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 Contents
1 2010 June Paper II English Literature 5 - 22
2 2010 December Paper II English Literature 23 - 40
3 2011 June Paper II English Literature 41 - 56
4 2011 December Paper II English Literature 57 - 74
5 2012 June – Paper 2 75 - 94
6 2012 June Paper-3 95 - 120
7 2012 December – Paper 2 121 - 136
8 2012 December – Paper 2 137 - 152
9 2012 December – Paper 3 153 - 178
10 2013 June Paper 2 English Literature 179 - 194
11 2013 June Paper 3 English Literature 195 - 218
12 2013 December Paper 2 English Literature 219 - 238
13 2013 December Paper 3 English Literature 239 - 264
14 2014 June Paper 2 English Literature 265 - 280
15 2014 June Paper 3 English Literature 281 - 306
16 2014 December Paper 2 English Literature 307 - 324
17 2014 December Paper 3 English Literature 325 - 348
18 2015 June Paper II English Literature 349 - 366
19 2015 June Paper III English Literature 367 - 390
20 2015 December Paper II English Literature 391 - 408
21 2015 December Paper III English Literature 409 - 436
22 2016 July Paper II English Literature 437 - 452
23 2016 July Paper III English Literature 453 - 478
24 2016 August Paper II English Literature Re-Test 479 - 494
25 2016 August Paper III English Literature (Re-Test) 495 - 518
26 2017 January Paper II English Literature 519 - 534
27 2017 January Paper III English Literature 535 - 560
28 2017 November Paper II English Literature 561 - 576

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 29 2017 November Paper III English Literature 577 - 602
30 2018 July Paper 2 603 - 636
31 2018 December Paper -2 637 - 672
32 2019 June Paper – 2 673 - 706
33 2019 December Paper - 2 707 - 740
34 2020 October Shift 1 741 - 792
35 2020 October Shift 2 793 - 842

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2010 June Paper II

English Literature
(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

(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

(3) Samuel Butler’s Erewhon is an example of

(A) Feminist Literature
(B) Utopian Literature
(C) War Literature
(D) Famine Literature

(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

(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

(6) Which of the following novels is not by Patrick White?

(A) The Vivisector
(B) The Tree of Man
(C) Voss
(D) Oscar and Lucinda

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(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

(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

(9) The term ‘theatre of cruelty’ was coined by

(A) Robert Brustein
(B) Antonin Artaud
(C) Augusto Boal
(D) Luigi Pirandello

(10) The verse form of Byron’s Childe Harold was influenced by

(A) Milton
(B) Spenser
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Pope

(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

(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

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(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 & amp; IV
(D) II & IV

(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

(15) The Restoration comedy has been criticized mainly for its
(A) excessive wit and humour
(B) bitter satire and cynicism
(C) indecency and permissiveness
(D) superficial reflection of society

(16) Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses is an essay

(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Louis Althusser

(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

(18) The term ‘Cultural Materialism’ is associated with

(A) Stephen Greenblatt
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Richard Hoggart

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(19) Which of the following author- book 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

(20) Who among the following is a Canadian critic?

(A) I.A. Richards
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Northrop Frye

(21) Sethe is a character in

(A) The Colour Purple
(B) The Women of Brewster Place
(C) Beloved
(D) Lucy

(22) Imagined Communities is a book by

(A) Aijaz Ahmad
(B) Edward Said
(C) Perry Anderson
(D) Benedict Anderson

(23) Who among the following is a Cavalier poet?

(A) Henry Vaughan
(B) Richard Crashaw
(C) John Suckling
(D) Anne Finch

(24) Which play of Wilde has the sub- title, 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

(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

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(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

(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

(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

(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

(30) My First Acquaintance with Poets, an unforgettable account of meeting with literary
heroes, is written by
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) Thomas de Quincey
(C) Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt

(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

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(32) The book Speech Acts is written by

(A) John Austin
(B) John Searle
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure

(33) Which among the following is not a sonnet sequence?

(A) Philip Sydney – Astrophil and Stella
(B) Samuel Daniel – Delia
(C) Derek Walcott – Omeros
(D) D.G. Rossetti – The House of Life

(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

(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

(36) The Court of Chancery is a setting in Dickens’

(A) Little Dorrit
(B) Hard Times
(C) Dombey and Son
(D) Bleak House

(37) Which romantic poet coined the famous phrase ‘spots of time’?
(A) John Keats
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) S.T. Coleridge
(D) Lord Byron

(38) The statement ‘I think, therefore, I am’ is by

(A) Schopenhauer
(B) Plato
(C) Descartes
(D) Sartre

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(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

(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

(41) Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language was published in the year
(A) 1710
(B) 1755
(C) 1739
(D) 1759

(42) The literary prize, Booker of Bookers, was awarded to

(A) J.M. Coetzee
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Martin Amis
(D) Salman Rushdie

(43) In Keats’ poetic career, the most productive year was

(A) 1816
(B) 1817
(C) 1820
(D) 1819

(44) Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was published in 1712 in

(A) three cantos
(B) four cantos
(C) five cantos
(D) two cantos

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(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

(46) In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls for his

(A) ignorance
(B) pride
(C) courage
(D) drunkenness

(47) The first complete printed English Bible was produced by

(A) William Tyndale
(B) William Caxton
(C) Miles Coverdale
(D) Roger Ascham

(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

(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

(50) The concept of “Star-equilibrium” in connection with man-woman relationship

appears in
(A) Women in Love
(B) Maurice
(C) Mrs. Dalloway
(D) The Old Wives’ Tales

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Explanation
(1) The epithet “a comic epic in prose” is best applied to Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones. It’s
also known as “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling published on 28 February 1749.
It is an comic novel, Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel which is also mentioned
by W. S. Maugham’s book “Great Novelist and Their Novels” (1948).The novel is written
into eighteen books and it tells about the protagonist Tom Jones and his good nature
in thew beginning but after sometimes, he adopts some evils of the society but later,
his love for Sophia Western corrected him in the right way. It’s also talks about Tom
‘s half- brother Blifil’s hypocrisy throughout the novel. The famous Romantic poet
and critic said that it has one of the “three most perfect plots ever planned” with
“Oedipus Tyrannus” and “The Alchemist”.

(2) As per Dystopian novel, it is opposite to the Utopian novel, In it, the novelist talks
about the worse place full of evils where everything is going wrong. Its portrayal of
setting is totally opposite or disagrees with the author’s ethos.
Muriel Spark also wrote a Dystopian novel entitled “Robinson”, it was his second
novel which was published in 1958. Jeremy Marlowe is the heroine, is one of the
three survivors when her plane crashes on Robinson’s Island.

(3) Samuel Butler’s Erewhon is an example of Utopian Literature. Its full title is
“Erewhon: or Over the Range”. It is a satirical novel published anonymously in 1872.
The novel sets in a fictional country and contains the description about the discovery
of Erewhon. This book is an satire on the Victorian society and its evils as criminal
punishment, religion and anthropocentrism. Such novels also explore the ideas of
artificial intelligence.

(4) “Sailing to Byzantium” is a very famous poem composed by W. B. Yeats which was
published in 1928 in the poetry collection ‘The Tower’. It is the sister poem of the
poem “Byzantium” by Yeats. It is written in Ottava rima and has four stanzas. This
poem describes the tension between morality and immorality, physicality and
spirituality in the world. Here, the The poet refers to the journey to Byzantium with
the journey of spirituality. The opening line of this poem is “There is no country for
old men.” The above line is “Caught in that sensual music all neglect / Monuments of
unageing intellect.”

(5) Francis Jeffrey coined the term of the ‘Lake school of poets’ in his review of S. T.
Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria in 1817. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey are called
three important figures of Lake School of poets. These poets are belonged to the
Romantic age and they all lived in the Lake District of England, also they followed no
school. Therefore, They got this title of the Lake poets. Sometimes, there are some
other writers who also named it as Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb,
Charles Lloyd, Thomas De Quincey, Hartley Coleridge and John Wilson.

(6) Patrick White was an famous Australian writer, novelist, short story writer, playwright,
poet and essayist. He received Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. His novels are
‘Happy Valley’, ‘The living and the Dead’,’ The Aunt’s story’, ‘The Tree of Man’, ‘Voss’,
‘Riders in the Chariot’, ‘The Solid Mandala’, ‘The Vivisector’, ‘The Eye In the Storm’, ‘A
Fringe of Leaves’, ‘The Twyborn Affair’, ‘Memories of many in One’ and ‘The Hanging

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Garden’(Unfinished). ‘Oscar and Lucinda’ is one of the famous novel by the Australian
author Peter Carey, published in 1988. This novel won the Booker Prize in 1988 and
Miles Franklin Award in 1989.

(7) The above line has been taken from the famous poem entitled “Dover Beach” written
in 1851 by Matthew Arnold, a poet of the Victorian age. Arnold wrote this when he
went for his Honeymoon with his beloved wife. It was first published in 1867 in the
collection ‘New Poems’. The poet expresses his sad thoughts about the real human
life as The poet tells us that he hears the sound of the sea which symbolises the
eternal note of sadness.
In this poem, He also refers to Sophocles, a Greek playwright.
The last line of the poem are “Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

(8) As per Margaret Atwood, she is a one of the popular Canadian poet, literary critic,
essayist and Novelist. She was awarded the Booker prize two times in 2000 and 2019.
Her important novels are entitled as ‘Surfacing’, ‘The Handmaid’s tale’, ‘Cat’s Eye’,
‘Alias Grace’’, ‘The Blind Assassin, ’Oryx and Crake’ and ‘The Testament’.
‘The Stone Angel’ is a famous novel by another Canadian Writer Margaret Lawrence,
published in 1964.

(9) The term ‘Theatre of Cruelty’ was coined by Antonin Artaud, who is a French poet,
actor and theorist and also related with the surrealist movement. He refers this
term in his collection of essays entitled “The Theatre and Its Double”. According to
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Theatre of Cruelty is a “primitive ceremonial experience
intended to liberate the human subconscious and reveal man to himself”. The other
literary figures influenced from this theory are as Jean Genet, Peter Brook, Jerzy
Grotowski and Romeo Castellucci.

(10) “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” is the most famous long narrative poem written by Lord
Byron, a poet related with the Romantic age of English Literature, and published
between 1812 and 1818. Byron dedicated this poem to “Ianthe”. This poem has four
cantos written in Spenserian stanza, a verse line inspired by Edmund Spenser
(famous sonneteer of the 16 th century, Elizabethan age). It is nine lines stanza in
which eight lines in Iambic pentameter and ninth line in iambic Hexameter also
known as Alexandrine line, its rhyme is ABABBCBCC.

(11) Tennyson’s Ulysses is an dramatic monologue and a poem expressing the need for
going forward and braving the struggles of life. It’s a poem written in Blank verse in
1833 but published in 1842. The title character ‘Ulysses’ has been taken from Homer’
epics “Iliad” and “Odyssey’. Tennyson’s Ulysses recalls Dante’s Ulisse in his “Inferno”.
Such poem begins with the Ulysses who has returned from his kingdom, Ithaca, and
a long journey after fighting in the Trojan war, his meeting with his wife Penelope and
his son Telemachus.

(12) Ted Hughes was a post- war British poet who involved in a disastrous marriage in
Sylvia Plath, an American poet, novelist and short- story writer. She won the Pulitzer
Prize (posthumously) for his poetry collections in 1982. She has the credit to develop
Confessional poetry genre. Her best known works are “The Bell Jar” and “Ariel’.

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Ted Hughes was an English poet, translator and children’s writer. He was appointed
Poet Laurate in 1984 till his death in 1998. He married with Sylvia Plath in 1956 who
dis suicide in 1963. His famous works are “The Hawk in the Rain’, “Crow”, “Tales from
the Ovid”, “Birthday Letters” etc. He is famously known for using beast allegory in his
works.

(13) Geoffrey Chaucer is a famous poet of the 14 th century, also known as the
father of English poetry and the grandfather of the English novel. He wrote many
masterpieces, “The Parliament of Fowles” is one of them. It’s also called as “The
Parliament of Birds” and “The Assemble of Fouls”. Chaucer wrote it in the form of
Puzzle, debate and also as a beast fable. It is written in Rhyme Royal stanza and as
a Dream Allegory. Here, the poets discusses about on St. Valentine’s Day, on this day,
the two lovers meet and confess their love to each other.

(14) “The Age of Reason” is a non- fiction book written by Thomas Paine, an English and
American political activist of the 18 th century. This book has a sub- title called
“Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology”. It was published in three
parts in 1794, 1795 and 1807. This book talks about the major problems with religion
in the 18 th century and corruption of the Christian church.

(15) The Restoration Comedy chiefly criticized for its indecency and permissiveness. It is
a kind of English comedy during the Restoration period, also known as Comedy of
Manners. During the Puritan age, all theatres were closed, people was banned from
enjoyment, drink, gambling etc. Therefore, As Charles II became the king of England
in 1660 he opened every thing, the king was corrupt, lavious and lived a sexually
explicit life. The playwrights wrote dramas which shows the condition of that time as
aristocratic society, women are cuckolding their husbands, no purity existing in their
relations, gambling, drinking, sexual life, detachment from the God and Church. Some
famous Restoration Comedies are “The Man of Mode” by G. Etherege, “The Plain
Dealer” by W. Wycherley etc.

(16) “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” is an essay written by Louis Althusser,
a French Marxist philosopher. This essay was published in 1970, it talks about
Althusser’s theory of Ideology. Its full title is “Ideology and Ideological State
Apparatuses: Notes Towards an Investigation”.
His other important works are “For Marx”(1965) and “Reading Capital”(1965).

(17) “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is one of the famous comedy written by William
Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the 16 th century. Such play has a themes of
sexual possessiveness, Lovers’ Bliss, Carnivalesque, Love, Loss of individual identity,
ambiguous sexuality and feminism. It has five plots interconnected with each
other. The Character of this play are Lysander, Helena, Hermia, Demetrius, Theseus,
Hippolyta, Egeus, Nick Bottom, Oberon, Titania etc.

(18) The term “Cultural; Materialism” is associated with Raymond Williams, an Welsh
socialist critic and writer. His works are the foundation of Cultural Studies and
Cultural Materialism.
According to Raymond Williams, it’s a blending of leftist culturalism and Marxist
approach in 1980s. British critic Graham Holderness defines Cultural Materialism as a
“politicized form of historiography”.

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(19) “The Grass is Singing” is a first novel written by Doris Lessing, a British novelist and
Noble Prize winner in 2007. Such novel was published in 1950 and talks about its
heroine Mary Turner’s life.
“Under the Net” is a novel written by Iris Murdoch, an Irish born British writer. Such
novel was published in 1954 and it discusses the story of Jake Donaghue, who is a
struggling writer.
“Girls of Golding Slender Means” is a novella written by Muriel Spark, a British
novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. It was published in 1963 and it centers
on ‘The May of Teck Club’, a fictional institution, talks about the death of Nicholas
Farrington who was killed in Haiti and journalist Jane Wright who wants to do
research on this matter.
“Lucky Jim” is a very famous novel written by Kingsley Amis, an English writer and
novelist.
This novel was published in 1954 and it tells about the life of Jim Dixon who is a
lecturer in medieval history at a Res Brick University.

(20) I. A. Richards: English literary critic F. R. Leavis: English literary critic Cleanth Brooks:
American literary critic Northrop Frye: Canadian literary critic

(21) “Beloved” is the most celebrated novel written by Toni Morrison, an American
novelist, essayist, professor and book editor. The novel published in 1987, Sethe is the
protagonist of this novel who kills her two years old daughter for save her life from
slavery. Other characters are Beloved, Paul D, Baby Suggs, Halle, Amy Denver and
Schoolteacher. It’s a slave narrative set after the American Civil War. This novel has
a story about a family of former slave whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a spirit.
This novel won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988 and became a finalist for the
National Book Award in 1987.

(22) Benedict Anderson was an Anglo- Irish historian and scientist, His first best known
book is “Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism”
first published in 1983, reissued in 1991 and its revised edition came in 2006. This
novel shows the Imagined community is a popular concept in sociology and political
science. Its famous book about nationalism.

(23) Cavalier poets belonged to the 17 th century, it was a school of English poets who
supported King Charles I during the Civil War and they gave their services to the
king. There were some famous Cavalier poets as Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace,
Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, John Denham and Ben Jonson.

(24) Oscar Wilde wrote the famous play entitled “The Importance of Being Ernest, A
Trivial Comedy for Serious People” performed in 1895. It has three acts and the
play is set in “The Present”. It depicts the condition of society at that time. Its main
characters are Jack Worthing, Cecily Cardrew, Algernon Moncriff, Gwendolen Fairfax,
Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism, Merriman, Lane and The Reverend Canon Chasuble. Jack
worthing is also known as Ernest is a young gentleman from the country and in love
with Gwendolen Fairfax.

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(25) As per Wole Soyinka, he was a famous Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet and
essayist. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. His famous plays are
‘Keffi’s Birthday Treat’, ‘The Swamp Dwellers’, ‘The Lion and the Jewel’, ‘The Strong
Breed’, ‘Kongi’s Harvest’, ‘The Road’, ‘Death and the king’s Horseman’, ‘The Dance of
the Forest’ etc. He also wrote famous novels such as ‘The Interpreters’, ‘Seasons of
Anomy’ etc.
“Master Harold and the Boys” is a play written by Athol Fugard, an South African
playwright, novelist, actor and director, which was published in 1982. His other
famous play is “Blood Knot’(1961)

(26) “The Plain Dealer” is in part of an adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope, it

was a famous Restoration Comedy written by William Wycherley, an dramatist of
Restoration age in English literature. This comedy premiered on 1676 and became
one of the finest work by him along with “The Country Wife”. This play centers on the
life of Captain Manly who is also noted as the plain dealer of this work.

(27) Hyperbaton or Inversion is a figure of speech, consists in the inversion of the

grammatical order of words in a sentence for the sake of emphasis.
Examples:
(1) This book I like.
(2) My days among the Dead are past.
(3) Much have I seen and known.

(28) The phrase ‘the willing suspension of disbelief’ occurs in the critical work “Biographia
Literaria” written by S. T. Coleridge, an English Romantic poet, literary critic and
essayist. It is a critical autobiography, published into two volumes in 1817. In this
work, Coleridge also talks about the concept of ‘imagination’ and ‘fancy’. In the
chapter XIV, he gave the concept of the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’.

(29) The religious movement Methodism in the 18 th century England was founded by
John Welsey, an English clergyman and theologian. This movement was related
with the reformation of the church in England but after welsey’s death, it became a
separate association. There were some other leaders along with John Welsey named
George Whitefield and Charles Welsey.

(30) William Hazlitt wrote a famous work “My First Acquaintance with poets, an
unforgettable account of meeting with literary heroes” in 1823. In this work, He said
about Coleridge as “the only person I ever knew who answered to the idea of a man
of genius”. In it, he describes his meeting with great literary figures as S. T. Coleridge
and William Wordsworth.

(31) “The Faerie Queen” was one of the masterpiece work of the 16 th century English
Literature, written by Edmund Spenser, English Elizabethan Poet. It is an English epic
poem and religious, moral and political allegory. This poem first published in 1590
with three books and it was republished in 1596 with all six books. It was the first
work written in Spenserian stanza, invented by Spenser. The poets aim to write this
poem is “to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline”.
Red Cross Knight is the hero of the first book and also appears in its other books.

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Britomart is a female knight or warrior virgin, who represents chastity in this poem
and also falls in love with Artegall. King Arthur also appears in the book.

(32) John Searle was an American author, essayist and philosopher of the Modern age. He
wrote a philosophical book “Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language”.
It was his first major work published in 1969. He discussed Speech acts as Austin
explained about it.
According to John Searle, each kind of speech act can be easily defined on the bases
of set of rules and conditions.

(33) “Omeros” is not a sonnet collection but it’s an epic poem written by Derek Walcott,
the Saint Lucian poet and dramatist, published in 1990.
“Astrophel and Stella” is an famous sonnet sequence of the Elizabethan age written
by Philip Sidney in 1592 but published posthumously in 1591. It is a collection of 108
sonnets and 11 songs.
“Delia” was a notable sonnet sequence written by Samuel Daniel, an English poet,
historian and dramatists of the late 16 th century and early 17 th century. Such a
collection was first published in 1591.
‘The House of life’ is a collection of 100 sonnets written by D. G. Rossetti, an English
poet related with the Pre- Raphalite Brotherhood, Such collection was published in
1881. In this work or sonnets, Poet talks about the narrator’s relationship with two
women.

(34) The term ‘Incunabula’ refers to that books which were published before the year
of 1501. This term is mainly used in the context of printing by Hadrianus Junius, an
Dutch physician and humanist, in his work “Batavia” (1588).

(35) King James’ Translation of the Bible was the most notable achievement in Jacobean
prose. Its also known as the authorised version of the Bible published in 1611. The
task of translation was undertaken by 47 scholars, although 54 were originally
approved.

(36) “Bleak House” is a novel written by Charles Dickens, an English novelist and social
critic, published in 1593. The novel set in the court of chancery and it was the story
about Esther Summerson, who is the heroine of this novel. She is only female
narrator of Dickens’ character.
“Little Dorrit” is also a novel by Charles Dicken published in serial form between 1855
to (1857) It tells the story about Amy Dorriet, who born and raised in the Marshalsea
prison, London.
“Hard Times” is a novel by Dickens, published in [Link], he discussed about the
working class of the factories in Manchester and Preston.
“Dombey and Son” is also a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1846. Its
original title is “Dealing with the firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for
Exploitation”. It’s a story of father and their daughter. Her father wants a son and
therefore, he rejects his daughter’s love and care.

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(37) ‘Spots of time’ is the famous phrase coined by William Wordsworth, an greatest
English Romantic poet. In his semi- autobiographical poem, “The Prelude” he talks
about the cultivation of his poetic mind using it, he coined this phrase in Book XII.

(38) The statement ‘I think, therefore, I am’ is by Rene Descartes but in Latin language, it
says as ‘Cogito, ergo sum’, a philosophical statement. This phrase originally appeared
in French language as ‘je pense, donc je suis’in his work “Discourse on the Method”.
Descartes gave its explanation as ”We cannot doubt our existence while we doubt”.

(39) Free Verse or Open form is a verse form that has no set theme – no regular meter,
rhyme and stanza pattern. It closely follows the natural rhythms of speech. Walt
Whitman is known as the father of free verse. It is also called ‘Verse Libre’ in French ‘
Verse libre’.

(40) The Room: published in 1957 (First play)

The Homecoming: published in 1965 (two act play)
No Man’s land: published in 1975 (set in Summer season, in an Old House in North
London) One for the Road: published in 1984 (One act play)

(41) Dr Samuel Johnson was an English author as a playwright, poet, essayist, novelist
and famous lexicographer of the 18 th century. His well known achievement was
his work “A Dictionary of the English Language” published on 15 April 1755. It was a
famous dictionary which became more popular in the English Language.

(42) Salman Rushdie was a famous British Indian novelist and essayist in the Modern age.
He won Booker Prize in 1981 for his one of the classical works “Midnight’s Children.
He was also awarded by Booker of the Bookers Prize for his contribution to English
literature in 1993.

(43) In the year 1819, John Keats wrote his greatest poems or odes which brought an
immortal fame in his life as “Lamia”, “The Eve of the Saint Agnes”, his greatest five
Odes titled “Ode on a Gracian Urn”, “Ode on Indolence”, “Ode to Psyche”, “Ode to a
Nightingale” and “Ode to Autumn”, also wrote “Hyperion’. Thus, this became the most
productive year in Keats’ life.

(44) “The Rape of the Lock” was first published in 1712 with two cantos and its revised
edition published in 1714 with all five cantos. Its third and the last edition appeared
in 1717 which added Clarissa’s speech on good humour. This is a mock- heroic
narrative poem. It has a trivial subject matter. This poem tells about the cutting of
the lock of Bellinda’s hair by Lord Peter. Peter did it without her permission therefore,
it becomes a huge matter of quarrel between the two families.

(45) Stephen Dedalus is an famous fictional character created by James Joyce in

his novels entitled “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” and “Ulysses”. This
character’s last name ‘Dedalus’ is inspired from the Greek mythology where Dedalus
is a craftsman.
“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ‘’ is a kunstleroman novel published in 1916.
“Ulysses” is also one of his famous novels originally published in parts in 1920 but in
book form it was published in 1922, on writer’s 40 th birthday.

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(46) “Moby Dick” is a popular novel written by Herman Melville, an American novelist.
Its sub-title is “The Whale”. The novel published in 1851 and it contains the story of
Captain Ahab who falls for his pride. He has an quest for taking revenge from the
whale or Moby Dick who cuts Ahab’s leg at the knee in his early voyage. The novel
has a narrator named Ishmael who narrates Ahab’s story to the readers. “Call me
Ishmael” is the opening line of this novel.

(47) The first complete printed English Bible was produced by Miles Coverdale, published
in (1535) It was the first completely translated Bible in the English language.

(48) Elizabeth Gaskell is an woman novelist, biographer and short- story writer of the
18 th century, Her novels always depict the real condition of the working class in
Victorian society.
“Mary Barton” is one of her popular works published in 1848. Its sub- title is “A Tale
of Manchester Life” and this novel set in Manchester. It is a story of the heroine Mary
Barton who is an eponymous character and a very beautiful girl.
He also wrote his first biography on the life of Charlotte Bronte, One of the three
Bronte sisters, entitled “The Life of Charlotte Bronte” published in 1857.

(49) Thomas Heywood was a Jacobean playwright and prolific writer. About him it is said
that “He had an entire hand or at- least a main finger in two hundred and twenty
plays”. His famous work is “A woman Killed with Kindness”, it was an Domestic
tragedy , first published in 1607. His others works are “The Rape of Lucrece”, “The
Wise Woman of Hoxton”, “The Captives”, “A Maidenhead Well Lost” and “The late
Lancashire Witches’ etc.

(50) “Women in Love” is a famous novel written by English novelist and author D. H.
Lawrence, published in 1920. The concept of “Star- equilibrium” appears in this novel
as a connection with man and woman relationships. It is a story of Gudrun Brangwen
and Ursula Brangwen.
The other character of this novel are Rupert Berkin, Gerald Crich and Loerke [Link]
novel is a sequel to his other best novel “The Rainbow” published in 1915.

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Answer Key

(1) C (11) D (21) C (31) A (41) B

(2) C (12) B (22) D (32) B (42) D

(3) B (13) A (23) C (33) C (43) D

(4) C (14) C (24) C (34) B (44) D

(5) D (15) C (25) C (35) B (45) D

(6) D (16) D (26) A (36) D (46) B

(7) D (17) D (27) D (37) B (47) C

(8) D (18) B (28) A (38) C (48) B

(9) B (19) D (29) D (39) D (49) D

(10) B (20) D (30) D (40) C (50) A

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2010 December Paper II

English Literature
(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

(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

(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

(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

(5) Patrick White’s Voss is a novel about:

(A) the sea
(B) the capital market
(C) the landscape
(D) the judicial system

(6) Although Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney writes in English, in voice and subject
matter, his poems are:
(A) Welsh
(B) Scottish
(C) Irish
(D) Swiss

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(7) To whom is Mary Shelley’s famous work Frankenstein dedicated?

(A) Lord Byron
(B) Claire Clairmont
(C) William Godwin
(D) P.B. Shelley

(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

(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

(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

(11) Langland’s Piers Plowman is a satire on:

(A) aristocracy
(B) chivalry
(C) peasantry
(D) clergy

(12) Which of the following thinker- concept pairs is correctly matched?

(A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal Criticism
(B) Christopher Frye – Mysticism
(C) Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction
(D) Terry Eagleton – Psychological Criticism

(13) Sexual jealousy is a theme in Shakespeare’s –

(A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) The Tempest
(C) Othello
(D) King Lear

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(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

(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

(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

(17) The label ‘Diasporic Writer’ can be applied to I. Meena Alexander II. Arundhati Roy
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.

(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.

(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

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(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

(21) “There is nothing outside the text” is a key statement emanating from
(A) Feminism
(B) New Historicism
(C) Deconstruction
(D) Structuralism

(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

(23) One of the important texts of Angry Young Man Movement is

(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

(24) Whom does Alexander Pope satire in the portrait of Sporus?

(A) Lady Wortley Montague
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Lord Shaftesbury
(D) Lord Harvey

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

(A) carpenter
(B) goldsmith
(C) shepherd
(D) fisherman

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(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

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

(A) alliteration
(B) acrostic
(C) assent
(D) syllable

(28) Reformation was predominantly a movement in

(A) politics
(B) literature
(C) religion
(D) education

(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

(30) English Iambic Pentameter was brought to its first maturity in

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

(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

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(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

(33) The terms ‘resonance’ and ‘wonder’ are associated with

(A) Stephen Greenblatt
(B) Terence Hawkes
(C) Terry Eagleton
(D) Ronald Barthes

(34) The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer in ‘The Prologue to Canterbury Tales’ is:
(A) ten-syllable line
(B) eight-syllable line
(C) rhyme royal
(D) ottava rima

(35) Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species was published in the year
(A) 1859
(B) 1879
(C) 1845
(D) 1866

(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

(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

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

(A) chiasmus
(B) conceit
(C) zeugma
(D) metonymy

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(39) The term ‘Intentional Fallacy’ is first used by

(A) William Empson
(B) Northrop frye
(C) Wellek and Warren
(D) Wimsatt and Beardsley

(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.

(41) Who among the following is not a Restoration playwright?

(A) William Congreve
(B) William Wycherley
(C) Ben Jonson
(D) George Etherege

(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”

(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

(44) Aston is a character in Pinter’s

(A) The Birthday Party
(B) The Caretaker
(C) The Dumb Waiter
(D) The Homecoming

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(45) Byron’s English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is about

I. the survey of English poetry
II. evangelism in English poetry
III. contemporary literary scene
IV. the early English travellers
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.

(46) Which Eliotian character utters the question – “Do I eat a peach”?
(A) Marina
(B) Prufrock
(C) Sweeney
(D) Stetson

(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

(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

(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

(50) The Restoration comedy, The Double Dealer was written by

(A) John Dryden
(B) William Wycherley
(C) William Congreve
(D) George Etherege

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Explanation
(1) This is an anti- theatre pamphlet written by Jeremy Collier. It was published in
March, 1698 titled ‘A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English
stage.’ In this work, he attacks on many playwrights as William Wycherley, John
Vanbrugh, William Congreve, John Dryden and Thomas D’ Urfey. Here, he accuses
these playwrights for profanity, blasphemy and indecency etc.

(2) The Great Exhibition was the first international exhibition of culture and industry
during the 1th century. It took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851 in Hyde Park,
London. It was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert, who is the husband of
Queen Victoria and President of Royal Society of Arts. It was also called the Crystal
Palace Exhibition. The Crystal Palace was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for this
successful event at Sydenham Hill but it was also destroyed in 1936. It laid the
foundation of arts and cultural exhibitions.

(3) As per T.S. Eliot, he was very much influenced by Indian culture and philosophy. He
described ‘Bhagwat Geeta’ as one of the most philosophical books. In his works,
we can see his interest in Hinduism and Buddhism. He was also a great scholar
of Sanskrit language. His masterpiece ‘The Wasteland’ is the best example of his
knowledge about Indian and Buddhist philosophy.
In his work Christianity and Culture, he himself tells us-“Long ago I studied
the ancient Indian languages, and while I was chiefly interested at that time in
philosophy, I read a little poetry too: and I know that my own poetry shows the
influence of Indian thoughts and sensibility.”

(4) Gulliver s Travels is a famous prose satire written by Jonathan Swift, an Anglo- Irish
satirist and clergyman. Such work was published in 1726 and its full title is ‘Travels
into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a
Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships’. Swift claimed that he wrote this work
“to vex the world rather then divert it.” Gulliver discovered mountain- like beings
during the voyage of the land of the Brobdingnag, which is related to the second part
of this novel. In this land, Gulliver finds The grass is as tall as a tree and he is also
found by a farmer who is about 72ft tall.

(5) Patrick White is a famous Australian novelist, playwright and short story writer. He
also received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, “for an epic and psychological
narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature.” He also wrote
many famous novels as ‘Voss’, ‘Riders to the sea’, ‘Happy Valley’,’ The Tree of Man’ etc.
y His novel Voss was published in 1957. Such novel is based upon the life of Prussian
explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt during the 19 th century. It is about the life
of two main characters: Voss, a German and Laura, a young woman, orphaned and
new to the colony of New South Wales.

(6) Seamus Heaney was one of the famous Irish writers in English as Samuel Beckett, W.
B. Yeats and G.B. Shaw etc. He was a famous Irish poet, translator and playwright. He
got the Noble Prize in Literature in 1995. His most famous or first poetry collection
is ‘Death of a Naturalist’ in 1966. Other poetic works are ‘Door in the Dark’, ‘Wintering

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Out’ , ‘North’, ‘Field work’, ‘Station Island’, ‘The Haw Lantern’, ‘Seeing Things’, ‘The
Spirit level’, ‘Electric Light’, ‘District and Circle’, ‘Human Chain’…. He also translated
‘Beowulf: A New Verse Translation’ in 1999 which became him more remarkable
person in Modern English Literature.

(7) As per Mary Shelley, she was the daughter of William Godwin and Mary
Wollstonecraft and a prominent literary author of the 19 th century Romantic age.
She also edited and published the works of her husband P. B. Shelley, who was one
of the famous poet of the Romantic age in English Literature. Mary Shelley dedicated
his major novel titled ‘Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus’ to his father William
Godwin. It’s a Gothic or horror novel and also known for Science Fiction. It was first
published anonymously in London in 1818, when she was 20 years old and it was
republished with her name in Paris in 1821. Such novel talks about the story of Victor
Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature.

(8) Philip Arthur Larkin was an famous English poet, novelist and librarian during the
Modern age. His first book was an poetry collection titled ‘The North Ship’ which
was published in 1945 In his poetic collection ‘ The Whitsun Wedding’, he records
his impression while travelling to London by train. It was a collection of 32 poems
published in [Link] contains his most famous poems as ‘Mr Bleaney’, ‘Days’, ‘The
Whitsun Wedding’, ‘MCMXIV’, and ‘An Arundel Tomb.’

(9) As per John Dryden, he was the most famous literary critic, English poet, playwright
and translator as well. He was an dominant literary figure of the Restoration age in
17 th century so, the age is also known as the Age of Dryden. He was also appointed
as the first official Poet Laureate of England in 1668. As an satirist, although he
wrote only two great satires as-‘Mac Flecknoe’ (1682) and ‘The Medall’ (1682). His very
prominent poem titled ‘Absalom and Achitophel’ which was published in 1681, it also
contains more satirical elements.

(10) In Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre, the famous line occurs Reader, I married him, it was
an direct address to the readers. Charlotte Bronte was one of the Bronte Sisters and
an famous English novelist and poet of the 19 th century. She wrote his more works
under the pseudonym Currer Bell and Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley. Her
famous novels are ‘Jane Eyre’, ‘Shirley’, ‘ Villette’, and ‘The Professor’. Her unfinished
novel is ‘Emma’ was published posthumously in 1860.
y Her novel Jane Eyre: An Autobiography was an most remarkable work which
was published under the pen name “Currer Bell” on 16 October 1847. It is an
Bildungsroman novel which shows the experience of the fictional heroine Jane Eyre
from her childhood as an orphan, her job first as a teacher and then as governess,
her love for the master of Thornfield Hall named Mr. Rochester. At the end of the
novel, when she married to Mr. Rochester he addresses the above line to the readers.
Its second edition dedicated to William Makepeace Thackeray.

(11) William Langland was a contemporary poet to G. Chaucer in the 14 th century. He

was well known for his work ‘William’s Vision of Piers Plowman’ or as ‘Piers Plowman’.
It was an Middle English allegorical narrative poem. It contains first reference to
Robin Hood tales tradition. It was a satire on the clergy society of that time which
shows the narrator’s quest for the true Christian life. It was a famous example of
dream allegory.

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The poem has more allegorical characters as Dowell, Dobet and Dobest. It contains
three distinct versions as the A, B and C texts and also has 20 passus or steps.

(12) Jacques Derrida was a famous French philosopher who is known as the father of
Deconstruction which talks about the relationship between the text and meaning. He
was related to both post- structuralism and postmodern philosophy.
y I. A. Richards was an English literary critic and educator. He was one of the important
figures of New Criticism literary theory which emphasised the close reading of the
text.
y Christopher Frye was an English poet and well known playwright for writing verse
dramas. His famous works are as ‘A Phoenix Too Frequent’, ‘The Lady’s not for
Burning’, ‘Venus Observed’ etc.
y Terry Eagleton is a famous English literary critic and theorist of the Postmodern age.
His notable works are ‘Literary Theory’, ‘The Ideology of the Aesthetic’ and ‘The
Illusions of Postmodernism’.

(13) William Shakespeare was the greatest English playwright, poet and actor of the
16 th century, Elizabethan age. ‘Othello’ is one of the famous tragedies written
by Shakespeare. Its main theme is sexual jealousy. Its full title is “The Tragedy of
Othello, the Moor of Venice.” Its title character Othello is an Moorish general of
Venetian army who married secretly with Desdemona, a beautiful lady. Its villain
character is Iago who plays all trickery to destroy the life of Othello. Under the
misinterpretation, he becomes jealous from Desdemona and kills her. But when he
comes to know about the all evil plans of Iago and Desdemona’s innocence, Othello
commits suicide.

(14) The New Criticism is a famous work written by John Crew Ransom published in 1941.
New Criticism was also a formalist movement of the 20 th century literary theory.
The title of that the movement came from this book by Ransom. This movement
emphasized on the close reading of the text chiefly poetry because the New Critics
believed that the structure and the meaning of the text ere intimately connected to
each other and it should not be analysed separately.

(15) Doctor Faustus or The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus is a
well known play by Christopher Marlowe. It was an Elizabethan tragedy based on
German stories about the title character Faust. In this play, Doctor Faustus has a
great quest for Knowledge but he also learned Necromancy or Black Magic. He sold
his soul to Mephistophilis for 24 years and at the end, he destroyed his life.
y Others as ‘The White Devil' and 'The Duchess Of Malfi' are the revenge tragedies
written by John Webster.
y The Spanish Tragedy is an prominent example of the revenge tragedy written by
Thomas Kyd.

(16) Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright, poet and theatre practitioner. He rejects
the Aristotelian concept of tragic play as imitation of reality. He was mainly related
with the terms Epic Theatre and Non- Aristotelian drama. He coined the term Non-
Aristotelian Drama in his series of notes and essays entitled “On a non- Aristotelian
drama”. Here, he exemplifies his work “The Threepenny Opera” (1928) as an epic form.

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(17) Here, Meena Alexander and Kiran Desai are the examples of Diasporic writers.
The meaning of the term Diaspora is defined as a group of people who or whose
ancestors come from a particular nation but who now live in the other parts of the
world. The themes of Diasporic writings are displacement, alienation, homeland, a
feeling of loss and cultural identity. Some Indian English writers as Amitav Ghosh,
Vikram Seth, Shashi Tharoor, Anita Desai, Bharti Mukherjee, Rohinton Mistry, Jhumpa
Lahiri, Sunetra Gupta and Hari Khuzru are the examples of Indian Diasporic Writing.

(18) The Scarlet letter is famous work written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne,
was published in 1850. It’s a subtitle is ‘A Romance’. It was an historical and Romantic
novel. It became the most remarkable book of America. D. H. Lawrence called it “a
perfect work of the American imagination”. The novel depicts the story of Hester
Prynne who gives birth to a daughter through an affair and now she struggles in her
life. She wear the scarlet letter “A” for the rest of her life as a punishment which
symbolises adultery, able and angel.
The novel has the themes of sin, legalism and repentance.

(19) The Masculine rhyme is a monosyllabic rhyme on the final stressed syllable of two
lines of verse, while the Feminine Rhyme is the opposite of masculine rhyme, it is a
rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables.
y Masculine rhyme examples- blow/ flow, confess/ redress
y Feminine rhyme examples- stocking/ shocking, glamorous/ amorous
y Monorhyme is a stanza or poem where all lines have the same end rhyme.
y Eye rhyme refers to words which looks like having same rhyme but are pronounce
differently. Examples- love/ dove, slaughter/ laughter

(20) Salman Rushdie s The Satanic Verses was the most controversial novel, was
published in 1988 It was an example of Magic realism used by Rushdie. Such novel
inspired by the part of the life of Islamic Prophet Muhammad. A fatwa was issued
against Salman Rushdie by a Shia Muslim scholar and the Supreme Leader of Iran
named Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on 14 February 1989. This book also banned in
India as arrogant speeches directed towards Muslims and mocking on their religion.

(21) The above line There is nothing outside the text related with Deconstruction theory.
The original word ‘Deconstruction’ came from a translation of ‘Destruktion’ a concept
in Martin Heidegger’s book that Derrida applied in textual reading. It is an approach
to understanding the relationship between text and meaning.

(22) The Augustan Age is also known as the Classical age of English literature in the 18 th
century because the English writers imitated the Roman writers during this period.
In Latin literary history, The Augustan age is the golden period for arts and literature
during the reign of Roman King Augustus. There were several great authors like
Horace, Vergil, Ovid, Propertius and Livy.

(23) The Angry Young Man Movement became famous during the 1950s in English
literature. It was a group of middle class working playwrights and novelist who
expressed his anger and disaffection with the social and political conditions of their
country. The Angry Young Man phrase coined from John Osborne’s play “Look Back

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in Anger” in 1956. The other text related to this movement are John Wain’s “Hurry on
Down”, Kingsley Amis’s “Lucky Jim” etc.

(24) In his work Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope satirised Joseph Addison in
portrait of Atticus and Lord Harvey in portrait of Sporus. It was a poetic satire written
in heroic couplet, was published in [Link], he presented Addison as an talented
person but diminished by fear and jealousy and Harvey as sexually preserved and
malicious. He attacked on Sporus by Arbuthnot’s claim “Who breaks a butterfly
upon a wheel?” in reference to the form of torture called the breaking wheel. He
addressed this work to his friend John Arbuthnot, who is a physician. It is also known
as his directly autobiographical work.

(25) Tamburlaine the Great is one of the famous tragedy written by Christopher Marlowe,
a 1 th century Elizabethan playwright and greatest tragedian. It is a play written in
two acts in 158 or 1588. Here, Marlowe has taken this character from real Timur, who
belongs to Turkic- Mongolian ancestry and nobility. In this play, Marlowe depicts
Tamburlaine as a Scythian shepherd who reaches to the rank of an emperor and he
also wants to conquer all over the world.

(26) John Keats was a famous English Romantic poet, also known as the poet of beauty
and sensuousness. He wrote many letters to his brother and friends. In a letter to
his brother George in September 1819, He told about his fellow Romantic poet Lord
Byron. He said ‘You Speak of Lord Byron and me - There is this great difference
between us. He describes what he sees – I describe what I imagine – Mine is the
hardest task.’

(27) Alliteration is a figure of speech where a sequence of repetitive of initial consonant

sounds appears in a line of words. Example-
1) “Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air”.
2) ”Alone, alone, all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide sea!”

(28) Reformation is also known as Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation.

It was a prominent literary movement in 16 th century Europe, about the Western
Christianity and political and religious changes in the Catholic Church. Such
movement is started with the publication of the “Ninety-five Theses by Martin
Luther in 1517. It also depicts the real declination of Church at that time and society
members ,who are busy in their works, they have no time to pray God and the leader
of this movement were Martin Luther and John Calvin.

(29) The motto only connect is taken from E.M. Forster s novel Howards End chapter 22.
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the
passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live
in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the
isolation that is life to either, will die.

(30) Iambic Pentameter is a type of metrical line, was used in traditional English poetry
and verse drama. Here, Iambic is a kind of foot which refers an unaccented syllable
followed by accented syllable and Pentameter refers to five feet lines. Most of the
English literature has written in Iambic Pentameter and till now, it is a mostly used
rhyme in literature.

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(31) As per Bloomsbury group, it was a group of writers, philosophers, intellectuals and
artists in the first half of the Modern age or 20 th century. These members were
closely associated with the University of Cambridge for men and King’s college
London for women and they came and learned together at the Bloomsbury, London.
The important members of this group are E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, John Maynard
Keynes and Lytton Strachey.

(32) John Locke belonged to the 17 th century non- fiction writers. He propounded the
concept of human mind as tabula rasa or blank tablet in his work “Essay Concerning
Human Understanding”. Such theory talks about that human mind is tabula rasa and
blank slate of mind, it means when a child is born, his mind is free from all thoughts
but as he grows, he experiences about social, political and personal relationships.
Then, a lot of ideas and thoughts include in his mind which comes from his sensory
experience.
y Lock s idea of tabula rasa is compared with Thomas Hobbes s views about human
nature.

(33) Stephan Jay Greenblatt was associated with the terms of Resonance and Wonder.
In his article “Resonance and Wonder” in 1990s, Such concept informs a museum-
goer’s experience which is still relevant to museums today. According to him,
‘Resonance’ refers the power of object that it is in display to transcend its formal
or physical boundaries in the bigger world and produce certain emotions from the
viewer, while ‘Wonder’ refers to the displayed object’s power to hinder the viewer of
the object from going about his current activity.
y Stephen Greenblatt is an famous American literary historian and he is well noted as
the editor of ‘The Norton Shakespeare’ in 2015.

(34) Geoffrey Chaucer was the greatest poet of the 14 th century and he was also known
as the father of poetry. He became famous for his masterpiece work ‘The Canterbury
Tales’, In its prologue, he used ten syllable lines or Iambic Pentameter. It’s also called
Decasyllabic lines. It is the most common or used meter in the rhetorical pattern of
English poetry.

(35) Charles Darwin was an English naturalist, biologist of the 19 th century, was well
known for his contribution to the science of evolution. His best known work is “On
the Origin of Species” which was published on 24 November, 1859. Its full title is “On
the Origin of the Species by the Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of
Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”. Here, he gives the theory of Survival of the
Fittest or natural selection and Evolution Biology.

(36) Sean O Casey was a famous Irish dramatist and memoirist of the 20 th century. He
was first Irish playwright who talks about the Dublin working class society. “Juno and
the Paycock” is a play written by him in 1924, set in the working- class tenements of
Dublin during the Irish Civil War period in the early 20 th century. It belonged to his
Dublin Trilogy as-
“The Shadow of a Gunman”: 1923
“Juno and the Paycock”: 1924
“The Plough and the Stars”: 1926

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(37) The Sound and the Fury is a famous work written by William Faulkner, who
is an important American author. He is chiefly known for his fictional setting
Yoknapatawpha county based in Mississippi. The above novel published in 1929, set
in Jefferson, Mississippi of the 20 th century. It talks about the Compson family and
the novel is divided into four parts. “The Sound and the Fury” title has been taken
from W. Shakespeare’s famous tragedy “Macbeth’ and from the famous soliloquy of
the protagonist Macbeth from Act V, Scene V.

(38) Metonymy is the figure of speech in which the substitution of name, and the figure
consists in the substitution of the things named for the thing meant, example: crown
for the king, press for journalists, Grey hairs for old men etc.
y As per the above example, Silverman has never read Browning here, Browning refers
for the works written by Browning, the great author and poet of the 19 th Century
English Literature.

(39) The term Intentional fallacy is first used by the 20 th century critics W. K. Wimsatt
and Monroe Beardsley in their work “The verbal Icon” published in 1954. This term
refers to judge or interprets any text or work with the intention of the author who
wrote it as What was the intention of the author’s mind during writing the text or
work and what he wants to share with the readers and society.

(40) Recessional: A Victorian Ode is a well known poem written by Rudyard Kipling, an
English poet, short- story writer, novelist and journalist of the 20 th century. This
poem was first published in The Times on July 17, 1897. He wrote this poem for
the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Such poems express the
sincerity of religious devotion.
Here, the poet also depicts the pride in the British Empire and his deep thoughts
towards his nation and the permanence of God. A lot of Biblical references the poet
used in this poem.

(41) As per Restoration age, It began with the ending of the Commonwealth period or
the Puritan Government and restoration of the monarchy in England when Charles II
became the king of England in 1660. It became the period of the flourishing of Drama
as a popular form of prose in English Literature. There was the several greatest
dramatists as William Congreve, William Wycherley, George Etherege, Aphra Behn,
John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar, John Dryden, Thomas Otway, Mary Pix and William
Davenant.
y Ben Jonson was belonged to the Jacobean age, during the reign of James I. He was a
greatest playwright and critic, who is best known for his Comedy of Humours.

(42) To a Skylark is one of the important poems composed by P. B. Shelley, a famous

Romantic Poet in English literature. The poem consists of Twenty- one stanzas with
five lines in each stanza as first four lines in trochaic trimeter and the fifth line in
Iambic Hexameter or Alexandrine rhyme, total 105 lines. “Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! /
Bird thou never wert” are the opening lines of this poem. The poet begins this poem
with the description about the Skylark bird and later, the skylark is compared to a
poet.

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(43) Gerald Manley Hopkins was a Victorian poet in English literature who hated his
middle name ‘Manley’. He became famous for his concept of Sprung Rhythm. He got
fame after his death when his Friend, Robert Bridges published some of the great
poems in anthologies.
y The other literary figure in English literature, who hated his middle name is Dante
Gabriel Rossetti who was related with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

(44) The Caretaker is one of the best play written by Harold Pinter, an English playwright,
screenwriter, director and actor. He was also a Nobel Prize winner of English
Literature.
This play premiered at the Arts Theatre Club in London on 27 April 1960. It was three
acts play and a Tragicomedy. Aston, Davies and Mick are the important characters
in this play. Aston is a good- natured man and in his late twenties but this quality
makes him vulnerable to exploitation. When he was in his immaturity he was given
electric shock therapy which results in him permanently brain damaged. Aston
dreams to build a shed which symbolises hope for the future. The play is set in a
house in West London.

(45) Byron s English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is about the survey of English poetry
and contemporary literary scene. This work is an verse satire which published
anonymously in 1809 This poem is written in heroic couplets in imitation of Alexander
Pope’s The Dunciad.
It was an attack on the Romantic poets as William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge and
Francis Jefferey (an editor of the Edinburgh Review). In this work, he also praised the
Neoclassical poets such as Alexander pope and John Dryden.

(46) Do I eat a peach such line utters by the character Prufrock in the famous poem The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ which was composed by T. S. Eliot, a British poet,
playwright, essayist, literary critic and editor of the Modern age. This poem is first
published June 1915 issues of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse but it was later printed
under ‘Prufrock and Other Observation’ in 1917. This poem is an dramatic interior
monologue about an urban man or character Prufrock who has feelings of isolation
and disillusionment from the Modern world.

(47) The Shortest Way to Dissenters is a pamphlet written by Daniel Defoe, an English
writer, pamphleteer and spy. He was well known for his novel “Robinson Crusoe’
(1709) and seen as an proponent writer of the English novel. “The Shortest View to
Dissenters or Proposals for the Establishment of the Church” published anonymously
in 1702. This pamphlet landed him in prison and the pillory because it raised the
embarrassing questions about the handling of the issue by the Tory ministry. It opens
with the fable of the Cock and the Horses.

(48) William Caxton engineered the arrival of printing in the Fifteenth Century. He was
the first person who established a printing press in Westminster, England in 1476
and published various books as a printer. He was also the first writer who translated
Aesop’s Fables in 1484.
y Johannes Gutenberg was a German inventor, printer and publisher who began the
printing system in Europe with his movable type printing press.

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(49) William Hazlitt said about Charles Lamb that He had succeeded as a writer not by
conforming to the spirit of the age, but in opposition to it. He does not march boldly
along with the crowd, but steals off the pavement to pick his way in the contrary
directions. He prefers bye- ways to highways.” Hazlitt gave such comment in his
work entitled “The Spirit of Age or Contemporary Portraits”, here he discussed about
Charles Lamb, Washington Irving and other literary figures. This work is a collection
of character sketches of 25 men mostly British who were famous at that time in
thoughts, literature and politics, according to Hazlitt.

(50) “The Double Dealer” was one of the famous Restoration Comedy written by British
Playwright William Congreve. He shows his clever and satirical dialogues in his works
and belongs to the Comedy of Manners style of Restoration age. “The Double Dealer”
was first produced in 1693 and it revolves around the characters as Mellefont, Lady
Touchwood, Cynthia, Lord Touchwood, Maskwell, Lady Plyant etc. the play’s action is
set in one place A gallery in the Lord Touchwood’s house, with chambers adjoining.
The character named Maskwell is known as the double dealer in this play.

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Answer Key

(1) C (11) D (21) C (31) D (41) C

(2) C (12) C (22) B (32) D (42) C

(3) D (13) C (23) C (33) A (43) C

(4) B (14) B (24) D (34) A (44) B

(5) C (15) C (25) C (35) A (45) D

(6) C (16) C (26) C (36) A (46) B

(7) C (17) D (27) A (37) B (47) C

(8) C (18) D (28) C (38) D (48) D

(9) C (19) C (29) D (39) D (49) C

(10) B (20) C (30) B (40) B (50) C

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2011 June Paper II

English Literature
(1) Little Nell is a character in Dickens’s
(A) Hard Times
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop

(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

(3) Who among the following is not a formalist critic?

(A) Allen Tate
(B) Cleanth Brooks
(C) Stanley Fish
(D) William Empson

(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

(5) Who among the following Marlovian characters is consumed by greed?

(A) Barabas
(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) Mephistopheles

(6) The plan of Arthurian stories has influenced the composition of Tennyson’s
(A) In Memoriam
(B) Idylls
(C) “Maud”
(D) “Locksley Hall”

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(7) There are two lists given below. Match the authors in List – I with their nationality in
List – II by choosing the right option against the code.
List – I (Author) List – II (Nationality)
(I) Patrick White (1) Canada
(II) Nadine Gordimer (2) New Zealand
(III) Margaret Atwood (3) Australia
(IV) Keri Hulme (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)

(8) A Shakespearean sonnet has the following rhyme scheme:

(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD
(B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE
(C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
(D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE

(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

(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

(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

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(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

(13) The term, ‘curtal sonnet’, was coined by

(A) John Milton
(B) William Blake
(C) Gerald Manley Hopkins
(D) Matthew Arnold

(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

(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

(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

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(17) Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy was influenced by

(A) Seneca
(B) Tertullian
(C) Virgil
(D) Plautus

(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

(1) Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea is set in

(A) The Congo region
(B) The Niger Delta
(C) The Caribbean
(D) The African Savannah

(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

(21) The Castle of Otranto is an example of

(A) Gothic fiction
(B) Romance
(C) Comic fiction
(D) Bildungsroman

(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

(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

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(24) In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s lapdog is named

(A) Luck
(B) Shock
(C) Pluck
(D) Muck

(25) You Can’t Do Both is a novel by

(A) John Fowles
(B) Doris Lessing
(C) Kingsley Amis
(D) Irish Murdoch

(26) The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the fiction of

(A) Norman Mailer
(B) Saul Bellow
(C) Philip Roth
(D) Bernard Malamud

(27) Plato censured poetry because he believed it

(A) eliminates the ego.
(B) promotes sensuality.
(C) distorts reality.
(D) cripples the imagination.

(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”

(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

(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”

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(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

(32) Eliot uses the term “objective correlative” in his essay.

(A) “The Metaphysical Poets”
(B) “Hamlet”
(C) “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
(D) “Dante”

(33) Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in the year
(A) 1995
(B) 1996
(C) 1997
(D) 1998

(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

(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

(36) “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” is written by

(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) John Gay
(D) Jonathan Swift

(37) Widowers’ Houses was written by

(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) John Galsworthy
(D) G.B. Shaw

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(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

(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.

(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

(41) Mac Flecknoe is an attack on Dryden’s literary rival,

(A) Richard Flecknoe
(B) Thomas Shadwell
(C) John Wilmot
(D) Matthew Prior

(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.

(43) Byron’s “The Vision of Judgement” is a satire directed against

(A) Charles Lamb
(B) John Keats
(C) Henry Hallam
(D) Robert Southey

(44) Tom Paine’s The Rights of Man was published in

(A) 1790
(B) 1791
(C) 1792
(D) 1793

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(45) Andrew Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” was written
in
(A) 1647
(B) 1649
(C) 1650
(D) 1648

(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

(47) “To Daffodils” is a poem, written by

(A) Robert Herrick
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) John Keats
(D) P.B. Shelley

(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

(49) “England, my England” is a poem by

(A) W.E. Henley
(B) A.E. Housman
(C) R.L. Stevenson
(D) Rudyard Kipling

(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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Explanation
(1) Little Nell is an important character who appears in the novel titled “The Old
Curiosity Shop” written by Charles Dickens, an English writer and social critic of
the Victorian age. It was originally published in 1940. The novel depicts the pathetic
condition of Little Nell and her death during the journey with her grandfather. Some
other characters of this novel are Nell’s Grandfather, Danial QuilP, Christopher ”Kit”
Nubbles, Richard “Dick” Swiveller, Mr. Sampson Brass etc.

(2) R. K. Narayan was one of the greatest Indian authors of the Modern age. He has
created an identifiable imagined locale or a fictional county Malgudi town. His works
achieve great success throughout the time. He won the Sahitya Academy Award in
1960 for his best novel “The Guide”. His fictional town Malgudi first introduced in the
novel “Swami and Friends”, which is a part of Narayan’s semi- autobiographical trilogy
with other two books as “The Bachelor of Arts” and “The English Teacher”.

(3) Stanley Fish is an American literary theorist who belonged to Postmodernism. He

was also an important figure in the Reader Response Theory.
y Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks and William Empson all are related with the Formalist
Criticism.

(4) As per Spenserian Sonnet, It was a form developed from the name of Edmund
Spenser, a 16th century greatest poet. It is a form of sonnet which has three
interlocked quatrains and one concluding couplet. Its rhyme scheme is abab bcbc
cdcd ee. In this sonnet, the poet tells about the problem to the readers and in the
last two lines, he gives the solution of the poem.

(5) Barabas is a Marlovian character who is consumed by greed. The character of

Barabas is created by Marlowe in his play “The Jew of Malta’. He is an Jewish
merchant around whom the story of the play revolves. Such a play was published in
1592, it has the themes of greed, antisemitism and revenge. There are some other
characters of this play as Don Lodowick, Abigail, Ithamore, Ferneze, Don Mathias and
Katherine etc.

(6) Tennyson composed his epic poem “Idylls of the King” under the influence of King
Arthurian stories. The poet wrote a series of twelve narrative poems in Blank verse. It
was first published in 1859. It is also known as the allegory of Victorian society. Here,
the poet again retells the story of King Arthur, his wife and his members of the round
table.

(7) Patrick White was a famous Australian writer of novels, short stories and plays. He
won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.
y Nadine Gordimer was a South African Writer who also won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1991 and Booker Prize in 1974.
y Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, literary critic and essayist. She
won the two Booker Prizes in 2000 and 2019.
y Keri Hulme is a New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer. She won the Man
Booker Prize in 1985 for her best novel “The Bone People”.

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(8) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG is the rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnet. It is also
known as English sonnets. It consists of a 14 line poem which is divided into three
quatrains and one concluding couplet. Quatrain is a stanza of four lines and couplet
has two lines.

(9) Matthew Arnold wrote a famous critical essay “The study of Poetry” published in
1888. He criticizes the art of criticism as well as art of poetry in this essay. Here,
he also claimed to poetry as he says, “The future of poetry is immense, because in
poetry…..our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay”.

(10) Dystopia refers to an imagined society or state which is filled with great suffering
and injustices, its opposite to Utopia.
y George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty- four, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and William
Golding’s Lord of the Flies all these novels are about a dystopia.

(11) Miles Coverdale was the first person who translated the complete Bible and
published it in 1535. His Bible is called the first complete printed Bible in English.
y William Tyndale’s Bible is the first English translation directly from the Hebrew and
Greek texts. It was published in 1530.
y John Wycliff translated the New Testament of the Bible and his associates translated
the Old Testament of the Bible. His translation was published in 1384.
y Thomas Browne was not associated with the translations of the Bible.

(12) Shakespeare mainly followed the concept of Freytag’s Pyramid, which gives a proper
structure for creating the plot of drama. It is divided into five parts as Exposition,
Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Denouement. William Shakespeare followed
this sequence perfectly.

(13) Gerald Manly Hopkins was the developer of this new form of poetry called ‘Curtal
Sonnet’. It consists of 11 lines, which follows the pattern of a sestet and a quatrain
with an additional ”tail piece”. It’s also known as ten and half lines sonnet.

(14) Jeremy Collier wrote a famous pamphlet “A Short View of the Immorality and
Profaneness of the English Stage” published in 1698. In it, Collier criticised William
Wycherley, William Congreve, John Dryden, John Vanbrugh and Thomas D’ Urfey. Its
was an anti- theatre pamphlet. He attacks these playwrights for showing blasphemy,
indecency and profanity on the English stage. In the beginning of this pamphlet,
Collier says that “Nothing has gone farther in Debauching the Age than the Stage
Poets, and Play- House”.

(15) “Saints and Sinners” is a work written by Edna O’ Brien, an Irish writer. It is a
collection of short stories which was published in 2011.
y “A Woman of No Importance”, “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “An Ideal
Husband” all are the plays written by Oscar Wilde.

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(16) Bleak House: 1853

y Hard Times: 1854
y A Tale of Two Cities: 1859
y Great Expectation: 1861

(17) Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy was influenced by the concept of revenge
tragedy by Seneca, Roman philosopher of the 1st century. His concept or themes
are rediscovered by the 16th century playwrights. Thus, Senecan Tragedy became
the inspiration for the revival of tragedy on the Renaissance stage in the history of
English literature.

(18) “The Wasteland” is the best modernist poem in the 20th century written by T. S. Eliot.
It was published in 1922 and divided into five parts as The Burial of the Dead, A Game
of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water and What the Thunder Said. This poem
contains a total of 433 lines.

(1) Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea is set in the Caribbean. The novel was published in
[Link] is the prequel of the famous novel “Jane Eyre” written by Charlotte Bronte.
This novel depicts the story of the life of Bertha Masan Who is Mr Rochester’s first
wife. Such a novel is counted as one of the greatest Postmodern novels.

(20) The above line is an example of Prolepsis. It is a figure of speech where a future
act depicts as if it is already happening. Example; In the above line, Hamlet is lying
wounded but he is talking to his friend Horatio that he is already dead. Here, Hamlet
is depicting the future.

(21) “The Castle of Otranto” is a popular novel written by Horace Walpole, was published
in 1764. It was the first Gothic novel in the history of English literature. It’s later
subtitle is ”A Gothic Story” and it is set in a haunted castle. This novel became an
inspiration in Gothic Fiction for the further writers of this genre.

(22) James Tomson was a Scottish poet of the English language in the Victorian age.
His most famous poem is “The City of Dreadful Night” published in 1874. It is a long
poem which depicts the late Victorian sense of gloom and despondency. The poem is
popular for his pessimistic philosophy.

(23) “A Bend in the River’’ is a novel written by V. S. Naipaul, a Trinidad and Tobago born
British writer and Nobel Laureate. This novel was originally published in 1979. It is set
in Africa and carries the echoes of Joseph Conrad. The novel is a story of the main
character Salim who is a merchant in the African postcolonial 20th century.

(24) “The Rape of the Lock” is a famous mock epic poem written by Alexander Pope.
It was published in 1912 with two cantos and republished in 1714 with five cantos.
A speech of Clarissa was added in its final publication in 1717. Belinda is the main
character in this poem and her lapdog’s name is Shock. The other characters of this
poem are The Baron, Caryl, Goddess, Ariel, Umbriel, Brillante, Momentila, Clarissa,
Thalestris and Sir Plume.

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(25) “You Can’ t Do Both” is a novel written by Kingsley Amis, an English novelist, poet and
critic. This novel was published in 1994. The novel tells the story about Robin Davies
and his feeling of freedom in his life. Nancy Benett is another important character of
this novel, to whom Robin meets in Oxford University.

(26) The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is associated with the fiction of Philip Roth. This
character first appeared in his novel “My Life as a Man”. Roth used this character in
his many novels. “Zuckerman Bound” is a trilogy of novels published in 1985 where
Roth used Nathan Zuckerman as his important character.

(27) Plato censured poetry because he believed that it promotes sensuality. He gives his
views about poetry. According to him, Poetry has non- moral characters, it is twice
removed from reality, It gives an emotional appeal not intellect or reason and poets
are not safe guides.

(28) “Tithonus” is a dramatic monologue poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson, a

Victorian poet. It was published in 1860 by the Cornhill Magazine. In this poem,
Tithonus addresses his consort Eros, the goddess of the dawn. In the beginning of
the poem, Tithonus wants immorality but as the time passes, he becomes old and
cries for death every time.

(29) John Ford belonged to both the Jacobean and Caroline time period. He wrote a
famous tragedy “Tis Pity She’s A Whore”, it was originally published in 1633. The
character Giovanni features in this play. There are some other characters such as
Hippolita, Bergetto, Sorenzo, Florio, Richardetto, Friar Bonaventura etc.

(30) The famous phrase “the still, sad music of humanity” features in the poem “Tintern
Abbey” written by William Wordsworth, a most important poet of the 19th century
Romantic age.

(31) “Ulysses” is one the most famous novels written by James Joyce, an Irish writer. The
novel was published in 1920. Molly Bloom is an important character in this novel.
Other characters are Leopald Bloom, Buck Mulligan, Stephen Dedalus.

(32) T. S. Eliot uses the term “Objective correlative” in his important essay “Hamlet
and his Problems” published in 1919. Here, he discusses Hamlet’s emotions in
Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet”. According to him, Shakespeare did incomplete
development of this character in terms of objective correlation. This term was firstly
coined by Washington Allston, an American painter and poet, but introduced by T. S.
Eliot in his essay. According to T. S. Eliot, Objective correlative is “a set of objects, a
situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotions;
such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are
given, the emotion is immediately evoked.”

(33) Seamus Heaney was a famous Irish poet and translator. He was awarded the Nobel
Prize for literature in 1995. He translated the great Anglo Saxon epic poem as
“Beowulf: A New Verse Translation”.it was published in 1999. He is best known for his
poetries, “Death of a Naturalist” is one of them.

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(34) P. B. Shelley wrote his less known pamphlet entitled “An Address to the Irish People”,
published in 1812. It was published in Dublin, Ireland by Daniel Isaac Eton. Shelley
wrote this pamphlet to show the condition of Ireland.

(35) “Kim” is a picaresque novel written by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1901.

y “Sons and Lovers” is a famous novel written by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1913.
y “A Passage to India” is also a novel written by E. M. Forster, published in 1924.
y “Brave New World” is a dystopian novel written by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932.

(36) “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” is written by Jonathan Swift, a great satirist in
English literature. He himself wrote an elegy on his death before the fourteen years.
This poem was first published in 1739 in London. In it, he also talks about his friends.

(37) “Widowers Houses” is a play written by G.B. Shaw, a famous Irish playwright of the
Modern age. It was his first play to be staged in the theatre in 1892. It comes under
the category of his ‘Unpleasant plays”. The play divided into three acts. Harry Trench,
Blanche, William de Burgh Cokain, Mr. Sartorius, Lickcheese etc. are the characters in
this play.

(38) Raymond Williams is an important Marxist critic who recognised the classic problem
of ‘base and superstructure’ in relation to literature. He wrote an essay entitled “Base
and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory”. According to Raymond Williams, Base
is the primary economic activities and Superstructure is an unitary area where all
cultural and ideological activities could be placed.

(39) “Heteroglossia” is a term first introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin in his paper “Discourse
in the Novel”, published in 1934. This refers to the juxtaposition of multiple voices in
the text. Bakhtin’s idea also influenced many other writers.

(40) “The Witch of Exmoor” is an important novel written by Margaret Drabble, an English
novelist, biographer and critic. It’s a novel about society, published in 1997. Frieda
Palmer is the protagonist of this work, to whom the title of the novel satirises.
y Margaret Drabble wrote the biographies of two writers Agnus Wilson and Arnold
Bennett.

(41) “Mac Flecknoe” is a satirical poem written by the greatest writer John Dryden. It
was published in 1682. It’s a mock- heroic satirical poem which is a direct attack on
Dryden’s literary rival Thomas Shadwell. Therefore, It’s full title is “Mac Flecknoe;
or, A satyr upon the True-Blue-Protestant poet, T.S.” Its famous opening lines are:
“All humane things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, Monarchs must
obey”.

(42) The Eighteenth century is the age of prose and reason. There were many writers who
used to write satires and attacked human vices and follies. Chiefly, they expressed
the real condition of politics and corruption in society during the Neoclassical age or
Eighteenth century.

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(43) Byron’s “The Vision of Judgement” is a satire directed against the writer Robert
Southey. This is an satirical poem published in 1822 by John Hunt, the publisher. It
was written in Ottava rima. This work is set in heaven and it shows a dispute over the
fate of George III’s soul. Byron wrote this work as a response to the work “A Vision of
Judgement” written by Robert Southey.

(44) Thomas Paine wrote an important book entitled “Rights of Man”. It was published in
1791 snd it was written against Edmund Burke’s work “Reflections on the Revolution
in France”. This work is based on the French Revolution. Here, he says that Human
rights depend on nature.

(45) Andrew Marvell was a 17th century English Metaphysical poet. He is best known for
his love poem “To His Coy Mistress”. He also wrote a poem “An Horatian Ode upon
Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” in 1649. In it, Marvell tells about the return of
Cromwell from Ireland as he himself was an observer of it.

(46) “The Rime of Ancient Mariner” is one of the famous poems written by S. T. Coleridge,
published in 1798 in the Lyrical Ballads. This poem is about the guilt and expiation of
the Ancient Mariner who has just returned from a long sea voyage. In it, the mariner
shares his experience which he feels during his journey. The last lines are the best
lines of this poem as, “He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and
small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all”.

(47) “To Daffodils” is an important poem written by Robert Herrick, an English Cavalier
poet. In it, he compares human life to the life of Daffodils. As the poet says that man
have a transient or very short life like the Daffodils. Therefore, the poet becomes so
sad on this truth. The opening lines of the poem are;
“Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon;
As yet the early- rising sun Has not attained his noon”.

(48) “The Siege of Krishnapur” is a Booker Prize winning novel written by J. G. Farrell,
published in 1973. Such novel reconstructs the event of the Indian mutiny in 1857. It
set in the fictional Indian town Krishnapur.

(49) W. E. Henley was an English Victorian poet who wrote the poem “England, my
England”. The opening lines of the poem are;
“WHAT have I done for you,
England, my England?
What is there I would not do,
England, my own?”

(50) P. B. Shelley was one of the famous Romantic poets. He was expelled from Oxford
University due to the publication of his work “The Necessity of Atheism”. It was an
essay published in 1811. This became a revolutionary work by Shelley because in it, he
talks about Atheism in a very critical way.

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Answer Key

(1) D (11) D (21) A (31) C (41) B

(2) C (12) A (22) C (32) B (42) A

(3) C (13) C (23) B (33) A (43) D

(4) A (14) B (24) B (34) B (44) B

(5) A (15) C (25) C (35) C (45) B

(6) B (16) A (26) C (36) D (46) D

(7) C (17) A (27) B (37) D (47) A

(8) C (18) B (28) D (38) B (48) B

(9) A (19) C (29) B (39) B (49) A

(10) D (20) C (30) D (40) B (50) B

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2011 December Paper II

English Literature
(1) Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery is written by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Robert Southey
(C) John Clare
(D) Thomas Gray

(2) Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms is divided into

(A) two books
(B) three books
(C) four books
(D) five books

(3) “Panopticism” is the title of a chapter in a well-known book by

(A) Roman Jakobson
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Michel Foucault
(D) Jacques Derrida

(4) The lines, “She was a worthy woman al hir lyve:/ Housbondes at chirche dore she
hadde five”, are an example of
(A) blank verse
(B) clerihew
(C) heroic couplet
(D) free verse

(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

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(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.

(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

(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 caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
(A) Vittoria Corombona
(B) Bracciano
(C) The Cardinal
(D) Flamineo

(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
(D) John Ruskin

(10) Who amongst the following is not a Jewish-American novelist?

(A) J.D. Salinger
(B) Henry Greene
(C) William Faulkner
(D) Philip Roth

(11) Which among the following plays by Christopher Marlowe has epic features?
(A) Doctor Faustus
(B) Edward II
(C) Hero and Leander
(D) Tamburlaine

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(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

(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

(14) Ikemefuna is a character in the novel

(A) When Rain Clouds Gather
(B) The Mimic Men
(C) Things Fall Apart
(D) The Interpreters

(15) A foot consisting of a strong syllable followed by a weak syllable is called

(A) Trochee
(B) Iambic
(C) Spondee
(D) Terza Rima

(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

(17) Put the following books of the Pope in a sequence of publication. Answer the
question with the help of the Code 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)

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(18) Dinah Morris is a character in George Eliot’s novel

(A) Middlemarch
(B) Silas Marner
(C) Daniel Deronda
(D) Adam Bede

(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

(20) A ‘curtal sonnet’ consists of

(A) 11 lines
(B) 12 lines
(C) 13 lines
(D) 14 lines

(21) The Unfortunate Traveller has been authored by

(A) Robert Greene
(B) Thomas Deloney
(C) Thomas Nashe
(D) Thomas Lodge

(22) Who, among the following, is not the practitioner of Jacobean tragedy?
(A) George Villiers
(B) John Marston
(C) John Webster
(D) Thomas Middleton

(23) The author of Nation and Narration is

(A) Edward Said
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(C) Frantz Fanon
(D) Homi Bhabha

(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

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(25) The phrase ‘Only Connect’ is associated with

(A) D. H. Lawrence
(B) James Joyce
(C) E. M. Forster
(D) Virginia Woolf

(26) Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood?

(A) The Stone Angel
(B) No Fixed Address
(C) The Edible Woman
(D) Halfbreed

(27) The expression “murderous innocence” is an example of

(A) Oxymoron
(B) Zeugma
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Pun

(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.

(29) The Enlightenment believed in the universal authority of

(A) Religion
(B) Tradition
(C) Reason
(D) Sentiments

(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

(32) Match the following authors with their respective works with the help of the code
given below:
List – I Authors List – II Works
(1) The Vanity of Human Wishes I. Oliver Goldsmith
(2) The Vicar of Wakefield II. John Gay
(3) She Stoops to Conquer III. Samuel Johnson
(4) The Beggar’s Opera IV. Richard Sheridan
CODES
I II III IV
(A) 1 4 2 3
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 2 4 1
(D) 4 2 2 1

(33) The term “egotistical sublime” was coined by

(A) S.T. Coleridge
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) William Hazlitt

(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)

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(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

(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

(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

(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

(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.

(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

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(41) Isaac Bashevis Singer is an

(A) African-American writer
(B) American-Jewish writer
(C) American-Indian writer
(D) American-Asian writer

(42) Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has

(A) three Acts
(B) five Acts
(C) four Acts
(D) two Acts

(43) James Joyce’s Exiles is a

(A) Short Story
(B) Poem
(C) Play
(D) Novel

(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

(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

(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

(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

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(48) The expression, “dreaming house” is an example of

(A) Zeugma
(B) Transferred epithet
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Apostrophe

(49) The term ‘Practical Criticism’ is coined by

(A) William Empson
(B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.
(C) I.A. Richards
(D) F. R. Leavis

(50) Victor Shklovsky’s name is associated with

(A) Postmodernism
(B) New Historicism
(C) Reader Response Theory
(D) Russian Formalism

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Explanation
(1) John Clare wrote his first book titled “Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery”,
published during his lifetime in 1820. It was a volume of poetry which established
his fame in English literature as an English Peasant poet of the Romantic school. His
other poems are “The Village Minstrel”, “The Shepherd Calendar; with Village Stories,
and Other Poems” etc.

(2) “A Farewell to Arms” is one of the famous novels written by Ernest Hemingway, an
American Novelist and short story writer also. Such a novel was divided into five
books , published in 1929. Its title has been taken from George Peele, an 16th Century
dramatist.
The setting of the novel takes place during World War I. It describes a love affair
between Fredrick Henry, an Italian Army man and Catherine Barkley, an English nurse.
The other characters of this novel are The Priest, Helen Ferguson and Rinaldi etc.

(3) “Panopticism” is the title chapter in his well- known book “Discipline and Punish”
written by Michael Foucault who is a French philosopher and literary theorist.
This book was published in 1975. Foucault used this concept as a theory about
surveillance.
y Originally “Panopticon theory” developed by Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher
and theorist of the 18th century. But it was later used by Foucault in his works.

(4) The above line is the example of a Heroic couplet. A couplet has two lines, and
Heroic couplet is a stanza of two lines written in Iambic pentameter. It means
pentameter which is ten syllable lines in five feet and Iamb is a kind of Disyllabic
where One unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. Chaucer was the
first poet in English Literature who used heroic couplet in his works.

(5) Virginia Woolf is the first writer who famously imagined the plight of Shakespeare’s
Sister named Judith Shakespeare. She created this fictional character in her work
“A Room of One’s Own” published in 1929, was first important work in the field of
Feminism. Here, she argues that If Shakespeare’s sister also had the opportunity to
write and achieve fame and fame then she could be a more famous writer in English
Literature than William Shakespeare. But Judith did not find any education and she
was always trapped in her home while her brothers got a great education. Virginia
Woolf further says that this was the reason after Judith’s death she killed herself
while her brother survived and became a famous author. Thus, Virginia Woolf gave
the example of how women were treated by society.

(6) It is well known that Charles Dickens’ novels are called ‘Newgate Novels’ because
Dickens always discussed the careers and adventures of criminals in these novels.
Thus, the assertion is true and reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
y “Oliver Twist” is the best example of a Newgate novel written by Charles Dickens.

(7) ‘University Wits’ is a group of playwrights and pamphleteers of the late 16th century
and early 17th century. These writers belonged to the Oxford and Cambridge University
therefore, also named ‘Ox-Bridge writers’. These writers are Christopher Marlowe,

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Robert Green, Thomas Nashe, George Peele, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge. Thomas
Kyd was sometimes excluded from this group because he never belonged to any
University. Christopher Marlowe was the leader of the group. But The term “University
Wits” was coined in the 19th century by George Saintsbury.

(8) The above lines uttered by the character Flamineo in the one of the famous tragedy
“The White Devil” written by John Webster. It was first performed in 1612 at Red Bull
Theatre. It is an famous revenge tragedy in English. Its full title is “The White Devil
or The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Bracciano. With The Life and Death
of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Courtesan”. The above lines shows the
feelings of sadness and disturbance in Flamineo’s mind.

(9) Matthew Arnold was a famous English literary critic and poet of the Victorian age. He
remarks that “All great literature is, at bottom, a criticism of life”
y He also gave the definition of poetry as it is itself a criticism of life. He said that “The
criticism of life under the condition fixed for such criticism by the laws of poetic
truth and poetic beauty”. In his essay “The Study of Poetry”(1888), he discusses all
his ideas about poetry.

(10) Henry Green was an English novelist in the Modern age. He is famous for his three
important novels entitled ‘Party Going’(1939), “Living”(1929) and ‘Loving”(1945).
y J. D. Salinger was an American novelist and his world- famous novel is “The Catcher
in the Eye” published in 1951.
y William Faulkner was also Jewish- American novelist who is best known for creating
a fictional country Yoknapatawpha in his novels. He got the Nobel Prize in Literature
in 1949. His best novel is “The Sound and the Fury” published in 1929.
y Philip Roth was an American novelist and short story writer. His first important work
is a novella “Goodbye, Columbus’ ‘ published in 1959. He received the Pulitzer Prize
for his novel “American Pastoral” in 1998.

(11) Christopher Marlowe was a famous dramatist of the 16th century for writing only
tragedies. His first play is “Tamburlaine the Great” which is written into two parts
having the features of an epic. The play is based on the Asian emperor Timur. In
Marlowe’s play, Tamburlaine was an ambitious person who wanted to conquer all
over the world.

(12) Sir George Etherege was one of the Restoration playwrights, He became famous for
his many plays as “The Man of Mode”, “The Comical Revenge” and “She Would If She
Could” etc.
y “The Man of Mode or Sir Fopling Flutter ‘’ is the best play by Etherege, It was written
in 1676. Dormont is the protagonist of this play but its story revolves around Sir
Folp[ing Flutter who is a womanizer and wants to marry Harriet. The other character
of this novel are Mr. Medley, Emilia, Lady Woodvill, Lady Townley, Young Bellair, Old
Belliar and Belinda.
y Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer (1676)
y Congreve’s The Way of the World (1700)
y Davenant’s The Platonick Lovers (1636)

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(13) Jane Austen famously said “You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting
them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life;- Three or four families in a
country village is the very thing to work on.” She wrote these words in a letter on 9 to
18 September 1814 to Anna Austen, her niece, telling her about the plot structure.

(14) Ikemefuna is a most important character in the novel “Things Fall Apart” written by
Chinua Achebe, an Nigerian novelist. It was published in 1958 as his debut novel. It
is divided into three parts and talks about the life of Okonkwo, a local wrestler of
Igbo community in the fictional village Umuofia. Ikemefuna is a boy under the care of
Okonkwo because his father killed his wife. Ikemefuna belongs to the Mbaino tribe
but at the end, he is also killed. The other characters of this novel are Ekwefi, Unoka,
Nwoye, Ezinma etc.
y “When Rain Clouds Gather” is a book by Bessie Head, published in 1968.
y “The Mimic Men” is a novel by V. S. Naipaul, published in 1967.
y “The Interpreters” is a best novel by Wole Soyinka, published in 1965.

(15) A foot consisting of a strong syllable followed by a weak syllable is called Trochee
meter, it is opposite to Iambic meter, in which a weak or unaccented syllable
followed by a strong or accented syllable.

(16) The Wife of Bath is one of the several pilgrims in Chaucer’s work “The Canterbury
Tales”, through her, Chaucer wanted to depict the quality of defiance in a person. She
did it five times and is now going to search for a new man. ‘The Wife of Bath’ is a
famous character created by Chaucer in the 14th century.

(17) “An Essay on Criticism” is a poem by Alexander Pope published in 1711.

y “The Rape od the Lock” is a mock- heroic poem written by A. Pope, first published in
1712 with two cantos.
y “The Dunciad” is a Mock -heroic satirical poem by A. Pope, published originally in
1728.
y “An Essay on Man” is a poem by Pope, published in 1733.

(18) “Adam Bede” is a famous historical novel written by George Eliot, published in 1859.
She describes this novel as “A country story full of the breath of cows and scent of
hay.” Dinah Morris is an important character in this novel who is an orphaned niece of
the Poysers. The other characters of this novel are Hetty Sorrel, Square Donnithorne,
Bartle Messey, Sete Bede, Adam Bede etc.

(19) The Booker Prize is received for the best novel of the year written in English and
published in the UK or Ireland. The first Booker prize was awarded in the year 1969
and it was received by P. H. Newby (United Kingdom) for his best novel “Something to
Answer For” in 1969.

(20) Gerald Manly Hopkins was the developer of this new form of poetry called ‘Curtal
Sonnet’. It consists of 11 lines, which follows the pattern of a sestet and a quatrain
with an additional ”tail piece”. It’s also known as ten and half lines sonnet.

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(21) Thomas Nashe is one of the University wits, He became very popular for his
masterpiece work entitled “The Unfortunate Traveller or The life of Jack Wilton”. It
was an picaresque novel which was published in 1594. The setting of this novel takes
place during the reign of King Henry VIII of England. This novel chiefly deals with the
life and adventures of its hero Jack Wilton.

(22) John Marston, John Webster and Thomas Middleton are the practitioners of
Jacobean tragedy, While George Villiers also belonged to the Jacobean period but he
was an English statesman, courtier and patron of the arts in the reign of James I of
England. He was not a writer or dramatist.

(23) Homi K. Bhabha is an important figure in contemporary post- colonial studies. He

was an Indian English theorist. Hybridity, mimicry, difference and ambivalence are
the major concepts given by Homi K. Bhabha. He got Padma Bhushan Award in the
year 2012. “Nation and Narration” is an earlier book edited by Bhabha and it was
published in 1990.

(24) “Tristram Shandy” is also known as “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,
Gentleman”, written by Lawrence Sterne. This novel was published in two nine
volumes but it first appeared in 1759 with its two volumes. The novel has a great
impact on the formal experimentation in contemporary fiction. Such a novel depicts
the complete story about the life of its title character. Many writers appreciated it as
a great work which inspired a lot of books in English Literature.

(25) E. M. Forster is the novelist, essayist and short story writer of the modern age, He
gave the famous phrase “Only Connect” in his novel “Howards End’. This novel was
published in 1910. Here, He says that “Only connect! ....Only connect the prose and
the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live
in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the
isolation that is life to either, Will die.”

(26) “The Edible Woman” is a novel by Margaret Atwood, published in 1969.

y “The Stone Angel” is a novel by Margaret Lawrence, published in 1964.
y “No Fixed Address” is a work by Susin Nielsen, published in 2018.
y “Halfbreed” is an autobiographical work by Maria Campbell, published in 1973.

(27) Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two contrary words or phrases are put
together side by side. Examples; ‘murderous innocence’, ‘bitter sweet’, ‘carefully
careless’, ‘good mischief’, ‘idly busy’ etc.

(28) Othello killed Desdemona because Desdemona commits infidelity. Here, Assertion is
true but the given reason is false. So, The option (C ) is correct.

(29) The 18th century is also known as the ‘Age of Prose and Reason’ and ‘The Age of
Enlightenment’. Therefore, We can say that the Enlightenment believed in the
universal authority of Reason.

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(30) “Lycidas” is a famous pastoral elegy written by John Milton on the death of his friend
Edward King. It was published in 1637.
y “L’ Allegro” is an pastoral poem written by Milton, published in 1645. L’ Allegro means
a happy man. It is a sister poem of “Il Penseroso” which means a melancholic man.
y “Comus” is a masque written by Milton. It has a sub- title as “A Masque Presented at
Ludlow Castle”, published in 1634.
y “Paradise Lost” is an epic poem written in blank verse by Milton, published in 1667.

(31) The Spenserian stanza is used by John Keats in his one of the famous poems “The
Eve of St. Agnes”. It was a narrative poem of Romantic age written in 32 stanzas and
published in 1820.
y The Spenserian Stanza was invented by Edmund Spenser in his famous work
“The Faerie Queene”. It is an nine lines poem, first eight lines being in the Iambic
Pentameter and ninth line in Iambic Hexameter, is also called Alexandrine line.

(32) “The Vanity of Wishes” is a poem by Samuel Johnson. Such a poem is an imitation of
the tenth satire of Juvenal. It was published in 1749.
y “The Vicar of Wakefield” is a novel written by Oliver Goldsmith. It was published in
1766.
y “She Stoops to Conquer” is a famous comedy written by Oliver Goldsmith. It was first
performed in 1773.
y “The Beggar’s Opera” is an ballad opera written by John Gay. It has three acts and
was first premiered in 1728.

(33) John Keats coined the term “Egotistical sublime” in 1818. He wrote it in a letter
addressed to his friend Richard Woodhouse. Egoistical Sublime refers to the
importance of nature and natural beauty. Keats gave the example of William
Wordsworth for describe this term.

(34) “Romela” is a historical novel written by George Eliot, published in 1863.

y “Middlemarch” is a novel written by George Eliot, published in 1871.
y “Felix Holt, the Radical” is a social novel written by George Eliot, published in 1866.
y “Daniel Deronda” is a novel written by George Eliot, published in 1876.

(35) John Galsworthy was a British novelist and playwright of the Modern age. He is
famously known for his unforgettable sense of humour and comedy. He was awarded
the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932. He got much popularity from his masterpiece
work entitled “The Forsyte Saga” published between 1906 – 1921.

(36) Anthony Burgess’s The Wanting Seed is a dystopian novel published in 1962.
y Doris Lessing’s The Four- Gated City (1969), L. P. Hartley’s Facial Justice(1960), V. S.
Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas(1961) These are all novels related to the apocalyptic
society.

(37) These are the famous lines written by John Donne, the 17th century poet. The lines
are taken from the poem titled “The Good- Morrow”. It’s a love poem published in
the collection ‘Songs and sonnets’ in 1633.

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(38) Joseph Addison wrote a series of essays on “The Pleasures of Imagination” which was
published in the magazine The Spectator in 1712.
y Mark Akenside also wrote an didactic poem entitled “The Pleasures of Imagination”
published in 1744. Such a poem is inspired by the essays of Joseph Addison on ‘The
Pleasures of Imagination’.

(39) Gulliver’s travels earned Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a misanthrope and
Swift in the novel was neutral to the image of man. Both assertion and reason are
correct but it’s not the correct explanation. Hence, option B is right.

(40) F. R. Leavis wrote a literary criticism book entitled “The Great Tradition” published in
1948. He named the greatest novelists as Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Henry James
and George Eliot. James Joyce was not included in it by F. R. Leavis.

(41) As per Isaac Bashevis Singer, he was an American- Jewish writer of the novels and
short stories. He was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. He first wrote his
work in Yiddish or West Germanic language. His famous works are “The Magician of
Lublin”, “A Day of Pleasure: A Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw(memoir)” and “A
Crown of Feathers and Other Stories”.

(42) Samuel Beckett is best known for his play “Waiting for Godot’’ performed in 1953.
Its French title is “En attendant Godot ‘’. In English language, it has a subtitle as “a
tragicomedy in two acts’ ‘. There are several characters such as Vladimir, Estragon,
Pozzo, Lucky and a boy. Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot throughout the
play but Godot never comes. It is also known as an absurd play of the Modern age.

(43) “Exiles” is a play written by James Joyce and published on 25 May 1918. It did not
become a successful work. This play is about a famous writer who returns to Dublin
after nine years of exile. Joyce himself describes the structure of this play as “three
cats and mouse acts.”

(44) George Orwell is the author of the famous work “Nineteen Eighty- Four” published
in 1949. It is a dystopian social science fiction novel set in the future in the year of
1984. Winston Smith is the protagonist of this novel. The novel has the theme of
nationalism, surveillance, poverty and inequality and futurology. Big Brother also
appeared here as an unseen character. The opening line of this novel is “It was a
bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

(45) The subtitle of William Godwin’s Caleb William is Things As They Are. It was
sometimes known as a gothic novel published in the three volumes. It was first
published in 1794. This novel is a harsh criticism about the tyrannical English
government of that time.

(46) Radical feminism is a part of the feminist movement. According to Radical feminists,
Patriarchy is the most dominant thing in society. Here, women have no freedom to
share their thoughts and they always become the object of oppression in the hands
of men. Men have more power than women in society. In short, Radical feminism
wants to get rid from the patriarchy and it always wants to end all evil or harmful
crime against women. There are some famous radical feminists such as Helene
Cixous, Alice Walker, Catherine Mackinnon, Andrea Dworkin and Valerie Solanas.

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(47) “ON the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” is a longer essay written by Thomas De
Quincey, an English essayist of the Romantic age, published in 1823. The title of the
work has been taken from W. Shakespeare’s greatest tragic play “Macbeth”. Here. De
Quincey depicts the condition after the murder of King Duncan by Macbeth. It’s a
kind of psychological criticism.

(48) The above expression “dreaming house” is an example of Transferred Epithet. It’s a
kind of figure of speech also known as Hypallage. Transferred Epithet consists in the
transference of an adjective or adverb from the word to which it properly belongs to
another with which it is associated. Examples; “weary way”, “sleepless pillow”, “busy
life” etc.

(49) I. A. Richards coined the term ‘Practical Criticism’ in his same title work, published
in 1929. It is based on his experiment on the readers of the texts that how they
interpret the text. He did one experiment with the children that he gave a text to
each child but nobody has the information about the writer of the text, biographical
account of the author and other things which are important to know the correct
meaning of the text. Thus, he wanted to know the effect of the text on the readers
and how they understand the text.

(50) Russian Formalism is a part of literary theory, it was a school where criticism
originated from the 1910s to 1930s. There are some important figures who are
associated with Russian Formalism such as Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eichenbaum,
Roman Jakobson, Yuri Tynianov, Vladimir Porpp, Grigory Gukovsky and Boris
Tomashevsky.

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Answer Key

(1) C (11) D (21) C (31) C (41) B

(2) D (12) C (22) A (32) * (42) D

(3) C (13) D (23) D (33) B (43) C

(4) C (14) C (24) C (34) D (44) D

(5) B (15) A (25) C (35) D (45) C

(6) A (16) B (26) C (36) C (46) A

(7) D (17) C (27) A (37) C (47) C

(8) D (18) D (28) C (38) D (48) B

(9) B (19) B (29) C (39) B (49) C

(10) B (20) A (30) A (40) B (50) D

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2012 June – Paper 2

(1) To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the
term:
(A) aporia
(B) difference
(C) erasure
(D) supplement

(2) Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in
Love?
(A) Harold Pinter
(B) Alan Bennett
(C) Caryl Churchill
(D) Tom Stoppard

(3) Arrange the following in the chronological order:

(1) Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women
(2) Lyrical Ballads
(3) French Revolution
(4) Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
(A) 4, 3, 1, 2
(B) 3, 2, 1, 2
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 2, 1, 3, 4

(4) Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is
relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story?
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) Ulysses
(C) The Power and the Glory
(D) Heart of Darkness

(5) The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as

(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn
(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries
(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine
(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

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(6) Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt?
(A) Troilus and Criseyde
(B) The House of Fame
(C) The Book of Duchess
(D) The Legend of Good Women

(7) The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of

(A) Gorboduc
(B) Ralph Roister Doister
(C) Damon and Pythias
(D) Lamentable Tragedy

(8) Who of the following poets is Australian?

(A) Austin Clarke
(B) Judith Wright
(C) Edwin Muir
(D) Derek Walcott

(9) “He found it [English] brick and left it marble”, remarked one great writer on another.
Who were they?
(A) Milton on Shakespeare
(B) Dryden on Milton
(C) Johnson on Dryden
(D) Jonson on Shakespeare

(10) Who, among the following, is a Nobel Laureate?

(A) Tony Morrison
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Ted Hughes
(D) Geoffrey Hill

(11) Match the following:

List – I List – II

I. “Because I could not stop for death...” a. Robert Frost

II. “O Captain ! My Captain!” b. William Carlos Williams

III. “Two roads diverged in a wood....” c. Emily Dickinson

IV. “So much depends /upon” d. Walt Whitman

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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

(12) The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” are
(A) comic
(B) solemn
(C) hortatory
(D) irony

(13) I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second Street,

Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade.
So begins Auden’s “September 1, 1939”.
What is the meaning of the word in italics?
(A) bench
(B) night club
(C) house
(D) park

(14) C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing
(A) Practical Criticism
(B) New Criticism
(C) Standard English Project
(D) Basic English Project

(15) In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear ?

(A) The Rivals
(B) She Stoops to Conquer
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D) The Way of the World

(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.

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(17) “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for

(A) the Aesthetes
(B) the Symbolists
(C) the Imagists
(D) the Art Noveau School

(18) Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by

(A) S. T. Coleridge
(B) P. B. Shelley
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) Lord Byron

(19) Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?
(A) “The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
(C) The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.
(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-
tellers in this work.

(20) Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film
critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political conflicts?
(A) Anthony Powell
(B) Evelyn Waugh
(C) William Golding
(D) Graham Greene

(21) Match the following:

List – I List – II

1. Good sense is the body of poetic

I. Brooks, “The Formalist Critic”
genius

2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit

II. Sidney, Defence/ An Apology for Poetry
of all knowledge.

3. Literary criticism is a description and

III. Wordsworth,Preface to Lyrical Ballads
evaluation of its object

4. Nature never set forth the earth in

as rich a tapestry as diverse poets have IV. Coleridge,Biographia Literaria
done

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CODES
1 2 3 4
(A) IV III I II
(B) II IV III I
(C) III II I IV
(D) IV II I III

(22) In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to
India?
(A) A Tramp Abroad
(B) Roughing It
(C) The Innocents Abroad
(D) Following the Equator

(23) William Blake’s famous poems such as “London”, “The Sick Rose”, and “The Tyger”
appear in
(A) Songs of Innocence
(B) Songs of Experience
(C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion

(24) Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott?
(A) Richard Hogarth
(B) Joshua Reynolds
(C) George Cruishank
(D) John Tennial

(25) The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to

(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms
(B) The Land of Homosapiens
(C) The Land of the Hurricanes
(D) The NewfoundLand

(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

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(27) In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have a departure from
Standard English?
(A) The typist scene
(B) The pub scene
(C) The hyacinth garden scene
(D) The Chapel Perilous scene

(28) The words “If it were done when tis done, then twere well / It were done quickly...”
are uttered by
(A) Hamlet
(B) Lear
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth

(29) John Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel a

(A) religious tract
(B) political allegory
(C) comic verse epic
(D) comedy

(30) The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is associated with the early plays of
(A) Arnold Wesker
(B) John Arden
(C) Harold Pinter
(D) David Hare

(31) Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.
(A) Rudyard Kipling died in 1936.
(B) He was born in India but schooled in England.
(C) He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.
(D) He is the author of Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.

(32) What is the correct combination of the following?

I. Balachandra Rajan a. The Tamarind Tree

II. R. K. Narayan b. The Coffer Dams

III. Kamala Markandaya c. The Dark Dancer

IV. Romen Basu d. The Dark Room

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(A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b
(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c
(C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b
(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b

(33) Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden
satirises in his famous poem.
(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten
(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys

(34) “If______ comes, can_______ be far behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)
(A) winter, spring
(B) autumn, summer
(C) wind, rains
(D) spring, winter

(35) The following passages are the very first lines of well-known works. Match the lines
and the works:

I. Let us go then, you and I.... a. Moby Dick

II. Call me Ishmael.... b. Macbeth

III. When shall we three meet again? c. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

IV. He disappeared in the dead of winter d. Tristram Shandy

V. I wish either....begot me ..... e. “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”

(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d

(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c
(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a

(36) Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy?

(A) Hamlet
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Volpone
(D) Gorboduc

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(37) What is a neologism?

(A) A word with roots in a native language
(B) A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use
(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense
(D) An obsession with new words and phrases

(38) Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism?

(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation
(B) is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory
(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept of writerly text
(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony

(39) Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods. They are:
(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass
(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond
(C) iron, gold, silver and brass
(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond

(40) Which among the following novels has more than one ending?
(A) Lucky Jim
(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie
(C) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(D) The Clockwork Orange

(41) “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a
man” is an example of
(A) Bathos
(B) Epistrophe
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Anti-climax

(42) Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems.
(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.
(C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-
Norman and Latin.
(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor

(43) Material feminism studies inequality in terms of

(A) only gender
(B) only class
(C) both class and gender
(D) only patriarchy

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(44) Who among the following is not an Irish writer?

(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Thomas Gray

(45) Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after

(A) The Restoration
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The Reformation
(D) The French Revolution

(46) In a poem, a line may either be end-stopped or

(A) rhymed
(B) broken
(C) accented
(D) run-on

(47) Which of the following poets wrote the essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine”?
(A) Kamala Das
(B) R. Parthasarthy
(C) A. K. Ramanujam
(D) Nissim Ezekiel

(48) Match the following :

I. James Joyce 1. Peter Ackroyd

II. T. S. Eliot 2. James Boswell

III. Lives of Johnson 3. Samuel Johnson

IV. Lives of Poets 4. Richard Ellman

(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

(49) “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of

(A) simile
(B) image
(C) conceit
(D) metonymy

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(50) An epilogue is
(A) prefixed to a text which it introduces.
(B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or extends.
(C) a piece of writing or speech that formally begins a book.
(D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no relation to the text at hand.

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Explanation
(1) Aporia the term “aporia” (Greek) literally means a state of puzzlement. Jacques
Derrida has employed the term to “indicate a point of undecidability, which locates
the site at which the text most obviously undermines its own rhetorical structure,
dismantles, or deconstructs itself”.
All texts undo/dismantle the philosophical system to which they belong, by revealing
their paradoxical nature. The text itself subverts all types of determinate readings.
This clash between the referential/ literal and the rhetorical/ figurative levels of
discourse inevitably results in aporia – i.e. the gap or lacuna between what a text
means to say and what it is constrained to mean creates aporia.

(2) Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has
written for television, radio, film, and stage. Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 romantic
period comedy-drama film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and
playwright Tom Stoppard. It is a fictional love affair involving playwright William
Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) and Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) while
Shakespeare was writing the play Romeo and Juliet. The movie satirizes theatre
life and plays in the times when Shakespeare lived and performed. The movie won
the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for best film as well as the Golden Globe
Award for best comedy or musical.

(3) Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: a collection of old ballads and poems first
published in England in 1765. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of
Women: (1792); Lyrical Ballads: published Lyrical Ballads in 1798. French Revolution:
lasting from 1789 to 1799.

(4) Technique of narration in Heart of Darkness is complex. The story opens with one
narrator--an anonymous individual, commonly known as the ‘frame’ narrator--
the majority of the story is recounted by Charlie Marlow. It is told in first-person
point of view as a frame narrative. The “story within a story” technique is called a
“frame story”. The primary narrator is Marlow. There is a second narrator, unnamed,
who tells us about Marlow telling his story. There is also a third voice added to
this narration which can be considered the author himself, who is really telling the
whole story. Beyond these three dominant points of view, there are the individual
viewpoints of the book’s major characters. Each has a different perspective on Kurtz.
These perspectives are often conflicting and are open to a variety of interpretations.
Heart of darkness adopts a stream of consciousness narration because it does not
follow the unity of time it goes on according to the consciousness of the narrator. It
has the First person (Peripheral Narrator), First Person (Central Narrator).

(5) The Irish Literary Theatre was founded in Dublin by William Butler Yeats, Lady
Augusta Gregory and Edward Martin in 1898. From 1904 onwards, these theatre
practitioners who dubbed themselves as the Irish National Society laid the
foundation for Irish theatre by producing a series of plays performed at the Abbey
Theatre. This movement was spearheaded by W.B. Yeats, who was elected president
of the Irish National Society. He has been placed on the same pedestal as William
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Synge was versatile in producing plays that typified Irish Nationalism. Its focused on
presenting an environment commensurate with dramatic action. Excessive emphasis
was laid on the setting, which was invariably forbidding and detrimental to the cause
of human action. Irish theatre inculcated a sense of enthusiasm for its native land
among the audience.

(6) “The Book Of The Duchess” (written 1368-74) was also called “The Dreame of
Chaucer”, and “The Death of Blaunche”, was the first major long poem in English to
be published by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Chaucer wrote the poem to commemorate the death of Blanche of Lancaster, wife of
John of Gaunt.
The poem was written at John of Gaunt’s request. It is a dream‐poem in 1,334 lines
by Chaucer, probably written in 1369, in octosyllabic couplets. It is founded on the
French tradition of the dream as a vehicle for love poetry.
The poem depicts a love‐lorn poet who falls asleep reading the story of Ceyx (Seys)
and Alcyone and follows a hunting party. There he meets a knight in black who was
lamenting the loss of his lady. The knight talks of her virtue and beauty and of their
courtship. When asked by the dreaming poet’s question he reveals that she was
dead. The hunting party reappears and a bell strikes twelve at midnight, awakening
the poet who finds his book still in his hand.

(7) ‘The Tragedy of Gorboduc’ is the earliest English tragedy in blank verse. It was
written by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, who took the plot from Geoffrey
of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain (1138). The play was premiered before
Queen Elizabeth I on 18 January 1561 at Whitehall. It was first printed in 1565, and
then in 1570 as ‘The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex.’
The first three Acts were written by Thomas Norton, and the final two by Thomas
Sackville.
The playwrights took the tragedies of the Latin writer Seneca as their model. But the
play ignores the classical unities of time and place.
It is deemed as the first verse drama in English to employ blank verse. It was the
first bold work to deal with a political subject matter (the reign of king Gorboduc of
Britain, and his realm which is disputed by his sons Ferrex and Porrex). It was also
the first well-documented performance of a play in Ireland in 1601.
The play is about a good king named Gorboduc, who gives his kingdom away to his
sons during his lifetime. The sons quarrel over the throne. Porrex, the younger son,
kills his brother, Ferrex. Their mother, Queen Videna, avenges the death of her older
son and murders Porrex. At the end, Gorboduc and Videna are then killed by their
horrified former subjects.

(8) Judith Arundell Wright (1915 – 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and
campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a well-known Australian poet, short-
story writer and conversationalist and also a highly acclaimed critic of Australian
poetry. Wright was a relentless campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. Judith’s deep
love of the Australian landscape, and her growing concern at the devastation of that
landscape by white Australians, led her to help form the Wildlife Preservation Society
of Queensland (1960’s). Judith Wright has been called ‘the conscience of the nation’.
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of itself. Her poems embody her tireless battles to help to save the nation. She has
authored several collections of poetry, including The Moving Image, Woman to Man,
The Gateway, The Two Fires, Birds, The Other Half, Magpies, Shadow, Hunting Snake,
among others.

(9) Samuel Johnson called him “the father of English criticism,” and affirmed of his
Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668) that “modern English prose begins here.”
English literary criticism before Dryden was ill-organized, ill-digested, and heavily
leaning on ancient Greek and Roman, and more recent Italian and French, criticism.
It had no identity or life of its own. Dryden evolved an impressive body of critical
principles of descriptive criticism. As it was said about Augustus that he found Rome
brick and left it marble, Saintsbury suggested that Dryden’s contribution to English
poetry was the same as Augustus’ contribution to Rome. Samuel Johnson, in his
essay Life of Dryden, recognized Dryden’s contribution to English language and said
he found it a brick and left it a marble.

(10) Seamus Heaney (1939 - 2013) was a major poets of the 20th century. He authored
over 20 volumes of poetry and criticism, and edited several anthologies. He won the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which
exalt everyday miracles and the living past.”

(11)

(12) “A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen
to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick” was
first published anonymously in 1729. A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical
essay. It is Jonathan Swift’s attack on the British government’s inability to solve the
problem of poverty in Ireland. The pamphlet suggests to “find out a fair, cheap, and
easy Method” for converting the starving children of Ireland into “sound and useful
members of the Commonwealth.” Across Ireland, poor children, predominantly
Catholics, were living in sordid poverty as their families are too poor to feed and raise
them. It proposes that the most obvious solution to Ireland’s economic crisis is for
the Irish to sell their children as food. It also suggests various ways in which they can
be prepared and served.

(13) (B)

(14) Basic English (British American Scientific International and Commercial English) –
was developed by British linguist Charles Kay Ogden (Basic English, 1930) and was
intended as a medium of international communication. For this reason, it has also
been called Ogden’s Basic English.
It is a version of the English language “made simple by limiting the number of its
words to 850, and by cutting down the rules for using them to the smallest number
necessary for the clear statement of ideas” (I.A. Richards, Basic English and Its Uses,
1943).
Basic English reduces the English vocabulary and grammar to a remarkable extent:
there are 850 basic vocabulary items, 600 of which are nouns and 150 of which
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“after,” “to,” “the,” “all,” “if,” “not,” and “very.” Only 18 verbs are used, and these are
conjugated as in standard English. But through combination with non-verbs these 18
verbs can replace about 4,000 standard English verbs.

