. Hans-Robert Jauss
3. Stanley Fish
4. Wolfgang Iser
Q94. Leo Tolstoy`s Anna Karenina closing lines present…
1. a sad reflection on the unfortunate suicide of Anna which should have been
averted
2. the enlivening freshness of a rain which has been threatening to break out
3. Levin`s affirmation that whatever happens to him, life is not meaningless but
unquestionably meaningful
4. Vronsky`s lament over the death of Anna which ends on a positive note, affirming
the human tendency to pass over the tragic events with hope
Q95. Which of the following novels begins with a Prologue under the Title ”
The Storming of Seringapatam” saying “I address these lines written in Indiato my
relatives in England”?
1. The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G farell
2. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
3. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
Q96. In “Gerontion” T.S ELiot says
” _____________ has many cunning passages, contrived corridors / And issues, deceives
with whispering ambitions, / Guides us by vanities “
What is Eliot`s subject?
1. History
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2. Politics
3. State
4. Religion
Read the following poem and answer questions Q97 to Q100
My students look at me expectantly
I explain to them that the life of art is a life
of endless labor. Their expressions
hardly change; they need to know
a little more about endless labor.
So I tell them the story of Sisyphus,
how he was doomed to push
a rock up a mountain knowing nothing
would come of this effort
but that he would repeat it
indefinitely. I tell them
there is joy in this, in the artist`s life,
that one eludes
judgement, and as I speak
I am secretly pushing a rock myself,
slyly pushing it up the steep
face of a mountain. Why do I lie
to these children? They aren`t listening,
they aren`t deceived, their _ngers
tapping at the wooden desks-
So I retract
the myth; I tell them it occurs
in hell, and that the artist lies
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because he is obsessed with attainment,
that he perceived the summit
as that place where he will live for ever,
a place about to be
transformed by his burden: with every breath,
I am standing at the top of the mountain.
Both my hands are free. And the rock has added
height to the mountain
Q97. Whose poetic voice is triggered right from the beginning?
1. of student`s
2. of teacher`s
3. of critics`
4. of an observer`s
Q98. The speaker brings up the story of Sisyphus speci_cally by way of glossing
____________
1. art in life
2. life in art
3. endless labor
4. poetic expectation
Q99. In its context, the words ‘the _ngers/tapping at the wooden desks’ , best
represent the students`
1. lack of protest
2. lack of interest
3. show of disrespect
4. show of impatience
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Q100.Why does the speaker say that “the rock has added height to the mountain”?
1. because the speaker is already on top of the mountain
2. because both the hands of the speaker are now free
3. because the mountain now seems largely incomprehensible
4. because she feels that the immensity of the problem has grown
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Answer Key(1-100)
1 3 11 3 21 4 31 3 41 1 51 2 61 3 71 4 81 4 91 2
2 4 12 3 22 1 32 2 42 4 52 2 62 4 72 4 82 4 92 3
3 3 13 1 23 4 33 4 43 3 53 1 63 2 73 2 83 3 93 1
4 2 14 2 24 3 34 1 44 4 54 3 64 2 74 3 84 * 94 3
5 1 15 2 25 2 35 3 45 1 55 3 65 2 75 1 85 1 95 2
6 1 16 3 26 2 36 3 46 2 56 4 66 3 76 2 86 2 96 1
7 1 17 1 27 2 37 2 47 2 57 3 67 3 77 3 87 1 97 2
8 3 18 3 28 3 38 2 48 2 58 2 68 2 78 4 88 2 98 3
9 3 19 1 29 3 39 4 49 3 59 3 69 * 79 3 89 1 99 4
10 1 20 2 30 2 40 3 50 3 60 2 70 4 80 3 90 4 100 4
*Marks Given To All
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Q1. In Frances Burney’s novel, Evelina, the eponymous heroine comes out in society in
two locations. They are:
(a) Bath
(b) Bristol
(c) Leeds
(d) London
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (d)
(4) (b) and (d)
Q2. Which of the following lines by Shakespeare is repeated several times in Virginia
Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway?
(1) “If music be the food of love, play on”.
(2) “Fear no more the heat of the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages”.
(3) “Those are pearls that were his eyes”.
(4) “There is a tide in the a�airs of man”.
Q3. Identify the important theatres of the Elizabethan period:
(a) Peacock
(b) Globe
(c) Swan
(d) Grand
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
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(3) (b) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)
Q4. In which poem does Matthew Arnold express the dilemma of: “Wandering between
two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born”?
(1) “Self – Dependence”
(2) “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse”
(3) “To a Republican Friend”
(4) “Dover Beach”
Q5. Who made the comment that, “All modern American literature comes from one
book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”?
(1) Henry James
(2) William Faulkner
(3) Jack London
(4) Ernest Hemingway
Q6. The Emblem is a poetic genre containing a symbolic picture with a text and a verse
exposition popular in the early 17th century. Who popularized this kind of poetry
through the work Emblems [1635]?
(1) Robert Southwell
(2) Francis Quarles
(3) John Davies
(4) Joseph Sylvester
Q7. Which Byron work begins thus: “I want a hero : an uncommon want, when every
year and month sends forth a new one ………”?
(1) Beppo
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(2) Cain
(3) Manfred
(4) Don Juan
Q8. The title of Sir Thomas Browne’s famous treatise, Religio Medici means:
(1) Religion of a Doctor
(2) Religion of Magician
(3) Religion of Divinity
(4) Religion of Meditation
Q9. Which among the following recent novels is a retelling of Sophocles’s Antigone?
(1) Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire
(2) Fiona Mozley, Elmet
(3) Zadie Smith, Swing Time
(4) Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
Q10. Identify the two important works of Paul de Man from the following list :
(a) Blindness and Insight
(b) Allegories of Reading
(c) Theoretical Essays
(d) Criticism and Ideology
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)
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Q11. Samuel Johnson denounced the metaphysical poets saying, “About the
beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed
the metaphysical poets”. In the biography of which of the following poets in his Lives
of Poets did Johnson make this remark?
(1) John Dryden
(2) Thomas Parnell
(3) Abraham Cowley
(4) Alexander Pope
Q12. The terms of the contract are not disagreeable to me. The above sentence
contains an example of:
(1) enumeratio
(2) litotes
(3) anaphora
(4) metonymy
Q13. Who is the author of the following lines?
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold In_nity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour…”
(1) Thomas Gray
(2) William Blake
(3) William Collins
(4) William Cowper
Q14. In Women in Love what is Winifred’s pekinese dog called?
(1) Bismarck
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(2) Looloo
(3) Lucky
(4) Buddy
Q15. Which of the following New Critics put forward the idea of the ‘heresy of
paraphrase’?
(1) Allen Tate
(2) Cleanth Brooks
(3) W.K. Wimsatt
(4) Monroe C Beardsley
Q16. Edmund Spenser’s Colin Clout’s Come Home Again is a _ne example of :
(1) carpe diem
(2) sonnet sequence
(3) georgic poetry
(4) pastoral eclogue
Q17. In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy whom does John Dryden refer to as “the most
learned and judicious Writer which any Theater ever had”?
(1) John Webster
(2) Christopher Marlowe
(3) Ben Jonson
(4) William Shakespeare
Q18. This Australian poet was raised in New South Wales and grew up in rural
Australian landscape. In 1946 she published her _rst book of poems. In 1962, she
became cofounder and president of the Wild Life Preservation Society of Queensland
and served as its president several times thereafter. Identify the poet.
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(1) Dorothy Hewett
(2) Nettie Palmer
(3) Judith Wright
(4) Amy Witting
Q19. Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is set in __________.
(1) Surinam
(2) Abyssinia
(3) Egypt
(4) Assyria
Q20. Who published the _rst collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poems in
1918?
(1) Robert Bridges
(2) Coventry Patmore
(3) John Betjeman
(4) Stephen Spender
Q21. Samuel Richardson named his heroine Pamela after one of the
characters in __________.
(1) Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene
(2) William Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis
(3) Philip Sidney’s Arcadia
(4) Geo_rey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Q22. Pinter once admitted that he _rst became aware of the dramatic power of the
pause from seeing a popular American comedian. Which one?
(1) Bob Hope
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(2) W. C. Fields
(3) Jack Benny
(4) Charlie Chaplin
Q23. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House is pointedly critical of England’s:
(1) Privy Council
(2) Court of Appeal
(3) Court of Chancery
(4) military courts
Q24. Which of the following is NOT true of the ideal state in Thomas More’s Utopia?
(1) Personal property, money and vice are e�ectively abolished.
(2) The root causes of crime, ambition and political con_ict, are eliminated.
(3) There is only one religion guided by the principle of a benevolent Supreme Being.
(4) Its priesthood, which includes some women, is limited in number.
Q25. Which character created by Coleridge makes the following account of her
harrowing experience?
“Five warriors seized me yestermorn,
Me, even me, a maid forlorn:
They choked my cries with force and fright,
And tied me on a palfrey white”
(1) Geraldine
(2) Christabel
(3) Christabel’s mother
(4) The maid who appeared in Christabel’s dream
Q26. Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins with the sombre description of
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Egdon Heath?
(1) Jude the Obscure
(2) The Return of the Native
(3) Far from the Madding Crowd
(4) Under the Greenwood Tree
Q27. The metrical form of Gower’s Confessio Amantis is :
(1) iambic pentameter
(2) anapestic trimeter
(3) octosyllabic couplets
(4) trochaic tetrameter
Q28. What happens to the lock of hair at the end of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the
Lock?
(1) It is given back to its rightful owner.
(2) It is preserved in a monument.
(3) It turns into a star.
(4) It is presented to the poet as a token of gratitude.
Q29. The Bard. The Iron Lady. The King. The above are examples of :
(1) anacoluthon
(2) aposiopesis
(3) asyndenton
(4) antonomasia
Q30. Which of the following novels by Margaret Atwood depicts the historical event
of the notorious murders committed in 1843?
(1) The Blind Assassin
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(2) Alias Grace
(3) Cats Eye
(4) Oryx and Crake
Q31. Which of the following poems by W. B. Yeats repudiates the sensual world in
favour of “the arti_ce of eternity”?
(1) “Under Ben Bulben”
(2) “Among School Children”
(3) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(4) “After Long Silence”
Q32. Which of the following characters in Moby Dick falls overboard and turns insane
as a result?
(1) Pip
(2) Queequeg
(3) Starbuck
(4) Tashtego
Q33. Which of the following poems by Seamus Heaney is dedicated to the Irish poet
Paul Muldoon?
(1) “The Loaning”
(2) “The Sandpit”
(3) “A Migration”
(4) “Widgeon”
Q34. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies which of the following characters is put to
death?
(1) Piggy
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(2) Ralph
(3) Simon
(4) Jack
Q35. In Canterbury Tales who has a red face full of sores?
(1) the Summoner
(2) the Shipman
(3) the Yeoman
(4) the Reeve
Q36. The pace of speech is called:
(1) syllable
(2) loudness
(3) tempo
(4) pitch
Q37. Match the title with the author:
(a) Sexual Politics
(b) A Literature of Their Own
(c) Thinking About Women
(d) The Laugh of the Medusa
(i) Mary Ellman
(ii) Elaine Showalter
(iii) Helene Cixous
(iv) Kate Millet
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
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(2) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Q38. Which of the following historical events does Tennyson’s poem “The Charge of
the Light Brigade” describe?
(1) The Battle of Hastings
(2) The Wars of the Roses
(3) The Battle of Waterloo
(4) The Crimean War
Q39. Northrop Frye’s influential work, Anatomy of Criticism includes, as the subtitle
indicates, four essays. Which of the following is NOT one among them?
(1) “Archetypal Criticism : Theory of Myths”
(2) “Typological Criticism : Theory of Types”
(3) “Historical Criticism : Theory of Modes”
(4) “Ethical Criticism : Theory of Symbols”
Q40. In Robert Browning’s “Andrea del Sarto”, with which of the following painters
does Andrea NOT compare himself with?
(1) Michelangelo
(2) Leonardo da Vinci
(3) Rembrandt
(4) Raphael
Q41. In Jonathan Swift’s Gullivers Travels Gulliver refers to William Dampier, the
famous writer of two voyages, as:
(1) master
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(2) brother
(3) cousin
(4) uncle
Q42. Who among the following is NOT a character in Pride and prejudice?
(1) Mr. Darcy
(2) Miss Bingley
(3) Miss Bates
(4) Mr. Collins
Q43. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players”, occurs in
Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Which character says the line?
(1) Jacques
(2) Celia
(3) Rosalind
(4) Touchstone
Q44. Which of the following rivers are mentioned in Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His
Coy Mistress”?
(1) Thames and Rhine
(2) Thames and Ganges
(3) Ganges and Humber
(4) Thames and Humber
Q45. “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”. The above is an example
of:
(1) ploce
(2) epizeuxis
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(3) plurisignation
(4) diaeresis
Q46. Which of the following images is NOT part of W.H. Auden’s poem “In Memory of
W.B. Yeats”?
(1) Mercury sinking in the mouth of the dying day
(2) Wolves running through evergreen forests
(3) Silence invading the suburbs
(4) Memory scattering like the beads
Q47. Who among the following is the author of Steps to the Temple?
(1) John Donne
(2) Richard Crashaw
(3) George Herbert
(4) Henry Vaughan
Q48. Match the character with the work:
(a) Jim Dixon
(b) Jimmy Porter
(c) Joe Lampton
(d) Charles Lumley
(i) Room at the Top
(ii) Hurry on Down
(iii) Look Back In Anger
(iv) Lucky Jim
Code :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
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(2) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
Q49. In the opening book of The Prelude Wordsworth mentions famously that he was
“fostered alike by __________ and __________”. Pick out the right pair.
(a) nature
(b) fear
(c) imagination
(d) beauty
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (d) and (b)
(3) (d) and (c)
(4) (a) and (d)
Q50. The title of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood is derived from a poem by
Derek Walcott. Identify the poem.
(1) “A Far Cry from Africa”
(2) “The Swamp”
(3) “Goats and Monkeys”
(4) “Midsummer”
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Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 4 11 3 21 3 31 3 41 3
2 2 12 2 22 3 32 1 42 3
3 2 13 2 23 3 33 4 43 1
4 2 14 2 24 3 34 1&3 44 3
5 4 15 2 25 1 35 1 45 1
6 2 16 4 26 2 36 3 46 4
7 4 17 3 27 3 37 2 47 2
8 1 18 3 28 3 38 4 48 1
9 1 19 1 29 4 39 2 49 2
10 1 20 1 30 2 40 3 50 2
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Q1. This Byron work revolves around a wife whose husband is presumed lost at sea
and she takes a lover in his absence. Everybody behaves agreeably on the husband’s
return. Byron’s technical skills in verse is in display here as the work counterpoints
the colloquial and the formal. Identify the work :
(1) Manfred
(2) Don Juan
(3) Beppo
(4) The Bride of Abydos
Q2. Who is the author of the poem, “Our Casuarina Tree” ?
(1) Sarojini Naidu
(2) Toru Dutt
(3) Rabindranath Tagore
(4) Kamala Das
Q3. In this Jacobean play the Black King and his men, representing Spain and the
Jesuits, are checkmated by the White Knight, Prince Charles. This political satire drew
crowds to the Globe Theatre until the Spanish ambassador protested and James I
suppressed the play. Identify the play :
(1) The Wonderful Yeare
(2) A Game at Chess
(3) A King and No King
(4) The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Q4. Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with __________ capitalism.
(1) market
(2) monopoly
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(3) imperialist
(4) multinational
Q5. Early in Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust, while Tony and his young son, John
Andrew, walk to the church, John tells his father a story he has heard from the stable
manager, Ben about a mule “who had drunk his company’s rum ration” in the First
World War and subsequently died. What is the mule named ?
(1) Peppermint
(2) Dopey
(3) Dynamo
(4) Pookey
Q6. The Oxford English Dictionary was published in twelve volumes with its current
title in the year :
(1) 1928
(2) 1930
(3) 1933
(4) 1915
Q7. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is notorious for its many
digressions across nine volumes and its failure to deliver a complete autobiography.
In which volume does Tristram Shandy finally recount his birth ?
(1) Volume III
(2) Volume V
(3) Volume VIII
(4) Volume IX
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Q8. Miguel de Cervantes’s inimitable Don Quixote, foreshadows metafictional
moorings when the novelist,
(a) says that the _rst chapters of the narrative are recreated from the Archive of La
Mancha
(b) says that it is a faithful rendering of a Catalan text in Spanish
(c) says that part of it has been translated from the Arabic by the Moorish author
Cide Hamete Benengeli
(d) says that he is rewriting the history of a medieval knight altering the heroic vein
with a farcical mode The right combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)
Q9. In his theory of Mimesis, Plato says that all art is mimetic by nature; art is an
imitation of life. To argue his case he gives the example of a :
(1) cloud
(2) chair
(3) tree
(4) river
Q10. The translation of Geeta into English in 1784 called Bhagvit – Geeta marked, in
William Jones’s opinion, an “event that made it possible for the first time to have a
reliable impression of Indian Literature”. Who was the translator ?
(1) Charles Wilkins
(2) H. J. Colebrooke
(3) Rammohan Roy
(4) Nathaniel Halhed
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Q11. One of the plays among the following contains the characters Coll, Gib, Dan
and Mak.
Identify the play :
(1) Everyman
(2) The Castle of Perseverance
(3) The Second Shepherd’s Play
(4) The Marshals
Q12. Tereza, in Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, troubled
by Tomas’s promiscuity, falls an easy prey to jealousy, fear and nightmares. Which of
the following are the terrible dreams she has ?
(a) She dreams of cats attacking her.
(b) She dreams of wolves attacking her.
(c) She dreams that she is dead and buried in a common grave where she lies with
the corpses of strangers.
(d) She dreams that she is dead, stripped of her clothes and plagued by other naked
corpses.
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)
Q13. The opening lines of Wordsworth’s “Immortality Ode”:
“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth , and every common sight, To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light The glory and freshness of a dream”,
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closely resembles Coleridge’s lines :
“There was a time when earth, and sea, and skies, The bright green vale, and the
forest’s dark recess,
With all things, lay before mine eyes In steady loveliness”.
Identify the Coleridge poem :
(1) “Fears In Solitude”
(2) “The Mad Monk”
(3) “To William Wordsworth”
(4) “Dejection : An Ode”
Q14. Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”, a rare blend of allegory and fairytale world
presents the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. Which of the following is NOT true
about the enchanted world that the poem unravels ?
(1) Laura buys fruits from the goblins in exchange of her “golden lock” of hair and a
“tear more rare than pearl”
(2) Jeanie, a girl who ate the goblins’ fruits, “pined away” and “sought them by night
and day”
(3) Laura, who goes to the market again, does not see the goblins but hears only
“their shrill cry piercing the air”
(4) Laura’s hair “grew thin and grey” and she wanes like the full moon to “swift decay”
Q15. In which of these prisons is Defoe’s character, Moll Flanders born ?
(1) Gatehouse
(2) King’s Bench
(3) Newgate
(4) Ludgate
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Q16. In which poem does Judith Wright lament the erasure of native culture in the
following lines ?
“The song is gone; the dance
Is secret with the dancers in the earth,
The ritual useless, and the tribal story
Lost in an alien tale”.
(1) “The Five Senses”
(2) “Legend”
(3) “Bullocky”
(4) “Bora Ring”
Q17. Years before, Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopia,
Nineteen Eighty Four got an evidence of the party’s dishonesty.
What is it ?
(1) Emmanuel Goldstein’s confession that he is a party operative; not an enemy of
the party.
(2) O’ Brien’s diary entry hinting at the non-existence of Big Brother.
(3) A photograph which proves that some citizen accused of a crime was out of the
country while it was committed.
(4) A colleague’s revelation that the Inner Party members have systematically
destroyed all historical documents and created false documents.
Q18. The Indian Queen is :
(1) a heroic tragedy in rhymed couplets by John Dryden
(2) a long poem in free verse by Keki Daruwalla
(3) an autobiography of an Indian princess in exile
(4) a _ctional account of the Life of Maharani Gayatri Devi
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Q19. In J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace David Lurie is working on an opera on the life of one
of the Romantic poets. Who is the poet ?
(1) Blake
(2) Shelley
(3) Byron
(4) Coleridge
Q20. Assertion (A) : There is no unity or absolute source of the myth.
Reason (R) : The focus or the source of the myth are always shadows and virtualities
which are elusive , unactualizable, and nonexistent in the first place. Any search for
the discursive unity in the myth is, therefore, misplaced. In the context of the above
statements :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Q21. Which of the following landscapes of England _gures prominently in the poetry
of Ted Hughes ?
(1) Cornish cliffs
(2) Dorset moors
(3) Yorkshire moors
(4) Chesil Beach
Q22. The title of M.C. Chagla’s autobiography is :
(1) Memoirs of my Working Life
(2) Without Fear or Favour
(3) Roses in December
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(4) The Pen as My Sword
Q23. Who/Which among the following gave the expression, “a leopard can’t change
its spots,” to English language?
(1) The King James Bible
(2) Geoffrey Chaucer
(3) Shakespeare
(4) The Royal Society
Q24. Which of the following is NOT true about Albert Camus’s novel, The Plague ?
(1) Dr. Rieux describes the phenomenon of dying rats using the metaphors of
disease, especially the bubonic plague.
(2) Paneloux interprets the plague in his first sermon as a sign of the Apocalypse.
(3) M. Michel is the first victim of the plague.
(4) Tarrou thinks that the plague symbolizes human indifference.
Q25. John Lydgate begins his Siege of Thebes with a prologue of 176 lines in which
he imagines himself joining Chaucer’s pilgrims in Canterbury, where he speaks with
the Host and agrees to tell the first tale on homeward journey. The story that Lydgate
tells as the pilgrims depart from Canterbury is meant to be a companion piece to :
(1) The Pardoner’s Tale
(2) The Wife of Bath’s Tale
(3) The Knight’s Tale
(4) The Miller’s Tale
Q26. Stephen Krashen’s theory of second language acquisition consists of six main
hypotheses. Which of the following is NOT one of them ?
(1) The Input Hypothesis
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(2) The Affective Filter Hypothesis
(3) The Monitor Hypothesis
(4) The Writing Hypothesis
Q27. Among Derek Walcott’s plays, which one is an exploration of colonial
relationships through the Robinson Crusoe story ?
(1) Pantomime
(2) Dream on Monkey Mountain
(3) Ti-Jean and His Brothers
(4) The Charlatan
Q28. ‘Anti – foundationalism’ holds that :
(1) Every theory poses different questions and, therefore, what counts as ‘fact’ and
‘truth’ differs in every case.
(2) All truth claims can be judged true or false, usually against empirical facts.
(3) Causal statements about the relationship between dependent and independent
variables can be made.
(4) Truth is the foundation of all representational experience.
Q29. The interaction hypothesis is a theory of second language acquisition which
states that the development of language proficiency is promoted by face-to-face
interaction and communication. The idea is usually credited to :
(1) David Nunan
(2) Michael Long
(3) Alastair Pennycook
(4) Claire Kramsch
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Q30. In Pinter’s Birthday Party Stanley is terrorised by two visitors to a seaside
boarding house. Identify the two
(a) McGrath
(b) Goldberg
(c) McCann
(d) Robinson
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (d)
(4) (b) and (d)
Q31. Match the phrase to the ode:
(a) beechen green
(b) gathering swallows
(c) globed peonies
(d) green altar
(i) “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
(ii) “Ode on Melancholy”
(iii) “Ode to a Nightingale
(iv) “To Autumn”
Code :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(2) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(3) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(4) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
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Q32. Which 19th century novelist expressed a wish to “exterminate the race” of
Indians following the 1857 Mutiny in India ?
(1) William Makepeace Thackeray
(2) Charles Dickens
(3) George Eliot
(4) Anthony Trollope
Q33. The second part of Pilgrim’s Progress deals with the pilgrimage of
Christian’s wife, Christiana. She has a companion and a guide in this journey. Pick out
the pair’s names from the following list.
(a) Patience
(b) Tenderheart
(c) Mercy
(d) Greatheart
(1) (c) and (d)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (d)
(4) (b) and (d)
Q34. In which play by Eugene Ionesco do you find the grotesque image of the leg of
a corpse thrusting onto the stage, and, which begins to grow larger as the play
progresses in a menacing manner ?
(1) The Bald Soprano
(2) Amede or How to Get Rid of It
(3) Exit the King
(4) The Lesson
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Q35. Which of the following characters finds that complete happiness is elusive and
that “while you are making the choice of life, you neglect to live”?
(1) Lovelace in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
(2) Rasselas in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas
(3) Matthew Bramble in Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker
(4) Harley in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling
Q36. Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication :
(1) In Memoriam -A Christmas Carol -Men and Women -Henry Esmond
(2) A Christmas Carol -In Memoriam -Men and Women -Henry Esmond
(3) A Christmas Carol -In Memoriam -Henry Esmond -Men and Women
(4) In Memoriam -A Christmas Carol -Henry Esmond -Men and Women
Q37. Which one of Alice Munro’s short stories is about the domestic erosions of
Alzheimer’s disease ?
(1) “Dear Life”
(2) “Runaway”
(3) “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”
(4) “Dance of the Happy Shades”
Q38. What work begins thus : “It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was
king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that
held war against him long time” ?
(1) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(2) Le Morte D’arthur
(3) Confessio Amantis
(4) Piers Plowman
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Q39. __________ is the subject of Asif Currimbhoy’s play, Inquilab.
(1) The Naxalite movement
(2) The Freedom movement
(3) The Non-Cooperation movement
(4) The Khilafat movement
Q40. Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, being
metatheatrical, lays bare the constructed nature of theatrical performance
In referring to Hamlet’s end and the Elizabethan stage conditions lacking curtains
one of the characters of Stoppard’s play says : “No one gets up after death – there is
no applause – there is only silence and some second hand clothes, and that’s death”.
Who makes this statement ?
(1) Rosencrantz
(2) Guildenstern
(3) The Player
(4) Hamlet
Q41. Who among the following, has translated the classic Malayalam novel,
Chemmeen ?
(1) A. K. Ramanujan
(2) Anita Nair
(3) Nandini Nopany
(4) Gita Krishnankutty
Q42. Which Victorian poet is the author of the following lines ?
“God himself is the best Poet,
And the Real is His song.”
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(1) Lord Tennyson
(2) Robert Browning
(3) Matthew Arnold
(4) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Q43. “You are your words. Your listeners see
Written on your face the poems they hear
Like letters carved in a tree’s bark
The sight and sounds of solitudes endured”.
These are lines from a poem by __________ on the death of __________.
(1) T. S. Eliot ; Robert Frost
(2) Siegfried Sassoon ; Wilfred Owen
(3) Stephen Spender ; W. H. Auden
(4) Dylan Thomas ; Robert Bridges
Q44. Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”, a key work of the Beat Movement, was dedicated to
__________.
(1) Lucien Carr
(2) Carl Solomon
(3) Herbert Huncke
(4) Jack Kerouac
Q45. In his views on the death of Cordelia in King Lear, which is the ground
NOT specifically cited by Samuel Johnson ?
(1) It is contrary to the natural ideas of justice.
(2) It is contrary to neoplatonic idea of decorum.
(3) It is contrary to the hope of the reader.
(4) It is contrary to the faith of chronicles.
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Q46. Which of the following plays by David Hare is NOT part of a trilogy of ‘state of
the nation’ plays ?
(1) The Absence of War
(2) Racing Demon
(3) The Power of Yes
(4) Murmuring Judges
Q47. Chimamanda Adichie’s last novel, Americanah (2013) centres on the romantic
and existential struggles of a young Nigerian woman studying in the United States
and finding success as a blogger. What is her blogging about ?
(1) poverty
(2) development
(3) race
(4) religion
Q48. Why does Father Dolan punish Stephen with the pandybat in Joyce’s
Portrait of the Artist as a young Man ?
(1) Stephen is talking to another student to get the answer to a Latin problem.
(2) Stephen is not doing his work because his glasses are broken.
(3) Stephen is looking out of the window towards the infirmary.
(4) Stephen is lost in remembering his mother’s farewell and cannot hear Father
Dolan calling out his name.
Q49. Using a non – linear narrative, this American novel explores the psychic damage
to a veteran of World War II and shows how a measure of healing is attained through
his acceptance of Laguna myths and rituals. Identify the work :
(1) Dred
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(2) Beloved
(3) Ceremony
(4) End Zone
Q50. What illusion does Lyuba Ranevsky in Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard
have as she looks at the orchard ?
(1) She sees it gleaming with a bluish aura.
(2) She sees her dead mother walking through the orchard.
(3) She sees it full of ripe fruits without a trace of leaves.
(4) She sees her childhood friends playing in the orchard.
Q51. From which source did Swift get the idea of writing “Verses on the Death of Dr.
Swift”?
(1) In a conversation with John Gay
(2) After a reading of a maxim by la Rochefoucauld
(3) While taking a walk near Dublin’s St. James’s graveyard
(4) After reading Richard Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy
Q52. Two of the following words were borrowed from French after the Norman
Conquest.
(a) mutton
(b) pork
(c) sheep
(d) swine
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (b) and (d)
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(4) (c) and (d)
Q53. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the Oresteia trilogy by Aeschylus?
(1) Cassandra, cursed by Apollo predicts the death of Agamemnon, though her
prophecy is ignored.
(2) Aegisthus’s vengeful feelings for Agamemnon results from their rivalry for the
hand of Clytemnestra.
(3) Orestes, who has come back with the intention of murdering Clytemnestra
unexpectedly meets her, and pretending to be a stranger, tells her that Orestes is
dead.
(4) Orestes, pursued by the Furies, flees from them when they fall asleep. Then,
Clytemnestra’s ghost appears to wake them up.
Q54. The first instance of female cross-dressing with the disconcerting nuances of a
boy actor dressing as a boy while playing the role of a woman in the dramatic world
of Shakespeare occurs in __________.
(1) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
(2) As you Like It
(3) Twelfth Night
(4) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Q55. For Coleridge, our power to perceive symbols gleaned from the world about us
is related to the category of :
(1) primary imagination
(2) secondary imagination
(3) fancy
(4) intuition
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Q56. After independence, although English was not an Indian language, it was
accorded the status of an :
(1) Additional language
(2) Ancilliary language
(3) Associate language
(4) Administrative language
Q57. Which English journal announced that it was “principally intended for the use of
Politick Persons who are so publick – spirited as to neglect their own Affairs to look
into Transactions of State” but failed to live up to this and amused readers with
“accounts of Gallantry, Pleasure and Entertainment “ ?
(1) The Spectator
(2) The Tatler
(3) The Daily Courant
(4) The Review
Q58. The grammar-translation method of language teaching does NOT include:
(1) focus on grammar rules
(2) vocabulary memorization
(3) inductive teaching
(4) focus on written language
Q59. Who is the narrator in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve ?
(1) Premala
(2) Saroja
(3) Rukmani
(4) Mira
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Q60. How would a New Historicist critic interpret Derrida’s statement, “there is
nothing outside the text” ?
(1) historicist critics should restrict their attention to a culture’s literary productions,
all other data is irrelevant to the critic’s task
(2) language conditions the way we see the world, and there is no reality beyond the
‘prison house’ of language
(3) there is no meaning outside of textual meaning (contrary to the mimeticist’s
position)
(4) “literature” encompasses all cultural artifacts and all the values, power relations,
and ways of seeing reflected in those artifacts; there is nothing outside of the “text”
broadly conceived
Q61. Pick out two Austen heroines from the following list who are rightminded but
neglected in the beginning but gradually are acknowledged to be correct by
characters who have previously looked down on them.
(a) Elizabeth Bennet
(b) Fanny Price
(c) Emma Woodhouse
(d) Anne Elliot
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (b) and (d)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)
Q62. The variety of English used between non-native speakers who do not share a
first language is called :
(1) English for specific purposes
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(2) English for basic purposes
(3) English as a lingua Franca
(4) English as a language tool
Q63. Identify the story for which E. M. Forster wrote the libretto for its opera version :
(1) Heart of Darkness
(2) The Man Who Would Be the King
(3) Billy Budd
(4) Death in Venice
Q64. Who, among the following Prem Chand translators has NOT translated Godan ?
(1) Jai Ratan
(2) P. Lal
(3) Gordon C. Roadarmel
(4) Christopher R. King
Q65. “When Fred got into debt, it always seemed to him highly probable that
something or other -he did not necessarily conceive what – would come to pass
enabling him to pay in due time”.
Why is Fred Vincy in debt in Middle march ?
(1) He takes out a large loan to enable him to woo Mary Garth.
(2) He is an inveterate gambler.
(3) He is paying o_ a blackmailer.
(4) He runs a charity that has got into trouble.
Q66. William Blake has a rare elan to provide telling images in arresting phrases.
Match the phrases with the poems they belong to :
(a) “mind forg’d manacles”
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(b) “eternal winter”
(c) “fearful symmetry”
(d) “crimson joy”
(i) “The Tyger”
(ii) “The Sick Rose”
(iii) “London”
(iv) “Holy Thursday”
Code :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(2) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Q67. In the debate between the two birds in the Middle English poem The Owl and
the Nightingale who acts as the arbiter ?
(1) Master Henry of Shrewsbury
(2) Master William of Hereford
(3) Master Freeman of Stamford
(4) Master Nicholas of Guildford
Q68. In the first scene in which Goethe’s Faust appears he is dejected by the study of
Philosophy, Law, Medicine and Theology, turns to Magic art to acquire infinite
knowledge. But he fails and in desperation attempts to commit suicide, but refrains
at the final moment. What prevents Faust from committing suicide ?
(1) The intervention of archangel Gabriel
(2) His attendant Wagner persuades him to revoke the decision
(3) The chiming of the bells announcing Easter festivities
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(4) Mephistopheles appears and offers to initiate him into magic art
Q69. Which novel by Joseph Conrad presents a young captain who like Coleridge’s
Ancient Mariner is haunted by the “vision of a ship drifting in calm and swinging in
light airs, with all the crew dying slowly about her decks” and who feels “the sickness
of my soul… the weight of my sins… my sense of unworthiness” ?
(1) Under Western Eyes
(2) The Shadow Line
(3) Victory
(4) The Rescue
Q70. “Our almost-instinct almost true :
What will survive of us is love.”
Identify the poem by Philip Larkin that ends with the above lines :
(1) “This Be the Verse”
(2) “An Arundel Tomb”
(3) “High Windows”
(4) “Next, Please”
Q71. In the epilogue to Congreve’s Way of the World there is a warning :
Others there are whose malice we’d prevent,
Such, who watch plays, with scurrilous intent
To mark out who by characters are meant.
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These, with false glosses feed their own ill – nature,
And turn to libel, what was meant a satire.
What does this warning mean ?
(1) Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious.
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(2) Critics should not look for portrait of real people in the play’s characters and
remember that the play is a social satire.
(3) Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews, lest they be charged with libel.
(4) Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character.
Q72. Which of the following is an elegy on John Donne’s wife, who died in 1617?
(1) “Death, be not proud”
(2) “Thou hast made me”
(3) “Holy Sonnet 17”
(4) “At the round earth’s imagined corners”
Read the following poem and answer questions, 73 to 75 :
Bored
Margaret Atwood
All those times I was bored
out of my mind. Holding the log
while he sawed it. Holding
the string while he measured, boards,
distances between things, or pounded
stakes into the ground for rows and rows
of lettuces and beets, which I then (bored)
weeded. Or sat in the back
of the car, or sat still in boats,
sat, sat, while at the prow, stern, wheel
he drove, steered, paddled. It
wasn’t even boredom, it was looking,
looking hard and up close at the small
details. Myopia. The worn gunwales,
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the intricate twill of the seat
cover. The acid crumbs of loam, the granular
pink rock, its igneous veins, the sea-fans
of dry moss, the blackish and then the graying
bristles on the back of his neck.
Sometimes he would whistle, sometimes
I would. The boring rhythm of doing
things over and over, carrying
the wood, drying
the dishes. Such minutiae. It’s what
the animals spend most of their time at,
ferrying the sand, grain by grain, from their tunnels,
shutting the leaves in their burrows. He pointed
such things out, and I would look
at the whorled texture of his square _nger, earth under
the nail. Why do I remember it as sunnier
all the time then, although it more often
rained, and more birdsong ?
I could hardly wait to get
the hell out of there to
anywhere else. Perhaps though
boredom is happier. It is for dogs or
groundhogs. Now I wouldn’t be bored.
Now I would know too much.
Now I would know.
Q73. “All those times” – the opening words of the poem locate the speaker in :
(1) a city suburb
(2) a mountain resort
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(3) a natural environment
(4) a highway motel
Q74. Which pair of words best describes the repetitive tenor of the speaker’s
unpretentious yet oppressive life ?
(a) details
(b) the car
(c) the wood
(d) the minutae
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (c) and (d)
Q75. Which of the following approximates closely a thematic statement of the poem?
(1) Dogs or groundhogs lead a better life than men or women
(2) Irrespective of the place, the boring rhythm of doing things over and over in
human life cannot be escaped
(3) Myopia is the result if you live life in the lap of nature
(4) Knowledge cures existential boredom
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Answer Key (1-100)
4 A Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 3 11 3 21 3 31 4 41 2 51 2 61 2 71 2
2 2 12 2 22 3 32 2 42 4 52 1 62 3 72 3
3 2 13 2 23 1 33 1 43 3 53 2 63 3 73 3
4 4 14 3 24 2 34 2 44 2 54 1 64 4 74 2
5 1 15 3 25 3 35 2 45 2 55 1 65 2 75 2
6 3 16 4 26 4 36 3 46 3 56 3 66 3
7 1 17 3 27 4 37 3 47 3 57 2 67 4
8 3 18 1 28 1 38 2 48 2 58 3 68 3
9 2 19 3 29 2 39 1 49 3 59 3 69 2
10 1 20 1 30 2 40 2 50 2 60 4 70 2
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January 2017 Paper II
Q1. Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called “the finest novel
in the English language with an Indian theme”.
(1) Kim
(2) A Passage to India
(3) Train to Pakistan
(4) Private Life of an Indian Prince
Q2. Who is the author of the poem “The Defence of Lucknow” dealing with the siege
of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny ?
(1) Rudyard Kipling
(2) Edward Lear
(3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(4) Robert Browning
Q3. Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the
two fundamental structures of language ?
(1) Ferdinand de Saussure
(2) J.L. Austin
(3) Roman Jakobson
(4) Victor Shklovsky
Q4. From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s Sense
and Sensibility ?
I. Elinor
II. Marianne
III. Mary
IV. Amanda
(1) I and III
(2) I and II
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Q5. Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian

Bildungsroman ?
(1) Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
(2) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
(3) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(4) Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
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Q6. Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication :

(1) Paradise Lost – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding – MacFlecknoe
(2) The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding –
MacFlecknoe – Paradise Lost
(3) The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding
(4) Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding
Q7. Poe’s “The Raven” mourns the death of Poe’s

(1) lost Lenore
(2) lost Abigail
(3) pet animal
(4) lost heritage
Q8. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth who was “untimely ripped” from his mother’s womb ?
(1) Macbeth
(2) Macduff
(3) Duncan
(4) Malcolm
Q9. Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the final revision of
the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by
(1) Belinda
(2) Clarissa
(3) Betty
(4) Thalestris
Q10. Identify, from the following list, two plays written by John Webster :
I. A Woman Killed with Kindness
II. The Revenger’s Tragedy
III. The White Devil
IV. The Ducchess of Mal_
(1) I & IV
(2) II & IV
(3) III & IV
(4) I & III
Q11. Which of the following works by David Malouf tells the story of the
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Roman poet, Ovid, during his exile in Tomis ?

(1) Remembering Babylon
(2) The Great World
(3) The Conversations at Curlow Creek
(4) An Imaginary Life
Q12. In his Defence of Poesy which of the following works does Sidney commend as
good examples of English Poesy ?
I. The Mirror of Magistrates
II. The Shepherd’s Calendar
III. Lament for the Makers
IV. Ballad of Scottish King
(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and II
(4) II and III
Q13. Who among the following dismissed Ulysses as “a misfire” ?

(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) Wyndham Lewis
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) D.H. Lawrence
Q14. Which of the following works Daniel Defoe offered his readers as a collection of
“Strange Surprising Adventures” ?
(1) Moll Flanders
(2) Robinson Crusoe
(3) Roxana
(4) Captain Singleton
Q15. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane of when
he visits Lowood School ?
(1) Laziness
(2) Stealing
(3) Lying
(4) Spying
Q16. William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying contains one of the shortest chapters in
literary history. Which of these sentences is the chapter in its entirety ?
(1) “For the love of God, where is my hat ?”
(2) “My mother is a fish.”
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(3) “Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with.”

(4) “Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam.”
Q17. The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular history of a

remarkable woman, …………..
(1) St. Agnes
(2) St. Theresa
(3) St. Joan
(4) St. Carmel
Q18. “O, for a draught of vintage ! that hath been

Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth !”
The above description is an example of
(1) Paronomasia
(2) Synaesthesia
(3) Aphaeresis
(4) Synecdoche
Q19. The term, “poetic justice,” to designate the idea that the good are rewarded and
the evil punished, was devised by
(1) Aristotle
(2) John Dryden
(3) Thomas Rhymer
(4) Ben Jonson
Q20. ………….. is the producer of the first complete printed English Bible.
(1) Jerome
(2) William Tyndale
(3) Miles Coverdale
(4) Bede
Q21. In The Fall of Hyperion : A Dream Keats sees a ladder leading upwards and is
addressed by a prophetess in the following words : “None can usurp this height … /
But those to whom the miseries of the world / Are misery, and will not let them rest.”
Who is the prophetess ?
(1) Urania
(2) Moneta
(3) Melete
(4) Mneme
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Q22. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse has a tripartite structure. The three parts are
named the following EXCEPT :
(1) The Sky
(2) The Window
(3) Time Passes
(4) The Lighthouse
Q23. Which novel by Patrick White is based on the story of Ludwig Leichhardt, the
Prussian naturalist who explored Australia in the mid-1840s, in which White’s fictional
hero says when asked about navigation – “The Map? I will first make it” ?
(1) The Tree of Man
(2) Voss
(3) Riders in the Chariot
(4) The Solid Mandala
Q24. Who among the following is not a character in William Golding’s Lord of the
Flies?
(1) Ralph
(2) Piggy
(3) Peter
(4) Jack
Q25. Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included
I. Holman Hunt
II. Arthur Hugh Clough
III. Gerald Manley Hopkins
IV. John Millais
(1) II and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and IV
Q26. The seven deadly sins are sought to be portrayed in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Which of the following sins is not covered by Chaucer?
I. Jealousy
II. Envy
III. Lust
IV. Homicide
(1) I & II
(2) I & III
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(3) I & IV
(4) III & IV
Q27. Richardson’s Pamela had its origin in

(1) the real case of a woman born to lower-middle-class parents
(2) an elementary letter-writing manual
(3) the general plight of English women
(4) the suggestion of a friend to defend middle-class values
Q28. The Medall, a poem written by John Dryden in 1681, is sub-titled

(1) A Satire against Sedition
(2) A Satire against Tyranny
(3) A Satire against Greed
(4) A Satire against Apostasy
Q29. “Full fathom five thy father lies” is an example of

(1) assonance
(2) alliteration
(3) apostrophe
(4) enjambment
Q30. What is a trochee ?

(1) A two syllable foot of verse with two heavy stresses
(2) A two syllable foot of verse in which the stress falls on the _rst syllable
(3) Three successive heavy stresses
(4) A six line stanza in which the rhyme sounds are all identical
Q31. Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” combines two poetic forms
I. Lyric
II. Dramatic Monologue
III. Ballad
IV. Sonnet
(1) II and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and IV
Q32. ………….. narrator highlights the problem of narrative authority.

(1) First person
(2) Self-conscious
(3) Third person
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(4) Participant
Q33. Who among the following modern writers is associated with the quote,
“Only connect” ?
(1) D.H. Lawrence
(2) Virginia Woolf
(3) James Joyce
(4) E.M. Forster
Q34.Which of the following images does not figure in Auden’s “Musee des
Beaux Arts” ?
(1) a boy falling out of the sky
(2) children … skating on a pond at the edge of wood
(3) ranches of isolation and the busy griefs
(4) the dogs go on with their doggy life
Q35. Feste is a clown in

(1) Twelfth Night
(2) As You Like It
(3) The Taming of the Shrew
(4) Much Ado About Nothing
Q36. Which play by Tom Stoppard has a play within the play ?
(1) Enter a Free Man
(2) The Real Inspector Hound
(3) Jumpers
(4) Night and Day
Q37. Which of the following is not true of free verse ?

(1) Characterised by short, irregular lines.
(2) No rhyme pattern.
(3) Written in iambic pentameter
(4) A dependence on the effective and more intense use of pauses
Q38. James Thomson’s long poem, The Seasons, revised and expanded all his life,
began in the first instance as a poem entitled
(1) Spring
(2) Summer
(3) Winter
(4) Autumn
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Q39. Two cantos from the seventh book of The Faerie Queene appeared
posthumously. They are known as
(1) Mutability cantos
(2) Friendship cantos
(3) Justice cantos
(4) Courtesy cantos
Q40. Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from
(1) repeating mistakes
(2) totalitarianism
(3) deconstructionism
(4) historicism
Q41. What is the occupation of Max’s son, Lenny, in Harold Pinter’s The Home
Coming ?
(1) boxer
(2) butcher
(3) pimp
(4) cab driver
Q42. Which Byron poem begins in the following manner : “I want a hero : an
uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one” ?
(1) Beppo
(2) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(3) Don Juan
(4) The Vision of Judgement
Q43. In the second ending of John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Charles Smithson’s lawyer finds that Sarah has been living in the house of
(1) William Morris
(2) William Holman Hunt
(3) D.G. Rossetti
(4) James Collinson
Q44. In 1692 William Congreve published Incognita, a work of fiction which is

dubbed a ‘novel’ on its title-page. What is the sub-title?
(1) Love and Duty Reconcil’d
(2) Beauty in Distress
(3) Virtue Rewarded
(4) Love in Excess
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Q45. In “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T.S Eliot uses the analogy of the catalyst
to elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry. He cites the example of a filament of
platinum and, in the poetic process this is equivalent to
(1) the language of the poet
(2) the mind of the poet
(3) the soul of the poet
(4) the life of the poet
Q46. Match the character with the work :

A. Pip
B. Causaubon
C. Becky Sharp
D. Heathcliff
I. Middlemarch
II. Great Expectations
III. Wuthering Heights
IV. Vanity Fair
I II III IV
(1) B C D A
(2) D A C B
(3) B A D C
(4) C B A D
Q47. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets combines the following except
(1) analytical criticism
(2) literary history
(3) personal biography
(4) Socratic dialogue
Q48. Which two works of JM Coetzee won Booker Prize on two occasions ?
I. In the Heart of the Country
II. Life and Times of Michael K.
III. Disgrace
IV. Waiting for the Barbarians
(1) II and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) I and III
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Q49. Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a bearing on the
composition of Shelley’s “Adonais” ?
(1) Miletus
(2) Socrates
(3) Plato
(4) Aristotle
Q50. Match the author with the work : Author

A. John Locke
B. William Dampier
C. Jeremy Collier
D. Thomas Rhymer
Work
I. A Short View of the Immorality and Profanity of the Stage
II. Two Treatises on Government
III. A Short View of Tragedy
IV. Voyages
ABCD
(1) II I IV III
(2) III IV I II
(3) II IV I III
(4) IV III II I
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1 1 11 4 21 2 31 3 41 3
2 3 12 3 22 1 32 2 42 3
3 3 13 1 23 2 33 4 43 3
4 2 14 2 24 3 34 3 44 1
5 3 15 3 25 2 35 1 45 2
6 3 16 2 26 3 36 2 46 3
7 1 17 2 27 2 37 3 47 4
8 2 18 2 28 1 38 3 48 1
9 2 19 3 29 2 39 1 49 3
10 3 20 3 30 2 40 4 50 3
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January 2017 Paper III

