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Paper 2- December 2004

1. In Langlands’ Piers the Plowman, Piers appears finally as :

(A) Charity

(B) The Holy Trinity

(C) Jesus

(D) The Good Samaritan

Answer: C

2. It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim would tell in all :

(A) One story

(B) Two stories

(C) Three stories

(D) Four stories

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Answer: D

3. Venus and Adonis is a long narrative poem by :

(A) Shakespeare

(B) Marlowe
(C) Drayton

(D) Sydney
Answer: A

4. The total number of poems in Shakespeare’s Sonnets is :

(A) 123

(B) 142
(C) 104

(D) 154
Answer: D

5. Which of the following plays has a Machiavellean hero ?

(A) Tamburlaine Part I

(B) Dr. Faustus

(C) Jew of Malta

(D) Edward II
Answer: C

6. Which of the following is written by Samuel Butler ?

(A) Religio Laici

(B) David Simple

(C) Hudibras

(D) Journal of the Plague Year

Answer: C
7. Which of the following poems did Milton write in Octosyllabic Couplets ?

(A) IL Penseroso
(B) On His Blindness”

(C) On the Late Massacre in Piedmont”

(D) Lycidas

Answer: A

8. Which of the following plays is not written by Congreve ?

(A) The way of the World

(B) The Old Bachelor

(C) Love for Love

(D) The Relapse

Answer: D

9. Dryden’s All For Love is an adaptation of :

(A) Philaster
(B) Romeo and Juliet

(C) Antony and Cleopatra

(D) Edward II

Answer: C

10. Which of the following books proposes a political theory ?

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(A) Principia
(B) Leviathan

(C) Anatomy of Melancholy

(D) Liberty of Prophesying

Answer: B

11. Which of the following books is written by a woman ?

(A) A Vindication of the Rights of Women

(B) Social Contract

(C) A Treatise of Human Nature

(D) The Wealth of Nations

Answer: A

12. Which of the following books by Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory ?

(A) The Battle of the Books

(B) A Modest Proposal

(C) Gulliver’s Travels

(D) A Tale of a Tub

Answer: D

13. Which of the following is a “Visionary” work by William Blake ?

(A) The Song of Los

(B) Songs of Experience

(C) Poetical Sketches

(D) The Vision of the Daughters of Albion

Answer: D

14. Pope’s An Essay on Man is based on the ideas of :

(A) Lord Petrie

(B) Theobald
(C) Lord Bolingbroke

(D) Lord Harvey

Answer: C

15. Which of the following works by Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal ?
(A) London

(B) Vanity of Human Wishes

(C) The Life of Savage

(D) Rasselas
Answer: B

16. The final version of Wordsworth’s The Prelude appeared in :

(A) 1798

(B) 1806
(C) 1850

(D) 1860
Answer: C

17. “To Suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite” is written by :

(A) Shelley

(B) Wordsworth
(C) Keats
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(D) Byron
Answer: A

18. “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” occurs in :

(A) “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

(B) “Ode to Autumn”

(C) “Ode to Psyche”

(D) “Endymion”
Answer: D

19. Which of the following novels is a satire on the Gothic novel ?

(A) Pride and Prejudice

(B) Emma
(C) Sense and Sensibility

(D) Northanger Abbey

Answer: D

20. Who distinguished between 11the literature of Knowledge” and “the literature of power” ?
(A) Coleridge

(B) De Quincey
(C) Hazlitt

(D) Lamb
Answer: B

21. Who among the following Victorian poets is the most sensitive to the conflict between the old and the new ?
(A) Tennyson

(B) Rossetti
(C) Browning

(D) Swinburne
Answer: A
22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written by :

(A) Mrs. Gaskell

(B) George Eliot

(C) Thomas Hardy

(D) Emily Bronte

Answer: C

23. The Office of Circumlocution occurs in :

(A) Little Dorrit

(B) Bleak House

(C) Great Expectations

(D) Hard Times

Answer: A

24. The novel Mary Barton is written by :

(A)Mrs. Gaskell
(B) George Eliot

(C) Emily Bronte

(D) Dickens

Answer: A

25. The line”Poetry is a criticism of life” occurs in :

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(A) Culture and Anarchy
(B) Modern Painters

(C) The Study of Poetry

(D) Sartor Resartus

Answer: C

26. Martha Quest was written by :

(A) Jean Rhys

(B) Doris Lessing

(C) Iris Murdoch

(D) Nadine Gordimer

Answer: B

27. The term “Stream of Consciousness” was taken from the book :

(A) The Human Mind

(B) The Principles of Psychology

(C) The Mind of Man

(D) Modes of Human Behaviour

Answer: B

28. G.S. Fraser’s The Golden Bough focusses on :

(A) Images
(B) Metaphors

(C) Symbols
(D) Archetypes

Answer: D

29. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate of :

(A) Willy Loman

(B) Estragon
(C) Vladimir

(D) Lucky
Answer: A

30. The character Leopald Bloom makes an appearance in the novel :

(A) The Sound and the Fury

(B) Ulysses
(C) To the Lighthouse

(D) The Europeans

Answer: B

31. Who of the following authors represents the Sri Lankan diaspora ?
(A) Cyril Dabydeen

(B) Michael Ondaatje

(C) Arnold H. Itwaru

(D) M.G. Vassanji

Answer: B

32. Australian aborigines receive a sympathetic treatment in :

(A) Les Murray

(B) Gwen Harwood

(C) Judith Wright
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(D) A.D. Hope
Answer: C

33. Margaret Atwood’s Survival makes a case for :

(A) Canadian literary studies

(B) Canadian nationalism

(C) The future of Canadian literature

(D) The past of Canadian literature

Answer: C

34. V.S. Naipaul’s latest book is :

(A) The Mystic Masseur

(B) A Bend in the River

(C) Among the Believers

(D) Half a Life

Answer: D

35. Which of the following books by Salman Rushdie refers to the 15th Century Spain as a starting point ?
(A) Haroun and the Sea of Stories

(B) The Moor’s Last Sigh

(C) Shame

(D) Grimus
Answer: D

36. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is written by :

(A) Arthur Miller

(B) Engene O Neil

(C) Edward Albee

(D) Tennessee Williams

Answer: C
37. Imamu Amiri Baraka is :

(A) A Carribean writer

(B) An American writer

(C) An Arab writer

(D) A Sri Lankan writer

Answer: B

38. The Miscellany was published from :

(A) Sahitya Akademi

(B) The Writers Workshop

(C) PEN
(D) Dhwanyalok

Answer: B

39. Who of the following writers recreates the life of the Yoruba/Ibo community ?

(A) Derek Walcott

(B) Wole Soyinka

(C) Chinna Achebe

(D) Okot

Answer: B

40. Who of the following White female authors are sympathetic to the cause of the Blacks ?
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(A) Margaret Drabble
(B) Nadine Gordimer

(C) Muriel Spark

(D) Jean Rhys

Answer: B

41. New Criticism considers text as a :

(A) Cultural construct

(B) Historical construct

(C) Linguistic construct

(D) Autotelic

Answer: D

42. Mythologies was written by :

(A) Roland Barthes

(B) Jacques Derrida

(C) Homi K. Bhabha

(D) Ernest Dowson

Answer: A

43. The word “Catharsis” signifies :

(A) Pontification
(B) Personification

(C) Purgation
(D) Publication

Answer: C

44. The rejection of “Universalism” is a mark of :

(A) Deconstruction
(B) New Historicism
(C) Structuralism

(D) Postcolonial criticism

Answer: D

45. Eliot’s theory of “objective correlative” appeared in his essay entitled :

(A) Three voices of Poetry

(B) Tradition and the Individual Talent

(C) The Metaphysical Poets

(D) Hamlet
Answer: D

46. Sprung Rhythm is an example of :

(A)Verse

(B) Syllable
(C) Stress

(D) Meter
Answer: D

47. “More is thy due than more than all can pay” is an example of :
(A) Weak – ending

(B) Inversion
(C) Alexandrine
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(D) Extra Syllable
Answer: B

48. Unrhymed metrical composition consisting of five iambic measures in each line is called :
(A) Rhyme royal

(B) Run-on-lines
(C) Blank verse

(D) Spenserian stanza

Answer: C

49. Verse stories dealing with chivalry, Knight, errantry, enchantments, and love are known as :
(A) The epic

(B) The ballad

(C) The ode

(D) The metrical romances

Answer: D

50. “He is a citizen of no mean city” is an example of :

(A) Periphrasis

(B) Tautology
(C) Prolepsis

(D) Litotes
Answer: D
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1. Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale is a high romance told in :

(A) rhyme royal

(B) terza rima

(C) heroic couplets

(D) verse libre

Answer: C

2. Marlowe’s first original work was :

(A) Tamburlaine the Great

(B) The Tragical History of D. Faustus

(C) The Jew of Malta

(D) The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the second
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Answer: A

3. Marvell pays his homage to the Protector and a tribute to the royal dignity of Charles I in :
(A) “The Garden”

(B) “The Picture of T.C.”

(C) “Bermudas”

(D) “Horatian ode upon Cromewells’ Return From Ireland”

Answer: D

4. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman was written by :

(A) Sir Henry Wotton

(B) John Bunyan

(C) Jeremy Taylor

(D) Richard Baxter

Answer: B

5. Dr. Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was published in :

(A) 1755

(B) 1756
(C) 1757

(D) 1758
Answer: A

6. The main idea of The Dunciad was taken from :

(A) The Hind and the Panther

(B) Religio Laici

(C) Mac-Flecknoe

(D) The Medal

Answer: C
7. The character of the leech gatherer appears in :

(A) The Recluse

(B) The Prelude Book I

(C) Laodamia
(D) Resolution and Independence

Answer: D

8. Table-Talk is a collection of essays by :

(A) Lamb
(B) Hunt

(C) Hazlitt
(D) De Quincey

Answer: C

9. Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus was written under the influence of :

(A) Italian romance

(B) German romance

(C) French romance

(D) British romance

Answer: B

10. The image of the Neptune taming the sea horse appears in :
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(A) “Abt Vogler”
(B) “Prospice”

(C) “Andrea del Sarto”

(D) “My Last Duchess”

Answer: D

11. T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is dedicated to Il miglior fabro (“The better Craftsman”) which refers to :

(A) Ezra Pound

(B) Baudelaire

(C) G.M. Hopkins

(D) Dante

Answer: A

12. The locale of Riders to the Sea is :

(A) Dublin
(B) Aran Island

(C) Galway
(D) Belfast

Answer: B

13. The “Bog” poems are associated with :

(A) Ted Hughes

(B) Elizabeth Jennings

(C) Tony Harrison

(D) Seamus Heaney

Answer: D

14. Edward Bond’s Bingo deals with the life of :

(A) Dryden
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Ben Jonson

(D) Marlowe
Answer: B

15. Arthur Millers The Death of a Salesman is mainly about :

(A) American dream

(B) American imperialism

(C) American pragmatism

(D) American transcendentalism

Answer: A

16. The patient in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient is :

(A) Almasy

(B) Caravaggio
(C) Kirpal Singh

(D) Hana
Answer: A

17. Mimetic criticism views literary work as :

(A) personalisation

(B) depersonalization
(C) imitation
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(D) interpretation
Answer: C

18. The concept of “arche writing” is developed by :

(A) Fish

(B) Foucault
(C) Derrida

(D) Paul de Man

Answer: C

19. A figure of speech in which two terms opposite in meaning are placed side by side in one phrase is known as :
(A) paradox

(B) oxymoron
(C) sarcasm

(D) antithesis
Answer: B

20. A stanza of eight iambic pentametres on the pattern of ab, ab, ab, cc is known as :
(A) Rhyme royal

(B) Ottava rima

(C) Tennysonian stanza

(D) Spenserian stanza

Answer: B

Choose the correct chronological sequence in question numbers 21 to 30 :

(A) Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night, Othello, The Tempest

(B) Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Tempest, Othello

(C) Love’s Labour’s Lost, Othello, The Tempest, Twelfth Night
(D) Othello, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Tempest

Answer: A

(A) Ralph Roister Doister, Utopia, Astrophel and Stella, Shepherds Calendar

(B) Astrophel and Stella, Ralph Roister Doister, Shepherds Calendar

(C) Shepherds Calendar, Astrophel and Stella, Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister

(D) Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister, Shepherds Calendar, Astrophel and Stella
Answer: D

(A) Sonnet, periodical essay, gothic novel, absurd play

(B) Gothic novel, periodical essay, sonnet, absurd play

(C) Periodical essay, gothic novel, absurd play, sonnet

(D) Sonnet, gothic novel, periodical essay, absurd play

Answer: A

(A) Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes

(B) T.S. Eliot, Stephen Spender, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes

(C) Philip Larkin, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Stephen Spender

(D) T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Stephen Spender

Answer: B

(A) Negative capability, sublime, dissociation of sensibility, heteroglossia

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(C) Sublime, negative capability, dissociation of sensibility, heteroglossia

(D) Heteroglossia, dissociation of sensibility, sublime, negative capability

Answer: C

(A) Thyrsis, Adonais, Lycidas, In Memory of W.B. Yeats

(B) Lycidas, Thyrsis, Adonais, In Memory of W.B. Yeats

(C) Lycidas, Adonais, Thyrsis, In Memory of W.B. Yeats

(D) Adonais, In Memory of W.B. Yeats, Lycidas, Thyrsis

Answer: C

(A) “Sign, Structure and Play”, “Signs Taken for Wonder”, “The Death of the Author”, “Two Uses of Language”
(B) “Two Uses of Language”, “The Death of the Author”, “Sign, Structure and Play”, “Signs Taken for Wonder”

(C) “The Death of the Author”, “Two Uses of Language”, “Signs Taken for Wonder”, “Sign, Structure and Play”
(D) “Two Uses of Language”, “The Death of the Author”, “Sign, Structure and Play”, “Signs Taken for Wonder”

Answer: B

(A) “The Burial of the Dead”, “A Game of Chess”, “Fire Sermon”, “Death by Water”

(B) “A Game of Chess”, “The Burial of the Dead”, “Fire Sermon”, “Death by Water”
(C) “Fire Sermon”, “The Burial of the Dead”, “Death by Water”, “A Game of Chess”

(D) “The Burial of the Dead”, “Fire Sermon”, “Death by Water”, “A Game of Chess”
Answer: A

(A) Midnight’s Children, Nectar in a Sie’ve, Kanthapura, Calcutta Chromosome

(B) Kanthapura, Midnight’s Children, Nectar in a Sieve, Calcutta Chromosome

(C) Kanthapura, Midnight’s Children, Calcutta Chromosome, Nectar in a Sie’ve

(D) Kanthapura, Nectar in a Sie’ve, Midnight’s Children, Calcutta Chromosome

Answer: D

(A) The English Novel : Form and Function, The Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel, The Sense of an Ending

(B) Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel, The English Novel : Form and Function, The Sense of an Ending
(C) The Sense of an Ending, The English Novel : Form and Function, Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the novel

(D) Aspects of the Novel, Craft of Fiction, The Sense of an Ending, The English Novel : Form and Function
Answer: B

Select the matching pairs in question numbers 31 to 40 :

(A) Sohrab and Rustum – Arnold

(B) The Princess – Browning

(C) Hugh Selwyn Mauberly – Hopkins

(D) The Excursion – Shelley

Answer: A

(A) Middlemarch – Picaresque

(B) Women in Love – Historical

(C) Pamela – Epistolary novel

(D) Pride and Prejudice – Autobiographical

Answer: C

(A) Dickens – Manchester

(B) Faulkner – Yoknapatawfa

(C) Joyce – Belfast

(D) Lawrence – Birmingham

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(A) Naturalism – Zola

(B) Symbolism – T.E. Hulme

(C) Expressionism – V. Woolf

(D) Magic realism – Graham Greene

Answer: A

(A) Audrey Thomas – The Stone Angel

(B) Robert Kroetsch – The Burning Water

(C) Margaret Lawrence – What the Crow Said

(D) Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin

Answer: D

(A) Marlowe – Faust

(B) Fletcher – The White Devil

(C) Congreve – The Old Bachelor

(D) Ben Jonson – The Maid’s Tragedy

Answer: C

(A) Nadine Gordimer – Nigeria

(B) Chinua Achebe – Kenya

(C) Judith Wright – Australia

(D) Peter Carey – Canada

Answer: C

(A) Campus novel – Margaret Drabble

(B) Travelogue – Macaulay

(C) Diary writing – Samuel Pepys

(D) Periodical essay – Lamb

Answer: C

(A) Girish Karnad – Kannada

(B) A.K. Ramanujan – Telugu

(C) Kamala Das – Tamil

(D) R. Parthasarathy – Malayalam

Answer: A

(A) Mrs. Malaprop – The School for Scandal

(B) Nora – The Seagull

(C) Lydia Languish – She Stoops to Conquer

(D) Eliza Doolittle – Pygmalion

Answer: D

41. In the assertion “Four out of five people suffer from dreaded pyorrhoea”, the writer wants to arouse the

feeling of :
(A) Sympathy

(B) Fear
(C) Hatred

(D) Ill-will
Answer: B
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42. “John is six feet tall and 240 lb” is an assertion of :

(A) a fact

(B) a judgement
(C) an opinion

(D) an inference
Answer: D

43. X : “He’s mean and stingy.

Y : “Oh, I wouldn’t say that. He is just thrifty”. The above dialogue asserts that he :

(A) is too careful with his money

(B) never spends money

(C) is so careful with his money that everyone admires him for good management
(D) is careful with his money

Answer: A

44. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” makes an assertion that :

(A) The poet travelled with the cloud

(B) The poet moved aimlessly with the cloud

(C) Both the poet and the cloud were lonely

(D) The poet moved as aimlessly as the cloud

Answer: D

45. “Death is here, and death is there Death is busy everywhere All around, within, beneath, Above, is death –

and we are death” The effect of rhythm, sound, word-order and stress in the above lines
(A) assist the communication of meaning

(B) hinder the communication of meaning

(C) reflect meaning and mood

(D) reflect a mechanical regularity

Answer: C
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow based on your understanding of the passage.

All of us live in a society, and are members of a nationality wtih its own language, tradition, historical situation. To what
extent are intellectuals servants of these actualities, to what extent enemies ? The same is true of intellectuals’

relationship with institutions (academy, church, professional guild) and with wordly powers, which in our times have co-
opted the intelligentsia to an extraordinary degree. Thus in my view the principal intellectual duty is the search for

relative independence from such pressures. Hence my characterization of the intellectual as an exile and marginal, as
amateur, and as the author of a language that tries to speak the truth to power.

46. Name four important sources to which an intellectual is related basically :

(A) Society, institutions, wordly powers, and government

(B) Institutions, language, truth, and power

(C) Nationality, language, tradition, and historical situation

(D) Nationality, truth, language, and tradition

Answer: C

47. What is the meaning of intellectuals being ‘servants’ ?

(A) The intellectual may be appropriated by his tradition, historical and other actualities of his nation and society

(B) The intellectual may be inappropriately Co-opted by agencies of the government

(C) The intellectual may be sent into exile and made marginal

(D) The intellectual may be forced into accepting the unacceptable propositions
Answer: A

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48. What are the four important institutions that Co-opt an intellectual ?
(A) society, institutions, wordly powers, and truth

(B) academy, church, professional guild, and wordly power

(C) society, professional guild, wordly power, truth

(D) academy, wordly power, truth, government

Answer: B

49. What is the meaning of ‘relative independence’ ?

(A) liberating oneself from the pressures of government and institutions

(B) liberating oneself from the pressures of religion and state

(C) liberating oneself from the pressures of institutions and wordly powers

(D) liberating oneself from all religious and secular pressures

Answer: C

50. What is the duty of an intellectual and how many identities does he acquire to perform his role ?
(A) to achieve complete independence and be characterised as an exile, marginal, and amateur

(B) to achieve partial independence and be characterised as the author of a language

(C) to manoeuvre independence and be characterised as a keeper of his own conscience

(D) to search for relative independence and be characterised as exile and marginal, as amateur, and author
Answer: D

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1. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale had its origin in :

(A) The French Roman de Renart

(B) The Italian Boccaccios Teseide

(C) The English John Gower’s Confessio Amantis

(D) The Germal Goethe’s Faust

Answer: A

2. The First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays appeared in :

(A) 1664

(B) 1631
(C) 1623

(D) 1650
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Answer: C

3. Restoration comedy begins with :

(A) Congreve

(B) Sheridan
(C) Dryden

(D) Etherege
Answer: D

4. The author of Of The Progress of the Soul is :

(A) John Bunyan

(B) John Donne

(C) Henry Vaughan

(D) Richard Crashaw

Answer: B

5. Dr. Johnson’s The Lives of The Poets is an example of :

(A) Psychological criticism

(B) Biographical criticism

(C) Historical criticism

(D) Archetypal criticism

Answer: B

6. The picaresque novel with a female picaroom is :

(A) Tom Jones

(B) Clarissa
(C) Moll Flanders

(D) Amelia
Answer: C
7. The expression “ancestral voices prophesying war” occurs in :

(A) ‘Kublakhan’
(B) ‘Frost at Midnight’

(C) Christabel
(D) Rime of The Ancient Mariner

Answer: A

8. The posthumously published novel of Jane Austen is :

(A) Sense and Sensibility

(B) Mansfield Park

(C) Emma
(D) Northanger Abbey

Answer: D

9. Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus means :

(A) Satan’s story retold

(B) The tailor retailored

(C) I know not where

(D) a set of elegant clothes

Answer: B

10. The character not created by Hardy is :

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(A) Sue Bridehead
(B) Bathsheba Everdene

(C) Betsy Trotwood

(D) Thomasin

Answer: C

11. The poet who described poetry as “inspired mathematics” is :

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) Hopkins

(C) Archibald Macheish

(D) Ezra Pound

Answer: D

12. The woman character who is an artist by profession in Virgnniia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse is :

(A) Lily Briscoe

(B) Mrs. Ramsay

(C) Mrs. Dalloway

(D) Miriam

Answer: A

13. The poet who said, “My poems are not about violence, but vitality,” is :

(A) Philip Larkin

(B) Ted Hughes

(C) C.D. Lewis

(D) Thom Gunn

Answer: B

14. Pinter’s Care Taker can be called a:

(A) comedy of manners

(B) comedy of menace
(C) comedy of errors

(D) comedy of humours

Answer: B

15. Toni Morrison used male narrator for the first time in :
(A) Song of Solomon

(B) Tar Baby

(C) Jazz

(D) The Bluest Eye

Answer: A

16. The author of The Hungry Tide is :

(A) Vikram Seth

(B) Shobha De
(C) Amitav Ghosh

(D) Upamanyu Chatterjee

Answer: C

17. The soul of tragedy, according to Aristotle is :

(A) Thought

(B) Character
(C) Plot
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(D) Spectacle
Answer: C

18. The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet occurs in :

(A) New criticism

(B) Deconstruction
(C) Structuralism

(D) Formalism
Answer: D

19. “United we stand, divided we fall” is an example of :

(A) Antithesis

(B) Bathos
(C) Tautology

(D) Litotes
Answer: A

20. A metre in which an unaccented syllable precedes the accented is called :

(A) anapaestic

(B) dactylic
(C) catalectic

(D) iambic
Answer: D

Choose the correct chronological sequence in question numbers 21-30 :

21. Choose the correct chronological sequence

(A) Northanger Abbey , Pride and Prejudice , Sense and Sensibility , Mansfield Park
(B) Mansfield Park , Sense and Sensibility , Northanger Abbey , Pride and Prejudice

(C) Pride and Prejudice , Northanger Abbey , Mansfield Park , Sense and Sensibility
(D) Sense and Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park , Northanger Abbey

Answer: D

22. Shakespeare criticism by :

(A) Spurgeon – T.S. Eliot -Stephen Greenblatt – Bradley

(B) Bradley – Spurgeon – T.S. Eliot – Stephen Greenblatt

(C) T.S. Eliot – Stephen Greenblatt – Bradley – Spurgeon

(D) Stephen Greenblatt – Bradley – T.S. Eliot – Spurgeon

Answer: B

23. Choose the correct chronological sequence

(A) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford Movement, Movement Poetry, Imagism

(B) Oxford Movement, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Imagism, Movement Poetry

(C) Imagism, Movement Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford Movement

(D) Movement Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford Movement, Imagism

Answer: B

24. Choose the correct chronological sequence

(A) Closet drama, Epic Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd, Portable Theatre
(B)Epic Theatre, Portable Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd, Closest drama

(C)Portable Theatre, Closet drama, Epic Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd

(D)Theatre of the Absurd, Portable Theatre, Closet drama, Epic Theatre
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Answer: A

25. Choose the correct chronological sequence

(A) Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe

(B)Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas Nashe

(C)Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson

(D)Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd, Ben Jonson

Answer: C

26. Choose the correct chronological sequence

(A) Essay on Dramatic Poesy , Areopagitica , Urn Burial , Religio Medici

(B)Areopagitica , Urn Burial , Religio Medici , Essay on Dramatic Poesy

(C)Religio Medici , Areopagitica , Urn Burial , Essay on Dramatic Poesy

(D)Urn Burial , Essay on Dramatic Poesy , Areopagitica , Religio Medici

Answer: C

27. Choose the correct chronological sequence

(A) Kamala Das, Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt, Meena Alexander

(B)Meena Alexander, Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das

(C)Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, Meena Alexander, Toru Dutt

(D)Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, Meena Alexander

Answer: D

28. Choose the correct chronological sequence

(A) Jude, Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Mrs. Morel

(B)Dorothea, Mrs. Morel, Jude, Lady Havisham

(C)Dorothea, Jude, Mrs. Morel, Lady Havisham

(D)Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Jude, Mrs. Morel

Answer: D
29. Choose the correct chronological sequence

(A) The Well-Wrought Urn , The Verbal Icon , Theory of Literature , Literary Theory : An Introduction
(B)The Well-Wrought Urn , Theory of Literature , The Verbal Icon , Literary Theory : An Introduction

(C)The Verbal Icon , The Well-Wrought Urn , Literary Theory : An Introduction , Theory of Literature
(D)Literary Theory : An Introduction , The Well-Wrought Urn , Theory of Literature , The Verbal Icon

Answer: A

30. Nobel Prize Winners in Literature :

(A)Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, W.B. Yeats

(B)W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney

(C)T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats, Nadine Gordimer

(D)Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot,

Answer: B

Select the matching pair in question numbers 31 to 40 :

31. Select the matching pair

(A) A Idylls of the King – Browning

(B)The Diverting History of John Gilpin – William Cowper

(C)The Tower – T.S. Eliot

(D)The Fall of Hyperion – Shelley

Answer: B

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32. Select the matching pair
(A) Hard Times – Psychological novel

(B)To The Light-house – Picaresque novel

(C)The Castle of Otranto – Gothic novel

(D)Wuthering Heights – Historical novel

Answer: C

33. Select the matching pair

(A) Emily Bronte – Yorkshire Moors

(B)Hardy – Scotland
(C)Walter Scott – Ireland

(D)Mark Twain – Yoknapatawfa

Answer: A

34. Select the matching pair

(A) Surrealism – Tristan Tzara

(B)Imagism – Spender
(C)Naturalism – Yeats

(D)Magic Realism – Galriel Garcia Marquez

Answer: D

35. Select the matching pair

(A) Victor Shklovsky – Carnivalesque

(B)Stanley Fish – Aphasia

(C)Hjelmslev – Glossematics

(D)Roland Barthes – Affective Stylistics

Answer: C

36. Select the matching pair

(A) Bessie Head – Newzealand
(B)Derek Walcott – South Africa

(C)A.D. Hope – Australia

(D)Ondaatje – Nigeria

Answer: C

37. Select the matching pair

(A) T.S. Eliot – The Birthday Party

(B)Osborne – The Entertainer

(C)Bernard Shaw – Luther

(D)Tom Stoppard – Lear

Answer: B

38. Select the matching pair

(A) Periodical Essays – Bacon

(B)Confessional Poetry – Ted Hughes

(C)Science Fiction – David Lodge

(D)Pre-Raphaelites – William Morris

Answer: D

39. Select the matching pair

(A) Nissim Ezekiel – Persian

(B)Gieve Patel – Gujarati
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(C)Dilip Chitre – Sanskrit
(D)Adil Jussawallah – Urdu

Answer: B

40. Select the matching pair

(A) Pearl- The Scarlet Letter

(B) Raka- The God of Small Things

(C) Raphael- The Great Expectations

(D)Pip- Fire on the Mountain

Answer: A

41. The assertion, “We had a very restful holiday,” implies :

(A) We didn’t exert ourselves

(B) We did nothing

(C) We were very lazy

(D) We had a very dull time

Answer: A

42. “The progress of an artist is an continual self sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. “This assertion

implies :
(A) Merely by a continual extinction of personality an artist is sure to make progress

(B) An artist is likely to make progress through continual self sacrifice and extinction of personality
(C) Continual self sacrifice and extinction of personality will undermine the progress of the artist

(D) An artist must have a personality to create art

Answer: b

43. “The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining and delighting us”. This assertion
implies :

(A)Poetry has multiple functions to perform

(B)Poetry is more useful than other arts
(C)All other arts including poetry have their limitations

(D)Poetry has no role to play

Answer: b

44. “Human beings, and especially human beings as an integral part of a social organisation are regarded as
primary subject matter of literature”. This assertion implies :

(A)Human beings alone can be the subject matter of literature

(B)All living beings-animal and human, contribute towards the creation of literature

(C)Humans as social beings are the nucleus of all literary exercise

(D)Literature transcends the human and the non-human.

Answer: c

45. “We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more”. The assertion implies :

(A)Human beings have only three faculties at their command to comprehend all knowledge
(B)A sharpening of three faculties mentioned would help human beings to become better

(C)Only with the combination of all senses, we may become better

(D)Seeing, hearing and feeling are not enough to become better human beings

Answer: B

Read the passage below, and answer the questions that follow based on your understanding of the passage :

John Dryden in the late seventeenth century defined poetic license as “The liberty which poets have assumed to
themselves, in all ages, of speaking things in verse which are beyond the severity of prose”. In its most common use the
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term is confined to diction alone, to justify the poet’s departure from the rules and conventions of standard spoken and
written prose in matters such as syntax, word order, the use of archaic or newly coined words, and the conventional use

of eye-rhymes. The degree and kinds of linguistic freedom assumed by poets have varied according to the conventions of
each age, but in every case the justification of the freedom lies in the success of the effect.

In a broader sense, “Poetic License” is applied not only to language, but to all the ways in which poets and other literacy
authors are held to be free to violate, for special effects, the ordinary norms not only of common discourse but also of

literal and historical truth, including the devices of metre and rhyme, the recourse to literary conventions, and the
representation of fictional characters and events.