(15) Mrs Malaprop is a funny character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1775 comedy-of-
manners The Rivals. She is an ignorant, stupid widow and the aunt of Lydia Languish.
Sheridan has aptly named her “Malaprop” because of her silly misuse of words. Mrs.
Malaprop’s name comes from the French term malapropos, meaning “inappropriate”.
The popularity of the play and of the character led to the creation of the literary term
malapropism – practice (whether by intent or by accident) of using an incorrect word
that sounds similar to the appropriate word.

(16) ‘The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King
of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer’, known as Edward II, is a
Renaissance or early modern period play written by Christopher Marlowe. The play
is historical and focuses on the relationship between King Edward II of England and
Piers Gaveston, and Edward’s murder on the orders of Roger Mortimer.
The play was entered into the Stationers’ Register on 6 July 1593, five weeks after
Marlowe’s death.
‘The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, or Doctor Faustus, is an
Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title
character Faust. The Admiral’s Men performed Doctor Faustus 24 times in the three
years between October 1594 and October 1597.

(17) French philosopher Victor Cousin coined a French slogan “l’art pour l’art”, which has
the English meaning ‘Art for art’s sake’ in the 19th century. The phrase expresses the
belief held by many writers and artists, especially the Aestheticism writers, that art
needs no justification, that it need serve no political, didactic, or other end.
It was a European social construct and was largely a product of the Industrial
Revolution. It was adopted by many leading French authors and in England by Walter
Pater, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Arthur Symons.

(18) Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account by

Thomas De Quincey. The book published anonymously in September and October
1821 in the London Magazine, tells about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his
life. ‘Confessions’ was released in book form in 1822, and a revised edition in 1856.
De Quincey introduces ‘Confessions of an English Opium-Eater’ as an extract from
a longer autobiography. He tried to resist opium, but could not because it was an
effective pain-killer and he was suffering from numerous physical ailments.

(19) The General Prologue gives a description of the twenty-nine people who are pilgrims
that are going on a journey to Canterbury. The General Prologue is the key to The
Canterbury tales. Written in couplets of iambic pentameter, the General Prologue
introduces a wide range of characters from various occupations and strata of society.

(20) Graham Greene (1904 – 1991), is best known for his novels, especially those dealing
with Catholicism. Greene graduated and began a career in journalism. He also wrote
short stories, novellas, book and film reviews, poetry, radio plays, stage plays, an

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autobiography, biographies, a memoir, travel stories, screenplays, and children’s

literature. He also penned several screenplays for Hollywood.
He established his reputation with his fourth novel, ‘Stamboul Train’. In 1936 Greene
began writing ‘Brighton Rock’ (1938), a thriller set in the seamy world of racecourse
gangs. A trip to Mexico in 1938 inspired his next novel, The Power and the Glory
(1940). Greene’s greatest commercial success was his last major novel, ‘The Human
Factor’ (1978).

(21)

(22) ‘Following the Equator’ is also titled ‘More Tramps Abroad’ . It is a classic piece
of travel writing, with Twain’s celebrated brand of ironic, tongue-in-cheek humor.
The book recounts a lecture tour in which Mark Twain circumnavigated the globe
in a steamship, and had stops at the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, Fiji Islands, New
Zealand, India, South Africa etc.
He describes a rich range of experiences, like visiting a leper colony in Hawaii, shark
fishing in Australia, tiger hunting & diamond mining in South Africa, and riding the
rails in India, an activity Twain enjoyed immensely as he describes his experience of a
steep descent in a hand-car.

(23) In his “Songs of Experience” Blake is concerned with the soul of man with its
struggle to escape from being overpowered by ‘Reason’ and other oppressive agents.
Blake has adhered to symbolism and simple language in “Songs of Innocence” as
they are intended to please the children. They are very easy to follow. On the other
hand the poems in the “Songs of Experience” are more ambiguous and puzzling. In
these books, Blake was setting up a system of symbols and mythology of his own.
The poems included are – Introduction, Earth’s Answer, The Clod and the Pebble,
Holy Thursday, The Little Girl Lost, The Little Girl Found, The Chimney Sweeper,
Nurse’s Song, The Sick Rose, The Fly, The Angel, The Tyger, My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah!
Sun-flower, The Lily, The Garden of Love, The Little Vagabond, London, The Human
Abstract, Infant Sorrow, A Poison Tree, A Little Boy Lost, A Little Girl Lost, To Tirzah,
The Schoolboy, The Voice of the Ancient Bard.

(24) Cruikshank was requested by John Macrone, editor of The Monthly Magazine between
January and August, 1834, to illustrate young Charles Dickens’s Sketches by Boz. In
1836, Cruikshank illustrated both the first and second series of the Sketches. His
most famous book illustrations were for the novelist Charles Dickens in the latter’s
Sketches by “Boz” (1836–37) and Oliver Twist (1838). George worked closely with
Dickens on Oliver Twist, helping him devise many of the plot developments. But
Cruikshank was never acknowledged as more than illustrator for Oliver Twist, and so
he always felt that he played a great part in the success of the novel and deserved
more credit.

(25) the protagonist Gulliver as he travels to four distinct locations. Lilliput, Brobdingnag,
Laputa, & Houyhnhms. Houyhnhnm is the final land to which Gulliver travels. It has
the ruling class of Houyhnhnms (horses) and inferior brutes of Yahoos (people).
It is Gulliver’s favorite, and he is heartbroken when he is told to leave it. Gulliver
discovers a people who are ruled by reason alone, do not understand lies, and have a
genuine understanding and care for others.

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(26) Madame Merle is the symbol of perfection. Everything she does is in perfect good
taste. But she has created a visible exterior to cover up her inner corruption. She has
been an adulteress, but she has covered her licentious behavior with such good taste
so that the world is unaware of it. In her younger days, she had been very ambitious,
and suffered internally because of many failures. She plays the piano flawlessly, is
intelligent, witty, and charming, and never given to excesses. She never commits
a blunder. She understands basic human nature and knows how to accomplish
anything.

(27) The last stanza of the section of “A Game of Chess” in THE WASTELAND, depicts
two Cockney women talking in a pub at closing time. There is the repeated dictum:
“HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME.” The dialogue between them grows more fractured and
the closing time announcements become more frequent. Finally the stanza devolves
into a quotation from Hamlet- Ophelia’s final words to Claudius and Gertrude, “Good
night ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.”
As Eliot imitates the Cockney talk of women in a pub, he finishes with quotation from
Hamlet, so that the rhythms of lower-class London speech give way to the words of
the mad Ophelia.

(28) In act 1, scene 7, Macbeth delivers a very powerful and important soliloquy. In it he
expresses his thoughts and emotions regarding the potential murder of King Duncan.
He says that if he were to murder the King, he should do it swiftly and as quickly as
possible. It shows Macbeth’s uncertainty about committing the horrendous crime and
is a test of his moral compass.

(29) Absalom and Achitophel, published in 1681, is verse satire is written in heroic
couplets by English poet John Dryden. It is considered one of the finest English
political satires of all time. It is credited as the first written satire written in the
English language, that tells the Biblical story of Absalom, who rebels against King
David. It is commonly understood as an allegorical reading because the events of the
poem are actually about Dryden’s contemporaries, Charles II and the Exclusion Crisis.
The allegory begins by representing England as the Biblical land of Israel, and the
Englishmen as the Jews. Charles II is shown as the modern representation of King
David. The First Earl of Shaftesbury is the modern version of Achitophel, the leader of
this group. Absalom in contemporary terms, is King Charles’ illegitimate son.

(30) In the Comedy of menace, audience is made aware of some menace in the very
midst of general laughter. The menace is felt throughout the play from some
potential or actual violence or from an underlining sense of violence. The actual
cause of menace is ever evading or difficult to define. It generates a sense of
uncertainty and insecurity throughout the play. Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party is
actually the mingling of comedy with a perception of danger that pervades the whole
play.

(31) Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was born in in Bombay, in the Bombay
Presidency of British India. Kipling’s birth home on the campus of the J.J. School
of Art in Bombay was for many years used as the dean’s residence. He remained in
Bombay till he was five. He and his three-year-old sister Alice (“Trix”) were taken to
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in Lahore. He sailed for India on 20 September 1882 and arrived in Bombay on 18

October.
Kipling was the recipient of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 1936. His
works include - The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and short stories, like “The Man
Who Would Be King” (1888). His poems include “Mandalay” (1890), “Gunga Din” (1890),
“The Gods of the Copybook Headings” (1919), “The White Man’s Burden: The United
States and the Philippine Islands” (1899), and “If—” (1910). His children’s books are
classics.

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(36) VOLPONE, draws on elements of city comedy and beast fable. It is a merciless satire
of greed and lust and is considered Jonson’s most-performed play, and also ranked
among the finest Jacobean era comedies.
Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy was the first revenge play in English. A dramatic genre
that flourished in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period is also known as ‘the
tragedy of blood’.
Gorboduc [1562] by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton was considered the exact
representation of Senecan revenge drama.
John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi has several features of a revenge tragedy. Other
examples are Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, and, most
notably, Hamlet; The Revenger’s Tragedy by Thomas Middleton, The Atheist’s Tragedy
by Cyril Tourneur, Antonio’s Revenge by John Marston, The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois
by George Chapman, etc.

(37) Neologism is defined as a new word, or a new use for an old word, or the making up
of new words. An example is the word webinar, for a seminar on the web.

(38) Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. Said explicitly
engages with the ideas of Gramsci, but the book’s conceptualisation of power is
predominantly Foucauldian. Said deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to
accomplish his project in Orientalism . He emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse
and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Said also puts
forward that Orientalism is a discourse and as the product of hegemony.
In his wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Orientalism, Edward Said put
forward the critique of the discipline of Oriental Studies, and explored the question
of knowledge production from a global perspective. It is a critique of the West’s
historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East.
Said traces the origins of “orientalism” to the centuries-long period of European
domination in the Middle and Near East. From its position of power, he defined “the
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western ideas and, this prevents true understanding of the East as it does not allow
the East to represent itself.

(39) Thomas Love Peacock says that English poetry has passed through the Iron Age
of chivalry and romance literature, the Golden Age of Shakespeare, the silver Age
of Dryden and Pope, and has reached the Age of Brass - in which contemporary
romantic poets have retreated into solitude and private meditation. These romantic
poets have distanced themselves from the most important aspects of the life of their
time by remaining studiously ignorant of history, society, and human nature. So their
poetry has become self-conscious and useless in essence.

(40) John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman has a masterful postmodern plot set
in the repressive backdrop of the Victorian era. The work dwells in existentialism
and truly inventive multiple endings. By this the author leaves a huge scope of
intertipretation for the readers and critics. He offers variable choices of ending to the
reader because every book has its own group of diverse readers. Another reason for
multiple endings is to help develop crical thinking in readers so that they know their
selves better through knowing what they want. The novel offers a blissful and joyful
ending and also a futile and wasted ending.

(41) Definition - Chiasmus is a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are
balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an
artistic effect.
This rhetorical device is also referred to as reverse parallelism or syntactical
inversion.
Chiasmus derives from Greek word meaning “crossed.” It refers to a grammatical
structure that inverts a previous phrase. That is, you say one thing, and then you say
something very similar, but flipped around. Eg. “Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss
Fool You.”

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(43)
Materialist feminism derives from socialist feminist work in the late 1960s and early
1970s. Materialist Feminism is largely concerned with linking women’s identities,
bodies, desires, and needs to a theory of class. It highlights capitalism and patriarchy
as central in understanding women’s oppression. Gender is seen as a social
construct, & society forces gender roles of child bearing, onto women. Materialist
feminism focuses specifically on social arrangements that emphasize the role of
women--most notably the family, domesticity, and motherhood.

(44) Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and
professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is known for his “Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard”, published in 1751.

(45) Pepys begins his ‘The Diary of Samuel Pepys’ on January 1, 1660, with a summary of
recent events of the time. After the defeat of Oliver Cromwell, England is seeking a
new king and the decision is made to crown Charles II, who was then living in exile in
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a little over nine years, to May 31st, 1669, when he was worried about his eyesight. It
was first published in part in 1825.

(46) In poetry, run-on lines or Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause

over a line-break, the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without
terminal punctuation. Enjambment is one way of creating audible interest in the
poem.

(47) ‘An Area of Darkness’ by V. S. Naipaul was unofficially banned in India after its
publication. In a long review of the book, titled “Naipaul’s India and Mine,” Nissim
Ezekiel said that he greatly admired and enjoyed Naipaul’s novels, but was against
Naipaul’s “excess” in describing India. Ezekiel concluded that Naipaul’s criticism of
India was “heavily flawed in detail.” Many years later in an attempt to clarify himself,
Naipaul insisted he was only being true to the “visual facts.”

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(49) Metonymy, meaning “change of name”, is a figure of speech in which one object or
idea takes the place of another with which it has a close association. Example –
“Press” represents associations with news organizations; “Broadway” represents
associations with New York drama productions and stage fame.

(50) An Epilogue is a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a
comment on or a conclusion to what has happened. It usually used to bring closure
to the work. In literature, it is the final chapter at the end of a story that often serves
to reveal the fates of the characters.

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Answer Key

(1) (A) (11) (21) (A) (31) (C) (41) (C)

(2) (D) (12) (D) (22) (D) (32) (A) (42) (D)

(3) (A) (13) (B) (23) (B) (33) (C) (43) (C)

(4) (D) (14) (C) (24) (C) (34) (A) (44) (D)

(5) (A) (15) (A) (25) (A) (35) (A) (45) (A)

(6) (C) (16) (A) (26) (B) (36) (C) (46) (D)

(7) (A) (17) (A) (27) (B) (37) (C) (47) (D)

(8) (B) (18) (C) (28) (D) (38) (C) (48) (B)

(9) (C) (19) (A) (29) (B) (39) (C) (49) (D)

(10) (B) (20) (D) (30) (C) (40) (C) (50) (B)

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(1) In Ben Jonson’s Volpone, the animal imagery includes
(a) the fox and the vulture
(b) the fly and the cockroach
(c) the fly, the crow and the raven
(d) the fox, the vulture and the goat
Combination –
(A) (a) and (b) are correct.
(B) only (d) is correct.
(C) (b) and (d) are correct.
(D) (a) and (c) are correct.

(2) Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands” is _______.

(A) a discussion of imperialist assumptions.
(B) an essay that propounds an anti-essentialist view of place.
(C) an existential lament on triumphant colonialism.
(D) an orientalist description of his favorite homelands.

(3) Identify the incorrect statement below:

(a) BASIC was an experiment initiated by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards from 1926 to
about 1940.
(b) Expanded, BASIC read: Broadly Ascertained Scientific International Course.
(c) BASIC English was an attempt to reduce the number of essential words to 850.
(d) While keeping to normal constructions, BASIC failed as an experiment because
its documents were far too complicated and technical to understand.
(A) (a) & (b)
(B) (b) & (d)
(C) (a) & (c)
(D) (c) & (d)

(4) Items in a published book appear in the following order:

(A) Index, Copyright Page, Bibliography, Footnotes
(B) Copyright Page, Bibliography, Index, Footnotes
(C) Copyright Page, Footnotes, Bibliography, Index
(D) Bibliography, Copyright Page, Index, Footnotes

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(5) Match the following:

(I) James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith,
William Cowper, George Crabbe (a) Metaphysical poets
(II) George Herbert, Henry Vaughan,
Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Donne (b) Transitional Poets
(III) Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon,
Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves. (c) War Poets
(IV) W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater,
Rupert Brooke (d) Georgians
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (d) (a) (c) (b)
(B) (d) (b) (d) (a)
(C) (b) (a) (c) (d)
(D) (a) (c) (d) (b)

(6) The following phrases from Shakespeare have become the titles of famous works.
Identify the correctly matched group.
(I) Pale Fire (a) Thomas Hardy
(II) The Sound and the Fury (b) Somerset Maugham
(III) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (c) William Faulkner
(IV) Under the Greenwood (d) Tom Stoppard
(V) Of Cakes and Ale (e) Vladimir Nabokov
Codes
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (V)
(A) (e) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(B) (d) (e) (b) (c) (a)
(C) (e) (c) (d) (a) (b)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (e) (a)

(7) Identify the statement that is NOT TRUE among those that explain “stage directions”
in drama.
(A) Stage directions inform readers how to stage, perform or imagine the play.
(B) The place, time of action, design of the set and at times characters’ actions or
tone of voice are indicated by stage directions.
(C) Stage directions are often italicized in the text of a play in order to be spoken
aloud.
(D) Stage directions may appear at the beginning of a play, before a scene or
attached to a line of dialogue.

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(8) The emergence of the concept of “World literature” is associated with:

(a) Friedrich Schiller
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(c) Johann Goltfried Herder
(d) Immanuel Kant
(A) (a) & (b)
(B) (c) & (d)
(C) (b) & (c)
(D) (a) & (d)

(9) Günter Grass’s Tin Drum is part of a trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy.
The other two novels are:
(A) The Flounder and Dog Years
(B) The Rat and Cat and Mouse
(C) Cat and Mouse and Dog Years
(D) Crabwalk and The Rat

(10) The hostess proudly announces that the family can afford a servant and her
daughters have nothing to do with the kitchen. Who is the proud mother in this Jane
Austen novel?
(A) Mrs. Morland
(B) Lady Catherine de Burgh
(C) Mrs. Bennet
(D) Mrs. Dashwood

(11) When Keats writes about the “beaker full” of “The blushful Hippocrene”, Hippocrene
is:
(A) the fountain of the horse
(B) a spring sacred to the Muses
(C) Mount Helicon produced from a blow of Pegasus
(D) Both (A) & (B)

(12) Which of the following statements on The Prelude by William Wordsworth is/are not
true?
(a) The Prelude was published posthumously.
(b) In this poem, Wordsworth records his development as a poet.
(c) The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial stages the poet celebrates the sublime
natural scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature.

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(d) Poems like “Michael”, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the
untrodden ways”, “Nutting” etc. are the highlights of this volume.
(A) (a) to (d) are true.
(B) (a) is not true.
(C) (d) is not true.
(D) Only (c) is true.

(13) Assertion (A): At the end of Heart of Darkness, Marlow tells a lie to the Intended
about Kurtz when he tells her “The last word he pronounced was – your name”.
Reason (R): Marlow tells this lie because he is secretly in love with the Intended and
tells her what she wants to hear.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true ; (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

(14) Ear-training in ELT is easily achieved by:

(a) composition
(b) dictation
(c) cloze tests
(d) listening exercises
(e) précis writing
(A) (c) and (e)
(B) (a), (c) and (e)
(C) (b), (c) and (d)
(D) (b) and (d)

(15) William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus are based
on ____________.
(A) Holinshed’s Chronicles
(B) Folk-tales and legends
(C) Older Roman Plays
(D) Plutarch’s Lives

(16) The basic concept that creation was ordered, that every species exists in a hierarchy
of status, from God to the lowest creature, was prevalent in the Renaissance. In this
hierarchical continuum, man occupies the middle position between the animal kinds
and the angels.
This world view is known as:
(A) Humanism
(B) The Enlightenment
(C) The Great Chain of Being
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(17) In Virginia Woolf s To the Lighthouse the lighthouse does not symbolize:
(A) permanence at the heart of change.
(B) change in the unchanging world.
(C) celebration of life in the heart of death.
(D) celebration of order in the heart of chaos.

(18) “Can one imagine any private soldier, in the nineties or now, reading Barrack-Room
Ballads and feeling that here was a writer who spoke for him? It is very hard to
do so. [….] When he is writing not of British but of “loyal” Indians he carries the
‘Salaam, Sahib’ motif to sometimes disgusting lengths. Yet it remains true that he
has far more interest in the common soldier, far more anxiety that he shall get a fair
deal, then most of the “liberals” of his day and our own. He sees that the soldier
is neglected, meanly underpaid and hypocritically despised by the people whose
incomes he safeguards”.
(A) This is E. M. Forster’s “India, Again”.
(B) This is Malcolm Muggeridge on E. M. Forster’s India.
(C) This is T. S. Eliot on Rudyard Kipling.
(D) This is George Orwell on Rudyard Kipling.

(19) In the well-known poem “ To his coy mistress”, the word coy means
(A) shy
(B) timid
(C) voluptuous
(D) sensuous The word ‘coy’ means ‘shy’.

(20) From the following list, identify “backformation”: Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke, swindle,
bundle.
(A) Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke
(B) Stoke, poke, swindle, bundle
(C) Sulk, stoke, bundle
(D) Bulk, poke, bundle

(21) “It blurs distinctions among literary, non-literary and cultural texts, showing how all
three intercirculate, share in, and mutually constitute each other.” What does it in
this statement stand for?
(A) Marxism
(B) Structuralism
(C) Formalism
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(22) For, though, I’ve no idea. What this accoutred frowsty ____ is worth, It pleases me to
stand in silence here. (Fill in the blank)
(A) bar
(B) barn
(C) attic
(D) alcove

(23) Which of the following novels is NOT a Partition novel?

(A) Azadi
(B) Tamas
(C) Clear Light of the Day
(D) That Long Silence

(24) Of the following characters, which one does not belong to A House for Mr. Biswas?
(A) Raghu
(B) Ralph Singh
(C) Dehuti
(D) Tara

(25) In English literature, the trope of the vampire was used for the first time by :
(A) Matthew Gregory Lewis
(B) John Polidori
(C) John Stagg
(D) Bram Stoker

(26) Why is “Universal grammar” so called?

(A) It is a set of basic grammatical principles universally followed and easily
recognized by people.
(B) It is a set of basic grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all
natural languages.
(C) It is a set of advanced grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all
natural languages.
(D) It is a set of universally respected practices that have come, in time, to be
known as “grammar”.

(27) Identify the novel with the wrong subtitle listed below:
(A) Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life
(B) Tess of the D’Urbervilles, A Pure Woman
(C) The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Man of Character
(D) Felix Holt, the Socialist

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(28) Match List – I with List – II.

List – I List – II
(I) David Malouf (a) The Solid Mandala
(II) Patrick White (b) Wild Cat Falling
(III) Peter Carey (c) Remembering
(III) Peter Carey (c) Remembering Babylon
(IV) Colin Johnson (d) True History of the Kelly Gang
CODES
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(C) (b) (c) (a) (d)
(D) (c) (d) (b) (a)

(29) The opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike, every
unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The specific cause of the unhappiness in
Oblonsky’s house was the husband’s affair with:
(A) a kitchen – maid
(B) an English governess
(C) a French governess
(D) a socialite

(30) This periodical had the avowed intention “to enliven morality with wit and to temper
wit with morality… to bring philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and
colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee houses”. It also
promoted family, marriage and courtesy.
The periodical under reference is:
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Gentleman’s Magazine
(D) The London Magazine

(31) Assertion (A): “Tam O’ Shanter” by John Clare is about the experience of an ordinary
human being and became quite popular during that time.
Reason (R): John Clare, having suffered bouts of madness, could really feel for the
misery of common man. In the context of the two statements, which of the following
is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) explains (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) does not explain (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is true but (R) is true.

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(32) Alexander Pope’s An Essay in Criticism:

(a) Purports to define “wit” and “nature” as they apply to the literature of his age.
(b) Claims no originality in the thought that governs this work.
(c) is a prose essay that gives us such quotes as “A little learning is a dangerous
thing !”
(d) Appeared in 1701.
(A) (c) and (d) are incorrect.
(B) (a) and (b) are incorrect.
(C) (a) to (d) are correct.
(D) only (a) and (d) are correct.

(33) What is register?

(A) The way in which a language registers in the minds of its users.
(B) The way users of a language register the nuances of that language.
(C) A variety of language used in social situations or one specially designed for the
subject it deals with.
(D) A variety of language used in non-professional or informal situations by
professionals.

(34) Jeremy Collier’s Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
(1698) attacked ______.
(A) the practice of mixing tragic and comic themes in Shakespeare’s plays.
(B) the bawdiness of “low” characters in Shakespeare’s plays.
(C) the coarseness and ugliness of Restoration Theatre.
(D) irreligious themes and irreverent attitudes in the plays of the seventeenth
century.

(35) One of the most important themes the speakers debate in Dryden’s An Essay on
Dramatic Poesy is______.
(A) European and non-European perceptions of reality.
(B) English and non-English perceptions of reality.
(C) the relative merits of French and English theatre.
(D) the relative merits of French and English poetry.

(36) Identify the correctly matched pair:

(A) Amitav Ghosh – All About H. Halterr
(B) Anita Desai – Inheritance of Loss
(C) Shashi Deshpande – A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence

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(37) Match the following correctly:

EXPRESSION AUTHOR
(I) Langue / Parole (a) Noam Chomsky
(II) Competence / Performance (b) C. S. Pierce
(III) Ieonic / Indexical (c) Ferdinand de Saussure
(IV) Readerly / Writerly (d) Roland Barthes
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (c) (b) (a) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (b) (d)
(C) (a) (c) (d) (b)
(D) (b) (c) (a) (d)

(38) Match the following correctly:

(1) Joy Kogawa (a) Bloody Rites
(2) M. G. (b) Obasan Vasanjee
(3) Sky Lee (c) The Gunny Sack
(4) Arnold (d) Disappearing Itwaru Moon Café
1234
(A) (d) (a) (b) (c)
(B) (a) (d) (c) (b)
(C) (b) (c) (d) (a)
(D) (a) (b) (c) (d)

(39) Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt Disneyland as his own sign?
(A) Disneyland is by far the most eminently noticeable cultural sign in the post
modern world.
(B) Disneyland captures ‘essences’ and ‘non-essences’ of Reality more convincingly
than other cultural venues.
(C) Disneyland is an artefact that so obviously announces its own fictiveness that it
would seem to imply some counter balancing reality.
(D) Disneyland is both ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’ in the postmodern visual game of
handy-dandy.

(40) Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE of Dante Gabriel Rossetti?
(A) D. G. Rossetti was a Londoner, the son of an Italian refugee who taught Italian at
King’s college.
(B) Rossetti formed the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood with Holman Hunt, Ford Madox
Brown and Painter Millais.
(C) He married Christina Georgina who was a poet in her right.
(D) Rossetti’s “Blessed Damozel” displays his remarkable gifts as a poet and painter.

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(41) Goethe’s Faust (Part I, Scene 1) opens in:

(A) heaven
(B) hell
(C) forest
(D) Faust’s study

(42) “Is it their single-mind-sized skulls or a trained Body, or genius, or a nestful of brats
Gives their days this bullet and automatic purpose….” (Thrushes) In the above lines
what does ‘their’ refer to and what quality of ‘their’ does the poet speak of?
I. Human beings and their intelligence
II. The thrushes and their concentration in achieving what they set out for
III. The efficiency of the thrushes in getting at their prey
IV. All the above
(A) Only III is correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.

(43) Find the odd (wo)man out : Belladonna – Engenides – The Typist – Marie – Madame
Sosostris – the ruin bibber – Tiresias – the Youngman Carbuncular
(A) Belladonna
(B) Madame Sosostris
(C) Tiresias
(D) The ruin – bibber

(44) Wilkie Collins’s novel, The Moonstone (1868) tells the story of ______.
(A) a detective’s exploits in Victorian England.
(B) a doctor’s adventures in a Middle-Eastern Suburb.
(C) a fabulous yellow diamond stolen from an Indian shrine.
(D) illegal mining of diamonds in eastern U.P. during British rule.

(45) Identify the correctly matched group:

(I) “Because I could not stop for death… (a) Walt Whitman
(II) “O Captain ! My Captain!” (b) William Carlos Williams
(III) “Two roads diverged in a wood…” (c) Emily Dickinson
(IV) “So much depends upon…” (d) Robert Frost Codes
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(C) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(D) (c) (a) (b) (d)

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(46) “Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of midnight – work to
come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe and liquor’d e’vry
chink, Goodly and great he rails behind his link”. In the above passage from Absalom
and Achitophel, link means :
(A) a connection in the court
(B) a hired servant who carries a lighted torch
(C) a social tie
(D) a rich patron

(47) Which among the following is NOT a typical “Indian English Poem” by Nissim Ezekiel?
(A) “How the English Lessons Ended”
(B) “The Railway Clerk”
(C) “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”
(D) “The Patriot”

(48) Match the correct pair :

(I) George Eliot 1. Ellis Bell
(II) Saki 2. Mary Anne Evans
(III) Emily Bronte 3. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(IV) Mark Twain 4. H. H. Munro
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 1 3 4 2
(D) 3 2 1 4

(49) In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster Geryon represents ______.

(A) fraud
(B) usury
(C) sloth
(D) gluttony

(50) I.A. Richards’s famous experiment with poems and his Cambridge students is
detailed in Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement (1929). Richards was
astonished by
(A) the poor quality of his students’ “stock responses”
(B) the very astute remarks made by his students
(C) the non-availability of poems, worthy of class-room attention
(D) the success of his experiment

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(51) Based on the following description, identify the text in reference:

This is a play in which no one comes, no one goes, nothing happens. In its opening
scene a man struggles hard to remove his boot. The play was originally written in
French, later translated into English. It was first performed in 1953.
(A) Look Back in Anger
(B) Waiting for Godot
(C) The Zoo Story
(D) The Birthday Party

(52) One of the following Canterbury Tales is in prose, identify.

(A) The Pardoner’s Tale
(B) The Parson’s Tale
(C) The Monk’s Tale
(D) The Knight’s Tale

(53) In his distinction between imagination and fancy, Coleridge identifies the following:
(a) it dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate.
(b) it has aggregative and associative power.
(c) it plays with fixities and definites.
(d) it has shaping and modifying power.
The correct combination reads :
(A) (a) and (b) for fancy; (c) and (d) for imagination.
(B) (a) and (c) for fancy; (b) and (d) for imagination.
(C) (b) and (c) for fancy; (a) and (d) for imagination.
(D) (c) and (d) for fancy; (a) and (b) for imagination.

(54) Julia Kristeva’s ‘Intertextuality’ derives from:

(a) Saussure’s signs
(b) Chomsky’s deep structure
(c) Bakhtin’s dialogism
(d) Derrida’s difference
(A) (a) and (d)
(B) (a) and (c)
(C) (c) and (d)
(D) (a) and (b)

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(55) Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths about white purity through characters like:
(a) Norton
(b) Bledsoe
(c) Rhinehart
(d) all of the above
(A) (a) and (b)
(B) (a), (b) and (c)
(C) (b) and (c)
(D) (a) and (c)

(56) Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Ralph Waldo Emerson?

(A) He wrote essays on New England scenery, woodcraft and plantations.
(B) He was an eloquent pulpit orator, a member of the Unitarian Church under
William Chawming.
(C) In essays like “Nature”, he elaborates on the importance of seeing familiar things
in new ways.
(D) His famous “American Scholar” was delivered as an address before the Phi Beta
Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1837.

(57) “Exorcism” is the title of Act III of who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? What is the
significance of ‘exorcism’ in the context of the play?
(A) The casting out of evil spirits
(B) Deconstructing of myths involving marriage, fertility and sons
(C) Facing life without illusions
(D) Exposing all attempts at illusion making

(58) “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”. This is an important statement

defining the womanist perspective advanced by
(A) Toni Morrison
(B) Zora Neale Hurston
(C) Alice Walker
(D) Bell Hooks

(59) Identify the mismatched pair in the following where characters in Golding’s Lord of
the Flies fit the allegorized pattern of virtues and vices.
(A) Ralph - rationality
(B) Piggy - pragmatism
(C) Jack - pity
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(60) A Subaltern perspective is one where

(A) Power-structures define and determine your command of language and language
of command in an uneven world.
(B) The politically dispossessed could be voiceless, written out of the historical
record and ignored because their activities do not count for “Cultural” or
“Structured”.
(C) You don’t know what your ‘story’ is, how to deal with a ‘story’ and therefore you
are forced to put stereotyped situations in it to please your listeners.
(D) You begin to see how we live, how we have been living, how we have been led to
imagine ourselves, how our language has trapped as well as liberated us.

(61) (a) “Interlanguage” is a term we owe to M.A.K. Halliday.

(b) Interlanguage develops an autonomous and self-contained grammatical system
(c) It is a distinct stage in a learner’s progress in the study of a second language.
(d) It owes nothing at all either to the learner’s native or target / second language.
(A) (d) is correct.
(B) (b) is correct.
(C) (a) and (c) are correct.
(D) (c) and (d) are correct.

(62) In a classic statement that inaugurated Feminist thought in English, we read:

“A woman writing thinks back through her mother’s”. Where does this occur?
(A) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
(B) Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics
(C) Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives
(D) Mary Hiatt’s The Way Women Write.

(63) Identify the correctly matched pair of translators and translations.

(I) A. K. Ramanujan (a) The Ramayana
(II) Manmathanath Dutt (b) The Bhagavad Gita
(III) Mohini Chatterjee (c) Speaking of Shiva
(IV) Romesh Chandra Dutt (d) The Mahabharata
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (c) (d) (b) (a)
(B) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(C) (d) (a) (b) (c)
(D) (b) (a) (d) (c)

(64) Assertion (A): In the Power and the Glory, Greene shows how the Whisky Priest
transcends his weakness for drink and his human fears, moving towards martyrdom.

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Reason (R): Transcendence in Greene’s novels is generally an outcome of love for

humanity, but pride is also an essential ingredient in the Priest’s character.
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation for (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).

(65) Which of the following statements on John Dryden is incorrect?

(a) John Milton and John Dryden were contemporaries.
(b) Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton fiercely opposed monarchy.
(c) Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal Emperor Humayun.
(d) Dryden was appointed the Poet Laureate of England in 1668.
(A) (a) is incorrect.
(B) (d) is incorrect.
(C) (c) is incorrect.
(D) (b) and (c) are incorrect.

(66) “Like walking, criticism is a pretty nearly universal art; both require a constant
intricate shifting and catching of balance; neither can be questioned much in
process; and few perform either really well. For either a new terrain is fatiguing
and awkward, and in our day most men prefer paved walks and some form of rapid
transport some easy theory or overmastering dogma.” (R.P. Blackmur, “A Critic’s Job
of Work”)
(a) Blackmur compares walking with criticism because he considers both to be
“arts” of a similar kind that call for attention to detail and utmost care.
(b) Blackmur admits that some people do however manage to be good critics and
good walkers.
(c) Critics prefer tried and tested approaches for much the same reason as Walkers
would look for paved walks and rapid transport.
(d) Blackmur does not quite give us the equivalents of “Some paved walks and some
form of rapid transport” in order to press his comparison.
(A) (a) and (d) are correct.
(B) (a) and (c) are correct.
(C) only (d) is correct.
(D) only (b) is correct.

(67) The world dominated by cold and hypocritical materialists is represented by William
Blake in the mythological figure of __________ .
(A) Urizen
(B) Albion
(C) Geryon
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(68) Identify the correctly matched group:

(A) Third Space – Wolfgang Iser Hybridity – Edward Soja Reception aesthetics –
Ferdinand de Saussure Langue – Homi Bhabha
(B) Third Space – Ernst Bloch Hybridity – Edward Said Reception aesthetics – Eve K.
Sedgwick Langue – G. S. Frazer
(C) Third Space – Edward Soja Hybridity – Homi Bhabha Reception aesthetics –
Wolfgang Iser Langue – Ferdinand de Saussure
(D) Third Space – G. S. Frazer Hybridity – Eve K. Sedgwick Reception aesthetics –
Edward Soja Langue – Edward Said

(69) Which of the following can be best described as:

(i) the first statement of Bernard Shaw’s idea of Life Force;
(ii) a play dealing with a woman’s pursuit of her mate; and
(iii) a play whose third act called “Don Juan in Hell” is both unconventional and
hilarious ?
(A) The Devil’s Disciple
(B) Man and Superman
(C) Candida
(D) Arms and the Man

(70) Identify the untrue statement on the CONTACT ZONE below:

(A) “The contact zone” is a space where disparate cultures meet, clash and grapple
with each other.
(B) In Postcolonial societies “contact” suggests the historical moment when settler
and indigenous cultures first met.
(C) The idea of the Contact Zone was first proposed and defined by Mary Louise
Pratt’s Imperial Eyes :
Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992)
(D) It is believed that the Contact Zone was largely instrumental in spearheading
nationalist movements across the world.

(71) Name the novel in which

I. the protagonist is a war veteran called Tayo.
II. Tayo returns from World War II, thoroughly disillusioned and haunted by his
violent actions of war time.
III. Tayo seeks consolation and counsel from old Betonie.
IV. The protagonist realizes the importance of harmonizing humanity and the
universe.
(A) Beloved
(B) Ceremony
(C) Daisy Miller
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(72) One of the following poems in Men and Women is addressed to Elizabeth Barrett
Browning by the poet. Identify it.
(A) “In Three Days”
(B) “By the Fireside”
(C) “One Way of Love”
(D) “One Word More”

(73) Match List-I with List-II according to the codes given below:
List – I List – II
I. Tennessee Williams 1. Emperor Jones Williams
II. Eugene O’Neil 2. A Streetcar Named Desire
III. Lorraine Hansberry 3. After the Fall
IV. Arthur Miller 4. A Raisin in the Sun
I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 1 3 2 4
(C) 4 2 3 1
(D) 2 1 4 3

(74) Match the correct pair:

I. Theatre of Cruelty 1. Safdar Hashmi
II. Theatre of the Oppressed 2. Georg Kaiser
III. Expressionist Theatre 3. Jerzy Grotowsky
IV. Agitprop 4. Augusto Bal
I II III IV
(A) 1 2 4 3
(B) 3 4 2 1
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 4 1 3 2

(75) Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre

(a) turns the spectator into an observer
(b) wears down the spectator’s capacity for action
(c) relies on argument
(d) presents man as a process
(A) (a) and (d) are correct; (b) and (c) are incorrect.
(B) (a), (c) and (d) are correct; (b) is wrong.
(C) (b) and (d) are correct; (a) and (c) are incorrect.
(D) (a), (b) and (c) are correct; (d) is incorrect.

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Explanation
(1) In Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or the Fox, (1605-06) the animal imagery includes – The
fox, vulture, fly, crow and the raven. Ben Jonson’s Volpone is a play about a rich man
named Volpone who cons greedy men of Venice out of their possessions.

(2) Imaginary Homelands 1991 is a collection of essays written by Salman Rushdie. In

addition to the title essay, the collection also includes “’Commonwealth Literature’
Does Not Exist”. Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands” is an essay that propounds
an anti-essentialist view of place.

(3) It was presented in Ogden’s book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules
and Grammar (1930).
y BASIC Stands for British, American, Scientific, International, Commercial.

(4) The correct order of items in a book –

Copyright Page → Footnotes → Bibliography → Index

(5)

(6) Pale Fire is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov in 1962. It took title from Shakespeare’s
Timon of Athens “The moon’s an arrant thief, / And her pale fire she snatches from
the sun”
y The Sound and the Fury is a novel by William Faulkner. The title of the novel is
extracted from Macbeth’s famous soliloquy in act 5, scene 5 of Shakespeare’s play
Macbeth.
y Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a tragi-comedy by Tom Stoppard. The
play’s title originated from two minor characters of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
y Under the Greenwood Tree is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1872. The title is
extracted from a song in Shakespeare’s As You Like It (Act II, Scene V).
y Cakes and Ale is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham printed in 1930. The novel drew
his title from the remark of Sir Toby to Malvolio in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: “Dost
thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

(7) The incorrect statement is (c) because stage directions are not to be spoken aloud,
they are just indicators.

(8) The emergence of the concept of ‘World Literature’ is associated with Goethe and
Herder.

(9) Gunter Grass’ Danzig Trilogy has three novels- ‘Tin Drum’, ‘Cat and Mouse’ and ‘Dog
Years’.

(10) Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen.
y Mrs. Bennet in Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (1813) proudly announces that their
family could afford a servant and so her daughters had nothing to do with the
kitchen.

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(11) O for a beaker full of the warm South Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; The term
Hippocrene as used by Keats in one of his poems means both the fountain of the
horse and a spring sacred to the Muses.

(12) The poems like ‘Michael’ ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’, ‘She dwelt among the
untrodden ways’,Nutting’ etc are the part of 1800 edition of ‘Lyrical Ballads.’
The Prelude’ completed in 1805 with 13 books but published posthumously by his
wife in 1850.

(13) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(14) Ear-training is an oral comprehension technique in English Language Teaching (ELT).

It’s not easy to communicate if one can hardly understand what other people are
saying. To achieve quick, tangible results in this area, one has to practice a unique
oral comprehension method- Ear- training. It can be achieved by dictation and
listening exercises as both require a complete attention for listening

(15) Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Plutarch ’s Lives.
It was translated in English by Sir Thomas North in 1579. This translation become
the main source for William Shakespeare’s three famous plays- Julius Caesar (1599),
Antony and Cleopatra (1606) and Coriolanus (1608).

(16) The above view is known as – The Great Chain of Being derived from Plato and
Aristotle The chain starts from God and progresses downward to angels, demons
(fallen/renegade angels), stars, moon. kings, princes, nobles, men, wild animals,
domesticated animals, trees, other plants, precious stones, precious metals, and
other minerals.

(17) To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is a landmark novel of high
modernism which centers on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in
Scotland between 1910 and 1920.
y In Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ (1927) the lighthouse does not symbolize
change in the unchanging world.
y In Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ (1927) the lighthouse symbolizes
y permanence at the heart of change.
y celebration of life in the heart of death.
y celebration of order in the heart of chaos.

(18) The above is a commentary on Rudyard Kipling by George Orwell. He wrote “The
writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding,
Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot
and D. H. Lawrence.” He was both an admirer and a critic of Rudyard Kipling,”

(19) To His Coy Mistress is a metaphysical poem written Andrew Mansell

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(20) ‘Backformation’ is a term coined by James Murry in 1889

y ‘Backformation’ means creating a new lexeme or word by removing the affixes. Sulk
→ bulk Stoke → poke Swindle → bundle Bulk, poke and bundle are the examples of
backformation.

(21) A method of literary criticism that emphasizes the historicity of a text by relating it
to the configurations of power, society, or ideology in a given time

(22) The above extract is from the 6th stanza of P. Larkin’s poem ‘Church Going’ and the
word in the blank is – ‘barn’. For, though I’ve no idea What this accoutred frowsty
barn is worth, It pleases me to stand in silence here;

(23) This question can be categorized under the heading of:

y Azadi is widely considered to be the best of the Indian-English novels written about
the traumatic partition which accompanied Indian Independence in 1947 written by
Chaman Nahal in 1975.
y That Long Silence isa feminist novel written by Shashi Deshpande, a wellknown
Indian English writer in 1988. The novel traces the signifies the pathetic condition of
In-dian woman through the character of Jaya.
y Clear Light of the Day is a novel published in 1980 by Indian novelist Anita Desai. The
novel focuses on the tensions in a post-partition Indian family.
y Tamas by Bhisham Sahni is a novel originally written in Hindi about the 1947 riots in
Pakistan preceding the Partition of India.

(24) A House for Mr. Biswas is a novel by V. S. Naipaul, the Nobel laureate written in 1961.
The story traces the life of Mohun Biswas, the protagonist and his struggle to own his
own house.
y The other characters of the novels are Raghu, father of Mr. Biswas ,
Tara, a wealthy aunt of Mr Biswas who brought up his sister.
Dehuti is the sister of Mr. Biswas who embarrasses the family by marrying a yard boy.
Note - Ralph Singh is a character in Naipaul’s another novel “The Mimic Men”.

(25) John Stagg was an English poet. He published Minstrel of the North which included
this vampire poem. The trope of Vampire was introduced in English literature by John
Stagg.

(26) Universal Grammar has been credited to Noam Chomsky argued that the ability to
learn language is innate, distinctly human and distinct from all other aspects of
human cognition.

(27) The subtitle of George Eliot’s ‘Felix Holt’ (1866) is ‘The Radical’.

(28) Correct Match-

(I) David Malouf (a) Remembering Babylon
(II) Patrick White (b) The Solid Mandala
(III) Peter Carey (c) Wild Cat Falling
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(29) In Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’ (1877), the cause of unhappiness in Oblonsky’s house was
the husband’s affair with a French Governess.
The story centers on an extramarital affair between Anna and dashing cavalry officer
Count Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky that scandalizes the social circles of Saint Petersburg
and forces the young lovers to flee to Italy in a search for happiness, but after they
return to Russia, their lives further unravel

(30) The above-mentioned part is from The Spectator, a periodical started by Joseph
Addison and Richard Steel and run successfully from 1711 to 1712. It was started on 1
March 1711 and contained total 555 papers
y On March 12th , 1711, in its 10 paper, Addison states that The Spectator will aim “to
enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality”.

(31) The (R) does not tell us about the points raised in (A), so, both (A) and (R) are true
but (R) does not explain (A).
y “Tam o’ Shanter” is a poem written by Robert Burns in 1790. First published in 1791
y John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer

(32) An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope is a verse essay composed in heroic

couplets in 1709 but appeared firstly in 1711.
“To err is human, to forgive divine,” “A little learning is a dangerous thing” are the
most important quotes from the essay

(33) This question can be categorized under the heading of:

y MAK Halliday developed the term Register and defined its a part of sociolinguistics,
which is the study of the way in which we use language in social context. In other
words It can be understand as variety of language used in social situations or one
specially designed for the subject it deals with.

(34) Jeremy Collier published his anti-theatre pamphlet in 1698, A Short View of the
Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage; in the pamphlet, Collier attacks
a number of playwrights: William Wycherley, John Dryden, William Congreve, John
Vanbrugh, and Thomas D’Urfey.

(35) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” 1668 during the closure of the London theaters due to
plague.
y It can be read as a general defense of drama as a legitimate art form.
y In the work debate takes place between 4 characters
y Dryden depicted himself as Neander

(36)

(37) Langue/Parole - Ferdinand de Saussure in his book “Course in General Linguistics.”

1916 Langue System of language Parole use of language
y Competence/Performance - Noam Chomsky.
Competence=Langue and Performance = Parole

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y Iconic/Indexical/symbolic. - C. S. Pierce to present

y Readerly/Writerly - Roland Barthes lisible (“readerly”) and scriptible (“writerly”)

(38)

(39)

(40) Christina Georgina Rossetti was the sister of D.G. Rossetti not wife.
y Both of them were associated with Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood

(41) Faust, two-part dramatic work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Part I was published
in 1808 and Part II in 1832, after the author’s death.
y Goethe’s ‘Faust’ opens in Faust’s study.

(42) In Ted Hughes’ ‘Thrushes’ ha been described as a ‘terrifying,’ bird that is almost
robotic and has fierce eyes.

(43) The ruin-bibber appears in P. Larkin’ Church Going’. Ruin-bibber is any person who is
a regular drinker of alcoholic beverages.

(44) Collin’s ‘The Moonstone’ (1868) is the story of a fabulous yellow diamond stolen from
an Indian shrine.
y The novel begins in India, with a Prologue written by an anonymous member of the
Verinder family,
y The novel’s long first section is set in Yorkshire in 1848,

(45)

(46) Link’ in Dryden’s ‘Absalom and Achitophel’ (1681) refers to a hired servant who carries
a lighted torch. Absalom and Achitophel’ (1681) is a biblical allegory.

(47) Nissim Ezekiel used Pidgin English on his composition.

y How the English Lessons Ended,” from Hymns in Darkness,

(48)

(49) In Canto 17 of the Inferno from Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’, the monster Geryon
represents fraud.
y The Divine Comedy is a long Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri
y Dante narrates The Divine Comedy in the first person as his own journey to Hell and
Purgatory by way of his guide Virgil,

(50) Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement is the seminal work of I. A.

Richards, 1924
y The Principles of Literary Criticism 1929
y The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of
the Science of Symbolism. Co-authored with C. K. Ogden.

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(51) The above description is of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ (1953).
y Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi)
and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions
y Original French-language play, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only)
“a tragicomedy in two acts”.

(52) In ‘Canterbury Tales’by Chaucer there are two tales in prose - The Parson’s Tale and
Tale of Melibeus.
In The Canterbury Tales, a group of 29 pilgrims host and the poet himself traveling
to Canterbury Cathedral (shrine of St. Thomas Beckett) compete in a storytelling
contest. This overarching plot, or frame, provides a reason for the pilgrims to tell
their stories, which reflect the concerns sparked by the social upheavals of late
medieval England.

(53) S. T. Coleridge is known for giving concept of Imagination and Fancy In Biographia
Literaria 1817, in Chap. 13 of the book he differentiated between Imagination and
Fancy by Fancy he mean associative power and plays with fixities and definites;
‘imagination’ dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate and has shaping and
modifying power.

(54) Julia Kristeva’s ‘Intertextuality’ derives from (A) Saussure’s signs and (C) Bakhtin’s
dialogism.

(55) This question can be categorized under the heading of:

y Ralph Ellison novelist and literary critic. He is most quoted for his masterpiece
Invisible Man which won him the National Book Award in 1953. The novel is about an
African American man whose color renders him invisible.
y In the novel, ‘The Invisible Man’ (1952), Ralph Ellison subverts myths about white
purity through characters like Norton and Bledsoe in his novel. Mr. Norton is one of
the wealthy white trustees at the narrator’s college, represents the white Northern
liberal.

(56) The Statement that Emerson wrote essays on New England scenery, woodcraft and
plantations is incorrect.

(57) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee is a play divided into three acts and
premiered in 1962.
1. Act One: “Fun and Games”
2. Act Two: “Walpurgisnacht”
3. Act Three: “The Exorcism”
The third act titled ‘Exorcism” presents the climax of the play.

(58) Alice Walker gave the womanist perspective as “Womanist is to feminist as purple is
to lavender”.
y Alice Walker is famed to have coined the term ‘womanism’.

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(59) Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ (1954), The book focuses on a group of British boys
stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern
themselves.
Jack in ‘Lord of the Flies’ symbolizes evil and violence, the dark side of human
nature, which is the opposite of pity.

(60)

(61) ‘Interlanguage’ is a term we owe to M.A.K. Halliday. An interlanguage is an idiolect

that has been developed by a learner of a second language (or L2) which preserves
some features of their first language

(62) “A woman writing thinks back through her mother’s”. these lines occur in Virginia
Woolf’s ‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929) is considered the inaugural feminist text and
the above line figures in it.

(63) Romesh Chunder Dutt well-known for translations of Ramayana and Mahabhartha.
y A. K. Ramanujan translated Speaking of Siva,
y Mohini Chatterjee known for translations of The Bhagvad Gita into English.
y Manmatha Nath Dutt known as translator of Hindu epics The Mahbhartha into
English.

(64) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) does not correctly explain (A).

(65) Dryden wrote a Restoration Drama ‘Aurangzeb’ in 1675 which was published in 1690.
Dryden did not write a play on Humayun.

(66)

(67) In the mythology of William Blake, Urizen is the embodiment of conventional reason
and law

(68) Edward Soja -Third Space in his book “The Production of Space”
y Hybridity - Homi Bhabha in his essay “Of Mimicry and Man”
y Wolfgang Iser - Reception aesthetics and his theory of reader-response criticism.
y Langue - Ferdinand de Saussure in his book “Course in General Linguistics”

(69) The above description is associated with Shaw’s 1903 play ‘Man and Superman’.

(70) Mary Louise Pratt used the term “contact zones” to describe those spaces where
“cultures, meet, clash and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly
asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as
they are lived out in many parts of the world today”

(71) Ceremony by writerLeslie Marmon Silko is a novel, published in 1977.

y The main character of the novel is a war veteran named Tayo
y After returning from World War II, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder

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(72) ‘Men and Women’ is a collection of 51 poems in two volumes first published in 1855
by Robert Browning. The first fifty poems take in a diverse range of historical religious
or European situations and the fifty-first ‘One Word More’ is dedicated to his wife
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

(73)

(74)

(75) Bertolt Brecht was a famous German playwright gave concept of Epic Theatre related
to Drama.

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Answer Key

(1) (D) (16) (C) (31) (B) (46) (B) (61) (C)

(2) (B) (17) (B) (32) (D) (47) (A) (62) (A)

(3) (B) (18) (D) (33) (C) (48) (B) (63) (A)

(4) (C) (19) (A) (34) (C) (49) (A) (64) (C)

(5) (C) (20) (D) (35) (C) (50) (A) (65) (C)

(6) (C) (21) (D) (36) (D) (51) (B) (66) (B)

(7) (C) (22) (B) (37) (B) (52) (B) (67) (A)

(8) (C) (23) (D) (38) (C) (53) (C) (68) (C)

(9) (C) (24) (B) (39) (C) (54) (B) (69) (B)

(10) (C) (25) (C) (40) (C) (55) (A) (70) (D)

(11) (D) (26) (B) (41) (D) (56) (A) (71) (B)

(12) (C) (27) (D) (42) (D) (57) (D) (72) (D)

(13) (B) (28) (C) (43) (D) (58) (C) (73) (D)

(14) (D) (29) (C) (44) (C) (59) (C) (74) (B)

(15) (D) (30) (B) (45) (B) (60) (B) (75) (B)

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2012 December – Paper 2

(1) Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth
century:
(A) Advancement of Learning
(B) Gulliver’s Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

(2) Which, among the following, is a place through which John Bunyan’s Christian does
NOT pass?
(A) The Slough of Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C) The Valley of Humiliation
(D) Vanity Fair

(3) The period of Queen Victoria’s reign is

(A) 1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(C) 1830–1901
(D) 1837–1900

(4) Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true?
(A) It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.
(B) It also carried pastoral and other poems.
(C) It carried a “Preface” which Wordsworth added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

(5) One of the following texts was published earlier than 1955. Identify the text:
(A) William Golding, the Inheritors
(B) Philip Larkin, the Less Deceived
(C) William Empson, Collected Poems
(D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot

(6) Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had left–leaning tendencies?
(A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington
(B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day Lewis
(D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh

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(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

(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

(9) In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to

(A) The sun
(B) The moon
(C) The North Star
(D) The rose

(10) Which of the following awards is not given to Indian–English writers?

(A) The Booker Prize
(B) The Sahitya Akademi Award
(C) The Gyanpeeth
(D) Whitbread Prize

(11) Identify the correct statement below:

(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle
are tragedies.
(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle
are comedies.
(C) All of them are problem plays.
(D) All of them are farces.

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(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

(13) The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in

(A) 1642
(B) 1640
(C) 1659
(D) 1660

(14) Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge?
(A) Robert Southey
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) A. C. Swinburne

(15) Which of the following statements about Waiting for Godot is NOT true?
(1) It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two acts”.
(2) It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two scenes”.
(3) It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two parts”.
(4) It does not carry a subtitle.
(A) 4
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 1

(16) The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who
among the following belonged to the Bloomsbury Group?
I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
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

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(17) Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative
Dictionary of the English Language?
(A) Bishop Berkeley
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole

(18) In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of
the ancients?
(A) Lisideius
(B) Crites
(C) Eugenius
(D) Neander

(19) The term invective refers to

(A) The abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some
person or thing.
(B) An insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving
caricature and ridicule.
(C) A written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or
event is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance.
(D) The chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power.

(20) Which of the following novels depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in
East London?
(A) How far can you go
(B) The White Teeth
(C) An Equal Music
(D) Brick Lane

(21) The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in England.
Identify the correct phrase below:
(A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left England for the U. S.
(B) For Eliot who started publishing verse–drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems
were published.
(C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, each for publishing his first novels.
(D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and Orwell who published his Animal Farm.

(22) The Enlightenment was characterized by

(A) Accelerated industrial production and general well–being of the public.
(B) A belief in the universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific
experimentation.
(C) The Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life.
(D) An undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will.

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(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

(24) Match the following pairs of books and authors:

Books Authors

I. Condition of the Working Class in England i. John Ruskin

II. London Labour and the London Poor ii. Henry Mayhew

III. The Past and Present iii. Thomas Carlyle

IV Unto This Last 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 i

(25) In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear as characters?
(A) Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy
(B) Harold Pinter’s Caretaker
(C) Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of Ma Parker”
(D) Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock

(26) What is common to the following writers? Identify the correct description below:
William Congreve George Etherege William Wycherley Thomas Otway
(A) All of these were Restoration playwrights
(B) All of them were critics of Orwell’s regime
(C) All of them edited Shakespeare’s plays
(D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same age

(27) In which Jane Austen novel do you find the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell,
Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth?
(A) Emma
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion
(D) Northanger Abbey

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(28) In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of English in colonial
India?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment to Theory”

(29) ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English.

(A) Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella
(C) Samuel Daniel’s Delia
(D) Michael Drayton’s Idea’s Mirror

(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 [Link] – The Suffrage of
Elvira.
(C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr.
Biswas.
(D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of Elvira– Miguel Street – A House for Mr.
Biswas.

(31) “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from

(A) Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimage
(B) Hakluyt’s Voyages
(C) The Book Named the Governour
(D) Sir Thomas More’s Utopia

(32) Which of the following author– theme is correctly matched?

(A) The Battle of the Books- Tribute to “The rude forefathers of the hamlet”.
(B) The Rape of the Lock- Quarrel between ancient and modern authors.
(C) Gray’s “Elegy”-Accumulation of wealth and the consequent loss of human lives
and values.
(D) The Deserted Village- Quarrel between two families caused by Lord Petre.

(33) Which among the following titles set a course for academic literary feminism?
(A) Nostromo
(B) From Ritual to Romance
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) A Dance to the Music of Time

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(34) In which play do we see a reworking of [Link]’s A Passage to India as a camaeo?

(A) The Birthday Party
(B) A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Indian Ink
(D) Amadeus

(35) Shakespeare’s sonnets

(A) Do not carry a dedication.
(B) Are dedicated to James I of England.
(C) Are dedicated to Mary Arden.
(D) Are dedicated to an unknown “Mr. W.H.”

(36) Which of the following poems uses terza rima?

(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”

(37) When one says that “someone is no more” or that “someone has breathed his/ her
last”, the speaker is resorting to
(A) Euphism
(B) Euphony
(C) Understatement
(D) Euphemism

(38) Which of the following are “companion poems”?

(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets”
(B) “L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun Rising”
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! The Lark”

(39) What does the term episteme signify?

(A) Knowledge
(B) Archive
(C) Theology
(D) Scholarship

(40) Which of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing?

(A) A reflection
(B) A speaking picture
(C) A refraction
(D) A reflected picture

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(41) Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’?
(A) John Milton
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley

(42) Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence
(A) It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
(B) It was the brightest of times; it was the darkest of times.
(C) It was the richest of times; it was the poorest of times.
(D) It was the happiest of times; it was the saddest of times.

(43) The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by

(A) Edwin Muir
(B) Edward Thomas
(C) Robert Bridges
(D) Coventry Patmore

(44) Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence?

(A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel– Ozymandias
(B) The Deserted Village – A Poison Tree – Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
(C) The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(D) The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree

(45) The term homology means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who
of the following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social
classes in terms of homologies
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Christopher Caudwell
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Antonio Gramsci

(46) F. Turner’s famous hypothesis is that

(A) The Frontier has outlived its ideological utility in American civilization.
(B) The Frontier has posed a challenge to the American creative imagination.
(C) The Frontier has been the one great determinant of American civilization.
(D) The Frontier has been the one great deterrent to American progress.

(47) Which statement(s) below on the Spenserian stanza is/are accurate?

I. A quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative
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

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IV. An eight–line stanza with six use of figurative language. Iambic feet followed by a
ninth in iambic pentameter
(A) I and II
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV

(48) Match the following texts with their respective themes:

I. Areopagitica i. Fashion, courtship, (Milton) seduction
II. Leviathan ii. The liberty For (Hobbes) Unlicensed Printing
III. Alexander’s Feast iii. Absolute (Dryden) Sovereignty
IV. The Way of The iv. The power of World (Congreve) music
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii I ii

(49) The preliminary version of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was
called
(A) Stephen Hero
(B) Bloom’s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
(D) The Dead

(50) (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from
other works.
(ii) It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a ‘purple passage’.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) Only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) Only (iv) is correct.

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Explanation
(1) The philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626) wrote the book - Advancement of
Learning in 1605.

(2) THE PLACES WHERE CHRISTIAN VISITS :

By-Path Meadow, Celestial City, City of Destruction, Cross and Sepulchre, Delectable
Mountains, Doubting Castle, Enchanted Ground, Gaius’s inn, Hill Difficulty, Hill Lucre,
House Beautiful, House of the Interpreter, Land of Beulah, Mount Sinai, Pillar of
Salt, Plain Ease, River of Death, River of God or River of the Water of Life, Slough of
Despond, Valley of Humiliation, Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity, Wicket Gate.

(3) Queen Victoria was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–
1901) and empress of India (1876–1901). Her reign of 63 years and seven months was
longer than any previous British monarch.

(4)

(5)

(6) The Auden Group or the Auden Generation is a group of British and Irish writers
who were active in the 1930s. It included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day
Lewis, Louis MacNeice and Christopher Isherwood. They were also sometimes called
as the Nineteen Thirties Poets or The Oxford Poets, and represented a new, more
experimental literary style.
All the poets in the group knew one another, and most had been educated at either
Oxford or Cambridge. They all shared more or less left-wing viewpoints.

(7)

(8) Harold Bloom in A Map of Misreading, proposed that Strong poets do not read
poetry – strong poets can read only themselves, as compared to weak poets who
remain enslaved to the traditional system and are creatively inhibited by obsessive
reasoning. Weak poets compare their works to those of their precursors, but strong
poets are involved in acts of creative “correction” and deliberate misinterpretation.

(9)

(10) Gyanpith award is an Indian literacy award bestowed annually on Indian writers
writing in Indian languages.
Whitebread Award is of Great Britain and Ireland for Authors must be resident of
Great Britain or Ireland. The award was taken over by The Costa Awards after 2005.

(11)

(12)

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(13) On September 6, 1642, by an act of Parliament, all theatres in England were closed
– specifically that the great playhouses and theatrical companies of London, which
had survived since the Elizabethan age. The cited reason was the danders of the
turbulent times of te Civil War. The real reason was that the playhouses had become
meeting places for scheming Royalists, which couldn’t be tolerated by their Puritan
rivals. Theatres remained illegal until the end of the Interregnum in 1660, when the
Puritans lost power and the monarchy was restored.

(14) Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist,
and critic.

(15) Beckett translated the text of Waiting for Godot from French to English himself.
When he did this, he included the subtitle, “A tragicomedy.”

(16) The Bloomsbury group was a circle of artists, writers and intellectuals including
Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, their brother Thoby Stephen, Clive Bell,
Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Saxon Sydney-Turner.

(17) Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language is the First published in 1755,
the dictionary took just over eight years to compile, required six helpers and listed
40,000 words. In 1746 Johnson was approached by a group of publishers, like the
famous William Strahan, about compiling a dictionary of the English language. Its
principles dominated English lexicography for more than a century. This two-volume
tome surpassed earlier dictionaries in precision of definition.

(18) The case for the ‘Ancients’ is presented by Crites. Dryden takes no extreme position
and is sensible enough to give the Ancients their respect. Eugenius then replies to
Crites and speaks in favour of the Moderns.

(19)

(20) Brick Lane is a street at the heart of London’s Bangladeshi community. Monica Ali’s
seminal novel, in spite of its title, is not about Brick Lane itself. Instead she writes
about the Bangladeshi community which now predominates – Brick Lane, which
has a rich migrant heritage dating from the French Huguenots and encompassing
the Irish, the Jews and more recently the Bangladeshis, who came to London in
the fifties and sixties in search of ‘better life’. The novel hones in on the ghettoised
council estates that loom tall like chunky limbs on splinter streets.
The novel centers around the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi immigrant who marries
an older man named Chanu Ahmed in an arranged marriage. She relocates to London
to start her new married life with her husband. In London, Nazneen is exposed
to a new culture, and struggles to find balance between new possibilities and old
traditions.

(21) W.H. Auden’s poem “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” was written in 1939 when William
Butler Yeats, the famous Irish poet and dramatist died.

(22) The Enlightenment’s emphasized on reason shaped philosophical, political and

scientific discourse from the late 17th to the early 19th century. It was a philosophical
movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century and

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centered on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy. It advocated

ideals of liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and
separation of church and state. Science came to play a leading role in Enlightenment
discourse and thought.

(23) Act 5, Scene 2, Lines 85-196: In the scene, Horatio begs Hamlet to make up an
excuse not to duel with Laertes, if he has a bad feeling about it. Hamlet replies: “Not
a whit, we defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be
now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will
come. The readiness is all.”

(24)

(25)

(26) The famous playwrights of the Restoration period are:

John Dryden(1631-1700), William Congreve(1670-1729), William Wycherley(1641-1716),
Apra Behn(1640-1689), John Vanbrugh(1664-1726), George Farquhar(1677-1707),
William Davenant(1606-1668), Thomas Otway(1652-1685), Mary Pix(1666-1709), John
Fletcher(1579-1625), Edward Howard(1624-1700)

(27) ‘Persuasion’ novel by Jane Austen, published posthumously in 1817, opens with a
brief history of the Elliot family as recorded in Sir Walter Elliot’s favorite book, The
Baronetcy.

(28) In “Signs Taken For Wonders,” Homi K. Bhabha examines several moments in
postcolonial literature that depict the “sudden, fortuitous discovery of the English
book”. Here, Bhabha deftly juxtaposes a scene from Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of
Darkness—where the narrator Marlow discovers and reads Towson’s (or Towser’s)
Inquiry into some Points of Seamanship – with a scene from V.S. Naipaul’s The
Return of Eva Peron in which a young Trinidadian discovers and reads that very same
passage from Conrad’s novel! Bhabha says that these passages portray the “English
book” (The Bible) as an emblem of colonial rule, desire, and discipline & that the
English book points toward the fixity of Colonial power, and its discursive capacity
to “narrate” and thus disseminate a European cultural heritage. The English Book, or
The Bible is called as “Signs Taken For Wonders”.

(29) The first sonnet sequence was Sir Philip Sidney’s ‘Astrophel and Stella’ (written
between 1580 and 1584, published in 1591).

(30) The Mystic Masseur (1957); The Suffrage of Elvira (1958); Miguel Street (1959); A House
for Mr Biswas (1961)

(31)

(32) The Deserted Village, pastoral elegy by Oliver Goldsmith, published in 1770. it
idealizes a rural way of life that was being destroyed by the displacement of agrarian
villagers, the greed of landlords, and economic and political change.
The poem consist of more than 400 lines of iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets.

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(33) A Room of One’s Own is a landmark of twentieth-century feminist thought. Virginia

Woolf’s first book A Room of One’s Own and Orlando are very important for feminist
thought. In 1929 she wrote A Room of One’s Own,Woolf’s first book about feminism
where she dwells chiefly on woman and literature; furthermore, she described the
difficulties they had encountered.

(34) In the tradition of Forster’s A Passage to India and Scott’s The Raj Quartet, Indian Ink
examines the colonial experience through focusing on the relationship between one
particular couple. Set in two time periods (1930s India and 1980s England), the play
tells the story of Flora Crewe, an English poet visiting India, and Nirad Das, an Indian
artist who is painting her portrait. Over the course of the play, Flora and Nirad’s
relationship changes from a formal, distant one to a more intimate one. However,
their relationship also reveals major points of tension and of culture clash.

(35) Mr. W. H., is the dedicatee of the Sonnets by Shakespeare.

(36) This ode introduced a new stanzaic form composed of five sonnets. Each sonnet has
four tercets (units of three lines each). The scheme is based on Italian terza rima,
rhyming aba, bcb, cdc, and ded followed by a rhyming ee couplet.

(37) Euphemism is a mild or indirect word or expression that is substituted for one
considered to be too harsh or blunt, used when referring to something unpleasant or
embarrassing.

(38)

(39)

(40) In literary writing an ‘image’ is a speaking picture. It can be taken as representation

of the real world or seen as something in and of itself. Ezra Pound said - “An ‘Image’
is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”

(41) Keats regarded Shakespeare as the prime example of negative capability, and
attributes to him the ability to identify completely with his characters. Shakespeare
could write about them with empathy and understanding. Keats contrasts this with
the partisan approach of Milton and the ‘Wordsworth’s egotistical sublime’.

(42) (43) Robert Seymour Bridges OM (1844 – 1930) was an English poet who was Poet
Laureate from 1913 to 1930. It was through his efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins
achieved posthumous fame. At Oxford, Bridges befriended Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Bridges’ made efforts in arranging the posthumous publication (1918) of his verse.

(44) (177) – Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘The Deserted Village’; 1794 – W. Blake’s ‘A Poison Tree.’;
1818 – P. B. Shelley’s poem Ozymandias; 1850 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Blessed
Damozel.

(45) Raymond Williams is credited to have developed the theory of correspondence or

homology between literary works and social classes.

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(46) F. Turner hypothesized that the Frontier has been the one great determinant of
American civilization.

(47) Spenserian stanza consists of nine lines- the first eight in iambic pentameter and
the last an alexandrine, in iambic hexameter.

(48)

(49) Joyce began writing his novel in 1904 as ‘Stephen Hero’ as a projected 63-chapter
autobiographical novel in a realistic style.

(50) Pastiche is a literary work that imitates another famous literary work by another
writer. It imitates a piece of literary work lightly in a respectful manner. It is not a
Parody to mock but to honor the literary piece it imitates.

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Answer Key

(1) (A) (11) (B) (21) (A) (31) (A) (41) (C)

(2) (B) (12) (D) (22) (B) (32) (A) (42) (A)

(3) (B) (13) (A) (23) (B) (33) (C) (43) (C)

(4) (D) (14) (D) (24) (B) (34) (C) (44) (B)

(5) (C) (15) (D) (25) (B) (35) (D) (45) (A)

(6) (C) (16) (A) (26) (A) (36) (B) (46) (C)

(7) (A) (17) (B) (27) (C) (37) (D) (47) (D)

(8) (B) (18) (B) (28) (A) (38) (B) (48) (B)

(9) (A) (19) (A) (29) (A) (39) (A) (49) (A)

(10) (C) (20) (D) (30) (D) (40) (B) (50) (A)

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2012 December – Paper 2

(1) Identify the work below that does not belong to the literature of the eighteenth
century:
(A) Advancement of Learning
(B) Gulliver’s Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

(2) Which, among the following, is a place through which John Bunyan’s Christian does
NOT pass?
(A) The Slough of Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C) The Valley of Humiliation
(D) Vanity Fair

(3) The period of Queen Victoria’s reign is

(A) 1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(C) 1830–1901
(D) 1837–1900

(4) Which of the following statements about The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true?
(A) It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.
(B) It also carried pastoral and other poems.
(C) It carried a “Preface” which Wordsworth added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

(5) One of the following texts was published earlier than 1955. Identify the text:
(A) William Golding, the Inheritors
(B) Philip Larkin, the Less Deceived
(C) William Empson, Collected Poems
(D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot

(6) Who among the poets in England during the 1930s had left–leaning tendencies?
(A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington
(B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day Lewis
(D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh

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(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

(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

(9) In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly compares Belinda to

(A) The sun
(B) The moon
(C) The North Star
(D) The rose

(10) Which of the following awards is not given to Indian–English writers?

(A) The Booker Prize
(B) The Sahitya Akademi Award
(C) The Gyanpeeth
(D) Whitbread Prize

(11) Identify the correct statement below:

(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle
are tragedies.
(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton’s Needle
are comedies.
(C) All of them are problem plays.
(D) All of them are farces.

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(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

(13) The Puritans shut down all theaters in England in

(A) 1642
(B) 1640
(C) 1659
(D) 1660

(14) Who of the following was not a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge?
(A) Robert Southey
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) A. C. Swinburne

(15) Which of the following statements about Waiting for Godot is NOT true?
(1) It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two acts”.
(2) It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two scenes”.
(3) It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two parts”.
(4) It does not carry a subtitle.
(A) 4
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 1

(16) The Bloomsbury Group included British intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who
among the following belonged to the Bloomsbury Group?
I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
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

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(17) Who, among the following is credited with the making of the first authoritative
Dictionary of the English Language?
(A) Bishop Berkeley
(B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole

(18) In Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of
the ancients?
(A) Lisideius
(B) Crites
(C) Eugenius
(D) Neander

(19) The term invective refers to

(A) The abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some
person or thing.
(B) An insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving
caricature and ridicule.
(C) A written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement or
event is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance.
(D) The chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical power.

(20) Which of the following novels depicts the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in
East London?
(A) How far can you go
(B) The White Teeth
(C) An Equal Music
(D) Brick Lane

(21) The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for two important writers in England.
Identify the correct phrase below:
(A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left England for the U. S.
(B) For Eliot who started publishing verse–drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems
were published.
(C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, each for publishing his first novels.
(D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and Orwell who published his Animal Farm.

(22) The Enlightenment was characterized by

(A) Accelerated industrial production and general well–being of the public.
(B) A belief in the universal authority of reason and emphasis on scientific
experimentation.
(C) The Protestant work ethic and compliance with Christian values of life.
(D) An undue faith in predestination and neglect of free will.

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(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

(24) Match the following pairs of books and authors:

Books Authors

I. Condition of the Working Class in England i. John Ruskin

II. London Labour and the London Poor ii. Henry Mayhew

III. The Past and Present iii. Thomas Carlyle

IV Unto This Last 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 i

(25) In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear as characters?
(A) Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy
(B) Harold Pinter’s Caretaker
(C) Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of Ma Parker”
(D) Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock

(26) What is common to the following writers? Identify the correct description below:
William Congreve George Etherege William Wycherley Thomas Otway
(A) All of these were Restoration playwrights
(B) All of them were critics of Orwell’s regime
(C) All of them edited Shakespeare’s plays
(D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same age

(27) In which Jane Austen novel do you find the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell,
Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth?
(A) Emma
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion
(D) Northanger Abbey

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(28) In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of English in colonial
India?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment to Theory”

(29) ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English.

(A) Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella
(C) Samuel Daniel’s Delia
(D) Michael Drayton’s Idea’s Mirror

(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 [Link] – The Suffrage of
Elvira.
(C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr.
Biswas.
(D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of Elvira– Miguel Street – A House for Mr.
Biswas.

(31) “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from

(A) Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimage
(B) Hakluyt’s Voyages
(C) The Book Named the Governour
(D) Sir Thomas More’s Utopia

(32) Which of the following author– theme is correctly matched?

(A) The Battle of the Books- Tribute to “The rude forefathers of the hamlet”.
(B) The Rape of the Lock- Quarrel between ancient and modern authors.
(C) Gray’s “Elegy”-Accumulation of wealth and the consequent loss of human lives
and values.
(D) The Deserted Village- Quarrel between two families caused by Lord Petre.
Answer: (A)

(33) Which among the following titles set a course for academic literary feminism?
(A) Nostromo
(B) From Ritual to Romance
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) A Dance to the Music of Time

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(34) In which play do we see a reworking of [Link]’s A Passage to India as a camaeo?

(A) The Birthday Party
(B) A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Indian Ink
(D) Amadeus

(35) Shakespeare’s sonnets

(A) Do not carry a dedication.
(B) Are dedicated to James I of England.
(C) Are dedicated to Mary Arden.
(D) Are dedicated to an unknown “Mr. W.H.”

(36) Which of the following poems uses terza rima?

(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”

(37) When one says that “someone is no more” or that “someone has breathed his/ her
last”, the speaker is resorting to
(A) Euphism
(B) Euphony
(C) Understatement
(D) Euphemism

(38) Which of the following are “companion poems”?

(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets”
(B) “L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun Rising”
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! The Lark”

(39) What does the term episteme signify?

(A) Knowledge
(B) Archive
(C) Theology
(D) Scholarship

(40) Which of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing?

(A) A reflection
(B) A speaking picture
(C) A refraction
(D) A reflected picture

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(41) Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’?
(A) John Milton
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley

(42) Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence
(A) It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
(B) It was the brightest of times; it was the darkest of times.
(C) It was the richest of times; it was the poorest of times.
(D) It was the happiest of times; it was the saddest of times.

(43) The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by

(A) Edwin Muir
(B) Edward Thomas
(C) Robert Bridges
(D) Coventry Patmore

(44) Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence?

(A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel– Ozymandias
(B) The Deserted Village – A Poison Tree – Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
(C) The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(D) The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree

(45) The term homology means a correspondence between two or more structures. Who
of the following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social
classes in terms of homologies
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Christopher Caudwell
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Antonio Gramsci

(46) F. Turner’s famous hypothesis is that

(A) The Frontier has outlived its ideological utility in American civilization.
(B) The Frontier has posed a challenge to the American creative imagination.
(C) The Frontier has been the one great determinant of American civilization.
(D) The Frontier has been the one great deterrent to American progress.

(47) Which statement(s) below on the Spenserian stanza is/are accurate?

I. A quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative
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

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IV. An eight–line stanza with six use of figurative language. Iambic feet followed by a
ninth in iambic pentameter
(A) I and II
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV

(48) Match the following texts with their respective themes:

I. Areopagitica i. Fashion, courtship,
(Milton) seduction
II. Leviathan ii. The liberty For
(Hobbes) Unlicensed Printing
III. Alexander’s Feast iii. Absolute
(Dryden) Sovereignty
IV. The Way of The iv. The power of World
(Congreve) music
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii I ii

(49) The preliminary version of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was
called
(A) Stephen Hero
(B) Bloom’s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
(D) The Dead

(50) (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from
other works.
(ii) It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a ‘purple passage’.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) Only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) Only (iv) is correct.

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Explanation
(1) The philosopher Francis Bacon (1561–1626) wrote the book - Advancement of
Learning in 1605.

(2) THE PLACES WHERE CHRISTIAN VISITS :

By-Path Meadow, Celestial City, City of Destruction, Cross and Sepulchre, Delectable
Mountains, Doubting Castle, Enchanted Ground, Gaius’s inn, Hill Difficulty, Hill Lucre,
House Beautiful, House of the Interpreter, Land of Beulah, Mount Sinai, Pillar of
Salt, Plain Ease, River of Death, River of God or River of the Water of Life, Slough of
Despond, Valley of Humiliation, Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity, Wicket Gate.

(3) Queen Victoria was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–
1901) and empress of India (1876–1901). Her reign of 63 years and seven months was
longer than any previous British monarch.

(4)

(5)

(6) The Auden Group or the Auden Generation is a group of British and Irish writers
who were active in the 1930s. It included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day
Lewis, Louis MacNeice and Christopher Isherwood. They were also sometimes called
as the Nineteen Thirties Poets or The Oxford Poets, and represented a new, more
experimental literary style.
All the poets in the group knew one another, and most had been educated at either
Oxford or Cambridge. They all shared more or less left-wing viewpoints.

(7)

(8) Harold Bloom in A Map of Misreading, proposed that Strong poets do not read
poetry – strong poets can read only themselves, as compared to weak poets who
remain enslaved to the traditional system and are creatively inhibited by obsessive
reasoning. Weak poets compare their works to those of their precursors, but strong
poets are involved in acts of creative “correction” and deliberate misinterpretation.

(9)

(10) Gyanpith award is an Indian literacy award bestowed annually on Indian writers
writing in Indian languages.
Whitebread Award is of Great Britain and Ireland for Authors must be resident of
Great Britain or Ireland. The award was taken over by The Costa Awards after 2005.

(11)

(12)

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(13) On September 6, 1642, by an act of Parliament, all theatres in England were closed
– specifically that the great playhouses and theatrical companies of London, which
had survived since the Elizabethan age. The cited reason was the danders of the
turbulent times of te Civil War. The real reason was that the playhouses had become
meeting places for scheming Royalists, which couldn’t be tolerated by their Puritan
rivals. Theatres remained illegal until the end of the Interregnum in 1660, when the
Puritans lost power and the monarchy was restored.

(14) Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist,
and critic.

(15) Beckett translated the text of Waiting for Godot from French to English himself.
When he did this, he included the subtitle, “A tragicomedy.”

(16) The Bloomsbury group was a circle of artists, writers and intellectuals including
Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, their brother Thoby Stephen, Clive Bell,
Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Saxon Sydney-Turner.

(17) Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language is the First published in 1755,
the dictionary took just over eight years to compile, required six helpers and listed
40,000 words. In 1746 Johnson was approached by a group of publishers, like the
famous William Strahan, about compiling a dictionary of the English language. Its
principles dominated English lexicography for more than a century. This two-volume
tome surpassed earlier dictionaries in precision of definition.

(18) The case for the ‘Ancients’ is presented by Crites. Dryden takes no extreme position
and is sensible enough to give the Ancients their respect. Eugenius then replies to
Crites and speaks in favour of the Moderns.

(19)

(20) Brick Lane is a street at the heart of London’s Bangladeshi community. Monica Ali’s
seminal novel, in spite of its title, is not about Brick Lane itself. Instead she writes
about the Bangladeshi community which now predominates – Brick Lane, which
has a rich migrant heritage dating from the French Huguenots and encompassing
the Irish, the Jews and more recently the Bangladeshis, who came to London in
the fifties and sixties in search of ‘better life’. The novel hones in on the ghettoised
council estates that loom tall like chunky limbs on splinter streets.
The novel centers around the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi immigrant who marries
an older man named Chanu Ahmed in an arranged marriage. She relocates to London
to start her new married life with her husband. In London, Nazneen is exposed
to a new culture, and struggles to find balance between new possibilities and old
traditions.

(21) W.H. Auden’s poem “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” was written in 1939 when William
Butler Yeats, the famous Irish poet and dramatist died.

(22) The Enlightenment’s emphasized on reason shaped philosophical, political and

scientific discourse from the late 17th to the early 19th century. It was a philosophical
movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century and

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centered on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy. It advocated

ideals of liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and
separation of church and state. Science came to play a leading role in Enlightenment
discourse and thought.

(23) Act 5, Scene 2, Lines 85-196: In the scene, Horatio begs Hamlet to make up an
excuse not to duel with Laertes, if he has a bad feeling about it. Hamlet replies: “Not
a whit, we defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be
now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will
come. The readiness is all.”

(24)

(25)

(26) The famous playwrights of the Restoration period are:

John Dryden(1631-1700), William Congreve(1670-1729), William Wycherley(1641-1716),
Apra Behn(1640-1689), John Vanbrugh(1664-1726), George Farquhar(1677-1707),
William Davenant(1606-1668), Thomas Otway(1652-1685), Mary Pix(1666-1709), John
Fletcher(1579-1625), Edward Howard(1624-1700)

(27) ‘Persuasion’ novel by Jane Austen, published posthumously in 1817, opens with a
brief history of the Elliot family as recorded in Sir Walter Elliot’s favorite book, The
Baronetcy.

(28) In “Signs Taken For Wonders,” Homi K. Bhabha examines several moments in
postcolonial literature that depict the “sudden, fortuitous discovery of the English
book”. Here, Bhabha deftly juxtaposes a scene from Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of
Darkness—where the narrator Marlow discovers and reads Towson’s (or Towser’s)
Inquiry into some Points of Seamanship – with a scene from V.S. Naipaul’s The
Return of Eva Peron in which a young Trinidadian discovers and reads that very same
passage from Conrad’s novel! Bhabha says that these passages portray the “English
book” (The Bible) as an emblem of colonial rule, desire, and discipline & that the
English book points toward the fixity of Colonial power, and its discursive capacity
to “narrate” and thus disseminate a European cultural heritage. The English Book, or
The Bible is called as “Signs Taken For Wonders”.

(29) The first sonnet sequence was Sir Philip Sidney’s ‘Astrophel and Stella’ (written
between 1580 and 1584, published in 1591).

(30) The Mystic Masseur (1957); The Suffrage of Elvira (1958); Miguel Street (1959); A House
for Mr Biswas (1961)

(31)

(32) The Deserted Village, pastoral elegy by Oliver Goldsmith, published in 1770. it
idealizes a rural way of life that was being destroyed by the displacement of agrarian
villagers, the greed of landlords, and economic and political change.
The poem consist of more than 400 lines of iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets.

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(33) A Room of One’s Own is a landmark of twentieth-century feminist thought. Virginia

Woolf’s first book A Room of One’s Own and Orlando are very important for feminist
thought. In 1929 she wrote A Room of One’s Own,Woolf’s first book about feminism
where she dwells chiefly on woman and literature; furthermore, she described the
difficulties they had encountered.

(34) In the tradition of Forster’s A Passage to India and Scott’s The Raj Quartet, Indian Ink
examines the colonial experience through focusing on the relationship between one
particular couple. Set in two time periods (1930s India and 1980s England), the play
tells the story of Flora Crewe, an English poet visiting India, and Nirad Das, an Indian
artist who is painting her portrait. Over the course of the play, Flora and Nirad’s
relationship changes from a formal, distant one to a more intimate one. However,
their relationship also reveals major points of tension and of culture clash.

(35) Mr. W. H., is the dedicatee of the Sonnets by Shakespeare.

(36) This ode introduced a new stanzaic form composed of five sonnets. Each sonnet has
four tercets (units of three lines each). The scheme is based on Italian terza rima,
rhyming aba, bcb, cdc, and ded followed by a rhyming ee couplet.

(37) Euphemism is a mild or indirect word or expression that is substituted for one
considered to be too harsh or blunt, used when referring to something unpleasant or
embarrassing.

(38)

(39)

(40) In literary writing an ‘image’ is a speaking picture. It can be taken as representation

of the real world or seen as something in and of itself. Ezra Pound said - “An ‘Image’
is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.”

(41) Keats regarded Shakespeare as the prime example of negative capability, and
attributes to him the ability to identify completely with his characters. Shakespeare
could write about them with empathy and understanding. Keats contrasts this with
the partisan approach of Milton and the ‘Wordsworth’s egotistical sublime’.

(42)

(43) Robert Seymour Bridges OM (1844 – 1930) was an English poet who was Poet
Laureate from 1913 to 1930. It was through his efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins
achieved posthumous fame. At Oxford, Bridges befriended Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Bridges’ made efforts in arranging the posthumous publication (1918) of his verse.

(44) (177) – Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘The Deserted Village’; 1794 – W. Blake’s ‘A Poison Tree.’;
1818 – P. B. Shelley’s poem Ozymandias; 1850 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Blessed
Damozel.

(45) Raymond Williams is credited to have developed the theory of correspondence or

homology between literary works and social classes.

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(46) F. Turner hypothesized that the Frontier has been the one great determinant of
American civilization.

(47) Spenserian stanza consists of nine lines- the first eight in iambic pentameter and
the last an alexandrine, in iambic hexameter.

(48)

(49) Joyce began writing his novel in 1904 as ‘Stephen Hero’ as a projected 63-chapter
autobiographical novel in a realistic style.

(50) Pastiche is a literary work that imitates another famous literary work by another
writer. It imitates a piece of literary work lightly in a respectful manner. It is not a
Parody to mock but to honor the literary piece it imitates.

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Answer Key

(1) (A) (11) (B) (21) (A) (31) (A) (41) (C)

(2) (B) (12) (D) (22) (B) (32) (A) (42) (A)

(3) (B) (13) (A) (23) (B) (33) (C) (43) (C)

(4) (D) (14) (D) (24) (B) (34) (C) (44) (B)

(5) (C) (15) (D) (25) (B) (35) (D) (45) (A)

(6) (C) (16) (A) (26) (A) (36) (B) (46) (C)

(7) (A) (17) (B) (27) (C) (37) (D) (47) (D)

(8) (B) (18) (B) (28) (A) (38) (B) (48) (B)

(9) (A) (19) (A) (29) (A) (39) (A) (49) (A)

(10) (C) (20) (D) (30) (D) (40) (B) (50) (A)

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2012 December – Paper 3

(1) Which of the following book by V. S. Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited?
(A) In a Free State
(B) A Bend in the River
(C) The Middle Passage
(D) An Area of Darkness

(2) ‘Fluency’ in language is the same as

(A) The ability to put oneself across comfortably in speech and/or writing.
(B) The ability to command language rather than language commanding the user.
(C) Glibness
(D) Accuracy

(3) Which of the following statements on Pathetic Fallacy is NOT TRUE?

(A) This term applies to descriptions that are not true but imaginary and fanciful.
(B) Pathetic Fallacy is generally understood as human traits being applied or
attributed to non-human things in nature.
(C) In its first use, the term was used with disapproval because nature cannot be
equated with the human in respect of emotions and responses.
(D) The term was originally used by Alexander Pope in his Pastorals (1709).

(4) Identify the correctly matched group:

List – I List – II

i. ‘L’ Allegro and ‘Il Pensoroso’ 1. Pastoral elegy

ii. ‘Lycidas’ 2. Masque

iii. Comus 3. Sonnet

iv. ‘On His Blindness’ 4. Prose tract

v. Areopagitica 5. Companion poems in octo-syllabic couplets

Codes
i ii iii iv v
(A) 1 2 3 4 5
(B) 5 1 2 3 4
(C) 1 3 2 4 5
(D) 5 1 2 4 3

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(5) The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The University Wits – The Rhymers’ Club – The
Transitional Poets – The Scottish Chaucerians.
The right chronological sequence would be:-
(A) The Scottish Chaucerians – The University Wits – The Transitional Poets – The
Pre- Raphaelite brotherhood – The Rhymers’ Club.
(B) The Rhymers’ Club, The University Wits – The Scottish Chaucerians – The
Transitional Poets, The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.
(C) The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The Rhymers’ Club – The Transitional Poets,
The Scottish Chaucerians –The University Wits.
(D) The University Wits, The Scottish Chaucerians – The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood,
The Transitional Poets – The Rhymers’ Club.

(6) ‘Aucitya’ refers to:

I. Decorum
II. Propriety
III. Proportion
IV. Accuracy
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II is correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.

(7) In the closing paragraph of The Trial two men accompany Joseph K to a part of the
city to eventually execute him. The place is
(A) A Public Park
(B) A Church
(C) A Quarry
(D) An Abandoned Factory

(8) Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:

List – I (Character) List – II (Work)

i. Telemachus 1. Notes from underground

ii Anya 2 Old Goriot

iii. Zverkov 3. The Cherry Orchard

iv. Rastignac 4. The Odyssey

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Codes
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 4 3 2 1

(9) This renowned German poet was born in Prague and died of Leukemia. When young
he met Tolstoy and was influenced by him. The titles of his last two works contain
the words “sonnets” and “elegies”. He is
(A) Herman Hesse
(B) Heinrich Heine
(C) Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff
(D) Raine Marie Rilke

(10) Which of the following plays gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher
Socrates?
(A) The Birds
(B) The Wasps
(C) The Clouds
(D) The Frogs

(11) Raskolnikov murders the old lady:

I. To get her money and achieve his ambition in life.
II. To achieve his political goal as an extremist and a nihilist
III. To prove his superiority over other young men of the time.
IV. All of the above Find the correct combination according to the code:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) I, II and III are correct.

(12) In his preface to The Order of Things, Foucault mentions being influenced by a Latin
American writer and his work.
Choose the correct answer:
(A) Marquez – “The Solitude of Latin America”
(B) Borges – “Chinese Encyclopaedia”
(C) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
(D) Alejo Carpentier – “On the Marvelous in America”

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(13) Here is a list of Partition novels which have ‘violence on the woman’s body’ as a
significant theme. Pick the odd one out:
(A) The Pakistani Bride
(B) What the Body Remembers
(C) Train to Pakistan
(D) The Ice-Candy Man

(14) Match the translators in List – I with the English translations of Indian Literature
texts in List – II according to the code given below:

List – I List – II

i. K.B. Vaid 1. Says Tuka

ii. O.V. Vijayan 2. The Diary of a Maid Servant

iii. Dilip Chitre 3. Samskara

iv. A.K. Ramanujan 4. Saga of Dharmapuri

Codes
I ii iii iv
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 2 4 1 3
(D) 1 2 3 4

(15) In his poem “A Morning Walk” Nissim Ezekiel talks about a ‘Barbaric City sick with
slums / Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains / its hawkers, beggars, iron lunged/
Processions led by frantic drums.’
Identify the city:
(A) Calcutta
(B) Banares
(C) Bombay
(D) Agra

(16) In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards links four kinds of meanings in most human
utterances to four aspects. These are
(A) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention
(B) Sound, Feeling, Nuance, Intention
(C) Sense, Voice, Emotion, Intention
(D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention

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(17) In ‘Christabel’ after Geraldine enters Sir Leoline’s castle on her way to Christabel’s
chamber there are several ill omens which warn the reader about Geraldine. Pick out
the phrase which does not serve as an omen:
(A) The ‘angry moan’ of the ailing mastiff bitch
(B) ‘The Owlet’s Scritch’
(C) ‘The Moaning Wind’
(D) ‘A tongue of light, a fit of flame’

(18) The word resurrect is

(A) An abbreviation
(B) A spurious verb
(C) A back-formation
(D) A disguised compound

(19) Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:

List – I List – II

i. Annie John 1. Picaresque

ii. Tom Jones 2. Bildungsroman

iii. The Sorrows of Young Werther 3. Gothic

iv. Vathek 4. Epistolary

Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2

(20) Ted Hughes’s poem ‘The Thought- Fox’ is

I. About Thought as Fox
II. about the Fox as Thought
III. About the process of writing poetry.
IV. About Thought entering the poet’s brain like the Fox emerging from darkness.
Find the most appropriate combination according to the code:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.

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(21) In Aristotle’s Poetics we read that it is the imitation of an action that is complete and
whole, and of a certain magnitude....having a beginning, a middle, and an end’. What
is ‘it’?
(A) Tragedy
(B) Epic
(C) Poetry
(D) Farce

(22) According to Matthew Arnold, ‘touchstones’ help us test truth and seriousness that
constitute the best poetry. What are the ‘touchstones?
(A) The purple passages of lyric poetry
(B) Passages from ancient poets
(C) The lines and expressions of the great masters
(D) Passages of epic strength and vigor

(23) ‘An extremely simplified form of language used for oral, verbal contact among a
community whose members speak different languages but do not share a common
language in order to fulfill the essential needs of communication.’
Which of the following is best described by this definition?
(A) Creole
(B) Pidgin
(C) Dialect
(D) Lingua franca
A grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between
people not sharing a common language. Pidgins have a limited vocabulary, some
elements of which are taken from local languages, and are not native languages, but
arise out of language contact between speakers of other languages.

(24) What do the prosodic features of a language tell us?

(A) The speaker’s native language and its cognate languages.
(B) The speaker’s age, emotional state, social class, educational background,
geographical provenance etc.
(C) The speaker’s self-confidence or lack of it.
(D) The speaker’s command of the resources of the language spoken by him/her and
their deployment.

(25) What novel answers to the following descriptions?

This was a 1990 best-seller by a British writer. The work incorporates many genres
such as letters, diaries and poetry as also third-person narratives. The plot here
involves two time-periods – contemporary and Victorian. The work is subtitled A
Romance.
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
(D) The Sea Lady

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(26) The following words and phrases, ‘peace makers’, ‘help-meet’, ‘the fat of the land’, ‘a
labour of love’, ‘the eleventh hour’ and ‘the shadow of death’ were made current by
(A) The British Greek scholars like Roger Ascham
(B) The fifteenth century British prelates
(C) The Puritan tractarians
(D) The sixteen-century translators of the Bible

(27) Who among the following writers asserted ‘Commonwealth Literature’ does not
exist?
(A) Amitav Ghosh
(B) Sulman Rushdie
(C) V.S. Naipaul
(D) Nirad Chaudhari

(28) Identify the one in correct chronological sequence:

(A) The Norman Conquest – The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – William Tyndall’s New
Testament – The Birth of William Shakespeare
(B) The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Birth of
William Shakespeare – The Norman Conquest
(C) The Norman Conquest –William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Death of Geoffrey
Chaucer – The Birth of William Shakespeare
(D) William Tyndall’s New Testament – The Norman Conquest – The Death of
Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of William Shakespeare

(29) Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?

(A) Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads
by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by
Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in
France.
(B) Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstonecraft’s
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and
Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and
Coleridge.
(C) Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical
Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on, the
Revolution in France – Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
(D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’,
second edition by
Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
– Mary
1. Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke
2. A Vindication ofthe Rights of Woman (1792), by Mary Wollstonecraft,
3. Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and S. T.
Coleridge, first published in 1798
A second edition was published in 1800,

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(30) Who is John Keats’s ‘Sylvan Historian’?

(A) Fanny Brawne
(B) Nightingale
(C) The Grecian Urn
(D) The Bridge of Quietness

(31) This periodical was started in 1709 with a motive ‘to expose the false arts of life,
to pull the disguise of cunning, vanity and affectation, and to recommend a general
simplicity in our dress, our discourse and our behavior.’ The founder of the periodical
wrote under the pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff.
The periodical described above is
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Critical Review
(D) The Rambler

(32) Arrange the following in the order in which the details of a research article / essay
appear in your bibliography.
(A) Page numbers, the title of the essay, the title of the journal, volume & issue
numbers, year of publication
(B) The title of the essay, page numbers, the title of the journal, volume and issue
numbers, year of publication
(C) The title of the journal, the title of the essay, page numbers, volume and issue
numbers, year of publication
(D) The title of the essay, the title of the journal, volume & issue numbers, the year
of publication, page numbers

(33) From the following indicate the work which is not a Dystopia:
(A) Aldous Huxley – A Brave New World
(B) George Orwell – 1984
(C) Yevgeny Zamyatin– We
(D) Evelyn Waugh – Brideshed Revisited

(34) ‘Unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image, but he who destroys a good
book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives
a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit....’
Where is the passage from?
(A) Milton’s Areopagitica
(B) Sidney’s Apologie for Poetry
(C) Dryden’s ‘Preface to the Fables’
(D) Marvell’s The Rehearsal Transposed

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(35) Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of character and the understanding of realism of
writers like Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her famous essay is
called ‘Mr. Bennet and Mrs.
Brown’. Who is Mrs. Brown?
(A) The name Woolf gives a woman whom she happens to meet in a train.
(B) A servant in Mr. Bennett’s household.
(C) A character in a Bennett story.
(D) Mr. Bennett’s neighbour who happens to be a writer.

(36) E.M. Forster uses some recurrent images in A Passage to India. Pick the odd one out:
(A) Wasp
(B) Stone
(C) Thunder
(D) Echo

(37) Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For frere ’s a tun o[midnight-work to
come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe, and liquoi- ’d ev ’ry
chine [Link] and great tte rails behind his link’.
The above extract from Absalom and Achitophel Og is
(A) Elkanah Settle
(B) Lord Harvey
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) Joseph Addison

(38) D.H. Lawrence uses the expression ‘a bright book of life’ to describe
(A) The novel
(B) The dramatic monologue
(C) The Bible
(D) The short lyric

(39) Identify the correctly matched group:

List – I List – II

i. Where Angles Fear to Tread 1. Malay

ii. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2. Russia

iii. The Plumed Serpent 3. Italy

iv. An Outcast of the Islands 4. Mexico

v. Under Western Eyes 5. Dublin

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Codes
i ii iii iv v
(A) 3 5 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 5 2 1
(C) 5 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 3 4 5

(40) Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Chaucer describes ‘Madame Eglentyne’ thus: ‘She was so charitable
and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous caught in atrappe’
Reason (R): On her ‘broche of gold full shene’ was written Amor Vincit Omnia.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but(R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is true but (R) is true.

(41) Identify the correct statements on Langue and Parole below:

(1) Langue is the abstract language system, the grammar of a language.
(2) Parole is the language actually produced by its user following langue.
(3) Langue is the language actually produced by its users following parole.
(4) Parole is the abstract language system, the grammar of a system.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.

(42) In Monica Ali’s Brick Lane which among the following characters has ‘a face like a
frog’?
(A) Nazneen
(B) Chanu
(C) Hasina
(D) Karim

(43) ‘The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,

Check ‘ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light;
and flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day’s path and Titan’s burning
wheels.’
(Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 – 4)

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The speaker describes

(A) The Setting Sun
(B) The Return Home of a Drunkard
(C) The Drawing of a New Day
(D) The Rising Sun

(44) ‘How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and
admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a God!’
What does Hamlet marvel at in this passage?
(A) His own self
(B) His father
(C) Man
(D) Woman

(45) Said identifies Orientalism as:

I. What an Orientalist does.
II. A style of thought based on anontological and epistemological distinction made
between the Orient and the Occident.
III. a discourse dealing with the Orient IV. a fact of nature rather than one of human
production In the light of the statement above:
(A) II and III are correct, I and IVare wrong.
(B) I and III are correct, II and IV are wrong.
(C) I, II and III are correct and IV is wrong.
(D) IV is correct and I, II and III are wrong.

(46) Identify the period during which the Puritans under the rule of Oliver Cromwell and
his Commonwealth shut down all English theatres on religious and moral grounds:
(A) 1640-1660
(B) 1649-1660
(C) 1649-1659
(D) 1640-1659

(47) “To tell the truth Shug act more manly than rest, men. I means she upright, honest,
speak her mind...” What light does the quotation throw on Shug Avery?
(A) She is a manly woman.
(B) She is upright and honest in asserting her lesbian identity.
(C) She is bent on self-assertion
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(48) (1) A content word is not a function word.

(2) A content word has lesser meaning than a function word.
(3) A content word has no function.
(4) A content word bears lexical meaning whereas a function word just about means
functionally.
Which of these statements are correct?
(A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.

(49) The year 1828 is a landmark in the history of American language and literature.
Identify the reason from the following:
(A) Mark twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in that year.
(B) The Southern Literary Messenger gained wide circulation since that year.
(C) Washington Irving was adjudged the nation’s greatest writer in that year.
(D) Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language in that
year.

(50) What alternative title to her Frankenstein did Marry Shelley give?
(A) A Gothic Tale
(B) A Gothic Romance
(C) The Modern Prometheus
(D) A Modern Parable

(51) Which of the following statements on George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin
[1953] is not true?
(A) On one level this is a coming of-age story.
(B) It is an elegiac account of a village’s growth into awareness in the late colonial
period.
(C) Its themes parody The Tempest.
(D) This was George Lamming’s first novel.

(52) We are likely to misunderstand an Emily Dickinson poem if we take her famous
dashes to be ...
(A) Quite specific and unambiguous
(B) Ambiguous and indeterminate
(C) Suggestive of both forward and backward movements in terms of sense
(D) Suggestive of links but equivocally

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(53) Readers of Tayeb Salih’s Seasons of Migration to the North will undoubtedly notice its
parallels with the story/stories of:
I. Death in Venice
II. Othello
III. Bartleby the Scrivener
IV. Heart of Darkness of the above:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.

(54) Which statement is not true of Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities?

(A) It is a prosaic response to the myth of El Dorado.
(B) It is subtitled Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
(C) In this book, Anderson advances the view that nations are not natural entities
but narrative constructs.
(D) In Anderson’s view, modern nationalism was basically a consequence of the
convergence of capitalism, the new print technology and the fixity that resulted
from print extending to ‘Vernacular’ languages.

(55) ‘By swaggering could I never thrive, for the rain it raineth every day. ’These lines from
Twelfth Night occur in the novel:
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Vanity Fair
(C) Our Mutual Friend
(D) Far From the Madding Crowd

(56) What is a mock-heroic poem? A mock-heroic poem

(A) Mocks at heroic pretensions in poets and critics
(B) Mocks heroism an exaggerated virtue in all epics
(C) Uses a heroic style to deride airs and affectations
(D) Uses a mocking style to deride heroes and hero-worship

(57) Which of the following statements is not true of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy?
(A) It has a linear plot.
(B) It opens and ends with the theme of birth.
(C) It contains a trip to France.
(D) It contains a marbled page.

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(58) In drama, an aside is addressed...

(A) To an audience by an actor; the words so spoken are not meant to be heard by
other actors on the stage.
(B) To other actors on the stage; the words so spoken are not meant to be heard by
the audience.
(C) By the playwright to the audience.
(D) By the protagonist to his/her antagonist

(59) Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:

List – I (Novels) List – II (Last Lines)

i. The Mayor of 1. ‘He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing

Casterbridge town, quickly.’

ii. Sons and Lovers 2. ‘In their death, they were not divided.’

3. ‘Happiness was but the occasional episode in a

iii. The Great Gatsby
general drama of pain.’

4. ‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne

iv. The Mill on the Floss
back ceaselessly into the past.’

Codes
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 1 4 2

(60) “There is nothing outside the text,” is a statement by

(A) Victor Shklovsky
(B) Jacques Derrida
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure

(61) Here is a list of women abandoned by their lovers in Hardy’s novels.

Pick the odd one out:
(A) Fanny Robin
(B) Tess D’Urberville
(C) Marty South
(D) Bathsheba Everdene

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(62) What is the following a description of?

‘A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece’
(A) Essay
(B) Autobiography
(C) Epistolary Fiction
(D) Diary

(63) From the following indicate the critic who is not a New Critic:
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Robert Penn Warren
(C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss

(64) From the following list, pick out a woman character who does not belong to Amitav
Ghosh’s novels:
(A) Ila
(B) Urvashi
(C) Sonali
(D) Piyali

(65) Pick the odd man out of the following members of the subaltern group:
(A) Ranajit Guha
(B) Partha Chatterjee
(C) Dipesh Chakrabarty
(D) Sumit Sarkar

(66) Statement (S): “Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting.”

Interpretation (I): The human soul never tires in the course of life, it never dies.
Therefore, the human life is a long sleep and ephemeral events are better forgotten.
(A) (S) is a view and (I) is not correct.
(B) (S) is a view and (I) is correct.
(C) (S) is a poetic view; the (I) does not suit it.
(D) (S) is a poetic view and bears no relationship to (I).

(67) ‘The parish of rich women, physical decay, / yourself...’

What do these make of W.B. Yeats in W.H. Auden’s view?
(A) Proud
(B) Vainglorious
(C) Avaricious
(D) Silly

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(68) Who among Charles Dickens’s characters is ‘umble’ and who ‘willin’?
(A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
(B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby
(C) Martin, Little Nell
(D) Uriah Heep, Barkis

(69) “Fourth World Literature” refers to

I. The works of native people living in a land that has been taken over by non-natives.
II. The works of black people in the United States.
III. The literature of the marginalized.
IV. Refers to the works of non heterosexuals Of the above:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.

(70) Assertion (A): In The Duchess of Malfi Ferdinand sets a whole group of mad men on
the Duchess and they dance and sing in a crazy manner.
Reason (R): His desire was to provide a strange entertainment to drive the Duchess
mad.
In the context of the two statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.

(71) Why is The Signifying Monkey of Henry Louis Gates JR. a notable contribution to the
study of African- American literature?
(A) It focuses on largely neglected African-American novelists and poets.
(B) It offers a theory of African- American criticism that draws upon rhetorical and
signifying practices.
(C) It offers a theory of African- American films and dramatic arts that signify Black
ethos.
(D) It departs from critical theory of autobiographical narratives involving Black lives
and cultural traditions.

(72) This influential critic

I. wrote influential commentaries on such poets as Shelley, Blake and Yeats.
II. Published such titles as The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, Poetry
and Repression and The Western Canon.
III. Asserted that most literary criticism is but slightly disguised religion and
IV. Is, arguably, the most widely known and contrarian among his American peers in
the English Academy.