1. Who among the following is not a diasporic writer?
(1) Beryl Bainbridge
(2) Timothy Mo
(3) Hanif Kureishi
(4) Sam Selvon
2. “A text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the
‘message’ of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of
writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations
drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.”
Which of the following best expresses the position stated above?
(1) A text is a tissue of lies that has no referential and cultural validity.
(2) A text is a communication from the Author-God with multiple meanings.
(3) A text is a force field of ambiguity where meanings collapse in the face of
opposition.
(4) A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is linked to
multiple sources of language and culture.
3. In William Congreve’s The Way of the World Fairall is Lady Wishfort’s
(1) Son
(2) Son-in-law
(3) Nephew
(4) Servant
4. Match the periodical with the founder is :
List – I
A. The Egoist
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B. The English Review
C. Blast
D. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse
List – II
I. Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound
II. Harriet Monroe
III. Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden
IV. Ford Madox Ford
Codes :
ABCD
(1) II III I IV
(2) III I IV II
(3) III IV I II
(4) III II I IV
5. Which statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner”?
(1) To kill a living creature is immoral.
(2) People should honour and respect all living things.
(3) Prayer can accomplish miracles.
(4) True harmony is achieved only through cooperative effort.
6. “The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis” was proposed by
(1) Stephen Krashen
(2) M.A.K. Halliday
(3) Merrill Swain
(4) Gertrude Buck
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7. In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim’s brother Tom describes the oppression of a
black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he visited. This episode is inspired by a
letter Laurence Sterne received from a black man. Sterne’ reply became an integral
part of 18th century abolitionist literature.
Name the person who wrote the aforementioned letter to Sterne.
(1) William Wilberforce
(2) Ignatius Sancho
(3) William Blackstone
(4) John Hawkins
8. In Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, which song does Yvette sing
to Mother Courage and Kattrin?
(1) “The Song of the Great Souls of the Earth”
(2) “The Fraternization Song”
(3) “The Song of the Great Capitulation”
(4) “The Memorial Song”
9. In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, under what pretext does Emma go every
week for her clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen?
(1) Under the pretext of going to the church for weekly confession.
(2) Under the pretext of meeting her blind friend who lives alone.
(3) Under the pretext of weekly shopping.
(4) Under the pretext of taking piano lessons.
10. Identify the two books by C.S. Lakshmi (Ambai) published in English translation :
I. Astride the Wheel
II. Going Home
III. A Purple Sea
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IV. In a Forest, A Deer
(1) III and II
(2) I and II
(3) I and IV
(4) III and IV
11. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese is
I. a sequence of forty four Petrarchan sonnets.
II. a rewriting of Popean didactic verse.
III. a depiction of a contemporary setting and small events of ordinary life.
IV. a scathing criticism of the British colonial enterprise.
(1) I and II
(2) I and III
(3) II and IV
(4) I and IV
12. In The Story of My Experiments with Truth, M.K. Gandhi covers the narrative of his
life from early childhood through to
(1) 1925
(2) 1929
(3) 1921
(4) 1927
13. In a writing system the minimal unit that can cause a difference of meaning is
called
(1) phoneme
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(2) grapheme
(3) morpheme
(4) jargon
14. Nnu Ego is a character in
(1) Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of Savannah
(2) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
(3) Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
(4) Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
15. Match the word with de_nition :
List – I
A. Etymon
B. Code switching
C. Cognate
D. Pragmatics
List – II
I. Changing from one language variety to another in discourse
II. Rules governing the social use of language
III. Etymological source of a word
IV. Words with a common ancestor
Codes :
ABCD
(1) IV I III II
(2) III II IV I
(3) III I IV II
(4) IV I II III
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16. What would help a reader recognize Keats’s “To Autumn” as a poem from the
Romantic period?
(1) Its logical succession of images
(2) Its concise use of couplets
(3) Its lavish natural imagery
(4) Its use of iambic pentameter
17. Which of the following is an accurate description of ‘heteroglossia’?
(1) Heteroglossia makes the job of the novelist easier by incorporating diversity into
the novelistic structure.
(2) Heteroglossia functions in a novel in alliance with its stylistic system incorporating
multiple voices inscribed in social language and differentiated components of a
writer’s ideological position.
(3) Heteroglossia creates concrete conceptualisations through language in
association with the singular view of the artistic effort resulting in the unified world
of the novel.
(4) Heteroglossia enters the linguistic universe of the novel to homogenize its
multiple differences and voices in a singular vision of accomplished structure.
18. In Ulysses Leopold Bloom works for a Dublin
(1) bar
(2) park
(3) newspaper
(4) bank
19. Which pair of plays belongs to the early career of Harold Pinter?
I. The Caretaker
II. One for the Road
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III. Celebration
IV. The Room
(1) I and III
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) II and IV
20. Who among the following contemporaries of John Donne wrote the following
lines on his death : “Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit/The universal
monarch of wit”?
(1) George Herbert
(2) Henry King
(3) Thomas Carew
(4) Henry Crashaw
21. In his poem “Australia” A.D. Hope says that
I. Australia is “without songs, architecture, history”.
II. “Her five cities are like five dry rivers.”
III. The poet turns to her “to find/The Arabian desert of the human mind/Hoping if
still from deserts prophets come.”
IV. “She is the first of lands, the warmest.”
Codes :
(1) I and III
(2) II and III
(3) III and IV
(4) I and IV
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22. Basic English, a simplified and fundamental framework of English, was formulated
by
I. I.A. Richards
II. Alastair Fowler
III. William Empson
IV. C.K. Ogden
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) I and III
23. “Britons will never be slaves !” – felt proud Britons in the eighteenth century. A
great many Britons, though, had no qualms about owning slaves and profiting from
them. Who among the following British authors self consciously engaged with the
issue of slavery in some poems?
I. Hannah More
II. Mary Collier
III. Anna Seward
IV. Anna Yearsley
(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
24. Match the Novelist with the work :
List – I
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A. Anita Desai
B. Nayantara Sahgal
C. Arun Joshi
D. Kamala Markandaya
List – II
I. Rich Like Us
II. The Nowhere Man
III. In Custody
IV. The Last Labyrinth
Codes :
ABCD
(1) III II IV I
(2) III I IV II
(3) II I IV III
(4) III IV I II
25. Identify the right chronological sequence :
(1) The American Pastoral – Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved
(2) The Great Gatsby – Sister Carrie – Beloved – The American Pastoral
(3) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved – The American Pastoral
(4) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – The American Pastoral – Beloved
26. In which of the following senses did Marx and Engels originally use the term
“ideology” in The German Ideology?
(1) Something that mystifies the actual material conditions of society, a sort of false
consciousness.
(2) The elaborate structures and institutions that mark the bourgeoise society.
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(3) The concepts of base and superstructure that govern the economic relations of
the society.
(4) The fundamental class consciousness of the proletariat which leads to their
awakening.
27. The plot of this Coetzee novel unravels the narrative of a poor man of colour
trying to survive in a civil-war situation, never taking sides. Identify the novel.
(1) Disgrace
(2) Age of Iron
(3) Waiting for the Barbarians
(4) Life and Times of Michael K.
28. Which of the following lines of T.S. Eliot is used by Anita Desai as the epigraph for
her novel, Baumgartner’s Bombay?
(1) “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” The Waste Land
(2) “In my beginning is my end”, “East Coker”
(3) “Human kind cannot bear very much reality”, “Burnt Norton”
(4) “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons,” “Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”
Answer: 2
29. In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales which two characters are
examples of deep Christian goodness?
I. the Summoner
II. the Parson
III. the Ploughman
IV. the Pardoner
(1) I and II
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(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) I and IV
30. Identify Falstaff’s first words in Henry IV, Part I :
(1) “Now, Harry, what time of day is it, lad?”
(2) “Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?”
(3) “Now, Harry, what time of night is it, lad?”
(4) “Now, Hal, what time of night is it, lad?”
31. Anna Barbauld, Laetitia Elizabeth London, Charlotte Smith, Mary
Robinson and Felicia Hemans are
(1) first wave feminists
(2) women poets of the Romantic period
(3) Victorian writers of popular fiction
(4) nineteenth century stage artists
32. Ray Bradbury has titled one of his short story collections – Golden Apples of the
Sun – after the last line of a W.B. Yeats poem. Which poem?
(1) “The Death of Cuchulain”
(2) “The Peacock”
(3) “The Hour Before Dawn”
(4) “The Song of Wandering Aengus”
33. Which play by Tom Stoppard set in Zurich during the First World Warpresents a
character’s interactions with James Joyce as he was writing Ulysses, Tristran Zara
during the rise of Dadaism, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of
whom were living in Zurich at that time?
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(1) After Magritte
(2) Dirty Linen
(3) Artist Descending a Staircase
(4) Travesties
34. “Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere
Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness…”
In these lines from “Ulysses”, what does Ulysses suggest about Telemachus?
(1) He shows heroic qualities.
(2) He is patient and selfless.
(3) He is very much like his father.
(4) He may be too tender-hearted to be king.
35. In Restoration comedies the following is true EXCEPT
(1) the London life of hedonistic young men is portrayed.
(2) names encapsulate traits.
(3) unchaste women, widows and cuckolds scarcely make an appearance.
(4) the heroines seek a say in the choice of a marriage partner.
36. What happens to the character Boy at the end of Luigi Pirandello’s play Six
Characters in Search of an Author?
(1) He drowns in the fountain.
(2) He is shot dead by the Father.
(3) He leaves the stage alone.
(4) He commits suicide.
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37. Which of the following adjectives will not apply to Becky Sharp, a major character
in Vanity Fair?
(1) ambitious
(2) energetic
(3) wellborn
(4) scheming
38. Which character in Anton Chekhov’s play, The Cherry Orchard, first suggests the
selling of the orchard?
(1) Trofimov
(2) Yephikodov
(3) Lopakhin
(4) Varya
39. Identify the correct chronological sequence of the founding of the following 18th
century English periodicals :
(1) Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
(2) Spectator – Tatler – The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
(3) Rambler – Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine
(4) Tatler – Spectator – Rambler – The Gentleman’s Magazine
40. Who identified “strangled articulateness” as a theme in Canadian writing?
(1) Margaret Atwood
(2) Northrop Frye
(3) Michael Ondaatjee
(4) Joy Kogawa
41. Identify the gynocritics in the following list :
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I. Alice Jardine
II. Elaine Showalter
III. Sandra Gilbert
IV. Kate Millett
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
42. Identify the character who is not part of the group of three protagonists in Girish
Karnad’s Hayavadana :
(1) Padmini
(2) Gautama
(3) Kapila
(4) Devadatta
43. Aurobindo Ghosh, author of ‘Savitri’, taught for some time at Baroda College
after his return from England in 1893. Which subject did he teach?
(1) English
(2) French
(3) Sanskrit
(4) Bengali
44. Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander can be classified as a/an
(1) complaint
(2) stichomythia
(3) epyllion
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(4) pasturelle
45. Which among the following does not belong to Indo-European language family?
(1) English
(2) German
(3) Scandinavian
(4) Finnish
46. What, among the following, is ruled out by Longinus as a way of achieving the
sublime?
(1) great thoughts
(2) immoderate emotion
(3) noble diction
(4) digni_ed and elevated word arrangement
47. Who among the following is not a beat writer
(1) Jack Kerouac
(2) Allen Ginsberg
(3) Robert Lowell
(4) William Burroughs
48. This was a masque written by Ben Jonson, staged on Twelfth Night and it was the
first masque in which Prince Charles took part.
(1) Masque of Blankness
(2) The Masque of Queens
(3) Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
(4) The Gypsies Metamorphed
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49. Elizabeth Bishop’s poems are best remembered for their
(1) conversational intimacy
(2) intellectual tenor
(3) astringent satire
(4) urban topography
50. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title
Things as They Are?
(1) Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto.
(2) Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk.
(3) Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey.
(4) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.
51. In “My Last Duchess” which of the following is not one of the Duchess’s
isdemeanours, according to the Duke?
(1) She was flattered by compliments from Fra Pandolf.
(2) She enjoyed the sunset as much as she enjoyed her husband’s favour.
(3) She wouldn’t listen to her husband when he tried to correct her behaviour.
(4) She was equally grateful for all acts of kindness, regardless of their source.
52. In his essay “From Work to Text” Roland Barthes says the following about the
text:
I. The text is singular.
II. The text can be held in the hand.
III. The text is held in language.
IV. The text is a methodological field.
(1) I and III
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(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) III and II
53. Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” in his first volume of poetry, Death of a
Naturalist, illustrates all the following EXCEPT
(1) his preoccupation with his roots
(2) his obsession with Irish legend and folklore
(3) his respect for the natural world of the farming community and the labour of his
ancestors
(4) his displaced vocation of digging with a pen
54. Here is a list of Indian writers who have translated their work into English. Match
the writer with his source language :
List – I
A. O.V. Vijayan
B. Vilas Sarang
C. Krishna Baldev Vaid
D. Girish Karnad
List – II
I. Kannada
II. Malayalam
III. Marathi
IV. Hindi
Codes :
ABCD
(1) II IV III I
(2) I III IV II
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(3) II III IV I
(4) II III I IV
55. In Book 8, Paradise Lost Adam identifies his chief flaw or weakness to Raphael.
What is this flaw?
(1) gluttony
(2) pride in his superiority to Eve
(3) overcon_dence in his free will
(4) passion for Eve
56. Identify the correct chronological sequence of the following early English texts :
(1) Troilus and Criseyde – The Owl and The Nightingale – Utopia – Morte d’Arthur
(2) Troilus and Criseyde – Utopia – Morte d’Arthur – The Owl and the Nightingale
(3) The Owl and the Nightingale – Troilus and Criseyde – Morte d’Arthur – Utopia
(4) The Owl and the Nightingale – Morte d’Arthur – Troilus and Criseyde – Uttopia
57. In Sophocles’s play King Oedipus Laius, the erstwhile ruler of Thebes, was
murdered
(1) at the edge of the forest on his way to Delphi
(2) at the edge of the forest as he returned from Delphi
(3) at the crossroads as he returned from Delphi
(4) at the crossroads on his way to Delphi
58. The quintessentially metafictional novel, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo
Calvino has alternate chapters with chapter numbers an titles. Which of the following
are the titles of the chapters in the novel?
I. Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow
II. In a Network of Lines that Enlace
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III. In a Network of Lines that Interface
IV. What Story there Awaits its End?
(1) I and II
(2) I and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) II and IV
59. The novel Maurice by E.M. Forster appeared posthumously in 1971. It had a
homosexual theme, so Forster considered its subject matter too indelicate for
publication during his life time. It was influenced by a writer who was a socialist and
open homosexual. Identify the writer.
(1) Oscar Wilde
(2) Edward Carpenter
(3) W.H. Auden
(4) E.F. Benson
60. Who among the following has elaborated on the “Indianisation” of English?
(1) L.M. Khubchandani
(2) B. Kumaravadivelu
(3) B.B. Kachru
(4) Rajendra Singh
61. These are four models of relating literature to history. Which of the following is
associated with formalism?
(1) Literary texts are universal and transcend history: the historical context of their
production and reception has no bearing on the literary work which is aesthetically
autonomous, having its own laws, being a world into itself.
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(2) The historical context of a literary work is integral to a proper understanding of it :
the text is produced within a specific historical context but in its literariness it remains
separate from that context.
(3) Literary works can help us to understand the time in which they are set : realist
texts in particular provide imaginative representations of specific historical moments,
events or periods.
(4) Literary texts are bound up with other discourses and rhetorical structures : they
are part of a history that is still in the process of being written.
62. As Gunter Grass’s novel The Tin Drum opens we find Oskar Matzerath
(1) on the war front entertaining the soldiers as part of a band of dwarfs.
(2) in a mental hospital writing his story.
(3) admitted in a hospital after his fatal fall in the wine cellar.
(4) watching a ball in which the young ladies ignore his presence.
63. D.H. Lawrence’s 1926 novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country?
(1) Egypt
(2) South Africa
(3) Mexico
(4) Peru
64. Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?
I. Sir Walter Scott
II. Charlotte Bronte
III. Maria Edgeworth
IV. Jane Austen
(1) I and II
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(2) II and III
(3) I and III
(4) III and IV
65. Which of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels are set mostly in Japan?
I. The Unconsoled
II. The Remains of the Day
III. An Artist of the Floating World
IV. A Pale View of Hills
(1) I and III
(2) II and III
(3) III and IV
(4) I and IV
66. In The Advancement of Learning Bacon noted the need for more studies of
I. moral knowledge
II. forbidden knowledge
III. civil knowledge
IV. spiritual knowledge
(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3) II and III
(4) II and IV
67. Which among the following texts purports to be the autobiography of a mad
German philosopher edited by an equally fictitious editor?
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(1) Sartos Resartus
(2) The Dream of Gerontius
(3) The Professor
(4) Felix Holf
68. As Sidney argues in A Defence of Poesy which discipline is more useful and
praiseworthy – history or poetry?
(1) History “being captivated to truth” is more useful than poetry.
(2) Poetry where man can see “virtue exalted and vice punished” is more useful than
history.
(3) History is more useful for poetry is “an encouragement to unbridled wickedness”.
(4) History and poetry are synonymous, and so both are useful.
69. In Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress Christian and his friend faithful cause a commotion
at the Vanity Fair for many reasons. Which of the following statements is not true of
their appearance at the fair?
(1) They are dressed differently than the other fair-goers.
(2) They speak the language of the Bible at the fair.
(3) They sample every entertainment at the fair.
(4) They refuse to look at the merchandise at the fair.
70. What does the title Morte d’Arthur mean?
(1) Arthur mortified
(2) Death of Arthur
(3) Castle of Arthur
(4) Burial of Arthur
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71. Assertion (A) : Characters in novels are people whose secret lives are visible or
might be visible. We are people whose secret lives are invisible.
Reason (R) : Even when novels are about wicked people, they can solace us; they
suggest a more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of seeing clearly
and of power.
In the light of the statements above
(1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is right, but (R) is wrong.
(4) (A) is wrong, but (R) is right.
Read the following poem and answer the questions, 72 to 75 :
Dead Fox
We pretended to know nothing about it.
I withdrew to my childhood training: stay out
of swampy undergrowth, choked edges.
This was around the time
we were too cruel to kill the mice we caught,
leaving them in the Have-a-Heart trap
under the sun-burning bramble of rugosa.
But moving up the trail, we caught a glimpse
right at the start: the fox just over the hillock
on the dune-side slope, spoiling
the grass-inscribed sand. Neither of us looked –
it seemed best to back away.
On the dune’s steep side
we surveyed what we’d come for : ocean’s
snaking blue beyond the meadow, the silvered
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blade-like wands lying down. Lovely enough
to hold ourselves to that view.
But the currents of an odor wafted in and out,
until the sweep of smell grew wider, wilder.
The heat compounded, and ugliness
settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech,
although by then we were not speaking.
72. The “We” of the opening line indicates
(1) a group
(2) two persons
(3) the speaker and an imaginary listener
(4) an unspeci_ed crowd
73. The dead animal was sighted
(1) at the end of the trail
(2) on the dune’s steep side
(3) on the dune’s sloping side
(4) in the swampy undergrowth
74. The reaction evoked in response to a glimpse of the dead fox is best described as
I. evasive
II. angry
III. bizarre
IV. muted
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
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(4) III and IV
75. At the close of the poem, which of the following senses overpowers and renders
the visitors speechless?
(1) sight
(2) touch
(3) sound
(4) smell
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Answer Key (1-75)
Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 1 11 2 21 1 31 2 41 3 51 3 61 1 71 1
2 4 12 3 22 3 32 4 42 2 52 3 62 2 72 2
3 2 13 2 23 2 33 4 43 1 53 2 63 3 73 3
4 3 14 3 24 2 34 2 44 3 54 3 64 3 74 3
5 2 15 3 25 3 35 3 45 4 55 4 65 3 75 4
6 3 16 3 26 1 36 4 46 2 56 3 66 1
7 2 17 2 27 4 37 3 47 3 57 4 67 1
8 2 18 3 28 2 38 3 48 3 58 1 68 2
9 4 19 3 29 3 39 1 49 1 59 2 69 3
10 4 20 3 30 2 40 2 50 4 60 3 70 2
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Q1. What is the fate of ignorance in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress?
(1) He drowns in the River of Death
(2) He enters the Celestial City
(3) He finds the Truth
(4) He discovers the way to Hell
Q2. God is referred to as “The President of Immortals” in
(1) Paradise Lost
(2) Waiting for Godot
(3) Tess of the D’urbervilles
(4) The White Devil
Q3. Match the character with the author:
List – I
I. Madeline
II. Prometheus
III. Urizen
IV. Childe Harold
List – II
A. Blake
B. Byron
C. Shelley
D. Keats
I II III IV
(1) B C A D
(2) C D A B
(3) D C A B
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(4) C D B A
Q4. The phrase “loud colour” is an example of
(1) Synecdoche
(2) Synaesthesia
(3) Redundancy
(4) Paraleipsis
Q5. In one of Marlowe’s plays the hero is warned not “to practise more than heavenly
power permits.” Identify the play.
(1) The Jew of Malta
(2) Edward the Second
(3) Doctor Faustus
(4) Tamburlaine the Great
Q6. Match the Graham Greene novel with its setting:
List – I
I. The Ministry of Fear
II. The Third Man
III. The Power and the Glory
IV. The Quiet American
List – II
A. Vienna
B. Mexico
C. Vietnam
D. London
I II III IV
(1) D A B C
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(2) B A C D
(3) D B A C
(4) C D B A
Q7. What was the title of the collection of short stories published by James Joyce in
1914?
(1) Dubliners
(2) Londoners
(3) New Yorkers
(4) Berliners
Q8. Patrick White’s classic work Voss is based on the story of a ……………explorer.
(1) Flemish
(2) Australian
(3) German
(4) Spanish
Q9. In “Tradition and Individual Talent” Eliot describes the workings of the poet’s
mind in terms of which of the following?
(1) Natural selection
(2) A chemical reaction
(3) A flowing river
(4) A cornucopia
Q10. Who among the following wrote an immensely powerful play about the
remapping of Irish places with new British names?
(1) J.M. Synge
(2) Seamus Heaney
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(3) Brian Friel
(4) G.B. Shaw
Q11. Identify the term among the following which does not relate to a movement in
art or literature.
(1) Cubism
(2) Empiricism
(3) Expressionism
(4) Surrealism
Q12. “Kubla Khan” is thought to have been written in 1797, but it was not published
until 1816. Who persuaded Coleridge to publish it?
(1) Wordsworth
(2) Byron
(3) Keats
(4) Wordsworth’s sister
Q13. In Restoration comedy, character names often reveal character traits. What trait
does the name Sir Wilfull Witwoud reveal?
(1) Woodenness
(2) Miserliness
(3) A desire to be thought of as witty
(4) Petulance
Q14. From the following list identify the two novels published by John Henry
Newman
I. The Grammar of Assent
II. Apologia pro vita sua
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III. Loss and Gain
IV. Callista
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) III and IV
(4) I and IV
Q15. Consider the following lines form Beowulf:
What literary device does the poet use in these lines?
A few miles from here
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch above a mere.
(1) Personi_cation
(2) Pathetic fallacy
(3) Metaphor
(4) Litotes
Q16. Which of the following plays of Bernard Shaw attacks Darwinism?
(1) You Never Can Tell
(2) Man and Superman
(3) St. Joan
(4) Back to Methuselah
Q17. In King Lear to which woman has Edmund sworn his love?
(1) Cordelia
(2) Goneril
(3) Regan
(4) both Goneril and Regan
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Q18. The poetic line, “Break, break, break” is an example of
(1) spondee
(2) trochee
(3) iambus
(4) pyrrhics
Q19. Ben Jonson’s Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue is a
(1) domestic tragedy
(2) masque
(3) villanelle
(4) closet drama
Q20. What is the rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet?
(1) abcbcbcabc bc dd
(2) abba abbc decd ee
(3) ababcdcdef ef gg
(4) aa bb cc dd aa bb dd
Q21. In More’s Utopia what religion is practised by the Utopians?
(1) Belief in a single, infinite power and sun, moon and planetary worship
(2) Islam
(3) Judaism
(4) Buddhism
Q22. In Book 5 of prelude, Wordsworth dreams of an Arab in the desert after reading
which great work?
(1) Cervantes’s Don Quixote
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(2) Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
(3) Euclid’s Elements
(4) Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Q23. Lady Dedlock is a character in Dickens’s
(1) Bleak House
(2) Great Expectations
(3) David Copperfield
(4) Hard Times
Q24. Which Keat’s poem was originally intended to be part of a collection of verse-
tales based on stories by Boccaccio?
(1) The Eve of St. Agnes
(2) Lamia
(3) Isabella
(4) Hyperion
Q25. Where does Conrad’s Heart of Darkness begin?
(1) The Congo
(2) The Thames
(3) Belgium
(4) The Atlantic
Q26. In Gullivers Travels which of the following ideas is not a product of the Academy
of Lagado?
(1) A random sentence-generating machine.
(2) A proposal to end speech altogether, by carrying around sacks of the things that
words signify.
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(3) A project for truncating words and shortening sentences by leaving out verbs.
(4) A digestible dictionary, written on a wafer.
Q27. Which of the following stories is NOT written by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
(1) “The Minister’s Black Veil”
(2) “Young Goodman Brown”
(3) “The Purloined Letter”
(4) “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”
Q28. What attributes of Shakespeare’s characterization does Johnson admire in his
preface to Shakespeare?
(1) The way his characters represent particular times and places.
(2) The way his characters exhibit quirks representative of their humours or
professions.
(3) The way his characters portray the general passions and principles of human
nature.
(4) The way his characters portray real individuals.
Q29. According to Foucault sexuality points to discourses about all the following
EXCEPT
(1) Medicine
(2) Anthropology
(3) Psychology
(4) Criminology
Q30. “All Arabia breathes from yonder box.” This line from The Rape of the
Lock is an example of
(1) periphrasis
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(2) innuendo
(3) metonymy
(4) chiasmus
Q31. Who among the following addresses the reader in a substantial Preface to
Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy?
(1) Zelotopia
(2) Democritus Junior
(3) Democritus
(4) Solitudo
Q32. Which of these is the best paraphrase of the line, “the paths of glory lead but to
the grave”?
(1) Those who seek glory often die in its pursuit.
(2) Everyone dies, even the famous and glorious.
(3) The pursuit of glory is futile.
(4) The pursuit of glory is dangerous.
Q33. Which novel did James Joyce call “the English Ulysses”?
(1) Robinson Crusoe
(2) Clarissa
(3) Vanity Fair
Q34. What narrative perspective does Chaucer employ in the opening of “The
General Prologue”?
(1) A first-person “I”
(2) Omniscience
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(3) Third person
(4) Free indirect discourse
Q35. A fragmentary unfinished novel entitled Emma was published in Cornhill
Magazine. Identify the author.
(1) Elizabeth Gaskell
(2) Charlotte Bronte
(3) Emily Bronte
(4) George Eliot
Q36. The pre-eminent evaluative criterion of F.R. Leavis’s Great Tradition is (1) moral
purpose
(2) sublime subject matter
(3) reader-response
(4) truth to life
Q37. In Wide Sargasso Sea what is the name of Rochester’s Creole wife-to-be?
(1) Bertha
(2) Martha
(3) Jane
(4) Barbara
Q38. Which popular nursery rhyme is mentioned at the end of The Waste land?
(1) Ring-a-roses
(2) London Bridge is Falling Down
(3) Humpty Dumpty
(4) Jack and Jill
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Q39. Purple Hisbiscus is a work by
(1) Cyprian Ekwensi
(2) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(3) Sefi Atta
(4) Chukwuemeka Ike
Q40. Which country is Jacques Derrida born in?
(1) France
(2) South Africa
(3) Algeria
(4) Belgium
Q41. Which of the following plays is NOT part of the so-called Arnold Wesker
Trilogy?
(1) I’m Talking about Jerusalem
(2) Chips with Everything
(3) Roots
(4) Chicken Soup with Barley
Q42. Identify the play from among the following in which a spendthrift young man
auctions away the portraits of his ancestors:
(1) The Taming of the Shrew
(2) The School for Scandal
(3) The Strife
(4) The Philanderer
Q43. Which of the following is NOT written by Rudyard Kipling?
(1) Just So Stories
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(2) Puck of Pook’s Hill
(3) The Secret Garden
(4) Rewards and Faeries
Q44. In Faerie Queene what is Redcrosse’s reward for slaying the Dragon?
(1) The Dragon’s treasure hoard
(2) The satisfaction of accomplishing the end of a righteous quest
(3) Eternal salvation
(4) Una’s hand in marriage and her parents’ kingdom
Q45. Which of the following novels has the death of General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq,
the former President of Pakistan, at its centre?
(1) The Kite Runner
(2) A Case of Exploding Mangoes
(3) Shame
(4) Kartography
Q46. Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym that refers to
(1) E.L. Woodward
(2) Charles Lutwidge Dodson
(3) Michael Brock
(4) W.E. Houghton
Q47. One of the following collections initiated confessional poetry in America, a new
mode in which the poet bared his/her most tormenting personal problems with great
honesty and intensity.
(1) Live or Die
(2) Words for the Wind
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(3) Life Studies
(4) Ariel
Q48. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a …………… by …………….
(1) novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne
(2) play, Mrs. Radcli�e
(3) poem, William Blake
(4) sermon, Laurence Sterne
Q49. In the poem or invocation at the opening of Book 3, Paradise Lost, Milton asks
for divine help in writing his epic. He states that he is in particular need of aid
because he has what he considers to be a disability. What is it?
(1) Lameness
(2) Deafness
(3) Prolixity
(4) Blindness
Q50. Match the poets with the collection :
List – I
I. Philip Larkin
II. Geoffrey Hill
III. Ted Hughes
IV. Seamus Heaney
List – II
A. Lupercal
B. Door into the Dark
C. The Less Deceived
D. For the Unfallen
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I II III IV
(1) C D B A
(2) C B D A
(3) C D A B
(4) D C B A
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Answer Key (1-50)
Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 4 11 2 21 1 31 2 41 2
2 3 12 2 22 1 32 2 42 2
3 3 13 3 23 1 33 1 43 3
4 2 14 3 24 3 34 1 44 4
5 3 15 1 25 2 35 2 45 2
6 1 16 4 26 4 36 1 46 2
7 1 17 4 27 3 37 1 47 3
8 3 18 1 28 3 38 2 48 3
9 2 19 2 29 2 39 2 49 4
10 3 20 3 30 3 40 3 50 3
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1. Who was the original English translator for Of Grammatology?
(1) Samuel Weber
(2) G.C. Spivak
(3) Paul de Man
(4) Jean-luc Nancy
2. Which figure explains the meaning of the play Everyman at its conclusion?
(1) Angel
(2) Knowledge
(3) Doctor
(4) Good Deeds
3. Who in his preface to Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent makes the following
remark?
“the achievement of modern art is that it has ceased to recognize the categories of
tragic and comic or the dramatic classifications ‘tragedy’ and ‘comedy’, and views of
life as tragicomedy.”
(1) August Strindberg
(2) Luigi Pirandello
(3) D.H. Lawrence
(4) Thomas Mann
4. The Restoration period’s most characteristic drama, the “comedy of manners”, was
gradually replaced by “sentimental drama” in response to shifts in the audience’s
taste. Which of the following statements best represents the difference between
these two types of comedy?
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(1) Comedies of manners expose human follies to laughter, sentimental comedies
provoke sympathetic tears for the characters’ faults.
(2) Comedies of manners were commercially successful; sentimental comedies were
not.
(3) Comedies of manners were critically successful; sentimental comedies were not.
(4) Comedies of manners were written in rhymed couplets; sentimental comedies
were written in blank verse.
5. The epitaph on her tombstone that Emily Dickinson composed herself reads
(1) The List is done
(2) Redemption – Brittle Lady
(3) Judge tenderly – of Me
(4) Called Back
6. Shel is a character in Virginia Woolf’s novel ……………
(1) Mrs. Dalloway
(2) To the Lighthouse
(3) The Waves
(4) Orlando
7. Thomas Mann described the theme of one of his fictional works as “the fascination
of death, the triumph of disorder in a life founded on order.”
Which of his works was he referring to?
(1) Buddenbrooks
(2) Death in Venice
(3) The Magic Mountain
(4) Doctor Faustus
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8. In the middle of the story the narrator in Oroonoko digresses from the central tale
of Oroonoko’s revolt and tells of various expeditions taken in company with
Oroonoko.
What is the purpose of these digressions, according to the narrator?
(1) To illustrate the richness of the country of Surinam
(2) To enliven the dullness of the central narrative
(3) To give proof of Oroonoko’s daring and curiosity
(4) To convince the reader that the narrator is indeed an eye-witness to the events
described
9. In 1941 John Day Company in New York published Jawaharlal Nehru’s
autobiography under the title
(1) Toward Freedom
(2) In Search of Freedom
(3) Toward Independence
(4) In Search of Independence
10. “In honoured poverty thy voice did weave/songs consecrate to truth and liberty, –
/ Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve” are lines from “To Wordsworth”. Who is
the poet?
(1) Coleridge
(2) Shelley
(3) Byron
(4) Keats
11. Speaking of Siva is an English translation by A.K. Ramanujan of some ………….
Bhakti poems composed by Virasaiva saints.
(1) Konkani
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(2) Tamil
(3) Telugu
(4) Kannada
12. In Beowulf, Beowulf accuses Unferth of
I. pagan beliefs
II. killing his own “kith and kin”
III. “unchecked atrocity”
IV. unprovoked war
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) I and III
13. Charles Dickens opined that “no man ever before had the art of making himself
mentally so like a woman since the world began.” He was acknowledging the quality
of the work of which writer?
(1) Walter Scott
(2) William Mackpeace Thackeray
(3) George Meredith
(4) George Eliot
14. In his well-known essay “Politics and the English Language”, George
Orwell provides representative examples of what common faults?
(1) Staleness of imagery and lack of precision
(2) Lack of precision and incorrect formatting
(3) Incorrect formatting and staleness of imagery
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(4) Staleness of precision and lack of imagery
15. According to Roland Barthes, the “writerly text” is
(1) a unique expression of the writer’s individual genius
(2) consumed by way of a seemingly unitary meaning
(3) linked to active participation of the reader in the establishment of the text’s
meaning
(4) immediately accessible to the reader
16. The Canadian Nobel Laureate Alice Munro is known for her
(1) novels
(2) poems
(3) short stories
(4) novellas
17. A critical question Eliot’s Prufrock poses, so important to an understanding of his
character, is
(1) “To be or not to be?”
(2) “What are you thinking of?”
(3) “Do I dare?”
(4) “Is there nothing in your head?”
18. A test of listening comprehension is a test of
(1) Receptive skill
(2) Productive skill
(3) Hearing skill
(4) Phonology
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19. Colin Clout, Spenser’s persona in The Shepheardes Calendar appears in two of
these ecologues.
I. ‘June’
II. ‘February’
III. ‘November’
IV. ‘December’
(1) I and IV
(2) II and III
(3) III and IV
(4) I and III
20. Which character in Crime and Punishment speaks of St. Petersburg as a city of
half crazy people filled with gloomy, harsh and strange influences?
(1) Razumikhin
(2) Peter Petrovich Luzhyn
(3) Raskolnikov
(4) Svidrigailov
21. At the conclusion of Swift’s Modest Proposal, the narrator declares that he has
“not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work,
having no other motive than the public good of my country.” What evidence does
the narrator give that his advice is free from other motives?
I. The narrator is Irish and a sworn bachelor, unlikely to father children.
II. He has no children who will be affected by the scheme, and thus cannot make
money from it.
III. His wife is past childbearing, and thus the narrator cannot benefit by “breeding”
her.
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IV. The narrator is English, and therefore this scheme will not affect him personally.
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) IV and III
(4) I and III
22. The Grammar Translation Method was historically used in teaching
(1) Greek and French
(2) Greek and Latin
(3) Latin and Scandinavian
(4) French and German
23. Most of the titles of Aldous Huxley’s novels are taken from various literary works.
Match the titles of his novels with the works from which they have been borrowed :
I. Brave New World A. Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
II. The Doors of Perception B. Marlowe’s Edward II
III. Antic Hay C. Wordsworth’s “The Tables Turned”
IV. Those Barren Leaves D. Shakespeare’s The Tempest
The right code according to the key is :
I II III IV
(1) D C A B
(2) D A B C
(3) C D A B
(4) B C D A
24. “There is no set and there are no wings; the stage is empty and in almost total
darkness. This is in order that right from the beginning the audience shall receive the
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impression of being present not at a performance of a carefully rehearsed play, but
at a performance of a play that suddenly happens.”
Which of the following plays have the above stage directions?
(1) Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs
(2) August Strindberg’s A Dream Play
(3) Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
(4) Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape
25. In Thomas Hobbes’s grand metaphor in Leviathan, a commonwealth is like
………….
(1) a great ship piloted by one man, but managed by the efforts of many.
(2) an artificial man imbued with the strength of many men.
(3) an octopus whose many tentacles represent the competing interests of men.
(4) an ostrich, which thrusts its head in the sand to avoid danger and self
examination.
26. The word “Calamus”, a kind of water reed referenced in the title Calamus
Poems, is a symbol for Whitman of
(1) water nymphs
(2) male companions
(3) the spirit of American democracy
(4) the impending American Civil War
27. Assertion (A) : The world is becoming increasingly multilingual.
Reason (R) : To monolingual Anglophones it may look like everyone in the world is
learning English.
In the context of these two statements
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
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(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
28. The first scene in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq opens in front of a …………..
(1) court
(2) temple
(3) tavern
(4) shop
29. What is the final word in Joyce’s Ulysses?
(1) Love
(2) Sex
(3) Death
(4) Yes
30. Which Victorian novel has the subtitle “New Foes with an Old Face”?
(1) Hypatia
(2) Sybil
(3) Pendennis
(4) Phineas Finn
31. In which of the following poems does W.H. Auden call 1930s “a low dishonest
decade”?
(1) “September 1, 1939”
(2) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”
(3) “No Change of Place”
(4) “The Watershed”
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32. Two examples of closet drama are
I. Byron’s Manfred
II. Shelley’s Cenci
III. Marlowe’s Edward II
IV. Shaw’s Widower’s Houses
(1) I and II
(2) I and III
(3) II and III
(4) II and IV
33. Who among the following postcolonial critics worked on the fiction of Joseph
Conrad in his/her early career?
(1) Edward Said
(2) G.C. Spivak
(3) Homi Bhabha
(4) Dipesh Chakrabarty
34. In The Trial what is the main character Joseph K’s job?
(1) He works in a bank
(2) He’s a politician
(3) He works in a government office
(4) He is an entomologist
35. Which of the following best summarises the structural approach to literature?
(1) Meaning is inherent in the word itself.
(2) A language’s history explains how it works.
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(3) Meaning is generated through relationships in a system of signs.
(4) Binary oppositions are to be avoided at all costs.
36. The Australian poet A.D. Hope is best known for his
I. elegies
II. Satires
III. Sonnets
IV. Doggerel verses
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and III
37. At the conclusion of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver argues that his motivation for
telling the tale is
(1) to entertain his readers
(2) to inform and instruct mankind
(3) to assist the British nation in enlarging her colonies
(4) to produce a travelogue of genius and learning
38. Match the character with the play :
Character
I. Everyman in His Humour
II. Volpone
III. Epicoene
IV. The Alchemist
Play
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A. Bonario
B. Subtle
C. Knowles
D. Morose
I II III IV
(1) B D C A
(2) B C A D
(3) C D B A
(4) C A D B
39. Which of the following novels by Nuruddin Farah deals with foreign aid?
(1) Maps
(2) Gifts
(3) Secrets
(4) Links
40. In the house of Holinesse in Faerie Queene, Redcross learns repentance and the
way to heaven from Dame Caelia and her daughters, who are named :
(1) Fidelia, Speranza and Charissa
(2) Fidelia, Speranza and Una
(3) Fidelia, Speranza and Humilita
(4) Fidelia, Speranza and Zele
41. A new historical reading, above everything else, is influenced by the philosophy
of
(1) Jacques Derrida
(2) Jacques Lacan
(3) Michel Foucault
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(4) Theodore Adorno
42. The Behaviourist Theory is explained in terms of
(1) conditioning
(2) behaviour
(3) attitude
(4) personality
43. Who is the author of the poems “Elegy for Mrs. Virginia Woolf” and “William
Butler in Limbo”?
(1) Keith Douglas
(2) W.H. Auden
(3) Sidney Keyes
(4) Stephen Spender
44. The form of Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy is
(1) an essay
(2) an epic poem
(3) a dialogue
(4) a play
45. Which Flemish poet is Jacques Derrida related to?
(1) Anton Bergmann
(2) Karel L. Ledeganck
(3) Jan Frans Willems
(4) Jan Van Beers
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46. In Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress which of the following are found in the Slough of
Despond?
(1) Hope, great expectations, and dreams of the future.
(2) Joy and happiness.
(3) Fears and doubts, discouraging apprehensions, sinful thoughts.
(4) False doctrines.
47. Who among the following wrote a book on the life and works of Dante Gabriel
Rossetti?
(1) Graham Greene
(2) Evelyn Waugh
(3) William Golding
(4) Kingsley Amis
48. Among the Romantic poets William Blake was a total artist, undertaking many
roles usually separated. In his last years he produced some of his finest engravings.
Which of the following was NOT illustrated by Blake?
(1) The Book of Job
(2) The rape of Leda
(3) Virgil’s Pastorals
(4) The works of Dante
49. Identify the two Indian texts translated by the Orientalist William Jones
I. Abhignanamshakuntalam
II. Katha Sarita Sagar
III. Mahabharatha
IV. Manusmriti
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(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) III and IV
50. Which work by a famous poet does Thomas de Quincey refer to as “the feeblest
and least interesting” of his writings “being substantially a mere versification, like a
metrical multiplication table, of common places, the most mouldy with which
criticism has baited its rat-traps”?
(1) John Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(2) Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism
(3) Shelley’s Defence of Poetry
(4) Sidney’s An Apologie for Poetry
51. “On or about December 1910 human character changed,” Virginia Woolf wrote. A
more assertive declaration, “It was in 1915 the old world ended”, was made by a
novelist in one of his/her novels, picking a date of far more historical moment, the
point when an entire cultural tradition seemed to end in war. Name the novelist and
the novel.
(1) D.H. Lawrence – Kangaroo
(2) Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
(3) Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
(4) James Joyce – Ulysses
52. Semiotics, the general science of signs, traces its lineage to
I. Edmund Husserl
II. Charles Sanders Pierce
III. Ferdinand de Saussure
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IV. Claude Levi-Strauss
(1) II and III
(2) I and III
(3) III and IV
(4) II and IV
53. After the Norman Conquest of 1066, Norman French was the dominant language
used by
(1) ordinary people
(2) religious clerics
(3) the upper classes
(4) farmers
54. Which novel of George Eliot was read with pleasure by Queen Victoria and also
commissioned for two paintings of scenes as a mark of recognition?
(1) Romola
(2) Scenes of Clerical Life
(3) Adam Bede
(4) Middlemarch
55. In More’s Utopia there are 54 cities, all built on a similar plan and distributed over
the island such that each city is surrounded by agricultural lands. Who does the
agricultural labour in Utopia?
(1) Agricultural labour is performed by slaves.
(2) Adulterers and other criminals are forced to work on farms.
(3) All citizens take two-year stints at farm work.
(4) Farm labourers are brought in from allied countries.
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56. Direct Method in English Language Teaching is also known as
(1) Functional Method
(2) Natural Method
(3) Indirect Approach
(4) Inductive Approach
57. Vikram Seth’s From Heaven Lake is a/an
(1) verse novel
(2) exhibition of poster poetry
(3) travel book
(4) collection of philosophical essays
58. Which of the following is NOT a punishment given by God to Adam and Eve as a
consequence of tasting the forbidden fruit?
(1) ‘Children thou shalt bring/In sorrow forth’
(2) Expulsion from Eden
(3) ‘Cursed is the ground for thy sake, thou in sorrow / Shalt eat thereof all the days
of thy life’
(4) ‘Dust shalt eat all the days of life’
59. …………… attempted to draw a distinction between two kinds of Truth, a
theological Truth ‘drawn from the word and oracles of God’ and determined by faith,
and a ‘scientific’ Truth based on the light of nature and the dictates of reason.
(1) Treatise on the laws of Ecclesiastical Piety
(2) Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England
(3) The Advancement of Learning
(4) The New Atlantis
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60. In Defence of Poesy what arguments does Sidney make for considering the
Biblical Psalms poetry?
I. They are written in meter.
II. They originated in Church choirs
III. They were written by a single author.
IV. David uses imagery and personification to portray faith.
(1) II and III
(2) I and III
(3) I and IV
(4) II and IV
61. In Herman Melville’s well-known story
“Bartleby the Scrivener”, what does the word “scrivener” mean?
(1) Pasting clerks in a Dead Letter Office
(2) Articled clerks in an accountant’s office
(3) Clerks who copy legal documents by hand.
(4) Clerks who serve as personal assistants to judges.
62. “Medicine is my lawful wife” ………….. once said “and literature is my mistress.”
(1) Franz Kafka
(2) Leo Tolstoy
(3) Anton Chekhov
(4) Albert Camus
63. The critical concept of a “Willing suspension of disbelief” owes its origin to
Chapter …………… of Biographia Literaria.
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(1) IX
(2) XIV
(3) XII
(4) XV
64. Thomas Carlyle coined two evocative phrases, ‘Everlasting Nay’ and ‘Everlasting
Yea’ to suggest the swing in the national mood of his times. The phrases came from
(1) On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
(2) Past and Present
(3) Sartos Resartus
(4) The French Revolution
65. Marxist literary criticism stresses that
I. class is an imaginary concept
II. the economy is the final determinant of cultural production
III. texts reveal the economic conditions of the time in which they were written.
IV. the critic should see the work as self-sufficient
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) II and IV
(4) I and III
66. St. Augustine brought Christianity, and the Latin language enriched Old English
by giving it the capacity to talk about ……………
(1) common experience
(2) place names
(3) abstract ideas
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(4) agricultural concepts
67. Who makes the following speech in Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts?
“I almost think we are all ghosts, all of us …
It isn’t just what we have inherited from
our father and mother that walks in us.
It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and all sorts of
old and obsolete beliefs. They’re not alive
in us; but they are lodged in us and we
can never free ourselves from them ….
There must be ghosts the whole country over,
as thick as the sands of the sea.”
(1) Mrs. Alving
(2) Engstrand
(3) Pastor Manders
(4) Oswald
68. Which of these lines is NOT in Pope’s Essay on Criticism?
(1) “Wretches hang that jury men may dine”
(2) “A little learning is a dangerous thing”
(3) “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”
(4) “The sound must seem an echo to the sense”
69. One of the principles of materials preparation for language learning is that
(1) complex material should be chosen
(2) any kind of material can be chosen
(3) grading of materials should be done
(4) a small amount of material should be introduced
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70. R.K. Narayan’s “A Horse and Two Goats” is set in a tiny village called …………..
(1) Idupali
(2) Samudram
(3) Kritam
(4) Mallur
71. Kishori Mohan Ganguli, an Indian translator working in the last quarter of 19
century, is best known for his free English translation of
(1) the Ramayana
(2) the Mahabharata
(3) the Bhagavad Gita
(4) Upanishad Sangraha
Remembered Village
If you love your country, he said, why are you here?
Say, you are tired of hearing about
all that wonder-that-was-India crap.
It is tea that’s gone cold: time to brew a fresh pot.
But what wouldn’t you give for one or two places in it?
Aunt’s house near Kulittalai, for instance.
It often gets its feet wet in the river,
and coils of rain hiss and slither on the roof.
Even the well boils over.
Her twelve-house lane is bloated with the full moon,
and bamboos tie up the eerie riverfront
with a knot of toads.
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A Black Pillaiyar temple squats at one end of the village –
stone drum that is beaten thin on festivals by the devout.
Bells curl their lips at the priest’s rustic Sanskrit.
Outside, pariah dogs kick up an incense of howls.
And beyond the paddy fields,
dead on time, the Erode Mail rumbles past,
a light needle of smoke threading remote villages
such as yours that are routinely dropped by schedules,
and no trains are ever missed.
72. The opening question best suggests
(1) unremitting patriotism
(2) a condition of exile
(3) a sense of detachment
(4) uncalled-for petulance
73. As stated who often wets feet in the river?
(1) The house
(2) The Aunt
(3) Kullitalai
(4) The poet
74. “Bellows curl their lips at the priest’s rustic Sanskrit” is an example of
(1) Oxymoron
(2) Paradox
(3) Personification
(4) Synecdoche
75. The words “no trains are ever missed” in their context mean that
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(1) the poet is punctual about boarding trains
(2) all trains stop in the village but none is missed
(3) the remote village is not a stop for trains; so no train is ever missed
(4) the poet remembers all the trains boarded from the village
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Answer Key (1-75)
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2 3 12 2 22 2 32 1 42 1 52 1 62 3 72 2
3 4 13 4 23 2 33 1 43 3 53 3 63 2 73 1
4 1 14 1 24 3 34 1 44 3 54 3 64 3 74 3
5 4 15 3 25 2 35 3 45 4 55 3 65 2 75 3
6 4 16 3 26 2 36 1 46 3 56 2 66 3
7 2 17 3 27 2 37 2 47 2 57 3 67 1
8 3 18 1 28 1 38 4 48 2 58 4 68 1
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July 2016 Paper II

1. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude ?
(1) Durham
(2) Glasgow
(3) Cambridge
(4) Oxford
2. Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?
(1) John Marston
(2) Thomas Middleton
(3) John Fletcher
(4) Thomas Heywood
3. In William Congreve’s The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line :
“One’s cruelty is one’s power, and when one parts with one’s cruelty, one parts with
one’s power.”
(1) Mirabell
(2) Witwoud
(3) Millamant
(4) Mincing
4. T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in
(1) Christianity
(2) Hinduism
(3) Buddhism
(4) Judaism
5. By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag ?
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(1) Grildrig
(2) Glumdalclitch
(3) Splacknuck
(4) Mannikin
6. Who among the following was born in India ?
(1) Paul Scott
(2) Lawrence Durrell
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) V.S. Naipaul
7. What metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12)
to frame his tale and to describe the relationship between the tale and its readers?
(1) That of a caravan of lost souls, traversing a desert.
(2) That of a stagecoach, which picks up diverse passengers along the way.
(3) That of a ship filled with jolly mariners.
(4) That of a riderless horse, following his own direction.
8. Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism?
(1) Roman Jakobson
(2) Georges Poulet
(3) Boris Eichenbaum
(4) Victor Shklovsky
9. Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up”?
(1) Barkis
(2) Micawber
(3) Uriah Heep
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(4) Miss Havisham
10. What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville’s Moby
Dick?
(1) Pequod
(2) Rachel
(3) Hagar
(4) Sphinx
11. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the ………….. romance.
(1) Oriental
(2) French
(3) Gothic
(4) Popular
12. Who among the following authors were greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle’s
writings?
I. Charles Dickens
II. Elizabeth Gaskell
III. Emily Bronte
IV. Oscar Wilde
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) I and III
13. Which of the following is another term to describe “art for art’s sake”?
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(1) Aestheticism
(2) Didacticism
(3) Realism
(4) Neo-realism
14. The statement that there are “none so credulous as infidels” is an illustration of
(1) Oxymoron
(2) Antithesis
(3) Paradox
(4) Metonomy
15. Who narrates Heart of Darkness?
(1) Marlow
(2) Director of Companies
(3) Kurtz
(4) An unnamed narrator
16. The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of
(1) The Conscious Lovers
(2) The Good Natur’d Man
(3) She Stoops to Conquer
(4) The Rivals
17. Identify the first novel written by Patrick White :
(1) The Living and the Dead
(2) The Tree of Man
(3) Happy Valley
(4) The Aunt’s Story
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18. In King Lear for what reason does Kent assume a disguise?
(1) To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him.
(2) To spy on Edmund.
(3) To antagonize Goneril and Regan.
(4) To revenge upon Lear for banishing him.
19. What is a feminine rhyme?
(1) A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed.
(2) A rhyme on two syllables.
(3) A rhyme on three syllables.
(4) A poem in which every third syllable rhymes.
20. Identify two of the following written by Christopher Fry :
I. French Without Tears
II. The Lady’s Not for Burning
III. Venus Observed
IV. The Deep Blue Sea
(1) II and III
(2) I and III
(3) II and IV
(4) I and IV
21. In “Tradition and Individual Talent”, according to T.S. Eliot, the term “Traditional”
usually means
(1) something positive
(2) something negative
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(3) something historical
(4) something old
22. Who of the following is a Cavalier poet?
(1) George Herbert
(2) John Donne
(3) Robert Herrick
(4) Andrew Marvell
23. Which of the following is not Jacques Derrida’s work?
(1) Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question
(2) The Transcendence of the Ego
(3) Of Grammatology
(4) The Work of Mourning
24. In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a
rib in Adam’s side?
(1) Adam
(2) Eve
(3) Raphael
(4) God
25. A.S. Byatt’s Possession attempts the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets,
loosely based on
I. Alfred Tennyson
II. Robert Browning
III. Christina Rossetti
IV. William Morris
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(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
26. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by
(1) Bernard Shaw
(2) W.B. Yeats
(3) J.M. Synge
(4) John Osborne
27. John Milton’s description of gold as a “precious bane” (Paradise Lost,
Book II) is best described as
(1) a dactyl
(2) an oxymoron
(3) enjambment
(4) zeugma
28. There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher
Marlowe’s
(1) Doctor Faustus
(3) Tamburlaine, the Great
(4) Edward II
29. Shakespeare famously neglects to observe Aristotle’s rules concerning the three
dramatic unities, and Samuel Johnson undertakes to defend Shakespeare from these
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criticisms in his Preface to Shakespeare. Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities
does Johnson believe Shakespeare to observe most successfully?
(1) Time
(2) Place
(3) Action
(4) Johnson does not feel that the Aristotelian dramatic unities are important
30. Who among the following was praised and patronized as a “Ploughman Poet”?
(1) John Clare
(2) George Crabbe
(3) Robert Burns
(4) Walter Scott
31. Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a projection forward in time after a
devastating atomic war?
(1) The Grass is Singing
(2) The Golden Notebook
(3) The Four-Gated City
(4) A Proper Marriage
32. Name the dominant meter of the following quatrain :
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
(1) Iambic Hexameter
(2) Trochaic Pentameter
(3) Iambic Pentameter
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(4) Terza Rima
33. Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta provide a fictionalized portrait of poor,
young Nigerian women struggling to bring up their children in London?
I. The Slave Girl
II. The Joys of Motherhood
III. Second Class Citizen
IV. In the Ditch
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) III and IV
(4) I and IV
34. In John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress who keeps Christian’s head above water in
the River of Death?
(1) Hopeful
(2) Helpful
(3) Faithful
(4) Cheerful
35. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a
(1) religious allegory
(2) fairy tale
(3) long poem
(4) Utopian novel
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36. In Thomas More’s Utopia which of the following leisure pastimes is not a
favourite among Utopians?
(1) Music
(2) Public lectures
(3) Conversation
(4) Dicing and cards
37. Which of the following statements does not describe Michel Foucault’s position?
(1) In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally written on the body.
(2) Power operates through discourse.
(3) There is connection between power and knowledge.
(4) Where there is power, it is possible to find resistance.
38. In which year did the Great Exhibition take place?
(1) 1851
(2) 1857
(3) 1861
(4) 1871
39. When Fidessa says, “O but I fear the fickle freakes …./ Of fortune false, and oddes
of armes in field” (Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 5), this is a fine example of
(1) Alliteration
(2) Allegory
(3) Assonance
(4) Antithesis
40. Match the work with author :
I. “The Excursion”
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II. “Christabel”
III. Milton
IV. Queen Mab
A. S.T. Coleridge
B. P.B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth
D. William Blake
I II III IV
(1) C A B D
(2) C A D B
(3) B C A D
(4) B A C D
41. Which of the following phrases is not found in Thomas Gray’s “Elegy written in a
Country Churchyard”?
(1) “Far from the madding crowd”
(2) “A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown”
(3) “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen”
(4) “All nature is but art, unknown to thee”
42. Robert Browning’s “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is a defence of
(1) youth against old age
(2) old age against youth
(3) power against knowledge
(4) knowledge against power
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43. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of
which they are a part, are made up of three social groups or “estates”. What are the
three estates?
(1) Nobility, church and commoners
(2) Royalty, nobility and peasantry
(3) Royalists, republicans and peasants
(4) Country, city and commons
44. Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who
murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave?
(1) Sula
(2) Tar Baby
(3) Song of Solomon
(4) Beloved
45. Who among the following translated Homer?
(1) Thomas Gray
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) Oliver Goldsmith
(4) Alexander Pope
46. Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy is a
(1) Picaresque novel
(2) Epistolary novel
(3) Diary novel
(4) Coming-of-age novel
47. When was the English ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses lifted?
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(1) 1924
(2) 1945
(3) 1936
(4) 1962
48. Who among the following is not an imagist?
(1) Ezra Pound
(2) W.B. Yeats
(3) Amy Lowell
(4) T.E. Hulme
49. Thomas Carew’s Poems appeared in print in 1640 and contain a variety of
amorous addresses to and reflections on, a fictional mistress known as
(1) Celia
(2) Julia
(3) Anne
(4) Melanie
50. Match the novelists with their work :
I. William Golding
II. Salman Rushdie
III. Graham Swift
IV. Peter Ackroyd
A. Grimus
B. Hawksmoor
C. Darkness Visible
D. Waterland
I II III IV
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(1) D A C B
(2) C A D B
(3) B C A D
(4) B A C D
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2 4 12 1 22 3 32 3 42 2
3 3 13 1 23 2 33 3 43 1
4 1 14 3 24 1 34 1 44 4
5 1 15 4 25 3 35 3 45 4
6 2 16 3 26 1 36 4 46 4
7 3 17 3 27 2 37 1 47 3
8 2 18 1 28 2 38 1 48 2
9 2 19 1 29 3 39 1 49 1
10 2 20 1 30 3 40 2 50 2
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July 2016 Paper III