46. ‘Poetic license’ means :

(A) liberty with diction, alone

(B) liberty with diction and norms of common discourse

(C) liberty with historical truth

(D) liberty with representations of fictional characters

Answer: A

47. ‘Linguistic freedom’ is :

(A) freedom with diction, newly-coined words, syntax

(B) freedom with the use of colloquial language

(C) freedom with the use of figurative construction

(D) freedom with literal truth

Answer: A

48. How do you justify the linguistic freedom taken ?

(A) on the basis of scholarship embedded

(B) on the basis of form

(C) on the basis of the success of the effect

(D) on the basis of the thematic grandeur

Answer: C
49. “Diction” means :

(A) severity of prose

(B) devices of metre and rhyme

(C) poetic license

(D) syntax and word order

Answer: D

50. “Poetic license” applies to :

(A) Poets alone

(B) All literary

(C) Dramatists only

(D) Epic writers only

Answer: B

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1. The title The Sound and the Fury is taken from :

(A) Hamlet

(B) Macbeth
(C) The Tempest

(D) King Lear

Answer: B

2. Pecola is a character in :
(A) The Bluest Eye

(B) Oliver Twist

(C) Don Quixote

(D) Beloved
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Answer: A

3. Which of the following was associated with the “Bloomsbury Group”.

(A) T. S. Eliot

(B) W. B. Yeats
(C) T. E. Hulme

(D) Virginia Woolf

Answer: D

4. Which of the following characters appear in Waiting for Godot :

(A) Jerry

(B) Lucky
(C) Jimmy Porter

(D) Ham
Answer: B

5. About whom did T. S. Eliot write “A thought to him was an experience” :

(A) Herbert

(B) Marvell
(C) Donne

(D) Crashaw
Answer: C

6. The last book of Gulliver’s Travels is :

(A) “Voyage to Houyhnhnms”

(B) “Voyage to Laputa”

(C) “Voyage to Brobdingnag”

(D) “Voyage to Lilliput”

Answer: A
7. Who edited The Tatler :

(A) Steele and John Locke

(B) Addison and Dryden

(C) Addison and Blackmore

(D) Addison and Steele

Answer: D

8. John Locke’s “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” is about :

(A) nature of human behaviour

(B) nature of the human mind

(C) nature of human society

(D) nature of human ideology

Answer: B

9. Restoration Comedy marks the restoration of :

(A) women’s rights

(B) democracy

(C) monarchy
(D) human rights

Answer: C

10. Which of Alexander Pope’s poems begins with the line “Shut, shut the door, good
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John, fatigued I said” :
(A) “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”

(B) “Dunciad”
(C) “Epistles”

(D) “Rape of the Lock”

Answer: A

11. The statement “One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is
one’s own” appears in :

(A) Ice-Candy Man

(B) The Guide

(C) Nagamandala
(D) Kanthapura

Answer: D

12. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched :

(A) Arundhati Roy – The Autumn of the Patriarch

(B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera

(C) Umber to Eco – The Tin Drum

(D) Jhumpa Lahiri – Beloved

Answer: B

13. Which of the following women writers did not receive the Noble Prize :

(A) Toni Morrison

(B) Nadine Gordiner

(C) Buchi Emcheta

(D) Doris Lessing

Answer: C
14. Which of the following is not an Australian author :

(A) Margaret Laurence

(B) David Malauf

(C) Mudooroo Narogin

(D) Peter Carey

Answer: A

15. The Tulsis of Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas lived in :

(A) Pagotes House

(B) Hanuman Mansion

(C) Tulsiana
(D) Hanuman House

Answer: D

16. The quotation “a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM” appears in :

(A) Lyrical Ballads

(B) Biographia Literaria

(C) “In Defense of Poetry”

(D) Letters of Keats

Answer: B

17. “Fearful Symmetry” appears in the poem :

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(A) “Introduction”
(B) “Chimney Sweeper”

(C) “The Tyger”

(D) “London”

Answer: C

18. The quotation “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,

without any irritable reaching after fact and reasons” is a definition of :

(A) Negative capability

(B) Secondary imagination

(C) Criticism of life

(D) Dissociation of sensibility

Answer: A

19. Which of the following prose-writers do not belong to the Romantic Period :
(A) Peacock

(B) De Quincey
(C) Hazlitt

(D) Gibbon
Answer: D

20. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia and Wickham eloped to :

(A) London

(B) Bath
(C) Gretna Green

(D) Glasgow
Answer: A

21. Which of the following thinker-concept pairs is correctly matched :

(A) Frye ……….. Mysticism
(B) Derrida …………. Deconstruction

(C) I. A. Richards ……….. Archetypal Criticism

(D) Eagleton …………… Psychological Criticism

Answer: B

22. Which of the following thinker concept pairs is correctly matched :

(A) Abhinava Gupta ………….. Dhwanyaloka

(B) Vaman ………….. Kavya Alankar

(C) Mamata ………….. Kavya Prakash

(D) Bharata ………….. Vakrokti

Answer: C

23. Choose the correct sequence of the following schools of criticism :

(A) Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-Response, New Historicism

(B) New Historicism, Reader-Response, Deconstruction, Structuralism

(C) Deconstruction, New Historicism, Structuralism, Reader-Response

(D) Reader-Response, Deconstruction, New Historicism, Structuralism

Answer: A

24. “Hamartia” means :

(A) reversal of fortunes

(B) purgation of emotions
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(C) depravity
(D) error of judgement

Answer: D

25. The term “gynocriticism” was coined by :

(A) Betty Friedman

(B) Elaine Showalter

(C) Luce Irigarey

(D) Susan Sontag

Answer: B

26. Which is the correct sequence :

(A) D. G. Rossetti, George Eliot, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray

(B) George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti, Bronte Sisters, Thackeray

(C) Thackeray, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti

(D) Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray, D. G. Rossetti

Answer: C

27. Which of Dickens’ novels opens with the words “It was the best of times, it was the

worst of times …. “.
(A) A Tale of Two Cities

(B) Oliver Twist

(C) Pickwick Papers

(D) Hard Times

Answer: A

28. The term “The Fleshly School of Poetry” is associated with the :
(A) Chartists

(B) Pre-Raphaelites
(C) Symbolists
(D) Imagists

Answer: B

29. The line “The sea is calm tonight” occurs in :

(A) Tennyson’s “Maude”

(B) Arnold’s “Thyrsis”

(C) Tennyson’s “The Lotos-Eaters”

(D) Arnold’s “Dover Beach”

Answer: D

30. The term “gothic”, a category of fiction, also applies to :

(A) architecture
(B) painting

(C) music
(D) theater

Answer: A

31. The gap-toothed character in “prologue” to The Centerbury Tales is :

(A) the Prioress

(B) the Nun

(C) the Wife of Bath

(D) the Narrator
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Answer: C

32. Which of the following is not a Revenge Tragedy :

(A) Duchess of Malfi

(B) Volpone

(C) Hamlet
(D) Gorboduc

Answer: B

33. Miracle plays are based on the lives of :

(A) Knights
(B) Crusaders

(C) Pilgrims
(D) Saints

Answer: D

34. The Red cross Knight is Spenser’s Faerie Queene represents :

(A) Temperance
(B) Chastity

(C) Truth
(D) Falsehood

Answer: C

35. The line “Present fears/Are less than horrible imaginings” appear in :

(A) Macbeth
(B) King Lear

(C) Othello
(D) Julius Caesar

Answer: A
36. The author of Ars Poetica is :

(A) Plato
(B) Horace

(C) Virgil
(D) Aristotle

Answer: B

37. Which of the following is not a work by Dr. Johnson :

(A) Preface to the English Dictionary

(B) Preface to Shakespeare

(C) Lives of English Poets

(D) Cowley

Answer: D

38. Which novel of Daniel Defoe was considered to be the best by E. M. Forster ?

(A) Colonel Jack

(B) Robinson Crusoe

(C) Captain Singleton

(D) Moll Flanders

Answer: D

39. Edmund Burke denounced the French Revolution in :

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(A) Political Philosophy
(B) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful

(C) Reflections
(D) The Annual Register

Answer: C

40. The line “A man can be destroyed but not defeated” appears in :

(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls

(B) The Old Man and the Sea

(C) The Snows of Kilimanjaro

(D) The Sun also Rises

Answer: B

41. Who among the following is called “A New England Poet” :

(A) Robert Frost

(B) Edwin Arlington Robinson

(C) William Carlos Williams

(D) Allen Ginsberg

Answer: A

42. Which of the following is not a play by Tennessee Williams :

(A) Night of the Iguana

(B) A Streetcar named Desire

(C) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

(D) The Zoo Story

Answer: D

43. Margaret Atwood’s Survival is :

(A) a critical assessment of Canadian writing

(B) a thematic guide to Canadian literature
(C) a critique of Canadian polity

(D) a exposition of Canadian history

Answer: B

44. The term “Negritude” was coined by :

(A) Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha

(B) Ngugi Wa’ Thiongo and Wole Soyinka

(C) Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor

(D) K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe

Answer: C

45. Bertolt Brecht’s concept of theatre was influenced by :

(A) Irwin Piscator

(B) Antonin Artaud

(C) Peter Brook

(D) Eugino Barba

Answer: A

46. The relationship between Othello and Iago is an example of :

(A) inversion

(B) irony
(C) innuendo
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(D) invective
Answer: D

47. A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is :

(A) dactyl

(B) trochee
(C) iamb

(D) anapaest
Answer: C

48. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is :

(A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg

(B) abba, cddc, effe, gg

(C) abcd, efgh, effe, hh

(D) abca, abca, bcab, dd

Answer: A

49. Using “the Bench” for the judiciary is an example of :

(A) metaphor

(B) irony
(C) Synecdoche

(D) metonymy
Answer: D

50. Four feet, comprising a monosyllable, trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often called :
(A) running rhythm

(B) sprung rhythm

(C) blank verse

(D) rhymed verse

Answer: B
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1. Which one of the following author – book pair is correctly matched ?

(A) J.M. Coetzee – Shame

(B) Saul Bellow – Herzog

(C) Salman Rushdie – Disgrace

(D) Elfriede Jelinek – The Pianist

Answer: B

2. Which novel has a nameless narrator ?

(A) Invisible Man

(B) The Grapes of Wrath

(C) Moby Dick

(D) Anna Karenina

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Answer: A

3. Samuel Beckett wrote :

(A) Endgame

(B) Volpone
(C) Mother Courage and Her Children

(D) A Doll’s House

Answer: A

4. Willy Loman is a character in :

(A) A Doll’s House

(B) The Cherry Orchard

(C) Waiting for Godot

(D) The Death of a Salesman

Answer: D

5. The Plough and the Stars was written by :

(A) G.B. Shaw

(B) J.M. Synge

(C) Sean O’casey

(D) Lady Gregory

Answer: C

6. The subtitle of Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel is :

(A) There was no subtitle

(B) A satire
(C) A satire on the True Blue Protestant Poets

(D) A poem
Answer: A
7. Who of the following is not a periodical essayist ?

(A) Jonathan Swift

(B) Joseph Addison

(C) Richard Steele

(D) Lancelot Andrews

Answer: D

8. John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys were the famous writers of :

(A) essays
(B) editorials

(C) letters
(D) diaries

(B) Answer: D

9. Samuel Butlers Hudibras is modeled upon :

(A) “Annus Mirabilis”

(B) Endymion

(C) Don Quixote

(D) Pilgrim’s Progress

Answer: C

10. Who was the last of the Christian Humanists ?

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(A) Oliver Cromowell
(B) John Milton

(C) John Bunyan

(D) Richard Crashaw

Answer: C

11. The narrative of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura is based on :

(A) Puranas
(B) Shastras

(C) The Ramayana

(D) The Mahabharata

Answer: A

12. Which of the following author – book pair is correctly matched ?

(A) David Malouf – The City of Djins

(B) C.L.R. James – The English Patient

(C) Shashi Tharoor – Trotter Nama

(D) Arundhati Roy – Algebra of Infinite Justice

Answer: D

13. Who wrote “A tiger does not proclaim its tigretude” ?

(A) Ngugi
(B) Achebe

(C) Soyinka
(D) Derek Walcott

Answer:C

14. “Jindiworobak” movement relates to :

(A) Australian literature

(B) Canadian literature
(C) New Zealand literature

(D) Caribbean literature

Answer: A

15. The Montreal group of poets championed the cause of :

(A) Nature poetry

(B) Symbolish poetry

(C) Imagist poetry

(D) Modernist poetry

Answer: D

16. The figure of the “Abyssinian maid” appears in :

(A) “Frost at midnight”

(B) “Christabel”
(C) “Kubla Khan”

(D) “Dejection : an Ode”

Answer: C

17. Coleridges statement that imagination “dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate” relates to :
(A) fancy

(B) primary imagination

(C) secondary imagination
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(D) esemplastic imagination
Answer: C

18. “Did he who made the Lamb made thee” appears in :

(A) “The Tyger”

(B) “Chimney Sweeper”

(C) “London”

(D) “Introduction”
Answer: A

19. “Essays of Elia” are :

(A) political ideology

(B) economic disparity

(C) literary criticism

(D) personal impressions

Answer: D

20. Who among the following is a writer of historical romances ?

(A) Emily Bronte

(B) Jane Austen

(C) Walter Scott

(D) Walter Savage Lander

Answer: C

21. Which of the following thinker – concept pairs is rightly matched ?

(A) Stanley Fish – Reader Response

(B) Jacques Devida – New Historicism

(C) Northrop Frye – Practical Criticism

(D) I.A. Richards – Archetypal Criticism

Answer: A
22. Which of the following thinker – concept pairs is rightly matched ?

(A) Vaman – Dhwanyaloka

(B) Bharata – Natya Shastra

(C) Mamata – Vakrokti

(D) Abhinava Gupta – Kavya Alankar

Answer: B

23. Choose the correct sequence of the following schools of criticism :

(A) Structuralism, New Criticism, Deconstruction, Reader Response

(B) New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader Response

(C) Reader Response, Deconstruction, Structuralism, New Criticism

(D) Deconstruction, New Criticism, Structuralism, Reader Response

Answer: B

24. “Peripetia” means :

(A) purgation of emotion

(B) tragic flaw

(C) reversal of fortune

(D) recognition of error

Answer: C

25. “Gynocriticism” focuses on :

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(A) Criticism on women
(B) Criticism by women

(C) Criticism of male writers by women writers

(D) Women as writers

Answer: D

26. Which of the following sequences is correct ?

(A) Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, Middlemarch, The Return of the Native
(B) Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch, The Return of the Native

(C) Middlemarch, The Return of the Native, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond
(D) The Return of the Native, Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond

Answer: A

27. Queen Victoria’s reign, after whom the Victorian period is named, spans :

(A) 1833 – 1901

(B) 1837 – 1901

(C) 1840 – 1905

(D) 1842 – 1905

Answer: B

28. Pre – Raphaelite poetry is mainly concerned with :

(A) narrative and style

(B) narrative and nature

(C) form and design

(D) form and value

Answer: C

29. The concept of “mad woman in the attic” can be traced to :

(A) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

(B) Villette
(C) Wuthering Heights

(D) Jane Eyre

Answer: D

30. Who among the Victorians is called “the prophet of modern society” ?
(A) Ruskin

(B) Carlyle
(C) Macaulay

(D) Arnold
Answer: D

31. Who among the following is not a pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales ?
(A) the Haberdasher

(B) the Tapyser

(C) the Blacksmith

(D) the Summoner

Answer: C

32. Bosola is the executioner in :

(A) The Spanish Tragedy

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(C) The White Devil
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(D) The Jew of Malta
Answer: B

33. The mystery plays deal with :

(A) the life of Christ

(B) the New Testament

(C) Psalms

(D) Apocrypha
Answer: A

34. The Faerie Queene is based on :

(A) Utopia

(B) Tottelis Miscellany

(C) Morte d’Arthur

(D) Orlando Furioso

Answer: D

35. Choose the correct chronological sequence of the following plays :

(A) King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet

(B) Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet

(C) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

(D) Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth

Answer: C

36. Pope’s “Essay on Criticism” sums up the art of poetry as taught first by :
(A) Aristotle

(B) Horace
(C) Longinus

(D) Plato
Answer: B
37. Swift’s Tale of a Tub is a satire on :

(A) science and philosophy

(B) art and morality

(C) dogma and superstition

(D) fake morals and manners

Answer: A

38. Dr. Johnson started :

(A) The Postman

(B) The Spectator

(C) The Rambler

(D) The Tatler

Answer: C

39. Who among the following cautioned against the dangers of popular liberty ?

(A) Mary Wollstonecraft

(B) Edmund Burke

(C) Thomas Hobbes

(D) John Locke

Answer: C

40. Which famous American classic opens with “Call me Ishmael” ?

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(A) Rip Van Winkle
(B) The Scarlet Letter

(C) The Grapes of Wrath

(D) Moby Dick

Answer: D

41. Allen Ginsberg’s vision of America is inspired by :

(A) Walt Whitman

(B) Robert Frost

(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson

(D) Edgar A. Poe

Answer: A

42. Who among the following represents the Sri Lankan diaspora ?

(A) M.G. Vassanji

(B) Cyril Debydeen

(C) Michael Ondaatje

(D) Arnold H. Itwaru

Answer: C

43. Out of Africa is a film adaptation of a work by :

(A) Alice Walker

(B) Margaret Lawrence

(C) Margaret Atwood

(D) None of them

Answer: D

44. The Empire writes Back was written by :

(A) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Ngugi Wa Thinngo

(B) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Stephen Slemon
(C) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Chinua Achebe

(D) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Gareth Griffiths

Answer: D

45. The theatre of cruelty is associated with :

(A) Stanislavosky

(B) Grotovsky
(C) Antonin Artand

(D) Eugino Barba

Answer: C

46. A particle is :
(A) a patchwork of words, sentences, passages

(B) a satirical poem

(C) a love song

(D) a collection of lines from different poems

Answer: A

47. “Careless she is with artful Care/Affecting to seem unaffected” is an example of :

(A) irony

(B) paradox
(C) simile
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(D) metaphor
Answer: B

48. A metrical foot containing a stressed, followed by an unstressed, syllable is :

(A) anapaest

(B) iamb
(C) trochee

(D) dactyl
Answer: C

49. The rhyme scheme of a Spenserian sonnet is :

(A) abba, cbcb, cdcd, ee

(B) abab, bccb, ccdd, ee

(C) aabb, bcbc, ccdd, ee

(D) abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee

Answer: D

50. Using the expression “Crown” for the monarchy is an example of :

(A) Metonymy

(B) Synecdoche
(C) Irony

(D) Metaphor
Answer: A
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1. The author of The Provok’d Husband was :

(A) Etherege

(B) Colley Cibber

(C)Wycherley

(D)Vanbrugh
Answer: B

2. Who among the boys in Golding’s Lord of the Flies is associated with Christ ?
(A) Piggy

(B) Ralph
(C) Jack

(D) Simon
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Answer: D

3. The complete title of Laurance Stern’s novel Tristram Shandy is:

(A)The Strange and Surprising Adventures of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

(B)A True Account of The Life of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

(C)The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

(D)The Strange and Surprising Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Answer: C

4. Feminine ending refers to :

(A) a stressed final syllable in a line of verse

(B) the ending of a poem in a stressed syllable

(C) the ending of a poem in an unstressed syllable

(D) an unstressed final syllable in a line of verse

Answer: C

5. The essay ‘The Death of the Author’ is written by :

(A) Michel Foucault

(B) Jacques Derrida

(C) Roland Barthes

(D) Alvin Kernan

Answer: C

6. Salman Rushdie’s Shame is set in :

(A) East Pakistan

(B) India and Pakistan

(C) Pakistan

(D) None of the above

Answer: C
7. Choose the correct chronological sequence in :

(A) Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson – Milton’s Paradise Lost – Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress –
Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther

(B) Hutchinson’s Memoirs – Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress – Dryden’s Hind and the Panther- Milton’s Paradise Lost
(C) Milton’s Paradise Lost – Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress – Dryden’s Hind and the Panther- Hutchinson’s Memoirs

(D) Dryden’s Hind and the Panther – Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress Hutchinson’s Memoirs- Milton’s Paradise Lost
Answer: C

8. The Little Minister is a novel by :

(A) John Galsworthy

(B)H.G. Wells
(C) James M. Barrie

(D)Rudyard Kipling
Answer: C

9. Which Augustan writer’s epitaph reads : “one who strove with all his might to champion liberty” ?
(A) Alexander Pope

(B) Jonathan Swift

(C) Henry Fielding

(D) Daniel Defoe

Answer: B

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10. In which of the following novels incidents relating to the declaration of Emergency in India in 1975 figure?
(A) Farrukh Dhondy’s Bombay Duck

(B) Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy

(C) Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English August : An Indian Story

(D) Rohinton Mistry’s Such Long Journey

Answer: D

11. Identify the matching pair :

(A) Edward II : Zenocrate

(B) The Jew of Malta : Barabas

(C) The Spanish Tragedy : Horatio

(D)Tamburlaine : Gaveston
Answer: C

12. The future ruin of Troy and the murder of Agamemnon are referred to by W.B. Yeats in :
(A) The Second Coming

(B) Circus Animals Desertion

(C) When You Are Old

(D) Leda and Swan

Answer: A

13. Inscape refers to :

(A) The indwelling presence of God in nature

(B) The universal character of a natural thing

(C) The individuating character of a natural thing

(D) The moment of release from the material world

Answer: C

14. In which of these plays does Edward Albee use the ‘success’ myth ?
(A) A Zoo Story
(B) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

(C) American Dream

(D) The Death of Bessie Smith

Answer: C

15. “The voice of poetry comes from a region above us, a plane of our being above and beyond our personal

intelligence”. Who among the following is the author of the above lines?
(A) Rabindranath Tagore

(B) A.K. Coomaraswamy

(C) Sri Aurobindo

(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose

Answer: C

16. The number of poems in Sidney’s sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella is :
(A) 99

(B) 47
(C) 112

(D) 108
Answer: D

17. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe is a postmodern retelling of :

(A) Ivanhoe
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(B) Evelina
(C) Robinson Crusoe

(D) The Moonstone

Answer: C

18. Johnson’s edition of Shakespeare appeared in :

(A) 1752

(B) 1765
(C) 1791

(D) 1760
Answer: B

19.The main character in Gogol’s Dead Souls is :

(A) Oblomov

(B) Bazarov
(C) Alyosha

(D) Chichikov
Answer: D

20. After Shakespeare made his debut as a London playwright, he was described as an’upstart crow’ by :
(A) Robert Greene

(B) Thomas Lodge

(C) Christopher Marlowe

(D) John Lyly

Answer: A

21. What was the first play of Mrs. Dalloway called ?

(A) Clarissa

(B) Hours
(C)The Big Ben
(D)The Party

Answer: D

22. Which of the following Caribbean novels makes inter textual references to Jane Eyre ?

(A) No Telephone to Heaven

(B) Wide Sargasso Sea

(C) Crick Crack Monkey

(D) Between Two Worlds

Answer: B

23. The term ‘metaphysical poets’, was first used by :

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) Helen Gardner

(D) Dryden

Answer: B

24. “Only connect” is the epigraph to a novel by :

(A) George Orwell

(B) Joseph Conrad

(C) D.H. Lawrence

(D) E.M. Forster
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Answer: D

25. The expression “Thy hand, great Anarch” occurs in a satire by :

(A) Dryden
(B) Pope

(C) Johnson
(D)Swift

Answer: B

26. In which of the following novels by Graham Greene does the little girl Brigitta appear ?

(A) The Heart of the Matter

(B) The Power and the Glory

(C) Brighton Rock

(D) The Quiet American

Answer: B

27. The author of ‘A Satire Against Reason and Mankind’ is :

(A)Rochester
(B)Dryden

(C)Gray
(D) Swift

Answer: A

28.’Anagnorisis’ is a term used by Aristotle for describing :

(A) The moment of discovery by the protagonist

(B) The reversal of fortune for the protagonist

(C) The happy resolution of the plot

(D) The convergence of the main plot and the sub plot

Answer: A
29. In which play by Shakespeare do we find widowed queens questioning the assumptions of male politics ?

(A) Henry V
(B) Richard III

(C)Anthony and Cleopatra

(D) Hamlet

Answer: B

30. Which of the following feminist critics used the expression ‘Gynocriticism’for the first time ?

(A) Kate Millet

(B) Simone de Beauvoir

(C)Elaine Showalter
(D) Mary Ellmann

Answer: C

31. John Keats’s poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ was composed in :

(A) 1818
(B) 1819

(C) 1820
(D) 1821

Answer: B

32. The Female Quixote was written by :

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(A)Henry Fielding
(B)Tobias Smollett

(C) Charlotte Lennox

(D) Aphra Behn

Answer: C

33. Which contemporary British poet has translated Beowulf ?

(A) Thom Gunn

(B) Alan Lewis

(C)Edward Thomas
(D) Seamus Heaney

Answer: D

34.’The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers’ is :

(A) A poem by William Blake an essay by Charles Lamb

(B) An elegy by William Wordsworth

(C) An essay by Charles Lamb

(D) An essay by William Hazlitt

Answer: C

35. The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner is a novel by :

(A) Kingsley Amis

(B) Alan Sillitoe

(C) John Braine

(D) John Osborne

Answer: B

36. In ‘Black Venus’ Angela Carter takes elements from the poetry of a famous French poet and places them in a

very different paradigm. Who is the French poet ?

(A)Baudelaire
(B)Mallarme

(C)Verlaine
(D)Apollinaire

Answer: A

37. Strophe, antistrophe and epode form a three-part structure in :

(A) a classic ode

(B) a Greek chorus

(C)a medieval ballad

(D) a Petrarchan sonnet

Answer: A

38. The words “where are the songs of spring ? Ay, where are they ?” occur in :

(A) Ode to the West Wind

(B) The Seasons

(C) Ode to Autumn

(D) Resolution and Independence

Answer: C

39. “Music that gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired eyes” the above lines occur in Tennyson’s :

(A) Tears, Idle Tears

(B) In Memoriam
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(C) Maud
(D) The Lotus Eaters

Answer: D

40. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

(A) Robert Southey : Lady of the Lake

(B) T.S. Eliot : Lake Isle of Innisfree

(C) A.C. Swinburne : The Lady of Shallott

(D)Thomas De Quincey : Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets

Answer: D

41. Which famous English novel opens with a young woman who is ‘handsome, clever and rich’ ?

(A) Middlemarch
(B) Wuthering Heights

(C) Moll Flanders

(D) Emma

Answer: D

42. It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I “Milton belongs to the Devil’s party without knowing it”. Who among

the following made this statement ?

(A) Frank Kermode

(B) William Empson

(C) C.S. Lewis

(D) William Blake

Answer: D

43. Live Like Pigs is :

(A) a humorous poem by Pope

(B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell

(C) a play by Arden
(D) a satirical sketch by Swift

Answer: C

44. ‘A woman drew her long black hair out tight And fiddled whisper music on those strings’. From which section

of Eliot’s The Waste Land are the above lines taken ?

(A) A Game of Chess

(B) What the Thunder Said

(C) Burial of the Dead

(D) Fire Sermon

Answer: B

45. Which is the correct sequence of Achebe’s African Trilogy ?

(A) Things Fall Apart – Arrow of God – No Longer At Ease

(B) No Longer At Ease – Arrow of God – Things Fall Apart

(C) Things Fall Apart – No Longer At Ease – Arrow of God

(D) Arrow of God – Things Fall Apart – No Longer At Ease

Answer: C

46. Which are the figures of speech used in the following lines by Blake
“Tyger, tyger, burning bright

In the forest of the night,

What immortal hand or eye
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Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?”
(A) simile and personification

(B) irony and synecdoche

(C) apostrophe and synecdoche

(D) metonymy and apostrophe

Answer: C

47. In which of the following American novels does ‘the Valley of Ashes’ occur ?
(A) Huck Finn

(B) The Red Badge of Courage

(C) Invisible Man

(D) The Great Gatsby

Answer: D

48. To whom is Chaucer referring when he says ‘He knew the tavern well in every town’ ?
(A) Pardoner

(B) Monk
(C) Squire

(D) Friar
Answer: D

49. “Poetry is a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by laws of poetic truth and poetic
beauty”. Who, among the following, made the above statement ?

(A) Dr. Johnson

(B) Sidney

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) Wordsworth

Answer: C
50. “She is inspired but diabolically inspired”. Who is this lady ?

(A) Candida
(B) Major Barbara

(C) Saint Joan

(D) Ann

Answer: C

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1. The lines :
‘Even I, a dunce of more renown than they,

Was sent before but to prepare thy way’ are quoted from :
(A) Pope’s Dunciad

(B) Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel

(C) Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe

(D) Swift’s A Tale of a Tub

Answer: C

2. Fanny Burney’s Evelina is about :

(A) a young lady’s entry into English fashionable society

(B) English refugees in Paris

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(C) an English enthusiast for revolutionary liberty

(D) money and the world of the country house

Answer: A

3. The unexpurgated text of Lady Chatterley’s Lover was published after Obscenity trial in
:

(A) 1958
(B) 1965

(C) 1960
(D) 1962

Answer: C

4. Sir Andrew Freeport is a character in :

(A) Humphry Clinker

(B) Joseph Andrews

(C) The Coverley Papers

(D) Clarissa

Answer: C

5. In which of the following novels does Stein feature as a significant character ?

(A) Under Western Eyes

(B) Lord Jim

(C) Heart of Darkness

(D) Nostromo

Answer: B

6. The Grand Inquisitor is a character in :

(A) Crime and Punishment

(B) Notes from the Underground

(C) Brothers Karamazov

(D) The Idiot

Answer: C

7. Which modern critic described value judgements as ‘the donkey’s carrot of literary criticism’ ?

(A) T. S. Eliot
(B) I. A. Richards

(C) William Empson

(D) Northrop Frye

Answer: D

8. Select the matching pair :

(A) The Book of the Duchess : Blanche of Leicester

(B) The Canterbury Tales : The Host of the Tabard

(C) Troilus and Criseyde : Squire

(D) The Parliament of Birds : St. Agnes’s Eve

Answer: C

9. ‘The Winter Morning’ forms part of a longer poem by :

(A) Cowper
(B) Blake

(C) Burns
(D) Byron
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Answer: A

10. Bradley Pearson is the narrator of Iris Murdoch’s novel :

(A) Under the Net

(B) Bruno’s Dream

(C) The Bell

(D) The Black Prince

Answer: D

11. ‘Victorian Compromise’ is an expression first used by :

(A) David Cecil

(B) G. K. Chesterton

(C) Lytton Strachey

(D) Vincent Buckley

Answer: B

12. More’s Latin Masterpiece Utopia was translated into English in :

(A) 1551
(B) 1498

(C) 1516
(D) 1532

Answer: A

13. The Anxiety of Influence : A Theory of Poetry is written by :

(A) Maud Bodkin

(B) Stephen Spender

(C) Harold Bloom

(D) Frank Kernode

Answer: C
14. Who among the following was not a member of the group, ‘The University Wits’ ?

(A) Thomas Nashe

(B) Ben Jonson

(C) George Peele

(D) Samuel Daniel

Answer: B

15. William Beckford’s oriental fantasy Vathek was originally written in :

(A) Spanish
(B) German

(C) French
(D) Italian

Answer: C

16. The term ‘American renaissance’ was first used by :

(A) R. W. B Lewis
(B) Leo Marx

(C) F. O. Matthiessen
(D) Richard Chase

Answer: C

17. ‘Gladly would he learn, and gladly teach’ is a line from :

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(A) Spenser’s Fairie Queen
(B) Goldsmith’s ‘The Deserted Village’

(C) Chaucer’s Prologue to Canterbury Tales

(D) Langland’s Piers Plowman

Answer: C

18. Which of the following arrangement of the English plays is in correct chronological order ?

(A) Justice – The Family Reunion – Saint Joan – The Playboy of the Western World
(B) Saint Joan – Justice – The Playboy of the Western World – The Family Reunion

(C) The Family Reunion – Saint Joan – Justice – The Playboy of the Western World
(D) The Playboy of the Western World – Justice – Saint Joan – The Family Reunion

Answer: D

19. The second part of The Pilgrim’s Progress was published in :

(A) 1690
(B) 1678

(C) 1686
(D) 1684

Answer: D

20. The Egoist is written by :

(A) Blackmore
(B) William Thackeray

(C) Meredith
(D) Hardy

Answer: C

21. Which is the correct chronological sequence of the following novels ?

(A) Decline and Fall – The Time Machine – Nineteen Eightyfour – Brave New World
(B) Nineteen Eightyfour – Decline and Fall – The Time Machine – Brave New World
(C) Brave New World – The Time Machine – Nineteen Eightyfour – Decline and Fall

(D) The Time Machine – Decline and Fall – Brave New World – Nineteen Eightyfour
Answer: D

22. Roland Barthes is the author of one of the following texts :

(A) The Death of Tragedy

(B) The Death of a Hero

(C) The Death of the Author

(D) The Death of Literature

Answer: C

23. The author of the Elizabethan sonnet sequence, Idea, is :

(A) Samuel Daniel

(B) Michael Drayton

(C) Edmund Spenser

(D) Fulke Greville

Answer: B

24. Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a rewriting of the Victorian novel :
(A) Jane Eyre

(B) Villette
(C) Wuthering Heights
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(D) North and South
Answer: A

25. The Romantic Imagination is the title of a book by :

(A) Harold Bloom

(B) Graham Hough

(C) C. M. Bowra

(D) M. H. Abrahms
Answer: C

26. ‘Ode on the Spring’ was written by :

(A) Thomas Gray

(B) John Keats

(C) Abraham Cowley

(D) William Collins

Answer: A

27. Which of the following books was not published in 1859 ?

(A) Darwin : The Origin of Species

(B) George Eliot : Adam Bede

(C) Mill : On Liberty

(D) Ruskin : Unto This Last

Answer: D

28. Three Guineas is the title of a book by :

(A) E. M. Forster

(B) Virginia Woolf

(C) George Orwell

(D) G. B. Shaw
Answer: B
29. Harold Pinter’s first four plays are :

(A) The Caretaker, The Room, The Homecoming, The Birthday Party
(B) The Room, The Dumb Waiter, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker

(C) The Homecoming, The Caretaker, Old Times, Betrayal

(D) The Dumb Waiter, The Caretaker, No Man’s Land, Betrayal

Answer: B

30. Identify the odd character out :

(A) Bosola
(B) De Flores

(C) Iago
(D) Kent

Answer: D

31. Select the matching pair :

(A) The Great Gatsby : Chicago

(B) The Old Man and the Sea : Cuba

(C) For Whom the Bell Tolls : Italy

(D) The Sound and the Fury : Boston

Answer: B

32. ‘The page is printed’. This is the last line in a poem by :

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(A) Sylvia Plath
(B) Dylan Thomas

(C) Philip Larkin

(D) Ted Hughes

Answer: D

33. T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland was first published in :

(A) The Criterion

(B) The Dial

(C) The Yale Review

(D) New Yorker

Answer: A

34. ‘Relationship’ is a long poem by :

(A) A. K. Ramanujan
(B) R. Parthasarathy

(C) Jayanta Mahapatra

(D) Kamala Das

Answer: C

35. The phrase, ‘bottomless perdition’ occurs in Milton’s Paradise Lost in :

(A) Book I
(B) Book IV

(C) Book VI
(D) Book XII

Answer: A

36. Which of the following arrangements of American plays is in the correct chronological sequence ?

(A) Mourning Becomes Electra – The Hairy Ape – Death of a Salesman – A Streetcar Named Desire
(B) The Hairy Ape – Death of a Salesman – Mourning Becomes Electra – A Streetcar Named Desire
(C) A Streetcar Named Desire – The Hairy Ape – Mourning Becomes Electra – Death of a Salesman

(D) The Hairy Ape – Mourning Becomes Electra – A Streetcar Named Desire – Death of a Salesman
Answer: D

37. Which of the following arrangements of famous characters is in the correct chronological order ?
(A) Vittoria Corombona – Beatrice – Christiana – Hermione

(B) Beatrice – Hermione – Vittoria Corombona – Christiana

(C) Hermione – Beatrice – Vittoria Corombona – Christiana

(D) Beatrice – Vittoria Corombona – Hermione – Christiana

Answer: B

38. Which of the following is in correct chronological sequence ?

(A) In Memoriam – ‘Lycidas’ – ‘An Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard’ – Adonais

(B) Adonais – In Memoriam – ‘Lycidas’ – ‘An Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard’

(C) ‘An Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard’ – In Memoriam – Adonais ‘Lycidas’

(D) ‘Lycidas’ – ‘An Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard’ – Adonais – In Memoriam

Answer:D

39. The Chartist Demonstration in London involving the third presentation of Charter took place in :
(A) 1842

(B) 1846
(C) 1848
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(D) 1851
Answer: C

40. ‘Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it into
fragments’ The above lines occur in :

(A) ‘Dejection : An Ode’

(B) Adonais

(C) In Memoriam
(D) ‘Thyrsis’