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Identify the critic

(A) Edward Said
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) Sven Birkrets

(73) According to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci:

(A) Hegemony is synonymous with domination
(B) Hegemony involves a degree of consent on the part of subject people.
(C) Hegemony involves a degree of coercion on the part of a dominant political
entity.
(D) Hegemony is synonymous with subjugation

(74) Match the following:

i. George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas 1. The Rhymers’ Club / The Decadents of
Lodge, Thomas Kyd the 1890’s

ii. William Congreve, William Wycherley,

2. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
George Etherege, George Farquhar

iii. John Everett Millais, James Collinson,

Ford Maddox Brown, Dante Gabriel 3. The University Wits
Rossetti

iv. Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, W.B.

4. The Restoration Playwrights
Yeats

Codes
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 1 4 3 2
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 2 1

(75) Combine the statements correctly: According to Homi Bhabha ________

(1) Mimicry is not mere copying or emulating the colonizer’s culture, behavior and
manners.
(2) But it is further aimed at perfection and excess.
(3) Mimicry is mere copying the colonizer’s culture, behavior and manners...
(4) But is informed by both mockery and a certain menace.
(A) 1 and 4
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 3 and 4
(D) 3 and 2

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Explanation
(1) V. S. Naipaul is a British Novelist. He was born in Trinidad. Naipaul won Nobel Prize
for literature in 2001. His The Middle Passage: impressions of Five Societies - British,
French and Dutch in the West Indies and South America. The Middle Passage
is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited 1962 is the tale of Naipaul’s journey to five
Caribbean countries British Guiana, Suriname, Martinique, and Jamaica. As they are
negotiating their post-colonial identities. Judgmental, pessimistic and haughty in
tone, the novel conveys Naipaul’s deep disdain for his native country of Trinidad and
its neighbors.

(2) language fluency is the ability of expressing your views, opinions and needs without
bigger effort and hesitation.

(3)

(4)

(5) The Scottish Chaucerians: Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, David
Lyndsay, and King James I of Scotland were a group of 15th- and 16th-century
Scottish poets who wrote under the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer. They used seven-
line rhyme royal stanza.
The University Wits were a group of late 16th century English playwrights who
were educated at the Oxford or Cambridge University. There are 7 university wits
Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe John Lyly, Thomas Lodge,
George Peele and Thomas Kyd.
The Transitional Poets- It was a group of 18th century poetry. The leading figure were
- Thomas Gray, fames Thomson, William Collins, George Crabbe, Christopher Smart,
Robert Bums and Oliver Goldsmith.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets, and critics,
founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millars and Dante Gabriel
Rossetti.
The Rhymers’ Club was a group of London-based poets, founded in 1890 by W. B.
Yeats and Ernest Rhys.

(6) Auchitya is a Hindi word taken from Sanskrit. It means justification, propriety,
decency. Propriety can be defined in this context as the details or rules of behavior
conventionally considered to be correct. Or that which is correct, appropriate, and
fitting.

(7) Joseph K., protagonist of the allegorical novel The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka. A rather
ordinary bank employee, he is arrested for unspecified crimes (Bribe) and is unable
to make sense of his trial.

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(8) Correct match -

List – I (Character) List – II (Work)

i. Telemachus 1. The Odyssey

ii Anya 2 The Cherry Orchard

iii. Zverkov 3. Notes from underground

iv. Rastignac 4. Old Goriot

(9) While in Russia, Rilke met both Tolstoy and the peasant poet Spiridon Droschin. ...
He was greatly influenced by the poet and would emulate Droschin’s style when he
wrote poetry in Russian. In a way, Droschin served as an inspiration and example for
Rilke’s ideal moral poet

(10) The Clouds is a comedy written by Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in

classical Athens

(11) Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is the protagonist of the n.ove1 Crime and
Punishment (1866) written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. First, he says he killed the old lady
because he was poor and needed money. This motive is the social justification from
poverty. Then he argues that he wished to benefit society, that the old woman was
useless and would have let her money rot. This motive is utilitarian.

(12) The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (l 966) is a book by Michel
Foucault.

(13) Train To Pakistan (1956) is a historical novel by Khushwant Singh. The novel deals
with the Partition of India in August 1947 but the work does not contains ‘violence on
the woman’s body’.

(14) Correct Match-

List – I List – II

i. K.B. Vaid 1. The Diary of a Maid Servant

ii. O.V. Vijayan 2. Saga of Dharmapuri

iii. Dilip Chitre 3. Says Tuka

iv. A.K. Ramanujan 4. Samskara

Samaskara (1965) is a Kannada novel written by U. R. Anantha Murthy. The novel was
translated into English by A. K. Ramanujan in 1979

(15) “A Morning Walk” by Nissim Ezekiel Barbaric city sick with slums, Deprived of
seasons, blessed with rains Its hawkers, beggars, iron-lunged Processions led by
frantic drums, A million purgatorial lanes, And child-like masses, many-tongued,
Whose wages are in words and crumbs.

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(16) (A) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention

(17) Christabel is a long lyric poem about a young maiden Christabel and her efforts to
save Geraldine, a young woman Christabel.
1. The ‘angry moan’ of the ailing mastiff bitch
2. ‘The Owlet’s Scritch’
3. ‘The Moaning Wind’
4. ‘A tongue of light, a fit of flame’

(18) Back-formation is either the process of creating a new lexeme (less precisely, a new
«word») by removing actual or supposed affixes, or a neologism formed by such a
process.

(19) Correct Match -

List – I List – II

i. Annie John 1985 by Jamaica Kincaid. 1. Bildungsroman

ii. Tom Jones 1749 by Henry Fielding 2. Picaresque

iii. The Sorrows of Young Werther 1774 by Johann

3. Epistolary
Wolfgang von Goethe

iv. Vathek 1786 by William Beckford 4. Gothic

(20) The thought-fox’ is a poem about writing a poem. lts external action takes place in a
room late at night where the poet is sitting alone at his desk.

(21) Aristotle defines tragedy as: Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious,
complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of
artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the
form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation
of these emotions.

(22) Matthew Arnold tries a lot to invent an ideal standard of ideal literary works in “The
Study of Poetry”. He invents a process by which the real worth or value of literary
work can be judged. This process of judging a piece is called touchstone method.
Touchstone method can be applied to the writers of all ages. His Touchston Passages
are from – Homer , Dante, Shakespeare and Milton

(23) A grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between

people not sharing a common language. Pidgins have a limited vocabulary, some
elements of which are taken from local languages, and are not native languages, but
arise out of language contact between speakers of other languages.

(24) Prosody the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry. Prosodic features of a
language indicates the speaker’s age, emotional state, social class, educational
background, geographical provenance etc

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(25) Possession. A Romance is a 1990 bestselling novel by British writer A. S. Byatt. lt won
the 1990 Booker Prize. The work incorporates many genres such as letters, diaries
and poetry as also third-person narratives. The plot here involves two time-periods –
contemporary and Victorian.

(26) The sixteen-century translators of the Bible

(27) In an essay in his 1991 collection Imaginary Homelands British-Indian writer Salman
Rushdie asserts that “Commonwealth literature does not exist”.

(28) 1. Answer:(A) The Norman conquest of England 1066

2. Geoffrey Chaucer died on 25 October 1400
3. William Tyndale New’ Testament, 1525,
4. William Shakespeare was born 26 April 1564.,

(29)

(30) In Keats’s Ode to a Gracian Um Keats addresses the urn as a historian.

Sylvan historian, wha canst thus express A fiow ’ry tale more sweetly than our rhyme.

(31) The Tatler was started by Richard Steele in 1709 and published for two years.

(32) a list of the books referred to in a scholarly work, typically printed as an appendix.
or A bibliography is a list of all of the sources you have used (whether referenced
or not) in the process of researching your work. In general, a bibliography should
include: the authors’ names. the titles of the works. the names and locations of the
companies that published your copies of the sources.

(33) Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is
a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, published in 1945. It follows, the life and
romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, most especially his friendship with the
Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called
Brideshead Castle. Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes: Sebastian and
Julia.

(34) Areopagitica (1644); A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing,
to the Parliament of England is a prose tract by John Milton opposing licensing
and censorship. In this pamphlet Milton writes: “ Unless wariness be used, as good
almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature,
Gods Image; but he who destroys a good Book, kills reason it self, kills the Image of
God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Book
is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose
to a life beyond life.

(35) “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” is a 1923 essay by Virginia Woolf. Her Another famous
essay is – the Room of one’s own.

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(36) A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the
British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s.
The Images used by E. M. forester are - The Echo: The Wasp: Stone:
Three sections in the novel “Mosque, ”Caves,” and “Temple.”

(37) Dryden in Absalom and Achitophel attacks on Thomas Shadwell and Elkanah Settle,
expressed them as Og and Doeg.

(38) Whyy the Novel Matters Lawrence quotes: The novel is the one bright book of life.
Books are not life

(39) Where angel fear to Tread a novel by F. M. Forster A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man (1916) is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce set in Joyce’s native
Ireland The Plumed Serpent (1924) is a novel by D. H. Lawrence.
An Outcast of the Islands (1896) is a novel by Joseph Conrad set in Malay.
Under Western Eyes (191 I) is a novel by Joseph Conrad set in St. Petersburg, Russia,
and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad’s response to thc themes cxplored
in Crime and Punishment; Conrad being reputed to have detested Dostoevsky.

(40) In The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Chaucer introduces his characters
one by one . He describes the Prioress, named Madame Eglentyne by using the above
method.

(41) Langue (meaning “language” or System of language ) and parole (meaning “speech” or
the pattern how to use language)

(42) Brick Lane is the first novel of Bangladeshi-born British writer and novelist Monica A
li born. The novel is the story of Nazneen, a young Bangladeshi roman given into an
arranged marriage to Chanu Ahmed, a man almost twice her age.

(43) Act II, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet open with the speech of Friar Lawrence who
describing the sun rise

(44) In Act II Scene II of Shakespeare’ play Hamlet Prince Hamlet speaks to Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern about nature of man.

(45) Edward W. Said’s Orientalism (1978), by, is an important text for Post- colonial
Studies. In the work the author establishes the eponymous term “Orientalism” as
a critical concept to describe the West’s commonly contemptuous depiction and
portrayal of “The East,”.

(46) The years between 1642 and 1660 during which the Puritans under the rule of Oliver
Cromwell and his Commonwealth shut down all English theatres on religious and
moral grounds
y Charles Ist was beheaded in 1649
y Theatre was Closed in 1642
y Restoration Takes Place in 1660

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(47) The quotation is taken from Alice walker’s novel The Color Purple (1982).
Celie, the protagonist and narrator of the novel The Color Purple. Celie is a poor,
uneducated, 14 year old black girl living in rural Georgia. She starts writing letters to
God because she has been raped by her father, Alphonso; her two children have been
taken away from her; she has been forced into an ugly marriage. Then she meets
Shug Avery, singer and magic maker, and Celie discovers not the pain of female
rivalry but the love and support of women. Shug is the anti-Celie. Celie is abused in
her own home, while Shug represents the modern woman, displaying typically ‘male’
characteristics

(48) Content words are words that have meaning. They are words we would look up in a
dictionary, such as “lamp,” “computer,” “drove.” New content words are constantly
added to the English language; old content words constantly leave the language as
they become obsolete.

(49) Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language in that year.

(50) Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley. It is based on Victor Frankenstein

who creates a monster creature through scientific experiment. It is an epistolary
form, documenting a correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister,
Margaret Walton Saville. The sub- title of the novel as given by Marry Shelley is The
Modern Prometheus.

(51) (C) Its themes parody The Tempest is incorrect.

(52) Dickinson most often punctuated her poems with dashes, rather than the more
expected array of periods, commas, and other punctuation marks. She also
capitalized interior words, not just words at the beginning of a line. Dickinson may
also have intended for the dashes to indicate pauses when reading the poem aloud.

(53) “Seasons of Migration to the North” by Tayeb Salih’s is one of the best post-colonial
novels published in Arabic in year 1966. It was originally published in Arabic in year
1966 but later translated into more than 20 languages including English. A novel set
in the Sudan in the 1960s, with flashbacks to England in the 1930.

(54) “Imagined communities” is concept coined by Benedict Anderson. Anderson’s book,

1magined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983)
The false statement is that it is a prosaic response to the myth of El Dorado. The
other statements are correct.

(55) Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1871 - 72) is a novel by’ George Eliot. The
novel is divided in 8 books and 80 chapters. Eliot starts Book IV, Chapter 41 by a
quotation from Shakespeare’ s’ play Twelfth Night:
‘By swaggering could I never- thrive,
For the rain it raineth everyday.

(56) Mock-epic, also called mock-heroic, form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic
style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject. The Rape of the Lock (1714) by
Alexander Pope is one of the best Example.

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(57) Laurence Sterne wrote Tristram Shandy from 1759 to1767. The book was published in
nine volumes.
It has a linear plot Statement a is incorrect.

(58) An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. By

convention the audience is to realize that the character’s speech is unheard by the
other characters on stage.

(59) Correct Match -

List – I (Novels) List – II (Last Lines)

i. The Mayor of 1. ‘Happiness was but the occasional episode in a

Casterbridge general drama of pain. ‘.’

2. He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing

ii. Sons and Lovers
town, quickly

3.’ So we beat on, boats against the current, borne

iii. The Great Gatsby
back ceaselessly into the past.’

iv. The Mill on the Floss 4. ‘In their death, they were not divided.’ ‘

(60) Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher associated with post-structuralism and
postmodern philosophy. He is best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis
known as deconstruction “. There is nothing outside the text,” is a statement by
Jacques Derrida.

(61) Bathsheba Everdene in ‘Far from the Madding Crowed’ (1874) is the only one in the
list who abandoned her suitors instead, while all others were abandoned by their
lovers.

(62) Dr. Samuel Johnson defined essay as “A loose sally of the mind; an irregular
undigested piece.”

(63) New Criticism was a movement in literary theory that dominated American literary
criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century. Major figures that were
associated with new criticism were: T. S. Eliot, 1. A. Richards, John Crowe Ransom,
Cleanth Brooks, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, William K. Wimsatt and Monroe
Beardsley.

(64) Piyali Roy in The Hungry Tide

y Sonali in The Calcutta Chromosome is a writer for Calcutta Magazine
y Ila, in The Shadow Lines 1988)

(65) The term “subaltern” is an allusion to the work of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. It
refers to any person or group of inferior rank and station, whether because of race,
class, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or religion Sumit Sarkar is a Modern Indian
Historian associated with the Swadeshi Movement.

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(66)

(67) In above extract from his ‘In memory of W.B. Yeats’, W.H. Auden’s view is “SILLY”

(68) The above-described characters are – Uriah Heep and Barkis from Dickens’ ‘David
Copperfield’ 1850.

(69) Fourth World Literature refers to the works of black people in the US (II.) and to the
works of nonheterosexuals (IV.)
Fourth World Literature refers to the written work of a native people living in a land
that has been taken over by non-natives.

(70) The Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play written by John Webster in 1612-13.

(71) The Signifying Monkey.’ A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (1988) is a

work of literary criticism and theory by Henry Louis Gates Jr. The book traces the
folkloric origins of the African-American cultural practice of “signifying” and uses the
concept of Signifying to analyze the interplay between texts of prominent African
American writers, specifically Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston and
Ishmael Reed.

(72) Harold Bloom is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at
Yale University and a former Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard known for his
innovative interpretations of literary history and of the creation of literature. Bloom’s
first language was Yiddish, and he also learned Hebrew before English.

(73) According to Gramsci, hegemony involves a degree of consent on the part of subject
people.

(74) The correct matches are –

(i) George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge Thomas Kyd. are The University wits
(ii) William Congreve, William Wycherley, George Etherege, George Farquhar are The
Restoration Playwrights
(iii) John Everett Millais, James Collinson, Ford Madox Brown, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
are members of The Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood
(iv) Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, W.B. Yeats are The Rhymers’ Club / The
Decadents of the 1890’s

(75) According to Homi Bhabha, mimicry is not mere copying or emulating the colonizer’s
culture, behavior and manners, but is informed by both mockery and a certain
menace.

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Answer Key

(1) (C) (16) (A) (31) (A) (46) (B) (61) (D)

(2) (A) (17) (C) (32) (D) (47) (D) (62) (A)

(3) (D) (18) C (33) (D) (48) (A) (63) (D)

(4) (B) (19) B (34) (A) (49) (D) (64) (B)

(5) (A) (20) (D) (35) (A) (50) C (65) (D)

(6) C (21) (A) (36) C (51) C (66) (B)

(7) C (22) C (37) C (52) (A) (67) (D)

(8) (D) (23) (B) (38) (A) (53) (D) (68) (D)

(9) (D) (24) (B) (39) (1) (54) (A) (69) C

(10) C (25) (B) (40) (B) (55) (A) (70) (B)

(11) (B) (26) (D) (41) (B) (56) C (71) (B)

(12) (B) (27) (B) (42) (B) (57) (A) (72) C

(13) C (28) (A) (43) C (58) (A) (73) (B)

(14) C (29) (B) (44) C (59) (D) (74) (D)

(15) C (30) C (45) C (60) (B) (75) (A)

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English Literature
(1) In Pinter’s Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it?
(A) A toy
(B) A piano
(C) A drum
(D) A violin

(2) How does Lord Jim end?

(A) Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin.
(B) Jim kills himself with a last unflinching glance.
(C) Jim answers “the call of exalted egoism” and betrays Jewel.
(D) Jim surrenders himself to Doramin.

(3) “Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote lifeless books.” To which of the following
authors can we attribute the above admission?
(A) Graham Greene
(B) George Orwell
(C) Charles Morgan
(D) Evelyn Waugh

(4) Modernism has been described as being concerned with “disenchantment of our
culture with culture itself”. Who is the critic?
(A) Stephen Spender
(B) Malcolm Bradbury
(C) Lionel Trilling
(D) Joseph Frank

(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”

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(6) Which one of the following modern poems employs ottava rima?
(A) “Among School Children”
(B) “In Praise of Limestone”
(C) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
(D) “The Shield of Achilles”

(7) John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for Love takes the story of Shakespeare’s
(A) Troilus and Cressida
(B) The Merchant of Venice
(C) Antony and Cleopatra
(D) Measure for Measure

(8) Arrange the following works in the order in which they appear.
Identify the correct code:
I. No Longer at Ease
II. Things Fall apart
III. A Man of the People
IV. Arrow of God
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

(9) Samuel Pepys kept his diary from

(A) 1660 to 1669
(B) 1649 to 1660
(C) 1662 to 1689
(D) 1660 to 1689

(10) In the Defence of Poetry, what did Sydney attribute to poetry?

(A) A magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader.
(B) A divine power whereby poetry transmits a message from God to the reader.
(C) A moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous
models.
(D) A realistic power that cannot be made to seem like mere illusion and trickery.

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(11) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents portraits of the following contemporary

individuals:
(A) Addison and Lord Hervey
(B) Dryden and Rochester
(C) Swift and Steele
(D) Smollett and Defoe

(12) Match the following authors with their works:

List – A (Authors) List – B (Works)

I. Alice Walker 1. Invisible Man

II. Ralph Ellison 2. The Colour Purple

III. Richard Wright 3. Their Eyes Were Watching God

IV Zora Neale Hurston 4. Native Son

Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 4 2 1
(C) 4 3 1 2
(D) 1 2 4 3

(13) Which of these plays by Shakespeare does not use ‘cross-dressing’ as a device?
(A) As You Like It
(B) Julius Caesar
(C) Cymbeline
(D) Two Gentlemen of Verona

(14) Which of the following works cannot be categorised under postcolonial theory?
(A) Nation and Narration
(B) Orientalism
(C) Discipline and Punish
(D) White Mythologies

(15) Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding is a classic statement of _________

Philosophy.
(A) Aesthetic
(B) Empiricist
(C) Nationalist
(D) Realist

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(16) “Power circulates in all directions, to and from all social levels, at all times.” Who
said this?
(A) Edward Said
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Jacques Derrida
(D) Roland Barthes

(17) Which one of the following is not written by an Australian Aboriginal writer?
(A) Kath Walker
(B) Peter Carey
(C) Robert Bropho
(D) Jack Davis

(18) Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey jointly brought out Tottel’s Miscellany during
the Renaissance.
Identify the name of the Earl of Surrey from the following:
(A) Thomas Lodge
(B) Thomas Nashe
(C) Thomas Sackville
(D) Henry Howard

(19) Match the following lists:

List – A (Novelists) List – B (Novels)

I. Margaret Laurence 1. Surfacing

II. Margaret Atwood [Link] Stone Angel

III. Sinclair Ross 3. Medicine River

IV. Thomas King 4. As for Me and My House

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

(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

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IV. The Greek Theatre

The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) I and II are correct.

(21) Which American poet wrote: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”?
(A) Robert Lowell
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) Wallace Stevens
(D) Langston Hughes

(22) The etymological meaning of the word “trope” is

(A) Gesture
(B) Turning
(C) Mirror
(D) Desire

(23) Who among the following English poets defined poetic imagination as “a repetition in
the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite ‘I AM’ ”?
(A) Blake
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Coleridge
(D) Shelley

(24) Little Nell is a character in Dickens’

(A) David Copperfield
(B) The Old Curiosity Shop
(C) Bleak House
(D) Great Expectations

(25) Match the following:

List – A (Schools/Concept of Criticism) List – B (Critics)

1. John Crow Ransom I. Formalism

2. The Jungians II. New Critics

III. Psychological Theory of the Value of

3. Victor Shklovsky
Literature

4. I.A. Richards IV. Literary art as archetypal image

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Code:
I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 3 2 1 4

(26) In the late seventeenth century a “Battle of Books” erupted between which two
groups?
(A) Cavaliers and Roundheads
(B) Abolitionists and Enthusiasts for slaves
(C) Champions of Ancient and Modern Learning
(D) The Welsh and the Scots

(27) “Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day Love’s pleasure drives his
love away...”
In the above quote the last line is an example of
(A) Allusion
(B) Pleonasm
(C) Paradox
(D) Zeugma

(28) Match the author with the work:

List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)

I. Kingsely Amis 1. Saturday and Sunday Morning

II. Allan Silletoe 2. The Golden Note Book

III. Doris Lessing 3. The Left Bank

IV. Jean Rhys 4. Lucky Jim

Code:
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 1 2 3 4

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(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

(30) The phrase “dark satanic mills” has become the most famous description of the
force at the centre of the industrial revolution. The phrase was used by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) William Blake
(C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) John Ruskin

(31) “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale the scared river
ran.” Where does this ‘sacred river’ directly run to?
(A) A lifeless ocean
(B) The caverns measureless
(C) A fountain
(D) The waves

(32) Who is the twentieth century poet, a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who
rejected the label “British” though he has always written in English rather than his
regional language?
(A) Douglas Dunn
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Geoffrey Hill
(D) Philip Larkin

(33) Which of the following statements best describes Sir Thomas Browne’s Religion
Medici?
(A) It is a story of conversion or providential experiences.
(B) It emphasizes Browne’s love of mystery and wonder.
(C) It is full of angst, melancholy and dread of death.
(D) It reports the facts of Browne’s life.

(34) Which of the following characters from Eliot’s Waste Land is not correctly
mentioned?
(A) The typist
(B) Madam Sosostris
(C) The Merchant from Eugenides
(D) The Young Man Carbuncular

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(35) Which one of the following best describes the general feeling expressed in literature
during the last decade of the Victorian era?
(A) Studied melancholy and aestheticism
(B) The triumph of science and morbidity
(C) Sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
(D) Raucous celebration combined with paranoid interpretation

(36) Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude”?
(A) Mont Blanc
(B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
(C) “Adonais”
(D) Alastor

(37) Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses the tradition of the Beast Fable?
(A) The Knight’s Tale
(B) The Monk’s Tale
(C) The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
(D) The Miller’s Tale

(38) At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul Morel

(A) Sets off in quest of life away from his mother.
(B) Considers the option of committing suicide.
(C) Joins his elder brother William in London.
(D) Embraces a Schopenhauer – like nihilism.

(39) When you say “I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips” you are using a
rhetorical device of
(A) Enumeration
(B) Ant anagoge
(C) Parataxis
(D) Hypo taxis

(40) The following are two lists of plays and characters. Match them.

List – I (Plays) List – II (Characters)

I. Women Beware Women 1. Malevole

II. The Malcontent 2. Beatrice

III. The City Madam 3. Bianca

IV. The Changeling 4. Doll Tearsheet

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Code:
I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 4 3 2 1

(41) With Bacon the essay form is

(A) An intimate, personal confession
(B) Witty and boldly imagistic
(C) The aphoristic expression of accumulated public wisdom
(D) Homely and vulgar

(42) Evelyn Waugh’s Trilogy published together as Sword of Honour is about

(A) The English at War
(B) The English Aristocracy
(C) The Irish question
(D) Scottish nationalism

(43) Who coined the phrase “The Two Nations” to describe the disparity in Britain
between the rich and the poor?
(A) Charles Dickens
(B) Thomas Carlyle
(C) Benjamin Disraeli
(D) Frederick Engels

(44) Milton introduces Satan and the fallen angels in the Book I of Paradise Lost. Two of
the chief devils reappear in Book II. They are I. Moloch II. Clemos III. Belial IV. Thamuz
The correct combination according to the code is Code:
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.

(45) When Chaucer describes the Friar as a “noble pillar of order”, he is using
(A) Irony
(B) Simile
(C) Understatement
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(46) John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is an example of

(A) Drawing room comedy
(B) kitchen-sink drama
(C) Absurd drama
(D) Melodrama

(47) Which character in Jane Eyre uses religion to justify cruelty?

(A) Blanche Ingram
(B) Mr. Brocklehurst
(C) Sir John Rivers
(D) Eliza Reed

(48) Which Romantic poet defined a slave as ‘a person perverted into a thing’?
(A) Blake
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Shelley

(49) John Suckling belongs to the group of

(A) Metaphysical poets
(B) Cavalier poets
(C) Neo-classical poets
(D) Religious poets

(50) Sir Thomas More creates the character of a traveller into whose mouth the account
of Utopia is put. His name is
(A) Michael
(B) Raphael
(C) Henry
(D) Thomas

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Explanation
(1) Meg brought a gift for Stanley. When he opens the package, he finds a toy drum with
drumsticks.
He hangs the drum around his neck and parades around the table beating the drum
merrily until his rhythm becomes erratic and chaotic.

(2) When Jim learns of Dain Waris’s death he is horrified. Jim chooses to hand himself
over to Doramin, who shoots Jim through the heart, allowing him to die with pride
and atonement of his sins.

(3) George Orwell was a novelist, political writer and journalist,. He is known for
attacking totalitarianism through writing books, and devoted much of his life to
various causes critical of capitalism, imperialism, fascism, and Stalin-ism.
Based on his personal experience, he felt disgusted by imperialism and became
suspicious of any political doctrine which violated the basic human rights. His
Political idealism made him fight on the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War.

(4) American literary critic, Lionel Trilling – is best known for his association with “New
York Intellectual” and contribution to “Partisan review”. He shows his concern about
the values, the student of his time learning in universities.
He said, modern literature read by students, is found as a “disenchantment of our
culture with culture itself’ . He discovered as “a bitter line of hostility to civilization
which runs through it.”

(5) “Frost at Midnight,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was originally published in 1798. It is
generally considered his best conversation poems—a style of poem Coleridge created
in which a speaker over different topics as if in conversation with the reader.

(6)

(7)

(8) Things Fall Apart: 1958; No Longer at Ease: 1960; Arrow of God: 1964; A Man of the
People: 1966.

(9)

(10) Defence of Poetry written by Sir Philip Sidney, as an answer to the pamphlet of
Stephen Gosson, was published in 1595 posthumusly. Sidney attributed to poetry as a
moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous models such
as Aeneas in Virgil.

(11) Pope wrote a poetic letter, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1734), which later critics would
deem a rhetorical masterpiece. The Epistle is addressed to Pope’s friend John
Arbuthno. It is an apology in which Pope defends his works against the attacks of
his detractors, particularly the writers Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Joseph Addison,
and John, Lord Hervey. The poem caricatures Pope’s contemporaries. And satirizes

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cowardly critics, hypocritical pedants, tasteless patrons of the arts, and the corrupt
sycophants.

(12)

(13)

(14) Discipline and Punish – is a book by the French philosopher Michael Foucault
published in 1975.
It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that
occurred in Western penal System.

(15)

(16) The present quote is taken from his work “Truth and Power” .”Truth and Power” is an
excerpted version of an interview of Foucault with Alesandro Fontana.

(17)

(18)

(19)

(20)

(21) These lines are from Verse 52 from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman .

(22) The word “trope” derives from Latin tropus “a figure of speech,” from Greek tropos
“a turn, direction, course, way; manner, fashion,” in rhetoric, “turn or figure of
speech,” related to trope “a turning” and trepein “to turn,” from PIE root *trep- “to
turn.”

(23) In Biographia Literaria, chapter 13 of the work is most important as it not only defines
imagination but also differentiate between imagination and Fancy. “The Imagination,
then, I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary Imagination I hold to be
the living Power and prime Agent of all human Per-ception, and as a repetition in the
finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.”

(24)

(25)

(26)

(27)

(28)

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(29) Abel Whittle is one of the workers in Henchard’s hay-yard. He is also the source
of the first disagreement between Henchard and Farfrae, as Farfrae thinks that
Henchard is too rough with Whittle when he is constantly late for work.

(30) The phrase “dark Satanic Mills”, which entered the English language from the poem –
“And did those feet in ancient time” by William Blake. The phrase refers to the early
Industrial Revolution and its destruction of nature and human relationships.

(31)

(32) Seamus Heaney was a native of Northern Ireland, Heaney was raised in County Derry,
and later lived for many years in Dublin.

(33) Religio Medici (1643) is a spiritual memoir by Sir Thomas Browne. It was first
circulated in manuscript form.
William Osler, who is credited as “the father of modern medicine,” considered Religio
Medici so influential to his career that he reportedly memorized it by heart.

(34)

(35)

(36) Alastor; or The Spirit of Solitude, is a blank-verse poem, published with shorter
poems in 1816. The poem is 720 lines long. It is considered to be one of the first of
Shelley’s major poems.

(37) In Geoffrey Chaucer’sThe Nun’s Priest’s Tale, human characters contrast with
the animal characters. In a beast fable, the animals in the tale take on human
characteristics.

(38)

(39) Enumeration is a rhetorical device used for listing details, or a process of mentioning
words or phrases in a step by step manner. It is a type of amplification or division
where a subject is further distributed into components or parts. Enumeration is used
to elucidate a topic, to make it understandable for readers and avoid ambiguity in
their minds.

(40)

(41) Aphorism is a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner.
Bacon is the chief exponent of the prose style called aphoristic essay. His essays are
a collection of short and pithy maxims with great compression. Bacon considered
this style suitable for the spirit of enquiry.

(42)

(43) Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. It is the second
of Disraeli’s Young England trilogy (1845). The novel deals with the problems of

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the growing social and economic disparity between — the rich and the poor —of
England, largely as a result of the Industrial Revolution.

(44)

(45) The Friar loves money more than anything. He uses his position to steal by
pretending to beg for the poor, but instead, pockets the money. He is also a sensual
and licentious man who seduces young girls and then arranges their marriages.
Chaucer ironically applied the above mentioned epithet to describe the Friar’s
character in the prologue.

(46)

(47) Mr. Brocklehurst is the ultimate hypocrite. She is the supervisor of a boarding school
for orphaned girls, Lowood Institute, in the novel Jane Eyre. He is an almost fanatical
Christian, however he also uses it to justify his actions.

(48)

(49) Cavalier Poets include – Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, and Sir
John Suckling.

(50)

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Answer Key

(1) C (11) (A) (21) (B) (31) (AB) (41) (C)

(12) (Wrong
(2) (A) (22) (B) (32) (B) (42) (A)
question)

(3) (B) (13) (B) (23) C (33) (AB) (43) C

(4) C (14) C (24) (B) (34) C (44) (B)

(5) C (15) (B) (25) (A) (35) (A) (45) (A)

(6) (A) (16) (B) (26) C (36) (D) (46) (B)

(7) C (17) (B) (27) C (37) C (47) (B)

(8) C (18) (D) (28) (B) (38) (A) (48) (B)

(9) (A) (19) (D) (29) (D) (39) (A) (49) (B)

(10) C (20) (D) (30) (B) (40) (A) (50) (B)

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English Literature
(1) Match the following:

List-I (Browning’s poems) List-II (Type of Character)

A. Abt Vogler 1. A Medieval Knight

B. Andrea Del Sarto 2. A Musician

C. Childe Ronald to the Dark Tower Came 3. A Poet

D. Cleon 4. An Artist

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

(2) All forms of feminism posit that:

Code:
a. The relationship between the sexes is one of inequality and oppression.
b. There should be an end to all wars.
c. Women need financial independence.
d. All men are prone to violence.
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) 3 and 4 are correct.
(C) 1 and 3 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.

(3) Which one of Brecht’s works was intended to lampoon the conventional sentimental
musical but the public lapped up the work’s sentiment and missed the humor?
(A) Man is Man
(B) Three Penny Opera
(C) The Mother
(D) Life of Galileo

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(4) Ostensibly a musical treatise, The Anatomy of Melancholy is a reflection on human

learning and endeavor published under the pseudonym
(A) Vox Populi
(B) Epicurus Senior
(C) Democritus Junior
(D) Jesting Pilate

(5) Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto tells the story of
(A) A defiant and heartless tyrant who kills his own son mercilessly.
(B) An usurper and a tyrant who kills his own daughter by mistake.
(C) A castle that collapses and crushes the young and sickly prince to death.
(D) A tyrant who retires to a monastery at the end and lives happily ever after with
his queen.

(6) In the Literature of Romanticism there was a widespread frustration with visions
experienced in dreams, in nightmares and other altered states. The following
list contains poems which illustrate this theme, with one exception. Identify the
exception
(A) “Kubla Khan”
(B) “Confessions of an English Opium Eater”
(C) “The Ruined Cottage”
(D) “The Fall of Hyperion”

(7) The book was for many years banned for obscenity in Britain and the United States.
The central character is a Catholic Jew in Ireland. The author claimed that the book
is meant to make you laugh.
Which is this book?
(A) The Picture of Dorian Grey
(B) Herzog
(C) Portnoy’s Complaint
(D) Ulysses

(8) A.S. Byatt in her famous award winning novel of 1990 contrasts past and present
involving a search for a Victorian poet’s past illuminating a contemporary university
researcher’s life and times. Which is the novel?
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) Babel Tower
(D) Still Life

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(9) Which of the following statements best describes JM Coetzee’s Disgrace?

(A) It is a murder mystery set in post-apartheid South Africa.
(B) It is a complex narrative of sin and redemption which involves both White and
Black South Africans.
(C) The protagonist David Lurie is a priest who brings disgrace to his calling.
(D) Coetzee has a schematic and reductive view on the relations between Whites
and the Blacks in South Africa.

(10) Which of the following statements is not true of Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions?
(A) The play centres on a middle class Hindu family during a communal riot.
(B) It challenges communalism.
(C) It is concerned with homosexual relationship.
(D) It promotes religious pluralism in South Asia.

(11) According to Bakhtin the idea of the Carnivalesque represents the following
characteristics except:
(A) A liberation from the prevailing truth and established order
(B) A harking back to the past
(C) Emphasis on play, parody, pleasure and the body
(D) The suspension of all hierarchical rank, principles, norms and prohibitions

(11) According to Bakhtin the idea of the Carnivalesque represents the following
characteristics except:
(A) A liberation from the prevailing truth and established order
(B) A harking back to the past
(C) Emphasis on play, parody, pleasure and the body
(D) The suspension of all hierarchical rank, principles, norms and prohibitions

(12) Which of the following statements is not true of Patrick White?

(A) He is remembered today for his epic and psychological narrative art.
(B) He is the only Australian to receive the Nobel Prize in literature.
(C) He pioneered a new fictional landscape and introduced a new continent in
literature.
(D) His style is noted for lucidity and simplicity.

(13) Conventional scholarship dates ‘Early Modern English’ as beginning around

(A) 450
(B) 1066
(C) 1500
(D) 1800

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(14) “Every demon carries within him unknown to himself, a tiny seed of self-destruction
and goes up in thin air at the most unexpected moment.” To which of R. K. Narayan’s
characters the above statement applies?
(A) Raju – The Guide
(B) Jagan – The Sweet Vendor
(C) Vasu – Man Eater of Malgudi
(D) Margayya – The Financial Expert

(15) Which of the following is not true of post-structuralism?

(A) It seeks to undermine the idea that meaning pre-exists its linguistic expression.
(B) There can be no meaning which is not formulated and no language formulation
reaches anywhere beyond language.
(C) There is no a-textual ‘origin’ of a text.
(D) Every sign refers to every other sign adequately.

(16) Which of the following statements is not true of Wole Soyinka’s The Swamp
Dwellers?
(A) It talks about the family, the extended family in the African society.
(B) It is a confrontation between the traditional and modern society.
(C) It talks about the migration of people, crossing of borders and diasporic anguish.
(D) It is a comment about the city, urban, modern and the country rural, the swamp,
the ancient.

(17) Arrange the following English literary periods in the order in which they appeared.
Use the codes given below:
Codes:
(A) Elizabethan
(B) Caroline
(C) Anglo Norman
(D) Early Tudor
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) 3, 2, 4, 1
(B) 3, 4, 2, 1
(C) 2, 3, 4, 1
(D) 3, 4, 1, 2

(18) Which of the following plays is not written by Rabindranath Tagore?

(A) Sacrifice
(B) Chandalika
(C) Muktadhara
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(19) Assertion (A): A quarto refers to a text in which each leaf was a quarter the size of
the original sheet.
Reason (R): Because eight pages of text were printed on large sheets of paper, which
were then folded four times to produce four leaves.
In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) A is correct but R is wrong.
(B) Both A and R are correct.
(C) A is wrong but R is correct
(D) Both A and R are wrong.

(20) The purpose of the Pre-Raphaelites was primarily to promote

(A) Complexity and ambivalence in art and literature.
(B) Simplicity and naturalness in art and literature.
(C) Symbolic and classical modes in art and literature.
(D) Psychological and mythic modes in art and literature.

(21) Which one of the following plays does not use the device of “the play within the
play”
(A) Hamlet
(B) Women Beware Women
(C) The Spanish Tragedy
(D) A Midsummer Nights Dream

(22) Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): In the Absurd plays of Pinter and Beckett, lack of communication
seems to be a predominant theme.
Reason (R): Existentialist philosophy had a tremendous influence on the dramatists
of the period, nihilism and meaninglessness of life taking a front seat.
In the context of the above statements, which one of the followng is correct?
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) A is true but R is false.
(D) A is false but R is true.

(23) Which of the following observations are true about Beatrice Culleton’s April Rain
tree?
(A) It is a fictional account of the lives of two metis sisters growing up in Winnipeg.
(B) April has a darker complexion and identifies herself with Metis population.
(C) The two sisters have been removed from their parents home and placed with a
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(D) Cheryl has a lighter complexion and identifies herself with white population.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) 3 and 4 are correct.

(24) “She dwells with beauty – Beauty that must die” – wrote Keats in one of his odes,
referring to
(A) Indolence
(B) Autumn
(C) Melancholy
(D) Psyche

(25) Kafka’s Trial has all the following characteristics except:

(A) Vivid yet surreal
(B) Dystopian
(C) The use of historical details of setting
(D) The depiction of totalitarian society

(26) Match the following lists:

List-I (Phrases from poems) List-II (Titles of poems)

A. “Sound of stick upon the floor” 1. “Byzantium”

B. “Hades bobbin bound in mummy cloth” 2. “Sailing to Byzantium”

C. “With beauty like a tightened bow” 3. “Coole and Ballylee, 1931”

D. “A tattered coat upon a stick” 4. “No Second Troy”

Codes:
A B C D
(A) 4 1 3 2
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 1 4 2

(27) Assertion (A): The literature of the Jacobean Age is dominated by works revealing
symptoms of melodrama and sensationalism.
Reason (R): The Jacobean Age is generally ruled by the spirit of decadence.

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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.

(28) Which of the following statements best describes the term ‘deconstruction’
(A) It seeks to expose the problematic nature of ‘centered’ discourses.
(B) It advocates ‘subjective’ or ‘free’ interpretation.
(C) It emphasizes the importance of historical context.
(D) It is a method of critical analysis.

(29) Which of these authors is not a writer of African American slave narratives?
(A) Solomon Northrop
(B) Frederick Douglass
(C) Phillis Wheatley
(D) Sojourner Truth

(30) “For nature then The courser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal
movements all gone by to me was all in all” In these lines from “Tintern Abbey
Revisited” Wordsworth is talking about:
(A) The second stage in his relationship with Nature.
(B) The first stage in his relationship with Nature.
(C) Both the first and second stages in his relationship with Nature.
(D) The third stage in his relationship with Nature.

(31) Assertion (A): One of Flaubert’s main motivations in writing the novel Madam Bovary
was his antipathy for the bourgeoisie.
Reason (R): Flaubert strongly believed that bourgeoisie are those who think, feel and
act in terms of utilitarianism and who reject the humanity and uniqueness of the
individual person.
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) A is true, but R is false.
(D) A is false but R is true.

(32) “A Tun of Man in thy large Bulk is writ, but sure thourt but a Kilderkin of wit” In the
above lines what does Dryden mean by ‘Kilderkin’
(A) A trivial instance
(B) A small barrel of wine
(C) kith and kin
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(33) Which of the following statements is not true of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the
Day? The novel
(A) Usesa butler as a pivotal character.
(B) Uses the classic English detective story form.
(C) Refers to England in the 1930s.
(D) Became a very successful film.

(34) “From a Second Space perspective city space becomes more of a mental and
ideational field, conceptualised in imagery, reflexive thought and symbolic
representation, a conceived space of the imagination or what I will henceforth
describe as the urban imagery.” (Edward Soja, Post metropolis)
Which of the following statements cannot be appled to Soja’s proposition on the
Second Space?
(A) Second Space perspective tends to be more subjective.
(B) Second Space perspective is concerned with symbolic representation of reality.
(C) Second Space perspective is concerned with the fundamentally materialist
approach.
(D) Second Space perspective deals with ‘thoughts about space’

(35) “Lightly, O lightly, we bear her along;

she sways like a flower in the wind of our song;
She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream;
she floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream____”
These lines occur in the poem
(A) “Palanquin bearers”
(B) “The Illusion of Love”
(C) “Indian Love Song”
(D) “Cradle Song

(36) Which among the following novels of Anita Desai is a children’s book?
(A) Fire and the Mountain
(B) Fasting, Feasting
(C) The Zig zag Way
(D) The Village by the Sea

(37) Who among the following writers describes novels as “not form which you see but
emotion which you feel”
(A) D. H. Lawrence
(B) Jean Rhys
(C) Virginia Woolf
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(38) In Paradise Lost, Milton invokes his ‘Heavenly Muse’ ‘Urania’ at the beginning of:
Codes:
(A) Book one
(B) Book four
(C) Book nine
(D) Book seven
The right combination according to the code is
(A) 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) 1, 3 and 4 correct.
(C) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) 1 and 4 are correct.

(39) Which one of the following best describes the basic principle of New Criticism?
(A) An emphasis on the distinctive style and personality of the authors.
(B) Stressing the virtues of discipline, order and the ethical mean.
(C) Locating the meaning of a literary work in the internal relations of the language
that constitute a text.
(D) Evaluating a literary text against a backdrop of historical events.

(40) Who among the following figures give a preview of Achenbach’s fatal end in Death in
Venice?
Codes:
(A) The Graveyard Stranger
(B) The Governess
(C) The barber
(D) The Gondolier
The right combination according to the code is:
(A) 3 and 4 are correct.
(B) 1 and 4 are correct.
(C) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) 1 and 3 are correct.

(41) Jacques Lacan posits three ‘orders’ which structure human existence. In the list that
follows:
Identify the one that is not included by Lacan:
(A) Imaginary
(B) Unconscious
(C) Real
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(42) Assertion (A): Deconstructive reading is apolitical.

Reason (R): Because it focuses exclusively on language. It primarily holds that all
texts or linguistic structures contain within them a principle of destabilisation and
hence it is difficult to pin down meaning. Such a reading, therefore, is unable to
assign historical agency.
In this context above statements, identify which one of the following is correct?
(A) A is correct but R is wrong.
(B) Both A and R are correct.
(C) A is wrong but R is correct.
(D) Both A and R are wrong.

(43) Match the following lists:

List-I (Title of poem) List-II (Poet)

1. Wallace Stevens A. “I hear a fly Buzz”

2. Emily Dickinson B. “Birches”

3. Allen Ginsberg C. “Sunday Morning”

4. Robert Frost D. “A Supermarket in California”

CODES
Answer:
(A) 2 4 3 1
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 4 3 1
(D) 3 2 1 4

(44) ‘Lexis’ refers to

(A) All word forms having meaning or grammatical functions
(B) The history of words
(C) Study of select word forms
(D) The selection of words

(45) The following writers are involved in social activism in addition to their practice of
creative writing:
Codes:
(A) Mahasweta Devi
(B) Shashi Deshpande
(C) Arundhati Roy
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The correct combination according to the code is

(A) 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) 3 and 4 are correct.
(C) 1 and 3 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.

(46) In relation to Spenser’s Faerie Queene which of the following character virtue link is
rightly matched?
(A) Justice-Artegall; Courtsey-Guyan; Temperance-Calidore
(B) Chasity-Britomart; Justice-Guyan; Temperance-Talus
(C) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance-Guyon; Justice-Artegall
(D) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance-Artegall; Justice-Britomart

(47) The Divine Comedy is divided into three canticas, each consisting of
(A) 30 cantos
(B) 33 cantos
(C) 24 cantos
(D) 28 cantos

(48) The Modern Promethean is the alternative title of

(A) Dracula
(B) Frankenstein
(C) Caleb Williams
(D) The Italian

(49) In Words upon Words, Saussure says, “The actual birth of a new language has never
reported in the world” because “we have never known of a language which was not
spoken the day before or which was not spoken in the same way the day before”
What does he mean?
(A) Old languages die making way for new ones.
(B) The birth and death of a language are not subject to human laws.
(C) Languages do not get borne, they evolve out of previously existing linguistic
situations.
(D) Old speech patterns trigger the birth of a new language.

(50) What did Henry James describe as “Loose Baggy Monsters”

(A) Novels
(B) The Spaniards
(C) Epic Poems
(D) His trousers

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(51) “High above the north pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English
literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour.” This
is the opening of David Lodge’s
(A) Nice Work
(B) Changing Places
(C) Small World
(D) The British Museum is Falling Down

(52) At the end of The Portrait of a Lady Isabel Archer

(A) Goes back to the house from the Garden.
(B) Accepts the proposal of Casper Good wood.
(C) Straight away refuses the offer of Good wood.
(D) Probably goes back to Rome and Osmond.
Which are the correct combinations according to the code?
Codes:
(A) 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) 3 and 4 are correct.
(C) 1 and 4 are correct.
(D) 1 and 3 are correct.

(53) “I will put myself in poor and mean attire and with a kind of umber smirch my face”
The word umber means:
(A) A dusty yellow or brown pigment
(B) A dark brown pigment
(C) Light brown powder
(D) Yellow paste Answer A

(54) Which of the following psychoanalysts rewrote Descartes’s dictum: “I think therefore
I am ‘as’ I am not where I think, and I think where I am not?”
(A) Lacan
(B) Freud
(C) Jung
(D) Cixous

(55) By the end of In Memorium the speaker

(A) Re-embraces a Christian vision of after life
(B) Re-asserts religious doubts and scientific scepticism.
(C) Reiterates the Darwinian view of social life.
(D) Reaffirms his faith in universal brotherhood.

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(56) The system of social rules that a speaker knows about language and uses it is called
(A) Grammar
(B) Morphology
(C) Orthography
(D) Pragmatics

(57) The term ‘ecological imperialism’ was coined by

(A) Vandana Shiva
(B) Laurence Buell
(C) Paulo Freire
(D) Alfred Crosby

(58) Emotional ties and personal relationships play a minor part in Defoe’s works. The
following protagonists of Defoe have no family except one who leaves family at an
early age. Which is that character?
(A) Moll Flanders
(B) Colonel Jacque
(C) Robinson Crusoe
(D) Captain Singleton

(59) Match the following lists:

List-I (Novels) List-II (Settings)

A. The Power and the Glory 1. Vietnam

B. The Quiet American 2. Haiti

C. The Honorary Consul 3. Paraguay

D. The Comedians 4. Mexico

CODES
Answer:
(A) 4 1 3 2
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2

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(60) “____ Every other stone is god or cousin there is no crop other than god and god is
harvested here around the year.”
This extract is from:
(A) Jayanta Mahapatra’s “Konarak”
(B) Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri
(C) P. Lal’s “Being Very Simple, God”
(D) R. Parthasarathy’s “Under another Sky”

(61) In EM Foster’s A Passage to India some of the major symbols are associated with:
Code:
(A) Mountains
(B) Tigers
(C) Echoes
(D) Clouds
The right combinaton according to the code is:
(A) 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct.
(C) 1 and 3 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.

(62) Which of the following features are present in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment?
(A) Nihilism
(B) Utilitarianism
(C) Rationalism
(D) Christian Symbolism
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 1 and 4 are correct
(C) 3 and 4 are correct
(D) 1 and 3 are correct

(63) “Count no man happy until he dies, free of pain at last” is the last line of
(A) Oedipus at Colonus
(B) Agamemnon
(C) Oedipus the King
(D) Orestes

(64) What characteristics of 17th century metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of
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Code:
(A) its intellectual complexity
(B) Its uncompromising engagement with politics
(C) Its religious fervour
(D) Its union of thought and passion
The right combination according to the code is
(A) 1 and 3 are correct.
(B) 1 and 4 are correct.
(C) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) 1 and 2 are correct.

(65) Th inferior Priestess, at her Altar’s side, trembling, begins the sacred Rites of Pride. In
this description of Belinda at the dressing table, what does the word Pride refer to?
(A) Vanity
(B) Pride as the first of man’s sins
(C) Both A and (B)
(D) Complacency

(66) “Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young____ She and I were twins: And
should I die this instant, I had livd her time to a minute” In the light of the above
quotation which of the following interpretations is not correct?
(A) The beauty and youth of the Duchess become obvious to Ferdinand when he
sees her dead body.
(B) Only when he identifies himself with her, does he realize the enormity of his
crime.
(C) When he compares the age of the Duchess with his own and puts himself in her
position does he realize his guilt?
(D) He wants her face to be covered because it reminds him of her infidelity.

(67) All except one of the following scholars have come up with models which aim to
characterise world English’s within one conceptual set. Identify the lone exception.
(A) Tom McArthur
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) Braj Kachru
(D) Manfred Gorlach

(68) In the very opening scene of Volpone, the protagonist says, “Open the shrine, that I
may see my Saint,” By the word ‘Saint’ Volpone is referring to
(A) The Sun
(B) Saint Arthur
(C) Gold
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(68) In the very opening scene of Volpone, the protagonist says, “Open the shrine, that I
may see my Saint,” By the word ‘Saint’ Volpone is referring to
(A) The Sun
(B) Saint Arthur
(C) Gold
(D) Apollo

(69) A close friend of Dickens objected to the original ending of Great Expectations in
which Estella remarries and Pip remains single. Dickens accordingly revised to a
more conventional ending which suggests that Pip and Estella will marry. Who was
the friend?
(A) Willkie Collins
(B) Thomas Beard
(C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) Richard Bentley

(70) Which of the following statements best describes an example of the influence of an
affective factor on second language acquisition?
(A) A second language learner makes educated guesses about word meanings in a
text by recognizing cognates.
(B) A second language learner uses familiar vocabulary to mentally form sentences
before speaking.
(C) An adult second language learner finds it impossible to form second language
sounds that do not occur in his first language.
(D) A second language learner employs several words from the first language when
peaking the second language but not when writing it.

(71) Marvell’s “The Coronet” seeks to explore the human condition in terms of the conflict
between
(A) Body and soul
(B) War and peace
(C) Nature and grace
(D) Flesh and spirit

(72) Which of the following is not true of post-structuralism?

(A) It seeks to undermine the idea that meaning pre-exists its linguistic expression.
(B) There can be no meaning which is not formulated and no language formulation
reaches anywhere beyond language.
(C) There is no a-textual ‘origin’ of a text.
(D) Every sign refers to every other sign adequately.

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(73) Which of the following second language learners would most likely acquire the
second language more easily?
(A) A high school student who has been enrolled in mandatory classes in the second
language since
(B) A visitor to a country where the second language is spoken; he interacts with
hotel and restaurant personnel using the second language.
(C) A business person for whom fluency in the second language may lead to career
advancement.
(D) An immigrant living in a country where the second language is spoken; he feels
accepted by speakers of the second language.

(74) In Wuthering Heights, Cathy appears in a dream beating at a window, wailing “Let me
in” and blood running down her wrist. Who dreams her?
(A) Lockwood
(B) Nelly
(C) Heathcliff
(D) Edgar Linton

(75) Who among the following characters in Thomas More’s Utopia did not correspond in
biographical background to an actual historical person?
(A) Morton
(B) Hythloday
(C) Giles
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Explanation
(1)

(2) Feminism is the collection of ideologies that posit that the relationship between
the sexes is one of inequality and oppression. It advocates encourage equality in
rights for women. The equality is not limited to social and political status but the
economical as well.

(3) The Threepenny Opera, an adaptation of the eighteenth-century Beggar’s Opera by

John Gay, which Brecht wrote in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann. Brecht set
the opera in the criminal underworld of Victorian London. One of the central themes
of the play is hypocrisy. The play is a “ballad opera,” making use of popular music,
written by Kurt Weill.

(4) Robert Burton used the persona of Democritus Junior in the satirical preface to ‘The
Anatomy of Melancholy’

(5)

(6) The Ruined Cottage’ (1797) is a pastoral poem by Wordsworth. It is a poem that is
not a dream vision.

(7) For some time ‘Ulysses’ (1922) by James Joyce was banned for obscenity and for
depicting its central character as a Catholic Jew.

(8) Possession: A Romance, winner of 1990 Booker Prize is a 1990 best-selling novel by
British writer A. S. Byatt. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the
lives of two Victorian poets. It is a novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery,
and a triumphant love story.

(9) The novel Disgrace is a complex narrative of sin and redemption and revolves around
the life of a South African Professor of English, David Lurie in Post-Apartheid South-
Africa.

(10) The play centres around a middle class Hindu family of Hardika, during a communal
riot. it deals with one of the burning issues of communal riot.

(11) Carnivalesque literature challenges authority, traditions, and rules – often by

breaking down boundaries of class and position, and celebrating the grotesque,
forbidden or the uncanny. It often revels in matters that are usually derided.

(12) Patrick White, the Australian Nobel Prize Winner, his style is epic and psychological
narrative art which is not simple and lucid.

(13) The early modern English period follows the Middle English period towards the end
of the fifteenth century. It usually coincides nearly with the Tudor (1485–1603) and
Stuart (1603-1714) dynasties.

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(14) Vasu stands for the colonizers who dominated the natives being an outsider. Vasu is
a taxidermist and the antagonist of the novel Man Eater of Malgudi by R. K. Narayana.

(15)

(16) Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka’s first major drama, The Swamp Dwellers, debuted in
1958. It is a short play that stages one day in the life of an impoverished Nigerian
family, and concerns the fallen fortunes of young Igwezu. Wole Soyinka focuses the
life and culture of an African society. . Wole Soyinka in The Swamp Dwellers criticizes
the life and culture of human community of a particular African state.

(17)

(18)

(19)

(20) The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood consciously sought to emulate the simplicity and
sincerity of the work of Italian artists from before the time of Raphael.

(21)

(22)

(23) Beatrice Culleton’s ‘April Raintree’ (1984) presents a fictional account of the lives
of two ‘Metis’ sisters, April and Cheryl in Winnipeg . They were removed from their
parent’s home and placed with a series of foster families.

(24) In his ‘Ode on Melancholy’ (Stanza 3), Keats wrote “She dwells with beauty – Beauty
that must die”

(25) The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multifaceted,
notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism. The novel
expresses a form of radical nihilism in a modern world abandoned by God. There is
here a fundamental uncertainty, and a context of skepticism.

(26)

(27)

(28) Deconstruction is a philosophy that engenders an analytic examination of something

(such as a theory) often in order to reveal its inadequacy.

(29)

(30)

(31)

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(32) These lines are from Dryden’s poem ‘Mac Flecknoe’ (1692). The word ‘Kilderkin’ here
means a small barrel of wine.

(33)

(34)

(35) the poem “ Palanquin bearers” is written by Sarojini Naidu. It is known for its
beautiful imageries and simplicity.

(36) The Village by the Sea is a novel for children by Desai, which focuses on a family and
the children trying to make ends meet.

(37) Virginia Woolf – in ‘On Re-Reading Novels’ (1922) --In response to Percy Lubbock’s
formalist critical approach in ‘The Craft of Fiction’ (1922), said that book itself is not
form which you see, but emotion which you feel.

(38) Milton invokes ‘Urania’ in Book one and seven.

(39) New Criticism was a 20th century formalist movement of America. It emphasized
close reading to discover how a work of literature functioned as a self-contained,
self-referential aesthetic object.
The basic principle of New Criticism is in locating the meaning of a literary work in
the internal relations of the language that constitute a text. The new critics focus
on ambiguity, paradox, irony, and the effects of connotation and poetic imagery.
They show the contribution of each of these element of poetic form to a unified
framework.

(40)

(41) Jacques Lacan argued that language and the subconscious are structurally similar
that the human mind is a system of signifiers and signifieds.

(42)

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(44) Lexis is the total stock of words in a language – the vocabulary of a language, as
distinct from its grammar.

(45) Mahasweta Devi is Known for her for the rights and empowerment of the tribal
people of west Bengal and Bihar, M. P. and Chhattisgarh.
Arundhati Roy is also known for her social activity in the field of Human Rights and
nvironment.

(46) In ‘Faerie Queene’ (1590), Courtesy is represented by Calidore, Temperance by Guyon

and Justice by Artegall.

(47) Dante’s ‘Divina Commedia’ was divided into three canticas, each divided into 33
cantos. The three canticas were – Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.

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(49) Saussure argued that there is no language in the world which borne out but only
evolve from previously existing linguistic situations. All languages have their origin
from the day the world exist and they developed into better form along with the
passage of time.

(50) In 1907, Henry James described the ‘large nineteenth century Novels’ as ‘Loose Baggy
Monsters’.

(51)

(52) In the final chapter, Casper Good wood, one of the suitors of Isabel encounters her at
garden of Ralph’s estate, and begs her to leave Osmond and come away with him.

(53)

(54) Jaques Lacan, a psychoanalyst discusses the importance of the thought process
that Descartes went through to get to his conclusive statement. Instead of “I think
therefore I am” Lacan asserts “I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not
think” Or, “I think where I cannot say that I am.”

(55)

(56) Pragmatics is the study of the practical aspects of human action and thought. It is
the study of the use of linguistic signs, words and sentences, in actual situations.

(57)

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(60) Jejuri is a series of 31 poems written in 1976 by Arun Kolatkar, an Indian poet who
wrote in Marathi and English both. Jejuri won the Commonwealth Prize in 1977.
The poems covers one day pilgrimage of writer to Jejuri, a place associated with
Khandoba.

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(69) On Wilkie Collins’ suggestion, Dickens altered the ending of ‘Great expectations’
(1861).

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(75) Raphael is the name of a Biblical angel but the name Hythloday means “peddler of
nonsense.”
Raphael Hythloday is a fictional character. Though Giles and More are actual people,
Hythloday is entirely fictional.

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Answer Key

(1) B (16) C (31) A (46) B (61) C

(2) C (17) D (32) B (47) B (62) B

(3) B (18) D (33) B (48) B (63) C

(4) C (19) A (34) C (49) C (64) B

(5) B (20) B (35) A (50) A (65) C

(6) D (21) ….. (36) D (51) B (66) D

(7) B (22) A (37) C (52) C (67) B

(8) B (23) A (38) D (53) A (68) C

(9) B (24) C (39) C (54) A (69) A

(10) A (25) C (40) B (55) A (70) B

(11) B (26) D (41) B (56) D (71) C

(12) D (27) B (42) B (57) D (72) D

(13) C (28) A (43) C (58) C (73) D

(14) C (29) C (44) A (59) A (74) A

(15) D (30) C (45) C (60) B (75) 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

(2) In poems like “The Altar” and “Easter Wings” ________ exploits _______.
(A) John Donne, alliteration
(B) Robert Herrick, trimetre
(C) G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm
(D) George Herbert, typographic space

(3) No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of hours!

For what wears out the life of mortal men?
‘Tis that repeated shocks, again, again,
Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers …
Who does the poet address here?
(A) The Scholar Gipsy
(B) Telemachus
(C) The Nightingale
(D) The Poet’s Sister, Dorothy

(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 Mr_______.
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) E.M. Forster
(C) Wyndham Lewis
(D) Arnold Bennett

(5) She was a worthy woman al hir lyve,

Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde fyve,
In the ‘Prologue’ Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as:
I. crude and vulgar
II. outspoken and boastfully licentious

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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.

(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

(7) Who among the following was NOT a member of the Scriblerus Club?
(A) Thomas Parnell
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Joseph Addison
(D) John Gay

(8) _______ is a theological term brought into literary criticism by _______.

(A) Entelechy, St. Augustine
(B) Ambiguity, William Empson
(C) Adequation, Fr Walter Ong
(D) Epiphany, James Joyce

(9) ________ the Almighty Power Hurled headlong 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

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(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

(11) Which of the following is NOT a quest narrative?

(A) Shelley’s Alastor
(B) Byron’s Manfred
(C) Coleridge’s Christabel
(D) Keats’s Endymion

(12) The novel has a scene where African American students are made to compete and
fight with each other as they rush for the gold coins tossed on an electric blanket.
Identify the novel.
(A) Richard Wright: Native Son
(B) James Baldwin: Another Country
(C) Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
(D) Toni Morrison: Bluest Eye

(13) G.M. Hopkins’s “Windhover” is dedicated:

(A) To Christ, our Lord
(B) To Christ our lord
(C) To no one
(D) To Christ, the Lord

(14) Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:

List – I (Authors) List – II (Poems)

i. Ted Hughes 1. “The Otter”

ii . Seamus Heaney 2. “Snake”

iii . W.H. Auden 3. “Ghost Crabs”

iv . D.H. Lawrence 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

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(15) His cooks with long disuse their trade forgot;

Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.
Who is this character whose stinginess passed into a proverb?
(A) Corah
(B) Shimei
(C) Zimri
(D) Achitophel

(16) “The story and the novel, the idea and the form, are the needle and thread, and I
never heard of a guild of tailors who recommended the use of the thread without the
needle, or the needle without the thread.”
This famous passage describing the relation of idea to form is found in
(A) Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
(B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
(C) Henry James, “The Art of Fiction”
(D) I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary Criticism

(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 [Link]
(C) The Norman Conquest – 1016
William Caxton and the introduction of printing- 1475
The King James Bible – 1564
Dr. Johnson’s English Dictionary -1780
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

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(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

(19) “Late capitalism”, by which is meant accelerated technological development and the
massive extension of intellectually qualified labour, was first popularized by ______.
(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Ernst Mandel
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Stanley Fish

(20) Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?

(A) Native Son by Richard Wright – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Their Eyes Were
Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston – Another Country by James Baldwin
(B) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston – Native Son by Richard
Wright – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Another Country by James Baldwin
(C) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Native Son by Richard Wright – Another Country
by James Baldwin – Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston
(D) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Hurston – Another Country by James
Baldwin – Native Son by Richard Wright – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

(21) Metaphor is so widespread that it is often used as an umbrella term to include other
figures of speech such as metonyms which can be technically distinguished from it
in its narrower usage.
Identify the metaphorical phrase in this sentence:
(A) narrower usage
(B) technically distinguished
(C) figures of speech
(D) umbrella term

(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.
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Another poet fondly recalls these lines but cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone
in:
(A) Marianne Moore’s “Spenser’s Ireland”
(B) Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song”
(C) W.H. Auden’s “In Praise of Limestone”
(D) T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land

(23) The tramp in Pinter’s first big hit, The Caretaker, often travels under an assumed
name. It is
(A) Bernard Jenkins
(B) Roly Jenkins
(C) Jack Jenkins
(D) Peter Jenkins

(24) Here is a list of early English plays imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the odd one
out:
(A) Gorboduc
(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Ralph Roister Doister
(D) Gammer Gurton’s Needle

(25) Where does Act I Scene 1 of William Congreve’s Way of the World open?
(A) A Chocolate-House
(B) A Pub
(C) A Carrefour
(D) The drawing room of Sir Willfull’s mansion

(26) While “a well-boiled icicle” for “a well-oiled bicycle” is an example of Spoonerism,

someone saying “Congenital food” for ‘Continental food’ is an example of ______.
(A) Malapropism
(B) Pleonasm
(C) Neologism
(D) Archaism

(27) It is unimaginable that all the following events happened in one year:
(1) Arthur Evans discovered the first European civilization; his excavations in Crete
revealed a culture that was far older than either Attic Greece or Ancient Rome.
(2) Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published the Oxford Book of English Verse.
(3) Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train at Gare d’ Orsay, Paris.
(4) Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.
(5) Hugo de Vries identified what would later come to be called genes.

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(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

(28) Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.

This is the epigraph to
(A) T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”
(B) Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would be the King”
(C) George Eliot’s Silas Marner
(D) E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End

(29) Robert Graves’s “In Broken Images” ends thus:

He in a new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion.
The figure of speech here is _______.
(A) Chiasmus
(B) Catachresis
(C) Inversion
(D) Zeugma

(30) The phrase “leaves dancing” is an example of ________.

(A) pathetic fallacy
(B) hyperbole
(C) pun
(D) conceit

(31) At the end of The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway observes:
“They were careless people”. Who were they?
(A) Tom and Daisy
(B) The Wilsons
(C) Gatsby and his friends
(D) The people of East Egg

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(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.

(33) Match List–I with List–II according to the code given below :

List–I (Novels) List–II (Last lines)

1. ‘It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought laying down her
i. ‘Lord Jim’
brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision’.

ii. ‘To the 2. ‘April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in
Lighthouse’ good stead…

3. ‘He feels it himself and says often that he is “preparing to

iii. ‘A Passage to
leave all this; preparing to leave,…”, while he waves his hands
India’
sadly at his butterflies’.

iv. ‘A Portrait of 4. ‘No not yet,” and the Artist as a Young sky said, “No, not Man’
the 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

(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.
(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.

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(35) Who among the following proposes that the unconscious comes into being only in
language?
(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Stuart Hall
(D) Paul de Man

(36) The Elizabethan Settlement established during the reign of Elizabeth I

I. ensured the supremacy of the Church of England.
II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the authority of the Pope.
III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be part of the Anglican church.
IV. created a group known as the Roundheads.
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.

(37) Which of the following poems by Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and death?
(A) “The Beggar Maid”
(B) “The Lotus-Eaters”
(C) “Ulysses”
(D) “Tithonus”

(38) One English poet addressing another:

Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life’s common way,
In cheerful godliness….
Whose lines are these? To whom are they addressed?
(A) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats
(B) P.B. Shelley – William Blake
(C) William Wordsworth – John Milton
(D) Ben Jonson – William Shakespeare

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(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.

(40) Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Northrop Frye’s four ‘generic plots?
(A) The comic
(B) The tragic
(C) The lyric
(D) The ironic

(41) Arrange the sections of The Waste Land in the order in which they appear in the
poem:
(1) The Fire Sermon
(2) Death by Water
(3) A Game of Chess
(4) What the Thunder Said
(5) The Burial of the Dead
(A) 3, 2, 1, 5, 4
(B) 5, 1, 2, 3, 4
(C) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4
(D) 5, 3, 1, 2, 4

(42) Sir Plume is a character in ____ .sa

(A) Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
(B) Congreve’s The Way of the World
(C) Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
(D) Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Strategem

(43) Steeling herself to the murder, Lady Macbeth calls on ______ to “unsex me here”.
(Macbeth I.5.39) 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

(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.

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Which poem? Who is the poet?

(A) “Lonely Hearts.” Wendy Cope
(B) “Holy Thursday.” William Blake
(C) “Tiger Mask Ritual.” Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
(D) “To His Coy Mistress.” Andrew Marvell

(45) Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world should listen then, as
I am listening now.
Whose lines are these? To whom are they addressed?
(A) John Keats. The Nightingale
(B) P.B. Shelley. The Skylark
(C) William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley
(D) Robert Browning. The Grammarian

(46) Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:

List – I (Novel) List – II (Major symbol)

i. Dombey and Son 1. fog

ii. The Return of the Native 2. train

iii. Bleak House 3. heath

iv Tess 4. mist

CODES
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 1 3 4 1

(47) The following postmodernist novel has an unusual protagonist whose gender is not
revealed. So much so, that we keep wondering whether that person’s relationships
are homo /hetero-sexual:
(A) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(B) English Music
(C) Written on the Body
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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

(49) Who among the following gave a happy ending to King Lear?
(A) James Quin
(B) Nahum Tate
(C) Peg Woffington
(D) Charles Macklin

(50) Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice starts with the famous statement: “It is a truth
universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be
in want of a life.”
As we get to read the novel this statement seems to be made from the point of view
of:
I. The surrounding families
II. Mrs Bennet
III. Mr Bennet
IV. The women of Jane Austen’s age and society
Find out the correct combination according to the code:
(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.

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Explanation
(1) The word ‘Forlorn’ completes the lines which is from Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
(1819).
- Forlorn The very word is like a bell to toll me back from thee to my sole self”

(2) “The Altar” is a poem by George Herbert, first published in Herbert’s collection The
Temple in 1633. It is a direct and devotional poem that depicts the speaker’s desire
to make a sacrifice similar to Christ’s.
Easter Wings is a poem by George Herbert which was published in his posthumous
collection, The Temple (1633). In typography, letter spacing or tracking is an optically-
consistent adjustment to the space between letters to change the visual density of a
line or block of text.

(3) In the above lines the poet M. Arnold is addressing the Scholar Gipsy. The poem’s
title is ‘The Scholar Gipsy’ (1853). “The Scholar Gipsy” is a poem by Matthew Arnold,
based on a 17th-century Oxford story found in Joseph Glanvill’s The Vanity of
Dogmatizing .

(4) Point Counter Point is Aldous Huxley’s 1928 novel about a group of writers, artists,
heiresses, politicians and scientists, going to parties, having affairs, setting up fascist
organizations, all while having long conversations about the nature of art, science,
God and humanity. In the novel Mark Rampion is modelled on D.H. Lawrence.

(5) In ‘The Canterbury Tales’ Chaucer represents the Wife of Bath as crude, vulgar,
outspoken, licentious and bubbling with vitality. With her boasting of having five
husbands, she is not at all oppressed. So, statement III is wrong.

(6) The Solid Mandala, by Patrick White, was published in 1966. It deals with the story
of two brothers, Waldo and Arthur Brown and set in Sarsaparilla, a setting he often
employed in his other books, such as with Riders in the Chariot etc.

(7) Scriblerus Club, English literary group formed about 1713-14 to satirize “all the false
tastes in learning.” Among its chief members were Arbuthnot, Gay, Thomas Parnell,
Pope, and Swift.

(8) Epiphany is a theological term brought into English literary criticism by James Joyce.
A sudden feeling of knowledge that brings to light what was so far hidden and
changes one’s life is called epiphany. It is a term used by James Joyce in his works :
Portrait of the artist as a Youngman, Dubliners.

(9) The above lines are part of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’1667, ‘Him’ is the appropriate word
to fill in the blank, which symbolizes the ‘Almighty’ God who hurled down Satan from
heaven for his defiance.

(10) Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short novel The Yellow Wallpaper – Jane The Narrator is
Suffering from madness Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 - Mason was the former

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wife of Edward Rochester and she was kept locked up in the attic because she was
‘mad’.
‘The Mad Woman in the Attic’ (1979) by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar is a critical
work on Victorian women and literature. The other works are novels with mad
woman as a character in their respective stories and under strange situations.
Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea – Antoinette- The daughter of ex-slave owners and
the story’s principal character, based on the madwoman Bertha from Charlotte
Brontë’s gothic novel Jane Eyre.

(11) Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ an unfinished long narrative poem ‘Christabel’ (1816) is not
a quest narrative but a complex love poem with Christabel and Geraldine as main
Characters in it.

(12) Invisible Man, a novel by Ralph Ellison, published in 1952. It tells the story of The
narrator (Invisible Man) a nameless young black man who moves in a 20th-century
United States where reality is surreal and who can survive only through pretense.
Because the people he encounters “see only my surroundings, themselves, or
figments of their imagination,” he is effectively invisible.

(13) “The Windhover” is a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins written in 1877, but not
published until 1918. Hopkins dedicated the poem «to Christ our Lord».

(14) Correct match -

i. Ted Hughes 1. “Ghost Crabs”

ii . Seamus Heaney 2. “The Otter”

iii . W.H. Auden 3. “Prevent the Dog from Barking with a Juicy Bone.”

iv . D.H. Lawrence 4. “Snake”

(15) The above lines are from Dryden’s ‘Absalom and Achitophel’ (1681),
Shimei is one of the characters in ‘Absalom and Achitophel’ whose stinginess passed
into a proverb.

(16) The above passage is part of Henry James’s work “The Art of Fiction” published in
1884. The Art of Fiction was a response to remarks by English critic Walter Besant,
who wrote an article that literally attempted to lay down the “laws of fiction

(17) The correct Match is–

The Norman Conquest – 1066
W. Caxton’s Printing Press – 1475-76
King James’ Bible – 1611
Dr. Johnson’s ‘English Dictionary’ – 1755
Commonwealth Period/Protectorate – 1649-60

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(18) “Joyce Wars” — Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first
serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review. Leopold Bloom is the
fictional protagonist and hero of the novel who is a Jewish advertising agent.

(19) For Mandel, “late capitalism” denoted the economic period that started with the end
of World War II and ended in the early 1970s, a time that saw the rise of multinational
corporations, mass communication, and international finance.

(20) Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937 a novel by Zora Neil Hurston.
y Native Son is a novel published in 1940 written by Richard Wright.
y Invisible Man is a novel published in 1952 by Ralph Ellison.
y Another Country is a novel written in 1962 by James Baldwin.

(21) A metaphor is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two
things that aren’t alike but do have something in common.

(22) T.S. Eliot recalled the above lines in his The Waste Land part 3 titled ‘The Fire
Sermon taken from Spenser’s ‘Prothalamion’ (1596).

(23) The Caretaker (1960) is a play in three acts by Harold Pinter. The tramp often travels
under the assumed name of Bernard Jenkins, who is really Mac Davies. Davies
reveals to Aston that his real name is not “Bernard Jenkins”, his “assumed name”, but
really “Mac Davies”

(24) ‘Gorboduc’ (1561)

y ‘Ralph Roister Doister’ (1567)
y ‘Grammer Gurton’s Needle’ (1567).

(25) of William Congreve’s ‘The Way of the World’ (1700)

y The Act I Sc. I open in a Chocolate – House.
y Act 2 is set in St. James’ Park.
y Acts 3, 4 and 5 are all set in the home of Lady Wishfort.

(26) Malapropism is the intentional misuse of words. The term Malapropism was
popularized by the character Lady Malaprop in Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’ (1775).

(27) All the above events takes place in the year 1900.

(28) The given epigraph is of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Man Who Would be King’ published in
1888.

(29) Chiasmus is a figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the
following phrase, such that two key concepts from the original phrase reappear in
the second phrase in inverted order. The sentence “Reetu has all my love; my heart
belongs to Reetu,” is an example of chiasmus

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(30) The above-mentioned phrase is an example of pathetic fallacy. In pathetic fallacy

the author attributes human emotions and traits to nature or inanimate objects. Eg.
smiling skies, angry storm etc.

(31) The Great Gatsby is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in 1925. The narrator of
the story is Nick Carraway who observes at the end that Tom and Daisy were careless
people.

(32) Its Wordsworth’s statement in his ‘Preface’ to the ‘Lyrical Ballads’ (1800)–
“to choose incidents from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout,
as far as possible, in a selection of language really used by men.”

(33)

(34) A metrical system devised by Gerard Manley Hopkins composed of one- to four-
syllable feet that start with a stressed syllable.

(35) Lacan thought that Freud’s ideas of “slips of the tongue”, jokes, and the interpretation
of dreams all emphasized the agency of language in subjective constitution. In “The
Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud,” Lacan proposes
that “the unconscious is structured like a language.”

(36)

(37) In the poem, ‘The Beggar Maid’, the poet Lord Tennyson talks about the love of the
king Cophetua for the beggar maid. The beggar maid first time came Infront of the
king Cophetua, she was bare-footed and she set down her arms across her breast.
She looked so beautiful. Her beauty cannot be expressed by the words.

(38) “London, 1802” is a poem by William Wordsworth. Here Wordsworth eulogizes poet
John Milton. It was Composed in 1802, published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).
Wordsworth is addressing ‘Milton Thou shouldn’t be living at this hour’ in the poem.

(39) Samuel Johnson’s ‘Lives of Poets’ pub in 1781 were originally collected as ‘Prefaces,
Biographical and Critical, to the works of 52 English Poets’. In this work in the very
first chapter entitled Life of Cowley he coined the term Metaphysical poets.

(40) Frye has given the idea of four ‘generic plots’ in Anatomy of Criticism.
Northrop Frye asserts that all narratives fall into one of four mythos 1-Comedy,
2-Romance, 3-Tragedy, 4- Irony & satire These four are associated with four seasons–
1. Spring
2. Summer,
3. Autumn
4. Winter

(41) There are five sections in Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ (1922):–
1. The Burial of the Dead
2. A Game of Chess

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3. The Fire Sermon

4. Death by Water
5. What the Thunder Said

(42) Sir Plume is a character in Pope’s ‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1712).
y Belinda
y The Baron
y Shock (Dog)
y Ariel
y Umbriel
y Sylph
y Nymph
y Gnome
y Sir Plume

(43) Lady Macbeth in Act I Sc V line 39 calls on the ‘spirits of hell’ to ‘unsex me here’ to
steel her heart to Lady Macbeth, in Act I, Sc. V, line 39, calls on the ‘spirits of hell’
to ‘unsex me here’ to steel her heart to commit the murderous deed of killing King
Duncan.

(44) “To His Coy Mistress” is a poem by Andrew Marvell published in 1680s, after Marvell’s
death. “To His Coy Mistress” is a carpe diem poem.

(45) In the above lines P.B. Shelley is addressing the Skylark in his poem ‘To a Skylark’
(1820). There are twenty-one stanza in the poem consists of five lines each. The first
four lines are metered in trochaic trimeter, the fifth in iambic hexameter, also called
Alexandrine. The rhyme scheme of each stanza is ABABB. There are total 105 lines in
this poem.

(46)

(47) Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Written on the Body’ (1993) is the postmodernist novel. The
novel is a romance story about a non-gendered narrator who falls in love with a
married woman called Louise. The aim of this essay is to examine the relationship
between sex, gender, sexuality and narrative in the novel.

(48) (A) The Heart of the Matter - Henry Scobie.

(B) England Made Me – does not end in any form of suicide
(C) Brighton Rock - Pinkie
(D) The Power and the Glory - Garner’s

(49) Nahum Tate in ‘The History of King Lear’ (1681) altered the ending of the original ‘King
Lear’ by Shakespeare. Tate’s play has a happy ending, with Lear regaining his throne,
Cordelia marrying Edgar, and Edgar joyfully declaring that “truth and virtue shall at
last succeed.

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(50) Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (1813) begins “It is a truth universally
acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of
a wife.” The statement is targeting - the surrounding families and the women of Jane
Austen’s age and society.

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Answer Key

(1) (C) (11) (C) (21) (D) (31) (A) (41) (D)

(2) (D) (12) (C) (22) (D) (32) (A) (42) (C)

(3) (A) (13) (B) (23) (A) (33) (C) (43) (B)

(4) (A) (14) (C) (24) (B) (34) (D) (44) (D)

(5) (B) (15) (B) (25) (A) (35) (B) (45) (B)

(6) (C) (16) (C) (26) (A) (36) (A) (46) (A)

(7) (C) (17) (B) (27) (B) (37) (A) (47) (C)

(8) (D) (18) (C) (28) (B) (38) (C) (48) (B)

(9) (A) (19) (B) (29) (A) (39) (B) (49) (B)

(10) (B) (20) (B) (30) (A) (40) (C) (50) (B)

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2013 December Paper 3

English Literature
(1) In which of the following novels Harikatha is strategically used as a medium of
‘consciousness raising’?
(A) Waiting for the Mahatma
(B) The Serpent and the Rope
(C) A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Kanthapura

(2) Identify the text in the following list which offers a fictionalized survey of English
Literature from Elizabethan times to 1928:
(A) E.M. Forster, the Eternal Moment
(B) Virginia Woolf, Orlando
(C) Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
(D) David Jones, In Parenthesis

(3) Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:

List – I List – II

i. John Ruskin 1. London Labour and the London Poor

ii. Henry Mayhew 2. The Golden Bough

iii. Sir Charles Lyell 3. Unto The Last

iv. Sir James George Frazer 4. The Principles of Geology

Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 3 1 4 2

(4) Which of the following poems DOES NOT begin in the first person pronoun?
(A) Shelley’s “Adonais”
(B) Byron’s “Don Juan”
(C) Keats’s “Lamia”
(D) Coleridge’s ‘The Aeolian Harp’

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(5) In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton proposes the following two principal
kinds:
I. Love
II. Death
III. Spiritual
IV. Religious
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I & II are correct.
(B) I & III are correct.
(C) I & IV are correct.
(D) II & IV are correct

(6) Listed below are some English journals widely read by professionals: Screen, Critical
Quarterly,
Review of English, Wasafiri. One of the above founded by C.B. Cox, & now being edited
by Colin MacCabe, carries not only critical & scholarly essays in English Studies but
reviews film, culture, language & contemporary political issues. Identify the journal:
(A) Wasafiri
(B) Screen
(C) Critical Quarterly
(D) Review of English Studies

(7) In Marvell’s “A Dialogue between Soul and Body”, who/which of the following has the
last word?
(A) Body
(B) God
(C) Soul
(D) Satan

(8) In Blake’s poem “A Poison Tree” the speaker’s anger grows and becomes ________.
(A) A cherry
(B) An apple
(C) An orange
(D) A rose

(9) Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as
Reason (R):
Assertion (A): For deconstructive critics how human beings read and interpret signs
they receive will determine their modes of knowing and being, whether those signs
come in the form of literary texts or bank statements.
Reason (R): The fact of the matter is that human beings use signs to function in the
world and are always likely to do so.

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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.

(10) Ian McEwan’s Saturday spans one day in the life of

(A) A divorce lawyer
(B) An ageing pianist
(C) A London neurosurgeon
(D) A famous poet

(11) “Open Forum” as applied to poetry, is the same as ________. It is poetry that is not
written according to traditional fixed patterns. (Fill up)
(A) Blank verse
(B) Concrete poetry
(C) L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poetry
(D) Free verse

(12) The author of the book observes “I have attempted, through the medium of
biography, to present some Victorian visions to the modern eye”. The four main
characters in this book are Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold &
General Gordon. Who is this author?
(A) Mathew Arnold
(B) Robert Browning
(C) Lytton Strachey
(D) Oscar Wilde

(13) In his attack delivered on the theater in A Short View of the Immorality and
Profaneness of the English Stage, Jeremy Collier specially arraigned ______ and
_______.
(A) Congreve and Vanbrugh
(B) Farquhar and Vanbrugh
(C) Wycherley and Farquhar
(D) Congreve and Etherege

(14) I.A. Richards’ Practical Criticism (1929) inaugurated a new phase in the history of
English critical thought. What was this book’s subtitle?
(A) Studies in Poetry
(B) A Study in Literary Judgement
(C) Essays and Studies
(D) A Theoretical Guide

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(15) Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?

(A) The Castle of Otranto – Melmoth the Wanderer – The Monk – The Mysteries of
Udolpho
(B) The Castle of Otranto – The Mysteries of Udolpho – The Monk – Melmoth the
Wanderer
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho – The Castle of Otranto – The Monk – Melmoth the
Wanderer
(D) Melmoth the Wanderer – The Castle of Otranto – The Mysteries of Udolpho –
The Monk

(16) Select from among the following plays, the one that best suits the description below:
I. Alyque Padamsee invited its author to write it.
II. The play had communalism as its theme.
III. This play was banned from the Deccan Herald Theatre Festival for dealing with a
sensitive issue.
IV. The play, however, was produced by Playpen in Bangalore on July 1993. The play
is _______.
(A) Dance like a Man
(B) Where there’s a Will
(C) Final Solutions
(D) The Wisest Fool on Earth

(17) I have known three generations of John Smiths. The type breeds true. John Smith II
and III went to the same school, university and learned profession as John Smith I.
Yet John Smith I wrote pseudoSwinburne; John Smith II wrote pseudo-Brooke; and
John Smith III is now writing pseudo-Eliot. But unless John Smith can write John
Smith, however unfashionable the result, why does he bother to write at all? Surely
one Swinburne; one Brooke, and one Eliot are enough in any age?
(Robert Graves, “The Poet and his Public”)
(1) Graves is critical of blind adulation and imitation of successful poets.
(2) Graves is critical of blind conformity to standards set by Swinburne, Brooke, and
Eliot.
(3) Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot represent the movements: Decadence, the
Georgian, and Modernist respectively.
(4) The poets in question are Algernon Charles Swinburne, Stopford Brooke, and
Thomas Stearns Eliot.
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) Only 4 is incorrect.
(C) Only 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) Only 3 is incorrect.

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(18) During the colonial era, the British used to call the Indian Languages vernaculars. We
do not use this word for our bhashas because:
I. we consider English to be equally vernacular.
II. verna is, literally a home-born slave.
III. Not all Indian languages are languages of the Indo-European family, and
therefore not all vernacular.
IV. the natives of India were never slaves.
(A) IV
(B) II and IV
(C) III
(D) I and III

(19) More’s Utopia displays strong influence of

I. The Arthurian legends
II. Plato’s Republic
III. Amerigo Vespucci’s account of the travels
IV. The teachings of John Wycliffe
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I & III are correct.
(B) II & III are correct.
(C) II & IV are correct.
(D) I & IV are correct.

(20) By ‘language transfer’ is meant

(A) Knowledge generated in the development of a learner on account of other
domains of knowledge.
(B) The carryover of rules of the mother tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic
system to the Second language in question.
(C) The carryover of rules of the Second language syntax, phonology, or semantic
system to the mother tongue in question.
(D) The vocabulary and sentence structure transferred haphazardly during Second
language acquisition from any other language accessed by the learner.

(21) Which of the following descriptions is NOT true of Peter Carey’s The True History of
the Kelly Gang?
(A) It is an epistolary novel.
(B) It has such characters as Edward Kelly, his mother, and his wife.
(C) It is also about the Bush and the frontier.
(D) The novel is dedicated to Edward Kelly’s father.

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(22) Identify the poem that opens with the lines:

I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
the children learn to cipher and to sing …
(A) “Among the Schoolchildren”
(B) “Among School Children”
(C) “A Man Young and Old”
(D) “The Man Young and Old”

(23) Which of the following statements is NOT true of Foucault’s position in History of
Sexuality?
(A) Modern sexuality is produced through and as discourse.
(B) The proliferation of modern discourses of sexuality is more striking than their
suppression.
(C) To write historically about sexuality involves increasingly direct, immediate
knowledge or understanding of an unchanging sexual essence.
(D) Modern sexuality is intimately entangled with the historically distinctive contexts
and structures now called ‘knowledge’.

(24) The following is an exchange between two characters, husband and wife, in a famous
play. The lines appear at the very end of an emotionally-charged sequence of the last
scene:
“… I’ve stopped believing in miracles.”
“But I’ll believe. Tell me!
Transform ourselves to the point that ….?”
“That our living together could be a true marriage.”
(She goes out down the hall.)
Which play? Name the characters.
(A) Othello. Othello, Desdemona
(B) Sure Thing. Bill, Betty
(C) A Doll’s House. Helmer, Nora
(D) Death of a Salesman. Willy, Linda

(25) The following statements relate to the early history of the English language. Identify
the set that gives INCORRECT statements:
(1) English has borrowed words such as sky, give, law, and leg from Norse.
(2) English has also borrowed some pronouns like they, their, them from Norse.
(3) In grammar, Modern English is much more highly inflected than Old English.
(4) After the Norman Conquest, French became the language of the court, the
language of nobility and polite society, and literature.
(5) Following the Norman Conquest, French virtually replaced English as the
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(6) Among the French words that came into English are: study, logic, grammar, noun, etc.
(A) 1, 2, 3
(B) 3, 5
(C) 4, 5, 6
(D) 2, 4

(26) Choices of linguistic forms in using a language, or how a language is actually spoken/
written, especially one that differs from its prescribed grammar, is called
(A) Utterance
(B) Use
(C) Usage
(D) Deviation

(27) Jamaica Kincaid’s narrative A Small Place

(A) is all about learning Farsi and meeting young people in modern Iran.
(B) is an essay that discusses the politics of tourism and other neo-colonial modes
of foreign intervention?
(C) Isa collection of tiny narratives about gender relations and includes stories
concerning the Sumerian goddess Inanna.
(D) A novella that looksunblinkingly at maritalceremonies and maternity inAntigua.

(28) Identify the correctly-matched poets and their works from the following:
(A) Nissim Ezekiel-Hymns in Darkness, Kamala Das – The Sirens, R. Parthasarthy –
Rough Passage, A.K. Ramanujan – The Striders
(B) Nissim Ezekiel – The Striders, Kamala Das – Rough Passage, R. Parthasarthy –
Hymns in Darkness, A.K. Ramanujan – The Sirens
(C) Nissim Ezekiel – The Sirens, Kamala Das – Hymns in Darkness, R. Parthasarthy –
The Striders, A.K. Ramanujan– Rough Passage
(D) Nissim Ezekiel – Rough Passage, Kamala Das – The Striders, R. Parthasarthy –
The Striders, A.K. Ramanujan – Hymns in Darkness

(29) William Wordsworth had a deep influence on Thomas Hardy. According to Hardy a
particular poem by Wordsworth was his ‘best cure for despair’. Which is that poem?
(A) “Michael”
(B) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(C) “The Idiot Boy”
(D) “The Leechgatherer”

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(30) In Henry James’s Ambassadors, there is a character who never appears in the novel.
We get to know about this significant person, however, from the other characters.
Who is this character?
(A) Maria Gostrey
(B) Madame de Vionette
(C) Mrs. Newsome
(D) Mrs. Sarah Pocock

(31) Why are Scott’s novels called “Waverley Novels”?

(A) His novels are all set in Waverley.
(B) The Waverley Castle has a significant role in his novels.
(C) Waverley (in his first novel of that name) is a model hero for the protagonists of
Scott’s novels.
(D) Scott started his novel-writing career in his 43rd year with the novel, Waverley.

(32) Which of these descriptions/ statements best suits the idea of the ‘Renaissance
Man’?
I. A fop, a scoundrel, who enjoys enormous power in Renaissance courts and
aristocratic families.
II. A near-mythical figure: a knight, courtier, musician, poet, scholar and statesman.
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III. One who ploughs a lonely furrow and keeps away from politicking and scandals.
IV. Someone like Sir Philip Sydney best suits the ideal of the Renaissance Man.
(A) I
(B) IV
(C) I & III
(D) II & IV

(33) Maxim Gorky, the Great Russian writer of fiction and drama, was in real life a man
called ______.
(A) Goliardic Kreshkov
(B) Ronsardo Felixikov
(C) Malthias Serpieri
(D) Aleksei Peshkov

(34) After the prediction of the oracle that he was destined to kill his father, Oedipus
could have avoided patricide
I. Had he not determined in horror never to return to the only parents he knew.
II. Had he been a man of unusual self-control.
III. Had he remembered the prediction and had he been more cautious having
recognized that possibly after all Polybos was not his father.
IV. Had he never struck any man who was older than himself saying at the moment
of provocation ‘This insolent man is grey-haired; let him have the road’?

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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.

(35) Identify the Post-Apartheid novel by Nadine Gordimer.

(A) The Conservationist
(B) The House of Gun
(C) The Lying Days
(D) Burger’s Daughter

(36) The Duchess of Malfi married her steward, Antonio. For the Elizabethan audience her
marriage was a triple offence. Which of the following is NOT one?
(A) She was a widow marrying a second time.
(B) She married on her own outside the Church.
(C) She married beneath her status in disregard of ‘degree’.
(D) She married against the wishes of her brothers who almost acted like her
guardians.

(37) Who among the following has written the essay, “The Indian Jugglers”?
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Thomas de Quincey
(D) Thomas Love Peacock

(38) How would you best describe George Meredith’s Modern Love (1862)?
(A) A ballad
(B) A lyric travelogue
(C) A verse romance
(D) A sonnet sequence

(39) The play was written in 1881 when its author was in Italy. This is considered to be his
most remarkable intellectual effort The softening of the brain as a result of a disease
inherited from his remarkable intellectual effort. The softening of the brain as a
result of a disease inherited from his father is the subject. Which is the play?
(A) An Enemy of the People
(B) Ghosts
(C) Rhinoceros
(D) Six Characters in Search of an Author

(40) In many ways, grammatical categories remain mysterious. What does it mean to
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specify your source of knowledge, or the shape of what you are talking about? We
still don’t know. But putting the question like this suggests a clear andlimited way
of interpreting the idea that different languages represent different worlds. Which of
the following statements on this passage interprets it most accurately?
(A) The passage reflects the unreliability of grammatical categories of a language
generally.
(B) The passage concedes that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis cannot be discounted
entirely.
(C) The passage upholds the reliability of grammatical categories of a language
generally.
(D) The passage suggests that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is largely discredited
today.

(41) Tolstoy’s War and Peace carries a lengthy discussion of determinism and free will in
________.
(A) Its prologue
(B) An exchange between Pierre and Natasha
(C) An exchange between Nikolai Rostof and Princess Bezukhoi
(D) Its epilogue

(42) Which from among the following is NOT true of Nagmandala?

(A) It does not have multiple narratives.
(B) It is open-ended.
(C) It combines conventional and subversive modes.
(D) Story is personified in the play.

(43) Arrange the following literary journals chronologically:

(A) The London Magazine; the Quarterly Review; Blackwood’s Magazine; the Saturday
Review; the Tatler
(B) The Tatler; the Saturday Review; Blackwood’s Magazine; the Quarterly Review; the
London Magazine
(C) The Quarterly Review; Blackwood’s Magazine; the Tatler; the Saturday Review; the
London Magazine
(D) The Tatler; the London Magazine; the Quarterly Review; Blackwood’s Magazine;
the Saturday Review

(44) Pick out the two relevant and correct descriptions of Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money
(1987):
(1) This play proposes the foundation of a monastery for the education of British
gentlewomen.
(2) This narrative deals with children who are sick of their “enforced idleness ”
(3) This play is subtitled “City Comedy.”
(4) In this play, the state of the British economy is symbolized by a takeover bid by
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(5) This narrative details the adventures of an Anglo-Indian orphan.

(6) Money is the only criterion for success for the players in this play’s share-
market.
(A) 1 and 6 are correct.
(B) 2 and 5 are correct.
(C) 4 and 6 are correct.
(D) 5 and 6 are correct.

(45) Identify from among the following FALSE statements:

(1) Eric Arthur Blair became the famous British novelist, George Orwell.
(2) Orwell was conversant in Hindustani and fond of Indian food.
(3) Young Eric Blair lived in Myanmar’s trading town, Katha.
(4) This town gave him the model for the fictional district of Kyauktada in Burmese
Days.
(5) Orwell was born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, Bihar.
(6) The Orwell Commemorative Committee in Motihari has been demanding a
restoration of Orwell’s birthplace as a heritage site.
(7) Orwell never returned to his birth place.
(8) The British journalist Ian Jack was mainly responsible for our knowledge of
Orwell’s antecedents relating to Katha and Motihari.
(A) 2, 4, 8 are false.
(B) 7 and 8 are false.
(C) 3, 6 and 8 are false.
(D) All statements above are true.

(46) Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of the common reader from Dr. Johnson. To which
particular work of Johnson’s does she remain indebted?
(A) The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; the essay on Milton
(B) The Lives of the Most EminentEnglish Poets; the essay onGray
(C) Preface to Shakespeare
(D) The Patriot

(47) J.M. Coetzee was the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice. He won the
prize for
(A) Life and Times of Michael K. and Disgrace
(B) Dusklands and Disgrace
(C) Foe and Elizabeth Costello
(D) Age of Iron and Disgrace

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(48) After the Norman Conquest England became a three-language nation for at least two
centuries.
The three languages were
(A) English, French and German
(B) English, Latin and German
(C) English, French and Latin
(D) English, French and Greek

(49) Here are sentences labelled Assertion (A) and Reason (R):
Assertion (A): In who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? George and Martha’s blue and green-
eyed son is a myth.
Reason (R): He is a creation of the couple’s imagination originating from their sense
of sterility and vacuum in life.
In the light of (A) and (R), which of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

(50) In the word rapidly, ‘ly’ is an adverbial suffix indicating manner while rapid is a
______, ly is a
(A) Word, wordling
(B) Morpheme, morpheme-bit
(C) Free morpheme, bound-morpheme
(D) Full morpheme, half-morpheme

Question Nos. 51 to 55 is based on a poem. Read the poem carefully and pick out the
most appropriate answers.
It’s Your Own Fault Of course you can play with them. There’s no harm in them. They are
only words.
Words alone are certain good, said someone. And someone also said unlike sticks and
stones Words will never break your bones.
(That is called rhyme. A rhyme is nice to play with too from time to time.) What? They’ve
turned nasty? They’ve clawed you and bitten you? Dear me, there’s blood all over the
[Link] broken [Link] were perfectly tame when I left them. Something they ate
might have disagreed with them. You mean you fed them on meaning?
No wonder then.
– D.J. Enright

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(51) The poet’s remark on ‘rhyme’ is _____.

(A) Put in parenthesis
(B) Put in parentheses
(C) Framed rhetorically
(D) Put in apposition

(52) The poem is cast in the form of a ______.

(A) Romantic lyric
(B) Verse epistle
(C) Dramatic monologue
(D) Dialogue

(53) What is the “fault” to which the speaker refers here?

(A) Playing with words
(B) Using only words
(C) Taking words too seriously
(D) Reading meanings into words

(54) What tone is most appropriate for reading this poem?

(A) Evasive
(B) Plaintive
(C) Ironic
(D) Sarcastic

(55) “No wonder then.” Explain.

(A) No wonder that the words here begin to mean.
(B) No wonder that you now find the words menacing.
(C) No wonder that the words find you menacing.
(D) No wonder the words still mean and are tame.

(56) “Nothing odd will do long. ______ did not last long.” Dr. Johnson had this to say about
one of the eighteenth century novels. Identify it from the following list:
(A) Tom Jones
(B) The Female Quixote
(C) Tristram Shandy
(D) Clarissa

(57) Identify the sonnet upon sonnet by William Wordsworth:

(A) “London, 1802”
(B) “The world is too much with us…”
(C) “Friend! I know not which way…”
(D) “Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room…”

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(58) Who among the following women writers has written Novel on Yellow Paper?
(A) Elizabeth Smither
(B) Stevie Smith
(C) Zulu Sofola
(D) Gita Mehta

(59) In most people, the first language / dialect acquired is ‘mother tongue’. Among the
commonly used terms for mother tongue, one of the following is avoided. Identify the
one term NOT applied to mother tongue:
(A) First language
(B) Prime language
(C) Native language
(D) Primary language

(60) Identify the group of critical concepts that parenthetically aligns them with their
respective theorists:
(A) The Carnivalesque (Jean Baudrillard), Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur (Walter
Benjamin), Chora (Gayatri C. Spivak), Simulacrum / Simulacra (Antonio Gramsci),
The Subaltern (Mikhael Bakhtin), Metahistory (Walter Benjamin), Aura (Julia
Kristeva), Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio Gramsci)
(B) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur (Walter Benjamin), Chora (Julia Kristeva),
Simulacrum / Simulacra (Jean Baudrillard), the Subaltern (Gayatri C. Spivak)
Metahistory (Hayden White), Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio
Gramsci)
(C) Habitus (Julia Kristeva), Flaneur (Walter Benjamin), Chora (Pierre Bourdieu),
Simulacrum / Simulacra (Hayden White), The Subaltern (Gayatri C. Spivak),
Metahistory (Jean Baudrillard), Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio
Gramsci)
(D) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur (Antonio Gramsci), Chora (Julia Kristeva),
Simulacrum / Simulacra (Jean Baudrillard), The Subaltern (Gayatri C. Spivak),
Metahistory (Hayden White), Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony (Walter
Benjamin)

(61) What was the mandate of the Stationer’s Company incorporated in London in 1557?
(A) To oversee the affairs of the Royal Registry.
(B) To oversee authors’ and printers’, or printer-publishers’ rights.
(C) To oversee authors’ and printers’ or printer-publishers’ use of stationery.
(D) To oversee the quality ofstationery harnessed by theRoyal Registry.

(62) One of the following was described by its author as “a poem including history.”
Identify the poem.
(A) Robert Lowell, Life Studies
(B) William Carlos Williams, Paterson
(C) Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel
(D) Ezra Pound, the Cantos

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(63) Arrange the following groups of English writers in chronological order:

(A) The Metaphysical poets; The High Modernists; Transitional poets; The Georgians;
The Aesthetes; The University Wits
(B) The University Wits; The Metaphysical poets; Transitional poets; The Aesthetes;
The Georgians; The High Modernists
(C) The High Modernists; The Georgians; The Aesthetes; Transitional poets; The
Metaphysical poets; The University Wits
(D) The University Wits; The Metaphysical poets; The Aesthetes; Transitional poets;
The Georgians; The High Modernists

(64) Which Bible is the earliest English version printed with verse divisions?
(A) Tyndale’s Translation
(B) The Geneva Bible
(C) The Douay-Rheims Version
(D) King James Version

(65) E.M. Forster’s Passage to India begins with a description of the city of Chandrapore. It
has an old Indian part and a new part consisting of the British civil station. Which of
the following descriptions of the city is not found in the text?
(A) The streets are mean, the temples ineffective.
(B) It is a city of gardens.
(C) It is a tropical pleasaunce washed by a noble river.
(D) The new civil station is not sensibly planned and not modern.

(66) In which of the following books would you find the following arguments /
observations? Escapist fiction lacks serious fiction’s apocalyptic experience of
finality. The two versions of literary experience are qualitatively different; every
novel fits one category or the other, not both. Serious fiction, however, compels our
attention by representing improvements (the “world of potency”) as being achieved (a
“world of act”) and by showing narrative movement “through time to an end, an end,
we must sense even if we cannot know it.”
(A) Sincerity and Authenticity
(B) The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
(C) Beyond the Apocalypse
(D) The Rhetoric of Fiction

(67) Philip Larkin’s “The Whitsun Weddings”

I. describes a long train journey
II. Establishes a ‘we’ voice of collective outlook
III. Traces the disfigurement of a sunny landscape on an advertising poster
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The correct combination according to the code is:

(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.

(68) Match the last lines of the poems with their correct titles:

List – I List – II
(Last lines of poems) (Titles of poems)

I. And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with

1. “Death, be not
confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant
proud…”
armies clash by night.

II. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet
2. “The Great Lover”
we will make him run.

III. One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death

3. “Dover Beach”
shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

IV. This one last gift I give: that after men shall know, and
later lovers, far-removed, Praise you, 4. “To His Coy Mistress”
“All these were lovely;” say, “He loved.”

Codes:
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 2 1 4 1
(D) 1 2 3 4

(69) The Oxford Companions are handy reference volumes for teachers and students of
English.
Identify the one volume that has NOT yet appeared in this series:
(A) The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
(B) The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
(C) The Oxford Companion to American Literature
(D) The Oxford Companion to Indian Literature in English

(70) While writing or printing, scholarly use prefers titles in italics. Which of the following
is the correct way of writing/printing?
(A) Charles Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities
(B) Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities
(C) Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
(D) Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities

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Questions from 71 to 75 are based on the following passage. Read the passage carefully
and select the most appropriate option:
Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm, which
each one of us within our hearts knows “that is not me”. In America, this norm is usually
defined as white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, Christian, and financially secure. It is
with this mythical norm that the trappings of power reside within the society. Those of
us who stand outside that power often identify one way in which we are different, and
we assume that to be the primary cause of all oppression, forgetting other distortions
around difference, some of which we ourselves may be practicing. By and large within
the women’s movement today, white women focus upon their oppression as women
and ignore differences of race, sexual preference, class, and age. There is a pretense to
homogeneity of experience covered by the word sisterhood that does not in fact exist.
(Audre Lorde)

(71) A mythical norm is endemic to societies:

(1) Where racial myths are prevalent and widely respected and perpetuated through
utterances that establish ‘we’ and ‘they’ groups.
(2) Where the superiority of one’s own culture and nation no longer emphasized
openly or straightforwardly.
(3) Where ‘difference’ has been a preoccupation in the representation of people who
are racially, ethnically, and in terms of gender and sexual preference different
from an assumed majority.
(4) That believes that the norm is part of their right to defend the ways of life
enjoyed by a dominant group, their traditions and customs against outsiders
– not because these outsiders are inferior, but because they belong to other
cultures.
(A) 1 & 4 are correct.
(B) 2 & 3 are correct.
(C) Only 4 is correct.
(D) Only 3 is correct.

(72) How does the author mark her difference from other writers on similar issues and
underscore her radical style typographically?
(1) By her use of parataxis
(2) By italicizing ‘mythical norm’ and ‘sisterhood’
(3) By using lowercase for proper and common nouns
(4) By using phrases like ‘Those of us who stand outside…’
(A) 1 & 4 are correct.
(B) 2 is correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 & 3 are correct.

(73) That there are levels and grades of powerlessness in societies entertaining ‘a
mythical norm’ is indicated
(1) By the overall tone and tenor of the passage.

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(2) By the suggestion that ‘a mythical norm’ is responsible for the unequal
distribution of power among people.
(3) By referring to ‘other distortions around difference’.
(4) By referring to white women who narrow down oppression directed only at white
women.
(A) 4 is correct.
(B) 1 & 2 are correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 is correct.

(74) Why is the author dismissive about ‘sisterhood’?