1. Which of W.M. Thackeray’s novel’s closing sentence is this?
“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or, having it, is
satisfied?”
(1) The History of Henry Esmond
(2) Vanity Fair
(3) The Luck of Barry Lyndon
(4) Pendennis
2. Why does Lovewit in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist leave his house, setting the
stage for his servant Face, along with Subtle, a fake alchemist to fleece people?
(1) To visit his father who left him long ago.
(2) To find out new sources of minting money.
(3) Because of an epidemic of plague.
(4) To make a pilgrimage.
3. By the end of the nineteen fifties novelists like Stan Barstow, Sid Chaplin,
Alan Sillitoe and David Storey were routinely lumped together as representatives of
“Kitchen-sink realism”. Who in 1954 wrote the article “The Kitchen Sink”, calling
attention to the gritty and direct realism?
(1) Martin Harrison
(2) Stan Smith
(3) David Sylvester
(4) Philip Callow
4. Which of the following is not an allegorical character in the play Everyman?
(1) Kindred
(2) Strength
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(3) Christian
(4) Discretion
5. Who among the following translators is notable as the first translator of
BhagavadGita into English?
(1) Charles Wilkins
(2) Nathaniel Halhead
(3) William Jones
(4) Barbara Stoler Miller
6. In Biographia Literaria S.T. Coleridge defines the imagination as the faculty by
which
(1) the soul perceives the phenomenal diversity of the universe.
(2) the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.
(3) the mind acquires images by its associative power.
(4) the mind separates images by its discriminatory power.
7. Why do the Houyhnhnms have so few words in their language?
(1) Their wants and passions are fewer than human wants and passions, and they
need fewer words.
(2) They consider language to be morally corrupt and prefer to remain silent.
(3) They find speech difficult because they are horses.
(4) They prefer action to words.
8. Identify the title of A.D. Hope’s first published book of poems.
(1) Native Companions
(2) The Wandering Islands
(3) A Midsummer Eve’s Dream
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(4) The Cave and the Spring
9. Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in language teaching?
(1) Learners acquire language by trying to use it in real situations.
(2) Learners’ first language plays an important role in learning.
(3) Language teaching should have a focus on communicative activities.
(4) Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than speech.
10. The Bhasmasura myth is used in R.K. Narayan’s …………..
(1) The Man-Eater of Malgudi
(2) The Financial Expert
(3) The English Teacher
(4) The World of Nagaraj
11. During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from two
languages :
I. Celtic
II. Latin
III. French
IV. Old Norse
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) II and IV
(4) III and IV
12. Select the right chronological sequence of the date of Bible translations.
(1) King James Version – Tyndale –Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian
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Standard Bible
(2) Revised Standard Version – King James Version – Tyndale – Holman Christian
Standard Bible
(3) Tyndale – King James Version – Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian
Standard Version
(4) Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Bible – King James
Version – Tyndale
13. The last word in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is
(1) No
(2) The
(3) Morning !
(4) Jaysus
14. Assertion (A) : In so far as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not
texts but paradigms.
Reason (R) : We appropriate meaning from a text according to what we need or
desire, or, in other words, according to the critical assumptions or predispositions
that we bring to it.
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
15. One of the key terms in Michel Foucault’s work is discourse. This is best described
as
(1) the power of persuasion in all articulations.
(2) the selective language powerful people use.
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(3) conceptual frameworks which enable some mode of thought and deny or
severely constrain certain others.
(4) the ability to suggest transcendental levels of meaning in an utterance.
16. The narrators of Oroonoko are
I. a woman
II. Oroonoko
III. a purported eyewitness of the events described
IV. Trefy
(1) I and IV
(2) I and III
(3) II and III
(4) II and IV
17. Which character of Henrik Ibsen speaks the following lines : “The life of a
normally constituted idea is generally about seventeen or eighteen years, at the most
twenty?”
(1) Nora in A Doll’s House
(2) Dr. Thomas Stockman in An Enemy of the People
(3) John Rosmer in Rosmerscholm
(4) Oswald in Ghosts
18. In literary studies structuralism promotes
(1) new interpretations of literary works.
(2) the view that literature is one signifying practice among others.
(3) a systematic account of literary archetypes.
(4) unstable structures of systems of signification.
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19. P.B. Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo is a conversation between Julian and Count
Maddalo.
Who do these two characters represent?
(1) Julian represents Keats and Count Maddalo, Byron
(2) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, Byron
(3) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin
(4) Julian represents Mary Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin
20. What is practical criticism?
(1) The close analysis of literary texts in such a way as to bring out their political
meaning.
(2) A movement which wished to make literary criticism more relevant.
(3) The close analysis of poems without taking account of any external information.
(4) The study of ambiguity.
21. Which of the following does not describe some of the practices/beliefs of
feminist literary criticism?
(1) Feminist criticism recuperates female writers ignored by the canon.
(2) Feminist literary critics offer a criticism of the construction of gender.
(3) Feminist literary critics argue that the traditional canon is justified.
(4) Feminist literary critics mostly reject the essentialising of ‘male’ and ‘female’.
22. Which work by Franz Kafka is also known as The Man Who Disappeared?
(1) The Castle
(2) “Metamorphosis”
(3) “In the Penal Colony”
(4) Amerika
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23. Towards the end of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust the protagonist Tony Last
is trapped in the jungle by the calculating crazy Mr. Todd who forces him to read and
reread the novels of a particular author. Waugh has also written a short story dealing
with Tony’s singular experience in the jungle. Who is the novelist referred to and
what is the title of the short story?
(1) Rudyard Kipling, “Revisiting the Jungle”
(2) Joseph Conrad, “Shadows of the Dark Trees”
(3) Charles Dickens, “The Man Who Liked Dickens”
(4) Henry Fielding, “Tom Jones’s Journey into the Wild”
24. At the beginning of the Restoration period, there was a seismic shift in the social,
political and religious attitudes of the English. Which of the following statements
best describes that shift?
(1) England shifted from an aristocratic Catholic monarchy to a parliamentary
democracy.
(2) England shifted from an atheistic oligarchy to a deistic squirearchy.
(3) England shifted from a Republican Puritan Commonwealth to an aristocratic
Anglican monarchy.
(4) England shifted from a parliamentary democracy to an aristocratic Catholic
tyranny.
25. The Grammar-Translation Method in English Language Teaching stresses on
(1) Fluency
(2) Accuracy
(3) Appropriateness
(4) Listening Skill
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26. “[They] then heaved out,/ away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.”
This line describing Beowulf’s departure from Geatland, is typical of the poem’s form
and Old English poetic technique because
I. it features alliteration
II. it rhymes
III. it features onomotopoeia
IV. it has four strong stresses
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) II and IV
27. Identify the poet, translator, publisher and essayist who founded a press in the
1950s called Writers’ Workshop and provided a publishing outlet for Indians writing
in English.
(1) P. Lal
(2) A.K. Mehrotra
(3) Vinay Dharwadkar
(4) A.K. Ramanujan
28. Antagonised by what he considered to be the provinciality of the Lake Poets,
Byron wrote the preface to which of his works as a rebuke to Wordsworth’s own
introduction to “The Thorn”?
(1) The Prisoner of Chillon
(2) Don Juan
(3) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(4) The Vision of Judgement
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29. Which of the following theoretical movements claimed that “the device is the
only hero of literature”?
(1) Russian formalism
(2) New Criticism
(3) Phenomenology
(4) Deconstruction
30. In Jean Francois Lyotard’s works the term “language games”, sometimes also
called “phrase regimens” denotes:
I. the multiplicity of communities of meaning.
II. the breakdown of communities of meaning.
III. the innumerable and incommensurable separate systems in which meanings are
produced.
IV. the singular system in which meanings are dispersed and displaced.
(1) I and IV
(2) I and III
(3) II and IV
(4) II and III
31. What part of Canada is Alice Munro most famous for depicting?
(1) Vancouver
(2) Montreal
(3) Ontario
(4) Quebec
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32. In John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera what is Peachum’s occupation?
I. Pimp
II. Lawyer
III. Fencer of stolen goods, and master of a gang of thieves
IV. Impeader of less powerful criminals
(1) III & IV
(2) II & III
(3) I & IV
(4) II & IV
33. In the opening stanza of “Song of Myself”, Whitman begins his spiritual
awakening at the age of …………….
(1) 37
(2) 15
(3) 24
(4) 61
34. In which of the following poems does Tennyson describe and condemn the spirit
of aestheticism whose sole religion is the worship of beauty and of knowledge for
their own sake and which ignores human responsibility and obligations of one’s
fellowmen?
(1) “The Princess”
(2) “The Lady of Shalott”
(3) “The Palace of Art”
(4) “Tithonus”
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35. Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author deliberately blurs the
boarder lines between the world of the theatre and the world of ‘real life’ by carefully
chiselled dialogues like :
“Don’t you feel the ground beneath your feet as you reflect that this ‘you’ which you
feel today, all this present reality of yours, is destined to seem a mere illusion to you
tomorrow?”
Who is the speaker? Who is it addressed to?
(1) Stepdaughter to Father
(2) Father to Stage Manager
(3) Stage Manager to Director
(4) Mother to Director
36. In a poem in memory of Major Robert Gregory, Lady Gregory’s son, W.B. Yeats
mentions an Irish writer who had found his inspiration “In a most desolate stony
place” that he came “Towards nightfall upon a race/passionate and simple like his
heart.” Who is the writer?
(1) J.M. Barrie
(2) J.M. Synge
(3) Isaac Bickerstaffe
(4) Thomas More
37. Jacques Derrida’s work received some criticism from analytical philosophers. Who
below was a critic of Derrida?
(1) John Searle
(2) Jean-Francois Lyotard
(3) Emmanuel Levinas
(4) Paul de Man
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38. Who among the following bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet,
George Herbert, near Salisbury, England, in 1996?
(1) Daljit Nagra
(2) Vikram Seth
(3) Amitava Kumar
(4) Arundhati Roy
39. Which pair of novels by Anita Desai take as their subject the suppression and
oppression of Indian women?
I. Where Shall We Go This Summer?
II. The Zigzag Way
III. Cry, the Peacock
IV. Baumgartner’s Bombay
(1) I and II
(2) I and III
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
40. From among the following identify the two Indian English authors who received
appreciation and encouragement from their British counterparts:
I. R.K. Narayan, Graham Greene
II. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Evelyn Waugh
III. Mulk Raj Anand, E.M. Forster
IV. Raja Rao, Iris Murdoch
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
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(3) I and III
(4) III and IV
41. Match the character with the work :
Character
I. Count Fosco
II. Margaret
III. Lucy Snowe
IV. Maggie Tulliver
Work
A. Villette
B. Adam Bede
C. The Woman in White
D. North or South
Codes :
I II III IV
(1) C D A B
(2) D C A B
(3) C A D B
(4) C A B D
42. This poet was accidently killed in Burma by a pistol shot in 1944. His
posthumously published collection of poems Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets is divided
into three sections.
The first section describes a tense, waiting England and the second the voyage to the
East. In the third section he uncomfortably comes to terms with the alien contours,
the harsh light and the dry wastes of India as evident in poems like “The Maratta
Ghats”, “Indian Day” and “Observation
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Post : Forward Area”. Who is the poet?
(1) Keith Douglas
(2) Sidney Keyes
(3) David Gascoyne
(4) Alun Lewis
43. As Adam and Eve leave Paradise, “hand in hand with wand’ring steps and slow”
(Book XII, Paradise Lost) what is their consolation?
(1) They are comforted by their love for one another.
(2) They are comforted by their foreknowledge of the coming of Christ as Redeemer
of mankind.
(3) They are comforted by God, who travels before them in the form of a pillar of
fire.
(4) They are comforted by the angel, who holds each of them by the hand.
44. In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy to whom does Dryden refer with the phrase “he
needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature”?
(1) Ben Jonson
(2) Ovid
45. Emily Dickinson’s use of “open form” or “free verse” is comparable to her
contemporary American poet,
(1) Anne Bradstreet
(2) Robert Lowell
(3) Walt Whitman
(4) Sylvia Plath
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46. In “A Letter of the Authors” Edmund Spenser writes that two characters in Faerie
Queene represent Queen Elizabeth. Who are they?
I. Britomart
II. Cynthia
III. Belphoebe
IV. The Faerie Queene
(1) III and IV
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and III
47. Who among the following African novelists was a student of philosophy and
literature in India?
(1) Nuruddin Farah
(2) Ben Okri
(3) Helon Habila
(4) Benjamin Kwakye
48. In particular William Blake was influenced by the religious writings of
I. Martin Luther
II. Jacob Boehme
III. Emanuel Swedenborg
IV. Confucious
(1) I and IV
(2) I and II
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(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
49. Which British King, having defeated the Viking invaders, consciously used the
English language to create a sense of national identity and retain political control
over independent countries?
(1) Alfred the Great
(2) Edward the Elder
(3) King Arthur
(4) Ethelbert of Kent
50. In “Politics and the English Language” George Orwell provides a list of rules to aid
in curing the English language. What is the final rule?
(1) Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to
seeing in print.
(2) Never use a long word where a short one will do.
(3) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
(4) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
51. In his Defence of Poesy what is the “best and most accomplished kind of poetry”
in Sidney’s estimation?
(1) Heroical, or epic poetry
(2) Lyric poetry
(3) Pastoral poetry
(4) Elegiac poetry
52. Which writer of the Romantic period makes the following comment :
“The poet is far from dealing only with these subtle and analogical truths.
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Truth of every kind belongs to him, provided it can bud into any kind of beauty, or is
capable of being illustrated and impressed by poetic faculty”?
(1) Wordsworth in Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
(2) William Hazlitt in “On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth”
(3) Leigh Hunt in What is Poetry?
(4) Keats in one of his letters to his brother
53. In his poem “Whispers of Immortality” T.S. Eliot says that a dramatist “was much
possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the
anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.” Who are the dramatist and the
poet referred to by Eliot?
(1) Christopher Marlowe and Andrew Marvell
(2) John Webster and John Donne
(3) Seneca and Homer
(4) Thomas Kyd and Henry Vaughan
54. Functional Communicative Approach in English Language Teaching is in
opposition to
(1) Structural Approach
(2) Comprehensive Approach
(3) Translation and Grammar Method
(4) Functional Approach
55. According to Julia Kristeva, it is the eruption of the ………… within the
…………… that provides the creative and innovative impulse of modern poetic
language.
(1) individual, tradition
(2) speci_c, generic
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(3) semiotic, symbolic
(4) particular, general
56. In Crime and Punishment which character speaks the following words.
Who/what are they addressed to? “I waited for you impatiently…. all this blasted
psychology is a double-edged weapon.”
(1) Svidrigailov to the pistol with which he shoots himself
(2) Katherine Ivanovna to Marmeladov
(3) Porfiry Petrovich to Raskolnikov
(4) Raskolnikov to the Bible he finds in the prison cell in Siberia
57. What three Germanic tribes invaded Britons in the fifth century AD, bringing with
them the roots of modern English?
(1) The Danes, Saxons and Celts
(2) The Celts, Jutes and Saxons
(3) The Saxons, Danes and Angles
(4) The Jutes, Angles and Saxons
58. Which of the following is not a part of the series of poems called Jejuri, written by
Arun Kolatkar?
(1) “Yeshwant Rao”
(2) “Chaitanya”
(3) “The Priest”
(4) “An Old Man”
59. Bertolt Brecht’s concept of alienation was a rejection of the idea that realism was
the only mode of art a critique of capitalist society should produce. Alienation is best
described as
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(1) making the audience feel that they do not belong.
(2) distancing artistic conventions to prevent an emotional catharsis.
(3) scripting unnatural behaviour on stage.
(4) a rejection of capitalism or the market.
60. Ngugi wa Thiongo changed the medium of his writing from English to…………..
(1) Swahili
(2) Yoruba
(3) Xhosa
(4) Gikuyu
61. Which of the following ancient critics does Alexander Pope commend as
exemplary in Essay on Criticism?
(1) Aristotle, Quintilian, Dryden, Dionysius, Horace
(2) Aristotle, Longinus, Quintilian, Durfey, Dryden
(3) Aristotle, Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian, Longinus
(4) Aristotle, Horace, Durfey, Quintilian, Longinus
62. Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin is best described as a selfelegy,
anticipating the poet’s death?
(1) “The Old Fools”
(2) “Aubade”
(3) “Ambulances”
(4) “Faith Healing”
63. In John Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress what is the first obstacle encountered by
Christian on his progress?
(1) The Slough of Despond
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(2) Vanity Fair
(3) The River of Death
(4) The Swamp of Despair
64. Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication of the four parts of The
Four Quartets.
(1) Burnt Norton – The Dry Salvages – East Coker – Little Gidding
(2) Burnt Norton – Little Gidding –The Dry Salvages – East Coker
(3) Burnt Norton – East Coker – The Dry Salvages – Little Gidding
(4) Little Gidding – Burnt Norton – The Dry Salvages – East Coker
65. Which of the following is not true of the novels of Charles Dickens?
(1) They deal with the problems of the discontents of an urban civilization.
(2) The plots are strikingly tight-knit.
(3) They share a sense of fun and determining optimism.
(4) They incorporate elements of popular contemporary culture.
66. Published in 1604, the first monolingual English Dictionary was
(1) Nathaniel Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
(2) Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language
(3) Robert Cawdrey’s Table Alphabetical
(4) Thomas Blount’s Glossographia
67. Which of the following statements best describe the narrative perspective
employed in Thomas More’s Utopia?
I. First-person narration by Raphael Hythloday
II. Third-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More
III. First-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More
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IV. Third-person narration by Raphael Hythloday
(1) I and III
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) I and II
68. In the opening pages of one of Thomas Mann’s novels we can see space itself
becoming a form of time : “Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness but it does so
by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive
unattached state.”
Which is the novel?
(1) Doctor Faustus
(2) Death in Venice
(3) The Confessions of Felix Krull
(4) The Magic Mountain
69. Match the lines with the titles of the poems :
Lines
I. The boa-constrictor’s coil/ Is a fossil
II. My manners are tearing o� heads /The allotment of death
III. More coiled steel than living
IV. Time in the sea eats its tail
Titles of the poems
A. “Thrushes”
B. “The Jaguar”
C. “Relic”
D. “Hawk Roosting”
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Codes :
I II III IV
(1) A D A C
(2) B D A C
(3) C D B A
(4) D B C A
70. Which one of Joseph Conrad’s novels expresses the contrast between the
solidarity of shipboard life and the profound underlying loneliness of existence thus :
“loneliness impenetrable and transparent, elusive and everlasting…. that surrounds,
envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and perhaps
beyond”?
(1) The Heart of Darkness
(2) The Nigger of the Narcissus
(3) Lord Jim
(4) Nostromo
Answer: * Marks to All
71. John Dryden’s two philosophico-religious poems are
I. Absalom and Achitophel
II. A Layman’s Faith
III. Annus Mirabilis
IV. The Hind and the Panther
(1) I and II
(2) III and I
(3) II and III
(4) II and IV
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Stray Cats
They are not exactly homeless.
They are dissidents who have lost their faith
in furnished interiors, morning walks,
the cake and the cutlery.
When you have nine lives to live
you learn to take things in your stride.
You learn to stretch your body
at full length and yawn at domestic
fictions. And for this reason
you figure in horror films
in the mandatory moment
between the flash of lightning
and the appearance of the ghost.
The light is darkish blue and you see
yourself in the iris of the burning
eye. The horror is in the seeing.
What you see is altered by the act
of seeing. The mystery does not stop
there. The seer is in turn altered
by what he sees. Having known this,
stray cats jump from roof to roof.
They monitor the world from treetops
and hold their weekly meetings
in the graveyard, like wandering mendicants.
And when they walk out of the mirror
of the sun and cross the crowded road
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in a flash, for a shining moment,
they lurk in the light like a giant shadow
of doubt. Ill-omens to those who cannot
see beyond what they see.
72. The poem constructs its account of stray cats by way of a contrast with
(1) wild cats
(2) ominous cats
(3) domestic cats
(4) mysterious cats
73. In the overall context, what do “furnished interiors, morning walks,/ the cake and
the cutlery” represent?
(1) Ordinary life
(2) “Domestic fictions”
(3) “A giant shadow of doubt”
(4) Creaturely comforts
74. The last two lines suggest that cats crossing the crowded road
(1) is an unexceptionable superstition.
(2) is not necessarily the ill-omen it is held out to be.
(3) is an example of human obsession.
(4) is indicative of the homelessness of stray cats.
75. From among the following select two words that help accentuate the enigmatic
character of stray cats:
I. Doubt
II. Mandatory
III. Faith
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IV. Mystery
(1) I and II
(2) I and IV
(3) II and IV
(4) III and IV
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1 2 11 2 21 3 31 3 41 All 51 1 61 3 71 4
2 3 12 3 22 4 32 1 42 4 52 3 62 2 72 3
3 3 13 2 23 3 33 1 43 2 53 2 63 1 73 2
4 3 14 1 24 3 34 3 44 3 54 1 64 3 74 2
5 1 15 3 25 2 35 2 45 3 55 3 65 2 75 2
6 2 16 2 26 3 36 2 46 1 56 3 66 3
7 1 17 2 27 1 37 1 47 1 57 4 67 1
8 2 18 2 28 2 38 2 48 3 58 4 68 4
9 4 19 2 29 1 39 2 49 1 59 2 69 2
10 1 20 3 30 2 40 3 50 4 60 4 70 All
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December 2015 Paper II

1. Who, among the following, advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at
birth, and acquires all ideas by experience?
(1) John Locke
(2) John Wesley
(3) Isaac Watts
(4) Denis Diderot
2. Which of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance?
(1) Walter Pater
(2) Oscar Wilde
(3) Thomas Carlyle
(4) John Ruskin
3. Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen’s novels?
(1) Knightley
(2) Darcy
(3) Collins
(4) Mr. Martin
4. A poet once referred to an old man as “A tattered coat upon a stick”. That is an
example of ………………
(1) Metonymy
(2) Sarcasm
(3) Simile
(4) Metaphor
5. Which of these is NOT a pastoral elegy?
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(1) Lycidas
(2) In Memoriam
(3) Thyrsis
(4) Adonais
6. In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot the characters often use dislocated, repetitious and
cliched speech primarily to:
(1) illustrate the essentially illogical, purposeless nature of the human condition
(2) re-create the workings of the subconscious
(3) mock the exaggerated dignity and wisdom of modern, self-professed intellectuals
(4) reinforce the comic action of farcical plots
7. Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was NOT a courtier?
(1) George Puttenham
(2) Philip Sidney
(3) Walter Raleigh
(4) Thomas Wyatt
8. Patrick White published two novels in the 1950s giving the eras of pioneering and
exploration in Australian history an epic, ironic and psychological dimension. The
novels are:
(a) A Fringe of Leaves
(b) The Tree of Man
(c) Voss
(d) The Aunt’s Story
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
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(3) (c) and (a)
(4) (c) and (d)
9. In which of the following works did Bakhtin propose his widely cited concept of
the ‘Carnivalesque’?
(1) “Discourse in the novel”
(2) Dialogic Imagination
(3) Rabelais and his world
(4) “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel”
10. Match the columns:
(Author)
(a) Sebastian Faulks
(b) Peter Ackroyd
(c) Tan McEwan
(d) David Lodge
(Text)
(i) Amsterdam
(ii) Changing Places
(iii) Hawksmoor
(iv) Birdsong
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(2) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
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11. In New Criticism, the key term ‘tension’ is associated with:
(1) Cleanth Brooks
(2) John Crow Ransom
(3) Austin Warren
(4) Allen Tate
12. While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea
for his Pamela or Virtue Rewarded?
(1) an account of the plague in London
(2) an instruction manual for manners
(3) a book of devotion
(4) a book of model letters
13. Who among the war Poets gained notoriety in 1917, when disenchanted with the
way the war was being conducted he drafted his letter of “willful defiance of the
military authority” which captured attention in the House of Commons, and was
forcibly admitted to the war hospital at Craiglockhart, primarily to avoid his being
court-martialled?
(1) Rupert Brooke
(2) Siegfried Sassoon
(3) Wilfred Owen
(4) Isaac Rosenberg
14. If you cannot understand an argument and remark, “It’s Greek to me”, you are
quoting ……………
(1) John Milton
(2) Samuel Johnson
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(4) John Donne
15. Which of the following works did Walter Scott compile?
(1) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
(2) Marmion
(3) Ivanhoe
(4) The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border
16. Which of the following is NOT written by Wole Soyinka?
(1) Home and Exile
(2) Kongi’s Harvest
(3) The interpreters
(4) The Swamp Dwellers
17. In the Defense of Poesy Sidney says: “Now as in geometry the oblique must be
known as well as right and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even, so in the actions
of our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive the
beauty of virtue”. Which of the following forms of poesy offers a foil that helps us
perceive the beauty of virtue?
(1) Pastorals
(2) Parody
(3) Comedy
(4) Tragedy
18. John Dryden described a major English poet as “a rough diamond, and must first
be polished ere he shines …..” Identify him:
(2) John Gower
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(3) George Herbert
(4) Robert Ilerrick
19. In a remarkably proleptic insight, a critic wrote the following, anticipating
Benedict Anderson’s definition of the nation as “an imagined political community”:
“Most novels are in some sense knowable communities. It is part of a traditional
method — an underlying stance and approach — that a novelist offers to show
people and their relationships in essentially knowable and communicable ways”.
Name the critic and the reference
(1) Van Wyck Brooks, The writer in America
(2) Raymond Williams, The country and the city
(3) Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper
(4) T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards a Definition of culture
20. “Fair is my love, and cruel as she’s fair; Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes
are sunny”.
The above lines are characterized by:
(1) circumlocution
(2) antithesis
(3) anticlimax
(4) bathos
21. In his “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” Pope tells us that as a poet he had benefited
from “This saving counsel, ‘keep your piece nine years’” – which enjoins on writer’s
patience and great care before they rush to print. Whose “counsel” is Pope referring
to?
(1) Longinus’s in On the Sublime
(2) Horace’s in Ars Poetica
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(3) Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria
(4) Aristotle’s Poetics
22. An English architect and stage-designer – Beginning 1605, joined Jacobean court
to design masques — contributed significantly to the spectacular theatre which
succeeded the commonwealth after his death – the first designer to use revolving
screens to indicate scene-changes on the English stage.
Identify this artist/designer.
(1) Henry Irving
(2) Inigo Jones
(3) Henry Arthur Jones
(4) William Inge
23. …………… may be defined as any departure from the rules of pronunciation or
diction, for the sake of rhyme or metre, or an unjustifiable departure from fact.
(1) Poetic license
(2) Poetic justice
(3) Poetic deviance
(4) Poetic diction
24. That I lumanities and the sciences were in fact “two cultures” was suggested
by…………..
(1) Aldous Huxley in his oxford lectures on poetry
(2) W.H. Anden in his oxford lectures on poetry
(3) F.R. Leavis in his book, The Great Tradition
(4) C.P. Snow in his Rede lecture
25. Chaueer satirizes the Monk because the Monk:
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(1) is too concerned with courtesy and matters of etiquette
(2) cheats the poor peasants by selling them false religious relics
(3) courts favour of wealthy people but spends no time with poor people
(4) spends too much time hunting and too little time on religious duty
26. Divided into three sections this ground-breaking work published in 1953 uses as
the frame of the spiritual and moral awakening of a fourteen-yearold during a
Saturday night service in a Harlem church. Identify the work.
(1) Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Are Watching God
(2) James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain
(3) Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
(4) Richard Wright’s Native Son
27. Chartism, a political movement that took its name from the People’s Charter had
six points. Identify the one point on the following list that was NOT Chartist:
(a) universal manhood suffrage
(b) equal electoral districts
(c) comprehensive insurance scheme for labour
(d) vote by secret ballot
(e) payment of MPs
(f) no property qualifications for MPs
(g) Annual parliaments
Codes:
(1) (e)
(2) (g)
(3) (c)
(4) (d)
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28. These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have been to me
As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye…
(“Tintern Abbey Lines”)
Which of the following rhetorical terms best suits these lines?
(1) Apostrophe
(2) Litotes
(3) Hyperbole
(4) Catachresis
29. The ‘monster’ in Frankenstein is NOT responsible for the death of:
(1) Clerval
(2) Justine
(3) Elizabeth
(4) Alphonse Frankenstein
30. Which of the following plays of William Shakespeare is NOT directly referred to in
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land?
(1) Hamlet
(2) King Lear
(3) Coriolanus
(4) The Tempest
31. Identify the group below which is known as the “Sons of Ben”.
(1) Noel Coward, E.G. Craig, William Macready, Matheson, Lang
(2) John Dryden, the Earl of Rochester, Samuel Butler
(3) William Cartwright, Richard Corbett, Thomas Randolph
(4) William Holman hunt, John E. Millais, D.G. Rossetti, William Morris
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32. Christopher Marlowe was one of the first major writers to affirm what can be
identified as a clearly homosexual sensibility. Which drama of his deals with it?
(1) Edward II
(3) Doctor Faustus
(4) Dido, Queen of Carthage
33. “When true silence falls we are still left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One
way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness”.
Identify the playwright who underlines the significance of silence thus.
(1) Samuel Beckett
(2) Harold Pinter
(3) Luigi Pirandello
(4) Joe Orton
34. The determining feature of syllabic verse is neither ……………. nor…………… but the
number of syllables in a line.
(1) number, numbers
(2) sounds, silences
(3) stress, quantity
(4) gists, piths
35. In Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue, which painter does Andrea del Sarto
compare himself to? What does he find lacking in his own work in comparison?
(1) Fra Lippo Lippi – humour
(2) Raphael – Soul
(3) Leonardo da Vinci – Verisimilitude
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(4) Botticelli – liveliness
36. In which of the following does Robert Southey detail the Indian superstitions as
an idolatry to be suppressed by a civilizing protestant form of colonialism?
(1) “Thalaba”
(2) The Curse of Kehama
(3) “Pitying the wolves”
(4) Country Horrors!
37. The following is the classic ending of a celebrated novella in English:
“I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. I’ve got out
at last’, said I, “in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the papers, so you
can’t put me back !“
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the
wall, so that I had to creep over him every time !“
(1) Yellow Woman (Leslie Mormon Silko)
(2) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte P.Gilman)
(3) Johny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plalth)
(4) Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce C. Oates)
38. Harriet B. Stowe had wanted to write a work based on the life of an Afro-
American writer which was later published as:
(1) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(2) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(3) Cry, The Beloved Country
(4) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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39. Samuel Johnson’s “Dissertation upon Poetry” is part of which of his following
works?
(1) the final section of his preface to Shakespeare
(2) a chapter of his novel Rasselas
(3) the epilogue of his Lives of Poets
(4) one of his Rambler essays
40. A new series called “New Accents” was launched by Methuen in 1977. The first
title to be published in the series was:
(1) Deconstruction : Theory and Practice
(2) Formalism and Marxism
(3) Structuralism and Semiotics
(4) Making and Difference : Feminist Literary criticism
41. “Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the
essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their
maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language…
The language, too, of these men has been adopted… because such men hourly
communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally
derived”. Which of the following groups of the author’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads
(1800) contradict this statement in the “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”, as pointed out
by S.T. Coleridge?
(1) “Ode on the Intimations of Immortality”, Prelude.
(2) The Tasks, Seasons.
(3) “Michael”, “Ruth”, “The Brothers”.
(4) “Elegy Written in a country churchyard”, “Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the
Highlands”.
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42. A remarkable novelist of the English Modernist phase who wrote a short book on
what the novel is (and why it matters) remarked, “Oh dear, yes – the novel tells a
story”. Identify the novelist:
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) James Joyce
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) DII. Lawrence
43. What is the name of the angel, who, of those who owed allegeance to Satan,
dared to protest against his impious doctrine and left his company to return to God
(Paradise Lost, Book V)?
(1) Michael
(2) Abdiel
(3) Uriel
(4) Gabriel
44. Which of the following is NOT a school associated with Romantic period in
English literature?
(1) The Cockney School
(2) The Fireside School
(3) The Lake School
(4) The Satanic School
45. The idea of “new ethnicities” in post-war Britain was advanced by…………..
(1) Donald Hall
(2) Stuart hall
(3) Paul Gilroy
(4) Hanif Kureishi
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46. Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse begins in a piece of dialogue: “Yes, of course,
if it’s fine tomorrow”, said Mrs. Ramsay. “But you’ll have to be up with lark”, she
added.
Present among the listeners of her remark is ……………
(1) her father
(2) her nephew
(3) her son
(4) her driver
47. Match the phrase with character
(a) “motiveless malignity”
(b) “Reason in Madness”
(c) “Supp’d full of horrors”
(d) “To be, or not to be”
(i) Macbeth
(ii) Hamlet
(iii) Lear
(iv) Iago
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(2) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
48. In Tristram Shandy the narrator’s presentation of his life and opinions is………….
(1) linear
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(2) digressive
(3) chronological
(4) rounded
49. The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning “When I consider how my light is
spent…” ends with ……………
(1) Before me stares a wolfish eye, Behind me creeps a groan or sigh
(2) They also serve who only stand and wait
(3) And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
(4) And bless him for the sake of him that’s gone
50. Her vision was of several caves. She saw herself in one, and she was also outside
it, watching its entrance, for Aziz to pass in. She failed to locate him. It was the doubt
that had often visited her, but solid and attractive, like the hills. “I am not —“speech
was more difficult than vision. “I am not quite sure”.
The above extract from A Passage to India is about Adela’s cave experience. Who is
questioning Adela?
(1) Mrs. Moore
(2) Mr. McBryde
(3) Fielding
(4) Ronney Heaslop
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Answer Key (1-100)
Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 1 11 4 21 2 31 3 41 3
2 1 12 4 22 2 32 1 42 3
3 4 13 2 23 1 33 2 43 2
4 4 14 3 24 4 34 3 44 2
5 2 15 4 25 4 35 2 45 2
6 1 16 1 26 2 36 2 46 3
7 All 17 3 27 3 37 2 47 3
8 2 18 1 28 All 38 2 48 2
9 3 19 2 29 4 39 2 49 2
10 3 20 2 30 2 40 3 50 2
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December 2015 Paper III

1. Thomas and Henrietta Bowler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the
word Bowdlerize. What does it mean ?
(1) the expurgation of indelicate language
(2) the modernization of archaic vocabulary
(3) the insertion of bawdy songs
(4) the expansion of female characters
2. First follow ____________ and your judgement frame. By her just __________, which is
still the same. Supply the appropriate words to _ll in the blanks.
(1) wit, law
(2) reason, rule
(3) nature, standard
(4) sense, criterion
3. Preparation of vocabulary list for the purpose of English language teaching was
carried out by__________.
(1) Otto Jespersen
(2) Noam Chomsky
(3) N.S. Prabhu
(4) Michael West
4. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri prefer to use Empire rather than imperialism.
According to them
(1) There is only one empire and we had better recognize it. Hence the Empire with E
upper case
(2) There may he many empires hut only one is patently visible and operational.
That is denoted by Empire with E upper case
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(3) The present day empire does not have an identifiable location or centre. Hence
we ought to differentiate this view of Empire with E upper case
(4) The culturally dominant global empire is the only one that really matters. We
signify that Empire with E upper case
5. Who among the following critics discerned in the Shelleyan Lyric the signs of
adolescence?
(1) F.R. Leavis
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) Cleanth Brooks
(4) I.A. Richards
6. Two among the following critical journals became strongly associated with New
Criticism.
(a) Partisan Review
(b) Southern Review
(c) Kenyon Review
(d) Hudson Review
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (b) arid (c)
(4) (c) and (d)
7. Match the columns :
(a) Robert Burton
(b) Richard Hooker
(c) Thomas Browne
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(d) Thomas Nashe
(i) Urn Burial
(ii) The Unfortunate Traveller
(iii) The Anatomy of Melancholy
(iv) Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(2) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
8. Which of the following characters in The White Devil describes the glory of great
men as : Glories, like glow worms a far o� shine bright / But looked to near have
neither heat nor light ..
(1) Vittoria
(2) Lodovico
(3) Flamineo
(4) Cornelia
9. In which of Philip Larkin.s poem does he refer to .long uneven lines. Of men
waiting to be enlisted for the war ? (“Never such innocence again” concludes the
poem)
(1) Mr. Bleaney
(2) Mc MXIV
(3) Ambulances
(4) Sad Steps
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10. In Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa one morning found himself
changed in his bed to a monstrous kind of vermin. The most difficult thing for Samsa
was :
(1) to look at his image in the mirror
(2) to remember what happened the day before
(3) to communicate with anyone
(4) to brush his teeth
11. Identify the individual who is a nihilist from the following :
(1) Pechorin in A Hero of Our Times
(2) Bazarov in Fathers and Sons
(3) Levin in Anna Karenina
(4) Oblomov in Oblomov
12. Which of these works in nineteenth-century Russian fiction originated the type of
a Superfluous Man ?
(1) The Diary of a Superfluous Man
(2) A Hero of our Own Times
(3) Eugene Onegin
(4) Deal Souls
13. What is Gilgamesh ?
(a) a Babylonian epic poem
(b) a series of gnomic verses
(c) a classical play
(d) the story of a harsh ruler
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (c)
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(3) (a) and (d)
(4) (b)
14. American Dictionary of the English Language was the work of _________ published
in ________
(1) Merriam Webster, 1903
(2) H.L. Mencken, 1930
(3) Noah Webster, 1828
(4) Benjamin Franklin, 1768
15. Which of the following texts of Amitav Ghosh is based on the refugee occupation
of an island in the Sundarvans ?
(1) Sea of Poppies
(2) The Hungry Tide
(3) River of Smoke
(4) The Glass Palace
16. Which of the following is described by Robert Browning as A Child’s
Story?
(1) Bells and Pomegranates
(2) Pauline
(3) Fifine at the Fair
(4) The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
17. Identify the New Critic who served as the cultural attaché at the
American Embassy in London from 1964 to 1966 :
(1) John Crowe Ransom
(2) Cleanth Brooks
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(3) Allen Tate
(4) Robert Penn Warren
18. .The Gilded Age refers to a period of American history between 1870 and the first
decades of the twentieth century. Who among the following American writers is
credited with the coining of the term?
(1) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(2) Mark Twain
(3) William Dean Howells
(4) Theodore Dreiser
19. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes was a great
achievement by Edward Gibbon. It was published between 1776 and 1788, two
significant dates that.
(1) Signalled the end of the Napoleonic wars and the rise of Feudalism
(2) Signalled the American Revolution and the French Revolution
(3) Covered the fall of peasantry and the rise of bureaucracy in England
(4) Suggest the period of Queen Anne.s reign
20. Being so caught up, so mastered by the brute __________ of the air, Did she put on
his knowledge with his power, Before the __________ beak could let her drop. Yeats,
‘Leda and the Swan’ Choose the right words for the blanks
(1) beast, shiny
(2) force, animal
(3) blood, indi�erent
(4) thrust, irate
21. Match the following : Terms Description
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(a) Ambiguity
(b) Aporia
(c) Intertextuality
(d) Heteroglossia
(i) A term coined by Julia Kristeva to refer to the fact that texts are constituted by a
.tissue of citations..
(ii) A term used by Mikhail Bakhtin to describe the variety of languages and voices
within a novel.
(iii) An irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, usually
associated with deconstructive thinking.
(iv) A term made famous by William Empson to indicate that a word, phrase, or text
can be interpreted in more than one way.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(2) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
22. Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me ? Which nineteenth-century work bears these lines
from Paradise Lost as epigraph ?
(1) Wuthering Heights
(2) Frankenstein
(3) Don Juan
(4) Jude the Obscure
23. A literary researcher now faced with choosing between a print text and its digital
counterpart chooses the latter mostly to
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(1) facilitate the consultation of an exhaustive bibliography
(2) avoid the expense of buying books
(3) look for specific words and phrases and lines
(4) enhance his/her understanding of textual variants, if any, between the two media
24. Which of the following statements on Hudibras are true ?
(a) It is a novel written by Matthew Prior.
(h) It is a satirical poem published in 3 parts.
(c) Hudibras was written by Samuel Butler.
(d) Hudibras discusses complex issues of justice, politics and religion.
(1) (c) and (d) are true
(2) (a) and (d) are true
(3) (b) and (c) are true
(4) (a) and (b) are true
25. The formalist critic ______________ mocked the character -based criticism of
___________ by posing a famous question, .How many children had Lady
Macbeth?
(1) F.R. Leavis, E.K. Chambers
(2) Cleanth Brooks, F.L. Lucas
(3) Monroe Beardsley, Kenneth Burke
(4) L.C. Knights, A.C. Bradley
26. Which of the following pair of words does not have two different vowel glides ?
(1) care, pure
(2) write, freight
(3) caught, court
(4) eight, ate
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27. Assertion (A) : Arts will often work obliquely, by myth or symbol. They may make
their best criticism of life simply by being; they may best state by not stating.
Reason (R) : It follows, if even only part of all this is true, that the arts do have an
important social function. Arts can give greater depth to a society’s sense of itself. A
country without great art might be a powerful collection of thriving earthworms hut
would be a sorry society.
(1) Reason (R) is perfectly aligned with Assertion (A)
(2) Assertion (A) is unrelated to Reason (R)
(3) Assertion (A) hardly reflects Reason (R).s elaboration
(4) Reason (R), in fact, contradicts Assertion (A)
28. Which of the following is NOT an example of derivational morpheme ?
(1) friend – friendship
(2) courage – courageous
(3) rely – reliable
(4) climate – climactic
29. Which of these statements is incorrect about presentism and its basic premises ?
(1) Hugh Grady is its principal proponent
(2) Our knowledge of works from the past is conditioned by and dependent upon the
ideologies of the present
(3) Presentism does not contextualize cultural production in the same way or make
use of the theorists that New Historicism does
(4) Historicism itself necessarily produces an implicit allegory of the present in its
configuration of the past
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30. Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief., was Samuel Johnson’s
criticism of a famous poem. Which poem was it?
(1) P.B. Shelley’s “Adonais”
(2) Philip Sidney`s “Astrophel and Stella”
(3) Thomas Gray`s “Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard”
(4) John Miltion`s “Lycidas”
31. The story is grounded in the forbidden nature of Achenbach’s Obsession with a
young boy; its author ultimately links the obsession with death, disease and esthetic
disintegration. The author of the story is :
(1) Goethe
(2) Mann
(3) Borges
(4) Proust
32. Which of the following novels of Joseph Conrad is set in Malay ?
(1) Nigger of the Narcissus
(2) Lord Jim
(3) Nostromo
(4) Heart of Darkuess
33. Nuruddin Farah’s Maps tells the story of __________
(1) Abida
(2) Ahu
(3) Askar
(4) Andy
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34. One of the most quoted statements on poetry by John Keats is reproduced with
blanks below. Complete the statement with correct words.
If Poetry __________ as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it __________ at all.
(1) does not come; hid better not come
(2) comes not; might come not
(3) come not; had better not come
(4) come not; did not come
35. Manohar Malgonkar was a hunter, a lieutenant colonel in the British army, and a
tea-planter. He also wrote a memorable novel about the Sepoy Mutiny, especially
Peshwa Baji Rao II. What is that novel ?
(1) A Distant Drum
(2) A Combat of Shadows
(3) A Bend in the Ganges
(4) The Devil`s Wind
36. Who wrote the screenplay for the �lm version of John Fowles’s novel The
French Lieutenant`s Woman?
(1) Harold Pinter
(2) Torn Stoppard
(3) David Marnet
(4) Caryl Phillips
37. How all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings
and elowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, hut thrust in the clown by head
and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters.
What term does Philip Sidney use to characterize such plays and which of the unities
of Aristotle do they violate ?
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(1) mongrel tragicomedy; unity of action
(2) mixed tragedies; unity of action
(3) multi-plot drama; unity of time
(4) mingled yarn; unity of place
38. There is a large number of religious poems in Old English Poetry. One of the
finest is the Dream of the Rood. The words Rood in the title means :
(1) the Cross
(2) the Christian
(3) the Infidel
(4) the Cardinal
39. Identify from among the following, the one incorrect statement on M.
Anantanarayanan’s Silver Pilgrimage (1961):
(1) M Anantanarayanan modelled this narrative on the well-known picaresque novels
in English
(2) The Silver Pilgrimage is M. Anantanarayanan.s only foray into _ction
(3) This novel is mainly an account of the adventures of Jayasurya, a Sri Lankan prince
of the sixteenth century
(4) Among the literary texts quoted by the novel are lines from Shakespeare,
Donne and Rilke and classical Tamil poets
40. Listed below are the titles of some in�uential books by Frank Kermode.
Identify which one of the titles that does NOT belong to the set.
(1) The Sense of an Ending
(2) Not Entitled -A Memoir
(3) The Genesis of Secrecy
(4) The Great Code : The Bible amid Literature
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41. Identify the one erroneous statement on Neoclassicism listed below :
(1) Lodovico Castelvetro and Torquato Tasso greatly in�uenced English writers like
Milton and Dryden
(2) Neoclassicism took its �nal form during the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715)
(3) Boilean’s L’Art poétique in�uenced Pope’s Essay, on Criticism
(4) The English relation to Neoclassicism was one of dialogue. Most literally, this
dialogue is effected in Addison`s An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
42. In his Poems of Love and War, a collection of classic Indian poems in English
translation, A.K. Ramanujan sought to revive an ancient ___________ poetic tradition.
Choose the right word.
(1) Tamil
(2) Sanskrit
(3) Kannada
(4) Pali
43. Arrange the following sentences in the order in which they appear in
Emerson`s .Self-Reliance.:
(a) To be great is to be misunderstood.
(b) Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and
Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took
fresh.
(c) If it so bad then to he misunderstood!
(d) It is a right fool.s word.
(e) Misunderstood!
(1) (a), (e), (d), (c), (b)
(2) (e), (a), (b), (c), (d)
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(3) (c), (d), (a), (b), (e)
(4) (e), (d), (c), (b), (a)
44. X … Do you know it is nearly seven ?
Y (irritably) Oh! it always is nearly seven.
X well, I’m hungry.
Y I never knew you when you weren’t …
X What shall we do after dinner ? Go to a theatre ?
Y Oh no! I loathe listening.
X Well, let us go to the club ?
Y Oh no! I hate talking.
X Well, we might trot round to the Empire at ten ?
Y Oh no! I can’t bear looking at things.
It is so silly.
X Well, what shall we do ?
N Nothing!
X It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there
is no definite object of any kind.
Identify the speakers in this dialogue :
(1) Aston (X) to Mick (Y) The Caretaker
(2) Algernon (X) to Jack (Y) The Importance of Being Earnest
(3) Lucky (X) to Pozzo (Y) Waiting for Godot
(4) Man (X) to the Woman (Y) The Waste Land
45. Which of these Greek plays was a source for The Winter’s Tale ?
(1) Iphigeneia at Aulis
(2) AIcestis
(3) Medea
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(4) Iphigenaia at Tauris
46. Sweet is the lore which nature brings; Our meddling intellect, Mis-shapes the
beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect- Wordsworth Which of the
following best summarises the speaker’s position ?
(1) Nature is incomplete without a human witness to attest to its beauty
(2) Human endeavours will succeed only if the laws of nature are taken into account
(3) Nature yields a pleasure superior to that derived from intrusive human inquiry
(4) He flaws inherent in human nature are also evident in the natural world
47. (a) Jean Baudrillard tells us the postmodern societies are marked by simulacra.
(b) By simulacra he means non-representations of reality.
(c) Simulacra arti�cially produce a mediated world masquerading as authenticity.
(d) It was not Jean Baudrillard but his interpreters who coined the term simulacra..
Which of the above statements are true ?
(1) (b), (c) and (d)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (c)
48. Which of the following is correct as the natural order of language acquisition ?
(1) Listening -Reading -Speaking -Writing
(2) Writing -Reading -Listening -Speaking
(3) Listening -Speaking -Reading -Writing
(4) Reading -Listening -Speaking –Writing
49. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE regarding the poems of
Derek Walcott ?
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(1) His poem ‘Goats and Monkeys’ has an epigraph from Shakespeare’s Othello
(2) In ‘The Sadhu of Couva’ Walcott refers to Diwali, Hanuman and the Ramayana
(3) Walcott has written a poem entitled ‘Jean Rhys’
(4) In ‘A Far Cry From Africa’ Walcott depicts his divided loyalties in the context of the
Changuna Uprising
50. In Shakespeare’s time who owned the rights to a theatrical script ?
(1) the playwright(s)
(2) the patron of the acting company
(3) the printer
(4) the acting company
51. Which of the following sentences uses more than three cohesive devices ?
(1) At that time a person could drive for miles without seeing a house
(2) All of them could recite the poem yesterday
(3) You can use a pencil, though not a pen, to write your name
(4) As soon as Mohan entered the stadium the crowd cheered
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(i) William Jones Kamalata
(ii) Nathaniel Halhed
(iii) W. Franklin
(iv) T.H. Gri�th
(a) The love of Kamarupa and
(b) Ramayana
(c) Upanishads
(d) Abhijnan Sakuntalam
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(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(2) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(3) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(4) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
53. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the New Bolt Report, .The
Teaching of English in England.?
(1) It was commissioned in 1919
(2) It urged the teaching of the national literature
(3) It proposed the teaching of English Literature at the university level
(4) It aimed at uniting divided classes after the war
54. This revenge tragedy opens with the long soliloquy of the protagonist carrying
the skull of his poisoned fiance and swearing vengeance for the old Duke who has
committed the vicious act. Identify the play.
(1) The Spanish Tragedy
(2) The Revenger’s Tragedy
(3) The Duchess of Malfi
(4) The Changeling
Answer: 2
55. What did Anthony Trollope seek to criticize through the character Mr.Slope ?
(1) Methodism
(2) Low Churchmen
(3) High Church doctrine
(4) Anglicanism
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56. .To refer to symbols as Lacanian symbols., to dub self-doubt as Lacanian self-
doubt., and to call reflections in a mirror Lacanian reflections is not to read the mind
from a perspective informed by Lacan. Nor do parenthetical references to Barthes.
hermeneutic code and Foucault’s analysis of sexual discourse constitute an
interpretation necessarily different from that of traditional humanist criticism
The author of the passage of objecting to critics who _______________.
(1) try to force a parallel between recent critical approaches and traditional humanist
criticism
(2) decoratively apply the names and terminology of recent critical theories without
employing the methodology
(3) attempt to reduce the study of literature to a hunt for coded messages and
symbols
(4) stubbornly maintain a traditional notation of the role of criticism while refusing to
acknowledge new theoretical developments
57. Peter Ackroyd’s _rst novel, The Great Fire of London, picks up the historical
echoes and artfully deploys a Dickens novel as an intertext.
Identify the source Dickens text.
(2) Little Dorrit
(3) Martin Chuzzlewit
(4) Old Curiosity Shop
58. Which of the following plays by Henrik Ibsen deals with the perils that await the
emancipated woman in a society which is not ready to accept her?
(1) A Doll’s House
(2) An Enemy of the People
(3) Hedda Gabler
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(4) Pillars of Society
59. .Yet it is the masculine values that prevail., observed a famous writer
Speaking cruelly, she continued, football and sport are important., the worship of
fashion, the buying of clothes trivial. Name the author and the text.
(1) Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(2) Audre Lorde Age, Race, Class….
(3) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
(4) Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
60. According to Coleridge, the secondary imagination dissolves, diffuses, _________ ,
in order to recreate….. Choose the right word for the blank.
(1) disintegrates
(2) dissipates
(3) displaces
(4) dissociates
61. Beginning 1996, an Indian publisher commenced the publication of a series of
modern Indian novels in English translation. By 2003, it had published eighty novels
of repute from almost all Indian languages. Identify the publisher.
(1) Asia Publishing House
(2) Macmillan India
(3) Jaico
(4) Arnold Heinemann
62. William Dunbar’s Lament for the makers is about :
(1) kings
(2) priests
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(3) poets
(4) peasants
63. Who among the following protagonists of Thomas Hardy feels his lot as akin to
Job’s ?
(1) Clym Yeo bright
(2) Angel Clare
(3) Jude
(4) Troy
64. Edward Braithwaite’s poem Calypso assumes that you are familiar
with____________.
(1) the business of Calypso during the Middle Passage
(2) the West Indian music in syncopated African rhythm
(3) the folk ways and mores of Trinidadian merchants
(4) the operatic performance of Banjos
65. Which of the modern plays by a British playwright actually puts Shakespeare as
character on stage ?
(1) Edward Bond’s Bingo
(2) Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language
(3) Terence Rattigan’s Inspector calls
(4) Joe Orton’s Loot
66. A famous challenge to the Neoclassical tenets of form and reason in aesthetic
considerations came from Edmund Burke. His work was titled:
(1) An Enquiry into the Philosophical Origin of, Our Ideas of the sublime and the
Beautiful
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(2) Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin Of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the
Beautiful
(3) An Enquiry into the Philosophical Origin of Our Ideas of the Beautiful and the
Sublime
(4) Philosophical Enquiry into Our Original Ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime
67. Match the following
(a) The Grammar -Translation Method
(b) The Direct Method
(c) Total Physical Response
(d) The Natural Approach
(i) comprehensible input
(ii) strategic use of mother tongue
(iii) shuns mother tongue
(iv) oral input
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(2) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(3) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
68. Which of these works by Indian writers does NOT have the Naxalite Movement as
a background?
(1) Mother of 1084
(2) The Lives of Others
(3) The Shadow Lines
(4) The Lowland
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69. So when the last and dreadful hour, This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And music
shall untune the sky. These are the closing lines of a famous poem.
Identify the poem.
(1) Il penseroso
(2) Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
(3) The Good -Morrow
(4) Song : The Year’s at the Spring.
70. This eighteenth-century English poem imitates spenser in stanza form and in
allegorical narrative: passers -by are lured by an enchanter with promises of ease,
luxury, and aesthetic delight, then consigned to a dungeon where they languish in
apathy and impotence until the Knight of Arts and Industry dissolves the spell.
Identify the poem.
(1) The Vanity of Human Wishes
(2) The Seasons
(3) The Castle of Indolence
(4) The Task
71. Which of the following statements on the Hogarth press is FALSE ?
(1) The Hogarth press was founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf
(2) Its location was their home, called Hogarth House
(3) The press was solely devoted to publishing international classics in translation
(4) The press published translations of Gorky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Rilke,
Svevo and others
Read the below passage and answer questions 72 to 75 that follows :
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THE ANTIGUA THAT I knew, the Antigua in which I grew up, is not the Antigua you, a
tourist, would see now. That Antigua no longer exists. That Antigua no longer exists
partly for the usual reason, the passing of time, and partly because the badminded
people who used to rule over it, the English, no longer do so. (But the English have
become such a pitiful lot these days, with hardly any idea what to do with themselves
now that they no longer have one quarter of the earth’s human population bowing
and scraping before them. They don’t seem to know that this empire business was all
wrong and they should, at least, be wearing sackcloth and ashes in token penance of
the wrongs committed, the irrevocableness of their bad deeds, for no natural disaster
imaginable could equal the harm they did.
Actual death might have been better. And so all this fuss over empire . what went
wrong here, what went wrong there . always makes me quite crazy, for I can say to
them what went wrong : they should never have left their home, their precious
England, a place they loved so much, a place they had to leave but could never
forget. And so everywhere they went they turned it into England; and everybody they
met they turned English. But no place could ever really he England, and nobody who
did not look exactly like them would ever be English, so you can imagine the
destruction of people and land that came from that. The English hate each other and
they hate England, and the reason they are so miserable now is that they have no
place else to go and nobody else to feel better than.)
72. To whom is the passage directly addressed?
(1) readers
(2) non-antiguans
(3) tourists
(4) the English
73. The English feel extremely miserable because :
(1) Their political supremacy is over
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(2) They do not have anyone else to feel superior to
(3) They have been reduced to a state of non-entity
(4) They have no lands to colonise
74. Do the British realize that colonizing countries was a had practice, according to
the narrator?
(1) Yes; they do
(2) No; they don’t
(3) The narrator is rather unsure they do
(4) The narrator is rather unsure they don’t
75. Which of the following best describes the content of the extract ?
(1) The speaker fervently desires better understanding between the English and the
colonized people in post colonial times
(2) The speaker is interested in nostalgic tours of emigre antiguans to their childhood
home
(3) The speaker whose childhood was spent in Antigua reports the great change
currently evident in the pungent irony
(4) The speaker is making a case for the penance of the english, the erstwhile rulers
of Antigua
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3 4 13 3 23 3 33 3 43 4 53 3 63 3 73 2
4 3 14 3 24 3 34 3 44 2 54 2 64 2 74 3
5 2 15 2 25 4 35 4 45 2 55 2 65 1 75 3
6 3 16 4 26 4 36 1 46 3 56 2 66 2
7 3 17 2 27 1 37 1 47 2 57 2 67 1
8 3 18 2 28 4 38 1 48 3 58 3 68 3
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10 3 20 3 30 4 40 4 50 4 60 2 70 3
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June 2015 Paper II