Answer: B

41. Arrange the following characters in chronological sequence :

(A) Mr. Rochester – David Copperfield – Rosamond – Bathsheba

(B) David Copperfield – Rosamond – Mr. Rochester – Bathsheba

(C) Bathsheba – Mr. Rochester – David Copperfield – Becky Sharp

(D) David Copperfield – Bathsheba – Mr. Rochester – Rosamond

Answer: A

42. The book, The Religion of Man is written by :

(A) Sri. Aurobindo

(B) Rabindranath Tagore

(C) A. K. Coomaraswamy
(D) V. K. Gokak

Answer:B

43. In the poem ‘Windhover’ Hopkins uses :

(A) Alternate Rhyme

(B) Disyllabic Rhyme

(C) Cross Rhyme

(D) Split Rhyme

Answer: D

44. Which Dickens novel attacks the New Poor Law of 1834 in the opening chapters ?

(A) Great Expectations

(B) Hard Times

(C) Oliver Twist

(D) Dombey and Son

Answer: C

45. ‘Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath, O my God, take the gentle path’ These lines are taken from a

poem by :
(A) Herbert

(B) Donne
(C) Crashaw

(D) Vaughan
Answer: A

46. ‘Epithalamium’ is a :
(A) song of mourning

(B) song of eulogy

(C) nuptial song
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(D) funeral song
Answer: C

47. The Gutenberg Bible was first published in :

(A) 1456

(B) 1516
(C) 1449

(D) 1498
Answer: A

48. Identify the odd one out :

(A) Persuasion : Anne Tilney

(B) Northanger Abbey : Catherine Price

(C) Emma : Jane Fairfax

(D) Mansfield Park : Fanny Dean

Answer: C

49. Which among the following is in the correct chronological sequence ?

(A) Sexual Politics – Thinking About Women – The Second Sex – The Prisoner of Sex

(B) Thinking About Women – The Prisoner of Sex – Sexual Politics – The Second Sex
(C) The Second Sex – Thinking About Women – Sexual Politics – The Prisoner of Sex

(D) The Prisoner of Sex – The Second Sex – Sexual Politics – Thinking About Women
Answer: C

50. Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’ remains ‘a fragment’ because :

(A) He was called by Wordsworth who was living in Porlock at that time

(B) Dorothy Wordsworth was upset over their love affair

(C) He was interrupted by a caller, a person on business from Porlock

(D) He ran out of his stock of opium

Answer: C
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1. The Victorian period refers to the reign of Queen Victoria of England during :
(A) 1830 – 1890

(B) 1837 – 1905

(C) 1837 – 1901

(D) 1850 – 1910

Answer: C

2. The Rambler appeared every :

(A) Tuesday and Saturday

(B) Sunday and Wednesday

(C) Friday and Monday

(D) Thursday and Monday

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Answer: A

3. “Tottel’s Miscellany” contained :

(A) 30 sonnets

(B) 54 sonnets
(C) 50 sonnets

(D) 60 sonnets
Answer: B

4.’Imagism’ is associated with :

(A) T. S. Fliot

(C) E. E. Cummings
(B) D. H. Lawrence

(D) T. E. Hulme
Answer: D

5. The title Things Fall Apart is drawn from a poem by :

(A) W. B. Yeats

(B) Ted Hughes

(C) W. H. Auden

(D) Robert Lowell

Answer: A

6. ‘Formal Criticism’ relates to the structure of :

(A) Literary devices

(B) Myths
(C) Content

(D) Form
Answer: A
7. A ‘Foot’ in prosody is a basic unit of :

(A) rhyme
(B) length

(C) rhythmic measurement

(D) height

Answer: C

8. Who of the following is known for aphoristic prose style ?

(A) William Hazlitt

(B) Francis Bacon

(C) John Ruskin

(D) G. K. Chesterton

Answer: B

9. The confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by :

(A) William Hazlitt

(B) S. T. Coleridge

(C) Landor
(D) De Quincey

Answer: D

10. Ireland emerges as the most important metaphor in :

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(A) Seamus Heaney
(B) Elizabeth Jennigs

(C) Arnold Wesker

(D) Edward Albee

Answer: A

11. Which of the following Shakespearean plays is in the correct chronological order ?

(A) King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado…, Troilus and Cressida

(B) Much Ado…, Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida

(C) Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado…

(D) Hamlet, Much Ado…, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida

Answer: B

12. The major contribution of the Restoration period is in the field of :

(A) Philosophical writings

(B) Poetry

(C) Drama
(D) Letters

Answer: C

13. The correct chronological order of the following poets is :

(A) Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott

(B) Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron

(C) Keats, Byron, Walter Scott, Shelley

(D) Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats

Answer: D

14. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel by :

(A) Virginia Woolf

(B) E. M. Forster
(C) D. H. Lawrence

(D) James Joyce

Answer: B

15. The plays of Edward Albee deal with :

(A) problems of middle-class

(B) hypocracy of aristocracy

(C) mechanizations of politics

(D) simplicity of lower-class

Answer: A

16. Heptameter consists of :

(A) five metrical feet

(B) six metrical feet

(C) seven metrical feet

(D) eight metrical feet

Answer: C

17. In formalistic school of criticism art is :

(A) entertainment

(B) preaching
(C) matter
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(D) style
Answer:D

18. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner is a novel by :

(A) Alan Sillitoe

(B) Paul Scott

(C) Peter Porter

(D) Muriel Spark

Answer: A

19. ‘Rugby Chapel’ is a poem by Matthew Arnold in the memory of his :

(A) mother

(B) brother
(C) father

(D) sister
Answer: C

20. The earliest woman novelist of significance in the 18th century is :

(A)Mary Edgeworth

(B) Aphra Behn

(C) Mary Russell

(D) Mrs Gaskell

Answer: A

21. ‘Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight’ is a line that occurs in :
(A) Dr Faustus

(B) Hamlet
(C) Macbeth

(D) The Spanish Tragedy

Answer: A
22. Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’ can best be read as a poem of :

(A) classical understanding of nature

(B) anti-romantic view of life

(C) sociological estimate of man

(D) philosophical apprehension of life

Answer: D

23. The term ‘Victorian’ evokes the attitudes of :

(A) philistinism
(B) moral earnestness

(C) licentiousness
(D) transcendentalism

Answer: B

24. Larry slate is a character in :

(A) Desire Under the Elms

(B) The Emperor Jones

(C) The Iceman Cometh

(D) Hairy Ape

Answer: C

25. ‘Iambus’ is a metrical foot consisting of :

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(A) two syllables
(B) three syllables

(C) four syllables

(D) one syllable

Answer: A

26. The lines ”Not that he wished is greatness to create / For politicians neither love nor hate,” occur in :

(A) The Rape of the Lock

(B) Abslam and Achitophel

(C) Mac Flecknoe

(D) Essay on man

Answer: B

27. 11,396 definitions of romanticism were given by :

(A) Friedrich Schlegel

(B) Victor Hugo

(C) Edger Allan Poe

(D) F. L. Lucas

Answer: D

28. The term ‘a stream of consciousness’ is derived from the writing of :

(A) Mary Sinclair

(B) Dorothy Richardson

(C) William James

(D) Gertrude Stein

Answer: C

29. Sean O’ Casey’s Juno and the Paycock is :

(A) a romantic comedy

(B) a historical tragedy
(C) a mythical reconstruction

(D) a tragi-comedy
Answer: D

30. The ‘Reader-Response Theory’ implies that :

(A) there is no one correct meaning of the text

(B) the readers of an age construct the meaning

(C) beliefs determine meaning

(D) a style is the hallmark of the text

Answer: A

31. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched ?

(A) Walter Pater – Unto This Last

(B) Browning – The Ring and the Book

(C) M. Arnold – Idylls of the King

(D) Thackray – Bleak House

Answer: B

32. ‘Myth Criticism’ focuses on :

(A) a study of myths and mythology

(B) archetypes of spiritual experience

(C) recurrence of archetypal patterns
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(D) the confluence of different traditions
Answer: C

33. The phrase disassociation of sensibility was first used by :

(A) Philip Sydney

(B) T. S. Eliot
(C) John Dryden

(D) Mathew Arnold

Answer: B

34. An Idyll is usually a poem about a :

(A) picturesque city life

(B) panoramic view of nature

(C) picture of industrial society

(D) picturesque country life

Answer: D

35. ‘The Lost Generation’ refers to the generation that came to maturity in the :
(A) 1920s

(B) 1930s
(C) 1910s

(D) 1940s
Answer: A

36. The French Revolution had a significant impact on :

(A) Victorian Literature

(B) Romantic Literature

(C) Neo-classic Literature

(D) Modern Literature

Answer: B
37. In which poem does the following line appear ? ”Our birth is but a sleep and aforgetting.” :

(A) “Michael”
(B) “Immortality Ode”

(C) “Rejection : An Ode”

(D) “Tintern Abbey”

Answer: B

38. Tale of a Tub is about :

(A) Warring political factions

(B) Struggling lower-class people

(C) Controversial philosophical documents

(D)Contending religious parties

Answer: D

39. Congreve’s The way of the world ends with :

(A) a dance party

(B) punishment of Lady Wishfort

(C) sending of Mr Fainall to prison

(D)reconciliation of Petulant Whitwood

Answer: A

40. On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim, “O, father, surely that is a spirit. Lord! How it looks about ?”
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(A) Caliban
(B) Ferdinand

(C) Alonso
(D) Stephano

Answer: B

41. Secular influences on the early English drama were :

(A) political squabbles, religious sermons and social customs

(B) rural politicking, hypocracy of the elite and falsity of aristocracy

(C) village festivals, folk plays and minstrels

(D) middle-class life, moral beliefs and uprising of the subaltans

Answer: C

42. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress was written while he was :

(A) in prison
(B) on a pilgrimage

(C) on a social mission

(D) in a church

Answer: A

43. In Juvenalian satire the speaker is :

(A) a political orator

(B) a propagandist

(C) a social revolutionary

(D) a serious moralist

Answer: D

44. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice most clearly shows the influence of :

(A) Fielding Smollett

(B) Richardson
(C) Smollett

(D) Sterne
Answer: B

45.The most important of the ‘evolutionists’ during the Victorian period was :
(A) Erasmus Darwin

(B) Robert Chambers

(C) Charles Darwin

(D) Alfred Russell Wallace

Answer: C

46. A philosophical attitude pervading much of modern literature is :

(A) Absurdism

(B) Dadaism
(C) Imagism

(D) Surrealism
Answer: A

47. The term ‘magic realism’ was first introduced by :

(A) Hannah Arendt

(B) Franz Roh

(C) Jean Arp
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(D) Peter Behrens
Answer: B

48. The Indian English novelist who, for the first time, addressed the question of language and indigenous
experience was

(A) Mulk Raj Anand

(B) R K Narayan

(C) Arun Joshi

(D) Raja Rao

Answer: A

49. G. V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr is written in the :

(A) stream-of- consciousness mode

(B) first person narrative mode

(C) picaresque mode

(D) naturalistic mode

Answer: A

50. The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet is :

(A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg

(B) abba, cddc, effe, gg

(C) abab, cdcd, efef, gh

(D) aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg

Answer: A
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1. Tennyson’s poem about women’s rights and women’s sphere is :

(A) Maud

(B) In Memoriam
(C) Idylls of the King

(D) The Princess

Answer: D

2. ‘Hymn To Adversity’ is a poem by :

(A) Thomas Gray
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(B) Edward Gibbon
(C) Alexander Pope

(D) William Blake

Answer: A

3.The King James Bible was published in :

(A)1609

(B) 1610
(C)1611

(D) 1612
Answer: C

4.’IL Migilor Fabro’ is the expression Eliot used for :

(A) W. B. Yeats

(B) Samuel Beckett

(C) W. H. Auden

(D) Ezra Pound

Answer: D

5. ‘The Figure a poem Makes’ is an essay by :

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(A) Henry James

(B) Sylvia Plath

(C) Robert Frost
(D) Wallace Stevens

Answer: C

6. ”Ripeness is all” occurs in :

(A) King Lear

(B) Hamlet

(C) Macbeth
(D) Julius Caeser

Answer: A

7. A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy was published in :

(A) 1903
(B) 1904

(C) 1905
(D) 1906

Answer: B

8. ‘Topsy’ appears in :

(A) Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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(B) History of the United States

(C) Walden
(D) Tom Sawyer

Answer: A

9. A poem that captures the essence of a moment in a simple image is :

(A) Lyric
(B) Ballad

(C) Ode
(D) Haiku

Answer: D

10. Which of the following Shakespearean plays are in the correct chronological sequence ?

(A) The Merchant of Venice – Henry IV Part I – Romeo and Juliet – Richard II
(B) Richard II – Henry IV Part I – Romeo and Juliet – The Merchant of Venice

(C) Henry IV Part I – Romeo and Juliet – The Merchant of Venice – Richard II
(D) Romeo and Juliet -Richard II – Henry IV Part I – The Merchant of Venice

Answer: D

11. The word ‘nature’ in the eighteenth century literature stands for :
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(A) Nature of writing
(B) External nature

(C) Human nature

(D) The Universe

Answer: C

12. Who is given credit for first using the term“romantic?

(A) Friedrich Schlegel

(B) Kant

(C) Coleridge
(D) Schiller

Answer: A

13. Gudrun is a character in a novel by :

(A) James Joyce

(B) Virginia Woolf

(C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) E. M. Forster

Answer: C

14. July’s People is a novel by :

(A) Margaret Atwood

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(B) V. S. Naipul

(C) Wole Soyinka

(D) Nadine Gordimer

Answer: D

15. Heroic Couplet is a pair of :

(A) Rhyming iambic pentameter lines

(B) Unrhyming iambic pentameter lines

(C) Rhyming iambic hexameter

(D) Unrhyming iambic hexameter

Answer: A

16. ‘Gestalt’ theory of literature considers text as :

(A) a structure of metaphors

(B) a unified whole

(C) an experimentation in form

(D) construction of history

Answer: B

17. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from :

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(A) Australia
(B) The U.S.A.

(C) Canada
(D) Britain

Answer: C

18.Sartor Resartus is a text by :

(A)Ruskin
(B) Arnold

(C) Carlyle
(D) Burke

Answer: C

19. Who of the following is not a university wit ?

(A)Webster
(B) Robert Greene

(C) Kyd
(D) Marlowe

Answer: A

20. Bosola is a character in a play by :

(A)Ben Jonson
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(B) Webster

(C) Christopher Marlowe

(D) Thomas Middleton

Answer: B

21. ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven’. This occurs in a poem by :

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) S. T. Coleridge

(C) Byron
(D) Shelley

Answer: A

22. A Dance of the Forest is written by :

(A) Margaret Atwood

(B) Nadine Gordimer

(C) Chinua Achebe

(D) Wole Soyinka

Answer: D

23. The first Canadian poet is :

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(A) Charles Sangster
(B) Oliver Goldsmith

(C) Charles Heavysege

(D) Alexander Machlachlan

Answer: A

24. Heroic quatrain is :

(A) a stanza in blank verse

(B) eight line stanza in iambic hexameter

(C) four line stanza in iambic pentameter

(D) six line stanza in iambic pentameter

Answer: C

25. ‘Bildungsroman’ translated literally means :

(A) Development novel

(B) Psychological novel

(C) Autobiographical novel

(D) Campus novel

Answer: A

26.A book that faithfully renders a young man’s confused images of love and rejection is :

(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man

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(B) Lucky Jim

(C) Daisy Miller

(D) The brave New World

Answer: A

27. Victorian Age witnessed a clash between :

(A) faith and reason

(B) tradition and modernity

(C) oriental and occidental civilization

(D) romanticism and neo romanticism

Answer: A

28. “For gold in Physique is Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in special” relates to Chaucer”s

(A) Friar
(B) Monk

(C) Doctor
(D) Pardoner

Answer: C

29. The historical novel began in ;

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(A)Restoration Period
(B) Augustan Age

(C) Victorian Period

(D) Romantic Period

Answer: D

30. The term ‘Campus novel’ is associated with :

(A) Graham Green

(B) Kingsley Amis

(C) Margaret Drabble

(D) William Golding

Answer: B

31. Which of the following author-book pair is correctly matched ?

(A) Hard Times – George Eliot

(B) Heroes and Hero Worship – Walter Patar

(C) Sourab and Rustom – Matthew Arnold

(D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay

Answer: C

32. The title of William Faulkner’s The Sound and Fury is derived from a play by :

(A) William Shakespeare

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(B) Christopher Marlow

(C) John Webster

(D) Ben Jonson

Answer: A

33. The new humanism school of philosophy and literary criticism was popular in America during :

(A)1920-1940
(B) 1910-1930

(C)1930-1940
(D)1900-1910

Answer: B

34.Internal rhyme is :

(A) the basic rhythmic structure of a poem

(B) rhyming of two words in alternative lines

(C) rhyming of two or more words in the same line of poetry

(D) all the lines of a poem ending with the same line pattern

Answer: C

35. The macabre element in drama was introduced by :

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(A) John Lyly
(B) Marlow

(C)Ben Jonson
(D)John Webster

Answer: D

36. The line “I am no Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be…….” appears in T. S. Eliot’s

(A) Gerontion
(B) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

(C) Four Quartets

(D) The Waste-Land

Answer: B

37. ‘Fancy’ deals with :

(A) Fixities and definities

(B) Imagination and Reason

(C) Judgement and Memory

(D) Structure and Superstructure

Answer: A

38. Swift’s Modest proposal is written in the form of a :

(A) Project in political economy Social Satire

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(B) Political allegory

(C) Social Satire

(D) Old-Testament history

Answer: C

39. The main idea of Pope’s The Dunciad was taken from :

(A) Absalom and Achitophel

(B) Mac-Flecknoe

(C) The Medal

(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Answer: B

40. Which of the following is not a Browning’s work ?

(A) Dramatic Lyrics Men and Women

(B) Dramatic Personae

(C) Men and Women

(D) The Palace of Art

Answer: D

41. The most obvious feature of Johnson’s The Lives of the Poets is the equipoise between :
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(A) Language and form
(B) Style and content

(C) Biography and criticism

(D) Myth and archetype

Answer: C

42. “The Kelson of creation is love”. The line occurs in Walt Whitman’s :

(A) Paumonak
(B) Passage to India

(C) O Captain, My Captain

(D) Song of Myself

Answer: D

43. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately associated in his personal life ?

(A) Boswell
(B) Dryden

(C) Alexander Pope

(D) Lord Bolingbroke

Answer: A

44. The early religious drama is associated with :

(A) Superstitions and beliefs

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(B) Mysteries and histories

(C) Interludes and mysteries

(D) Miracles and morality

Answer: D

45. The Tale of Two Cities has :

(A) a sentimental buffoon with a moral purpose

(B) a courageous lady in pain

(C) an optimist on verge of collapse

(D) a romantic hero with a weakness

Answer: B

46. Sheridan’s first play was :

(A) The Rivals

(B) School for Scandal

(C) St. Patrick’s Day

(D) A Trip to Scarborough

Answer: A

47. Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism of :

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(A) loss of moral purpose
(B) excess of emotion

(C) excess of reason

(D) loss of human feelings

Answer: B

48. Which of the following novel-novelist pair is correctly matched ?

(A) Bhabani Bhattacharya – All About H. Hatter

(B) Nayantara Sahgal – Cry, the Peacock

(C) Bhagwandas Gidwani – A Bend in the Ganges

(D) Arun Joshi – The Apprentice

Answer: D

49. The Indian English poet who addressed the question ‘of time’ in his poetry is :

(A) Nissim Ezeikel

(B) R. Parthsarathy

(C) A.K. Ramanujan

(D) Gieve Patel

Answer: B

50. Symbolist movement was influenced by :

(A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe

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(B) Stephane Mallarme’s Poetry

(C) Prose of Emerson

(D) Ezra Pound’s Cantos

Answer: B

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Paper 2- December 2009

1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson’s Volpone is

(A) Juvenal

(B) Aristophanes
(C) Plautus

(D) Terence
Answer: B

2. Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” is addressed to

(A) The American imperial mission in the Philippines.

(B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the Congo.

(C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.

(D) The British colonial entry into Afghanistan.

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Answer: A

3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was founded by Harriet Monroe in

(A) 1922

(B) 1920
(C) 1918

(D) 1912
Answer: D

4. Who among the following was Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary ?

(A) Thomas Chatterton

(B) John Gower

(C) Thomas Shadwell

(D) John Gay

Answer: B

5. Which of the following is NOT written by Walter Scott ?

(A) Ivanhoe

(B) Lady of the Lake

(C) Heart of Midlothian

(D) The English Mail Coach

Answer: D

6. “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by

(A) Edward Said

(B) Paul Gilroy

(C) Abdul R. Gurnah

(D) Dipesh Chakravarty

Answer: D
7. The earliest tract on feminism is

(A) Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex

(B) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

(C) Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

(D) Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

Answer: D

8. Match the imaginary location with its creator :

1. Emily Bronte
2. Thomas Hardy

3. Lowood Parsonage
4. Charles Dickens

5. Wessex
6. Egdon Heath

7. Coketown
8. Charlotte Bronte

(A) 1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8

(B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7

(C) 1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7

(D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8

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9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy ?

(A) The Canterbury Tales

(B) The Book of the Duchess

(C) The House of Fame

(D) Legend of Good Women

Answer: C

10. Essays of Elia was published in

(A) 1800
(B) 1823

(C) 1827
(D) 1850

Answer: B

11. Which of the following is an example of homosexual fiction ?

(A) The Well of Loneliness

(B) Maurice

(C) Orlando
(D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol

Answer: A

12. W.B. Yeat’s “Easter 1916” is

(A) a response to a major political uprising

(B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery school

(C) a love poem for Maud Gonne

(D) an ode to his native country

Answer: A
13. William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity is

(A) A structuralist study of narrative

(B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism

(C) A study of the media

(D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence

Answer: D

14. Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism ?

(A) J.A. Froude

(B) Charles Kingsley

(C) J.S. Mill

(D) Cardinal Newman

Answer: C

15. The ‘Condition of England’ literature refers to

(A) The literature written by the labour class.

(B) The literature of England extolling living conditions.

(C) The literature of England depicting the vulnerability of labour classes.

(D) The literature of England depicting the imperial projects abroad.

Answer: C

16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for Poetry in immediate response to

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(A) Plato’s Republic
(B) Aristotle’s Poetics

(C) Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse

(D) Jeremy Collier’s Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.

Answer: C

17. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a _________ play translated into English.

(A) Gujarati
(B) Bengali

(C) Marathi
(D) Kannada

Answer: C

18. Arrange the following in ascending order in terms of size :

1. epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. sonnet

(A) 1 2 3 4

(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 3 4 1

(D) 1 3 4 2
Answer: C

19. “Fail I alone in words and deeds ?/Why, all men strive and who succeeds ?” These lines are from
(A) “Rabbi Ben Ezra”

(B) “Fra Lippo Lippi”

(C) “Caliban upon Setebos”

(D) “The Last Ride Together”

Answer: D

20. Dr. Johnson’s “The Vanity of Human Wishes” expresses

(A) Epicureanism
(B) Humanism

(C) Stoicism
(D) Cynicism

Answer: D

21. “A trivial comedy for serious people” was the subtitle for

(A) Everyman in His Humour

(B) Blythe Spirit

(C) The Way of the World

(D) The Importance of Being Earnest.

Answer: D

22. Which famous elegy closes with the following lines ?

“In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/ Teach the free man how to praise.”
(A) In Memoriam

(B) Thyrsis
(C) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”

(D) “Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot”

Answer: C

23. The Temple is a collection of poems by

(A) Thomas Carew
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(B) Robert Herrick
(C) George Herbert

(D) Richard Crashaw

Answer: C

24. Ben Jonson’s comedies are

(A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The Shoemaker’s Holiday

(B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene

(C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of the Burning Pestle

(D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker’s Holiday

Answer: B

25. What is ‘L’ Allegro’s’ companion piece called ?

(A) Lamia

(B) Hyperion
(C) Il Penseroso

(D) Thyrsis
Answer: C

26. Match the character with the novel :

1. Caddy

2. Lennie
3. Jake Barnes

4. Tommy Wilhelm
5. The Sound and the Fury

6. Of Mice and Men

7. The Sun Also Rises

8. Seize the Day

Codes :

(A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8

(B) 2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6

(C) 3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7

(D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8

Answer: A

27. Who among the following writers belonged to the American Beat Movement ?

(A) Allen Ginsberg

(B) Mark Beard

(C) Isaac McCaslih

(D) Charles Beard

Answer: A

28. “The Lost Generation” is a name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following

the First World War. Who called them “The Lost Generation” ?
(A) H.L. Mencken

(B) Willa Cather

(C) Jack London

(D) Gertrude Stein

Answer: D

29. Hyperbole is
1. an extravagant exaggeration
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2. a racist slur
3. a metrical skill

4. a figure of speech
(A) 1 is correct

(B) 1 and 4 are correct

(C) 1 and 3 are correct

(D) 3 is correct
Answer: B

30. “Imagined Communities” is a concept propounded by

(A) Benedict Anderson

(B) Homi Bhabha

(C) Aijaz Ahmed

(D) Partha Chatterjee

Answer: A

31. The New Historicists include

(A) Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose

(B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler

(C) Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg

(D) Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey

Answer: C

32. Wallace Stevens’ “The Man with the Blue Guitar” may be linked to the work of the following artist :
(A) Modigliani

(B) Chagall
(C) Picasso

(D) Cezanne
Answer: C
33. The author of Gender Trouble is

(A) Elaine Showalter

(B) Helene Cixous

(C) Michele Barrett

(D) Judith Butler

Answer: D

34. The structural analysis of signs was practised by

(A) Michel Foucault

(B) Jacques Lacan

(C) Julia Kristeva

(D) Roland Barthes

Answer: D

35. Which of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel ?

(A) Frankenstein
(B) Northanger Abbey

(C) Castle of Otranto

(D) Mysteries of Udolfo

Answer: B

36. The “madwoman in the attic” is a specific reference to

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(A) The narrator of “Goblin Market”
(B) Augusta Egg’s 1858 narrative painting

(C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper

(D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre

Answer: D

37. Assertion (A) : Dr Johnson’s The Lives of the Poets carries critical and biographical studies of poets he

admired. It does not, however, carry a life of William Wordsworth.

Reason (R) : Dr. Johnson singled out poets whom he not only admired but also adored. This explains his omission

of Wordsworth.

(A) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.

(B) (A) is true but (R) is false.

(C) (A) and (R) are true.

(D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.

Answer: D

38. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following ?

(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy

(B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, Moll Flanders

(C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews

(D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy

Answer: A

39. “How can what an Englishman believes be heresy ? It is a contradiction in terms.” This means
1. An Englishman does not know what heresy is.

2. An Englishman has no beliefs.

3. And, therefore, there is no question of his heresy.

4. And, therefore, there cannot be any question of his acting his beliefs.
(A) 1 and 4 are correct
(B) 2 and 1 are correct

(C) 1 and 3 are correct

(D) 2 and 4 are correct

Answer: C

40. Which of the following is an essentially Freudian concept ?

(A) Archetype
(B) The Uncanny

(C) The Absurd

(D) The Imaginary

Answer: B

41. He wrote an essay called “Conrad’s Darkness” where he praises the earlier writer for offering him a vision of

the world’s “half-made societies’. Identify the writer.

(A) Chinua Achebe

(B) V.S. Naipaul

(C) Salman Rushdie

(D) Ngugi wa Thiongo

Answer: B

42. “Magic Realism” is closely associated with

(A) Italo Calvino
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(B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(C) Anita Desai

(D) Rohinton Mistry

Answer: B

43. Who among the following combines anthropology, history and fiction ?
(A) Kamala Markandya

(B) Mulk Raj Anand

(C) Upmanyu Chatterjee

(D) Amitav Ghosh

Answer: D

44. Which of the following is NOT a Partition novel ?

(A) Train to Pakistan

(B) Sunlight on a Broken Column

(C) The Shadow Lines

(D) In Custody
Answer: B

45. Which of the following options is correct ?

(i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement.

(ii) It flourished in the Southern States of America in the 19th century.

(iii) It was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of

Locke.
(iv) Among the major texts of Transcendentalist thought are the essays of Emerson,

Thoreau’s Walden and the writings of Margaret Fuller.

(A) (i) and (iv) are correct.

(B) (ii) and (iii) are correct.

(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) (iv) is correct.

Answer: A

Read the following passage carefully, and select the right answers from the alternatives givenbelow in the

question 46 to 50 :

It would be more accurate to say that discourse, rather than language, plays a crucial part in structuring our experience.

The whole idea of ‘language’ is something of a fiction : what we normally refer to as ‘language’ can more realistically be
seen as heterogeneous collection of discourses. Each of us has access to a range of discourses, and it is these different

discourses which give us access to, or enable us to perform, different ‘selves’. A discourse can be conceptualized as a
‘system of statements which cohere around common meanings and values’. So, for example, in contemporary Britain

there are discourses which can be labelled ‘conservative’ – that is, discourses which emphasize values and meanings
where the status quo is cherished : and there are discourses which can be labeled ‘patriarchal’ – that is, discourses which

emphasize meanings and values which assume the superiority of males. Dominant discourses such as these appear
‘natural’ : they are powerful precisely because they are able to make invisible the fact that they are just one among many

different discourses.
Theorizing language in this way is still new in linguistics (to the extent that many linguists would not regard analysis in

terms of discourses as being part of linguistics). One of the advantages of talking about discourses rather than about
language is that the concept ‘discourse’ acknowledges the value-laden nature of language. There is no neutral discourse :

whenever we speak we have to choose between different systems of meaning, different sets of values. This process
allows us to show how language is implicated in our construction of different ‘selves’ : different discourses position us in

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46. Which of the following is True in the light of this passage ?

(A) Language is inaccurate.

(B) Discourse is accurate.

(C) Language comprises discourse.

(D) Discourse comprises language.

Answer: C

47. What words/phrases suggest the plurality of discourse in this passage ?

I. different selves
II. range

III. system of statements

IV. heterogeneous collection

(A) II and IV
(B) II and III

(C) III and IV

(D) I

Answer: A

48. Having called language “something of a fiction”, how does the author suggest its opposite ? By using the

phrase
(A) conceptualized as a system

(B) more accurate to say

(C) range of discourses

(D) more realistically be seen

Answer: D

49. Which among the following statements is NOT true ?

(A) Conservative discourses plead for the status quo.

(B) Patriarchal discourses privilege male values.

(C) Dominant discourses are natural.

(D) Dominant discourses seem natural.

Answer: C

50. What does this passage plead for ?

(A) Theorizing language in a new way.

(B) Theorizing language in terms of discourses.

(C) Studying language as discourse.

(D) Studying discourse as language.

Answer: B

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1. In a 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term ‘Lake School of Poets’
grouping…

(A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe

(B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron

(C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt

(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

Answer: D

2.’I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew you in this dark…’ The above lines are taken from…

(A) “The Soldier”

(B) “Dulce et Decorum Est”

(C) “To His Dead Body”

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(D) “Strange Meeting”

Answer: D

3. Below are two sets of texts one of which has inspired the other. Match the text with its inspiration :

(i) Coral Island

(ii) The Odyssey

(iii) The Mahabharat

(iv) Jane Eyre

(v) The Great Indian Novel

(vi) Wide Sargasso Sea

(vii) Omeroos
(viii) Lord of the Flies

(A) (i) – (v), (ii) – (vii), (iii) – (viii), (iv) – (vi)

(B) (iv) – (vii), (iii) – (vi), (i) – (viii), (ii) – (v)

(C) (iii) – (v), (iv) – (vi), (i) – (vii), (ii) – (viii)

(D) (i) – (viii), (ii) – (vii), (iii) – (v), (iv) – (vi)

Answer: D

4. “His life was gentle and the elements

So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up

And say to all the world, ‘This was a man !’”

Who is the speaker, and about whom is this spoken ?

(A) Enobarbus on Antony

(B) Brutus on Caesar

(C) Cleopatra on Antony

(D) Marc Antony on Caesar

Answer: D
5. “When my love swears that she is made of truth/I do believe her, though I know she lies”. The author of these

lines is…
(A) Philip Sidney

(B) Edmund Spenser

(C) Christopher Marlowe

(D) William Shakespeare

Answer: D

6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge was notably influenced by…

(A) The Napoleonic Wars

(B) The Glorious Revolution

(C) The French Revolution

(D) Poor Laws

Answer: C

7. “Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide”. The above lines
appear in…

(A) Mac Flecknoe

(B) Absalom and Achitophel

(C) Essay on man

(D) Alexander’s Feast

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8. Who among the following developed the term strategic essentialism ?

(A) Edward Said

(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

(C) Homi Bhabha

(D) Aijaz Ahmed

Answer: B

9. David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life is a retelling of the story of :

(A) Aristotle
(B) Juvenal

(C) Ovid
(D) Horace

Answer: C

10. Jabberwocky is a character in….

(A) The Importance of Being Earnest

(B) Fra Lippo Lippi

(C) Through the Looking Glass

(D) Goblin Market

Answer: C

11. Which of the following statements is the most accurate regarding Edward Said’s thesis in Orientalism

(i) The Europeans used the East dialectically to describe their self-image as irrational and primitive.
(ii) The Oriental people used the West dialectically to define their self-image as irrational and primitive.

(iii) The Europeans used the East oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.
(iv) The Oriental people used the West oppositionally to define their self-image as rational and modern.

(A) (iii)
(B) (iv)
(C) (i) and (iv)

(D) (ii) and (iii)

Answer: A

12.Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical periodization often has nothing to do with the lifetime of writers. Thus
we see two writers born in the same year belonging to two separate periods.

Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary histories, Example: Keats
is a Romantic and Carlyle, a Victorian.