(1) Because it is italicised.
(2) Because it does not exist in principle.
(3) Because it assumes that all ‘sisters’ are alike.
(4) Because it assumes that all ‘sisters’ are unique.
(A) 3 is correct
(B) 1 is correct
(C) 4 is correct
(D) 2 is correct

(75) Does the author absolve all women from the ‘distortions around difference’?
(1) Yes.
(2) No.
(3) Not sure.
(4) Yes, in a qualified manner though.
(A) 1 is correct
(B) 2 is correct
(C) 3 is correct
(D) 4 is correct

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Explanation
(1) Harikatha is a South Indian genre of storytelling with religious themes. It combines
poetry, philosophy, song, dance and theatre. Raja Rao in his Kanthapura very
carefully uses several myths to establish the plot of the story to portray the cultural,
economical and social condition of the then India under British rule. The central myth
of Kanthapura is analyzed through the mythical analogy of Lord Rama and Mahatma
Gandhi. The characters of Achakka, Moorthy and the village Kanthapura itself stands
as prominent mythological symbols throughout the whole story. Gandhi is presented
as an incarnation of God. He is a living part of India’s ‘collective consciousness’.
Gandhi is identified with the satvic principle in Hindu philosophy. Jayaramachar
invents about the divine birth of Gandhiji, who is held to be an incarnation of
Rama, while India is taken to be Sita. The followers of Gandhiji are compared to the
battlions of Hanuman.
In the title page Raja Rao quotes the Gita : “ whensoever there is misery and
ignorance, I come”. This doctrine of the incarnation is central to puranas and Gandhi
is represented as a new Avatar.

(2) Orlando is Virginia Woolf’s sixth major novel. It is a fantastic historical biography,
which spans almost 400 years in the life of its protagonist. Orlando was an extremely
popular book when it was published and was written at the height of Woolf’s career.
As a work of political satire and feminist fantasy, Orlando laid the groundwork for
modern cultural landscape, where the boundaries of both gender and literary genre
became more porous than it ever was.

(3)

(4) Beginning of the poem Lamia…

“Upon A time, before the faery broods Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous
woods” (Lamia by Keats)

(5) The Anatomy of Melancholy - is a scientific or philosophical work, divided into three
sections. The third section focuses on two types of melancholy — love melancholy
and religious melancholy.

(6)

(7) It concludes with the question put up by Body:

“What but a Soul could have the wit To build me up for Sin so fit?”

(8) The speaker of the poem gives two different approaches to anger. Firstly, openly
talking about anger is presented as a way of moving past it. In the second, the
speaker describes the danger of keeping anger within. The poem uses extended
metaphor to describe the speaker’s anger as growing into a tree that bears poisonous
apples. The speaker’s enemy would eat an apple from the tree and die. The poem is
an allegory- depicting the dangers of bottling up emotions, that leads to a cycle of
negativity and violence in society.

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(9)

(10) Saturday is a novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne, the
central character, is a contented man. He is a successful neurosurgeon, happily
married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children.

(11)

(12)

(13) In his ‘A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage’ (1698),
Collier attacks William Wycherley, John Dryden, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh,
and Thomas D’Urfey – for indecency, profane language, abusing the clergy, and
sympathetic presentation of vice, in their works.

(14)

(15)

(16) Final Solutions, the play - centers around the Gandhis, a middle-class Hindu family
in Gujarat, who find themselves in a challenging predicament when two young
Muslim men come to seek refuge in their home during a communal riot. The family
comprises of the secular Ramnik, his orthodox religious wife Aruna, Ramnik’s mother
Hardika - a survivor of the partition of India and Pakistan, and his daughter Smita, a
college student. In Final Solutions, Dattani tries to investigate that the reactions to
communal prejudices are closely associated with gender difference.
A renowned stage director Alyque Padamsee invited Dattani to write this play.
The play explores religious communalism in a multi-layered fashion. It was
written and first produced in 1993 in Bangalore, during the political climate of the
Ramjanmabhoomi movement of the Hindu Right Wing. It was banned from the
Deccan Herald Theatre Festival 1992.

(17)

(18)

(19) In the context of New World exploration, the character Raphael Hythloday gives us
the story of Utopia because he once sailed with Amerigo Vespucci. More moves away
from Aristotle, towards Plato, author of The Republic - supporting the arguments
of The Republic. His Utopia fashions a society whose rulers are scholars (not unlike
Plato’s philosopher-king). But Aristotle’s ideas of aesthetics, justice and harmony are
present in the Utopian’s philosophy.

(20) Language transfer, or linguistic interference – refers to instances when speakers/

writers carryover the rules of mother tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic system
to the Second language or vice versa. Language transfer is of mainly two types.
Positive transfer – happens when the structure of both languages is same, &
linguistic interference can result in correct language production. Negative transfer –
which occurs when speakers and writers transfer items and structures that are not
the same in both languages.

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(22) The famous poem by W. B. Yeats titled “Among School Children” was composed after
the poet’s visit to a convent school in Waterford Ireland in 1926.

(23) In The History of Sexuality, Foucault is interested in questioning The Repressive

Hypothesis, the widely accepted idea that from the 17th to the early 20th century,
sexuality was repressed, or forcibly subdued and restrained.

(24)

(25) Old Norse or Scandinavian language had a great influence on the English.
Scandinavian names Words such as sky, skin, skill, scrape, whisk. Words like Kid, get,
give, and egg show Scandinavian origin.

(26) Language usage refers to the rules for making language, i.e. the structures used. It
can be compared to use, which considers the communicative meaning of language.

(27)

(28)

(29) Hardy’s indebtedness to Wordsworth is confirmed in the fact that Hardy relied upon
Wordsworth throughout his career. Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,”
was a great influence on Hardy. The “Leechgatherer or Resolution and Inde-
pendence” is a lyric poem by Wordsworth and published in 1807, which Hardy
describes it as ‘best cure for despair’.

(30) The story told in third person narrative exclusively from Strether’s paint of view.
Although Mrs. Newsome never actually appears in the novel, she drives the novel’s
action and its significant events. She also sends Strether to Europe for her son,
Chad, to return him to the family business in the United States.

(31) The Waverley Novels are a series of more than two dozen historical novels published
by Sir Walter Scott between 1814 and 1832. Starting with Waverley (1814), most
important works in the series include - Guy Mannering (1815), Rob Roy (1817), The
Heart of Midlothian (1818), Ivanhoe (1819), Kenilworth (1821), Quentin Durward (1823),
and Redgauntlet (1824).

(32)

(33)

(34)

(35) Post-apartheid novels comprises works written by South African authors, both black
and white, in the last decade of the twentieth century and beyond. These novels
had been instrumental in bringing world attention to the legacy of colonialism and
the unjust apartheid laws in their native country. Post- apartheid novelists include –
Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, Athol Fugard, and Alan Paton.

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(37) The essay entitled ‹The Indian Jugglers› is from William Hazlitt›s 19th century
collection Table Talk (1828). Hazlitt describes his absolute astonishment upon
watching Indian Jugglers perform in London›s Olympic Theatre. Ramo Samee was an
Indian juggler and magician in the 19th Century - a famous Indian juggler at the time
who performed in England and formed his own juggling troupe. Hazlitt admits that
watching a juggler like Ramo made him question his own purpose in life and made
him feel like he had no real skills.

(38) Modem Love is a collection of fifty 16-lined sonnets. This sonnet sequence focuses
on the disillusionment and failure of his first marriage. The work is regarded as one
of the first psychological poems and the best described as a novella in verse.

(39)

(40) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was first advanced by Edward Sapir in 1929 and subsequently
developed by Benjamin Whorf. The hypothesis propounds that the structure of a
language determines a native speaker s perception and categorization of experience.
Structure of a language plays a strong role in development of a speaker’s views and
cognitive.
power.

(41)

(42) Naga-Mandala is a play by Indian Playwright Girish Karnad in 1988, based on the
folktale by the name of the play. It is narrated by a special character ‘Story’, who is
born of a woman’s mind while she is strongly suspicious and thus anxious about her
husband having affairs with other woman.

(43)

(44) Serious Money is a satirical play written in rhyming couplets and mainly focuses on
the share market of England, esp. London. The play is a satirical study of the effects
of the ‘Big Bang’ (the deregulation of the financial markets in 1986).

(45)

(46) Virginia Woolf ‘s common readers are ordinary readers. They are people who are
not critics or scholars, but people who have “common sense” and are untainted by
“literary prejudices.” These readers read for enjoyment. Woolf advises all readers to
read for pleasure.
The “common reader” is neither a critic nor a scholar, as Dr. Johnson implied. This
serves as a motto for Woolf’s essay.

(47) J. M. Coetzee was the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice in year 1983
and 1999. Coetzee received award first for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983.

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(48) Anglo-Norman, was infact a Northern dialect of the Old French that was introduced
in England. French became the language of the ruling classes in England, replacing
Old English.
English, French and Latin remained as the three dominant languages of England for
more than two centuries.

(49)

(50) Free morphemes refers to those words which can stand alone or have meaning
separately (such as boy) . Bound morphemes are those words which can’t stand
alone as words (such as — s at the end of boys) . Thus, Rapid is a free morpheme,
while ly stands as a bound one.

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(55)

(56) In spite of Dr. Johnson’s famous claim of 1776, that “nothing odd will do long –
Tristram Shandy did not last!” people still admire the classic eighteenth-century
novel. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, also known as just
Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne, was published in nine volumes, the first two
appearing in 1759. It uses digression, double entendre, and graphic devices. Arthur
Schopenhauer called Tristram Shandy one of “the four immortal romances.

(57)

(58) Pompey Casmilus, Stevie Smith’s talktive alter ego, the heroine of the novel – Novel
on Yellow Paper , works as a secretary. She writes down on yellow office paper an
amusing and brainy novel, and addresses her intended audience as “Dear Reader”.

(59)

(60)

(61) The archive of the Stationers’ Company provides essential primary sources for
students and scholars of English literature, Renaissance theatre, and print culture
from the early modern period to the twentieth century. It serves as an important
source for studying the history of the book, publishing and copyright. The Company
developed the printed book in early modern England. As it grew it exerted
tremendous power over the publishing industry.

(62) The Cantos is a long, incomplete poem by Ezra Pound. The book comprised of 116
sections, and was written between 1915 and 1962. Pound called it “The Cantos” poem
to include history”.

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(63)

(64) The Geneva Bible was the first translation which has verse divisions which allow the
reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the
Bible. It appeared in 1560 as the first full edition of Bible. It was was used by William
Shakespeare Oliver Cromwell, John Donne, and John Bunyan.

(65)

(66)

(67) Lakin’s poem The Whitsun Weddings, recounts the speaker’s train journey from the
east of England to London and his observations along the way.

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Answer Key

(1) (D) (16) C (31) (D) (46) (B) (61) (B)

(2) (B) (17) (B) (32) (D) (47) (A) (62) (D)

(3) (D) (18) (B) (33) (D) (48) C (63) (B)

(4) C (19) (B) (34) (D) (49) (A) (64) (B)

(5) C (20) (B) (35) (B) (50) C (65) (D)

(6) C (21) (D) (36) (D) (51) (A) (66) (B)

(7) (A) (22) (B) (37) (B) (52) C (67) (B)

(8) (B) (23) C (38) (D) (53) (D) (68) (A)

(9) (A) (24) C (39) (B) (54) C (69) (D)

(10) C (25) (B) (40) (B) (55) (B) (70) (B)

(11) (D) (26) C (41) (D) (56) C (71) (B)

(12) C (27) (B) (42) (A) (57) (D) (72) (X)

(13) (A) (28) (A) (43) (D) (58) (B) (73) C

(14) (B) (29) (D) (44) C (59) (B) (74) (A)

(15) (B) (30) C (45) (D) (60) (B) (75) (B)

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English Literature
(1) “The just man justices”. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines ?
(A) Syntactic
(B) Semantic
(C) Collocation
(D) None of the above

(2) Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given :

List – I List – II

1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable [Link]

2. A stressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable [Link]

3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable iii. Dactylic

4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable iv. Trochaic

CODES
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 3 1 2 4

(3) The separation of styles in accordance with class appears more consistently in
............than in medieval works of literature and art.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Philip Sidney
(D) Edmund Spenser

(4) “Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.”
This statement is an example of
(A) Irony
(B) Paradox
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Euphemism

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(5) A Spenserian stanza has

(A) four iambic pentameters
(B) six iambic pentameters
(C) eight iambic pentameters
(D) ten iambic pentameters

(6) Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :

List – I (Critic) List – II (Theory)

i. Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity

ii. William Epson 2. Paradox

iii. Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patterns in poetry

iv. Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques As discovery

CODES
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 3 4 1

(7) “The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible and almighty,
everywhere felt but nowhere seen.” Henry James is talking here about the artist’s
(A) impersonality
(B) absence
(C) presence
(D) creativity

(8) Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :

List – I (Theorist) List – II (Book)

i. Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble

ii. Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the Closet

iii. Alan Sinfield 3. History of Sexuality

iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural Politics- Queer Reading

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(9) “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “lies in his powerful and beautiful application
of ideas to life”. But a critic pointed out it was “not a happy way of putting it, as if
ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity”. Who was this critic ?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) David Lodge
(D) Allen Tate

(10) Derrida’s American disciples were

(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Miller
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Ellman
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari

(11) Identify the correct group of playhouses in late sixteenth century London from the
following groups :
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe, Thames

(12) “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
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

(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

(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

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(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

(15) Match the items in the List – I with items in List – II according to the code given
below :

List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)

i. Lucy Hutchinson 1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

ii. John Bunyan 2. Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees

iii. John Evelyn 3. Natures Pictures

iv. Margaret Cavendish 4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

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

(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

(17) “And if no peece of chronicle we prove, We’ll build in pretty roomes.”

(A) lyrics
(B) epics
(C) sonnets
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(18) “That glory never shall his wrath or might extort from me.” (Paradise Lost, Book I)
What ‘glory’ is being referred to by Satan ?
(A) The courage never to submit or yield
(B) To reign in Hell
(C) To defeat God
(D) To spread evil

(19) It has been described as a “novel without predecessors”, the product of an original
mind and became immediately popular. It is a peculiar blend of pathos and humour,
though the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point of becoming offensively
sentimental.
The novel was published in 1760. What is the name of the novel ?
(A) Gulliver’s Travels
(B) The Castle of Otranto
(C) Tristram Shandy
(D) A Tender Husband

(20) The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a printer. He remained a printer

throughout his life. He was asked to prepare a series of modern letters for those who
could not write for themselves. This humble task taught him the art of expressing
himself in letters. Who is the novelist ?
(A) Daniel Defoe
(B) Samuel Richardson
(C) Henry Fielding
(D) Tobias Smollett

(21) “Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be wise.”

Who wrote the following lines ?
(A) Pope
(B) Gray
(C) Collins
(D) Southey

(22) Which of the following works is not actually a prose essay ?

(A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) Essay on Man
(C) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision

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(23) Whom does Mirabell deceive into believing that he loves her in The Way of the World?
(A) Millamant
(B) Lady Wishfort
(C) Mrs. Marwood
(D) Mrs. Fainall

(24) “Competence to age is supplementary to youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear
the best that is to be had. We must ride where we formerly walked : live better and
be softer and shall be wise to do so – than we had means to do in the good old days
you speak of.”
Who speaks these words and to whom ?
(A) Lamb to Bridget
(B) Wordsworth to Dorothy
(C) Dorothy to Bridget
(D) Lamb to Dorothy

(25) The Prelude although begun as early as 1799 and finished in its first version in 1805,
was not published until.
(A) 1815
(B) 1820
(C) 1830
(D) 1850

(26) “A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the wreathed trellis of a working brain.” The above
lines are quoted from
(A) ‘Adonais’
(B) ‘Ode to Psyche’
(C) ‘Eve of St. Agnes’
(D) ‘Endymion’

(27) “Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight.”
This selfish and possessive nature of love is illustrated in Blake’s
(A) ‘The Clod and the Pebble’
(B) ‘The Sick Rose’
(C) ‘A Poison Tree’
(D) ‘Ah Sunflower’

(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

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(29) Identify the incorrect factor in Henry James’ theory of the novel :
(A) It should be sentimental
(B) It should be objective
(C) It should be realistic
(D) It should be viewed as an artistic form

(30) Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :

List – I (Novels) List – II (Characters)

i. Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore

ii. A Passage to India 2. Molly Bloom

iii. To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich

iv. Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe

CODES
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 1 3 2 4

(31) Which among the following novels was not written in 1922 ?
(A) Ulysses
(B) Jacob’s room
(C) Aaron’s Rod
(D) A Passage to India

(32) “A sudden blow : the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs
caressed By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.”
Who is the author of the above lines ?
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) D.H. Lawrence

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(33) “Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal.”
The above lines are taken from
(A) “Felix Randal”
(B) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931”
(D) “The Second Coming”

(34) Who among the following is not a surrealist poet ?

(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(B) David Gascoyne
(C) Kenneth Allot
(D) C. Day Lewis

(35) The protagonist returns with an admonition, the diamond sent to him for smuggling
out a packet of diamonds as bribe.
This scene occurs in one of the novels of Graham Greene – Identify the novel
(A) The End of the Affair
(B) The Heart of the Matter
(C) The Ministry of Fear
(D) Our Man in Havana

(36) Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published together in London in 1959 under the English titles
is
(A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy
(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies
(D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy

(37) Among the following playwrights, who was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920 ?
(A) Eugene O’Neill
(B) Sean O’Casey
(C) William Somerset Maugham
(D) J.B. Priestly

(38) D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of................in his novels.

(A) Realism
(B) Naturalism
(C) Primitivism
(D) Expressionism

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(39) Who among the following is not an American modernist poet ?

(A) William Carlos Williams
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger
(D) Marianne Moore

(40) An important poet and playwright who in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement,
in the spirit of negritude, posited a ‘Black Aesthetic’ that expressed a pan-African,
organic and whole sensibility.
(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(B) Amiri Baraka
(C) Ishmael Reed
(D) Bell Hooks

(41) Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:

List – I (Authors) List – II (Books)

i. V.S. Naipaul 1. Foe

ii. Jean Rhys 2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters

Iii. Marina Warners 3. Wide Sargasso Sea

Iv J.M. Coetzee 4. Mimic Men

CODES
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 1 3 4 2

(42) Yasmine Gooneratne’s The Pleasures of Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel of

the nineties is ironically enough set in the tropical island nation of
(A) Sri Lanka
(B) Fiji
(C) The Caribbean
(D) Amnesia

(43) Which of the following is not an Asian – Canadian writer ?

(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin
(B) Himani Banerjee
(C) Joy Kogawa
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(44) Which of the following is true ?

(A) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a poem in nine books
(B) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a collection of sonnets from the Portuguese
(C) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a nursery rhyme book
(D) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is “the Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry”

(45) “The old order changeth yielding place to new,

And God fulfils himself in many way.”
In which of the following poems do these lines appear ?
(A) ‘Locksley Hall’
(B) ‘Two Voices
(C) ‘Morte d’Arthur’
(D) ‘Ulysses

(46) George Eliot’s attempt to write a historical novel of the Italian Renaissance was not
successful.
Which was this novel ?
(A) Adam Bede
(B) Felix Holt
(C) Silas Marner
(D) Romola

(47) In which novel, does the hero, driven by passion and revenge, add a new dimension
to the concept of suffering ?
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) Mill on the Floss
(D) Hard Times

(48) From the following women characters in Hardy’s novels choose the odd one out :
(A) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) Eustacia Vye
(C) Elizabeth Jane
(D) Lucetta

(49) “Out of the gosple he tho wordes 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

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Find the correct combination according to the code :

(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

(50) Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :

List – I (Plays) List – II (Characters)

i. White Devil 1. Hieornimo

ii. Maids Tragedy 2. Old Knowell

iii. Every Man in his Humour 3. Vittoria Corombona

iv. The Spanish Tragedie 4. Aspatia

CODES
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 4 3 2 1

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Explanation
(1) & B In the above line The just man justices the linguistic device used is syntactic as
the morphemes just and ‘justices’ are in the same order.

(2) Dropped

(3) Shakespeare’s plays were audience centric and relevant for all ages. In that period it
was important to please the patrons who supported the playwrights and those who
belonged to the higher classes or nobility.

(4) This line is taken from Andrew Marvell’s poem, ‘To His Coy Mistress’
The lover poses an ironic situation and tries to convince his lady that she will not
remain young forever and neither will he, and so he wishes to consummate his
relationship with his love lest some unforeseen event separates them.

(5) A Spenserian stanza, devised by Edmund Spenser for The Faerie Queene, has eight
iambic pentameter of five feet lines and a final Alexandrine (iambic hexameter or six
feet) with a rhyme scheme of a b a b b c b c c.

(6)

(7) The quoted text is from “The art of the Novel” by Henry James, where he posits that
the artist should be present everywhere in his work like God in the universe who can
be felt everywhere but never seen by anyone.

(8)

(9) Eliot’s sixth lecture, on Matthew Arnold, was delivered on March 3, 1933. In this
Norton Lectures titled ‘Use of Poetry and Use of Criticism’ (1932-33) T. S. Eliot
criticized Arnold’s criticism.

(10)

(11) ‘The Theatre’ was the first London playhouse built by James Burbage in 1576. The
Curtain’ was built in 1577. ‘Rose Theatre’ was built in 1587.

(12) The lines are taken from Act I scene 2, Othello addresses Brabantio, Roderigo and
Officers.

(13)

(14) The Shepheardes Calender: Published in 1579; Tottel’s Miscellany: in 1557; Astrophil
and Stella: Published in 1591; The Spanish Tragedy: Published in 1585.

(15)

(16)

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(17) ‘The Canonization’ by John Donne – published in 1633 in Donne’s posthumous

collection Songs and Sonnets, is a five stanza poem that is separated into sets of
nine lines.

(18) The rebel angels lie quiet, dazed and in pain after they’ve fallen to hell, from the
overwhelming shock of their expulsion from heaven. At this very point, Satan
comforts his troops by saying that though they have lost heaven, they should not lose
their will to resist. In the Paradise Lost, Satan’s strength consists of his steely will
and refusal to abandon his goal.

(19) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – novel by Lawrence Sterne,
sold widely in England and throughout Europe. European critics of the day praised
Sterne and Tristram Shandy as innovative and superior. Voltaire called it “clearly
superior to Rabelais”, and later Goethe praised Sterne as “the most beautiful spirit
that ever lived”.

(20) Samuel Richardson was a son of a joiner, he remained a printer throughout his life.
‘Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded’ (1740), is an epistolary novel - Considered one of the
first true English novels. Its epistolary structure, tight plotting and didactic message
were praised, imitated, but also criticized and satirized.

(21) The quoted lines appear in Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy written in a Country Church Yard’
(1751).

(22) ‘Essay on Man’ (1734) by Alexander Pope is a philosophical poem. It was written,
characteristically, in heroic couplets, and published between 1732 and 1734.

(23)

(24) The above lines have been spoken by Lamb to his sister Bridget in his essay ‘Old
China’ from his ‘Last Essays of Elia’ (1833).

(25) ‘The Prelude’ was begun in 1799 but could only be published after his death in 1850
by his wife.

(26) “Ode to Psyche,” was the first of Keats’s famous odes. In the poem, a wandering
speaker finds Psyche (goddess of the soul and mind) asleep in the arms of Eros
(god of love). He is mesmerized by Psyche’s beauty, and vows to build her a temple,
not from stone, but from his imagination. the poem celebrates the imagination’s
awesome and mysterious creative power.

(27) The Clod and the Pebble’ is a William Blake poem that first appeared in his 1794
volume Songs of Experience. The poem stages a conversation between a clod of clay
and a pebble to make a point about the nature of love.

(28) Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th-century British feminist writer and philosopher, is often
regarded as the “mother of feminism”. She is is best known as the writer of the path-
breaking ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’ (1792), an early treatise on gender
equality. She is also author of 2 fiction works:
‘Mary: A Fiction’ (1788) and ‘Maria: or The Wrongs of Woman’ (1798, posthumous) .

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(29) Henry James’ theory of the Novel says that it should be objective, realistic and
should be viewed as an artistic form and should not be sentimental.

(30)

(31)

(32) In the poem - “Leda and the Swan,” William Butler Yeats as the speaker - retells a
story from Greek mythology, the rape of Leda by the god Zeus, who had assumed
the form of a swan. Leda felt a sudden blow, with the “great wings” of the swan still
beating above her. Her thighs were caressed by “the dark webs,” and the nape of her
neck was caught in his bill; he held “her helpless breast upon his breast.”
This act results in the birth of Helen of Troy, the cause responsible for the legendary
Trojan War. In his retelling of the myth, Yeats uses the traditional sonnet form,
capturing the powerful forces by which history is made and the human impact of
fate’s violence and indifference.

(33)

(34) C. Day Lewis was an Archetypal poet of the 1930s.

(35)

(36) Dropped The English Titles of Samuel Beckett’s trilogy is –

Molloy (1951 Fr., 1955 Eng.), Malone Dies (1951 Fr., 1955 Eng.), The Unnamable (1951 Fr.,
1955 Eng.)

(37) Eugene O’ Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1920 for Drama for his play ‘Beyond
the Horizon’. He is the only playwright to have been awarded four Pulitzer prizes for
Drama.

(38) Primitivism typically refers to the act of idealizing people, or entities of any sort,
deemed “primitive.” It can be used more broadly to refer to any activity that in some
way pertains to the primitive. Primitivism flourished in many of the artistic media,
leading to multidisciplinary aesthetic movements like German expressionism, French
surrealism, Italian futurism, and the Soviet avant-garde.
Champions of Primitivism include writers like – D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot’s, W. B.
Yeats, J. M. Synge, Lady Gregory, and James Joyce, Gertrude Stein’s, and in America -
Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner.

(39) William Ellery Channing, the younger was a Transcendentalist poet of 19th century.

(40) Amiri Baraka, moved to Harlem to found the Black Arts Repertory Theatre and
School (BARTS), which was the first initiative of the Black Arts Movement (BAM). The
movement was the artistic wing of Black Power. It attempted to define the function
of black history and culture in developing a consciousness against the lure of
acculturation and assimilation. Baraka believed that this newly raised consciousness,
would lead to the theorization of a black aesthetic, which is a functional writing
politics devised to speak to, for, and about African Americans.

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(41)

(42) The Pleasures of Conquest deals with the impact of the British colonial encounter on
the native societies. The novel set in the island named Amnesia and the plot begins
in the famous ‘New Imperial Hotel’ of Amnesia.

(43) Meena Alexander was raised in Allahabad and Sudan and works in New York City.

(44) Aurora Leigh is the first feature-length poem in English to place a female artist at
the center of the plot,
The epic poem is written in blank verse and takes place over the course of nine
books. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s poem-novel Aurora Leigh was first published in
1856. The poem turned into one of the longest poems in the English language in its
number of lines.

(45) Morte d’Arthur, called “The Passing of Arthur” when included in Tennyson’s Idylls of
the King (1856-57), is one of the Tennyson’s most famous works that was completed
in 1842. It is written in blank verse. Morte d’ Arthur is framed with another poem,
“The Epic,” written in 1842. It portrays a domestic scene of four friends gathering on
Christmas Eve - who are lamenting the loss of meaning in the holiday and the impact
of modern ideas that attack Christian faith.

(46)

(47)

(48) In Hardy’s novels, Bathsheba (‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, 1874); Eustacia Vye (‘The
Return of the Native’, 1878); Elizabeth Jane and Lucetta (‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’,
1886. The three women except Elizabeth Jane fall in love with more than one man.

(49) Chaucer represents Parson as a man who criticized the corrupt clergy of the day. He
practiced what he preached and was a poor but honest clerk. He had no desire for
money unlike the corrupt & greedy Friar and the Monk.

(50)

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Answer Key

(1) A (11) A & C (21) B (31) B (41) C

(2) Dropped (12) B (22) B (32) B (42) D

(3) B (13) B (23) B (33) B (43) D

(4) A (14) A (24) A (34) D (44) A

(5) C (15) C (25) D (35) B (45) C

(6) A (16) A (26) B (36) Dropped (46) D

(7) A (17) C (27) A (37) A (47) A

(8) B (18) A (28) A (38) C (48) C

(9) A (19) C (29) A (39) C (49) C

(10) A (20) B (30) B (40) B (50) C

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English Literature
(1) Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch and Petrarchanism to English sounds and
metres, Survey’s verse tends to look back beyond Petrarch to the
(A) French verse
(B) Italian verse
(C) Spanish verse
(D) Latin verse

(2) Here are some characteristics of Morality Plays :

(1) They are dramatized allegories of the life of man.
(2) They depict man’s temptation and sinning, his quest for salvation and his
confrontation with Death.
(3) Though the hero represents Mankind, the other characters are by no means
personifications, of virtues, vices and death.
(4) A character known as the Vice often plays the role of the hero, a predecessor of
the Villain- hero in Elizabethan drama.
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) Only 1 and 3 are correct.
(C) Only 1 and 4 are correct.
(D) Only 2 and 3 are correct.

(3) In Spenser’s Re Faerie Queene there are the allegorized moral and religious virtues
with their counterparts in the vices. Identify the correctly matched set :
(A) Una – Truth Guyon – Temperance Duessa – Deceit Orgoglio – Pride
(B) Una – Pride Guyon – Deceit Duessa – Temperance Orgoglio – Truth
(C) Una – Deceit Guyon – Pride Duessa – Temperance Orgoglio – Truth
(D) Una – Temperance Guyon – Truth Duessa – Pride Orgoglio – Deceit

(4) “Fop at the toilet, flatt’rer at the board Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord.”
The above lines are quoted from
(A) McFlecknoc
(B) The Rape of the Lock
(C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(D) Absalom and Achitrphel

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(5) Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence ?

(A) Every Man in His Humour, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Antonio’s Revenge, The
Changeling
(B) The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Every Man in his Humour, The Changeling, Antonia’s
Revenge
(C) The Changeling, Antonio’s Revenge, Every Man in His Humour, The Shoemaker’s
Holiday
(D) Antonio’s Revenge, Every Man in His Humour, The Changeling, The Shoemaker’s
Holiday

(6) Though Coleridge refers to “Motive- hunting of a motiveless malignity”, the “human
villain” Iago is far from “motiveless”. His motives are
I. He has been disappointed of military promotion.
II. He suspects Othello of cuckolding him
III. He has been in love with Desdemona
IV. He wants to become Othello.
Find the most appropriate combination according to the code :
(A) I and II are correct
(B) I and III are correct
(C) I and IV are correct
(D) II and IV are correct

(7) 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

(8) The centre of his plays is a proud character on Marlowe’s model, with a bold licence
in speech and action, full of elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling after phrase, as
he asserts himself in the French Court. Dryden unjustly described his style as “a
dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic words”. Who is this Jacobean playwright ?
(A) John Fletcher
(B) John Webster
(C) George Chapman
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(9) In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes that Adam was overcome with “..........” and so ate
the forbidden fruit against his “better knowledge”.
(A) “female charm”
(B) “exceeding love”
(C) “faithful love”
(D) “taste so divine”

(10) In which poem of Donne’s is the lover’s face reflected in the eyes of his beloved ?
(A) “The Good Morrow”
(B) “The Canonization”
(C) “The Apparition”
(D) “A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning”

(11) Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :

List – I (Dramatists) List – II (Plays)

i. Thomas Otway 1. The Provok’d Husband

ii. William Wycherley 2. The Recruiting Officer

iii. Colley Cibber 3. The Country Wife

iv. George Farquhar 4. The Orphan, or the unhappy marriage

Codes
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 2 3 1
(D) 3 1 2 4

(12) “Thou wast no born for death immortal Bird.”

In what sense is the Bird “immortal” as compared to mortal man ?
I. Here man as an individual is unfairly compared to a bird as a species.
II. The word “Bird” stands for the nightingale’s song.
III. When considered as a species man is equally “immortal” as the “Bird”.
IV. The “Bird” is “Immortal” because songs of birds have given pleasure to man
through the ages.
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) Only I and III are correct
(B) Only IV is incorrect
(C) Only II and IV are correct
(D) Only I and IV are incorrect

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(13) Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a poem in

(A) 8 parts
(B) 9 parts
(C) 7 parts
(D) 6 parts

(14) Scott is known for the creation of mad, irrational witch-like women characters. From
the following list pick the odd one out :
(A) Madge Wildfive
(B) Meg Murdockson
(C) Euphemia Deans
(D) Meg Merrilees

(15) Joseph Addison called him “The Miracle of the present age” and Alexander Pope
wrote the epitaph for the monument erected in his memory. Who is he ?
(A) John Locke
(B) Isaac Newton
(C) Ashley Cooper
(D) Christopher Wren

(16) The play was first performed in 1773. The author asked a friend “Did it make you
laugh ?” and getting the answer “Exceedingly” said then that was all he required. He
used for plot a reputed experience of his own as a schoolboy when he lost his way
and asked to be directed to an inn but was shown the gateway to the local squire’s
house. Which play is this ?
(A) Sheridan’s The Rivals
(B) Sheridan’s The School for Scandal
(C) Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer
(D) Goldsmith’s The Good Natured Man

(17) What is Johnson’s opinion regarding the “Violation” of the three unities in the plays of
Shakespeare ?
I. Shakespeare should have followed the Unities.
II. Shakespeare followed the important Unity of Action satisfactorily.
III. Shakespeare’s plays suffered because they did not follow the Unities.
IV. Unity of Time and Place arise from false assumptions.
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct

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(18) The Tatler appeared thrice a week

(A) On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
(B) On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays
(C) On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
(D) On Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays

(19) “No man is truly great, who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the
page of history.
Nothing can be said to be great that has a distinct limit, or that borders on
something evidently greater than itself. Besides, what is short- lived and pampered
into mere notoriety, is of a gross and vulgar quality in itself.” This passage describing
the quality of greatness is taken from
(A) “Of studies” by Francis Bacon
(B) “The Indian Jugglers” by William Hazlitt
(C) Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
(D) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John Dryden

(20) In Blake’s “The Human Abstract”, the fragmented world of Experience is symbolized
in the image of the
(A) Caterpillar
(B) Fly
(C) Raven
(D) Fruit of Deceit

(21) Here are sentences labelled Assertion (A) and Reason (R):
Assertion (A): While referring to Charlotte Bronte’s claim that she has excluded public
interest from her novels Graham Greene writes : ‘Public interest in her day was
surely more separate from public life... with us, however consciously unconcerned
we are, it obtrudes through the cracks of our stories terribly persistent like grass
through cement’.
Reason (R): The decade of the “thirties was bristling with recurring economic and
political crisis like the Great Depression, Wall Street Crash, Unemployment, rise of
Hitler and Mussolini, series of murders, invasions and tensions; writers could not
remain unaffected.
In the light of (A) and (R) which of the following is correct ?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

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(22) Match the titles of the books with their authors :

List – I (Titles of BOOKS) List – II (AUTHORS)

i. Psychology and Art Today 1. John Strachey

ii. Revolution in Writing 2. W.H. Auden

iii. The Coming Struggle for Power 3. C. Day Lewis

iv. Arrow in the Blue 4. Arthur Koestler

Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 1 2 4 3

(23) George Meredith’s first novel was banned by Mudie’s Circulating Library for its
supposed moral offence.
Identify the novel :
(A) The Egoist
(B) Evan Harrington
(C) Diana of the Crossways
(D) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

(4) Match the titles of the following poems by Tennyson with their opening lines
according to the code given below :

List – I (Titles of poems) List – II (opening lines)

1. “‘Courage’ he said,and pointed towards the land.

i. “Tithonus”
The mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.”

2. “The woods decay,the woods decay and fall,

ii. “The Lotos- Eaters”
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground.”

3. “On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and
Iii. ‘Ulysses’
of rye.”

4. “It little profists that an idle king,

By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
iv. ‘The Lady of Shalott’
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal
laws unto a savage race.”

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Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 2
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 3
(D) 2 4 3 1

(25) Why are Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets called “From Sonnets from the
Portuguese” ?
(A) She wrote the whole in Portugal
(B) The sonnets were translated from the Portuguese.
(C) She presented it under the guise of a translation from the Portuguese language.
(D) The sonnets were narrated by a Portuguese

(26) Yeast’s “Sailing to Byzantium” is about

(A) Irish Culture
(B) The art and culture of Byzantium in general
(C) Irish revolutionaries
(D) Regenerating the art and culture that existed in Byzantium

(27) “She had........lilies in her hand And the stars in her hair were.......”.
(Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel”)
(A) 7 and 3
(B) 3 and 7
(C) 6 and 4
(D) 4 and 6

(28) Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence ?

(A) Adam Bede - Wuthering Heights – North and South – Villette
(B) Wuthering Heights – Villete – North and South – Adam Bede
(C) Villettee – North and South – Wuthering Heights – Adam Bede
(D) North and South – Wuthering Heights – Adam Bede – Villette

(29) In which of the following novels by canrod do the Gould couple and Decoud appear
as characters with Costaguana as the setting ?
(A) Victory
(B) Under Western Eyes
(C) Nostromo
(D) The Nigger of the Narcissus

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(30) Match the following plays with their authors according to the code given below :

List – I (Plays) List – II (AUTHORS)

i. Heartbreak House 1. John Galsworthy

ii. Loyalties 2. Bertolt Brecht

iii. In the Jungle of Cities 3. T. S. Eliot

iv. The Family Reunion 4. George Bernard Shaw

Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 1 2 3

(31) In November 1910 in an exhibition organized by Roger Fry, the paintings of three
painters were displayed. Identify the painters :
(A) Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell
(B) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin
(C) Matisse, Picasso, Braque
(D) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse

(32) Why did Phaedra, wife of Theseus, commit suicide by hanging herself ?
(A) Theseus hated her
(B) Her stepson Hippolytus rejected her love
(C) Hippolytus wanted to marry her
(D) She was lonely and depressed

(33) Identify the poet in whose verse rural Ulster figures prominently
(A) Tony Harrison
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Seamus Heaney
(D) Louis MacNeice

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(34) Match the pairs of authors and their works according to the code given :

Authors Works

i. Alexander Dumas 1. Remembrance of Things Past

ii. Honore de Balzac 2. Madame Bovary

iii. Gustav Flaubert 3. The Human Comedy

iv. Marcel Proust 4. The Count of Monte Christo

CODES
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 1 2 3

(35) Which of the following statements best applies to Anna Karenina ?

(1) Among her most prominent qualities are her passionate spirit and determination
to live life on her own terms.
(2) She accepts the exile to which she has been condemned.
(3) She is a victim of Russian patriarchal system.
(4) Anna is deeply devoted to her family and children.
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) 1 and 3 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

(36) Match the pairs of authors and their works according to the code given :

List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)

i. Vladimir Nabokov [Link]

ii. Italo Calvino 2. Foucault’s Pendulum

iii. Umberto Eco 3. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller

iv. Emile Zola 4. Lolita

Codes
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 4 1 3

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(37) Which among the following plays by Aristophanes is an attack on ‘modern’ education
and morals as imparted and taught by the radical intellectuals known as The
Sophists ?
(A) Clouds
(B) Wasps
(C) Acharnians
(D) Knights

(38) In which novel of Virginia Woolf does a painter in the act of painting actually figure as
a character ?
(A) The Voyage Out
(B) The Waves
(C) Jacob’s Room
(D) To the Lighthouse

(39) Religious controversies in England particularly during the 15th century led to the
promotion of
(A) English prose
(B) The British Empire
(C) Naval power
(D) The Missionary Movement

(40) Fill in the blanks with a suitable word from the list below :
In his fiction, Ian McEwan more than often suggests the............of love
(A) Fragility
(B) Madness
(C) Completeness
(D) Security

(41) Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :

(Dramatists) (Plays)

i. Arnold Wesker 1. Jumpers

ii. Harold Pinter 2. What the Butler Saw

iii. Joe Orton 3. The Room

iv. Tom Stoppard 4. Roots

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Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 4 1
(B) 1 2 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 4 3 1 2

(42) Modern English emerged from the

(A) South Midland dialect
(B) East Midland dialect
(C) French language
(D) Northumbrian dialect

(43) Most culinary terms in English are derived from

(A) Exotic cooking
(B) French cooking
(C) Native sources
(D) Arabic cooking

(44) “Blended learning” is a mode of instruction/learning in which

(A) the learner’s mother tongue and the target language are blended
(B) learning is accessed through the mother tongue
(C) a variety of instructional modes are integrated
(D) learning of a language is mediated by humanistic approaches

(45) ‘Risk-taking’ is one of the traits of a good

(A) language learner
(B) language teacher
(C) teacher of grammar rules
(D) printer of books and authors

(46) A teaching method advocated by Dr. Georgia Lozanav which is based on the principle
of ‘joy and easiness’ is called
(A) Suggesto paedia
(B) Total physical response
(C) The Direct Method
(D) The audio-lingual method

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(47) 1. Albert Camus, in his essay, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ conveys :

(1) The concept of Naturalism
(2) The Absurdity of Human Existence
(3) The Futility of all Human Endeavour
(4) The concept of Existentialism
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(C) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

(48) In The Portrait of a Lady Gilbert Osmond marries Isabel Archer because
(1) Osmond wanted to get hold of Isabel’s property.
(2) He loved her
(3) Though he did not like her moral ideas about many things in life, he had hoped
to win her over.
(4) He realized that her moral ideas were quite deep-rooted.
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) only 1 and 2 are correct
(B) only 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 3 and 4 are correct
(D) only 1 is correct

(49) Pick out the two relevant and correct descriptions of U.R. Ananthamurthy’s
Samskara.
(1) The novel is written in English
(2) The novel is concerned with the progressive ideas of the times.
(3) The novel is set in Malgudi
(4) The novel is a satire on the representatives of a decadent Brahmin society.
(5) Samskara is a regional novel
(6) Praneschacharya does not atone for his sin.
(A) 4 and 5 are correct
(B) 1 and 4 are correct
(C) 5 and 6 are correct
(D) 3 and 2 are correct

(50) Willy in Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman compares Biff and Happy to the
mythic characters / figures
(A) Venus and Adonais
(B) Adonais and Hercules
(C) Jupiter and Hercules
(D) Venus and Hercules

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Question Nos 51 to 55 are based on a poem.

Read the poem carefully and pick out the most appropriate answers.
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning My swirling wants, your frozen lips. The grammar
turned and attacked me. Themes, written under duress.
Emptiness of the notations.
They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave : the experience of repetition as death the failure of
criticism to locate the pain the poster in the bus that said :
my bleeding is under control A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths.
A last attempt : the language is a dialect called metaphor.
These images go unglossed : hair, glacier, flashlight.
When I think of a landscape I am thinking of a time When I think of a landscape I am
thinking of a time.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. I could say : those mountains have a meaning
but further than that I could not say.
To do something very common, in my own way.
Adrienne Rich

(51) How does the poet suggest that the lover has not left ?
(A) The words “a last attempt” indicate that she is trying her best to leave.
(B) The words “before I leave” suggest that the speaker has not left yet.
(C) The speaker talks of a trip ‘forever’ which means she will never return.
(D) A drug she takes slows the healing of her wounds perhaps indicating that she
may be able to leave sometime in future.

(52) Why does the speaker/lover in Rich’s poem plan to leave ?

I. Because her love has not been returned.
II. Because of the pain she has suffered in the relationship.
III. Because the lover has criticized her so much.
IV. Because though the pain has been located, the bleeding continues.
The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and II are correct
(B) I and IV are correct
(C) I, II and III are correct
(D) I and III are correct

(53) What does Rich imply when she says “The grammar turned and attacked me” ?
(A) Language that has been used to hurt her.
(B) Her lover has beaten her.
(C) The person she is leaving is not the source of pain but something else.
(D) The pain she has herself inflicted through language.

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(54) How would you compare Rich’s poem and Donne’s poem with the same title ?
(A) Rich is recreating Donne’s poem
(B) Rich is eulogising Donne’s poem
(C) Rich’s poem is a scathing attack on Donne’s poem.
(D) Rich is defining Donne’s concept of love

(55) What is the theme of the poem ? Identify the false statement in the list below :
It is
(A) about the difficulty of actually saying goodbye.
(B) about not having the strength to leave though one might want to.
(C) about the pain suffered in relationship.
(D) a Classical love poem like Donne’s where the speaker dominates the addressee.

(56) Why does Girish Karnad base his play Hayavadana on Thomas Mann’s Transposed
Heads ?
(A) It is a mock-heroic transcription of the original Sanskrit tales.
(B) It is concerned with materialism.
(C) It deals with domestic strife.
(D) It deals with ancient times.

(57) The collected poems of A.K. Ramanujan has been divided into four sections. Arrange
them in their chronological order :
(A) The striders – The Relations – Second Sight – the Black Hen
(B) The Relations – The Striders – The Black Hen – Second Sight
(C) Second Sight – The Relations – The Black Hen – Striders
(D) The Black Hen – Second Sight – The Striders – The Relations

(58) In one of her novels, Margaret Atwood demonstrated the potentially ‘Cannibalistic’
nature of human relationships. Identify the novel :
(A) Surfacing
(B) Lady Oracle
(C) Life Before Man
(D) The Edible Woman

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(59) Match the characters with the novels of Amitav Ghosh in which they appear
according to the code given below :

Characters Novels

i. Fakir 1. The Glass Palace

ii. Tridip 2. The Hungry Tide

iii. Rajkumar 3. The Calcutta Chromosome

iv. Murugan 4. Shadow Lines

Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 3 1 4
(D) 3 2 4 1

(60) Which of the following is not a play by Badal Sircar ?

(A) Bhooma
(B) Evam Indrajeet
(C) That Other History
(D) Agra Bazar

(61) Who is the protagonist of Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence ?

(A) Mohan
(B) Jaya
(C) Rati
(D) Kamat

(62) In Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain, Makak’s vision of freedom for his
people is
(A) through money
(B) through violence
(C) through black power
(D) through a decolonisation of the mind

(63) Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as
Reason (R).
Assertion (A): To give a text an author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it
with a final signified, to close the writing.
Reason (R): A text is made up of multiple meanings drawn from many sources, and
this multiplicity is focused on the reader.

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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 true but (R) is true.

(64) 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).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is true but (R) is true.

(65) Match the following authors with their works from the given below :

Authors Works

i. Buchi Emecheta 1. Burger’s Daughter

ii. Ama Ata Aidoo 2. Joy of Motherhood

iii. Nadine Gordimer 3. Devil on the Cross

iv. Nqugi Wa Thiongo 4. Our Sister Killjoy

CODES
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 4 3 2 1

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(66) Match the following authors with their plays from the lists given below :

Authors Plays

i. Langston Hughes 1. Dutchman

ii. Lorraine Hansberry 2. Clara’s Ole Man

iii. Ed Bullins 3. Don’t You want to be Free

iv. Amiri Baraka 4. Raisin in the Sun

CODES
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 4 3 2 1

(67) Identify the critics and their respective works :

(A) Horace – Ars Poetica; Aristotle – Poetics; Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria; Ben
Jonson – Discoveries; Sidney – An Apology for Poetry; Dryden – An Essay of
Dramatic Poesy
(B) Horace – Poetics; Aristotle – Ars Poetica; Quintillian – On the sublime; Longinus
– Discoveries; Ben Jonson – Institutio Oratoria; Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic
Poesy; Dryden – An Apology for Poetry
(C) Horace – On the sublime; Aristotle – Poetics; Quintillian – Discoveries; Longinus
– Institutio Oratoria; Ben Jonson – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy; Sidney – Ars
Poetica; Dryden – An Apology for Poetry
(D) Horace – Ars Poetica; Aristotle – Poetics; Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria;
Longinus – On the Sublime; Ben Jonson – An Apology for Poetry; Sidney – An
Essay of Dramatic Poesy; Dryden – Discoveries

(68) Which of the following is not true of Imagist poetry ?

(A) The poet spreads his language across the page as though language were
sensation, to reproduce the mental effect of ‘image’.
(B) The image is itself an instrument of vision, or lens, as well as an expression of
imagination
(C) The imagist like a scientist learns from history and uses it, and like a scientist
does not deal in emotions.
(D) The new artist as scientist focuses vision through image as against the symbol
which resorts to reduction to simplicity.

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(69) Who among the following is not a myth critic ?

(A) Robert Graves
(B) Raymond Williams
(C) Francis Fergusson
(D) Northrop Frye

(70) According to Northrop Frye there are four main narrative genres associated with
the seasonal cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter. They are comedy,...........,
tragedy and irony (satire). Which is the second one ?
(A) Romance
(B) Epic
(C) Fiction
(D) Novel

Questions No. 71 – 75 are based on the following passage :

Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option.
The town belonging to the colonized people, or at least the native town, the negro village,
the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of evil repute. They are
born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it matters not where, nor how.
The native town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of meat, of shoes, of coal, of light.
The native town is a crouching village, town on its knees, a town wallowing in the mire.
The look that the native turns on the settler is a look of lust, of envy.... The colonized man
is an envious man. And this the settler knows very well... It is true, for there is no native
who does not dream atleast once a day of setting himself up in the settler’s place.
(From Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of The Earth)

(71) To Frantz Fanon, the ‘Negro’ village is

(1) the worst face of apartheid
(2) a protected area
(3) a place of moral and physical degradation
(4) a special village with its own amenities.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct
(B) 1 and 2 are correct
(C) only 3 is correct
(D) only 4 is correct

(72) Why is the ‘native town’ a hungry town ?

(1) it did not have agricultural farms
(2) it did not have markets
(3) the blacks were steeped in poverty

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(4) they were denied their fundamental rights by the Whites.

(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 4 is correct

(73) What does the term ‘crouching village’ indicate ?

(1) The latent aggressiveness of the blacks
(2) The defenselessness of the people
(3) Hopelessness and despair
(4) Overflowing filth
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 2 is correct

(74) Why does the native look at the settler’s town with envy ?
(1) it arises from a sense of desperation
(2) he has no other option in his life
(3) he wants to occupy a position of power.
(4) he wants to be the colonizer instead of the colonized.
(A) only 1 is correct
(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 2 is correct
(D) 1 and 4 are correct

(75) What is the settler’s attitude towards the blacks ?

(1) the settler is not afraid
(2) the settler considers the blacks to be harmless
(3) the settler is contemptuous of the blacks.
(4) the settler feels resentment because he knows that his position is never safe.
(A) only 1 is correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 4 is correct
(D) 3 and 4 are correct

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Explanation
(1) Wyatt adapted Petrarchan style/ Italian model into English. Surrey gave them the
rhyming meter and 14 line division into 3 Quatrains (4 line) and a Couplet (2 line)
thereby differentiating it from Petrarchan Octave and Sestet. Surrey is also credited
for translating Latin verse into English. Surrey was first to use blank verse in English
in his translation of Books II & IV of Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’ from Latin into English.

(2) A Morality play is a type of dramatic allegory, performed in a theater. In a Morality

Play, the protagonist meets the personifications of various moral attributes who try
to prompt him to choose a godly life over one of evil. The protagonist is tempted to
sin by the antagonists and only in God does he find peace, salvation, or hope. They
grew out of the mystery plays and miracle plays of of the eleventh century Middle
Ages and represent a shift towards a more secular base for European theater.

(3) Una personifies Truth or True Church and defeats the deceitful Duessa who
symbolises Falsehood or False Church. Guyon symbolises Temperance; Orgoglio
symbolises Pride.
Book I features the virtue of Holiness in Redcrosse Knight; Book II – the virtue of
Temperance in Sir; Guyon; Book III – virtue of Chastity in Sir Britomart, a lady Knight;
Book IV – virtue of Friendship in Sir Campbell and Sir Triamond; Book V – virtue of
Justice in Sir Artegal and Book VI – virtue of Courtesy in Sir Calidore.

(4) An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (1735) is a poetic satire addressed to his friend Dr.
Arbuthnot. Dr. Arbuthnot was the physician to Queen Anne and later to princess
Caroline who became Queen in 1727. It is a mock heroic poem written in imitation of
Horace. The bitter remarks that lord Hervey and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu made
about Alexander Pope prompted him to criticize them and many other poetasters
associating them with the Low Grub Street. The main characters in the poem are
Addison as Atticus and Lord Hervey as Sporus.

(5) ‘Every Man in His Humour’ — 1598; ‘The Shoemaker’s Holiday’ — 1599; ‘Antonio’s
Revenge’ — 1600; ‘The Changeling’— 1622.

(6) As A.C. Bradley said, “Iago stands supreme among Shakespeare’s evil characters”. Iago
has been disappointed of military promotion and he suspects Othello to have slept
with his wife. He is very egoistic.

(7) The Chorus appears four times in the play `The Tragical History of the Life and Death
of Doctor Faustus (1592). The chorus announces that this play will not be concerned
with war, love, or proud deeds. it will present the good and bad fortunes of Dr. John
Faustus. The chorus proposes the theme to be of — cursed necromancy and self-
conceit. The chorus speaks in very formal, rhetorical language.
The tale is compared to that of Icarus whose wings were melted by the sun while
flying too close to it.

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(8) George Chapman initiated the comedy and tragi-comedy later made popular by
Jonson and Beaumont and Fetcher respectively. He modelled his central character
on Marlowe’s proud hero.
His major works are - The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596); All Fools (1605); Eastward
Ho (1605); Bussy D’Ambois (1607). George Chapman (1559/1634) is best known for his
rhyming verse translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

(9)

(10) “The Good Morrow” is an aubade—a morning love poem—written by the English poet
John Donne.
“My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,”- As the lovers gaze into each other’s
eyes they see each other reflected, which is evidence of more bonding, and of two
lovers becoming one.

(11)

(12)

(13) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Is a poem in seven parts by Samuel Taylor
Coleridge. It first appeared in Lyrical Ballads, published collaboratively by Coleridge
and William Wordsworth in 1798.

(14) Euphemia or Effie Deans is the odd one because though accused of a severe crime of
killing her child she is not a mad-woman.
Meg Merrilees is the gipsy woman from Scott’s ‘Guy Mannering or The Astrologer’
(1815).
Madge, Meg and Euphemia are characters from Scott’s ‘The Heart of Midlothian’ (1818)

(15)

(16) The incidence is regarding Oliver Goldsmith’s play ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ (1773).

(17) According to Johnson, Shakespeare successfully broke from the classical tradition
of the three unities. He only satisfactorily followed the Unity of Action in his plays.
Johnson says that Unity of Time and Place arise from false assumptions.

(18) Steele’s ‘The Tatler’ first appeared in London on Tuesday April 12, 1709 and it
subsequently appeared thrice weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

(19) “The Indian Juggler” is an essay in Table-Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William
Hazlitt.
Hazlitt describes a stunning performance by an Indian Juggler and discusses the
quality of greatness.

(20)

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(21)

(22)

(23) Answer: Dropped Meredith’s first major novel ‘The Ordeal of Richard Feverel.’ in 1859,
caused much scandal but received critical appreciation.

(24)

(25) In ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’, a female poet is shown depicting the progression
of her romance with a male poet, from the stage of courtship to the fulfillment
of commitment. The title of the collection is deliberately obscure to disguise the
personal and romantic nature of the poetry. They are among the most famous
sonnets in the English language.

(26) “Sailing to Byzantium” is about the difficulty of keeping one’s soul alive in a fragile &
failing human body. The speaker of the poem is an old man, who leaves behind the
country of the young for a visionary quest to ancient city of Byzantium, that served
as the center of early Christianity. There, he hopes to learn to win over his mortality
and become like an immortal work of art.

(27)

(28) `Wuthering Heights’ (1847); Villette (1853); ‘North and South’ (1855); ‘Adam Bede’
(1859)

(29)

(30)

(31)

(32) Phaedra committed suicide because her stepson, Hippolytus rejected her love.

(33)

(34)

(35) “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappycomplex
interrelationships between the characters and the actions they display. Anna
Karenina is steeped in infidelity from its first page Anna is a victim of Russian
patriarchal system and is devoted to her family and children.
‘Anna Karenina’ (1877) is a classic story of doomed love.

(36)

(37) The Clouds is a play primarily concerned with education. It is a play with a strong
moral message and a tragic arc. The Clouds, Greek Nephelai, by Aristophanes is a
comedy written in 432 B.C.

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The play attacks “modern” education and morals as imparted and taught by the
radical intellectuals known as the Sophists. The main victim of the play is the
famous Socrates, who is purposely (and unfairly) likened to many of the standard
characteristics of the Sophists.

(38) In the ‘To the Lighthouse’ (1927) Lily Briscoe begins the novel as a young uncertain
painter attempting a portrait of Mrs. Ramsay and James.

(39) During the 15th century the major proponents of prose writing were – Fisher,
Cranmer, Tyndale, Caxton, Reginald Peacock, Thomas More and Thomas Malory.

(40)

(41)

(42) Modern English spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the
late 14th century and was completed in roughly 1550. It emerged from the East
Midland dialect spoken around the London area.

(43)

(44) Blended Learning is an instructional methodology, a teaching and learning approach

that combines face- to-face classroom methods with computer mediated activities
to deliver instruction.

(45)

(46) Suggestopedia is based on the activation and development of the potential

capabilities of individuals, exploiting the so-called hidden reserves of the mind,
which is present in every person. It is a pedagogic system of teaching, which is
the combination of pedagogy, psychology and artistic approaches. It is a language
teaching method that originated in the 1970s by Bulgarian psychologist Georgi
Lozanov. The name combines the terms “suggestion” and “pedagogy”.

(47)

(48) Dropped
Isabel Archer is the navel’s protagonist, the Lady of the title of novel. Gilbert Osmond
is a cruel, narcissistic gentleman of no particular social standing or wealth, who
seduces Isabel and marries her for her money.

(49) U. R. Ananthamurthy wrote the short novel Samskara, which was First published
in 1965 in the Kannada language. Samskara is a regional novel depicting the life of
Brahmin societies living in Kannada region. The novel rightly accounts of Brahmin
society of the sixties which suffer the serious problems of backward-ness despite
having intellectuals among them.

(50) In Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ (1949) Willy compares Biff and Happy to
Adonais and Hercules.

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(51)

(52)

(53)

(54)

(55)

(56) Hayavadana is inspired from a 1940 novella by Thomas Mann called ‘The Transposed
Heads’. The Devadatta-Kapila-Padmini storyline is drawn from this work, but Karnad
puts much more focus on the psychological struggles of the three characters than
Mann did. Mann drew inspiration for The Transposed Heads from an eleventh century
Sanskrit text called the Kathasaritsagara.

(57)

(58) In her 1969 novel ‘The Edible Woman’, Margaret Atwood has shown the potentially
‘Cannibalistic’ nature of human relationships.

(59)

(60) Badal Sircar was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, who awarded
the Padma Shri in 1972, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1968 and the Sangeet Natak
Akademi Fellowship. He wrote more than fifty plays.

(61) That Long Silence is one of the unique works of Shashi Deshpande which shows the
pathetic condition of Indian woman via female protagonist Jaya, who is an intelligent
woman with a bright career as a writer and a columnist but none of these qualties
would provide her a respectable position in the eyes of her husband.

(62)

(63)

(64)

(65)

(66)

(67)

(68) ‘Imagism’ is a movement in poetry originating in 1912. It was represented by Ezra

Pound, Amy Lowell and a group of American and English Poets who wrote verse of
great clarity presenting an exact visual image in their poetry composed in free verse.
There was an absolute freedom of subject without any help of conventional forms.
they did not base their poetry on history.

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(69) Myth criticism is based largely on the works of C. G. Jung which attempts to bring
out the cultural myths underlying literature. It refers to the study of both myths as
literature and literature as myths.
Robert Graves, Francis Fergusson, Philip Wheelwright, Leslie Fiedler, Northrop Frye,
Maud Bodkin, and G. Wilson Knight, are some of the myth critics.

(70) According to Frye, there are four basic story lines or patterns - which can overlap or
combine in a single work. He compares these four genres with four seasons of year.
The seasonal cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter compared respectively
with comedy, Romance, Tragedy Irony (Satire).

(71)

(72)

(73)

(74)

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Answer Key

(1) Dropped (16) C (31) B (46) A (61) B

(2) A (17) B (32) B (47) B (62) D

(3) A (18) A (33) C (48) Dropped (63) B

(4) C (19) B (34) D (49) A (64) B

(5) A (20) D (35) D (50) B (65) B

(6) A (21) A (36) B (51) B (66) A

(7) C (22) C (37) A (52) C (67) A

(8) C (23) Dropped (38) D (53) (A) & (D) (68) C

(9) A (24) A (39) A (54) A (69) B

(10) A (25) C (40) A (55) D (70) A

(11) A (26) D (41) C (56) A (71) A

(12) C (27) B (42) B (57) A (72) B

(13) C (28) B (43) B (58) D (73) C

(14) C (29) C (44) C (59) A (74) B

(15) B (30) D (45) A (60) D (75) C

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2014 December Paper 2

English Literature
(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, according to the code
(A) I & II
(B) II & IV
(C) I & IV
(D)

(2) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy contains

(A) Six volumes
(B) Nine volumes
(C) Ten volumes
(D) Four volumes

(3) Which of the following statement is NOT true of Areopagitica ?

(A) It was published in 1644.
(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Printing.
(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding Free Trade.
(D) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament of England.

(4) Thomas Hardy’s last major novel was

(A) Tess of the D’urbervilles
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) The Return of the Native
(D) The Trumpet Major

(5) The Hind and the Panther Transvers’d to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City
Mouse is a satire on
(A) Alexander Pope
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler

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(6) Match the columns :

Terms Theorists

I. Apollonian – Dionysian 1. Matthew Arnold

II. Fancy – Imagination 2. Friedrich Nietzsche

III. Hellenism – Hebraism 3. G.H. Hopkins

IV. Inscape – Instress 4. S.T. Coleridge

CODES
I II III IV
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 2 4 3 1
(C) 1 4 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3

(7) In King Lear who among the following speaks in the voice of Poor Tom ?
(A) Kent
(B) Edgar
(C) Edmund
(D) Gloucester

(8) In Wordsworth’s Prelude the Boy of Winander is affected by

(A) Blindness
(B) Deafness
(C) Muteness
(D) Lameness

(9) Which of the following is NOT mentioned as part of the London locale in The Waste
Land ?
(A) St. Magnus Martyr
(B) King Arthur Street
(C) St. Mary Woolnoth
(D) Lower Thames Street

(10) Which of the following novels is NOT written by Jean Rhys ?

(A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
(B) Good Morning, Midnight
(C) The Quiet American
(D) Wide Sargasso Sea

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(11) The first official royal Poet Laureate in English literary history was
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) William Davenant
(C) John Dryden
(D) Thomas Shadwell

(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 Marlboro

(13) The Theory of Natural Selection is attributed to

(A) Arthur Schopenhauer
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) A.N. Whitehead
(D) Aldous Huxley

(14) Which character in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is scientific” ?
(A) Simon
(B) Piggy
(C) Ralph
(D) Jack

(15) Match the authors under List – I with the titles under List – II :

List – I List – II

I. Claude Levi- Strauss 1. Of Grammatology

II. Jacques Derrida 2. The Archaeology of Knowledge

III. Northrop Frye 3. Anthropology

IV. Michel Foucault 4. Structural Anatomy of Criticism

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CODES
I II III IV
(A) 1 3 4 2
(B) 3 1 2 4
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 2 1 3 4

(16) How did Chaucer’s Pardoner make his living ?

(A) By selling stolen cattle from the neighbourhood ottery
(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

(17) From among the following, identify Coleridge’s companion in a fanciful scheme to
establish a Utopian community of free love on the banks of the Susquehaina river ?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Robert Southey
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) William Wordsworth

(18) Which of the following novels by H.G. Wells is about the condition of England as
Empire ?
(A) The Island of Dr. Moreau
(B) The War of the Worlds
(C) Tono-Bungay
(D) The Invisible Man

(19) Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is

(A) a collection of poems
(B) a play
(C) an autobiography
(D) a novel

(20) Listed below are some English plays across several centuries :
Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion
and Blithe Spirit.
What is common to them ?
(A) All problem plays; scheming and intrigue
(B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
(C) All ideologically framed; class and gender
(D) All romantic comedies; love and laughter

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(21) Who among the following wrote a poem comparing a lover’s heart to a hand grenade?
(A) John Donne
(B) Abraham Cowley
(C) Wilfred Owen
(D) Robert Graves

(22) The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to

(A) William James
(B) John Dewey
(C) Werner Heisenberg
(D) Charles Darwin

(23) “Jabberwocky” is a creation in

(A) Edward Lear’s poetry
(B) Lewis Carroll’s work
(C) Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Thomas Hardy’s Woodlanders

(24) Who are Didi and Gogo ?

(A) They are two characters in Endgame.
(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for Lucky and Pozzo.
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for Vladimir and Estragon.
(D) They are two characters in Breath.

(25) Who among the following theorists talks about “the circulation of social energy” ?
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Stephen Greenblatt
(C) Antonio Gramsci
(D) Haydon White

(26) How many legends of good women could Chaucer complete in his The Legend of
Good Women?
(A) Six
(B) Seven
(C) Eight
(D) Nine

(27) The Round Table is a collection of essays jointly written by

(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt
(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey

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(28) Dylan Thomas is associated with the group

(A) The New Apocalypse
(B) The Black Arts
(C) The Movement
(D) Deep Image Poetry

(29) Which of the following writers writes from Canada ?

(A) V.S. Naipaul
(B) Margaret Atwood
(C) Derek Walcott
(D) James Joyce

(30) “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
What is the subject of awaits ?
(A) Hour
(B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
(C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave”
(D) Grave

(31) “Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d /

Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.”
Identify the text in which the above quote occurs :
(A) The Double-Dealer
(B) The Way of the World
(C) The Mourning Bride
(D) Love for Love

(32) A Young Lady’s Entrance into the World is the sub-title of

(A) Belinda
(B) Cecilia
(C) Evelina
(D) Camilla

(33) “The old order changeth, yielding place to new” is from

(A) “Morte d’Arthur”
(B) “Idylls of the King”
(C) “Paracelsus”
(D) “Asolando”

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(34) Which of the following cannot be classified as fantasy fiction ?

(A) The Inheritors (William Golding)
(B) The Magus (John Fowles)
(C) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein)
(D) The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury)

(35) Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work associated with

(A) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(B) Ernst Cassirer
(C) Immanuel Kant
(D) Battista Vico

(36) Which of the following facts is NOT true of Spenser ?

(A) He is a kind of English Homer, telling stories of heroic confrontations.
(B) He fashioned an original verse form : The Spenserian Stanza.
(C) He opposed England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church.
(D) He is a Christian poet.

(37) William Blake developed the ideas of “Prolifics” and “Devourers” in

(A) Jerusalem
(B) Milton
(C) Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

(38) Surrealism is associated with

(A) Ernst Cassirer
(B) Tristan Tzara
(C) Henrik Ibsen
(D) Andre Breton

(3) “And miles to go before I sleep” is a line from a poem by

(A) Emily Dickinson
(B) Walt Whitman
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) Robert Frost

(40) What common link do you find among “The Disquieting Muses” by Sylvia Plath,
“The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton,

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“Mourning Picture” by Adrienne Rich, and “Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden ?
(A) They inspired paintings.
(B) They are confessional poems.
(C) They are all inspired by paintings.
(D) They are all inspired by Van Gogh’s paintings.

(41) “All Rising to Great Place is by a..............staire.” (Francis Bacon)

(A) Murky
(B) Winding
(C) Crooked
(D) Sinister

(42) In Jeremy Collier’s 1698 pamphlet attacking the immorality and profaneness of the
English stage, who among the following was the principal target ?
(A) William Congreve
(B) John Dryden
(C) John Vanbrugh
(D) William Wycherley

(43) Charles Dickens’s visit to the United States produced

(A) Hard Times
(B) Nicholas Nickleby
(C) Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Oliver Twist

(44) Who among the following is a working-class poet ?

(A) John Betjeman
(B) Tony Harrison
(C) Thom Gunn
(D) Robert Graves

(45) New Science is a work associated with

(A) Ernest Cassirer
(B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(C) G. Battista Vico
(D) Immanuel Kant

(46) Identify Petrarch’s sonnet sequence from among the following :

(A) Rine Sparse
(B) Astrophel and Stella
(C) Amoretti
(D) Delia

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(47) The island setting of Latmos figures in Keats’s

(A) Endymion
(B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(C) Lamia
(D) Hyperion

(48) The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation emphasized by

(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) Charles Baudelaire
(C) Oscar Wilde
(D) Andre Gide

(49) Which of the following African writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(D) Bessie Head

(50) “My lute, be as thou wert when thou didst grow With thy green mother in some
shady groove”
– William Drummond.
The above quote is an example of
(A) End-stopped rhyme
(B) Alliteration
(C) Run-on line
(D) Tercet

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Explanation
(1) The “angry young men” term is used for those young writers – a group of novelists
who became prominent in the 1950, who found disillusionment with traditional
British society. Its leading members were John Osborne and Kingsley Amis. John
Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” , which published in 1956. Kingsley Amis’s first novel
was “Lucky Jim”. C. P. Snow is best known for his series of novels known collectively
as “Strangers and Brothers” and the famous lecture named “The Two Cultures” .
Anthony Powell is best known for his twelve-volume work “A Dance to the Music of
Time” published between 1951 and 1975.

(2) ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’ was written between 1759
and 1767 by Laurence Sterne. The book was published in five installments, each
containing two volumes except the last, which only had the final 9th volume. The
action covered in Tristram Shandy spans the years 1680-1766.

(3) Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, To
the Parliament of England, was published in 1644, at London. It is a polemic, that is,
an aggressive written argument that usually pertains to religious or political matters.
The title refers to both Isocrates’s address to the Council of Areopagus and the
apostle Paul’s sermon at Mars’ Hill, and reveals multiple layers of meaning.
In 1643, the Parliament of England passed a law known as the Licensing Order of
1643. They felt that had no control over what was being printed throughout the
country and were worried about untrue, offensive, or blasphemous things being
written about the church or the government.
The new law required that every book, pamphlet, and written material had to be
approved by the government before it could be printed.
The following year, John Milton published a pamphlet called Areopagitica that
contained his reasons for opposing this law as he argued against regulating printing.
Milton has mentioned the Protestant Reformation several times in Areopagitica, in
which even he claims it is time to “reform the reformation itself.”

(4) Thomas Hardy published his fourteenth novel, Jude the Obscure, as a magazine serial
in 1895. It was printed in book form in November of that year. The novel scandalizes
critics and readers with its sexual content and scathing critiques of Christianity and
marriage. The book’s themes of class, marriage, education, and opportunities is still
relevant and relatable even today.

(5) ‘The Hind and the Panther Transvers’d to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City
Mouse’ (1687)
is witten by Charles Montague. It is a pamphlet satire on Dryden by Matthew Prior
and Charles Montagu which ridiculed the genre of animals debating theology.

(6) Apollonian/Dionysian - term by Friedrich Nietzsche in his work The Birth of Tragedy
from the Spirit of Music, 1872.
Fancy/Imagination – concept given by S.T. Coleridge, discussed in 13th chapter of
Biographia Literaria.

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Hellenism/Hebraism – Mathew Arnold discussed Hellenism - Hebraism in Chapter

4 of Culture and Anarchy and insisted on the balance of the both Hellenism and
Hebraism (thought and action).
Inscape/ Instress – Gerard Manley Hopkins coined the terms, “inscape” and
“instress,” in his journals.
Inscape concept is similar to Wordsworth’s “spots of time” ; Emerson’s “moments,”
and Joyce’s “epiphanies”.

(7) Edgar is a prominent character in the play King Lear, the eldest legitimate son of
Gloucester, and brother to the illegitimate Edmund. Edgar had to escape his angry
father’s manhunt which was provoked by the malevolent Edmund, who tricked
Gloucester into believing that Edgar wished to kill him. Edgar disguises himself
variously at different occasions, and also as a crazy beggar calling himself “Poor
Tom.”

(8) The boy of Winander is affected by Muteness. The Prelude was composed by
Wordsworth in total 13 books. The book Five describes the episode of The ‘Boy of
Winander’. It’s subject is meditation about the instructive value of a child’s early
contact with Nature and imaginative literature.

(9) The locations mentioned in The Wasteland happened to be around The City of
London at the East End.
The London Bridge and the London Financial district are mentioned frequently;
prisons ( the Tower of London) are mentioned 3 times; the London Docks and Sailing.
There are many single references to streets and churches in the City of London,
like King William Street, Queen Victoria Street, and Lower Thames Street, as well as
Magnus Martyr and Saint Mary Woolnoth Churches. T.S. Eliot viewed London as a very
hard working city, The areas mentioned in the poem can be liberally viewed as the
center of a hollow modern life.

(10) ‘The Quiet American’ (1955) is a novel by Graham Greene, which depicts French and
British colonialism in during the 1950s. It was published in 1955.
Jean Rhys wrote : After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1931), Good Morning, Midnight (1939),
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966).

(11) Dryden was the First Official Royal Poet Laureate in English literary history from
1668-1689.

(12) These lines are from 7th part of poem where he portrays his father. The Epistle to Dr.
Arbuthnot is a satiric poem in the form of an apology by Alexander Pope published
in 1735. It was addressed to his friend John Arbuthnot, a physician, when Pope found
that Arbothnot was dying.

(13) In 1859 by Charles Darwin laid down the tenets of the Theory of Natural Selection. It
was a scientific explanation for adaptation and speciation. His ideas were inspired
by the observations that he had made on the second voyage of HMS Beagle & also
by the work of political economist, Thomas Robert Malthus. The theory said that all
plants and animals had evolved from a few common ancestors by means of natural
selection.

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(14) Piggy is Ralph’s lieutenant and a intellectual boy, whose inventiveness frequently
leads to innovation. For example - the makeshift sundial that the boys use to tell
time. He represents the scientific, rational side of the civilization. Piggy maintains
that ‘Life is scientific’.

(15) Of Grammatology- Jacques Derrida,Published in 1967;

Structural anthropology- based on Claude Levl-Strauss’ idea Anatomy of Criticism-
Northrop Frye,
The Archeology of Knowledge- Michel Foucault

(16) The pardoner of the Canterbury Tales, uses the church and holy, religious objects as
tools to profit personally. He tries to sell one of his “pardons” to the Host.

(17) Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, devised to establish a perfect society,
The Pantisocracy , on the Eastern shores of America, in 1794, with a system of
government where all rule equally. But the plan could never materialize as in 1795
Southey proposed of moving the project to Wales. They originally wished to establish
such a community on the banks of the Susquehanna River in the United States. They
both were unable to agree on the location, causing the project to collapse. This was
one of the most intriguing and ambitious undertakings of the Romantic years. The
Pantisocracy was ridiculed by their contemporaries.

(18) Tono-Bungay is a realist semiautobiographical novel written by Wells. It was

published in 1909 and has been called “arguably his most artistic book”.
Edward Ponderevo is the narrator and protagonist of the novel. He is persuaded
to help develop the business of selling Tono-Bungay, a patent medicine created by
his ambitious uncle Edward. He portrays a satirical portrait of late-Victorian and
Edwardian England. The condition of England as an empire is being discussed as the
main theme of the novel.

(19) Om Prakash Valmiki was an Indian Dalit writer and poet. He wrote an autobiography
in novel form, Joothan- which was a milestone in Dalit literature. Being a Dalit, they
are tortured and abused everywhere in society. So he depicted the discrimination
he and other Dalit had to face throughout their life. Valmiki describes his struggle to
survive out of a life full of discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and social
ridicule and also his transformation into a speaking subject.

(20) The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms defines romantic comedy as “a general term
for comedies that deal mainly with the follies and misunderstandings of young
lovers, in a light‐hearted and happily concluded manner which usually avoids serious
satire”.
Example - Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of Being Earnest,
Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit.

(21) Abraham Cowley was one of the disciples of John Donne. He wrote the poem “ My
Lover’s heart, a hand grenade, where he compared a lover’s heart to a hand grenade.
As in these lines: ... “Or is it her lover’s heart,/ Held in her hand like a hand grenade?”

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(22) The Uncertainty Principle was introduced by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg
in 1927.
The principle states that the position and the velocity of an object cannot both
be measured exactly, at the same time, even in theory. The very concepts of exact
position and exact velocity together, in fact, have no meaning in nature.

(23) ‘Jabberwocky’ first appeared in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking Glass and What
Alice found there’ (1871). “Jabberwocky” is a nonsense poem which is about the
killing of a creature named “the Jabberwock”. It is one of the greatest nonsense
poems written in English for its playful, whimsical language and neologisms such
as “galumphing” and “chortle”. It’s aim was to satirize both pretentious verse and
ignorant literary critics and designed as verse showing how not to write verse.

(24) Didi is nickname of Vladimir. Estragon calls him so. Estragon is called Gogo by
Vladimir. Estragon seems weak and helpless, always looking for Vladimir’s protection.

(25) “ The Circulation of Social Energy “ is an essay by Stephen Greenblatt, He begins his
essay, “ The Circulation of Social Energy “ by mentioning his desire to speak with
the dead. He presents the idea of social energy, which is the energy created by the
audience or built upon by the audience.

(26) The nine stories in his ‘The Legend of Good Women’ (1372-86) – Cleopatra Thisbe,
Dido, Hypsipyle, Medea, Lucrece, Ariadne, Philomela, Phyllis and Hypermnestra.
Many of these love stories end with the suicide of the female resulting either
from a broken heart at losing their true love or a broken heart at being seduced
and abandoned. The Legend of Good Women is one of the longest creations, an
incomplete work, in the form of a dream vision.

(27) William Hazlitt contributed 4o essays to the collection & Leigh Hunt submitted 12
essays total.
The essays covered subjects such as art, literature and theatre.

(28) The New Apocalypse was a group of writers in the UK in the 1940s, taking their name
from the anthology “The New Apocalypse” which was edited by J. F. Hendry and
Henry Treece.
Appearing in these volumes were writers like Dylan Thomas, Kathleen Raine, David
Gascoyne,
George Barker, Henry Treece, G. S. Fraser, Vernon Watkins, and Herbert Read. They
reacted against the political realism of poetry in the 1930s, and were influenced by
surrealism and expressioniThe members of the movement described themselves as
“anti-cerebral.”sm. The group’s name was derived from an anthology titled The New
Apocalypse, published in 1939.

(29) V. S. Naipaul is from Trindad & Tobago, Derek Walcott, a poet and playwright, is from
Saint Lucia, James Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.

(30) These lines are quoted from Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ (1751)

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(31) The above lines occur in The Mourning Bride, the only tragedy written by Restoration
playwright William Congreve. The tragedy was written in five acts and staged in 1697.
The lines appear in Act III, where Zara the queen and protagonist of the play deliver a
speech.

(32) Francis Burney’s ‘Evelina’ (1778), was subtitled – ‘A Young Lady’s Entrance into the
World’.
It is a 3 volume epistolary novel and considered her best work. It is a precursor to
the work of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth. It was published anonymously, its
authorship was revealed by the poet George Huddesford. It is basically a sentimental
novel exploring sensibility and romanticism.

(33) The lines are taken from – Tennyson’s ‘Morte d’ Arthur’ or ‘The Passing of Arthur’
, which was composed in 1833 on death of Arthur Hallam and published in 1842.
Nothing in life or in nature is ever constant. This poem, written in blank verse, serves
as a frame for the twelfth and final book in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King: the first 51
lines precede the idyll and then lines 324-354 follow it.

(34) The History Man’ (1975) by Malcolm Bradbury is a satirical campus novel. The novel’s
story is set in 1972 in the fictional seaside town in the South of England and printed
in 1975. it is a dark satire of academic life in the “glass and steel” universities.

(35) The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer’s most important work, first published
in German in 1923, the third and final volume appearing in 1929. The three volumes
of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms are a vital treatise on human beings, who
are portrayed as symbolic animals. It is a monumental expression of neo-Kantian
thought. Cassirer’s philosophy is based primarily on the work of Immanuel Kant. It
extends Kant’s basic principles concerning the ways in which humans use concepts
to structure their impressions of the natural world.

(36) Spenser was a kind of English Homer, telling stories of heroic confrontations. He
fashioned an original verse form : The Spenserian Stanza having 9 lines 8 in iambic
pentameter and 1 in iambic hexameter.

(37) William Blake developed the ideas of ‘Prolifics’ and ‘Devourers’ in his ‘Marriage of
Heaven and Hell’ (1793). There are two quite distinct roles that people do take in
co-creation, Prolifics or the Devourers both of which are exceptionally important.
Everyone is capable of contributing to the ‘progress’ of society in their capabilities in
the smallest or greatest ways.

(38) Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement. It was a movement in
visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II. The major
spokesman of the movement, was the poet and critic André Breton, who published
The Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. Breton drew heavily on theories adapted from
Sigmund Freud. Breton saw the unconscious as the wellspring of the imagination.
Surrealism was a reaction against the influential 17th and 18th century intellectual
movement that championed reason and individualism. The Surrealists believed the
rational mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighing it down with taboos.
Surrealist imagery is outlandish, perplexing, and even uncanny.

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(39) Robert Frost’s poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ written in (1922 was
published in 1923. It is one of the most read and quoted poem of English literature.
It was famously written in iambic tetrameter, in the Rubaiyat stanza created by
Edward Fitzgerald.

(40) “Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden, got inspired from the painting “Landscape
with the Fall of Icarus” by Pieter Bruegel. “The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton, inspired
from Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night, in July of 1889. “The Disquieting
Muses” by Sylvia Plath, was inspired by Giorgio de Chirico eponymous painting
created during World War I.

(41) The line is taken from the essay Of Great Place written by Francis Bacon. He argues
that it is very difficult “to raise into place” and that people should be strong and
self-confident to take a high position in the society. Even in the old age great men
should not change their manners.

(42) Collier is widely known for his anti-theatre pamphlet, which attacked the popular
comedies from the London stage and accuses the playwrights of profanity, indecency,
and immorality.
In his - A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage,
published in 1698, Collier attacked some playwrights: William Wycherley, John
Dryden, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh, and Thomas D’ Urfey. “The business
of plays is to recommend Virtue, and discountenance Vice”. John Vanbrugh’s ‘The
Relapse’ and ‘The Provok’d Wife’ was the instigator for Vanbrugh reply in the same
year in his ‘A Short Vindication’.

(43) Dickens had visited United States in 1842. Marlin Chuzzlewit is a picaresque novel
by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1842 and 1844. it is
considered as the best work by Dickens.

(44) Tony Harrison, an English poet, and playwright., is best known today as working class
poet mainly for the publication of the long poem ‘v.’ written during the miners’ strike
of 1984 -85.

(45) The New Science is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. It was
first published in 1725 to little success, but has gone on to be highly regarded and
influential in the philosophy of history, sociology, and anthropology.

(46) Rine Sparse means Scattered rhymes. It is a collection of poems by the Italian
poet Petrarch. The theme of the collection is the poet’s love for Laura, a woman he
allegedly met in 1327, in the Church of Sainte Claire and fell in love.

(47) Endymion was a shepherd who fell asleep on Mount Latmos, seen by goddess of the
moon, Cynthia and she fell in love with him. In Endymion poem by Keats, however,
complicated quest in which Endymion desperately searches for the beautiful and
mysterious goddess he had first glimpsed in a dream.

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(49) South African author & political activist, Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1991.
The prize motivation was : “who through her magnificent epic writing has - in
the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity.”. The novel
entitled The Conservationist (1974) gave her international breakthrough. As a
whole, Gordimer’s literary works create rich imagery of South Africa’s historical
development.

(50) In Run-on line or enjambment – the meaning runs over from one line to the next.
The break usually comes in the middle of a phrase or line and the idea moves on to
the next line without any comma or full stop.

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Answer Key

(1) C (11) C (21) B (31) C (41) B

(2) B (12) A (22) C (32) C (42) C

(3) C (13) B (23) B (33) B (43) C

(4) B (14) B (24) C (34) D (44) B

(5) C (15) C (25) B (35) B (45) C

(6) A (16) B (26) D (36) C (46) A

(7) B (17) B (27) C (37) C (47) A

(8) C (18) C (28) A (38) D (48) Dropped

(9) B (19) C (29) B (39) D (49) B

(10) C (20) D (30) A (40) C (50) C

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English Literature
(1) This work was a satire in Ottava rima, attacking George III and Robert Southey.
Identify the poem :
(A) Dunciad
(B) The Vision of Judgment
(C) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(D) Alastor

(2) Here’s a famous exchange from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Silver Blaze :
‘Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention ?’
‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’
‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’
What was Sherlock Holmes’ response ?
(A) ‘Nothing ? Nothing at all ? Rather unbelievable.’
(B) ‘That was the curious incident.’
(C) ‘Anything else, at all ?’
(D) ‘That sounds rather curious, don’t you think ?’

(3) “The shrill, demented choirs of waiting shells, And bugles calling for them from sad
shires.” These lines are from Wilfred Owen’s :
(A) “Strange Meeting”
(B) “Futility”
(C) “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
(D) “Duke et Decorum Est”

(4) In Aphra Behn’s Oronooko, how does the titular character die ?
(A) He disembowels himself.
(B) He is whipped to death.
(C) He is hanged in the public square.
(D) He is cut to pieces slowly by the executioner.

(5) The narrative of this novel is a meticulous, present-tense account of a woman with a
death-wish who plots the circumstances of her own violent murder.
Identify the novel.
(A) Iris Murdoch’s A Fairly Honourable Defeat
(B) Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat
(C) Doris Lessing’s Children of Violence
(D) Angela Carter’s The Passion of the New Eve

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(6) The library where the “Battle of Books” takes place is

(A) St. James’ Library
(B) King’s Library
(C) Sir William’s Library
(D) Christ Church Library

(7) In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex the first scene finds Oedipus

(A) in conversation with a priest
(B) in consultation with a general
(C) giving audience to an ambassador
(D) in consultation with a minister

(8) Who among Shakespeare’s contemporaries did not write tragedies ?

(A) Thomas Kyd
(B) John Lyly
(C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) Ben Jonson

(9) The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled Hosseini tells the story of
(A) Ahmed
(B) Nadira
(C) Amir
(D) Amourrah

(10) Thomas Babington Macaulay, the writer of the infamous Minute of 1835, finds a
mention in Salman Rushdie’s
(A) Midnight’s Children
(B) Shame
(C) The Moor’s Last Sigh
(D) Fury

(11) The issue of privileging speech over writing was taken up for discussion in Plato’s :
(A) Ion
(B) Republic Book III
(C) Republic Book X
(D) Phaedrus

(12) ‘The Medium is the Message’ is a concept given by

(A) Ernest Hemingway
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Seymour Hersh
(D) Marshal McLuhan

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(13) Seamus Heaney’s famous poem “Digging” forms a part of his celebrated collection
called
(A) North
(B) Death of a Naturalist
(C) Field Work
(D) Door into the Dark

(14) The first major report on The Teaching of English in England was published in 1921. It
is known as, named after the Chair, Board of Education,
(A) the Newbolt Report; Sir Henry Newbolt
(B) the Wood’s Despatch; Charles Wood, Lord Halifax
(C) the Chatham Report; Earl John Chatham
(D) the Landow Document; Sir George Landow

(15) Who first developed the notion of ‘competence’ in language studies ?

(A) Dell Hymes
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) Leech and Svartvik
(D) Henry Sweet

(16) The fruit was eaten. The fruit is ripening.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct ?
(1) English has two kinds of participle : the present and the past.
(2) English has three kinds of participle : the present, the past and the future.
(3) The first sentence here is an example of a verb in past participle.
(4) The first sentence here is an example of a verb in the perfect tense.
(5) The second sentence here is an example of a verb in present participle.
(6) The second sentence here is an example of a verb in the continuous tense.
(A) 2, 4, 6 are correct.
(B) 1, 5, 6 are correct.
(C) 1, 3, 5 are correct.
(D) 3, 4, 5 are correct.

(17) In 1722 the Crown awarded a certain English merchant a patent to manufacture
copper coins for Ireland. Jonathan Swift intervened by way of composing a series of
letters in response, better known as The Drapier’s Letters. Who was the merchant ?
(A) Isaac Bickerstaff
(B) William Bickerstaff
(C) William Wood
(D) William Sacheverell

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(18) “While the world moves In appentency on its metalled way Of time past and time
future”
These lines are from :
(A) “Little Gidding”
(B) “Dry Salvages”
(C) “Burnt Norton”
(D) “East Coker

(19) The following is the stage-description of an opening scene of a famous modern play :
A basement room. Two beds, flat against the back wall. A serving hatch, closed,
between the beds. A door to the kitchen and lavatory, left. A door to a passage, right.
Identify the play :
(A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Travesties
(C) The Dumb Waiter
(D) Look Back in Anger

(20) ‘Homonyms’ are words that

(A) are pronounced differently but have the same meaning.
(B) refer to both the male and female of the human species.
(C) are spelt similarly but have different meanings.
(D) refer to people who live in houses with similar structures.

(21) Match the columns :

Shakespearean Actors Period

I. David Garrick 1. The 19th century

II. John Gielgud 2. The 18th century

III. Henry Irving 3. The Restoration

IV. Thomas Betterton 4. The 20th century

CODES
I II III IV
(A) 2 4 1 3
(B) 4 2 1 3
(C) 3 4 1 2
(D) 2 3 4 1

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(22) In his “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,” Derrida
is all praise for the bricoleur whom Levi-Strauss sees as a supreme methodologist,
“someone who uses ‘the means at hand’.”
Who does Levi-Strauss contrast bricoleur with in terms of method and approach ?
(A) The Botanist
(B) The Anthropologist
(C) The Engineer
(D) The Semiotician

(23) Heinrich Böll has something to say, and not of course merely something about the
Germans. He says it several times. A common weakness of writers with something
to say is their inability to understand that saying it four times is not necessarily four
times as effective as saying it once. But to have something to say – how rare this is !
– D. J. Enright, “Three New Germans”.
From a reading of the above, the reader can deduce :
I. Enright mildly disapproves of Heinrich Böll’s saying not merely something about
Germans.
II. Enright is disappointed that Heinrich Böll has practically nothing to say about
people other than Germans.
III. Enright agrees that Heinrich Böll shares a weakness with writers who prefer
saying something four times to saying it once.
IV. Enright does not believe that saying something four times will necessarily make
the same effective.
The right combination, according to the code, is
(A) I and II
(B) II and III
(C) III and IV
(D) I and IV

(24) Michel Foucault’s earlier “archaeological” study is found in

(A) Power/Knowledge
(B) Social Theory and Transgression
(C) The Birth of the Clinic
(D) Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics

(25) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is widely recognized as a masterpiece. It is also one of
the finest examples of
(A) science fiction
(B) picaresque novel
(C) coming-of-age novel
(D) crime thriller

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(26) Match the following correctly :

List – I List – II

I. Mulk Raj Anand 1. Premashram

II Raja Rao 2. The Cat and Shakespeare

III Prem Chand 3. Coolie

IV. Girish Karnad 4. Nagamandala

CODES
I II III IV
(A) 3 2 4 1
(B) 2 3 1 4
(C) 3 2 1 4
(D) 4 3 2 1

(27) From which of Sheridan’s plays the following extract is taken ?

Lady Sneerwell : Why truly Mrs. Clackitt has a very pretty talent and a great deal of
industry.
Snake: True, Madam, and has been tolerably successful in her day. To my knowledge
she has been the cause of six matches being broken off and three sons disinherited,
of four forced elopements ....
Lady Sneerwell : She certainly has talents but her manner is gross.
(A) The Rivals
(B) The School for Scandal
(C) St. Patrick’s Day
(D) The Critic

(28) Who, from among the following, has NOT been discussed by Simon-de-Bevoir in “The
Myth of Woman in Five Authors” in The Second Sex ?
(A) Montherlant
(B) Lawrence
(C) Stendhal
(D) Kafka

(29) In a collection of essays Orhan Pamuk shares how he writes his novels, tells about
his friendship with his daughter, talks about his loneliness and happiness.
Identify the text :
(A) Other Colors
(B) The Silent House
(C) The Black Book
(D) The White Castle

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(30) Two of the following plays won the Sultan Padamsee Prize for Indian plays in English:
I. Princes
II. Where There’s a Will
III. Larins Sahib
IV. Doongaji House
The right combination according to the code is :
(A) III and IV
(B) I and III
(C) II and III
(D) I and IV

(31) Who among the following is NOT an Australian writer ?

(A) Morris West
(B) Patrick White
(C) Thomas Keneally
(D) Bill Pearson

(32) After Independence, Mulk Raj Anand, wrote a number of semi-autobiographical works
to narrate chunks of his own life through a fictional persona. The name he gave this
persona is
(A) Lal Singh
(B) Krishan Chander
(C) Puran Singh
(D) Rahul Singh

(33) What a mockery this.

Of history, the past and that to come !
Now do I feel how all men are deceived,
Reading of nations and their, in faith,
Faith given to vanity and emptiness ...
The prelude The above extract is from
(A) Book 9 Residence in France
(B) Book 7 Residence in London
(C) Book 3 Residence in Cambridge
(D) Book 4 Summer Vacations

(34) While foregrounding the marginal presence of women in history in A Room of One’s
Own, Virginia Woolf refers to.........History of England.
(A) Campbell’s
(B) Trevelyan’s
(C) Sander’s
(D) Carter’s

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(35) Salonie is a play written by Oscar Wilde written in

(A) English
(B) Irish
(C) French
(D) Italian

(36) In More’s Utopia, the fictional traveller Raphael Hythloday’s second name in Greek
means
(A) Dispenser of Justice
(B) Dispenser of Nonsense
(C) Dispenser of Grace
(D) Dispenser of Mercy

(37) “You do not dwell in me nor I in you however much I pander to your name”
These lines from Geoffrey Hill’s “Lachrimae” address
(A) Christ
(B) The Devil
(C) The poet’s beloved
(D) The poet’s enemy

(38) The author of Black Skin, White Masks is

(A) Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(B) Frantz Fanon
(C) Richard Wright
(D) Martin Luther King (Jr.)

(39) Match the following :

Poet Bird

I. John Keats 1. Hawk

II. P .B. Shelley 2. Falcon

III. G.H. Hopkins 3. Skylark

IV. Ted Hughes 4. Nightingale

CODES
I II III IV
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2

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(40) Who of the following has written the novel The Return ?
(A) Bapsi Sidhwa
(B) V.S. Naipaul
(C) K. S. Maniam
(D) Pankaj Mishra

(41) Who among the following is a well-known Neo-Aristotelian critic ?

(A) R.P. Blackmur
(B) John Crowe Ranson
(C) R.S. Crane
(D) Lionel Trilling

(42) Assertion (A): The act of reading a text is both determinate and indeterminate.
Reason (R): Since our reading includes both a sense of the unity of the narrative held
in place at the end and the different wishes and guesses made along the way.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the true explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the true explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

(43) Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana, originally in Kannada, has been translated into English by
(A) U.R. Ananthamurthy
(B) By the playwright himself
(C) G.S. Amur
(D) A.K. Ramanujan

(44) Edward Said’s well-known book Orientalism was published in

(A) 1978
(B) 1968
(C) 2008
(D) 1988

(45) “To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare : And What He
Hath Left Us” is an ode composed by
(A) John Milton
(B) Ben Jonson
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) John Suckling

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(46) Call me Ishmail Tonight is written by

(A) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) Agha Shahid Ali
(C) Saleem Peeradina
(D) Nissim Ezekiel

(47) “All fiction for me is a kind of magic or trickery – a confidence trick.” The statement
has been made by
(A) Angus Wilson
(B) Anthony Powell
(C) John Fowles
(D) George Orwell

(48) Here is a list of American words and word-makers. Match the following :

American words Word makers

I. H. L. Mencken 1. Babbit

II. Philip Wylie 2. Yes man

III. Jack Conway 3. Bible belt

IV. Sinclair Lewis 4. Monism

CODES
I II III IV
(A) 4 3 2 1
(B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 4 3 1 2

(49) Which of the following in Jacques Derrida’s epigraph to his “Structure, Sign and Play
in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” ?
(A) More body, hence more writing - Helene Cixous.
(B) We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things - Michel
Eyquem de Montaigne.
(C) whose only source is hypothetical ... Claude Levi-Strauss
(D) But unlike philosophical reflection, .... the reflections we are dealing with here
concern rays If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter the whole history of the world
would have been different Blaise Pascal.

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(50) In Mann’s Death in Venice, death of the protagonist occurs

(A) in a bar
(B) in a beach
(C) in a church
(D) on the highway

(51) Two among the following poets wrote the “Village” poems that address the perennial
theme of rural poverty :
I. Oliver Goldsmith
II. William Collins
III. Samuel Johnson
IV. George Gabbe
The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and III
(B) II and III
(C) I and IV
(D) I and II

(52) In which of the following works Yeats developed his theory of ‘gyres’ ?
(A) “A Vision”
(B) “The Secret Rose”
(C) “John Sherman and Dhoya”
(D) “The Celtic Twilight”

(53) Mystery and Miracle plays in English were based on

(A) English folklore
(B) English legends
(C) Biblical stories
(D) Anglo-Saxon myths

(54) When we rewrite a piece of discourse from one script into another, it is called
(A) Translation
(B) Transliteration
(C) Transcreation
(D) Transformation

(55) “No wonder then.” Explain.

(A) No wonder that the words here begin to mean.
(B) No wonder that you now find the words menacing.
(C) No wonder that the words find you menacing.
(D) No wonder the words still mean and are tame.

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(56) The term “womanism” was first used by

(A) Helene Cixous
(B) Gayatri Spivak
(C) Kate Millet
(D) Alice Walker

(57) Two among the following critics have dealt with the reproduction of motherhood in
feminist theory :
I. Nancy Chodorow
II. Judith Fetterley
III. Catherine R. Stimpson
IV. Carol Gilligan
The right combination according to the code is
(A) I and II
(B) II and IV
(C) I and IV
(D) III and IV

(58) Flowers is a short play written by

(A) Mahesh Dattani
(B) Asif Currimbhoy
(C) Girish Karnad
(D) Paoli Sengupta

(59) Match the columns :

Character Novel

I. Lady Dedlock 1. Vanity Fair

II. Lady Bertram 2. Wives and Daughters

III. Lady Harriet 3. Mansfield Park

IV. Lady Jane 4. Bleak House

CODES
I II III IV
(A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2

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(60) “The Books You Needn’t Read, the Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading,
Books Read Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The Category of Books Read
Before Being Written ”
The above extract is taken from
(A) Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Library of Babel”
(B) Italo Colvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
(C) Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose
(D) Francis Bacon’s “Of Studies”

(61) Listed below are the titles of novels and the sources to which they are aligned by
readers. Match them appropriately :

List – I List – II

I. Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs 1. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

II. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe 2. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

III. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea 3. R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island

IV. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies 4. Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations

CODES
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 3 2
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 4 2 3 1

(62) Identify the right chronological sequence :

(A) The Game of Chess – Volpone – The Duchess of Malfi – The City Madam
(B) The City Madam – The Duchess of Malfi – Volpone – A Game of Chess
(C) Volpone – The Duchess of Malfi – A Game of Chess – The City Madam
(D) The Duchess of Malfi – Volpone – A Game of Chess – The City Madam

(63) ‘Nasal tone’ in speech is a distinguishing feature of

(A) British English
(B) Scottish English
(C) Australian English
(D) American English

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(64) Which of the following writers did NOT receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(A) Wole Soyinka
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) J. M. Coetzee
(D) Nadine Gordimer

(65) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is a significant work in
volumes.
(A) 3
(B) 4
(C) 5
(D) 6

(66) The first novel written by Graham Greene is

(A) Stamboul Train
(B) England Made Me
(C) The Heart of the Matter
(D) The Man Within

(67) From among the Canterbury pilgrims, which group would qualify as the ‘upper class’?
(A) The Pardoner, The Miller, The Nun’s Priest
(B) Franklin, Parson, Wife of Bath
(C) The Knight, The Squire, The Prioress
(D) The Reeve, The Manciple, The Clerk

(68) Plagiarism is a well-known word and concept in academic circles. The word
plagiarius in Latin, however, meant
(A) a trickster, a cheat
(B) a quack, a swindler
(C) a loafer, a lout
(D) a torturer, a plunderer

(69) What superstition around the Eve of St. Agnes is crucial to an understanding John
Keat’s famous poem ?
(A) If a virgin performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would dream of her
future husband.
(B) If a virgin performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would marry her
lover.
(C) If a married woman performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would be
reunited with her husband.
(D) If a woman performed the proper ritual on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would dream of
her future lover.

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(70) Identify the person who sets himself up as the ‘Knight’ with a pestle rather than a
sword in the play The Knight of the Burning Pestle :
(A) Ralph
(B) Tim
(C) George
(D) Squire

(71) Works like The Earthly Paradise, Dante and His Circle, Goblin Market and Other
Poemsand the journal, The Germ are associated with
(A) the Pre-Raphaelites
(B) Higher Criticism
(C) the Cavalier Poets
(D) the Pre-Romantics

Read the following poem and answer questions (72 to 75 ) :

A Bird, came down the Walk
BY EMILY DICKINSON
A Bird came down the Walk –
He did not know I saw –
He bit an Angleworm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,
And then he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass –
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass –
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all around –
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought –
He stirred his Velvet Head
Like one in danger, Cautious,
I offered him a Crumb
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home –
Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Too silver for a seam –
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
Leap, plashless as they swim.

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(72) is “a convenient Grass” an example of “transferred epithet” ?

(A) Yes, it is. The “convenience” of grass is transferred from the bird to the poet who
finds grass convenient of access.
(B) Yes, it is. The grass is not “convenient”, but is transferred from the bird who finds
the grass convenient of access.
(C) No. It is a regular epithet.
(D) No. It is not an epithet in the strict sense.

(73) Which of the following is NOT an example of kinetic imagery ?

(A) “unrolled his feathers”
(B) “hopped sidewise”
(C) “Velvet Head”
(D) “rowed him”

(74) The poem stages an encounter between :

(A) the human and the non-human
(B) distrust of the non-human about the humans
(C) two old friends
(D) two old enemies

(75) “Like one in danger ...” Who is in danger ?

(A) The Bird
(B) The Poet
(C) The Angleworm
(D) Frightened Beads

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Explanation
(1) The vision of Judgement is a satirical work by Lord Byron. Upon the death of mad
King George III, Robert Southey wrote a poem ‘The Vision of Judgement’, depicting
King George III entering Heaven to acclaim and praise. Lord Byron took offense to
this, and wrote his own version of The Vision of Judgement. Southey’s poem “A Vision
of Judgement” gave an optimistic perspective of the death of King George III, which
Byron heavily disapproved of.

(2)

(3) “Anthem for Doomed Youth” was a sonnet written by British poet Wilfred Owen in
1917. It’s theme is the horror of war and was written while Owen was recovering from
shell-shock in a Scottish hospital during military service at the time of World War I.
It describes the youth dying and the sensory horrors of combat. The poem’s draws
stark contrast between the furious, explosive reality of the battle and the calm
holiness of the church ritual.

(4) Oroonoko is cut to pieces by the executioner publicly while he bore the pain without
crying out smoking his pipe. This is how the protagonist of Behn’s ‘Oroonoko or The
Royal Slave’ dies in the end.

(5) Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat largely impacted Second-Wave Feminism in the late
20th Century.
The protagonist - ‘Lise’, seems to be in the search for ‘Mr Right’: but not a man to
love, and rather to whom she can entrust her death. The Driver’s Seat presents a
perverted idea of the female agency. Lise is a woman who, against a textual backdrop
of sexual liberation and protests for equality, turns freedom into a means to stage-
manage her death. The novel was called a “a metaphysical shocker”. During the
insvestigation of her murder, it is revealed that Lise had suffered years of illness, and
behaved erratically and often confrontationally. She wore garish clothing. Lise goes to
a South European city, probably Rome, apparently to meet her illusory boyfriend.

(6) “The Battle of the Books” is a short satire published as part of the prolegomena to
his A Tale of a Tub in 1704. It takes place in the King’s Library (housed in St James’s
Palace at the time Jonathan Swift wrote), It depicts a literal battle between books as
ideas and authors are shown to struggle for supremacy.

(7) Scene 1 of the play Oedipus Rex opens an altar, outside his palace, Oedipus finds a
delegation of citizens and a priest of Zeus. Oedipus steps out of the royal palace of
Thebes and is greeted by a procession of priests.

(8) John Lyly did not write tragedie and is known for his comedies. ‘Eupheus: The
Anatomy of Wit’ (1578) and ‘Eupheus and his England’ (1580) are his two comedy
dramas. Pappe with an Hatchet, Alias, a Fig for my Godson (1589) & Campaspe (1583–
1584) were also his plays. Lyly achieved extraordinary success with his first play
Euphues. Lyly was a contemporary of Shakespeare and a literary celebrity in his own
lifetime, but later fell into considerable obscurity. Lyly produced eight plays, most

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of which were performed at court, by a troupe of boy actors called - the Children of
Paul’s (also Paul’s Boys).

(9) The Kite Runner is the inaugural novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini,
published in 2003. it tells the story of Amir, a young boy of Kabul. It is set against
the backdrop of the fall of Afghanistan’s monarchy through the Soviet invasion, the
exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban
regime.

(10) ‘Bleddy Macaulay’s minutemen! … English-medium misfits … Square-peg freaks’ —

screams one of the characters in Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh.
The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) is set in the Indian cities of Bombay and Cochin.

(11) Phaedrus is a dialogue written by Plato. It is in the form of a conversation between

Socrates and Phaedrus. It discusses the topics of love, soul and love-madness, then
the dialogue transcends to discussing philosophy of writing and speech. Socrates
favors speech to writing as the latter is not open to questionnaire by the audiences.

(12) Canadian philosopher Marshal McLuhan is known for coining the expression “ the
medium is the message”, in his book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man,
1964. The form of a medium embeds itself in any message it would transmit or
convey, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the
message is perceived. The medium itself has shaped and controlled “the scale and
form of human association and action”.

(13) The poem ‘Digging’ is part of his collection ‘Death of a Naturalist’ (1966). Seamus
Heaney’s work often deals with the local surroundings in his native Northern Ireland.
The collection begins with one of Heaney’s best-known poems, “Digging”.

(14) A report on the teaching of English in England and Wales, presented to the Board of
Education in 1921 by a committee chaired by Sir Henry Newbolt

(15) The term Linguistic competence in language studies was first given by Noam
Chomsky in context of his theory of generative grammar. The terms competence and
performance were coined by Chomsky in his book “Aspects of the Theory of Syntax”
published in 1965.

(16) Past participle - a participle that typically expresses completed action, that is
traditionally one of the principal parts of the verb. In a regular verb, the past
participle is formed by adding “-ed”. However, there are many irregular verbs in
English, and these past participle forms must be memorized.

(17) William Wood was granted patent to mint the coin for Ireland. But Swift found it
as corrupt and criticized the action in a series of seven pamphlets known as ‘The
Drapier’s Letters’ between 1724-25 under the pseudonym of M. B. Drapier.

(18) T. S. Eliot’s ‘Burnt Norton’ (1935) is the first in his ‘Four Quartets’ (1935-42) which
include ‘East Coker’ (1940), ‘The Dry Salvages’ (1941) and ‘Little Gidding’ (1942). Burnt
Norton, the title refers to a Cotswolds manor house Eliot visited.