1.Matthew Arnold’s “touchstones” were “short passages, even single lines” of classic
poetry beside which the lines of other poets may be placed in order to detect the
presence or absence of high poetic quality. Tn his “Study of Poetry” Arnold cited
“touchstones” from such non-English poets as Homer and Dante and also from the
English poets, Shakespeare and Milton. Which English poet did he disapprovingly call
“not one of the great classics” in the list below?
(1) Chaucer
(2) Sidney
(3) Spenser
(4) Donne
2. Samuel Pepys began his diary on ……………
(1) New Year’s Day 1660
(2) All Saints’ Day 1662
(3) Thanksgiving Day 1665
(4) New Year’s Day 1667
3. On which of the following authors has Peter Ackroyd NOT written a biography?
(1) Charles Dickens
(2) William Blake
(3) T. S. Eliot
(4) W. B. Yeats
4. Which group of the following poets was called the Auden Group because they
developed a style and viewpoint similar to that of W. H. Auden?
(1) Louis MacNeice, C. D. L.ewis, Stephen Spender
(2) John Mase_eld, Edwin Muir, Norman McCaig
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(3) MacDiarmid, G. M. Hopkins, Edwin Muir
(4) W. IT. Davies, Robert Bridges, John Masefield
5. When one line of poetry runs into the next, with no punctuation to slow the
reading, it is a case of …………..
(1) caesura
(2) consonance
(3) enjambment
(4) hyperbole
6. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Victorian Age?
(1) The rise of a highly competitive industrial technology
(2) An emphasis on strictly controlled social behavior
(3) A romantic focus on home and family
(4) The growth of rural traditions and movement from large cities
7. In The Heart of Midlotliian, Walter Scott deals with real political and personal
details, but notable among his characters is the depiction of ………….
(1) Queen Anne
(2) Queen Victoria
(3) Queen Caroline
(4) Queen Elizabeth
8. Chaucer’s first work, The Book of the Duchess is a dream poem on the death
of…………….
(1) Duchess of Mal_
(2) Duchess of Lancaster
(3) Duchess of Scotland
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(4) Duchess of Paris
9. What was Charles Lamb’s connection with India?
(1) He was fascinated by the Indian jugglers and trades-people in London and wrote
an essay on them
(2) He was fascinated by Eastern mystical religions, especially Buddhism
(3) He was a clerk for thirty three years in the East India Company
(4) He was clerk in South Sea house that prepared patents and documents for British
trading companies in India
10. Find the odd one among the Marxist critics below:
(1) Georg Lukacs
(2) Louis Althusser
(3) Raymond Williams
(4) Northrop Frye
11. In the lines “With gold jewels cover every part, And hide with ornaments their
want of art” (Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects
(1) the ‘Follow Nature’ fallacy
(2) artificiality
(3) aesthetic order
(4) poor taste
12. The opposite of hyperbole is ……………..
(1) meiosis
(2) inversion
(3) anagnorisis
(4) synecdoche
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13. What signi_cance do we attach to the publication of I Am an Indian in Canada ?
(1) The title refers to the autobiography of an unknown Indian writer longing for the
South Asian countryside
(2) The first ever account of ethnic conflicts within Canada
(3) The first anthology of Native Canadian writing following the Civil Rights
Movement of the1960s
(4) The first anthology of writers affected by class and gender differences in
Canada of the late 1970s
14. What is the moral of “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” ?
(1) Slow and steady wins the race.
(2) Greed is the root of all evil.
(3) Beauty lies within.
(4) Never trust a flatterer.
15. The author of the essay “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” is ……………..
(1) George Eliot
(2) Henry James
(3) Oscar Wilde
(4) Richard Steele
16. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial
existence on a lonely island reflects ……………
(1) man’s desire to return to nature
(2) the author’s criticism of colonization
(3) the ideal of rising bourgeoisie
(4) the aristocrat’s disdain for the harsh social reality
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17. Who is the author of the collection The Celtic Twilight?
(1) J. M. Synge
(2) Sean O’Casey
(3) W. B. Yeats
(4) Lady Gregory
18. In medieval England a …………….. was understood to be a trained craftsman, one
who worked under a master who owned the business.
(1) pardoner
(2) summoner
(3) journeyman
(4) manciple
19. Christopher Marlowe’s heroes are said to be larger than life, exaggerated both in
their faults and in their qualities. They have a desire for everything in extreme. In one
of his plays the hero wants to conquer the whole world.
The name of the play is ……………..
(2) Doctor Faustus
(3) Tamburlaine the Great
(4) Edward II
20. With what does the speaker claim to be half in love in “Ode to a Nightingale”?
(1) the nightingale’s haunting melody
(2) the scented flavour of early summer
(3) the night sky and all the stars
(4) the peace that comes with death
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21. In which chapter of Poetics does Aristotle use the word ‘catharsis’ in his definition
of tragedy?
(1) Chapter IV
(2) Chapter VI
(3) Chapter ITT
(4) Chapter V
22. Match the following:
List – I
(a) “The Function of Criticism”
(b) “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
(c) The Function of Criticism : From ‘The Spectator’ to Poststructuralism
(d) “The Function of English at the Present Time”
List – II
(1) Terry Eagleton
(ii) Richard Ohmann
(iii) Matthew Arnold
(iv) T. S. Eliot
The right matching according to the code is:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(2) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
23. Identify the TRUE statement on Thomas More’s Utopia.
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(1) Utopia is divided into four parts, each dealing with Raphael Hythloday’s
adventures in the four suburbs of Antwerp.
(2) Utopia is divided into two parts; the first records a conversation between
Thomas More and Raphael Hythloday, and the second is Hythloday’s discourse on
the institutions and practices of Utopia.
(3) Utopia is divided into two parts; the first is Thomas More’s discourse on the
institutions and practices of Utopia, and the second a conversation between More
and Hythloday.
(4) Utopia is divided into four parts, each dealing with the ordered patterns of towns
and cities in Antwerp.
24. In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” what disaster befalls the ship and the crew?
(1) The ship is caught in ice and breaks into pieces.
(2) A fierce storm batters the ship and drowns the crew.
(3) “Slimy things with legs” attack the ship and kill many of the crew.
(4) The ship is becalmed and the crew dies of thirst.
25. Falstaff is a character in …………..
(a) Henry IV Part I
(b) The Merry Wives of Windsor
(c) The Comedy of Errors
(d) Titus Andronicus
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)
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26. In her essay “Professions for Women” Virginia Woolf finds an analogy between
the act of writing and …………….
(1) driving a motor car
(2) riding a horse
(3) fishing
(4) gardening
27. The ascension of King James I in ………….. inaugurated the Jacobean age.
(1) 1600
(2) 1601
(3) 1603
(4) 1609
28. Which of the following is NOT true of the Byronic hero?
(1) moody
(2) passionate
(3) repentant
(4) remorse-torn
29. Like many other novelists, Hardy employed language variation (dialect and
standard) with a purpose. In this respect which of the following statements is correct?
(1) His major characters such as Tess and Jude always speak in local dialects, as per
their social positions.
(2) His major characters such as Tess and Jude rarely speak in local dialects, in spite
of their social positions.
(3) His major characters such as Tess and Jude rarely speak in standard language in
spite of their social positions.
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(4) His major characters such as Tess and Jude rarely speak in a mixture of a dialect
and standard.
30. “It used to be said,” began a famous English writer, “everyone had a novel in
them … Just now, though, in 1999, you would probably be obliged to doubt the basic
proposition: What everyone has in them, these days, is not a novel but a memoir”.
Identify the source
(1) Martins Amis, Experience
(2) Michel Butor, Passing Time
(3) John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(4) Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot
31. The opening sixteen lines of Paradise Lost comprise:
(1) One sentence
(2) Two sentences
(3) Three sentences
(4) Four sentences
32. Who among the following poets compared human tears to “love’s wine” ?
(1) Ben Jonson
(2) John Donne
(3) Andrew Marvell
(4) John Suckling
Answer:
33. Ernest Pontifex is a character in …………..
(1) Tono Bungay
(2) The Man of Property
(3) The Way of All Flesh
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(4) Nostromo
34. In which of the following stories does Rudyard Kipling present a newspaper
editor who recounts his dealings with a couple of “loafers”?
(1) “His Chance in Life”
(2) “Thrown Away”
(3) “Lispeth”
(4) “The Man Who Would Be King”
35. Trying to capture the upbeat mood of 1964-65, the poet Thom Gunn said:
“They stood for a great optimism, barriers seemed to be coming down all over, it was
as if World War II had finally drawn to close, there was an openness and high-
spiritedness and relaxation of mood”. Who were “they” ?
(1) The Beatles
(2) The Rolling Stones
(3) The New Left
(4) The Arts Council folks
36. In Paradise Lost Milton presents the action of the fall of man in two stages in
Books ………………
(1) IV and IX
(2) IV and VIII
(3) III and IX
(4) V and X
37. In Gulliver’s Travels Struldbruggs are …………..
(1) people replete with abstract learning.
(2) people exempt from natural death.
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(3) people persecuted by pets and servants.
(4) people lured by a new ideal.
38. Margaret Atwood has tried a revisionist writing of a crucial scene in
Hamlet called “Gertrude Talks Back”. The scene in Atwood opens with a reference to
the name of an implied listener. Who is this implied listener?
(1) Hamlet
(2) Ophelia
(3) Polonius
(4) Claudius
39. Samuel Johnson wrote London in imitation of ……………
(1) Horace
(2) Ovid
(3) Juvenal
(4) Moschus
40. Which of the following is NOT written by Buchi Emecheta?
(1) The Joys of Motherhood
(2) Second-Class citizen
(3) A Question of Power
(4) Kehinde
41. Samuel Johnson’s use of the term “metaphysical” in a piece of criticism was
………….
(1) approving
(2) disapproving
(3) positive
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(4) accidental
42. “I am not an angel …… and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.” This is
………………
(1) Maggie Tulliver in Mill on the Floss
(2) Aurora Leigh in the eponymous poem
(3) Jane Eyre in the eponymous novel
(4) Betty Higdon in Our Mutual Friend
43. Who among the following playwrights was the son of a gardener?
(1) Harold Pinter
(2) Joe Orton
(3) Tom Stoppard
(4) Edward Bond
44. “He is the very pineapple of politeness!” This sentence is an example of …………..
(1) paronomasia
(2) spoonerism
(3) malapropism
(4) anaphora
45. Ferdinand de Saussure argued that meaning is generated through
(1) a system of structured differences in language
(2) a system of random differences in language
(3) a system of structured references in language
(4) a system of random references in language
46. Identify the group known as “The Wesker Trilogy”?
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(1) The Growth of the Soil, Gauze of Life, In the Grip of Life
(2) Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots, I’m Talking about Jerusalem
(3) The Four Seasons, Chips with Everything, Golden City
(4) Lunatics and Lovers, The Patriots, Dead End
Answer: 2
47. Who is the central character of Derek Walcott’s Dream on the Monkey Mountain
(1) Diana Guinness, one of the Mitford Sisters
(2) Jordan, a fantasist
(3) Makak, a charcoal burner
(4) Eva Smith, a seamstress
48. The phrase “darkness visible” (Paradise Lost, 1.63) is an example of ……………..
(1) periphrasis
(2) pun
(3) oxymoron
(4) transposition
49. What is common to writers such as Sam Selvon (The Lonely Londoners),
Timothy Mo (Sour Sweet), and Hanif Kureishi (The Black Album) ?
(1) All of them are brilliant writers of autobiographies who tell stories and write
poetry.
(2) They use Standard English with some Creole inflections peculiar to the
Caribbean.
(3) They are diasporic writers who depict postcolonial London very different from its
colonial representations.
(4) They contrast the ‘First Nations’ with local populations of their respective
countries.
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50. F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis launched a critical journal devoted to the moral
centrality of English Studies. Name the Journal.
(1) The English Historical Review
(2) The Criterion
(3) Scrutiny
(4) The Edinburgh Review
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2 1 12 1 22 1 32 2 42 3
3 4 13 3 23 2 33 3 43 2
4 1 14 4 24 4 34 4 44 3
5 3 15 1 25 1 35 1 45 1
6 4 16 3 26 3 36 1 46 2
7 3 17 3 27 3 37 2 47 3
8 2 18 3 28 3 38 1 48 3
9 4 19 3 29 2 39 3 49 3
10 4 20 4 30 1 40 3 50 3
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June 2015 Paper III

1. When Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author opens the audience
find the producer attempting to stage a play. What is the title of this play ?
(1) “Rites of Performance”
(2) “Rules of the Game”
(3) “Tonight We Stage a Play”
(4) “Modes of Acting”
2. Which Canterbury pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with the Latin words meaning
“Love Conquers All” ?
(1)The Prioress
(2) The Monk
(3) The Wife of Bath
(4) The Squire
3. In his Introduction to The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse
(1973), Philip Larkin underlines the importance of a native tradition with seen as the
major poet of the Modern Period.
(1)William Butler Yeats
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) Thomas Hardy
(4) D.H. Lawrence
4. Philip Sidney defended poetry against such descriptions of it as “the mother of
lies” and “the nurse of abuse.” His main argument here is .
(1) The poet is no conjuror or illusionist and represents a world.
(2) The poet cannot lie because he is not claiming to tell us the truth.
(3) The poet cannot speak the truth because he is not representing the real world.
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(4) The poet is a philosopher for whom truth is a lie, and lie truth, in an imaginary
world.
5. Chapter III of Oliver Twist opens with a narratorial remark about Oliver being
punished for “the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for
more.” What did Oliver ask for more?
(1) More time to play
(2) More food to eat
(3) More books to read
(4) More money to spend
6. Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion is a carefully structured poem carrying__________
corresponding to the .
(1) twelve stanzas; months of the year
(2) three hundred and sixty _ve lines; days of the year
(3)fourteen stanzas; two week-long bridal ceremonies
(4)eleven stanzas; eleventh month, November
7. Choose the right chronological sequence below :
(1)Victorian Period – Jacobean Period – Tudor Period – Restoration Period
(2)Edwardian Period – Tudor Period – Jacobean Period – Victorian Period
(3)Tudor Period – Jacobean Period – Restoration Period – Edwardian Period
(4)Jacobean Period – Tudor Period – Restoration Period – Edwardian Period
8. “That woman’s days were spent In ignorant good – will, Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill” (W. B. Yeats : “Easter 1916”) Who is the poet referring to ?
(1)Maud Gonne
(2) Lady Augusta Gregory
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(3) Kathleen Pilcher
(4) Constance Gore – Booth Markievicz
9. Which of the following was replaced by Communicative Language Teaching ?
(1)Motivational Approach
(2) Situational Language Teaching
(3) Natural Language Processing
(4) Structural Approach
10. To whom does Francis Bacon offer the following piece of advice?
“Let him sequester himself from the Company of his Countrymen, and diet in such
Places, where there is good company of the Nation… Let him upon his Removes, …
procure Recommendation, to some person of Quality, residing in the Place, whither
he removeth…”
(1)The Beaux
(2) The Peddler
(3) The Traveller
(4) The Stationer
11. In his masterpiece, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie, Richard Hooker affirmed
the Anglican tradition as that of a “threefold cord not quickly broken.” He specifically
referred to the following EXCEPT.
(1) tradition
(2) scripture
(3) community
(4) reason
12. Match the following :
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(a) Christina Rossetti : Goblin Market
(b) Matthew Arnold : Sohrab and Rustom
(c) Robert Browning : The Ring and the Book
(d) Arthur Hugh Clough : The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich
(i) The tale of a father who inadvertently destroys his son
(ii) Gently satiric account of an Oxford student on vacation
(iii) Story of pleasure-seeking Laura and the conventionally moral Lizzie who resists
temptations
(iv) A sensational 17th century murder presented through multiple dramatic
monologues
The right matching according to the code is :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(2) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(3) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(4) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
13. “Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor; Then cherish pity,
lest you drive an angel from your door.” These concluding lines of William Blake’s
Innocence poem called “Holy Thursday” allude to a Biblical passage. Identify the
passage.
(1)The angel of the Lord encampeth round about those who fear Him and delivereth
them. Psalms 34.7
(2)Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel,
that it was an error. Ecclesiastes 5.6
(3)And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even
so.
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Then said they, It is his angel. The Acts 12.15
(4)Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares. Hebrews 13.2
14. Direct Method of Language Teaching involves : a. the use of Target Language
only
b. repetition of exercises
c. linguistic correctness
d. problem solving exercises
In relation to the above which of the following is correct ?
(1) (c) and (d) only
(2) (a), (b) and (d)
(3) (a), (b) and (c)
(4) (a), (b), (c) and (d)
15. In which of the following works does the narrator proclaim, “either I’m nobody, or
I’m the nation” ?
(1)George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin
(2)Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight”
(3)Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”
(4)Kamau Braithwaite’s “Nation Language”
16. Like Cordelia, the Fool in King Lear is .
(1)killed by Goneril’s troops.
(2) referred to by Lear as his child.
(3) disliked by Regan and Cornwall.
(4) punished for not telling the truth.
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17. Sindi Oberoi, the narrator hero in Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner says : “My
foreignness lay within me and I couldn’t leave myself behind wherever I went.”
Identify the countries which Sindi Oberoi went to.
(1)Kenya, Uganda, England, America, India
(2)Kenya, Uganda, New Zealand, England, India
(3)Kenya, England, Canada, India
(4)Kenya, America, England, Australia, India
18. Assertion (A) : The world does not become raceless or will not become
unracialized by assertion. The act of enforcing racelessness in literary discourse is
itself a racial act.
Reason (R) : Pouring rhetorical acid on the fingers of a black hand may indeed
destroy the prints, but not the hand. Besides, what happens, in that violent, self-
serving act of erasure, to the hands, the fingers, the fingerprints of the one who does
the pouring ? Do they remain acid-free ?
The literature itself suggests otherwise.
In the context of the statements above,
(1) (A) makes complete sense in the light of (R).
(2) (A) makes complete sense regardless of (R).
(3)Neither (A) nor (R) makes complete sense.
(4) (R) challenges the view advanced in (A).
19. A poet laureate said “I do not think that since Shakespeare there has been such a
master of the English language as I.” Who is the poet?
(1)Stephen Spender
(2) John Dryden
(3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(4) Ted Hughes
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20. Who among the following was a contemporary of John Milton and wrote
The Worthy Communicant ? It is said that his prose “can be read easily, when
Milton’s must be studied.”
(1)Jeremy Taylor
(2) John Bunyan
(3) Andrew Marvell
(4) George Herbert
21. In 1668, Dryden wrote Of Dramatic Poesie : An Essay which uses__________
separate characters to dramatise the con�icting viewpoints which new theatrical
activity had produced.
(1)three
(2) two
(3) four
(4) six
22. Writing his most influential play, August Strindberg called it “My most beloved
drama, the child of my greatest suffering.” The play is :
(1) A Dream Play
(2) Miss Julie
(3) The Bridal Crown
(4) The Dance of Death
23. In which essay does Virginia Woolf observe that “if a writer were a free man [sic]
and not a slave” to the conventions of the literary market-place, there would be “no
plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest, or catastrophe in the accepted style,
and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it” ?
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(1)”How it Strikes a Contemporary”
(2) “Modern Fiction”
(3) “The Russian Point of View”
(4) “Mr. Bennett and Mr. Brown”
24. In his famous letter to Benjamin Bailey (November 22, 1817) John Keats wrote : “I
am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of
Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth.” Which of the
following sentences follows this passage ?
(1) Now I am sensible all this is a mere sophistication, however it may neighbor to
any truths, to excuse my own indolence…
(2) The Imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream – he woke and found it true.
(3) This however I am persuaded of, that nothing beside Imagination can give us
sweet sensations and pleasurable thoughts.
(4) My pains at last some respite shall afford, while I behold the battles
Imagination maintains.
25. Which of the following pair best describes the characteristic features of
Marlowe’s portrait of Tamburlaine ?
(a) ambition
(b) apathy
(c) cruelty
(d) sympathy
The right combination according to the code is .
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (b) and (c)
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26. Who is the author of the statement : “The nineteenth century dislike of
Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in the glass” ?
(1)Arthur Symons
(2) Benjamin Disraeli
(3) W. B. Yeats
(4) Oscar Wilde
27. Which of the following statements about Thomas Mann’s novels is true ?
a. Buddenbrooks is a family saga set in the early decades of the twentieth century.
b. Aschenbach, the writer protagonist in Death in Venice, is preoccupied with
classicism, especially with classical ideals of male beauty.
c. In his second winter at the sanatorium, Hans Castorp, protagonist of The Magic
Mountain gets lost in a blizzard during a solitary skiing expedition.
d. Adrian Leverkuhn, the modern day Faustus in Mann’s Doctor Faustus is a musician.
(1) Only (a) and (c) are correct
(2) Only (b) and (d) are correct
(3) (b), (c) and (d) are correct
(4) (a), (b) and (d) are correct
28. To whom did Raja Ram Mohan Roy write in 1823 his letter seeking the
introduction of English education in India ?
(1) Lord Amherst
(2) Lord Bentinck
(3) Lord Cunningham
(4) Lord Hastings
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29. Listed below are the seemingly friendly characters in The Pilgrim’s Progress who
give Christian dangerous advice. Among them is one who does not belong to this
group. Identify this odd character.
(1) Mr. Worldly Wiseman
(2) Evangelist
(3) Ignorance
(4) Talkative
30. Aristotle argued that poetry provides a/an __________ outlet for the release of
intense emotions.
(1) safe
(2) dangerous
(3) uncertain
(4) unreliable
31. The direct French influence on the English language during the Middle
English period was in the form of.
(1)loss of inflections.
(2)intake of French words into English.
(3)both the loss of inflections and intake of French words into English.
(4)addition of inflections.
32. A significant development in 1662 was the establishment of The Royal
Society in England. The main purpose of the society was .
(1)to set the rules for the royal court and governance
(2)to guide and promote the development of science and scienti�c exploration
(3)to set norms for civil society
(4)to promote theatre
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33. William Cowper wrote in The Task (IV. 681-82) about those who “Build factories
with blood, conducting trade/At the sword’s point …” These lines allude to :
(1)Turkish militant traders across Europe
(2)Nordic conquerors across East Asia
(3)West Indian slave-plantation owners and the East India Company ‘nabobs’
(4)Exploiters of child labour in the London suburbs
34. The commedia dell’arte originated in Italy in the sixteenth century.
Which of the following descriptions are the most appropriate ?
a. Tears alternating with crude laughter
b. Comedy of the guild or by the professionals in the “art”
c. Plautine comedy alternating with ritualistic manoeuvres
d. Improvised comedy that follows a scenario rather than written dialogue The right
combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (d)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (b) and (c)
35. “Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night, God said Let Newton be! And all was
Light.”
Alexander Pope’s famous couplet impressively captures .
(1)Newton’s confirmation of the Genesis passage where God ordains Light
(2)Newton’s empirical observations of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica
(3)Newton’s application of principles of motion to account for many natural
phenomena
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(4)Newton’s discovery that all colours are contained in white light
36. What was the name of the experimental theatre group founded in 1915 by Susan
Glaspell, Eugene O’Neill and other dramatists in order to challenge Broadway’s
control over American drama ?
(1) The Wall Street Theatre Group
(2) The Washington Square Players
(3) The Actor’s Studio
(4) The Provincetown Players
37. After his return from the land of Houyhnhnms, Gulliver refused to let hiswife and
children__________ .
(1)show disrespect to English horses.
(2)ride horse-drawn carriages.
(3)touch his bread, or drink out of his cup.
(4)communicate with him in English tongue.
38. In which of the following volumes do you find a charming appreciation of the
Wordsworth household by Thomas de Quincey ?
(1)The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
(2)Lives and Letters, Far Away and Long Ago
(3)Notes on My Lake Country Evenings
(4)Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets
39. One of the most highly revered, scholarly, and passionate interpreters of
English and world literatures, he was appointed the Lord Northcli�e
Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London in
1967, and later as King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at
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Cambridge in 1974, an appointment made by the Crown at the suggestion of the
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1991.
Entitled to designate himself as “Sir,” he never did, but wrote and autobiography
entitled Not Entitled in 1995. The epigraph to this book came from Coriolanus : “He
was a kind of nothing, titleless.”
Who among the following is this writer/critic ?
(1) F. R. Leavis
(2) I. A. Richards
(3) Frank Kermode
(4) David Lodge
40. Which of the following provided theoretical basis for Audio-Lingual
Method of Language Teaching ?
(1)Transformational Generative Linguistics
(2)Congnitive Psychology and Structural Linguistics
(3)Behaviourist Psychology and Bloom_eldian Structural Linguistics
(4)Systemic Functional Linguistics
41. Who among the following characters of The Cherry Orchard by Anton
Chekhov dies in the final scene ?
(1) Anya
(2) Firs
(3) Varya
(4) Lopakhin
42. In tracing the history of English poetry, Thomas Gray’s “Progress of
Poesy” invokes a major poet as follows :
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“Nor second He, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Extasy, The secrets of
th’ Abyss to spy.” Who is “He”?
(2) Edmund Spenser
(3) John Milton
(4) John Dryden
43. “I suffered from impaired eye-sight, depression and poverty and left Oxford
without a degree. After a period as a teacher and my marriage to a widow twice my
age, I left for London, to begin writing for a magazine, I produced my own journal.”
Choose the correct answer, identifying the writer, the magazine and the journal.
(1)John Milton, The Examiner’s Magazine, London Magazine
(2)Joseph Addison, The Freeholder, The Tatler
(3)Richard Steele, The Guardian, The Spectator
(4)Samuel Johnson, The Gentlemen’s Magazine, The Rambler
44. Which of the American novelists is associated with the series of five books about
Natty Bumppo, an old hunter, also called Leatherstocking ?
(1) Stephen Crane
(2) James Fennimore Cooper
(3) Herman Melville
(4) Jack London
45. In John Dryden’s Essay on Dramatic Poesy Neander defends the English invention
of __________.
(1) romantic comedy
(2) action tragedy
(3) tragi-comedy
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(4) morality plays
46. Who wrote The History of Australian Literature in 1961 ?
(1) Randolph Stow
(2) H. M. Green
(3) Handel Richardson
(4) Francis Adam
Theorist
a. Bharata
b. Kuntaka
c. Bhamaha
d. Anandavardhana
Theories
(i) Vakrokti
(ii) Riti
(iii) Dhvani
(iv) Rasa
The right matching according to the code is :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
(2) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(3) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(4) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
48. What is “Forster Collection” ?
(1)Memorabilia and documents related to the Scottish War of Independence
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(1296-1328) housed in Glasgow Museum
(2)The special collection of E. M. Forster effects housed in King’s College,
Cambridge
(3)The largest collection of Charles Dickens manuscripts and proofs curated by
John Forster
(4)The collection of political and military documents named after the liberal M. P.,
W. E. Forster reputed for the Forster Education Act
49. What was remarkable about the poet F. T. Marinetti’s first Futurist
Manifesto in Le Figaro ?
(1)It resounded like the monotonous beating of a big drum that filled the air with
muffed shocks and lingering vibration.
(2)It proclaimed that someone must go on writing for those who were still convinced
of the future for which they had taken up arms.
(3)It blasted the dead weight of “museums, libraries, and academics,” glorifying “the
beauty of speed.”
(4)It declared that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities; and if
man can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive disorder, then the
possibilities have a future.
50. How would one best describe Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus (1833) ?
(1) A combination of journal, fashion-book, and tips for advertisers
(2) A lyrical novel a la Marcel Proust
(3) A combination of novel, autobiography, and essay
(4) A satire on sartorial fashions and feibles of medieval Europe
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51. An Indian English poet once remarked that his discipline and education gave him
his “outer” whereas his Indian origin gave him “inner” form. Reflecting a part of this
claim is a famous essay he called .
(1)”Is There a Native Way of Thinking ?”
(2)”Can the Subaltern Speak ?”
(3)”Where Do We Go from Here : Some Speculations”
(4)”Is There an Indian Way of Thinking ?”
52. In the remarkably crucial courtroom scene of Their Eyes Were Watching
God, Janie is called upon to speak. Whose voice do we hear in the narrative ?
(1) Tea Cake’s voice
(2) Janie’s first-person voice
(3) Pheoby’s voice
(4) The omniscient third-person voice
53. Who is the author of the statement “A prophet is a Seer, not an Arbitrary
Dictator”?
(1) Salman Rushdie
(2) Kahlil Gibran
(3) William Blake
(4) Oscar Wilde
54. The word order in Modern English became relatively fixed because .
(1)it developed its inflectional system.
(2)it lost its highly developed inflectional system.
(3)it lost its derivational system of word formation.
(4)it developed its derivational system of word formation
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55. Julia Kristeva’s ‘intertextuality’ derives from. a. Noam Chomsky’s deep structure
b. Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism
c. Jacques Derrida’s di�erance
d. Ferdinand de Saussure’s sign
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)
56. Dylan Thomas’s famous poem “Fern Hill,” is named after .
(1)a countryside in Austria to which he paid occasional visits.
(2)a childhood haunt of the poet’s family in Devonshire.
(3)the Welsh farmhouse where the poet spent summer holidays as a boy
(4)The Welsh Anglican church to which the young poet used to be taken by his
mother.
57. “In the seventeenth century,” writes T. S. Eliot in “The Metaphysical
Poets,” “a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and
this dissociation, as is natural, was aggravated by the influence of the two most
powerful poets of the century, ___________and__________ .
(1)Ben Jonson and Abraham Cowley
(2)George Herbert and Henry Vaughan
(3)John Donne and Andrew Marvell
(4)John Milton and John Dryden
58. The label ‘material feminism’ refers to the work of those thinkers who study
inequality in terms of.
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(1) gender differences.
(2) class differences.
(3) both gender and class differences.
(4) female consumerism.
59. Who among the following displays in her best work the dual influence of
feminism and magic realism ?
(1) Pat Barker
(2) Muriel Spark
(3) Angela Carter
(4) J. K Rowling
60. Identify the group of British poets who evidently draw upon new trends in literary
theory (such as poststructuralism) and wrote poems that reflect on themselves and
the language used in/by them.
(1)Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon
(2)Medbh McGuckian, Denise Riley, Wendy Cope
(3)Christopher Middleton, Roy Fisher, J. H. Prynne
(4)Donald Davie, Charles Tomlinson, Thom Gunn
61. In Old English other grammatical classes also had the four cases that nouns had.
Which were these grammatical classes?
(1) Pronouns and verbs only
(2) Pronouns and adjectives only
(3) Definite article and verbs only
(4) Pronouns, adjectives and definite article
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62. Which of the following novels opens with the description of an accident to a hot-
air balloon ?
(1)John Fowles’s The Magus
(2)Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love
(3)James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late
(4)Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
63. Azizun, a courtesan from Kanpur in A Tale from the Year 1857 : Azizun Nisa by
Tripurari Sharma undergoing self-actualisation says : “Yes, I must complete what I’ve
set out to do. I’m not a mere woman.” In order to make her impact by her attitudinal
shift, she .
(1)challenges the codifiers of the Shariat.
(2)forsakes her profession to become a soldier.
(3)becomes a political leader.
(4)becomes a successful dancer.
64. The hermeneutics of suspicion is a term coined by Paul Ricoeur.
a. to designate the postcolonial tendency to see theory and related reading
manoeuvres as a global conspiracy.
b. to describe interpretive bids that challenge and seek to overcome
compartmentalized cultural experiences.
c. who, following Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, held that textual appearances are
deceptive and texts do not gracefully relinquish their meanings.
d. to describe a mode of interpretation that adopts a distrustful attitude towards
texts in order to elicit otherwise inaccessible meanings or implications. The right
combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
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(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (c)
65. Which of the following is not a feminist novel ?
(1)Ashapurna Debi’s Subarnalata
(2)Rajam Krishnan’s Lamp in the Whirlpool
(3)Chudamani Raghavan’s Yamini
(4)Bani Basu’s The Enemy Within
66. The term ‘poetic justice’ was coined by .
(1) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(2) Thomas Rymer
(3) Samuel Johnson
(4) William Wordsworth
67. Which of the following novels deals with the Biafran War ?
(1) July’s People
(2) Waiting for the Barbarians
(3) Half of a Yellow Sun
(4) Arrow of God
68. Which of the following is not true in Dalit aesthetics as given by Sharan
Kumar Limbale ?
(1)The agony, assertion, resistance, anger and protest of the dalits should be
expressed.
(2)Dalit anubhava (experience) should take precedence over anuman (speculation).
(3)Sympathy for the dalits should be generated.
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(4)Ungrammatical language, different from the standard norms of expression, should
be used.
69. Which of the following is not a critical study by William Empson ?
(1) Seven Types of Ambiguity
(2) The Dyer’s Hand
(3) Milton’s God
(4) Some Versions of the Pastoral
70. This was a path-breaking feminist essay written in the 1970s which used hybrid
terms like “sext” and “chaosmos.” Identify the author.
(1) Luce Irigaray
(2) Helene Cixous
(3) Julia Kristeva
(4) Simon de Beauvoir
Read the poem and answer the questions that follow (71 – 75) :
The Voice Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now
you are not as what you were
When you had changed from the one who was all to me But as first, when our day
was fair
Can it be you that I hear ? Let me view you, then Standing as when I drew near to
the town
Where you would wait for me : yes, as I knew you then, Even to the original airblue
gown!
Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness Travelling across the wet mead to me
here, You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness Heard no more again far or
near ?
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Thus I; faltering forward, Leaves around me falling,
Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward And the woman calling.
71. What suggestion does the opening stanza give of a woman won or a
woman lost ?
(1)The contrast between ‘now’ and ‘then’
(2)The continuity between ‘now’ and ‘then’
(3)The phrase “had changed”
(4)The phrase “our day was fair”
72. What is tantalizing about the speaker’s experience in stanza 2 ?
(1)the disappearance of the lady and the echo of the voice
(2)the indistinct voice heard by the speaker and the absence of woman
(3)The uncertainty of the voice and the speaker’s inability to see the woman
(4)the woman disappearing before her voice is fully heard
73. What phrase in the poem suggests the possibility of the woman as “dead” ?
(1) “You had changed …. to me”
(2) “I knew you then”
(3) “You being ever dissolved”
(4) “Woman much missed”
74. Identify the special sound effect in the line given : Wind oozing thin through the
thorn from norward…
(1) Alliteration
(2) Onomatopoeia
(3) Assonance
(4) The use of sibilants
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75. What longing does the speaker voice ?
(1)longing for reunion in the other world
(2)longing for physical union in the present
(3)longing for physical union in the town where they used to meet
(4)longing for a return to the town where they used to meet
Answer: * (Marks given to all)
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Answer Key (1-75)
1 2 11 3 21 3 31 2 41 2 51 4 61 4 71 1&3
2 1 12 3 22 1 32 2 42 3 52 4 62 2 72 3
3 3 13 4 23 2 33 3 43 4 53 3 63 2 73 3
4 2 14 All 24 2 34 2 44 2 54 2 64 3 74 1
5 2 15 2 25 3 35 4 45 3 55 4 65 4 75 All
6 2 16 2 26 4 36 4 46 2 56 3 66 2
7 3 17 1 27 3 37 3 47 3 57 4 67 3
8 4 18 1 28 1 38 4 48 3 58 3 68 3
9 All 19 3 29 2 39 3 49 3 59 3 69 2
10 2 20 1 30 1 40 3 50 3 60 3 70 2
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1. Two of the following list are “Angry Young Men” of the 1950’s British literary scene.
I. John Osborne
II. C.P. Snow
III. Anthony Powell
IV. Kingsley Amis
The right combination, accordingto the code
(A) I & II
(B) II & IV
(C) I & IV
(D) I & III
2. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy contains
(A) Six volumes
(B) Nine volumes
(C) Ten volumes
(D) Four volumes
3. Which of the following statement is NOT true of Areopagitica ?
(A) It was published in 1644.
(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing.
(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding Free Trade.
(D) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England.
4. Thomas Hardy’s last major novel was _______.
(A) Tess of the D’urbervilles
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) The Return of the Native
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(D) The Trumpet Major
5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers’d to the Story of the Country Mouse and the
City Mouse is a satire on
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler
Terms Theorists
1. Matthew Arnold
2. Friedrich Nietzsche
3. G.H. Hopkins
4. S.T. Coleridge
I. Apollonian – Dionysian
II. Fancy – Imagination
III. Hellenism – Hebraism
IV. Inscape – Instress
I II III IV
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 4 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
7. In King Lear who among the following speaks in the voice of Poor Tom ?
(A) Kent
(B) Edgar
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(C) Edmund
(D) Gloucester
8. In Wordsworth’s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by
(A) Blindness
(B) Deafness
(C) Muteness
(D) Lameness
9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale in The
Waste Land ?
(A) St. Magnus Martyr
(B) King Arthur Street
(C) St. Mary Woolnoth
(D) Lower Thames Street
10. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys ?
(A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
(B) Good Morning, Midnight
(C) The Quiet American
(D) Wide Sargasso Sea
11. The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was _______.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) William Davenant
(C) John Dryden
(D) Thomas Shadwell
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12. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in the following lines ?
“Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
The good man walked innoxious through his age.”
(A) Pope’s father
(B) Pope himself
(C) Dr. Arbuthnot
(D) The Duke of Marlborough
13. The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to ________.
(A) Arthur Schopenhauer
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) A.N. Whitehead
(D) Aldous Huxley
14. Which character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is
scientific”?
(A) Simon
(B) Piggy
(C) Ralph
(D) Jack
15. Match the authors under List – I with the titles under List – II :
1. Of Grammatology
2. The Archaeology of Knowledge
3. Structural Anthropology
4. Anatomy of Criticism
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I. Claude Levi-Strauss
II. Jacques Derrida
III. Northrop Frye
IV. Michel Foucault
I II III IV
(A) 1 3 4 2
(B) 3 1 2 4
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 2 1 3 4
16. How did Chaucer’s Pardoner make his living?
(A) By selling stolen cattle from the neighborhood ottery
(B) By selling indulgences to those who committed sins
(C) By pardoning those who stole property or committeed other crimes
(D) By assisting the Friar in Church services
17. From among the following, identify Coleridge’s companion in a fanciful scheme
to establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina river?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Robert Southey
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) William Wordsworth
18. Which of the following novels by H.G. Wells is about the condition of England as
Empire?
(A) The Island of Dr. Moreau
(B) The War of the Worlds
(C) Tono-Bungay
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(D) The Invisible Man
19. Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is
(A) a collection of poems
(B) a play
(C) an autobiography
(D) a novel
20. Listed below are some English plays across several centuries : Twelfth Night, She
Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit.
What is common to them?
(A) All problem plays; scheming and intrigue
(B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
(C) All ideologically framed; class and gender
(D) All romantic comedies; love and laughter
21. Who among the following wrote a poem comparing a lover’s heart to a hand
grenade?
(A) John Donne
(B) Abraham Cowley
(C) Wilfred Owen
(D) Robert Graves
22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to
(A) William James
(B) John Dewey
(C) Werner Heisenberg
(D) Charles Darwin
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23. “Jabberwocky” is a creation in _______.
(A) Edward Lear’s poetry
(B) Lewis Carroll’s work
(C) Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Thomas Hardy’s Woodlanders
24. Who are Didi and Gogo ?
(A) They are two characters in Endgame.
(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for Lucky and Pozzo.
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon.
(D) They are two characters in Breath.
25. Who among the following theorists talks about “the circulation of social energy”?
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Antonio Gramsci
(D) Haydon White
26. How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of
Good Women?
(A) Six
(B) Seven
(C) Eight
(D) Nine
27. The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by ________.
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
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(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey
28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the group _______.
(A) The New Apocalypse
(B) The Black Arts
(C) The Movement
(D) Deep Image Poetry
29. Which of the following writers writes from Canada ?
(A) V.S. Naipaul
(B) Margaret Atwood
(C) Derek Walcott
(D) James Joyce
30. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
What is the subject of awaits ?
(A) Hour
(B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
(C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave”
(D) Grave
31. “Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d / Nor Hell a fury, like a
woman scorn’d.”
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Identify the text in which the above quote occurs :
(A) The Double-Dealer
(B) The Way of the World
(C) The Mourning Bride
(D) Love for Love
32. A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World is the sub-title of _______.
(A) Belinda
(B) Cecilia
(C) Evelina
(D) Camilla
33. “The old order changeth, yielding place to new” is from ________.
(A) “Morte d’Arthur”
(B) “Idylls of the King”
(C) “Paracelsus”
(D) “Asolando”
34. Which of the followingcannot be classi_ed as fantasy fiction ?
(A) The Inheritors (William Golding)
(B) The Magus (John Fowles)
(C) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein)
(D) The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury)
35. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work associated with _______.
(A) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(B) Ernst Cassirer
(C) Immanuel Kant
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(D) Battista Vico
36. Which of the following facts is NOT true of Spenser ?
(A) He is a kind of English Homer, telling stories of heroic confrontations.
(B) He fashioned an original verse form : The Spenserian Stanza.
(C) He opposed England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church.
(D) He is a Christian poet.
37. William Blake developed the ideas of “Prolifics” and “Devourers” in
(A) Jerusalem
(B) Milton
(C) Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
38. Surrealism is associated with
(A) Ernst Cassirer
(B) Tristan Tzara
(C) Henrik Ibsen
(D) Andre Breton
39. “And miles to go before I sleep” is a line from a poem by
(A) Emily Dickinson
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) Robert Frost
40. What common link do you find among
“The Disquieting Muses” by Sylvia Plath,
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“The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton,
“Mourning Picture” by Adrienne Rich, and
“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden ?
(A) They inspired paintings.
(B) They are confessional poems.
(C) They are all inspired by paintings.
(D) They are all inspired by Van Gogh’s paintings.
41. “All Rising to Great Place is by a _____ staire.” (Francis Bacon)
(A) Murky
(B) Winding
(C) Crooked
(D) Sinister
42. In Jeremy Collier’s 1698 pamphlet attacking the immorality and profaneness of
the English stage, who among the following was the principal target?
(A) William Congreve
(B) John Dryden
(C) John Vanbrugh
(D) William Wycherley
43. Charles Dickens’s visit to the United States produced _________.
(A) Hard Times
(B) Nicholas Nickleby
(C) Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Oliver Twist
44. Who among the following is a working-class poet ?
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(A) John Betjeman
(B) Tony Harrison
(C) Thom Gunn
(D) Robert Graves
45. New Science is a work associated with _______.
(A) Ernest Cassirer
(B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(C) G. Battista Vico
(D) Immanuel Kant
46. Identify Petrarch’s sonnet sequence from among the following :
(A) Rine Sparse
(B) Astrophel and Stella
(C) Amoretti
(D) Delia
47. The island setting of Latmos figures in Keats’s
(A) Endymion
(B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(C) Lamia
(D) Hyperion
48. The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation emphasized by ________.
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) Charles Baudelaire
(C) Oscar Wilde
(D) Andre Gide
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49. Which of the following African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(D) Bessie Head
50. “My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow
With thy green mother in some shady groove” – William Drummond
The above quote is an example of _______.
(A) End-stopped rhyme
(B) Alliteration
(C) Run-on line
(D) Tercet
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Answer Key (1-50)
Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 C 11 C 21 B 31 C 41 B
2 B 12 A 22 C 32 C 42 C
3 C 13 B 23 B 33 B 43 C
4 B 14 B 24 C 34 D 44 B
5 C 15 C 25 B 35 B 45 C
6 A 16 B 26 D 36 C 46 A
7 B 17 B 27 C 37 C 47 A
8 C 18 C 28 A 38 D 48 All
9 B 19 C 29 B 39 D 49 B
10 C 20 D 30 A 40 C 50 B
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1. This work was a satire in Ottava rima, attacking George III and Robert Southey.
Identify the poem :
(A) Dunciad
(B) The Vision of Judgment
(C) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(D) Alastor
2. Here’s a famous exchange from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Silver Blaze :
‘Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention ?’
‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’
‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’
What was Sherlock Holmes’ response ?
(A) ‘Nothing ? Nothing at all ? Rather unbelievable.’
(B) ‘That was the curious incident.’
(C) ‘Anything else, at all ?’
(D) ‘That sounds rather curious, don’t you think ?’
3. “The shrill, demented choirs of waiting shells, And bugles calling for them from sad
shires.” These lines are from Wilfred Owen’s :
(A) “Strange Meeting”
(B) “Futility”
(C) “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
(D) “Duke et Decorum Est”
4. In Aphra Behn’s Oronooko, how does the titular character die ?
(A) He disembowels himself.
(B) He is whipped to death.
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(C) He is hanged in the public square.
(D) He is cut to pieces slowly by the executioner.
5. The narrative of this novel is a meticulous, present-tense account of a woman with
a death-wish who plots the circumstances of her own violent murder. Identify the
novel.
(A) Iris Murdoch’s A Fairly Honourable Defeat
(B) Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat
(C) Doris Lessing’s Children of Violence
(D) Angela Carter’s The Passion of the New Eve
6. The library where the “Battle of Books” takes place is _______.
(A) St. James’ Library
(B) King’s Library
(C) Sir William’s Library
(D) Christ Church Library
7. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex the first scene finds Oedipus
(A) in conversation with a priest
(B) in consultation with a general
(C) giving audience to an ambassador
(D) in consultation with a minister
8. Who among Shakespeare’s contemporaries did not write tragedies ?
(A) Thomas Kyd
(B) John Lyly
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) Ben Jonson
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9. The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of ________.
(A) Ahmed
(B) Nadira
(C) Amir
(D) Amourrah
10. Thomas Babington Macaulay, the writer of the infamous Minute of 1835, finds a
mention in Salman Rushdie’s
(A) Midnight’s Children
(B) Shame
(C) The Moor’s Last Sigh
(D) Fury
11. The issue of privileging speech over writing was taken up for discussion in Plato’s:
(A) Ion
(B) Republic Book III
(C) Republic Book X
(D) Phaedrus
12. ‘The Medium is the Message’ is a concept given by
(A) Ernest Hemingway
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Seymour Hersh
(D) Marshal McLuhan
13. Seamus Heaney’s famous poem “Digging” forms a part of his celebrated
collection called
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(A) North
(B) Death of a Naturalist
(C) Field Work
(D) Door into the Dark
14. The first major report on The Teaching of English in England was published in
1921. It is known as ________, named after the Chair, Board of Education, _______.
(A) the Newbolt Report; Sir Henry Newbolt
(B) the Wood’s Despatch; Charles Wood, Lord Halifax
(C) the Chatham Report; Earl John Chatham
(D) the Landow Document; Sir George Landow
15. Who first developed the notion of ‘competence’ in language studies ?
(A) Dell Hymes
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) Leech and Svartvik
(D) Henry Sweet
16. The fruit was eaten. The fruit is ripening. Which of the following statement(s)
is/are correct ?
(1) English has two kinds of participle : the present and the past.
(2) English has three kinds of participle : the present, the past and the future.
(3) The first sentence here is an example of a verb in past participle.
(4) The first sentence here is an example of a verb in the perfect tense.
(5) The second sentence here is an example of a verb in present participle.
(6) The second sentence here is an example of a verb in the continuous tense.
(A) 2, 4, 6 are correct.
(B) 1, 5, 6 are correct.
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(C) 1, 3, 5 are correct.
(D) 3, 4, 5 are correct.
Answer: C
17. In 1722 the Crown awarded a certain English merchant a patent to manufacture
copper coins for Ireland. Jonathan Swift intervened by way of composing a series of
letters in response, better known as The Drapier’s Letters. Who was the merchant ?
(A) Isaac Bickerstaff
(B) William Bickerstaff
(C) William Wood
(D) William Sacheverell
18. “While the world moves In appentency on its metalled way Of time past and time
future” These lines are from :
(A) “Little Gidding”
(B) “Dry Salvages”
(C) “Burnt Norton”
(D) “East Coker”
19. The following is the stage-description of an opening scene of a famous modern
play : A basement room. Two beds, flat against the back wall. A serving hatch, closed,
between the beds. A door to the kitchen and lavatory, left. A door to a passage, right.
Identify the play :
(A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Travesties
(C) The Dumb Waiter
(D) Look Back in Anger
20. ‘Homonyms’ are words that _______
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(A) are pronounced differently but have the same meaning.
(B) refer to both the male and female of the human species.
(C) are spelt similarly but have different meanings.
(D) refer to people who live in houses with similar structures.
Shakespearean Actors Period
I. David Garrick 1. The 19th century
II. John Gielgud 2. The 18th century
III. Henry Irving 3. The Restoration
IV. Thomas Betterton 4. The 20th century
I II III IV
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 4 2 1 3
(C) 3 4 1 2
(D) 2 3 4 1
22. In his “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,”
Derrida is all praise for the bricoleur whom Levi-Strauss sees as a supreme
methodologist, “someone who uses ‘the means at hand’.” Who does Levi-Strauss
contrast bricoleur with in terms of method and approach ?
(A) The Botanist
(B) The Anthropologist
(C) The Engineer
(D) The Semiotician
23. Heinrich Böll has something to say, and not of course merely something about
the Germans. He says it several times. A common weakness of writers with something
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to say is their inability to understand that saying it four times is not necessarily four
times as effective as saying it once. But to have something to say – how rare this is ! –
D. J. Enright, “Three New Germans”.
From a reading of the above, the reader can deduce :
I. Enright mildly disapproves of Heinrich Böll’s saying not merely something about
Germans.
II. Enright is disappointed that Heinrich Böll has practically nothing to say about
people other than Germans.
III. Enright agrees that Heinrich Böll shares a weakness with writers who prefer saying
something four times to saying it once.
IV. Enright does not believe that saying something four times will necessarily make
the same effective.
The right combination, according to the code, is
(A) I and II
(B) II and III
(C) III and IV
(D) I and IV
24. Michel Foucault’s earlier “archaeological” study is found in
(A) Power/Knowledge
(B) Social Theory and Transgression
(C) The Birth of the Clinic
(D) Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
25. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is widely recognized as a masterpiece. It is also one
of the finest examples of
(A) science fiction
(B) picaresque novel
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(C) coming-of-age novel
(D) crime thriller
26. Match the following correctly :
1. Premashram
2. The Cat and Shakespeare
3. Coolie
4. Nagamandala
I. Mulk Raj Anand
II. Raja Rao
III. Prem Chand
IV. Girish Karnad
I II III IV
(A) 3 2 4 1
(B) 2 3 1 4
(C) 3 2 1 4
(D) 4 3 2 1
27. From which of Sheridan’s plays the following extract is taken ? Lady Sneerwell :
Why truly Mrs. Clackitt has a very pretty talent and a great deal of industry. Snake :
True, Madam, and has been tolerably successful in her day. To my knowledge she has
been the cause of six matches being broken off and three sons disinherited, of four
forced elopements ….
Lady Sneerwell : She certainly has talents but her manner is gross.
(A) The Rivals
(B) The School for Scandal
(C) St. Patrick’s Day
(D) The Critic
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Answer: B
28. Who, from among the following, has NOT been discussed by Simon-de- Bevoir in
“The Myth of Woman in Five Authors” in The Second Sex ?
(A) Montherlant
(B) Lawrence
(C) Stendhal
(D) Kafka
29. In a collection of essays Orhan Pamuk shares how he writes his novels, tells about
his friendship with his daughter, talks about his loneliness and happiness. Identify the
text:
(A) Other Colors
(B) The Silent House
(C) The Black Book
(D) The White Castle
30. Two of the following plays won the Sultan Padamsee Prize for Indian plays in
English :
I. Princes
II. Where There’s a Will
III. Larins Sahib
IV. Doongaji House
(A) III and IV
(B) I and III
(C) II and III
(D) I and IV
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31. Who among the following is NOT an Australian writer ?
(A) Morris West
(B) Patrick White
(C) Thomas Keneally
(D) Bill Pearson
32. After Independence, Mulk Raj Anand, wrote a number of semiautobiographical
works to narrate chunks of his own life through a fictional persona. The name he
gave this persona is _______.
(A) Lal Singh
(B) Krishan Chander
(C) Puran Singh
(D) Rahul Singh
33. What a mockery this.
Of history, the past and that to come !
Now do I feel how all men are deceived,
Reading of nations and their, in faith,
Faith given to vanity and emptiness …
The prelude
The above extract is from
(A) Book 9 Residence in France
(B) Book 7 Residence in London
(C) Book 3 Residence in Cambridge
(D) Book 4 Summer Vacations
34. While foregrounding the marginal presence of women in history in A
Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf refers to ______ History of England.
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(A) Campbell’s
(B) Trevelyan’s
(C) Sander’s
(D) Carter’s
35. Salonie is a play written by Oscar Wilde written in
(A) English
(B) Irish
(C) French
(D) Italian
36. In More’s Utopia, the fictional traveller Raphael Hythloday’s second name in
Greek means
(A) Dispenser of Justice
(B) Dispenser of Nonsense
(C) Dispenser of Grace
(D) Dispenser of Mercy
37. “You do not dwell in me nor I in you however much I pander to your name”
These lines from Geoffrey Hill’s “Lachrimae” address
(A) Christ
(B) The Devil
(C) The poet’s beloved
(D) The poet’s enemy
38. The author of Black Skin, White Masks is
(A) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(B) Frantz Fanon
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(C) Richard Wright
(D) Martin Luther King (Jr.)
Poet Bird
I. John Keats
II. P.B. Shelley
III. G.H. Hopkins
IV. Ted Hughes
1. Hawk
2. Falcon
3. Skylark
4. Nightingale
I II III IV
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
40. Who of the following has written the novel The Return ?
(A) Bapsi Sidhwa
(B) V.S. Naipaul
(C) K. S. Maniam
(D) Pankaj Mishra
41. Who among the following is a well-known Neo-Aristotelian critic ?
(A) R.P. Blackmur
(B) John Crowe Ranson
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(C) R.S. Crane
(D) Lionel Trilling
42. Assertion (A) : The act of reading a text is both determinate and indeterminate.
Reason (R) : Since our reading includes both a sense of the unity of the narrative held
in place at the end and the different wishes and guesses made along the way.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the true explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the true explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
43. Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana, originally in Kannada, has been translated into
English by
(A) U.R. Ananthamurthy
(B) By the playwright himself
(C) G.S. Amur
(D) A.K. Ramanujan
44. Edward Said’s well-known book Orientalism was published in
(A) 1978
(B) 1968
(C) 2008
(D) 1988
45. “To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare :
And What He Hath Left Us” is an ode composed by
(A) John Milton
(B) Ben Jonson
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(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) John Suckling
46. Call me Ishmail Tonight is written by
(A) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) Agha Shahid Ali
(C) Saleem Peeradina
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
47. “All fiction for me is a kind of magic or trickery – a confidence trick.” The
statement has been made by
(A) Angus Wilson
(B) Anthony Powell
(C) John Fowles
(D) George Orwell
48. Here is a list of American words and word-makers. Match the following:
I. H.L. Mencken
II. Philip Wylie
III. Jack Conway
IV. Sinclair Lewis
1. Babbit
2. Yes man
3. Bible belt
4. Monism
I II III IV
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 3 4 1 2
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(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 4 3 1 2
49. Which of the following in Jacques Derrida’s epigraph to his “Structure,
Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” ?
(A) More body, hence more writing. ……. Helene Cixous.
(B) We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things. ………
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
(C) But unlike philosophical reflection, …. the reflections we are dealing with here
concern rays whose only source is hypothetical … Claude Levi-Strauss
(D) If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter the whole history of the world would have
been different. ………Blaise Pascal.
50. In Mann’s Death in Venice, death of the protagonist occurs
(A) in a bar
(B) in a beach
(C) in a church
(D) on the highway
51. Two among the following poets wrote the “Village” poems that address the
perennial theme of rural poverty :
I. Oliver Goldsmith
II. William Collins
III. Samuel Johnson
IV. George Gabbe
(A) I and III
(B) II and III
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(C) I and IV
(D) I and II
52. In which of the following works Yeats developed his theory of ‘gyres’ ?
(A) “A Vision”
(B) “The Secret Rose”
(C) “John Sherman and Dhoya”
(D) “The Celtic Twilight”
53. Mystery and Miracle plays in English were based on ______.
(A) English folklore
(B) English legends
(C) Biblical stories
(D) Anglo-Saxon myths
54. When we rewrite a piece of discourse from one script into another, it is called
________.
(A) Translation
(B) Transliteration
(C) Transcreation
(D) Transformation
55. “No wonder then.” Explain.
(A) No wonder that the words here begin to mean.
(B) No wonder that you now find the words menacing.
(C) No wonder that the words find you menacing.
(D) No wonder the words still mean and are tame.
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56. The term “womanism” was first used by
(A) Helene Cixous
(B) Gayatri Spivak
(C) Kate Millet
(D) Alice Walker
57. Two among the following critics have dealt with the reproduction of motherhood
in feminist theory:
I. Nancy Chodorow
II. Judith Fetterley
III. Catherine R. Stimpson
IV. Carol Gilligan
(A) Iand II
(B) IIand IV
(C) I and IV
(D) III and IV
58. Flowers is a short play written by
(A) Mahesh Dattani
(B) Asif Currimbhoy
(C) Girish Karnad
(D) Paoli Sengupta
Character Novel
I. Lady Dedlock
II. Lady Bertram
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III. Lady Harriet
IV. Lady Jane
1. Vanity Fair
2. Wives and Daughters
3. Mansfield Park
4. Bleak House
I II III IV
(A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
60. “The Books You Needn’t Read, the Books Made For Purposes Other Than
Reading, Books Read Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The
Category of Books Read Before Being Written …”
The above extract is taken from
(A) Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Library of Babel”
(B) Italo Colvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
(C) Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose
(D) Francis Bacon’s “Of Studies”
61. Listed below are the titles of novels and the sources to which they are aligned by
readers.
Match them appropriately:
1. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
2. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
3. R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island
4. Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations
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I. Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs
II. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe
III. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
IV. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 3 2
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
62. Identify the right chronological sequence :
(A) The Game of Chess – Volpone – The Duchess of Mal_ – The City Madam
(B) The City Madam – The Duchess of Mal_ – Volpone – A Game of Chess
(C) Volpone – The Duchess of Mal_ – A Game of Chess – The City Madam
(D) The Duchess of Mal_ – Volpone – A Game of Chess – The City Madam
63. ‘Nasal tone’ in speech is a distinguishing feature of _______.
(A) British English
(B) Scottish English
(C) Australian English
(D) American English
64. Which of the following writers did NOT receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(A) Wole Soyinka
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) J. M. Coetzee
(D) Nadine Gordimer
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65. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is a significant work
in ______ volumes.
(A) 3
(B) 4
(C) 5
(D) 6
66. The first novel written by Graham Greene is
(A) Stamboul Train
(B) England Made Me
(C) The Heart of the Matter
(D) The Man Within
67. From among the Canterbury pilgrims, which group would qualify as the ‘upper
class’?
(A) The Pardoner, The Miller, The Nun’s Priest
(B) Franklin, Parson, Wife of Bath
(C) The Knight, The Squire, The Prioress
(D) The Reeve, The Manciple, The Clerk
68. Plagiarism is a well-known word and concept in academic circles. The word
plagiarius in Latin, however, meant
(A) a trickster, a cheat
(B) a quack, a swindler
(C) a loafer, a lout
(D) a torturer, a plunderer
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69. What superstition around the Eve of St. Agnes is crucial to an understanding John
Keat’s famous poem ?
(A) If a virgin performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would dream of her
future husband.
(B) If a virgin performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would marry her
lover.
(C) If a married woman performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would be
reunited with her husband.
(D) If a woman performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would dream of
her future lover.
70. Identify the person who sets himself up as the ‘Knight’ with a pestle rather than a
sword in the play The Knight of the Burning Pestle :
(A) Ralph
(B) Tim
(C) George
(D) Squire
71. Works like The Earthly Paradise, Dante and His Circle, Goblin Market and Other
Poems and the journal, The Germ are associated with ________.
(A) the Pre-Raphaelites
(B) Higher Criticism
(C) the Cavalier Poets
(D) the Pre-Romantics
Read the following poem and answer questions (72 to 75 ) :
A Bird came down the Walk –
He did not know I saw –
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He bit an Angleworm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,
And then he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass –
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass –
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all around –
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought –
He stirred his Velvet Head
Like one in danger, Cautious,
I offered him a Crumb
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home –
Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Too silver for a seam –
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
Leap, plashless as they swim.
72. Is “a convenient Grass” an example of “transferred epithet” ?
(A) Yes, it is. The “convenience” of grass is transferred from the bird to the poet who
finds grass convenient of access.
(B) Yes, it is. The grass is not “convenient”, but is transferred from the bird who finds
the grass convenient of access.
(C) No. It is a regular epithet.
(D) No. It is not an epithet in the strict sense.
73. Which of the following is NOT an example of kinetic imagery ?
(A) “unrolled his feathers”
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(B) “hopped sidewise”
(C) “Velvet Head”
(D) “rowed him”
74. The poem stages an encounter between :
(A) the human and the non-human
(B) distrust of the non-human about the humans
(C) two old friends
(D) two old enemies
75. “Like one in danger …” Who is in danger ?
(A) The Bird
(B) The Poet
(C) The Angleworm
(D) Frightened Beads
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Answer Key (1-75)
1 B 11 D 21 A 31 D 41 C 51 All 61 C 71 A
2 B 12 D 22 C 32 B 42 A 52 A 62 C 72 B
3 C 13 B 23 C 33 A 43 B 53 C 63 D 73 C
4 D 14 A 24 C 34 B 44 A 54 B 64 B 74 A&B
5 B 15 B 25 C 35 All 45 B 55 All 65 D 75 A
6 B 16 C 26 C 36 B 46 B 56 D 66 D
7 A 17 C 27 B 37 A 47 A 57 C 67 C
8 B 18 C 28 D 38 B 48 All 58 C 68 All
9 C 19 C 29 A 39 A 49 B 59 C 69 A
10 C 20 C 30 A 40 C 50 B 60 B 70 A
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June 2014 Paper II