(A) (AST) and (R) are correct

(B) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect

(C) (AST) and (R) are incorrect

(D) (R) does not follow from (AST)

Answer: A

13. Everyman is…

(A) a medieval play based on an episode from the Bible

(B) a medieval morality play

(C) a Tudor interlude

(D) a miracle play

Answer: B

14. Which of the following sets would you call the poets of the Movement ?
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(A) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Wain
(B) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender

(C) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound

(D) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony Thwaite

Answer: A

15.Doris Lessing’s interest in __________ is widely recognized :

(A) Hinduism
(B) Sufism

(C)Zen
(D)Judaism

Answer: B

16. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way of speech/writing, is also known as…

(A) synecdoche
(B) allusion

(C) understatement
(D) circumlocution

Answer: D

17. Arrange the following in chronological order…

(I) The death of Shakespeare

(ii) Accession of James I to the English throne

(iii) Caxton and the printing press

(iv) The Norman Conquest of England

(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

(B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)

(C) (iii) (iv) (I) (ii)

(D) (iv) (iii) (I) (ii)

Answer: A

18. The Muse of History is a classic postcolonial essay by :

(A) Ngugi wa Thiongo

(B) Chinua Achebe

(C) Wilson Harris

(D) Derek Walcott

Answer: D

19. “Do I contradict myself ? Very well then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” The above

lines are from…

(A) Walt Whitman

(B) Edgar Allan Poe

(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson

(D) John Greenleaf Whittier

Answer: A

20. Verses on the Death of Dr Swift was written by…

(A) Jonathan Swift

(B) Alexander Pope

(C) Samuel Johnson
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(D) James Boswell
Answer: A

21. Match the following elegies with the persons for whom they were written:
(i) Lycidas

(ii)Arthur Hugh Clough

(iii)Adonais

(iv) A.H. Hallam

(v) In Memoriam

(vi) Edward King

(vii) Thyrsis

(viii) Keats

(A) (i) – (vi); (iii) – (iv); (vii) – (ii); (v) – (vi)

(B) (iii) – (viii); (i) – (iv); (iii) – (ii);(v) – (ii)

(C) (i) – (vi); (iii) – (viii); (v) – (iv); (vii) – (ii)

(D) (v) – (vi); (i) – (viii); (iii) – (ii); (vii) – (iv)

Answer: C

22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is a series of reflections on:

(A) Jazz music

(B) Disability sports

(C) Whiteness and the literary imagination

(D) Black American folklore

Answer: C

23. “He’s not the brightest man in the world” is an example of:
(A) Chiasmus

(B) Hyperbole
(C) Litotes
(D) Simile

Answer: C

24. The term ‘horizon of expectations’ is associated with…

(A) Wolfgang Iser

(B) Stanley Fish

(C) Harold Bloom

(D) H.R. Jauss

Answer: D

25. The following writers have something in common : What is it ?

Mary Seacole J.A. Froude

Mary Kingsley Anthony Trollope

(I) They are all victorians

(ii) They are all writers of children’s fiction

(iii) They are all members of one literary guild

(iv) They are all travel writers

(A) (i) and (ii)

(B) (iii) and (iv)

(C) ii) and (iv)

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Answer: D

26. The immediate source of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is…

(A) A French narrative

(B) A Dutch narrative

(C) A German narrative

(D) None of the above

Answer: C

27. Who among the following were associated with the Irish Dramatic Movement ?

(A) Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge

(B) Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. Shaw

(C) W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw

(D) W.B. Yeats, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney

Answer: A

28. The term diaspora was originally applied to the following ethnic group :

(A) Jews
(B) Muslims

(C) Hindus
(D) French Canadians

Answer: A

29. Who among the following is NOT a ‘University Wit’ ?

(A) Christopher Marlowe

(B) George Peele

(C) Robert Greene

(D) Ben Jonson

Answer: D
30. When a person has a wooden leg, we are apt to say, ‘He has a wooden leg’. Now this wooden leg is…

(i) literal
(ii) metaphorical

(iii) ambiguous
(iv) neither literal nor metaphorical

(A) (i) and (ii) are correct

(B) (i) is correct

(C) (ii) is correct

(D) (iii) and (iv) are correct

Answer: B

31. Prosody studies:

(A) Line endings

(B) Meanings of words

(C) Patterns of prose

(D) Metrics

Answer: D

32. Which of the following is a major Jacobean play?

(A) Everyman
(B) Gorboduc

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(D) The Duchess of Malfi

Answer: D

33. Understanding Poetry used to be a classic textbook that encapsulates the principles of …

(A) New Historicism

(B) New Aristotelianism

(C) New Criticism

(D) The New Left

Answer: C

34. What century is variously called The Age of Enlightenment, The Age of Sensibility, The Augustan Age and The

Age of Prose and Reason?

(A) sixteenth century

(B) seventeenth century

(C) eighteenth century

(D) nineteenth century

Answer: C

35. What is common to the following poems ?

Wordsworth’s ‘The Recluse’

Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’

Byron’s ‘Don Juan’

Keats’ ‘Hyperion’

(A) They are all elegies

(B) They are all unfinished poems

(C) They are all divided into cantos

(D) They are women-centred poems

Answer: B
36. Who among the following called the novel ‘the bright book of life’ ?

(A) D.H. Lawrence

(B) James Joyce

(C) Virginia Woolf

(D) Aldous Huxley

Answer: A

37. “Ripeness is all” is a line from…

(A) Hamlet
(B) King Lear

(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth

Answer: B

38. U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara was translated by…

(A) Himself
(B) Girish Karnad

(C) H.S. Shivaprakash

(D) A.K. Ramanujan

Answer: D

39. Abel Whittle is a character in:

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(A) The Return of the Native
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge

(C) Far from the Madding Crowd

(D) Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Answer: B

40. In which eclogue of The Shepheardes Calender does Spenser praise Queen Elizabeth I ?

(A)January
(B) April

(C) August
(D)November

Answer: B

41. Which of the following is NOT the opening of the well-known Romantic poem?

(A) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense

(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit!

(C) Margaret, are you grieving/Over Golden grove unleaving?

(D) The world is too much with us

Answer: C

42.Politics and the English Language is an essay by :

(A) F.R. Leavis

(B) Terry Eagleton

(C) George Orwell

(D) Raymond Williams

Answer: C

43. ‘The mind-forged manacles’ is phrase from :

(A) ”London”
(B) ”Eternity”
(C) “A Poison Tree”

(D) “I Asked a Thief”

Answer: A

44. “He is not fully recognized at home; he is not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly believe that the poetical
performance of __________ is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in our

language.” To whom does Matthew Arnold refer in the above statement ?

(A) Edmund Spenser

(B) John Keats

(C) William Wordsworth

(D) S.T. Coleridge

Answer: C

45. The Globe Theatre opened in :

(A) 1585

(B) 1593
(C) 1599

(D) 1603
Answer: C

Read the following passage carefully, and select the right answers from the alternatives given below in the
questions 46 to 50 :
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We need to begin by casting doubt on the legitimacy of the notion of literature. The mere fact that the word exists, or
that an academic institution has been built around it, does not mean that the thing itself is self-evident.

Reasons perfectly empirical ones, to begin with are not hard to find. The full history of the word literature and its
equivalents in all languages and all eras has yet to be written, but even a perfunctory look at the question makes it clear

that the term has not been around forever. In the European languages, the word literature in its current sense is quite
recent: it dates back just barely to the nineteenth century. Might we be dealing with a historical phenomenon rather than

an ‘eternal’ one? Moreover, many languages (many African languages, for example) have no generic term covering all
literary productions. To these initial observations we may add the fragmentation characteristic of literature today. Who

dares specify what literature is and what is not, given the irreducible variety of the writing that tends to be attached to it,
from vastly different perspectives?

The argument is not conclusive: a notion may legitimately exist even if there is no specific term in the lexicon for it. But
we have been led to cast the first shadow of doubt over the ‘naturalness’ of literature. A theoretical examination of the

problem proves no more reassuring. Where do we come by the conviction that there is indeed such a thing as literature?
From experience, we study ‘literary’ works in school, then in college; we find the ‘literary’ type of book in specialized

stores; we are in the habit of referring to ‘literary’ authors in everyday conversation. An entity called ‘literature’ functions
at the level of intersubjective and social relations; this much seems beyond question. Fine. But what have we proved?

That in the broader system of a given society or culture, an identifiable element exists that is known by the label
literature. Have we thereby demonstrated that all the particular products that take on the function of ‘literature’ possess

common characteristics, which we can identify with legitimac? Not at all.

46. This passage casts doubt on:

(A) the assumption called literature.

(B) the idea of literature.

(C) the institution of literature.

(D) the notion of literature.

Answer: D

47. Literature is unsustainable because :…

(A) we are unclear as to what it means.

(B) we are unsure as to its message.

(C) we are not persuaded that the claims made for it are allowable and acceptable.
(D) we cannot prove that its definitions are the right and the only possible ones.

Answer: D

48. How does the writer argue that the existence of literature is hardly self-evident?

(i) by citing reasons for its non-existence.

(ii) by citing reasons for interrogating its legitimacy.

(iii) by citing reasons and proving by argument that its legitimacy can be interrogated.
(iv) by citing reasons to show that the label does not match the thing we know to be literature.

(A) (i)
(B) (i) and (ii)

(C) (iii)
(D) (iii) and (iv)

Answer: C

49. “Might we be dealing with a historical phenomenon rather than an ‘eternal’ one”? What makes this a

reasonable question to consider in this context?

(A) A historical phenomenon lends itself to better empirical verification than an ‘eternal’ one.

(B) A historical phenomenon has more legitimacy than an ‘eternal’ one.

(C) A historical phenomenon can be debated and possibly settled while an ‘eternal’ one must be taken
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on trust or not at all.
(D) historical phenomenon is well above disputation while an ‘eternal’ one is not.

Answer: C

50.What does ‘the fragmentation characteristic of literature today’ suggest to the writer ?

(A) the fragmentation of modern consciousness.

(B) the divided perceptions of literature by its readers.

(C) the lack of specificity of literature.

(D) the blur that frustrates further investigation into this concept

Answer: C
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1. Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage attacked among others.
(A) John Bunyan

(B) Thomas Rhymer

(C) William Congreve

(D) Henry Fielding

Answer: C

2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the Great Exhibition, was designed by
(A) Charles Darwin

(B) Edward Moxon

(C) Joseph Paxton

(D) Richard Owen

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Answer: C

3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings of

(A) G.B. Shaw

(B) Noel Coward

(C) Tom Stoppard

(D) T.S. Eliot

Answer: D

4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver discovered mountain-like beings ?

(A) The land of the Lilliputians

(B) The land of the Brobdingnagians

(C) The land of the Laputans

(D) The land of the Houyhnhnms

Answer: B

5. Patrick White’s Voss is a novel about

(A) the sea

(B) the capital market

(C) the landscape

(D) the judicial system

Answer: C

6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney writes in English, in voice and subject matter, his poems are
(A) Welsh

(B) Scottish
(C) Irish

(D) Polish
Answer: C
7. To whom is Mary Shelley’s famous work Frankenstein dedicated ?

(A) Lord Byron

(B) Claire Clairmont

(C) William Godwin

(D) P.B. Shelley

Answer: C

8. Which among the following poems by Philip Larkin records his impressions while travelling to London by train

?
(A) “Aubade”

(B) “Church Going”

(C) “The Whitsun Wedding”

(D) “An Arundel Tomb”

Answer: C

9. The English satirist who used the sharp edge of praise to attack his victims was
(A) Ben Jonson

(B) John Donne

(C) John Dryden

(D) Samuel Butler

Answer: A

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10. One of the most famous movements of direct address to the reader – “Reader, I married him” – occurs in
(A) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

(B) Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy

(D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch

Answer: B

11. Langland’s Piers Plowman is a satire on

(A) aristocracy

(B) chivalry
(C) peasantry

(D) clergy
Answer: D

12. Which of the following thinkerconcept pair is correctly matched ?

(A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal Criticism

(B) Christopher Frye – Mysticism

(C) Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction

(D) Terry Eagleton – Psychological Criticism

Answer: C

13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in Shakespeare’s

(A) The Merchant of Venice

(B) The Tempest

(C) Othello

(D) King Lear

Answer: C

14. The title, The New Criticism, published in 1941, was written by
(A) Cleanth Brooks
(B) John Crowe Ransom

(C) Robert Penn Warren

(D) Allan Tate

Answer: B

15. Which of the following is not a Revenge Tragedy ?

(A) The White Devil

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(C) Doctor Faustus

(D) The Spanish Tragedy

Answer: C

16. Who of the following playwrights rejects the Aristotelian concept of tragic play as imitation of reality ?

(A) G.B. Shaw

(B) Arthur Miller

(C) Bertolt Brecht

(D) John Galsworthy

Answer: C

17. The label ‘Diasporic Writer’ can be applied to

I. Meena Alexander
II. Arundhati Roy
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III. Kiran Desai
IV. Shashi Deshpande

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

(A) I and IV are correct.

(B) II and III are correct.

(C) I, II and IV are correct.

(D) I and III are correct.

Answer: D

18. The letter ‘A’ in The Scarlet Letter stands for

I. Adultery

II. Able
III. Angel

IV. Appetite

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

(A) I and II are correct.

(B) II and III are correct.

(C) I, II and IV are correct.

(D) I, II and III are correct.

Answer: D

19. A monosyllabic rhyme on the final stressed syllable of two lines of verse is called

(A) monorhyme
(B) feminine rhyme

(C) masculine rhyme

(D) eye rhyme

Answer: C
20. A fatwa was issued in Salman Rushdie’s name following the publication of :

(A) Midnight’s Children

(B) Shame

(C) Satanic Verses

(D) Grimus

Answer: C

21. “There is nothing outside the text” is a key statement emanating from

(A) Feminism
(B) New Historicism

(C) Deconstruction
(D) Structuralism

Answer: C

22. The Augustan Age is called so because

(A) King Augustus ruled over England during this period

(B) The English writers imitated the Roman writers during this period

(C) The English King was born in the month of August

(D) This was an age of sensibility

Answer: B

23. One of the important texts of Angry Young Man Movement is

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(A) Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis
(B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

(C) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

(D) The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles

Answer: C

24. Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in the portrait of Sporus ?

(A) Lady Wortley Montague

(B) Joseph Addison

(C) Lord Shaftsbury

(D) Lord Harvey

Answer: D

25. The hero of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine was born as a

(A) carpenter
(B) goldsmith

(C) shepherd
(D) fisherman

Answer: C

26. In a letter to his brother George in September 1819, John Keats had this to say about a fellow romantic poet :

“He describes what he sees – I describe what I imagine – Mine is the hardest task.” The poet under reference is
(A) Wordsworth

(B) Coleridge
(C) Byron

(D) Southey
Answer: C

27. A sequence of repeated consonantal sounds in a stretch of language is

(A) alliteration
(B) acrostic

(C) assent
(D) syllable

Answer: A

28. Reformation was predominantly a movement in

(A) politics
(B) literature

(C) religion
(D) education

Answer: C

29. The motto “only connect” is taken from

(A) Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo

(B) Rudyard Kipling’s Kim

(C) H.G. Wells’ The History of Mr. Polly

(D) E.M. Forster’s Howards End

Answer: D

30. English Iambic Pentameter was brought to its first maturity in

(A) sonnet
(B) dramatic verse
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(C) lyric
(D) elegy

Answer: B

31. Who among the following was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group ?

(A) Lytton Strachey

(B) Clive Bell

(C) E.M. Forster

(D) Winston Churchill

Answer: D

32. The concept of human mind as tabula rasa or blank tablet was propounded by

(A) Bishop Berkley

(B) David Hume

(C) Francis Bacon

(D) John Locke

Answer: D

33. The terms ‘resonance’ and ‘wonder’ are associated with

(A) Stephen Greenblatt

(B) Terence Hawkes

(C) Terry Eagleton

(D) Ronald Barthes

Answer: A

34. The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer in The Prologue to Canterbury Tales is

(A) ten-syllabic line

(B) eight-syllabic line

(C) rhyme royal

(D) ottava rima

Answer:A

35. Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species was published in the year

(A) 1859
(B) 1879

(C) 1845
(D) 1866

Answer: A

36. Who of the following is the author of Juno and the Paycock ?

(A) Lady Gregory

(B) W.B. Yeats

(C) Oscar Wilde

(D) Sean O’Casey

Answer: D

37. The title of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury is taken from a play by

(A) Christopher Marlowe

(B) William Shakespeare

(C) Ben Jonson

(D) John Webster
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Answer: B

38. “Silverman has never read Browning.” This is an example of

(A) chiasmus
(B) conceit

(C) zeugma
(D) metonymy

Answer: D

39. The term ‘Intentional Fallacy’ is first used by

(A) William Empson

(B) Northrop Frye

(C) Wellek and Warren

(D) Wimsatt and Beardsley

Answer: D

40. “Recessional : A Victorian Ode”, Kipling’s well-known poem,

I. laments the end of an Era

II. marks a new commitment to scientific knowledge

III. expresses the sincerity of his religious devotion

IV. was occasioned by Queen Victoria’s 1897 Jubilee Celebration

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

(A) I, II and III are correct.

(B) III and IV are correct.

(C) I and IV are correct.

(D) I, III and IV are correct.

Answer: B

41. Who among the following is not a Restoration playwright ?

(A) William Congreve
(B) William Wycherley

(C) Ben Jonson

(D) George Etherege

Answer: C

42. Which famous Romantic poem begins with the line : ‘Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! / Bird thou never wert” ?

(A) “Ode to a Nightingale”

(B) “To the Cuckoo”

(C) “To a Skylark”

(D) “To the Daisy”

Answer: C

43. Who among the following Victorian poets disliked his middle name ?

(A) Arthur Hugh Clough

(B) Dante Gabriel Rossetti

(C) Gerard Manley Hopkins

(D) Algernon Charles Swinburne

Answer: C

44. Aston is a character in Pinter’s

(A) The Birthday Party

(B) The Caretaker
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(C) The Dumb Waiter
(D) The Homecoming

Answer: B

45. Byron’s English Bards and Scottish Reviewers is about

I. the survey of English poetry

II. evangelism in English poetry

III. contemporary literary scene

IV. the early English travelers

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

(A) III and IV are correct.

(B) II, III and IV are correct.

(C) I and II are correct.

(D) I and III are correct.

Answer: D

46. Which Eliotian character utters the question – “Do I eat a peach” ?
(A) Marina

(B) Prufrock
(C) Sweeney

(D) Stetson
Answer: B

47. Which among the following works by Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the pillory ?
(A) The True-Born Englishman

(B) Captain Singleton

(C) The Shortest Way with Dissenters

(D) Moll Flanders

Answer: C
48. The arrival of printing in fifteenth century England was engineered by

(A) Sir Thomas Malory

(B) John Gower

(C) John Barbour

(D) William Caxton

Answer: D

49. About which nineteenth century English writer was it said that “He had succeeded as a writer not by

conforming to the Spirit of the Age, but in opposition to it” ?

(A) Lord Byron on Coleridge

(B) Coleridge on Keats

(C) Hazlitt on Lamb

(D) De Quincey on Crabbe

Answer: C

50. The Restoration comedy, The Double Dealer was written by

(A) John Dryden

(B) William Wycherley

(C) William Congreve

(D) George Etherege

Answer: C

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1. The epithet “a comic epic in prose” is best applied to

(A) Richardson’s Pamela

(B) Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey

(C) Fielding’s Tom Jones

(D) Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

Answer: C

2. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian novel called

(A) Memento Mori

(B) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

(C) Robinson

(D) The Ballad of Peckham Rye

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Answer: C

3. Samuel Butler’s Erewhon is an example of

(A) Feminist Literature

(B) Utopian Literature

(C) War Literature

(D) Famine Literature

Answer: B

4. The line “moments of unageing intellect” occurs in Yeats’s

(A) Byzantium

(B) Among School Children

(C) Sailing to Byzantium

(D) The Circus Animals’ Desertion

Answer: C

5. In his 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey grouped the following poets together as
the ‘Lake School of Poets’ :

(A) Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge

(B) Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge

(C) Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge

(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

Answer: D

6. Which of the following novels is not by Patrick White ?

(A) The Vivisector

(B) The Tree of Man

(C) Voss
(D) Oscar and Lucienda

Answer: D

7. The famous line “……. where ignorant armies clash by night” is taken from a poem by

(A) Wilfred Owen

(B) W.H. Auden

(C) Siegfried Sassoon

(D) Matthew Arnold

Answer: D

8. Which among the following novels is not written by Margaret Atwood ?

(A) Surfacing
(B) The Blind Assassin

(C) The Handmaid’s Tale

(D) The Stone Angel

Answer: D

9. The term ‘theatre of cruelty’ was coined by

(A) Robert Brustein

(B) Antonin Artaud

(C) Augusto Boal

(D) Luigi Pirandello
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Answer: B

10. The verse form of Byron’s Childe Harold was influenced by

(A) Milton
(B) Spenser

(C) Shakespeare
(D) Pope

Answer: B

11. Tennyson’s Ulysses is

(I) a poem expressing the need for going forward and braving the struggles of life
(II) a dramatic monologue

(III) a morbid poem

(IV) a poem making extensive use of satire

The right combination for the above statement, according to the code, is
(A) I & IV

(B) II and III

(C) III and IV

(D) I and II
Answer: D

12. Which post-war British poet was involved in a disastrous marriage with Sylvia Plath ?
(A) Philip Larkin

(B) Ted Hughes

(C) Stevie Smith

(D) Geoffrey Hill

Answer: B

13. Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowles is in part

(I) a puzzle
(II) a debate

(III) a threnody
(IV) a beast fable

The correct combination for the above statement, according to the code, is
(A) I, II & IV

(B) II, III & IV

(C) I & IV

(D) II & IV
Answer: A

14. Who among the following wrote a book with the title The Age of Reason ?
(A) William Godwin

(B) Edmund Burke

(C) Thomas Paine

(D) Edward Gibbon

Answer: C

15. The Restoration comedy has been criticized mainly for its
(A) excessive wit and humour

(B) bitter satire and cynicism

(C) indecency and permissiveness

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Answer: C

16. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses is an essay by

(A) Terry Eagleton

(B) Karl Marx

(C) Raymond Williams

(D) Louis Althusser

Answer: D

17. Sexual possessiveness is a theme of Shakespeare’s

(A) Coriolanus

(B) Julius Caesar

(C) Henry IV Part – I

(D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Answer: D

18. The term ‘Cultural Materialism’ is associated with

(A) Stephen Greenblatt

(B) Raymond Williams

(C) Matthew Arnold

(D) Richard Hoggart

Answer: B

19. Which of the following authorbook pair is correctly matched ?

(A) Muriel Spark – Under the Net

(B) William – Girls of Golding Slender Means

(C) Angus Wilson – Lucky Jim

(D) Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing

Answer: D
20. Who among the following is a Canadian critic ?

(A) I.A. Richards

(B) F.R. Leavis

(C) Cleanth Brooks

(D) Northrop Frye

Answer: D

21. Sethe is a character in

(A) The Colour Purple

(B) The Women of Brewster Place

(C) Beloved
(D) Lucy

Answer: C

22. Imagined Communities is a book by

(A) Aijaz Ahmad

(B) Edward Said

(C) Perry Anderson

(D) Benedict Anderson

Answer: D

23. Who among the following is a Cavalier poet ?

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(A) Henry Vaughan
(B) Richard Crashaw

(C) John Suckling

(D) Anne Finch

Answer: C

24. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People ?

(A) A Woman of No Importance

(B) Lady Windermere’s Fan

(C) The Importance of Being Earnest

(D) An Ideal Husband

Answer: C

25. Which of the following plays is not written by Wole Soyinka ?

(A) The Lion and the Jewel

(B) The Dance of the Forests

(C) Master Harold and the Boys

(D) Kongi’s Harvest

Answer: C

26. Which of the following plays by William Wycherley is in part an adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope ?

(A) The Plain Dealer

(B) The Country Wife

(C) Love in a Wood

(D) The Gentleman Dancing Master

Answer: A

27. ‘Inversion’ is the change in the word order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this book I like. Another term for

inversion is
(A) Hypallage
(B) Hubris

(C) Haiku
(D) Hyperbaton

Answer: D

28. The phrase ‘the willing suspension of disbelief ’ occurs in

(A) Biographia Literaria

(B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads

(C) In Defence of Poetry

(D) Poetics

Answer: A

29. The religious movement Methodism in the 18th century England was founded by

(A) John Tillotson

(B) Bishop Butler

(C) Bernard Mandeville

(D) John Welsey

Answer: D

30. My First Acquaintance with Poets, an unforgettable account of meeting with literary heroes, is written by

(A) Charles Lamb

(B) Thomas de Quincey
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(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt

Answer: D

31. The figure of the Warrior Virgin in Spenser’s Faerie Queene is represented by the character

(A) Britomart
(B) Gloriana

(C) Cynthia
(D) Duessa

Answer: A

32. The book Speech Acts is written by

(A) John Austin

(B) John Searle

(C) Jacques Derrida

(D) Ferdinand de Saussure

Answer: B

33. Which among the following is not a sonnet sequence ?

(A) Philip Sydney – Astrophel and Stella

(B) Samuel Daniel – Delia

(C) Derek Walcott – Omeroos

(D) D.G. Rossetti – The House of Life

Answer: C

34. ‘Incunabula’ refers to

(A) books censured by the Roman Emperor

(B) books published before the year 1501

(C) books containing an account of myths and rituals

(D) books wrongly attributed to an author

Answer: B

35. The most notable achievement in Jacobean prose was

(A) Bacon’s Essays

(B) King James’ translation of the Bible

(C) Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy

(D) None of the above

Answer: B

36. The Court of Chancery is a setting in Dickens’

(A) Little Dorrit

(B) Hard Times

(C) Dombey and Son

(D) Bleak House

Answer: D

37. Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase ‘spots of time’ ?

(A) John Keats

(B) William Wordsworth

(C) S.T. Coleridge

(D) Lord Byron
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Answer: B

38. The statement ‘I think, therefore, I am’ is by

(A) Schopenhauer
(B) Plato

(C) Descartes
(D) Sartre

Answer: C

39. Verse that has no set theme – no regular meter, rhyme or stanzaic pattern is

(I) open form

(II) flexible form

(III) free verse

(IV) blank verse

The correct combination for the statement, according to the code, is

(A) I, II and III are correct

(B) III and IV are correct

(C) II, III and IV are correct

(D) I and III are correct

Answer: D

40. Which is the correct sequence of publication of Pinter’s plays ?

(A) The Room, One for the Road, No Man’s Land, The Homecoming

(B) The Homecoming, No Man’s Land, The Room, One for the Road
(C) The Room, The Homecoming, No Man’s Land, One for the Road

(D) One for the Road, The Room, The Homecoming, No Man’s Land
Answer: C

41. Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language was published in the year
(A) 1710
(B) 1755

(C) 1739
(D) 1759

Answer: B

42. The literary prize, Booker of Bookers, was awarded to

(A) J.M. Coetzee

(B) Nadine Gordimer

(C) Martin Amis

(D) Salman Rushdie

Answer: D

43. In Keats’ poetic career, the most productive year was

(A) 1816
(B) 1817

(C) 1820
(D) 1819

Answer: D

44. Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in

(A) three cantos

(B) four cantos
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(C) five cantos
(D) two cantos

Answer: D

45. Stephen Dedalus is a fictional character associated with

I. A Portrait of the Artist as a

Young Man

II. Sons and Lovers

III. Ulysses

IV. The Heart of Darkness

The correct combination for the above statement according to the code is

(A) I & II
(B) I, II & III

(C) III & IV

(D) I & III

Answer: D

46. In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls for his

(A) ignorance
(B) pride

(C) courage
(D) drunkenness

Answer: B

47. The first complete printed English Bible was produced by

(A) William Tyndale

(B) William Caxton

(C) Miles Coverdale

(D) Roger Ascham

Answer: C

48. Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton is sub-titled

(A) The Two Nations

(B) A Tale of Manchester Life

(C) A Story of Provincial Life

(D) The Factory Girl

Answer: B

49. Some of the Jacobean playwrights were prolific. One of them claimed to have written 200 plays. The

playwright is
(A) John Ford

(B) Thomas Dekker

(C) Philip Massinger

(D) Thomas Heywood

Answer: D

50. The concept of “Star-equilibrium” in connection with man-woman relationship appears in

(A) Women in Love

(B) Maurice
(C) Mrs. Dalloway
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(D) The Old Wives’ Tales
Answer: A
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1. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery is written by

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) Robert Southey

(C) John Clare

(D) Thomas Gray

Answer: C

2. Hemingway’s novel A Farewell Arms is divided into to

(A) two books

(B) three books

(C) four books

(D) five books

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Answer: D

3. “Panopticism” is the title of achapter in a well-known book by

(A) Roman Jakobson

(B) Jacques Lacan

(C) Michel Foucault

(D) Jacques Derrida

Answer: C

4. The lines, “She was a worthywoman al hir lyve:/ Housbondes atcherche dore she hadde five”, are an example
of

(A) blank verse

(B) clerihew

(C) heroic couplet

(D) free verse

Answer: C

5. Who, among the following women writers, famously imagined the plight of Shakespeare’s sister ?

(A) George Eliot

(B) Virginia Woolf

(C) Irish Murdoch

(D) Frances Burney

Answer: B

6. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response.

Assertion(A) : Dickens’s novels are called ‘Newgate Novels’.

Reason (R) : They are called so, because Dickens adulates in these novels the careers and adventures of criminals.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and(R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: A

7. Who among the following writers does not belong to the group, the University Wits ?

(A) John Lyly

(B) Thomas Nashe

(C) George Peele

(D) Thomas Kyd

Answer: D

8. Which of the following characters of Webster’s The White Devil utters the memorable words : Oft gay and

honour’d robes those tortures try : We think cag’d birds sing, when indeed they cry.
(A) Vittoria Corombona

(B) Bracciano
(C) The Cardinal

(D) Flamineo
Answer: D

9. “All great literature is, at bottom, a criticism of life” – this statement is attributed to
(A) Thomas Carlyle

(B) Matthew Arnold

(C) J.S. Mill
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(D) John Ruskin
Answer: B

10. Who amongst the following is not a Jewish-American novelist ?

(A) J.D. Salinger

(B) Henry Greene

(C) William Faulkner

(D) Philip Roth

Answer: B

11. Which among the following plays by Christopher Marlowe has epic features ?
(A) Doctor Faustus

(B) Edward II
(C) Hero and Leander

(D) Tamburlaine
Answer: D

12. Sir Fopling is a character in

(A) Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer

(B) Congreve’s The Way of the World

(C) Etherege’s The Man of Mode

(D) Davenant’s The Platonick Lovers

Answer: C

13. Who famously said, “Three or four families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on” ?
(A) Clara Reeve

(B) Maria Edgeworth

(C) Frances Burney

(D) Jane Austen

Answer: D
14. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel

(A) When Rain Clouds Gather

(B) The Mimic Men

(C) Things Fall Apart

(D) The Interpreters

Answer: C

15. A foot consisting of a strong syllable followed by a weak syllable is called

(A) Trochee
(B) Iambic

(C) Spondee
(D) Terza Rima

Answer: A

16. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the depiction of the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales ?

(A) Meekness
(B) Defiance

(C) Chastity
(D) Experience

Answer: B

17. Put the following books of Pope in a sequence of publication. Answer the question with the help of the Code
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given below :
(i) The Dunciad

(ii) The Rape of the Lock

(iii) An Essay on Man

(iv) An Essay on Criticism

Code :

(A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)

(B) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

(C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)

(D) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)

Answer: C

18. Dinah Morris is a character in George Eliot’s novel

(A) Middlemarch
(B) Silas Marner

(C) Daniel Deronda

(D) Adam Bede

Answer: D

19. The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel of judges to the best novel by a citizen of

(A) the United Kingdom

(B) the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland

(C) the United Kingdom or the British Commonwealth

(D) the United Kingdom or the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland

Answer: B

20. A ‘curtal sonnet’ consists of

(A) 11 lines
(B) 12 lines

(C) 13 lines
(D) 14 lines

Answer: A

21. The Unfortunate Traveller has been authored by

(A) Robert Greene

(B) Thomas Deloney

(C) Thomas Nashe

(D) Thomas Lodge

Answer: C

22. Who, among the following, is not a practitioner of Jacobean tragedy ?

(A) George Villiers

(B) John Marston

(C) John Webster

(D) Thomas Middleton

Answer: A

23. The author of Nation and Narration is

(A) Edward Said

(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

(C) Frantz Fanon

(D) Homi Bhabha
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Answer: D

24. Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation in contemporary fiction ?

(A) Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller

(B) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy

(D) Samuel Richardson’s Pamela

Answer: C

25. The phrase ‘Only Connect’ is associated with

(A) D. H. Lawrence
(B) James Joyce

(C) E. M. Forster
(D) Virginia Woolf

Answer: C

26. Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood ?

(A) The Stone Angel

(B) No Fixed Address

(C) The Edible Woman

(D) Halfbreed

Answer: C

27. The expression “murderous innocence” is an example of

(A) Oxymoron
(B) Zeugma

(C) Chiasmus
(D) Pun

Answer: A
28. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response :

Assertion (A) : Othello killed Desdemona.

Reason (R) : Because Desdemona committed infidelity.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: C

29. The Enlightenment believed in the universal authority of

(A) Religion
(B) Tradition

(C) Reason
(D) Sentiments

Answer: C

30. Which of the following works of John Milton is an elegy ?

(A) Lycidas
(B) L’Allegro

(C) Camus
(D) Paradise Lost

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31. Which of the following poem by Keats uses the Spenserian stanza ?

