Answer ALL the Questions:
Choose the best answer from the options given
1. How did Chaucer's Pardoner make his living?
(a) By selling stolen cattle from the neighbourhood
(b) By selling indulgences to those who committed sins
(c) By pardoning those who stole property or committed other crimes
(d) By assisting the Friar in Church services
2. “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
3.) 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.
4. After Independence, Mulk Raj Anand, wrote a number of semiautobiographical works to narrate
chunks of his own life through a fictional persona. The name he gave this persona is _______.
(a) Lal Singh (b) Rahul Singh (c) Puran Singh (d) Krishan Chander
5. Salome is a one –act play written by Oscar Wilde in ______.
(a) English (b) Irish (c) French (d) Italian
6. Mystery and Miracle plays in English were based on ______.
(a) English folklore (b) English legends (c) Anglo-Saxon myths (d) Biblical stories
7. Match the play with the playwright:
A) A Number (2002) : I) Alan Bennett
B) The Coast of Utopia (2002) : II) David Hare
C) The Permanent Way (2003) : III) Tom Stoppard
D) The Habit of Art (2009) : IV ) Caryl Churchill
A B C D
a) I II III IV
b) IV III II I
c) IV III I II
d) I IV II III
8. Match the novel with the novelist:
A) Shalimar the Clown (2005) : I) Zadie Smith
B) Hotel World (2002) : II) Abdulrazak Gurnah
C) White Teeth (2003) : III) Salman Rushdie
D) The Last Gift (2011) : IV ) Ali Smith
A B C D
a) III IV I II
b) IV III II I
c) II III IV I
d) III IV II I
9. Which of the following novels is not written by Paul Scott?
a) Johnnie Sahib (1952) b) The Jewel in the Crown (1966)
c) A Division of the Spoils (1975) d) The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)
10. Which of the following novels is not a dystopia?
a) Nineteen Eighty-four b) Brave New World c) Lord of the Flies d) Time’s Arrow
11. Whose fiction is richly detailed and set in the predominantly rural “Wessex”?
a) Oscar Wilde’s b) Joseph Conrad’s c) Thomas Hardy’s d) Rudyard Kipling’s
12. Match the line with the poet:
A) Its melancholy, long withdrawing roar : I) Gerard Manley Hopkins
B) Glory be to God for dappled things : II) Wilfred Owen
C) These fragments I have shored against my ruins : III) Matthew Arnold
D) What passing bells for those who die as cattle? : IV ) [Link]
A B C D
a) III I IV II
b) IV III II I
c) II III I IV
d) III IV II I
13. “Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be wise.” Who wrote these lines?
a) Pope b) Gray c) Collins ) Southey
14. 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
15. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of ________ in his novels.
a) Realism b) Naturalism c) Primitivism d) Expressionism
16. Match the character with the play:
A) The White Devil : I) Hieronimo
B) The Maid’s Tragedy : II) Captain Bobadill
C) Everyman in his Humour : III) Vittoria Corombona
D) The Spanish Tragedie : IV ) Aspatia
A B C D
a) III IV II I
b) I III II IV
c) II III I IV
d) III IV I II
17. In ‘The Prologue’ to Dr. Faustus, the chorus proposes that the theme should be –
I. “cursed necromancy” II. “audacious deeds” III. “dalliance of love” IV. “self-conceit” The correct
combination according to the code is
a) I and II are correct b) II and III are correct
c) I and IV are correct d) III and IV are correct
18. In Paradise Lost BK IX, Milton writes that Adam was overcome with “______” and so ate the
forbidden fruit against his “better knowledge”.
a) “female charm” b) “exceeding love” c) “faithful love” d) “taste so divine”
19. “She had _______ lilies in her hand / And the stars in her hair were ______.” (Rossetti’s “The
Blessed Damozel”)
a) 7 and 3 b) 3 and 7 c) 6 and 4 d) 4 and 6
20. A teaching method advocated by Georgi Lozanov which is based on the principle of ‘joy and
easiness’ is called ______.
a) Suggestopaedia b) Total physical response
c) The Direct Method d) The audio-lingual method
21. Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin deals with the trauma of a rape victim who says “Even
so distant, I can taste the grief”?
a) “Deceptions” b) “Faith Healing” c) “Sad Steps” d) “Wild Oats”
22. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Spivak sees the project of colonialism as characterized by what Foucault had called
‘epistemic violence’, the imposition of a given set of beliefs over another.
Reason (R) : Spivak suggests that participation in the political process – access to citizenship, becoming
a voter – will help to mobilize the subaltern on “the long road to hegemony.”
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct :
a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
b) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
d) (A) is false but (R) is true.
23. “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
24. 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
25. 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) hyperbole c) parataxis d) hypotaxis
26. John Suckling belongs to the group of ______.
a) Metaphysical poets b) Cavalier poets c) Neo-classical poets d) Romantic poets
27. All forms of feminism posit that :
I. The relationship between the sexes is one of inequality and oppression.
II. There should be an end to all wars.
III. Women need financial independence.
IV. All men are prone to violence.
The correct combination according to the code is :
a) I and II are correct. b) III and IV are correct.
c) I and III are correct. d) II and IV are correct.