1. “The just man justices. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines?
(A) Syntactic
(B) Semantic
(C) Collocation
(D) None of the above
2. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given :
List – I
i. Lambic
ii. Anapaestic
iii. Dactylic
iv. Trochaic
List – II
1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.
3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 3 1 2 4
3. The separation of styles in accordance with class appears more consistently in
………… than in medieval works of literature and art.
(A) Ben Jonson
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(B) Shakespeare
(C) Philip Sidney
(D) Edmund Spenser
4. “Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.”
This statement is an example of
(A) Irony
(B) Paradox
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Euphemism
5. A Spenserian stanza has
(A) four iambic pentameters
(B) six iambic pentameters
(C) eight iambic pentameters
(D) ten iambic pentameters
6. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Critic)
i. Cleanth Brooks
ii. William Empson
iii. Mark Schorer
iv. Maud Bodkin
List – II (Theory)
1. Ambiguity
2. Paradox
3. Archetypal patterns in poetry
4. Techniques as discovery
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Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 3 4 1
7. “The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible and almighty,
everywhere felt but nowhere seen.” Henry James is talking here about the artist’s
(A) impersonality
(B) absence
(C) presence
(D) creativity
8. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Theorist)
i. Michel Foucault
ii. Judith Butler
iii. Alan Sinfield
iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
List – II (Book)
1. Gender Trouble
2. Epistemology of the Closet
3. History of Sexuality
4. Cultural Politics-Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination according to the code :
Codes :
i ii iii iv
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(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “lies in his powerful and beautiful
application of ideas to life”. But a critic pointed out it was “not a happy way of
putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity”. Who
was this critic?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) David Lodge
(D) Allen Tate
10. Derrida’s American disciples were
(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Miller
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Ellman
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in late sixteenth century
London from the following groups :
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe, Thames
12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
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Good Signior, you shall more command with years. Than with your weapons.” The
above lines are addresses by Othello to
(A) Roderigo and o_cers
(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and O_cers
(C) The Duke and Senators
(D) Montano and Cassio
Answer: B
13. Act V of Marlowe’s Edward the Second shows the murder of the king.
Where does it take place?
(A) Westminster, a room in the palace
(B) A room in Berkeley Castle
(C) A room in Killingworth Castle
(D) Within the Abbey of Neath
Answer: B
14. Identify the correctly matched set :
(A) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1557
Astrophel and Stella – 1591
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1585
(B) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1559
(C) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1585
(D) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
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Astrophel and Stella – about 1585
15. Match the items in the List – I with items in List – II according to the code given
below :
List – I (Authors)
i. Lucy Hutchinson
ii. John Bunyan
iii. John Evelyn
iv. Margaret Cavendish
List – II (Works)
1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
2. Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees
3. Natures Pictures
4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
16. “But deeds, and language, such as men do use;
And persons, such as comedy would choose,
When she would show an image of the time,
and sport with human follies, not with crime.”
In the above lines Jonson
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I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic tragic-comedy.
II. Initiates the use of realism.
III. Considers analysis of moral short comings more important
IV. Encourages the use of farce with melodrama.
Find out the correct combination according to the code :
(A) I, II and III are correct
(B) I, II and IV are correct
(C) I, III and IV are correct
(D) II, III and IV are correct
17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove,
We’ll build in ………….. pretty roomes.”
(A) lyrics
(B) epics
(C) sonnets
(D) stanzas
18. “That glory never shall his wrath or might extort from me.” (Paradise
Lost, Book I)
What ‘glory’ is being referred to by Satan ?
(A) The courage never to submit or yield
(B) To reign in Hell
(C) To defeat God
(D) To spread evil
19. It has been described as a “novel without predecessors”, the product of an
original mind and became immediately popular. It is a peculiar blend of pathos and
humour, though the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point of becoming
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offensively sentimental. The novel was published in 1760. What is the name of the
novel ?
(A) Gulliver’s Travels
(B) The Castle of Otranto
(C) Tristram Shandy
(D) A Tender Husband
20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a printer. He remained a printer
throughout his life. He was asked to prepare a series of modern letters for those who
could not write for themselves. This humble task taught him the art of expressing
himself in letters. Who is the novelist?
(A) Daniel Defoe
(B) Samuel Richardson
(C) Henry Fielding
(D) Tobias Smollett
21. “Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be wise.” Who wrote the following lines?
(A) Pope
(B) Gray
(C) Collins
(D) Southey
22. Which of the following works is not actually a prose essay?
(A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) Essay on Man
(C) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
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23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into believing that he loves her in The Way of the
World?
(A) Millamant
(B) Lady Wishfort
(C) Mrs. Marwood
(D) Mrs. Fainall
24. “Competence to age is supplementary to youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I
fear the best that is to be had. We must ride where we formerly walked : live better
and be softer and shall be wise to do so – than we had means to do in the good old
days you speak of.”
Who speaks these words and to whom?
(A) Lamb to Bridget
(B) Wordsworth to Dorothy
(C) Dorothy to Bridget
(D) Lamb to Dorothy
25. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799 and finished in its first version in
1805, was not published until ……………..
(A) 1815
(B) 1820
(C) 1830
(D) 1850
26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the wreathed trellis of a working brain.” The
above lines are quoted from
(A) ‘Adonais’
(B) ‘Ode to Psyche’
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(C) ‘Eve of St. Agnes’
(D) ‘Endymion’
27. “Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight.”
This selfish and possessive nature of love is illustrated in Blake’s
(A) ‘The Clod and the Pebble’
(B) ‘The Sick Rose’
(C) ‘A Poison Tree’
(D) ‘Ah Sun_ower’
28. Who is the author of Mary, and the unfinished The Wrongs of Woman?
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft
(B) William Godwin
(C) Mary Hay
(D) Elizabeth Inchbald
29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry James’ theory of the novel :
(A) It should be sentimental
(B) It should be objective
(C) It should be realistic
(D) It should be viewed as an artistic form
30. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given
below :
List – I (Novels)
i. Ulysses
ii. A Passage to India
iii. To the Lighthouse
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iv. Women in Love
List – II (Characters)
1. Mrs. Moore
2. Molly Bloom
3. Gerald Crich
4. Lily Briscoe
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 1 3 2 4
31. Which among the following novels was not written in 1922?
(A) Ulysses
(B) Jacob’s room
(C) Aaron’s Rod
(D) A Passage to India
32. “A sudden blow : the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.”
Who is the author of the above lines?
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) D.H. Lawrence
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33. “Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal.”
The above lines are taken from
(A) “Felix Randal”
(B) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931”
(D) “The Second Coming”
34. Who among the following is not a surrealist poet?
(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(B) David Gascoyne
(C) Kenneth Allot
(D) C. Day Lewis
35. The protagonist returns with an admonition, the diamond sent to him for
smuggling out a packet of diamonds as bribe.
This scene occurs in one of the novels of Graham Greene – Identify the novel
(A) The End of the Affair
(B) The Heart of the Matter
(C) The Ministry of Fear
(D) Our Man in Havana
36. Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published together in London in 1959 under the English
titles is
(A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy
(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies
(D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy
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37. Among the following playwrights, who was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920?
(A) Eugene O’Neill
(B) Sean O’Casey
(C) William Somerset Maugham
(D) J.B. Priestly
38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of …………… in his novels.
(A) Realism
(B) Naturalism
(C) Primitivism
(D) Expressionism
39. Who among the following is not an American modernist poet?
(A) William Carlos Williams
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger
(D) Marianne Moore
40. An important poet and playwright who in the 1960s led the Black Arts
Movement, in the spirit of negritude, posited a ‘Black Aesthetic’ that expressed a
pan-African, organic and whole sensibility.
(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(B) Amiri Baraka
(C) Ishmael Reed
(D) Bell Hooks
41. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
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i. V.S. Naipaul
ii. Jean Rhys
iii. Marina Warners
iv. J.M. Coetzee
List – II (Books)
1. Foe
2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters
3. Wide Sargasso Sea
4. Mimic Men
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 1 3 4 2
42. Yasmine Gooneratne’s The Pleasures of Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel
of the nineties is ironically enough set in the tropical island nation of
(A) Sri Lanka
(B) Fiji
(C) The Caribbean
(D) Amnesia
43. Which of the following is not an Asian – Canadian writer?
(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin
(B) Himani Banerjee
(C) Joy Kogawa
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(D) Meena Alexander
44. Which of the following is true?
(A) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a poem in nine books
(B) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a collection of sonnets from the Portuguese
(C) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a nursery rhyme book
(D) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is “the Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry”
45. “The old order changeth yielding place to new,
And God fulfils himself in many way.”
In which of the following poems do these lines appear?
(A) ‘Locksley Hall’
(B) ‘Two Voices
(C) ‘Morte d’Arthur’
(D) ‘Ulysses’
46. George Eliot’s attempt to write a historical novel of the Italian
Renaissance was not successful. Which was this novel?
(A) Adam Bede
(B) Felix Holt
(C) Silas Marner
(D) Romola
47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by passion and revenge, add a new
dimension to the concept of suffering?
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) Mill on the Floss
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(D) Hard Times
48. From the following women characters in Hardy’s novels choose the odd one out :
(A) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) Eustacia Vye
(C) Elizabeth Jane
(D) Lucetta
49. “Out of the gosple he tho words caughte
And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”
In the Prologue the Parson is represented as a man :
1. who loved money
2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
3. who practiced what he preached
4. who was a poor but honest clerk
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
50. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given
below:
List – I (Plays)
i. White Devil
ii. Maids Tragedy
iii. Every Man in his Humour
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iv. The Spanish Tragedie
List – II (Characters)
1. Hieornimo
2. Old Knowell
3. Vittoria Corombona
4. Aspatia
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 4 3 2 1
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Answer Key (1-50)
Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 A&B 11 A&C 21 B 31 D 41 C
2 All 12 B 22 B 32 A 42 D
3 B 13 B 23 B 33 B 43 D
4 A 14 A 24 A 34 D 44 A
5 C 15 C 25 D 35 B 45 C
6 A 16 A 26 B 36 All 46 D
7 A 17 C 27 A 37 A 47 A
8 A 18 A 28 A 38 C 48 C
9 A 19 C 29 A 39 C 49 C
10 B 20 B 30 B 40 B 50 C
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June 2014 Paper III

01. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch and Petrarchanism to English sounds
and metres, Survey’s verse tends to look back beyond Petrarch to the
(A) French verse
(B) Italian verse
(C) Spanish verse
(D) Latin verse
02. Here are some characteristics of Morality Plays :
1. They are dramatized allegories of the life of man.
2. They depict man’s temptation and sinning, his quest for salvation and his
confrontation with Death.
3. Though the hero represents Mankind, the other characters are by no means
personifications, of virtues, vices and death.
4. A character known as the Vice often plays the role of the hero, a predecessor of
the Villainhero in Elizabethan drama.
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) Only 1 and 3 are correct.
(C) Only 1 and 4 are correct.
(D) Only 2 and 3 are correct.
03. In Spenser’s Re Faerie Queene there are the allegorized moral and religious
virtues with their counterparts in the vices. Identify the correctly matched set :
(A) Una – Truth
Guyon – Temperance
Duessa – Deceit
Orgoglio – Pride
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(B) Una – Pride
Guyon – Deceit
Duessa – Temperance
Orgoglio – Truth
(C) Una – Deceit
Guyon – Pride
Duessa – Temperance
Orgoglio – Truth
(D) Una – Temperance
Guyon – Truth
Duessa – Pride
Orgoglio – Deceit
04. “Fop at the toilet, flatt’rer at the board
Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord.”
The above lines are quoted from
(A) McFlecknoc
(B) The Rape of the Lock
(C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(D) Absalom and Achitrphel
05. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) Every Man in His Humour The Shoemaker’s Holiday Antonio’s Revenge The
Changeling
(B) The Shoemaker’s Holiday Every Man in his Humour The Changeling Antonia’s
Revenge
(C) The Changeling Antonio’s Revenge Every Man in His Humour The Shoemaker’s
Holiday
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(D) Antonio’s Revenge Every Man in His Humour The Changeling The Shoemaker’s
Holiday
06. Though Coleridge refers to “Motivehunting of a motiveless malignity”, the
“human villain” Iago is far from “motiveless”. His motives are
I. He has been disappointed of military promotion.
II. He suspects Othello of cuckolding him
III. He has been in love with Desdemona
IV. He wants to become Othello.
Find the most appropriate combination according to the code :
(A) I and II are correct
(B) I and III are correct
(C) I and IV are correct
(D) II and IV are correct
07. In ‘The Prologue’ to Dr. Faustus, the chorus proposes that the theme should be –
I. “cursed necromancy”
II. “audacious deeds”
III. “dalliance of love”
IV. “self-conceit”
The correct combination according to the code is
(B) II and III are correct
(C) I and IV are correct
(D) III and IV are correct
08. The centre of his plays is a proud character on Marlowe’s model, with a bold
licence in speech and action, full of elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling after
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phrase, as he asserts himself in the French Court. Dryden unjustly described his style
as “a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words”. Who is this Jacobean
playwright?
(A) John Fletcher
(B) John Webster
(C) George Chapman
(D) John Marston
09. In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes that Adam was overcome with“______” and so
ate the forbidden fruit against his “better knowledge”.
(A) “female charm”
(B) “exceeding love”
(C) “faithful love”
(D) “taste so divine”
10. In which poem of Donne’s is the lover’s face reflected in the eyes of his beloved?
(A) “The Good Morrow”
(B) “The Canonization”
(C) “The Apparition”
(D) “A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning”
(Dramatists)
i. Thomas Otway
ii. William Wycherley
iii. Colley Cibber
iv. George Farquhar
(Plays)
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1. The Provok’d Husband
2. The Recruiting Officer
3. The Country Wife
4. The Orphan, or the unhappy marriage
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 3 2 1 2
(C) 4 2 3 1
(D) 3 1 2 4
12. “Thou wast no born for death immortal Bird.”
In what sense is the Bird “immortal” as compared to mortal man ?
I. Here man as an individual is unfairly compared to a bird as a species.
II. The word “Bird” stands for the nightingale’s song.
III. When considered as a species man is equally “immortal” as the “Bird”.
IV. The “Bird” is “Immortal” because songs of birds have given pleasure to man
through the ages.
(A) Only I and III are correct
(B) Only IV is incorrect
(C) Only II and IV are correct
(D) Only I and IV are incorrect
13. Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a poem in _________
(A) 8 parts
(B) 9 parts
(C) 7 parts
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(D) 6 parts
14. Scott is known for the creation of mad, irrational witch-like women characters.
From the following list pick the odd one out:
(A) Madge Wildfive
(B) Meg Murdockson
(C) Euphemia Deans
(D) Meg Merrilees
15. Joseph Addison called him “The Miracle of the present age” and
Alexander Pope wrote the epitaph for the monument erected in his memory. Who is
he?
(A) John Locke
(B) Isaac Newton
(C) Ashley Cooper
(D) Christopher Wren
16. The play was first performed in 1773. The author asked a friend “Did it make you
laugh?” and getting the answer “Exceedingly” said then that was all he required. He
used for plot a reputed experience of his own as a schoolboy when he lost his way
and asked to be directed to an inn but was shown the gateway to the local squire’s
house. Which play is this?
(A) Sheridan’s The Rivals
(B) Sheridan’s The School for Scandal
(C) Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer
(D) Goldsmith’s The Good Natured Man
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17. What is Johnson’s opinion regarding the “Violation” of the three unities in the
plays of Shakespeare?
I. Shakespeare should have followed the Unities.
II. Shakespeare followed the important Unity of Action satisfactorily.
III. Shakespeare’s plays suffered because they did not follow the Unities.
IV. Unity of Time and Place arise from false assumptions.
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct
18. The Tatler appeared thrice a week
(A) On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
(B) On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays
(C) On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
(D) On Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
19. “No man is truly great, who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is
the page of history. Nothing can be said to be great that has a distinct limit, or that
borders on something evidently greater than itself. Besides, what is shortlived and
pampered into mere notoriety, is of a gross and vulgar quality in itself.” This passage
describing the quality of greatness is taken from
(A) “Of studies” by Francis Bacon
(B) “The Indian Jugglers” by William Hazlitt
(C) Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
(D) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden
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20. In Blake’s “The Human Abstract”, the fragmented world of Experience is
symbolized in the image of the
(A) Caterpillar
(B) Fly
(C) Raven
(D) Fruit of Deceit
21. Here are sentences labelled Assertion (A) and Reason (R) : Assertion (A) : While
referring to Charlotte Bronte’s claim that she has excluded public interest from her
novels Graham Greene writes : ‘Public interest in her day was surely more separate
from public life… with us, however consciously unconcerned we are, it obtrudes
through the cracks of our stories terribly persistent like grass through cement’.
Reason (R) : The decade of the “thirties was bristling with recurring economic and
political crisis like the Great Depression, Wall Street Crash, Unemployment, rise of
Hitler and Mussolini, series of murders, invasions and tensions; writers could not
remain unaffected. In the light of (A) and (R) which of the following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
22. Match the titles of the books with their authors :
i. Psychology and Art Today
ii. Revolution in Writing
iii. The Coming Struggle for Power
iv. Arrow in the Blue
1. John Strachey
2. W.H. Auden
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3. C. Day Lewis
4. Arthur Koestler
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 1 2 4 3
23. George Meredith’s first novel was banned by Mudie’s Circulating Library for its
supposed moral offence. Identify the novel:
(A) The Egoist
(B) Evan Harrington
(C) Diana of the Crossways
(D) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
24. Match the titles of the following poems by Tennyson with their opening lines
according to the code given below:
(Titles of poems)
i. “Tithonus”
ii. “The Lotos- Eaters”
iii. ‘Ulysses’
iv. ‘The Lady of Shalott’
(Opening Lines)
1. “‘Courage’ he said, and pointed towards the land. The mounting wave will roll us
shoreward soon.”
2. “The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to
the ground.”
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3. “On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye.”
4. “It little profists that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race.”
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 4 3 1
25.Why are Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets called “From Sonnets from the
Portuguese”?
(A) She wrote the whole in Portugal
(B) The sonnets were translated from the Portuguese.
(C) She presented it under the guise of a translation from the Portuguese language.
(D) The sonnets were narrated by a Portuguese.
26. Yeast’s “Sailing to Byzantium” is about
(A) Irish Culture
(B) The art and culture of Byzantium in general
(C) Irish revolutionaries
(D) Regenerating the art and culture that existed in Byzantium
27. “She had _______ lilies in her hand And the stars in her hair were ______.”
(Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel”)
(A) 7 and 3
(B) 3 and 7
(C) 6 and 4
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(D) 4 and 6
28. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) Adam Bede – Wuthering Heights – North and South – Villette
(B) Wuthering Heights – Villete – North and South – Adam Bede
(C) Villettee – North and South – Wuthering Heights – Adam Bede
(D) North and South – Wuthering Heights – Adam Bede – Villette
29. In which of the following novels by canrod do the Gould couple and Decoud
appear as characters with Costaguana as the setting?
(A) Victory
(B) Under Western Eyes
(C) Nostromo
(D) The Nigger of the Narcissus
30. Match the following plays with their authors according to the code given below :
(Plays)
i. Heartbreak House
ii. Loyalties
iii. In the Jungle of Cities
iv. The Family Reunion
(Authors)
1. John Galsworthy
2. Bertolt Brecht
3. T.S. Eliot
4. George Bernard Shaw
Codes:
i ii iii iv
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(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 1 2 3
31. In November 1910 in an exhibition organized by Roger Fry, the paintings of three
painters were displayed. Identify the painters:
(A) Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell
(B) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin
(C) Matisse, Picasso, Braque
(D) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse
32. Why did Phaedra, wife of Theseus, commit suicide by hanging herself ?
(A) Theseus hated her
(B) Her stepson, Hippolytus rejected her love
(C) Hippolytus wanted to marry her
(D) She was lonely and depressed
33. Identify the poet in whose verse rural Ulster figures prominently
(A) Tony Harrison
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Seamus Heaney
(D) Louis MacNeice
34. Match the pairs of authors and their works according to the code given :
(Authors)
i. Alexander Dumas
ii. Honore de Balzac
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iii. Gustav Flaubert
iv. Marcel Proust
(Works)
1. Remembrance of Things Past
2. Madame Bovary
3. The Human Comedy
4. The Count of Monte Christo
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 1 2
35. Which of the following statements best applies to Anna Karenina ?
1. Among her most prominent qualities are her passionate spirit and determination
to live life on her own terms.
2. She accepts the exile to which she has been condemned.
3. She is a victim of Russian patriarchal system.
4. Anna is deeply devoted to her family and children.
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) 1 and 3 are correct
36. Match the pairs of authors and their works according to the code given :
(Authors)
i. Vladimir Nabokov
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ii. Italo Calvino
iii. Umberto Eco
iv. Emile Zola
(Works)
1. Germinal
2. Foucault’s Pendulum
3. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
4. Lolita
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 4 1 3
37.Which among the following plays by Aristophanes is an attack on ‘modern’
education and morals as imparted and taught by the radical intellectuals known as
The Sophists?
(A) Clouds
(B) Wasps
(C) Acharnians
(D) Knights
38. In which novel of Virginia Woolf does a painter in the act of painting actually
figure as a character?
(A) The Voyage Out
(B) The Waves
(C) Jacob’s Room
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(D) To the Lighthouse
39. Religious controversies in England particularly during the 15th century led to the
promotion of
(A) English prose
(B) The British Empire
(C) Naval power
(D) The Missionary Movement
40. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word from the list below : In his fiction, Ian
McEwan more than often suggests the _________ of love
(A) Fragility
(B) Madness
(C) Completeness
(D) Security
(Dramatists)
i. Arnold Wesker
ii. Harold Pinter
iii. Joe Orton
iv. Tom Stoppard
(Plays)
1. Jumpers
2. What the Butler Saw
3. The Room
4. Roots
Codes :
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(A) 3 2 4 1
(B) 1 2 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 4 3 1 2
42. Modern English emerged from the
(A) South Midland dialect
(B) East Midland dialect
(C) French language
(D) Northumbrian dialect
43. Most culinary terms in English are derived from
(A) Exotic cooking
(B) French cooking
(C) Native sources
(D) Arabic cooking
44. “Blended learning” is a mode of instruction/learning in which
(A) the learner’s mother tongue and the target language are blended
(B) learning is accessed through the mother tongue
(C) a variety of instructional modes are integrated
(D) learning of a language is mediated by humanistic approaches
45. ‘Risk-taking’ is one of the traits of a good
(A) language learner
(B) language teacher
(C) teacher of grammar rules
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(D) printer of books and authors
46. A teaching method advocated by Dr. Georgia Lozanav which is based on the
principle of ‘joy and easiness’ is called
(A) Suggesto paedia
(B) Total physical response
(C) The Direct Method
(D) The audio-lingual method
47. Albert Camus, in his essay, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ conveys :
1. The concept of Naturalism
2. The Absurdity of Human Existence
3. The Futility of all Human Endeavour
4. The concept of Existentialism
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(C) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
48. In The Portrait of a Lady Gilbert Osmond marries Isabel Archer because
1. Osmond wanted to get hold of Isabel’s property.
2. He loved her
3. Though he did not like her moral ideas about many things in life, he had hoped to
win her over.
4. He realized that her moral ideas were quite deep-rooted.
Find the correct combination according to the code:
(A) only 1 and 2 are correct
(B) only 1, 2 and 3 are correct
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(C) only 3 and 4 are correct
(D) only 1 is correct
49. Pick out the two relevant and correct descriptions of U.R. Ananthamurthy’s
Samskara.
1. The novel is written in English
2. The novel is concerned with the progressive ideas of the times.
3. The novel is set in Malgudi
4. The novel is a satire on the representatives of a decadent Brahmin society.
5. Samskara is a regional novel
6. Praneschacharya does not atone for his sin.
(C) 5 and 6 are correct
(D) 3 and 2 are correct
50. Willy in Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman compares Biff and
Happy to the mythic characters / figures
(A) Venus and Adonais
(B) Adonais and Hercules
(C) Jupiter and Hercules
(D) Venus and Hercules
Question Nos 51 to 55 are based on a poem.
Read the poem carefully and pick out the most appropriate answers. A Valediction
Forbidding Mourning My swirling wants, your frozen lips. The grammar turned and
attacked me. Themes, written under duress. Emptiness of the notations. They gave
me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds. I want you to see this before I leave :
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the experience of repetition as death the failure of criticism to locate the pain the
poster in the bus that said : my bleeding is under control A red plant in a cemetary of
plastic wreaths. A last attempt : the language is a dialect called metaphor. These
images go unglossed : hair, glacier, flashlight. When I think of a landscape I am
thinking of a time. When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. I could say: those
mountains have a meaning but further than that I could not say.To do something
very common, in my own way. Adrienne Rich
51. How does the poet suggest that the lover has not left ?
(A) The words “a last attempt” indicate that she is trying her best to leave.
(B) The words “before I leave” suggest that the speaker has not left yet.
(C) The speaker talks of a trip ‘forever’ which means she will never return.
(D) A drug she takes slows the healing of her wounds perhaps indicating that she
may be able to leave sometime in future.
52. Why does the speaker/lover in Rich’s poem plan to leave ?
I. Because her love has not been returned.
II. Because of the pain she has suffered in the relationship.
III. Because the lover has criticized her so much.
IV. Because though the pain has been located, the bleeding continues.
(B) I and IV are correct
(C) I, II and III are correct
53. What does Rich imply when she says “The grammar turned and attacked me” ?
(A) Language that has been used to hurt her.
(B) Her lover has beaten her.
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(C) The person she is leaving is not the source of pain but something else.
(D) The pain she has herself inflicted through language.
54. How would you compare Rich’s poem and Donne’s poem with the same title?
(A) Rich is recreating Donne’s poem
(B) Rich is eulogising Donne’s poem
(C) Rich’s poem is a scathing attack on Donne’s poem.
(D) Rich is defining Donne’s concept of love
55. What is the theme of the poem? Identify the false statement in the list below :
It is
(A) about the difficulty of actually saying goodbye.
(B) about not having the strength to leave though one might want to.
(C) about the pain suffered in relationship.
(D) a Classical love poem like Donne’s where the speaker dominates the addressee.
56. Why does Girish Karnad base his play Hayavadana on Thomas Mann’s
Transposed Heads?
(A) It is a mock-heroic transcription of the original Sanskrit tales.
(B) It is concerned with materialism.
(C) It deals with domestic strife.
(D) It deals with ancient times.
57. The collected poems of A.K. Ramanujan has been divided into four sections.
Arrange them in their chronological order:
(A) The striders – The Relations – Second Sight – the Black Hen
(B) The Relations – The Striders – The Black Hen – Second Sight
(C) Second Sight – The Relations – The Black Hen – Striders
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(D) The Black Hen – Second Sight – The Striders – The Relations
58. In one of her novels, Margaret Atwood demonstrated the potentially
‘Cannibalistic’ nature of human relationships. Identify the novel :
(A) Surfacing
(B) Lady Oracle
(C) Life Before Man
(D) The Edible Woman
59. Match the characters with the novels of Amitav Ghosh in which they appear
according to the code given below:
(Characters)
i. Fakir
ii. Tridip
iii. Rajkumar
iv. Murugan
(Novels)
1. The Glass Palace
2. The Hungry Tide
3. The Calcutta Chromosome
4. Shadow Lines
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 3 1 4
(D) 3 2 4 1
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60. Which of the following is not a play by Badal Sircar ?
(A) Bhooma
(B) Evam Indrajeet
(C) That Other History
(D) Agra Bazar
61. Who is the protagonist of Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence ?
(A) Mohan
(B) Jaya
(C) Rati
(D) Kamat
62. In Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain, Makak’s vision of freedom for
his people is
(A) through money
(B) through violence
(C) through black power
(D) through a decolonisation of the mind
63. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as
Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : To give a text an author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it
with a final signified, to close the writing.
Reason (R) : A text is made up of multiple meanings drawn from many sources, and
this multiplicity is focused on the reader.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct :
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
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(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Spivak sees the project of colonialism as characterized by what
Foucault had called ‘epistemic violence’, the imposition of a given set of beliefs over
another.
Reason (R): Spivak suggests that participation in the political process – access to
citizenship, becoming a voter – will help to mobilize the subaltern on “the long road
to hegemony.”
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct :
65. Match the following authors with their works from the given below :
(Authors)
i. Buchi Emecheta
ii. Ama Ata Aidoo
iii. Nadine Gordimer
iv. Nqugi Wa Thiongo
(Works)
1. Burger’s Daughter
2. Joy of Motherhood
3. Devil on the Cross
4. Our Sister Killjoy
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Codes :
i ii ii i iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 4 3 2 1
66. Match the following authors with their plays from the lists given below :
(Authors)
i. Langston Hughes
ii. Lorraine Hansberry
iii. Ed Bullins
iv. Amiri Baraka
(Plays)
1. Dutchman
2. Clara’s Ole Man
3. Don’t You want to be Free
4. Raisin in the Sun
Codes:
i i i iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
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67. Identify the critics and their respective works :
(A) Horace – Ars Poetica Aristotle – Poetics Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria Ben
Jonson – Discoveries Sidney – An Apology for Poetry Dryden – An Essay of
Dramatic Poesy
(B) Horace – Poetics Aristotle – Ars Poetica Quintillian – On the sublime Longinus –
Discoveries Ben Jonson – Institutio Oratoria Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
Dryden – An Apology for Poetry
(C) Horace – On the sublime Aristotle – Poetics Quintillian – Discoveries Longinus –
Institutio Oratoria Ben Jonson – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Sidney – Ars Poetica
Dryden – An Apology for Poetry
(D) Horace – Ars Poetica Aristotle – Poetics Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria
Longinus – On the Sublime Ben Jonson – An Apology for Poetry Sidney – An Essay of
Dramatic Poesy Dryden – Discoveries
68. Which of the following is not true of Imagist poetry ?
(A) The poet spreads his language across the page as though language were
sensation, to reproduce the mental effect of ‘image’.
(B) The image is itself an instrument of vision, or lens, as well as an expression of
imagination
(C) The imagist like a scientist learns from history and uses it, and like a scientist does
not deal in emotions.
(D) The new artist as scientist focuses vision through image as against the symbol
which resorts to reduction to simplicity.
69. Who among the following is not a myth critic ?
(A) Robert Graves
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Francis Fergusson
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(D) Northrop Frye
70. According to Northrop Frye there are four main narrative genres associated with
the seasonal cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
They are comedy, ________, tragedy and irony (satire). Which is the second one?
(A) Romance
(B) Epic
(C) Fiction
(D) Novel
Questions No. 71 – 75 are based on the following passage :
Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option. The town
belonging to the colonized people, or at least the native town, the negro village, the
medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of evil repute. They are
born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it matters not where, nor
how. The native town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of meat, of shoes, of coal,
of light. The native town is a crouching village, town on its knees, a town wallowing
in the mire. The look that the native turns on the settler is a look of lust, of envy….
The colonized man is an envious man. And this the settler knows very well… It is true,
for there is no native who does not dream atleast once a day of setting himself up in
the settler’s place.
(From Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of The Earth)
71. To Frantz Fanon, the ‘Negro’ village is
1. the worst face of apartheid
2. a protected area
3. a place of moral and physical degradation
4. a special village with its own amenities.
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(C) only 3 is correct
72. Why is the ‘native town’ a hungry town ?
1. it did not have agricultural farms
2. it did not have markets
3. the blacks were steeped in poverty
4. they were denied their fundamental rights by the Whites.
73. What does the term ‘crouching village’ indicate ?
1. The latent aggressiveness of the blacks
2. The defenselessness of the people
3. Hopelessness and despair
4. Overflowing filth
74. Why does the native look at the settler’s town with envy ?
1. it arises from a sense of desperation
2. he has no other option in his life
3. he wants to occupy a position of power.
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4. he wants to be the colonizer instead of the colonized.
(A) only 1 is correct
75. What is the settler’s attitude towards the blacks ?
1. the settler is not afraid
2. the settler considers the blacks to be harmless
3. the settler is contemptuous of the blacks.
4. the settler feels resentment because he knows that his position is never safe.
(A) only 1 is correct
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Answer Key (1-75)
1 All 11 A 21 A 31 B 41 C 51 B 61 B 71 A
2 A 12 C 22 C 32 B 42 B 52 C 62 D 72 B
3 A 13 C 23 All 33 C 43 B 53 A&D 63 B 73 C
4 C 14 C 24 A 34 A 44 C 54 A 64 B 74 B
5 A 15 B 25 C 35 D 45 A 55 D 65 B 75 C
6 A 16 C 26 D 36 B 46 A 56 A 66 A
7 C 17 B 27 B 37 A 47 B 57 A 67 A
8 C 18 A 28 B 38 D 48 All 58 D 68 C
9 A 19 B 29 C 39 A 49 A 59 A 69 B
10 A 20 D 30 D 40 A 50 B 60 D 70 A
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1. ____ the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Which word?
(A) Bird
(B) Immortal
(C) Forlorn
(D) Fancy
2. In poems like “The Altar” and “Easter Wings” ________ exploits _______.
(A) John Donne, alliteration
(B) Robert Herrick, trimetre
(C) G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm
(D) George Herbert, typographic space
3. No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours!
For what wears out the life of mortal men?
‘Tis that repeated shocks, again, again,
Exhaust the energy of strongest souls
And numb the elastic powers …
Who does the poet address here?
(A) The Scholar Gipsy
(B) Telemachus
(C) The Nightingale
(D) The Poet’s Sister, Dorothy
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4. The roman a clef (French for “novel with a key”) uses contemporary historical
figures as its chief characters. They are of course given fictional names. One example
is Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point. Its Mark Rampion is modelled on M_______.
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) E.M. Forster
(C) Wyndham Lewis
(D) Arnold Bennett
5. She was a worthy woman al hir lyve,
Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde fyve,
In the ‘Prologue’ Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as:
I. crude and vulgar
II. outspoken and boastfully licentious
III. a witness to masculine oppression
IV. bubbling with vitality
(A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) I, III and IV are correct.
(D) II, III and IV are correct.
6. The novel tells the story of twin brothers, Waldo, the man of reason and intellect,
and Arthur, the innocent half-wit, the way their lives are inextricably intertwined.
Which is the novel?
(A) The Tree of Man
(B) Voss
(C) The Solid Mandala
(D) The Vivisector
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7. Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club?
(A) Thomas Parnell
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Joseph Addison
(D) John Gay
8. _______ is a theological term brought into literary criticism by _______.
(A) Entelechy, St. Augustine
(B) Ambiguity, William Empson
(C) Adequation, Fr Walter Ong
(D) Epiphany, James Joyce
9. ________ the Almighty Power Hurled headlong �aming from th’ Ethereal Sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent to Arms.
(Paradise Lost, I.44-49.)
Choose the appropriate word:
(A) Him
(B) He
(C) Satan
(D) The Fiend
10. Which of the following works does not have a mad woman as a character in it?
(A) The Yellow Wallpaper
(B) The Mad Woman in the Attic
(C) Jane Eyre
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(D) Wide Sargasso Sea
11. Which of the following is NOT a quest narrative?
(A) Shelley’s Alastor
(B) Byron’s Manfred
(C) Coleridge’s Christabel
(D) Keats’s Endymion
12. The novel has a scene where African American students are made to compete
and fight with each other as they rush for the gold coins tossed on an electric
blanket. Identify the novel.
(A) Richard Wright: Native Son
(B) James Baldwin: Another Country
(C) Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
(D) Toni Morrison: Bluest Eye
13. G.M. Hopkins’s “Windhover” is dedicated:
(A) To Christ, our Lord
(B) To Christ our lord
(C) To no one
(D) To Christ, the Lord
14. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:
i. Ted Hughes
ii. Seamus Heaney
iii. W.H. Auden
iv. D.H. Lawrence
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List – II (Poems)
1. “The Otter”
2. “Snake”
3. “Ghost Crabs”
4. “Prevent the Dog from Barking with a Juicy Bone.”
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 2 3 1 4
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4
15. His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot;
Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.
Who is this character whose stinginess passed into a proverb?
(A) Corah
(B) Shimei
(C) Zimri
(D) Achitophel
16. “The story and the novel, the idea and the form, are the needle and thread, and I
never heard of a guild of tailors who recommended the use of the thread without the
needle, or the needle without the thread.”
This famous passage describing the relation of idea to form is found in
(A) Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
(B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
(C) Henry James, “The Art of Fiction”
(D) I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism
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17. Identify the correctly matched set below:
(A) The Norman Conquest – 1066
William Caxton and the introduction of printing – 1575
The King James Bible – 1611
Dr. Johnson’s English Dictionary – 1755
The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate – 1649-1660
(B) The Norman Conquest – 1066
(C) The Norman Conquest – 1016
William Caxton and the introduction of printing- 1475
Dr. Johnson’s English Dictionary -1780
(D) The Norman Conquest – 1013
18. Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is
(A) a Great War veteran
(B) a Dublin bar owner
(C) a Jewish advertising agent
(D) an Irish nationalist
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19. “Late capitalism”, by which is meant accelerated technological development and
the massive extension of intellectually qualified labour, was first popularised by
______.
(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Ernst Mandel
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Stanley Fish
20. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?
(A) Native Son by Richard Wright – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Their Eyes Were
Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston – Another Country by James Baldwin
(B) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston – Native Son by Richard
Wright – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Another Country by James Baldwin
(C) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Native Son by Richard Wright – Another
Country by James Baldwin – Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston
(D) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston – Another Country by
James Baldwin – Native Son by Richard Wright – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
21. Metaphor is so widespread that it is often used as an umbrella term to include
other figures of speech such as metonyms which can be technically distinguished
from it in its narrower usage.
Identify the metaphorical phrase in this sentence:
(A) narrower usage
(B) technically distinguished
(C) figures of speech
(D) umbrella term
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22. Along the shore of silver streaming Thames;
Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,
Was painted all with variable flowers,…
Fit to deck maidens’ bowers
And crown their paramours
Against their bridal day, which is not long;
Sweet Thames! run softly till I end my song.
(Spenser’s Prothalamion)
Another poet fondly recalls these lines but cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone in:
(A) Marianne Moore’s “Spenser’s Ireland”
(B) Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song”
(C) W.H. Auden’s “In Praise of Limestone”
(D) T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land
23. The tramp in Pinter’s first big hit,
The Caretaker, often travels under an assumed name. It is
(A) Bernard Jenkins
(B) Roly Jenkins
(C) Jack Jenkins
(D) Peter Jenkins
24. Here is a list of early English plays imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the odd
one out:
(A) Gorboduc
(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Ralph Roister Doister
(D) Gammer Gurton’s Needle
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25. Where does Act I Scene 1 of William Congreve’s Way of the World open?
(A) A Chocolate-House
(B) A Pub
(C) A Carrefour
(D) The drawing room of Sir Willfull’s mansion
26. While “a well-boiled icicle” for “a well-oiled bicycle” is an example of
Spoonerism, someone saying “Congenital food” for ‘Continental food’ is an example
of ______.
(A) Malaproprism
(B) Pleonasm
(C) Neologism
(D) Archaism
27. It is unimaginable that all the following events happened in one year:
1. Arthur Evans discovered the first European civilization; his excavations in Crete
revealed a culture that was far older than either Attic Greece or Ancient Rome.
2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published the Oxford Book of English Verse.
3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train at Gare d’ Orsay, Paris.
4. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.
5. Hugo de Vries identified what would later come to be called genes.
6. Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams.
7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain.
Identify the year:
(A) 1899
(B) 1900
(C) 1901
(D) 1903
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28. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.
This is the epigraph to
(A) T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”
(B) Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would be the King”
(C) George Eliot’s Silas Marner
(D) E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End
29. Robert Graves’s “In Broken Images” ends thus:
He in a new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion.
The figure of speech here is _______.
(A) Chiasmus
(B) Catachresis
(C) Inversion
(D) Zeugma
30. The phrase “leaves dancing” is an example of ________.
(A) pathetic fallacy
(B) hyperbole
(C) pun
(D) conceit
31. At the end of The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway observes:
“They were careless people”. Who were they?
(A) Tom and Daisy
(B) The Wilsons
(C) Gatsby and his friends
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(D) The people of East Egg
32. William Wordsworth’s statement of purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads
carries the following phrase. (Complete the phrase correctly). “to choose incidents
from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible,
______.”
(A) in a selection of language really used by men.
(B) in a relation to language really used by men.
(C) in a selection of language really used by common man.
(D) in deference to language actually used by men.
List – I (Novels)
i. Lord Jim
ii. To the Lighthouse
iii. A Passage to India
iv. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
List – II (Last lines)
1. ‘It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought laying down her brush in extreme
fatigue, I have had my vision.’
2. ‘April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead…’
3. ‘He feels it himself and says often that he is “preparing to leave all this;
preparing to leave,…”, while he waves his hands sadly at his butterflies.’
4. ‘ “No not yet,” and the sky said, “No, not there”.’
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 4 3 1
(B) 3 2 4 1
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(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 2 3 1 4
34. Identify the incorrect description/s of “Sprung Rhythm” from the following:
1. This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our minds – hence Sprung Rhythm.
2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal length.
3. A foot may have one to four syllables in Sprung Rhythm.www.netugc.com
4. Its metre is derived from the metre of Anglo-Saxon poetry which was based on
accent and linked by alliteration.
(A) 4 is incorrect.
(B) 1 & 4 are incorrect.
(C) 3 is incorrect.
(D) 1 is incorrect.
35. Who among the following proposes that the unconscious comes into being only
in language?
(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Stuart Hall
(D) Paul de Man
36. The Elizabethan Settlement established during the reign of Elizabeth I
I. ensured the supremacy of the Church of England.
II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the authority of the Pope.
III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be part of the Anglican church.
IV. created a group known as the Roundheads.
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and III are correct.
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(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
37. Which of the following poems by Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and
death?
(A) “The Beggar Maid”
(B) “The Lotus-Eaters”
(C) “Ulysses”
(D) “Tithonus”
38. One English poet addressing another:
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life’s common way,
In cheerful godliness….
Whose lines are these? To whom are they addressed?
(A) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats
(B) P.B. Shelley – William Blake
(C) William Wordsworth – John Milton
(D) Ben Jonson – William Shakespeare
39. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of Poets (1781) was originally a series of introductions to
the poets he wrote for a group of London publishers. They were collected as:
(A) Lives of English Poets: Critical and Biographical Essays.
(B) Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of English Poets.
(C) Notes, Biographical and Critical, on the Works of English Poets.
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(D) Lives of English Poets: Biographical and Critical Notes.
40. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Northrop Frye’s four ‘generic plots’?
(A) The comic
(B) The tragic
(C) The lyric
(D) The ironic
41. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land in the order in which they appear in the
poem:
1. The Fire Sermon
2. Death by Water
3. A Game of Chess
4. What the Thunder Said
5. The Burial of the Dead
(A) 3, 2, 1, 5, 4
(B) 5, 1, 2, 3, 4
(C) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4
(D) 5, 3, 1, 2, 4
42. Sir Plume is a character in ____
(A) Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
(B) Congreve’s The Way of the World
(C) Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
(D) Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Strategem
43. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady Macbeth calls on ______ to “unsex me here”.
(Macbeth I.5.39)
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Choose the right option to _ll in the blank:
(A) God
(B) the spirits of hell
(C) the angels in heaven
(D) no one in particular
44. You will find the following lines in an English poem:
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the side
Of Humber would complain.
Which poem? Who is the poet?
(A) “Lonely Hearts.” Wendy Cope
(B) “Holy Thursday.” William Blake
(C) “Tiger Mask Ritual.” Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
(D) “To His Coy Mistress.” Andrew Marvell
45. Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Whose lines are these? To whom are they addressed?
(A) John Keats. The Nightingale
(B) P.B. Shelley. The Skylark
(C) William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley
(D) Robert Browning. The Grammarian
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List – I (Novel)
i. Dombey and Son
ii. The Return of the Native
iii. Bleak House
iv. Tess
List – II (Major symbol)
1. fog
2. train
3. heath
4. mist
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 1 3 4 1
47. The following postmodernist novel has an unusual protagonist whose gender is
not revealed. So much so, that we keep wondering whether that person’s
relationships are homo /hetero-sexual:
(A) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(B) English Music
(C) Written on the Body
(D) Enduring Love
48. Which novel of Graham Greene in the following list does NOT end in some form
of suicide by the protagonist?
(A) The Heart of the Matter
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(B) England Made Me
(C) Brighton Rock
(D) The Power and the Glory
49. Who among the following gave a happy ending to King Lear?
(A) James Quin
(B) Nahum Tate
(C) Peg Wo�ngton
(D) Charles Macklin
50. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice starts with the famous statement: “It is a truth
universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be
in want of a life.”
As we get to read the novel this statement seems to be made from the point of view
of:
I. the surrounding families
II. Mrs Bennet
III. Mr Bennet
IV. The women of Jane Austen’s age and society
Find out the correct combination according to the code:
(C) II, III and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
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Answer Key (1-50)
Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 C 11 C 21 C& D 31 A 41 D
2 D 12 C 22 D 32 A 42 C
3 A 13 A&B 23 A 33 C 43 B
4 A 14 C 24 B 34 D 44 D
5 B 15 B 25 A 35 B 45 B
6 C 16 C 26 A 36 A 46 A
7 C 17 B 27 B 37 A 47 C
8 D 18 B 28 B 38 C 48 B
9 A 19 B 29 A 39 B 49 B
10 B 20 B 30 A 40 C 50 B
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1. In which of the following novels Harikatha is strategically used as a medium of
‘consciousness raising’?
(A) Waiting for the Mahatma
(B) The Serpent and the Rope
(C) A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Kanthapura
2. Identify the text in the following list which offers a fictionalized survey of English
Literature from Elizabethan times to 1928:
(A) E.M. Forster, the Eternal Moment
(B) Virginia Woolf, Orlando
(C) Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
(D) David Jones, In Parenthesis
i. John Ruskin
ii. Henry Mayhew
iii. Sir Charles Lyell
iv. Sir James George Frazer
1. London Labour and the London Poor
2. The Golden Bough
3. Unto The Last
4. The Principles of Geology
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
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(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
4. Which of the following poems DOES NOT begin in the first person pronoun?
(A) Shelley’s “Adonais”
(B) Byron’s “Don Juan”
(C) Keats’s “Lamia”
(D) Coleridge’s ‘The Aeolian Harp’
5. In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton proposes the following two principal
kinds:
I. Love
II. Death
III. Spiritual
IV. Religious
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
6. Listed below are some English journals widely read by professionals: Screen, Critical
Quarterly, Review of English, Wasafiri. One of the above founded by C.B. Cox, and now
being edited by Colin MacCabe, carries not only critical and scholarly essays in English
Studies but reviews film, culture, language and contemporary political issues. Identify
the journal:
(A) Wasafiri
(B) Screen
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(C) Critical Quarterly
(D) Review of English Studies
7. In Marvell’s “A Dialogue between Soul and Body”, who/which of the following has
the last word?
(A) Body
(B) God
(C) Soul
(D) Satan
8. In Blake’s poem “A Poison Tree” the speaker’s anger grows and becomes________.
(A) A cherry
(B) An apple
(C) An orange
(D) A rose
Reason (R):
Assertion (A): For deconstructive critics how human beings read and interpret signs
they receive will determine their modes of knowing and being, whether those signs
come in the form of literary texts or bank statements.
Reason (R): The fact of the matter is that human beings use signs to function in the
world and are always likely to do so.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct?
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10. Ian McEwan’s Saturday spans one day in the life of
(A) A divorce lawyer
(B) An ageing pianist
(C) A London neurosurgeon
(D) A famous poet
11. “Open Forum” as applied to poetry, is the same as ________. It is poetry that is not
written according to traditional fixed patterns. (Fill up)
(A) Blank verse
(B) Concrete poetry
(C) L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poetry
(D) Free verse
12. The author of the book observes “I have attempted, through the medium of
biography, to present some Victorian visions to the modern eye”. The four main
characters in this book are Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold and
General Gordon. Who is this author?
(A) Mathew Arnold
(B) Robert Browning
(C) Lytton Strachey
(D) Oscar Wilde
13. In his attack delivered on the theatre in A Short View of the Immorality and
Profaneness of the English Stage, Jeremy Collier specially arraigned ______ and _______.
(A) Congreve and Vanbrugh
(B) Farquhar and Vanbrugh
(C) Wycherley and Farquhar
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(D) Congreve and Etherege
14. I.A. Richards’ Practical Criticism (1929) inaugurated a new phase in the history of
English critical thought. What was this book’s subtitle?
(A) Studies in Poetry
(B) A Study in Literary Judgement
(C) Essays and Studies
(D) A Theoretical Guide
(A) The Castle of Otranto – Melmoth the Wanderer – The Monk – The Mysteries of
Udolpho
(B) The Castle of Otranto – The Mysteries of Udolpho – The Monk – Melmoth the
Wanderer
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho – The Castle of Otranto – The Monk – Melmoth the
Wanderer
(D) Melmoth the Wanderer – The Castle of Otranto – The Mysteries of Udolpho –
The Monk
16. Select from among the following plays, the one that best suits the description
below:
I. Alyque Padamsee invited its author to write it.
II. The play had communalism as its theme.
III. This play was banned from the Deccan Herald Theatre Festival for dealing with a
sensitive issue.
IV. The play, however, was produced by Playpen in Bangalore on July 1993. The play is
_______.
(A) Dance like a Man
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(B) Where there’s a Will
(C) Final Solutions
(D) The Wisest Fool on Earth
17. I have known three generations of John Smiths. The type breeds true.
John Smith II and III went to the same school, university and learned profession as John
Smith I. Yet John Smith I wrote pseudo-Swinburne; John Smith II wrote pseudo-Brooke;
and John Smith III is now writing pseudo-Eliot. But unless John Smith can write John
Smith, however unfashionable the result, why does he bother to write at all? Surely
one Swinburne; one Brooke, and one Eliot are enough in any age?
(Robert Graves, “The Poet and his Public”)
1. Graves is critical of blind adulation and imitation of successful poets.
2. Graves is critical of blind conformity to standards set by Swinburne, Brooke, and
Eliot.
3. Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot represent the movements: Decadence, the Georgian,
and Modernist respectively.
4. The poets in question are Algernon Charles Swinburne, Stopford Brooke, and
Thomas Stearns Eliot.
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) Only 4 is incorrect.
(C) Only 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) Only 3 is incorrect.
18. During the colonial era, the British used to call the Indian Languages vernaculars.
We do not use this word for our bhashas because:
I. we consider English to be equally vernacular.
II. verna is, literally a home-born slave.
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III. Not all Indian languages are languages of the Indo-European family, and therefore
not all vernacular.
IV. the natives of India were never slaves.
(A) IV
(B) II and IV
(C) III
(D) I and III
19. More’s Utopia displays strong influence of
I. The Arthurian legends
II. Plato’s Republic
III. Amerigo Vespucci’s account of the travels
IV. The teachings of John Wycliffe
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
20. By ‘language transfer’ is meant
(A) Knowledge generated in the development of a learner on account of other domains
of knowledge.
(B) The carryover of rules of the mother tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic system
to the Second language in question.
(C) The carryover of rules of the Second language syntax, phonology, or semantic
system to the mother tongue in question.
(D) The vocabulary and sentence structure transferred haphazardly during Second
language acquisition from any other language accessed by the learner.
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21. Which of the following descriptions is NOT true of Peter Carey’s The True History
of the Kelly Gang?
(A) It is an epistolary novel.
(B) It has such characters as Edward Kelly, his mother, and his wife.
(C) It is also about the Bush and the frontier.
(D) The novel is dedicated to Edward Kelly’s father.
22. Identify the poem that opens with the lines:
I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies; the children learn to cipher and to sing …
(A) “Among the Schoolchildren”
(B) “Among School Children”
(C) “A Man Young and Old”
(D) “The Man Young and Old”
23. Which of the following statements is NOT true of Foucault’s position in History of
Sexuality?
(A) Modern sexuality is produced through and as discourse.
(B) The proliferation of modern discourses of sexuality is more striking than their
suppression.
(C) To write historically about sexuality involves increasingly direct, immediate
knowledge or understanding of an unchanging sexual essence.
(D) Modern sexuality is intimately entangled with the historically distinctive contexts
and structures now called ‘knowledge’.
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24. The following is an exchange between two characters, husband and wife, in a
famous play. The lines appear at the very end of an emotionally-charged sequence of
the last scene:
“… I’ve stopped believing in miracles.”
“But I’ll believe. Tell me!
Transform ourselves to the point that ….?”
“That our living together could be a true marriage.”
(She goes out down the hall.)
Which play? Name the characters.
(A) Othello. Othello, Desdemona
(B) Sure Thing. Bill, Betty
(C) A Doll’s House. Helmer, Nora
(D) Death of a Salesman. Willy, Linda
25. The following statements relate to the early history of the English language. Identify
the set that gives INCORRECT statements:
1. English has borrowed words such as sky, give, law, and leg from Norse.
2. English has also borrowed some pronouns like they, their, them from Norse.
3. In grammar, Modern English is much more highly inflected than Old English.
4. After the Norman Conquest, French became the language of the court, the language
of nobility and polite society, and literature.
5. Following the Norman Conquest, French virtually replaced English as the language
of the people.
6. Among the French words that came into English are: study, logic, grammar, noun,
etc.
(A) 1, 2, 3
(B) 3, 5
(C) 4, 5, 6
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(D) 2, 4
26. Choices of linguistic forms in using a language, or how a language is actually
spoken/written, especially one that differs from its prescribed grammar, is called
(A) Utterance
(B) Use
(C) Usage
(D) Deviation
27. Jamaica Kincaid’s narrative A Small Place
(A) Is all about learning Farsi and meeting young people in modern Iran.
(B) Is an essay that discusses the politics of tourism and other neo-colonial modes of
foreign intervention?
(C) Isa collection of tiny narratives about gender relations and includes stories
concerning the Sumerian goddess Inanna.
(D) A novella that looks unblinkingly at marital ceremonies and maternity inAntigua.
28. Identify the correctly-matched poets and their works from the following:
(A) Nissim Ezekiel-Hymns in Darkness, Kamala Das – The Sirens, R. Parthasarthy –
Rough Passage, A.K. Ramanujan – The Striders
(B)Nissim Ezekiel – The Striders, Kamala Das – Rough Passage, R. Parthasarthy –
Hymns in Darkness, A.K. Ramanujan – The Sirens
(C) Nissim Ezekiel – The Sirens, Kamala Das – Hymns in Darkness, R. Parthasarthy– The
Striders, A.K. Ramanujan– Rough Passage
(D) Nissim Ezekiel – Rough Passage, Kamala Das – The Striders, R. Parthasarthy –
The Striders, A.K. Ramanujan – Hymns in Darkness
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29. William Wordsworth had a deep influence on Thomas Hardy. According to Hardy
a particular poem by Wordsworth was his ‘best cure for despair’.
Which is that poem?
(A) “Michael”
(B) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(C) “The Idiot Boy”
(D) “The Leechgatherer”
30. In Henry James’s Ambassadors, there is a character who never appears in the novel.
We get to know about this significant person, however, from the other characters. Who
is this character?
(A) Maria Gostrey
(B) Madame de Vionette
(C) Mrs. Newsome
(D) Mrs. Sarah Pocock
31.Why are Scott’s novels called “Waverley Novels”?
(A) His novels are all set in Waverley.
(B) The Waverley Castle has a significant role in his novels.
(C) Waverley (in his first novel of that name) is a model hero for the protagonists of
Scott’s novels.
(D) Scott started his novel-writing career in his 43rd year with the novel, Waverley.
32. Which of these descriptions/ statements best suits the idea of the ‘Renaissance
Man’?
I. A fop, a scoundrel, who enjoys enormous power in Renaissance courts and
aristocratic families.
II. A near-mythical figure: a knight, courtier, musician, poet, scholar and Statesman.
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III. One who ploughs a lonely furrow and keeps away from politicking and scandals.
IV. Someone like Sir Philip Sydney best suits the ideal of the Renaissance Man.
(A) I
(B) IV
(C) I & III
(D) II & IV
33. Maxim Gorky, the Great Russian writer of fiction and drama, was in real life a man
called ______.
(A) Goliardic Kreshkov
(B) Ronsardo Felixikov
(C) Malthias Serpieri
(D) Aleksei Peshkov
34. After the prediction of the oracle that he was destined to kill his father,
Oedipus could have avoided patricide
I. Had he not determined in horror never to return to the only parents he knew.
II. Had he been a man of unusual self-control.
III. Had he remembered the prediction and had he been more cautious having
recognized that possibly after all Polybos was not his father.
IV. Had he never struck any man who was older than himself saying at the moment of
provocation ‘This insolent man is grey-haired; let him have the road’?
(C) I, III and IV are correct.
(D) II, III and IV are correct.
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35. Identify the Post-Apartheid novel by Nadine Gordimer.
(A) The Conservationist
(B) The House of Gun
(C) The Lying Days
(D) Burger’s Daughter
36. The Duchess of Malfi married her steward, Antonio. For the Elizabethan audience
her marriage was a triple offence. Which of the following is NOT one?
(A) She was a widow marrying a second time.
(B) She married on her own outside the Church.
(C) She married beneath her status in disregard of ‘degree’.
(D) She married against the wishes of her brothers who almost acted like her guardians.
37. Who among the following has written the essay, “The Indian Jugglers”?
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Thomas de Quincey
(D) Thomas Love Peacock
38. How would you best describe George Meredith’s Modern Love (1862)?
(A) A ballad
(B) A lyric travelogue
(C) A verse romance
(D) A sonnet sequence
39. The play was written in 1881 when its author was in Italy. This is considered to be
his most remarkable intellectual effort. The softening of the brain as a result of a
disease inherited from his father is the subject.
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Which is the play?
(A) An Enemy of the People
(B) Ghosts
(C) Rhinoceros
(D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
40. In many ways, grammatical categories remain mysterious. What does it mean to
speak a language that in every sentence requires you to locate yourself in time, or
specify your source of knowledge, or the shape of what you are talking about? We still
don’t know. But putting the question like this suggests a clear and limited way of
interpreting the idea that different languages represent different worlds. Which of the
following statements on this passage interprets it most accurately?
(A) The passage reflects the unreliability of grammatical categories of a language
generally.
(B) The passage concedes that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis cannot be discounted
entirely.
(C) The passage upholds the reliability of grammatical categories of a language
generally.
(D) The passage suggests that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is largely discredited today.
41. Tolstoy’s War and Peace carries a lengthy discussion of determinism and free will
in ________.
(A) Its prologue
(B) An exchange between Pierre and Natasha
(C) An exchange between Nikolai Rostof and Princess Bezukhoi
(D) Its epilogue
42. Which from among the following is NOT true of Nagmandala?
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(A) It does not have multiple narratives.
(B) It is open-ended.
(C) It combines conventional and subversive modes.
(D) Story is personified in the play.
43. Arrange the following literary journals chronologically:
(A) The London Magazine
the Quarterly Review
Blackwood’s Magazine
the Saturday Review
theTatler
(B) The Tatler
the Saturday Review
the London Magazine
(C) The Quarterly Review
the Tatler
the Saturday Review
the London Magazine
(D) The Tatler
the London Magazine
the Saturday Review
44. Pick out the two relevant and correct descriptions of Caryl Churchill’s
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Serious Money (1987):
1. This play proposes the foundation of a monastery for the education of British
gentlewomen.
2. This narrative deals with children who are sick of their “enforced idleness.”
3. This play is subtitled “City Comedy.”
4. In this play, the state of the British economy is symbolized by a takeover bid by an
international cartel.
5. This narrative details the adventures of an Anglo-Indian orphan.
6. Money is the only criterion for success for the players in this play’s sharemarket.
(A) 1 and 6 are correct.
(B) 2 and 5 are correct.
(C) 4 and 6 are correct.
(D) 5 and 6 are correct.
45. Identify from among the following FALSE statements:
1. Eric Arthur Blair became the famous British novelist, George Orwell.
2. Orwell was conversant in Hindustani and fond of Indian food.
3. Young Eric Blair lived in Myanmar’s trading town, Katha.
4. This town gave him the model for the fictional district of Kyauktada in Burmese Days.
5. Orwell was born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, Bihar.
6. The Orwell Commemorative Committee in Motihari has been demanding a
restoration of Orwell’s birthplace as a heritage site.
7. Orwell never returned to his birth place.
8. The British journalist Ian Jack was mainly responsible for our knowledge of Orwell’s
antecedents relating to Katha and Motihari.
(A) 2, 4, 8 are false.
(B) 7 and 8 are false.
(C) 3, 6 and 8 are false.
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(D) All statements above are true.
46. Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of the common reader from Dr. Johnson. To
which particular work of Johnson’s does she remain indebted?
(A) The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; the essay on Milton
(B) The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; the essay onGray
(C) Preface to Shakespeare
(D) The Patriot
47. J.M. Coetzee was the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice.
He won the prize for
(A) Life and Times of Michael K. and Disgrace
(B) Dusklands and Disgrace
(C) Foe and Elizabeth Costello
(D) Age of Iron and Disgrace
48. After the Norman Conquest England became a three-language nation for at least
two centuries. The three languages were
(A) English, French and German
(B) English, Latin and German
(C) English, French and Latin
(D) English, French and Greek
49. Here are sentences labelled Assertion (A) and Reason (R):
Assertion (A): In who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? George and Martha’s blue and green-
eyed son is a myth.
Reason (R): He is a creation of the couple’s imagination originating from their sense of
sterility and vacuum in life.
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In the light of (A) and (R), which of the following is correct?
50. In the word rapidly, ‘ly’ is an adverbial sufix indicating manner while rapid is a ______,
ly is a ____.
(A) Word, wordling
(B) Morpheme, morpheme-bit
(C) Free morpheme, bound-morpheme
(D) Full morpheme, half-morpheme
Question Nos. 51 to 55 is based on a poem. Read the poem carefully and pick out the
most appropriate answers.
It’s Your Own Fault Of course you can play with them. There’s no harm in them.
They are only words. Words alone are certain good, said someone. And someone also
said unlike sticks and stones Words will never break your bones. (That is called rhyme.
A rhyme is nice to play with too from time to time.) What? They’ve turned nasty?
They’ve clawed you and bitten you? Dear me, there’s blood all over the place. And
broken bones .They were perfectly tame when I left them. Something they ate might
have disagreed with them. You mean you fed them on meaning? No wonder then. –
D.J. Enright
51. The poet’s remark on ‘rhyme’ is _____.
(A) Put in parenthesis
(B) Put in parentheses
(C) Framed rhetorically
(D) Put in apposition
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52. The poem is cast in the form of a ______.
(A) Romantic lyric
(B) Verse epistle
(C) Dramatic monologue
(D) Dialogue
53. What is the “fault” to which the speaker refers here?
(A) Playing with words
(B) Using only words
(C) Taking words too seriously
(D) Reading meanings into words
54. What tone is most appropriate for reading this poem?
(A) Evasive
(B) Plaintive
(C) Ironic
(D) Sarcastic
55. “No wonder then.” Explain.
(A) No wonder that the words here begin to mean.
(B) No wonder that you now find the words menacing.
(C) No wonder that the words find you menacing.
(D) No wonder the words still mean and are tame.
56. “Nothing odd will do long. ______ did not last long.” Dr. Johnson had this to say
about one of the eighteenth century novels. Identify it from the following list:
(A) Tom Jones
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(B) The Female Quixote
(C) Tristram Shandy
(D) Clarissa
57. Identify the sonnet upon sonnet by William Wordsworth:
(A) “London, 1802”
(B) “The world is too much with us…”
(C) “Friend! I know not which way…”
(D) “Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room…”
58. Who among the following women writers has written Novel on Yellow Paper?
(A) Elizabeth Smither
(B) Stevie Smith
(C) Zulu Sofola
(D) Gita Mehta
59. In most people, the first language / dialect acquired is ‘mother tongue’.
Among the commonly used terms for mother tongue, one of the following is avoided.
Identify the one term NOT applied to mother tongue:
(A) First language
(B) Prime language
(C) Native language
(D) Primary language
60. Identify the group of critical concepts that parenthetically aligns them with their
respective theorists:
(A) The Carnivalesque (Jean Baudrillard), Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur
(Walter Benjamin), Chora (Gayatri C. Spivak), Simulacrum / Simulacra (Antonio
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Gramsci), The Subaltern (Mikhael Bakhtin), Metahistory (Walter Benjamin), Aura
(Julia Kristeva), Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio Gramsci)
(B) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur (Walter Benjamin), Chora (Julia Kristeva),
Simulacrum / Simulacra (Jean Baudrillard), the Subaltern (Gayatri C. Spivak)
Metahistory (Hayden White), Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio
Gramsci)
(C) Habitus (Julia Kristeva), Flaneur (Walter Benjamin), Chora (Pierre Bourdieu),
Simulacrum / Simulacra (Hayden White), The Subaltern (Gayatri C. Spivak),
Metahistory (Jean Baudrillard), Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio
Gramsci)
(D) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur (Antonio Gramsci), Chora (Julia Kristeva),
Simulacrum / Simulacra (Jean Baudrillard), The Subaltern (Gayatri C. Spivak),
Metahistory (Hayden White), Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony (Walter
Benjamin)
61. What was the mandate of the Stationer’s Company incorporated in London in
1557?
(A) To oversee the affairs of the Royal Registry.
(B) To oversee authors’ and printers’, or printer-publishers’ rights.
(C) To oversee authors’ and printers’ or printer-publishers’ use of stationery.
(D) To oversee the quality of stationery harnessed by the Royal Registry.
62. One of the following was described by its author as “a poem including history.”
Identify the poem.
(A) Robert Lowell, Life Studies
(B) William Carlos Williams, Paterson
(C) Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel
(D) Ezra Pound, the Cantos
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63. Arrange the following groups of English writers in chronological order:
(A) The Metaphysical poets
The High Modernists
Transitional poets
The Georgians
the Aesthetes
the University Wits
(B) The University Wits
the Metaphysical poets
Transitional poets
The Aesthetes
The Georgians
the High Modernists
(C) The High Modernists
the Georgians
the Aesthetes
Transitional poets
The Metaphysical poets
The University Wits
(D) The University Wits
the Metaphysical poets
The Aesthetes
Transitional poets
The Georgians
the High Modernists
64. Which Bible is the earliest English version printed with verse divisions?
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(A) Tyndale’s Translation
(B) The Geneva Bible
(C) The Douay-Rheims Version
(D) King James Version
65. E.M. Forster’s Passage to India begins with a description of the city of Chandrapore.
It has an old Indian part and a new part consisting of the British civil station. Which of
the following descriptions of the city is not found in the text?
(A) The streets are mean, the temples ineffective.
(B) It is a city of gardens.
(C) It is a tropical pleasaunce washed by a noble river.
(D) The new civil station is not sensibly planned and not modern.
66. In which of the following books would you find the following arguments /
observations? Escapist fiction lacks serious fiction’s apocalyptic experience of finality.
The two versions of literary experience are qualitatively different; every novel fits one
category or the other, not both. Serious fiction, however, compels our attention by
representing improvements (the “world of potency”) as being achieved (a “world of
act”) and by showing narrative movement “through time to an end, an end, we must
sense even if we cannot know it.”
(A) Sincerity and Authenticity
(B) The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
(C) Beyond the Apocalypse
(D) The Rhetoric of Fiction
67. Philip Larkin’s “The Whitsun Weddings”
I. describes a long train journey
II. Establishes a ‘we’ voice of collective outlook
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III. Traces the disfigurement of a sunny landscape on an advertising poster
IV. Gives an account of a drug pusher
(D) II and III are correct.
68. Match the last lines of the poems with their correct titles:
List – I
1. “Death, be not proud…”
2. “The Great Lover”
3. “Dover Beach”
4. “To His Coy Mistress”
I. And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and
fight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
II. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.
III. One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more; death, thou
shall die.
IV. This one last gift I give: that after men shall know, and later lovers, farremoved,
Praise you, “All these were lovely;” say, “He loved.”
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 2 1 4 1
(D) 1 2 3 4
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69. The Oxford Companions are handy reference volumes for teachers and students of
English. Identify the one volume that has NOT yet appeared in this series:
(A) The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
(B) The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
(C) The Oxford Companion to American Literature
(D) The Oxford Companion to Indian Literature in English
70. While writing or printing, scholarly use prefers titles in italics. Which of the following
is the correct way of writing/printing?
(A) Charles Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities
(B) Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities
(C) Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
(D) Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities
Questions from 71 to 75 are based on the following passage. Read the passage
carefully and select the most appropriate option:
Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm, which
each one of us within our hearts knows “that is not me”. In America, this norm is usually
defined as white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, Christian, and financially secure. It is
with this mythical norm that the trappings of power reside within the society. Those of
us who stand outside that power often identify one way in which we are different, and
we assume that to be the primary cause of all oppression, forgetting other distortions
around difference, some of which we ourselves may be practicing. By and large within
the women’s movement today, white women focus upon their oppression as women
and ignore differences of race, sexual preference, class, and age. There is a pretense to
homogeneity of experience covered by the word sisterhood that does not in fact exist.
(Audre Lorde)
71. A mythical norm is endemic to societies:
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1. Where racial myths are prevalent and widely respected and perpetuated through
utterances that establish ‘we’ and ‘they’ groups.
2. Where the superiority of one’s own culture and nation no longer emphasized openly
or straightforwardly.
3. Where ‘difference’ has been a preoccupation in the representation of people who
are racially, ethnically, and in terms of gender and sexual preference different from an
assumed majority.
4. That believes that the norm is part of their right to defend the ways of life enjoyed
by a dominant group, their traditions and customs against outsiders – not because
these outsiders are inferior, but because they belong to other cultures.
(C) Only 4 is correct.
(D) Only 3 is correct.
72. How does the author mark her difference from other writers on similar issues and
underscore her radical style typographically?
1. By her use of parataxis
2. By italicizing ‘mythical norm’ and ‘sisterhood’
3. By using lowercase for proper and common nouns
4. By using phrases like ‘Those of us who stand outside…’
(A) 1 & 4 are correct.
(B) 2 is correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 & 3 are correct.
73. That there are levels and grades of powerlessness in societies entertaining ‘a
mythical norm’ is indicated
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1. By the overall tone and tenor of the passage.
2. By the suggestion that ‘a mythical norm’ is responsible for the unequal distribution
of power among people.
3. By referring to ‘other distortions around difference’.
4. By referring to white women who narrow down oppression directed only at white
women.
(A) 4 is correct.
(B) 1 & 2 are correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 is correct.
74. Why is the author dismissive about ‘sisterhood’?
1. Because it is italicised.
2. Because it does not exist in principle.
3. Because it assumes that all ‘sisters’ are alike.
4. Because it assumes that all ‘sisters’ are unique.
(A) 3 is correct
(B) 1 is correct
(C) 4 is correct
(D) 2 is correct
75. Does the author absolve all women from the ‘distortions around difference’?
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Not sure.
4. Yes, in a qualified manner though.
(A) 1 is correct
(B) 2 is correct
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(C) 3 is correct
(D) 4 is correct
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Answer Key (1-75)
1 D 11 All 21 D 31 D 41 D 51 A 61 B 71 B
2 B 12 C 22 B 32 D 42 A 52 C 62 D 72 *
3 D 13 A 23 C 33 D 43 All 53 D 63 All 73 C
4 C 14 B 24 C 34 D 44 C 54 C 64 B 74 A
5 C 15 B 25 B 35 B 45 D 55 B 65 D 75 B
6 C 16 C 26 C 36 D 46 B 56 C 66 B
7 A 17 B 27 B 37 B 47 A 57 D 67 B
8 B 18 B 28 A 38 D 48 C 58 B 68 A
9 A 19 B 29 D 39 B 49 A 59 B 69 D
10 C 20 B 30 C 40 B 50 C 60 B 70 C
*Marks Given To All
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September 2013 Paper II

1. In the following cluster of poems by Shelley, which one has the voyage motif?
(A) “Adonais”
(B) The Revolt of Islam
(C) “Ode to the West Wind”
(D) Alastor
2. In Sydney’s sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, the final sonnet (#108)
(A) Brings no resolution
(B) Ends in joy
(C) Brings a definite resolution
(D) Promises another sonnet sequence
3. Who among the following English writers opposed the Licensing Act of
1643?
(A) John Milton
(B) Thomas Browne
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) Abraham Cowley
4. Who claimed: “I have not published a single paper that is not written in a spirit of
benevolence and with a love of mankind”?
(A) Pope
(B) Dryden
(C) Swift
(D) Addison
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5. A protagonist writes a letter of confession, but it gets lost under the carpet only to
be found on the wedding day. Who is the protagonist?
(A) Bathsheba
(B) Lucetta
(C) Sue
(D) Tess
6. In an age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys.
The italicised words are an example of
(A) A transferred epithet
(B) A simile
(C) A metaphor
(D) A hyperbaton
7. In Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, Hale is murdered with the help of ‘brighton
rock’ which is
(A) A kind of sugar-candy
(B) A form of grenade
(C) A baton
(D) A kind of rock
8. Which poet among this group does not belong to the ‘Auden Generation’ group
of poets?
(A) Stephen Spender
(B) Alun Lewis
(C) Cecil Day Lewis
(D) Louis Macneice
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9. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the ‘beast’ is actually the
evil inside the boys themselves and it is that which is breaking things up?
(A) Jack
(B) Simon
(C) Roger
(D) Ralph
10. Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorian feeling prevalent in the early twentieth
century?
I. Eminent Victorians
II. Jungle Book
III. Philistine Victorians
IV. The Way of All Flesh
(A) II and IV are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.
11. What event allowed mainstream British theatre companies to commission and
performs work that was politically, socially and sexually controversial without fear of
censorship?
(A) The abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1968.
(B) The illegal performance of works by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond.
(C) The collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s.
(D) A combined appeal to the Queen by a group of London dramatists.
12. The Wife of Bath’s philosophy of marriage shows that she
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(A) Is a strong person with keen awareness of her own rights?
(B) Tends to say one thing and do the opposite.
(C) Cares only for pleasure, not for right and wrong.
(D) Trusts thought too much instead of feeling.
13. Which of the following characters is killed in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in
conformity with an African tribal custom?
(A) Okonkwo
(B) Obierika
(C) Ikemefuna
(D) Nwoye
14. “We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.” The repetition of a phrase is
(A) Antiphrasis
(B) Diacope
(C) Aposiopesis
(D) Enumeratio
15. Find the poet who is the odd one in the group:
(A) Wallace Stevens
(B) Robert Lowell
(C) Sylvia Plath
(D) Anne Sexton
16. Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare’s Tempest is associated
with the Earth?
(A) Ferdinand
(B) Ariel
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(C) Caliban
(D) Prospero
17. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon attempted a preliminary survey of the
entire field of learning, by analyzing the principal obstacles to its advancement.
Identify from among the following choices the one that he did not mention as an
obstacle:
(A) Rhetoric
(B) Medieval scholasticism
(C) Inductive method
(D) Pseudo sciences
18. Who among this group of youngmale characters in Jane Austen’snovels is not
sent to the University for Education?
(A) Tom Bertram
(B) John Thorpe
(C) James Morland
(D) Henry Tilney
19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in his
portrayal of
(A) Paul Dombey
(B) Thomas Gradgrind
(C) Philip Pirrip
(D) Harold Skimpole
20. Which one of the following playwrights will not be covered under the category /
term ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?
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(A) Jean Genet
(B) Jean Giraudoux
(C) Samuel Beckett
(D) Eugene Ionesco
21. The following are two lists of lines from poems and their titles. Match them:
(Lines from poems)
I. “The squat pen rests as snug as a gun.”
II. “A serious house on serious earth it is.”
III. “Time held me green and dying.”
IV. “I hold creation in my foot.”
(Titles of poems)
1. “Church Going”
2. “Hawk- Roosting”
3. “Digging”
4. “Fern Hill”
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 2 3 4 1
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 3 1 4 2
22. _________ is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word
describes.
(A) Alliteration
(B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Oxymoron
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(D) Enthymeme
23. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared. Use the code
given below:
I. The Dictionary of the English Language
II. The History of Rasselas
III. The Vanity of Human Wishes
IV. Lives of the English Poets
(A) III, I, II, IV
(B) I, II, III, IV
(C) IV, III, II, I
(D) II, III, I, IV
24. Arrange the following forms in the order in which they appeared. Use the code
given below:
I. commedia dell’arte
II. Confessional poetry
III. Agitprop
IV. Picaresque novel
The correct combination is:
Code:
(A) IV, I, II, III
(B) I, IV, III, II
(C) II, IV, I, III
(D) I, III, IV, II
25. Which of the following poems deals with neighbourly relations?
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(A) “Birches”
(B) “Home Burial”
(C) “Mending Wall”
(D) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
26. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them:
(Writers)
I. Katherine Susannah Prichard
II. Colin Johnson
III. Sally Morgan
IV. Jack Davis
(Works)
1. Barungin
2. My Place
3. Wild Cat Falling
4. Coonardoo
I II III IV
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 1 4 3 2
27. How does John Stuart Mill define ‘happiness’?
(A) Doing what one wants to do
(B) Leading a fulfilling life
(C) Pleasure and the absence of pain
(D) Virtuous activity
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28. “Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime …
But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.” Andrew
Marvell in these lines emphasizes the theme of
(A) Love
(B) Love and transience
(C) Love and political passion
(D) Love and flattery
29. The following are two lists of dramatists and their plays. Match them:
(Dramatists)
I. George Etheredge
II. William Wycherley
III. John Vanbrugh
IV. William Congreve
(Plays)
1. The Country Wife
2. The Man of Mode
3. The Double Dealer
4. The Provok’d Wife
I II III IV
(A) 2 3 4 1
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 4 3
30. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them:
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(Works)
1. Drums of My Flesh
2. Trishanku
3. Jasmine
4. Anil’s Ghost
(Writers)
I. Uma Parameswaran
II. Bharati Mukherjee
III. Michael Ondaatje
IV. Cyril Dabydeen
I II III IV
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
31. Dryden’s dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled
(A) All for Love
(B) The State of Innocence
(C) Annus Mirabilis
(D) Religio Medici
32. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics and
Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch were published in
(A) 1969
(B) 1968
(C) 1970
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(D) 1967
33. Who defined poetry as ‘the best words in the best order’?
(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Shelley
34. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe”?
(A) Britain’s pre-eminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign
languages.
(B) Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral
purpose found in Goethe.
(C) Even a foreign author is better than a home-grown scoundrel.
(D) Leave England and immigrate to Germany.
35. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness presents two conflicting discourses present in his own
culture. Identify the two discourses from the following:
(A) Modernism and anticolonialism
(B) Modernism and structuralism
(C) Anti-colonialism and Eurocentricism
(D) Material culturalism and tribalism
36. Who among the following poets defined free verse as playing tennis without a
net?
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) Philip Larkin
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(D) William Carlos Williams
37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except
(A) Tamburlaine the Great
(B) The Jew of Malta
(C) Richard III
(D) Edward II
38. According to Barthes, a text which draws attention to its artifice, to the ways in
which it is structured, is called
(A) Writerly text
(B) Aesthetic text
(C) Readerly text
(D) Formal text
39. Which of the following descriptions is not applicable to Pope’s The Rape of the
Lock?
(A) A mock heroic poem
(B) Written in heroic couplets
(C) Pope’s tribute to Queen Anne
(D) Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 and 5 cantos
40. From the following list, choose the work which is not written by E.M.
Forster:
(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread
(B) Maurice
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) The Longest Journey
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41. The ‘Vulgate Bible’ was prepared to make the Bible available to
(A) The ecclesiastics
(B) The elite class
(C) The courtiers
(D) The common men
42. Literary works such as Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, Samuel
Butler’s The Way of All Flesh and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man provide examples of which following novelistic form?
(A) Nouveau roman or new novel
(B) Epistolary novel
(C) Bildugsroman
(D) Historical novel
43. “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” expresses a pathetic cry of a wounded
heart from “Ode to the West Wind” by Shelley. The poem consists of
(A) Fourteen line terzarima stanzas
(B) four-lined stanza characterized by swift action
(C) A particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle
(D) An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats’s Muse figure is
(A) Thea
(B) Moneta
(C) Lamia
(D) Calliope
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45. What literary work best captures a sense of the political turmoil particularly
regarding the issue of religion just after the Restoration?
(A) Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
(B) Butler’s Hudibras
(C) Pope’s Dunciad
(D) Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
46. Who among the Victorian authors has described himself/herself as an agnostic?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) George Eliot
(D) Thomas Hardy
47. Preface to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth was written by
(A) AimeCesaire
(B) AniaLoomba
(C) Jean Paul Sartre
(D) Edward Said
48. Who among the following theorists formulated the concept of the utile dulci,
profit combined with delight?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Horace
(D) Longinus
49. Out of the four humours of the body, the Jacobeans thought of themselves as
especially prone to
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(A) Choler
(B) Blood
(C) Phlegm
(D) Melancholy
50. Who among the following Romantic poets ended his life, lauded and respected
as ‘The Sage of High gate’?
(A) William Blake
(B) S.T. Coleridge
(C) P.B. Shelley
(D) William Wordsworth
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Answer Key (1-50)
Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 D 11 A 21 D 31 B 41 D
2 A 12 A 22 B 32 C 42 C
3 A 13 C 23 A 33 B 43 A
4 D 14 B 24 B 34 B 44 B
5 D 15 A 25 C 35 C 45 D
6 A 16 C 26 B 36 A 46 C
7 A 17 C 27 C 37 C 47 C
8 B 18 D 28 B 38 A 48 C
9 B 19 B 29 D 39 C 49 D
10 B 20 B 30 C 40 C 50 B
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September 2013 Paper III