(A) Endymion
(B) The Fall of Hyperion

(C) The Eve of St. Agnes

(D) Lamia

Answer: C

32. Match the following authors with their respective works with the help of the code given below :

1. The Vanity of Human Wishes

2. The Vicar of Wakefield

3. She Stoops to Conquer

4. The Beggar’s Opera

I. Oliver Goldsmith
II. John Gay

III. Samuel Johnson

IV. Richard Sheridan

Code :
I II III IV

(A) 1 4 3 2
(B) 2 4 1 3

(C) 3 2 4 1
(D) 4 3 2 1

Answer: *

33. The term “egotistical sublime” was coined by

(A) S.T. Coleridge

(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth

(D) William Hazlitt

Answer: B

34. Put the following novels of George Eliot in a sequential order. Answer the question with the help of the code :
(i) Middlemarch

(ii) Daniel Deronda

(iii) Felix Holt, the Radical

(iv) Romola

Code :

(A) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)

(B) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)

(C) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)

(D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)

Answer: D

35. Who, among the following writers, is known for his unforgettable sense of humour and comedy ?

(A) D.H. Lawrence

(B) P.G. Wodehouse

(C) Thomas Hardy

(D) John Galsworthy
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Answer: D

36. Which of the following is not an apocalyptic novel ?

(A) Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated City

(B) L.P. Hartley’s Facial Justice

(C) Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed

(D) V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas

Answer: C

37. Identify the author of the following lines :

Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,

Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown

Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

(A) Shakespeare

(B) George Herbert

(C) John Donne

(D) Henry Vaughan

Answer: C

38. In the summer of 1712, The Spectator published a series of essays on “The Pleasures of Imagination,” written
by

(A) Richard Steele

(B) John Dennis

(C) John Locke

(D) Joseph Addison

Answer: D

39. Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the right response.

Assertion (A) : Gulliver’s Travels earned Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a misanthrope.
Reason (R) : Swift in the novel was neutral to the image of man.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R)is the correct explanation.

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: B

40. Who, amongst the following, does not belong to the ‘Great Tradition’, enunciated by F. R. Leavis ?
(A) Joseph Conrad

(B) James Joyce

(C) Jane Austen

(D) George Eliot

Answer: B

41. Isaac Bashevis Singer is an

(A) African-American writer

(B) American-Jewish writer

(C) American-Indian writer

(D) American-Asian writer

Answer: B

42. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has

(A) three Acts
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(B) five Acts
(C) four Acts

(D) two Acts

Answer: D

43. James Joyce’s Exiles is a

(A) Short Story

(B) Poem
(C) Play

(D) Novel
Answer: C

44. “It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen” – is the opening sentence of
(A) Ulysses

(B) Nostromo
(C) Chrome Yellow

(D) Nineteen Eighty-Four

Answer: D

45. The subtitle of William Godwin’s Caleb Williams is

(A) Man As He Is Not

(B) Man As He Is
(C) Things As They Are

(D) The Pupil of Nature

Answer: C

46. Who amongst the following belongs to the group of radical feminists ?
(A) Helene Cixous

(B) Monica Wittig

(C) Simone de Beauvoir
(D) Luce Irigaray

Answer: A

47. “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” is a longer essay by

(A) G. Wilson Knight

(B) A. C. Bradley

(C) Thomas De Quincey

(D) F. R. Leavis

Answer: C

48. The expression, “dreaming house” is an example of

(A) Zeugma
(B) Transferred epithet

(C) Chiasmus
(D) Apostrophe

Answer: B

49. The term ‘Practical Criticism’ is coined by

(A) William Empson

(B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.

(C) I.A. Richards

(D) F. R. Leavis
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Answer: C

50. Victor Shklovsky’s name is associated with

(A) Post-modernism
(B) New Historicism

(C) Reader Response Theory

(D) Russian Formalism

Answer: D
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1. Little Nell is a character in Dickens’s

(A) Hard Times

(B) Great Expectations

(C) Oliver Twist

(D) The Old Curiosity Shop

Answer: D

2. Who, among the following Indian writers in English, has created an identifiable imagined locale ?
(A) Mulk Raj Anand

(B) Raja Rao

(C) R.K. Narayan

(D) Anita Desai

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Answer: C

3. Who among the following is not a formalist critic ?

(A) Allen Tate

(B) Cleanth Brooks

(C) Stanley Fish

(D) William Empson

Answer: C

4. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian sonnet is

(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee

(B) abab cdcd efef gg

(C) abba cddc effe gg

(D) abba abba cde cde

Answer: A

5. Who among the following Marlovian characters is consumed by greed ?

(A) Barabas

(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Doctor Faustus

(D) Mephistopheles
Answer: A

6. The plan of Arthurian stories has influenced the composition of Tennyson’s

(A) In Memoriam

(B) Idylls
(C) “Maud”

(D) “Locksley Hall”

Answer: B
7. There are two lists given below.Match the authors in List – I withtheir nationality in List – II by choosing the

right option against the code.

(I) Patrick White

(II) Nadine Gordimer

(III) Margaret Atwood

(IV) Keri Hulme

(1) Canada

(2) New Zealand

(3) Australia

(4) South Africa

Code :

(I) (II) (III) (IV)

(A) (2) (1) (4) (3)

(B) (4) (3) (2) (1)

(C) (3) (4) (1) (2)

(D) (3) (2) (4) (1)

Answer: C

8. A Shakespearean sonnet has the following rhyme scheme

(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD

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(C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG

(D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE

Answer: C

9. “The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry…. our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and
surer stay.” – This claim for poetry is made in

(A) Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”

(B) Shelley’s “A Defence of Poetry”

(C) Sidney’s “An Apology for Poetry”

(D) Eliot’s of Poetry and Poets

Answer: A

10. Which of the following is not about a dystopia ?

(A) George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

(B) Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

(C) William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

(D) R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island

Answer: D

11. Who among the following is not associated with the translation of the Bible ?

(A) Miles Coverdale

(B) William Tyndale

(C) John Wycliffe

(D) Thomas Browne

Answer: D

12. Arrange the following stages in a sequence in which all Shakespearean tragedies are structured. Use the code

given below :
I. Denouement

II. Conflict
III. Exposition

IV. Climax

Code :

(A) III, II, IV, I

(B) III, IV, II, I

(C) II, IV, III, I

(D) II, IV, I, III

Answer: A

13. The term, ‘curtal sonnet’, was coined by

(A) John Milton

(B) William Blake

(C) Gerald Manley Hopkins

(D) Matthew Arnold

Answer: C

14. The author of the pamphlet Short View of Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) was

(A) John Bunyan

(B) Jeremy Collier

(C) William Wycherley

(D) John Vanbrugh
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Answer: B

15. Identify a play in the following list that is not written by Oscar Wilde :

(A) A Woman of No Importance

(B) The Importance of Being Earnest

(C) Saints and Sinners

(D) An Ideal Husband

Answer: C

16. Put the following novels by Charles Dickens in a sequential order with the help of the code :

1. Great Expectations
2. Hard Times

3. Bleak House
4. A Tale of Two Cities

Code :
(A) 3, 2, 4, 1

(B) 2, 4, 3, 1
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3

(D) 4, 2, 1, 3
Answer: A

17. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy was influenced by

(A) Seneca

(B) Tertullian
(C) Virgil

(D) Plautus
Answer: A

18. In its final published version, Eliot’s The Waste Land contains a total of
(A) 334 lines
(B) 433 lines

(C) 373 lines

(D) 423 lines

Answer: B

19. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea is set in

(A) The Congo region

(B) The Niger Delta

(C) The Caribbean

(D) The African Savannah

Answer: C

20. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his friend, “Horatio, I am dead.” This is an example of

(A) protasis
(B) anacrusis

(C) prolepsis
(D) pun

Answer: C

21. The Castle of Otranto is an example of

(A) Gothic fiction

(B) Romance
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(C) Comic fiction
(D) Bildungsroman

Answer: A

22. “The City of Dreadful Night”, a long poem depicting the late Victorian sense of gloom and despondency, is

written by
(A) Matthew Arnold

(B) Robert Browning

(C) James Thomson

(D) John Davidson

Answer: C

23. Which of the following novels by V.S. Naipaul is set in Africa and carries echoes of Joseph Conrad ?
(A) The Mystic Masseur

(B) A Bend in the River

(C) A House for Mr. Biswas

(D) The Mimic Men

Answer: B

24. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s lapdog is named

(A) Luck

(B) Shock
(C) Pluck

(D) Muck
Answer: B

25. You Can’t Do Both is a novel by

(A) John Fowles

(B) Doris Lessing

(C) Kingsley Amis
(D) Irish Murdoch

Answer: C

26. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the fiction of

(A) Norman Mailer

(B) Saul Bellow

(C) Philip Roth

(D) Bernard Malamud

Answer: C

27. Plato censured poetry because he believed it

(A) eliminates the ego.

(B) promotes sensuality.

(C) distorts reality.

(D) cripples the imagination.

Answer: B

28. Which of the following Tennyson poems is a dramatic monologue ?

(A) In Memoriam
(B) “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

(C) “Crossing the Bar”

(D) “Tithonus”
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Answer: D

29. The character Giovanni features in one of the following texts :

(A) John Cleland’s Fanny Hill : Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

(B) John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore’

(C) John Braine’s Room at the Top

(D) John Evelyn’s Diaries

Answer: B

30. Which of the following poems features the phrase, “the still, sad music of humanity” ?

(A) “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”

(B) “Michael : A Pastoral Poem”

(C) “The Solitary Reaper”

(D) “Tintern Abbey”

Answer: D

31. Molly Bloom is a character in James Joyce’s

(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

(B) Dubliners

(C) Ulysses
(D) Exiles

Answer: C

32. Eliot uses the term “objective correlative” in his essay.

(A) “The Metaphysical Poets”

(B) “Hamlet”

(C) “Tradition and the Individual Talent”

(D) “Dante”

Answer: B
33. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in the year

(A) 1995
(B) 1996

(C) 1997
(D) 1998

Answer: A

34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition, “An Address to the Irish People” was composed by

(A) W.B. Yeats

(B) P.B. Shelley

(C) Jonathan Swift

(D) G.B. Shaw

Answer: B

35. Which of the following arrangements of English novels is in the correct chronological sequence ?

(A) Kim, A Passage to India, Sons and Lovers, Brave New World
(B) Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Kim, Brave New World

(C) Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Brave New World
(D) Brave New World, Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India

Answer: C

36. “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” is written by

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(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Samuel Johnson

(C) John Gay

(D) Jonathan Swift

Answer: D

37. Widowers’ Houses was written by

(A) Oscar Wilde

(B) T.S. Eliot

(C) John Galsworthy

(D) G.B. Shaw

Answer: D

38. Who among the following Marxist critics has reconsidered the classic problem of ‘base and superstructure” in

relation to literature ?
(A) Edmund Wilson

(B) Raymond Williams

(C) Lucien Goldmann

(D) Walter Benjamin

Answer: B

39. “Heteroglossia” refers to

(A) the multiple readings of a text.

(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a text.

(C) the comments on the margins of a text.

(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a text.

Answer: B

40. Margaret Drabble is the author of

(A) The Memoirs of a Survivor
(B) The Witch of Exmoor

(C) The Service of Clouds

(D) The Godless in Eden

Answer: B

41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden’s literary rival,

(A) Richard Flecknoe

(B) Thomas Shadwell

(C) John Wilmot

(D) Matthew Prior

Answer: B

42. Eighteenth century writers used satire frequently for

(A) attacking human vices and follies.

(B) inciting the reading public.

(C) glorifying the culture of the upper classes.

(D) pleasing their women readers.

Answer: A

43. Byron’s “The Vision of Judgement” is a satire directed against

(A) Charles Lamb

(B) John Keats
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(C) Henry Hallam
(D) Robert Southey

Answer: D

44. Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man was published in

(A) 1790
(B) 1791

(C) 1792
(D) 1793

Answer: B

45. Andrew Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” was written in

(A) 1647
(B) 1649

(C) 1650
(D) 1648

Answer: C

46. “The Rime of Ancient Mariner” is about

(A) a perilous adventure in the sea

(B) the accidental killing of an octopus

(C) the curse of a sea God

(D) the guilt and expiation of the Ancient Mariner

Answer: D

47. “To Daffodils” is a poem, written by

(A) Robert Herrick

(B) William Wordsworth

(C) John Keats

(D) P.B. Shelley

Answer: A

48. Which of the following novels reconstructs the historical events of the Indian Mutiny ?

(A) The Jewel in the Crown

(B) The Siege of Krishnapur

(C) The Day of the Scorpion

(D) The Towers of Silence

Answer: B

49. “England, my England” is a poem by

(A) W.E. Henley

(B) A.E. Housman

(C) R.L. Stevenson

(D) Rudyard Kipling

Answer: A

50. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University due to the publication of

(A) The Revolt of Islam

(B) The Necessity of Atheism

(C) The Triumph of Life

(D) The Masque of Anarchy
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Answer: 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

Answer: (A)

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

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Answer: (B)

3. The period of Queen Victoria’s reign is

(A) 1830–1900

(B) 1837–1901
(C) 1830–1901

(D) 1837–1900
Answer: (B)

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.

Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (C)
7. Match the following:

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

Answer: (A)

8. Name the theorist who divided poets into “strong” and “weak” and popularized the practice of misreading:

(A) Alan Bloom

(B) Harold Bloom

(C) Geoffrey Hartman

(D) Stanley Fish

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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

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (C & D)

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.

Answer: (B)

12. W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair owes its title to

(A) Browning’s Fifine at the Fair

(B) Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice

(C) Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield

(D) Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

Answer: (D)
13. The Puritans shut down all theatersin England in

(A) 1642
(B) 1640

(C) 1659
(D) 1660

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (D)

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

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(D) 1

Answer: * (Marks given to all)

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

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
Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (B)
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.

(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.

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (D)

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.

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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.

Answer: (B)

23. Which Shakespearean play contains the line: “…there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow”?

(A) King Lear

(B) Hamlet

(C) Coriolanus
(D) Macbeth

Answer: (B)

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
Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (B)

26. What is common to the following writers? Identify the correct description below:
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

Answer: (A)

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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

Answer: (C)

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”

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (B)

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.

Answer: (D)
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

Answer: (A)

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.

Answer: * (Marks given to all)

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

Answer: (C)

34. In which play do we see a reworking of E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India as a camaeo?

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(A) The Birthday Party
(B) A Resounding Tinkle

(C) Indian Ink

(D) Amadeus

Answer: (C)

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.”

Answer: (D)

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”

Answer: (B)

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
Answer: (D)

38. Which of the following are “companion poems”?

(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets”
(B) “L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”

(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun Rising”

(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! The Lark”

Answer: (B)

39. What does the term episteme signify?

(A) Knowledge
(B) Archive

(C) Theology
(D) Scholarship

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (B)

41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’?

(A) John Milton

(B) William Wordsworth
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(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley

Answer: (C)

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.

Answer: (A)

43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by

(A) Edwin Muir

(B) Edward Thomas

(C) Robert Bridges

(D) Coventry Patmore

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (A OR C)

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.

Answer: (C)

47. Which statement(s) below on the Spenserian stanza is/are accurate?

I. A quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative

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

Answer: (C)

48. Match the following texts with their respective themes:

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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

Answer: (B)

49. The preliminary version of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was called

(A) Stephen Hero

(B) Bloom’s Blunder

(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus

(D) The Dead

Answer: (A)

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.

Answer: (A)

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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
Answer: (A)

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

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Answer: (D)

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
Answer: (A)

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

(B) Ulysses

(C) The Power and the Glory

(D) Heart of Darkness

Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (A)

8. Who of the following poets is Australian?

(A) Austin Clarke

(B) Judith Wright

(C) Edwin Muir

(D) Derek Walcott

Answer: (B)

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
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(C) Johnson on Dryden
(D) Jonson on Shakespeare

Answer: (C)

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

(D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b

Answer: (D)
12. The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” are

(A) comic
(B) solemn

(C) hortatory
(D) irony

Answer: (D)

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
Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (D)

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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

Answer: (A)

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.

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (C)

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.
(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (D)

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
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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
Answer: (A)

22. In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India?
(A) A Tramp Abroad

(B) Roughing It
(C) The Innocents Abroad

(D) Following the Equator

Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (A)

26. Madam Merle is a character in

(A) The Great Gatsby

(B) The Portrait of a Lady

(C) The Jungle

(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Answer: (B)

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
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(D) The Chapel Perilous scene
Answer: (B)

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
Answer: (D)

29. John Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel a

(A) religious tract

(B) political allegory

(C) comic verse epic

(D) comedy
Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (C)

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.

Answer: (C)
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

Answer: * (Marks given to all)

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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Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (A)

36. Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?

(A) Hamlet

(B) The Duchess of Malfi

(C) Volpone

(D) Gorboduc
Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (C)

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
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(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond
Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (C)

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
(A) Bathos

(B) Epistrophe
(C) Chiasmus

(D) Anti-climax
Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (D)

43. Material feminism studies inequality in terms of

(A) only gender

(B) only class

(C) both class and gender

(D) only patriarchy

Answer: (C)
44. Who among the following is not an Irish writer?

(A) Oscar Wilde

(B) Oliver Goldsmith

(C) Edmund Burke

(D) Thomas Gray

Answer: (D)

45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after

(A) The Restoration

(B) The Glorious Revolution

(C) The Reformation

(D) The French Revolution

Answer: (A)

46. In a poem, a line may either be end-stopped or

(A) rhymed
(B) broken

(C) accented
(D) run-on

Answer: (D)

47. Which of the following poets wrote the essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine”?
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(A) Kamala Das
(B) R. Parthasarthy

(C) A. K. Ramanujam
(D) Nissim Ezekiel

Answer: (D)

48. Match the following :

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

Answer: (B)

49. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of

(A) simile
(B) image

(C) conceit
(D) metonymy

Answer: (D)
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.

Answer: (B)

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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
Answer: (C)

2. In poems like “The Altar” and “Easter Wings” ________ exploits _______.
(A) John Donne, alliteration

(B) Robert Herrick, trimetre

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(C) G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm

(D) George Herbert, typographic space

Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (A)

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

Find 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.

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (C)

7. Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club?
(A) Thomas Parnell

(B) Alexander Pope

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Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (D)

9. ________ the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming 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

Answer: (A)

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

(D) Wide Sargasso Sea

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (A and B)

14. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:
List – I (Authors)
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i. Ted Hughes
ii. Seamus Heaney

iii. W.H. Auden

iv. D.H. Lawrence

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
Answer: (C)

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
Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (C)

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

William Caxton and the introduction of printing – 1475

The King James Bible – 1611

Dr. Johnson’s English Dictionary – 1755

The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate – 1649-1660

(C) The Norman Conquest – 1016

William Caxton and the introduction of printing- 1475

The King James Bible – 1564

Dr. Johnson’s English Dictionary -1780

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The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate – 1649-1660

(D) The Norman Conquest – 1013

William Caxton and the introduction of printing – 1575

The King James Bible – 1627

Dr. Johnson’s English Dictionary – 1746

The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate – 1624-1660

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (C and D)

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)

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(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

Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (A)

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
Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (B)
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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

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (A)

30. The phrase “leaves dancing” is an example of ________.

(A) pathetic fallacy

(B) hyperbole

(C) pun
(D) conceit

Answer: (A)

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

(D) The people of East Egg

Answer: (A)

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.

Answer: (A)

33. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:
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…’ More Papers
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

(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 2 3 1 4

Answer: (C)

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.

Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (B)
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.

(B) I and II are correct.

(C) II and III are correct.

(D) III and IV are correct.

Answer: (A)

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”
Answer: (A)

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: More Papers
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

Answer: (C)

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.

(D) Lives of English Poets: Biographical and Critical Notes.

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (C)

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
Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (C)

43. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady Macbeth calls on ______ to “unsex me here”. (Macbeth I.5.39)
Choose the right option to fill in the blank:

(A) God
(B) the spirits of hell

(C) the angels in heaven

(D) no one in particular

Answer: (B) More Papers

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

Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (B)

46. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:
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
Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (C)
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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

(B) England Made Me

(C) Brighton Rock

(D) The Power and the Glory

Answer: (B)

49. Who among the following gave a happy ending to King Lear?

(A) James Quin

(B) Nahum Tate

(C) Peg Woffington

(D) Charles Macklin

Answer: (B)

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:

(A) I, II and III are correct.

(B) I, II and IV are correct.

(C) II, III and IV are correct.

(D) I, III and IV are correct.

Answer: (B)
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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
Answer: (C)

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.

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Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (C)

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”

Answer: (C)

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”

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (C)

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

The correct combination according to the code is:

Code:

(A) III, IV, II, I

(B) IV, III, I, II

(C) II, I, IV, III

(D) I, II, III, IV

Answer: (C) More Papers

9. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from

(A) 1660 to 1669

(B) 1649 to 1660

(C) 1662 to 1689

(D) 1660 to 1689

Answer: (A)

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.

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (A)

12. Match the following authors with their works:

List – A
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

Answer: * (Marks given to all)

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

Answer: (B)

14. Which of the following works cannot be categorised under postcolonial theory?

(A) Nation and Narration

(B) Orientalism

(C) Discipline and Punish More Papers

(D) White Mythologies

Answer: (C)

15. Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic statement of _________ Philosophy.

(A) Aesthetic
(B) Empiricist

(C) Nationalist
(D) Realist

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: *

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

Answer: (D)

19. Match the following lists:

(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

Which is the correct combination according to the code?

I II III IV

(A) 1 4 3 2
(B) 3 2 1 4

(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 4 3

Answer: (D)
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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

The correct combination according to the code is

Codes:

(A) I and IV are correct.

(B) III and IV are correct.

(C) II and III are correct.

(D) I and II are correct.

Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (B)

22. The etymological meaning of the word “trope” is

(A) Gesture
(B) Turning

(C) Mirror
(D) Desire

Answer: (B)

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
Answer: (C)

24. Little Nell is a character in Dickens’

(A) David Copperfield

(B) The Old Curiosity Shop

(C) Bleak House

(D) Great Expectations

Answer: (B)

25. Match the following:

(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 More Papers

3. Victor Shklovsky

4. I.A. Richards
The correct combination according to the code is:

I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2

(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 4 1 2 3

(D) 3 2 1 4
Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (C)

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
(B) Pleonasm

(C) Paradox
(D) Zeugma

Answer: (C)

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

Which is the correct combination according to the code?

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
Answer: (B)

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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Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: A and B

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

Answer: (B)

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.

(D) It reports the facts of Browne’s life.

Answer: A and B

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (A)

36. Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude”?
(A) Mont Blanc

(B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”

(C) “Adonais”
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(D) Alastor
Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (C)

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.

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (A)

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

Which is the correct combination according to the code?

I II III IV

(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 2 1 2 4

(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 4 3 2 1

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (C)

42. Evelyn Waugh’s Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about

(A) The English at War More Papers

(B) The English Aristocracy

(C) The Irish question

(D) Scottish nationalism

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (C)

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
The correct combination according to the code is

(A) I and IV are correct.

(B) I and III are correct.

(C) I and II are correct.

(D) II and III are correct.

Answer: (B)

45. When Chaucer describes the Friar as a “noble pillar of order”, he is using

(A) Irony
(B) Simile

(C) Understatement
(D) Personification

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (B)

47. Which character in Jane Eyre uses religion to justify cruelty?

(A) Blanche Ingram

(B) Mr. Brocklehurst

(C) Sir John Rivers

(D) Eliza Reed

Answer: (B)

48. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as ‘a person perverted into a thing’?

(A) Blake
(B) Coleridge

(C) Keats
(D) Shelley
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Answer: (B)

49. John Suckling belongs to the group of

(A) Metaphysical poets

(B) Cavalier poets

(C) Neo-classical poets

(D) Religious poets

Answer: (B)

50. Sir Thomas More creates the character of a traveller into whose mouth the account of Utopia is put. His

name is
(A) Michael

(B) Raphael
(C) Henry

(D) Thomas
Answer: (B)
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Paper 2- September 2013

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
Answer: (D)

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

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Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (D)

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
Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (B)

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
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(D) Ralph
Answer: (B)

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

The correct combination according to the code is

(A) II and IV are correct.

(B) I and IV are correct.

(C) III and IV are correct.

(D) II and III are correct.

Answer: (B)

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.

Answer: (A)

12. The Wife of Bath’s philosophy ofmarriage shows that she

(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.

Answer: (A)
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
Answer: (C)

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
Answer: (B)

15. Find the poet who is the odd one in the group:
(A) Wallace Stevens

(B) Robert Lowell

(C) Sylvia Plath

(D) Anne Sexton

Answer: (A)

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16. Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare’s Tempest is associated with the Earth?
(A) Ferdinand

(B) Ariel
(C) Caliban

(D) Prospero
Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: D

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

Answer: (B)

20. Which one of the following playwrights will not be covered under the category / term ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?

(A) Jean Genet

(B) Jean Giraudoux

(C) Samuel Beckett

(D) Eugene Ionesco

Answer: (B)

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? More Papers
I II III IV

(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 2 3 4 1

(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 3 1 4 2

Answer: (D)

22. _________ is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes.

(A) Alliteration
(B) Onomatopoeia

(C) Oxymoron
(D) Enthymeme

Answer: (B)

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

Which is the correct combination according to the above code?

(A) III, I, II, IV

(B) I, II, III, IV

(C) IV, III, II, I

(D) II, III, I, IV

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (B)

25. Which of the following poems deals with neighbourly relations?

(A) “Birches”

(B) “Home Burial”

(C) “Mending Wall”

(D) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

Answer: (C)

26. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them:
(Writers)

I. Katherine Susannah Prichard

II. Colin Johnson

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IV. Jack Davis

(Works)
1. Barungin

2. My Place
3. Wild Cat Falling

4. Coonardoo
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?

I II III IV
(A) 3 2 1 4

(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 2 1 4 3

(D) 1 4 3 2
Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (B)
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

The correct combination is:

I II III IV

(A) 2 3 4 1
(B) 3 2 1 4

(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 4 3

Answer: (D)

30. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them:

(Works)
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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

Which is the correct combination according to the above code?

I II III IV

(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 3 4 1 2

(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 4 1 3 2

Answer: (C)

31. Dryden’s dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled

(A) All for Love

(B) The State of Innocence

(C) Annus Mirabilis

(D) Religio Medici

Answer: (B)

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
(D) 1967

Answer: (C)

33. Who defined poetry as ‘the best words in the best order’?

(A) Wordsworth
(B) Coleridge

(C) Keats
(D) Shelley

Answer: (B)

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.

Answer: (B)

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
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(D) Material culturalism and tribalism
Answer: (C)

36. Who among the following poets defined free verse as playing tennis without a net?
(A) Robert Frost

(B) Ezra Pound

(C) Philip Larkin

(D) William Carlos Williams

Answer: (A)

37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except

(A) Tamburlaine the Great

(B) The Jew of Malta

(C) Richard III

(D) Edward II
Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (A)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (D)

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
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(D) Historical novel
Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (A)

44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats’s Muse figure is

(A) Thea
(B) Moneta

(C) Lamia
(D) Calliope

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (C)

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

Answer: (C)

49. Out of the four humours of the body, the Jacobeans thought of themselves as especially prone to

(A) Choler
(B) Blood

(C) Phlegm
(D) Melancholy
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Answer: (D)

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

Answer: (B)
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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

Answer: C

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2. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy contains

(A) Six volumes

(B) Nine volumes

(C) Ten volumes

(D) Four volumes

Answer: B

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.

Answer: C

4. Thomas Hardy’s last major novel was _______.

(A) Tess of the D’urbervilles

(B) Jude the Obscure

(C) The Return of the Native

(D) The Trumpet Major

Answer: B

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

Answer: C

6. Match the columns :

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

Answer: A

7. In King Lear who among the following speaks in the voice of Poor Tom ?

(A) Kent
(B) Edgar

(C) Edmund
(D) Gloucester
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Answer: B

8. In Wordsworth’s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by

(A) Blindness
(B) Deafness

(C) Muteness
(D) Lameness

Answer: C

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

Answer: B

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

Answer: C

11. The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was _______.

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) William Davenant

(C) John Dryden

(D) Thomas Shadwell

Answer: C
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

Answer: A

13. The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to ________.

(A) Arthur Schopenhauer

(B) Charles Darwin

(C) A.N. Whitehead

(D) Aldous Huxley

Answer: B

14. Which character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is scientific” ?

(A) Simon
(B) Piggy

(C) Ralph More Papers

(D) Jack

Answer: B

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

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
Answer: C

16. How did Chaucer’s Pardoner make his living ?

(A) By selling stolen cattle from the neighbourhood 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

Answer: B

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

Answer: B

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

(D) The Invisible Man

Answer: C

19. Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is

(A) a collection of poems

(B) a play
(C) an autobiography

(D) a novel
Answer: C

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 ?
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(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

Answer: D

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

Answer: B

22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to

(A) William James

(B) John Dewey

(C) Werner Heisenberg

(D) Charles Darwin

Answer: C

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

Answer: B

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.

Answer: C

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

Answer: B

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
Answer: D

27. The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by ________.

(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt

(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt

(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt
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(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey
Answer: C

28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the group _______.

(A) The New Apocalypse

(B) The Black Arts

(C) The Movement

(D) Deep Image Poetry

Answer: A

29. Which of the following writers writes from Canada ?

(A) V.S. Naipaul

(B) Margaret Atwood

(C) Derek Walcott

(D) James Joyce

Answer: B

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
Answer: A

31. “Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.”
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

Answer: C

32. A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World is the sub-title of _______.
(A) Belinda

(B) Cecilia
(C) Evelina

(D) Camilla
Answer: C

33. “The old order changeth, yielding place to new” is from ________.
(A) “Morte d’Arthur”

(B) “Idylls of the King”

(C) “Paracelsus”

(D) “Asolando”
Answer: B

34. Which of the followingcannot be classified as fantasy fiction ?

(A) The Inheritors (William Golding)
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(B) The Magus (John Fowles)
(C) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein)

(D) The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury)

Answer: D

35. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work associated with _______.

(A) Wilhelm von Humboldt

(B) Ernst Cassirer

(C) Immanuel Kant

(D) Battista Vico

Answer: B

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.

Answer: C

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

Answer: C

38. Surrealism is associated with

(A) Ernst Cassirer

(B) Tristan Tzara

(C) Henrik Ibsen
(D) Andre Breton

Answer: D

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

Answer: D

40. What common link do you find among

“The Disquieting Muses” by Sylvia Plath,

“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.

Answer: C

41. “All Rising to Great Place is by a _____ staire.” (Francis Bacon)

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(A) Murky
(B) Winding

(C) Crooked
(D) Sinister

Answer: B

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

Answer: C

43. Charles Dickens’s visit to the United States produced _________.

(A) Hard Times

(B) Nicholas Nickleby

(C) Martin Chuzzlewit

(D) Oliver Twist

Answer: C

44. Who among the following is a working-class poet ?

(A) John Betjeman

(B) Tony Harrison

(C) Thom Gunn

(D) Robert Graves

Answer: B

45. New Science is a work associated with _______.

(A) Ernest Cassirer
(B) Wilhelm von Humboldt

(C) G. Battista Vico

(D) Immanuel Kant

Answer: C

46. Identify Petrarch’s sonnet sequence from among the following :

(A) Rine Sparse

(B) Astrophel and Stella

(C) Amoretti
(D) Delia

Answer: A

47. The island setting of Latmos figures in Keats’s

(A) Endymion
(B) The Eve of St. Agnes

(C) Lamia
(D) Hyperion

Answer: A

48. The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation emphasized by ________.

(A) W.B. Yeats

(B) Charles Baudelaire
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(C) Oscar Wilde
(D) Andre Gide

Answer:* (Marks given to all)

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

Answer: B

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

Answer: C
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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

Answer: A,B

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
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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
Answer: Marks given to all

3. The separation of styles in accordance with class appears more consistently in ………… than in medieval works
of literature and art.

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) Shakespeare

(C) Philip Sidney

(D) Edmund Spenser

Answer: B

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

Answer: A
5. A Spenserian stanza has

(A) four iambic pentameters

(B) six iambic pentameters

(C) eight iambic pentameters

(D) ten iambic pentameters

Answer: C

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

Codes :
i ii iii iv

(A) 2 1 4 3
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(B) 3 2 1 4

(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 3 4 1

Answer: A

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
Answer: A

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

(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 4 2 1 3

(D) 4 3 1 2
Answer: B

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

Answer: A

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

Answer: A

11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in late sixteenth century London from the following groups :
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope
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(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe

(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe, Thames

Answer: A,C

12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
Good Signior, you shall more command with years.

Than with your weapons.” The above lines are addresses by Othello to
(A) Roderigo and officers

(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers

(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

Tottels Miscellany – 1579

Astrophel and Stella – 1585

The Spanish Tragedie – about 1591

(C) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1585

Tottels Miscellany – 1591

Astrophel and Stella – 1579

The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557

(D) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579

Tottels Miscellany – 1591

Astrophel and Stella – about 1585

The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557

Answer: A

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

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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
Answer: C

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

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

Answer: A

17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove,

We’ll build in ………….. pretty roomes.”

(A) lyrics

(B) epics
(C) sonnets
(D) stanzas

Answer: C

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

Answer: A

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 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

Answer: C

20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a printer. He remained a printer throughout his life. He was asked
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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

Answer: B

21. “Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be wise.” Who wrote the following lines?

(A) Pope
(B) Gray

(C) Collins
(D) Southey

Answer: B

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

Answer: B

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

Answer: B
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

Answer: A

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

Answer: D

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’

(C) ‘Eve of St. Agnes’ More Papers

(D) ‘Endymion’

Answer: B

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 Sunflower’

Answer: A

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

Answer: A

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

Answer: A

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

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
Answer: B

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

Answer: D

32. “A sudden blow : the great wings beating still More Papers
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

Answer: A

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”

Answer: B

34. Who among the following is not a surrealist poet?

(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes

(B) David Gascoyne

(C) Kenneth Allot

(D) C. Day Lewis

Answer: D

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

Answer: B

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

Answer: Marks given to all

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

Answer: A

38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of …………… in his novels.