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(19) The stage description ‘A basement ...... passage, right’ – appears in Pinter’s one-act
play ‘The Dumb Waiter’.

(20) A homonym is one of a group of similar words that have different meanings – same
pronunciation and spelling, but different meanings. (to/twoo/too)

(21) David Garrick – 18th Century; John Gielgud – 20th Century; Henry Irving – 19th
century; Thomas Betterton – The Restoration period.

(22) In literature, bricolage is affected by intertextuality, the shaping of a text’s meanings

by reference to other texts.

(23) ‘D.J.’ Enright was a British academic, poet, novelist and critic. His poetry collections
include The Laughing Hyena and Other Poems (1953), Addictions (1962), Sad Ires
(1975),

(24) Foucault primarily promotes “archaeology” or the ‘archaeological method” in a

treatise titled The Archaeology of Knowledge which gave him fame worldwide.
‘The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception’ returns to the history
of medicine, the subject also of his first book, “Madness and Civilization” (1961).

(25) Invisible Man, novel by Ralph Ellison, published in 1952. The invisibility of Ellison’s
protagonist is about the invisibility of identity. It is the story of a young, college-
educated black man who is struggling to survive and succeed in a racially divided
society that does not see him as a human being.

(26) Correct Match-

List – I List – II

I. Mulk Raj Anand 1. Coolie

II Raja Rao 2. The Cat and Shakespeare

III Prem Chand 3. Premashram

IV. Girish Karnad 4. Nagamandala

(27) The extract is taken from Sheridan’s play ‘The School for Scandal’ (1777).

(28) Simon de Bevoir has discussed 5 Authors in Chapter X – “The Myth of Woman in Five
Authors” of the book. There she chooses authors whose attitudes “have seemed to
[her] to be typical” : French novelist Montherlant, D. H. Lawrence, an English novelist,
Claudel, French playwright and poet Andre Breton , of the Surrealist movement, and
a realistic novelist of France, Stendahl.

(29) Orhan Pamuk was born 7 June 1952 in Istanbul into a prosperous, secular middle-
class family best known for works that probe Turkish identity and history.. The Nobel
Prize in Literature 2006 was awarded to Orhan Pamuk “who in the quest for the

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melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and
interlacing of cultures

(30) Initiated in 1966 by Theatre Group Bombay, and named after their founder, the Sultan
Padamsee Playwriting Awards felicitates Indian play– wrights in English. ‘Princes’
(1970) by Gieve Patel; ‘Larins Sahib’ (1970) by Gurcharan Das and ‘Doongaji House’
(1977) by Cyrus Mistry have won this prestigious award.

(31) Bill Pearson, is an American novelist, publisher, editor, artist, comic book scripter

(32) Mulk Raj Anand has written four semi- autobiographical novels, entitled Seven
Summers, Morning Face, Confession of Lover and The Bubble. he uses the technique
of the first person singular. Krishan Chander is the narrator hero of the four novels.

(33) The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind; An Autobiographical Poem is an

autobiographical poem in blank verse by the English poet William Wordsworth. It has
14 books and published posthumously in 1850.

(34) ‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929) refers to G. M. Trevelyan’s ‘History of England’ (1926)
to foreground the marginal presence of women in history. Woolf gives a critical and
historical account of women writers and refers to Trevelyan’s History of England,
which was published in 1926. She examines the careers of several female authors,
including Aphra Behn, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Anne Finch, Countess of
Winchilsea and George Eliot.

(35) Oscar Wilde’s one-act play Salomé (published 1893; first performed 1896). Oscar
Wilde’s other famous plays are: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance,
The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, Salome and others.

(36) In More’s ‘Utopia’ , the traveller Raphael Hythloday’s second name in Greek meant
dispenser of nonsense.

(37) Geoffrey Hill’s ‘Lachrimae’ (1604) contains the above lines addressed to Christ.

(38) Black Skin, White Masks (1952) is written in the style of autoethnography, as Fanon
shares his own experiences while depicting a historical critique of the effects of
racism and dehumanization.

(39) Correct match

Poet Bird

I. John Keats 1. Nightingale

II. P .B. Shelley 2. Skylark

III. G.H. Hopkins 3. Falcon

IV. Ted Hughes 4. Hawk

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(40) The Return, 1981, is the first novel by an Indian Malaysian novelist K. S. Maniam. It
narrates an Indian boy’s journey of self-discovery while growing up in Malaya.

(41) R. S. Crane is the great Neo- Aristotelian critic of English. He founded the Chicago
School of Literary Criticism - often been called “ Neo-Aristotelian. It emphasized
Form and Matter in his writings as inseparable entities within poetry.

(42)

(43) Girish Karnad e is a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award. He wrote his plays
originally in Kannada and then did their English translation by himself.

(44) Orientalism was a ground breaking book was published in 1978, by Edward Said.

(45) “To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare : And What
He Hath Left Us” is Jonson’s eighty-line tribute to Shakespeare. It was written
to accompany that dramatist’s plays in the famous 1623 edition prepared by
Shakespeare’s friends and fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell.

(46) Call Me Ishmael Tonight is a book of ghazals.

(47)

(48) Dropped

(49)

(50) In ‘Death in Venice’ (1912) the protagonist dies in a beach. Death in Venice is a story
about the artist and the nature of art.

(51) Goldsmith is known for ‘The Deserted Village’ and George Crabbe wrote ‘The Village’.

(52) Yeats saw history as a series of interpenetrating gyres where Historical eras overlap –
one ending as the next one begins. He said that these gyres or eras of history tended
to fall into roughly 2,000-year periods. While one tends to dominant, the other is
always implied and weakly present.

(53) Mystery and Miracle plays in English performed by York, Chester, Wakefield and
Coventry cycles.

(54) Transliteration is the process of transferring a word from the alphabet of one
language to another. It involves swapping letters in predictable ways. Transliteration
is utilized when a word or phrase must be conveyed in a language with a different
writing system.

(55) Dropped all four explanations are correct

(56) A womanist is a Black feminist or feminist of color. The womanist opposes sexism in
the Black community and racism throughout the feminist community.

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Womanism is a form of feminism that mailnly focuses on the experiences, conditions,

and concerns of women of color, especially Black women. It recognizes the inherent
beauty and strength of Black womanhood and also aims to establish connections
and solidarity with Black men.
Alice Walker believed that the womanist movement united women of color with the
feminist movement.

(57) Nancy Chodorow in her ‘The Reproduction of Mothering’ (1978) and Carol Gilligan – ‘In
a Different Voice’ (1982) have reproduced motherhood into the theory.

(58) Flowers a One act play is one of the two monologues play written by Girish Karnad.
“Flowers” is based on a folktale from the Chitradurga region of Karnataka. It portrays
the dilemma of a priest who is torn between his love for lord Shiva and his mistress
Chandravti. The play revolves around a pious priest who gets caught in the quagmire
of contradictions between his Dhárma and his Kāma.

(59)

Character Novel

I. Lady Dedlock 1. Bleak House

II. Lady Bertram 2. Mansfield Park

III. Lady Harriet 3. Wives and Daughters

IV. Lady Jane 4. Vanity Fair

(60) Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist
and journalist and a member of the editorial staff. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,
avant-garde novel by Italo Calvino, published in 1979 as Se una notte d’inverno un
viaggiatore. Using shifting structures, a succession of tales, and different points
of view, the book probes the nature of change, coincidence, and chance and the
interdependence of fiction and reality. It is a story about a man involved with
underworld, who can’t finish his assignment and stays

(61) Correct Match -

List – I List – II

I. Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs 1. Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations

II. J.M. Coetzee’s Foe 2. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

III. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea 3. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

IV. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies 4. R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island

(62) Ben Jonson’s ‘Volpone’ (1607); Webster’s ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ (1623); T. Middleton’s ‘
A Game of Chess’ (1624); P. Massinger’s ‘The City Madam’ (1658)..

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(63) Nasal tone’ in speech is easily found in American English and occurs naturally in
tone.

(64) ‘Wole Soyinka received Nobel Prize in 1986; J. M. Coetzee - in 2003 & Nadine
Gordimer – in 1991.

(65) ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ (1776) by Gibbon is in 6 volumes.

(66) Other Important Works by Graham Greene

y The Man Within (début—1929)
y Stamboul Train (1932) (also published as Orient Express in the U.S.)
y England Made Me (also published as The
y A Gun for Sale (1936)
y Journey Without Maps (1936)
y Brighton Rock (1938)
y The Confidential Agent (1939)
y The Power and the Glory (1940)
y The Ministry of Fear (1943)
y The Heart of the Matter (1948)

(67) The Knight, The Squire and The Prioress belong to the upper class of society

(68) Dropped

(69) Eve of St. Agnes is a narrative poem of 42 Spenserian stanzas (9Lines) set in the
Middle Ages. It was written by John Keats in 1819 and published in 1820
y The theme in Keats’s ‘Eve of St. Agnes’ (1820) is that, if a virgin performed the proper
ritual
y on St. Agnes’ Eve, she would dream of her future husband.
y In the original version of his poem, Keats emphasized the young lovers’ sexuality, but
his publishers, who feared public reaction, forced him to tone down the eroticism.

(70)

(71)

(72)

(73)

(74)

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Answer Key

(1) B (16) C (31) D (46) B (61) C

(2) B (17) C (32) B (47) A (62) C

(3) C (18) C (33) A (48) Dropped (63) D

(4) D (19) C (34) B (49) B (64) D

(5) B (20) C (35) Dropped (50) B (65) D

(6) B (21) A (36) B (51) Dropped (66) D

(7) A (22) C (37) A (52) A (67) C

(8) B (23) C (38) B (53) C (68) Dropped

(9) C (24) C (39) A (54) B (69) A

(10) C (25) C (40) C (55) Dropped (70) A

(11) D (26) C (41) C (56) D (71) A

(12) D (27) B (42) A (57) C (72) B

(13) B (28) D (43) B (58) C (73) C

(14) A (29) A (44) A (59) C (74) A & B

(15) B (30) A (45) B (60) B (75) A

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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. In his “Study of Poetry” Arnold cited
“touchstones” from such non-English poets as Homer and Dante and also from the
English poets, Shakespeare and Milton. Which English poet did he disapprovingly call
“not one of the great classics” in the list below?
(1) Chaucer
(2) Sidney
(3) Spenser
(4) Donne

(2) Samuel Pepys began his diary on.

(1) New Year’s Day 1660
(2) All Saints’ Day 1662
(3) Thanksgiving Day 1665
(4) New Year’s Day 1667

(3) On which of the following authors has Peter Ackroyd NOT written a biography?
(1) Charles Dickens
(2) William Blake
(3) T. S. Eliot
(4) W. B. Yeats

(4) Which group of the following poets was called the Auden Group because they
developed a style and viewpoint similar to that of W. H. Auden?
(1) Louise MacNeice, C. D. Lewis, Stephen Spender
(2) John Masefield, Edwin Muir, Norman McCaig
(3) MacDiarmid, G. M. Hopkins, Edwin Muir
(4) W. H. Davies, Robert Bridges, John Masefield

(5) When one line of poetry runs into the next, with no punctuation to slow the reading,
it is a case of _________.
(1) caesura
(2) consonance
(3) enjambment
(4) hyperbole

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(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 behaviour
(3) A romantic focus on home and family
(4) The growth of rural traditions and movement from large cities

(7) In The Heart of Midlothian, 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 Elisabeth

(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

(9) What was Charles Lamb’s connection with India?

(1) He was fascinating by the Indian jugglers and trades- people in London and
wrote an essay on them
(2) He was fascinated by Eastern mystical religions, especially Buddhism
(3) He was a clerk for thirty three years in the East India Company
(4) He was clerk in South Sea House that prepared patents and documents for
British trading companies in India

(10) Find the odd one among the Marxist critics below :
(1) Georg Lukacs
(2) Louis Althusser
(3) Raymond Williams
(4) Northrop Frye

(11) In the lines “With gold jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments their want
of art” (Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects
(1) the ‘Follow Nature’ fallacy
(2) artificiality
(3) aesthetic order
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(12) The opposite of hyperbole is.

(1) meiosis
(2) inversion
(3) anagnorisis
(4) synecdoche

(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 the 1960s
(4) The first anthology of writers afflicted by class and gender differences in Canada
of the late 1970s

(14) What is the moral of “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”?

(1) Slow and steady wins the race.
(2) Greed is the root of all evil.
(3) Beauty lies with in.
(4) Never trust a flatterer.

(15) The author of the essay “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” is .

(1) George Eliot
(2) Henry James
(3) Oscar Wilde
(4) Richard Steele

(16) The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial

existence on a lonely island reflects .
(1) man’s desire to return to nature
(2) the author’s criticism of colonisation
(3) the ideal of rising bourgeoisie
(4) the aristocrat’s disdain for the harsh social reality

(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

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(18) In medieval England a __________was understood to be a trained craftsman, one who

worked under a master who owned the business.
(1) pardoner
(2) summoner
(3) journeyman
(4) manciple

(19) Christopher Marlowe’s heroes are said to be larger than life, exaggerated both in their
faults and in their qualities. They have a desire for everything in extreme. In one of
his plays the hero wants to conquer the whole world. The name of the play is .
(1) The Jew of Malta
(2) Doctor Faustus
(3) Tamburlaine the Great
(4) Edward II

(20) With what does the speaker claim to be half in love in “Ode to a Nightingale” ?
(1) the nightingale’s haunting melody
(2) the scented flavour of early summer
(3) the night sky and all the stars
(4) the peace that comes with death

(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 III
(4) Chapter V

(22) Match the following :

LIST I LIST II
(a) “The Function of Criticism” (i) Terry Eagleton
(b) “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (ii) Richard Ohmann
(c) The Function of Criticism :
From ‘The Spectator’ to Poststructuralism (iii) Matthew Arnold
(d) “The Function of English at the Present Time” (iv) T. S. Eliot CODES:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(2) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

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(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.

(24) In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” what disaster befalls the ship and the crew?
(1) The ship is caught in ice and breaks into pieces.
(2) A fierce storm batters the ship and drowns the crew.
(3) “Slimy things with legs” attack the ship and kill many of the crew.
(4) The ship is becalmed and the crew dies of thirst

(25) Falstaff is a character in

(a) Henry IV Part I
(b) The Merry Wives of Windsor
(c) The Comedy of Errors
(d) Titus Andronicus
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)

(26) In her essay “Professions for Women” Virginia Woolf finds an analogy between the act
of writing and
(1) driving a motor car
(2) riding a horse
(3) fishing
(4) gardening

(27) The ascension of King James I in…................inaugurated the Jacobean age.

(1) 1600
(2) 1601
(3) 1603
(4) 1609

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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

(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.

(30) “It used to be said,” began a famous English writer, “everyone had a novel in them
... Just now, though, in 1999, you would probably be obliged to doubt the basic
proposition: What everyone has in them these days is not a novel but a memoir”
Identify the source :
(1) Martins Amis, Experience
(2) Michel Butor, Passing Time
(3) John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(4) Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot

(31) The opening sixteen lines of Paradise Lost comprise:

(1) One sentence
(2) Two sentences
(3) Three sentences
(4) Four sentences

(32) Who among the following poets compared human tears to “love’s wine”?
(1) Ben Jonson
(2) John Donne
(3) Andrew Marvell
(4) John Suckling

(33) Ernest Pontifex is a character in

(1) Tono Bungay
(2) The Man of Property
(3) The Way of All Flesh
(4) Nostromo

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(34) In which of the following stories does Rudyard Kipling present a newspaper editor
who recounts his dealings with a couple of “loafers”?
(1) “His Chance in Life”
(2) “Thrown Away”
(3) “Lispeth”
(4) “The Man Who Would Be King”

(35) Trying to capture the upbeat mood of 1964-65, the poet Thom Gunn said: “They
stood for a great optimism, barriers seemed to be coming down all over, It was
as if World War II had finally drawn to close, there was an openness and high-
spiritedness and relaxation of mood”. Who were “they”?
(1) The Beatles
(2) The Rolling Stones
(3) The New Left
(4) The Arts Council folks

(36) In Paradise Lost Milton presents the action of the fall of man in two stages in Books
(1) IV and IX
(2) IV and VIII
(3) III and IX
(4) V and X

(37) In Gulliver’s Travels Struldbruggs are

(1) people replete with abstract learning.
(2) people exempt from natural death.
(3) people persecuted by pets and servants.
(4) people lured by a new ideal.

(38) Margaret Atwood has tried a revisionist writing of a crucial scene in Hamlet called
“Gertrude Talks Back”. The scene in Atwood opens with a reference to the name of an
implied listener. Who is this implied listener?
(1) Hamlet
(2) Ophelia
(3) Polonius
(4) Claudius

(39) Samuel Johnson wrote London in imitation of

(1) Horace
(2) Ovid
(3) Juvenal
(4) Moschus

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(40) Which of the following is NOT written by Buchi Emecheta ?

(1) The Joys of Motherhood
(2) Second-Class citixen
(3) A Question of Power
(4) Kehinde

(41) Samuel Johnson’s use of the term “metaphysical” in a piece of criticism was
(1) approving
(2) disapproving
(3) positive
(4) accidental

(42) “I am not an angel ..... and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.” This is
(1) Maggie Tulliver in Mill on the Floss
(2) Aurora Leigh in the eponymous poem
(3) Jane Eyre in the eponymous novel
(4) Betty Higdon in Our Mutual Friend

(43) Who among the following playwrights was the son of a gardener?
(1) Harold Pinter
(2) Joe Orton
(3) Tom Stoppard
(4) Edward Bond

(44) “He is the very pineapple of politeness!” This sentence is an example of

(1) paronomasia
(2) spoonerism
(3) malapropism
(4) anaphora

(45) Ferdinand de Saussure argued that meaning is generated through

(1) a system of structured differences in language
(2) a system of random differences in language
(3) a system of structured references in language
(4) a system of random references in language

(46) Identify the group known as “The Wesker Trilogy”?

(1) The Growth of the Soil, Game of Life, In the Grip of Life
(2) Chicken Soup with Barley, Poots, I’m Talking about Jerusalem
(3) The Four Seasons, Chips with Everything, Golden City
(4) Lunatics and Lovers, The Patriots, Dead End

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(47) Who is the central character of Derek Walcott’s Dream on the Monkey Mountain?
(1) Diana Guinness, one of the Mitford Sisters
(2) Jordan, a fantasist
(3) Makak, a charcoal burner
(4) Eva Smith, a seamstress

(48) The phrase “darkness visible” (Paradise Lost, 1.63) is an example of .

(1) periphrasis
(2) pun
(3) oxymoron
(4) transposition

(49) What is common to writers such as Sam Selvon (The Lonely Londoners), Timothy Mo
(Sour Sweet), and Hanif Kureishi (The Black Album)?
(1) All of them are brilliant writers of autobiographies who tell stories and write
poetry.
(2) They use Standard English with some Creole inflections peculiar to the
Caribbean.
(3) They are diasporic writers who depict postcolonial London very different from its
colonial representations.
(4) They contrast the ‘First Nations’ with local populations of their respective
countries.

(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 Peview
(2) The Criterion
(3) Scrutiny
(4) The Edinburgh Peview

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Explanation
(1) The famous Touchstones method was given by greatest Victorian poet and critic
Matthew Arnold. Through this method, a piece of work can be judged truly. It’s a
comparative method of criticism where Arnold disapprovingly talks about an English
poet Chaucer, he called him “not one of the great classics”. According to him,
Chaucer does not have the quality of a great writer.

(2) The Diary of the Samuel Pepys is the most famous dairy in the English language. He
began to wrote his diary on New Year’s Day 1660 and continue wrote until 1669. It was
originally published in 1825 and became on of the best resource which told about the
English Restoration period. Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch war and the
Great Fire of London events are discussed in this book.

(3) Peter Ackroyd belongs to the English Modern period. He wrote the great biographies
of the famous writers as William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Sir Thomas More
and Charles Chaplin. But he did not wrote the biography of W. B. Yeats.

(4) Auden Group is also known as Thirties poet. Its a group of British and Irish writers
who belonged to the 1930s. They all followed the style of W. H. Auden, so called
Auden Group.
These writers are Louise MacNeice, C. D. Lewis, Stephen spender, Christopher
Isherwood and sometimes Rex Warner and Edward Upward included in these writers.

(5) In Enjambment, one line of poetry runs into the next, with no use of punctuation to
slow the reading. Its opposite of the end- stopped rhyme. Its also known as run on
line.

(6) As per Victorian age, It expands from 1837 to 1901, till Queen Victoria s death. The
rise of a highly competitive industrial technology, an emphasis on strictly controlled
social behaviour, a romantic focus on home and family are the characteristics of
that age. But the growth of rural traditions and movement from large cities does not
belongs to the Victorian age.

(7) The Heart of Midlothian is an historical novel written by Walter Scott, the father of
historical novel. It came under his series of Waverley novels but it was originally
published in 1818 The Porteous Riots of Edinburgh is also discussed in this novel.
The novel deals with the real political and personal details. The depiction of Queen
Caroline as a character also found here, she was real Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland and also the wife of King George II.

(8) Chaucer was the greatest English poet of thew 14 th century also known as the
father of English poetry. “The Book of the Duchess” is a famous poem written on the
death of Duchess of Lancaster or Blanche of Lancaster who was the wife of John of
Gaunt. Itsa an Dream Allegory and also called ‘the death of Blanche’.

(9) Charles Lamb was an English essayist of the 19 th century. For sometime, he worked
in the British East India Company and here he was a clerk in South Sea House that
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discussed about his experience in his essay chiefly “The South Sea House” which was
published under his collection of “The Essays of Elia” in 1823. His pen name ‘Elia” has
been came from there.

(10) Northrop Frye belonged to the Archetypal literary criticism. Thus, he was not Marxist
critic.
y George Lukacs, Louise Althusser, Raymond Williams and Bertolt Brecht are the main
figures related with Marxist Criticism.

(11) An Essay on Criticism was a famous poem written by Alexander Pope, an English
poet and Satirist of the Augustan age. It was published in 1711. In this work, Pope also
suggest that bad criticism does greater harm than bad writing.
y In the lines With gold jewels cover every part, / And hide with ornaments their want
of art here Pope rejects the artificiality in the work.

(12) Meiosis is the opposite of hyperbole. Hyperbole is a figure of speech which means
excess of something, also known as exaggeration while in Meiosis, it minimizes the
importance of something. Chiefly, Meiosis compares with litotes figure of speech
because meiosis shows something negative.

(13) I am an Indian in Canada refers to the first anthology of Native Canadian writing
following the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
y I am an Indian wax written by Kent Gooderham and published in [Link] was the first
anthology of Indian literature that was published in Canada.

(14) The Nun s Priest s Tale is one of the important tale in the Canterbury tales written by
Chaucer. The Nun’s Priest came with the Prioress and her nun. His tale is about the
flattery of Chanticleer, the fox which he does for the bird. The lesson or moral of this
tale is ‘Never trust a flatterer’.

(15) Silly Novels by Lady Novelists is an most famous essay written by George Eliot. This
essay was published in 1856. Here, the essayist talks about the quality of silliness
which he found in the novelists, who wrote many formulaic romantic novels.

(16) Robinson Crusoe is a very famous novel written by Daniel Defoe, published in the
year 1719. It’s an adventurous and historical novel which deals with the life of the
title character Robinson Crusoe. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe
struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island which reflects the
ideal of rising bourgeoisie. It is believed that the story of this novel based on the life
of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish man.

(17) The Celtic Twilight is a collection of poems composed by W. B. Yeats, an Irish English
poet.
It was published in 1893.
y W. B. Yeats got the Noble Prize for Literature in 1925. He was one of the important
figure for establishing ‘The Irish Literary Revival Movement’.

(18) In the medieval England, a Journeyman was understood to be a trained craftsman,

one who worked under a master who owned the business.

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y In the medieval times, Pardoner refers to a man who is a preacher and he collected
money on behalf of religious practices.
y As per Summoner, a person who summons person to a place and also a magician
who can call a deities.
y As per Manciple, in the medieval times he refers as a purchaser of stores or food.

(19) Tamburlaine the great is a play where the hero wants to conquer the whole world.
y The Jew of Malta is a play where he play revolves around Barabas, who has the quest
for greed and revenge.
y Doctor Faustus is a most famous play by him, in it, Faustus has the quest for
Knowledge.
y Edward II is the last play by Marlowe, where he talks about Homoeroticism, religion
and social situations.

(20) Ode to a Nightingale is one of the greatest Ode written by John Keats, the English
Romantic poet, written in 1819. In this Poem, Keats describes his journey towards the
state of Negative Capability. Here, the speaker’s claim to be half in love means the
peace that comes with death.

(21) Aristotle was written the first famous philosophical literary treatise which talks about
poetry, criticism and mainly tragedy. There are overall 26 chapters in the poetics.
In this work, he also gave the famous definition about tragedy. Aristotle used the
word ‘catharsis’ in chapter vi. In his definition of tragedy, he defines catharsis as the
purgation of pity and fear.

(22) The Function of Criticism (1923): T.S. Eliot

y The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1865): Matthew Arnold
y The Function of Criticism: From the Spectator to Poststructuralism (1984): Terry
Eagleton
y The Function of English at the Present Time: Richard Ohmann

(23) Thomas More s Utopia is a most famous satire and political philosophical work,
first written in the Latin language and published in 1516. It was later translated into
English language and published in 1551. It also divided into two parts, the first part
records a conversation between Thomas More and Raphael Hythloday and second
part refers Hythloday’s discourse on the institutions and practices of Utopia.

(24) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the most important and long poem written by S. T.
Coleridge, published in the “Lyrical Ballads” in 1798. The poem refers the experience
of a sailor who just returned from the long sea voyage. The ship is becalmed and the
crew dies of thirst that was the disaster befalls the ship and the crew.

(25) The famous Shakespearean character Falstaff appeared in his two plays Henry IV
Part I and “The Merry Wives of Windsor”. It’s a comic or farcical character created by
William Shakespeare.

(26) Professions for Women is an important essay written by Virginia Woolf published in
1931. In this essay, she finds an analogy between the act of writing and fishing. Here,

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she also discusses her truly experience as a woman and as a writer. She also talks
about that how women does struggle in this male dominated society about their
employment and identity.

(27) The ascension of King James I in 1603 inaugurated the Jacobean age. King James I
was the former king of Scotland as King James VI. After Queen Elizabeth I’s death in
1603, he became the King James I of England until his death in 1625.

(28) Byronic hero has the quality of moody, passionate and remorse- torn but repentant
was not the quality of this kind of hero. Such tern came after the name of Lord
Byron, an English Romantic poet, who created such type pf fictional characters in his
works. The concept of Byronic hero influenced later literature in English literature.

(29) Thomas Hardy used many different dialects and standard in their novels as well as in
poetry. Sometimes in poetry, he used mixture of Dorset dialect and standard English.
In his novel “Far From the Madding Crowd”, he used Somerset dialect. Same as like
many other novelists, Hardy employed language variation (dialect and standard) with
a purpose as his major characters Tess and Jude rarely speak in local dialects, in
spite of their social positions.

(30) The above lines have been taken from Martins Amis s work Experience. This work is
a book of Memoirs where he talks about his experience of his life. It was published
in 2000. This work also awarded the 2000 ‘James Tait Black Memorial Prize’ for
biography.

(31) As per Paradise Lost, It was a very popular masterpiece of the 17 th century written
by John Milton, an English poet. Its an epic poem first published in 1667 with its 10
books later it republished with its 12 books in 1674. It is written into Blank verse. The
opening sixteen lines of Paradise Lost comprises one sentence. The poem discusses
about the biblical story of fall of man and the creation of mankind through Adam and
Eve.

(32) John Donne was a famous metaphysical poet of the 17 th century. He wrote a lot of
great poems about love, life and religion also. In his poem “Twickenham Garden”,
John Donne compared human tears to “love’s wine”. As he says in the following lines,
“Hither with crystal phials, lovers, come,
And take my tears, which are love’s wine,
And try your mistress’ tears at home,
For all are false, that taste not just like mine”.

(33) The Way of All Flesh is an semi- autobiographical novel and social criticism
novel written by Samuel Butler, an English novelist and critic. It was published
posthumously in 1903. In this novel, the novelist depicts the four generation of the
Pontifex family. Ernest Pontifex is the protagonist of this novel. The story of this novel
is narrated by Overton, the godfather of the central character. It was also a satire on
the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.
y Tono Bungay is a semi- autobiographical novel by H. G. Wells published in 1908.
y The Man of Property is a novel written by John Galsworthy published in 1906.

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y Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard is a famous novel written by Joseph Conrad

published in 1904.

(34) The Man Who Would Be King is a short story written by Rudyard Kipling published in
1888. Its about the adventure of two British men who become the king of Kafiristan.
Here, Kipling also presents a newspaper editor who recounts his dealing with a
couple of “loafers”.

(35) Thom Gunn was an English poet and also one of the member of the Movement Poet.
In the above lines, the poet Thom Gunn refers “they” to the Beatles.

(36) As per Paradise Lost, It was a very popular masterpiece of the 17 th century written
by John Milton, an English poet. It’s an epic poem first published in 1667 with its 10
books later it republished with its 12 books in 1674. It is written into Blank verse. In
this book, Milton presents the action of the fall of man in two stages in books IV and
IX.

(37) Gulliver s Travels is a most famous prose satire written by Jonathan Swift, an
Irish writer and clergyman. It was published in 1726. The book has the full title as
“Gulliver’ Travels or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts.
By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships”. The motto
of this work is “to vex the world rather than divert it”. In this work, Struldbruggs
refers to the people who exempt from natural death.

(38) Margaret Atwood was a famous Canadian writer as poet, novelist, essayist and
literary critic. She was awarded two times Booker Prize in the years 2000 and 2019.
“Gertrude Talks Back” is a important short story by her, where she tries a revisionist
writing of a crucial scene in Hamlet. This scene opens with a reference to Hamlet as
an implied listener. Atwood wrote this story in an modern way conversation between
Hamlet and Gertrude.

(39) Samuel Johnson wrote his famous poem London in imitation of Juvenal s third satire.
It was published in 1738 as his best work on the Urban life of London. In this poem,
Johnson discusses about the various crucial problem of the London society as crime,
corruption and the condition of poor people.

(40) Buchi Emecheta belonged to Nigeria. She became famous as an Nigerian novelist and
wrote greatest novels as-
“In the Ditch”: 1972
“Second Class Citizen”: 1974
“The Bride Price”: 1976
“The Slave Girl”: 1977
“The Joys of Motherhood”: 1979
“Kehinde”: 1994
y A Question of Power is a book written by a South African Writer Bessie Head,
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(41) Samuel Johnson was an Eighteenth century English writer. He used the term
metaphysical as disapproving in his piece of criticism entitled “The Lives of the most
eminent English poets”(1779-81). In this work, he wrote the biographies of 52 poets,
most of the poets belonged to the 18 th century. In the chapter “the Life of Cowley”,
he talks about the metaphysical poetry.

(42) I am not an angel &&. And I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. This lines is from
“Jane Eyre” in the eponymous novel written by Charlotte Bronte, one of the English
Bronte sisters of the 19 th century. It was published in 1847 under her pen name
‘Currer Bell’. The novel is set in the early 19 th century, Northern England.

(43) Joe Orton was an English playwright and diarist in the Modern age. He was born
in 1933 and died in 1967. His father William Arthur Orton was an gardener and his
mother Elsie Mary Orton worked in the local footwear industry until her death. Joe
Orton established his position as an playwright as he wrote great plays as “Loot”,
“The Good and Faithful Servant”, “Funeral Games”, “What the Butler Saw” etc.

(44) He is the very pineapple of politeness! is an example of malapropism. Malapropism is

the act of using an incorrect word in place of one that is similar in pronunciation.
y This device malapropism came from the character Mrs. Malaprop created by R. B.
Sheridan in his comedy “The Rivals”.

(45) Ferdinand de Saussure was an famous Swiss linguistic and philosopher. He was a
founder of Structuralism and also a key figure in Semiotics theory. He describes the
sign and its arbitrary relation to the reality. Ferdinand de Saussure also argued that
meaning is generated through a system of structured differences in language.

(46) The Wesker Trilogy is a book by Arnold Wesker, an English dramatist. It was originally
published in 1959. It was a collection of three plays of him as “Chicken Soup with
Barley” (1958)
“Roots” (1959)
“I’ m Talking about Jerusalem” (1960)

(47) Dream of the Monkey Mountain is an famous play written by Derek Walcott published
in 1970. This play centers on the character Makak, a charcoal burner. He was a black
and he also despises himself for being black. There are some other characters as
Moustique (a friend of Makak), A Dancer (also narrator), Tigre and Souris (felons),
Corporal Lestrade (a mulatto policeman), Basil (a cabinet- maker), Pamphilion (a
market inspector), market Women (who are transfigured into Makak’s wives during
his dream) etc.

(48) Oxymoron is a kind of figure of speech in which two contradictory words put together
side by side in order to create a rhetorical effect by paradoxical means. Example:
“darkness visible”, “pretty ugly”, “living dead”, endless hour”, “seriously funny”, “clearly
confused” etc.

(49) Sam Selvon (Trinidadian author)- The Lonely Londoners novel (1956)
y Timothy Mo (British Asian novelist)- Sour Sweet novel (1982)
y Hanif Kureishi (British writer)- The Black Album novel (1995)

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y The above writers are the diasporic writers who depict postcolonial London very
different from its colonial representations.

(50) Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review was a famous literary periodical founded in the year
1932. F.R. Leavis and Q.D. Leavis launched a critical journal devoted to the moral
centrality of English studies. It’s final issue came in 1953.

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Answer Key

(1) 1 (11) 2 (21) 2 (31) 1 (41) 2

(2) 1 (12) 1 (22) 1 (32) 2 (42) 3

(3) 4 (13) 3 (23) 2 (33) 3 (43) 2

(4) 1 (14) 4 (24) 4 (34) 4 (44) 3

(5) 3 (15) 1 (25) 1 (35) 1 (45) 1

(6) 4 (16) 3 (26) 3 (36) 1 (46) 2

(7) 3 (17) 3 (27) 3 (37) 2 (47) 3

(8) 2 (18) 3 (28) 3 (38) 1 (48) 3

(9) 4 (19) 3 (29) 2 (39) 3 (49) 3

(10) 4 (20) 4 (30) 1 (40) 3 (50) 3

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2015 June Paper III

English Literature
(1) When Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author opens the audience
find the producer attempting to stage a play. What is the title of this play?
(1) “Rites of Performance”
(2) “Rules of the Game”
(3) “Tonight We Stage a Play”
(4) “Modes of Acting”

(2) Which Canterbury pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with the Latin words meaning
“Love Conquers All”?
(1) The Prioress
(2) The Monk
(3) The Wife of Bath
(4) The Squire

(3) In his Introduction to The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse (1973),
Philip Larkin underlines the importance of a native tradition with seen as the major
poet of the Modern Period.
(1) William Butler Yeats
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) Thomas Hardy
(4) D.H. Lawrence

(4) Philip Sidney defended poetry against such descriptions of it as “the mother of lies”
and “the nurse of abuse.” His main argument here is.
(1) The poet is no conjuror or illusionist and represents a world.
(2) The poet cannot lie because he is not claiming to tell us the truth.
(3) The poet cannot speak the truth because he is not representing the real world.
(4) The poet is a philosopher for whom truth is a lie, and lie truth, in an imaginary
world.

(5) Chapter III of Oliver Twist opens with a narratorial remark about Oliver being
punished for “the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for
more.” What did Oliver ask for more ?
(1) More time to play
(2) More food to eat
(3) More books to read
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(6) Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion is a carefully structured poem carrying __________

corresponding to the;
(1) twelve stanzas; months of the year
(2) three hundred and sixty- five lines; days of the year
(3) fourteen stanzas; two week- long bridal ceremonies
(4) eleven stanzas; eleventh month, November

(7) Choose the right chronological sequence below :

(1) Victorian Period - Jacobean Period - Tudor Period - Restoration Period
(2) Edwardian Period - Tudor Period - Jacobean Period - Victorian Period
(3) Tudor Period - Jacobean Period - Restoration Period - Edwardian Period
(4) Jacobean Period - Tudor Period - Restoration Period - Edwardian Period

(8) “That woman’s days were spent In ignorant good - will, Her nights in argument Until
her voice grew shrill” (W. B. Yeats : “Easter 1916”) Who is the poet referring to ?
(1) Maud Gonne
(2) Lady Augusta Gregory
(3) Kathleen Pilcher
(4) Constance Gore - Booth Markievics

(9) Which of the following was replaced by Communicative Language Teaching?

(1) Motivational Approach
(2) Situational Language Teaching
(3) Natural Language Processing
(4) Structural Approach

(10) To whom does Francis Bacon offer the following piece of advice ?
“Let him sequester himself from the Company of his Countrymen, and diet in such
Places, where there is good company of the Nation... Let him upon his Removes, ...
procure Recommendation, to some person of Quality, residing in the Place, whither
he removeth...”
(1) The Beaux
(2) The Peddler
(3) The Traveller
(4) The Stationer

(11) In his masterpiece, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastyicall Politie, Richard Hooker affirmed
the Anglican tradition as that of a “threefold cord not quickly broken.” He specifically
referred to the following EXCEPT.
(1) tradition
(2) scripture
(3) community
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(12) Match the following :

List – I List – II

(a) Christina Rossetti : Goblin (i) The tale of a father who inadvertently destroys
Market his son

(b) Matthew Arnold : Sohrab and (ii) Gently satiric account of an Oxford student
Pustom on vacation

(iii) Story of pleasure seeking Laura and

(c) Robert Browning : The Ping
the conventionally moral Lissie who resists
and the Book
temptations

(d) Arthur Hugh Clough : The (iv) A sensational 17th century murder presented
Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich through multiple dramatic monologues

CODES:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(2) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(3) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(4) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

(13) “Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor; Then cherish pity,
lest you drive an angel from your door.” These concluding lines of William Blake’s
Innocence poem called “Holy Thursday” allude to a Biblical passage. Identify the
passage.
(1) The angel of the Lord encampeth round about those who fear Him and delivereth
them. Psalms 34.7
(2) Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel,
that it was an error. Ecclesiastes 5.6
(3) And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was
even so. Then said they, It is his angel. The Acts 12.15
(4) Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares. Hebrews 13.2

(14) Direct Method of Language Teaching involves :

(a) the use of Target Language only
(b) repetition of exercises
(c) linguistic correctness
(d) problem solving exercises
In relation to the above which of the following is correct ?
(1) (c) and (d) only
(2) (a), (b) and (d)
(3) (a), (b) and (c)
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(15) In which of the following works does the narrator proclaim, “either I’m nobody, or I’m
the nation” ?
(1) George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin
(2) Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight”
(3) Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”
(4) Kamau Braithwaite’s “Nation Language”

(16) Like Cordelia, the Fool in King Lear is .

(1) killed by Goneril’s troops.
(2) referred to by Lear as his child.
(3) disliked by Regan and Cornwall.
(4) punished for not telling the truth.

(17) Sindi Oberoi, the narrator hero in Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner says : “My foreignness
lay within me and I couldn’t leave myself behind wherever I went.” Identify the
countries which Sindi Oberoi went to.
(1) Kenya, Uganda, England, America, India
(2) Kenya, Uganda, New Zealand, England, India
(3) Kenya, England, Canada, India
(4) Kenya, America, England, Australia, India

(18) Assertion (A): The world does not become raceless or will not become unracialised
by assertion. The act of enforcing racelessness in literary discourse is itself a racial
act.
Reason (R): Pouring rhetorical acid on the fingers of a black hand may indeed destroy
the prints, but not the hand. Besides, what happens, in that violent, self- serving
act of erasure, to the hands, the fingers, the fingerprints of the one who does the
pouring ? Do they remain acid-free ? The literature itself suggests otherwise.
In the context of the statements above,
(1) (A) makes complete sense in the light of (R).
(2) (A) makes complete sense regardless of (R).
(3) Neither (A) nor (R) makes complete sense.
(4) (R) challenges the view advanced in (A).

(19) A poet laureate said “I do not think that since Shakespeare there has been such a
master of the English language as I.” Who is the poet ?
(1) Stephen Spender
(2) John Dryden
(3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
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(20) Who among the following was a contemporary of John Milton and wrote The Worthy
Communicant? It is said that his prose “can be read easily. When Milton’s must be
studied”.
(1) Jeremy Taylor
(2) John Bunyan
(3) Andrew Marvell
(4) George Herbert

(21) In 1668, Dryden wrote Of Dramatic Poesie : An Essay which uses separate characters
to dramatise the conflicting viewpoints which new theatrical activity had produced.
(1) three
(2) two
(3) four
(4) six

(22) Writing his most influential play, August Strindberg called it “My most beloved drama,
the child of my greatest suffering.” The play is :
(1) A Dream Play
(2) Miss Julie
(3) The Bridal Crown
(4) The Dance of Death

(23) In which essay does Virginia Woolf observe that “if a writer were a free man [sic] and
not a slave” to the conventions of the literary market-place, there would be “no plot,
no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest, or catastrophe in thew accepted style, and
perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it”?
(1) “How it strikes a Contemporary”
(2) “Modern Fiction”
(3) “The Russian Point of View”
(4) “Mr. Bennett and Mr. Brown”

(24) In his famous letter to Benjamin Bailey (November 22, 1817) John Keats wrote : “I
am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of
Imagination - What the imagination seises as Beauty must be truth.” Which of the
following sentences follows this passage?
(1) Now I am sensible all this is a mere sophistication, however it may neighbour to
any truths, to excuse my own indolence...
(2) The Imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream - he woke and found it true.
(3) This however I am persuaded of, that nothing beside Imagination can give us
sweet sensations and pleasurable thoughts.
(4) My pains at last some respite shall afford, while I behold the battles Imagination
maintains.

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(25) Which of the following pair best describes the characteristic features of Marlowe’s
portrait of Tamburlaine ?
(a) ambition
(b) apathy
(c) cruelty
(d) sympathy
The right combination according to the code is .
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (b) and (c)

(26) Who is the author of the statement : “The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is
the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in the glass” ?
(1) Arthur Symons
(2) Benjamin Disraeli
(3) W. B. Yeats
(4) Oscar Wilde

(27) Which of the following statements about Thomas Mann’s novels is true ?
(a) Buddenbrooks is a family saga set in the early decades of the twentieth century.
(b) Aschenbach, the writer protagonist in Death in Venice, is preoccupied with
classicism, especially with classical ideals of male beauty.
(c) In his second winter at the sanatorium, Hans Castorp, protagonist of The Magic
Mountain gets lost in a blissard during a solitary skiing expedition.
(d) Adrian Leverkuhn, the modern day Faustus in Mann’s Doctor Faustus is a
musician.
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) Only (a) and (c) are correct
(2) Only (b) and (d) are correct
(3) (b), (c) and (d) are correct
(4) (a), (b) and (d) are correct

(28) To whom did Raja Ram Mohan Roy write in 1823 his letter seeking the introduction of
English education in India ?
(1) Lord Amherst
(2) Lord Bentinck
(3) Lord Cunningham
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(29) Listed below are the seemingly friendly characters in The Pilgrim’s Progress who give
Christian dangerous advice. Among them is one who does not belong to this group.
Identify this odd character.
(1) Mr. Worldly Wiseman
(2) Evangelist
(3) Ignorance
(4) Talkative

(30) Aristotle argued that poetry provides a/an __________ outlet for the release of
intense emotions.
(1) safe
(2) dangerous
(3) uncertain
(4) unreliable

(31) The direct French influence on the English language during the Middle English period
was in the form of.
(1) loss of inflections.
(2) intake of French words into English.
(3) both the loss of inflections and intake of French words into English.
(4) addition of inflections.

(32) A significant development in 1662 was the establishment of The Royal Society in
England. The main purpose of the society was-
(1) to set the rules for the royal court and governance
(2) to guide and promote the development of science and scientific exploration
(3) to set norms for civil society
(4) to promote theatre

(33) William Cowper wrote in The Task (IV. 681-82) about those who “Build factories with
blood, conducting trade/At the sword’s point ...” These lines allude to :
(1) Turkish militant traders across Europe
(2) Nordic conquerors across East Asia
(3) West Indian slave-plantation owners and the East India Company ‘nabobs’
(4) Exploiters of child labour in the London suburbs

(34) The commedia dell’arte originated in Italy in the sixteenth century. Which of the
following descriptions are the most appropriate ?
(a) Tears alternating with crude laughter
(b) Comedy of the guild or by the professionals in the “art”
(c) Plautine comedy alternating with ritualistic manoeuvres
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The right combination according to the code is :

(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (d)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (b) and (c)

(35) “Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night, God said Let Newton be! And all was
Light.” Alexander Pope’s famous couplet impressively captures .
(1) Newton’s confirmation of the Genesis passage where God ordains Light
(2) Newton’s empirical observations of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
(3) Newton’s application of principles of motion to account for many natural
phenomena
(4) Newton’s discovery that all colours are contained in white light

(36) What was the name of the experimental theatre group founded in 1915 by Susan
Glaspell, Eugene O’ Neill, and other dramatist in order to challenge Broadway’s
control over American drama?
(1) The Wall Street Theatre Group
(2) The Washington Square Players
(3) The Actor’s Studio
(4) The Provincetown Players

(37) After his return from the land of Houyhnhnms, Gulliver refused to let his wife and
children __________ .
(1) show disrespect to English horses.
(2) ride horse-drawn carriages.
(3) touch his bread, or drink out of his cup.
(4) communicate with him in English tongue.

(38) In which of the following volumes do you find a charming appreciation of the
Wordsworth household by Thomas de Quincey ?
(1) The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
(2) Lives and Letters, Far Away and Long Ago
(3) Notes on My Lake Country Evenings
(4) Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets

(39) One of the most highly revered, scholarly, and passionate interpreters of English
and world literatures, he was appointed the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern
English Literature at University College, London in 1967, and later as King Edward
VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge in 1974, an appointment made by
the Crown at the suggestion of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was
knighted by Queen Elisabeth in 1991. Entitled to designate himself as “Sir,” he never
did, but wrote and autobiography entitled Not Entitled in 1995. The epigraph to this

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book came from Coriolanus : “He was a kind of nothing, titleless.” Who among the
following is this writer/critic ?
(1) F. R. Leavis
(2) I. A. Richards
(3) Frank Kermode
(4) David Lodge

(40) Which of the following provided theoretical basis for Audio- Lingual Method of
Language Teaching?
(1) Transformational Generative Linguistics
(2) Congnitive Psychology and Structural Linguistics
(3) Behaviourist Psychology and Bloomfieldian Structural Linguistics
(4) Systemic Functional Linguistics

(41) Who among the following characters of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov dies in
the final scene ?
(1) Anya
(2) Firs
(3) Varya
(4) Lopakhin

(42) In tracing the history of English poetry, Thomas Gray’s “Progress of Poesy” invokes a
major poet as follows : “Nor second He, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of
Extasy, The secrets of th’ Abyss to spy.” Who is “He” ?
(1) William Shakespeare
(2) Edmund Spenser
(3) John Milton
(4) John Dryden

(43) “I suffered from impaired eye-sight, depression and poverty and left Oxford without
a degree. After a period as a teacher and my marriage to a widow twice my age, I left
for London, to begin writing for a magazine, I produced my own journal.” Choose the
correct answer, identifying the writer, the magazine and the journal;
(1) John Milton, The Examiner’s Magazine, The London Magazine
(2) Joseph Addison, The Freeholder, The Tatler
(3) Richard Steele, The Guardian, The Spectator
(4) Samuel Johnson, The Gentlemen’s Magazine, The Rambler

(44) Which of the American novelists is associated with the series of five books about
Natty Bumppo, an old hunter, also called Leatherstocking ?
(1) Stephen Crane
(2) James Fennimore Cooper
(3) Herman Melville
(4) Jack London

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(45) In John Dryden’s Essay on Dramatic Poesy Neander defends the English invention of
(1) romantic comedy
(2) action tragedy
(3) tragi-comedy
(4) morality plays

(46) Who wrote The History of Australian Literature in 1961?

(1) Randolph Stow
(2) H. M. Greene
(3) Handel Richardson
(4) Francis Adam

(47) Match the following :

Theorist Theories
(a) Bharata (i) Vakrokti
(b) Kuntaka (ii) Riti
(c) Bhamaha (iii) Dhvani
(d) Anandavardhana (iv) Rasa
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
(2) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(3) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(4) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)

(48) What is “Forster Collection”?

(1) Memorabilia and documents related to the Scottish War of Independence (1296-
1328) housed in Glasgow Museum
(2) The special collection of E. M. Forster effects housed in King’s College,
Cambridge
(3) The largest collection of Charles Dickens manuscripts and proofs curated by
John Forster
(4) The collection of political and military documents named after the liberal M. P.,
W. E. Forster reputed for the Forster Education Act

(49) What was remarkable about the poet F. T. Marinetti’s first Futurist Manifesto in Le
Figaro ?
(1) It resounded like the monotonous beating of a big drum that filled the air with
muffled shocks and lingering vibration.
(2) It proclaimed that someone must go on writing for those who were still
convinced of the future for which they had taken up arms.
(3) It blasted the dead weight of “museums, libraries, and academics,” glorifying “the
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(4) It declared that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities; and if
man can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive disorder, then the
possibilities have a future.

(50) How would one best describe Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Pesartus (1833)?
(1) A combination of journal, fashion-book, and tips for advertisers
(2) A lyrical novel à la Marcel Proust
(3) A combination of novel, autobiography, and essay
(4) A satire on sartorial fashions and feibles of medieval Europe

(51) An Indian English poet once remarked that his discipline and education gave him
his “outer” whereas his Indian origin gave him “inner” form. Reflecting a part of this
claim is a famous essay he called .
(1) “Is There a Native Way of Thinking ?”
(2) “Can the Subaltern Speak ?”
(3) “Where Do We Go from Here : Some Speculations”
(4) “Is There an Indian Way of Thinking ?”

(52) In the remarkably crucial courtroom scene of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is
called upon to speah. Whose voice do we hear in the narrative?
(1) Tea Cake’s voice
(2) Janie’s first-person voice
(3) Pheoby’s voice
(4) The omniscient third-person voice

(53) Who is the author of the statement “A prophet is a Seer, not an Arbitrary Dictator” ?
(1) Salman Rushdie
(2) Kahlil Gibran
(3) William Blake
(4) Oscar Wilde

(54) The word order in Modern English became relatively fixed because
(1) it developed its inflectional system.
(2) it lost its highly developed inflectional system.
(3) it lost its derivational system of word formation.
(4) it developed its derivational system of word formation

(55) Julia Kristeva’s ‘intertextuality’ derives from

(a) Noam Chomsky’s deep structure
(b) Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism
(c) Jacques Derrida’s difference
(d) Ferdinand de Saussure’s sign

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The right combination according to the code is:

(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)

(56) Dylan Thomas’s famous poem “Fern Hill,” is named after

(1) a countryside in Austria to which he paid occasional visits.
(2) a childhood haunt of the poet’s family in Devonshire.
(3) the Welsh farmhouse where the poet spent summer holidays as a boy
(4) The Welsh Anglican church to which the young poet used to be taken by his
mother.

(57) “In the seventeenth century,” writes T. S. Eliot in “The Metaphysical Poets,” “a
dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and this
dissociation, as is natural, was aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful
poets of the century, __________ and __________ .
(1) Ben Jonson and Abraham Cowley
(2) George Herbert and Henry Vaughan
(3) John Donne and Andrew Marvell
(4) John Milton and John Dryden

(58) The label ‘material feminism’ refers to the work of those thinkers who study
inequality in terms of .
(1) gender differences.
(2) class differences.
(3) both gender and class differences.
(4) female consumerism.

(59) Who among the following displays in her best work the dual influence of feminism
and magic realism ?
(1) Pat Barker
(2) Muriel Spark
(3) Angela Carter
(4) J. K Rowling

(60) Identify the group of British poets who evidently draw upon new trends in literary
theory (such as poststructuralism) and wrote poems that reflect on themselves and
the language used in/by them.
(1) Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon
(2) Medbh McGuckian, Denise Riley, Wendy Cope
(3) Christopher Middleton, Roy Fisher, J. H. Prynne
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(61) In Old English other grammatical classes also had the four cases that nouns had.
Which were these grammatical classes ?
(1) Pronouns and verbs only
(2) Pronouns and adjectives only
(3) Definite article and verbs only
(4) Pronouns, adjectives and definite article

(62) Which of the following novels opens with the description of an accident to a hot-air
balloon ?
(1) John Fowles’s The Magus
(2) Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love
(3) James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late
(4) Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting

(63) Azizun, a courtesan from Kanpur in A Tale from the Year 1857 : Azizun Nisa by
Tripurari Sharma undergoing self-actualisation says : “Yes, I must complete what I’ve
set out to do. I’m not a mere woman.” In order to make her impact by her attitudinal
shift, she .
(1) challenges the codifiers of the Shariat
(2) forsakes her profession to become a soldier.
(3) becomes a political leader.
(4) becomes a successful dancer.

(64) The hermeneutics of suspicion is a term coined by Paul Ricoeur .

(a) to designate the postcolonial tendency to see theory and related reading
manoeuvres as a global conspiracy.
(b) to describe interpretive bids that challenge and seek to overcome
compartmentalised cultural experiences.
(c) who, following Marx, Nietssche, and Freud, held that textual appearances are
deceptive and texts do not gracefully relinquish their meanings.
(d) to describe a mode of interpretation that adopts a distrustful attitude towards
texts in order to elicit otherwise inaccessible meanings or implications.
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (c)

(65) Which of the following is not a feminist novel ?

(1) Ashapurna Debi’s Subarnalata
(2) Rajam Krishnan’s Lamp in the Whirlpool
(3) Chudamani Raghavan’s Yamini
(4) Bani Basu’s The Enemy Within

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(66) The term ‘poetic justice’ was coined by .

(1) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(2) Thomas Rymer
(3) Samuel Johnson
(4) William Wordsworth

(67) Which of the following novels deals with the Biafran War ?
(1) July’s People
(2) Waiting for the Barbarians
(3) Half of a Yellow Sun
(4) Arrow of God

(68) Which of the following is not true in Dalit aesthetics as given by Sharan Kumar
Limbale ?
(1) The agony, assertion, resistance, anger and protest of the dalits should be
expressed.
(2) Dalit anubhava (experience) should take precedence over anuman (speculation).
(3) Sympathy for the dalits should be generated.
(4) Ungrammatical language, different from the standard norms of expression,
should be used.

(69) Which of the following is not a critical study by William Empson ?

(1) Seven Types of Ambiguity
(2) The Dyer’s Hand
(3) Milton’s God
(4) Some Versions of the Pastoral

(70) This was a path-breaking feminist essay written in the 1970s which used hybrid terms
like “sext” and “chaosmos.” Identify the author.
(1) Luce Irigaray
(2) Helene Cixous
(3) Julia Kristeva
(4) Simon de Beauvoir

Read the poem and answer the questions that follow (71 – 75) :
The Voice Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are
not as what you were When you had changed from the one who was all to me But as
first, when our day was fair Can it be you that I hear ? Let me view you, then Standing
as when I drew near to the town Where you would wait for me : yes, as I knew you then,
Even to the original air-blue gown!
Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness Travelling across the wet mead to me here, You
being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness Heard no more again far or near ?

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Thus I; faltering forward, Leaves around me falling,

Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward And the woman calling.

(71) What suggestion does the opening stansa give of a woman won or a woman lost ?
(1) The contrast between ‘now’ and ‘then’
(2) The continuity between ‘now’ and ‘then’
(3) The phrase “had changed”
(4) The phrase “our day was fair”

(72) What is tantalising about the speaker’s experience in stansa 2 ?

(1) the disappearance of the lady and the echo of the voice
(2) the indistinct voice heard by the speaker and the absence of woman
(3) The uncertainty of the voice and the speaker’s inability to see the woman
(4) the woman disappearing before her voice is fully heard

(73) What phrase in the poem suggests the possibility of the woman as “dead” ?
(1) “You had changed to me”
(2) “I knew you then”
(3) “You being ever dissolved”
(4) “Woman much missed”

(74) Identify the special sound effect in the line given : Wind oosing thin through the
thorn from norward...
(1) Alliteration
(2) Onomatopoeia
(3) Assonance
(4) The use of sibilants

(75) What longing does the speaker voice ?

(1) longing for reunion in the other world
(2) longing for physical union in the present
(3) longing for physical union in the town where they used to meet
(4) longing for a return to the town where they used to meet

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Explanation
(1) Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in search of an Author is a famous play published
in 1921. Originally, it is written in the Italian language. It opens the audience find
the producer attempting to stage a play called “The Rules of the Game”, as they
begin the rehearsal of the play, They were interrupted by the six strange characters
unexpectedly.

(2) In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Prioress is one of the pilgrims. Her real name
is Madame Eglantine. She carries a brooch inscribed with the Latin words “Amor
Vincit Omnia” meaning “Love conquers all”. It refers to courtly love against the
spiritual love. Chaucer also makes fun of her by describing her table manners and
her speaking of French language.

(3) Philip Larkin is a famous Modernist English poet. He wrote famous poetry anthology
entitled “The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse” published in 1973.
Here, in the preface of this volume, he underlines the importance of a native tradition
with seen Thomas Hardy as the major poet of the Modern Period. This anthology also
contains the works by 207 authors.

(4) Philip Sidney wrote the famous work of Literary Criticism titled “The Defence of
Poetry or The Apology of Poetry” published in 1595. This work is a strong reply to
Stephen Gosson’s charges which he wrote in his work “The School of Abuse” in 1579,
and dedicated to Sidney. In ‘The Defence of Poetry’, Sidney defended the poetry
against such description of it as “the mother of lies” and “the nurse of abuse”, as he
presented his argument that the poet can not lie because he is not claiming to tell
us the truth.

(5) “Oliver Twist” is one of the important novel written by Charles Dickens, published in
1838. It has the subtitle “The Parish Boy’ progress”. The chapter III of this novel opens
with a narrational remark about Oliver being punished for “the commission of the
impious and profane offence of asking the more”. Here, Oliver asked more food to
eat.

(6) Edmund Spenser wrote an ode “Epithalamion” as a gift to his newly bride, Elizabeth
Boyle. It was published in 1595. It is a carefully structured poem carrying three
hundred and sixty- five lines which corresponds to the days of a year. It begins with
an invocation to the Muses to help the groom for starting the new happy life.

(7) The correct chronological order of the periods in the history of English Literature-
Tudor Period Jacobean Period Restoration Period Edwardian Period

(8) W. B. Yeats wrote a famous poem on the event of Easter Rising entitled “Easter 1916”
originally published in 1921. There is a line “That woman’s days were spent in ignorant
good – will, Her nights in argument Until her voice grew shrill” here, the poet refers
his friend Constance Gore – Booth Markievics.

(9) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is an important approach and method of

the ELT. CLT chiefly emerges in the 1960s – 1970s. Its main aim is to do successful

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communication in the targeted language. CLT mainly focus on the educator being a
facilitator, rather than an instructor.

(10) Francis Bacon is the most famous essayist of the English literature. The above
passage have been taken from his essay “Of Travel” where Francis Bacon advices the
traveller. In this essay, he also tells about the benefits and advantages of travels.

(11) Richard Hooker wrote his great masterpiece “Of the Laws of Ecclesiasticall Politie”
originally published in 1597. It has total eight books. Here, he affirmed the Anglican
tradition as that of a “threefold cord not quickly broken”. In this line, he specially
refers the tradition, scripture and reason.

(12) Christina Rossetti : Goblin Market ----- Story of pleasure seeking Laura and the
conventionally moral Lissie who resists temptations
y Matthew Arnold : Sohrab and Rustam ----- The tale of a father who inadvertently
destroys his son
y Robert Browning : The Ring and the Book ------ A sensational 17th century murder
presented through multiple dramatic monologues
y Arthur Hugh Clough : The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich ----- Gently satiric account of
an Oxford student on vacation

(13) William Blake is one of the great Pre- Romantic poet. He is famous for his collection
of poems as “Songs of Innocence and of Experience” first printed in 1789. The above
concluding lines occurs in his innocence poem called “Holy Thursday”, It is about
a Biblical passage “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have
entertained angles unawares.” (Hebrews 13.2).

(14) The Direct Method of Language Teaching is also known as the Reform Method, The
Natural Method, The Anti- Grammatical Method and The Berlitz Method. The aim of
this method to introduce English Language directly to the students. This method is a
response to the Grammar Translation Method. It is about the uses of target language
only, focuses on the spoken language and mainly centres on the development of the
oral skills.

(15) Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight” is the most lyrical poem, it appears in his
collection ‘The Star- Apple Kingdom’ published in 1979. This poem describes the
story of a man named Shabine who is preparing to leave his home island in a scene
of departure. The narrator proclaims “either I’ m nobody, or I’ m the nation” in this
poem.

(16) “King Lear” was one of the greatest tragedies written by William Shakespeare
originally published in 1606. Cordelia is one of the three daughters of King Lear who
is the most loyal and honest daughter but vanishes from kingdom by his father Lear.
Like Cordelia, the fool is referred to by Lear as his child.

(17) Arun Joshi is an Indian novelist. “The Foreigner” is one of his best novel published in
1958. The story of this novel revolves around a young man named Sindi Oberoi, who
feels detachment and alienation in his life. Therefore, he went to more countries as
Kenya, Uganda, England, America and India.

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(18) In the above assertion and reason, Both are correct and Assertion makes complete
sense in the light of Reason.

(19) Alfred Lord Tennyson is a famous 19th century British poet, who became Poet Laurate
after the death of William Wordsworth in 1850 and remained till 1892. He famously
said “I do not think that since Shakespeare there has been such a master of the
English Language as I”.

(20) Jeremy Taylor was a contemporary of John Milton who wrote “The Worthy
Communicant”. About whom, it is said that his prose “can be read easily. When
Milton’s must be studied “.

(21) “Essay of Dramatic Poesie” is a famous critical work written by John Dryden
published in 1668. It has four characters Neander, Crites, Lisedeius and Eugenius who
dramatizes the conflicting viewpoints about drama. Dryden himself presented as the
character Neander.

(22) August Strindberg was a Swedish writer who wrote his most influential play “A Dream
Play” published in 1901. It is an expressionist play. August Strindberg called this play
“My most beloved drama, the child of my greatest suffering.”

(23) “Modern Fiction” is an famous essay written by Virginia Woolf published in 1921. In
this essay, she criticizes the Materialists and its a criticism about the writers and
literature from the previous generations. In this essay, Virginia Woolf observes the
above given extract.

(24) John Keats wrote these lines in a letter to Benjamin Bailey on November 22, 1817. This
passage follows that the imagination may be compared to Adam’s dream – he woke
and found it true.

(25) In his famous tragic work “Tamburlaine the Great”, Christopher Marlowe portraits the
character of Tamburlaine who is more ambitious and cruel in nature. He wants to
conquer the whole world and for achieving his ambitions, he does more cruel works.
Chiefly, this play based on his journey as a Scythian shepherd to be an emperor.

(26) Oscar Wilde, a famous Irish poet, said the statement “The Nineteenth century dislike
of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in the glass. The moral life of
man forms part of the subject- matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists
in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even
things that are true can be proved.”

(27) Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice has a writer protagonist named Aschenbach, who is
preoccupied with classicism, especially with classical ideals of male beauty.
y In Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, Hans Castrop is the protagonist. In his
second winter at the sanatorium, he gets lost in a blissard during a solitary skiing
expedition.
y In Mann’s Doctor Faustus, Adrian Leverkuhn is the modern day Faustus who is also a
musician.

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(28) To Lord Amherst, Raja Ram Mohan Roy wrote a letter in 1823 where he was seeking
the introduction of English education in India.

(29) In John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Process is a Christian allegory published in 1678. There
are some friendly characters as Mr. Worldly Wiseman, Ignorance and Talkative, who
gives Christian dangerous advise. Evangelist is not belonged to this group.

(30) Aristotle was an famous Greek philosopher at the ancient time. He was also the
student of Plato. Aristotle argued that poetry provides a/an safe outlet for the
release of intense emotions.

(31) The direct French influence on the English language during the Middle English period
was in the form of intake of French words into English.

(32) The Royal Society in England was established in 1662, it was a significant
development in England. To guide and promote the development of science and
scientific exploration is the main purpose of this society.

(33) “The Task” is a famous poem written by William Cowper published in 1785, It consists
six books and also written in Blank Verse. In the line, “Build factories with blood,
conducting trade/ At the sword’s point…” the poet alludes to West Indian slave-
plantation owners and the East India Company ‘nabobs’.

(34) As per “The Commedia dell’ arte”, It was first originated in Italy in the sixteenth
century. It is a comedy of the guild or by the professionals in the ‘art” and an
improvised comedy that follows a scenario rather than written dialogue.

(35) Alexander Pope wrote a famous couplet “Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night,
God said Let Newton be! And all was Light.” This couplet captures Newton’s discovery
that all colours are contained in white light.

(36) “The Provincetown Players” was an experimental theatre group founded in 1915 by
Susan Glaspell, Eugene O’Neill and other dramatist in order to challenge Broadway’s
control over American drama. It was also dissolved in 1922.

(37) “Gulliver’s Travels” is the most famous book written by Jonathan Swift, a satirist of
the 18th century. It was a prose satire published in 1726. It is divided into four parts.
After his return from the land of Houyhnhnms, Gulliver refused to let his wife and
children touch his bread or drink out of his cup.

(38) “Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets” or “Recollections of the Lake Poets” is an
famous biographical essay written by Thomas De Quincey, published in 1839. In this
essay. De Quincey did a charming appreciation of the Wordsworth household.

(39) The above description is about Frank Kermode, an famous British literary critic and
writer.

(40) Audio- Lingual Method is the method of foreign language teaching. It emphasises on
vocabulary and grammatical sentences. This method relates with the Behaviourist

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Psychology and Bloomfieldian Structural Linguistics. It is also known as the Army

method, the Audio oral method and New Key method.

(41) Anton Chekhov is an greatest Russian author who is also remarkable for writing his
best play titled “The Cherry Orchard” published in 1904. This play also portrays the
end of an era of landed gentry in Russia. The character named Firs dies at the final
scene.

(42) “The Progress of Poesy” is one of the greatest Pindaric odes in the history of English
poetry, it was composed by Thomas Gray, an Pre- Romantic poet, and published
in 1757. In the lines “Nor second He, that rode sublime Upon the seraph- wings of
Extasy, The secrets of th’ Abyss to spy”, Gray refers John Milton, an greatest epic
writer of the 17th century.

(43) In the above passage, Samuel Johnson is the writer who talks about his life. It was
published in the Rambler journal and The Gentlemen’s Magazine.

(44) James Fennimore Cooper is the American Novelist who is associated with the
series of five books about Natty Bumpoo, an old hunter, these novels are also called
Leatherstocking novels which are set in the 18th century. These were published
between 1823 and 1841. These novels are-
“The Deerslayer”
“The Last of the Mohicans”
“The Pathfinder”
“The Pioneers”
“The Prairie”

(45) “Essay of Dramatic Poesie” is a famous critical work written by John Dryden
published in 1668. It has four characters Neander, Crites, Lisedeius and Eugenius who
dramatizes the conflicting viewpoints about drama. Dryden himself presented as the
character Neander who defends the English invention of tragi-comedy.

(46) “The History of Australian Literature” is a book written by H. M. Greene, an Historian

of Australia, was published into two volumes in 1961.

(47) Bharata : Rasa Theory

y Kuntaka : Vakrokti Theory
y Bhamaha : Riti Theory
y Anandavardhana : Dhvani Theory

(48) As per “Forster Collection”, It was the largest collection of Charles Dickens
manuscripts and proofs curated by John Forster.

(49) F. T. Marinetti was an 20th century Italian poet and founder of the Futurist Movement.
His best work is “The Manifesto of Futurism” published in 1909. Here, he expresses
about the artistic philosophy of Futurism. His first Futurist Manifesto in Le Figaro,
it blasted the dead weight of “museums, libraries, and academics,” glorifying “the
beauty of speed”.

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(50) Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus is a combination of novel, autobiography and essay.
It was published in 1833. This novel is an commentary on Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, an
German philosopher, It is about his life and thoughts.

(51) “Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?” is an essay written by an Indian writer A. K.
Ramanujan. In it, he once remarked that his discipline and education gave him his
“outer” whereas his Indian origin gave him “inner” form. The title of this essay refers
the way of Indian thinking.

(52) “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is a famous novel written by Zora Neal Hurston, an
American novelist, published in 1937. Janie Crawford is the main character of this
novel. This novel is the best example of Harlem Renaissance. In the remarkably
crucial courtroom scene of this novel, Janie is called upon to speah, here, we heard
the voice of the omniscient third-person in the narrative.

(53) William Blake was considered a famous 19th century English Romantic age poet. He
invented the concept of engraved painting in poetry. William Blake famously said “A
prophet is a seer, not an Arbitrary Dictator. It is means fault if God is not able to do
him good. For he gives to the just & to the unjust but the unjust reject his gift.” He
gave this view in Bishop Richard Watson’s An Apology of Bible, While annotating this
work in 1798, he expressed his Unorthodox.

(54) The word order in Modern English became relatively fixed because it lost its highly
developed inflectional system. Thus, It is important to use sentence according to
fixed grammatical order. Modern English is also known as analytical language now a
days.

(55) As per Julia Kristeva, She is a famous Bulgarian- French philosopher and known
feminist of the Modern age. She gave the important concept of “intertextuality” and
coined this term.. It is derived from Noam Chomsky’s concept of deep structure
and Ferdinand de Saussure’s concept of Sign. The term “intertextuality” about a text
which is related to the other text or any one text is made up of other texts.

(56) Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet who wrote his best poem “Fern Hill”. It was
published in 1945. This poem is named after the Welsh farmhouse of his aunt where
the poet spent his summer holidays as a boy. In this poem, he also shares his
childhood experience.

(57) “The Metaphysical Poets” is a very influential essay written by T. S. Eliot, an most
famous British Modern Poet in the 20th century. It was published in 1921. In this essay
Eliot writes, “In the seventeenth century, a dissociation of sensibility set in, from
which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was aggravated
by the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century John Milton and John
Dryden”.

(58) The label “material feminism” refers to the work of those thinkers who study
inequality in terms of both gender and class differences. Such feminism remarks that
material conditions are the important things in society which constructs the gender
and class differences. The aim of material feminism is to bring equality for women in
social and economical conditions as men.

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(59) Angela Carter was an English writer who is best known for showing the dual
influence of feminism and magic realism in her works. Her most famous works
are “The Bloody Chamber”(1979), “The Magic Toyshop”(1967) and “Nights at the
Circus”(1984) etc.

(60) Christopher Middleton, Roy Fisher and J. H. Prynne are the British poets who
evidently draw upon new trends in literary theory ( as poststructuralism) and wrote
poems that reflect on themselves and the language used by them.

(61) In Old English other grammatical classes also had the four cases that nouns had.
These grammatical classes are Pronouns, adjectives and definite article.

(62) “Enduring Love” is the best novel written by Ian McEwan, an British novelist and
screenwriter. It was published in 1997 and also adopted as a film later. The novel
opens with the description of an deadly accident to a hot- air balloon which is
witnessed by the two strangers.

(63) Tripurari Sharma wrote a play entitled “A Tale from the Year 1857: Azizun Nisa”. In
this play, Azizun is a courtesan from Kanpur who left her profession during the 1857
Sipahi revolt to become a soldier. Undergoing self- actualisation, She says “Yes, I
must complete what I’ve set out to do. I’m not a mere woman.” In order to make her
impact by her attitudinal shift, she forsakes her profession to become a soldier.

(64) “The Hermeneutics of suspicion” is a term coined by Paul Ricoeur in his work “Freud
and Philosophy”, published in 1965. Paul Ricoeur is who, following Marx, Nietssche
and Freud, held that textual appearances are deceptive and texts do not gracefully
relinquish their meanings. This term describes a mode of interpretation that adopts
a distrustful attitude towards texts in order to elicit otherwise inaccessible meanings
or implications.

(65) Bani Basu’s The Enemy Within (2002) is not a feminist novel but it is related with the
Naxalite Movement of Bengal in 1960s.
y Others are the example of feminist novels as-
Ashapurna Debi’s Subarnalata (1967)
Rajam Krishnan’s Lamp in the Whirlpool (1995)
Chudamani Raghavan’s Yamini (1996)

(66) The term ‘poetic justice’ was coined by Thomas Rhymer in his famous essay “The
Tragedies of the Last Age Considered”(1678). Its an ideal form of justice which means
good things are rewarded and evil is punished.

(67) “Half of a Yellow Sun” is one of the best novels written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
an Nigerian author, it was published in 2006. This novel deals with the Biafran War
through the views of the characters Olanna, Ugwu and Richard. This novel is set in
Nigeria during the Nigerian Civil War.

(68) According to Sharan Kumar Limbale, In the Dalit aesthetics, the agony, assertion,
resistance, anger and protest of the Dalits should be expressed. Dalit anubhava
(experience) should take precedence over anuman (speculation). Ungrammatical

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language, different from the standard norms of expression should be used in Dalit
aesthetics.

(69) “The Dyer’s Hand” is a collection of essays written by W. H. Auden, published in 1962.
y All others are the critical study written by William Empson-
“Seven Types of Ambiguity” (1930)
“Milton’s God” (1961)
“Some Versions of the Pastoral” (1935)

(70) Helene Cixous is an French feministr author who wrote the path breaking feminist
essay in the 1970s which used hybrid terms like “sext” and “chaosmos”.
Read the poem and answer the questions that follow (71 – 75) :
The Voice Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you
are not as what you were When you had changed from the one who was all to me
But as first, when our day was fair Can it be you that I hear ? Let me view you, then
Standing as when I drew near to the town Where you would wait for me : yes, as I
knew you then, Even to the original air-blue gown!
Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness Travelling across the wet mead to me here,
You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness Heard no more again far or near ?
Thus I; faltering forward, Leaves around me falling,
Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward And the woman calling.

(71) The opening stanza give a woman won or a woman lost suggests that the contrast
between ‘now’ and ‘then’. It also suggests that the phrase “had changed”.

(72) The uncertainty of the voice and the speaker’s inability to see the woman is
tantalising about the speaker’s experience in stanza 2.

(73) The phrase “ You being ever dissolved” in the poem suggests the possibility of the
woman as “dead”.

(74) In the above line, Alliteration figures of speech appear because in the line, the word
‘t’ appears many times.

(75) Dropped

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Answer Key

(1) 2 (16) 2 (31) 2 (46) 2 (61) 4

(2) 1 (17) 1 (32) 2 (47) 3 (62) 2

(3) 3 (18) 1 (33) 3 (48) 3 (63) 2

(4) 2 (19) 3 (34) 2 (49) 3 (64) 3

(5) 2 (20) 1 (35) 4 (50) 3 (65) 4

(6) 2 (21) 3 (36) 4 (51) 4 (66) 2

(7) 3 (22) 1 (37) 3 (52) 4 (67) 3

(8) 4 (23) 2 (38) 4 (53) 3 (68) 3

(9) Dropped (24) 2 (39) 3 (54) 2 (69) 2

(10) 3 (25) 3 (40) 3 (55) 4 (70) 2

(11) 3 (26) 4 (41) 2 (56) 3 (71) 1 & 3

(12) 3 (27) 3 (42) 3 (57) 4 (72) 3

(13) 4 (28) 1 (43) 4 (58) 3 (73) 3

(14) Dropped (29) 2 (44) 2 (59) 3 (74) 1

(15) 2 (30) 1 (45) 3 (60) 3 (75) Dropped

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2015 December Paper II

English Literature
(1) Who, among the following, advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at
birth, and acquires all ideas by experience?
(1) John Locke
(2) John Wesley
(3) Isaac Watts
(4) Denis Diderot

(2) Which of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance?
(1) Walter Pater
(2) Oscar Wilde
(3) Thomas Carlyle
(4) John Ruskin

(3) Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen’s novels?
(1) Knightley
(2) Darcy
(3) Collins
(4) Mr. Martin

(4) A poet once referred to an old man as “A tattered coat upon a stick”.
That is an example of __________.
(1) Metonymy
(2) Sarcasm
(3) Simile
(4) Metaphor

(5) Which of these is NOT a pastoral elegy?

(1) Lycidas
(2) In Memoriam
(3) Thyrsis
(4) Adonais

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(6) In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot the characters often used dislocated, repetitious and
cliched speech primarily to:
(1) illustrate the essentially illogical, purposeless nature of the human condition
(2) re-create the workings of the subconscious
(3) mock the exaggerated dignity and wisdom of modern, self-professed
intellectuals
(4) reinforce the comic action of farcical plots

(7) Which of the following sixteenth-century poets was NOT a courtier?

(1) George Puttenham
(2) Philip Sidney
(3) Walter Raleigh
(4) Thomas Wyatt

(8) Patrick White published two novels in the 1950s giving the eras of pioneering and
exploration in Australian history an epic ironic and psychological dimension. The
novels are:
(a) A Fringe of Leaves
(b) The Tree of Man
(c) Voss
(d) The Aunt’s Story
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (a)
(4) (c) and (d)

(9) In which of the following works did Bakhtin propose his widely cited concept of the
‘Carnivalesque’?
(1) “Discourse in the novel”
(2) Dialogic Imagination
(3) Rabelais and his world
(4) “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel”

(10) Match the columns:

Author-
(a) Sebastian Faulks
(b) Peter Ackroyd
(c) Ian McEwan
(d) David Lodge Text-
(i) Amsterdam
(ii) Changing Places

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(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)

(11) In New Criticism, the key term ‘tension’ is associated with:

(1) Cleanth Brooks
(2) John Crow Ransom
(3) Austin Warren
(4) Allen Tate

(12) While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his
Pamela or Virtue Rewarded?
(1) an account of the plague in London
(2) an instruction manual for manners
(3) a book of devotion
(4) a book of model letters

(13) Who among the war Poets gained notoriety in 1917, when disenchanted with the way
the war was being conducted he drafted his letter of “wilful defiance of the military
authority” which captured attention in the House of Commons, and was forcibly
admitted to the war hospital at Craiglochhart, primarily to avoid his being court-
martialled ?
(1) Rupert Brooke
(2) Siegfried Sassoon
(3) Wilfred Owen
(4) Isaac Rosenberg

(14) If you cannot understand an argument and remark,

“It’s Greek to me”, you are quoting __________.
(1) John Milton
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) William Shakespeare
(4) John Donne

(15) Which of the following works did Walter Scott compile?

(1) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
(2) Marmion
(3) Ivanhoe
(4) The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border

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(16) Which of the following is NOT written by Wole Soyinka?

(1) Home and Exile
(2) Kongi’s Harvest
(3) The interpreters
(4) The Swamp Dwellers

(17) In the Defense of Poesy Sidney says : “ Now as in geometry the oblique must be
known as well as right and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even, so in the
actions of our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth a great foil to perceive
the beauty of virtue”. Which of the following forms of poesy offers a foil that helps us
perceive the beauty of virtue ?
(1) Pastorals
(2) Parody
(3) Comedy
(4) Tragedy

(18) John Dryden described a major English poet as “a rough diamond, and must first be
polished ere he shines” Identify him:
(1) Geoffrey Chaucer
(2) John Gower
(3) George Herbert
(4) Robert Herrick

(19) In a remarkably proleptic insight, a critic wrote the following, anticipating Benedict
Anderson’s definition of the nation as “an imagined political community”:
“Most novels are in some sense knowable communities. It is part of a traditional
method - an underlying stance and approach - that a novelist offers to show people
and their relationships in essentially knowable and communicable ways”.
Name the critic and the reference:
(1) Van Wyck Brooks, The writer in America
(2) Raymond Williams, The country and the city
(3) Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper
(4) T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards a Definition of culture

(20) “Fair is my love, and cruel as she’s fair; Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes
are sunny”.
The above lines are characterized by:
(1) circumlocution
(2) antithesis
(3) anticlimax
(4) bathos

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(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

(22) An English architect and stage-designer - Beginning 1605, joined Jacobean court
to design masques - contributed significantly to the spectacular theatre which
succeeded the commonwealth after his death - the first designer to use revolving
screens to indicate scene- changes on the English stage.
Identify this artist/designer.
(1) Henry Irving
(2) Inigo Jones
(3) Henry Arthur Jones
(4) William Inge

(23) _________ may be defined as any departure from the rules of pronunciation or
diction, for the sake of rhyme and meter, or an unjustifiable departure from fact.
(1) Poetic license
(2) Poetic justice
(3) Poetic deviance
(4) Poetic diction

(24) That Humanities and the sciences were in fact “two cultures” was suggested by.
(1) Aldous Huxley in his oxford lectures on poetry
(2) W.H. Anden in his oxford lectures on poetry
(3) F.R. Leavis in his book, The Great Tradition
(4) C.P. Snow in his Rede lecture

(25) Chaueer satirizes the Monk because the Monk:

(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
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(26) Divided into three sections this ground- breaking work published in 1953 uses as
the frame of the spiritual and moral awakening of the fourteen- years- old during a
Saturday night service in a Harlem church. Identify the work-
(1) Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Are Watching God
(2) James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain
(3) Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
(4) Richard Wright’s Native Son

(27) Chartism, a political movement that took its name from the People’s Charter had six
points.
Identify the one point on the following list that was NOT Chartist:
(a) universal manhood 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)

(28) These beauteous forms,

Through a long absence, have been to me As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye...
(“Tintern abbey”)
Which of the following rhetorical terms best suits in these lines-
(1) Apostrophe
(2) Litotes
(3) Hyperbole
(4) Catachresis

(29) The ‘monster’ in Frankenstein is NOT responsible for the death of:
(1) Clerval
(2) Justine
(3) Elizabeth
(4) Alphonse Frankenstein

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(30) Which of the following plays of William Shakespeare is NOT directly referred to in T.S.
Eliot’s The Waste Land?
(1) Hamlet
(2) King Lear
(3) Coriolanus
(4) The Tempest

(31) Identify the group below which is known as the “Sons of Ben”.
(1) Noel Coward, E.G. Craig, William Macready, Matheson, Lang
(2) John Dryden, the Earl of Rochester, Samuel Butler
(3) William Cartwright, Richard Corbett, Thomas Randolph
(4) William Holman Hunt, John E. Millais, D.G. Rossetti, William Morris

(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

(33) “When true silence falls we are still left with echo but are nearer nakedness.
One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover
nakedness”.
Identify the playwright who underlines the significance of silence thus.
(1) Samuel Beckett
(2) Harold Pinter
(3) Luigi Pirandello
(4) Joe Orton

(34) The determining feature of syllabic verse is neither...........nor ............but the number of
syllables in a line.
(1) number, numbers
(2) sounds, silences
(3) stress, quantity
(4) gists, piths

(35) In Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue, which painter does Andrea del Sarto
compare himself to? What does he find lacking in his own work in comparison?
(1) Fra Lippo Lippi - humour
(2) Raphael - Soul
(3) Leonardo da Vinci - Verisimilitude
(4) Botticelli – liveliness

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(36) In which of the following does Robert Southey detail the Indian superstitions as an
idolatry to be suppressed by a civilizing protestant form of colonialism?
(1) “Thalaba”
(2) The Curse of Kehama
(3) “Pitying the wolves”
(4) Country Horrors!

(37) The following is the classic ending of a celebrated novella in English:

“I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. ‘I’ve got out
at last’, said I, “in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the papers, so
you can’t put me back!”
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the
wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”
(1) Yellow Woman (Leslie Mormon Silko)
(2) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte [Link])
(3) Johny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Sylvia Plalth)
(4) Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (Joyce C. Oates)

(38) Harriet B. Stowe had wanted to write a work based on the life of an Afro-American
writer which was later published as:
(1) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(2) Incidents in the life of a slave girl
(3) Cry, the beloved Country
(4) Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

(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 Passelas
(3) the epilogue of his Lives of Poets
(4) one of his Pambler essays

(40) A new series called “New Accents” was launched by Methuen in 1977. The first title to
be published in the series was:
(1) Deconstruction: Theory and Practice
(2) Formalism and Marxism
(3) Structuralism and semiotics
(4) Making an Difference: Feminist literary criticism

(41) “Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the
essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their
maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
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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”.

(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 the
story”. Identify the novelist:
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) James Joyce
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) D.H. Lawrence

(43) What is the name of the angel, who, of those who owed allegeance to Satan, dared to
protest against his impious doctrine and left his company to return to God (Paradise
Lost, Book V)?
(1) Michael
(2) Abdiel
(3) Uriel
(4) Gabriel

(44) Which of the following is NOT a school associated with Romantic period in English
literature?
(1) The Cockney School
(2) The Fireside School
(3) The Lake School
(4) The Satanic School

(45) The idea of “new ethnicities” in post-war Britain was advanced by

(1) Donald Hall
(2) Stuart Hall
(3) Paul Gilroy
(4) Hanif Kureishi

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(46) Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse begins in a piece of dialogue:

“Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow”, said Mrs. Ramsay. “But you’ll have to be up with
lark”, she added.
Present among the listeners of her remark is.
(1) her father
(2) her nephew
(3) her son
(4) her driver

(47) Match the phrase with character:

PHRASE
(a) “motiveless malignity”
(b) “Reason in Madness”
(c) “Supp’d full of horrors”
(d) “To be, or not to be”
CHARACTER
(i) Macbeth
(ii) Hamlet
(iii) Lear
(iv) Iago Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(2) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

(48) In Tristram Shandy the narrator’s presentation of his life and opinions is.
(1) linear
(2) digressive
(3) chronological
(4) rounded

(49) The famous sonnet of John Milton beginning “When I consider how my light is
spent...” ends with
(1) Before me stares a wolfish eye, Behind me creeps a groan or sigh
(2) They also serve who only stand and wait
(3) And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!
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(50) Her vision was of several caves. She saw herself in one, and she was also outside it,
watching its entrance, for Aziz to pass in. She failed to locate him. It was the doubt
that had often visited her, but solid and attractive, like the hills. “I am not -” speech
was more difficult than vision. “I am not quite sure”.
The above extract from A Passage to India is about Adela’s cave experience. Who is
questioning Adela?
(1) Mrs. Moore
(2) Mr. McBryde
(3) Fielding
(4) Ronney Heaslop

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Explanation
(1) In his famous work “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” (1689), John
Locke advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa or a blank slate at birth,
and acquires all ideas by experience. This work also focused upon the theory of
Empiricism which means learning through experience.

(2) Walter Pater wrote the famous work “Studies in the History of the Renaissance”
published in 1873. This book is the most important and highly influential book related
with the defence of Aesthetic movement.

(3) “Emma” is one of the best novel written by Jane Austen published in 1815. Emma
Woodhouse is the heroine of this novel who is about 20 years old in the beginning of
the novel. She thinks that she is perfect in matchmakings. Harriet Smith is the young
friend of Emma who finally marries Mr. Martin.

(4) When a poet once referred to an old man as “A tattered coat upon a stick”, it is
an example of Metaphor. Here, the poet finds similarity between an old man and
tattered coat upon a stick.
y Metaphor is a figure of speech, where on thing directly compares to another object.
Examples; The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.

(5) “In Memoriam A.H.H.” is an personal elegy written by Alfred Lord Tennyson, it was
published in 1850. He wrote this poem on the death of his Cambridge friend Arthur
Henry Hallam who died at the age of 22 in 1833.
y All others are the example of pastoral elegy as “Lycidas”, “Thyrsis” and “Adonais”.

(6) “Waiting for Godot” is one of the best absurd play written by Samuel Beckett, a
British modern dramatist. Originally, it was written into French language titled
“En attendant Godot” performed in 1953, later translated into English language.
The subtitle of this play is “A tragicomedy in two acts”. The main characters of
this play are Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo, Lucky and a boy. It has also an invisible
character Godot who never comes. In this play, the characters often used dislocated,
repetitious and cliched speech.

(7) George Puttenham was best known for his work “The Arte of English Poesie”
published in 1589. He was a writer and critic in English literature.
y Philip Sidney was a famous poet and Courtier of the Elizabethan period. He was also
related with military activity as a soldier.
y Walter Raleigh was also a courtier of Queen Elizabeth’s court and he was also an
English statesman, poet and soldier.
y Thomas Wyatt was a courtier during the reign of King Henry VIII. He was also a best
sonneteer of the 16th century.

(8) Patrick White, an Australian writer, published two novels in the 1950s giving the eras
of pioneering and exploration in Australian history an epic ironic and psychological
dimension. These novels are “The Tree of Man” (1955) and “Voss” (1957).

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(9) “Rabelais and his world’ was one of his best work written by Mikhail Bakhtin, an
Russian literary critic and philosopher of the Modern age, published in 1965. He
gave the concept of the ‘Carnivalesque’ in this work, which he describes as a social
institution.

(10) Sebastian Faulks wrote “Birdsong” (1993)

y Peter Ackroyd wrote “Hawksmoor” (1985)
y Ian MacEwan wrote “Amsterdam” (1998)
y David Lodge wrote “Changing Places” (1975)

(11) In New Criticism, thew key term ‘tension’ is associated with Allen Tate, an American
poet. He also wrote an essay “Tension in poetry: An Essay of Great Worth”. He derived
this term from two terms as intention an extension, intention means connotative
or metaphorical meaning and extension means denotative or dictionary or literal
meaning.

(12) Samuel Richardson conceives the idea for writing his best English novel “Pamela
or Virtue Rewarded” from a book of model letters. It is called an epistolary novel,
published in 1740. is The story of this novel revolves around the beautiful and
virtuous maid servant Pamela. This novel is considered as the first novel in the
history of English Literature.

(13) Siegfried Sassoon was a war poet who gained notoriety in 1917, He wrote a letter and
declared that “I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military
authority, because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those
who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of
soldiers.” This letter is captured attention in the House of Commons, and was forcibly
admitted to the war hospital at Craiglochhart, primarily to avoid his being court-
martialled.

(14) This remark has been came from the play “Julius Caesar” written by William
Shakespeare, the greatest dramatist in English Literature. In this play, Casca speaks
about an speech by Seneca, “For mine own part, it was Greek to me”. It means, an
argument and remark that can not be understand by a person.

(15) “The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border” is an anthology of ballads compiled by Walter

Scott, first published in 1802.
y “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” is a narrative poem by Walter Scott published in 1805.
y “Marmion: A Tale of Forbidden Field’ is a verse historical Romance by Walter Scott
published in 1808.
y “Ivanhoe: A Romance” is an historical novel written by Walter Scott published in 1819.

(16) “Home and Exile” is a famous work written by an Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe
published in 2000.
y All others are the works written by Wole Soyinka, also a Nigerian playwright and
novelist, who is also awarded the Noble Prize in Literature in 1986.
y “Kongi’s Harvest” is a play published in 1967.

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y “The Interpreters” is a novel published in 1965.

y “The Swamp Dwellers” is a play published in 1958.

(17) The above statement is said by Sir Philip Sidney in his famous critical work “The
Defense of Poesy or An Apology for Poetry”, first published in 1595. According to him,
Comedy is the form of poesy which offers a foil that helps us perceive the beauty of
virtue. It helps to imitate the common errors of life and because of these experience,
we can easily learns the effect which comes from it.

(18) John Dryden described about Geoffrey Chaucer, a major English poet of the 14th
century, as “a rough diamond, and must first be polished ere he shines” in his work
“Fables, ancient and Modern” published in 1700.

(19) The above lines are written by Raymond Williams who anticipating Benedict
Anderson’s definition of the nations ‘an imagined political community”. These lines
have been taken from his work “The Country and the City” published in 1973.

(20) “Fair is my love, and cruel as she’s fair; Her brow- shades frown, although her eyes
are sunny” These lines are the example of antithesis.
y Antithesis is a kind of figure of speech where contrasted ideas of words are set
against each other in a balanced form for the sake of emphasis. Example;
y United we stand, divided we fall.
y Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.

(21) “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” is a satire written by Alexander Pope, an greatest Neo-
classical pet and critic, It was published in 1734. In the above lines of this work, Pope
refers to the poet Horace and his work “Ars Poetica”. In it, Horace says that a poet
should always hold his works to nine years before publishing them. Same remark is
preferred by Pope.

(22) Inigo Jones was belonged to the Jacobean period. He was considered the first
important English architect and stage designer who began his career in 1605 after
joining Jacobean court to design masques. He was also contributed significantly to
the Spectacular theatre which succeeded the commonwealth after his death. He was
also the first designer to use revolving screens to indicate scene- changes on the
English stage. In 1616, he began his work to built Queen’s House, for James I’s wife,
Anne and also involved the project to design the Covent Garden Square.

(23) The above definition is given about Poetic license. It is a freedom taken by the poet
or writer for changing facts or rules to make his work more interesting according to
his own desire.

(24) C. P. Snow in his “Rede Culture” (1959) suggested that Humanities and the Sciences
are in fact “Two Cultures”. In this essay, he also complained to Leavis for not showing
the clear evidence of any scientific training or habits.

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(25) In his best work “The Canterbury Tales”, Chaucer satirizes the character Monk
because he spends too much time in hunting and gives too little time on religious
duty. The Monk is one of the ecclesiastical character who is corrupt in his religious
duties.

(26) “Go Tell it on the Mountain” is a semi- autobiographical novel written by James
Baldwin, an American author, published in 1953. The novel is a story of John Grimes
and his relations with his family and his church. It is divided into three sections uses
as the frames of the spiritual and moral awakening of the Fourteen- years- old boy
during a Saturday night service in a Harlem church.

(27) As per Chartism, It’s a political movement that took its name from the people,
charter. It has six points as-
y It is universal manhood sufferage.
y It has equal electoral districts.
y People can vote by secret ballot.
y It also talks about the payment of MPs.
y It has no property qualification for MPs.
y It works as annual parliament.

(28) The above given lines have been taken from the poem ‘Tintern Abbey” by William
Wordsworth, published in the collection of ‘Lyrical Ballads’ in 1798.

(29) “Frankenstein” is the finest novel written by Mary Shelley, an author of the English
Romantic Poet, published in 1818. In this novel, The ‘monster’ does not responsible
for the death of Alphonse Frankenstein. The novel has another subtitle as “The
Modern Prometheus”.

(30) Except King Lear, Other plays as Hamlet, Coriolanus and The Tempest are written by
William Shakespeare Which are directly referred in T. S. Eliot’ greatest poem “The
Waste land”.

(31) “The Sons of Ben” are related with the group who followed in style or theme of Ben
Jonson in his writings during the early 17th century. They are William Cartwright,
Richard Corbett and Thomas Randolph etc.

(32) “Edward II” was an historical tragedy written by Christopher Marlowe, published in
1612. It was his last complete play and its full title is “The Troublesome Reign and
Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of
Proud Mortimer”. In this play, Marlowe clearly shows homosexual sensibility.

(33) The above lines has been penned by Harold Pinter, the greatest writer of Comedy of
Menace genre of the late 20th century, Modern age.

(34) The determining feature of syllabic verse is neither stress nor quantity but the
number of syllable in line is the most important thing in it.

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(35) Robert Browning is known as the master of Dramatic Monologue and a great Victorian
poet. In one of his famous dramatic monologue “Andrea del Sarto or The Faultless
painter”, the title character Andrea del Sarto was an Italian painter and he compares
himself to Raphael who finds soul that is lacking in his own work in comparison. This
poem is published in his famous collection of poetry “Man and Women’ appeared in
1855.

(36) “The Curse of Kehama” is the famous epic poem written by Robert Southey,
published in 1810. This poem details the Indian superstitions as an idolatry to be
suppressed by a civilizing protestant from of colonialism. This book is divided into 12
books and became the most popular book by Southey.

(37) The above classic ending is associated with a celebrated novella or short story in
English which is “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte P. Gilman, published in
1892.

(38) “Incident in the life of slave girl” is an autobiographical work written by Harriet B.
Stowe, published in 1861. She wanted to write a work based on the life of an Afro-
American writer who was a slave. Here, he also tells us that how she got freedom for
herself and her children.
y Harriet Beecher Stowe: “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852)
y Harriet Ann Jacobs: “Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl” (1861)
y Alan Paton: “Cry, The Beloved Country” (1948)
y Frederick Douglass: “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” (1845)

(39) “The History of Rasselas, Price of Abissinia” is an important work written by Samuel
Johnson, a very remarkable critic and poet of the Neo- classical age, published in
1759. “Dissertation upon Poetry” is a part of this novel.

(40) “New Accents” was a new series launched by Methuen in 1977. Its first title in the
series is “Structuralism and semiotics.

(41) “Michael”, “Ruth” and “The Brothers” are the poems written by William Wordsworth,
a 19th century English Romantic poet, all appeared in the 1800’s edition of “Lyrical
Ballads”. According to Coleridge, These all poems and its characters are not related
with the humble, low and rustic. Thus, these poems are contradicted the above
statement given by Wordsworth.

(42) The above statement has been taken from E. M. Foster’s book “Aspects of the
Novel”, it’s a series of his important lectures of Trinity College, Cambridge, where
he talks about the English Language Novel. It was published in 1927. In this essay,
he discusses about the seven aspects about novel as its story, fantasy, prophecy,
people, plot, rhythm and pattern.

(43) “Paradise Lost” is a masterpiece book of the 17th century composed by John Milton.
It was an epic poem written in Blank verse. It was first published in 1667 with its 10
books and republished in 1674 with its all 12 books. In Paradise Lost, Book V, there is
an angel named Abdiel, who owed allegiance to Satan, dared to protest against his
impious doctrine and left his company to return to God.

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(44) “The Fireside School” was a group of American poets in the 19th century, they were
associated with New England, America and also known as ‘the schoolroom or the
Household poets’. Some members of this group are Emerson, H. W. Longfellow, W. C.
Byrant, John Whittier, Oliver Holmes and James Russell Lowell etc.
y All other schools as “The Cockney school”, “The Lake school” and “The Satanic
school” associated with the Romantic period in English literature.

(45) Stuart Hall was an Jamaican- British sociologist and also an Cultural theorist who
developed the idea of “new ethnicities” in post- war Britain in his essay entitled “New
Ethnicities” published in 1989. According to Stuart Hall, the idea of ethnicity gives
us the acknowledgement about the place of history, language and culture which is
important in the construction of subjectivity and identity.

(46) Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse is one of her best novel published in 1927. This
novel revolves around the Ramsay Family and it begins with in a piece of dialogue as
Mrs. Ramsay said “Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow” and she also added “But you’ll
have to be up with lark”. Mrs. Ramsay’s son is the listener of these lines.

(47) “Motiveless malignity: Iago (Othello)

y “Reason in Madness”: Lear (King Lear)
y “Supp’d full of horrors”: Macbeth
y “To be, or not to be”: Hamlet

(48) “Tristram Shandy or The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman” is one of
the best known novel written by Laurence Sterne, an Anglo- Irish English novelist,
published in 1759. In this novel, the narrator’s presentation of his life and opinions is
digressive. This novel is centered around the life of title character Tristram Shandy.
Totally, it was published into nine volumes.

(49) “When I consider how my light is spent” is one of the best sonnet written by John
Milton, a greatest poet of the 17th century, It was also known as “On His Blindness”
published in 1673.
This sonnet ends with the important lines as-
“His state is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o’er Land and Ocean
without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait”.

(50) “A Passage to India” is considered a very famous novel written by E.M. Forster,
an English modernist author and novelist, published in 1924. It is set in pre-
independence India in 1920s. The above passage is related with Adela’s cave
experience about which Mr. McBride is questioning to Adela Quested.

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Answer Key

(1) 1 (11) 4 (21) 2 (31) 3 (41) 3

(2) 1 (12) 4 (22) 2 (32) 1 (42) 3

(3) 4 (13) 2 (23) 1 (33) 2 (43) 2

(4) 4 (14) 3 (24) 4 (34) 3 (44) 2

(5) 2 (15) 4 (25) 4 (35) 2 (45) 2

(6) 1 (16) 1 (26) 2 (36) 2 (46) 3

(7) *** (17) 3 (27) 3 (37) 2 (47) 3

(8) 2 (18) 1 (28) *** (38) 2 (48) 2

(9) 3 (19) 2 (29) 4 (39) 2 (49) 2

(10) 3 (20) 2 (30) 2 (40) 3 (50) 2

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2015 December Paper III

English Literature
(1) Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the
word “Bowdlerize”. What does it mean?
(1) the expurgation of indelicate language
(2) the modernization of archaic vocabulary
(3) the insertion of bawdy songs
(4) the expansion of female characters

(2) First follow...........and your judgement frame. By her just............, which is still the
same. Supply the appropriate words to fill in the blanks.
(1) wit, law
(2) reason, rule
(3) nature, standard
(4) sense, criterion

(3) Preparation of vocabulary list for the purpose of English language teaching was
carried out by
(1) Otto Jespersen
(2) Noam Chomsky
(3) N.S. Prabhu
(4) Michael West

(4) Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri prefer to use “Empire” rather than imperialism.
According to them :
(1) There is only one empire and we had better recognize it. Hence the Empire with
E upper case.
(2) There may be many empires but only one is patently visible and operational. That
is denoted by Empire with E upper case.
(3) The present day empire does not have an identifiable location or centre. Hence
we ought to differentiate this view of Empire with E upper case.
(4) The culturally dominant global empire is the only one that really matters. We
signify that Empire with E upper case.

(5) Who among the following critics discerned in the Shelleyan Lyric the signs “of
adolescence” ?
(1) F.R. Leavis
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) Cleanth Brooks
(4) I.A. Richards

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(6) Two among the following critical journals became strongly associated with New
Criticism.
(a) Partisan Review
(b) Southern Review
(c) Kenyon Review
(d) Hudson Review
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (c) and (d)

(7) Match the columns:

(a) Robert Burton (i) Urn Burial

(b) Richard Hooker (ii) The Unfortunate Traveller

(c) Thomas Browne (iii) The Anatomy of Melancholy

(d) Thomas Nashe (iv) Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie

Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(2) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)

(8) Which of the following characters in The White Devil describes the glory of great men
as : “Glories, like glow worms a far off shine bright / But looked to near have neither
heat nor light”.
(1) Vittoria
(2) Lodovico
(3) Flamineo
(4) Cornelia

(9) In which of Philip Larkin’s poem does he refer to “long uneven lines” of men waiting
to be enlisted for the war? (“Never such innocence again” concludes the poem)
(1) Mr. Bleaney
(2) Mc MXIV
(3) Ambulances
(4) Sad Steps

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(10) In Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa one morning found himself changed
in his bed to a monstrous kind of vermin. The most difficult thing for Samsa was :
(1) to look at his image in the mirror
(2) to remember what happened the day before
(3) to communicate with anyone
(4) to brush his teeth

(11) Identify the individual who is a nihilist from the following:

(1) Pechorin in A Hero of Our Times
(2) Bazarov in Fathers and Sons
(3) Levin in Anna Karenina
(4) Oblomov in Oblomov

(12) Which of these works in nineteenth-century Russian fiction originated the type of a
Superfluous Man?
(1) The Diary of Superfluous man
(2) A Hero of Our Own Times
(3) Eugene Onegin
(4) Dead Souls

(13) What is Gilgamesh?

(a) a Babylonian epic poem
(b) a series of gnomic verses
(c) a classical play
(d) the story of a harsh ruler
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (c)
(3) (a) and (d)
(4) (b)

(14) American Dictionary of the English Language was the work of __________ published
in __________.
(1) Merriam Webster, 1903
(2) H.L. Mencken, 1930
(3) Noah Webster, 1828
(4) Benjamin Franklin, 1768

(15) Which of the following text of Amitabh Ghosh is based on refugee occupation of an
island of the Sundarvans?
(1) Sea of Poppies
(2) The Hungry Tide
(3) River of Smohe
(4) The Glass Palace

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(16) Which of the following is described by Robert Browning as “A Child’s Story”?

(1) “Bells and Pomegranates”
(2) “Pauline”
(3) “Fifine at the Fair”
(4) “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”

(17) Identify the New Critic who served as the cultural attaché at the American Embassy
in London from 1964 to 1966 :
(1) John Crowe Ransom
(2) Cleanth Brooks
(3) Allen Tate
(4) Robert Penn Warren

(18) “The Gilded Age” refers to a period of American history between 1870 and the first
decades of the twentieth century.
Who among the following American writers is credited with the coining of the term ?
(1) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(2) Mark Twain
(3) William Dean Howells
(4) Theodore Dreiser

(19) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes was a great achievement by
Edward Gibbon. It was published between 1776 and 1788, two significant dates that.
(1) Signalled the end of the Napoleonic wars and the rise of Feudalism.
(2) Signalled the American Revolution and the French Revolution.
(3) Covered the fall of peasantry and the rise of bureaucracy in England.
(4) Suggest the period of Queen Anne’s reign.

(20) Being so caught up, so mastered by the brute __________ of the air, Did she put on
his knowledge with his power, Before the __________ beak could let her drop. Yeats,
“Leda and the Swan”, choose the right words for the blanks-
(1) beast, shiny
(2) force, animal
(3) blood, indifferent
(4) thrust, irate

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(21) Match the following:

Terms-

(i) A term coined by Julia Kristeva to refer to the fact that texts
(a) Ambiguity
are constituted by a “tissue of citations”.

(ii) A term used by Mikhail Bakhtin to describe the variety of

(b) Aporia
languages and voices within a novel.

(iii) An irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction

(c) Intertextuality
in a text, usually associated with deconstructive thinking.

(d) Heteroglossia (iv) A term made famous by William Empson to indicate that a
Description- word, phrase, or text can be interpreted in more than one way.

CODES:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(2) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)

(22) Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From
darkness to promote me?
Which nineteenth-century work bears these lines from Paradise Lost as epigraph?
(1) Wuthering Heights
(2) Frankenstein
(3) Don Juan
(4) Jude the Obscure

(23) A literary researcher now faced with choosing between a print text and its digital
counterpart, chooses the latter mostly to :
(1) facilitate the consultation of an exhaustive bibliography
(2) avoid the expense of buying books
(3) look for specific words and phrases and lines
(4) enhance his/her understanding of textual variants, if any, between the two media

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(24) Which of the following statements on Hudibras are true:

(a) It is a novel written by Matthew Prior.
(b) It is a satirical poem published in 3 parts.
(c) Hudibras was written by Samuel Butler.
(d) Hudibras discusses complex issues of justice, politics and religion.
(1) (c) and (d) are true
(2) (a) and (d) are true
(3) (b) and (c) are true
(4) (a) and (b) are true

(25) The formalist critic __________ mocked the character - based criticism of __________
by posing a famous question, “How many children had Lady Macbeth” ?
(1) F.R. Leavis, E.K. Chambers
(2) Cleanth Brooks, F.L. Lucas
(3) Monroe Beardsley, Kenneth Burke
(4) L.C. Knights, A.C. Bradley

(26) Which of the following pair of words does not have two different vowel glides?
(1) care, pure
(2) write, freight
(3) caught, court
(4) eight, ate

(27) Assertion (A): Arts will often work obliquely, by myth or symbol. They may make their
best ‘criticism of life’ simply by being; they may best state by not stating.
Reason (R): It follows, if even only part of all this is true, that the arts do have an
important social function. Arts can give greater depth to a society’s sense of itself. A
country without great art might be a powerful collection of thriving earthworms but
would be a sorry society.
(1) Reason (R) is perfectly aligned with Assertion (A)
(2) Assertion (A) is unrelated to Reason (R)
(3) Assertion (A) hardly reflects Reason (R)’s elaboration
(4) Reason (R), in fact, contradicts Assertion (A)

(28) Which of the following is NOT an example of derivational morpheme?