1. Which of the following statements is not true of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina?
It is concerned with
(A) The jumbled trivia of day-today life.
(B) The belief in social progress and scientific advancement.
(C) Insistent quest for meaning.
(D) The reaction of immediate family members to someone’s terminal illness.
2. In The Rape of Lock Belinda’s guardian sylph is unable to prevent the
Baron’s fatal mischief because
(A) He discovers an earthly lover lurking in Belinda’s heart.
(B) He is disturbed by Clarissa’s speech.
(C) The view is blocked by the imposing figure of Sir Plume.
(D) He is yet to return from a visit to the Cave of Spleen.
3. ‘Ah! I’ll never, never meet such a man again. You ought to have heard him recite
poetry …Oh, he enlarged my mind.” In Heart of Darkness these words about Kurtz are
spoken by
(A) The manager
(B) The intended
(C) The first-class agent
(D) The Russian
4. Arrange the following ELT methods and approaches in the order in which they
appear. Use the codes given below:
Code:
I. Direct Method
II. The Communicative Language Teaching
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III. The Grammar Translation Method
IV. The Silent Way
(A) I, III, IV, III
(B) III, I, IV, II
(C) III, II, I, IV
(D) I, III, II, IV
5. Which of the following statements is not applicable to Derrida’s rejection of the
notion of the ‘Metaphysics of Presence’?
(A) The desire for immediate access to meaning privileges presence over absence.
(B) All presences are necessarily metaphysical and, therefore, are to be rejected.
(C) A fleeting meaning of the text is created through the play of ‘difference’ and
‘differance’.
(D) Metaphysics involves installinghierarchies and orders ofsubordination in the
variousdualisms that it encounters.
6. Read the following and its code: “a prince’s court
Is like a common fountain, whence should flow Pure silver drop in general: but if’t
chance Some curs’d example poison’t near the head Death and disease through the
whole land spread.”
Code:
I. It is the description of the French Court at the beginning of The Duchess of Malff.
II. It is about the English court. Such was Webster’s England, but to avoid censorship
Webster gives his play a foreign location.
III. It is about the Italian court.
IV. The court is located in Malff.
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(A) I and IV are correct.
7. Literary works by post-modern British writers such as Angela Carter, Salman
Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson generally tend to share which of the following
characteristics?
(A) The use of fragmented narrative structures with multiple shifts in consciousness,
chronology and location.
(B) An emphasis on the rich universality of life in cultures and countries all over the
world.
(C) A sense of sentimental nostalgia for nineteenth and early twentieth century life,
typically expressed in rueful, melancholic tones.
(D) The use of brief, economic literary forms and a spare, astringent literary style.
8. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Some post-colonial writers maintain that being ‘unhomed’ is not the
same as being ‘homeless’.
Reason (R): Because the migrants are not at home in themselves: their cultural
identity crisis has made them psychological refugees.
In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?
Code:
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
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9. Which of the following statements are not true about Margaret Laurence’s Novel,
The Stone Angel?
Code:
I. The novel is set in a fictional small town in Manitoba called Manawaka.
II. The novel was written when she was away from Canada.
III. The novel is narrated retrospectively by Hagar Shipley.
IV. The novel is least known of her works.
(B) II and III are correct.
10. Which of the following statements is not true of many contemporary African
writers?
(A) They convey a melancholy tone of longing for traditional religious rituals.
(B) They celebrate unambiguously the benefits of Western education.
(C) They bemoan the loss of values and indict aspirations of wealth.
(D) They assess the social impact of systems and institutions of colonial rule.
11. The ‘Angel in the House’ became a common label for the Victorian ideal of
respectable middle-class femininity. The phrase originated with a popular long poem
by
(A) Arthur Munby
(B) Arthur Hugh Clough
(C) Charlotte Mew
(D) Coventry Patmore
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12. Which of the following literary types is associated with the poetry of
Charles Baudelaire?
(A) Flaneur
(B) Poete Maudit
(C) Encomium
(D) Honnete Homme
13. In A Farewell to Arms the main image clusters are associated with
Code:
I. Rain
II. Beasts
III. Insects
IV. River
14. Which of the following poets describes his “mistress” as “No, she is not Anglo-
Indian .She is Indian English, the language that I use.”
(A) Nissim Ezekiel
(B) Keki Daruwalla
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) R. Parthasarathy
15. All of the following are characteristics of Renaissance humanism except
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(A) Sanctity of the Latin texts of Scriptures.
(B) Rejection of Christian principles.
(C) Belief that ancient Latin and Greek writers were inferior to later authors.
(D) Primary causative agent of the Reformation.
16. ‘Stand up, young woman … and tell me what sort of a barbarous people your
country folk are, where child-murder is become so commonplace as to require the
restraint of laws like yours.’ The queen in Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian is referring
to a strange Scottish law according to which if a woman
(A) gives birth to a child and the child is missing, she is considered guilty of
infanticide.
(B) Secretly gives birth to a child and the child is missing and she has not confided to
anyone about her pregnancy, she is considered guilty of infanticide.
(C) gives birth to a child and the child is missing and she has not confided to anyone
about her pregnancy, she is considered guilty of infanticide.
(D) gives birth to a child and kills the child and she is guilty of infanticide.
17. Which of the following statements is not applicable to the definition of New
Historicism? New historicist critics
(A) Remind us that it is treacherous to reconstruct the past as it really was – rather
than as we have been conditioned by our own place and time to believe the way it
was.
(B) Are less likely to see history as linear and progressive, as something developing
toward the present.
(C) Tend to view history as literature’s background.
(D) Are unlikely to suggest that a literary text has a single or easily identifiable
historical context.
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18. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen portrays an ‘excess of sensibility’ in
(A) Marianne
(B) Margaret
(C) Elinor
(D) Lucy
19. Ben Jonson disliked
Code:
I. fantastic comedy
II. Wide-ranging chronicle-history and stupendous tragedy
III. The comedies of Terence and Plautus
IV. The ability of satire to expose human vices and follies
(B) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and II are correct.
20. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
labelled as Reason (R): Assertion (A): In the 1950s and 60s Baldwin and Ellison
returned to universal themes and focused on innovations in literary forms.
Reason (R): In the 1930s and 40s African and American Literature was mostly
preoccupied with protest.
Code:
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21. In coining the term ‘Ecriture feminine’ Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual
production, not necessarily written by women. Who among the following male
writers is used by her as an example?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) Joseph Conrad
(C) James Joyce
(D) E.M. Forster
22. Of the following characters in Jacobean plays, choose the one who is not a
villainous character:
(A) De Flores (The Changeling)
(B) Luke Frugal (The City Madam)
(C) Sir Giles Overreach (A New Way to Pay Old Debts)
(D) Bosola (The Duchess of Mal_)
23. Resistance to slavery created a literature of the abolitionist movement in the last
quarter of the eighteenth century in Britain. Suchliterature included books written
byformer slaves. Two such writings are
Code:
I. Mary Robinson
II. Olaudah Equiano
III. Mary Prince
IV. Anne Cromarty Yearsley
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24. Hippolyte Taine published his four volume History of English Literature in 1864
based on the following categories except one. Which one?
(A) Race
(B) Psychology
(C) Historical moment
(D) Milieu
25. The two ‘mother-figures’ in Dickens’s Great Expectations are
Code:
I. Estella
II. Miss Havisham
III. Mrs Joe
IV. Georgiana
(A) II and III are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
26. Judith Wright’s works reveal the following features except one. Which one?
(A) A keen focus on the Australian environment
(B) Concern for the relationship between the settlers, indigenous Australians and the
bush.
(C) A correspondence between inner existence and objective reality.
(D) An obsession with religious and political issues.
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27. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared:
Code:
I. Leviathan
II. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
III. Le MorteD’Arthur
IV. Utopia
(A) I, IV, III, II
(B) III, IV, I, II
(C) III, IV, II, I
(D) III, I, IV, II
28. Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize?
(A) The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody
(B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting
(C) Feasting, Fasting and the Zig Zag Way
(D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain
29. Edward Said points to two forms of orientalism. They are
(A) Real and fake
(B) Voluntary and involuntary
(C) Subjective and objective
(D) Latent and manifest
30. Which of the plays in its Preface was described by Eugene O’Neill as ‘a play of old
sorrow, written in tears and blood’?
(A) Desire under the Elms
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(B) The Hairy Ape
(C) Long Day’s Journey into Night
(D) Mourning Becomes Electra
31. “With all the eagerness to know the truths of life, she retained very childlike ideas
about marriage … the really delightful marriage must be that when your husband was
a sort of a father, and could even teach you Hebrew, if you wished it.” She is the
protagonist in one of George Eliot’s novels. Who is she?
(A) Romola
(B) Hetty Sorel
(C) Maggie
(D) Dorothea
labelled as Reason (R): Assertion (A): The term “Standard English” is misleading.
Reason (R): There are manylinguistic communities that dohave a genuine standard
variety,a fixed and invariant form of the language that is used for certain kinds of
communication.
Code:
labelled as Reason (R): Assertion (A): The Waste Land ends in a �urry of random
allusions.
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Reason (R): The ending of the poem reflects the poet’s divided life between America
and England and a life given over to primitivism.
34. Which of the following novels acted as an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging
a new narrative style in English?
(A) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
(B) G.V. Desani’s All about H Hatterr
(C) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
(D) R.K. Narayan’s The Sweet Vendor
35. Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho is a novel about
(A) A father and a daughter setting out on a journey.
(B) The kidnapping of Emily by Montoni and her visit to Venice.
(C) Emily’s adventures in the castle of Udolpho, the outcome of the adventures, her
escape and her final union with Valencourt.
(D) The adventures of Montoni and his men in Udolpho.
36. In Marxist criticism the term ‘interpellation’ defines
(A) The ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out
of material practices.
(B) The ways in which the ideological structure in social formation is constructed out
of discursive practices.
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(C) The ways in which the subjects of an ideology are placed in false positions of
knowledge regarding themselves.
(D) The ways in which the subjects of an ideology resist false positions of knowledge
regarding others.
37. According to Longinus, the sublime has the following features except :
(A) It is the essence of all great poetry and oratory.
(B) It is interested in the usual rhetorical goal of persuasion.
(C) It valorises a special use of language.
(D) It is a matter of reader-response.
38. In a trickster tale
I. an anthropomorphized animal often serves as the protagonist
II. The ending is ambiguous
III. The hero can be a shape shifter, a cheat or a liar
IV. Humans act as a mouth piece for the gods
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and III are correct.
(C) I and III are correct.
39. The best source for historical evidence of individual words in English is
(A) The American Heritage Dictionary
(B) Fennell
(C) The Oxford English Dictionary
(D) The Online Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary
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40. Which of the following statements on the ending of Kafka’s
“Metamorphosis” is correct? The death of Gregor Samsa is marked by
(A) Violent convulsions.
(B) A slow ebbing a way of life hardly perceptible.
(C) The miraculous appearance of a priest to administer the last rites.
(D) The intense mourning of the cleaner who discovers the body.
41. Archetypal criticism accepts as its informing principle that archetypes are present
in all literature and provide the basis of its interconnectedness.
Practitioners include
Code:
I. Northrop Frye
II. Dorothy Van Ghent
III. Derek Traversi
IV. Maud Bodkin
42. In the sonnet “Death, Be Not Proud”, Donne says to death: “Those whom thou
think’st thou dost over-throw / Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.” What
does he mean?
(A) Death is very strong.
(B) Death is not death, because after death we wake up to live eternally.
(C) One must face death courageously and defiantly.
(D) Death is not as strong as he thinks he is.
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43. In which of the following plays of Luigi Pirandello the stage itself, the symbol of
appearance and reality, becomes the setting of the play?
(A) Right You Are (If You Think, You Are)
(B) To Clothe the Naked
(C) The Life I Gave You
(D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
44. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is
Assertion (A): Many modern British writers infused their works with an extreme sense
of uncertainty, disillusionment and despair.
Reason (R): The writers were responding to the devastation of war and feeling
disconnected from the traditions of the past.
Codes:
45. Which among the following statements is not correct? Badal Sircar’s Pagla Ghora
is a play about
(A) The condition of women in post- Second World War Bengal.
(B) The political and religious conditions of the time.
(C) Sexual passion.
(D) Lack of communication between men and women.
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46. The various symbols used in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq are associated with
Code:
I. Pythons
II. Vultures
III. Wasps
IV. Butterflies
47. “Collocations” refer to
(A) The combination of words in a phrase
(B) The act of positioning words
(C) Grouping of words in a sentence
(D) Combination of natural words
48. Of the following statements, which one is not true of Congreve’s The Way of the
World?
(A) The Way of the World was staged in 1700.
(B) It was played at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
(C) It was a failure on the stage.
(D) The dialogue was unintelligible.
49. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger displays
I. Rebelliousness
II. Nostalgia
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III. Restlessness
IV. Mendacity
50. The following are two lists of works and their themes. Match them correctly:
(Works)
I. The Heart of Midlothian, Tess of the D’urbervilles
II. The End of the A�air, the Golden Bowl
III. The Heart of theMatter, Lord Jim
IV. Heart of Darkness, Nostromo
(Themes)
1. Suicide
2. Greed
3. Infanticide
4. Adultery
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
51. In As You Like It when Oliver brings in the bloody napkin dyed in
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Orlando’s blood, why does Rosalind faint? Which of the following is not the correct
answer?
(A) Many will swoon when they look at blood.
(B) She faints because of her real concern and anxiety for Orlando.
(C) Frailty, thy name is woman.
(D) She is counterfeiting as she herself later claims.
52. Which is the correct statement about Euripides’s Medea? In Euripides’s Medea
the chorus consists of
(A) Fifteen Corinthian women who are Medea’s next door neighbours
(B) Fifteen Athenian elders
(C) Fifteen Spartan women
(D) Fifteen Sicilian Women
53. Which of the following is not an award received by Mahasweta Devi?
(A) Ramon Magsaysay Award
(B) Jnanpith Award
(C) Padmashri
(D) Commonwealth Writers Prize
54. The Statute of Pleadings makes English the o_cial language of the
English Parliament in
(A) 1755
(B) 1362
(C) 1611
(D) 1879
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55. The following are two lists of statements and the poets / critics who made them.
Match them correctly:
(Statements on imagination)
I. One power alone makes a poet – The Imagination, The Divine Vision
II. … what the imagination seizes on beauty must be the truth
III. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination
IV. Works of imagination should be written in a very plain language
(Poets / critics)
1. Shelley
2. Coleridge
3. Blake
4. Keats
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
56. In Lord of Flies Golding inverts the morality of R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island
involving adventures of three boys marooned on South Pacific Island. Two names are
repeated in Golding’s tale. They are
Code:
I. Ralph
II. Roger
III. Jack
IV. Simon
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57. The following are two lists of characters and the works in which we find them.
Match them correctly according to the code:
(Characters)
I. Ratna
II. Raghu
III. Padma
IV. Gargi
(Works)
1. A House for Mr Biswas
2. Midnight’s Children
3. The Last Labyrinth
4. Kanthapura
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 1 2 3 4
58. In spite of being constant in his relationship with Sophia, Tom is involved in
relationships with three other ladies in the three parts of Tom Jones. Here is a list of
these women. Find the odd one:
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(A) Molly Seagrim
(B) Mrs Western
(C) Lady Booby
(D) Lady Bellaston
59. This novel by Lawrence was greeted with the headlines: ‘A book the police should
ban; loathsome study of sex depravity; misleading youth to unspeakable disaster.’ Its
opening chapter was originally suppressed. Name the novel:
(A) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(B) The Rainbow
(C) Women in Love
(D) The White Peacock
60. In Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” the key ideas are best described as the
following except one. Which one?
(A) Movement versus stasis
(B) Disappointing love versus eternal bliss
(C) Scars of history versus consolations of art
(D) Beauty versus truth
61. These critics transcend the subjective point of view. They bow to other forms of
objective authority: the authority of the past and the authority of the social
consensus. They adopt the scientific attitude without the science.
The above formulation best describes
(A) The Neoclassical Critics
(B) The Romantic Critics
(C) The Art for Art Sake Critics
(D) The Symbolist Critics
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62. In Beckett’s Waiting for Godo, which character has two pages of unpunctuated
speech?
(A) Estragon
(B) Vladimir
(C) Lucky
(D) Pozzo
63. Laura Mulvey’s pioneering essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is an
instance of the feminist appropriation of psychoanalysis. It particularly uses
(A) Freud’s concept of sublimation
(B) Jung’s concept of collective unconscious
(C) Lacan’s concept of the gaze
(D) Lacan’s notion of the fragmented body
64. Which of the following novelists does not belong to the “Campus Novelists”
Group?
(A) Angus Wilson
(B) David Lodge
(C) Anthony Powell
(D) Malcolm Bradbury
65. Which of the following statements is not true of The Stranger by Camus?
(A) The title character is Meursault, an Algerian who kills an Arab man.
(B) The story, divided into two parts, gives Meursault’s first person narrative before
and after the murder respectively.
(C) It is a realistic novel, true to the locale it depicts.
(D) The theme and outlook of the novel are cited as exemplars of existentialism.
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66. The Faerie Queene is an epic celebration of
Code:
I. Queen Elizabeth
II. The Irish Nation
III. The Roman Catholic Church
IV. The Protestant Faith
67. Which of the following statements is not a correct description of Pope’s The
Dunciad?
(A) The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers and bad writing.
(B) It is a pessimistic commentary on the civilization of the time.
(C) It is about the coronation of Theobald.
(D) It wishes to satirize Theobald only.
68. Which of the following statements cannot be subsumed under the “Sapir-Whorf”
hypothesis?
(A) Each language presents us with its own categorization of the universe.
(B) Language is a guide to social reality.
(C) One adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language.
(D) A language and the society that uses it interlock.
69. Which philosophers do Dante encounter in Limbo, the _rst circle of hell?
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Code:
I. Socrates
II. Aristotle
III. Heraclitus
IV. Plato
70. Which of the following best describes the role of revision in the writing process?
(A) Revision is discrete phase of the writing process that should occur after the initial
drafting phase.
(B) Substantive revisions should be finalized during the second draft phase of the
writing process.
(C) Revision is a recursive activity that may occur at any phase of the writing process.
(D) Substantive revision should occur primarily during the editing phase of the
writing process.
71. Who among the following eighteenth century English poets committed suicide
after years of living close to starvation as a struggling poet?
(A) Robert Burns
(B) Thomas Chatterton
(C) William Collins
(D) Charlotte Smith
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72. “Why can’t we be friends now’ … it’s what I want. It’s what you want.’ But the
horses didn’t want it – they swerved apart; the earth didn’t want it.” At the end of A
Passage to India Forster suggests that
(A) If Fielding and Aziz want, they can be friends.
(B) Probably if the Indians and the English want, they can still be friends.
(C) Though Fielding and Aziz want, the horses and the earth of India do not want the
English and the Indians to be friends, not yet.
(D) The East is east and the West is west and the twain shall never meet.
73. An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among
speakers of different languages is a
(A) Dialect
(B) Creole
(C) Pidgin
(D) Register
74. Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic and novelist, took sides in the literary
squabbles of the 1860s against Swinburne and the Rossettis.
Hewrote a review which introduced the term:
(A) The Earthly School of Poetry
(B) The Fleshly School of Poetry
(C) The Stealthy School of Poetry
(D) The Esoteric School of Poetry
75. The narrator of Piers Plowman falls asleep on
(A) The Mendip hills
(B) The Purbeck hills
(C) The Malvern Hills
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(D) The Cheviot Hills
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Answer Key (1-75)
1 D 11 D 21 C 31 D 41 B 51 D 61 A 71 B
2 A 12 A 22 All 32 B 42 A 52 A 62 C 72 C
3 D 13 D 23 D 33 C 43 D 53 D 63 C 73 C
4 B 14 B 24 B 34 B 44 D 54 B 64 C 74 B
5 B 15 C 25 A 35 C 45 A 55 B 65 C 75 C
6 B 16 B 26 D 36 C 46 B 56 D 66 C
7 A 17 C 27 C 37 B 47 A 57 C 67 D
8 B 18 A 28 B 38 C 48 C 58 C 68 C
9 C 19 D 29 D 39 C 49 D 59 C 69 B
10 B 20 A 30 C 40 B 50 B 60 C 70 C
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June 2013 Paper II

1. In Pinter’s Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it?
(A) A toy
(B) A piano
(C) A drum
(D) A violin
2. How does Lord Jim end?
(A) Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin.
(B) Jim kills himself with a last unflinching glance.
(C) Jim answers “the call of exalted egoism” and betrays Jewel.
(D) Jim surrenders himself to Doramin.
3. “Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books.” To which of the
following authors can we attribute the above admission?
(A) Graham Greene
(B) George Orwell
(C) Charles Morgan
(D) Evelyn Waugh
4. Modernism has been described as being concerned with “disenchantment of our
culture with culture itself”. Who is the critic?
(A) Stephen Spender
(B) Malcolm Bradbury
(C) Lionel Trilling
(D) Joseph Frank
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5. “Only that film, which fluttered on the grate, still flutters there, the sole unquiet
thing.”
The above lines are quoted from
(A) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(B) “Michael”
(C) “Frost at Midnight”
(D) “This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison”
6. Which one of the following modern poems employs ottava rima?
(A) “Among School Children”
(B) “In Praise of Limestone”
(C) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
(D) “The Shield of Achilles”
7. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of
Shakespeare’s
(A) Troilus and Cressida
(B) The Merchant of Venice
(C) Antony and Cleopatra
(D) Measure for Measure
8. Arrange the following works in the order in which they appear. Identify the correct
code:
I. No Longer at Ease
II. Things Fall apart
III. A Man of the People
IV. Arrow of God
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Code:
(A) III, IV, II, I
(B) IV, III, I, II
(C) II, I, IV, III
(D) I, II, III, IV
9. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from
(A) 1660 to 1669
(B) 1649 to 1660
(C) 1662 to 1689
(D) 1660 to 1689
10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?
(A) A magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader.
(B) A divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader.
(C) A moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous
models.
(D) A realistic power that cannot be made to seem like mere illusion and trickery.
11. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portraits of the following contemporary
individuals:
(A) Addison and Lord Hervey
(B) Dryden and Rochester
(C) Swift and Steele
(D) Smollett and Defoe
12. Match the following authors with their works:
List – A
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I. Alice Walker
II. Ralph Ellison
III. Richard Wright
IV Zora Neale Hurston
List – B
1. Invisible Man
2. The Colour Purple
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
4. Native Son
Which is the correct combination according to the code?
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 4 2 1
(C) 4 3 1 2
(D) 1 2 4 3
13. Which of these plays by Shakespeare does not use ‘cross-dressing’ as a device?
(A) As You Like It
(B) Julius Caesar
(C) Cymbeline
(D) Two Gentlemen of Verona
14. Which of the following works cannot be categorized under postcolonial theory?
(A) Nation and Narration
(B) Orientalism
(C) Discipline and Punish
(D) White Mythologies
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15. Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic statement of
_________ Philosophy.
(A) Aesthetic
(B) Empiricist
(C) Nationalist
(D) Realist
16. “Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all times.” Who
said this?
(A) Edward Said
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Roland Barthes
17. Which one of the following is not written by an Australian Aboriginal writer?
(A) Kath Walker
(B) Peter Carey
(C) Robert Bropho
(D) Jack Davis
18. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey jointly brought out Tottel’s Miscellany
during the Renaissance. Identify the name of the Earl of Surrey from the following:
(A) Thomas Lodge
(B) Thomas Nashe
(C) Thomas Sackville
(D) Henry Howard
19. Match the following lists:
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(Novelists)
I. Margaret Laurence
II. Margaret Atwood
III. Sinclair Ross
IV. Thomas King
(Novels)
1. Surfacing
2. The Stone Angel
3. Medicine River
4. As for Me and My House
I II III IV
(A) 1 4 3 2
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 4 3
20. The dramatic structure of Restoration comedies combines in it the features of
I. The Elizabethan Theatre
II. The Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and France
III. The Irish Theatre
IV. The Greek Theatre
Codes:
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21. Which American poet wrote: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the
world”?
(A) Robert Lowell
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) Wallace Stevens
(D) Langston Hughes
22. The etymological meaning of the word “trope” is
(A) Gesture
(B) Turning
(C) Mirror
(D) Desire
23. Who among the following English poets defined poetic imagination as “a
repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite ‘I AM’ ”?
(A) Blake
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Coleridge
(D) Shelley
24. Little Nell is a character in Dickens’
(A) David Copperfield
(B) The Old Curiosity Shop
(C) Bleak House
(D) Great Expectations
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(Schools/Concept of Criticism)
I. Formalism
II. New Critics
III. Psychological Theory of the Value of Literature
IV. Literary art as archetypal image
(Critics)
1. John Crow Ransom
2. The Jungians
3. Victor Shklovsky
4. I.A. Richards
I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 3 2 1 4
26. In the late seventeenth century a “Battle of Books” erupted between which two
groups?
(A) Cavaliers and Roundheads
(B) Abolitionists and Enthusiasts for slaves
(C) Champions of Ancient and Modern Learning
(D) The Welsh and the Scots
27. “Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day Love’s pleasure drives
his love away…” In the above quote the last line is an example of
(A) Allusion
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(B) Pleonasm
(C) Paradox
(D) Zeugma
28. Match the author with the work:
(Authors)
I. Kingsely Amis
II. Allan Silletoe
III. Doris Lessing
IV. Jean Rhys
(Works)
1. Saturday and Sunday Morning
2. The Golden Note Book
3. The Left Bank
4. Lucky Jim
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 1 2 3 4
29. In which of Hardy’s novels does the character Abel Whittle appear?
(A) Far from the Madding Crowd
(B) The Return of the Native
(C) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(D) The Mayor of Caster bridge
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30. The phrase “dark satanic mills” has become the most famous description of the
force at the centre of the industrial revolution. The phrase was used by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) William Blake
(C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) John Ruskin
31. “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale the scared
river ran.” Where does this ‘sacred river’ directly run to?
(A) A lifeless ocean
(B) The caverns measureless
(C) A fountain
(D) The waves
32. Who is the twentieth century poet, a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who
rejected the label “British” though he has always written in English rather than his
regional language?
(A) Douglas Dunn
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Geoffrey Hill
(D) Philip Larkin
33. Which of the following statements best describes Sir Thomas Browne’s Religion
Medici?
(A) It is a story of conversion or providential experiences.
(B) It emphasizes Browne’s love of mystery and wonder.
(C) It is full of angst, melancholy and dread of death.
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(D) It reports the facts of Browne’s life.
34. Which of the following characters from Eliot’s Waste Land is not correctly
mentioned?
(A) The typist
(B) Madam Sosostris
(C) The Merchant from Eugenides
(D) The Young Man Carbuncular
35. Which one of the following best describes the general feeling expressed in
literature during the last decade of the Victorian era?
(A) Studied melancholy and aestheticism
(B) The triumph of science and morbidity
(C) Sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
(D) Raucous celebration combined with paranoid interpretation
36. Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude”?
(A) Mont Blanc
(B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
(C) “Adonais”
(D) Alastor
37. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses the tradition of the Beast Fable?
(A) The Knight’s Tale
(B) The Monk’s Tale
(C) The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
(D) The Miller’s Tale
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38. At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul Morel
(A) Sets off in quest of life away from his mother.
(B) Considers the option of committing suicide.
(C) Joins his elder brother William in London.
(D) Embraces a Schopenhauer – like nihilism.
39. When you say “I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips” you are
using a rhetorical device of
(A) Enumeration
(B) Ant anagoge
(C) Parataxis
(D) Hypo taxis
40. The following are two lists of plays and characters. Match them.
(Characters)
1. Malevole
2. Beatrice
3. Bianca
4. Doll Tear sheet
(Plays)
I. Women Beware Women
II. The Malcontent
III. The City Madam
IV. The Changeling
I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 2 1 2 4
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(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 4 3 2 1
41. With Bacon the essay form is
(A) An intimate, personal confession
(B) Witty and boldly imagistic
(C) The aphoristic expression of accumulated public wisdom
(D) Homely and vulgar
42. Evelyn Waugh’s Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about
(A) The English at War
(B) The English Aristocracy
(C) The Irish question
(D) Scottish nationalism
43. Who coined the phrase “The Two Nations” to describe the disparity in Britain
between the rich and the poor?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Thomas Carlyle
(C) Benjamin Disraeli
(D) Frederick Engels
44. Milton introduces Satan and the fallen angels in the Book I of Paradise Lost. Two
of the chief devils reappear in Book II. They are
I. Moloch
II. Clemos
III. Belial
IV. Thamuz
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(C) I and II are correct.
45. When Chaucer describes the Friar as a “noble pillar of order”, he is using
(A) Irony
(B) Simile
(C) Understatement
(D) Personification
46. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is an example of
(A) Drawing room comedy
(B) kitchen-sink drama
(C) Absurd drama
(D) Melodrama
47. Which character in Jane Eyre uses religion to justify cruelty?
(A) Blanche Ingram
(B) Mr. Brocklehurst
(C) Sir John Rivers
(D) Eliza Reed
48. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as ‘a person perverted into a thing’?
(A) Blake
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
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(D) Shelley
49. John Suckling belongs to the group of
(A) Metaphysical poets
(B) Cavalier poets
(C) Neo-classical poets
(D) Religious poets
50. Sir Thomas More creates the character of a traveler into whose mouth the
account of Utopia is put. His name is
(A) Michael
(B) Raphael
(C) Henry
(D) Thomas
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Answer Key (1-50)
Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 C 11 A 21 B 31 A&B 41 C
2 A 12 All 22 B 32 B 42 A
3 B 13 B 23 C 33 A&B 43 C
4 C 14 C 24 B 34 C 44 B
5 C 15 B 25 A 35 A 45 A
6 A 16 B 26 C 36 D 46 B
7 C 17 27 C 37 C 47 B
8 C 18 D 28 B 38 A 48 B
9 A 19 D 29 D 39 A 49 B
10 C 20 D 30 B 40 A 50 B
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June 2013 Paper III

(Browning’s poems)
I. Abt Vogler
II. Andrea Del Sarto
III. Childe Ronald to the Dark Tower Came
IV. Cleon
(Type of Character)
1. A Medieval Knight
2. A Musician
3. A Poet
4. An Artist
I II III I
(A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 1 2 4
(D) 1 3 4 2
2. All forms of feminism posit that:
I. The relationship between the sexes is one of inequality and oppression.
II. There should be an end to all wars.
III. Women need financial independence.
IV. All men are prone to violence.
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3. Which one of Brecht’s works was intended to lampoon the conventional
sentimental musical but the public lapped up the work’s sentiment and missed the
humour?
(A) Man is Man
(B) Three Penny Opera
(C) The Mother
(D) Life of Galileo
4. Ostensibly a musical treatise, The Anatomy of Melancholy is a reflection on human
learning and endeavour published under the pseudonym
(A) Vox Populi
(B) Epicurus Senior
(C) Democritus Junior
(D) Jesting Pilate
5. Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto tells the story of
(A) A defiant and heartless tyrant who kills his own son mercilessly.
(B) An usurper and a tyrant who kills his own daughter by mistake.
(C) A castle that collapses and crushes the young and sickly prince to death.
(D) A tyrant who retires to a monastery at the end and lives happily ever after with
his queen.
6. In the Literature of Romanticism there was a widespread frustration with visions
experienced in dreams, in nightmares and other altered states. The following list
contains poems which illustrate this theme, with one exception. Identify the
exception
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(A) “Kubla Khan”
(B) “Confessions of an English Opium Eater”
(C) “The Ruined Cottage”
(D) “The Fall of Hyperion”
7. The book was for many years banned for obscenity in Britain and the
United States. The central character is a Catholic Jew in Ireland. The author claimed
that the book is meant to make you laugh. Which is this book?
(A) The Picture of Dorian Grey
(B) Herzog
(C) Portnoy’s Complaint
(D) Ulysses
8. A.S. Byatt in her famous award winning novel of 1990 contrasts past and present
involving a search for a Victorian poet’s past illuminating a contemporary university
researcher’s life and times. Which is the novel?
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) Babel Tower
(D) Still Life
9. Which of the following statements best describes JM Coetzee’s Disgrace?
(A) It is a murder mystery set in post-apartheid South Africa.
(B) It is a complex narrative of sin and redemption which involves both White and
Black South Africans.
(C) The protagonist David Lurie is a priest who brings disgrace to his calling.
(D) Coetzee has a schematic and reductive view on the relations between Whites and
the Blacks in South Africa.
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10. Which of the following statements is not true of Mahesh Dattani’s Final
Solutions?
(A) The play centres on a middle class Hindu family during a communal riot.
(B) It challenges communalism.
(C) It is concerned with homosexual relationship.
(D) It promotes religious pluralism in South Asia.
11. According to Bakhtin the idea of the Carnivalesque represents the following
characteristics except:
(A) A liberation from the prevailing truth and established order
(B) A harking back to the past
(C) Emphasis on play, parody, pleasure and the body
(D) The suspension of all hierarchical rank, principles, norms and prohibitions
12. Which of the following statements is not true of Patrick White?
(A) He is remembered today for his epic and psychological narrative art.
(B) He is the only Australian to receive the Nobel Prize in literature.
(C) He pioneered a new fictional landscape and introduced a new continent in
literature.
(D) His style is noted for lucidity and simplicity.
13. Conventional scholarship dates ‘Early Modern English’ as beginning around
(A) 450
(B) 1066
(C) 1500
(D) 1800
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14. “Every demon carries within him unknown to himself, a tiny seed of self
destruction and goes up in thin air at the most unexpected moment.” To which of
R.K. Narayan’s characters the above statement applies?
(A) Raju – The Guide
(B) Jagan – The Sweet Vendor
(C) Vasu – Man Eater of Malgudi
(D) Margayya – The Financial Expert
15. Which of the following is not true of post-structuralism?
(A) It seeks to undermine the idea that meaning pre-exists its linguistic expression.
(B) There can be no meaning which is not formulated and no language formulation
reaches anywhere beyond language.
(C) There is no a-textual ‘origin’ of a text.
(D) Every sign refers to every other sign adequately.
16. Which of the following statements is not true of Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp
Dwellers?
(A) It talks about the family, the extended family in the African society.
(B) It is a confrontation between the traditional and modern society.
(C) It talks about the migration of people, crossing of borders and diasporic anguish.
(D) It is a comment about the city, urban, modern and the country rural, the swamp,
the ancient.
17. Arrange the following English literary periods in the order in which they
appeared. Use the codes given below:
I. Elizabethan
II. Caroline
III. Anglo Norman
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IV. Early Tudor
(A) III, II, IV, I
(B) III, IV, II, I
(C) II, III, IV, I
(D) III, IV, I, II
18. Which of the following plays is not written by Rabindranath Tagore?
(A) Sacrifice
(B) Chandalika
(C) Muktadhara
(D) Eknath
Assertion (A): A quarto refers to a text in which each leaf was a quarter the size of the
original sheet.
Reason (R): Because eight pages of text were printed on large sheets of paper, which
were then folded four times to produce four leaves.
(A) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong.
(C) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct
20. The purpose of the Pre-Raphaelites was primarily to promote
(A) Complexity and ambivalence in art and literature.
(B) Simplicity and naturalness in art and literature.
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(C) Symbolic and classical modes in art and literature.
(D) Psychological and mythic modes in art and literature.
21. Which one of the following plays does not use the device of “the play within the
play”?
(A) Hamlet
(B) Women Beware Women
(C) The Spanish Tragedy
(D) A Midsummer Nights’ Dream
Assertion (A): In the Absurd plays of Pinter and Beckett, lack of communication
seems to be a predominant theme.
Reason (R): Existentialist philosophy had a tremendous influence on the dramatists of
the period, nihilism and meaninglessness of life taking a front seat.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
23. Which of the following observations are true about Beatrice Culleton’s April Rain
tree?
I. It is a fictional account of the lives of two metis sisters growing up in Winnipeg.
II. April has a darker complexion and identifies herself with Metis population.
III. The two sisters have been removed from their parents home and placed with a
series of foster families.
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IV. Cheryl has a lighter complexion and identifies herself with white population.
24. “She dwells with beauty – Beauty that must die”, – wrote Keats in one of his odes,
referring to
(A) Indolence
(B) Autumn
(C) Melancholy
(D) Psyche
25. Kafka’s Trial has all the following characteristics except:
(A) Vivid yet surreal
(B) Dystopian
(C) The use of historical details of setting
(D) The depiction of totalitarian society
(Phrases from poems)
I.“Sound of stick upon the floor”
II. “Hade’s bobbin bound in mummy cloth”
III. “With beauty like a tightened bow”
IV. “A tattered coat upon a stick”
(Titles of poems)
1. “Byzantium”
2. “Sailing to Byzantium”
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3. “Coole and Ballylee, 1931”
4. “No Second Troy”
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 3 2
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
27. Given below are the two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): The literature of the Jacobean Age is dominated by works revealing
symptoms of melodrama and sensationalism.
Reason (R): The Jacobean Age is generally ruled by the spirit of decadence.
In the context of the two statements which one of the following is correct?
28. Which of the following statements best describes the term ‘deconstruction’?
(A) It seeks to expose the problematic nature of ‘centered’ discourses.
(B) It advocates ‘subjective’ or ‘free’ interpretation.
(C) It emphasizes the importance of historical context.
(D) It is a method of critical analysis.
29. Which of these authors is not a writer of African American slave narratives?
(A) Solomon Northrop
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(B) Frederick Douglass
(C) Phillis Wheatley
(D) Sojourner Truth
30. “For nature then
The courser pleasures of my boyish days,
And their glad animal movements all gone by
to me was all in all”.
In these lines from “Tintern Abbey Revisited”, Wordsworth is talking about:
(A) The second stage in his relationship with Nature.
(B) The first stage in his relationship with Nature.
(C) Both the first and second stages in his relationship with Nature.
(D) The third stage in his relationship with Nature.
31. Assertion (A): One of Flaubert’s main motivations in writing the novel
Madam Bovary was his antipathy for the bourgeoisie.
Reason (R): Flaubert strongly believed that bourgeoisie are those who think, feel and
act in terms of utilitarianism and who reject the humanity and uniqueness of the
individual person.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
32. “A Tun of Man in thy large Bulk is writ, but sure thou’rt but a Kilderkin of wit” In
the above lines what does Dryden mean by ‘Kilderkin’?
(A) A trivial instance
(B) A small barrel of wine
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(C) kith and kin
(D) A small amount, as contrasted with ‘tun’
33. Which of the following statements is not true of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the
Day? The novel
(A) Usesa butler as a pivotal character.
(B) Uses the classic English detective story form.
(C) Refers to England in the 1930s.
(D) Became a very successful _lm.
34. “From a Second Space perspective city space becomes more of a mental and
ideational field, conceptualized in imagery, reflexive thought and symbolic
representation, a conceived space of the imagination or what I will henceforth
describe as the urban imagery.” (Edward Soja, Post metropolis) Which of the
following statements cannot be applied to Soja’s proposition on the Second Space?
(A) Second Space perspective tends to be more subjective.
(B) Second Space perspective is concerned with symbolic representation of reality.
(C) Second Space perspective is concerned with the fundamentally materialist
approach.
(D) Second Space perspective deals with ‘thoughts about space’.
35. “Lightly, O lightly, we bear her along; she sways like a flower in the wind of our
song; She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream; she floats like a laugh from the
lips of a dream…..” These lines occur in the poem
(A) “Palanquin bearers”
(B) “The Illusion of Love”
(C) “Indian Love Song”
(D) “Cradle Song”
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36. Which among the following novels of Anita Desai is a children’s book?
(A) Fire and the Mountain
(B) Fasting, Feasting
(C) The Zig zag Way
(D) The Village by the Sea
37. Who among the following writers describes novels as “not form which you see
but emotion which you feel”?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) Jean Rhys
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) Joseph Conrad
38. In Paradise Lost, Milton invokes his ‘Heavenly Muse’, ‘Urania’ at the beginning of:
I. Book one
II. Book four
III. Book nine
IV. Book seven
(B) I, III and IV correct.
39. Which one of the following best describes the basic principle of New Criticism?
(A) An emphasis on the distinctive style and personality of the authors.
(B) Stressing the virtues of discipline, order and the ethical mean.
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(C) Locating the meaning of a literary work in the internal relations of the language
that constitute a text.
(D) Evaluating a literary text against a backdrop of historical events.
40. Who among the following figures give a preview of Achenbach’s fatal end in
Death in Venice?
I. The Graveyard Stranger
II. The Governess
III. The barber
IV. The Gondolier
(A) III and IV are correct.
41. Jacques Lacan posits three ‘orders’ which structure human existence. In the list
that follows: Identify the one that is not included by Lacan:
(A) Imaginary
(B) Unconscious
(C) Real
(D) Symbolic
42. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other
labeled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Deconstructive reading is apolitical.
Reason (R): Because it focuses exclusively on language. It primarily holds that all texts
or linguistic structures contain within them a principle of destabilization and hence it
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is difficult to pin down meaning. Such a reading, therefore, is unable to assign
historical agency.
In this context above statements, identify which one of the following is correct?
(A) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong.
(C) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
(Title of poem)
I.“I hear a fly Buzz”
II. “Birches”
III. “Sunday Morning”
IV. “A Supermarket in California”
(Poet)
1. Wallace Stevens
2. Emily Dickinson
3. Allen Ginsberg
4. Robert Frost
I II III IV
(A) 2 4 3 1
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 3 2 1 4
44. ‘Lexis’ refers to
(A) All word forms having meaning or grammatical functions
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(B) The history of words
(C) Study of select word forms
(D) The selection of words
45. The following writers are involved in social activism in addition to their practice of
creative writing:
I. Mahasweta Devi
II. Shashi Deshpande
III. Arundhati Roy
IV. Shobha De
46. In relation to Spenser’s Faerie Queene which of the following character virtue link
is rightly matched?
(A) Justice-Artegall; Courtsey- Guyan; Temperance-Calidore
(B) Chasity-Britomart; Justice- Guyan; Temperance-Talus
(C) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance- Guyon; Justice-Artegall
(D) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance- Artegall; Justice-Britomart
47. The Divine Comedy is divided into three canticas, each consisting of
(A) 30 cantos
(B) 33 cantos
(C) 24 cantos
(D) 28 cantos
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48. The Modern Promethean is the alternative title of
(A) Dracula
(B) Frankenstein
(C) Caleb Williams
(D) The Italian
49. In Words upon Words, Saussure says, “The actual birth of a new language has
never reported in the world” because “we have never known of a language which was
not spoken the day before or which was not spoken in the same way the day before”.
What does he mean?
(A) Old languages die making way for new ones.
(B) The birth and death of a language are not subject to human laws.
(C) Languages do not get borne, they evolve out of previously existing linguistic
situations.
(D) Old speech patterns trigger the birth of a new language.
50. What did Henry James describe as “Loose Baggy Monsters”?
(A) Novels
(B) The Spaniards
(C) Epic Poems
(D) His trousers
51. “High above the north pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of
English literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per
hour.” This is the opening of David Lodge’s
(A) Nice Work
(B) Changing Places
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(C) Small World
(D) The British Museum is Falling Down
52. At the end of The Portrait of a Lady Isabel Archer
I. Goes back to the house from the Garden.
II. Accepts the proposal of Casper Good wood.
III. Straight away refuses the offer of Good wood.
IV. Probably goes back to Rome and Osmond.
Which are the correct combinations according to the code?
Codes:
53. “I will put myself in poor and mean attire and with a kind of umber smirch my
face”. The word umber means:
(A) A dusty yellow or brown pigment
(B) A dark brown pigment
(C) Light brown powder
(D) Yellow paste
Answers: (A)
54. Which of the following psychoanalysts rewrote Descartes’s dictum: “I think
therefore I am’ as ‘I am not where I think, and I think where I am not’?
(A) Lacan
(B) Freud
(C) Jung
(D) Cixous
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55. By the end of In Memorium the speaker
(A) Re-embraces a Christian vision of after life
(B) Re-asserts religious doubts and scientific scepticism.
(C) Reiterates the Darwinian view of social life.
(D) Reaffirms his faith in universal brotherhood.
56. The system of social rules that a speaker knows about language and uses it is
called
(A) Grammar
(B) Morphology
(C) Orthography
(D) Pragmatics
57. The term ‘ecological imperialism’ was coined by
(A) Vandana Shiva
(B) Laurence Buell
(C) Paulo Freire
(D) Alfred Crosby
58. Emotional ties and personal relationships play a minor part in Defoe’s works. The
following protagonists of Defoe have no family except one who leaves family at an
early age. Which is that character?
(A) Moll Flanders
(B) Colonel Jacque
(C) Robinson Crusoe
(D) Captain Singleton
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(Novels)
I.The Power and the Glory
II. The Quiet American
III. The Honorary Consul
IV. The Comedians
(Settings)
1. Vietnam
2. Haiti
3. Paraguay
4. Mexico
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 3 2
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
60. “…… Every other stone is god or cousin there is no crop other than god and god
is harvested here around the year.” This extract is from:
(A) Jayanta Mahapatra’s “Konarak”
(B) Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri
(C) P. Lal’s “Being Very Simple, God”
(D) R. Parthasarathy’s “Under another Sky”
61. In EM Foster’s A Passage to India some of the major symbols are associated with:
I. Mountains
II. Tigers
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III. Echoes
IV. Clouds
62. Which of the following features are present in Dostoevsky’s Crime and
Punishment?
I. Nihilism
II. Utilitarianism
III. Rationalism
IV. Christian Symbolism
(B) I and IV are correct
(C) III and IV are correct
63. “Count no man happy until he dies, free of pain at last”, is the last line of
(A) Oedipus at Colonus
(B) Agamemnon
(C) Oedipus the King
(D) Orestes
64. What characteristics of 17th century metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm
of modernist poets and critics?
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I. its intellectual complexity
II. Its uncompromising engagement with politics
III. Its religious fervor
IV. Its union of thought and passion
65. Th’ inferior Priestess, at her Altar’s side, trembling, begins the sacred Rites of
Pride. In this description of Belinda at the dressing table, what does the word Pride
refer to?
(A) Vanity
(B) Pride as the first of man’s sins
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) Complacency
66. “Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young….. She and I were twins: And
should I die this instant, I had liv’d her time to a minute” In the light of the above
quotation which of the following interpretations is not correct?
(A) The beauty and youth of the Duchess become obvious to Ferdinand when he
sees her dead body.
(B) Only when he identifies himself with her, does he realize the enormity of his
crime.
(C) When he compares the age of the Duchess with his own and puts himself in her
position does he realize his guilt?
(D) He wants her face to be covered because it reminds him of her infidelity.
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67. All except one of the following scholars have come up with models which aim to
characterize world English’s within one conceptual set. Identify the lone exception.
(A) Tom McArthur
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) Braj Kachru
(D) Manfred Gorlach
68. In the very opening scene of Volpone, the protagonist says, “Open the shrine,
that I may see my Saint,” By the word ‘Saint’, Volpone is referring to
(A) The Sun
(B) Saint Arthur
(C) Gold
(D) Apollo
69. A close friend of Dickens objected to the original ending of Great Expectations in
which Estella remarries and Pip remains single. Dickens accordingly revised to a more
conventional ending which suggests that Pip and Estella will marry. Who was the
friend?
(A) Willkie Collins
(B) Thomas Beard
(C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) Richard Bentley
70. Which of the following statements best describes an example of the influence of
an affective factor on second language acquisition?
(A) A second language learner makes educated guesses about word meanings in a
text by recognizing cognates.
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(B) A second language learner uses familiar vocabulary to mentally form sentences
before speaking.
(C) An adult second language learner finds it impossible to form second language
sounds that do not occur in his first language.
(D) A second language learner employs several words from the first language when
peaking the second language but not when writing it.
71. Marvell’s “The Coronet” seeks to explore the human condition in terms of the
conflict between
(A) Body and soul
(B) War and peace
(C) Nature and grace
(D) Flesh and spirit
72. Which of the following is not true of post-structuralism?
(A) It seeks to undermine the idea that meaning pre-exists its linguistic expression.
(B) There can be no meaning which is not formulated and no language formulation
reaches anywhere beyond language.
(C) There is no a-textual ‘origin’ of a text.
(D) Every sign refers to every other sign adequately.
73. Which of the following second language learners would most likely acquire the
second language more easily?
(A) A high school student who has been enrolled in mandatory classes in the second
language since elementary school.
(B) A visitor to a country where the second language is spoken; he interacts with
hotel and restaurant personnel using the second language.
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(C) A business person for whom fluency in the second language may lead to career
advancement.
(D) An immigrant living in a country where the second language is spoken; he feels
accepted by speakers of the second language.
74. In Wuthering Heights, Cathy appears in a dream beating at a window, wailing “Let
me in”, and blood running down her wrist. Who dreams her?
(A) Lockwood
(B) Nelly
(C) Heathcliff
(D) Edgar Linton
75. Who among the following characters in Thomas More’s Utopia did not
correspond in biographical background to an actual historical person?
(A) Morton
(B) Hythloday
(C) Giles
(D) More
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Answer Key (1-75)
1 B 11 B 21 All 31 A 41 B 51 B 61 C 71 C
2 C 12 B\D 22 A 32 B 42 B 52 C 62 B 72 D
3 B 13 C 23 A 33 B 43 C 53 A 63 C 73 D
4 C 14 C 24 C 34 C 44 A 54 A 64 B 74 A
5 B 15 D 25 C 35 A 45 C 55 A 65 C 75 B
6 All 16 C 26 D 36 D 46 C 56 D 66 All
7 D 17 D 27 B 37 C 47 B 57 D 67 B
8 B 18 D 28 A 38 D 48 B 58 C 68 C
9 B 19 A 29 C 39 C 49 C 59 A 69 A
10 C 20 B 30 B&C 40 B 50 A 60 B 70 B
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1. Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth
century:
(A) Advancement of Learning
(B) Gulliver’s Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
2. Which, among the following, is a place through which John Bunyan’s
Christian does NOT pass?
(A) The Slough of Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C) The Valley of Humiliation
(D) Vanity Fair
3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign is
(A) 1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(C) 1830–1901
(D) 1837–1900
4. Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true?
(A) It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.
(B) It also carried pastoral and other poems.
(C) It carried a “Preface” which Wordsworth added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
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5. One of the following texts was published earlier than 1955. Identify the text:
(A) William Golding, the Inheritors
(B) Philip Larkin, the Less Deceived
(C) William Empson, Collected Poems
(D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot
6. Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had left–leaning tendencies?
(A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington
(B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day Lewis
(D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh
1. The Sage of Concord
2. The Nun of Amherst
3. Mark Twain
4. Old Possum
5. Emily Dickinson
6. R.W. Emerson
7. T.S. Eliot
8. Samuel L. Clemens
(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7
(B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8
(C) 1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5
(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6
8. Name the theorist who divided poets into “strong” and “weak” and popularized the
practice of misreading:
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(A) Alan Bloom
(B) Harold Bloom
(C) Geoffrey Hartman
(D) Stanley Fish
9. In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to
(A) The sun
(B) The moon
(C) The North Star
(D) The rose
10. Which of the following awards is not given to Indian–English writers?
(A) The Booker Prize
(B) The Sahitya Akademi Award
(C) The Gyanpeeth
(D) Whitbread Prize
11. Identify the correct statement below:
(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle
are tragedies.
(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle
are comedies.
(C) All of them are problem plays.
(D) All of them are farces.
12. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes its title to
(A) Browning’s Fifine at the Fair
(B) Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice
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(C) Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield
(D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
13. The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in
(A) 1642
(B) 1640
(C) 1659
(D) 1660
14. Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge?
(A) Robert Southey
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) A. C. Swinburne
15. Which of the following statements about Waiting for Godot is NOT true?
1. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two acts”.
2. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two scenes”.
3. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two parts”.
4. It does not carry a subtitle.
(A) 4
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 1
16. The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who
among the following belonged to the Bloomsbury Group?
I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
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II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell
III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter Pater
(A) I and II
(B) I
(C) II and III
(D) IV
17. Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative
Dictionary of the English Language?
(A) Bishop Berkeley
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole
18. In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of
the ancients?
(A) Lisideius
(B) Crites
(C) Eugenius
(D) Neander
19. The term invective refers to
(A) The abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person
or thing.
(B) An insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving
caricature and ridicule.
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(C) A written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or event
is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance.
(D) The chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power.
20. Which of the following novels depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in
East London?
(A) How far can you go
(B) The White Teeth
(C) An Equal Music
(D) Brick Lane
21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in
England. Identify the correct phrase below:
(A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left England for the U. S.
(B) For Eliot who started publishing verse–drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were
published.
(C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, each for publishing his first novels.
(D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and Orwell who published his Animal Farm.
22. The Enlightenment was characterized by
(A) Accelerated industrial production and general well–being of the public.
(B) A belief in the universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific
experimentation.
(C) The Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life.
(D) An undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will.
23. Which Shakespearean play contains the line: “…there is a special providence in the
fall of a sparrow”?
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(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Coriolanus
(D) Macbeth
24. Match the following pairs of books and authors:
I. Condition of the Working Class in England
II. London Labour and the London Poor
III. Past and Present
IV. Theunto This Last
i. John Ruskin
ii. Henry Mayhew
iii. Thomas Carlyle
iv. Friedrich Engels
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) iv ii iii i
(C) ii iv i ii
(D) iii ii iv iv
25. In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear as characters?
(A) Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy
(B) Harold Pinter’s Caretaker
(C) Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of Ma Parker”
(D) Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock
26. What is common to the following writers? Identify the correct description below:
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William Congreve
George Etherege
William Wycherley
Thomas Otway
(A) All of these were Restoration playwrights
(B) All of them were critics of Orwell’s regime
(C) All of them edited Shakespeare’s plays
(D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same age
27. In which Jane Austen novel do you find the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell,
Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth?
(A) Emma
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion
(D) Northanger Abbey
28. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of English in
colonial India?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment to Theory”
29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English.
(A) Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella
(C) Samuel Daniel’s Delia
(D) Michael Drayton’s Idea’s Mirror
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30. Which is the correct sequence of the novels of V.S. Naipaul?
(A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The Suffrage of Elvira – A House for Mr.Biswas.
(B) Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr.Biswas – The Suffrage of
Elvira.
(C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for
Mr.Biswas.
(D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr.Biswas.
31. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from
(A) Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimage
(B) Hakluyt’s Voyages
(C) The Book Named the Governour
(D) Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
32. Which of the following author– theme is correctly matched?
(A) The Battle of the Books- Tribute to “The rude forefathers of the hamlet”.
(B) The Rape of the Lock- Quarrel between ancient and modern authors.
(C) Gray’s “Elegy”-Accumulation of wealth and the consequent loss of human lives and
values.
(D) The Deserted Village- Quarrel between two families caused by Lord Petre.
33. Which among the following titles set a course for academic literary feminism?
(A) Nostromo
(B) From Ritual to Romance
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) A Dance to the Music of Time
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34. In which play do we see a reworking of E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India as a
camaeo?
(A) The Birthday Party
(B) A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Indian Ink
(D) Amadeus
35. Shakespeare’s sonnets
(A) Do not carry a dedication.
(B) Are dedicated to James I of England.
(C) Are dedicated to Mary Arden.
(D) Are dedicated to an unknown “Mr. W.H.”
36. Which of the following poems uses terza rima?
(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
37. When one says that “someone is no more” or that “someone has breathed his/ her
last”, the speaker is resorting to
(A) Euphism
(B) Euphony
(C) Understatement
(D) Euphemism
38. Which of the following are “companion poems”?
(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets”
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(B) “L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun Rising”
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! The Lark”
39. What does the term episteme signify?
(A) Knowledge
(B) Archive
(C) Theology
(D) Scholarship
40. Which of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing?
(A) A reflection
(B) A speaking picture
(C) A refraction
(D)A reflected picture
41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’?
(A) John Milton
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley
42. Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence
(A) It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
(B) It was the brightest of times; it was the darkest of times.
(C) It was the richest of times; it was the poorest of times.
(D) It was the happiest of times; it was the saddest of times.
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43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by
(A) Edwin Muir
(B) Edward Thomas
(C) Robert Bridges
(D) Coventry Patmore
44. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence?
(A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel– Ozymandias
(B) The Deserted Village – A Poison Tree – Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
(C) The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(D) The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
45. The term homology means a correspondence between two or more structures.
Who of the following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social
classes in terms of homologies
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Christopher Caudwell
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Antonio Gramsci
46. F. Turner’s famous hypothesis is that
(A) The Frontier has outlived its ideological utility in American civilization.
(B) The Frontier has posed a challenge to the American creative imagination.
(C) The Frontier has been the one great determinant of American civilization.
(D) The Frontier has been the one great deterrent to American progress.
47. Which statement(s) below on the Spenserian stanza is/are accurate?
I. A quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative
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II. A stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter
III. An eight–line stanza in iambic pentameter followed by a ninth in six iambic feet
IV. An eight–line stanza with six use of figurative language. Iambic feet followed by a
ninth in iambic pentameter
(A) I and II
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
48. Match the following texts with their respective themes:
I. Areopagitica (Milton)
II. Leviathan (Hobbes)
III. Alexander’s Feast (Dryden)
IV. The Way of The World (Congreve)
i. Fashion, courtship, seduction
ii. The liberty For Unlicensed Printing
iii. Absolute Sovereignty
iv. The power of music
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii i ii
49. The preliminary version of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man was called
(A) Stephen Hero
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(B) Bloom’s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
(D) The Dead
50. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from
other works.
(ii) It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a ‘purple passage’.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) Only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) Only (iv) is correct.
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Answer Key (1-50)
Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 A 11 B 21 A 31 A 41 C
2 B 12 D 22 B 32 All 42 A
3 B 13 A 23 B 33 C 43 C
4 D 14 D 24 B 34 C 44 B
5 D 15 All 25 B 35 D 45 A&C
6 C 16 A 26 A 36 B 46 C
7 A 17 B 27 C 37 D 47 C
8 B 18 B 28 A 38 B 48 B
9 A 19 A 29 B 39 A 49 A
10 C&D 20 D 30 D 40 B 50 A
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1. Which of the following book by V. S. Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited?
(A) In a Free State
(B) A Bend in the River
(C) The Middle Passage
(D) An Area of Darkness
2. ‘Fluency’ in language is the same as
(A) The ability to put oneself across comfortably in speech and/or writing.
(B) The ability to command language rather than language commanding the user.
(C) Glibness
(D) Accuracy
3. Which of the following statements on Pathetic Fallacy is NOT TRUE?
(A) This term applies to descriptions that are not true but imaginary and fanciful.
(B) Pathetic Fallacy is generally understood as human traits being applied or
attributed to non-human things in nature.
(C) In its first use, the term was used with disapproval because nature cannot be
equated with the human in respect of emotions and responses.
(D) The term was originally used by Alexander Pope in his Pastorals (1709).
4. Identify the correctly matched group:
i. ‘L’ Allegro and ‘IlPensoro so’
ii. ‘Lycidas’
iii. Comus
iv. ‘On His Blindness’
v. Areopagitica
1. Pastoral elegy
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2. Masque
3. Sonnet
4. Prose tract
5. Companion poems in octo-syllabic couplet
Codes:
i ii iii iv v
(A) 1 2 3 4 5
(B) 5 1 2 3 4
(C) 1 3 2 4 5
(D) 5 1 2 4 3
5. The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The University Wits – The Rhymers’ Club
– The Transitional Poets – The Scottish Chaucerians.The right chronological sequence
would be
(A) The Scottish Chaucerians – The University Wits – The Transitional Poets – The Pre-
Raphaelite brotherhood – The Rhymers’ Club.
(B) The Rhymers’ Club, The University Wits – The Scottish Chaucerians – The
Transitional Poets, The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.
(C) The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The Rhymers’ Club – The Transitional Poets,
The Scottish Chaucerians –The University Wits.
(D) The University Wits, The Scottish Chaucerians – The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood,
The Transitional Poets – The Rhymers’ Club.
6. ‘Aucitya’ refers to:
I. Decorum
II. Propriety
III. Proportion
IV. Accuracy
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(C) II is correct.
7. In the closing paragraph of The Trial two men accompany Joseph K to a part of the
city to eventually execute him. The place is
(A) A Public Park
(B) A Church
(C) A Quarry
(D) An Abandoned Factory
(Character)
i. Telemachus
ii. Anya
iii. Zverkov
iv. Rastignac
1. Notes from underground
2. Old Goriot
3. The Cherry Orchard
4. The Odyssey
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
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9. This renowned German poet was born in Prague and died of Leukemia. When
young he met Tolstoy and was influenced by him. The titles of his last two works
contain the words “sonnets” and “elegies”. He is
(A) Herman Hesse
(B) Heinrich Heine
(C) Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff
(D) Raine Marie Rilke
10. Which of the following plays gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher
Socrates?
(A) The Birds
(B) The Wasps
(C) The Clouds
(D) The Frogs
11. Raskolnikov murders the old lady:
I. To get her money and achieve his ambition in life.
II. To achieve his political goal as an extremist and a nihilist
III. To prove his superiority over other young men of the time.
IV. All of the above
(D) I, II and III are correct.
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12. In his preface to The Order of Things, Foucault mentions being influenced by a
Latin American writer and his work. Choose the correct answer:
(A) Marquez – “The Solitude of Latin America”
(B) Borges – “Chinese Encyclopaedia”
(C) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
(D) Alejo Carpentier – “On the Marvelous in America”
13. Here is a list of Partition novels which have ‘violence on the woman’s body’ as a
significant theme. Pick the odd one out:
(A) The Pakistani Bride
(B) What the Body Remembers
(C) Train to Pakistan
(D) The Ice-Candy Man
14. Match the translators in List – I with the English translations of Indian
Literature texts in List – II according to the code given below:
i. K.B. Vaid
ii. O.V. Vijayan
iii. Dilip Chitre
iv. A.K. Ramanujan
1. Says Tuka
2. The Diary of a Maid Servant
3. Samskara
4. Saga of Dharmapuri
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
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(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 1 2 3 4
15. In his poem “A Morning Walk” Nissim Ezekiel talks about a ‘Barbaric City sick with
slums / Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains / its hawkers, beggars, ironlunged/
Processions led by frantic drums.’ Identify the city:
(A) Calcutta
(B) Banares
(C) Bombay
(D) Agra
16. In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in most human
utterances to four aspects. These are
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(C) Sense, Voice, Emotion, Intention
(D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention
17. In ‘Christabel’ after Geraldine enters SirLeoline’s castle on her way to Christabel’s
chamber there are several ill omens which warn the reader about Geraldine. Pick out
the phrase which does not serve as an omen:
(A)The ‘angry moan’ of the ailing mastiff bitch
(B) ‘The Owlet’s Scritch’
(C) ‘The Moaning Wind’
(D) ‘A tongue of light, a fit of flame’
18. The word resurrect is
(A) An abbreviation
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(B) A spurious verb
(C) A back-formation
(D) A disguised compound
i. Annie John
ii. Tom Jones
iii. The Sorrows of Young Werther
iv. Vathek
1. Picaresque
2. Bildungsroman
3. Gothic
4. Epistolary
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
20. Ted Hughes’s poem ‘The Thought- Fox’ is
I. About Thought as Fox
II. about the Fox as Thought
III. About the process of writing poetry.
IV. About Thought entering the poet’s brain like the Fox emerging from darkness.
Find the most appropriate combination according to the code:
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21. In Aristotle’s Poetics we read that it is the imitation of an action that is complete
and whole, and of a certain magnitude….having a beginning, a middle, and an end’.
What is ‘it’?
(A) Tragedy
(B) Epic
(C) Poetry
(D) Farce
22. According to Matthew Arnold, ‘touchstones’ help us test truth and seriousness
that constitute the best poetry. What are the ‘touchstones’?
(A) The purple passages of lyric poetry
(B) Passages from ancient poets
(C) The lines and expressions of the great masters
(D) Passages of epic strength and vigour
23. ‘An extremely simplified form of language used for oral, verbal contact among a
community whose members speak different languages but do not share a common
language in order to fulfill the essential needs of communication. ’Which of the
following is best described by this definition?
(A) Creole
(B) Pidgin
(C) Dialect
(D) Lingua franca
24. What do the prosodic features of a language tell us?
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(A) The speaker’s native language and its cognate languages.
(B) The speaker’s age, emotional state, social class, educational background,
geographical provenance etc.
(C) The speaker’s self-confidence or lack of it.
(D) The speaker’s command of the resources of the language spoken by him/her and
their deployment.
25. What novel answers to the following descriptions?
This was a 1990 best-seller by a British writer. The work incorporates many genres
such as letters, diaries and poetry as also third-person narratives.
The plot here involves two time-periods – contemporary and Victorian. The work is
subtitled A Romance.
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
(D) The Sea Lady
26. The following words and phrases, ‘peace makers’, ‘help-meet’, ‘the fat of the
land’, ‘a labour of love’, ‘the eleventh hour’ and ‘the shadow of death’ were made
current by
(A) The British Greek scholars like Roger Ascham
(B) The fifteenth century British prelates
(C) The Puritan tractarians
(D) The sixteen-century translators of the Bible
27. Who among the following writers asserted ‘Commonwealth Literature’ does not
exist?
(A) Amitav Ghosh
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(B) Sulman Rushdie
(C) V.S. Naipaul
(D) Nirad Chaudhari
28. Identify the one in correct chronological sequence:
(A) The Norman Conquest – The Death of Geo_rey Chaucer – William Tyndall’s
New
Testament – The Birth of William Shakespeare
(B) The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Birth of
William Shakespeare – The Norman Conquest
(C) The Norman Conquest –William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Death of
Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of William Shakespeare
(D) William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Norman Conquest – The Death of
Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of William Shakespeare
(A) Mary Wellstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by
Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by
Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in
France.
(B) Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone
Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and
Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and
Coleridge.
(C) Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge –
Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on, the
Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
(D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’,
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second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on
the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of
Woman.
Answer: (B)
30. Who is John Keats’s ‘Sylvan Historian’?
(A) Fanny Brawne
(B) Nightingale
(C) The Grecian Urn
(D) The Bridge of Quietness
31. This periodical was started in 1709 with a motive ‘to expose the false arts of life,
to pull the disguise of cunning, vanity and affectation, and to recommend a general
simplicity in our dress, our discourse and our behaviour.’ The founder of the
periodical wrote under the pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff. The periodical described
above is
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Critical Review
(D) The Rambler
32. Arrange the following in the order in which the details of a research article / essay
appear in your bibliography.
(A) Page numbers, the title of the essay, the title of the journal, volume & issue
numbers, year of publication
(B) The title of the essay, page numbers, the title of the journal, volume and issue
(C) The title of the journal, the title of the essay, page numbers, volume and issue
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(D) The title of the essay, the title of the journal, volume & issue numbers, the year of
publication, page numbers
33. From the following indicate the work which is not a Dystopia:
(A) Aldous Huxley – A Brave New World
(B) George Orwell – 1984
(C) Yevgeny Zamyatin– We
(D) Evelyn Waugh – Brideshed Revisited
34. ‘Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image, but he who
destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in
the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the
precious life-blood of a master spirit….’
Where is the passage from?
(A) Milton’s Areopagitica
(B) Sidney’s Apologie for Poetry
(C) Dryden’s ‘Preface to the Fables’
(D) Marvell’s The Rehearsal Transposed
35. Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of character and the understanding of realism
of writers like Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her famous essay is
called ‘Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown’. Who is Mrs. Brown?
(A) The name Woolf gives a woman whom she happens to meet in a train.
(B) A servant in Mr. Bennett’s household.
(C) A character in a Bennett story.
(D) Mr. Bennett’s neighbour who happens to be a writer.
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36. E.M. Forster uses some recurrent images in A Passage to India. Pick the odd one
out:
(A) Wasp
(B) Stone
(C) Thunder
(D) Echo
37. ‘Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of midnight-work to
come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe, and liquor’dev’ry
chink Goodly and great he rails behind his link’.
In the above extract from Absalom and AchitophelOg is
(A) Elkanah Settle
(B) Lord Harvey
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Joseph Addison
38. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression ‘a bright book of life’ to describe
(A) The novel
(B) The dramatic monologue
(C) The Bible
(D) The short lyric
39. Identify the correctly matched group:
i. Where Angles Fear to Tread
ii. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
iii. The Plumed Serpent
iv. An Outcast of the Islands
v. Under Western Eyes
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1. Malay
2. Russia
3. Italy
4. Mexico
5. Dublin
Codes:
i ii iii iv v
(A) 3 5 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 5 2 1
(C) 5 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 3 4 5
40. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Chaucer describes ‘Madame Eglentyne’ thus: ‘She was so charitable and
so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous caught in atrappe’
Reason (R): On her ‘broche of gold full shene’ was written Amor Vincit Omnia.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct?
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but(R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
41. Identify the correct statements on Langue and Parole below:
1. Langue is the abstract language system, the grammar of a language.
2. Parole is the language actually produced by its user following langue.
3. Langue is the language actually produced by its users following parole.
4. Parole is the abstract language system, the grammar of a system.
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42. In Monica Ali’s Brick Lane which among the following characters has ‘a face like a
frog’?
(A) Nazneen
(B) Chanu
(C) Hasina
(D) Karim
43. ‘The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Check’ring the eastern clouds
with streaks of light; and flecked darkness like a drunkardreels From forth day’s path
and Titan’sburning wheels.’(Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 – 4)The speaker describes
(A) The Setting Sun
(B) The Return Home of a Drunkard
(C) The Drawing of a New Day
(D) The Rising Sun
44. ‘How noble in reason ! How in_nitein faculty! In form and moving how express
and admirable! In action how like anangel! In apprehension how like a God!’What
does Hamlet marvel at in this passage?
(A) His own self
(B) His father
(C) Man
(D) Woman
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45. Said identifies Orientalism as:
I. What an Orientalist does.
II. A style of thought based on anontological and epistemological distinction made
between the Orient and the Occident.
III. a discourse dealing with the Orient
IV. a fact of nature rather than one of human production
In the light of the statement above:
(A) II and III are correct, I and IV are wrong.
(B) I and III are correct, II and IV are wrong.
(C) I, II and III are correct and IV is wrong.
(D) IV is correct and I, II and III are wrong.
46. Identify the period during which the Puritans under the rule of Oliver Cromwell
and his Commonwealth shut down all English theatres on religious and moral
grounds:
(A) 1640-1660
(B) 1649-1660
(C) 1649-1659
(D) 1640-1659
47. “To tell the truth Shug act more manly than rest, men. I means she upright,
honest, speak her mind…”What light does the quotation throwon ShugAvery?
(A) She is a manly woman.
(B) She is upright and honest in asserting her lesbian identity.
(C) She is bent on self-assertion
(D) Both (B) and (C)
48. 1. A content word is not a function word.
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2. A content word has lesser meaning than a function word.
3. A content word has no function.
4. A content word bears lexical meaning whereas a function word just about means
functionally.
Which of these statements are correct?
49. The year 1828 is a landmark in the history of American language and literature.
Identify the reason from the following:
(A) Mark twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in that year.
(B) The Southern Literary Messenger gained wide circulation since that year.
(C) Washington Irving was adjudged the nation’s greatest writer in that year.
(D) Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language in
that year.
50. What alternative title to her Frankenstein did Marry Shelley give?
(A) A Gothic Tale
(B) A Gothic Romance
(C) The Modern Prometheus
(D) A Modern Parable
51. Which of the following statements on George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin
[1953] is not true?
(A) On one level this is a coming of-age story.
(B) It is an elegiac account of avillage’s growth into awareness in the late colonial
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period.
(C) Its themes parody The Tempest.
(D) This was George Lamming’s first novel.
52. We are likely to misunderstand an Emily Dickinson poem if we take her famous
dashes to be …
(A) Quite specific and unambiguous
(B) Ambiguous and indeterminate
(C) Suggestive of both forward and backward movements in terms of sense
(D) Suggestive of links but equivocally
53. Readers of Tayeb Salih’s Seasons of Migration to the North will undoubtedly
notice its parallels with the story/stories of:
I. Death in Venice
II. Othello
III. Bartleby the Scrivener
IV. Heart of Darkness
Of the above:
(B) Only IV is correct.
54. Which statement is not true of Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities?
(A) It is a prosaic response to the myth of El Dorado.
(B) It is subtitled Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
(C) In this book, Anderson advances the view that nations are not natural entities but
narrative constructs.
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(D) In Anderson’s view, modern nationalism was basically a consequence of the
convergence of capitalism, the new print technology and the fixity that resulted from
print extending to ‘Vernacular’ languages.
55. ‘By swaggering could I never thrive, for the rain it raineth everyday.
’These lines from Twelfth Night occur in the novel:
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Vanity Fair
(C) Our Mutual Friend
(D) Far From the Madding Crowd
56. What is a mock-heroic poem?
A mock-heroic poem
(A) Mocks at heroic pretensions in poets and critics
(B) Mocks heroism, an exaggerated virtue in all epics
(C) Uses a heroic style to deride airs and affectations
(D) Uses a mocking style to deride heroes and hero-worship
57. Which of the following statements is not true of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram
Shandy?
(A) It has a linear plot.
(B) It opens and ends with the theme of birth.
(C) It contains a trip to France.
(D) It contains a marbled page.
58. In drama, an aside is addressed…
(A) To an audience by an actor; the words so spoken are not meant to be heard by
other actors on the stage.
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(B) To other actors on the stage; the words so spoken are not meant to be heard by
the audience.
(C) By the playwright to the audience.
(D) By the protagonist to his/her antagonist
(Novels)
i. The Mayor of Casterbridge
ii. Sons and Lovers
iii. The Great Gatsby
iv. The Mill on the Floss
(Last Lines)
1. ‘He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly.’
2. ‘In their death, they were not divided.’
3. ‘Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.’
4. ‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
60. “There is nothing outside the text,” is a statement by
(A) Victor Shklovsky
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
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61. Here is a list of women abandoned by their lovers in Hardy’s novels.
Pick the odd one out:
(A) Fanny Robin
(B) Tess D’Urberville
(C) Marty South
(D) Bathsheba Everdene
62. What is the following a description of? ‘A loose sally of the mind; an irregular
indigested piece’
(A) Essay
(B) Autobiography
(C) Epistolary Fiction
(D) Diary
63. From the following indicate the critic who is not a New Critic:
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Robert Penn Warren
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss
64. From the following list, pick out a woman character who does not belong to
Amitav Ghosh’s novels:
(A) Ila
(B) Urvashi
(C) Sonali
(D) Piyali
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65. Pick the odd man out of the following members of the subaltern group:
(A) Ranajit Guha
(B) Partha Chatterjee
(C) DipeshChakrabarty
(D) Sumit Sarkar
66. Statement (S): “Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting.”
Interpretation (I): The human soul never tires in the course of life, it never dies.
Therefore, the human life is a long sleep and ephemeral events are better forgotten.
(A) (S) is a view and (I) is not correct.
(B) (S) is a view and (I) is correct.
(C) (S) is a poetic view; the (I) does not suit it.
(D) (S) is a poetic view and bears no relationship to (I).
67. ‘The parish of rich women, physical decay, / yourself…’What do these make of
W.B. Yeats in W.H. Auden’s view?
(A) Proud
(B) Vainglorious
(C) Avaricious
(D) Silly
68. Who among Charles Dickens’s characters is ‘umble’ and who ‘willin’?
(A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
(B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby
(C) Martin, Little Nell
(D) Uriah Heep, Barkis
69. “Fourth World Literature” refers to
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I. The works of native people living in a land that has been taken over by nonnatives.
II. The works of black people in the United States.
III. The literature of the marginalized.
IV. Refers to the works of non heterosexuals
Of the above:
70. Assertion (A): In The Duchess of Mal_ Ferdinand sets a whole group of mad men
on the Duchess and they dance and sing in a crazy manner.
Reason (R): His desire was to provide a strange entertainment to drive the Duchess
mad. In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
71. Why is The Signifying Monkey of Henry Louis Gates JR. a notable contribution to
the study of African- American literature?
(A) It focuses on largely neglected African-American novelists and poets.
(B) It offers a theory of African- American criticism that draws upon rhetorical and
signifying practices.
(C) It offers a theory of African- American films and dramatic arts that signify Black
ethos.
(D) It departs from critical theory of autobiographical narratives involving Black lives
and cultural traditions.
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72. This influential critic
I. wrote influential commentaries on such poets as Shelley, Blake and Yeats.
II. Published such titles as The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, Poetry and
Repression and The Western Canon.
III. Asserted that most literary criticism is but slightly disguised religion and
IV. Is, arguably, the most widely known and contrarian among his American peers in
the English Academy.
Identify the critic
(A) Edward Said
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) Sven Birkrets
73. According to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci:
(A) Hegemony is synonymous with domination
(B) Hegemony involves a degree of consent on the part of subject people.
(C) Hegemony involves a degree of coercion on the part of a dominant political
entity.
(D) Hegemony is synonymous with subjugation
i. George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Kyd 1. The Rhymers’ Club
/ The Decadents of the 1890’s
ii. William Congreve, William Wycherley George Eltherege, George Farquhar 2. The
Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood
iii. John Everett Millais, James Collinson, Ford Madox Brown, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti 3. The
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iv. Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, W.B. Yeats 4. The Restoration Playwrights
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 1 4 3 2
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 2 1
75. Combine the statements correctly: According to Homi Bhabha________
1. Mimicry is not mere copying or emulating the colonizer’s culture, behaviour and
manners.
2. But it is further aimed at perfection and excess.
3. Mimicry is mere copying the colonizer’s culture, behaviour and manners…
4. But is informed by both mockery and a certain menace.
(A) 1 and 4
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 3 and 4
(D) 3 and 2
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Answer Key (1-75)
1 C 11 B 21 A 31 A 41 B 51 C 61 D 71 B
2 A 12 B 22 C 32 D 42 B 52 A 62 A 72 C
3 D 13 C 23 B 33 D 43 C 53 D 63 D 73 B
4 B 14 C 24 B 34 A 44 C 54 A 64 B 74 D
5 A 15 C 25 B 35 A 45 C 55 A 65 D 75 A
6 C 16 A 26 D 36 C 46 A&B 56 C 66 B
7 C 17 C 27 B 37 C 47 D 57 A 67 D
8 D 18 C 28 A 38 A 48 A 58 A 68 D
9 D 19 B 29 B 39 A 49 D 59 D 69 B
10 C 20 D 30 C 40 B 50 C 60 B 70 B
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June 2012 Paper II