(A) Realism
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(B) Naturalism
(C) Primitivism

(D) Expressionism
Answer: C

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

Answer: C

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

Answer: B

41. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :

List – I (Authors)
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

Answer: C

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
Answer: D

43. Which of the following is not an Asian – Canadian writer ?

(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin

(B) Himani Banerjee

(C) Joy Kogawa

(D) Meena Alexander More Papers

Answer: D

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”

Answer: A

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’
Answer: C

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

Answer: D

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

(D) Hard Times

Answer: A

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
Answer: C

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

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(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct

(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

Answer: C

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

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
Answer: C
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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

Answer: 1

2. Which of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance?

(1) Walter Pater

(2) Oscar Wilde

(3) Thomas Carlyle

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(4) John Ruskin

Answer: 1

3. Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen’s novels?

(1) Knightley
(2) Darcy

(3) Collins
(4) Mr. Martin

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 4

5. Which of these is NOT a pastoral elegy?

(1) Lycidas
(2) In Memoriam

(3) Thyrsis
(4) Adonais

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 1

7. Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was NOT a courtier?

(1) George Puttenham

(2) Philip Sidney

(3) Walter Raleigh

(4) Thomas Wyatt

Answer: * (Marks given to all)

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

The right combination according to the code is:

(1) (a) and (b)

(2) (b) and (c)

(3) (c) and (a)

(4) (c) and (d)

Answer: 2 More Papers

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”

Answer: 3

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)

Answer: 3

11. In New Criticism, the key term ‘tension’ is associated with:

(1) Cleanth Brooks

(2) John Crow Ransom

(3) Austin Warren

(4) Allen Tate

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 4

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 “wilful 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

Answer: 2 More Papers

14. If you cannot understand an argument and remark, “It’s Greek to me”, you are quoting ……………

(1) John Milton

(2) Samuel Johnson

(3) William Shakespeare

(4) John Donne

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 1

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

Answer: 3

18. John Dryden described a major English poet as “a rough diamond, and must first be polished ere he shines

…..” Identify him:

(1) Geoffrey Chaucer

(2) John Gower

(3) George Herbert

(4) Robert Ilerrick

Answer: 1

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

Answer: 2 More Papers

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
Answer: 2

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

(3) Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria

(4) Aristotle’s Poetics

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 1

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

Answer: 4

25. Chaueer satirizes the Monk because the Monk:

(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
Answer: 4

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-year-old during a Saturday night service in a Harlem church. Identify the
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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

Answer: 2

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 sufferage

(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)

Answer: 3

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

Answer: * (Marks given to all)

29. The ‘monster’ in Frankenstein is NOT responsible for the death of:

(1) Clerval
(2) Justine

(3) Elizabeth
(4) Alphonse Frankenstein

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 2

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
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(3) William Cartwright, Richard Corbett, Thomas Randolph
(4) William Holman hunt, John E. Millais, D.G. Rossetti, William Morris

Answer: 3

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

(2) The Jew of Malta

(3) Doctor Faustus

(4) Dido, Queen of Carthage

Answer: 1

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 3
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

(4) Botticelli – liveliness

Answer: 2

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!

Answer: 2

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) More Papers

(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)

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 3

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”.
Answer: 3

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

Answer: 3

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 More Papers

(3) Uriel

(4) Gabriel
Answer: 2

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 3

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)

Answer: 3

48. In Tristram Shandy the narrator’s presentation of his life and opinions is ………….
(1) linear

(2) digressive
(3) chronological

(4) rounded
Answer: 2

49. The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning “When I consider how my light is spent…” ends with ……………M o r e P a p e r s
(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
Answer: 2

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

Answer: 2
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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
Answer: 1

2. Samuel Pepys began his diary on ……………

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(1) New Year’s Day 1660

(2) All Saints’ Day 1662

(3) Thanksgiving Day 1665

(4) New Year’s Day 1667

Answer: 1

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
Answer: 4

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 Masefield, Edwin Muir, Norman McCaig

(3) MacDiarmid, G. M. Hopkins, Edwin Muir

(4) W. IT. Davies, Robert Bridges, John Masefield

Answer: 1

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

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 3

8. Chaucer’s first work, The Book of the Duchess is a dream poem on the death of …………….
(1) Duchess of Malfi

(2) Duchess of Lancaster

(3) Duchess of Scotland

(4) Duchess of Paris

Answer: 2

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
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(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
Answer: 4

10. Find the odd one among the Marxist critics below:
(1) Georg Lukacs

(2) Louis Althusser

(3) Raymond Williams

(4) Northrop Frye

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 2

12. The opposite of hyperbole is ……………..

(1) meiosis
(2) inversion

(3) anagnorisis
(4) synecdoche

Answer: 1

13. What significance 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 afflicted by class and gender differences in Canada of the late 1970s
Answer: 3

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.

Answer: 4

15. The author of the essay “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” is ……………..
(1) George Eliot

(2) Henry James

(3) Oscar Wilde

(4) Richard Steele

Answer: 1

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
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(3) the ideal of rising bourgeoisie
(4) the aristocrat’s disdain for the harsh social reality

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 3

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
Answer: 3

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 ……………..

(1) The Jew of Malta

(2) Doctor Faustus

(3) Tamburlaine the Great

(4) Edward II
Answer: 3

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

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 2

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

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(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)

Answer: 1

23. Identify the TRUE statement on Thomas More’s Utopia.

(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.

Answer: 2

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.

Answer: 4

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

The right combination according to the code is:

(1) (a) and (b)

(2) (a) and (c)

(3) (c) and (d)

(4) (a) and (d)

Answer: 1

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

Answer: 3

27. The ascension of King James I in ………….. inaugurated the Jacobean age.

(1) 1600
(2) 1601

(3) 1603
(4) 1609

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28. Which of the following is NOT true of the Byronic hero?

(1) moody
(2) passionate

(3) repentant
(4) remorse-torn

Answer: 3

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.

(4) His major characters such as Tess and Jude rarely speak in a mixture of a dialect and standard.
Answer: 2

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

Answer: 1

31. The opening sixteen lines of Paradise Lost comprise:

(1) One sentence

(2) Two sentences

(3) Three sentences
(4) Four sentences

Answer: 1

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: 2

33. Ernest Pontifex is a character in …………..

(1) Tono Bungay

(2) The Man of Property

(3) The Way of All Flesh

(4) Nostromo

Answer: 3

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”
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(4) “The Man Who Would Be King”
Answer: 4

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

Answer: 1

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
Answer: 1

37. In Gulliver’s Travels Struldbruggs are …………..

(1) people replete with abstract learning.

(2) people exempt from natural death.

(3) people persecuted by pets and servants.

(4) people lured by a new ideal.

Answer: 2

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
Answer: 1

39. Samuel Johnson wrote London in imitation of ……………

(1) Horace

(2) Ovid
(3) Juvenal

(4) Moschus
Answer: 3

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
Answer: 3

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
Answer: 2

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

Answer: 3

43. Who among the following playwrights was the son of a gardener?
(1) Harold Pinter

(2) Joe Orton

(3) Tom Stoppard

(4) Edward Bond

Answer: 2

44. “He is the very pineapple of politeness!” This sentence is an example of …………..
(1) paronomasia

(2) spoonerism
(3) malapropism

(4) anaphora
Answer: 3

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

Answer: 1
46. Identify the group known as “The Wesker Trilogy”?

(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

Answer: 3

48. The phrase “darkness visible” (Paradise Lost, 1.63) is an example of ……………..

(1) periphrasis
(2) pun

(3) oxymoron
(4) transposition

Answer: 3

49. What is common to writers such as Sam Selvon (The Lonely Londoners), Timothy Mo (Sour Sweet), and Hanif
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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.
Answer: 3

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

Answer: 3
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Solved Paper 2- August 2016

1. 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

Answer: 4

2. 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

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Answer: 3

3. 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
(4) C D B A

Answer: 3

4. The phrase “loud colour” is an example of

(1) Synecdoche
(2) Synaesthesia

(3) Redundancy
(4) Paraleipsis

Answer: 2

5. 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

Answer: 3

6. 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

(2) B A C D
(3) D B A C

(4) C D B A
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Answer: 1

7. 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
Answer: 1

8. Patrick White’s classic work Voss is based on the story of a …………… explorer.
(1) Flemish

(2) Australian
(3) German

(4) Spanish
Answer: 3

9. 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

Answer: 2

10. 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

(3) Brian Friel
(4) G.B. Shaw

Answer: 3

11. 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

Answer: 2

12. “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

Answer: 2

13. In Restoration comedy, character names often reveal character traits. What trait does the name Sir Wilfull
Witwoud reveal?

(1) Woodenness
(2) Miserliness
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(3) A desire to be thought of as witty
(4) Petulance

Answer: 3

14. From the following list identify the two novels published by John Henry Newman

I. The Grammar of Assent

II. Apologia pro vita sua

III. Loss and Gain

IV. Callista

The right combination according to the code is :

(1) I and II

(2) II and III

(3) III and IV

(4) I and IV
Answer: 3

15. 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) Personification

(2) Pathetic fallacy

(3) Metaphor

(4) Litotes
Answer: 1

16. 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

Answer: 4

17. In King Lear to which woman has Edmund sworn his love?
(1) Cordelia

(2) Goneril
(3) Regan

(4) both Goneril and Regan

Answer: 4

18. The poetic line, “Break, break, break” is an example of

(1) spondee

(2) trochee
(3) iambus

(4) pyrrhics
Answer: 1

19. Ben Jonson’s Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue is a

(1) domestic tragedy

(2) masque
(3) villanelle
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(4) closet drama
Answer: 2

20. 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
Answer: 3

21. 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
Answer: 1

22. In Book 5 of prelude, Wordsworth dreams of an Arab in the desert after reading which great work?
(1) Cervantes’s Don Quixote

(2) Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

(3) Euclid’s Elements

(4) Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Answer: 1

23. Lady Dedlock is a character in Dickens’s

(1) Bleak House

(2) Great Expectations

(3) David Copperfield

(4) Hard Times

Answer: 1
24. 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
Answer: 3

25. Where does Conrad’s Heart of Darkness begin?

(1) The Congo

(2) The Thames

(3) Belgium

(4) The Atlantic

Answer: 2

26. 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.
(3) A project for truncating words and shortening sentences by leaving out verbs.

(4) A digestible dictionary, written on a wafer.

Answer: 4

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27. 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”

Answer: 3

28. 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.

Answer: 3

29. According to Foucault sexuality points to discourses about all the following EXCEPT
(1) Medicine

(2) Anthropology
(3) Psychology

(4) Criminology
Answer: 2

30. “All Arabia breathes from yonder box.” This line from The Rape of the Lock is an example of
(1) periphrasis

(2) innuendo
(3) metonymy

(4) chiasmus
Answer: 3
31. 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
Answer: 2

32. 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.

Answer: 2

33. Which novel did James Joyce call “the English Ulysses”?
(1) Robinson Crusoe

(2) Clarissa
(3) Vanity Fair

(4) Great Expectations

Answer: 1

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34. What narrative perspective does Chaucer employ in the opening of “The General Prologue”?
(1) A first-person “I”

(2) Omniscience
(3) Third person

(4) Free indirect discourse

Answer: 1

35. 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

Answer: 2

36. 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

Answer: 1

37. In Wide Sargasso Sea what is the name of Rochester’s Creole wife-to-be?
(1) Bertha

(2) Martha
(3) Jane

(4) Barbara
Answer: 1

38. 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

Answer: 2

39. Purple Hisbiscus is a work by

(1) Cyprian Ekwensi

(2) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

(3) Seffi Atta

(4) Chukwuemeka Ike

Answer: 2

40. Which country is Jacques Derrida born in?

(1) France
(2) South Africa

(3) Algeria
(4) Belgium

Answer: 3

41. 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
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(3) Roots
(4) Chicken Soup with Barley

Answer: 2

42. 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

Answer: 2

43. Which of the following is NOT written by Rudyard Kipling?

(1) Just So Stories

(2) Puck of Pook’s Hill

(3) The Secret Garden

(4) Rewards and Faeries

Answer: 3

44. 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

Answer: 4

45. 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
Answer: 2

46. Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym that refers to

(1) E.L. Woodward

(2) Charles Lutwidge Dodson

(3) Michael Brock

(4) W.E. Houghton

Answer: 2

47. 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

(3) Life Studies

(4) Ariel

Answer: 3

48. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a …………… by …………….

(1) novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne

(2) play, Mrs. Radcliffe
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(3) poem, William Blake
(4) sermon, Laurence Sterne

Answer: 3

49. 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
Answer: 4

50. 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

I II III IV

(1) C D B A
(2) C B D A

(3) C D A B
(4) D C B A

Answer: 3
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1. Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude ?

(1) Durham

(2) Glasgow
(3) Cambridge

(4) Oxford
Answer: 3

2. Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?

(1) John Marston

(2) Thomas Middleton

(3) John Fletcher

(4) Thomas Heywood

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Answer: 4

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

Answer: 3

4. T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in

(1) Christianity
(2) Hinduism

(3) Buddhism
(4) Judaism

Answer: 1

5. By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag ?

(1) Grildrig
(2) Glumdalclitch

(3) Splacknuck
(4) Mannikin

Answer: 1

6. Who among the following was born in India ?

(1) Paul Scott

(2) Lawrence Durrell

(3) E.M. Forster

(4) V.S. Naipaul

Answer: 2

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.

Answer: 3

8. Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism?

(1) Roman Jakobson

(2) Georges Poulet

(3) Boris Eichenbaum

(4) Victor Shklovsky

Answer: 2

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
Answer: 2

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
Answer: 2

11. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the ………….. romance.

(1) Oriental

(2) French
(3) Gothic

(4) Popular
Answer: 3

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

The right combination according to the code is

(1) I and II
(2) II and III

(3) I and IV
(4) I and III

Answer: 1
13. Which of the following is another term to describe “art for art’s sake”?

(1) Aestheticism
(2) Didacticism

(3) Realism
(4) Neo-realism

Answer: 1

14. The statement that there are “none so credulous as infidels” is an illustration of

(1) Oxymoron
(2) Antithesis

(3) Paradox
(4) Metonomy

Answer: 3

15. Who narrates Heart of Darkness?

(1) Marlow
(2) Director of Companies

(3) Kurtz
(4) An unnamed narrator

Answer: 4

16. The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of

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(1) The Conscious Lovers
(2) The Good Natur’d Man

(3) She Stoops to Conquer

(4) The Rivals

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 3

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.

Answer: 1

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.

Answer: 1

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

The right combination according to the code is

(1) II and III

(2) I and III

(3) II and IV
(4) I and IV

Answer: 1

21. In “Tradition and Individual Talent”, according to T.S. Eliot, the term “Traditional”

usually means
(1) something positive

(2) something negative

(3) something historical

(4) something old

Answer: 2

22. Who of the following is a Cavalier poet?

(1) George Herbert

(2) John Donne

(3) Robert Herrick

(4) Andrew Marvell More Papers

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 1

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

The right combination according to the code is

(1) I and II
(2) II and IV

(3) II and III

(4) III and IV

Answer: 3
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

Answer: 1

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
Answer: 2

28. There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s
(1) Doctor Faustus

(2) The Jew of Malta

(3) Tamburlaine, the Great

(4) Edward II
Answer: 2

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29. Shakespeare famously neglects to observe Aristotle’s rules concerning the three dramatic unities, and
Samuel Johnson undertakes to defend Shakespeare from these 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
Answer: 3

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

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 3

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

(4) Terza Rima

Answer: 3

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

The right combination according to the code is

(1) I and II
(2) II and III

(3) III and IV

(4) I and IV

Answer: 3

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 More Papers

(4) Cheerful

Answer: 1

35. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a

(1) religious allegory

(2) fairy tale

(3) long poem

(4) Utopian novel

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 4

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.

Answer: 1

38. In which year did the Great Exhibition take place?

(1) 1851

(2) 1857
(3) 1861
(4) 1871

Answer: 1

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
Answer: 1

40. Match the work with author :

I. “The Excursion”

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
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(1) C A B D
(2) C A D B

(3) B C A D
(4) B A C D

Answer: 2

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”

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 1
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
Answer: 4

45. Who among the following translated Homer?

(1) Thomas Gray

(2) Samuel Johnson

(3) Oliver Goldsmith

(4) Alexander Pope

Answer: 4

46. Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy is a

(1) Picaresque novel

(2) Epistolary novel

(3) Diary novel

(4) Coming-of-age novel

Answer: 4

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47. When was the English ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses lifted?
(1) 1924

(2) 1945
(3) 1936

(4) 1962
Answer: 3

48. Who among the following is not an imagist?

(1) Ezra Pound

(2) W.B. Yeats

(3) Amy Lowell

(4) T.E. Hulme

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 1

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
(1) D A C B

(2) C A D B
(3) B C A D

(4) B A C D
Answer: 2

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Paper 2- January 2017

1. 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

Answer: 1

2. 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

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(3) Alfred Lord Tennyson

(4) Robert Browning

Answer: 3

3. 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

Answer: 3

4. From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility ?

I. Elinor
II. Marianne

III. Mary
IV. Amanda

The right combination according to the code is :

(1) I and III

(2) I and II
(3) II and III

(4) III and IV

Answer: 2

5. 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

Answer: 3

6. 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

Answer: 3

7. Poe’s “The Raven” mourns the death of Poe’s

(1) lost Lenore

(2) lost Abigail

(3) pet animal

(4) lost heritage

Answer: 1

8. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth who was “untimely ripped” from his mother’s womb ?

(1) Macbeth
(2) Macduff

(3) Duncan
(4) Malcolm
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Answer: 2

9. 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
Answer: 2

10. 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 Malfi

The right combination according to the code is

(1) I & IV
(2) II & IV

(3) III & IV

(4) I & III

Answer: 3

11. Which of the following works by David Malouf tells the story of the 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

Answer: 4
12. 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

The right combination according to the code is :

(1) I and III

(2) I and IV

(3) I and II
(4) II and III

Answer: 3

13. Who among the following dismissed Ulysses as “a misfire” ?

(1) Virginia Woolf

(2) Wyndham Lewis

(3) E.M. Forster

(4) D.H. Lawrence

Answer: 1

14. Which of the following works Daniel Defoe offered his readers as a collection of “Strange Surprising

Adventures” ? More Papers

(1) Moll Flanders

(2) Robinson Crusoe

(3) Roxana

(4) Captain Singleton

Answer: 2

15. 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
Answer: 3

16. 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.”

(3) “Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with.”

(4) “Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam.”

Answer: 2

17. 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

Answer: 2

18. “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

Answer: 2

19. 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

Answer: 3

20. ………….. is the producer of the first complete printed English Bible.
(1) Jerome

(2) William Tyndale

(3) Miles Coverdale

(4) Bede More Papers

Answer: 3

21. 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
Answer: 2

22. 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

Answer: 1

23. 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

Answer: 2

24. Who among the following is not a character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies ?

(1) Ralph
(2) Piggy

(3) Peter
(4) Jack

Answer: 3

25. Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included

I. Holman Hunt
II. Arthur Hugh Clough

III. Gerald Manley Hopkins

IV. John Millais

The right combination according to the code is

(1) II and III

(2) I and IV
(3) I and III

(4) II and IV
Answer: 2

26. 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 More Papers

IV. Homicide

The right combination according to the code is

(1) I & II

(2) I & III

(3) I & IV

(4) III & IV

Answer: 3

27. 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

Answer: 2

28. 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

Answer: 1

29. “Full fathom five thy father lies” is an example of

(1) assonance

(2) alliteration
(3) apostrophe

(4) enjambment
Answer: 2
30. 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 first syllable

(3) Three successive heavy stresses

(4) A six line stanza in which the rhyme sounds are all identical

Answer: 2

31. Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” combines two poetic forms

I. Lyric
II. Dramatic Monologue

III. Ballad
IV. Sonnet

The right combination according to the code is

(1) II and III

(2) I and IV
(3) I and III

(4) II and IV
Answer: 3

32. ………….. narrator highlights the problem of narrative authority.

(1) First person

(2) Self-conscious More Papers

(3) Third person

(4) Participant
Answer: 2

33. 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

Answer: 4

34. 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

Answer: 3

35. Feste is a clown in

(1) Twelfth Night

(2) As You Like It

(3) The Taming of the Shrew

(4) Much Ado About Nothing

Answer: 1

36. 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

Answer: 2

37. 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

Answer: 3

38. 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
Answer: 3

39. 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
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(4) Courtesy cantos
Answer: 1

40. Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from
(1) repeating mistakes

(2) totalitarianism
(3) deconstructionism

(4) historicism
Answer: 4

41. 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

Answer: 3

42. 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

Answer: 3

43. 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

Answer: 3

44. 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

Answer: 1

45. 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

Answer: 2

46. Match the character with the work :

A. Pip
B. Causaubon
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C. Becky Sharp
D. Heathcliff

I. Middlemarch
II. Great Expectations

III. Wuthering Heights

IV. Vanity Fair

The right combination according to the code is :

I II III IV

(1) B C D A
(2) D A C B

(3) B A D C
(4) C B A D

Answer: 3

47. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the English Poets combines the following except

(1) analytical criticism

(2) literary history

(3) personal biography

(4) Socratic dialogue

Answer: 4

48. 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

The right combination according to the code is :

(1) II and III

(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV

(4) I and III

Answer: 1

49. Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a bearing on the composition of Shelley’s “Adonais” ?
(1) Miletus

(2) Socrates
(3) Plato

(4) Aristotle
Answer: 3

50. 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 More Papers

ABCD

(1) II I IV III
(2) III IV I II

(3) II IV I III
(4) IV III II I

Answer: 3
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1. 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
The right combination according to the code is :

(1) (a) and (b)

(2) (b) and (c)

(3) (a) and (d)

(4) (b) and (d)

Answer: 4

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2. 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 affairs of man”.

Answer: 2

3. Identify the important theatres of the Elizabethan period :

(a) Peacock
(b) Globe

(c) Swan
(d) Grand

The right combination according to the code is :

(1) (a) and (b)

(2) (b) and (c)

(3) (b) and (d)

(4) (a) and (d)

Answer: 2

4. 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”

Answer: 2

5. 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

Answer: 4

6. The Emblem is a poetic genre containing a symbolic picture with a text and a verse exposition popular in the

early 17th century. Who popularised this kind of poetry through the work Emblems [1635] ?
(1) Robert Southwell

(2) Francis Quarles

(3) John Davies

(4) Joseph Sylvester

Answer: 2

7. Which Byron work begins thus : “I want a hero : an uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a
new one ………” ?

(1) Beppo
(2) Cain

(3) Manfred
(4) Don Juan

Answer: 4

8. The title of Sir Thomas Browne’s famous treatise, Religio Medici means :
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(1) Religion of a Doctor
(2) Religion of Magician

(3) Religion of Divinity

(4) Religion of Meditation

Answer: 1

9. 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

Answer: 1

10. 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

The right combination according to the code is :

(1) (a) and (b)

(2) (a) and (c)

(3) (b) and (c)

(4) (b) and (d)

Answer: 1

11. 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

Answer: 3

12. 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
Answer: 2

13. 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 Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour…”.

(1) Thomas Gray

(2) William Blake

(3) William Collins

(4) William Cowper

Answer: 2

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14. In Women in Love what is Winifred’s pekinese dog called ?
(1) Bismarck

(2) Looloo
(3) Lucky

(4) Buddy
Answer: 2

15. 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

Answer: 2

16. Edmund Spenser’s Colin Clout’s Come Home Again is a fine example of :
(1) carpe diem

(2) sonnet sequence

(3) georgic poetry

(4) pastoral eclogue

Answer: 4

17. 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

Answer: 3
18. This Australian poet was raised in New South Wales and grew up in rural Australian landscape. In 1946 she

published her first 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.

(1) Dorothy Hewett

(2) Nettie Palmer

(3) Judith Wright

(4) Amy Witting

Answer: 3

19. Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is set in __________.

(1) Surinam
(2) Abyssinia

(3) Egypt
(4) Assyria

Answer: 1

20. Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poems in 1918 ?

(1) Robert Bridges

(2) Coventry Patmore

(3) John Betjeman

(4) Stephen Spender

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21. 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) Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Answer: 3

22. Pinter once admitted that he first became aware of the dramatic power of the pause from seeing a popular

American comedian. Which one ?

(1) Bob Hope

(2) W. C. Fields
(3) Jack Benny

(4) Charlie Chaplin

Answer: 3

23. 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

Answer: 3

24. Which of the following is NOT true of the ideal state in Thomas More’s Utopia ?
(1) Personal property, money and vice are effectively abolished.

(2) The root causes of crime, ambition and political conflict, 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.

Answer: 3
25. 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

Answer: 1

26. Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins with the sombre description of Egdon Heath ?

(1) Jude the Obscure

(2) The Return of the Native

(3) Far from the Madding Crowd

(4) Under the Greenwood Tree

Answer: 2

27. The metrical form of Gower’s Confessio Amantis is :

(1) iambic pentameter

(2) anapestic trimeter

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(4) trochaic tetrameter

Answer: 3

28. 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.

Answer: 3

29. The Bard. The Iron Lady. The King. The above are examples of :

(1) anacoluthon
(2) aposiopesis

(3) asyndenton
(4) antonomasia

Answer: 4

30. Which of the following novels by Margaret Atwood depicts the historical event of the notorious murders

committed in 1843 ?
(1) The Blind Assassin

(2) Alias Grace

(3) Cats Eye

(4) Oryx and Crake

Answer: 2

31. Which of the following poems by W. B. Yeats repudiates the sensual world in favour of “the artifice of
eternity” ?

(1) “Under Ben Bulben”

(2) “Among School Children”

(3) “Sailing to Byzantium”

(4) “After Long Silence”

Answer: 3

32. Which of the following characters in Moby Dick falls overboard and turns insane as a result ?

(1) Pip
(2) Queequeg

(3) Starbuck
(4) Tashtego

Answer: 1

33. 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”

Answer: 4

34. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies which of the following characters is put to death ?

(1) Piggy
(2) Ralph

(3) Simon
(4) Jack
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Answer: 1 & 3

35. In Canterbury Tales who has a red face full of sores ?

(1) the Summoner

(2) the Shipman

(3) the Yeoman

(4) the Reeve

Answer: 1

36. The pace of speech is called :

(1) syllable
(2) loudness

(3) tempo
(4) pitch

Answer: 3

37. 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)

(2) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)

(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)

(4) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

Answer: 2

38. 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

Answer: 4

39. 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”

Answer: 2

40. 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
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(3) Rembrandt
(4) Raphael

Answer: 3

41. In Jonathan Swift’s Gullivers Travels Gulliver refers to William Dampier, the famous writer of two voyages, as :

(1) master
(2) brother

(3) cousin
(4) uncle

Answer: 3

42. Who among the following is NOT a character in Pride and prejudice ?

(1) Mr. Darcy

(2) Miss Bingley

(3) Miss Bates

(4) Mr. Collins

Answer: 3

43. “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
Answer: 1

44. 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

Answer: 3

45. “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”. The above is an example of :

(1) ploce
(2) epizeuxis

(3) plurisignation
(4) diaeresis

Answer: 1

46. 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

Answer: 4

47. Who among the following is the author of Steps to the Temple ?

(1) John Donne

(2) Richard Crashaw

(3) George Herbert

(4) Henry Vaughan
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Answer: 2

48. 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)

(2) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)

(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

Answer: 1

49. 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
The right combination according to the code is :

(1) (a) and (c)

(2) (d) and (b)

(3) (d) and (c)

(4) (a) and (d)

Answer: 2

50. 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”

Answer: 2

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Paper 2- December 2018 (22nd

Dec 2018)

This is the Official Question Paper & Answer Key for the paper conduced on 22nd December 2018.

Q.1. 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
Answer: 2
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Q.2. 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
Answer: 4

Q.3. 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

Answer: 3

Q.4. Which of the following is the most accurate description of Butler English ?

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.

Answer: 3

Q.5. 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”

Answer: 3

Q.6. 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 fixation on chastity.

4. Celebrating Cromwell’s victories while inviting sympathy for the executed King.

Answer: 4

Q.7. Who among the ancients prescribed that poetry should both instruct and delight ?

1. Longinus
2. Plotinus

3. Aristotle
4. Horace

Answer: 4

Q.8. Braj Kachru has observed a tendency among Indian-English speakers and writers to use hybridized lexical

items. One example of this is

1. Jugarh
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2. Ping-pong
3. Chaywallah

4. Lathi-charge
Answer: 4

Q.9. 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

Answer: 1

Q.10. Evelina was published in 1778

1. posthumously

2. using the name Fanny Burney

3. anonymously

4. under apseudonym
Answer: 3

Q.11. 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

Answer: 1

Q.12. Match the poem with the opening lines :

(a) “Ode to Psyche”

(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)

Answer: 3

Q.13. Match the character with the play :

(Character)

(a) Dorimant
(b) Lady Fidget

(c) Malevole
(d) Vernish

(Play)
(1) The plain Dealer More Papers

(2) The Man of Mode

(3) The Country Wife

(4) The Malcontent

1. (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)

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)

Answer: 2

Q.14. 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
Answer: 4

Q.15. 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. “Reflections on Gandhi”

4. “Why I Write”
Answer: 2
Q.16. 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

4. Zorba
Answer: 1

Q.17. 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.

Answer: 1

Q.18. 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 More Papers

2. The divine, Powers, our country

3. The military, the Hindu sepoys, Powers

4. Authorities, his compatriots, our country

Answer: 2

Q.19. Which Walter Scott novel is set in France in the fifteenth century ?

1. Redgauntlet
2. Ivanhoe

3. The Antiquarry
4. Quentin Durward

Answer: 4

Q.20. In which work does William Blake say that Milton was “a true poet and of devil’s party without knowing it”

?
1. “London”

2. “Songs of Innocence”
3. “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”

4. “The Chimney Sweeper”

Answer: 3

Q.21. 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

Answer: 3

Q.22. 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)

Answer: 4

Q.23. The enigmatic castle which K. attempts to reach in vain in Franz Kafka’s Castle belongs to
1. Count Westwest

2. Count Aloofwest
3. Count Eastwest

4. Count Stangewest
Answer: 1

Q.24. 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.
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4. The Way of the World was performed and published in 1702.
Answer: 1

Q.25. 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

Answer: 4

Q.26. 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

(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)

Answer: 3

Q.27. 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

Answer: 1

Q.28. 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

Answer: 4

Q.29. 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 _______.

1. Point, counterpoint More Papers

2. Tenor, vehicle

3. Analogy, analogue
4. Vehicle, tenor

Answer: 2

Q.30. 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

Answer: 2

Q.31. 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

Q. 31. In this passage, Yeats praises Indian culture primarily because it

1. Is accessible to Westernes though it is rooted in a different religious tradition.

2. Has been flexible 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. Reflects a marvellous eclecticism in drawing from many disparate cultures.

Answer: 3

Q.32. 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

Answer: 4

Q.33. 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

Answer: 3

Q.34. 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
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4. Daniel Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop
Answer: 4

Q.35. There are helpers and harmers among fellow-pilgrims in Christian’s journey in Pilgrim’s Progress. Who
among the following is not a helper?

1. Mr. Worldly Wiseman

2. Good Will

3. The Interpreter
4. The Evangelist

Answer: 1

Q.36. 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
Answer: 3

Q.37. 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)

Answer: 4

Q.38. 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

Answer: 4

Q.39. 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

Answer: 4
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Q.40. 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

Answer: 2

Q.41. What type of writing Walter Pater define as “the special and opportune art of the modern world”?
1. The lyric

2. Comic drama
3. The novel

4. Nonfiction prose
Answer: 4

Q.42. 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

Answer: 1

Q.43. 1992 demolition of the disputed structure in Ayodhya produced two controversial literary responses.

Identify them.
1. Out of Place, The Algebra of Infinite Justice

2. Annals and antiquities, between Sunlight and Shadows

3. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Lajja

4. Chronicles of a Riot Foretold, Shame

Answer: 3
Q.44. 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.

Answer: 4

Q.45. 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.

3. the interpretations bestowed by the totalizing critic.

4. distortions inherent in the rhetoricity of language.

Answer: 4

Q.46. “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 More Papers

2. Falstaff in King Henry four-part 1

3. Hotspur in King Henry four-part 1

4. Hamlet in Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark

Answer: 2

Q.47. Why did Plato banish the poet from his ideal state?

1. Poetry makes an artificial 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.

Answer: 4

Q.48. “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
3. John Webster

4. R.B. Sheridan
Answer: 3

Q.49. 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)

Answer: 2

Q.50. Read the passage given below

Ah, what a trifle 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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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 afflicts us, but we are lured by love.

4. Emotions can damage us, but none as severely as love.

Answer: 3

Q.51. 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

Answer: 4

Q.52. What attitude towards death would you find 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
Answer: 3

Q.53. 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

Answer: 4

Q.54. 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

Answer: 4

Q.55. 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.

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Q.56. 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

The right combination according to the code is:

1. (a) and (b)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (a) and (d)

4. (a) and (c)

Answer: 1

Q.57. 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)

Answer: 4

Q.58. Who among the following exemplified the role of the “peasant poet”?
(a) John Clare

(b) John Keats

(c) William Cobbett

(d) Robert Burns

The right combination according to the code is:

1. (a) and (b)

2. (c) and (d)

3. (b) and (c)

4. (a) and (4)

Answer: 4

Q.59. “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:
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(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)

Answer: 4

Q.60. 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.
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 offers an accurate representation of its subject matter, with fully realized

characters and vivid description of events.

Answer: 4

Q.61. 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

Answer: 2

Q.62. What is an “implied reader”?

1.The ideal audience envisioned by the author and to whom the work of literature is supposedly addressed.

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.

Answer: 2

Q.63. Read the lines from the poem

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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.

Answer: 3

Q.64. “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 final decades of 19 century is
referred to in one of Oscar Wilde’s plays . identify the play.