(1) friend - friendship
(2) courage - courageous
(3) rely - reliable
(4) climate – climactic

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(29) Which of these statements is incorrect about presentism and its basic premises?
(1) Hugh Grady is its principal proponent.
(2) Our knowledge of works from the past is conditioned by and dependent upon
the ideologies of the present.
(3) Presentism does not contextualize cultural production in the same way or make
use of the theorists that New Historicism does.
(4) Historicism itself necessarily produces an implicit allegory of the present in its
configuration of the past.

(30) “Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief”, was Samuel Johnson’s
criticism of a famous poem. Which poem was it?
(1) P.B. Shelley’s “Adonais”
(2) Philip Sidney’s “Astrophel and Stella”
(3) Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard”
(4) John Miltion’s “Lycidas”

(31) The story is grounded in the forbidden nature of Aschenbach’s Obsession with a
young boy; its author ultimately links the obsession with death, disease and esthetic
disintegration.
The author of the story is:
(1) Goethe
(2) Mann
(3) Borges
(4) Proust

(32) Which of the following novels of Joseph Conrad is set in Malay?

(1) Nigger of the Narcissus
(2) Lord Jim
(3) Nostromo
(4) Heart of Darkness

(33) Nuruddin Farah’s Maps tells the story of

(1) Abida
(2) Abu
(3) Askar
(4) Andy

(34) One of the most quoted statements on poetry by John Keats is reproduced with
blanks below.
Complete the statement with correct words.

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“If Poetry __________ as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it __________ at all”.

(1) does not come; had better not come
(2) comes not; might come not
(3) come not; had better not come
(4) come not; did not come

(35) Manohar Malgonkar was a hunter, a lieutenant colonel in the British army, and a tea-
planter. He also wrote a memorable novel about the Sepoy Mutiny, especially Peshwa
Baji Rao II. What is that novel?
(1) A Distant Drum
(2) A Combat of Shadows
(3) A Bend in the Ganges
(4) The Devil’s Wind

(36) Who wrote the screenplay for the film version of John Fowles’s novel The French
Lieutenant’s Woman?
(1) Harold Pinter
(2) Tom Stoppard
(3) David Mamet
(4) Caryl Phillips

(37) “How all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and
elowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and
shoulders to play a part in majestical matters”.
What term does Philip Sidney use to characterize such plays and which of the unities
of Aristotle do they violate ?
(1) mongrel tragicomedy; unity of action
(2) mixed tragedies; unity of action
(3) multi-plot drama; unity of time
(4) mingled yarn; unity of place

(38) There is a large number of religious poems in Old English Poetry. One of the finest is
the Dream of the Rood. The words ‘the Rood’ in the title means :
(1) the Cross
(2) the Christian
(3) the Infidel
(4) the Cardinal

(39) Identify from among the following, the one incorrect statement on M.
Anantanarayanan’s Silver Pilgrimage (1961):
(1) M. Anantanarayanan modelled this narrative on the well-known picaresque
novels in English.
(2) The Silver Pilgrimage is M. Anantanarayanan’s only foray into fiction.

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(3) This novel is mainly an account of the adventures of Jayasurya, a Sri Lankan
prince of the sixteenth century.
(4) Among the literary texts quoted by the novel are lines from Shakespeare, Donne
and Rilke and classical Tamil poets.

(40) Listed below are the titles of some influential books by Frank Kermode. Identify
which one of the titles that does NOT belong to the set.
(1) The Sense of an Ending
(2) Not Entitled - A Memoir
(3) The Genesis of Secrecy
(4) The Great Code : The Bible and Literature

(41) Identify the one erroneous statement on Neoclassicism listed below :

(1) Lodovico Castelvetro and Torquato Tasso greatly influenced English writers like
Milton and Dryden.
(2) Neoclassicism took its final form during the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715).
(3) Boilean’s L’Art poétique influenced Pope’s Essay on Criticism.
(4) The English relation to Neoclassicism was one of dialogue. Most literally, this
dialogue is effected in Addison’s An Essay on Dramatic Poesy.

(42) In his Poems of Love and War, a collection of classic Indian poems in English
translation, A.K. Ramanujan sought to revive an ancient ___________ poetic tradition.
Choose the right word.
(1) Tamil
(2) Sanskrit
(3) Kannada
(4) Pali

(43) Arrange the following sentences in the order in which they appear in Emerson’s “Self-
Reliance” :
(a) To be great is to be misunderstood.
(b) Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and
Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever
took flesh.
(c) If it so bad then to be misunderstood!
(d) It is a right fool’s word.
(e) Misunderstood!
(1) (a), (e), (d), (c), (b)
(2) (e), (a), (b), (c), (d)
(3) (c), (d), (a), (b), (e)
(4) (e), (d), (c), (b), (a)

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(44) X ... Do you know it is nearly seven?

Y (irritably) Oh! it always is nearly seven.
X well, I’m hungry.
Y I never knew you when you weren’t ...
X What shall we do after dinner? Go to a theatre?
Y Oh no! I loathe listening.
X Well, let us go to the club?
Y Oh no! I hate talking.
X Well, we might trot round to the Empire at ten?
Y Oh no! I can’t bear looking at things.
It is so silly.
X Well, what shall we do? Y Nothing!
X It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there
is no definite object of any kind.
Identify the speakers in this dialogue:
(1) Aston (X) to Mick (Y) The Caretaker
(2) Algernon (X) to Jack (Y) The Importance of Being Earnest
(3) Lucky (X) to Pozzo (Y) Waiting for Godot
(4) Man (X) to the Woman (Y) The Waste Land

(45) Which of these Greek plays was a source for The Winter’s Tale?
(1) Iphigeneia at Aulis
(2) Alcestis
(3) Medea
(4) Iphigeneia at Tauris

(46) Sweet is the lore which nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the
beauteous forms of things : We murder to dissect.
- Wordsworth
Which of the following best summarizes the speaker’s position ?
(1) Nature is incomplete without a human witness to attest to its beauty.
(2) Human endeavours will succeed only if the laws of nature are taken into
account.
(3) Nature yields a pleasure superior to that derived from intrusive human inquiry
(4) The flaws inherent in human nature are also evident in the natural world.

(47) (a) Jean Baudrillard tells us that postmodern societies are marked by simulacra.
(b) By simulacra he means non-representations of reality.
(c) Simulacra artificially produce a mediated world masquerading as authenticity.

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(d) It was not Jean Baudrillard but his interpreters who coined the term “simulacra”.
Which of the above statements are true?
(1) (b), (c) and (d)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (c)

(48) Which of the following is correct as the natural order of language acquisition?
(1) Listening - Reading - Speaking - Writing
(2) Writing - Reading - Listening - Speaking
(3) Listening - Speaking - Reading - Writing
(4) Reading - Listening - Speaking – Writing

(49) Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE regarding the poems of Derek
Walcott ?
(1) His poem “Goats and Monkeys” has an epigraph from Shakespeare’s Othello
(2) In “The Sadhu of Couva” Walcott refers to Diwali, Hanuman and the Ramayana
(3) Walcott has written a poem entitled “Jean Rhys”
(4) In “A Far Cry From Africa” Walcott depicts his divided loyalties in the context of
the Changuna Uprising

(50) In Shakespeare’s time who owned the rights to a theatrical script?

(1) the playwright(s)
(2) the patron of the acting company
(3) the printer
(4) the acting company

(51) Which of the following sentences uses more than three cohesive devices?
(1) At that time a person could drive for miles without seeing a house.
(2) All of them could recite the poem yesterday.
(3) You can use a pencil, though not a pen, to write your name.
(4) As soon as Mohan entered the stadium the crowd cheered.

(52) Match the columns:

Indian Text-

(a) The love of Kamarupa and Kamalata (i) William Jones

(b) Ramayana (ii) Nathaniel Halhed

(c) Upanishads (iii) W. Franklin

(d) Abhijnan Sahuntalam English Translator- (iv) T.H. Griffith

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Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(2) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(3) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(4) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)

(53) Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the New Bolt Report, “The Teaching of English
in England”?
(1) It was commissioned in 1919.
(2) It urged the teaching of the national literature.
(3) It proposed the teaching of English Literature at the university level.
(4) It aimed at uniting divided classes after the war.

(54) This revenge tragedy opens with the long soliloquy of the protagonist carrying the
skull of his poisoned fiance’ and swearing vengeance for the old Duke who has
committed the vicious act.
Identify the play.
(1) The Spanish Tragedy
(2) The Revenger’s Tragedy
(3) The Duchess of Malfi
(4) The Changeling

(55) What did Anthony Trollope seek to criticize through the character Mr. Slope?
(1) Methodism
(2) Low Churchmen
(3) High Church doctrine
(4) Anglicanism

(56) “To refer to symbols as ‘Lacanian symbols’, to dub self-doubt as ‘Lacanian self-
doubt’, and to call reflections in a mirror ‘Lacanian reflections’ is not to read the
mind from a perspective informed by Lacan. Nor do parenthetical references to
Barthes’ hermeneutic code and Foucault’s analysis of sexual discourse constitute an
interpretation necessarily different from that of traditional humanist criticism”.
The author of the passage is objecting to critics who.
(1) try to force a parallel between recent critical approaches and traditional
humanist criticism.
(2) decoratively apply the names and terminology of recent critical theories without
employing the methodology.
(3) attempt to reduce the study of literature to a hunt for coded messages and
symbols.
(4) stubbornly maintain a traditional notion of the role of criticism while refusing to
acknowledge new theoretical developments.

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(57) Peter Ackroyd’s first novel, The Great Fire of London, picks up the historical echoes
and artfully deploys a Dickens novel as an intertext. Identify the source Dickens text.
(1) Great Expectations
(2) Little Dorrit
(3) Martin Chuzzlewit
(4) Old Curiosity Shop

(58) Which of the following plays by Henrik Ibsen deals with the perils that await the
emancipated woman in a society which is not ready to accept her?
(1) A Doll’s House
(2) An Enemy of the People
(3) Hedda Gabler
(4) Pillars of Society

(59) “Yet it is the masculine values that prevail”, observed a famous writer “Speaking
cruelly”, she continued, “football and sport are ‘important’, the worship of fashion,
the buying of clothes ‘trivial’.”
Name the author and the text.
(1) Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(2) Audre Lorde “Age, Race, Class...”
(3) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
(4) Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

(60) According to Coleridge, the “secondary imagination” “dissolves, diffuses, __________,

in order to recreate...”.
Choose the right word for the blank.
(1) disintegrates
(2) dissipates
(3) displaces
(4) dissociates

(61) Beginning 1996, an Indian publisher commenced the publication of a series of

modern Indian novels in English translation. By 2003, it had published eighty novels
of repute from almost all Indian languages. Identify the publisher.
(1) Asia Publishing House
(2) Macmillan India
(3) Jaico
(4) Arnold Heinemann

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(62) William Dunbar’s Lament for the makers is about:

(1) kings
(2) priests
(3) poets
(4) peasants

(63) Who among the following protagonists of Thomas Hardy feels his lot as akin to Job’s?
(1) Clym Yeo bright
(2) Angel Clare
(3) Jude
(4) Troy

(64) Edward Brathwaite’s poem “Calypso” assumes that you are familiar with.
(1) the business of Calypso during the Middle Passage
(2) the West Indian music in syncopated African rhythm
(3) the folk ways and mores of Trinidadian merchants
(4) the operatic performance of Banjos

(65) Which of the modern plays by a British playwright actually puts Shakespeare as
character on stage?
(1) Edward Bond’s Bingo
(2) Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language
(3) Terence Rattigan’s Inspector calls
(4) Joe Orton’s Loot

(66) A famous challenge to the Neoclassical tenets of form and reason in aesthetic
considerations came from Edmund Burke. His work was titled:
(1) An Enquiry into the Philosophical Origin of, Our Ideas of the sublime and the
Beautiful
(2) Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the
Beautiful
(3) An Enquiry into the Philosophical Origin of Our Ideas of the Beautiful and the
Sublime
(4) Philosophical enquiry into Our Original ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime

(67) Match the following:

List-A List-B

(a) The Grammar-Translation Method (i) comprehensible input

(b) The Direct Method (ii) strategic use of mother tongue

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(c) Total Physical Response (iii) shuns mother tongue

(d) The Natural Approach (iv) oral input

Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(2) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(3) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

(68) Which of these works by Indian writers does NOT have the Naxalite Movement as a
background?
(1) Mother of 1084
(2) The Lives of Others
(3) The Shadow Lines
(4) The Lowland

(69) “So whenthe last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The
trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And music shall
untune the sky” These are the closing lines of a famous poem. Identify the poem.
(1) Il penseroso
(2) “Song for St. Cecilia’s Day”
(3) “The Good - Morrow”
(4) “Song : The Year’s at the Spring”

(70) This eighteenth-century English poem imitates spenser in stanza form and in
allegorical narrative: passers - by are lured by an enchanter with promises of ease,
luxury, and aesthetic delight, then consigned to a dungeon where they languish in
apathy and impotence until the Knight of Arts and Industry dissolves the spell.
Identify the poem.
(1) The Vanity of Human Wishes
(2) The Seasons
(3) The Castle of Indolence
(4) The Task

(71) Which of the following statements on the Hogarth press is FALSE?

(1) The Hogarth press was founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf
(2) Its location was their home, called Hogarth House
(3) The press was solely devoted to publishing international classics in translation
(4) The press published translations of Gorky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Rilke,
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Read the below passage and answer questions 72 to 75 that follow:

THE ANTIGUA THAT I knew, the Antigua in which I grew up, is not the Antigua you, a
tourist, would see now. That Antigua no longer exists. That Antigua no longer exists partly
for the usual reason, the passing of time, and partly because the bad-minded people
who used to rule over it, the English, no longer do so. (But the English have become such
a pitiful lot these days, with hardly any idea what to do with themselves now that they
no longer have one quarter of the earth’s human population bowing and scraping before
them. They don’t seem to know that this empire business was all wrong and they should,
at least, be wearing sackcloth and ashes in token penance of the wrongs committed, the
irrevocableness of their bad deeds, for no natural disaster imaginable could equal the
harm they did. Actual death might have been better. And so all this fuss over empire -
what went wrong here, what went wrong there - always makes me quite crazy, for I can
say to them what went wrong: they should never have left their home, their precious
England, a place they loved so much, a place they had to leave but could never forget.
And so everywhere they went they turned it into England; and everybody they met they
turned English. But no place could ever really be England, and nobody who did not look
exactly like them would ever be English, so you can imagine the destruction of people
and land that came from that. The English hate each other and they hate England, and
the reason they are so miserable now is that they have no place else to go and nobody
else to feel better than.)

(72) To whom is the passage directly addressed?

(1) readers
(2) non-antiguans
(3) tourists
(4) the English

(73) The English feel extremely miserable because:

(1) Their political supremacy is over
(2) They do not have anyone else to feel superior to
(3) They have been reduced to a state of non-entity
(4) They have no lands to colonise

(74) Do the British realize that colonising countries was a bad practice, according to the
narrator?
(1) Yes; they do
(2) No; they don’t
(3) The narrator is rather unsure they do
(4) The narrator is rather unsure they don’t

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(75) Which of the following best describes the content of the extract?
(1) The speaker fervently desires better understanding between the English and the
colonized people in post- colonial times
(2) The speaker is interested in nostalgic tours of emigre antiguans to their
childhood home
(3) The speaker whose childhood was spent in Antigua reports the great change
currently evident in the pungent irony
(4) The speaker is making a case for the penance of the English, the erstwhile rulers
of Antigua.

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Explanation
(1) Thomas Boulder and his sister Henrietta Boulder’s edition of “The Family
Shakespeare” gave rise to the word “Bowdlerize” which means the expurgation
of indelicate language or to omit parts of a work on moral grounds. “The Family
Shakespeare” was a collection of expurgated plays written by W. Shakespeare, it was
first published in 1807 with his 20 plays and republished in 1818 with all 36 plays of
Shakespeare.

(2) “First follow nature and your judgement frame. By her just standard, which is still the
same”. These lines are from “An Essay on Criticism” written by Alexander Pope, the
greatest poet of Neo- classical age, It was his one of the famous poem published in
1711.

(3) Michael West was an English language teacher and lexicographer who gave his
services to the Indian education system. He carried out the preparation of vocabulary
list for the purpose of English language teaching. He also published a list of roughly
words in his a “A General Service List of English Words” in 1953.

(4) Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri wrote a book entitled “Empire” where they showed
a grand unified vision of a world in which old forms of imperialism are no longer
effective. It was written in mid 1990s and published in 2000. According to these Post-
Marxist writers, The present day empire does not have an identifiable location or
centre. Hence, we ought to differentiate this view of Empire with E upper case. Thus,
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri prefer to use “Empire” rather than imperialism.

(5) T.S. Eliot was an famous modernist poet of the 20th century who discerned in the
Shelleyan lyric the signs “of adolescence” in 1933.

(6) Southern Review and Kenyan Review are the famous critical journals which are
associated with New Criticism.
y ‘The Southern Review’ is founded by Robert Penn Warren in 1935. It was a quarterly
literary magazine.
y ‘The Kenyan Review’ is a literary magazine founded by John Crowe Ransom in 1939.
y ‘The Partisan Review’ was a magazine related with literature, politics and cultural
commentary. It was first edited by Dwight Macdonald in 1934.
y ‘The Hudson Review’ is a magazine dealt with literature and arts. It was a quarterly
journal established in the year 1948.

(7) Robert Burton: “The Anatomy of Melancholy” (1621)

y Richard Hooker: “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie” (1597)
y Thomas Browne: “Urn Burial” (1658)
y Thomas Nashe: “The Unfortunate Traveller” (1594)

(8) John Webster wrote a famous tragedy “The White Devil” published in 1612. It was a
revenge tragedy which set in Padua and Rome, Italy. The important characters of this
play are Flamineo, Hortensio, Zanche, Brachiano, Monticelso, Francisco De Medici etc.

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y In this play, Flamineo describes the glory of great men as:

“Glories, like glow worms a far off shine bright / But looked to near have neither heat
nor light”.

(9) “MCMXIV or 1914” poem written by Phillip Larkin, it was published under the
collection of “Whitson Wedding” in 1964. The poem focuses on the changes in
situations that faced by England after the end of World War I. In this poem, Larkin
also refers to “long uneven lines” of men waiting to be enlisted for the war. He
concluded this poem with the line, “Never such innocence again”.

(10) “Metamorphosis” is a novella originally written by Franz Kafka in German language

titled “Die Verwandlung”, it was published in 1915 in the English language. This work
tells the story of a salesman named Gregor Samsa who wakes up one morning and
found himself changed in his bed to a monstrous kind of vermin. Then, the most
difficult thing for Samsa was to communicate with anyone.

(11) “Father and Sons” is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev published in 1862. It was the
most celebrated Russian novel of the 19th century. Bazarov is the character of this
novel who is a nihilist individual.

(12) “Eugene Onegin” is a work written by Russian writer of the Romantic era and
considered the founder of the Russian literature. It was a novel in verse published
in 1833. It was also the most important work of nineteenth century Russian fiction
where he originated the type of superfluous man. The concept of Superfliuous man
derived from the Byronic hero in 1840s- 1850s. This kind of person is wealthy person
who are not fit to the society because they always wants to control over the other
people.

(13) The Epic of Gilgamesh is a Babylonian epic poem written in the Sumerian language
and it depicts the story of a harsh ruler.

(14) American Dictionary of the English Language was the work of Noah Webster, an
American lexicographer, published in 1828.

(15) “The Hungry Tide” is one of the famous novel written by Amitabh Ghosh, an Indian
novelist, published in 2004. It is based on the refugee occupation of an island of the
Sundarvans, Mangrove forest. The novel is the present day story of love, individuality
and exploration.

(16) “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” is one of the best poem composed by Robert Browning,
an English Victorian poet, Published in 1842 in the collection of Dramatic lyrics.
He described this poem as “A Child’s Story”. This poem is also known as “The Rat-
Catcher of Hamelin.

(17) Cleanth Brooks was an American literary critic, belonged to New Criticism in the mid
20th century who served as the cultural attache at the American Embassy in London
from 1964 to 1966.

(18) Mark Twain was an American writer who coined the term “The Gilded Age” which
refers to a period of American history between 1870s and the first decades of the

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twentieth century. The term came from his book titled “The Gilded Age: A tale of
Today”, it’s a novel published in 1873.

(19) Edward Gibbon ‘s famous work “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six
volumes” published between 1776 and 1788, these two dates mainly refers to the
American Revolution and the French Revolution. This work dealt with the history of
the Roman Empire and Fall of the Western Roman Empire, Byzantium.

(20) These are the lines from Yeats’ best poem “Leda and the Swan” as “Being so caught
up, so mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his
power, Before the indifferent beak could let her drop”.
y Yeats composed this poem in 1923, it talks about the story from the Greek mythology
which depicts an act of rape.

(21) ‘Ambiguity’ is a term made famous by William Empson to indicate that a word,
phrase, or text can be interpreted in more than one way.
y ‘Aporia’ is an irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, usually
associated with deconstructive thinking.
y ‘Intertextuality’ is a term coined by Julia Kristeva to refer to the fact that texts are
constituted by a “tissue of citations”.
y ‘Heteroglossia’ is a term used by Mikhail Bakhtin to describe the variety of languages
and voices within a novel.

(22) “Frankenstein” is an famous novel written by Mary Shelley published in 1818. Its
subtitle is “The Modern Prometheus”. Such novel was an gothic and scientific novel.
The epigraph of this work has been taken from Milton’s Paradise Lost as “Did I
request thee, Maker, from my clay to mould me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness
to promote me?”

(23) A researcher who is a literary scholar, now faces with choosing between a print text
and its digital counterpart, chooses the latter mostly to look for specific words and
phrases and lines.

(24) Hudibras was written by Samuel Butler, an English poet and satirist. It was a satirical
poem published into 3 parts in 1663. It’s a mock heroic narrative poem of the 17th
century Restoration age. This poem exploits of a knight and mainly centers on the
spiritual praise of Sire Hudibras to criticize Puritans, Presbyterians and hypocrisy of
the society.

(25) The formalist critic L. C. Knights mocked the character- based criticism of A. C.
Bradley by posing a famous Question, “How many Children had Lady Macbeth”. This
essay was published in 1933, based on Shakespearean classics of Modern criticism.

(26) “Vowel glides” is also known as Diphthong. It occurs when there are two separate
vowel sounds within the same syllable is used. As there are some pairs of words
which have two different vowel glides examples care, pure; write, freight; caught,
court.

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(27) Arts will often work obliquely, by myth or symbol. They may make their best ‘criticism
of life’ simply by being; they may best state by not staying because it follows, if even
only part of all this is true, that the arts do have an important social function. Arts
can give greater depth to a society’s sense of itself. A country without great art might
be a powerful collection of thriving earthworms but would be a sorry society. Thus,
both assertion and reason are true and reason is perfectly aligned with assertion.

(28) As per the derivational morpheme, it often changes the part of speech of a word
and it is also a process creating a new word or meaning. It is basically known as the
formation of words by adding prefixes and suffixes in the existing words. Examples;
Friend- friendship Courage – courageous Rely- reliable
y Climate- climatic is not the perfect example of derivational morpheme.

(29) As per Presentism and its basic premises, its principal proponent is Hugh Grandy. In
this method, our knowledge of words from the past is conditioned by and dependent
upon the ideologies of the present. It is related with the Historicism as it itself
necessarily produces an implicit allegory of the present in its configuration of the
past.
y Thus, Presentism does not contextualize cultural production in the same way or
make use of the theorists that new Historicism does, this statement is incorrect
about presentism and its premises.

(30) Samuel Johnson, the greatest critic of 18th century, criticized Milton’ poem Lycidas.
He said that “Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief”. According to Dr
Johnson, Milton’s Lycidas poem is insincere in its style.
y “Lycidas” was one of the great pastoral elegy in English literature, it was written by
Milton on the death of his dear friend Edward King who died by drowning his ship in
the Irish sea in 1637. It was published in 1638 and republished in 1645.

(31) Thomas Mann was a famous German writer who also got Noble prize in Literature
in 1929. In his most famous “Death in Venice”, he created his important character
Aschenbech. This is a novella published in 1912. In this work, Mann tells the story
which is grounded in the forbidden nature of Aschenbach’s obsession with a young
boy; it ultimately links the obsession with death, disease and esthetic disintegration.
Here, Gustave von Acchenbach is presented as a successful but an aging German
writer who is known for extraordinary discipline and perfection in his works.

(32) “The Nigger of the Narcissus: A Tale of the Forecastle” was a novel by Joseph Conrad
published in 1897. The setting of the novel is in A ship on the Indian Ocean and
Atlantic Ocean.
y “Lord Jim” is a also a novel written by Joseph Conrad published in 1899. The setting
of this novel is Malay.
y “Nostromo: A tale of the Seaboard” is a novel by Conrad published in [Link] setting
of this novel is Costaguana, the republic of fictitious South America.
y “Heart of Darkness” is a famous novella written by Conrad published in 1899. This
novel is set in the Congo free state in the Heart of Africa.

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(33) Nuruddin Farah was a most famous Somali novelist. He made his reputation through
his greatest works of trilogy called “Blood in the Sun”. In it. “Maps” is the first novel
published in 1986, It tells the story of Askar. “Gifts” is the second novel in this trilogy
published in 1992, It focuses about the forces of war and unrest in Somalia shape the
life of Duniya. “Secrets” is the third book in this trilogy published in 1998, Its story
revolves around the character Kalaman.

(34) John Keats (1795-1821) was famously quoted poetry in his letter as “If poetry comes
not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all”.

(35) Manohar Malgonkar was an famous Indian novelist who was also a hunter, a
lieutenant colonel in the British army and a tea- planter. “The Devil’s Wind’ is one of
his greatest novel published in 1972, it was a historical novel based on the memory
about the Sepoy Mutiny, especially Peshwa Baji Rao II or Nana Saheb who played an
important role in 1857 revolution in India.

(36) Harold Printer was an renowned British playwright, screenwriter and actor. He was
also awarded Noble Prize in literature in 2005. He was best known for the genre
‘Comedy of Menace’. He also several screenplays for the fil versions as John Fowles’s
novel “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”, L. P. Hartley’s novel “The Go-Between” etc.

(37) In his critical work “A Defence of Poetry or An Apology for Poetry”(1579), Sie Philip
Sidney talks about mongrel tragicomedy. According to him, It is not good to mingle
kings and clowns or to match horn- pipes and funerals. He said, “How all their
plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not
because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to
play a part in majestical matters”. He also remarks that they all violate Unity of action
given by Aristotle by doing so.

(38) “The Dream of the Rood” is one of the finest religious poem in Old English Poetry.
It was written in alliterative verse. The words’ the Rood’ in the title means the
cross or it symbolizes the crucifixion. This poem is now survived under the Vercelli
manuscript.

(39) M. Anantanarayanan was an lawyer, writer and chief justice of Madras. His most
famous book is “Silver Pilgrimage”, it was a novel published in 1961. This novel
is mainly an account of the adventures of Jayasurya, a Sri Lankan prince of the
sixteenth century. It is set in the medieval India. Among the literary texts quoted by
the novel are lines from Shakespeare, Donne, Rilke and classical Tamil poets. This
work is the only foray into fiction written by him.

(40) “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature” is a work written by Northrop frye, a
Canadian literary theorist and critic, published in 1981.
y Other all works are written by Frank Kermode, a British literary critic of the modern
century, as- “The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction” (1967)
“Not Entitled: A Memoir” (1995)
“The Genesis of Secrecy: on the interpretation of narrative” (1979)

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(41) The above given statements about Neoclassicism are correct except 4, because “An
Essay on Dramatic Poesy” is a famous critical work written by John Dryden published
in 1668. It was not written by Addison.

(42) A. K. Ramanujan was a famous Indian English poet. He was also awarded the Sahitya
Academy Award in 1999 posthumously for his work “The Collected Poems”. In his
poems of Love and War, a classical of classic Indian poems in English translation, he
sought to receive an ancient Tamil poetic tradition.

(43) “Self- Reliance” is the famous essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American
essayist, published in 1841. It’s one major theme is ‘Trust thyself’. There are some
sentences appeared in this essay like,
(e) Misunderstood!
(d) It is a right fool’s word.
(c) If it so bad then to be misunderstood!
(b) Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and
Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever
took flesh.
(a) To be great is to be misunderstood!

(44) The above passage has been taken from Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being
Earnest” (1895). This speech is spoken by Algernon to Jack.

(45) “The Winter’s Tale” is an important play written by William Shakespeare, the greatest
playwright in Elizabethan English period. It was published in 1623, his first folio.
Alcestis, a Greek play was an important source for writing this play. This play comes
under the category of Shakespeare’s Romances.

(46) The above lines occur in “Table Turned” a poem written by William Wordsworth, the
greatest Romantic poet in English Literature. These lines are best summarizes the
speaker’s position as Nature yields a pleasure superior to that derived from intrusive
human inquiry.

(47) Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and theorist. He was associated with
the Post- modernist and Post- structuralist theory. He tells us that post- modern
societies are marked by simulacra which artificially produce a mediated world
masquerading as authencity.

(48) The correct natural order of language acquisition is Listening- Speaking- Reading-
Writing (LSRW).

(49) A Saint Lucian poet and playwright, Derek Walcott wrote many great poems. His
poem “Goats and Monkeys has an epigraph from Shakespeare’s Othello. In “The
Sadhu of Couva”, Walcott refers to Diwali, Hanuman and Ramayana. He also wrote
a poem entitled “Jean Rhys”. “A Far Cry From Africa” is a famous poem by Walcott
published in 1962, in this poem, poet responds to the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya.

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(50) In Shakespeare’s time, the acting company owned the rights to a theatrical script.
The Lord Chamberlain’s Men or the King’s Men were the most renowned acting
company of that time.

(51) The sentence “You can use a pencil, though not a pen, to write your name.” used
more than three cohesive devices. All other statements are wrong.

(52) “The Love of Kamarupa and Kamalata” was translated by W. Franklin into the English
language.
y “Ramayana” was translated by T. H. Griffith into the English language.
y “Upanishads” was translated by Nathaniel Halhed into the English language.
y “Abhijnan Sahuntalam” was translated by William Jones into the English language.

(53) As per ‘The New Bolt Report’, it was came in 1921 with its 105 recommendations, it’s
also known as “The Teaching of English in England”. It was commissioned in 1919.
It urged the teaching of the national literature. This report aimed at uniting divided
classes after the war. It proposed the teaching of English literature at all levels not
just at the University level.

(54) “The Revenger’s Tragedy” was an Jacobean revenge tragedy written by Thomas
Middleton. It was published in 1607. It opens firstly in an Italian court with the ling
soliloquy of the protagonist carrying the skull of his poisoned fiancé and swearing
vengeance for the old Duke who has committed the vicious act. Here, Vindice
laments on the death of his beloved Gloriana who died at the hands of the Duke
because she refuses to give him Lustful advances.

(55) Anthony Trollope, an English novelist of the Victorian age, wrote his best known for
hi novel “Barchester Towers” published in 1857. This novel is mainly satirized the
antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical Christianity.
Through the character Mr. Obadiah Slope, he seeks to criticize low churchmen.

(56) In the above passage, the author is objecting to critics who decoratively apply
the names and terminology of recent critical theories without employing the
methodology.

(57) An English author, Peter Ackroyd’s first novel “The Great Fire of London” published in
1892. For writing this novel, he picks up the historical echoes and artfully deploys a
Dickens’ novel “Little Dorrit” as an source for its intertextual reference.

(58) Henrik Ibsen was an famous Norwegian playwright. “Hedda Gabler” is one of his
finest play published in 1890. It is set in Kristania, Norway in 1890s. This play dealt
with the perils that await the emancipated woman in a society which is not ready to
accept her.

(59) The above lines have been taken from the text “A Room of One’s Own” written by
Virginia Woolf, published in 1929.

(60) According to Coleridge, the “secondary imagination” dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in

order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still, at all events,

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it struggles to idealize and to unify. In his critical work “Biographia Literaria”(1817), he

talks about the primary imagination and secondary imagination.

(61) Beginning 1996, an Indian publisher ‘Macmillan India’ commenced the publication of a
series of modern Indian novels in English translation. By 2003, it had published eighty
novels of repute from almost all Indian languages.

(62) William Dunbar’s Lament for the makers is about the poets. It was one of the best
poem written by Scottish poet William Dunbar. In this poem, he chiefly laments on
the death of Chaucer, Lydgate and Gower. Most of the makers refers in this poem
related with the 14th and 15th centuries.

(63) Thomas Hardy’s protagonists Jude feels his lot as akin to Job’s. Jude Fawley as an
orphan child raised by his aunt appeared in his greatest and last completed and
successful novel “Jude the obscure”, published in 1895. This novel is set in the late
19th century Wessex.

(64) Edward Kamau Brathwaite was an Barbadian poet. His poem “Calypso” assumes that
you are familiar with the West Indian music in syncopated African rhythm. In this
poem, Brathwaite talks about the slavery on the islands.

(65) Edward Bond’s Bingo is the famous modern play by a British playwright, it Actually
puts Shakespeare as a character on the stage. The subtitle of this play is “Scenes
of Money and Death”, first performed in 1973. This play is set in Warwickshire and it
depicts the last years of Shakespeare’s life.

(66) Edmund Burke was an Irish philosopher and writer. He was best known for his
treatise entitled “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime
and Beautiful” published in 1757. It was a treatise on aesthetics and a famous
challenge to Neoclassical tenets of form and reason in aesthetic considerations.

(67) The Grammar- Translation Method: strategic use of mother tongue

y The Direct Method: shuns mother tongue
y Total Physical Response: oral input
y The Natural Approach: comprehensible input

(68) “The Shadow Lines” is a novel written by Indian writer Amitabh Ghosh published in
1988. It deals with the issues of partition.
y All other Indian writer’s works have the background of Naxalite movement as-
y “Mother of 1084” is a novel by Mahasweta Devi published in 1974. It is based on the
backdrop of the Naxalite revolution in the Seventies.
y “The Lives of others” is a2014 novel written by Neel Mukherjee. This novel set in
1960s Calcutta around the effect of Naxalite movement.
y “The lowland” is the novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri published in 2013. In this novel, a
character Udayan embraces the Naxalite Movement.

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(69) The above lines are the closing lines of the famous poem “Song for St. Cecilia’s Day”,
poem written by John Dryden, on the occasion of ST. Cecilia’s Day in 22nd November
1687.

(70) “The Castle of Indolence” is a famous eighteenth- century English poem written
by James Thompson, published in 1748. In this poem, the poet imitates Spenser in
stanza form means wrote in Spenserian stanza and it is also an allegorical narrative.
The above lines are related to this poem.

(71) As per The Hogarth Press, It was founded in 1917 by Leonard Woolf and his wife
Virginia Woolf. Its location was their home in Richmond, London, called Hogarth
House. The press published the translations of Gorky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky,
Rilke, Svevo and others.
This press was solely devoted to publishing works on psychoanalysis and translations
of foreign works chiefly Russian.

(72) This passage is directly addressed to the tourists.

(73) The English feel extremely miserable because they do not have anyone else to feel
superior.

(74) Here, the narrator is unsure that the British realize that colonizing countries was a
bad practice.

(75) The content of the extract is best described by this point that the speaker whose
childhood was spent in Antigua reports the great change currently evident in the
pungent irony.

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Answer Key

(1) 1 (16) 4 (31) 2 (46) 3 (61) 2

(2) 3 (17) 2 (32) 2 (47) 2 (62) 3

(3) 4 (18) 2 (33) 3 (48) 3 (63) 3

(4) 3 (19) 2 (34) 3 (49) 4 (64) 2

(5) 2 (20) 3 (35) 4 (50) 4 (65) 1

(6) 3 (21) 3 (36) 1 (51) 3 (66) 2

(7) 3 (22) 2 (37) 1 (52) 2 (67) 1

(8) 3 (23) 3 (38) 1 (53) 3 (68) 3

(9) 2 (24) 3 (39) 1 (54) 2 (69) 2

(10) 3 (25) 4 (40) 4 (55) 2 (70) 3

(11) 2 (26) 4 (41) 4 (56) 2 (71) 3

(12) 3 (27) 1 (42) 1 (57) 2 (72) 3

(13) 3 (28) 4 (43) 4 (58) 3 (73) 2

(14) 3 (29) 3 (44) 2 (59) 3 (74) 3

(15) 2 (30) 4 (45) 2 (60) 2 (75) 3

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2016 July Paper II

English Literature
(1) Which British University figures in William Wordsworth’s Prelude?
(1) Durham
(2) Glasgow
(3) Cambridge
(4) Oxford

(2) Who is the author of A Woman Killed with Kindness ?

(1) John Marston
(2) Thomas Middleton
(3) John Fletcher
(4) Thomas Heywood

(3) In William Congreve’s The Way of the World identify the speaker of the line: “One’s
cruelty is one’s power, and when one parts with one’s cruelty, one parts with one’s
power.”
(1) Mirabell
(2) Witwoud
(3) Millamant
(4) Mincing

(4) T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in

(1) Christianity
(2) Hinduism
(3) Buddhism
(4) Judaism

(5) By what name is Gulliver known in Brobdingnag ?

(1) Grildrig
(2) Glumdalclitch
(3) Splacknuck
(4) Mannikin

(6) Who among the following was born in India ?

(1) Paul Scott
(2) Lawrence Durrell
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) V.S. Naipaul

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(7) What metaphor does Edmund Spenser employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12) to
frame his tale and to describe the relationship between the tale and its readers ?
(1) That of a caravan of lost souls, traversing a desert.
(2) That of a stagecoach, which picks up diverse passengers along the way.
(3) That of a ship filled with jolly mariners.
(4) That of a riderless horse, following his own direction.

(8) Who among the following is not associated with Russian formalism ?
(1) Roman Jakobson
(2) Georges Poulet
(3) Boris Eichenbaum
(4) Victor Shklovsky

(9) Which character in Dickens keeps on hoping that “something will turn up” ?
(1) Barkis
(2) Micawber
(3) Uriah Heep
(4) Miss Havisham

(10) What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick ?
(1) Pequod
(2) Rachel
(3) Hagar
(4) Sphinx

(11) Northanger Abbey is a parody of the.............romance.

(1) Oriental
(2) French
(3) Gothic
(4) Popular

(12) Who among the following authors were greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle’s
writings ?
I. Charles Dickens
II. Elizabeth Gaskell
III. Emily Bronte
IV. Oscar Wilde
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) I and III

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(13) Which of the following is another term to describe “art for art’s sake”?
(1) Aestheticism
(2) Didacticism
(3) Realism
(4) Neo-realism

(15) Who narrates Heart of Darkness ?

(1) Marlow
(2) Director of Companies
(3) Kurtz
(4) An unnamed narrator

(16) The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of

(1) The Conscious Lovers
(2) The Good Natur’d Man
(3) She Stoops to Conquer
(4) The Rivals

(17) Identify the first novel written by Patrick White :

(1) The Living and the Dead
(2) The Tree of Man
(3) Happy Valley
(4) The Aunt’s Story

(18) In King Lear for what reason does Kent assume a disguise ?
(1) To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has banished him.
(2) To spy on Edmund.
(3) To antagonize Goneril and Regan.
(4) To revenge upon Lear for banishing him.

(19) What is a feminine rhyme?

(1) A rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed.
(2) A rhyme on two syllables.
(3) A rhyme on three syllables.
(4) A poem in which every third syllable rhymes.

(20) Identify two of the following written by Christopher Fry :

I. French Without Tears
II. The Lady’s Not for Burning
III. Venus Observed
IV. The Deep Blue Sea

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The right combination according to the code is

(1) II and III
(2) I and III
(3) II and IV
(4) I and IV

(21) In “Tradition and Individual Talent”, according to T. S. Eliot, the term “traditional”
usually means
(1) something positive
(2) something negative
(3) something historical
(4) something old

(22) Who of the following is a Cavalier poet ?

(1) George Herbert
(2) John Donne
(3) Robert Herrick
(4) Andrew Marvell

(23) Which of the following is not Jacques Derrida’s work ?

(1) Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question
(2) The Transcendence of the Ego
(3) Of Grammatology
(4) The Work of Mourning

(24) In Paradise Lost which character narrates the story of the making of Eve from a rib in
Adam’s side?
(1) Adam
(2) Eve
(3) Raphael
(4) God

(25) A.S. Byatt’s Possession attempts the imitation of the work of two Victorian poets,
loosely based on
I. Alfred Tennyson
II. Robert Browning
III. Christina Rossetti
IV. William Morris
The right combination according to the code is;
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) III and I

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(26) The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short comedy by

(1) Bernard Shaw
(2) W.B. Yeats
(3) J.M. Synge
(4) John Osborne

(27) John Milton’s description of gold as a “precious bane” (Paradise Lost, Book II) is best
described as
(1) a dactyl
(2) an oxymoron
(3) enjambment
(4) zeugma

(28) There is a play on the name of Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher Marlowe’s
(1) Doctor Faustus
(2) The Jew of Malta
(3) Tamburlaine, the Great
(4) Edward II

(29) Shakespeare famously neglects to observe Aristotle’s rules concerning the three
dramatic unities, and Samuel Johnson undertakes to defend Shakespeare from these
criticisms in his Preface to Shakespeare. Which of the Aristotelian dramatic unities
does Johnson believe Shakespeare to observe most successfully ?
(1) Time
(2) Place
(3) Action
(4) Johnson does not feel that the Aristotelian dramatic unities are important

(30) Who among the following was praised and patronized as a “Ploughman Poet” ?
(1) John Clare
(2) George Crabbe
(3) Robert Burns
(4) Walter Scott

(31) Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a projection forward in time after a
devastating atomic war?
(1) The Grass is Singing
(2) The Golden Notebook
(3) The Four-Gated City
(4) A Proper Marriage

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(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

(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

(34) In John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress who keeps Christian’s head above water in the
River of Death?
(1) Hopeful
(2) Helpful
(3) Faithful
(4) Cheerful

(35) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a

(1) religious allegory
(2) fairy tale
(3) long poem
(4) Utopian novel

(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

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(37) Which of the following statements does not describe Michel Foucault’s position?
(1) In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally written on the body.
(2) Power operates through discourse.
(3) There is connection between power and knowledge.
(4) Where there is power, it is possible to find resistance.

(38) In which year did the Great Exhibition take place ?

(1) 1851
(2) 1857
(3) 1861
(4) 1871

(39) When Fidessa says, “O but I fear the fickle freakes …./ Of fortune false, and oddes of
armes in field” (Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 5), this is a fine example of
(1) Alliteration
(2) Allegory
(3) Assonance
(4) Antithesis

(40) Match the work with author :

WORK AUTHOR

I. “The Excursion” A. S.T. Coleridge

II. “Christabel” B. P.B. Shelley

III. Milton C. William Wordsworth

IV. Queen Mab D. William Blake

CODES;
I II III IV
(1) CABD
(2) C A D B
(3) B C A D
(4) B A C D

(41) Which of the following phrases is not found in Thomas Gray’s “Elegy written in a
Country Churchyard”?
(1) “Far from the madding crowd”
(2) “A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown”
(3) “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen”
(4) “All nature is but art, unknown to thee”

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(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

(43) In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society of
which they are a part, are made up of three social groups or “estates”. What are the
three estates?
(1) Nobility, church and commoners
(2) Royalty, nobility and peasantry
(3) Royalists, republicans and peasants
(4) Country, city and commons

(44) Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who murders
her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave ?
(1) Sula
(2) Tar Baby
(3) Song of Solomon
(4) Beloved

(45) Who among the following translated Homer ?

(1) Thomas Gray
(2) Samuel Johnson
(3) Oliver Goldsmith
(4) Alexander Pope

(46) Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy is a

(1) Picaresque novel
(2) Epistolary novel
(3) Diary novel
(4) Coming-of-age novel

(47) When was the English ban on James Joyce’s Ulysses lifted ?
(1) 1924
(2) 1945
(3) 1936
(4) 1962

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(48) Who among the following is not an imagist ?

(1) Ezra Pound
(2) W. B. Yeats
(3) Amy Lowell
(4) T. E. Hulme

(49) Thomas Carew’s Poems appeared in print in 1640 and contain a variety of amorous
addresses to and reflections on, a fictional mistress known as
(1) Celia
(2) Julia
(3) Anne
(4) Melanie

(50) Match the novelists with their work :

NOVELIST WORK

I. William Golding A. Grimus

II. Salman Rushdie B. Hawksmoor

III. Graham Swift C. Darkness Visible

IV. Peter Ackroyd D. Waterland

CODES:
I II III IV
(1) DACB
(2) C A D B
(3) B C A D
(4) B A C D

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Explanation
(1) “The Prelude” is a famous poem written by William Wordsworth, a greatest poet of
English Romantic age, finally published posthumously in 1850. Its subtitle is “Growth
of a Poet’s Mind; An Autobiographical Poem”. It was written in Blank verse form and
14 books. This poem is dedicated to his friend S. T. Coleridge. Wordsworth talks about
his childhood memory and chiefly Cambridge university in this poem.

(2) Thomas Heywood is the author of the work “A Woman Killed with Kindness”, first
published in 1607. It s tragedy of the 17th century. It was revolves around the life of an
couple Master Frankford and Anne.

(3) William Congreve’s The Way of the World is one of the best Restoration age comedy.
It was published in 1700 and it set in Lindon. Lady Wishfort, Millamant, Mrs.
Marwood, Fainall, Mrs. Fainall, Mirabell are the important characters of this play. The
line “One’s cruelty is one’s power, and when one parts with one’s cruelty, one parts
with one’s power” spoken by the character Millamant.

(4) T. S. Eliot is one of the greatest English poet, dramatist, critic and essayist of the 20th
century Modern age. He found spiritual support in Christianity, which clearly shows in
his play and poems. ‘The Waste land’ is the best example of his views about religion.

(5) “Gulliver’s Travels” is the most famous book written by Jonathan Swift, a satirist of
the 18th century. It was a prose satire published in 1726. It is divided into four parts.
Its full title is “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In four Parts. By
Lemuel Gulliver, First as a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships”. In the
second part of this book ‘A Voyage to Brobdingnag’, Gulliver is known as Grildrig.

(6) Lawrence Durrell was an British novelist but he was born in Jalandhar, India in 1912
and died in 1990.
y Paul Scott was an English novelist and he was born in Southgate, London in 1920 and
died in 1978.
y E. M. Forster was an English fiction writer. He was born in Marylebone, London in
1879 and died in 1970.
y V. S. Naipaul was also a British author. He was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1932
and died recently in 2018.

(7) Edmund Spenser employs the metaphor of a ship filled with jolly mariners in “Faerie
Queene” (Book 1 Canto 12) to frame his tale and to describe the relationship between
the tale and its readers.

(8) Georges Poulet is not associated with Russian Formalism.

y As per Russian Formalism, It was a literary school of Criticism in Russia and it
emerged during 1910s and 1930s. The major members of this schools are Roman
Jakobson, Boris Eikhenbaum, Viktor Shklovsky, Yury Tynyanov, Osip Brik, Juri Tynianov
etc.

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(9) Micawber is the character in Charles Dickens best novel “David Copperfield”. His full
name is Wilkins Micawber who is a clerk in this novel. He has always Optimistic views
about life, therefore, he is hoping that “something will turn up”.

(10) “Moby Dick” is the most popular novel written by Herman Melville, an American
writer, published in 1851. It was an adventurous and sea novel. Its another title is
“The Whale”. Ishmael is the narrator of this novel who is rescued by a boat named
Rachel. Ishmael tells the story of Captain Ahab who has a quest of pride and he also
wants to take revenge from Moby Dick, a white whale.

(11) “Northanger Abbey” is a well known novel by Jane Austen, a famous woman novelist
of the English Romantic age. It was published posthumously in 1817 with her another
novel “Persuasion”. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the Gothic romance means it’s a
satire on the Gothic novels.

(12) Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell were greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle’s
writings. Carlyle was a Scottish historian and writer. His most famous works are “On
Heroes, Hero- Worship, and The Heroic in History” and “The French Revolution: A
History”.

(13) The term ‘Aestheticism’ is also describes “art for art’s sake”. It came from French
slogan in the 19th century. It’s a philosophy about the value of art and its functions.
Walter Pater is the major figure in it.

(15) “Heart of Darkness” is the famous novel written by Joseph Conrad, a Polish British
novelist. It was published in 1899. The novel tells the story of a voyage up on the
Congo river in the Congo free state in the heart of Africa. Charles Marlowe is the
main character of this novel. This novel is narrated by an unnamed narrator.

(16) “She Stoop to Conquer” is the best comedy written by Oliver Goldsmith, an Irish
British writer, It was first performed in London in 1773. “The Mistakes of a Night” is
the subtitle of this play as the all events of this play takes place in one long night.

(17) Patrick White is the famous Australian writer as a novelist, short story writer and
playwright. He also won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. “Happy Valley” is the
first novel written by him and published in 1939. His other novels are-
y “The Living and the Dead” (1941)
y “The Tree of Man” (1955)
y “The Aunt’s Story” (1948)

(18) “King Lear” is one of the famous tragedy written by William Shakespeare, a greatest
playwright of the 16th century Elizabethan age, published in 1606. The play is about
the life of King Lear who is modelled after the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear
has three daughters but Cordelia is the most loyal daughter. King Lear vanishes her
from the Kingdom and gives his kingdom to other two daughters Goneril and Regan
who are selfish women. They did not take care of King Lear therefore, Lear also
leaves the kingdom. There is a character Earl of Kent who later disguises as Caius so
that he can continue serve Lear though Lear has banished him also from Kingdom.

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(19) Feminine Rhyme is a rhyme on two syllables in which the last syllable is unstressed.
Example; feather/heather, numbers/ slumbers etc.

(20) Christopher Fry is the British writer of the Modern age late 20th century. His works
are “The Lady’s Not For Burning” (1948) and “Venus Observed” (1950).
y “French Without Tears” is a comedy written by Terence Rattigan, a British writer,
Published in 1936.
y “The Deep Blue Sea” is also a play written by Terence Rattigan, published in 1952.

(21) “Tradition and Individual Talent” is an essay written by T.S. Eliot published in 1919.
It is divided into three parts as the concept of “Tradition”, the theory od Impersonal
poetry and finally the conclusion. According to T. S. Eliot, here, the term “traditional”
usually means something negative.

(22) Cavalier poets is a group of poets in the 17th century who are the followers of King
Charles I.
The writing of these poets are the opposite of the Metaphysical poets of this century.
Cavalier poets are Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling and Thomas
Carew.
y George Herbert, John Donne and Andrew Marvell are the Metaphysical poets of the
17th century.

(23) “The Transcendence of the Ego” is an essay written by Jean Paul Sartre and
published in 1936.
y Other are the works written by Jacques Derrida as “Of Spirit: Heidegger and the
Question” (1987)
“Of Grammatology” (1967)
“The Work of Mourning” (1981-2001)

(24) “Paradise Lost” is a long epic poem written by John Milton, a greatest poet of the 17th
century, published in 1667 with ten books and later published in 1674 with its twelve
books. It is written in Blank verse rhyme. The epic tells the story of Adam and Eve
and creation of mankind in this world. Here, Adam narrates the story of the making
of Eve from a rib in Adam’s side.

(25) A.S. Byatt’s Possession is a popular novel published in 1990. Its subtitle is “A
Romance”. This novel also won the Booker Prize in 1990. This novel attempts the
imitation of thew work of two Victorian poets, loosely based on Robert Browning and
Christina Rossetti.

(26) “The Dark Lady of the Sonnets” is a short comedy written by G.B. Shaw, am Anglo-
Irish writer. It was first performed in 1910. The play set in the sixteenth century,
London. The subject of this play is about Shakespeare who is trying to persuade the
queen to create a national theatre.

(27) As per Oxymoron, it’s a kind of figure of speech in which two opposite words are
placed side by side. Example; Precious bane, a wise fool, bittersweet etc.

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(28) “The Jew of Malta” is a play written by Christopher Marlowe, one of the University
Wits in the 16th century, published in 1592. It’s a revenge tragedy. In the prologue
of this play, Marlowe introduced Machiavelli as Machiavel is thew speaker of the
prologue. This play revolves around the life of a rich Jew merchant named Barabas.

(29) The Unity of Action is one of the three Aristotelian dramatic unities which Dr Johnson
observed most successfully in William Shakespeare.

(30) Robert Burns is praised and patronized as a “Ploughman Poet”. He is also known as
the National Bard and Bard of Ayrshire.

(31) “The Four- Gated City” is a novel written by Doris Lessing, an British- Zimbabwean
novelist. It was published in 1969 and also considered the psychological novel. This
novel ends with a projection forward in time after a devastating atomic war.

(32) The above lines are the example of Iambic Pentameter, it means the line of verse
having five metrical feet and Iambic means an unstressed syllable followed by the
stressed syllables.

(33) As per Buchi Emecheta, She was an Nigerian novelist who provides a fictionalized
portrait of poor, young Nigerian women struggling to bring up their children in
London. He two novels are the example of it as “Second Class Citizen” (1974) and “In
the Ditch” (1972).

(34) “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is one of the most remarkable English novel written by John
Bunyan, published in 1678. It was a Christian or religious allegory. In this novel, the
character Hopeful keeps Christian’s head above water in the River of Death.

(35) “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” is a long poem written by Lord Byron, important
English Romantic Poet, published between 1812 and 1818. Its an autobiographical
poem in four cantos. This poem talks about a Byronic hero who has sadness and
disillusionment in his heart because he is seeing the melancholic nature of the
society after wars.

(36) In Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) Dicing and cards are an leisure pastimes which is not
a favourite among Utopians. Others as music, public lectures and conversations are
the best leisure pastimes in Utopian world.

(37) According to Michael Foucault, Power operates through discourse. There is

connection between power and knowledge. Where there is power, it is possible to
find resistance. In Foucault’s work sexuality is literally not written on the body but it
refers to the play of power and knowledge.

(38) The Great Exhibition took place in the year 1851. It is also known as the Crystal
Palace Exhibition which was architecture by Henry Cole and Prince Albert. It was the
first International Exhibition of the world.

(39) The above lines are the examples of Alliteration, its figure of speech where one word
repeats into several times, examples; “O but I fear the fickle freaks…./ Of fortune
false, and oddes of armes in field” here, the word ‘f’ repeats many times.

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(40) “The Excursion” (1814): William Wordsworth

y “Christabel” (1816): S.T. Coleridge
y “Milton” (1810): William Blake
y “Queen Mab” (1813): P.B. Shelley

(41) Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is an elegiac poem published in
1751. Its about the condition of the country life in rural area and mortality. There are
important lines as “Far From the madding crowd”
“A Youth to fortune and Fame unknown”
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen”
y The line “All nature is but art, unknown to thee” has been taken from the poem
“Essay on Man” written by Alexander Pope, published in 1733.

(42) “Rabbi Ben Ezra” is a famous poem written by Robert Browning, a famous English
Victorian poet and playwright of Dramatic monologues, published in 1864. This poem
is based on the real historical figure Abraham ibn Ezra of the 12th century. It is a
defence of old age against youth.

(43) In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, there are pilgrims who are made up of three
social group or “estates”. These three estates are Nobility, church and commoners. All
the pilgrims are related with these three estates.

(44) “Beloved’ is the best known novel written by Toni Morrison, an American novelist,
published in 1987. The novel is set after the American Civil War. It tells the wrenching
story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a
slave.

(45) Alexander Pope is a very famous pet and satirist in the 18th century English Literature.
He was also known for translating Homer’s great works as his “Translation of the
Iliad” published between 1715- 1720 and “Translation of the Odyssey” appeared in
1725-26.

(46) Shyam Selvadurai is a famous Sri Lankan Canadian novelist who wrote his first great
novel “Funny Boy” published in 1994. Its an coming of age novel. This novel talks
about the Colombo Riots of 1983, sexuality and diaspora.

(47) “Ulysses” is the best Modernist novel written by James Joyce, an Irish writer,
published in 1920. The novel is set in Dublin, Ireland on 16-17 June 1904. Firstly, this
novel is banned in the countries but after sometime it was opened. The English ban
on this novel was lifted in 1936.

(48) W. B. Yeats is not a Imagist.

y Imagist is a group of American and English poets in the 20th century. Ezra Pound, Amy
Lowell, Richard Adlington, F.S. Flint, Hinda Doolittle and T.E. Hulme are the important
figures related to Imagist movement.

(49) Thomas Carew’s Poems appeared in 1640 and it contains a variety of amorous
addresses and reflections on a fictional mistress known as Celia.

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(50) William Golding wrote a novel “Darkness Visible” published in 1979.

y Salman Rushdie wrote a famous science fiction “Grimus” published in 1975.
y Graham Swift wrote a novel named “Waterland” published in 1983.
y Peter Ackroyd wrote an speculative fiction “Hawksmoor” published in 1985.

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Answer Key

(1) 3 (11) 3 (21) 2 (31) 3 (41) 4

(2) 4 (12) 1 (22) 3 (32) 3 (42) 2

(3) 3 (13) 1 (23) 2 (33) 3 (43) 1

(4) 1 (15) 4 (24) 1 (34) 1 (44) 4

(5) 1 (16) 3 (25) 3 (35) 3 (45) 4

(6) 2 (17) 3 (26) 1 (36) 4 (46) 4

(7) 3 (18) 1 (27) 2 (37) 1 (47) 3

(8) 2 (19) 1 (28) 2 (38) 1 (48) 2

(9) 2 (20) 1 (29) 3 (39) 1 (49) 1

(10) 2 (30) 3 (40) 2 (50) 2

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2016 July Paper III

English Literature
(1) Which of W.M. Thackeray’s novel’s closing sentence is this?
“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire?
Or, having it, is satisfied?”
(1) The History of Henry Esmond
(2) Vanity Fair
(3) The Luck of Barry Lyndon
(4) Pendennis

(2) Why does Lovewit in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist leave his house, setting the
stage for his servant Face, along with Subtle, a fake alchemist to fleece people?
(1) To visit his father who left him long ago.
(2) To find out new sources of minting money.
(3) Because of an epidemic of plague.
(4) To make a pilgrimage.

(3) By the end of the nineteen fifties novelists like Stan Barstow, Sid Chaplin, Alan
Sillitoe and David Storey were routinely lumped together as representatives of
“Kitchen-sink realism”. Who in 1954 wrote the article “The Kitchen Sink”, calling
attention to the gritty and direct realism?
(1) Martin Harrison
(2) Stan Smith
(3) David Sylvester
(4) Philip Callow

(4) Which of the following is not an allegorical character in the play Everyman?
(1) Kindred
(2) Strength
(3) Christian
(4) Discretion

(5) Who among the following translators is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad
Gita into English?
(1) Charles Wilkins
(2) Nathaniel Halhead
(3) William Jones
(4) Barbara Stoler Miller

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(6) In Biographia Literaria S.T. Coleridge defines the imagination as the faculty by which
(1) the soul perceives the phenomenal diversity of the universe.
(2) the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.
(3) the mind acquires images by its associative power.
(4) the mind separates images by its discriminatory power.

(7) Why do the Houyhnhnms have so few words in their language?

(1) Their wants and passions are fewer than human wants and passions, and they
need fewer words.
(2) They consider language to be morally corrupt and prefer to remain silent.
(3) They find speech difficult because they are horses.
(4) They prefer action to words.

(8) Identify the title of A.D. Hope’s first published book of poems.
(1) Native Companions
(2) The Wandering Islands
(3) A Midsummer Eve’s Dream
(4) The Cave and the Spring

(9) Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in language teaching?

(1) Learners acquire language by trying to use it in real situations.
(2) Learners’ first language plays an important role in learning.
(3) Language teaching should have a focus on communicative activities.
(4) Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than speech.

(10) The Bhasmasura myth is used in R.K. Narayan’s……

(1) The Man- Eater of Malgudi
(2) The Financial Expert
(3) The English Teacher
(4) The World of Nagaraj

(11) During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from two languages :
I. Celtic
II. Latin
III. French
IV. Old Norse
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) II and IV
(4) III and IV

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(12) Select the right chronological sequence of the date of Bible translations.
(1) King James Version – Tyndale – Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian
Standard Bible
(2) Revised Standard Version – King James Version – Tyndale – Holman Christian
Standard Bible
(3) Tyndale – King James Version – Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian
Standard Version
(4) Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard Bible – King James
Version – Tyndale

(13) The last word in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is

(1) No
(2) The
(3) Morning !
(4) Jaysus

(14) Assertion (A): In so far as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not texts
but paradigms.
Reason (R): We appropriate meaning from a text according to what we need or desire,
or, in other words, according to the critical assumptions or predispositions that we
bring to it.
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

(15) One of the key terms in Michel Foucault’s work is discourse. This is best described as
(1) the power of persuasion in all articulations.
(2) the selective language powerful people use.
(3) conceptual frameworks which enable some mode of thought and deny or
severely constrain certain others.
(4) the ability to suggest transcendental levels of meaning in an utterance.

(16) The narrators of Oroonoko are

I. a woman
II. Oroonoko
III. a purported eye witness of the events described
IV. Trefy
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) I and IV
(2) I and III
(3) II and III

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(4) II and IV

(17) Which character of Henrik Ibsen speaks the following lines : “The life of a normally
constituted idea is generally about seventeen or eighteen years, at the most twenty?”
(1) Nora in A Doll’s House
(2) Dr. Thomas Stockman in An Enemy of the People
(3) John Rosmer in Rosmerscholm
(4) Oswald in Ghosts

(18) In literary studies structuralism promotes

(1) new interpretations of literary works.
(2) the view that literature is one signifying practice among others.
(3) a systematic account of literary archetypes.
(4) unstable structures of systems of signification

(19) P.B. Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo is a conversation between Julian and Count
Maddalo. Who do these two characters represent?
(1) Julian represents Keats and Count Maddalo, Byron
(2) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, Byron
(3) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin
(4) Julian represents Mary Shelley and Count Maddalo, William Godwin

(20) What is practical criticism?

(1) The close analysis of literary texts in such a way as to bring out their political
meaning.
(2) A movement which wished to make literary criticism more relevant.
(3) The close analysis of poems without taking account of any external information.
(4) The study of ambiguity.

(21) Which of the following does not describe some of the practices/beliefs of feminist
literary Criticism?
(1) Feminist criticism recuperates female writers ignored by the canon.
(2) Feminist literary critics offer a criticism of the construction of gender.
(3) Feminist literary critics argue that the traditional canon is justified.
(4) Feminist literary critics mostly reject the essentialising of ‘male’ and ‘female’.

(22) Which work by Franz Kafka is also known as The Man Who Disappeared?
(1) The Castle
(2) “Metamorphosis”
(3) “In the Penal Colony”
(4) Amerika

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(23) Towards the end of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust the protagonist Tony Last is
trapped in the jungle by the calculating crazy Mr. Todd who forces him to read and
reread the novels of a particular author. Waugh has also written a short story dealing
with Tony’s singular experience in the jungle. Who is the novelist referred to and
what is the title of the short story?
(1) Rudyard Kipling, “Revisiting the Jungle”
(2) Joseph Conrad, “Shadows of the Dark Trees”
(3) Charles Dickens, “The Man Who Liked Dickens”
(4) Henry Fielding, “Tom Jones’s Journey into the Wild”

(24) At the beginning of the Restoration period, there was a seismic shift in the social,
political and religious attitudes of the English. Which of the following statements
best describes that shift?
(1) England shifted from an aristocratic Catholic monarchy to a parliamentary
democracy.
(2) England shifted from an atheistic oligarchy to a deistic squirearchy.
(3) England shifted from a Republican Puritan Commonwealth to an aristocratic
Anglican monarchy.
(4) England shifted from a parliamentary democracy to an aristocratic Catholic
tyranny.

(25) The Grammar-Translation Method in English Language Teaching stresses on

(1) Fluency
(2) Accuracy
(3) Appropriateness
(4) Listening Skill

(26) “[They] then heaved out,/ away with a will in their wood-wreathed ship.” This line
describing Beowulf’s departure from Geatland, is typical of the poem’s form and Old
English poetic technique because
I. it features alliteration
II. it rhymes
III. it features onomotopoeia
IV. it has four strong stresses
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) II and IV

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(27) Identify the poet, translator, publisher and essayist who founded a press in the 1950s
called Writers’ Workshop and provided a publishing outlet for Indians writing in
English.
(1) P. Lal
(2) A.K. Mehrotra
(3) Vinay Dharwadkar
(4) A.K. Ramanujan

(28) Antagonised by what he considered to be the provinciality of the Lake Poets,

Byron wrote the preface to which of his works as a rebuke to Wordsworth’s own
introduction to “The Thorn”?
(1) The Prisoner of Chillon
(2) Don Juan
(3) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(4) The Vision of Judgement

(29) Which of the following theoretical movements claimed that “the device is the only
hero of literature”?
(1) Russian formalism
(2) New Criticism
(3) Phenomenology
(4) Deconstruction

(30) In Jean Francois Lyotard’s works the term “language games”, sometimes also called
“phrase regimens” denotes:
I. the multiplicity of communities of meaning.
II. the breakdown of communities of meaning.
III. the innumerable and incommensurable separate systems in which meanings are
produced.
IV. the singular system in which meanings are dispersed and displaced.
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and IV
(2) I and III
(3) II and IV
(4) II and III

(31) What part of Canada is Alice Munro most famous for depicting?
(1) Vancouver
(2) Montreal
(3) Ontario
(4) Quebec

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(32) In John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera what is Peachum’s occupation?

I. Pimp
II. Lawyer
III. Fencer of stolen goods, and master of a gang of thieves
IV. Impeader of less powerful criminals
The right combination according to the code is
(1) III & IV
(2) II & III
(3) I & IV
(4) II & IV

(33) In the opening stanza of “Song of Myself”, Whitman begins his spiritual awakening at
the age of .
(1) 37
(2) 15
(3) 24
(4) 61

(34) In which of the following poems does Tennyson describe and condemn the spirit
of aestheticism whose sole religion is the worship of beauty and of knowledge for
their own sake and which ignores human responsibility and obligations of one’s
fellowmen?
(1) “The Princess”
(2) “The Lady of Shalott”
(3) “The Palace of Art”
(4) “Tithonus”

(35) Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author deliberately blurs the boarder
lines between the world of the theatre and the world of ‘real life’ by carefully
chiselled dialogues like: “Don’t you feel the ground beneath your feet as you reflect
that this ‘you’ which you feel today, all this present reality of yours, is destined to
seem a mere illusion to you tomorrow?” Who is the speaker? Who is it addressed to?
(1) Stepdaughter to Father
(2) Father to Stage Manager
(3) Stage Manager to Director
(4) Mother to Director

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(36) In a poem in memory of Major Robert Gregory, Lady Gregory’s son, W.B. Yeats
mentions an Irish writer who had found his inspiration “In a most desolate stony
place” that he came “Towards nightfall upon a race/ passionate and simple like his
heart.” Who is the writer?
(1) J.M. Barrie
(2) J.M. Synge
(3) Isaac Bickerstaffe
(4) Thomas More

(37) Jacques Derrida’s works received some criticism from analytical philosophers. Who
below was a critic of Derrida?
(1) John Searle
(2) Jean-Francois Lyotard
(3) Emmanuel Levinas
(4) Paul de Man

(38) Who among the following bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet,
George Herbert, near Salisbury, England, in 1996?
(1) Daljit Nagra
(2) Vikram Seth
(3) Amitava Kumar
(4) Arundhati Roy

(39) Which pair of novels by Anita Desai take as their subject the suppression and
oppression of Indian women?
I. Where Shall We Go This Summer?
II. The Zigzag Way
III. Cry, the Peacock
IV. Baumgartner’s Bombay
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and III
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV

(40) From among the following identify the two Indian English authors who received
appreciation and encouragement from their British counterparts:
I. R.K. Narayan, Graham Greene
II. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Evelyn Waugh
III. Mulk Raj Anand, E.M. Forster
IV. Raja Rao, Iris Murdoch

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The right combination according to the code is

(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) I and III
(4) III and IV

(41) Match the character with the work:

CHARACTER WORK

I. Count Fosco A. Villette

II. Margaret B. Adam Bede

III. Lucy Snowe C. The Woman in White

IV. Maggie Tulliver D. North or South

CODES:
I II III IV
(1) CDAB
(2) D C C B
(3) C A D B
(4) C A B D

(42) This poet was accidently killed in Burma by a pistol shot in 1944. His posthumously
published collection of poems Ha ! Ha ! Among the Trumpets is divided into three
sections. The first section describes a tense, waiting England and the second the
voyage to the East. In the third section he uncomfortably comes to terms with the
alien contours, the harsh light and the dry wastes of India as evident in poems like
“The Maratta Ghats”, “Indian Day” and “Observation Post: Forward Area.” Who is the
poet?
(1) Keith Douglas
(2) Sidney Keyes
(3) David Gascoyne
(4) Alun Lewis

(43) As Adam and Eve leave Paradise, “hand in hand with wand’ring steps and slow” (Book
XII, Paradise Lost) what is their consolation?
(1) They are comforted by their love for one another.
(2) They are comforted by their foreknowledge of the coming of Christ as Redeemer
of mankind.
(3) They are comforted by God, who travels before them in the form of a pillar of
fire.
(4) They are comforted by the angel, who holds each of them by the hand.

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(44) In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy to whom does Dryden refer with the phrase “he
needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature”?
(1) Ben Jonson
(2) Ovid
(3) William Shakespeare
(4) Geoffrey Chaucer

(45) Emily Dickinson’s use of “open form” or “free verse” is comparable to her
contemporary American poet
(1) Anne Bradstreet
(2) Robert Lowell
(3) Walt Whitman
(4) Sylvia Plath

(46) In “A Letter of the Authors” Edmund Spenser writes that two characters in Faerie
Queene represent Queen Elizabeth. Who are they?
I. Britomart
II. Cynthia
III. Belphoebe
IV. The Faerie Queene
The right combination according to the code is
(1) III and IV
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and III

(47) Who among the following African novelists was a student of philosophy and literature
in India?
(1) Nuruddin Farah
(2) Ben Okri
(3) Helon Habila
(4) Benjamin Kwakye

(48) In particular William Blake was influenced by the religious writings of

I. Martin Luther
II. Jacob Boehme
III. Emanuel Swedenborg
IV. Confucious
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and IV
(2) I and II
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV

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(49) Which British King, having defeated the Viking invaders, consciously used the English
language to create a sense of national identity and retain political control over
independent countries?
(1) Alfred the Great
(2) Edward the Elder
(3) King Arthur
(4) Ethelbert of Kent

(50) In “Politics and the English Language” George Orwell provides a list of rules to aid in
curing the English language. What is the final rule?
(1) Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to
seeing in print.
(2) Never use a long word where a short one will do.
(3) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
(4) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

(51) In his Defence of Poesy what is the “best and most accomplished kind of poetry” in
Sidney’s estimation?
(1) Heroical, or epic poetry
(2) Lyric poetry
(3) Pastoral poetry
(4) Elegiac poetry

(52) Which writer of the Romantic period makes the following comment : “The poet is far
from dealing only with these subtle and analogical truths. Truth of every kind belongs
to him, provided it can bud into any kind of beauty, or is capable of being illustrated
and impressed by poetic faculty”?
(1) Wordsworth in Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
(2) William Hazlitt in “On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth”
(3) Leigh Hunt in What is Poetry?
(4) Keats in one of his letters to his brother

(53) In his poem “Whispers of Immortality” T.S. Eliot says that a dramatist “was much
possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the
anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.” Who are the dramatist and the
poet referred to by Eliot?
(1) Christopher Marlowe and Andrew Marvell
(2) John Webster and John Donne
(3) Seneca and Homer
(4) Thomas Kyd and Henry Vaughan

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(54) Functional Communicative Approach in English Language Teaching is in opposition to

(1) Structural Approach
(2) Comprehensive Approach
(3) Translation and Grammar Method
(4) Functional Approach

(55) According to Julia Kristeva, it is the eruption of the ---------- within the ---------
that provides the creative and innovative impulse of modern poetic language.
(1) individual, tradition
(2) specific, generic
(3) semiotic, symbolic
(4) particular, general

(56) In Crime and Punishment which character speaks the following words. Who/what are
they addressed to?
“I waited for you impatiently…. all this blasted psychology is a double-edged
weapon.”
(1) Svidrigailov to the pistol with which he shoots himself
(2) Katherine Ivanovna to Marmeladov
(3) Porfiry Petrovich to Raskolnikov
(4) Raskolnikov to the Bible he finds in the prison cell in Siberia

(57) What three Germanic tribes invaded Britons in the fifth century AD, bringing with
them the roots of modern English?
(1) The Danes, Saxons and Celts
(2) The Celts, Jutes and Saxons
(3) The Saxons, Danes and Angles
(4) The Jutes, Angles and Saxons

(58) Which of the following is not a part of the series of poems called Jejuri, written by
Arun Kolatkar?
(1) “Yeshwant Rao”
(2) “Chaitanya”
(3) “The Priest”
(4) “An Old Man”

(59) Bertolt Brecht’s concept of alienation was a rejection of the idea that realism was
the only mode of art a critique of capitalist society should produce. Alienation is best
described as
(1) making the audience feel that they do not belong.
(2) distancing artistic conventions to prevent an emotional catharsis.
(3) scripting unnatural behaviour on stage.
(4) a rejection of capitalism or the market.

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(60) Ngugi wa Thiongo changed the medium of his writing from English to .
(1) Swahili
(2) Yoruba
(3) Xhosa
(4) Gikuyu

(61) Which of the following ancient critics does Alexander Pope commend as exemplary in
Essay on Criticism?
(1) Aristotle, Quintilian, Dryden, Dionysius, Horace
(2) Aristotle, Longinus, Quintilian, Durfy, Dryden
(3) Aristotle, Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian, Longinus
(4) Aristotle, Horace, Durfy, Quintilian, Longinus

(62) Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin is best described as a self-elegy,
anticipating the poet’s death?
(1) “The Old Fools”
(2) “Aubade”
(3) “Ambulances”
(4) “Faith Healing”

(63) In John Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress what is the first obstacle encountered by
Christian on his progress?
(1) The Slough of Despond
(2) Vanity Fair
(3) The River of Death
(4) The Swamp of Despair

(64) Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication of the four parts of The
Four Quartets.
(1) Burnt Norton – The Dry Salvages – East Coker – Little Gidding
(2) Burnt Norton – Little Gidding –The Dry Salvages – East Coker
(3) Burnt Norton – East Coker – The Dry Salvages – Little Gidding
(4) Little Gidding – Burnt Norton – The Dry Salvages – East Coker

(65) Which of the following is not true of the novels of Charles Dickens?
(1) They deal with the problems of the discontents of an urban civilization.
(2) The plots are strikingly tight-knit.
(3) They share a sense of fun and determining optimism.
(4) They incorporate elements of popular contemporary culture.

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(66) Published in 1604, the first monolingual English Dictionary was

(1) Nathaniel Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
(2) Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language
(3) Robert Cawdrey’s Table Alphabetical
(4) Thomas Blount’s Glossographia

(67) Which of the following statements best describe the narrative perspective employed
in Thomas More’s Utopia?
I. First-person narration by Raphael Hythloday
II. Third-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More
III. First-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More
IV. Third-person narration by Raphael Hythloday
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) I and II

(68) In the opening pages of one of Thomas Mann’s novels we can see space itself
becoming a form of time : “Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness but it does
so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive
unattached state.” Which is the novel?
(1) Doctor Faustus
(2) Death in Venice
(3) The Confessions of Felix Krull
(4) The Magic Mountain

(69) Match the lines with the titles of the poems:

Lines
I. The boa-constrictor’s coil/ Is a fossil
II. My manners are tearing off heads/The allotment of Death
III. More coiled steel than living
IV. Time in the sea eats its tail
Titles of the poems
A. “Thrushes”
B. “The Jaguar”
C. “Relic”
D. “Hawk Roosting”

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Codes :
I II III IV
(1) ADAC
(2) B D A C
(3) C D B A
(4) D B C A

(70) Which one of Joseph Conrad’s novels expresses the contrast between the solidarity
of shipboard life and the profound underlying loneliness of existence thus:
“loneliness impenetrable and transparent, elusive and everlasting…… that surrounds,
envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and perhaps
beyond”?
(1) The Heart of Darkness
(2) The Nigger of the Narcissus
(3) Lord Jim
(4) Nostromo

(71) John Dryden’s two philosophico-religious poems are

I. Absalom and Achitophel
II. A Layman’s Faith
III. Annus Mirabilis
IV. The Hind and the Panther
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) III and I
(3) II and III
(4) II and IV

Read the following poem and answer the questions, 72 to 75:

Stray Cats They are not exactly homeless.
They are dissidents who have lost their faith in furnished interiors, morning walks, the
cake and the cutlery.
When you have nine lives to live you learn to take things in your stride.
You learn to stretch your body at full length and yawn at domestic fictions. And for this
reason you figure in horror films in the mandatory moment between the flash of lightning
and the appearance of the ghost.
The light is darkish blue and you see yourself in the iris of the burning eye. The horror is
in the seeing.
What you see is altered by the act of seeing. The mystery does not stop there. The seer is
in turn altered by what he sees. Having known this, stray cats jump from roof to roof.
They monitor the world from treetops And hold their weekly meetings In the graveyard,
like wandering mendicants.

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And when they walk out of the mirror Of the sun and cross the crowded road In a flash,
for a shining moment,
They lurk in the light like a giant shadow Of doubt. Ill- omens to those who cannot See
beyond what they see.

(72) The poem constructs its account of stray cats by way of a contrast with
(1) wild cats
(2) ominous cats
(3) domestic cats
(4) mysterious cats

(73) In the overall context, what do “furnished interiors, morning walks,/ the cake and the
cutlery” represent ?
(1) Ordinary life
(2) “Domestic fictions”
(3) “A giant shadow of doubt”
(4) Creaturely comforts

(74) The last two lines suggest that cats crossing the crowded road
(1) is an unexceptionable superstition.
(2) is not necessarily the ill-omen it is held out to be.
(3) is an example of human obsession.
(4) is indicative of the homelessness of stray cats.

(75) From among the following select two words that help accentuate the enigmatic
character of stray cats:
I. Doubt
II. Mandatory
III. Faith
IV. Mystery
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and IV
(3) II and IV
(4) III and IV

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Explanation
(1) “Vanity Fair” is the most celebrated novel written by W.M. Thackeray, an British
novelist and writer, published in 1848 with an subtitle ‘A novel without a Hero’. It has
also another subtitle as “Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society”. It talks about
the life of two women Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp. The closing lines of this novel
is “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or, having it, is
satisfied?”

(2) Ben Johnson’s play The Alchemist is a famous comedy which published in 1610. In
this play, Lovewit leaves his house because of an epidemic of plague and set his
stage for his servant Face, along with Subtle, a fake alchemist to fleece people.

(3) The critic David Sylvester wrote the article “The Kitchen Sink” in 1954 which is calling
attention to the gritty and direct realism in reference to Bratby’s picture. It is a
British movement that emerged in the art, literature and film during 1950s- 1960s. By
the end of the nineteen fifties novelists like Stan Barstow, Sid Chaplin, Alan Sillitoe
and David Storey were routinely lumped together as representatives of “Kitchen- sink
realism”.

(4) “Everyman” is the famous Morality play of the late 15th century. The characters of this
play are allegorical who examines about the Christian salvation and the good deeds
of a man. Kindred, Strength and Discretion are the important allegorical characters
while Christian is not an allegorical character.

(5) Charles Wilkins is the notable figure as an Orientalist and founding member of The
Asiatic Society. He is best known as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into the
English language. It was published in 1785 with the title “Bhagvat- geeta, or Dialogues
of Kreeshna and Arjoon”.

(6) In Biographia Literaria (1817), S. T. Coleridge defines the imagination as the faculty by
which the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe. In this work, he also talks
about the primary and secondary imagination. It was his best critical work having 24
chapters which gives us several important terms of literature as ‘Willing suspension
of disbelief’ and ‘esmeplastic’ etc.

(7) “Gulliver’s Travels” is the most famous book written by Jonathan Swift, a satirist of
the 18th century. It was a prose satire published in 1726. It is divided into four parts.
Its full title is “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In four Parts. By
Lemuel Gulliver, First as a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships”. In the
last and fourth part of this novel, Gulliver travels in a voyage to the Land of the
Houyhnhnms, here he meets a race of talking horses. Houyhnhnms have so few
words in their language because their wants ands passions are fewer than human
wants and passions and they need fewer words.

(8) “The Wandering Islands” is the first published book of poems written by A.D. Hope,
an Australian Modern age poet. It was published as a collection of poems in 1955. It
is a collection of total 39 poems by him.

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(9) In the Language teaching, learners acquire language by trying to use it in real
situations and learners’ first language plays an important role in learning. In it,
language teaching should have a focus on communicative activities but it does not
give importance to writing rather than speech.

(10) “The Man- Eater of Malgudi” is one of the famous novels written by R.K. Narayan, an
Indian novelist who is notable for using a fictional country Malgudi in his works. It
was published in 1961. It is astory of an Indian printer named Nagaraj who lived in
an imaginary town of South India. In this novel, R. K. Narayan used the Bhasmasura
myth through the character Vasu, a taxidermist.

(11) During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from the two important
languages as Latin and French language. Thererfore, English language is known as the
mixture of several different languages.

(12) Tyndale’s Bible translation: 1525

y King James Version of translation: 1611
y Revised Standard Version of translation: 1646 to 2006 (several publications)
y Holman Christian Standard Version of translation: 2004

(13) “Finnegans Wake” is one of the famous novel written by James Joyce, an Irish writer.
It was published in 1939. This novel has total seventeen chapters and it is divided
into four books or parts. The last word of this novel is “The”.

(14) In so far as we are taught how to read, what we engage are not texts but paradigms
because this appropriate meaning from a text according to what we need or desire,
or, in other words, according to the critical assumptions or predispositions that we
bring to it.
Thus, both are the true and correct explanation of the sentence.

(15) Michel Foucault is the famous French philosopher and theorist who is most popular
for his ideas and key terms. ‘Discourse’ is one of them which we found in his works.
Discourse is a conceptual framework which enable some mode of thought and deny
or severely constrain certain others.

(16) “Oroonoko” is a novel written by Aphra Behn, English woman writer of the Restoration
age. This prose fiction published in 1688. It has also a subtitle as “the Royal Slave. A
True History”. This novel tells the story of Oroonoko’s life and slavery. The narrators
of this novel are a woman and a purported eye witness of the events described.

(17) “An Enemy of the People” is a play written by Henrik Ibsen, an Norwegian writer, first5
performed in 1883. Dr Thomas Stockman is the central character of this play who is
the doctor of small Norwegian town. He is presented as the hero of public health. He
speaks some important lines as “The life of a normally constituted idea is generally
about seventeen or eighteen years, at the most twenty?”

(18) In literary studies ‘Structuralism’ promotes the view that literature is one signifying
practice among others. It focuses on the conditions that make meaning possible,

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rather than the meaning itself. It was emerged in late 1960s in literature. They
focuses on the deep structure of the text and its meaning.

(19) “Julian and Meddalo” is a poem written by P. B. Shelley, an important English

Romantic poet, published posthumously in 1824. In this poem, there is a conversation
between Julian and Count Meddalo, here the character of Julian represents Shelley
and Count Meddalo represents Lord Byron.

(20) As per Practical Criticism, It is the close analysis of poem without taking account of
any external information. Its main aim to encourage students to concentrate on “the
words on the page”. “Practical Criticism” is also an important work written by I.A.
Richards published in 1929.

(21) As per the practices/ beliefs of feminist literary criticism, It recuperates female
writers ignored by the canon and its critics offer a criticism of the construction of
gender. Feminist literary critics mostly reject the essentialising of ‘male’ and ‘female’.
They does not argue that the traditional canon is justified.

(22) “Amerika” is a novel written by Franz Kafka, an German speaking Bohemian writer of
the Modern age, published posthumously in 1927. This novel is also known as “The
Man Who Disappeared”, “The Missing Person’ and “Lost in America”. Originally, it is
written in the German Language titled “Der Verschollene”. The first chapter of this
novel is an short story “The Stoker”.

(23) In Evelyn Waugh’s novel The Handful of Dust (1934), the protagonist named Tony
Lumpkin refers a short story titled “The Man Who Liked Dickens” written by Charles
Dickens.

(24) At the beginning of the Restoration Period in 1660, there was a seismic shift in
social, political and religious attitudes of the English language that It shifted from a
Republican Puritan Commonwealth to an aristocratic Anglican monarchy.

(25) The Grammar- Translation Method in English Language Teaching chiefly stresses
on accuracy. It’s a method of foreign language and second language teaching. This
method mainly focuses on the translation of the sentences between the targeted
language and the native language through which they can learn English language. It
does not focuses on the fluency of speaking language.

(26) “Beowulf” is an most famous poem written in 7th to 8th century AD by an anonymous
writer. It is an Old English epic poem having 3182 lines. It is the most translated
poem also by the Modern writers. The above line is written in Old English poetic
technique because it features alliteration and it has four strong stresses.

(27) Purushottama Lal (P. Lal) is an famous Indian poet, translator, publisher and essayist
of the 20th century who founded a press in the 1950s called Writers’ Workshop and
provided a publishing outlet for Indians writing in English.

(28) “Don Juan” is a satirical and epic poem written by Lord Byron, an English Romantic
poet, published between 1819 and 1824. It was written in Ottavarima form. In the
preface of this poem, Byron rebukes Wordsworth’s own introduction to “The Thorn”.

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(29) Russian Formalism is an important literary criticism movement of the 20th century
which came in Russia in 1910s to 1920s. It claimed that “the device is the only
hero of literature”. It also make an important distinction between sjuzet (plot) and
fabula (story). The important members of this school are Roman Jacobson, Boris
Eikhenbaum, Viktor Shklovsky, Osip Brik, Yury Tynyanov etc.

(30) In Jean Francois Lyotard’s works the term “language games”, sometimes also
called “phrase regimens” denotes the multiplicity of communities of meaning and
the innumerable and incommensurable separate systems in which meanings are
produced.

(31) Alice Munro is the important Canadian Short Story writer who is most famous
for depicting Ontario, as a part of Canada. She also achieved the Noble Prize in
Literature in 2013. His some short stories are ‘The Moons of Jupiter’, ‘The Progress of
Love’, ‘Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage’, ‘Runaway’, ‘Dear Life’ etc.

(32) John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera is an famous ballad opera performed in 1728. It has three
acts. The character Macheath is played an important role of both a hero and anti-
hero. Here, Peachum is also the character whose occupation is to fencer of stolen
goods, and master of a gang of thieves. He is also an impeader of less powerful
criminals.

(33) “Song of Myself” is the most remarkable poem written by Walt Whitman, an famous
American writer. It was published in 1855 under the collection “Leaves of Grass”. It
has total 52 sections. In the opening stanza of this poem, Whitman talks about the
beginning of his spiritual awakening at the age of 37 as he says the line “I, now thirty-
seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death”.

(34) “The Palace of Art” is an important poem written by Alfred Tennyson published in
1832. In this poem, The poet describes the spirit of aestheticism whose sole religion
is the worship of beauty and of knowledge for their own sake and which ignores
human responsibility and obligations of one’s fellowmen.

(35) The above lines have been taken from Luigi Pirandello’s play in three acts “Six
Character in Search of an Author”, published in 1921. These lines are spoken by father
and addressed to the Stage Manager.

(36) “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory” is a poem written by W.B. Yeats, an Irish poet.
Its an elegy written on the death of Major Robert Gregory, the son of Lady Gregory,
an Irish airman who died in World War I. In this poem, Yeats also mentions an Irish
writer J.M. Synge who is his inspiration “In a most desolate stony place” that he
came “Towards nightfall upon a race/ passionate and simple like his heart”.

(37) John Searle is an American philosopher who is a critic of Jacques Derrida. He mainly
point out Derrida’s Deconstructionist idea. In 1970s, Searle gave his brief exchange
with Derrida regarding Speech act theory. Derrida’s works received some criticism
from analytical philosophers and John Searle ids one of them.

(38) Vikram Seth is an famous Indian novelist and poet who bought and renovated thew
house of the Anglican poet, George Herbert, near Salisbury, England in 1996.

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(39) “Where Shall We Go This Summer?”(1975) and “Cry, the Peacock”(1963) are the novels
written by Anita Desai where she takes the subject of suppression and oppression of
Indian women.
y “The Zigzag Way”: (2004)
y “Baumgartner’s Bombay”: (1988)

(40) R. K. Narayan received encouragement appreciation from the British writer Graham
Greene and Mulk Raj Anand was also an Indian English author who received
appreciation and encouragement from the British writer E.M. Forster.

(41) Count Fosco: “The Woman in White” by Wilkie Collins.

y Margaret Hale: “North or South’ by Elizabeth Gaskell
y Lucy Snowe: “Villette” by Charlotte Bronte
y Maggie Tulliver: “The Mill on the Floss” by George Eliot

(42) The above description is related with the Welsh poet Alun Lewis, an famous poet of
the Second World War in the English language.

(43) In Milton’s “Paradise Lost” book XII, as Adam and Eve leave Paradise, “hand in
hand with wand’ring steps and slow” It seems that they are comforted by their
foreknowledge of the coming of Christ as Redeemer of mankind.

(44) “Essay of Dramatic Poesy” is a famous critical work written by John Dryden,
published in 1668. It has written into dialogue form. There are four characters as
Lisideius, Crites, Eugenius and Neander who present their views about drama and
poetry. In this essay, Dryden refers to William Shakespeare with the phrase “he
needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature”.

(45) Emily Dickinson is compared to her contemporary American poet Walt Whitman for
using of “open form” or “free verse” in her poems.

(46) Edmund Spenser was a most remarkable poet of the 16th century Elizabethan age
who is best known for his greatest allegorical poem “Faerie Queene”. In “A Letter of
the Authors”, Spenser wrote that the two characters of “Faerie Queene” as Belphoebe
and The Faerie Queene represent Queen Elizabeth I of England.

(47) Nuruddin Farah is an African Somali novelist who was also a student of philosophy
and literature in India. His famous works are “From a Crooked Rib”, “Hiding in Plain
Sight”, “ Sweet and Sour Milk” etc.

(48) William Blake is one of the greatest English Romantic poet and painter. In Particular,
he was influenced by the religious writings of Jacob Boehme and Emanuel
Swedenborg. Blake is mainly known as the inventer of the engraved paintings in his
poems.

(49) Alfred the Great was the British King from 871 to 899 in the Anglo- Saxon period who
was defeated the Viking invaders. He is also consciously used the English language
to create a sense of national identity and retain political control over independent
countries.

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(50) “Politics and the English Language” is an essay written by George Orwell, a famous
English Modern age writer and critic. It was published in 1946. In this essay, Orwell
provides a list of rules to aid in curing the English language. Its final rule is to break
any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

(51) Sidney’s Defence of Poesy is a famous critical work published in 1595. In this essay,
he talks about the nature of poetry and its kinds. This work is a reply to Stephen
Gosson’s charges against poetry. According to Philip Sidney, Heroical or epic poetry is
the “best and most accomplished kind of poetry”.

(52) The above comment “The poet is far from dealing only with these subtle and
analogical truths. Truth of every kind belongs to him, provided it can bud into any
kind of beauty, or is capable of being illustrated and impressed by poetic faculty” is
made by the famous writer of the Romantic period Leigh Hunt in his essay “What is
Poetry?”. This essay also influenced the other great writers for writing treatises as
Shelley, Wordsworth and Coleridge.

(53) “Whispers of Immortality” is poem written by T.S. Eliot, an English Modern poet and
writer. It was published in 1920. In this poem, he says that a dramatist “was much
possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the
anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.” Here, Eliot refers the dramatist
John Webster and the poet John Donne.

(54) Functional Communicative Approach is opposite to the Structural Approach in

English Language Teaching. In Functional Communicative approach, the learner learns
the English language through the natural approach. This method mainly focuses on
the ability of communication.

(55) As per Julia Kristeva, she is a famous Bulgarian- French philosopher and literary
critic. According to her, It is the eruption of the semiotic within the symbolic that
provides the creative and innovative impulse of modern poetic language.

(56) “Crime and Punishment” is one of the best crime fiction novel written by Fyodor
Dostoevsky, an Russian author, published in 1866. It is also considered the
philosophical and psychological novel. In this novel, the character Porfiry Petrovich
speaks this line “I waited for you impatiently…. All this blasted psychology is a
double- edged weapon”. He addresses this line to Raskolnikov.

(57) The Jutes, Angels and Saxons were the three Germanic tribes who invaded Britons in
the fifth century AD, bringing with them the roots of modern English.

(58) “Jejuri” is a series of poems written by Arun Kolatkar,an Indian poet, it was published
in 1976. It is about the author’s visit to the actual place Jejuri in Pune in 1964. It is
a collection of 31 poetic sequence. “Yeshwant Rao”, “Chaitanya” and “The Priest” are
the part of series of poems. “The Old Man” is not related with it.

(59) In Bertolt Brecht’s theory of alienation effect, alienation is best described as the
distancing artistic conventions to prevent an emotional catharsis.
y Bertolt Brecht was a famous German theatre practitioner and writer of the early 20th
century who also forwarded the theory of “alienation effect”.

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(60) Ngugi wa Thiongo is a famous Kenyan writer in the Modern age changed the medium
of his writing from English language to Gikuyu language. The journal ‘Mutiiri’ is
founded by him in the Gikuyu language.

(61) Aristotle, Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian and Longinus are the ancient critics who
commended as exemplary by Alexander Pope in his work “Essay on Criticism”. This
poem is written in heroic couplets and first published anonymously in 1711.

(62) “Aubade” is the poem written by Philip Larkin which is best described as a self-
elegy, anticipating the poet’s death. It was published in 1977. This poem is about the
inescapable nature of death and the moments of despair in humankinds.

(63) “The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come or The Pilgrim’s
Progress” is the best novel written by John Bunyan, an 17th century writer. It was
a Christian allegory published in 1678. The Slough of Despond is the first obstacle
encountered by Christian on his progress. He also faced several other challenges in
the different places during his journey.

(64) “Four Quartets” is a collection of four best poems written by T.S. Eliot, a famous
English Modern poet and critic. It was published together in 1943. There is the
chronological sequence of publication of the four parts-
Burnt Norton (1936)
East Coker (1940)
The Dry Salvages (1941)
Little Gidding (1942)

(65) As per the novels of Charles Dickens, they deal with the problems of the discontents
of an urban civilization and they share a sense of fun and determining optimism. His
novel’s incorporated the elements of popular contemporary culture.

(66) Robert Cawdrey ‘s Table Alphabetical is the first monolingual English Dictionary
published in 1604.
y A Universal Etymological English Dictionary was a most popular dictionary of the 18th
century, compiled by Nathaniel Bailey and first published in London in 1721.
y Thomas Blount’s tlossographia’ was first published in 1656. It defined words obtained
from Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Saxon, Turkish, French and Spanish. Its explained words
used in disciplines such as mathematics, anatomy, war, music and architecture.
y Samuel Johnson’s ‘Dictionary of the English Language’ is the huge scholarly
achievement in the history, first published in 1755. It was the most successful
dictionary not only in the 18th century but also it is celebrated success till now.

(67) Thomas More’s Utopia is the most celebrated work in the English literature, it was
published in 1516. First person narration by Raphael Hythloday and First- person
narration by a narrator named Thomas More are best describes the narrative
perspective employed in this work.

(68) The above description is related with Thomas Mann’s novel “The Magic Mountain”
published in 1924. It is an bildungsroman novel.

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(69) I. The boa-constrictor’s coil/ Is a fossil: “The Jaguar”

II. My manners are tearing off heads/The allotment of Death: “Hawk Roosting”
III. More coiled steel than living: “Thrushes”
IV. Time in the sea eats its tail: “Relic”

(70) (71) John Dryden is an most celebrated English Restoration playwright, poet and
critic. His two philosophico- religious poems are “A Layman’s Faith” (1682) and “The
Hind and the Panther” (1687).

(72) According to the poem, it constructs its account of stray cats by way of a contrast
with domestic cats.

(73) In the overall context, the above line refers to “Domestic fictions”.

(74) The last two lines of this poem suggest that cats crossing the crowded road is not
necessarily the ill- omen, it is held out to be.

(75) Doubt and Mystery are the two words that help accentuate the enigmatic character
of stray cats.

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Answer Key

(1) 2 (16) 2 (31) 3 (46) 1 (61) 3

(2) 3 (17) 2 (32) 1 (47) 1 (62) 2

(3) 3 (18) 2 (33) 1 (48) 3 (63) 1

(4) 3 (19) 2 (34) 3 (49) 1 (64) 3

(5) 1 (20) 3 (35) 2 (50) 4 (65) 2

(6) 2 (21) 3 (36) 2 (51) 1 (66) 3

(7) 1 (22) 4 (37) 1 (52) 3 (67) 1

(8) 2 (23) 3 (38) 2 (53) 2 (68) 4

(9) 4 (24) 3 (39) 2 (54) 1 (69) 2

(10) 1 (25) 2 (40) 3 (55) 3 (70) * Dropped

(11) 2 (26) 3 (41) * Dropped (56) 3 (71) 4

(12) 3 (27) 1 (42) 4 (57) 4 (72) 3

(13) 2 (28) 2 (43) 2 (58) 4 (73) 2

(14) 1 (29) 1 (44) 3 (59) 2 (74) 2

(15) 3 (30) 2 (45) 3 (60) 4 (75) 2

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2016 August Paper II

English Literature Re-Test
(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

(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

(3) Match the character with the author:

List – I List – II

I. Madeline A. Blake

II. Prometheus B. Byron

III. Urizen C. Shelley

IV. Childe Harold D. Keats

Codes:
I II III IV
(1) BCAD
(2) C D A B
(3) D C A B
(4) C D B A

(4) The phrase “loud colour” is an example of

(1) Synecdoche
(2) Synaesthesia
(3) Redundancy
(4) Paraleipsis

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(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

(6) Match the Graham Greene novel with its setting:

List – I List – II

I. The Ministry of Fear A. Vienna

II. The Third Man B. Mexico

III. The Power and the Glory C. Vietnam

IV. The Quiet American D. London

Codes:
I II III IV
(1) DABC
(2) B A C D
(3) D B A C
(4) C D B A

(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

(8) Patrick White’s classic work Voss is based on the story of a …………… explorer.
(1) Flemish
(2) Australian
(3) German
(4) Spanish

(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

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(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

(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

(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

(13) In Restoration comedy, character names often reveal character traits. What trait does
the name Sir Wilfull Witwoud reveal?
(1) Woodenness
(2) Miserliness
(3) A desire to be thought of as witty
(4) Petulance

(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

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(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

(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

(17) In King Lear to which woman has Edmund sworn his love?
(1) Cordelia
(2) Goneril
(3) Regan
(4) both Goneril and Regan

(18) The poetic line, “Break, break, break” is an example of

(1) spondee
(2) trochee
(3) iambus
(4) pyrrhics

(19) Ben Jonson’s Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue is a

(1) domestic tragedy
(2) masque
(3) villanelle
(4) closet drama

(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

(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

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(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

(23) Lady Dedlock is a character in Dickens’s

(1) Bleak House
(2) Great Expectations
(3) David Copperfield
(4) Hard Times

(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

(25) Where does Conrad’s Heart of Darkness begin?

(1) The Congo
(2) The Thames
(3) Belgium
(4) The Atlantic

(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.

(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”

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(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.

(29) According to Foucault sexuality points to discourses about all the following EXCEPT
(1) Medicine
(2) Anthropology
(3) Psychology
(4) Criminology

(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

(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

(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.

(33) Which novel did James Joyce call “the English Ulysses”?
(1) Robinson Crusoe
(2) Clarissa
(3) Vanity Fair
(4) Great Expectations

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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

(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

(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

(37) In Wide Sargasso Sea what is the name of Rochester’s Creole wife-to-be?
(1) Bertha
(2) Martha
(3) Jane
(4) Barbara

(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

(39) Purple Hisbiscus is a work by

(1) Cyprian Ekwensi
(2) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(3) Seffi Atta
(4) Chukwuemeka Ike

(40) Which country is Jacques Derrida born in?

(1) France
(2) South Africa
(3) Algeria
(4) Belgium

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(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
(3) Roots
(4) Chicken Soup with Barley

(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

(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

(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

(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

(46) Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym that refers to

(1) E.L. Woodward
(2) Charles Lutwidge Dodson
(3) Michael Brock
(4) W.E. Houghton

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(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

(48) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a …………… by …………….

(1) novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne
(2) play, Mrs. Radcliffe
(3) poem, William Blake
(4) sermon, Laurence Sterne

(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

(50) Match the poets with the collection:

List – I List – II

I. Philip Larkin A. Lupercal

II. Geoffrey Hill B. Door into the Dark

III. Ted Hughes C. The Less Deceived

IV. Seamus Heaney D. For the Unfallen

CODES:
I II III IV
(1) CDBA
(2) C B D A
(3) C D A B
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Explanation
(1) “The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come or The Pilgrim’s
Progress” is the best novel written by John Bunyan, an 17th century writer. It was
a Christian allegory published in 1678. The Slough of Despond is the first obstacle
encountered by Christian on his progress. He discovers the way to Hell is the fate of
ignorance in this novel.

(2) “Tess of the D’urbervilles” is one of the best novel written by Thomas Hardy, an
English Victorian poet and novelist, published in 1891. The subtitle of this novel is “A
Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”. Its important characters are Alec d’Urberville, Tess
Durbeyfield, Angel Clare, Parson Tringham and John Durbeyfield etc. In this novel,
God is referred to as “The President of Immortals”.

(3) Madeline: characterized by John Keats in “The Eve of St. Agnes”.

y Prometheus: characterized by P.B. Shelley in “Prometheus Unbound”.
y Urizen: characterized by William Blake in “The Book of Urizen”.
y Childe Harold: characterized by Lord Byron in “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”.

(4) As per ‘Synaesthesia’, it is a joining together of sensations that are normally

experienced separately in English Language. The phrase “loud colour” is an example
of it.

(5) “Doctor Faustus or The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus” is
the most celebrated play written by Christopher Marlowe, an English playwriter of
the 16th century and one of the University Wits. The play is published in 1604. It is
an famous Elizabethan tragedy based on the German Story. Doctor Faustus is the
protagonist of the play who is warned not “to practice more than heavenly power
permits”.

(6) The Ministry of Fear (1943): London

y The Third Man (1949): Vienna
y The Power and the Glory (1940): Mexico
y The Quiet American (1955): Vietnam

(7) “Dubliners” is the famous collection of short stories published by James Joyce, an
Irish author of the Modern age, published in 1914. It was a collection of his fifteen
short stories. Irish nationalism is the best theme of these stories.

(8) Patrick White was a famous Australian writer, he is known for his best novels. “Voss”
is one of his most celebrated classic novel published in 1957. It is based on the story
of a German Prussian explorer in the 19th century named Ludwig Leichhardt. This
novel revolves around the two main characters as Voss and Laura, a young orphaned
woman.

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(9) “Traditional and Individual Talent” is an famous essay written by T.S. Eliot, an English
Modern author, published in 1919. He is well known poet, playwright as well as
literary critic also. In this essay, Eliot describes the Workings of the poet’s mind in
terms of a chemical reaction. Thus, he compares the poet to a catalyst.

(10) Brian Friel is the most celebrated dramatist of English language in the Post-Modern
age. He was an Irish author who is famous for writing an immensely powerful play
about the remapping od Irish places with the British names. His important works
are “Philadelphia, Here I Come!” (1964), “Faith Healer” (1979), “Translations” (1980),
“Dancing at Lughnasa” (1990) etc.

(11) The term ‘Empiricism’ is not related to a movement in art or literature. It is a term in
philosophy which means learning through experience. Empiricist believes that we get
all our knowledge by the uses of five human senses. It is a scientific method which
belongs to the experience of life not intuition.
y All other Cubism, Expressionism and Surrealism are related movements in art or
literature.

(12) “Kubla Khan” is a famous poem written by S. T. Coleridge, an important figure of

English Romantic age. It is thought to have been written in 1797, but it was not
published until 1816. Lord Byron persuaded Coleridge to publish this poem. Its full
title is “Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment”.

(13) In Restoration comedy, characters names often reveal about the character and its
traits. Sir Wilfull Witwoud is an important character in the famous Restoration play
“The Way of the World” (1700) written by William Congreve. The name of Sir Wilfull
Witwould reveals a desire to be thought of as witty.

(14) John Henry Newman is the important religious figure in the history of England in the
19th century. He was a theologian, novelist as well as poet also. “Loss and Gain” (1848)
and “Callista” (1855) are the two novels written by him.
y “The Grammar of Assent” is a philosophical book by Henry Newman, published in
1870.
y “Apologia pro vita sua” is an religious autobiography written by him, published in 1864.

(15) In the above line, Poet uses Personification figure of speech. Here, he personifies a
frost-stiffened wood.

(16) “Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch” is an famous play written by G.B.

Shaw, an Anglo- Irish playwright in the Modern age. It’s a series of five plays and a
preface. It was published in 1921. The subject of this play is to evolving stages in the
future progresses of humanity. This play clearly attacks Darwinism.

(17) “King Lear” is one of the famous tragedy written by William Shakespeare, a greatest
playwright of the 16th century Elizabethan age, published in 1606. The play is about
the life of King Lear who is modelled after the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear
has three daughters but Cordelia is the most loyal daughter. King Lear vanishes her
from the Kingdom and gives his kingdom to other two daughters Goneril and Regan
who are selfish women. They did not take care of King Lear. Therefore, Lear also

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leaves the kingdom. Edmund is the main antagonist of this play who sworn his love
with both Goneril and Regan. There is a character Earl of Kent who later disguises as
Caius so that he can continue serve Lear though Lear has banished him also from
Kingdom.

(18) The Poetic line, “Break, break, break” is an example of Spondee meter. In this meter,
Two stressed syllables are used in a metrical foot.

(19) “Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue” is a famous masques written by Ben Johnson, an

English Jacobian playwright. It was published in 1618 and designed by Inigo Jones,
first important architect in England.

(20) The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet is ababcdcdef ef gg. It has total
fourteen lines which consists of three quatrains and one concluding couplet.
Quatrain is the stanza of four lines and couplet has two lines.