1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of
the term:
(A) aporia
(B) difference
(C) erasure
(D) supplement
2. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in
Love?
(A) Harold Pinter
(B) Alan Bennett
(C) Caryl Churchill
(D) Tom Stoppard
3. Arrange the following in the chronological order:
1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women
2. Lyrical Ballads
3. French Revolution
4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
(A) 4, 3, 1, 2
(B) 3, 2, 1, 2
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 2, 1, 3, 4
4. Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is
relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?
(A) Sons and Lovers
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(B) Ulysses
(C) The Power and the Glory
(D) Heart of Darkness
5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as
(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn
(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries
(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine
(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries
6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of
Gaunt?
(A) Troilus and Criseyde
(B) The House of Fame
(C) The Book of Duchess
(D) The Legend of Good Women
7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of
(A) Gorboduc
(B) Ralph Roister Doister
(C) Damon and Pythias
(D) Lamentable Tragedy
8. Who of the following poets is Australian?
(A) Austin Clarke
(B) Judith Wright
(C) Edwin Muir
(D) Derek Walcott
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9. “He found it [English] brick and left it marble”, remarked one great writer on
another. Who were they?
(A) Milton on Shakespeare
(B) Dryden on Milton
(C) Johnson on Dryden
(D) Jonson on Shakespeare
10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel Laureate?
(A) Tony Morrison
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Ted Hughes
(D) Geoffrey Hill
Answer: (A & B)
11. List – I
I. “Because I could not stop for death…”
II. “O Captain ! My Captain!”
III. “Two roads diverged in a wood….”
IV. “So much depends /upon”
List – II
a. Robert Frost
b. William Carlos Williams
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Walt Whitman
The correctly matched series would be :
(A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a
(B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c
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(D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b
12. The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest
Proposal” are
(A) comic
(B) solemn
(C) hortatory
(D) irony
13. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever
hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. So begins Auden’s
“September 1, 1939”. What is the meaning of the word in italics?
(A) bench
(B) night club
(C) house
(D) park
14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing
(A) Practical Criticism
(B) New Criticism
(C) Standard English Project
(D) Basic English Project
15. In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear ?
(A) The Rivals
(B) She Stoops to Conquer
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D) The Way of the World
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16. Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true?
I. Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe’s life.
II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe’s best play.
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.
IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.
(A) I and II are true.
(B) II and III are true.
(C) II and IV are true.
(D) III and IV are true.
17. “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for
(A) the Aesthetes
(B) the Symbolists
(C) the Imagists
(D) the Art Noveau School
18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by
(A) S. T. Coleridge
(B) P. B. Shelley
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) Lord Byron
19. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?
(A) “The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
(C) The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.
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(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-
tellers in this work.
20. Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film
critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts?
(A) Anthony Powell
(B) Evelyn Waugh
(C) William Golding
(D) Graham Greene
21. List – I
1. Good sense is the body of poetic genius
2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of all knowledge
3. Literary criticism is a description and evaluation of its object
4. Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a tapestry as diverse poets have done
List – II
I. Brooks, “The Formalist Critic”
II. Sidney, Defence/ An Apology for Poetry
III. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
IV. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
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(A) IV III I II
(B) II IV III I
(C) III II I IV
(D) IV II I III
22. In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his
visit to India?
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(A) A Tramp Abroad
(B) Roughing It
(C) The Innocents Abroad
(D) Following the Equator
23. William Blake’s famous poems such as “London”, “The Sick Rose”, and
“The Tyger” appear in
(A) Songs of Innocence
(B) Songs of Experience
(C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion
24. Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and
Scott?
(A) Richard Hogarth
(B) Joshua Reynolds
(C) George Cruishank
(D) John Tennial
25. The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to
(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms
(B) The Land of Homosapiens
(C) The Land of the Hurricanes
(D) The Newfound Land
26. Madam Merle is a character in
(A) The Great Gatsby
(B) The Portrait of a Lady
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(C) The Jungle
(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
27. In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have a departure from
Standard English?
(A) The typist scene
(B) The pub scene
(C) The hyacinth garden scene
(D) The Chapel Perilous scene
28. The words “If it were done when tis done, then twere well / It were done
quickly…” are uttered by
(A) Hamlet
(B) Lear
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth
29. John Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel a
(A) religious tract
(B) political allegory
(C) comic verse epic
(D) comedy
30. The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is associated with the early plays of
(A) Arnold Wesker
(B) John Arden
(C) Harold Pinter
(D) David Hare
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31. Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.
(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.
(B) He was born in India but schooled in England.
(C) He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.
(D) He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.
32. What is the correct combination of the following?
I. Balachandra Rajan
II. R. K. Narayan
III. Kamala Markandaya
IV. Romen Basu
a. The Tamarind Tree
b. The Coffer Dams
c. The Dark Dancer
d. The Dark Room
(A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b
(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c
(C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b
(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b
33. Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom
Dryden satirises in his famous poem.
(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten
(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys
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34. “If______ comes, can_______ be far behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West
Wind”)
(A) winter, spring
(B) autumn, summer
(C) wind, rains
(D) spring, winter
35. The following passages are the very first lines of well-known works.
Match the lines and the works:
a. Moby Dick
b. Macbeth
c. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
d. Tristram Shandy
e. “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
I. Let us go then, you and I…..
II. Call me Ishmael…..
III. When shall we three meet again?
IV. He disappeared in the dead of winter
V. I wish either….begot me …..
(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d
(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c
(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a
36. Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?
(A) Hamlet
(B) The Duchess of Mal_
(C) Volpone
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(D) Gorboduc
37. What is a neologism?
(A) A word with roots in a native language
(B) A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use
(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense
(D) An obsession with new words and phrases
38. Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?
(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation
(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory
(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept of writerly text
(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony
39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods. They are:
(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass
(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond
(C) iron, gold, silver and brass
(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond
40. Which among the following novels has more than one ending?
(A) Lucky Jim
(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie
(C) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(D) The Clockwork Orange
41. “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made
a man” is an example of
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(A) Bathos
(B) Epistrophe
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Anti-climax
42. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems.
(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.
(C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-
Norman and Latin.
(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor
43. Material feminism studies inequality in terms of
(A) only gender
(B) only class
(C) both class and gender
(D) only patriarchy
44. Who among the following is not an Irish writer?
(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Thomas Gray
45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after
(A) The Restoration
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The Reformation
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(D) The French Revolution
46. In a poem, a line may either be end-stopped or
(A) rhymed
(B) broken
(C) accented
(D) run-on
47. Which of the following poets wrote the essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine”?
(A) Kamala Das
(B) R. Parthasarthy
(C) A. K. Ramanujam
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
1. Peter Ackroyd
2. James Boswell
3. Samuel Johnson
4. Richard Ellman
I. James Joyce
II. T. S. Eliot
III. Life of Johnson
IV. Lives of Poets
(A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2
(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3
(C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4
(D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4
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49. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of
(A) simile
(B) image
(C) conceit
(D) metonymy
50. An epilogue is
(A) Prefixed to a text which it introduces.
(B) Suffixed to a text which it sums up or extends.
(C) A piece of writing or speech that formally begins a book.
(D) A piece of writing or speech that bears no relation to the text at hand.
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Answer Key (1-50)
Q A Q A Q A Q A Q A
1 A 11 D 21 A 31 C 41 C
2 D 12 D 22 D 32 All 42 D
3 A 13 B 23 B 33 C 43 C
4 D 14 D 24 C 34 A 44 D
5 A 15 A 25 A 35 A 45 A
6 C 16 A 26 B 36 C 46 D
7 A 17 A 27 B 37 C 47 D
8 B 18 C 28 D 38 C 48 B
9 C 19 C 29 B 39 C 49 D
10 A&B 20 D 30 C 40 C 50 B
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June 2012 Paper III

1. In Ben Jonson’s Volpone, the animal imagery includes
(a) the fox and the vulture
(b) the fly and the cockroach
(c) the fly, the crow and the raven
(d) the fox, the vulture and the goat
(A) (a) and (b) are correct.
(B) only (d) is correct.
(C) (b) and (d) are correct.
(D) (a) and (c) are correct.
2. Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands” is _______.
(A) a discussion of imperialist assumptions.
(B) an essay that propounds an anti essentialist view of place.
(C) an existential lament on triumphant colonialism.
(D) an orientalist description of his favourite homelands.
3. Identify the incorrect statement below :
(a) BASIC was an experiment initiated by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards from 1926 to
about 1940.
(b) Expanded, BASIC read : Broadly Ascertained Scientific International Course.
(c) BASIC English was an attempt to reduce the number of essential words to 850.
(d) While keeping to normal constructions, BASIC failed as an experiment because its
documents were far too complicated and technical to understand.
(A) (a) ; (b)
(B) (b) ; (d)
(C) (a) ; (c)
(D) (c) ; (d)
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4. Items in a published book appear in the following order :
(A) Index, Copyright Page, Bibliography, Footnotes
(B) Copyright Page, Bibliography, Index, Footnotes
(C) Copyright Page, Footnotes, Bibliography, Index
(D) Bibliography, Copyright Page, Index, Footnotes
(I) James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith,William Cowper, George Crabbe
(II) George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John
Donne
(III) Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves.
(IV) W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke
(a) Metaphysical poets
(b) Transitional Poets
(c) War Poets
(d) Georgians
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (d) (a) (c) (b)
(B) (d) (b) (d) (a)
(C) (b) (a) (c) (d)
(D) (a) (c) (d) (b)
6. The following phrases from Shakespeare have become the titles of famous works.
Identify the correctly matched group.
(I) Pale Fire
(II) The Sound and the Fury
(III) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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(IV) Under the Greenwood Tree
(V) Of Cakes and Ale
(a) ThomasHardy
(b) Somerset Maugham
(c) William Faulkner
(d) Tom Stoppard
(e) Vladimir Nabokov
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (V)
(A) (e) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(B) (d) (e) (b) (c) (a)
(C) (e) (c) (d) (a) (b)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (e) (a)
7. Identify the statement that is NOT TRUE among those that explain
“stagedirections” in drama.
(A) Stage directions inform readers how to stage, perform or imagine the play.
(B) The place, time of action, design of the set and at times characters actions or tone
of voice are indicated by stage directions.
(C) Stage directions are often italicized in the text of a play in order to be spoken aloud.
(D) Stage directions may appear at the beginning of a play, before a scene or attached
to a line of dialogue.
8. The emergence of the concept of “World literature” is associated with :
(a) Friedrich Schiller
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(c) Johann Goltfried Herder
(d) Immanuel Kant
(A) (a) ; (b)
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(B) (c) ; (d)
(C) (b) ; (c)
(D) (a) ; (d)
9. Günter Grass’s Tin Drum is part of a trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy.
The other two novels are :
(A) The Flounder and Dog Years
(B) The Rat and Cat and Mouse
(C) Cat and Mouse and Dog Years
(D) Crabwalk and The Rat
10. The hostess proudly announces that the family can afford a servant and her
daughters have nothing to do with the kitchen. Who is the proud mother in this Jane
Austen novel ?
(A) Mrs. Morland
(B) Lady Catherine de Burgh
(C) Mrs. Bennet
(D) Mrs. Dashwood
11. When Keats writes about the “beaker full” of “The blushful
Hippocrene”,Hippocrene is :
(A) the fountain of the horse
(B) a spring sacred to the Muses
(C) Mount Helicon produced from a blow of Pegasus
(D) Both (A) ; (B)
12. Which of the following statements on The Prelude by William
Wordsworthis/are not true ?
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(a) The Prelude was published posthumously.
(b) In this poem, Wordsworth records his development as a poet.
(c) The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural
scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature.
(d) Poems like “Michael”, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the
untrodden ways”, “Nutting” etc. are the highlights of this volume.
(A) (a) to (d) are true.
(B) (a) is not true.
(C) (d) is not true.
(D) Only (c) is true.
13. Assertion (A) : At the end of Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells a lie to the
Intended about Kurtz when he tells her “The last word he pronounced was – your
name”.
Reason (R) : Marlow tells this lie because he is secretly in love with the
Intended and tells her what she wants to hear.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true ; (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
14. Ear-training in ELT is easily achieved by :
(a) composition
(b) dictation
(c) cloze tests
(d) listening exercises
(e) précis writing
(A) (c) and (e)
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(B) (a), (c) and (e)
(C) (b), (c) and (d)
(D) (b) and (d)
15. William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and
Coriolanus are based on _______.
(A) Holinshed’s Chronicles
(B) Folk-tales and legends
(C) Older Roman Plays
(D) Plutarch’s Lives
16. The basic concept that creation was ordered, that every species exists in a hierarchy
of status, from God to the lowest creature, was prevalent in the Renaissance. In this
hierarchical continuum, man occupies the middle position between the animal kinds
and the angels. This world view is known as :
(A) Humanism
(B) The Enlightenment
(C) The Great Chain of Being
(D) Calvinism
17. In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse the lighthouse does not symbolize :
(A) permanence at the heart of change.
(B) change in the unchanging world.
(C) celebration of life in the heart of death.
(D) celebration of order in the heart of chaos.
18. “Can one imagine any private soldier, in the nineties or now, reading
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Barrack-Room Ballads and feeling that here was a writer who spoke for him? It is very
hard to do so. [….] When he is writing not of British but of “loyal” Indians he carries the
‘Salaam, Sahib’motif to sometimes disgusting lengths. Yet it remains true that he has
far more interest in the common soldier, far more anxiety that he shall get a fair deal,
than most of the “liberals” of his day and our own. He sees that the soldier is neglected,
meanly underpaid and hypocritically despised by the people whose incomes he
safeguards”.
(A) This is E. M. Forster’s “India, Again”.
(B) This is Malcolm Muggeridge on E. M. Forster’s India.
(C) This is T. S. Eliot on Rudyard Kipling.
(D) This is George Orwell on Rudyard Kipling.
19. In the well-known poem “ To his coy mistress”, the word coy means
(A) shy
(B) timid
(C) voluptuous
(D) sensuous
20. From the following list, identify “backformation”: Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke, swindle,
bundle.
(A) Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke
(B) Stoke, poke, swindle, bundle
(C) Sulk, stoke, bundle
(D) Bulk, poke, bundle
21. “It blurs distinctions among literary, non-literary and cultural texts, showing how
all three intercirculate, share in, and mutually constitute each other.” What does it in
this statement stand for ?
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(A) Marxism
(B) Structuralism
(C) Formalism
(D) New Historicism
22. For, though, I’ve no idea. What this accoutred frowsty ____ is worth,
It pleases me to stand in silence here. (Fill in the blank)
(A) bar
(B) barn
(C) attic
(D) alcove
23. Which of the following novels is NOT a Partition novel ?
(A) Azadi
(B) Tamas
(C) Clear Light of the Day
(D) That Long Silence
24. Of the following characters, which one does not belong to A House for
Mr. Biswas ?
(A) Raghu
(B) Ralph Singh
(C) Dehuti
(D) Tara
25. In English literature, the trope of the vampire was used for the _rst time
by :
(A) Matthew Gregory Lewis
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(B) John Polidori
(C) John Stagg
(D) Bram Stoker
26. Why is “Universal grammar” so called ?
(A) It is a set of basic grammatical principles universally followed and easily recognized
by people.
(B) It is a set of basic grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural
languages.
(C) It is a set of advanced grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all
natural languages.
(D) It is a set of universally respected practices that have come, in time, to be known
as “grammar”.
27. Identify the novel with the wrong subtitle listed below :
(A) Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life
(B) Tess of the D’Urbervilles, A Pure Woman
(C) The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Man of Character
(D) Felix Holt, the Socialist
28. Match List – I with List – II.
(I) David Malouf
(II) Patrick White
(III) Peter Carey
(IV) Colin Johnson
(a) The Solid Mandala
(b) Wild Cat Falling
(c) Remembering Babylon
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(d) True History of the Kelly Gang
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(C) (b) (c) (a) (d)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (a)
29. The opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike,
every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The specific cause of the unhappiness
in Oblonsky’s house was the husband’s affair with :
(A) a kitchen – maid
(B) an English governess
(C) a French governess
(D) a socialite
30. This periodical had the avowed intention “to enliven morality with wit
and to temper wit with morality… to bring philosophy out of the closets and
libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables
and coffee houses”. It also promoted family, marriage and courtesy.
The periodical under reference is :
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Gentleman’s Magazine
(D) The London Magazine
31. Assertion (A) : “Tam O’ Shanter” by John Clare is about the experience of an
ordinary human being and became quite popular during that time.
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Reason (R) : John Clare, having su�ered bouts of madness, could really feel for the
misery of common man. In the context of the two statements, which of the following
is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) does not explain (A).
32. Alexander Pope’s An Essay in Criticism :
(a) Purports to define “wit” and “nature” as they apply to the literature of his age.
(b) Claims no originality in the thought that governs this work.
(c) is a prose essay that gives us such quotes as “A little learning is a dangerous thing!”
(d) Appeared in 1701.
(A) (c) and (d) are incorrect.
(B) (a) and (b) are incorrect.
(C) (a) to (d) are correct.
(D) only (a) and (d) are correct.
33. What is register ?
(A) The way in which a language registers in the minds of its users.
(B) The way users of a language register the nuances of that language.
(C) A variety of language used in social situations or one specially designed for the
subject it deals with.
(D) A variety of language used in non-professional or informal situations by
professionals.
34. Jeremy Collier’s Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the
English Stage (1698) attacked ______.
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(A) the practice of mixing tragic and comic themes in Shakespeare’s plays.
(B) the bawdiness of “low” characters in Shakespeare’s plays.
(C) the coarseness and ugliness of Restoration Theatre.
(D) irreligious themes and irreverent attitudes in the plays of the seventeenth century.
35. One of the most important themes the speakers debate in Dryden’s An Essay on
Dramatic Poesy is______.
(A) European and non-European perceptions of reality.
(B) English and non-English perceptions of reality.
(C) the relative merits of French and English theatre.
(D) the relative merits of French and English poetry.
36. Identify the correctly matched pair :
(A) Amitav Ghosh – All About H. Halterr
(B) AnitaDesai – Inheritance of Loss
(C) Shashi Deshpande – A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence
37. Match the following correctly :
(I) Langue / Parole
(II) Competence / Performance
(III) Ieonic / Indexical
(IV) Readerly / Writerly
(a) Noam Chomsky
(b) C. S. Pierce
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure
(d) Roland Barthes
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
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(A) (c) (b) (a) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (b) (d)
(C) (a) (c) (d) (b)
(D) (b) (c) (a) (d)
38. Match the following
1. Joy Kogawa
2. M. G. Vasanjee
3. Sky Lee
4. Arnold Itwaru
(a) Bloody Rites
(b) Obasan
(c) The Gunny Sack
(d) Disappearing Moon Café
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(A) (d) (a) (b) (c)
(B) (a) (d) (c) (b)
(C) (b) (c) d) (a)
(D) (a) (b) (c) (d)
39. Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt Disneyland as his own sign ?
(A) Disneyland is by far the most eminently noticeable cultural sign in the post
modern world.
(B) Disneyland captures ‘essences’ and ‘non-essences’ of Reality more convincingly
than other cultural venues.
(C) Disneyland is an artefact that so obviously announces its own fictiveness that it
would seem to imply some counter balancing reality.
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(D) Disneyland is both ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’ in the post modern visual game of
handy-dandy.
40. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE of Dante Gabriel Rossetti?
(A) D. G. Rossetti was a Londoner, the son of an Italian refugee who taught Italian at
King’s college.
(B) Rossetti formed the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood with Holman Hunt, Ford Madox
Brown and Painter Millais.
(C) He married Christina Georgina who was a poet in her right.
(D) Rossetti’s “Blessed Damozel” displays his remarkable gifts as a poet and painter.
41. Goethe’s Faust (Part I , Scene 1) opens in :
(A) heaven
(B) hell
(C) forest
(D) Faust’s study
42. “Is it their single-mind-sized skulls or a trained Body, or genius, or a nestful of brats
Gives their days this bullet and automatic purpose….”
(Thrushes) In the above lines what does ‘their’ refer to and what quality of ‘their’ does
the poet speak of ?
I. Human beings and their intelligence
II. The thrushes and their concentration in achieving what they set out for
III. The efficiency of the thrushes in getting at their prey
IV. All the above
(A) Only III is correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
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43. Find the odd (wo)man out :
Belladonna – Eugenides – The Typist –
Marie – Madame Sosostris – the ruinbibber
– Tiresias – the Youngman Carbuncular
(A) Belladonna
(B) Madame Sosostris
(C) Tiresias
(D) The ruin – bibber
44. Wilkie Collins’s novel, The Moonstone (1868) tells the story of ______.
(A) a detective’s exploits in Victorian England.
(B) a doctor’s adventures in a Middle-Eastern Suburb.
(C) a fabulous yellow diamond stolen from an Indian shrine.
(D) illegal mining of diamonds in eastern U.P. during British rule.
45. Identify the correctly matched group :
(I) “Because I could not stop for death…
(II) “O Captain ! My Captain!”
(III) “Two roads diverged in a wood…”
(IV) “So much depends upon…”
(a) Walt Whitman
(b) William Carlos Williams
(d) Robert Frost
(c) Emily Dickinson
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (b) (c) (d)
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(B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(C) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(D) (c) (a) (b) (d)
46. “Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of midnight
– work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe
and liquor’d e’vry chink, Goodly and great he rails behind his link”. In the
above passage from Absalom and Achitophel, link means :
(A) a connection in the court
(B) a hired servant who carries a lighted torch
(C) a social tie
(D) a rich patron
47. Which among the following is NOT a typical “Indian English Poem” by
Nissim Ezekiel ?
(A) “How the English Lessons Ended”
(B) “The Railway Clerk”
(C) “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”
(D) “The Patriot”
48. Match the correct pair :
(I) George Eliot
(II) Saki
(III) Emily Bronte
(IV) Mark Twain
1. Ellis Bell
2. Mary Anne Evans
3. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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4. H. H. Munro
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 1 3 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4
49. In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster Geryon represents ______.
(A) fraud
(B) usury
(C) sloth
(D) gluttony
50. I-A. Richards’s famous experiment with poems and his Cambridge students is
detailed in Practical Criticism : A Study of Literary Judgement
(1929). Richards was astonished by
(A) the poor quality of his students’ “stock responses”
(B) the very astute remarks made by his students
(C) the non-availability of poems, worthy of class-room attention
(D) the success of his experiment
51. Based on the following description, identify the text in reference : This is a play in
which no one comes, no one goes, nothing happens. In its opening scene a man
struggles hard to remove his boot. The play was originally written in French, later
translated into English. It was first performed in 1953.
(A) Look Back in Anger
(B) Waiting for Godot
(C) The Zoo Story
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(D) The Birthday Party
52. One of the following Canterbury Tales is in prose, identify.
(A) The Pardoner’s Tale
(B) The Parson’s Tale
(C) The Monk’s Tale
(D) The Knight’s Tale
53. In his distinction between imagination and fancy, Coleridge identifies the following
(a) it dissolves, di�uses, dissipates, in order to recreate.
(b) it has aggregative and associative power.
(c) it plays with _xities and de_nites.
(d) it has shaping and modifying power. The correct combination reads :
(A) (a) and (b) for fancy; (c) and (d) for imagination.
(B) (a) and (c) for fancy; (b) and (d) for imagination.
(C) (b) and (c) for fancy; (a) and (d) for imagination.
(D) (c) and (d) for fancy; (a) and (b) for imagination.
54. Julia Kristeva’s ‘Intertextuality’ derives from :
(a) Saussure’s signs
(b) Chomsky’s deep structure
(c) Bakhtin’s dialogism
(d) Derrida’s di�erence
(A) (a) and (d)
(B) (a) and (c)
(C) (c) and (d)
(D) (a) and (b)
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55. Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths about white purity through characters like :
(a) Norton (b) Bledsoe
(c) Rhinehart (d) all of the above
(A) (a) and (b)
(B) (a), (b) and (c)
(C) (b) and (c)
(D) (a) and (c)
56. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Ralph Waldo Emerson ?
(A) He wrote essays on New England scenery, woodcraft and plantations.
(B) He was an eloquent pulpit orator, a member of the Unitarian Church under
William Chawming.
(C) In essays like “Nature”, he elaborates on the importance of seeing familiar
things in new ways.
(D) His famous “American Scholar” was delivered as an address before the Phi
Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1837.
57. “Exorcism” is the title of Act III of who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? What is the
significance of ‘exorcism’ in the context of the play ?
(A) The casting out of evil spirits
(B) Deconstructing of myths involving marriage, fertility and sons
(C) Facing life without illusions
(D) Exposing all attempts at illusionmaking
58. “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”. This is an important statement
defining the womanist perspective advanced by
(A) Toni Morrison
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(B) Zora Neale Hurston
(C) Alice Walker
(D) Bell Hooks
59. Identify the mismatched pair in the following where characters in
Golding’s Lord of the Flies _t the allegorized pattern of virtues and vices.
(A) Ralph – rationality
(B) Piggy – pragmatism
(C) Jack – pity
(D) Simon – innocence
60. A Subaltern perspective is one where
(A) Power-structures define and determine your command of language and language
of command in an uneven world.
(B) The politically dispossessed could be voiceless, written out of the historical record
and ignored because their activities do not count for “Cultural” or “Structured”.
(C) You don’t know what your ‘story’ is, how to deal with a ‘story’ and therefore you
are forced to put stereotyped situations in it to please your listeners.
(D) You begin to see how we live, how we have been living, how we have been led to
imagine ourselves, how our language has trapped as well as liberated us.
61.(a) “Interlanguage” is a term we owe to M.A.K. Halliday.
(b) Interlanguage develops an autonomous and self-contained grammatical system
(c) It is a distinct stage in a learner’s progress in the study of a second language.
(d) It owes nothing at all either to the learner’s native or target / second language.
(A) (d) is correct.
(B) (b) is correct.
(C) (a) and (c) are correct.
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(D) (c) and (d) are correct.
62. In a classic statement that inaugurated Feminist thought in English, we read :
“A woman writing thinks back through her mothers”. Where does this occur?
(A) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
(B) Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics
(C) Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives
(D) Mary Hiatt’s The Way Women Write.
63. Identify the correctly matched pair of translators and translations.
(I) A. K. Ramanujan
(II) Manmathanath Dutt
(III) Mohini Chatterjee
(IV) Romesh Chandra Dutt
(a) The Ramayana
(b) The Bhagavad Gita
(c) Speaking of Shiva
(d) The Mahabharata
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (c) (d) (b) (a)
(B) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(C) (d) (a) (b) (c)
(D) (b) (a) (d) (c)
64. Assertion (A) : In The Power and the Glory, Greene shows how the Whisky Priest
transcends his weakness for drink and his human fears, moving towards martyrdom.
Reason (R) : Transcendence in Greene’s novels is generally an outcome of love for
humanity, but pride is also an essential ingredient in the Priest’s character.
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(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation for (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).
65. Which of the following statements on John Dryden is incorrect ?
(a) John Milton and John Dryden were contemporaries.
(b) Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton fiercely opposed monarchy.
(c) Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal Emperor Humayun.
(d) Dryden was appointed the Poet Laureate of England in 1668.
(A) (a) is incorrect.
(B) (d) is incorrect.
(C) (c) is incorrect.
(D) (b) and (c) are incorrect.
66. “Like walking, criticism is a pretty nearly universal art; both require a constant
intricate shifting and catching of balance; neither can be questioned much in process;
and few perform either really well. For either a new terrain is fatiguing and awkward,
and in our day most men prefer paved walks and some form of rapid transport some
easy theory or overmastering dogma.” (R.P.Blackmur, “A Critic’s Job of Work”)
(a) Blackmur compares walking with criticism because he considers both to be
“arts” of a similar kind that call for attention to detail and utmost care.
(b) Blackmur admits that some people do however manage to be good critics and
good walkers.
(c) Critics prefer tried and tested approaches for much the same reason as
Walkers would look for paved walks and rapid transport.
(d) Blackmur does not quite give us the equivalents of “Some paved walks and some
form of rapid transport” in order to press his comparison.
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(A) (a) and (d) are correct.
(B) (a) and (c) are correct.
(C) only (d) is correct.
(D) only (b) is correct.
67. The world dominated by cold and hypocritical materialists is represented by
William Blake in the mythological figure of __________ .
(A) Urizen
(B) Albion
(C) Geryon
(D) Satan
68. Identify the correctly matched group :
(A) Third Space – Wolfgang Iser
Hybridity – Edward Soja
Reception aesthetics – Ferdinand de Saussure
Langue – Homi Bhabha
(B) Third Space – Ernst Bloch
Hybridity – Edward Said
Reception aesthetics – Eve K. Sedgwick
Langue – G. S. Frazer
(C) Third Space – Edward Soja
Hybridity – Homi Bhabha
Reception aesthetics – Wolfgang Iser
Langue – Ferdinand de Saussure
(D) Third Space – G. S. Frazer
Hybridity – Eve K. Sedgwick
Reception aesthetics – Edward Soja
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Langue – Edward Said
69. Which of the following can be best described as : (i) the first statement of Bernard
Shaw’s idea of Life Force; (ii) a play dealing with a woman’s pursuit of her mate; and
(iii) a play whose third act called “Don Juan in Hell” is both unconventional and hilarious
(A) The Devil’s Disciple
(B) Man and Superman
(C) Candida
(D) Arms and the Man
70. Identify the untrue statement on the CONTACT ZONE below :
(A) “The contact zone” is a space where disparate cultures meet, clash and grapple with
each other.
(B) In Postcolonial societies “contact” suggests the historical moment when settler and
indigenous cultures first met.
(C) The idea of the Contact Zone was first proposed and defined by Mary Louise
Pratt’s Imperial Eyes : Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992)
(D) It is believed that the Contact Zone was largely instrumental in spearheading
nationalist movements across the world.
71. Name the novel in which
I. the protagonist is a war veteran called Tayo.
II. Tayo returns from World War II, thoroughly disillusioned and haunted by his violent
actions of war time.
III. Tayo seeks consolation and counsel from old Betonie.
IV. The protagonist realizes the importance of harmonizing humanity and the universe.
(A) Beloved
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(B) Ceremony
(C) Daisy Miller
(D) Enter, Conversing
72. One of the following poems in Men and Women is addressed to Elizabeth Barrett
Browning by the poet. Identify it.
(A) “In Three Days”
(B) “By the Fireside”
(C) “One Way of Love”
(D) “One Word More”
73. Match List-I with List-II according to the codes given below :
I. Tennessee Williams
II. Eugene O’Neill
III. Lorraine Hansberry
IV. Arthur Miller
1. Emperor Jones
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
3. After the Fall
4. A Raisin in the Sun
I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 1 3 2 4
(C) 4 2 3 1
(D) 2 1 4 3
74. Match the correct pair :
I. Theatre of Cruelty
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II. Theatre of the Oppressed
III. Expressionist Theatre
IV. Agitprop
1. Safdar Hashmi
2. Georg Kaiser
3. Jerzy Grotowsky
4. Augusto Boal
I II III IV
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 3 4 2 3
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 4 1 3 2
75. Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre
(a) turns the spectator into an observer
(b) wears down the spectator’s capacity for action
(c) relies on argument
(d) presents man as a process
(A) (a) and (d) are correct; (b) and (c) are incorrect.
(B) (a), (c) and (d) are correct; (b) is wrong.
(C) (b) and (d) are correct; (a) and (c) are incorrect.
(D) (a), (b) and (c) are correct; (d) is incorrect.
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Answer Key (1-75)
1 D 11 D 21 D 31 B 41 D 51 B 61 C 71 B
2 B 12 C 22 B 32 All 42 D 52 B 62 A 72 D
3 B 13 B 23 D 33 C 43 D 53 C 63 A 73 D
4 C 14 D 24 B 34 C 44 C 54 B 64 C 74 All
5 C 15 D 25 C 35 C 45 B 55 A 65 C 75 B
6 C 16 C 26 B 36 D 46 B 56 A 66 B
7 C 17 B 27 D 37 B 47 A 57 D 67 A
8 C 18 D 28 B 38 C 48 B 58 C 68 C
9 C 19 A 29 C 39 C 49 A 59 C 69 B
10 C 20 All 30 B 40 C 50 A 60 B 70 D
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LITERATURE

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2021 DECEMBER SHIFT 1

"The Use of Poetry" ­ Harold Bloom.

1. What is meant by 'traditional use of poetry'?

3. In the context of the above which is closest to being true?

No worst, there is none.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

4. Beyond the intensity of known grief, there can be:

5. Which two of the following are true?

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

7. Who are the 'two speechless gazers'?

(A) 'Liza-Lu and Angel Clare

8. How did the ‘sport with Tess' end?

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

9. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on' means:

10. 'This insubstantial pageant' refers to:

11. Match List I with List II

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

(A) A - I, B - III, C - II, D - IV,

(C) A - II, B - I, C - IV, D - III

13. Which of the following are novels by Ian McEwan?

15. Which two of the following are works by Gustave Flaubert?

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) A and B only

19. Given below are two statements:

20. Which two of the following conform to liberal humanist thought?

(B) A and D only

22. Match List I with List II

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

24. Match List I with List II

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A) A - I, B - III, C - II, D - IV

25. Match List I with List II

27. With which of these is Ngugi wa Thiongo generally associated?

29. Match List I with List II

C. Terence Rattigan III. Juno and the Paycock

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

30. Arrange the following lines of poetry in their chronological sequence:

31. Arrange the following texts in the chronological order of publication.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

(D) C and D only

36. Empiricist linguistics is concerned with :

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(D) B, D and E only

44. Arrange the following plays in their chronological sequence:

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

(C) B and D only

49. In "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown" Virginia Woolf:

50. Who among the following considered paraphrase as 'a heresy'?

(A) Agamemnon, Choephori, The Eumenides

54. Given below are two statements:

55. Who among the following edited The Cornhill Magazine?

57. Erich Auerbach's Mimesis (1946) ends with a chapter on

(D) Salikoko Mufwene

61. Given below are two statements

"The Use of Poetry" Harold Bloom.