1. The importance of being earnest

2. Lady Windermere’s fan

3. An Ideal Husband
4. A Woman of no importance

Answer: 1

Q.65. “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

Answer: 2

Q.66. 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 flowers in the sun;

Now I may wither into the truth.

1. Regret

2. Excitement
3. Revulsion

4. Exultation
Answer: 1

Q.67. Match the author with the title:

(Author)

(a) Alan paton

(b) Ngugi wa thiong’o

(c) Teju cole

(d) Wole Soyinka

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(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)

Answer: 3

Q.68. 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.”

Answer: 1

Q.69. 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

(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)

Answer: 3

Q.70. 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 Justified 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

Answer: 4

Q.71. “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 fix
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meaning is, in the end to refuse god and his hypostases- reason, 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

4. “the death of the author” by roland barthes

Answer: 4

Q.72. The Norman Conquest was a significant 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.
Answer: 2

Q.73. Nicholas Nickleby firmly 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
Answer: 2

Q.74. 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

(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)

Answer: 2

Q.75. Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?

1. Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random

2. Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian

3. Mathew Lewis’s The Monk

4. William Beckford’s Vathek

Answer: 1

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Q.76. 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

The right combination according to the code is:

1. (b) and (c)

2. (b) and (d)

3. (c) and (d)

4. (a) and (b)

Answer: 1

Q.77. __________ 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
Answer: 4

Q.78. 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.
Answer: 1

Q.79. 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.

Answer: 4

Q.80. “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

Answer: 3

Q.81. 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

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4. The Path to the Nest of Spiders

Answer: 1

Q.82. 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

Answer: 3

Q.83. 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
Answer: 1

Q.84. 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
The right combination according to the code is:

1. (b) and (d)

2. (a) and (d)

3. (a) and (b)

4. (b) and (c)

Answer: 4

Q.85. 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

4. Slave-drives
Answer: 1

Q.86. 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”

Answer: 2

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Q.87. 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

Answer: 2

Q.88. 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”

Answer: 4

Q.89. Read the passage given below

“Full many a lady

I have eye’d with best regard: and many a time

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 Malfi

3. Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women

4. Shakespeare’s Tempest

Answer: 4

Q.90. 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.

Answer: 2

Q.91. Mango Souffle , India’s first major gay themed film, is an adaptation of Mahesh Dattani’s play
1. Do the Needful

2. Bravely Fought the Queen

3. Dance like a Man

4. On a Muggy Night in Mumbai

Answer: 4

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Q.92. 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

Answer: 3

Q.93. 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

Answer: 1

Q.94. 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

Answer: 1

Q.95. 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

Answer: 4

Q.96. 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.

Answer: 2

Q.97. 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

Answer: 4

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Comprehension :
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?

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.

Q.98. “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.

Answer: 4

Q.99. Identify the play of which this section is an excerpt.

1. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

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3. Wit by Margaret Edson

4. The importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Answer: 1

Q.100. 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.
Answer: 3
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1. 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”
Answer: 3

2. In “Memorial Verses” Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. Who are they ?
1. Goethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth

2. Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton More Papers

3. Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth

4. Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron

Answer: 4

3. 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

Answer: 3

4. 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

Answer: 2

5. 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
Answer: 1

6. 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
Answer: 1

7. Which of the following was not a dialect of Old English ?

1. Irish

2. Northumbrian
3. Mercian

4. Kentish
Answer; 1

8. 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

Answer: 3

9. Choose the chronological order:

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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).

Answer: 3

10. 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” .

Answer: 1

11. 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

Answer: 3

12. In how many parts did Cervantes publish his novel, Don Quixote ?

1. Three
2. Five

3. Two
4. Twelve

Answer: 3

13. 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.

Answer: 1

14. 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.

Answer: 2

15. 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.
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3.Roberts omitted the Georgian poets in his anthology.
4.Yeats, Eliot and Pound find a place in the Faber Book of 1936.

Answer: 2

16. 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

4.Umberto Eco
Answer: 3

17. 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.

Answer: 1

18. 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)

Answer: 3
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

Answer: 1

20. Which of the following novels does not belong to Nuruddin’s Farah’s Blood In the Sun Trilogy ?

1. Maps
2. Knots

3. Gifts
4. Secrets

Answer: 2

21. In the following series, which one has all the poets correctly matched in the poems ?

1. Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” ; Ramanujan, ” Small-Scale Reflections 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”
M o r; e P a p e r s
; Mahapatra, “Sunset at Puri” .

Answer: 4

22. 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).
Answer: 1

23. 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

Answer: 4

24. 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)

Answer: 3

25. 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.

Which of the following readings do you find 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 signalled 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
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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.
Answer: 2

26. 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)

2. (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

3. (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)

4. (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)

Answer: 2

27. 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

Answer: 2

28. Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis is about a utopian state called

1. Asgard
2. Avalon

3. Bensalem
4. Baltia

Answer: 3

29. 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

The right combination according to the code is:

1. (a) and (b)

2. (c) and (d)

3. (a) and (d)

4. (b) and (d)
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Answer: 3

30. 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
Answer: 2

31. 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…?”

Answer: 3
32. Fanny Burney’s Evelina carries the subtitle:

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.

Answer; 2

33. What does Philip Sidney call poet-haters in his Defence of Poesie ?

1. Misogynists
2. Misanthropes

3. Misnomers
4. Mysomousoi

Answer: 4

34. 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 officer of British rule, how choose

Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?”

1. Derek Walcott
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4. Wole Soyinka

Answer: 1

35. 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.

(d) R.P. Blackmur

The right combination according to the code is:

1. (a) and (b)

2. (b) and (d)

3. (b) and (c)

4. (c) and (d)

Answer: 3

36. 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”

Answer: 3

37. 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)

Answer: 2

38. Identify the titles that were published in the 1920’s

(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)
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3. (b) and (d)
4. (c) and (d)

Answer: 2

39. 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

Answer: 4

40. 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

4. William Blake; the Industrial Revolution

Answer: 3

41. Which novel by John Banville tells the story of a group of travellers 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

Answer: 1

42. 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

Answer: 4

43. 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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Answer: 3

44. 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
Answer: 4

45. 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

Answer: 1

46. “In Every cry of every Man,

In every Infant’s cry of fear

In every voice, in every ban….”

The figure 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

Answer: 2
47. At whose behest does the Redcrosse Knight undertake his quest in The Faerie Queene ?

1. Gloriana’s
2. Una’s

3. Duessa’s
4. Prosperine’s

Answer: 2

48. In which city did John Ruskin see a paradigm for Victorian Britain ?

1. Vienna
2. Venice

3. Rome
4. Paris

Answer: 2

49. 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

Answer: 3

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50. 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 Copperfield

4. Fitz-Boodle’s Confessions
Answer: 3

51. Traces of the Morality plays are discernible in a play like Dr. Faustus, traces such as
1. Vernacular songs adapting secular themes

2. Its Soliloquizing Protagonist, Good and Bad Angels and its final 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.
Answer: 2

52. The branch of philosophy that asks the question, “How do we know what we know is?”
1. Ontology

2. Epistemology
3. Eschatology

4. Phenomenology
Answer: 2

53. 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
Answer: 1

54. Oxford India has published a volume of Premchand translations in English, The Oxford India Premchand. Who
among the following is not one of the translators?

1. David Rubin
2. Alok Rai

3. Gillian Wright
4. Christopher King

Answer: 3

55. 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

The right combination according to the Code is:

1. (a) and (d)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (c) and (d)
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4. (a) and (b)
Answer: 3

56. 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

The right combination according to the Code is:

1. (b) and (d)

2. (a) and (d)

3. (b) and (c)

4. (a) and (c)

Answer: 4

57. 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

Answer: 3

58. 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

Answer: 2

59. 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

Answer: 3

60. 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”

Answer: 2

61. 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
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4. King Charles
Answer: 3

62. 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

The right combination according to the Code is:

1. (a) and (d)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (c) and (d)

4. (b) and (d)

Answer: 4

63. 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

Answer: 2

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.
Answer: 2

65. In John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, Amans, the lover makes his confession to the priest named
1. Verito

2. Genius
3. Amor

4. Phoebe
Answer: 2

66. 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.
Answer: 3

67. A half-sentence in Purchas his Pilgrimage triggered off “Kubla Khan”. Whose work was Purchas hid
Pilgrimage?

1. Robert Herrick, the poet’s

2. John Hakluyt’s, the collector of traveler’s tales
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3. Samuel Purchas, the London Parson’s
4. Edward Purchas, the globe-trotter’s

Answer: 3

68. 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
difficulty?

1. Paracelsus
2. Sordello

3. The Ring and The Book

4. Pauline

Answer: 2

69. 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.

Answer: *

70. 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

Answer: 4

71. 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

Answer: 4

72. 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.

Answer: 2

73. 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.

Answer: 3

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74. 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).
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.

Answer: 1

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.

Answer: 1

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”

Answer: 2

77. 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

Answer: 3

78. Who wrote The Wandering Jew, a poem in four cantos and the short lyric, “The Wandering Jew’s Solilquy”?
1. S.T. Coleridge

2. Lord Byron
3. Thomas Gray

4. P.B. Shelley
Answer: 4

79. 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.

Answer:3

80. 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.
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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.
Answer: 3

81. 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
Answer: 4

82. Who, among e following, collaborated with Purohit Swami in translating the Ten Principal Upanishads into
English ?

1. Christopher Fry
2. Aldous Huxley

3. Lawrence Durrell
4. W.B. Yeats

Answer: 4

83. 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 specfic place, a forerunner to Cooper’s Hill and Windsor Forest.
4. It is the first poem in an elegiac series that late Elizabethan poets began on the demise of the Lord of Penshurst.

Answer: 3

84. 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)

Answer: *

85. 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
Answer: 1

86. 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”. More Papers
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.

Answer: 2

87. 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 magnified by affectation : 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

Answer: 1

88. “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 ineffectual 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 ineffectual because ‘art’ entertains but does not instruct.

4. The smoking disclaimer on screen or on M.F. Hussain painting distracts us from enjoying art.
Answer: 2

89. 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

Answer:1

90. Haunted castles, strange noises and an acceptance of the supernatural with all its trappings mark

_____________________
1. metafiction

2. fantasy fiction
3. epistolary fiction

4. gothic fiction
Answer:4

91. …. sure it waits upon

Some god o` the` island. Sitting on a bank

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?

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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)

Answer:2

92. 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
Answer:3

93. Who among the following is not a reader-response critic?

1. Maud Bodkin

2. Hans-Robert Jauss
3. Stanley Fish

4. Wolfgang Iser
Answer:1

94. 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

Answer:3

95. Which of the following novels begins with a Prologue under the Title ” The Storming of Seringapatam” saying
“I address these lines written in India- to 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

Answer:2

96. 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

2. Politics
3. State

4. Religion
Answer:1

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Read the following poem and answer questions 97 to 100

The Mountain

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 fingers

tapping at the wooden desks-

So I retract
the myth; I tell them it occurs

in hell, and that the artist lies

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

97. 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

Answer:2

98. The speaker brings up the story of Sisyphus specifically by way of glossing ____________

1. art in life
2. life in art

3. endless labor
4. poetic expectation

Answer:3

99. In its context, the words ‘the fingers/tapping at the wooden desks’ , best represent the students`
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1. lack of protest
2. lack of interest

3. show of disrespect
4. show of impatience

Answer:4

100.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

Answer:4
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Q.1 Which among the following group of writers is labelled 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

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 1
Q.3 Give Below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled 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

Answer: 2

Q.4 which of the following is a collaborative work of W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood?

1. Letters from Iceland

2. The Dance of Death

3. The Ascent of F6

4. The Orators

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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 Radcliffe

Answer: 3

Q.6 In which of the following essays did Charles Lamb first 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”

Answer: 4

Q.7 Give Below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled 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 flurry of random allusions.

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 2
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Q.10 Give Below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled 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.

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) is false

4. (A) is false, but is (R) is true

Answer: 2

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

4. Joseph Andrews

Answer: 4

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.

Answer: 1

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

Answer: 3

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) More Papers

1. (a), (b), (c) and (d)

2. (b), (c), (d) and (a)

3. (c), (d), (a) and (b)

4. (d), (c), (b) and (a)

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 1

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

Answer: 4

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

4. The Confidential Clerk- Murder in the Cathedral- The Cocktail Party- The Family Reunion

Answer: 1

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

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4. Knowledge is unconstrained by regimes of power

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 4

Q.21 Which of the following fictional 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

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 3
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

Answer: 2

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) More Papers

4. (b) and (d)

Answer: 4

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

Choose the correct option:

1. (a) and (c)

2. (b) and (d)

3. (a) and (d)

4. (c) and (d)

Answer: 3

Q.26 Who among the following are associated with the ‘Jazz Age’?

1. Ernest hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald

2. Scott fitzgerald and John Dos Passos

3. John das passos and Sherwood Anderson

4. Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson

Answer: 4
Q.27 The key figures 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)

Answer: 3

Q.28 Which two of the following are autobiographical narratives?

1. Kanthapura

2. Meatless Days

3. Prison and Chocolate Cake

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4. The God od small things

The correct option is:

1. (a) and (b)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (a) and (c)

4. (c) and (d)

Answer: 2

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

Choose the correct option:

1. (a) and (c)

2. (b) and (d)

3. (a) and (b)

4. (c) and (d)

Answer: 3

Q.30 How many tales and pilgrims are there in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?

1. 24 pilgrims and 23 tales

2. 23 pilgrims and 24 tales

3. 22 pilgrims and 24 tales

4. 24 pilgrims and 22 tales

Answer: Bonus Marks Given to All

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

III. A defence or justification of one’s

(c) hagiography
actions and beliefs

(d) apology IV. A bitterly critical attack of something

Choose the correct option:

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

2. (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i) More Papers

3. (a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)

4. (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)

Answer: 1

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

Choose the correct option:

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)

Answer: 2

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

Choose the correct option:

1. (a) and (c)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (c) and (d)

4. (b) and (d)

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 4
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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

Choose the correct option:

1. (b), (a), (d) and (c)

2. (c), (b), (a) and (d)

3. (a), (b), (c) and (d)

4. (d), (a), (b) and (c)

Answer: 3

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

Choose the correct option:

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

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)

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 4

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

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4. Simplistic and abbreviated

Choose the correct option:

1. (a) and (b)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (c) and (d)

4. (d) and (a)

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Q.39 Which of the following set of characters in Charles Dickens’ novels is in the right chronological order?

Bounderby – David Copperfield- Mrs. Mann- Nathaniel Winkle

David Copperfield- Mr. Bounderby- Nathaniel Winkle- Mrs. Mann

Nathaniel winkle- Mrs. Mann- David Copperfield- Mr. Bounderby

Mann- David Copperfield- Nathaniel winkle- Mr. Bounderby

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’

The correct option is:

1. (a) and (b)

2. (a) and (c)

3. (b) and (d)

4. (c) and (d)

Answer: 1

Q.41 Match the works with authors:

a) Bodies that matter i. Camille paglia

b) A world of difference ii. Elaine showalter

c) A literature of their own iii. Barbara Johnson

d) Vamps and thamps iv. Judith butler

Choose the correct option:

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

2. (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i) More Papers

3. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)

4. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)

Answer: 3

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 the internet ii. 2003

c) My space.com iii. 1991

d) Facebook iv. 1997

Choose the correct option:

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)

Answer: 1

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

Choose the correct option:

1. (c) and (d)

2. (a) and (b)

3. (b) and (c)

4. (a) and (c)

Answer: 3

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

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Q.45 In which one of the following Middle English poems is Hector a character?

1. Troilus and Cressida

2. Piers plowman

3. The seafarer

4. Beowulf

Answer: 1

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”

Choose the correct option:

1. (a) and (b)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (c) and (d)

4. (a) and (d)

Answer: 2

Q.47 Which of the following arrangements of prose-pamphlets is in the right chronological order?

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

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 2

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
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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)

Answer: 2

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

Choose the correct option:

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)

Answer: 2
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

Answer: 3

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

Choose the correct option:

1. (a) and (d)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (c) and (d)

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4. (b) and (d)

Answer: 1

Q.53 Who among the following proposed that the English Language is “man made”, not “woman made”?

1. Mary Has

2. Dorothy L Sayers

3. Dale Spender

4. Carol Chomsky

Answer: 3

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)

Answer: 3

Q.55 Give Below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled 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.

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 (R) false

4. (A) is false, but (R) true

Answer: 2

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

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Answer: 3

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

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 3
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

Choose the correct option:

1. (a) and (b)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (c) and (d)

4. (d) and (a)

Answer: 2

Q.61 From whose work did John Milton take the epigraph to his Areopagitica?

1. Sophocles

2. Euripides

3. Plato More Papers

4. More

Answer: 2

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 Mansfield iii. “The Garden Party”

d) Salman Rushdie iv. “The Celestial Omnibus”

Choose the correct option:

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

2. (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii),(c)-(i),(d)-(ii)

3. (a)-(i), (b)-(iv),(c)-(iii),(d)-(ii)

4. (a)-(ii), (b)-(i),(c)-(iv),(d)-(iii)

Answer: 3

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

Choose the correct option:

1. (a) and (b)

2. (a) and (c)

3. (a) and (d)

4. (b) and (d)

Answer: 2

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

2. No fewer than 10 and no more than 68 pages

3. No fewer than 15 and no more than 64 pages

4. No fewer than 20 and no more than 80 pages

Answer: 1

Q.65 How Many syllables are there in the word intransigently?

1. Three More Papers

2. Six

3. Five

4. Four

Answer: 3

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

The correct option is:

1. (a) and (d)

2. (a) and (c)

3. (c) and (d)

4. (b) and (d)

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 3

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

iv. When true love burns desire is Love’s

d) Wordsworth
pure flame

Choose the correct option:

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) More Papers

Answer: 1

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

Answer: 3

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

Choose the correct option:

1. (a) and (c)

2. (b) and (d)

3. (b) and (c)

4. (a) and (d)

Answer: 3

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 fictional characters

4. A novel giving the effect of realism by highlighting the social problems of the time

Answer: 2

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
iv. The Practice of Everyday Life
Lyotard

Choose the correct option:

1. (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii) More Papers

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)

Answer: 1

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”

Answer: 3

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

2. Michel Foucault

3. Homi K. Bhabha

4. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Answer: 2

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)

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 3
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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.

Choose the correct option:

1. (b) and (c)

2. (c) and (d)

3. (a) and (b)

4. (d) and (a)

Answer: 2

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

Choose the correct option:

1. (d), (c), (b),(a)

2. (b), (c), (d), (a)

3. (c), (b), (a), (d)

4. (a), (b), (c), (d)

Answer: 3

Q.79 Give Below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled 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.

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 (R) is false

4. (A) is false, but (R) is true

Answer: 2

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?
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1. Conflict

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

Choose the correct option:

1. (a) and (c)

2. (b) and (d)

3. (c) and (d)

4. (a) and (d)

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 4

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

Choose the correct option:

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)

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Answer: 2

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

Answer: 1

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

2. Ihab Hassan

3. Frederic Jameson

4. Daniel Bell
Answer: 3

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

Answer: 3

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

Choose the correct option

1. (a) and (b)

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2. (a) and (c)

3. (b) and (c)

4. (c) and (d)

Answer: 3

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 unified: every part of the work will be essential to it and will be linked

to every other part.

4. Texts should be judged on the basis of how accurately they imitate philosophical truth.

Answer: 3

Q.90 In the following list, which two journals relate to the field of post-colonial literature?

1. Kunapipi

2. Interventions

3. Daedalus

4. Clio

Choose the correct option

1. (a) and (c)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (c) and (d)

4. (a) and (b)

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 1

Q92. There is a ‘thief’ in the poem. Who is that ‘thief’?

1. The time that ticks away

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2. The fate that overpowers

3. The tenant who leaves

4. The past that beckons

Answer: 3

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

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 3

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 to me 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 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

Answer: 4

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

Answer: 1
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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

Answer: 3

Q98. How does ‘lying’ affect human relationships?

1. It makes the relationships ‘human’

2. It reduces the affinity among people

3. It promotes togetherness among diverse people

4. It does not affect at all as it is merely words

Answer: 2

Q99. Read the following passage from Antigone and answer question

Creon: And yet wert bold enough to break the law

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

Answer: 3

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

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3. Contraries

4. Anomalies

Answer: 3
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This is the OFFICIAL Question Paper & Answer Key for the paper conduced on 26th June 2019. We have taken it from

www.ntanet.nic.in

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
Answer: 1

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?
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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

Answer: 3

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

Choose the correct option :

1. (a) and (c)

2. (b) and (c)

3. (b) and (d)

4. (a) and (d)

Answer: 2

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

Choose the correct option :

1. (a) and (c)

2. (a) and (b)

3. (b) and (c)

4. (b) and (d)

Answer: 1
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

Answer: 3

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
Answer: 3

Q7. Who is the author of the essay, The Rationale of the Copy-Text?
1. Fredson Bums

2. W. W. Greg
3. R. B. McKerrow

4. Paul Maas
Answer: 2

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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
Answer: 3

Q9. Which one of the following novels of Jane Austen was abandoned unfinished?
1. Northanger Abbey

2. Persuasion
3. The Watsons

4. Emma
Answer: 3

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
Answer: 2

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

2. Confessio Amantis
3.Utopia

4. Erewhon
Answer: 3
Q.12 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

Choose the correct option :

1. (a) and (d)

2. (a) and (b)

3. (a) and (c)

4. (b) and (c)

Answer: 1

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
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Answer: 4

Q.14 Which one of the following is the right definition of ‘peer review“?
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

Answer: 2

Q.15 What 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

Revised Answer: 1 & 4

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

Answer: 3

Q.17 “The last temptation is the greatest treason

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

3. It violates a norm
4. It is conspiratorial

Answer: 1

Q.18 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)

Answer: 4
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Q.19 What was Gramsci’s term for cultural consensus supporting capitalism?

1 . Monopoly
2. Ideology

3. Discourse
4. Hegemony

Answer: 4

Q.20 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
4. Morphology—Evolution of words

Answer: 1

Q.21 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.

Choose the correct option:

1. (a) and (b)

2. (a) and (c)

3. (c) and (d)

4. (b) and (d)

Answer: 4

Q.22 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
Answer: 4

Q. 23 Match the following items/ideas with the writers who first used/popularized them :
(a) The Frontier Thesis

(b) The Lost Generation

(c) Third Space

(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)

Answer: 3

Q.24 Which of the following plays 18 characterized by the exclusivity of a Single character talking to himself?

1. A Streetcar Named Desire More Papers

2. Equus

3. The Misanthrope
4. Krapp’s Last Tape

Answer: 4

Q.25 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
Answer: 4

Q.26 What, according to Raymond Williams, is the right description of the term ‘Cultural Materialism’?
1. The cultural effect that religion has in social life

2. The political effect that matter has in social lives

3. The material effect that culture has in wider social life

4. The effect of social life in cultural situations of uncertainty

Answer: 3

Q.27 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

Answer: 2
Q.28 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
Answer: 3

Q.29 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

4. Dissension
Answer: 3

Q. 30 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, More Papers

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

Answer: 4

Q.31 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

Revised Answer: Marks Given to All

Q.32 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

Answer: 4

Q.33 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

Answer: 2

Q.34 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

Answer: 4

Q. 35 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

Answer: 4

Q.36 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
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4. Base copy
Answer: 2

Q.37 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

Answer: 1

Q.38 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

Answer: 3

Q.39 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
Choose the correct option :

l. (a) and (d)

2. (a) and (c)

3. (c) and (d)

4. (a) and (b)

Answer: 4
Q. 40 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

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

Answer: 1

Q. 41 What term used by Ferdinand de Saussure corresponds to Noam Chomsky’s term ‘performance’?

1. Difference
2. Parole

3. Paradigm
4. Langue

Answer: 2

Q. 42 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

Answer: 2

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Q.43 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.

(iv) Variety entertainment of songs, comic turns that flourished 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)

Answer: 2

Q.44 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

Answer: 2

Q. 45 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

Answer: 4
Q.46 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
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
Answer: 1

Q.47 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

Answer: 2

Q48. Which version of the Lyrical Ballads was the first one to have the Preface by Wordsworth?

1. 1798
2. 1800

3. 1802 More Papers

4. 1804

Answer: 2

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

Answer: 2

50. 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’.
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 :

1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
2. Beth (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

Answer: 1

51. 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

Answer: 4

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

4. The players in Hamlet

Answer: 3

Q.53 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 More Papers

4. Flight from the Enchanter

Answer: 3

Q.54 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

Answer: 2

Q.55 “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
Answer: 4

Q.56 What is ‘euphmism’?

1. Eulogical and adulatory style of writing

2. Discursive and hortatory style of writing

3. Pompous and affected style of writing

4. Exalted and gland style of writing

Answer: 3

Q.57 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

Answer: 2

Q.58 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)

Answer: 1

Q. 59 Who among the following established and popularised the concept of ‘Cardinal Vowels”?
l. A. S. Homby

2. E. V. Lucas More Papers

3.Danial Jones

4. C. J. Dodson
Answer: 3

Q.60 Which one of the following arrangements of poets is in the correct chronological order?
1. William Langland, William Dunbar, Layamon

2. William Langland, Layamon, William Dunbar

3. Layamon, William Langland William Dunbar

4. William Dunbar, Layamon, William Langland

Answer: 3

Q.61 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

Answer: 2

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

(iv) Robert Dodsley

Choose the correct option from those given below :

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)

Answer: 3

Q.63 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 More Papers

4 Prior rejection

Answer: 1

Q.64 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

Answer: 1

Q.65 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

Choose the correct option from those given below :

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)

Answer: 1

Q.66 Which of the following combinations correctly defines 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)

Answer: 2

Q.67 Which of the following is the accurate description of ‘dramatic irony”?

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

Answer: 1

Q.68 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 More Papers

2. A cradle

3. A small cot
4. An Infant’s grave

Answer: 4

Q.69 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
Answer: 1

Q.70 Which of the following poems by Thomas Hardy was originally titled By the Century’s Deathbed?
1. The Minute Before Meeting

2. Neutral Tones
3. The Darkling Thrush

4. The Oxen
Answer: 3

Q.71 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

Answer: 4

Q.72 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:
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

Answer: 2

Q.73 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

3. Hamlet’s obsession should have been within representational limits

4. Hamlet’s indecisiveness slows the steady progress of action

Answer: 1

74. 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 More Papers

4. childhood and accident

Answer: 3

Q.75 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

Answer: 3

Q.76 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)

4 (c) and (d)

Answer: 2

Q.77 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

Answer: 3

Q.78 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
Answer: 1

Q.79 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 indifferently.”

1. Octavius to Antony
2. Hamlet to Claudius

3. Brutus to Cassius
4. Casca to Calpumia

Answer: 3

Q.80 Who among the following explored the shifting and contested power-relations, knowledge and the human
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body?
1. Louis Althusser

2. Clifford Geertz
3. Jacques Lacan

4. Michel Foucault
Answer: 4

Q. 81 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

Choose the correct option from those given below :

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)

Answer: 2

Q.82 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?

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

Answer: 2

Q.83 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

Answer: 3

84. 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

Answer: 2

Q.85. Match the books with the writers :

(a) The Madwoman in the Attic

(b) The Wretched of the Earth
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(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

Choose the correct option from those given below :

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)

Answer: 3

Q.86 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

Answer: 3

Q.87 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

Answer: 1

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

Answer: 3

Q.89 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

Answer: 3

Q.90 According to the passage given, which of the following correctly captures the meaning of ‘a cyclopaedic

history of the universe’? More Papers

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

Answer: 1

Q.91 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

Answer: 4

Q.92 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
Answer: 2

Q.93 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:

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

Answer: 1

Q.94 Who among the following is one of the University Wits?

1. Thomas Hooker
2. Thomas Nashe

3. Michael Drayton
4. William Harvey

Answer: 2

Q. 95 In the study of AngIo-American literatures, certain distinguished names in critical/editorial scholarship

become synonymous with famous writers and periods of literary history.

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

Choose the correct option from those given below : More Papers
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

Q.96 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

Choose the correct option from those given below :

l. (a)-(ii); (b)-(iii); (c)-(iv); (d)-(i)

2. (a)-(iii); (b)-(i); (c)-(iv); (d)-(ii)

3. (a)-(i); (b)-(ii); (c)-(iii); (d)-(iv)

4. (a)-(iv); (b)-(iii); (c)-(i) (d)-(ii)

Answer: 4

Comprehension:

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.

Q.97 Which of the following words best describes the last sentence of the poem?

1. Ironic
2. Paradoxical

3. Pathetic
4. Disdainful

Answer: 1

Q. 98 Whose point of view seems to have been stated in the poem?

1. The Grocer’s
2. The children’s

3. The narrator’s
4. The poet’s

Answer: 3 More Papers

Q. 99 What is suggested by the word ‘tainted’ in line 11?

1. Tinctured
2. Cooked

3. Spoiled
4. Boiled

Answer: 3

Q.100 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

Answer: 2
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Q.1 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

Answer: 2

Q.2 Match List I and List II

List I
Critics

A. Horace
B. John Dryden
C. Samuel Daniel

D. Ben Jonson

List II

Text
I. A Defence of Rhyme

II. Timber: or, Discoveries

III. Ars Poetica

IV. Of Dramatic Poesy

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Answer: 3

Q.3 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
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4. Lord Wellesley
Answer: 3

Q.4 Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication:

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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. D, B, A, C
2. C, B, A, D

3. B, D, A, C
4. B, A, D, C

Answer: 3

Q.5 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.

Answer: 3

Q.6 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”
Answer: 1
Q.7 Match List I and List II

List I
Essayist

A. George Orwell
B. Michel de Montaigne

C. Charles Lamb
D. Jonathan Swift

List II
Essay

I. “On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century”

II. ‘Why I Write”

III. “A Modest Proposal”

IV. “On the Cannibals”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A – Ill, B – IV, C – III, D – I

2. A – II, B – IV, C – I, D – Ill

3. A – IV, B – III, C – II, D – I

4. A – II, B – III, C I, D – IV
Answer: 2

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Q.8 Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is 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.

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

Answer: 1

Q.9 Match List I and List II

List I
Author

A. John Keats
B. William Wordsworth

C. P. B. Shelley
D. William Blake

List II
Work

I. Alastor
II. Songs of Experience

III. Comic
IV. The Excursion

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A – Ill, B – I, C – IV, D – II

2. A – III, B – IV, C – 1, D – II
3. A – I, B – IV, C – III, D – II
4. A – IV, B – II, C – I, D – Ill

Answer: 2

Q.10 Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Consumption is an outcome of self-interest and a maximization of personal pleasure.

Statement II: There are strong correlations between social status and such things as housing styles, musical tastes and

food preferences.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given 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

Answer: 1

Q.11 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

4. Poetic supplement
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Q.12 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

Answer: 2

Q.13 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
Answer: 4

Q.14 Which two of the following dramatists are associated with the Epic Theatre?
A. Fernando Arrabal

B. Bertolt Brecht
C. Arnolt Bronnen

D. James Saunders

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only
2. B and C only

3. A and D only
4. B and D only

Answer: 2

Q.15 Arrange the following terms in the chronological order of emergence:

A. Heresy of Paraphrase
B. Stream of Consciousness

C. Practical Criticism
D. Defamiliarization

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. D, B, C, A

2. B, D, A, C
3. B, D, C, A

4. D, C, B, A
Answer: 3

Q.16 Which two of the following works does Walter Pater regard as examples of ‘great art” in his essay “Style?
A. Iliad

B. The Divine Comedy

C. Les Misérables
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D. Faust

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only
2. A and D only

3. B and C only
4. B and D only

Answer: 3

Q.17 Match List I and List II

List I
Linguist

A. Paul Grice
B. Edward Sapir

C. Ferdinand de Saussure
D. Nancy Dorian

List II
Concept

I. language death
II. linguistic signs

III. linguistic relativity

IV. cooperative principle

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Answer: 2
Q.18 Which two of the following are the titles of the sections in Thomas De Quincey’s ‘The English Mail – Coach’?

A. The Glory of Mobility

B. The Vision of Sudden Death

C. The Glory of Motion

D. The Vision of Unexpected Truth

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only

2. A and D only
3. B and C only

4. B and D only
Answer: 3

Q.19 Given below are two statements:

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.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
1. Both Statement I and Statement II are true

2. Both Statement I and Statement II are false

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4. Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is true

Answer: 4

Q.20 Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is 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. 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 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

Answer: 2

Q.21 Match List I and List II

List I
Author

A. Michel de Certeau
B. John Fiske

C. Pierre Bourdieu
D. Janice Radway

List II
Text

I. Distinction
II. Reading the Romance

III. Understanding Popular Culture

IV. The Practice of Everyday Life
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A – IV, B – I, C – II, D – III

2. B – III, C – IV, D – I, A – Il

3. A – IV, B – III, C – I, D – II
4. B – III, C – I, D – IV, A – II

Answer: 3

Q.22 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
Answer: 4

Q.23 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

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
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1. C and A only
2. A and B only

3. C and D only
4. B and D only

Answer: 3

Q.24 Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication:

A. Crome Yellow
B. Sons and Lovers

C. Mrs Dalloway
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. B, A, D, C

2. A, B, D, C
3. A, C, B, D

4. B, D, A, C
Answer: 4

Q.25 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.
Answer: 4

Q.26 Which two of the 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and D only
2. B and D only

3. C and A only
4. D and C only

Answer: 1

Q.27 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and C only
2. A and D only

3. B and C only
4. B and D only
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Answer: 3

Q.28 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 Irigaray
C. Kate Millett

D. Simone de Beauvoir
E. Helene Cixous

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, C and D only

2. B and D only
3. C, D and E only

4. B and E only
Answer: 4

Q.29 Which two texts 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and D only
2. C and D only

3. B and D only
4. A and C only

Answer: 3
Q.30 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

Answer: 4

Q.31 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
Answer: 3

Q.32 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”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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1. A and D only
2. B and C only

3. C and D only
4. A and C only

Answer: 4

Q.33 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. B, C, A, D

2. D, A, B, C
3. C, 8, D, A

4. A, D, C, B
Answer: 2

Q.34 Who among the following linguists proposed the terms, ‘competence’ and ‘performance’?
1. Noah Webster

2. Steven Pinker
3. Roman Jakobson

4. Noam Chomsky
Answer: 4

Q.35 Who among the following theorists particularly emphasized the social and historical dimensions of a text’s
reception?