28. According to Bakhtin the idea of the Carnivalesque represents the following characteristics except :
a) a liberation from the prevailing truth and established order
b) a harking back to the past
c) emphasis on play, parody, pleasure and the body
d) the suspension of all hierarchical rank, principles, norms and prohibitions
29. Which of the following is not true of post-structuralism?
a) It seeks to undermine the idea that meaning pre-exists its linguistic expression.
b) There can be no meaning which is not formulated and no language formulation reaches anywhere
beyond language.
c) There is no a-textual 'origin' of a text.
d) Every sign refers to every other sign adequately
30. Who among the following writers describes novels as “not form which you see but emotion which
you feel”?
a) D.H. Lawrence b) Jean Rhys c) Virginia Woolf d) Doris Lessing
31. 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) Samuel Johnson b) John Dryden c) Jonathan Swift d) Joseph Addison
32. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the 'beast' is actually the evil inside the
boys themselves and it is that which is breaking things up ?
a) Jack b) Simon c) Roger d) Ralph
Questions 33-34 are based on the following passage.
Poesy therefore is an art of _____(1) , for so _______(2) termeth it in his word mimesis that is to say, a
representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth—to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture; with this
end, to teach and delight.
33. Which of the following should be inserted at 1 ?
a) logic b) imitation c) seduction d) fantasy
34. Which of the following should be inserted at 2 ?
a) Aristotle b) Cicero c) Horace d) Longinus
Questions 35- 36 refer to the following critical passage.
The intimacies of colonialism are thereby translated into the social and political peculiarities
represented by the question, how can a people invite another people not into a home, or into a
different culture, but into that alternative civil space known as a friendship? Into what caves of
disappointed sublimity must such civility collapse, before it can articulate the fact that colonial
friendship is never autonomous from the literal presence of the racial body?
35. The passage above discusses which of the following novels?
a) Jane Eyre b) Gulliver’s Travels c) A Passage to India d) Jacob’s Room
36. The phrase “what caves of disappointed sublimity” alludes to the
a) narrator’s descent into hell b) scene of an alleged assault
c) decline of the British Empire d) obscured view from a mountaintop
37. ______ is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes.
a) Alliteration b) Onomatopoeia c) Oxymoron d) Enthymeme
38. 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"
39. Dryden's dramatization of Paradise Lost is entitled ______.
a) All for Love b) The State of Innocence c) Annus Mirabilis d) Religio Medici
40. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate Millet's Sexual Politics and Germaine Greer's The Female
Eunuch were published in _____.
a) 1969 b) 1968 c) 1967 d) 1970
41. Preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth was written by _____.
a) Aime Cesaire b) Ania Loomba c) Jean Paul Sartre d) Edward Said
42. Out of the four humours of the body, the Jacobeans thought of themselves as specially prone to
_____.
a) choler b) blood c) phlegm d) melancholy
43. All of the following are characteristics of Renaissance humanism except ______.
(A) belief that ancient Latin and Greek writers were inferior to later authors
b) sanctity of the Latin texts of Scriptures.
c) rejection of Christian principles.
d) primary causative agent of the Reformation.
44. The various symbols used in Girish Karnad's Tughlaq are associated with ______.
Code : I. Pythons II. Vultures III. Wasps IV. Butterflies
The correct combination according to the code is :
a) I and II are correct. b) I and III are correct.
c) III and IV are correct. d) II and III are correct.
45. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger displays _______.
Code : I. Rebelliousness II. Nostalgia III. Restlessness IV. Mendacity
The right combination according to the code is :
a) I and II are correct. b) I and III are correct.
c) II and III are correct. d) III and IV are correct.
46. In Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” the key ideas are best described as the following except one.
Which one?
a) Movement versus stasis b) Disappointing love versus eternal bliss
c) Beauty versus truth d) Scars of history versus consolations of art
47. Which of the following novelists does not belong to the “Campus Novelists” Group ?
a) Angus Wilson b) David Lodge c) Anthony Powell d) Malcolm Bradbury
48. In Blake's poem "A Poison Tree" the speaker's anger grows and becomes ________.
a) a cherry b) an apple c) an orange d) a rose
Questions 49-50 are based on the following passage.
It is a tale of nameless terror, the vision of Roderick Usher going mad as his ancestral house crumbles
around him, a prey to terrors he cannot name and a longing, its nature never specified, for his silent
twin sister, Madeline. Such ------- goings-on enjoyed special vogue among many writers of the
nineteenth century.
49. Which of the following will correctly complete the last sentence of the passage?
a) epistolary b) picaresque c) gothic d) classical
50. The short story described above is by _____.
a) Poe b) Melville c) Hawthorne d) Faulkner
Answer Key
1.b) 2. b) 3. c) 4. d) 5. c) 6. d) 7. b) 8. a) 9. d) 10. d) 11. c) 12. a) 13.b) 14.d) 15. c) 16. a)
17. c) 18.a) 19.b) 20.a) 21.a) 22.b) 23.b) 24.c) 25.a) 26.b) 27.c) 28.b) 29.c) 30.c) 31.d)
32.b) 33.b) 34.a) 35.c) 36.b) 37.b) 38.c) 39.b) 40.d) 41.c) 42.d) 43.a) 44.a) 45.b) 46.d) 47.c)
48.b) 49.c) 50.a)