(21) “Utopia” is the most famous book written by Thomas More in the early 16th century. It
was originally written in Latin language and published in 1516. Later, it was translated
by Ralph Robinson and published in 1551. It is an socio- political satire. In this book,
More creates a fictional Island called Utopia which is the best place on the earth.
In it, Utopians has practised belief in a single, infinite power and sun, moon and
planetary worship.

(22) “The Prelude” is an biographical poem written by William Wordsworth, an English

Romantic poet. This book was published posthumously in 1850 by his wife Mary
Wordsworth. It has total 14 books. In Book V of Prelude, Wordsworth dreams of an
Arab in the desert after reading Cervantes’s Don Quixote.

(23) Lady Dedlock is an important character in Charles Dickens’s novel Bleak House
(1853). She is the haughty mistress of Chesney Wold. She had an affair with another
man before her marriage, from whom she bore a child. She discovers this chid as
Esther Summerson, the heroine of this novel. At the end of the novel, Lady Dedlock
dies.

(24) “Isabella” is the famous poem written by John Keats, an celebrated young Romantic
poet, published in 1820. It has subtitle “The Pot of Basil”. This was originally intended
to be part of a collection of verse-tales based on the stories by Boccaccio, an Italian
poet. This poem tells a story of a young woman who falls in love with Lorenzo, her
brother’s employee. Her brothers kills him and buried him but she digs her lover’s
grave and buries his head in a pot of basil. But at the end when her brothers destroy
this pot, she also dies.

(25) “Heart of Darkness” is an important novella written by Joseph Conrad, an Polish-

English novelist, published in 1899. Charles Marlowe is the narrator of this work who
narrates the story of a voyage with his friends. It begins from the River Thames.

(26) “Gulliver’s Travels” is a famous novel written by Jonathan Swift published in 1726.
In it, there is several product of the Academy of Lagado as a random sentence-
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of the things that words signify. It’s a product for truncating words and shortening
sentences by leaving out verbs.

(27) “The Purloined Letter” is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe and published in
1844.
y “The Minister’s Black Veil”, “Young Goodman Brown” and “My Kinsman, Major
Molineux” are the short stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

(28) Samuel Johnson admired Shakespeare’s characterization in his “Preface to

Shakespeare”, it was published in 1765. In it, Johnson praises the way his characters
portray the general passions and principles of human nature.

(29) According to Michael Foucault, sexuality points to discourses about medicine,

psychology and criminology.

(30) This line “All Arabia breathes from yonder box.” Occurs in Pope’s The Rape of the
Lock. This is an example of metonymy. It is a figure of speech which substitutes the
things named for the thing meant.

(31) Democrites Junior addresses the reader in a substantial Preface to Robert Burton’s
Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).

(32) The line “the paths of glory lead but to the grave” has been taken from “Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard” written by Thomas Gray. This line means that Everyone dies,
even the famous and glorious because Death comes to all. Nobody can escape from
it.

(33) “Robinson Crusoe” is the most celebrated historical or adventurous novel written by
Daniel Defoe, published in 1719. James Joyce called this novel “the English Ulysses”.

(34) Chaucer employs a first person “I”s narrative perspective in the opening of “The
General Prologue in the Canterbury Tales”. It is the most famous work of Chaucer’s
English period of works which was supposed to be written in 1392. It was the
unfinished work by Chaucer.

(35) “Emma” is a fragmentary unfinished novel written by Charlotte Bronte when she died
in 1855. After her death, It was published in Cornhill Magazine.

(36) The pre- eminent evaluative criterion of F.R. Leavis’s Great Tradition is moral purpose.
“The Great Tradition” is a literary criticism book published in 1948. According to
Leavis, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad and Henry James are the greatest
novelist in English literature.

(37) “Wide Sargasso Sea” is a famous novel written by Jean Rhys, an Dominican- British
author. It was published in 1966. This novel is a prequal to Charlotte Bronte’s novel
Jane Eyre from feminist and Post-colonial point of views. In this novel, Bertha is the
name of Rochester’s future wife.

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(38) “The Waste Land” is famous 20th century Modernist poem written by T.S. Eliot
published in 1922. ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’ is the popular nursery rhyme
mentioned at the end of this poem.

(39) “Purple Hisbiscus” is a novel written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, an Nigerian

author, published in 2003. Kambili Adichie is the main character of this novel. This
novel is a story told through Kambili’s eyes who has a struggle to grow to maturity
level.

(40) Jaques Derrida was a famous French philosopher and literary critic. He was born on
July,1930 in El Biar, Algeria and died on October 2004 in Paris, France. He is mainly
related with post-structuralism.

(41) Arnold Wesker is an English dramatist of the 20th century. He is best known for his
trilogy entitled “Wesker Trilogy”, its has three plays-
“Chicken Soup with Barley” (1958)
“Roots” (1959)
“I’ m Talking about Jerusalem” (1960)
y “Chips with Everything” is not the part of Wesker Trilogy. It is a separate play written
by him and published in 1962.

(42) “The School for Scandal” is a play written by Richard Bentley Sheridan, published in
1777. It is a comedy of manners play. In this play, a spendthrift young man auctions
away the portraits of his ancestors.

(43) “The Secret Garden” is a children’s novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was
published in 1911.
y All other are the works written by Rudyard Kipling-
“Just So Stories for Little Children” (1902)
“Puck of Pook’s Hill” (1906)
“Rewards and Faeries” (1910)

(44) “The Faerie Queene” is an most famous English epic poem written by Edmund
Spenser, an 16th century well known poet. It was first published in 1560 with its
two books and republished in 1596 with its total six books. It was written in the
Spenserian stanza form. It is an allegory where Spenser represents virtues through
his characters. In this work, Redcrosse’s rewards Una’s hand in marriage and her
parents’ kingdom for slaying the Dragon.

(45) “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” is a novel written by Mohammed Hanif, an Pakistani

writer. It was an historical fiction published in 2008. This novel centres the death of
General Muhammad Zia ul- Haq in a plane crash in 1988, he is the former president
of Pakistan.

(46) Lewis Carroll was an English author of Children’s fiction in the 19th century. It is
the pseudonym refers to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. His famous works are “Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland”, “Through the Looking- Glass”, “The Hunting of the Snark”,
“Jabberwocky” etc.

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(47) “Life Studies” is a poetic collection written by Robert Lowell, published in 1959. It is
one of the collections which initiated confessional poetry in America. In this poem,
the poet bared his/her most tormenting personal problems with great honesty and
intensity.

(48) “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” is an important book written by William Blake. It is
a book of poem composed between 1790 and 1793. The title of this work came from
Emanuel Swedenborg’s theological work “Heaven and Hell”.

(49) “Paradise Lost” is the most celebrated epic poem written by John Milton and
published in 1667. 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 the disability of blindness.

(50) Philip Larkin: “The Less Deceived” (1955)

y Geoffrey Hill: “For the Unfallen” (1952-58)
y Ted Hughes: “Lupercal” (1960)
y Seamus Heaney: “Door into the Dark” (1969)

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Answer Key

(1) 4 (11) 2 (21) 1 (31) 2 (41) 2

(2) 3 (12) 2 (22) 1 (32) 2 (42) 2

(3) 3 (13) 3 (23) 1 (33) 1 (43) 3

(4) 2 (14) 3 (24) 3 (34) 1 (44) 4

(5) 3 (15) 1 (25) 2 (35) 2 (45) 2

(6) 1 (16) 4 (26) 4 (36) 1 (46) 2

(7) 1 (17) 4 (27) 3 (37) 1 (47) 3

(8) 3 (18) 1 (28) 3 (38) 2 (48) 3

(9) 2 (19) 2 (29) 2 (39) 2 (49) 4

(10) 3 (20) 3 (30) 3 (40) 3 (50) 3

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2016 August Paper III English

Literature (Re-Test)
(1) Who was the original English translator for Of Grammatology?
(1) Samuel Weber
(2) G.C. Spivak
(3) Paul de Man
(4) Jean-luc Nancy

(2) Which figure explains the meaning of the play Everyman at its conclusion?
(1) Angel
(2) Knowledge
(3) Doctor
(4) Good deeds

(3) Who in his preface to Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent makes the following remark?
“the achievement of modern art is that it has ceased to recognize the categories of
tragic and comic or the dramatic classifications ‘tragedy’ and ‘comedy’, and views of
life as tragicomedy.”
(1) August Strindberg
(2) Luigi Pirandello
(3) D.H. Lawrence
(4) Thomas Mann

(4) The Restoration period’s most characteristic drama, the “comedy of manners”, was
gradually replaced by “sentimental drama” in response to shifts in the audience’s
taste. Which of the following statements best represents the difference between
these two types of comedy?
(1) Comedies of manners expose human follies to laughter, sentimental comedies
provoke sympathetic tears for the characters’ faults.
(2) Comedies of manners were commercially successful; sentimental comedies were
not.
(3) Comedies of manners were critically successful; sentimental comedies were not.
(4) Comedies of manners were written in rhymed couplets; sentimental comedies
were written in blank verse.

(5) The epitaph on her tombstone that Emily Dickinson composed herself reads
(1) The List is done
(2) Redemption – Brittle Lady
(3) Judge tenderly – of Me
(4) Called Back

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(6) Shel is a character in Virginia Woolf’s novel ……………

(1) Mrs. Dalloway
(2) To the Lighthouse
(3) The Waves
(4) Orlando

(7) Thomas Mann described the theme of one of his fictional works as “the fascination
of death, the triumph of disorder in a life founded on order.” Which of his works was
he referring to?
(1) Buddenbrooks
(2) Death in Venice
(3) The Magic Mountain
(4) Doctor Faustus

(8) In the middle of the story the narrator in Oroonoko digresses from the central tale of
Oroonoko’s revolt and tells of various expeditions taken in company with Oroonoko.
What is the purpose of these digressions, according to the narrator?
(1) To illustrate the richness of the country of Surinam
(2) To enliven the dullness of the central narrative
(3) To give proof of Oroonoko’s daring and curiosity
(4) To convince the reader that the narrator is indeed an eye-witness to the events
described

(9) In 1941 John Day Company in New York published Jawaharlal Nehru’s autobiography
under the title
(1) Toward Freedom
(2) In Search of Freedom
(3) Toward Independence
(4) In Search of Independence

(10) “In honoured poverty thy voice did weave/songs consecrate to truth and liberty, – /
Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve” are lines from “To Wordsworth”. Who is
the poet?
(1) Coleridge
(2) Shelley
(3) Byron
(4) Keats

(11) Speaking of Siva is an English translation by A K Ramanujan of some----------------

Bhakti poems composed by Virasaiva saints.
(1) Konkani
(2) Tamil
(3) Telugu
(4) Kannada

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(12) In Beowulf, Beowulf accuses Unferth of

I. pagan beliefs
II. killing his own “kith and kin”
III. “unchecked atrocity”
IV. unprovoked war
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) I and III

(13) Charles Dickens opined that “no man ever before had the art of making himself
mentally so like a woman since the world began.” He was acknowledging the quality
of the work of which writer?
(1) Walter Scott
(2) William Mackpeace Thackeray
(3) George Meredith
(4) George Eliot

(14) In his well-known essay “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell provides
representative examples of what common faults?
(1) Staleness of imagery and lack of precision
(2) Lack of precision and incorrect formatting
(3) Incorrect formatting and staleness of imagery
(4) Staleness of precision and lack of imagery

(15) According to Roland Barthes, the “writerly text” is

(1) a unique expression of the writer’s individual genius
(2) consumed by way of a seemingly unitary meaning
(3) linked to achieve participation of the reader in the establishment of the text’s
meaning
(4) immediately accessible to the reader

(16) The Canadian Nobel Laureate Alice Munro is known for her
(1) novels
(2) poems
(3) short stories
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(17) A critical question Eliot’s Prufrock poses, so important to an understanding of his

character, is
(1) “To be or not to be?”
(2) “What are you thinking of?”
(3) “Do I dare?”
(4) “Is there nothing in your head?”

(18) A test of listening comprehension is a test of

(1) Receptive skill
(2) Productive skill
(3) Hearing skill
(4) Phonology

(19) Colin Clout, Spenser’s persona in The Shepheardes Calendar appears in two of these
ecologues.
I. ‘June’
II. ‘February’
III. ‘November’
IV. ‘December’
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and IV
(2) II and III
(3) III and IV
(4) I and III

(20) Which character in Crime and Punishment speaks of St. Petersburg as a city of half
crazy people filled with gloomy, harsh and strange influences?
(1) Razumikhin
(2) Peter Petrovich Luzhyn
(3) Raskolnikov
(4) Svidrigailov

(21) At the conclusion of Swift’s Modest Proposal, the narrator declares that he has
“not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work,
having no other motive than the public good of my country.” What evidence does the
narrator give that his advice is free from other motives?
I. The narrator is Irish and a sworn bachelor, unlikely to father children.
II. He has no children who will be affected by the scheme, and thus cannot make
money from it.
III. His wife is past childbearing, and thus the narrator cannot benefit by “breeding”
her.
IV. The narrator is English, and therefore this scheme will not affect him personally.

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The right combination according to the code is

(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) IV and III
(4) I and III

(22) The Grammar Translation Method was historically used in teaching

(1) Greek and French
(2) Greek and Latin
(3) Latin and Scandinavian
(4) French and German

(23) Most of the titles of Aldous Huxley’s novels are taken from various literary works.
Match the titles of his novels with the works from which they have been borrowed:

I. Brave New World A. Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

II. The Doors of Perceptions B. Marlowe’s Edward II

III. Antic Hay C. Wordsworth’s The Table Turned

IV. Those Barren Leaves D. Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Codes:
I II III IV
(1) DCAB
(2) D A B C
(3) C D A B
(4) B C D A

(24) “There is no set and there are no wings; the stage is empty and in almost total
darkness. This is in order that right from the beginning the audience shall receive the
impression of being present not at a performance of a carefully rehearsed play, but
at a performance of a play that suddenly happens.” Which of the following plays have
the above stage directions?
(1) Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs
(2) August Strindberg’s A Dream Play
(3) Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
(4) Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape

(25) In Thomas Hobbes’s grand metaphor in Leviathan, a commonwealth is like ………….

(1) a great ship piloted by one man, but managed by the efforts of many.
(2) an artificial man imbued with the strength of many men.
(3) an octopus whose many tentacles represent the competing interests of men.
(4) an ostrich, which thrusts its head in the sand to avoid danger and self-
examination.

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(26) The word “Calamus”, a kind of water reed referenced in the title Calamus Poems, is a
symbol for Whitman of
(1) water nymphs
(2) male companions
(3) the spirit of American democracy
(4) the impending American Civil War

(27) Assertion (A): The world is becoming increasingly multilingual.

Reason (R): To monolingual Anglophones it may look like everyone in the world is
learning English.
In the context of these two statements
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

(28) The first scene in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq opens in front of a …………..
(1) court
(2) temple
(3) tavern
(4) shop

(29) What is the final word in Joyce’s Ulysses?

(1) Love
(2) Sex
(3) Death
(4) Yes

(30) Which Victorian novel has the subtitle “New Foes with an Old Face”?
(1) Hypatia
(2) Sybil
(3) Pendennis
(4) Phineas Finn

(31) In which of the following poems does W.H. Auden call 1930s “a low dishonest
decade”?
(1) “September 1, 1939”
(2) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”
(3) “No Change of Place”
(4) “The Watershed”

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(32) Two examples of Closet drama are

I. Byron’s Manfred
II. Shelley’s Cenci
III. Marlowe’s Edward II
IV. Shaw’s Widower’s Houses
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and III
(3) II and III
(4) II and IV

(33) Who among the following postcolonial critics worked on the fiction of Joseph Conrad
in his/her early career?
(1) Edward Said
(2) G.C. Spivak
(3) Homi Bhabha
(4) Dipesh Chakrabarty

(34) In The Trial what is the main character Joseph K’s job?
(1) He works in a bank
(2) He’s a politician
(3) He works in a government office
(4) He is an entomologist

(35) Which of the following best summarises the structural approach to literature?
(1) Meaning is inherent in the word itself.
(2) A language’s history explains how it works.
(3) Meaning is generated through relationships in a system of signs.
(4) Binary oppositions are to be avoided at all costs.

(36) The Australian poet A.D. Hope is best known for his
I. elegies
II. Satires
III. Sonnets
IV. Doggerel Verses
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and III

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(37) At the conclusion of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver argues that his motivation for telling
the tale is
(1) to entertain his readers
(2) to inform and instruct mankind
(3) to assist the British nation in enlarging her colonies
(4) to produce a travelogue of genius and learning

(38) Match the character with the play:

Play Character

I. Everyman in His Humour A. Bonario

II. Volpone B. Subtle

III. Epicoene C. Knowles

IV. The Alchemist D. Morose

Codes:
I II III IV
(1) BDCA
(2) B C A D
(3) C D B A
(4) C A D B

(39) Which of the following novels by Nuruddin Farah deals with foreign aid?
(1) Maps
(2) Gifts
(3) Secrets
(4) Links

(40) In the house of Holinesse in Faerie Queene, Redcross learns repentance and the way
to heaven from Dame Caelia and her daughters, who are named
(1) Fidelia, Speranza and Charissa
(2) Fidelia, Speranza and Una
(3) Fidelia, Speranza and Humilita
(4) Fidelia, Speranza and Zele

(41) A new historical reading, above everything else, is influenced by the philosophy of
(1) Jacques Derrida
(2) Jacques Lacan
(3) Michel Foucault
(4) Theodore Adorno

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(42) The Behaviourist Theory is explained in terms of

(1) conditioning
(2) behaviour
(3) attitude
(4) personality

(43) Who is the author of the poems “Elegy for Mrs. Virginia Woolf” and “William Butler in
Limbo”?
(1) Keith Douglas
(2) W.H. Auden
(3) Sidney Keyes
(4) Stephen Spender

(44) The form of Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy is

(1) an essay
(2) an epic poem
(3) a dialogue
(4) a play

(45) Which Flemish poet is Jacques Derrida related to?

(1) Anton Bergmann
(2) Karel L. Ledeganck
(3) Jan Frans Willems
(4) Jan Van Beers

(46) In Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress which of the following are found in the Slough of
Despond?
(1) Hope, great expectations, and dreams of the future.
(2) Joy and happiness.
(3) Fears and doubts, discouraging apprehensions, sinful thoughts.
(4) False doctrines.

(47) Who among the following wrote a book on the life and works of Dante Gabriel
Rossetti?
(1) Graham Greene
(2) Evelyn Waugh
(3) William Golding
(4) Kingsley Amis

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(48) Among the Romantic poets William Blake was a total artist, undertaking many roles
usually separated. In his last years he produced some of his finest engravings. Which
of the following was NOT illustrated by Blake?
(1) The Book of Job
(2) The rape of Leda
(3) Virgil’s Pastorals
(4) The works of Dante

(49) Identify the two Indian texts translated by the Orientalist William Jones
I. Abhignanamshakuntalam
II. Katha Sarita Sagar
III. Mahabharatha
IV. Manusmriti
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) III and IV

(50) Which work by a famous poet does Thomas de Quincey refer to as “the feeblest
and least interesting” of his writings “being substantially a mere versification, like
a metrical multiplication table, of common places, the most mouldy with which
criticism has baited its rat-traps”?
(1) John Dryden’s An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(2) Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism
(3) Shelley’s Defence of Poetry
(4) Sidney’s An Apologie for Poetry

(51) “On or about December 1910 human character changed,” Virginia Woolf wrote. A more
assertive declaration, “It was in 1915 the old world ended”, was made by a novelist in
one of his/her novels, picking a date of far more historical moment, the point when
an entire cultural tradition seemed to end in war. Name the novelist and the novel.
(1) D.H. Lawrence – Kangaroo
(2) Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
(3) Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway
(4) James Joyce – Ulysses

(52) Semiotics, the general science of signs, traces its lineage to

I. Edmund Husserl
II. Charles Sanders Pierce
III. Ferdinand de Saussure
IV. Claude Levi-Strauss

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The right combination according to the code is

(1) II and III
(2) I and III
(3) III and IV
(4) II and IV

(53) After the Norman Conquest of 1066, Norman French was the dominant language used
by
(1) ordinary people
(2) religious clerics
(3) the upper classes
(4) farmers

(54) Which novel of George Eliot was read with pleasure by Queen Victoria and also
commissioned for two paintings of scenes as a mark of recognition?
(1) Romola
(2) Scenes of Clerical Life
(3) Adam Bede
(4) Middlemarch

(55) In More’s Utopia there are 54 cities, all built on a similar plan and distributed over
the island such that each city is surrounded by agricultural lands. Who does the
agricultural labour in Utopia?
(1) Agricultural labour is performed by slaves.
(2) Adulterers and other criminals are forced to work on farms.
(3) All citizens take two-year stints at farm work.
(4) Farm labourers are brought in from allied countries.

(56) Direct Method in English Language Teaching is also known as

(1) Functional Method
(2) Natural Method
(3) Indirect Approach
(4) Inductive Approach

(57) Vikram Seth’s From Heaven Lake is a/an

(1) verse novel
(2) exhibition of poster poetry
(3) travel book
(4) collection of philosophical essays

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(58) Which of the following is NOT a punishment given by God to Adam and Eve as a
consequence of tasting the forbidden fruit?
(1) ‘Children thou shalt bring/In sorrow forth’
(2) Expulsion from Eden
(3) ‘Cursed is the ground for thy sake, thou in sorrow / Shalt eat thereof all the days
of thy life’
(4) ‘Dust shalt eat all the days of life’

(59) …………… attempted to draw a distinction between two kinds of Truth, a theological
Truth ‘drawn from the word and oracles of God’ and determined by faith, and a
‘scientific’ Truth based on the light of nature and the dictates of reason.
(1) Treatise on the laws of Ecclesiastical Piety
(2) Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England
(3) The Advancement of Learning
(4) The New Atlantis

(60) In Defence of Poesy what arguments does Sidney make for considering the Biblical
Psalms poetry?
I. They are written in meter.
II. They originated in Church choirs
III. They were written by a single author.
IV. David uses imagery and personification to portray faith.
The right combination according to the code is
(1) II and III
(2) I and III
(3) I and IV
(4) II and IV

(61) In Herman Melville’s well-known story “Bartleby the Scrivener”, what does the word
“scrivener” mean?
(1) Pasting clerks in a Dead Letter Office
(2) Articled clerks in an accountant’s office
(3) Clerks who copy legal documents by hand.
(4) Clerks who serve as personal assistants to judges.

(62) “Medicine is my lawful wife” ………….. once said “and literature is my mistress.”
(1) Franz Kafka
(2) Leo Tolstoy
(3) Anton Chekhov
(4) Albert Camus

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(63) The critical concept of a “Willing suspension of disbelief” owes its origin to Chapter
…………… of Biographia Literaria.
(1) IX
(2) XIV
(3) XII
(4) XV

(64) Thomas Carlyle coined two evocative phrases, ‘Everlasting Nay’ and ‘Everlasting Yea’
to suggest the swing in the national mood of his times. The phrases came from
(1) On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
(2) Past and Present
(3) Sartos Resartus
(4) The French Revolution

(65) Marxist literary criticism stresses that

I. class is an imaginary concept
II. the economy is the final determinant of cultural production
III. texts reveal the economic conditions of the time in which they were written.
IV. the critic should see the work as self-sufficient
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) II and IV
(4) I and III

(66) St. Augustine brought Christianity, and the Latin language enriched Old English by
giving it the capacity to talk about-----------
(1) common experience
(2) place names
(3) abstract ideas
(4) agricultural concepts

(67) Who makes the following speech in Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts?

“I almost think we are all ghosts, all of us …
It isn’t just what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us.
It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and all sorts of old and obsolete beliefs. They’re not alive
in us; but they are lodged in us and we can never free ourselves from them ….
There must be ghosts the whole country over, as thick as the sands of the sea.”
(1) Mrs. Alving
(2) Engstrand
(3) Pastor Manders
(4) Oswald

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(68) Which of these lines is NOT in Pope’s Essay on Criticism?

(1) “Wretches hang that jury men may dine”
(2) “A little learning is a dangerous thing”
(3) “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread”
(4) “The sound must seem an echo to the sense”

(69) One of the principles of materials preparation for language learning is that
(1) complex material should be chosen
(2) any kind of material can be chosen
(3) grading of materials should be done
(4) a small amount of material should be introduced

(70) R.K. Narayan’s “A Horse and Two Goats” is set in a tiny village called-----------
(1) Idupali
(2) Samudram
(3) Kritam
(4) Mallur

(71) Kishori Mohan Ganguli, an Indian translator working in the last quarter of 19 century,
is best known for his free English translation of
(1) the Ramayana
(2) the Mahabharata
(3) the Bhagavad Gita
(4) Upanishad Sangraha

Read the following poem and answer the questions, 72 to 75:

Remembered Village If you love your country, he said, why are you here?
Say, you are tired of hearing about all that wonder-that-was-India crap.
It is tea that’s gone cold: time to brew a fresh pot.
But what wouldn’t you give for one or two places in it?
Aunt’s house near Kulittalai, for instance.
It often gets its feet wet in the river, and coils of rain hiss and slither on the roof.
Even the well boils over.
Her twelve-house lane is bloated with the full moon, and bamboos tie up the eerie
riverfront with a knot of toads.
A Black Pillaiyar temple squats at one end of the village – stone drum that is beaten thin
on festivals by the devout.
Bells curl their lips at the priest’s rustic Sanskrit.
Outside, pariah dogs kick up an incense of howls.
And beyond the paddy fields, dead on time, the Erode Mail rumbles past, a light needle of
smoke threading remote villages such as yours that are routinely dropped by schedules,
and no trains are ever missed.

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(72) The opening question best suggests

(1) unremitting patriotism
(2) a condition of exile
(3) a sense of detachment
(4) uncalled-for petulance

(73) As stated who often wets feet in the river?

(1) The house
(2) The Aunt
(3) Kullitalai
(4) The poet

(74) “Bellows curl their lips at the priest’s rustic Sanskrit” is an example of
(1) Oxymoron
(2) Paradox
(3) Personification
(4) Synecdoche

(75) The words “no trains are ever missed” in their context mean that
(1) the poet is punctual about boarding trains
(2) all trains stop in the village but none is missed
(3) the remote village is not a stop for trains; so no train is ever missed
(4) the poet remembers all the trains boarded from the village

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Explanation
(1) “Of Grammatology” is a book written by Jacques Derrida, a French philosopher and
critic. It was published in 1967. This book was translated by Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak into English language and published in 1976.

(2) “Everyman” is a famous morality play of the 15th century. Its writer is anonymous. In
this play, allegorical characters are used to examine about Christian salvation. In the
conclusion, Doctor explains the meaning of the play Everyman.

(3) “The achievement of modern art is that it has ceased to recognize the categories of
tragic and comic or the dramatic classifications ‘tragedy’ and ‘comedy’, and views of
life as tragicomedy.” It is a remark made by a German novelist, Thomas Mann in his
preface to Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent.

(4) There is a difference between “Comedy of manners” and “sentimental drama” that
Comedies of manners expose human follies to laughter while sentimental comedies
provoke sympathetic tears for the characters’ faults. Thus, The Restoration period’s
most characteristic drama, the “comedy of manners”, was gradually replaced by
“sentimental drama” in response to shifts in the audience’s taste.

(5) As per Emily Dickinson, She was an important American poet. She was born in 1830
in Amherst, Massachusetts and died in 1886. Emily Dickinson herself composed
“Called Back” which is written as the epitaph on her tombstone.

(6) “Orlando” is an biographical novel written by Virginia Woolf and published in 1928.
It is about the life of the title character Orlando who changes his sex from man to
woman and lives for more than 300 years. Shel is also the character in this novel.

(7) “Death in Venice” is a famous novella written by Thomas Mann, an German author,
published in 19120 It was originally written in the German language. Thomas
described the theme of this novel as “the fascination of death, the triumph of
disorder in a life founded on order.”

(8) “Oroonoko or the Royal Slave” is the most celebrated prose work written by Aphra
Behn and published in 1688. In the middle of the story the narrator in Oroonoko
digresses from the central tale of Oroonoko’s revolt and tells of various expeditions
taken in company with Oroonoko. According to the narrator, The purpose of these
digression is to give proof of Oroonoko’s daring and curiosity.

(9) “Toward Freedom” is the autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru and it was published in
1941 by John Day Company in New York.

(10) P.B. Shelley wrote the poem “To Wordsworth”. The important lines of this poem are
“In honoured poverty thy voice did weave/songs consecrate to truth and liberty, – /
Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve”.

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(11) “Speaking of Siva” is an English translation by A.K. Ramanujan of some Kannada

Bhakti poems composed by Virasaiva saints. These religious poems are dedicated to
Lord Shiva as the supreme god.

(12) “Beowulf” is the most celebrated epic poem written by anonymous writer. It is
written in Old English language and having 3182 lines. The subject of this poem is the
battles of Beowulf, the Geatish hero, in youth and the old age. In this poem, Beowulf
accuses Unferth of killing his own “kith and kin” and ‘unchecked atrocity”.

(13) Charles Dickens was acknowledging the quality of George Eliot’s works and gave a
opinion that “no man ever before had the art of making himself mentally so like a
woman since the world began.”

(14) “Politics and the English Language” is the well- known essay written by George
Orwell, an early 20th century English writer. It was published in 1946. In this essay,
Orwell provides the representative examples of common faults as staleness of
imaginary and lack of precision.

(15) According to Roland Barthes, the “writerly text” is linked to achieve participation of
the reader in the establishment of the text’s meaning. This term and definition given
by Roland Barthes in his well- known essay S/Z (1970).

(16) Alice Munro is an famous Canadian writer who also received the Noble Prize in
Literature in 2013. She is mostly known for her shot stories. Her famous short stories
are as ‘The Moons of Jupiter’, ‘The Progress of Love’, ‘Hateship, Friendship, Courtship,
Loveship, Marriage’, ‘Too much Happiness’, ‘Dear Life’ etc.

(17) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a famous poem written by T.S. Eliot, an
American British poet of the Modern age. It was published in 1915. In this poem,
Prufrock poses a critical question “Do I dare?”, it is so important to an understanding
of this character. Here, Prufrock is an urban man who is stricken by the feeling of
isolation and an incapability for taking decisions.

(18) A test of listening comprehension is a test of ‘Receptive skill’. Receptive skills refer to
receive an information so, reading and listening are known as the receptive skills.
y Productive skills refer to produce words, phrases or sentences, thus, speaking and
writing are known as the productive skills.

(19) “The Shepheardes Calendar” is the first most important work written by Edmund
Spenser, an 16th century Elizabethan poet. It was published in 1579. Spenser’s
persona colin Clout appears in two ecologues as ‘June’ and ‘December’.

(20) “Crime and Punishment” is the famous novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, an
Russian author. It was published in 1866. In this novel, the character named
Svidrigailov speaks about St. Petersburg as a city of half crazy people filled with
gloomy, harsh and strange influences.

(21) “A Modest Proposal” is a satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift, was published
posthumously in 1729. At the conclusion of this essay, the narrator declares that he
has “not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work,

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having no other motive than the public good of my country.” Here, the narrator gives
the evidences that his advice is free from other motives as he has no children who
will be affected by the scheme, and thus cannot make money from it and His wife is
past childbearing, and thus the narrator cannot benefit by “breeding” her.

(22) The Grammar Translation Method was historically used in teaching of Greek and
Latin languages. This method mainly focuses on the grammatical rules used in the
translating the sentences. It is also known as the classical method. This method
never focuses on the listening and speaking practices.

(23) Brave New World (1932): Shakespeare’s The Tempest

y The Doors of Perceptions (1954): Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
y Antic Hay (1923): Marlowe’s Edward II
y Those Barren Leaves (1925): Wordsworth’s The Table Turned

(24) “There is no set and there are no wings; the stage is empty and in almost total
darkness. This is in order that right from the beginning the audience shall receive the
impression of being present not at a performance of a carefully rehearsed play, but
at a performance of a play that suddenly happens.” The above stage direction related
with the play “Six Characters in Search of an Author” written into three acts by Luigi
Pirandello. It was published in 1921.

(25) “Leviathan” is an famous political philosophical work written by Thomas Hobbes

published in 1651. The grand metaphor in Leviathan refers a commonwealth is like an
artificial man imbued with the strength of many men.

(26) “Calamus Poems” is written by Walt Whitman, an American writer and father of Free
Verse style. In these poems, The word “Calamus”, a kind of water reed refers as a
symbol for male companions.

(27) The world is becoming increasingly multilingual because to monolingual Anglophones

it may look like everyone in the world is learning English. Thus, Option 2 is correct.

(28) “Tughlaq” is one of the most celebrated play written by Girish Karnad, an Indian
Kannada writer. It is a 13 scene play originally written in the Kannada language and
published in 1964. It is set during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq. The first
scene of this play opens in front of a court.

(29) “Ulysses” is one of the famous Modernist novel written by James Joyce, an Irish
writer. It is published in a book form in 1922. ‘Yes’ is the final word of this novel.

(30) “Hypatia” is a novel written by Charles Kingsley, an English author of the 19th century.
It was published in 1853. This Victorian novel has the subtitle “New Foes with an Old
Face”. It is a fictional account of a philosopher Hypatia who is also a feminist heroine.

(31) “September 1, 1939” is the most popular poem written by W.H. Auden, an Anglo-
American poet. He wrote this poem on the outbreak of World War II. It was first
published in 18 October, 1939. In this Poem, Auden calls 1930s “a low dishonest
decade”.

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(32) As per Closet Drama, It is a kind of play which can be read by the readers but not
performed on stage. The examples of Closet Drama are Byron’s Manfred, Shelley’s
Cenci, Milton’s Samson Agonistes and Hardy’s The Dynasts.

(33) Edward Said is the famous postcolonial critic who worked on the fiction of Joseph
Conrad in his/her early career. His main ideas are Occidentalism, Orientalism and the
Other. He isa well known for his popular book titled “Orientalism” published in 1978.

(34) “The Trial” is one of the greatest works written by Franz Kafka, a German language
writer of the 20th century. It was published in 1925. This novel tells the story of the
protagonist Joseph K who is doing the job in a bank.

(35) As per the structural approach to literature, in it, Meaning is generated through
relationships in a system of signs.

(36) Alec Derwent Hope (A.D. Hope) was a famous Australian writer in the 20th century. He
is best known for his elegies and satires. His best works are “The Wandering Islands”,
“A Book of Answers”, “The Age of Reason” etc.

(37) “Gulliver’s Travels” is the most famous book written by Jonathan Swift, a satirist of
the 18th century. It was a prose satire published in 1726. It is divided into four parts.
Its full title is “Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In four Parts. By
Lemuel Gulliver, First as a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships”. In the
second part of this book ‘A Voyage to Brobdingnag’, Gulliver is known as Grildrig. At
the conclusion of this novel, Gulliver argues that his motivation for telling the tale is
to inform and instruct mankind.

(38) Everyman in His Humour (1598): Knowles

y Volpone (1606): Bonario
y Epicoene (1609): Morose
y The Alchemist (1612): Subtle

(39) Nuruddin Farah is a famous Somali novelist in the 20th century. His work “Gifts” deals
with foreign aid, it was published in 1993.

(40) “The Faerie Queene” is an most famous epic poem written by Edmund Spenser, a
celebrated poet in the 16th century. It was first published in 1590 with its three books
and republished in 1596 with its total six books. He introduced the Spenserian stanza
in this book. It is an allegorical poem because its each character represents a virtue.
In the house of Holinesse of this poem, Redcross learns repentance and the way to
heaven from Dame Caelia and her daughters, who are named Fidelia, Speranza and
Charissa.

(41) Michael Faucault was a famous French philosopher, writer and a literary critic. His
philosophy influenced a new historical reading, above everything else.

(42) The Behaviourist Theory is explained in terms of conditioning. It is the famous

concept of behaviour which focuses on how students learns through the behaviour.
B.F. Skinner is the main proponent of the behaviourist theory.

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(43) Sidney Keyes was an important World War II poet in the 20th century. He is known for
writing his best poems “Elegy for Mrs. Virginia Woolf” and “William Butler in Limbo”.

(44) “Essay of Dramatic Poesy” is a famous critical work written by John Dryden,
published in 1668. It has written into dialogue form. There are four characters as
Lisideius, Crites, Eugenius and Neander who present their views about drama and
poetry. In this essay, Dryden refers to William Shakespeare with the phrase “he
needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature”.

(45) Jacques Derrida was a famous French philosopher, writer and literary critic in the
20th century. He ids mainly associated with postmodernism and post- structuralism.
He is also related with the Flemish poet named Jan Van Beers.

(46) “The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come or The Pilgrim’s
Progress” is the best novel written by John Bunyan, an 17th century writer. It was
a Christian allegory published in 1678. The Slough of Despond is the first obstacle
encountered by Christian on his progress. He also faced several other challenges in
the different places during his journey. In the Slough of Despond, Christian found
fears and doubts, discouraging apprehensions, sinful thoughts.

(47) Evelyn Waugh wrote a book on the life and works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an
important member of the Pre- Raphaelite brotherhood. She wrote “Rossetti: His Life
and Works”.

(48) Among the Romantic poets William Blake was a total artist, undertaking many roles
usually separated. In his last years he produced some of his finest engravings.
William Blake’s illustrated works are-
“The Book of Job” (1823- 1826)
“Vergil’s Pastorals”
“The works of Dante”
y The Rape of Leda is not illustrated by him.

(49) “Abhignanamshakuntalam” and “Manusmriti” are the two important texts translated
by the Orientalist William Jones.

(50) Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism refers by Thomas de Quincey as “the feeblest
and least interesting” of his writings “being substantially a mere versification, like
a metrical multiplication table, of common places, the most mouldy with which
criticism has baited its rat-traps”.

(51) A more assertive declaration, “It was in 1915 the old world ended”, was made by an
English novelist D. H. Lawrence in his novel “Kangaroo”.

(52) Semiotics, the general science of signs, traces its lineage to Charles Sanders Pierce
and Ferdinand de Saussure.

(53) Norman French was the dominant language used by the upper classes in the society,
after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

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(54) “Adam Bede” is the most successful novel written by George Eliot, an famous English
Victorian novelist. It was published in 1859. This novel was read with pleasure by
Queen Victoria and also commissioned for two paintings of scenes as a mark of
recognition.

(55) Thomas More’s Utopia is the most celebrated work in the English literature, it was
published in 1516. First person narration by Raphael Hythloday and First- person
narration by a narrator named Thomas More are best describes the narrative
perspective employed in this work. There are 54 cities, all built on a similar plan and
distributed over the island such that each city is surrounded by agricultural lands. All
citizens take two- year stints at farm work and does the agricultural labour in Utopia.

(56) Direct Method in English Language Teaching is also known as the natural method. It
consists that only target language should be used for teaching in the class. Meaning
should be communicated directly with the help of words, sentences and phrases. It
is opposite to the Grammar Translation method.

(57) Vikram Seth is a famous Indian poet and novelist now a days. His book “From Heaven
Lake” is a travel book. Its full title is “From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang
and Tibet”. It was published in 1983.

(58) “Paradise Lost” is the most celebrated epic poem written by John Milton and
published in 1667. In the poem or invocation at the opening of Book 3, Paradise Lost,
Milton asks for divine help in writing his epic. It tells the story about Adam and Eve
and the creation of mankind on earth. ‘Children thou shalt bring/In sorrow forth’,
Expulsion from Eden and ‘Cursed is the ground for thy sake, thou in sorrow / Shalt
eat thereof all the days of thy life’
Are the punishments given by God to Adam and Eve as a consequence of tasting the
forbidden fruit.

(59) “The Advancement of Learning” is a most popular book by Francis Bacon, father
of the English essays. It was published in 1605. This book is attempted to draw a
distinction between two kinds of Truth, a theological Truth ‘drawn from the word and
oracles of God’ and determined by faith, and a ‘scientific’ Truth based on the light of
nature and the dictates of reason.

(60) “The Defence of Poesy” is a famous literary criticism book written by Philip Sidney,
an Elizabethan poet. It is also known as ‘The Apology for Poetry’. It was published
posthumously in 1595. This book is a reply to Stephen Gosson’s charges against
poetry. In this work, Sidney makes arguments for considering the Biblical Psalms
poetry as they were written in meter and David uses imagery and personification to
portray faith.

(61) In Herman Melville’s well-known story “Bartleby the Scrivener”, the word “scrivener”
means clerks who copy legal documents by hand. The subtitle of this story is ‘A Story
of Wall Street”. It was first published in 1853.

(62) Anton Chekhov was one of the famous Russian playwright of the 19th century. He
famously said that “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I

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get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. Though it is irregular, it is less
boring this way, and besides, neither of them loses anything through my infidelity”.

(63) “Biographia Literaria” is a famous critical autobiographical work written by S.T.

Coleridge, an English Romantic poet and critic. It was published in 1817 in two
volumes. In this book chapter no. XIV, he introduced the concept of a “Willing
suspension of disbelief”.

(64) Thomas Carlyle coined two evocative phrases, ‘Everlasting Nay’ and ‘Everlasting Yea’
to suggest the swing in the national mood of his times. He introduced these terms in
his novel “Sartos Resartus” published in 1836.

(65) According to Marxist criticism, the economy is the final determinant of cultural
production. It stresses that texts reveal the economic conditions of the time in which
they were written. It is related with the base, superstructure and class.

(66) St. Augustine brought Christianity, and the Latin language enriched Old English by
giving it the capacity to talk about the abstract ideas.

(67) The above speech spoken by Mrs. Alving, a character of the play “Ghosts” written by
Henrik Ibsen, an Norwegian playwright. This play was first published in 1881 and it
was a commentary on the morality of the 19th century.

(68) “Essay on Criticism” is one of the famous poem written by Alexander Pope, an English
18th century writer. It was fist published in 1711. There are some important lines from
this work as “A little learning is a dangerous thing”, “Fools rush in where angels fear
to tread” and “The sound must seem an echo to the sense”.
y “Wretches hang that jury men may dine” this line is not related with Pope’s Essay on
Criticism.

(69) Grading of materials should be done is one of the principle of material preparation
for language learning.

(70) “A Horse and Two Goats” is a collection of short stories written by R.K. Narayan, an
Indian novelist and short story writer, published in 1970. It is set in a tiny village
called Kritam.

(71) Kishori Mohan Ganguli, an Indian translator working in the last quarter of 19 century,
is best known for his free English translation of the most celebrated Sanskrit epic
“The Mahabharata”.

(72) The opening question best suggests a condition of exile.

(73) As stated, the house often wets feet in the river.

(74) “Bellows curl their lips at the priest’s rustic Sanskrit” is an example of
Personification, an figure of speech.

(75) The words “no trains are ever missed” in their context mean that the remote village
is not a stop for trains; so no train is ever missed.

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Answer Key

(1) 2 (16) 3 (31) 1 (46) 3 (61) 3

(2) 3 (17) 3 (32) 1 (47) 2 (62) 3

(3) 4 (18) 1 (33) 1 (48) 2 (63) 2

(4) 1 (19) 1 (34) 1 (49) 3 (64) 3

(5) 4 (20) 4 (35) 3 (50) 2 (65) 2

(6) 4 (21) 2 (36) 1 (51) 1 (66) 3

(7) 2 (22) 2 (37) 2 (52) 1 (67) 1

(8) 3 (23) 2 (38) 4 (53) 3 (68) 1

(9) 1 (24) 3 (39) 2 (54) 3 (69) 3

(10) 2 (25) 2 (40) 1 (55) 3 (70) 3

(11) 4 (26) 2 (41) 3 (56) 2 (71) 2

(12) 2 (27) 2 (42) 1 (57) 3 (72) 2

(13) 4 (28) 1 (43) 3 (58) 4 (73) 1

(14) 1 (29) 4 (44) 3 (59) 3 (74) 3

(15) 3 (30) 1 (45) 4 (60) 3 (75) 3

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2017 January Paper II

English Literature
(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

(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
(3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(4) Robert Browning

(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

(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

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(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

(6) Identify the correct chronological sequence:

(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

(7) Poe’s “The Raven” mourns the death of Poe’s

(1) lost Lenore
(2) lost Abigail
(3) pet animal
(4) lost heritage

(8) In Shakespeare’s Macbeth who was “untimely ripped” from his mother’s womb?
(1) Macbeth
(2) Macduff
(3) Duncan
(4) Malcolm

(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

(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

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The right combination according to the code is

(1) I & IV
(2) II & IV
(3) III & IV
(4) I & III

(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

(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

(13) Who among the following dismissed Ulysses as “a misfire”?

(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) Wyndham Lewis
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) D.H. Lawrence

(14) Which of the following works Daniel Defoe offered his readers as a collection of
“Strange Surprising Adventures”?
(1) Moll Flanders
(2) Robinson Crusoe
(3) Roxana
(4) Captain Singleton

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(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

(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.”

(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

(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

(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

(20) ............is the producer of the first complete printed English Bible.
(1) Jerome
(2) William Tyndale
(3) Miles Coverdale
(4) Bede

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(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

(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

(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

(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

(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

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(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
IV. Homicide
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and III
(3) I and IV
(4) III and IV

(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

(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

(29) “Full fathom five thy father lies” is an example of

(1) Assonance
(2) Alliteration
(3) Apostrophe
(4) Enjambment

(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

(31) Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” combines two poetic forms
I. Lyric
II. Dramatic Monologue
III. Ballad
IV. Sonnet

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The right combination according to the code is

(1) II and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and IV

(32) ........ narrator highlights the problem of narrative authority

(1) First person
(2) Self-conscious
(3) Third person
(4) Participant

(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

(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 the pond at the edge of wood
(3) ranches of isolation and the busy griefs
(4) the dogs go on with their doggy life

(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

(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

(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

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(38) James Thompson’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

(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
(4) Courtesy cantos

(40) Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from
(1) repeating mistakes
(2) totalitarianism
(3) deconstructionism
(4) historicism

(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

(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

(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

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(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

(4) In “Tradition and Individual Talent” T S Eliot uses the analogy of the catalyst to
elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry. He sites 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

(46) Match the character with the mark

CHARACTER MARK

A. Pip I. Middlemarch

B. Causaubon II. Great Expectations

C. Becky Sharp III. Wuthering Heights

D. Heathcliff IV. Vanity Fair

CODES:
I II III IV
(1) BCDA
(2) D A C B
(3) B A D C
(4) C B A D

(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

(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

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The right combination according to the code is:

(1) II and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) I and III

(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

(50) Match the author with the work:

AUTHOR WORK

A. John Locke I. A Short View of the Immorality and Profanity of the Stage

B. William Dampier II. Two Treatises on Government

C. Jeremy Collier III. A Short View of Tragedy

D. Thomas Rhymer IV. Voyages

CODES:
ABCD
(1) II I IV III
(2) III IV I II
(3) II IV I III
(4) IV III II I

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Explanation
(1) “Kim” is a most celebrated picaresque novel written by Rudyard Kipling, an English
author. It was published in 1901. Nirad C. Chaudhuri called this novel as “the finest
novel in the English language with an Indian theme”.

(2) “The Defence of Lucknow or the Siege of Lucknow” is a prose work written by Alfred
Lord Tennyson, an English Victorian poet. This work is like a dairy which details the
daily events about the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian
Mutiny.

(3) Roman Jakobson was a famous Russian- American linguist and a theorist in the 20th
century. He holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures
of language. “On Linguistic Aspects of Translation” is one of his important essay
published in 1959.

(4) “Sense and Sensibility” is a romance novel written by Jane Austen, an English
novelist. It was published anonymously in 1811. Elinor and Marianne are the
Dashwood sisters around whom this novel revolves. Elinor represents sense and
Marianne represents sensibility in this novel.

(5) “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit” is considered as an example of lesbian
Bildungsroman text. This novel is written by Jeanette Winterson and published in
1985. It is an semi- autobiographical novel. This novel is a story of a lesbian girl
named Jeanette and her love feelings towards another girl.

(6) “The Advancement of Learning” (1605): Francis Bacon

y “Paradise Lost” (1667): John Milton
y “MacFlecknoe” (1682): John Dryden
y “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” (1695): John Locke

(7) “The Raven” is a famous poem composed by Edgar Allen Poe, an American poet. It
was published in 1845. It’s a narrative poem which mourns to the death of Poe’s
lost Lenore. The opening lines of this poem are “Once upon a midnight dreary, while
I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten
lore”.

(8) Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of his greatest tragedies, published in 1606. This play
begins when three witches meet Macbeth, a Scottish general, and did the prophecy
about Macbeth that he will become the king of Scotland. Here, Macduff is the
“untimely ripped” from his mother’s womb who killed Macbeth at the end of this
play.

(9) “The Rape of the Lock” is the well- known poem narrative poem composed by
Alexander Pope, a famous English poet of the 18th century. It was first published in
1712 with two cantos and republished in 1714 in five cantos. It was finally appeared
in 1717 in which he added Clarissa’s speech. It a mock- heroic satire about the
aristocratic society.

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(10) John Webster was a famous English dramatist who is well known for his two
Jacobean tragedies as “The White Devil” (1612) and “The Duchess of Malfi” (1623).
These plays are the example of revenge tragedies.

(11) “An Imaginary Life” is a novella written by David Malouf, an Australian writer. It was
published in 1978. This work tells the story of the Roman poet, Ovid, during his exile
in Tomis.

(12) “The Defence of Poesy” is a famous literary criticism book written by Philip Sidney,
an Elizabethan poet. It is also known as ‘The Apology for Poetry’. It was published
posthumously in 1595. This book is a reply to Stephen Gosson’s charges against
poetry. In this work, Sidney makes arguments for considering the Biblical Psalms
poetry as they were written in meter and David uses imagery and personification
to portray faith. In this book, Sidney argues that Poetry where man can see “virtue
exalted and vice punished” is more useful than history that is a disciple which is
more useful and praiseworthy history and poetry. According to Sidney, “The Mirror of
Magistrate” and “The Shepherd’s Calendar” are the good examples of English Poesy.

(13) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and short story writer of the 20th century
Modern age. She is also a pioneer of the stream of consciousness device in her
works. Woolf called Ulysses as “a misfire”.

(14) “Robinson Crusoe” is a famous adventurous novel written by Daniel Defoe and
published in 1719. It tells the story of adventures of Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist
of this novel. He offered this work to his readers as a collection of “Strange
Surprising Adventures”.

(15) “Jane Eyre” is a novel written by Charlotte Bronte, an Victorian English novelist. It
was published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell. It is a coming- of age novel
about an eponymous heroine Jane Eyre and her love towards Mr. Rochester. In this
novel, Jane accuses by Mr. Brocklehurst for lying when she visits Lowood school.

(16) “As I Lay Dying” is a novel written by William Faulkner, an American novelist,
published in 1930. It is a Southern Gothic novel. This novrel contains one of the
shortest chapters in literary history. “My mother is a fish” is a chapter in its entirely.

(17) “Middlemarch” is a novel by George Eliot, an Victorian English novelist. It appeared

in 1871 with its subtitle “A Study of Provincial Life’. The prelude of this novel makes a
reference to the particular history of a remarkable woman named St. Theresa.

(18) The above passage is an example of Synaesthesia. It is a kind of figures of speech in

which sensations are joined together but they are normally experienced separately.

(19) The term, “poetic justice,” is coined by Thomas Rhymer in his work “The Tragedies of
the Last Age Considered”(1698). It designates the idea that the good are rewarded
and the evil punished.

(20) Miles Coverdale is the famous Bible translator and preacher who first produced the
complete printed Bible translation in the English language in 1535.

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(21) “None can usurp this height … / But those to whom the miseries of the world /
Are misery, and will not let them rest” these words are addressed by a prophetess
named Moneta in the poem “The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream”. This is an epic poem
composed by John Keats, an English Romantic poet.

(22) “To the Lighthouse” is the most celebrated novel written by Virginia Woolf, an English
woman novelist of the 20th century Modern age. It was published in 1927. This novel
has a tripartite structure as it is divided into three parts titled ‘The Window’, ‘Time
Passes’ and ‘The Lighthouse’. This novel is chiefly tells the story of Ramsay family.

(23) “Voss” is the famous novel written by an Australian writer Patrick White. It was
published in 1957. This novel 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”.

(24) “The Lord of the Flies” is the widely read novel written by William Golding, an
Modernist British writer, was published in 1954. It is about an uninhabited island
where a group of small children lived after their plane crashes. Its important
characters are Ralph, Piggy, Jack, Simon, Sam, Eric, Simon etc.

(25) “The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood” was founded by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1848.
This was related with the art, literature and paintings. Its other members were J.E.
Millais, William Holman Hunt, William Michael Rossetti, Thomas Woolner, James
Collinson, William Morris etc.

(26) “The Canterbury Tales” is the most celebrated 14th century work of Chaucer’s English
period of works which was supposed to be written in 1392. It was the unfinished
work by Chaucer. Chaucer employs a first person “I”s narrative perspective in the
opening of “The General Prologue in the Canterbury Tales”. In the General Prologue
to this work, The Parson and The Ploughman are the two characters who are the
examples of deep Christian goodness. In it, Chaucer also portrays the seven deadly
sins in the Parson’s Tale, which are Envy, Lust, Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth, Avarice and
Pride. Each sin is plays major role in the life of a man.
y Jealousy and Homicide are not discussed by Chaucer.

(27) “Pamela” is the most known novel written by Samuel Richardson. It was published in
1740 and considered the first English novel in the history of English Literature. This
is an epistolary novel which centres the life of the Pamela Andrews, heroine of this
novel. Such novel has its origin in an elementary letter-writing manual.

(28) “The Medall” is a poem composed by John Dryden, an English writer and first official
poet-laurate. It was published in 1681 and has a sub-title “A Satire against Sedition”.

(29) As per Alliteration, It is a figures of speech where a consonant word or letter or

syllable used repetitively in a sentence. Example; “Full fathom five thy father lies”.

(30) A two syllable foot of verse in which the stress falls on the first syllable is known as
Trochee meter. It means Stressed syllable followed by unstressed syllable.

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(31) “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is famous poem composed in 1819 by John Keats, an
English Romantic poet. It is considered in two poetic form as Ballad and lyric. Its
English title is ‘The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy”.

(32) Self-conscious narrator highlights the problem of narrative authority.

(33) E.M. Forster was a famous English fiction writer of the Modern age. The term “Only
connect” is associated with him. He Found this quote in his epigraph of the novel
”Howards End”.

(34) “Musee des Beaux Arts” is the most important poem composed by W.H. Auden, an
Anglo- American poet of the Modern age. It was published in 1939. This poem shows
the suffering and pains of the human life. There are several figures or imaginary
presented in this poem as a boy falling out of the sky, children... skating on the pond
at the edge of wood and the dogs go on with their doggy life.

(35) “Twelfth Night” is the romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare, the greatest
Elizabethan age dramatist and poet. It has another sub-title “What You Will”. This
play is written around 1601-1602. Its about the life of the twins Voila and Sebastian.
Feste is a clown in this play.

(36) Tom Stoppard is a famous screenwriter and dramatist of the British postmodern age.
His play “The Real Inspector Hound” has a play within the play. Originally, it is one act
play published in 1968.

(37) As per Free verse, it is Characterised by short, irregular lines. It has no rhyme
pattern. This verse has a dependence on the effective and more intense use of
pauses. Walt Whitman is called the father of Free verse.

(38) “The Seasons” is a collection of four poems composed by James Thompson, an

Scottish poet. It was published in 1730. It revised and expanded all his life. This poem
began in the first instance as a poem entitled ‘Winter’ (1726), second is ‘Summer’
(1727), third part ‘Spring’ (1728) and the last part is ‘Autumn’ (1730).

(39) “The Faerie Queene” is the most famous epic poem composed by Edmund Spenser,
an English Elizabethan poet. It was first published in 1590 with its three books and
republished in 1596 with its all six book. It an unfinished poem by Spenser. There
are two cantos from the seventh book appeared posthumously which are known as
Mutability cantos.

(40) Michael Foucault is the famous French philosopher and literary critic of the Modern
period. He believes that the facts of history will protect us from historicism.

(41) “The Home Coming” is one of the best play written by Harold Pinter, an British author
mainly known for comedy of menace plays. This play published in 1965. It’s a two act
play. Ma, Sam, Lenny, Teddy, Joey and Ruth are the important characters of this play.
Lenny is the son of Max who is doing pimp occupation.

(42) “Don Juan” is the famous satirical epic poem written by Lord Byron it was published
in 1819. It is written in Ottava rima form which talks about Don Juan, a man who

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is easily seduced by women. This poem begins with the line “I want a hero: an
uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one”.

(43) John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman is the important postmodern novel
published in 1969. Its screenplay written by Harold Pinter. There are two endings of
this play. In the second ending, Charles Smithson’s lawyer finds that Sarah has been
living in the house of D.G. Rossetti, an English poet.

(44) “Incognita” is a book written by William Congreve, an English Restoration playwright

and writer. It is a work of fiction which is dubbed a ‘novel’ on its title-page. It is
published in 1692 and has a subtitle “Love and Duty Reconcil’d”.

(45) “Tradition and Individual Talent” is the most famous essay written by T.S. Eliot, an
English literary critic and poet of the 20th century. It was published in 1919. In this
essay, he uses the analogy of the catalyst to elucidate his theory of impersonal
poetry. He sites the example of a filament of platinum and, in the poetic process this
is equivalent to the mind of the poet.

(46) Pip: “Great Expectations” (1861) by Charles Dickens

y Causaubon: “Middlemarch” (1871) by George Eliot
y Becky Sharp: “Vanity Fair” (1848) by W.M. Thackeray
y Heathcliff: “Wuthering Heights” (1847) by Emily Bronte

(47) “Lives of the Most English Poets” is the work written by Samuel Johnson, an English
critic, biographer, poet and writer of the 18th century. It was [published in 1779-81.
This work consists of shot biographies of the 52 important writers.

(48) JM Coetzee became the Noble Prize winner in 2003. He is a famous South African
novelist. He got two Booker prizes for his novels as in 1983 for “Life and Times of
Michael K” and also won in 1999 for his well read novel “Disgrace”.

(49) Shelley’s “Adonais” is pastoral elegy on the death of the great English Romantic poet
John Keats. It was published in 1821. The Greek philosopher Plato has a bearing on
the composition of this poem. The full title of this poem is “Adonais: An Elegy on the
Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc”.

(50) John Locke: “Two Treatises on Government” (1689)

y William Dampier: “Voyages” (1703)
y Jeremy Collier: “A Short View of the Immorality and Profanity of the Stage” (1698)
y Thomas Rhymer: “A Short View of Tragedy” (1693)

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Answer Key

(1) 1 (11) 4 (21) 2 (31) 3 (41) 3

(2) 3 (12) 3 (22) 1 (32) 2 (42) 3

(3) 3 (13) 1 (23) 2 (33) 4 (43) 3

(4) 2 (14) 2 (24) 3 (34) 3 (44) 1

(5) 3 (15) 3 (25) 2 (35) 1 (4) 2

(6) 3 (16) 2 (26) 3 (36) 2 (46) 3

(7) 1 (17) 2 (27) 2 (37) 3 (47) 4

(8) 2 (18) 2 (28) 1 (38) 3 (48) 1

(9) 2 (19) 3 (29) 2 (39) 1 (49) 3

(10) 3 (20) 3 (30) 2 (40) 4 (50) 3

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2017 January Paper III

English Literature
(1) Who among the following is not a diasporic writer?
(1) Beryl Bainbridge
(2) Timothy Mo
(3) Hanif Kureishi
(4) Sam Selvon

(2) “A text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of
the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none
of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the
innumerable centres of culture.” Which of the following best expresses the position
stated above?
(1) A text is a tissue of lies that has no referential and cultural validity.
(2) A text is a communication from the Author-God with multiple meanings.
(3) A text is a force field of ambiguity where meanings collapse in the face of
opposition.
(4) A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is linked to
multiple sources of language and culture.

(3) In William Congreve’s The Way of the World, Fainall is Lady Wishfort’s
(1) Son
(2) Son-in-law
(3) Nephew
(4) Servant

(4) Match the periodical with the founder/s:

List – I List – II

A. The Egoist I. Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound

B. The English Review II. Harriet Monroe

C. Blast III. Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden

D. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse IV. Ford Madox Ford

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Codes:
ABCD
(1) II III I IV
(2) III I IV II
(3) III IV I II
(4) III II I IV

(5) Which statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner”?
(1) To kill a living creature is immoral.
(2) People should honour and respect all living things.
(3) Prayer can accomplish miracles.
(4) True harmony is achieved only through cooperative effort.

(6) “The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis” was proposed by

(1) Stephen Krashen
(2) M.A.K. Halliday
(3) Merrill Swain
(4) Gertrude Buck

(7) In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim’s brother Tom describes the oppression of a black
servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he visited. This episode is inspired by a
letter Laurence Sterne received from a black man. Sterne’s reply became an integral
part of 18th century abolitionist literature.
Name the person who wrote the aforementioned letter to Sterne.
(1) William Wilberforce
(2) Ignatius Sancho
(3) William Blackstone
(4) John Hawkins

(8) In Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, which song does Yvette sing to
Mother Courage and Kattrin?
(1) “The Song of the Great Souls of the Earth”
(2) “The Fraternization Song”
(3) “The Song of the Great Capitulation”
(4) “The Memorial Song”

(9) In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, under what pretext does Emma go every week
for her clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen?
(1) Under the pretext of going to the church for weekly confession.
(2) Under the pretext of meeting her blind friend who lives alone.
(3) Under the pretext of weekly shopping.
(4) Under the pretext of taking piano lessons.

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(10) Identify the two books by C.S. Lakshmi (Ambai) published in English translation:
I. Astride the Wheel
II. Going Home
III. A Purple Sea
IV. In a Forest, A Deer
The right combination according to the code is
(1) III and II
(2) I and II
(3) I and IV
(4) III and IV

(11) Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese is

I. a sequence of forty four Petrarchan sonnets.
II. a rewriting of Popean didactic verse.
III. a depiction of a contemporary setting and small events of ordinary life.
IV. a scathing criticism of the British colonial enterprise.
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and III
(3) II and IV
(4) I and IV

(12) In The Story of My Experiments with Truth, M.K. Gandhi covers the narrative of his
life from early childhood through to
(1) 1925
(2) 1929
(3) 1921
(4) 1927

(13) In a writing system the minimal unit that can cause a difference of meaning is called
(1) phoneme
(2) grapheme
(3) morpheme
(4) jargon

(14) Nnu Ego is a character in

(1) Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of Savannah
(2) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
(3) Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
(4) Ben Okri’s The Famished Road

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(15) Match the word with definition:

List – I List – II

A. Etymon I. Changing from one language variety to another in discourse

B. Code switching II. Rules governing the social use of language

C. Cognate III. Etymological source of a word

D. Pragmatics IV. Words with a common ancestor

CODES:
ABCD
(1) IV I III II
(2) III II IV I
(3) III I IV II
(4) IV I II III

(16) What would help a reader recognize Keats’s “To Autumn” as a poem from the
Romantic period?
(1) Its logical succession of images
(2) Its concise use of couplets
(3) Its lavish natural imagery
(4) Its use of iambic pentameter

(17) Which of the following is an accurate description of ‘heteroglossia’?

(1) Heteroglossia makes the job of the novelist easier by incorporating diversity into
the novelistic structure.
(2) Heteroglossia functions in a novel in alliance with its stylistic system
incorporating multiple voices inscribed in social language and differentiated
components of a writer’s ideological position.
(3) Heteroglossia creates concrete conceptualisations through language in
association with the singular view of the artistic effort resulting in the unified
world of the novel.
(4) Heteroglossia enters the linguistic universe of the novel to homogenize its
multiple differences and voices in a singular vision of accomplished structure.

(18) In Ulysses Leopold Bloom works for a Dublin

(1) bar
(2) park
(3) newspaper
(4) bank

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(19) Which pair of plays belongs to the early career of Harold Pinter?
I. The Caretaker
II. One for the Road
III. Celebration
IV. The Room
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) II and IV

(20) Who among the following contemporaries of John Donne wrote the following lines
on his death: “Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit/The universal monarch of
wit”?
(1) George Herbert
(2) Henry King
(3) Thomas Carew
(4) Henry Crashaw

(21) In his poem “Australia” A.D. Hope says that

I. Australia is “without songs, architecture, history”.
II. “Her five cities are like five dry rivers.”
III. The poet turns to her “to find/ The Arabian desert of the human mind/ Hoping if
still from deserts prophets come.”
IV. “She is the first of lands, the warmest.”
Codes:
(1) I and III
(2) II and III
(3) III and IV
(4) I and IV

(22) Basic English, a simplified and fundamental framework of English, was formulated by
I. I.A. Richards
II. Alastair Fowler
III. William Empson
IV. C.K. Ogden
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) I and III

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(23) “Britons will never be slaves!” – felt proud Britons in the eighteenth century. A great
many Britons, though, had no qualms about owning slaves and profiting from them.
Who among the following British authors self-consciously engaged with the issue of
slavery in some poems?
I. Hannah More
II. Mary Collier
III. Anna Seward
IV. Anna Yearsley
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV

(24) Match the Novelist with the work:

List – I List – II

A. Anita Desai I. Rich Like Us

B. Nayantara Sahgal II. The Nowhere Man

C. Arun Joshi III. In Custody

D. Kamala Markandaya IV. The Last Labyrinth

CODES:
ABCD
(1) III II IV I
(2) III I IV II
(3) II I IV III
(4) III IV I II

(25) Identify the right chronological sequence:

(1) The American Pastoral – Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved
(2) The Great Gatsby – Sister Carrie – Beloved – The American Pastoral
(3) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – Beloved – The American Pastoral
(4) Sister Carrie – The Great Gatsby – The American Pastoral – Beloved

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(26) In which of the following senses did Marx and Engels originally use the term
“ideology” in The German Ideology?
(1) Something that mystifies the actual material conditions of society, a sort of false
consciousness.
(2) The elaborate structures and institutions that mark the bourgeoise society.
(3) The concepts of base and superstructure that govern the economic relations of
the society.
(4) The fundamental class consciousness of the proletariat which leads to their
awakening.

(27) The plot of this Coetzee novel unravels the narrative of a poor man of colour trying to
survive in a civil-war situation, never taking sides. Identify the novel.
(1) Disgrace
(2) Age of Iron
(3) Waiting for the Barbarians
(4) Life and Times of Michael K.

(28) Which of the following lines of T.S. Eliot is used by Anita Desai as the epigraph for her
novel, Baumgartner’s Bombay?
(1) “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” The Waste Land
(2) “In my beginning is my end”, “East Coker”
(3) “Human kind cannot bear very much reality”, “Burnt Norton”
(4) “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons,” “Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”

(29) In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales which two characters are examples
of deep Christian goodness?
I. the Summoner
II. the Parson
III. the Ploughman
IV. the Pardoner
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) I and IV

(30) Identify Falstaff’s first words in Henry IV, Part I:

(1) “Now, Harry, what time of day is it, lad ?”
(2) “Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad ?”
(3) “Now, Harry, what time of night is it, lad ?”
(4) “Now, Hal, what time of night is it, lad ?”

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(31) Anna Barbauld, Laetitia Elizabeth London, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and Felicia
Hemans are
(1) first wave feminists
(2) women poets of the Romantic period
(3) Victorian writers of popular fiction
(4) nineteenth century stage artists

(32) Ray Bradbury has titled one of his short story collections – Golden Apples of the Sun
– after the last line of a W.B. Yeats poem. Which poem?
(1) “The Death of Cuchulain”
(2) “The Peacock”
(3) “The Hour Before Dawn”
(4) “The Song of Wandering Aengus”

(33) Which play by Tom Stoppard set in Zurich during the First World War presents a
character’s interactions with James Joyce as he was writing Ulysses, Tristran Zara
during the rise of Dadaism, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of
whom were living in Zurich at that time?
(1) After Magritte
(2) Dirty Linen
(3) Artist Descending a Staircase
(4) Travesties

(34) “Most blameless is he, centered in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail
In offices of tenderness…”
In these lines from “Ulysses”, what does Ulysses suggest about Telemachus?
(1) He shows heroic qualities.
(2) He is patient and selfless.
(3) He is very much like his father.
(4) He may be too tender-hearted to be king.

(35) In Restoration comedies the following is true EXCEPT

(1) the London life of hedonistic young men is portrayed.
(2) names encapsulate traits.
(3) unchaste women, widows and cuckolds scarcely make an appearance.
(4) the heroines seek a say in the choice of a marriage partner.

(36) What happens to the character Boy at the end of Luigi Pirandello’s play Six
Characters in Search of an Author?
(1) He drowns in the fountain.
(2) He is shot dead by the Father.
(3) He leaves the stage alone.
(4) He commits suicide.

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(37) Which of the following adjectives will not apply to Becky Sharp, a major character in
Vanity Fair?
(1) ambitious
(2) energetic
(3) wellborn
(4) scheming

(38) Which character in Anton Chekhov’s play, The Cherry Orchard, first suggests the
selling of the orchard?
(1) Trofimov
(2) Yephikodov
(3) Lopakhin
(4) Varya

(39) Identify the correct chronological sequence of the founding of the following 18th
century English periodicals:
(1) Tatler – Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
(2) Spectator – Tatler - The Gentleman’s Magazine – Rambler
(3) Rambler – Tatler- Spectator – The Gentleman’s Magazine
(4) Tatler – Spectator – Rambler – The Gentleman’s Magazine

(40) Who identified “strangled articulateness” as a theme in Canadian writing?

(1) Margaret Atwood
(2) Northrop Frye
(3) Michael Ondaatjee
(4) Joy Kogawa

(41) Identify the gynocritics in the following list:

I. Alice Jardine
II. Elaine Showalter
III. Sandra Gilbert
IV. Kate Millett
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV

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(42) Identify the character who is not part of the group of three protagonists in Girish
Karnad’s Hayavadana:
(1) Padmini
(2) Gautama
(3) Kapila
(4) Devadatta

(43) Aurobindo Ghosh, author of ‘Savitri’, taught for some time at Baroda College after his
return from England in 1893. Which subject did he teach?
(1) English
(2) French
(3) Sanskrit
(4) Bengali

(44) Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander can be classified as a/an

(1) complaint
(2) stichomythia
(3) epyllion
(4) pasturelle

(45) Which among the following does not belong to Indo-European language family?
(1) English
(2) German
(3) Scandinavian
(4) Finnish

(46) What, among the following, is ruled out by Longinus as a way of achieving the
sublime?
(1) great thoughts
(2) immoderate emotion
(3) noble diction
(4) dignified and elevated word arrangement

(47) Who among the following is not a beat writer?

(1) Jack Kerouac
(2) Allen Ginsberg
(3) Robert Lowell
(4) William Burroughs

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(48) This was a masque written by Ben Jonson, staged on Twelfth Night and it was the
first masque in which Prince Charles took part.
(1) Masque of Blankness
(2) The Masque of Queens
(3) Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
(4) The Gypsies Metamorphed

(49) Elizabeth Bishop’s poems are best remembered for their

(1) conversational intimacy
(2) intellectual tenor
(3) astringent satire
(4) urban topography

(50) Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things
as They Are?
(1) Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto.
(2) Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk.
(3) Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey.
(4) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams.

(51) In “My Last Duchess” which of the following is not one of the Duchess’s
indemeanours, according to the Duke?
(1) She was flattered by compliments from Fra Pandolf.
(2) She enjoyed the sunset as much as she enjoyed her husband’s favour.
(3) She wouldn’t listen to her husband when he tried to correct her behaviour.
(4) She was equally grateful for all acts of kindness, regardless of their source.

(52) In his essay “From Work to Text” Roland Barthes says the following about the text:
I. The text is singular.
II. The text can be held in the hand.
III. The text is held in language.
IV. The text is a methodological field.
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) III and II

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(53) Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” in his first volume of poetry, Death of a Naturalist,
illustrates all the following EXCEPT
(1) his preoccupation with his roots
(2) his obsession with Irish legend and folklore
(3) his respect for the natural world of the farming community and the labour of his
ancestors
(4) his displaced vocation of digging with a pen

(54) Here is a list of Indian writers who have translated their work into English. Match the
writer with his source language:

List – I List – II

A. O.V. Vijayan I. Kannada

B. Vilas Sarang II. Malayalam

C. Krishna Baldev Vaid III. Marathi

D. Girish Karnad IV. Hindi

Codes:
ABCD
(1) II IV III I
(2) I III IV II
(3) II III IV I
(4) II III I IV

(55) In Book 8, Paradise Lost Adam identifies his chief flaw or weakness to Raphael. What
is this flaw?
(1) gluttony
(2) pride in his superiority to Eve
(3) overconfidence in his free will
(4) passion for Eve

(56) Identify the correct chronological sequence of the following early English texts:
(1) Troilus and Criseyde – The Owl and The Nightingale – Utopia – Morte d’Arthur
(2) Troilus and Criseyde – Utopia – Morte d’Arthur – The Owl and the Nightingale
(3) The Owl and the Nightingale – Troilus and Criseyde – Morte d’Arthur – Utopia
(4) The Owl and the Nightingale – Morte d’Arthur – Troilus and Criseyde – Uttopia

(57) In Sophocles’s play King Oedipus Laius, the erstwhile ruler of Thebes, was murdered
(1) at the edge of the forest on his way to Delphi
(2) at the edge of the forest as he returned from Delphi
(3) at the crossroads as he returned from Delphi
(4) at the crossroads on his way to Delphi

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(58) The quintessentially metafictional novel, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo

Calvino has alternate chapters with chapter numbers and titles. Which of the
following are the titles of the chapters in the novel?
I. Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow
II. In a Network of Lines that Enlace
III. In a Network of Lines that Interface
IV. What Story there Awaits its End?
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) II and IV

(59) The novel Maurice by E.M. Forster appeared posthumously in 1971. It had a
homosexual theme, so Forster considered its subject matter too indelicate for
publication during his life time. It was influenced by a writer who was a socialist and
open homosexual. Identify the writer.
(1) Oscar Wilde
(2) Edward Carpenter
(3) W.H. Auden
(4) E.F. Benson

(60) Who among the following has elaborated on the “Indianisation” of English?
(1) L M Khubchandani
(2) B. Kumaravadivelu
(3) B.B. Kachru
(4) Rajendra Singh

(61) These are four models of relating literature to history. Which of the following is
associated with formalism?
(1) Literary texts are universal and transcend history : the historical context of
their production and reception has no bearing on the literary work which is
aesthetically autonomous, having its own laws, being a world into itself.
(2) The historical context of a literary work is integral to a proper understanding of it
: the text is produced within a specific historical context but in its literariness it
remains separate from that context.
(3) Literary works can help us to understand the time in which they are set : realist
texts in particular provide imaginative representations of specific historical
moments, events or periods.
(4) Literary texts are bound up with other discourses and rhetorical structures : they
are part of a history that is still in the process of being written.

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(62) As Gunter Grass’s novel The Tin Drum opens we find Oskar Matzerath
(1) on the war front entertaining the soldiers as part of a band of dwarfs.
(2) in a mental hospital writing his story.
(3) admitted in a hospital after his fatal fall in the wine cellar.
(4) watching a ball in which the young ladies ignore his presence.

(63) D.H. Lawrence’s 1926 novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country?
(1) Egypt
(2) South Africa
(3) Mexico
(4) Peru

(64) Which two writers can be described as writing historical novels?

I. Sir Walter Scott
II. Charlotte Bronte
III. Maria Edgeworth
IV. Jane Austen
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and III
(4) III and IV

(65) Which of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels are set mostly in Japan?

I. The Unconsoled
II. The Remains of the Day
III. An Artist of the Floating World
IV. A Pale View of Hills
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2) II and III
(3) III and IV
(4) I and IV

(66) In The Advancement of Learning Bacon noted the need for more studies of
I. moral knowledge
II. forbidden knowledge
III. civil knowledge
IV. spiritual knowledge

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The right combination according to the code is

(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3) II and III
(4) II and IV

(67) Which among the following texts purports to be the autobiography of a mad German
philosopher edited by an equally fictitious editor?
(1) Sartos Resartus
(2) The Dream of Gerontius
(3) The Professor
(4) Felix Holf

(68) As Sidney argues in A Defence of Poesy which discipline is more useful and
praiseworthy – history or poetry?
(1) History “being captivated to truth” is more useful than poetry.
(2) Poetry where man can see “virtue exalted and vice punished” is more useful than
history.
(3) History is more useful for poetry is “an encouragement to unbridled wickedness”.
(4) History and poetry are synonymous, and so both are useful.

(69) In Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress Christian and his friend faithful cause a commotion at
the Vanity Fair for many reasons. Which of the following statements is not true of
their appearance at the fair?
(1) They are dressed differently than the other fair-goers.
(2) They speak the language of the Bible at the fair.
(3) They sample every entertainment at the fair.
(4) They refuse to look at the merchandise at the fair.

(70) What does the title Morte d’Arthur mean?

(1) Arthur mortified
(2) Death of Arthur
(3) Castle of Arthur
(4) Burial of Arthur

(71) Assertion (A): Characters in novels are people whose secret lives are visible or might
be visible. We are people whose secret lives are invisible.
Reason (R): Even when novels are about wicked people, they can solace us; they
suggest a more manageable human race, they give us the illusion of seeing clearly
and of power.

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In the light of the statements above

(1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is right, but (R) is wrong.
(4) (A) is wrong, but (R) is right.

Read the following poem and answer the questions, 72- 75.
Dear Fox We pretended to know nothing about it.
I withdrew to my childhood training: stay out of swampy undergrowth, choked edges.
This was around the time we were too cruel to kill the mice we caught, leaving them in
the Have-a-Heart trap under the sun-burning bramble of rugosa.
But moving up the trail, we caught a glimpse right at the start: the fox just over the
hillock on the dune-side slope, spoiling the grass-inscribed sand. Neither of us looked –
it seemed best to back away.
On the dune’s steep side we surveyed what we’d come for : ocean’s snaking blue beyond
the meadow, the silvered blade-like wands lying down. Lovely enough to hold ourselves
to that view.
But the currents of an odor wafted in and out, until the sweep of smell grew wider,
wilder.
The heat compounded, and ugliness settled its cloud over us, profound as human
speech, although by then we were not speaking.

(72) The “We” of the opening line indicates

(1) a group
(2) two persons
(3) the speaker and an imaginary listener
(4) an unspecified crowd

(73) The dead animal was sighted

(1) at the end of the trail
(2) on the dune’s steep side
(3) on the dune’s sloping side
(4) in the swampy undergrowth

(74) The reaction evoked in response to a glimpse of the dead fox is best described as
I. evasive
II. angry
III. bizarre
IV. muted

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The right combination according to the code is

(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) III and IV

(75) At the close of the poem, which of the following senses overpowers and renders the
visitors speechless?
(1) sight
(2) touch
(3) sound
(4) smell

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Explanation
(1) Beryl Bainbridge is not a diasporic writer.
y Timothy Mo, Hanif Kureishi and Sam Selvon are the diasporic writers who expressed
their feelings, emotions about alienation, their love for homeland and experience in
their works.

(2) “A text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of
the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none
of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the
innumerable centres of culture.” This position expresses that a text is a linguistic
construct without any unity of meaning and is linked to multiple sources of language
and culture.

(3) “The Way of the World” is the most famous play written by William Congreve, an
English playwright. It is a Restoration comedy published in 1700. The setting of this
play is London. There are some important characters as Lady Wishfort, Millamant,
Mrs. Marwood, Miraball, Fainall, Mrs. Fainall, Waitwell etc. In this play, Fainall is the
son- in- law of Lady Wishfort and husband of her daughter Mrs. Fainall.

(4) The Egoist: Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden

y The English Review: Ford Madox Ford
y Blast: Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound
y Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: Harriet Monroe

(5) “The Rime of Ancient Mariner” is the most celebrated poem written by S.T. Coleridge,
an English Romantic poet. It was first published in 1798 in “Lyrical Ballad”. It is the
first poem in the list of the poem appeared in “Lyrical Ballad”. This poem shows the
experience of a mariner who is came from a sea voyage. The main theme of this
poem is ‘People should honour and respect all living things’.

(6) “The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis” was proposed by Merrill Swain. According
to this theory, language is acquired when a learner becomes aware of gaps in
knowledge. It is mainly related to the process of language production.

(7) In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim’s brother Tom describes the oppression of a black
servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he visited. This episode is inspired by a
letter Laurence Sterne received from a black man. Sterne’s reply became an integral
part of 18th century abolitionist literature. This forementioned letter is written by
Ignatius Sancho to Lawrence Sterne.

(8) “Mother Courage and Her Children” is famous play written by Bertolt Brecht, a
German language writer. It was written in 1939 as an anti-war musical stage play.
In this play, the character Yvette sings a song “The Fraternization Song” to Mother
Courage and Kattrin. Anna Ferling is the mother and a canteen woman who pulls her
cart with her three children named Eilif, Kattrin and Swiss Cheese.

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(9) “Madame Bovary” is an important play written by Gustave Flaubert, a French writer
of the 19th century. It was published in 1856 as his debut Realistic novel. Under the
pretext of taking piano lessons, Emma goes every week for her clandestine meeting
with Leon in Rouen.

(10) “A Purple Sea” and “In a Forest, A Deer” are the two books which are translated and
published by C.S. Lakshmi (Ambai) in the English language.

(11) Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese is a sequence of forty-
four Petrarchan sonnets and It is a depiction of a contemporary setting and small
events of ordinary life. It was published in 1850. These sonnets are addressed to her
husband Robert Browning, also famous English Victorian writer.

(12) “The Story of My Experiments with Truth” is the famous autobiography written
by M.K. Gandhi, the Father of Nation. It was originally written in Hindi and Gujrati
languages. It was published in 1925. In this book, he covers the narrative of his life
from early childhood through to 1921.

(13) As per Grapheme, It is the minimal unit that can cause a difference of meaning in a
writing system. It means, it is a letter or a number of letters that represent a sound
(phoneme) in a word. As- ai, sh, igh etc.

(14) “The Joys of Motherhood” is an important novel written by Buchi Emecheta, a

Nigerian novelist, It was published 1979. This novel tells a story about Nnu Ego, an
Nigerian Woman. Her life centres on her children and through them, she gains the
respect of her community.

(15) Etymon: Etymological source of a word

y Code Switching: Changing from one language variety to another in discourse
y Cognate: Words with a common ancestor
y Pragmatics: Rules governing the social use of language

(16) “To Autumn” is one of the greatest odes written by John Keats, an English Romantic
poet. He composed this ode on September 1819 and published in 1820. It lavish
natural imaginary recognises it as a poem from Romantic period. Its opening lines are
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom- friend of the maturing sun”.

(17) The term ‘Heteroglossia’ is introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian literary theorist,
in his important paper “Discourse in the Novel” in 1934. This term functions in a novel
in alliance with its stylistic system incorporating multiple voices inscribed in social
language and differentiated components of a writer’s ideological position.

(18) “Ulysses” is a famous novel written by James Joyce, an Modern Irish writer. It was
first published in 1920 and later published on Joyce 40th birthday in 1922. There are
several important characters as Molly Bloom, Leopold Bloom, Buck Mulligan, Stephen
Dedalus etc. It tells us the appointment of Leopold Bloom on 16 June, 1904. Leopold
Bloom works for a Dublin newspaper.

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(19) “The Caretaker” and “The Room” are the famous plays which belong to the early
career of Harold Pinter, a 20th century British playwright.
y “The Caretaker”: (1959)
“The Room”: (1957)
“One for the Road”: (1984)
“Celebration”: (1999)

(20) Thomas Carew is the contemporary of John Donne. They belonged to the
Metaphysical poetry of the 17th century. Thomas Carew wrote the following lines on
his death: “Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit/The universal monarch of
wit”.

(21) A.D. Hope is an Modern Australian author. In his poem “Australia”, he says that
Australia is “without songs, architecture, history”. Here, the poet turns to her “to
find/ The Arabian desert of the human mind/ Hoping if still from deserts prophets
come.” In this poem, he questions about the idea of civilization in Australia.

(22) Basic English was formulated by I.A. Richards and C.K. Ogden. It is a simplified
and fundamental framework in English. It has 850 words total as the beginner’s
vocabulary in English.

(23) Hannah More and Anna Yearsley are the British authors who are self-consciously
engaged with the issue of slavery in some poems. “Britons will never be slaves!” –
felt proud Britons in the eighteenth century. A great many Britons, though, had no
qualms about owning slaves and profiting from them.

(24) Anita Desai: ‘In Custody’ (1984)

y Nayantara Sahgal: ‘Rich Like Us’ (1985)
y Arun Joshi: ‘The Last Labyrinth’ (1993)
y Kamala Markandaya: ‘The Nowhere Man’ (1972)

(25) “Sister Carrie” (1900) novel by Theodore Dreiser.

y “The Great Gatsby” (1925) novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
y “Beloved” (1987) novel by Toni Morrison.
y “The American Pastoral” (1997) novel by Philip Roth.

(26) Marx and Engels originally use the term “ideology” in The German Ideology. According
to them, it is Something that mystifies the actual material conditions of society, a
sort of false consciousness.

(27) “Life and Times of Michael K” is a famous novel written by J.M. Coetzee, an South-
African born writer. It was published in 1983. This is a Booker Prize winning novel in
1983. The plot of this novel unravels the narrative of a poor man of colour trying to
survive in a civil-war situation, never taking sides.

(28) “Baumgartner’s Bombay” is a novel written by Anita Desai, an Indian writer, was
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context. She used the lines of T.S. Eliot as the epigraph for this novel. This line is
from his poem “East Coker” as “In my beginning is my end”.

(29) “The Canterbury Tales” is the most famous 14th century work of Chaucer’s English
period of works which was supposed to be written in 1392. It was the unfinished
work by Chaucer. Chaucer employs a first person “I”s narrative perspective in the
opening of “The General Prologue in the Canterbury Tales”. In the General Prologue
to this work, The Parson and The Ploughman are the two characters who are the
examples of deep Christian goodness.

(30) “Henry IV, Part I” is one of the best historical plays written by William Shakespeare,
a most celebrated writer of the English Elizabethan age. It is supposed that it was
written after 1597. Sir John Falstaff is the most famous character of Shakespeare’s
characterization. In this play, Falstaff’s first words are “Now, Hal, what time of day is
it, lad?”

(31) Anna Barbauld, Laetitia Elizabeth London, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson and Felicia
Hemans are important women poets of the Romantic period.

(32) “Golden Apples of the Sun” is a short story collection written by Ray Bradbury, an
American writer. It was published in 1953 as an anthology of 22 short stories. The
title of this collection have been taken from the last stanza of the poem “The Song
of Wandering Aengus” written by W.B. Yeats.

(33) “Travesties” (1975) is a play by Tom Stoppard set in Zurich during the First World
War presents a character’s interactions with James Joyce as he was writing Ulysses,
Tristran Zara during the rise of Dadaism, and Lenin leading up to the Russian
Revolution, all of whom were living in Zurich at that time

(34) “Ulysses” is a famous poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson, an English Victorian
Poet. It was published in 1842. It is written in Blank Verse and is a perfect example of
dramatic monologue. This poem is about Ulysses who is returning from travels to his
kingdom, Ithaka. It also talks about Ulysses’s wife and his son Telemachus. The above
lines are related to this poem, in it, Ulysses suggests about Telemachus that he is
patient and selfless.

(35) As per the Restoration comedies, in it, the London life of hedonistic young men is
portrayed. It names encapsulate traits. In these comedies, the heroines seek a say in
the choice of a marriage partner.

(36) “Six Characters in Search of an author” is the most famous play written by Luigi
Pirandello, an Italian author. It is an Italian play published in 1921. In the opening
scene of this play, an acting company is interrupted by Six strange characters during
the rehearsal of a play named ‘The Rules of the Game’. At the end of this play, a
character Boy commits suicide.

(37) “Vanity Fair” is the most famous novel written by William Makepeace Thackeray, a
British novelist of the 19th century. It was published in 1848 with its subtitle “A Novel
without a Hero”. It is also known as the title “Pen and Pencil Sketches of English
Society”. This novel revolves around the life of Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp. It also

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deals with the conditions during the Napoleonic Wars. In this novel, Becky Sharp
refers as ambitious, energetic and scheming girl.

(38) “The Cherry Orchard” is the most celebrated play written by Anton Chekhov, a
greatest Russian dramatist and short story writer. It was published in 1904. In this
play, the character Lopakin first suggests the selling of orchard tree.

(39) Tatler: 1709

y Spectator: 1711
y The Gentleman’s Magazine: 1731
y Rambler: 1750

(40) Northrop Frye was a famous literary theorist and critic of Canada in the 20th century
who identified “strangled articulateness” as a theme in Canadian writing.

(41) Elaine Showalter and Sandra Gilbert are the most important gynocritic writers in the
feminist theory. As per Gynocriticism, It is related with the study of women’s writing
through the women critics not using male companions.

(42) Gautama is not the character of the play “Hayavadana” by Karnad.

y “Hayavadna” is the most celebrated play written by Girish Karnad, an Indian writer
of Kannada language. It was published in 1971. It is two act play which is based on
Thomas Mann’s Transposed Heads and Kathasaritsagara. It is the story of two friends
Kapila and Devdatta where both are in love with Padmini.

(43) Aurobindo Ghosh was a famous philosopher and Indian poet in the late 19th and early
20th century. He is the author of great book “Savitri” He also taught English subject
for sometime at Baroda College after his return from England in 1893.

(44) Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander can be classified as a/an epyllion. It is an
unfinished poem by Marlowe which is completed by George Chapman after Marlowe’
death. It was published in 1598. It is a retelling of a Greek Myth about Hero and
Leander.

(45) English, German and Scandinavian are belonged to Indo- European language family.
y Finnish language is not related to this family. It is spoken by the people of Finland
country.

(46) Immoderate emotion is ruled out by Longinus as a way of achieving the sublime.
y “On the Sublime” is an important critical work written by Cassius Longinus. In this
work, Longinus gave the five sources of sublimity as great thoughts, strong emotions,
use of certain figure of speech, noble diction and dignified and elevated word
arrangement.

(47) Robert Lowell is not the Beat generation writer.

y As per the Beat Generation, It is a literary movement started in 1950s by a group of
authors as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.

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(48) “Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue” was a Jacobean masque written by Ben Johnson, a
Jacobean playwright. It was appeared in 1618. It was staged on Twelfth Night and it
was the first masque in which Prince Charles took part.

(49) Elizabeth Bishop was a 20th century American short story writer as well as poet. Her
poems are best remembered for their conversational intimacy. She also won the
Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1956.

(50) “Caleb Williams or The Adventurous of Caleb Williams” is the most famous novel
written by William Godwin, an English author and journalist. It was published in 1794.
This chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title “Things
as They Are”. It is a three- volume early mystery novel which attacks the aristocratic
privilege.

(51) “My Last Duchess” is the best dramatic monologue poem written by Robert
Browning, an Victorian poet. It was first appeared in 1842. According to the Duke,
Duchess was flattered by compliments from Fra Pandolf and she also enjoyed the
sunset as much as she enjoyed her husband’s favour. She was equally grateful for all
acts of kindness, regardless of their source.

(52) “From Work to Text” is one of the famous essay written by Roland Barthes, an French
born theorist and critic in the mid 20th century. It was published in 1971. In this essay,
he presents his view about the text as he says the text is held in language and it is a
methodological field.

(53) Seamus Heaney was a famous Irish poet who wrote a well- known poem ”Digging”.
It was first published in a volume in 1964. This poem is autobiographical in nature.
It comes from his first volume of poetry ‘Death of a Naturalist’. In this poem, Heaney
illustrates his respect for the natural world of the farming community and the labour
of his ancestors. He also shows his preoccupation with his roots and his displaced
vocation of digging with a pen.

(54) O.V. Vijayan: Malayalam

y Vilas Sarang: Marathi
y Krishna Baldev Vaid: Hindi
y Girish Karnad: Kannada

(55) “Paradise Lost” is the most celebrated epic poem written by John Milton and
published in 1667. In the poem or invocation at the opening of Book 3, Paradise Lost,
Milton asks for divine help in writing his epic. It tells the story about Adam and Eve
and the creation of mankind on earth. In Book VIII, Adam identifies his chief flaw or
weakness to Raphael that is passion for Eve. ‘Children thou shalt bring/In sorrow
forth’, Expulsion from Eden and ‘Cursed is the ground for thy sake, thou in sorrow /
Shalt eat thereof all the days of thy life’
Are the punishments given by God to Adam and Eve as a consequence of tasting the
forbidden fruit.

(56) “The owl and The Nightingale”: (12th or 13th century)

y “Troilus and Criseyde”: (1378-85)

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y “Morte d’ Arthur”: (1485)

y “Utopia”: (1516)

(57) “Oedipus Rex” is the most famous play written by Sophocles. It was an Athenian
tragedy. In this play, Laius was the erstwhile ruler of Thebes who murdered at the
crossroads on his way to Delphi. He was the real father of Oedipus and first husband
of Jocasta, the real mother of Oedipus and later, became wife of him.

(58) “If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller” is the quintessentially metafictional novel written
by Italo Calvino, an Italian writer of the 20th century. It was published in 1979. There
are several chapters and each chapter divided into two sections. It has alternate
chapters with chapter numbers and titles. ‘Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow’
and ‘In a Network of Lines that Enlace’ are the titles od some chapters of this novel.

(59) “Maurice” is a novel written by E.M. Forster which appeared posthumously in 1971. It
had a homosexual theme, so Forster considered its subject matter too indelicate for
publication during his life time. This novel was influenced by Edward Carpenter, a
writer who was a socialist and also a open homosexual.

(60) B.B. Kachru has elaborated on the “Indianisation” of English. He wrote a book titled
‘The Indianization of English” and published in 1983.

(61) According to formalism, Literary texts are universal and transcend history : the
historical context of their production and reception has no bearing on the literary
work which is aesthetically autonomous, having its own laws, being a world into
itself.

(62) “The Tin Drum” is a novel written by Gunter Grass, a German Writer and Noble Prize
winner in Literature in 1999. It was published in 1959 and it was the first book of his
“Danzig Trilogy”. This novel opens with Oskar Matzerath who is in a mental hospital
writing his story.

(63) “The Plumed Serpent” is a novel written by D.H. Lawrence, an English writer and
poet of the Modern age. It was published in 1926. This novel set in Mexico country.
It revolves around Kate Leslie, an Irish tourist who visits Mexico after the Mexican
Revolution.

(64) Sie Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth are the famous historical novelists. Walter
Scott is also known as the father of historical novel.

(65) “An Artist of the Floating World” (1986) and “A Pale View of Hills” (1982) are the novels
written by Kazuo Ishiguro, an British novelist of the Postmodern age. These novels
are set mostly in Japan.

(66) “The Advancement of Learning” is one of the best book written by Francis Bacon,
father of English essay. It was published in 1605. This book is attempted to draw a
distinction between two kinds of Truth, a theological Truth ‘drawn from the word and
oracles of God’ and determined by faith, and a ‘scientific’ Truth based on the light
of nature and the dictates of reason. In this essay, Bacon noted the need for more
studies of moral knowledge and civil knowledge.

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(67) “Sartos Resartus” is a famous novel written by Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish historian
and writer. It was published in 1836. It is known as the autobiography of a mad
German philosopher edited by an equally fictitious editor.

(68) “The Defence of Poesy” is a famous literary criticism book written by Philip Sidney,
an Elizabethan poet. It is also known as ‘The Apology for Poetry’. It was published
posthumously in 1595. This book is a reply to Stephen Gosson’s charges against
poetry. In this work, Sidney makes arguments for considering the Biblical Psalms
poetry as they were written in meter and David uses imagery and personification
to portray faith. In this book, Sidney argues that Poetry where man can see “virtue
exalted and vice punished” is more useful than history that is a disciple which is
more useful and praiseworthy history and poetry.

(69) “The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come or The Pilgrim’s
Progress” is the best novel written by John Bunyan, an 17th century writer. It was
a Christian allegory published in 1678. The Slough of Despond is the first obstacle
encountered by Christian on his progress. He also faced several other challenges in
the different places during his journey. In the Slough of Despond, Christian found
fears and doubts, discouraging apprehensions, sinful thoughts. Christian and his
friend faithful cause a commotion at the Vanity Fair for many reasons. In this fair,
they are dressed differently than the other fair-goers and they speak the language of
the Bible at the fair. They also refuse to look at the merchandise at the fair.

(70) The title “Morte d’Arthur” means death of Arthur. “Morte d’Arthur” is also a famous
book of the 15th century, it was written by Thomas Malory. This book was published in
1485. It tells the story about the King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.

(71) Characters in novels are people whose secret lives are visible or might be visible.
We are people whose secret lives are invisible because Even when novels are about
wicked people, they can solace us; they suggest a more manageable human race,
they give us the illusion of seeing clearly and of power. Thus both assertion and
reason are correct and also correct explanation.

(72) The “We” of the opening line indicates two persons.

(73) The dead animal was sighted on the dune’s sloping side.

(74) The reaction evoked in response to a glimpse of the dead fox is best described as
evasive and muted.

(75) At the close of the poem, smell sense overpowers and renders the visitors
speechless.

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Answer Key

(1) 1 (16) 3 (31) 2 (46) 2 (61) 1

(2) 4 (17) 2 (32) 4 (47) 3 (62) 2

(3) 2 (18) 3 (33) 4 (48) 3 (63) 3

(4) 3 (19) 3 (34) 2 (49) 1 (64) 3

(5) 2 (20) 3 (35) 3 (50) 4 (65) 3

(6) 3 (21) 1 (36) 4 (51) 3 (66) 1

(7) 2 (22) 3 (37) 3 (52) 3 (67) 1

(8) 2 (23) 2 (38) 3 (53) 2 (68) 2

(9) 4 (24) 2 (39) 1 (54) 3 (69) 3

(10) 4 (25) 3 (40) 2 (55) 4 (70) 2

(11) 2 (26) 1 (41) 3 (56) 3 (71) 1

(12) 3 (27) 4 (42) 2 (57) 4 (72) 2

(13) 2 (28) 2 (43) 1 (58) 1 (73) 3

(14) 3 (29) 3 (44) 3 (59) 2 (74) 3

(15) 3 (30) 2 (45) 4 (60) 3 (75) 4

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2017 November Paper II

English Literature
(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)

(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”.

(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)

(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”

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(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

(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

(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

(8) The title of Sir Thomas Browne’s famous treatise, Religio Medici means:
(1) Religion of a Doctor
(2) Religion of Magician
(3) Religion of Divinity
(4) Religion of Meditation

(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

(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

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The right combination according to the code is:

(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)

(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

(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

(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

(14) In Women in Love what is Winifred’s pekinese dog called?

(1) Bismarck
(2) Looloo
(3) Lucky
(4) Buddy

(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

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(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

(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

(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

(19) Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is set in.

(1) Surinam
(2) Abyssinia
(3) Egypt
(4) Assyria

(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

(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

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(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

(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

(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.

(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

(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

(27) The metrical form of Gower’s Confessio Amantis is:

(1) iambic pentameter
(2) anapestic trimeter
(3) octosyllabic couplets
(4) trochaic tetrameter

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(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

(29) The Bard. The Iron Lady. The King. The above are examples of:
(1) anacoluthon
(2) aposiopesis
(3) asyndenton
(4) antonomasia

(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

(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”

(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

(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”

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(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

(35) In Canterbury Tales who has a red face full of sores?

(1) the Summoner
(2) the Shipman
(3) the Yeoman
(4) the Reeve

(36) The pace of speech is called:

(1) syllable
(2) loudness
(3) tempo
(4) pitch

(37) Match the title with the author:

TITLE AUTHOR

(a) Sexual Politics (i) Mary Ellman

(b) A Literature of Their Own (ii) Elaine Showalter

(c) Thinking About Women (iii) Helene Cixous

(d) The Laugh of the Medusa (iv) Kate Millet

CODES:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(2) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

(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

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(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”

(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
(3) Rembrandt
(4) Raphael

(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

(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

(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

(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

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(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

(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

(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

(48) Match the character with the work:

CHARACTER WORK

(a) Jim Dixon (i) Room at the Top

(b) Jimmy Porter (ii) Hurry on Down

(c) Joe Lampton (iii) Look Back In Anger

(d) Charles Lumley (iv) Lucky Jim

CODES
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(2) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

(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

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The right combination according to the code is:

(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (d) and (b)
(3) (d) and (c)
(4) (a) and (d)

(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”

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Explanation
(1) “Evelina” is the important novel written by Fanny Burney, an English novelist of the
18th century. It was first published in 1778. The subtitle of this novel is “The History of
a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World”. In this novel, the eponymous heroine Evelina
comes out in the society from two locations Bristol and London.

(2) “Mrs. Dalloway” is the most celebrated novel written by Virginia Woolf, an British
Modern novelist and essayist, published in 1925. It details a day life of Clarissa
Dalloway. “Fear no more the heat of the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages” line by
Shakespeare is repeated several times in this novel.

(3) ‘Globe’ and ‘Swan’ are the important theatres of the Elizabethan period.

(4) Matthew Arnold was a great English Victorian poet. He expresses his dilemma of
“Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born” in his
poem “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse”(1855).

(5) Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and Noble Prize winner in Literature in
1954. He made the famous comment that, “All modern American literature comes
from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”.

(6) Francis Quarles was popularised a kind of poetry called “The Emblem” from his work
“Emblems” (1635). It is a poetic genre containing a symbolic picture with a text and a
verse exposition popular in the early 17th century.

(7) “Don Juan” is the famous satirical epic poem written by Lord Byron it was published
in 1819. It is written in Ottava rima form which talks about Don Juan, a man who
is easily seduced by women. This poem begins with the line “I want a hero: an
uncommon want, when every year and month sends forth a new one”.

(8) “Religio Medici” is the notable work written by Sir Thomas Browne, an English author
of the 17th century. ‘The Religion of a Doctor’ is the actual mean of this title. It was
published in 1642.

(9) Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire is the famous novel published in 2017. It revolves around
the Pasha family. This novel is a actual retelling of Sophocles’s play Antigone.

(10) Paul de Man was a famous literary theorist and critic who belonged to
Deconstruction theory. His important works are “Blindness and Insight: Essays in
the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”(1971) and “Allegories of Reading: Figural
Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke and Proust”(1979).

(11) “Lives of the Most English Poets” is the work written by Samuel Johnson, an English
critic, biographer, poet and writer of the 18th century. It was [published in 1779-81.
This work consists of shot biographies of the 52 important writers. In the biography
of Abraham Cowley, 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”.

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(12) “The terms of the contract are not disagreeable to me” this line is an example of
‘litotes’. It’s a kind of figure of speech in which negative phrase or statement used to
express a positive meaning.

(13) The above lines have been taken from the poem “Auguries of Innocence” composed
by William Blake.

(14) “Women in Love” is the most important novel written by D.H. Lawrence. It was
published in 1920. This novel follows the lives of two Brangwen sisters, Ursula and
Gudrun. In this novel, Looloo is the name of Winfred’s Pekinese dog.

(15) Cleanth Brooks was a famous American critic who is associated with New Criticism.
He put forward the idea of the “heresy of paraphrase” in his best book “The Well
Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry”(1947).

(16) Edmund Spenser’s Colin Clout’s Come Home Again is the greatest pastoral ecologue.
It was published in 1595.

(17) “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” is the most famous essay written by John Dryden,
an greatest English 17th century writer. It was published in 1668. It is written in the
dialogue form. There are four characters or speakers in this essay as Lisideius, Crites,
Eugenius and Neander. In this essay, Dryden refers Ben Johnson as the most learned
and judicious Writer which any Theater ever had”.

(18) Judith Wright was one of the famous Australian poet who 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.

(19) “Oroonoko” is the best novel written by Aphra Behn, as said first professional woman
writer in English language. It was published in 1688 and it is set in Surinam place.
“The Royal Slave” is the subtitle of this work.

(20) Robert Bridges was an English poet of the Modern age. He published the first
collected edition of his friend Gerald Manley Hopkin’s poems in 1918.

(21) “Pamela” is the most known novel written by Samuel Richardson. It was published in
1740 and considered the first English novel in the history of English Literature. This
is an epistolary novel which centres the life of the Pamela Andrews, heroine of this
novel. Such novel has its origin in an elementary letter-writing manual. Richardson
named his heroine Pamela after one of the characters in Philip Sidney’s work
Arcadia(1593).

(22) Harold Pinter was a famous screenplays writer and dramatist of the Modern period.
He once admitted that he first became aware of the dramatic power of the pause
from seeing a popular American comedian named Jack Benny.

(23) “Bleak House” is one of the best novel written by Charles Dickens, an famous
Victorian novelist. It was published in 1852. This novel is pointedly critical of
England’s Court of Chancery. Esther Summerson is the heroine of this novel.

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(24) Thomas More’s Utopia is the most important novel published in 1516 in the Latin
language. It was translated by Ralph Robinson into the English language and
published in 1551. This is about a fictional or imaginary town where everything is
perfect as Personal property, money and vice are effectively abolished. The root
causes of crime, ambition and political conflict, are eliminated. Its priesthood, which
includes some women, is limited in number.

(25) The above lines are said by the character Geraldine where she account of her
harrowing experience. This character appears in the poem “Christabel”, an unfinished
Gothic ballad.

(26) “The Return of the Native” is the well read novel written by Thomas Hardy. It was
published in 1878. This novel begins with the sombre description of Egdon Heath.
Mrs Yeobright, Diffory Vann, Clym Yeaobright, Damon Wildeve, Captain Wye are the
important characters of this work.

(27) “Confessio Amantis” is a famous Middle English poem composed by John Gower, an
contemporary of Chaucer. It is written in the Octosyllabic couplets and published in
1389. “The Confession of a lover” is the English title of this work.

(28) “The Rape of the Lock” is the well- known poem narrative poem composed by
Alexander Pope, a famous English poet of the 18th century. It was first published in
1712 with two cantos and republished in 1714 in five cantos. It was finally appeared
in 1717 in which he added Clarissa’s speech. It a mock- heroic satire about the
aristocratic society. At the end of this poem, Belinda’s lock of hair turns into a star.

(29) ‘Antonomasia’ is a figure of speech in which the writer uses a proper name to express
a general ideas. As; The Bard. The Iron Lady. The King.

(30) “Alias Grace” is the important historical novel written by Margaret Atwood, an
Canadian author. It was published in 1996. This novel chiefly depicts the historical
event of the notorious murders committed in 1843.

(31) “Sailing to Byzantium” is the most famous poem written by an Irish writer W.B. Yeats.
It was appeared in 1926. This novel repudiates the sensual world in favour of “the
artifice of eternity”.

(32) “Moby Dick” Is one of the important novel Herman Melville. It was published in 1851.
“The Whale” is the subtitle oh this poem. In this novel Pip falls overboard and turns
insane as a result.