1. Wolfgang lser
2. Stanley Fish
3. Hans Robert Jauss

4. Pierre Bourdieu
Answer: 3

Q.36 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”?

1. Coleridge
2. Wordsworth

3. Byron
4. Shelley

Answer: 1

Q.37 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.

Answer: 3

Q.38 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
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2. Pale Fire
3. The Inner Side of the Wind

4. Hourglass
Answer: 2

Q.39 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
Answer: 3

Q.40 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 Grierson

Answer: 3

Q.41 “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.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only

2. B and C only
3. 8 and D only
4. C and D only

Answer: 2

Q.42 Who among the following coined the dictum, the medium is the message?

A. Raymond Williams
B. Erving Goffman

C. Marshall McLuhan
D. John Fiske

Answer: 3

Q.43 Which book of Paradise Lost incorporates the speech rhythms of Adam and Eve’s marital quarrel?

A. Book 4
B. Book 6

C. Book 7
D. Book 9

Answer: 4

Q.44 Which one of the following journals publishes articles related to critical theory exclusively?

A. Salmagundi
B. Diacritics

C. Collaloo
D. Grand Street
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Answer: 2

Q.45 Which one of the following best explains the term ‘paralanguage?

A. The ways in which people mask what they mean by the words they use
B. The ways in which people show what they mean other than by the words they use

C. The ways in which words carry meanings unintended by the speaker

D. The ways in which the silence underlying speech communicates wrong meanings

Answer: 2

Q.46 Match List I and List II

List I
Terms

A. Superreader
B. Biopower

C. Bricolage
D. Chronotope

List II
Theorists

I. Michel Foucault
II. Mikhail Bakhtin

III. Michael Riffaterre

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

Answer: 2
Q.47 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. D, A, C, B

2. D, A, B, C
3. A D, C, B

4. A D, B, C
Answer: 3

Q.48 To which mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue of Dr. Faustus?
1. Perseus

2. Theseus
3. Icarus

4. Achilles
Answer: 3

Q.49 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.
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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.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only
2. A and C only

3. A and D only
4. C and D only

Answer: 2

Q.50 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.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only
2. C and D only

3. A and D only
4. B and C only

Answer: 3

Q.51 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

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

1. A and B only
2. A and C only

3. C and D only
4. B and C only

Answer: 4

Q.52 Arrange the following 18r^-century magazines in the chronological order of publication:

A. The Critical Review

B. The Monthly Review

C. The Gentleman’s Magazine

D. The Rambler

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, D, B, C

2. D, A, B, C
3. B, A, C, D

4. C, B, D, A
Answer: 4
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Q.53 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”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and D only
2. B and C only

3. A and C only
4. B and D only

Answer: 4

Q.54 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

Answer: 2

Q.55 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

Answer: 1
Q.56 Which one of the following is correct about Saussure’s analysis of language?

1. La longue is the system of a language.

2. Parole focuses on language as a system at a particular time.

3. La longue is the particular instance of speech and writing.

4. Parole is the study of language over a period of time.

Answer: 1

Q.57 Which one of the following essays holds that “As a method, realism is a complete failure’?

A. Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall”

B. Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying”

C. D H Lawrence, “Why the Novel Matters”

D. Mary McCarthy, “My Confession”

Answer: 2

Q.58 Which two of the following strictly follow the parameters of documentation prescribed by the eighth

edition of the MIA Handbook?

A. Nunberg, 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.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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1. A and B only
2. A and C only

3. A and D only
4. B and C only

Answer: 3

Q.59 Which one of these statements defines the scope of semiotics?

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.

Answer: 2

Q.60 Which of these statements describe correctly the basic assumption of Structuralism?

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 20th-century 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.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, C and E only
2. A, D and E only

3. A, B and C only
4. A, B and E only

Answer: 2

Q.61 Lala Kanshi Ram is a character in:

1. Arun Joshi’s The Apprentice

2. Chaman Nahal’s Azadi
3. Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain

4. Kamala Markandaya’s A Handful of Rice

Answer: 2

Q.62 Which one of the following Sherlock Holmes stories refers to a significant event in English history?
1. “The Musgrove Ritual”

2. “The Speckled Band”

3. “The Solitary Cyclist”

4. “The Red-Headed League”

Answer: 1

Q.63 Match List I and List II

List I

Terms
A. arche-ecriture

B. cyborg
C. genotext

D. hermeneutic circle

List II

Theorists
I. Julia Kristeva More Papers

II. Donna Haraway

III. Friedrich Schleiermacher

IV. Jacques Derrida

Choose the correct answer from the options 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, 0 – I

4. A – IV, B – I, C – II, D – Ill

Answer: 1

Q.64 Arrange the following plays in their chronological order:

A. The Country Wife

B. Cymbeline

C. The Spanish Tragedy

D. The Rivals

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. B, A, C, D

2. B, C, D, A
3. C, B, A, D

4. C, A, B, D
Answer: 3

Q.65 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. Waterland by Graham Swift

3. Snow White by Donald Barthelme

4. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by halo Calvin

Answer: 3

Q.66 Which two terms from among the following are specifically linked to the work of Pierre Bourdieu?

A. habitus
B. consciousness

C. desire
D. distinction

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and C only

2. A and D only
3. B and D only

4. C and D only
Answer: 2

Q.67 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

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1. A and B only
2. A and C only

3. B and C only
4. B and D only

Answer: 4

Q.68 Harold Skimpole is a character in:

1. Bleak House
2. Dombey and Son

3. Great Expectations
4. Oliver Twist

Answer: 1

Q.69 Macaulay’s Minute of 1835 sought to:

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.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and D only

2. B and D only
3. A and C only

4. B and C only
Answer: 1

Q.70 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. B, A, D, C, E
2. C, D, B, E, A

3. D, C, E, B, A
4. A, B, C, E, D

Answer: 3

Q.71 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”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A, C, B and D

2. B, A, C and D
3. B, C, A and D

4. C, A, D and B
Answer: 3
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Q.72 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
Answer: 2

Q.73 The Duchess of Malfi is based on:

1. a French romance

2. an Italian novella
3. a Geman fable

4. a Scottish chronicle
Answer: 2

Q.74 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

Answer: 4

Q.75 Which two of the following events are described in Samuels Pepys’s Diary?
A. The Plague in London

B. The Great Fire of London

C. The War of Spanish Succession

D. Essex Rebellion

Choose the correct 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
Answer: 1

Q.76 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

Answer: 4

Q.77 Who among the following is known to have popularized the term ‘glocalization’?

1. Ronald Robertson
2. Francis Fukuyama

3. John Urry
4. John Tomlinson

Answer: 1

Q.78 In which of the Bog poems does Seamus Heaney speak about the “perishable treasure” of a body ‘Murdered,

forgotten, nameless, terrible?

1. “Bog Queen”
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2. “Grauballe Man”
3. “Punishment

4. “Strange Fruit”
Answer: 4

Q.79 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. B, C, D, E, A

2. A, B, C, E, D
3. B, C, D, A, E

4. C, B, A, D, E
Answer: 1

Q.80 Which two characters/speakers among the following exhibit the studious abstraction of scholars?
A. Shylock

B. Hamlet
C. II Penseroso

D. Mosca

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and D only
2. B and C only

3. C and D only
4. A and C only

Answer: 2

Q.81 Match List I and List II

List I
Lines

A. “Monuments of unaging intellect”

B. “in the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart”

C. “So mastered by the brute blood of the air”

D. “As weary-hearted as that hollow moon”

Poems
I. “Leda and the Swan”

II. “Adam’s Curse”

III. “Sailing to Byzantium”

IV. “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A – III, – IV, C – II, D – I

2. A – III, B – I, C – IV, D – II

3. A – Ill, 8 – IV, C – I, D – II
4. A – II, B – I, C – IV, D – III
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Answer: 3

Q.82 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

Answer: 2

Q.83 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and D only
2. A and B only

3. A and C only
4. B and C only

Answer: 3

Q.84 Which two terms among the following are associated with formalist criticism?

A. aura
B. actant

C. narratee
D. defamiliarization

E. foregrounding

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

1. A and C only
2. B and D only

3. B and C only
4. D and E only

Answer: 4

Q.85 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and B only

2. A and D only
3. B and C only

4. B and D only
Answer: 4
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Q.86 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
2. B and C only

3. B and D only
4. A and C only

Answer: 3

Q.87 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

4. Prof K. R. S. lyengar
Answer: 1

Q.88 Match List I and List II

List I

Author
A. Thomas Pynchon

B. Howard Jacobson
C. Anthony Burgess

D. John Berger
List II

Text
I. G.

II. V
III. J

IV. M/F

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Answer: 2

Q.89 Match List I and List II

List I
Word Borrowed

A. mongoose
B. loot

C. curry
D. betel
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List II
Source Indian Language

I. Tamil
II. Malayalam

III. Hindu/ Urdu

IV. Marathi

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A – IV, B – III, C – I, D – II

2. A – IV, B – II, C – I, D – III

3. A – II, B – III, C – IV, D – I

4. A – II, B – I, C – IV, D – III

Answer: 1

Q.90 The deductive method differs from the inductive method in drawing its conclusions from:
1. verification

2. particular instances
3. applications

4. general truths
Answer: 4

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.’

O, then my waking dream dared to assume

The audacity of her sleep. Our dreams

Flowed into each other’s arms. like streams.

– Stephen Spender

Q.91 Match List I and List II

List I
The Item

A. ‘Her Hair’
B. ‘pillows’

C. ‘breeze’
D. ‘cheeks’

List II
What it is an example of

I. player More Papers

II. ‘a harp’

III. ‘rose’
IV. ‘cloud’

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A – I, B – II, C – IV, D – III

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
Answer: 3

Q.92 Match List I and List II

List I

Item
A. ‘Her Hair a harp’

B. ‘the hand of a breeze’

C. ‘seems the stone face’

D. ‘my waking dream’

List II

What it is an example of
I. Simile

II. Metaphor
III. Oxymoron

IV. Synecdoche

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Answer: 1

Q.93 Which among the following best describes the lady’s face as “At dawn she lay…” asleep?
1. Her face appears to be that of 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.

Answer: 2

Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow

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
empirical 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

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Q.94 “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.

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

1. A and D only
2. B and C only

3. A and C only
4. B and D only

Answer: 2

Q.95 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.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. A and C only

2. B and D only
3. C and D only

4. A and D only
Answer: 4

Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow

And the creature run from the cur?

There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog’s obeyed in office, —
Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!

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 usurer hangs the cozener.

Through tatter’d clothes small vices do appear;

Robes and fiord gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,

And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw cloth pierce it.
-King Lear

Q.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.

Answer: 3

Q.97 Who speaks these lines and to whom?

1. Edgar to Lear

2. Goneril to Edgar
3. Lear to Gloucester

4. Gloucester to Lear
Answer: 3

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Q.98 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.
4. Sin and vice are palpable in the weak and impalpable in the strong.

Answer: 4

Comprehension:

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow
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: fell back — and died. They chafed her breast. hands, temples; but the
blood had stopped forever. They talked of hope and comfort. They had been strangers too long. ‘It’s all over, Mrs

Thingummy!’, said the surgeon at last.

– Dickens, Oliver Twist

Q.99 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
Answer: 4

Q.100 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.
Answer: 3
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NTA UGC NET PAPER 2 (ENGLISH

LITERATURE)
DECEMBER 2021
This is the OFFICIAL Question Paper & Answer Key for the UGC NET December 2021 Paper taken from

www.ugcnet.nta.nic.in.

Q.1) 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.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (c) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.2) Which of the following best captures the theme of the passage?

[1] Ruling a state is easier than managing a family.

[2] Solitude is one condition of peace with one self.

[3] The court and the marketplace must be got rid of.

[4] Try what one may, no one can ever be at ease.

Answer: 4

Q.3) The mistake human beings make is to:

[1] Abjure solitude when desirable.

[2] Abstain from restraining the mind.

[3] Abstain from the love of leisure.

[4] Exaggerate the value of family.

Answer: 2

Directions (Q.no. 4 to 6): Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
A Prayer for Old Age

God guard me from those thoughts men think

In the mind alone;

He that sings a lasting-bone;

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 food?

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

Q.4) Thoughts true for all time are:

[1] Born of God’s care.

[2] Felt deep inside the self.

[3] For all human hearts.

[4] Imbued with logic of mind.

Answer: 2

Q.5) In the second stanza the poet thinks of:

[1] What all earns all others’ praise.

[2] What all makes a wise old man.

[3] What he does not want to appear.

[4] What he thinks he is, a fool.

Answer: 3

Q.6) Which one of the following best captures what we infer about the poet?

[1] He believes in the efficacy of prayer.

[2] He is a foolish young man who thinks wisely.

[3] He is an old man wise as old are.

[4] He is old but happy in not being wise.

Answer: 4

Directions (Q.no. 7 to 8): Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:

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

Q.7) What is the ‘system’ of which Domney and son were the centre?

[1] The British political system

[2] The country’s commerce

[3] The family business

[4] The workings of nature

Answer: 2

Q.8) The whole description is an example of:

[1] Analogy

[2] Aporia
[3] Image

[4] Sarcasm

Answer: 4

Directions (Q.no. 9 to 10): Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow ‘st the worm not silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat

no perfume. —Ha! here’s three one’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

Q.9) Which one of the following best captures what Shakespeare means?

[1] Animals unlike man are more complex.

[2] Animal’s attributes are external.

[3] Man can accommodate same properties.

[4] Man just uses what animals possess.

Answer: 1

Q.10) ‘Is man no more than this?’ means:

[1] Accommodated man is well endowed.

[2] As an animal, man is a superior animal.

[3] Man is far more than what he seems to be.

[4] Man is not as well-endowed as some other animals.

Answer: 4

Q.11) Which of the following terms describes a novel of fashionable high life in 19th-century English literature?

[1] Brass-Spittoon
[2] Diamond-Jar

[3] Golden-Spoon
[4] Silver-Fork

Answer: 4

Q.12) What term did Bertolt Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre?

[1] Epic theatre

[2] Kitchen-sink theatre

[3] Musical theatre

[4] Proletarian theatre

Answer: 1
Q.13) Which of the following terms is used to describe spurious words which are the result of inadvertent errors

made by copyists, printers and editors?

[1] Dudwords

[2] Ghostwords
[3] Protowords

[4] Pseudowords

Answer: 2

Q.14) Which two of the following are words 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

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.15) In “The function of Criticism at the present Time” what is proposed by Matthew Arnold as the essence of
criticism?

[1] Affirmation
[2] Cohesiveness

[3] Disinterestedness
[4] Judiciousness

Answer: 3

Q.16) 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.

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 2

Q.17) What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called?

[1] Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

[2] Centre for Contemporary Studies

[3] Centre for Culture Studies

[4] Centre for New Cultural Studies
Answer: 1

Q.18) 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.

(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.

[1] (a) and (d) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (c) and (e) only

[4] (d) and (e) only

Answer: 1

Q.19) Match list-I with list-II:

List-I

(Poem)

(a) “The Road not taken “

(b) “Tonight, I can Write the Saddest lines”

(c) “I hear America Singing”

(d) “I, too, Sing America”

List-II

(Poet)

I. Pablo Neruda

II. Robert Frost

III. Langston Hughes

IV. Walt Whitman

Choose the correct Answer from the options given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-II; (c)-III; (d)-IV

[2] (a)-II; (b)-I; (c)-IV; (d)-III

[3] (a)-III; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-III

Answer: 2

Q.20) Usage in “you have hissed the mystery lectures” is an example of:

[1] Error of lexical choice

[2] Inadverant mistake

[3] Metathesis
[4] Spoonerism

Answer: 4

Q.21) Who is the creator of the character, Julien Sorel?

[1] Barzac

[2] Flaubert
[3] Moliere

[4] Stendhal

Answer: 4

Q.22) 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.

Choose the correct answer the options given below

[1] (b), (a), (d), (c)

[2] (d), (a), (c), (b)

[3] (d), (b), (a), (c)

[4] (d), (b), (c), (a)

Answer: 3

Q.23) 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (c) only

[2] (a) and (b) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.24) Given below are two statements:

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:

[1] Both statement I and statement II are correct.

[2] Both statement I and statement II are incorrect.

[3] Statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect.

[4] Statement I is incorrect, but statement II is correct.

Answer: 2
Q.25) 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.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (c) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (a) and (b) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.26) Who is the author of the truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story?

[1] A. Revathi

[2] Bama
[3] Mukta Sarvagod

[4] V. Geetha

Answer: 1

Q.27) Which of these countries does Montaigne’s essay, “Of Cannibals, “focus on primarily?

[1] Borneo

[2] Brazil
[3] India

[4] Japan

Answer: 2

Q.28) The set of inflected forms taken by a single word is:

[1] Lexeme

[2] Morpheme
[3] Phoneme

[4] Sememe

Answer: 1

Q.29) 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.

(c) They neither copied nature nor life.

(d) They never tried to be singular in their thoughts.

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only
Answer: 2

Q.30) Match List-I with List-II:

List-I

(Book)

(a) English, August

(b) In Custody
(c) Such a Long Journey

(d) Funny Boy

List-II

(Author)

I. Shyam Selvadurai

II. Anita Desai

III. Rohinton Mistry

IV. Upamanyu Chatterjee

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-III

[2] (a)-II; (b)-IV; (c)-I; (d)-III

[3] (a)-III; (b)-II; (c)-I; (d)-IV

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-II; (c)-III; (d)-I

Answer: 4

Q.31) 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

[1] (b), (d), (a), (c)

[2] (b), (d), (c), (a)

[3] (d), (a), (b), (c)

[4] (d), (b), (a), (c)

Answer: 1

Q.32) Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?

(a) Estragon
(b) Pozzo

(c) Bassanio
(d) Murphy

Choose the correct answer from the options below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.33) Which two of the following poems are by Judith Wright?

(a) “Meditation on a bone”

(b) “Imperial Adam”

(c) “Woman to Man”

(d) “The Old Prison”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 4

Q.34) Who, in “The world as India,” argues that English can be the only common “unifying language” of India?

[1] Anthony Burgess

[2] C.K. Ogden

[3] Noam Chomsky

[4] Susan Sontag

Answer: 4

Q.35) Match List -1 with List-II:

List-I
(Writer)

(a) Homi Bhabha

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Roland Barthes

(d) John Fiske

List-II
(Book)

I. Reading the popular

II. The Location of culture

III. Notes towards the Definition of Culture

IV. Image-Music-Text

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-III

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-II; (c)-I; (d)-IV

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-II; (c)-III; (d)-I

Answer: 2

Q.36) Which among the following are examples of the Kunstler roman?
(a) The Portrait of a Lady

(b) David Copperfield

(c) Tom Jones

(d) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.37) With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil generally associated?

(a) Neo-classic
(b) Symbolist

(c) Modernist
(d) Postmodernist

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (d) only

[2] (a) and (b) only

[3] (b) and (c)only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.38) Words with the same pronunciation and different meanings are:

[1] Homonyms

[2] Homograft’s
[3] Homologues

[4] Homophones

Answer: 3

Q.39) The MLA Style Sheet, a compilation of scholarly conventions and directives, was first published in:

[1] 1951

[2] 1957
[3] 1962

[4] 1970

Answer: 1

Q.40) 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (b), (c), (a), (d)

[2] (b), (c), (d), (a)

[3] (c), (b), (a), (d)

[4] (c), (d), (b), (a)

Answer: 4

Q.41) Which of these 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.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (c) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (a) and (b) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 2

Q.42) Which of the following statements best articulates Frantz Fanon’s political position?

[1] Colonialism will die a natural death San any violent struggle against it.
[2] Peasants and social outcasts have little revolutionary potential in Africa.

[3] Social oppression in the third world is a matter more of race than of class.
[4] The African bourgeoisie can never succeed in the task of nation building.

Answer: 4

Q.43) Who among the following says that ideology is a representation of the imaginary relationship of individual

to their real condition of existence”?

[1] Fredric Jameson

[2] Herbert Marcuse

[3] Louis Althusser

[4] Terry Eagleton

Answer: 3

Q.44) Who wrote a postmodern reworking of Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations without altering the original
title?

[1] Angela Carter

[2] Kathy Acker

[3] Peter Carey

[4] Shirley Jackson

Answer: 2

Q.45) In which book of Paradise Lost does Milton refer to “Agra and Lahore of Great Mogul”?

[1] Book III

[2] Book IV
[3] Book VII

[4] Book XI

Answer: 4

Q.46) Match list-I and list-II:

List-I

(Text)

(a) Advancement of learning

(b) Past and Present

(c) English Traits

(d) Illness as Metaphor

List-II

(Author)

I. Susan Sontag

II. Francis Bacon

III. Thomas Carlyle

IV. R.W. Emerson

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-I

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-III

Answer: 2

Q.47) Given Below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labeled 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.

Assertion (R): The ‘Dear Reader’, invoked in the realist novels, is a fictional representation of the distant reader.

In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

[1] (A) is correct, but (R) is not correct.

[2] (A) is not correct, but (R) is correct.

[3] Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
[4] Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

Answer: 1

Q.48) 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (d), (b), (c)

[2] (b), (c), (d), (a)

[3] (c), (a), (d), (b)

[4] (d), (b), (c), (a)

Answer: 3

Q.49) Which pair of linguists in the following list is associated with ‘speech acts?

[1] Franz Boas and Rudolf Camap

[2] J.L. Austin and John Searle

[3] Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker

[4] Paul Grice and Michael Devitt

Answer: 2

Q.50) 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 that the Holocaust

(d) To find and unite families separated at the partition

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.51) Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays?

[1] Dynamics of media

[2] Motivations of crime

[3] Workings of love triangles

[4] Workings of power

Answer: 4

Q.52) Match list-I with list-II:

List-I
(Book)

(a) Anniversaries
(b) The Temple

(c) The Rehearsal Traspros’d

(d) Pindarique Odes

List-II
(Poet)

I. Abraham Cowley
II. John Donne
III. George Herbert

IV. Andrew Marvell

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-I; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-III

Answer: 2

Q.53) Who is the author of Radiant Textuality?

[1] Jerome McGann

[2] Gerald Graff

[3] James Thorpe

[4] Richard D. Altick

Answer: 1

Q.54) 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.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b)and (c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 2

Q.55) How does T.S. Eliot sum up the peculiar quality of Marvell’s “Horatian Ode”?

[1] ‘A contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in principle’.

[2] ‘A tough reasonableness beneath a slight lyric grace’.

[3] ‘Heterogeneity of materials compelled into unity’

[4] ‘Telescoping of images and multiplied associations’

Answer: 2

Q.56) Match list-1 with List-II:

List-I

(a) A Handful of Dust

(b) Brighton Rock

(c) Howard’s End

(d) The Plumed Serpent

(e) Those Barren Leaves
List-II

I. E.M. Forster
II. Evelyn Waugh

III. D.H. Lawrence

IV. Aldous Huxley

V. Graham Greene

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-III; (e)-V

[2] (a)-II; (b)-V; (c)-I; (d)-III; (e)-IV

[3] (a)-III; (b)-V; (c)-I; (d)-III; (e)-IV

[4] (a)-V; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-I; (e)-III

Answer: 2

Q.57) Given below are two statements:

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:

[1] Both statement I and statement II are correct.

[2] Both statement I and statement II are incorrect.

[3] statement I is correct, but statement II is incorrect.

[4] statement I is incorrect, but statement is correct.

Answer: 3

Q.58) Who among the following has coined the terms, ‘eco- feminism’?

[1] Monique Wittig

[2] Francoise d’Eaubonne

[3] Helene Cixous

[4] Marguerite Duras

Answer: 2

Q.59) Who wrote the short story, “The volter”?

[1] Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[2] Chinua Achebe

[3] Ngugi wa Thiongo

[4] Wole Soyinka

Answer: 2

Q.60) Which two of the following 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

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (d) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.61) 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?

[1] Browning and Arnold

[2] Milton and Shelley

[3] Pound and Hopkins

[4] Tennyson and Swinburne

Answer: 2

Q.62) Which of the following fictional characters is believed to be based on the 15th century real-life character,

Vlad the Impaler?

[1] Count Dracula

[2] Peter Quint

[3] Prince Manfred

[4] Victor Frankenstein

Answer: 1

Q.63) Arrange in the right sequence the following stages of a child ‘s first language acquisition:

(a) Holophrastic

(b) Babbling
(c) Telegraphic speech

(d) Cooling

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (c), (d), (b)

[2] (b), (a), (d), (c)

[3] (c), (b), (a), (d)

[4] (d), (b), (a), (c)

Answer: 4

Q.64) Which of the following is a dead language?

[1] Cantonese
[2] Frisian

[3] Gothic
[4] Yiddish

Answer: 3

Q.65) Which book by J.G. Ballard is about a virus that freezes anything it comes in contact with?
[1] Concrete Island

[2] Kingdom Come

[3] The Crystal World

[4] The Drowned World

Answer: 3

Q.66) Who among the following posits the tradition of great writers as an inescapable fact, and takes the writers
as an inescapable fact, and takes the ambivalent position of considering is as both a blessing and a curve?

[1] Allen Tate

[2] F.R. Leavis

[3] Harold Bloom

[4] T.S. Eliot

Answer: 3

Q.67) Who among the following was of the view that poetry was only an imitation of an imitation and therefore

trivial?

[1] Aristotle

[2] Phaedo
[3] Plato

[4] Xenocrates

Answer: 3

Q.68) Who is the author of “The Typology of Detective Fiction”?

[1] G.K. Chesterton

[2] Tzvetan Todorov

[3] Umberto Eco

[4] Vladimir Propp

Answer: 2

Q.69) Which two are the works of Ted Hughes?

(a) Wild track

(b) Wodwo
(c) Lupercal

(d) Jack Straw’s Castle

Choose the correct 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

Answer: 3

Q.70) 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”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (c), (d), (b)

[2] (c), (a), (b), (d)

[3] (c), (a), (d), (b)

[4] (d), (a), (b), (c)

Answer: 4

Q.71) 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (b), (c), (d)

[2] (a), (b), (d), (c)

[3] (b), (c), (a), (d)

[4] (d), (a), (b), (c)

Answer: 2

Q.72) Which of the following is true of mass media?

[1] It usually has a central, single source.

[2] It can affect a localized population only.

[3] It usually has multiple sources.

[4] Its audience is in close proximity to its source.

Answer: 1

Q.73) Who wrote the essay “My First Acquaintance with Poets”?

[1] Charles Lamb

[2] John Ruskin

[3] Thomas De Quincey

[4] William Hazlitt

Answer: 4

Q.74) 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (d) only

[2] (a) and (b) only
[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Q.75) Match List-I with List-II.

List-I

(Author)

(a) Robert Browning

(b) S.T. Coleridge

(c) A.W. Pinero

(d) Alfred Tennyson

(e) William Wordsworth

List-II

I. Queen Mary

II. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

III. Remorse

IV. The Borderers

V. Strafford

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-II; (b)-IV; (c)-III; (d)-V; (e)-I

[2] (a)-III; (b)-V; (c)-II; (d)-I; (e)-IV

[3] (a)-IV; (b)-II; (c)-I; (d)-V; (e)-III

[4] (a)-V; (b)-III; (c)-II; (d)-I; (e)-IV

Answer: 4

Q.76) Who wrote the Labyrinth of Solitude?

[1] Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[2] Gabriela Mistral

[3] Jorge Luis Borges

[4] Octavio Paz

Answer: 4

Q.77) Arrange the following terms in the chronological order as these appeared in literary theory:

(a) Phallogocentrism

(b) Locutionary Act

(c) Interpellation

(d) Interpretive community

Choose the correct answer from the option given below

[1] (a), (d), (c), (b)

[2] (b), (c), (a), (d)

[3] (c), (b), (d), (a)

[4] (d), (b), (a), (c)
Answer: 2

Q.78) Which of the following did Owuor Anyumba, Taban Lo Liyong and Negugi Wa Thiongo object to be 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (d) only

[2] (a) and (c) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.79) Which of the following abbreviations refers to a documentation style?

[1] ARIEL
[2] MFS

[3] MHRA
[4] PMLA

Answer: 3

Q.80) Who among the following is associated with a ‘philosophy of praxes’?

[1] Antonio Gramsci

[2] Georg Lukacs

[3] Raymond Williams

[4] Stuart Hall

Answer: 1

Q.81) Given below are two statements:

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.

In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

[1] Both statement I and Statement II are correct.

[2] Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.

[3] Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect.

[4] Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct.

Answer: 4

Q.82) 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 and precedent.

(b) Taking after the practice of the Moralities and interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae patronymically.
(c) Chapman’s All Fools and Middleton’s A Trick To catch the old one belong to the genre of Comedy of Humors that

Jonson is said to have pioneered.

(d) John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson is writing for a children’s company of players.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (b) and (c) only

[3] (c) and (d) only

[4] (d) and (a) only

Answer: 2

Q.83) 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

Choose the correct 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

Answer: 3

Q.84) 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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (b) and (c) only

[2] (a), (c) and (d) only

[3] (b), (d) and (e) only

[4] (c), (d) and (e) only

Answer: 2

Q.85) Which of the following are books by Noam Chomsky?

(a) Syntactic Structures

(b) Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour

(c) Language and Society

(d) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

(e) The pragmatics of Politeness

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (c) only

[2] (b) and (d) only

[3] (c) and (e) only

[4] (d) and (a) only

Answer: 4

Q.86) 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

Choose the correct 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

Answer: 3

Q.87) Which of these departments did the Wood’s Dispatch of 1854 recommend setting up in the universities?

(a) Arabic

(b) English
(c) French

(d) Law

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (b) and (d) only

[2] (a), (b) and (c) only

[3] (a), (c) and (d) only

[4] (b), (c) and (d) only

Answer: 1

Q.88) Which character in Hamlet utters the line: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”?

[1] Bernardo
[2] Ghost

[3] Horatio
[4] Marcellus

Answer: 4

Q.89) Match List-I with List-II:

List-I

(a) The Lie of the Land

(b) Masks of Conquest

(c) Rethinking English

(d) This Gift of English

List-II

I. Alok Mukherjee
II. Rajeswari Sunder Ranjan

III. Gauri Viswanathan

IV. Swathi Joshi

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-I

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-III

Answer: 2

Q.90) Match List-I with List-II:

List-I

(Library/Institute)

(a) Connemara Public Library

(b) Dhwanyaloka
(c) Bhandarkar Oriental Institute

(d) Asiatic Society

List-II

(Location)

I. Kolkata

II. Chennai
III. Mysore

IV. Pune

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-I; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-I

[4] (a)-IV; (b)-I; (c)-II; (d)-III

Answer: 2

Q.91) 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”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (b) only

[2] (a) and (d) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (b) and (d) only

Answer: 4

Q.92) Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play?

[1] A Midsummer Night’s Dream

[2] Love’s Labour ‘s Lost

[3] The comedy of Errors

[4] The Taming of the Shrew

Answer: 4

Q.93) Which of these is identified by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Matter art as having been deployed in Walt
Disney comic books to propagate imperialist ideology?

[1] Deification
[2] Impoverishment

[3] Infantilization
[4] Personification

Answer: 3

Q.94) Which of the following narratives cycles is referred to in Michel Foucault’s “What is an Author”?

[1] The Canterbury Tales

[2] The Decameron

[3] The Thousand and One Nights

[4] Tuti Namah

Answer: 3

Q.95) 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

Choose the correct 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

Answer: 2

Q.96) Arrange the following characters in the chronological in which they appeared in Indian literature?

(a) Praneshacharya (Samskara)

(b) Sakuni (Mahabharata)

(c) Rusty (The Room on the Roof)

(d) Gobar (Godan)

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (b), (c), (d)

[2] (b), (a), (c), (d)

[3] (b), (c), (d), (a)

[4] (b), (d), (c), (a)

Answer: 4

Q.97) Given below are two statements:

Statement I: The opening and closing lines for 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:

[1] Both Statement I and Statement II are false

[2] Both Statement I and Statement II are True

[3] Statement I is false, but Statement II is true

[4] Statement I is true, but Statement II is false

Answer: 4

Q.98) Match List-I with List-II.

List-I
(Plays)

(a) Madmen and Specialists

(b) The Sea at Dauphin

(c) The Trial of Dedan Kimathi

(d) An Echo in the Bone

List-II
(Playwrights)

I. Dennis Scott
II. Wole Soyinka

III. Derek Walcott

IV. Ngugi wa Thiong’s

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-I; (d)-IV

[2] (a)-II; (b)-III; (c)-IV; (d)-I

[3] (a)-III; (b)-I; (c)-IV; (d)-II

[4] (a)-III; (b)-IV; (c)-II; (d)-I

Answer: 2

Q.99) Arrange the following terms in their chronological sequence of appearance:

(a) Dissociation of Sensibility

(b) Unreliable Narrator

(c) Theatre of Cruelty

(d) Egotistical Sublime

Choose The correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a), (d), (a), (c)

[2] (d), (a), (b), (c)

[3] (d), (a), (c), (b)

[4] (d), (b), (a), (c)

Answer: 3

Q.100) Who is the author of The Otherness of English:

India’s Aunty Tongue Syndrome?

[1] Binoo K. John

[2] Yamuna Kachru

[3] Prabal Dasgupta

[4] S.K. Verma

Answer: 3