(33) “Widgeon” is a poem written by Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet. He dedicated this
poem to the Irish poet Paul Muldoon.

(34) “The Lord of the Flies” is the widely read novel written by William Golding, an
Modernist British writer, was published in 1954. It is about an uninhabited island
where a group of small children lived after their plane crashes. Its important
characters are Ralph, Piggy, Jack, Simon, Sam, Eric, Simon etc. In this novel, two
characters Piggy and Simon are put to death.

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(35) “The Canterbury Tales” is the most celebrated 14th century work of Chaucer’s English
period of works which was supposed to be written in 1392. It was the unfinished
work by Chaucer. Chaucer employs a first person “I”s narrative perspective in
the opening of “The General Prologue in the Canterbury Tales”. In this work, The
Summoner has a red face full of sores.

(36) The pace of speech is known as tempo.

(37) “Sexual Politics”(1970): Kate Millet.

y “A literature of their Own”(1977): Elaine Showalter.
y “Thinking About Women”(1968): Mary Ellman.
y “The Laugh of the Medusa”(2010): Helene Cixous.

(38) “The Charge of the Light Brigade” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Lord
Tennyson, an Victorian poet. It was published in 1854. He wrote this poem during the
Crimean War. Such historical event took place from 1853 to 1856, in which Russia
attacked against France.

(39) Northrop Frye was a great literary critic and theorist of Canada. He gave most
important theory to the literature and mainly related with the Archetypal literary
criticism. “Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays” is the most famous work in the literary
theory of the 20th century. It has published in 1957. It includes four essay by him as
y “Archetypal Criticism: Theory of Myths”
y “Historical Criticism: Theory of Modes”
y “Ethical Criticism: Theory of Symbols”
y “Rhetorical Criticism: Theory of Genres”

(40) Robert Browning’s “Andrea del Sarto” is also known as “The Faultless Painter”. It
was published in 1855 under his poetry collection. It in a dramatic monologue. He
wrote it in Blank Verse. In this poem, he compares Andrea to the other painters as
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael.

(41) “Gulliver’s Travels” is the famous prose satire written by Jonathan Swift, an English
writer of the 18th century, published in 1726. In this work, Gulliver refers William
Dampier, the famous writer of two voyages, as his cousin.

(42) “Pride and Prejudice” is one of the most celebrated novel written by Jane Austen,
published in 1813. It is a romantic novel as well as Saitic novel also. It is set in
Hertfordshire and Derbyshire, England. Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Miss Bingley, Mr. Collins,
George Wickham, Charles Bingley are the important characters of this novel.

(43) Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” is the most famous comedy written in 1599. It is a
pastoral comedy. The line “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely
players” occurs in this play and said by the important character named Jaques. He is
also known as “the melancholy Jaques”.

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(44) “To His Coy Mistress” is the most popular poem composed by Andrew Marvell, one of
the Metaphysical poet of the 17th century. It was published posthumously in 1681. This
poem is considered the best example of Carpe diem theory in English. In this poem,
the poet mentioned two rivers Ganges and Humber

(45) The line “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” is an example of
ploce. As per Ploce, it is a kind of figure of speech, in which a word repeats many
times. As in the above example, the word ‘truth’ is repeating.

(46) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” is an important poem written by W.H. Auden, an American
Modern poet. It is an elegy written on the death of an Irish poet W.B. Yeats. In this
poem, we find several images as Mercury sinking in the mouth of the dying day,
Wolves running through evergreen forests and Silence invading the suburbs.

(47) Richard Crashaw is one of the important Metaphysical poet of the 17th century in the
English Literature. He is best known for his poem “Steps to the Temple” published in
1646.

(48) Jim Dixon: “Lucky Jim”(1954) by Kingsley Amis

y Jimmy Porter: “Look Back in Anger”(1956) by John Osborne
y Joe Lampton: “Room at the Top”(1957) by John Braine
y Charles Lumley: “Hurry on Down”(1953) by John Wain

(49) “The Prelude” is the most famous autobiographical poem written by William
Wordsworth, a great nature poet of the Romantic age. “Growth of a Poet’s Mind”
is the subtitle of this poem. It is written in Blank Verse into 14 books and finally
published posthumously in 1850. The line “fostered alike by beauty and fear”
mentions famously in the opening of this book.

(50) “Petals of Blood” is an important novel written by Ngugi wa Thiongo, a Kenyan writer
of the Gikuyu language. It was published in 1977. The title of this novel derived from
a poem “The Swamp” by Derek Walcott. This novel revolves around the lives of four
important characters named Abdulla, Karega, Munira and Wanja affected by the Mau
Mau rebellion.

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Answer Key

(1) 4 (11) 3 (21) 3 (31) 3 (41) 3

(2) 2 (12) 2 (22) 3 (32) 1 (42) 3

(3) 2 (13) 2 (23) 3 (33) 4 (43) 1

(4) 2 (14) 2 (24) 3 (34) 1 & 3 (44) 3

(5) 4 (15) 2 (25) 1 (35) 1 (45) 1

(6) 2 (16) 4 (26) 2 (36) 3 (46) 4

(7) 4 (17) 3 (27) 3 (37) 2 (47) 2

(8) 1 (18) 3 (28) 3 (38) 4 (48) 1

(9) 1 (19) 1 (29) 4 (39) 2 (49) 2

(10) 1 (20) 1 (30) 2 (40) 3 (50) 2

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2017 November Paper III

English Literature
(1) This Byron work revolves around a wife whose husband is presumed lost at sea and
she takes a lover in his absence. Everybody behaves agreeably on the husband’s
return. Byron’s technical skills in verse is in display here as the work counterpoints
the colloquial and the formal. Identify the work:
(1) Manfred
(2) Don Juan
(3) Beppo
(4) The Bride of Abydos

(2) Who is the author of the poem, “Our Casuarina Tree”?

(1) Sarojini Naidu
(2) Toru Dutt
(3) Rabindranath Tagore
(4) Kamala Das

(3) In this Jacobean play the Black King and his men, representing Spain and the Jesuits,
are checkmated by the White Knight, Prince Charles. This political satire drew
crowds to the Globe Theatre until the Spanish ambassador protested and James I
suppressed the play. Identify the play:
(1) The Wonderful Yeare
(2) A Game at Chess
(3) A King and No King
(4) The Knight of the Burning Pestle

(4) Frederic Jameson associated postmodern culture with _________ capitalism.

(1) market
(2) monopoly
(3) imperialist
(4) multinational

(5) Early in Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust, while Tony and his young son, John
Andrew, walk to the church, John tells his father a story he has heard from the
stable manager, Ben about a mule “who had drunk his company’s rum ration” in the
First World War and subsequently died. What is the mule named?
(1) Peppermint
(2) Dopey
(3) Dynamo
(4) Pookey

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(6) The Oxford English Dictionary was published in twelve volumes with its current title
in the year:
(1) 1928
(2) 1930
(3) 1933
(4) 1915

(7) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is notorious for its many
digressions across nine volumes and its failure to deliver a complete autobiography,
In which volume does Tristram Shandy finally recount his birth?
(1) Volume III
(2) Volume V
(3) Volume VIII
(4) Volume IX

(8) Miguel de Cervantes’s inimitable Don Quixote, foreshadows metafictional moorings

when the novelist,
(a) says that the first chapters of the narrative are recreated from the Archive of La
Mancha
(b) says that it is a faithful rendering of a Catalan text in Spanish
(c) says that part of it has been translated from the Arabic by the Moorish author
Cide Hamete Benengeli
(d) says that he is rewriting the history of a medieval knight altering the heroic vein
with a farcical mode
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)

(9) In his theory of Mimesis, Plato says that all art is mimetic by nature; art is an
imitation of life. To argue his case he gives the example of a:
(1) cloud
(2) chair
(3) tree
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(10) The translation of Geeta into English in 1784 called Bhagvit - Geeta marked, in
William Jones’s opinion, an “event that made it possible for the first time to have a
reliable impression of Indian Literature”. Who was the translator?
(1) Charles Wilkins
(2) H. J. Colebrooke
(3) Rammohan Roy
(4) Nathaniel Halhed

(11) One of the plays among the following contains the characters Coll, Gib, Dan and Mak.
Identify the play:
(1) Everyman
(2) The Castle of Perseverance
(3) The Second Shepherd’s Play
(4) The Marshals

(12) Tereza, in Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, troubled by
Tomas’s promiscuity, falls an easy prey to jealousy, fear and nightmares. Which of the
following are the terrible dreams she has?
(a) She dreams of cats attacking her.
(b) She dreams of wolves attacking her.
(c) She dreams that she is dead and buried in a common grave where she lies with
the corpses of strangers.
(d) She dreams that she is dead, stripped of her clothes and plagued by other naked
corpses.
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)

(13) The opening lines of Wordsworth’s “Immortality Ode”:

“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth , and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light The
glory and freshness of a dream”, closely resembles Coleridge’s lines:
“There was a time when earth, and sea, and skies, The bright green vale, and the
forest’s dark recess,
With all things, lay before mine eyes In steady loveliness”.
Identify the Coleridge poem:
(1) “Fears In Solitude”
(2) “The Mad Monk”
(3) “To William Wordsworth”
(4) “Dejection: An Ode”

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(14) Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”, a rare blend of allegory and fairy tale world
presents the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. Which of the following is NOT true
about the enchanted world that the poem unravels?
(1) Laura buys fruits from the goblins in exchange of her “golden lock” of hair and a
“tear more rare than pearl”
(2) Jeanie, a girl who ate the goblins’ fruits, “pined away” and “sought them by night
and day”
(3) Laura, who goes to the market again, does not see the goblins but hears only
“their shrill cry piercing the air”
(4) Laura’s hair “grew thin and grey” and she wanes like the full moon to “swift
decay”

(15) In which of these prisons is Defoe’s character, Moll Flanders born?

(1) Gatehouse
(2) King’s Bench
(3) Newgate
(4) Ludgate

(16) In which poem does Judith Wright lament the erasure of native culture in the
following lines?
“The song is gone; the dance Is secret with the dancers in the earth,
The ritual useless, and the tribal story Lost in an alien tale”.
(1) “The Five Senses”
(2) “Legend”
(3) “Bullocky”
(4) “Bora Ring”

(17) Years before, Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopia, Nineteen
Eighty - Four got an evidence of the party’s dishonesty. What is it?
(1) Emmanuel Goldstein’s confession that he is a party operative; not an enemy of
the party.
(2) O’ Brien’s diary entry hinting at the non-existence of Big Brother.
(3) A photograph which proves that some citizen accused of a crime was out of the
country while it was committed.
(4) A colleague’s revelation that the Inner Party members have systematically
destroyed all historical documents and created false documents.

(18) The Indian Queen is:

(1) a heroic tragedy in rhymed couplets by John Dryden
(2) a long poem in free verse by Keki Daruwalla
(3) an autobiography of an Indian princess in exile
(4) a fictional account of the Life of Maharani Gayatri Devi

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(19) In J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace David Lurie is working on an opera on the life of one of
the Romantic poets. Who is the poet?
(1) Blake
(2) Shelley
(3) Byron
(4) Coleridge

(20) Assertion (A): There is no unity or absolute source of the myth.

Reason (R): The focus or the source of the myth are always shadows and virtualities
which are elusive , unactualizable, and nonexistent in the first place. Any search for
the discursive unity in the myth is, therefore, misplaced.
In the context of the above statements:
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is true but (R) is false
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true

(21) Which of the following landscapes of England figures prominently in the poetry of Ted
Hughes?
(1) Cornish cliffs
(2) Dorset moors
(3) Yorkshire moors
(4) Chesil Beach

(22) The title of M.C. Chagla’s autobiography is:

(1) Memoirs of my Working Life
(2) Without Fear or Favour
(3) Roses in December
(4) The Pen as My Sword

(23) Who/Which among the following gave the expression, “a leopard can’t change its
spots,” to English language?
(1) The King James Bible
(2) Geoffrey Chaucer
(3) Shakespeare
(4) The Royal Society

(24) Which of the following is NOT true about Albert Camus’s novel, The Plague?
(1) Dr Rieux describes the phenomenon of dying rats using the metaphors of disease
especially the bubonic plague.
(2) Paneloux interprets the plague in his first sermon as a sign of the Apocalypse.
(3) M. Michel is the first victim of the plague.
(4) Tarrou thinks that the plague symbolizes human indifference.

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(25) John Lydgate begins his Siege of Thebes with a prologue of 176 lines in which he
imagines himself joining Chaucer’s pilgrims in Canterbury, where he speaks with the
Host and agrees to tell the first tale on homeward journey. The story that Lydgate
tells as the pilgrims depart from Canterbury is meant to be a companion piece to:
(1) The Pardoner’s Tale
(2) The Wife of Bath’s Tale
(3) The Knight’s Tale
(4) The Miller’s Tale

(26) Stephen Krashen’s theory of second language acquisition consists of six main
hypotheses. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
(1) The Input Hypothesis
(2) The Affective Filter Hypothesis
(3) The Monitor Hypothesis
(4) The Writing Hypothesis

(27) Among Derek Walcott’s plays, which one is an exploration of colonial relationships
through the Robinson Crusoe story?
(1) Pantomime
(2) Dream on Monkey Mountain
(3) Ti-Jean and His Brothers
(4) The Charlatan

(28) ‘Anti - foundationalism’ holds that:

(1) Every theory poses different questions and, therefore, what counts as ‘fact’ and
‘truth’ differs in every case.
(2) All truth claims can be judged true or false, usually against empirical facts.
(3) Causal statements about the relationship between dependent and independent
variables can be made.
(4) Truth is the foundation of all representational experience.

(29) The interaction hypothesis is a theory of second language acquisition which states
that the development of language proficiency is promoted by face-to-face interaction
and communication. The idea is usually credited to:
(1) David Nunan
(2) Michael Long
(3) Alastair Pennycook
(4) Claire Kramsch

(30) In Pinter’s Birthday Party Stanley is terrorised by two visitors to a seaside boarding
house. Identify the two
(a) McGrath
(b) Goldberg

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(c) McCann
(d) Robinson
The right combination according to the code:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (d)
(4) (b) and (d)

(31) Match the phrase to the ode:

(a) beechen green (i) “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

(b) gathering swallows (ii) “Ode on Melancholy”

(c) globed peonies (iii) “Ode to a Nightingale

(d) green altar (iv) “To Autumn”

Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(2) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(3) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(4) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)

(32) Which 19th century novelist expressed a wish to “exterminate the race” of Indians
following the 1857 Mutiny in India?
(1) William Makepeace Thackeray
(2) Charles Dickens
(3) George Eliot
(4) Anthony Trollope

(33) The second part of Pilgrim’s Progress deals with the pilgrimage of Christian’s wife,
Christiana. She has a companion and a guide in this journey. Pick out the pair’s
names from the following list.
(a) Patience
(b) Tenderheart
(c) Mercy
(d) Greatheart
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) (c) and (d)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (d)
(4) (b) and (d)

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(34) In which play by Eugene Ionesco do you find the grotesque image of the leg of
a corpse thrusting onto the stage, and, which begins to grow larger as the play
progresses in a menacing manner?
(1) The Bald Soprano
(2) Amede or How to Get Rid of It
(3) Exit the King
(4) The Lesson

(35) Which of the following characters finds that complete happiness is elusive and that
“while you are making the choice of life, you neglect to live”?
(1) Lovelace in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
(2) Rasselas in Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas
(3) Matthew Bramble in Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker
(4) Harley in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling

(36) Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication:

(1) In Memoriam - A Christmas Carol - Men and Women - Henry Esmond
(2) A Christmas Carol - In Memoriam - Men and Women - Henry Esmond
(3) A Christmas Carol - In Memoriam - Henry Esmond - Men and Women
(4) In Memoriam - A Christmas Carol - Henry Esmond - Men and Women

(37) Which one of Alice Munro’s short stories is about the domestic erosions of
Alzheimer’s disease?
(1) “Dear Life”
(2) “Runaway”
(3) “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”
(4) “Dance of the Happy Shades”

(38) What work begins thus: “It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king
of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held
war against him long time”?
(1) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(2) Le Morte D’arthur
(3) Confessio Amantis
(4) Piers Plowman

(39) ............ is the subject of Asif Currimbhoy’s play, Inquilab.

(1) The Naxalite movement
(2) The Freedom movement
(3) The Non- cooperation movement
(4) The Khilafat movement

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(40) Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, being metatheatrical,
lays bare the constructed nature of theatrical performance. In referring to Hamlet’s
end and the Elizabethan stage conditions lacking curtains one of the characters
of Stoppard’s play says: “No one gets up after death - there is no applause - there
is only silence and some second hand clothes, and that’s death”. Who makes this
statement?
(1) Rosencrantz
(2) Guildenstern
(3) The Player
(4) Hamlet

(41) Who among the following, has translated the classic Malayalam novel, Chemmeen?
(1) A. K. Ramanujan
(2) Anita Nair
(3) Nandini Nopany
(4) Gita Krishnankutty

(42) Which Victorian poet is the author of the following lines?

“God himself is the best Poet,
And the Real is His song.”
(1) Lord Tennyson
(2) Robert Browning
(3) Matthew Arnold
(4) Elizabeth Barrett Browning

(43) “You are your words. Your listeners see Written on your face the poems they hear Like
letters carved in a tree’s bark The sight and sounds of solitudes endured”.
These are lines from a poem by on the death of.
(1) T. S. Eliot ; Robert Frost
(2) Siegfried Sassoon ; Wilfred Owen
(3) Stephen Spender ; W. H. Auden
(4) Dylan Thomas ; Robert Bridges

(44) Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”, a key work of the Beat Movement, was dedicated to.
(1) Lucien Carr
(2) Carl Solomon
(3) Herbert Huncke
(4) Jack Kerouac

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(45) In his views on the death of Cordelia in King Lear, which is the ground NOT
specifically cited by Samuel Johnson?
(1) It is contrary to the natural ideas of justice.
(2) It is contrary to neoplatonic idea of decorum.
(3) It is contrary to the hope of the reader.
(4) It is contrary to the faith of chronicles.

(46) Which of the following plays by David Hare is NOT part of a trilogy of ‘state of the
nation’ plays?
(1) The Absence of War
(2) Racing Demon
(3) The Power of Yes
(4) Murmuring Judges

(47) Chimamanda Adichie’s last novel, Americanah (2013) centres on the romantic and
existential struggles of a young Nigerian woman studying in the United States and
finding success as a blogger. What is her blogging about?
(1) poverty
(2) development
(3) race
(4) religion

(48) Why does Father Dolan punish Stephen with the pandybat in Joyce’s Portrait of the
Artist as a young Man?
(1) Stephen is talking to another student to get the answer to a Latin problem.
(2) Stephen is not doing his work because his glasses are broken.
(3) Stephen is looking out of the window towards the infirmary.
(4) Stephen is lost in remembering his mother’s farewell and can not hear Father
Dolan calling out his name.

(49) Using a non - linear narrative, this American novel explores the psychic damage to a
veteran of World War II and shows how a measure of healing is attained through his
acceptance of Laguna myths and rituals. Identify the work:
(1) Dred
(2) Beloved
(3) Ceremony
(4) End Zone

(50) What illusion does Lyuba Ranevsky in Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard have
as she looks at the orchard?
(1) She sees it gleaming with a bluish aura.
(2) She sees her dead mother walking through the orchard.
(3) She sees it full of ripe fruits without a trace of leaves.
(4) She sees her childhood friends playing in the orchard.

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(51) From which source did Swift get the idea of writing “Verses on the Death of Dr.
Swift”?
(1) In a conversation with John Gay
(2) After a reading of a maxim by la Rochefoucauld
(3) While taking a walk near Dublin’s St. James’s graveyard
(4) After reading Richard Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy

(52) Two of the following words were borrowed from French after the Norman Conquest.
(a) mutton
(b) pork
(c) sheep
(d) swine
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (b) and (d)
(4) (c) and (d)

(53) Which of the following is NOT true regarding the Oresteia trilogy by Aeschylus?
(1) Cassandra, cursed by Apollo predicts the death of Agamemnon, though her
prophecy is ignored.
(2) Aegisthus’s vengeful feelings for Agamemnon results from their rivalry for the
hand of Clytemnestra.
(3) Orestes, who has come back with the intention of murdering Clytemnestra
unexpectedly meets her, and pretending to be a stranger, tells her that Orestes is
dead.
(4) Orestes, pursued by the Furies, flees from them when they fall asleep. Then,
Clytemnestra’s ghost appears to wake them up.

(54) The first instance of female cross-dressing with the disconcerting nuances of a boy
actor dressing as a boy while playing the role of a woman in the dramatic world of
Shakespeare occurs in _.
(1) The Two Gentlemen of Verona
(2) As you Like It
(3) Twelfth Night
(4) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

(55) For Coleridge, our power to perceive symbols gleaned from the world about us is
related to the category of:
(1) primary imagination
(2) secondary imagination
(3) fancy
(4) intuition

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(56) After independence, although English was not an Indian language, it was accorded
the status of an:
(1) Additional language
(2) Ancilliary language
(3) Associate language
(4) Administrative language

(57) Which English journal announced that it was “principally intended for the use of
Politick Persons who are so publick - spirited as to neglect their own Affairs to look
into Transactions of State” but failed to live up to this and amused readers with
“accounts of Gallantry, Pleasure and Entertainment “?
(1) The Spectator
(2) The Tatler
(3) The Daily Courant
(4) The Review

(58) The grammar-translation method of language teaching does NOT include:

(1) focus on grammar rules
(2) vocabulary memorization
(3) inductive teaching
(4) focus on written language

(59) Who is the narrator in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve?

(1) Premala
(2) Saroja
(3) Rukmani
(4) Mira

(60) How would a New Historicist critic interpret Derrida’s statement, “there is nothing
outside the text”?
(1) historicist critics should restrict their attention to a culture’s literary
productions, all other data is irrelevant to the critic’s task
(2) language conditions the way we see the world, and there is no reality beyond the
‘prison house’ of language
(3) there is no meaning outside of textual meaning (contrary to the mimeticist’s
position)
(4) “literature” encompasses all cultural artifacts and all the values, power relations,
and ways of seeing reflected in those artifacts; there is nothing outside of the
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(61) Pick out two Austen heroines from the following list who are right-minded but
neglected in the beginning but gradually are acknowledged to be correct by
characters who have previously looked down on them.
(a) Elizabeth Bennet
(b) Fanny Price
(c) Emma Woodhouse
(d) Anne Elliot
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (b) and (d)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)

(62) The variety of English used between non-native speakers who do not share a first
language is called:
(1) English for specific purposes
(2) English for basic purposes
(3) English as a lingua Franca
(4) English as a language tool

(63) Identify the story for which E. M. Forster wrote the libretto for its opera version:
(1) Heart of Darkness
(2) The Man Who Would Be the King
(3) Billy Budd
(4) Death in Venice

(64) Who, among the following Prem Chand translators has NOT translated Godan?
(1) Jai Ratan
(2) P. Lal
(3) Gordon C. Roadarmel
(4) Christopher R. King

(65) “When Fred got into debt, it always seemed to him highly probable that something
or other- he did not necessarily conceive what - would come to pass enabling him to
pay in due time”.
Why is Fred Vincy in debt in Middle march?
(1) He takes out a large loan to enable him to woo Mary Garth.
(2) He is an inveterate gambler.
(3) He is paying off a blackmailer.
(4) He runs a charity that has got into trouble.

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(66) William Blake has a rare elan to provide telling images in arresting phrases. Match
the phrases with the poems they belong to:

Phrases Poems

(a) “mind forg’d manacles” (i) “The Tyger”

(b) “eternal winter” (ii) “The Sick Rose”

(c) “fearful symmetry” (iii) “London”

(d) “crimson joy” (iv) “Holy Thursday”

Codes:
(A) (B) (C) (D)
(1) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(2) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

(67) In the debate between the two birds in the Middle English poem The Owl and the
Nightingale who acts as the arbiter?
(1) Master Henry of Shrewsbury
(2) Master William of Hereford
(3) Master Freeman of Stamford
(4) Master Nicholas of Guildford

(68) In the first scene in which Goethe’s Faust appears he is dejected by the study
of Philosophy, Law, Medicine and Theology, turns to Magic art to acquire infinite
knowledge. But he fails and in desperation attempts to commit suicide, but refrains
at the final moment. What prevents Faust from committing suicide?
(1) The intervention of archangel Gabriel
(2) His attendant Wagner persuades him to revoke the decision
(3) The chiming of the bells announcing Easter festivities
(4) Mephistopheles appears and offers to initiate him into magic art

(69) Which novel by Joseph Conrad presents a young captain who like Coleridge’s Ancient
Mariner is haunted by the “vision of a ship drifting in calm and swinging in light airs,
with all the crew dying slowly about her decks” and who feels “the sickness of my
soul... the weight of my sins... my sense of unworthiness”?
(1) Under Western Eyes
(2) The Shadow Line
(3) Victory
(4) The Rescue

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(70) “Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.” Identify the poem
by Philip Larkin that ends with the above lines:
(1) “This Be the Verse”
(2) “An Arundel Tomb”
(3) “High Windows”
(4) “Next, Please”

(71) In the epilogue to Congreve’s Way of the World there is a warning:

Others there are whose malice we’d prevent,
Such, who watch plays, with scurrilous intent
To mark out who by characters are meant
.......................................
These, with false glosses feed their own ill - nature,
And turn to libel, what was meant a satire.
What does this warning mean?
(1) Critics should not be ill-natured and malicious.
(2) Critics should not look for portrait of real people in the play’s characters and
remember that the play is a social satire.
(3) Critics should avoid writing malicious reviews, lest they be charged with libel.
(4) Critics should try to identify the real-life equivalent for each character.

(72) Which of the following is an elegy on John Donne’s wife, who died in 1617?
(1) “Death, be not proud”
(2) “Thou hast made me”
(3) “Holy Sonnet 17”
(4) “At the round earth’s imagined corners”

Read the following poem and answer questions, 73 to 75:

Bored
Margaret Atwood
All those times I was bored
out of my mind. Holding the log
while he sawed it. Holding
the string while he measured, boards,
distances between things, or pounded
stakes into the ground for rows and rows
of lettuces and beets, which I then (bored)
weeded. Or sat in the back
of the car, or sat still in boats,
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he drove, steered, paddled. It

wasn’t even boredom, it was looking,
looking hard and up close at the small
details. Myopia. The worn gunwales,
the intricate twill of the seat
cover. The acid crumbs of loam, the granular
pink rock, its igneous veins, the sea-fans
of dry moss, the blackish and then the graying
bristles on the back of his neck.
Sometimes he would whistle, sometimes
I would. The boring rhythm of doing
things over and over, carrying
the wood, drying
the dishes. Such minutiae. It’s what
the animals spend most of their time at,
ferrying the sand, grain by grain, from their tunnels,
shuffling the leaves in their burrows. He pointed
such things out, and I would look
at the whorled texture of his square finger, earth under
the nail. Why do I remember it as sunnier
all the time then, although it more often
rained, and more birdsong?
I could hardly wait to get
the hell out of there to
anywhere else. Perhaps though
boredom is happier. It is for dogs or
groundhogs. Now I wouldn’t be bored.
Now I would know too much.
Now I would know.

(73) “All those times” - the opening words of the poem locate the speaker in:
(1) a city suburb
(2) a mountain resort
(3) a natural environment
(4) a highway motel

(74) Which pair of words best describes the repetitive tenor of the speaker’s
unpretentious yet oppressive life?
(a) details
(b) the car

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(c) the wood

(d) the minutae
The right combination according to the code is:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (c) and (d)

(75) Which of the following approximates closely a thematic statement of the poem?
(1) Dogs or groundhogs lead a better life than men or women
(2) Irrespective of the place, the boring rhythm of doing things over and over in
human life cannot be escaped
(3) Myopia is the result if you live life in the lap of nature
(4) Knowledge cures existential boredom

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Explanation
(1) “Beppo” is a long poem written by Lord Byron, an English Romantic poet, was
composed in Venice in 1817. He used Ottava rima meter in this poem. “A Venetian
story” is the subtitle of this poem. This work revolves around a wife whose husband
is presumed lost at sea and she takes a lover in his absence. Everybody behaves
agreeably on the husband’s return. Byron’s technical skills in verse is in display here
as the work counterpoints the colloquial and the formal.

(2) “Our Casuarina Tree” is a well- known poem written by Toru Dutt, an Indian poet. It
was published in 1881. In this poem, she talks about her childhood memories of her
life.

(3) “A Game at Chess” is a famous play written by Thomas Middleton, an English

Jacobean dramatist and poet. It is a comic satirical play published in 1624. In this
Jacobean play the Black King and his men, representing Spain and the Jesuits, are
checkmated by the White Knight, Prince Charles. This political satire drew crowds to
the Globe Theatre until the Spanish ambassador protested and James I suppressed
the play.

(4) Frederic Jameson is the famous Marxist political theorist and critic. He is associated
postmodern culture with multinational capitalism. His main ideas are cognitive
mapping, political unconscious and national allegory.

(5) “A Handful of Dust” is a novel written by Evelyn Waugh, an English writer of the 20th
century. It was published in 1934. In this novel, Tony and his young son, John Andrew,
walk to the church and John tells his father a story he has heard from the stable
manager, Ben about a mule named Peppermint “who had drunk his company’s rum
ration” in the First World War and subsequently died.

(6) ‘The Oxford English Dictionary’ was published in 1933 into twelve volumes with its
current title. It is a landmark in the History of English Language dictionary.

(7) “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman” is the famous novel written
by Laurence Sterne, an Anglo- Irish Writer. It was published in 1759. It is notorious
for its many digressions across nine volumes and its failure to deliver a complete
autobiography. In the volume III of this novel, Tristram Shandy finally recount his
birth.

(8) “Don Quixote” is the most popular novel written by Miguel de Cervantes, an Spanish
writer. It was published into two volumes in 1605 and later published in 1615. It is a
Spanish novel. It foreshadows metafictional moorings when the novelist says that the
first chapters of the narrative are recreated from the Archive of La Mancha. He also
says that part of it has been translated from the Arabic by the Moorish author Cide
Hamete Benengeli.

(9) Plato was a great philosopher of Athens. In his theory of Mimesis, Plato says that
all art is mimetic by nature; art is an imitation of life. To argue his case he gives the
example of a chair.

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(10) Charles Wilkins translated “The Bhagavat Geeta” into English language. He who also
credited to laid the foundation of The Asiatic Society in Bengal in the year 1784. The
translation of Geeta into English in 1784 called Bhagvit - Geeta marked, in William
Jones’s opinion, an “event that made it possible for the first time to have a reliable
impression of Indian Literature”.

(11) “The Second Shepherd’s Play” is one of the famous mystery play written in the
medieval period. It was written into middle English language and set in Medieval
England and Bethlehem; 1st century AD. Coll, Gib, Dan , Mak, Mary, Angel and Daw are
the characters of this play.

(12) “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” is an important novel written by Milan Kundera,
a Czech writer. It was published in 1984. It’s a story of two women, two men and a
dog. They live in the period of Czechslovak history during the Prague Spring in 1968.
It’s a philosophical and Magic Realism novel. Tereza, Franz, Sabina, Simon and Tomas
are the important characters of this novel. In this novel, Tereza troubled by Tomas’s
promiscuity, falls an easy prey to jealousy, fear and nightmares. She saw many
terrible dreams as she dreams of cats attacking her and she is dead, stripped of her
clothes and plagued by other naked corpses.

(13) “The Mad Monk” is a minor poem composed by S.T. Coleridge, an English Romantic
poet. Its lines “There was a time when earth, and sea, and skies, The bright green
vale, and the forest’s dark recess, With all things, lay before mine eyes In steady
loveliness” clearly resembles the above opening lines of Wordsworth’s “Immortality
Ode”.

(14) “Goblin Market” is a famous poem composed by Christina Rossetti, an English 19th
century poet, published in 1862. This poem is a rare blend of allegory and fairy tale
world presents the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. The poem unravels about
the enchanted world as Laura buys fruits from the goblins in exchange of her “golden
lock” of hair and a “tear more rare than pearl”. Laura’s hair “grew thin and grey” and
she wanes like the full moon to “swift decay”. In this poem, Jeanie, a girl who ate the
goblins’ fruits, “pined away” and “sought them by night and day”.

(15) “Moll Flanders” is a most popular novel written by Daniel Defoe, an English writer of
the early 18th century. It is a famous picaresque novel published in 1722. It is about
the life of Moll from her birth to the old age. The protagonist of this novel is Moll
Flanders who is born in Newgate prison.

(16) The above lines are from the poem “Bora Ring” composed by Judith Wright, an
Australian poet. In this poem, she laments the erasure of native culture.

(17) “Nineteen Eighty- Four” is the most celebrated dystopian novel written by George
Orwell, an English Modern age writer. This is also known as the best social science
and political fiction by Orwell. It was published in 1949. Winston Smith is the
protagonist of this novel who got an evidence of the party’s dishonesty that is a
photograph which proves that some citizen accused of a crime was out of the
country while it was committed.

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(18) “The Indian Queen” is a heroic tragedy in rhymed couplets by John Dryden. It is
supposed that he wrote this work in collaboration with Sir Robert Howard, an English
dramatist and politician of that period. This play is first premiered in 1664.

(19) “Disgrace” is the most popular novel written by J.M. Coetzee, a South- African born
novelist and writer. It was published in 1999 and this novel also won the Booker Prize
in 1999. In this novel, thew character David Lurie is working on an opera on the life of
Lord Byron, the Romantic poet.

(20) There is no unity or absolute source of the myth because the focus or the source
of the myth are always shadows and virtualities which are elusive , unactualizable,
and nonexistent in the first place. Any search for the discursive unity in the myth is,
therefore, misplaced. Thus, Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the
correct explanation of Assertion.

(21) Yorkshire moors is the prominent landscape which figures bitterly in the poetry of, an
Modern English poet, Ted Hughes. His famous poetry collections are “The Hawk in the
Rain”, “Birthday Letters”, “Crow”, “Wolfwatching”, “Moortown”, “Remains of Elmet” etc.

(22) The title of M.C. Chagla’s autobiography is “Roses in December”. M.C. Chagla was a
former ambassador of India and also an Indian jurist. “Roses in December” is the
book written by Marilyn Heavilin, published in 1986.

(23) “The King James Bible” gave the expression, “a leopard can’t change its spots,” to
English language. “The King James Bible” is the authorised version of Bible published
in 1611.

(24) “The Plague” is the philosophical novel written by Albert Camus, a French novelist
and writer. It was published in 1947 and this novel set in the city of Oran, French
Algeria. In this novel, Dr Rieux describes the phenomenon of dying rats using the
metaphors of disease especially the bubonic plague. M. Michel is the first victim of
the plague and Tarrou thinks that the plague symbolizes human indifference.

(25) John Lydgate was a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer and a poet of the late 14th
and early 15th century. He begins his poem “Siege of Thebes” with a prologue of 176
lines in which he imagines himself joining Chaucer’s pilgrims in Canterbury, where
he speaks with the Host and agrees to tell the first tale on homeward journey. The
story that Lydgate tells as the pilgrims depart from Canterbury is meant to be a
companion piece to the Knight’s Tale of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.

(26) Stephen Krashen’s theory of second language acquisition consists of six main
hypotheses-
1. The Input Hypothesis
2. The Affective Filter Hypothesis
3. The Monitor Hypothesis
4. The Acquisition- Learning Hypothesis
5. The Natural Order Hypothesis
6. The Reading Hypothesis

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(27) Derek Walcott was a Saint Lucian dramatist and poet who became also the Noble
Prize Winner in Literature in 1992. His play “Pantomime” was published in 1978. This
play is an exploration of colonial relationships through the Robinson Crusoe story.

(28) The term ‘Anti - foundationalism’ means that Every theory poses different questions
and, therefore, what counts as ‘fact’ and ‘truth’ differs in every case.

(29) The idea of ‘The interaction hypothesis’ is credit to Michael Long. This is a theory
of second language acquisition which states that the development of language
proficiency is promoted by face-to-face interaction and communication.

(30) “The Birthday Party” is the most famous play written by Harold Pinter, a British
dramatist and Noble Prize awardee in 2005. This play was written in 1957 and
published in 1958. It is a best example of Comedy of Menace. In this play, Stanley is
terrorised by two strange visitors named Goldberg and McCann to a seaside boarding
house.

(31) Beechen green: “Ode to a Nightingale”

y Gathering swallows: “To Autumn”
y Globed peonies: “Ode on Melancholy”
y Green altar: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

(32) Charles Dickens is the famous 19th century novelist expressed a wish to “exterminate
the race” of Indians following the 1857 Mutiny in India. He also wrote on Indians as
“I wish I were commander in Chief in India….. I should do my utmost to exterminate
the Race upon the stain.

(33) “The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come or The Pilgrim’s
Progress” is the best novel written by John Bunyan, an 17th century writer. It was
a Christian allegory published in 1678. The Slough of Despond is the first obstacle
encountered by Christian on his progress. He also faced several other challenges in
the different places during his journey. In the Slough of Despond, Christian found
fears and doubts, discouraging apprehensions, sinful thoughts. Christian and his
friend faithful cause a commotion at the Vanity Fair for many reasons. The second
part of this novel deals with the pilgrimage of Christian’s wife, Christiana. She has a
companion and a guide in this journey named Mercy and Greatheart.

(34) “Amede or How to Get Rid of It” is a play written by Eugene Ionesco, a Romanian-
French playwright. It was written in [Link] play is originally written into French
language and based on his earlier short story entitled ‘Oriflamme”. This play has the
grotesque image of the leg of a corpse thrusting onto the stage and it begins to grow
larger as the play progresses in a menacing manner.

(35) In Samuel Johnson’s “The History of Rasselas; Prince of Abissinia” (1759), the
character Rasselas finds that complete happiness is elusive and that “while you are
making the choice of life, you neglect to live”.

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(36) “A Christmas Carol” (1843): Charles Dickens

y “In Memoriam” (1850): Tennyson
y “Henry Esmond” (1852): W.M. Thackeray
y “Men and Women” (1855): Robert Browning

(37) “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” is the short story written by Alice Munro, an
Canadian short story writer, was published in 2001. This is about the domestic
erosions of Alzheimer’s disease.

(38) The title “Le Morte d’Arthur” means death of Arthur. “Morte d’Arthur” is also a famous
book of the 15th century, it was written by Thomas Malory. This book was published in
1485. It tells the story about the King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. This
work begins with the lines “It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was
king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that
held war against him long time”.

(39) “Inquilab” is a famous play written by Asif Currimbhoy, an Indian playwright. It is

the most realistic play into three acts. It is about the social issues. The Naxalite
Movement is the subject of this play.

(40) “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” is the most popular tragicomedy written by
Tom Stoppard, an British dramatist of the postmodern age. The setting of this play is
Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It was published in 1966. It is also a metatheatrical play which
lays bare the constructed nature of theatrical performance. In referring to Hamlet’s
end and the Elizabethan stage conditions lacking curtains Guildenstern says: “No one
gets up after death - there is no applause - there is only silence and some second
hand clothes, and that’s death”.

(41) Anita Nair is an English language Indian novelist. Her best novels are “Lessons in
Forgetting”, “A Better Man” and “Mistress” etc. She has also translated the classic
Malayalam novel “Chemmeen”.

(42) Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the most celebrated Victorian poet. The above lines
“God himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song” related with E.B. Browning.

(43) The above lines occurs in a poem of Stephen Spender which he wrote on the death
of W.H. Auden, an American poet.

(44) “Howl” is a well known poem composed by Allen Ginsberg, an American poet. This
poem is also known as “Howl for Carl Solomon” because it is dedicated to Carl
Solomon. It was published in his collection in 1956. This poem is a key work of the
Beat Movement.

(45) Samuel Johnson gave his views on the death of Cordelia in Shakespeare’s play “King
Lear”. According to him, It is contrary to the natural ideas of justice, the hope of the
reader and also contrary to the faith of chronicles.

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(46) David Hare is an English writer of the postmodern age. He wrote a trilogy titled
“State of the nation”. ‘The Absence of War’, ‘Racing Demon’ and ‘Murmuring Judges’
are the plays related with this trilogy.
y ‘The Power of Yes’ is not the part of this trilogy.

(47) “Americanah” is the last novel written by Chimamanda Adichie, an Nigerian author, it
was published in 2013. This novel centres on the romantic and existential struggles
of a young Nigerian woman studying in the United States and finding success as a
blogger. Her blogging is about the race.

(48) “Portrait of the Artist as a young Man” is the famous novel written by James Joyce,
an Irish writer. It was published in 1916. It centres around the life of Stephen
Dedalus. Stephen is not doing his work because his glasses are broken therefore,
Father Dolan punishes Stephen with the pandybat.

(49) “Ceremony” is novel written by Leslie Marmon Silko, an American writer. It published
in 1977. Using a non - linear narrative, this novel explores the psychic damage to a
veteran of World War II and shows how a measure of healing is attained through his
acceptance of Laguna myths and rituals.

(50) Anton Chekhov’s last play “The Cherry Orchard” first performed in 1904. In this play,
the character Lyuba Ranevsky looks at the orchard and in her illusion, She sees her
dead mother walking through the orchard.

(51) “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift” was written by Jonathan Swift as his own elegy
fourteen years before of his actual death. It was published in 1739. After a reading of
a maxim by la Rochefoucauld, Swift got the idea of writing this poem.

(52) Two words ‘mutton’ and ‘pork’ were borrowed from French after the Norman
Conquest.

(53) Aeschylus was an ancient Greek writer and also considered as the father of tragedy.
He is best known for his “Oresteia trilogy”. In this trilogy, Cassandra, cursed by Apollo
predicts the death of Agamemnon, though her prophecy is ignored. Orestes, who
has come back with the intention of murdering Clytemnestra unexpectedly meets
her, and pretending to be a stranger, tells her that Orestes is dead. Orestes, pursued
by the Furies, flees from them when they fall asleep. Then, Clytemnestra’s ghost
appears to wake them up.

(54) Shakespeare is the famous playwright who used cross dressing scenes in his play.
The first instance of female cross-dressing with the disconcerting nuances of a boy
actor dressing as a boy while playing the role of a woman in the dramatic world of
Shakespeare occurs in his play “The Two Gentleman of Verona”. Shakespeare’s first
cross dressing heroine is Julia who disguised herself as a boy named ‘Sebastian’ in
this play.

(55) According to Coleridge, our power to perceive symbols gleaned from the world about
us is related to the category of the primary imagination. He gave this concept and
theories in his critical work “Biographia Literaria”(1817).

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(56) After independence, although English was not an Indian language, it was accorded
the status of an Associate language.

(57) The Tatler is a well- known English journal started by Richard Steele in 1709. It was
closed in 1711. This journal announced that it was “principally intended for the use
of Politick Persons who are so publick - spirited as to neglect their own Affairs to
look into Transactions of State” but failed to live up to this and amused readers with
“accounts of Gallantry, Pleasure and Entertainment”.

(58) The grammar-translation method is derived from the teaching of Greek and Latin
languages. In this method, learner learns the grammatical rules and focuses on the
translation of the sentences. It needs vocabulary memorization and it focuses on the
written languages. It does not focus on the speaking skills.

(59) “Nectar in a Sieve” is the most important novel written by Kamala Markandaya. It was
published in 1954. It’s a semi-autobiographical novel. The title of this noverl has been
taken from Coleridge’s poem “Work Without Hope”. Rukmani is the narrator of this
novel.

(60) “There is nothing outside the text” is the famous statement said by Jacques
Derrida. The critics of the New Historicist interpret this statement as “literature”
encompasses all cultural artifacts and all the values, power relations, and ways of
seeing reflected in those artifacts; there is nothing outside of the “text” broadly
conceived.

(61) Fanny Price (Mansfield Park) and Anne Elliot (Persuasion) are the famous heroines
of Jane Austen’s novels who are right-minded but neglected in the beginning but
gradually are acknowledged to be correct by characters who have previously looked
down on them.

(62) English is a lingua franca means the variety of English used between non-native
speakers who do not share a first language. It refers to the use of English language
as a common means of communication among people who have different mother
tongues.

(63) “Billy Budd” is the novella written by Herman Melville, an American author. He left it
unfinished dur to his death. It was finally published in 1924. For its story E.M. Forster
wrote the libretto for its opera version.

(64) “Godan” is one of the most celebrated Modern novel in the Indian literature. It was
written by Munshi Premchand in the Hindi language. It was published in 1936. Jai
Ratan, P. Lal and Gordon C. Roadarmel are the famous translator of this novel.
y Christopher R. King is not related with it.

(65) “Middlemarch” is the most famous novel written by George Eliot, an English novelist
of the 19th century. It was published in 1871. ‘A Study of Provincial Life’ is the another
title of this novel. In this novel, Fred Vincy is in debt because he is an inveterate
gambler.

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(66) mind forg’d manacles: “London”

y eternal winter: “Holy Thursday”
y fearful symmetry: “The Tyger”
y crimson joy: “The Sick Rose”

(67) “The Owl and the Nightingale” is the most famous Middle English poem. It details
about a debate between two birds the Owl and the Nightingale where Master
Nicholas of Guildford acts as the arbiter.

(68) Goethe’s Faust is a tragic play in two parts, published in 1790. In the first scene of
this play, Faust appears as he is dejected by the study of Philosophy, Law, Medicine
and Theology, turns to Magic art to acquire infinite knowledge. But he fails and
in desperation attempts to commit suicide, but refrains at the final moment. The
chiming of the bells announcing Easter festivities therefore, Faust prevents from
committing suicide.

(69) “The Shadow Line” is a short novel written by Joseph Conrad published in 1917. It is
about at sea as it presents a young captain who like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner is
haunted by the “vision of a ship drifting in calm and swinging in light airs, with all
the crew dying slowly about her decks” and who feels “the sickness of my soul... the
weight of my sins... my sense of unworthiness”.

(70) Philip Larkin was the most celebrated English poet of the Modern period. His poem
“An Arundel Tomb” published in 1956 and it ends with the lines “Our almost-instinct
almost true: What will survive of us is love.”

(71) “The Way of the World” is the most famous Restoration comedy written by William
Congreve, a 17th century English writer. It was first staged in 1700. In the epilogue
of this play, a warning is mentioned which means that Critics should not look for
portrait of real people in the play’s characters and remember that the play is a social
satire.

(72) “Holy Sonnet 17” is the famous poem written by John Donne, a greatest metaphysical
poet of the 17th century. It is a elegy on Donne’s wife Anne More who died in 1617. In
this poem, he shares his feeling of pain and sorrow which comes from the lost of
most loving person of the life.

(73) The opening words of the poem “All those times” locates the speaker in a natural
environment.

(74) Details and the minutae are the pair of words which best describes the repetitive
tenor of the speaker’s unpretentious yet oppressive life.

(75) Irrespective of the place, the boring rhythm of doing things over and over in human
life cannot be escaped is a closely thematic statement of the poem.

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Answer Key

(1) 3 (16) 4 (31) 4 (46) 3 (61) 2

(2) 2 (17) 3 (32) 2 (47) 3 (62) 3

(3) 2 (18) 1 (33) 1 (48) 2 (63) 3

(4) 4 (19) 3 (34) 2 (49) 3 (64) 4

(5) 1 (20) 1 (35) 2 (50) 2 (65) 2

(6) 3 (21) 3 (36) 3 (51) 2 (66) 3

(7) 1 (22) 3 (37) 3 (52) 1 (67) 4

(8) 3 (23) 1 (38) 2 (53) 2 (68) 3

(9) 2 (24) 2 (39) 1 (54) 1 (69) 2

(10) 1 (25) 3 (40) 2 (55) 1 (70) 2

(11) 3 (26) 4 (41) 2 (56) 3 (71) 2

(12) 2 (27) 1 (42) 4 (57) 2 (72) 3

(13) 2 (28) 1 (43) 3 (58) 3 (73) 3

(14) 3 (29) 2 (44) 2 (59) 3 (74) 2

(15) 3 (30) 2 (45) 2 (60) 4 (75) 2

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2018 July Paper 2

(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”

(2) In “Memorial Verses” Matthew Arnold pays tribute to three great poets. Who are they?
(1) Goethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth
(2) Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton
(3) Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth
(4) Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron

(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

(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

(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

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(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

(7) Which of the following was not a dialect of Old English?

(1) Irish
(2) Northumbrian
(3) Mercian
(4) Kentish

(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

(9) Choose the correct chronological order:

(1) William Caxton prints the first English book - William Shakespeare’s First Folio -
John Milton’s Areopagitica - “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets).
(2) “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets) - William Shakespeare’s First Folio -
William Caxton prints the first English book - John Milton’s Areopagitica.
(3) William Caxton prints the first English book - “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and
Sonnets) - William Shakespeare’s First Folio - John Milton’s Areopagitica.
(4) William Shakespeare’s First Folio - John Milton’s Areopagitica - William Caxton
prints the first English book - “Tottel’s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets).

(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”.

(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

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(12) In how many parts did Cervantes publish his novel, Don Quixote?
(1) three
(2) five
(3) two
(4) twelve

(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.

(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 was a Roman lady, an early Christian martyr.
(2) St. Cecilia was an Armenian devotee of the Christian faith.
(3) St. Cecilia’s festival is celebrated on 22 November in England.
(4) St. Cecilia was a patroness of music who was fabled to have invented the organ.

(15) Which of the statements on Michael Roberts’s Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) is
not true?
(1) His anthology canonized modern poetry and poets for quite some decades.
(2) The collection begins with the poems of Robert Bridges
(3) Roberts omitted the Georgian poets in his anthology.
(4) Yeats, Eliot and Pound find a place in the Faber Book of 1936.

(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

(17) Sir Thomas Browne’s Urn Burial was prompted by

(1) the discovery of ancient burial-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.

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(18) Identify from 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 (d)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)

(19) Who among the following writers was not the one identified with The Movement of
the 1950’s England?
(1) Roy Fuller
(2) Kingsley Amis
(3) Philip Larkin
(4) Donald Davie

(20) Which of the following novels does not belong to Nuruddin Farah’s Blood In the Sun
Trilogy?
(1) Maps
(2) Knots
(3) Gifts
(4) Secrets Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist.

(21) In the following series, which one has all the poets correctly matched with their
poems?
(1) Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher”; Ramanujan, “Small-scale Reflections on a
Great House”; Dutt, “Sunset at Puri”; Mahapatra, “Our Casuarina Tree”.
(2) Ezekiel, “Sunset at Puri”; Ramanujan, “Small-scale Reflections on a Great
House”; Dutt, “Our Casuarina Tree”; Mahapatra, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher”.
(3) Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher”; Ramanujan, “Sunset at Puri”; Dutt, “Our
Casuarina Tree”; Mahapatra, “Small-scale Reflections on a Great House”.
(4) Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher”; Ramanujan, “Small-scale Reflections on a
Great House”; Dutt, “Our Casuarina Tree”; Mahapatra, “Sunset at Puri”.

(22) From among the following, identify the incorrect observation regarding Ferdinand de
Saussure’s seminal distinction between langue and parole.
(1) Parole is the particular language system, 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).

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(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).

(23) John Heywood wrote a farcical interlude called The Four P’s. Who were 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

(24) In the mechanical drill method of second language acquisition:

(a) The learner has the freedom to choose 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)

(25) Thou wilt 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 thy 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 interspace 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 makes them as
though they were now also willing things in the husband eager to join his dead
wife. Through simple intimate tones of their shared earthly life - stay for me,
wait for me, I will not fail - he not only imagines her but imagines her thinking of
him.

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(3) The lyric voice here can feel the poem speaking back to him - in the cold lineal
stare of ‘there was nothing in my belief’ - even as his dead wife did not. It is as
though the poem itself then demands his response, in order to be able to move
from one line to another. To attempt that movement in keeping the poem’s space
alive, the lyric voice asserts, “I will not fail/To meet there in that hollow Vale.”
(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 in 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.

(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)

(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

(28) Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis is about a utopian state called

(1) Asgard
(2) Avalon
(3) Bensalem
(4) Baltia

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(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)

(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

(31) A.R. Ammons parodies a famous poem in 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...?”

(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 from the World
(4) or a Bold Lady’s Entrance into the Hall

(33) What does Philip Sidney call poet-haters in his Defence of Poesie?
(1) misogynists
(2) misanthropes
(3) misnomers
(4) mysomousoi

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(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
(2) Louise Bennett
(3) Kamau Brathwaite
(4) Wole Soyinka

(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)

(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”

(37) Match the following opening lines with their respective titles:
(a) “I leant upon a coppice gate”
(b) “A sudden blow: the great wings beating still. ”
(c) “Among twenty snowy mountains”
(d) “I know what the caged bird feels, alas. ”
(i) “Thirteen Blackbirds”
(ii) “Sympathy”
(iii) “The Darkling Thrush”
(iv) “Leda and the Swan”

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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)

(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)
(3) (b) and (d)
(4) (c) and (d)

(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

(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

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(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

(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

(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)

(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

(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

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(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 sentences is called
(1) apostrophe
(2) anaphora
(3) incremental repetition
(4) alliteration

(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

(48) In which city did John Ruskin see a paradigm for Victorian Britain?
(1) Vienna
(2) Venice
(3) Rome
(4) Paris

(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

(50) Which novel 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

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(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

(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

(53) The eighteenth-century practice in England of bookselling 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

(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

(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

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The right combination according to the code is:

(1) (a) and (d)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (b)

(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 eclectic approach to a rigid method.
(c) from teacher-centred to learner-centred 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)

(57) The four Moral Essays of Alexander Pope are addressed to carefully selected figures.
Identify the correct group.
(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

(58) Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children presents the war-torn Europe as
its protagonist as she follows troops with her canteen wagon. What is the real name
of Mother Courage?
(1) Paula Danckert
(2) Anna Fierling
(3) Jane Vanstone
(4) Jani Lauzon

(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

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(60) Arrange the following elegies in English in chronological order.

(1) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” - “Adonais” - “Thyrsis” - “In Memoriam”
(2) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” - “Adonais” - “In Memoriam” -“Thyrsis”
(3) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” - “In Memoriam” - “Adonais” -“Thyrsis”
(4) “Adonais” - “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” - “In Memoriam” -“Thyrsis”

(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) Gallileo
(4) King Charles 1

(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)

(63) What did Thomas Percy 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

(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
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(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

(66) In Eugene Ionesco’s Chairs, the absurdity is not so much in the banal words that are
uttered as
(1) in the large scale use of frightening stage props and lightning 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.

(67) A half-sentence in Purchas his Pilgrimage triggered off “Kubla Khan”. Whose work was
Purchas his Pilgrimage?
(1) Robert Herrick, the poet’s
(2) John Hakluyt’s, the collector of traveller’s tales
(3) Samuel Purchas, the London Parson’s
(4) Edward Purchas, the globe-trotter’s

(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

(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.

(70) Evelyn Waugh once complained that T.S. Eliot’s Poems, 1909-1925 was “marvellously
good, but very hard to understand.” The most pessimistic novel Waugh wrote was
called __________ and he owed the title to
(1) Black Mischief - “Sweeney among the Nightingales”
(2) Scoop - “Morning At the Window”
(3) Prancing Nigger - Ash Wednesday
(4) A Handful of Dust - The Waste Land

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(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

(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 Houyhnhnms’s he meets

(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.

(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, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is true but (R) is true.

(75) In his book, In Theory, Aijaz Ahmed works out the relations between the three
entities:
(1) Classes, Nations, Literatures
(2) Regions, Nation, Languages
(3) State, Religions, Gender
(4) Literature, Print, Theory

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(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”

(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

(78) Who wrote The Wandering Jew, a poem in four cantos and the short lyric, “The
Wandering Jew’s Soliloquy”?
(1) S.T. Coleridge
(2) Lord Byron
(3) Thomas Gray
(4) P.B. Shelley

(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.

(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.
(3) Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates both 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.

(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

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(82) Who, among the 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

(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 specific 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.

(84) It is well known that in many of his plays, Tom 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
(b) Indian Ink
(c) Inspector Hound
(d) Travesties
(i) Hamlet
(ii) A Passage to India
(iii) The Mousetrap
(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)

(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

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(86) How does Women in Love open?

(1) Rupert Birkin, Lawrence’s alter ego, is taking a walk in the English Countryside.
(2) The Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, are “working and talking.”
(3) The wedding party gathers at shortlands, the Criches’s home.
(4) The last lesson is in progress, “peaceful and still” in Ursula’s classroom.

(87) Samuel Johnson has the following to say about an English poet:
(1) Thomas Gray
(2) John Dryden
(3) John Milton
(4) Thomas Wyatt

(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 an M.F. Hussain painting distracts us
from enjoying art.

(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 such as Lakoff and Johnson.

(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

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(91) sure it waits upon Some god o’ th’ 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?
(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)

(92) Arrange the following plays of Shakespeare according to their periods (early, middle,
late...) of composition.
(1) As You Like It, Love’s 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.

(93) Who among the following is not a reader-response critic?

(1) Maud Bodkin
(2) Hans-Robert Jauss
(3) Stanley Fish
(4) Wolfgang Iser

(94) Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina s 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.

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(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

(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

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
judgment, 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 -
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the myth; I tell them it occurs

in hell, and that the artist lies
because he is obsessed with attainment,
that he perceives 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.
(Louise Gluck)

(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

(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

(99) In its context, the words “their fingers / tapping at the wooden desks”, best represent
the students’
(1) lack of protest
(2) lack of interest
(3) show of disrespect
(4) show of impatience

(100) Why does the speaker say that “the rock has added height to the mountain”?
(1) because the speaker is already on the top of the mountain.
(2) because both the hands of the speaker are now free.
(3) because the mountain now seems largely incomprehensible.
(4) because she feels that the immensity of the problem has grown.

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Explanation
(1) EXPLANATION
British Literature » Poetry » Age of Tennyson
y Enoch Arden published in 1864 is a narrative poem by Victorian poet Alfred, Lord
Tennyson.
y The Protagonist of the poem, the fisherman turned merchant sailor Enoch Arden,
leaves his wife Annie and three children to go to sea with his old captain, who offers
him work after he had lost his job due to an accident; in a manner that reflects the
hero’s masculine view of personal toil and hardship to support his family, Enoch
Arden left his family to better serve them as a husband and father. However, during
his voyage, Enoch Arden is shipwrecked on a desert island with two companions;
both eventually die, leaving Arden alone there. This part of the story is reminiscent of
Robinson Crusoe.

(2) EXPLANATION-
“Memorial Verses” composed by Victorian poet Matthew Arnold published the poem
in 1850, on the same year in which Wordsworth died. The poem is a tribute to
Wordsworth and also talks about 2 more preceded literary figures - Goethe, Byron

(3) EXPLANATION
y Harold Pinter was a British playwright, director and actor and Playwright
y Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), are his well-known
plays
y His plays are known to mark the beginning of the comedy of menace.
y “Pinteresque” is known as his style of writing.
y He adapted novels to screenplays, including - The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981),
The Trial (1993), from the novel by Franz Kafka, Handmaid’s Tale (1990) from the novel
of Margaret Atwood. He received Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.

(4) EXPLANATION
1649 to 1660 The Commonwealth Period or Puritan interregnum when England and
Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, was ruled as a republic following the
end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I.

(5) EXPLANATION
R K Narayan’s novel Swami and Friends published in 1935 has a special mention of
cricket in many chapters (16-19). The story of the novel set-in colonial India. In the
novel Swaminathan and his four best friends Somu, Sankar, Mani, and Pea. Swami
and his friends make a team named M.C.C. (Malgudi Cricket Club).

(6) EXPLANATION
y William Blake was born on 28 November, 1757, known as a Pre-Romantic poet and
painter.

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y Reynolds wrote in his Discourses that the “disposition to abstractions, to generalising

and classification, is the great glory of the human mind”; Blake responded, in
marginalia to his personal copy, that “To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize
is the Alone Distinction of Merit”.

(7) EXPLANATION
This question can be categorized under the heading of:
Old English had four main dialects: Mercian, Northumbrian, Kentish and West Saxon.

(8) EXPLANATION
British Literature » Fictional Stories » Modern Age
y Anthony Burgess’s novel A Dead Man in Deptford pub in 1993 depicts the life and
character of Christopher Marlowe, an Elizabethan playwrights. His other novels like –
Abba Abba depicts life of John Keats and Nothing Like Sun depicts life of – William
Shakespeare.

(9) EXPLANATION;
y William Caxton established printing press in 1476. The Recuyell of the Historyes of
Troye was his first printed book,
y Songs and Sonettes, Known as Tottel’s Miscellany pun in 1557 was the first printed
anthology of English poetry published by Richard Tottel .
y The First Folio is the first collected edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, collated
and published in 1623 seven years after his death. Folio editions were large and
expensive books that were seen as prestige items.
y Shakespeare wrote around 37 plays, 36 of which are contained in the First Folio
appeared in 1623.
y Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc‘d Printing, to the
Parliament of England published 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and
polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship.

(10) EXPLANATION
y Horace was great Roman Poet. Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry) is a famous poem written
by Horace in 19 B.C.
y Ut pictura poesis is a Latin phrase literally meaning “as in painting so is poetry.”
y Other famous quotation from Horace’s treatise on poetics, “bonus dormitat
Homerus,” or “even Homer nods” (an indication that even the most skilled poet can
compose inferior verse).

(11) EXPLANATION
Oliver Goldsmith (9 February 1728 - 1 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright
and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral
poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur’d Man (1768) and
She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773)
Works of Oliver Golsmith are as follows :
y The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith
y A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1774)

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y Goldsmith is also thought to have written the classic children’s tale The History of
Little Goody Two Shoes. ‘Account of the Augustan Age in England’ (1759)

(12) EXPLANATION
Don Quixote, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Published in two volumes, in
1605 and 1615

(13) EXPLANATION
Lytton Strachey s Eminent Victorians carries biographical sketches of writers and
public figures - Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General
Gordon He was also a member of Bloomsbury group

(14) John Dryden’s“A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day”, composed in 1687, set to music for the
annual St. Cecilia’s Day celebration held every November 22 from 1683 to 1703 and
sponsored by the London Musical Society. St. Cecilia, an early Christian martyr

(15) The Faber Book of Modern Verse was a poetry anthology, edited in its first edition
by Michael Roberts, and published in 1936 by Faber and Faber. There was a second
edition (1951) edited by Anne Ridler, and a third edition (1965) edited by Donald Hall.
The selection was of poems in English printed after 1910, which meant that work by
Gerard Manley Hopkins could be included. A later edition was edited by Peter Porter.

(16) Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk
is a work by Sir Thomas Browne, published in 1658.
Sir Thomas Browne lived in Norwich and wrote on a myriad of subjects Medicine,
geography ,Philosophy and Spirituality ,all during the English renaissance during the
17th century .His prose style influence both Jorge Luis Borges and W G Sebald.

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(18) A Modern Instance is a realistic novel written by William Dean Howells, and published
in 1882
The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her
twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts.

(19) The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, in
1954 to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald
Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest.

(20) HIS WORKS ARE:

y Blood in the Sun trilogy (1986)
y Maps London (1993)
y Gifts London (1998)
y Secrets New York : Arcade

(21) Ezekiel’s poems “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher”, pub in The Exact Name (1965)
y Small-Scale Reflections On A Great House by A K Ramanujan (1971).

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y Our Casuarina Tree 1881 is a poem by Toru Dutt, an Indian poet

y Mahapatra, “Sunset at Puri” 1971

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(23) The Pedlar suggests a competition to decide: each is to tell an elaborate lie; the best
liar shall “most prevail.” four p’s stands for -
1. Pardoner
2. Pothecary
3. Palmer
4. Pedlar

(24) Drilling is a technique that has been used in foreign language classrooms for many
years. It was a key feature of audio-lingual method approaches to language teaching,
which placed emphasis on repeating structural patterns through oral practice.
Drilling means listening to a model, provided by the teacher, or a tape or another
student and repeating what is heard. Drilling is a technique that is still used by many
teachers when introducing new language items to their students.
Harmer states that drilling is mechanical ways if getting students to demonstrate and
practice their ability to use specific language items in a controlled manner.
From those theories above, it can be concluded that drilling is a technique that has
been used in foreign language classrooms which emphasis on repeating structural
pattern through oral practice to demonstrate students’ ability in using specific
language items in a controlled manner.

(25) Ageing and dying are of course helplessly passive; but here love makes them as
though they were now also willing things in the husband eager to join his dead wife.
Through simple intimate tones of their shared earthly life-stay for me, wait for me, I
will not fail - he not only imagines her but imagines her thinking of him.

(26)

(27) The Above passage is associated with A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a
Bildungsroman by Irish writer James Joyce.

(28) New Atlantis by Sir Francis Bacon (Utopian work, incomplete), published in 1627.
Original Title - Nova Atlantis

(29) The nine Movement poets are Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, John Wain, Robert
Conquest, John Holloway Thom Gunn, D.J. Enright, Donald Davie and Elizabeth
Jennings.

(30) Intentional fallacy, the problem inherent in trying to judge a work of art by assuming
the intent or purpose of the artist who created it.
y The term was introduced in the Verbal Icon (1954) by W.K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Monroe C.
Beardsley

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(31) In his “Swoggled A.R. Ammons parodies a famous poem “The World Is Too Much with
Us” a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth.

(32) Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World is a novel written
by English author Fanny Burney and first published in 1778. It was published
anonymously but its authorship was revealed by the poet George Huddesford in what
Burney called a “vile poem”

(33) The School of Abuse by Stephen Gosson dedicated to Sidney 1579. It was an attack
on the English stage.
y An Apology for Poetry by Philip Sidney was published in 1595, a defend by Sidney
against the charge put by Gosson.
y Sidney applied the word “mysomousoi” for the poet-hater.

(34) The lines have been taken from Derek Walcott‘s “A Far From America”.
Derek Walcott’s 1962 poem “A Far Cry From Africa” responds to the Mau Mau Uprising
in Kenya, a guerrilla war fought by native Kenyans against British colonists from 1952-
1960. Ultimately, the poem treats both the violence in Kenya and the speaker’s own
conflicted identity as part of the legacy of colonialism.

(35) William K. Wimsalt Jr. and Monroe Beardsley coined the term Affective fallacy and
The Intentional Fallacy introduced in The Verbal Icon (1954) which proved a landmark
in the school of literature known as New Criticism.
Affective fallacy is the error in literary criticism of judging a work on the basis of its
emotional effect on the reader.
Intentional fallacy, is the problem inherent in trying to judge a work of art by
assuming the intent or purpose of the artist who created it.

(36) The poem ‘Sad Steps’ by Philip Larkin‘s is a reference to Sonnet XXXI from the sonnet
sequence Astrophel and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney.
y And Astrophel and Stella are a sequence of sonnets and songs written by Sir Philip
Sidney. It tells the story of Astrophel means star-lover and his hopeless passion for
Stella means star.

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(38) EXPLANATION
y The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot masterpiece of 20th century Published in 1922, having
434-line. It was first published in the United Kingdom in The Criterion and in the
United States in The Dial. The porem open with - “April is the cruellest month”, ends
with Sanskrit mantra - “Shantih shantih shantih”
y The Tower collection of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. The book includes
several of Yeats’ most famous poems, including “Sailing to Byzantium,” “Leda and the
Swan,” and “Among School Children.”

(39) The Book of Night Women by Marlon James 2009 The story follows Lilith a beautiful
young woman born during the 18th century on a Jamaican sugar plantation.
Orphaned from birth, she quickly learns that life as a slave can be frequently brutal

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and unkind. After she is forced to defend herself against a would-be rapist, she is
sent to work in the plantation owner’s house.

(40) “William Wordsworth ; the French Revolution was written at Dove Cottage, Grasmere,
in 1804. In the starting, It was published separately having a separate existence. But
later It was merged in “The Prelude”.
The motto of the Revolution was Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood, and it stood for ideas
such as social justice, personal freedoms, and the idea that there were inalienable
human rights, which defied class, wealth or gender. Wordsworth supported many of
the ideals of the French Revolution and to do so could be dangerous.

(41) Ghosts is a novel by Irish writer John Banville. Published in 1993, it was his first
novel since The Book of Evidence (1989), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
The second in what Banville described as a “triptych”, to make “an investigation
of the way in which the imagination works.” This novel features many of the same
characters and relates to events of the previous novel.

(42) Mountain Language is a one-act play written by Harold Pinter, first published in
The Times Literary Supplement in 1988. Mountain Language is a play about torture
and the fate of Kurdish people. Mountain Language is based on the oppression the
Kurds have experienced as a minority group in Turkey. The Kurds, numbering about
twenty-five million, are primarily located in a mountainous region in the Middle East,
stretching from southeastern Turkey through northwestern Iran. They have had a long
history of conflict with Turkey, heightened at the end of World War I.
y One for the Road is one-act play by Harold Pinter published in 1984.
y Setting: A room in a house in an unspecified location
y Subject: Torture, rape, and murder of political prisoners; human rights

(43) Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), and the well-known American
philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) were two important and original
contributors to the theory of semiotics are the famous

(44) The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all
the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine
Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically,
Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first
published in 1621. but republished five more times - 1624, 1628, 1632, 1638, and 1651.

(45) Blast was the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. Two
editions were published: the first on 2 July 1914 and featured a bright pink cover,
referred to by Ezra Pound as the “great MAGENTA cover’d opusculus”; and the second
a year later on 15 July 1915.

(46) Anaphora is a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive
clauses, phrases, or sentences.
For example, Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities - “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 incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the
season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

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(47) The Faerie Queene an epic poem by Spenser. it is one of the longest poems in
the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form
known as the Spenserian stanza. Book I of The Faerie Queene revolves around
the adventures of one principal hero, Redcrosse. At Una’s behest the Redcrosse
Knight undertake his quest of finding the dragon who has imprisoned her parents.
Redcrosse finally achieves this quest by killing the dragon and thereby winning Una
as his bride.

(48) A Pale View of Hills (1982) by Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel, narrated by a Japanese
widow living in England, draws on the destruction and rehabilitation of Nagasaki. It
is the story of Etsuko, a middle-aged Japanese woman living alone in England, and
opens with discussion between Etsuko and her younger daughter, Niki, about the
recent suicide of Etsuko’s older daughter, Keiko.

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(50) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens begins with the words, “Whether I shall turn
out to be the hero of may own life, or whether that station will be held by anyone
else, these pages must show.”

(51) Doctor Faustus (The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus) is an
Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title
character Faust. In Doctor Faustus: the the depiction of Good and Bad Angels, the
Old Man as Good Counsel, the pageant of the Seven Deadly Sins brings the element
of morality plays.

(52) Epistemology, the philosophical study of the nature, origin, and limits of human
knowledge. The term is derived from the Greek epistēmē (“knowledge”) and logos
(“reason”), and accordingly the field is sometimes referred to as the theory of
knowledge.

(53) Gillian Wright is not the translator of Munshi Prem Chandra

y David Rubin (2) Alok Rai (3) Christopher King are the translator of Munshi Prem
chandra

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(55) Jane Austen’s work Northanger Abbey and Persuasion are largely set in Bath.

(56) Communicative language teaching (CLT) is an approach to the teaching of second and
foreign languages that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate
goal of learning a language. It is also referred to as “communicative approach to the
teaching of foreign languages” or simply the “communicative approach”.(Wikipedia)

(57) (1) Epistle to Cobham (1734, addressed to Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham), “Of the
Knowledge and Characters of Men”.
(2) Epistle to a Lady (1735, addressed to Martha Blount), “Of the Characters of
Women”.

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(3) Epistle to Bathurst (1733, addressed to Allen, Lord Bathurst), “Of the Use of
Riches”.
(4) Epistle to Burlington (1731, addressed to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington), “Of
the Use of Riches”.

(58) Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is a play
written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht with significant
contributions from Margarete Steffin.
The play follows the fortunes of Anna Fierling, nicknamed Mother Courage, a wily
canteen woman with the Swedish Army, who is determined to make her living from
the war. Over the course of the play, she loses all three of her children, Schweizerkas,
Eilif, and Kattrin, to the very war from which she tried to profit.

(59) TESOL Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published in 1967 by

Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of TESOL International Association.

(60) An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard, by Thomas Gray, published in 1751.
y Adonais by Shelley was published in 1821 composed on death of Keats
y In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850) by Tennyson on death of Henry Hallam
y Thyrsis by Matthew Arnold published in 1866.

(61) Milton‘s “Paradise Lost” (1667), an epic poem dealing with the fall of man. In the
poem Milton put focus on discovery of telescop by Galileo.

(62) The Return 1981 is a bildungsroman (autobiographical novel) by K.S. Maniam.

y The Return, presents an Indian boy’s journey of self-discovery while growing up in
Malaya. As Dr. C.W. Watson
y K.S. Maniam, third novel, Between Lives, in 2003.

(63) The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (sometimes known as Reliques of Ancient
Poetry or simply Percy’s Reliques) is a collection of ballads and popular songs
collected by Bishop Thomas Percy and published in 1765. The collection became the
source of 19th century Romanticism.

(64) Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 1951 published autobiography of Nirad C

Choudhary records his life from his birth in 1897 in Kishorganj, a small town in
present- day Bangladesh. The book relates his mental and intellectual development,
his life and growth in Calcutta, his observations of vanishing landmarks, the
connotation of this is dual—changing Indian situation and historical forces that was
making exit of British from India an imminent affair. The book is divided into four
books, each of which consists of a preface and four chapters.

(65) Confessio Amantis, by John Gower a poem in octosyllabic couplets and takes the
form of a collection of exemplary tales of love placed within the framework of a
lover‘s confession to a priest of Venus.

(66) The Chairs is an absurdist “tragic farce” play by Eugène Ionesco The play concerns
two characters, known as Old Man and Old Woman, frantically preparing chairs for

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a series of invisible guests who are coming to hear an orator reveal the Old Man’s
discovery. It is implied that this discovery is the meaning of life, but it is never
actually said. The guests supposedly include “everyone”, implying everyone in the
world; there are other implications that this is a post-apocalyptic world. The Old
Man, for example, speaks of the destruction of Paris. The invisibility of the guests
implies that the Old Man and Old Woman are the last two people on the planet.
As the “guests” arrive, the two characters speak to them and reminisce cryptically
about their lives. A high point in the happiness of the couple is reached when the
invisible emperor arrives. Finally, the orator arrives to deliver his speech to the
assembled crowd. Played by a real actor, the orator’s physical presence contradicts
the expectations set up by the action earlier in the play. The old couple then commit
suicide by throwing themselves out of the window into the ocean. They claim that
life couldn’t get any better at this point because the whole world is about to hear the
Old Man’s astounding revelation. As the orator begins to speak, the invisible crowd
assembled in the room and the real audience in the theatre discover that the orator
is a deaf-mute.

(67) The source for the beginning of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem ‘Kubla Khan’ came to
him through Samuel Purchas’s book Purchas his Pilgrimage Published in 1613.

(68) Sordello is a narrative poem by Robert Browning a great Victorian poet and master
of dramatic monologue. Worked on for seven years, and largely written between 1836
and 1840, it was published in March 1840. The poem is divided into VI Parts.

(69) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, also known as just Tristram
Shandy, is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in 1759 in nine volumes.

(70) A Handful of Dust, satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1934. A Handful of
Dust (1934), the novel deals with the struggles of the protagonist Tony Last in various
stages of the twentieth century society. Waugh in this novel illustrates a dark picture
of the twentieth century English society and its individuals with the aim of laying
bare the “human selfishness and self-delusion”

(71) (72) In speaking with the King of Brobdingnag, Gulliver’s words are - … the most
pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the
surface of the earth.”

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(73) Divine Comedy by Dante is an Epic poem divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio,
and Paradiso.
The Inferno tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman
poet Virgil.

(74) In his book In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, Ahmad primarily discusses the
role of theory and theorists in the movement against colonialism and imperialism.
Ahmad’s argument against those who uphold poststructuralism and postmodernist
conceptions of material history revolves around the fact that very little has been
accomplished since the advent of this brand of postcolonial inquiry.

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(77) William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer received the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1923. He was associated with Irish Literary renaissance. He
became friends with William Morris and W.E. Henley, and he was a cofounder of
the Rhymers‘Club, whose members included his friends Lionel Johnson and Arthur
Symons. In 1889 Yeats met Maud Gonne, an Irish beauty, ardent and brilliant. From
that moment, as he wrote“the troubling of my life began.” He fell in love with her, but
his love was hopeless.

(78) The Wandering Jew, A Poem in Four Cantos by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Written in 1810,
published posthumously for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, London 1877.

(79) The above lines are taken from T.S. Eliot’s critical work, “Tradition and Individual
Talent”.
Whereas if we approach a poet without this prejudice we shall often find that not
only the best, but the most individual parts of his work may be those in which the
dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously. And I do not
mean the impressionable period of adolescence, but the period of full maturity.

(80) Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates both Sir Thopas’ Tale and The Tale of Melibee. Chaucer
hiself took part in story telling and tell two tales one in prose and another in verse.

(81) In Hindu religion The Upanishads are the most sacred texts
y Shree Purohit Swami and Yeats translated the Ten Principal Upanishads into English.

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(83) The poem “To Penshurst” by Ben Jonson describes the country home of the Sidney
family in terms not of its man-made splendor, but of the bounty of nature which
surrounds it and therefore beautifies it.

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(85) The requests that Oedipus makes of Creon are to bury Jocasta, banish him, to not
worry about his sons, but take care of his daughters.

(86) Women in Love (1920) is a novel by English author D. H. Lawrence. It is a sequel

to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915). The novel opens as “Ursula and Gudrun
Brangwen sat one morning working and talking to each other. Ursula was stitching
Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee.

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(89) The speech act theory was introduced by Oxford philosopher J.L. Austin in How to
Do Things With Words and further developed by American philosopher J.R. Searle.

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It considers the degree to which utterances are said to perform locutionary acts,
illocutionary acts, and/or perlocutionary acts.

(90) The term Gothic novels are the stories that combine elements of horror and terror.
The Gothic novel often deals with supernatural events, or events occurring in nature
that cannot be easily explained or over which man has no control, and it typically
follows a plot of suspense and mystery.
y Gloomy, decaying setting
y Haunted houses or castles with secret passages, trapdoors, and other mysterious
architecture
y Supernatural beings or monsters (ghosts, vampires, zombies, giants)
y Curses or prophecies
y Damsels in distress Some of the most famous Gothic novels in literature include
Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emily Bronte’s
Wuthering Heights, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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(93) Hans Robert Jauss known for reception theory

y Stanley Fish is known for development of reader-response theory.
y Maud Bodkin is best known for her book Archetypal Patterns in Poetry: Psychological
Studies of Imagination 1934.
y Wolfgang Iser was a German literary scholar associated with the development of
Reader Response Theory.

(94) The closing lines of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina -

I‘ll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak
my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul‘s holy of holies
and other people, even my wife, I‘ll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and
then regret it, I‘ll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and
yet I will pray—but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to
me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the
unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!

(95) The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel.
It is generally considered to be the first detective novel.

(96) “Gerontion” by T. S. Eliot” discusses themes of religion, sexuality, and other general
topics of modernist poetry.

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Answer Key

(1) 3 (21) (4) (41) (1) (61) (3) (81) (4)

(2) 4 (22) (1) (42) (4) (62) (4) (82) (4)

(3) 3 (23) (4) (43) (3) (63) (2) (83) (3)

(4) 3 (24) (3) (44) (4) (64) (2) (84) (2)

(5) 1 (25) (2) (45) (1) (65) (2) (85) (1)

(6) (1) (26) (2) (46) (2) (66) (3) (86) (2)

(7) 1 (27) (2) (47) (2) (67) (3) (87) (1)

(8) 3 (28) (3) (48) (2) (68) (2) (88) (2)

(9) 3 (29) (3) (49) (3) (69) (1) (89) (1)

(10) 1 (30) (2) (50) (3) (70) (4) (90) (4)

(11) (3) (31) (3) (51) (2) (71) (4) (91) (2)

(12) (3) (32) (2) (52) (2) (72) (2) (92) (3)

(13) (1) (33) (4) (53) (1) (73) (3) (93) (1)

(14) (2) (34) (1) (54) (3) (74) (1) (94) (3)

(15) (2) (35) (3) (55) (3) (75) (1) (95) (2)

(16) (3) (36) (3) (56) (4) (76) (2) (96) (1)

(17) (1) (37) (2) (57) (3) (77) (3) (97) (2)

(18) (3) (38) (2) (58) (2) (78) (4) (98) (3)

(19) (1) (39) (4) (59) (3) (79) (3) (99) (4)

(20) (2) (40) (3) (60) (2) (80) (3) (100) (4)

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2018 December Paper -2

(1) Match the following authors with the novels:

a. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (i) Inheritance

b. Anita Rau Badami (ii) Listening Now

c. Anjana Appachana (iii) Sister of My Heart

d. Indira Genesan (iv) The Hero’s Walk

(1) a-i, b-iii, c-ii, d-iv

(2) a-iv, b-ii, c-I, d-iii
(3) a-iv, b-i, c-iii, d-ii
(4) a-iii, b-iv, c-ii, d-i

(2) “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 meaning is, in the end to refuse God and his hypostases-reason,
science, law.”
The passage comes from which of the following essays:
(A) “Tradition and Individual Talent” by T.S. Eliot
(B) “Discourse in the Novel” by Mikhail Bakhtin
(C) “The Death of the Author” by Roland Barthes
(D) “What is an Author?” by Michel Focault

(3) Which of the statement is true of The Way of the World?

(A) The Way of the World presents a heroine pretending to love an older man
(B) Millamant and Mirabell fail to obtain the consent of Millamant’s aunt for their
marriage
(C) The Way of the World failed on stage
(D) The Way of the World was performed and published in 1702

(4) Which of the following is most accurate description of Butler English?

(A) A dialect of English spoken by the descendants of Anglo-Indians
(B) A pidgin, also called “Kitchen English” spoken by South Asians in Europe
(C) Any non-grammatical variety of English used by menials in Commonwealth
countries
(D) A minimal pidgin that emerged during colonial times in the Madras Presidency

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(5) Albert Camus borrows the following epigraph to his novel The Plague from ———
“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.”
(A) James Hogg’s The Confessions of a Justified Sinner
(B) Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
(C) Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy
(D) Jeremy Bentham’s The Principles of Morals and Legislation

(6) Which of the following would not be invoked to describe a form of New Historicist
criticism?
(A) Archaeology of Social Constructs
(B) Post-structural Recovery of Authorial Intent
(C) Cultural Materialism
(D) Genealogy of Patriarchal Discourse

(7) In traditional ELT methods and materials, the native speaker is elevated and idealized
against stereotyped non-native speakers. This tendency is dubbed———by Adrian
Holliday
(A) The Near-Native Fallacy
(B) The Non-Native Fallacy
(C) Native Speakerism
(D) The Native-Speaker Bias

(8) The en– ending to denote the plural nouns (as in oxen, children, brethren) has
survived from the:
(A) Old English Practice of Making Plural Nouns
(B) Anglo Norman Case of Making Plural Nouns
(C) Odd Middle-English Pronouncing Custom of Plurals
(D) Middle English Hymnals and Chants in English Parishes

(9) Which post-war British poet ends a poem with the line “Get stewed: Books are a
load of crap”?
(A) Philip Larkin
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Thom Gunn
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(10) Nicholas Nickleby firmly established Charles Dickens as a dominant novelist of his
time and the book as an unrivaled literary 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.
(A) Leonard Woolf
(B) John Cruickshank
(C) Ernest Dawson
(D) David Wilkie

(11) 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
(A) Levellers
(B) Lollards
(C) Deists
(D) Agnostics

(12) 1992 demolition of the disputed structure in Ayodhya produced two controversial
literary responses. Identify them
(A) Out of Place, The Algebra of Infinite Justice
(B) Annals and Antiquities, Between Sunlight and Shadows
(C) The Moor’s Last Sigh, Lajja
(D) Chronicles of a Riot Foretold, Shame

(13) 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 formation.
Identify the novel.
(A) The Man Within
(B) Our Man in Havana
(C) The Confidential Agent
(D) The Human Factor

(14) What is an “implied reader”?

(A) The ideal audience envisioned by the author and to whom the work of literature
is supposedly addressed
(B) The ideal reader of a work of literature which is approximated over time by
successive responses of generations of actual readers
(C) The ideal “average” reader who can approach a work of literature with no
preconceived ideas about the author’s life, the time of compositions, etc.
(D) A reader who embodies all those predispositions necessary for a literary work to
exercise its effect.

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(15) In Marlow’s Doctor Faustus, what books does Valdes counsel Faustus to study in
preparation for conjuring up spirits
(i) The works of Bacon and Abanus
(ii) The Hebrew Psalter and New Testament
(iii) The works of Ovid and Homer
(iv) The works of Baxter and Horst Code:
(1) i and ii
(2) i and iii
(3) i and iv
(4) ii and iii

(16) 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:
(A) A forger of Indian miniatures
(B) A quack in the Indian outback
(C) An accountant in the Indian army
(D) a collector of rare manuscripts

(17) Who viewed Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge as representatives of a “sect

of poets... dissenters from the established system in poetry and criticism” who
constituted “the most formidable conspiracy against sound judgement in matters
poetical”?
(A) Francis Jeffrey
(B) Henry Vaughhan
(C) Ralph Vaughan
(D) Francisco Franco

(18) In which work does William Blake say that Milton was “a true poet and of Devil’s
party without knowing it”?
(A) London
(B) Songs of Innocence
(C) The Chimney Sweeper
(D) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

(19) Which interpretation of Keats’s “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” best represents the
mimetic perspective?
(A) 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.
(B) 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
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(C) The author’s arbitrary imposition of order upon the chaotic impressions of reality
constitutes the only “truth” in a work of art.
(D) 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.

(20) Which of the following statements on Rajmohan’s Wife is not true?

(A) By common consent, Rajmohan’s Wife is the first novel in English published by
an Indian.
(B) The novel was serialized in 1864 in a short-lived magazine in Calcutta.
(C) Bankin Chandra published it soon after serialization and was elated in seeing its
first copy.
(D) His vivid descriptions of the routine of Bengali households reveal a lot about the
nineteenth century.

(21) “Why don’t we have a little game? Let’s pretend that we’re human beings, and that
we’re actually alive.” This passage forms part of:
(A) Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap
(B) Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
(C) John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger
(D) Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party

(22) 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”.
(A) Mulberry Hawk in Nicholas Nickleby
(B) Rigand in Little Dorrit
(C) Mr. Crook in Bleak House
(D) Daniel Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop

(23) 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____.
(A) Point, Counterpoint
(B) Tenor, Vehicle
(C) Analogy, Analogue
(D) Vehicle, Tenor

(24) 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
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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.)
(A) Cecil Day Lewis
(B) Christopher Isherwood
(C) Louis MacNeice
(D) Stephen Spender

(25) Which ancient Greek writer, name is directly mentioned in Lord Byron, poem “The
Isles of Greece“?
(A) Euripides
(B) Sophocles
(C) Sappho
(D) Aeschylus

(26) The Norman Conquest was a significant landmark in English history. What French did
the Normans speak and what was it known as?
(A) They spoke a dialectal French (also called Anglo-Frisian), somewhat closer to the
Parisian.
(B) They spoke Norman French (Anglo-Norman). Theirs was certainly not the
standard French.
(C) They spoke standard French (of mainland France). Their French was very sweet
and musical.
(D) They spoke normal French, rather distinct from Anglo-Norman, another standard
language.

(27) One of the most flexible meters_____is a five foot line. It was introduced by Geoffrey
Chaucer in the fourteenth century and has since then become the commonest of
meters in English poetry.
(A) Iambic
(B) Trochaic
(C) Hexameter
(D) Pentameter

(28) “Alas! What boots it with uncessant care,

To tend the homely slighted shepherd’s trade,
And strictly meditate the thankless Muse?
Were it not better done as others use,
To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,
Or with the tangles of Neaera’s hair?”

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Who are Amaryllis and Neaera in the above extract from John Milton’s Lycidas?
(A) Both were goddess of love and ware respectively appearing in Greek pastoral
poetry.
(B) Amaryllis is a shepherdess mentioned in Shakespeare’s romantic comedies;
Neaera, a minor character in Love’s Labour’s lost
(C) Both were one-time lovers of Lycidas, the dead shepherd.
(D) Amaryllis is a shepherdess mentioned in ancient pastoral poetry, notably
Eclogues; Neaera, a nymph who appears in Virgil’s Eclogues.

(29) David Malouf’s novel Ransom is based on:

(A) A War Memoir by Edmund Blunden
(B) An Episode in Trojan War
(C) A War Poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
(D) An Episode in The Mahabharata

(30) Which of the following had the alternative title “Things as They Are”?
(A) Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
(B) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(C) William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
(D) Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley

(31) In which of his novels does Italo Calvino construct his narrative through a tarot pack
of cards and reinterpret the Western canon providing new versions of Oedipus Rex,
Faust, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear?
(A) Our Ancestors
(B) The Castle of Crossed Destinies
(C) Invisible Cities
(D) The Path to the Nest of Spiders

(32) The following epitaph was written by Rudyard Kipling during the War of 1814-18.
HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE
This man in his own country prayed we know not to what Powers.
We pray Them to reward him for hie bravery in ours.
“Powers” here refers to_____“Them” to_____and “ours” to____.
(A) The Hindus, the French, the British
(B) The Divine, the Powers, our Country
(C) The Military, the Hindu Sepoys, Powers
(D) Authorities, his Compatriots, our Country

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(33) Who among the following are referred to as the “Scottish Chaucerians”?
(A) Thomas Hoccelve
(B) Robert Henryson
(C) John Lydgate
(D) William Dunbar Code:
(1) b and d
(2) a and b
(3) b and c
(4) c and d

(34) The title of Dylan Thomas’s Deaths and Entrances was taken from?
(A) William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
(B) Rudyard Kipling’s A Death-Bed
(C) John Donne’s Death’s Duell
(D) T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral

(35) 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 Code:
(1) b and c
(2) b and d
(3) a and d
(4) a and b

(36) One of the less noticed and acknowledged distinction of The Canterbury Tales is that
(A) It upheld the idea that we cannot divorce poetry from knowledge because poetry
itself is an object of knowledge.
(B) Instead of revealing England’s divisions, it reveled in its diversity.
(C) It alerted us to the term auctor, someone who is both ‘an originator and one who
gives increase’, the best description for Chaucer himself.
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(37) Which of the following themes was not common to the works of Cavalier poets
such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, James
Shirley, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick?
(A) Loyalty to the King
(B) Pious devotion to the religious virtues
(C) Country ideals of the good life
(D) Carpe diem

(38) “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?
(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) Francis Bacon
(C) R.B. Sheridan
(D) John Webster

(39) As a boy growing up in Squire Allworth’s estate, Tom gets one of the following
characters into trouble. Identify the character.
(A) Black George
(B) Partridge
(C) Nightingale
(D) Blifil

(40) The titular figure of Federico Gracia Lorca’s elegy “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias”
was
(A) A revolutionary who was associated with Che Guevara
(B) A popular matador and writer
(C) A spy who helped the revolutionaries during the Spanish Civil War
(D) A popular priest and poet

(41) Which Walter Scott novel is set in France in the 15th Century?
(A) Redgauntlet
(B) Ivanhoe
(C) The Antiquarry
(D) Quentin Durward

(42) Jonathan Swift arrived 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, series of letters addressed to
(A) Hester Vanhoinrigh b Esther Johnson
(B) Esther Johnson
(C) Rebecca Dingley
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Code:
(1) a and b
(2) b and d
(3) c and d
(4) b and c

(43) Deconstructionist critics argue that texts are never free from
(A) The equivocal and ironically unstable worldview of the author
(B) The material conditions that determine the production and reception
(C) Distortions inherent in the rhetoricity of language
(D) The interpretations bestowed by the totalizing critic

(44) “Full many a lady I have eyed 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 fun soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel
with the noblest grace she owed 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:
(A) Shakespeare’s The Tempest
(B) Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus
(C) John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
(D) Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women

(45) Given below are two statements 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 Islam.
(A) R does not follow logically from A
(B) A is only partly addressed in R
(C) R is A and vice versa
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(46) Match the writer with the work

a. George Puttenham i. Leviathan

b. Thomas Sprat ii. The Practice of Piety

c. Lewis Bayly iii. The Art of English Poesy

d. Thomas Hobbes iv. History of the Royal Society

(1) a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii

(2) a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i
(3) a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i
(4) a-iii, b-iv, c-ii, d-i

(47) Early African-American texts like slave narratives were often described as told to
narratives as their ‘authors’ dictated their experiences. The persons who noted these
experiences are
(A) Abolitionists
(B) Translators
(C) Amanuenses
(D) Slave-drives

(48) Match the character with the work:

a. Rupert Birkin i. Sons and Lovers

b. Lydia Lensky ii. Kangaroo

c. Mirian Leivers iii. Women in Love

d. Richad Somers iv. The Rainbow

Code:
(A) a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii
(B) a-i, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii
(C) a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i
(D) a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii

(49) Who among the ancients prescribed that poetry should both instruct and delight?
(A) Longinus
(B) Plotinus
(C) Horace
(D) Aristotle

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(50) Who among the following exemplified the role of the “peasant poet”?
a. John Clare
b. John Keats
c. William Cobbett
d. Robert Burns Code:
(1) a and b
(2) c and d
(3) b and c
(4) a and d

(51) What tone will be best suited to the following poem?

THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME
Though 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.
(A) Excitement
(B) Revulsion
(C) Exultation
(D) Regret

(52) The fault of Cowley, and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphysical race, is that
of pursuing his thoughts to their last 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:
(A) The force of metaphors that blunts description
(B) The mind that goes astray toward the original
(C) The metaphysical poets’ tendency to saunter away
(D) The metaphysical insistence on the particular than the general

(53) The enigmatic castle which K. attempts to reach in vain in Fanz Kafka’s The Castle
belongs to?
(A) Count Aloofwest
(B) Count Eastwest
(C) Count Westwest
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(54) “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 19th century is referred to one of Oscar Wilde’s plays.
Identify the play.
(A) Lady Windermere’s Fan
(B) An Ideal Husband
(C) A Woman of No Importance
(D) The Importance of Being Earnest

(55) Match the plays to their setting:

a. Krapp’s Last Tape i. A country road; a tree

ii. Bare interior; two small two small windows high up; grey
b. Happy Days
light

c. Waiting for Godot iii. Expanse of scorched grass forming a low mound; blinding

d. Endgame iv. A. late evening in future; white light

Code:
(1) a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii
(2) a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv
(3) a-ii, b-iv, c-iii, d-i
(4) a-iv, b-iii, c-I, d-ii

(56) The term ‘Digger’ is associated with a group of agrarian communists who flourished
in England in 1649-50 and were led by
(A) Laurence Clarkson
(B) Gerrard Winstanley
(C) John Lilburne
(D) George Fox

(57) What comes “after great pain” in the famous Emily Dickinson poem?
(A) The letting go
(B) A concrete simplicity
(C) Substantial light
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(58) Why did Plato banish the poet from his ideal state?
(A) Poetry makes an artificial distinction between form and content.
(B) Poetry deals with form, to the neglect of content.
(C) In representing the sensual aspects of reality, the poet fails to discern the
transcendent reality behind mere appearance.
(D) The poet can never produce a complete accurate replica of the reality it seeks to
represent, and the purpose of art is not to describe reality but to change it.

(59) Match the poem with the opening lines:

i. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as

a. “Ode to Psyche”
though of hemlock I had drunk,”

b. “Ode on a ii. “No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist. ... Wolf’s-bane, tight-
Grecian Urn” rooted, for its poisonous wine”

c. “Ode to a iii. “Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster-child

Nightingale” of silence and slow time,”

d. “Ode on iv. O Goddess! Hear these tuneless numbers, wrung. By sweet

Melancholy” enforcement and remembrance dear.

(1) a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii

(2) a-iii, b-iv, c-ii, d-i
(3) a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii
(4) a-i, b-iii, c-ii, d-iv

(60) S.T Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode” opens with an epigraph which is a reference to a
ballad.
Identify the ballad.
(A) Ballad of the Goodly Fere
(B) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
(C) Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence
(D) Ballad of the Gibbet

(61) Which of the following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?

(A) Ann Radcliff’s The Italian
(B) Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random
(C) Matthew Lewis’s The Monk
(D) William Beckford’s Vathek

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(62) Mango Souffle, India’s first major gay themed film is an adaptation of Mahesh
Dattani’s play
(A) On a Muggy Night in Mumbai
(B) Do the Needful
(C) Bravely Fought the Queen
(D) Dance Like a Man

(63) In imitation of which classical poet did Samuel Johnson write his London and The
Vanity of Human Wishes?
(A) Horace
(B) Juvenal
(C) Homer
(D) Tasso

(64) Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveler is narrated by

(A) Ben Lyte, a coarse Papist
(B) Jack Wilton, an English page
(C) Peter Marston, a sworn Calv Calvinist
(D) Philip Foxe, an English highwayman

(65) “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?
(A) A.S. Byatt’s Possession
(B) John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(C) Graham Swift’s Waterland
(D) Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient

(66) Read the following passage and answer the questions:

I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading
it M railway trains, or on the top of omnibuses and i restaurants, and I have often
had to close it lest some stranger would see how much it moved me. These lyrics—
which are the original, my ——(Indian friends) tell me, full of subtlety of rhythm, of
untranslatable delicacies of colour, of metrical invention — display in their 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 rush.. 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
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a few generations, to the beggar on the roads. – W.B. Yeats, from Introduction to
Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali In this passage, Yeats praises Indian culture primarily
because it
(A) Is accessible to Westerners though it is rooted in a different religious tradition.
(B) Has been flexible enough to survive a transition into the modern world.
(C) Embodies values and gives rise to art that can be shared by people of all classes.
(D) Reflects a marvelous eclecticism in drawing from many disparate cultures.

(67) Match the Character with the Play:

a. Dorimant i. The Plain Dealer

b. Lady Fidget ii. The Man of Mode

c. Malevole iii. The Country Wife

d. Vernish iv. The Malcontent

Code:
(1) a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii
(2) a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i
(3) a-ii, b-iv, c-iii, d-i
(4) a-iv, b-i, c-iii, d-ii

(68) Braj Kachru has observed a tendency among Indian-English speakers and writers to
use hybridized lexical items. One example of this is
(A) Lathi-charge
(B) Ping-pong
(C) Chaywallah
(D) Jugarh

(69) Match the author with title:

a. Alan Paton i. Open City

b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o ii. Cry, the Beloved Country

c. Teju Cole iii. A Grain of Wheat

d. Wok Soyinka iv. The Interpreters

Code:
(1) a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i
(2) a-i, b-iii, c-iv, d-ii
(3) a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii
(4) a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv

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(70) 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.
(A) Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention
(B) Sense, Feeling, Tone and Matter
(C) Sound, Sense, Tone and Matter
(D) Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention

(71) “The ‘grammar bullies” – you read them in places like the NewYork Times – and they
tell you what is correct.
You must never use “hopefully, “Hopefully, we will be going there on Thursday. 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?
(A) Inside the Whale
(B) Reflections on Gandhi
(C) Politics and the English Language
(D) Why I Write

(72) Allen Tate once made the useful distinction between structure and texture. The
distinction referred to
(A) The main line of narrative, argument, etc., and the rhetorical, stylistic,
metaphorical and other devices respectively.
(B) The rhetorical, stylistic, metaphorical and other devices and the main line of
narrative, argument, etc., respectively.
(C) Objects and materials on which a narrative casts light, and the devices employed
to enlighten them respectively.
(D) The devices employed to enlighten objects and materials in a narrative, and the
objects and materials themselves, respectively.

(73) 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”?
(A) Resignation
(B) Despair
(C) Hope
(D) Protest Answer

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(74) In an ode, William Collin 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.
(A) William Cowper
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) James Thomson
(D) Thomas Gray

(75) Read the Passage give below:

“Ah, what 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-shot, whole ranks do die,
He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry.”
John Donne, 1633
Which sentence best paraphrases line 6 of the passage above
(A) Love trends to grab us and never let go.
(B) Distress comes in many forms, but none lasts as long as heartache.
(C) Emotions can damage us, but none as severely as love.
(D) Unbidden pain afflicts us, but we are lured by love.

(76) ______read Adam Bede with such pleasure that she not only keenly recommended it
to her relative but also commissioned two paintings of scene from the novel.
(A) Horace Nightingale
(B) George Eliot
(C) Margaret Cavendish
(D) Queen Victoria

(77) “The good thing about words,” Hanif Kureishi remarks in “Loose Tongues”, is that
“their final effect is incalculable. [....] You can never know what your words might turn
out to mean for yourself or for someone else; or what the world they make will be
like.
Anything could happen. The problem with silence is that we know exactly what it will
be like.” Kureishi, in sum,suggests:
(A) There is always some risk involved in writing/speaking.
(B) It is better to avoid using words than to risk miscommunication.
(C) Words being predictable, are always open to misinterpretation.
(D) The unpredictable, in deed, is the strength of words.

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Code:
(1) a and c
(2) a and d
(3) b and c
(4) b and d

(78) Match the following concepts with their definitions:

a. Collocation i. A semantic relationship of one to many

b. Corpus ii. A grid used lexical analysis

c. Hyponymy iii. A combination of two lexical items in a grammatical pattern

d. Matrix. iv. A large body of texts

Code:
(1) a-i b-iii c-iv d-ii
(2) a-iv, b-ii, c-iii, d-i
(3) a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv
(4) a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii

(79) What is particular about the references in the following to some poets’ names in the
plural?
“It is a freezing, bleak day in January, and. I am looking for poetry. I see a few
Chaucer’s, a few Shakespeare’s, and a hardcover, three dollar History of Modern
Poetry published in 1987.”
(A) Standard reference to more texts of one poet.
(B) Unusual awkward metaphors no longer in use.
(C) Synecdochic use names for their respective works.
(D) Usually refer to biographies of the poets in question.

(80) There are helpers and harmers among fellow pilgrims in Christian’s journey in
Pilgrim’s Progress.
Who among the following is not a helper?
(A) Good Will
(B) The Interpreter
(C) Mr. Worldly Wiseman
(D) The Evangelist

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(81) “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 the above evoke:
(A) Christ’s resurrection
(B) The fairy tale of a girl in the woods
(C) The myth of the phoenix
(D) The legend of the Lady of the Lake

(82) In Thomas Moore’s Utopia (Book II), the reader is told that in this new world there are
few mistakes in marriage because
(A) Prospective husbands and wives see one another naked before agreeing to the
match.
(B) There is an extensive courtship period preceding the actual wedding.
(C) The family gods are invoked before finalizing the nuptials.
(D) There is a community get together where prospective husbands and wives
announce wedding plans endorsed by elders.

(83) What type of writing did Walter Pater define as “the special and opportune art of the
modern world”?
(A) Nonfiction Prose
(B) They Lyric
(C) Comic Drama
(D) The Novel

(84) “What is honor? A word. What is in that word “honor”? What is that “honor”? Air. A
trim reckoning.
Who hath it? He that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. ‘Tis
insensible, then?
Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? [Link]? Detraction will not suffer
it. Therefore, I’ll none of it. Honor is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism”.
Which character in the following Shakespeare’s dramas made this statement about
honour?
(A) Falstaff in King Henry IV Part 1
(B) Claudius in Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark
(C) Hotspur in King Henry IV Part 1
(D) Hamlet in Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark

(85) In his essay The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864) Matthew Arnold
contended that
(A) Creative power should be ranked higher than critical power
(B) Creative and critical powers should be ranked equally
(C) Creative and critical powers are not comparable in anyway
(D) Critical power should be ranked higher than creative power

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(86) What is the delicate balancing act of Andrew Marvell’s Horatian Ode?
(A) Celebrating the Restoration while regretting the frivolity of the new regime.
(B) Praising feminine virtues while mocking the fixation on chastity.
(C) Celebrating Cromwell’s victories while inviting sympathy for the executed King.
(D) Praising Roman virtues while endorsing Christian beliefs.

(87) Identify the Fireside poets of the US:

(A) T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams
(B) Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Seaton
(C) William Cullen Bryant, H.W. Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes
(D) Amy Lowell, Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley

(88) Evelina was published in 1778

(A) Anonymously
(B) Using the name Fanny Burney
(C) Posthumously
(D) Under a Pseudonym

(89) During the Raj, the British viewed their rule in terms of a thankless duty to uplift the
downtrodden and inculcate and 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:
(A) Rudyard Kipling’s The White Man’s Burden
(B) J.R. Ackerley’s Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal
(C) Flora Annie Steel’s The Garden of Fidelity
(D) Maud Diver’s The Englishwoman in India

(90) 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?
(A) Brobdingnag
(B) Zoroaster
(C) Buddha
(D) Zorba

(91) Match the Term with the Theorist:

a. Negritude i. Alice Walker

b. Womanism ii. Jurgen Habermas

c. Interpellation iii. Aime Cesaire

d. Public Sphere iv. Louis Althusser

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Code:
(1) a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii
(2) a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i
(3) a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii
(4) a-I, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii

(92) Which of the following is the most accurate statement by W.E.B. Du Bois’ famous
articulation of the ‘twoness’ of black Americans?
(A) “This sense of always looking at one’s self, a peculiar sensation through the eyes
is double consciousness.”
(B) “Through the eyes of others, this sense of always looking one’s self, we acquire
the double- consciousness.”
(C) “This double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through
the eyes of others, is a peculiar sensation.”
(D) “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always
looking at one’s self through the eyes of others.”

(93) Which of the following poems is quoted as the epigraph to A Raisin in the Sun by
Lorraine Hansberry
(A) The Negro Speaks of Rivers
(B) Harlem (A Dram Deferred)
(C) The Big Sea
(D) I, too, Sing America

(94) Which of the following acts were not passed during the Victorian Era?
(A) The Women’s Suffrage Act
(B) The Married Women’s Property Rights Act
(C) A Series of Factory Acts
(D) The Custody Act

(95) 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 the author
(A) Mattie Jane Jackson – The Story of Mattie J. Jackson
(B) Elizabeth – Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a coloured Woman
(C) Mary Prince – The History of Mary Prince
(D) Harriet Jacobs – Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

(96) “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!

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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.
(A) Walks, Breath, Creeps, Shown
(B) Creeps Moment, Struts, Seen
(C) Moves, Syllable, Frowns, Heard
(D) Creeps, Syllable, Struts, Heard

(97) The Romantic period produced a fair amount of dramatic criticism. A notable
example is “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth”. Who is the author?
(A) Edmund Kean
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Wiliam Charles Macready d Thomas De Quincey
(D) Thomas De Quincey

98.-100.
The following is an extract from a famous play. Read it carefully to answer questions
that follow:
Maid [in the doorway]: A lady to see you, ma’am,–a stranger.
Nora: Ask her to come in.
Maid [to HELMER]: The doctor came at the same time, sir.
Helmer: Did he go straight into my room?
Maid: Yes, sir.
[HELMER goes into his room. The MAID ushers in Mrs Linde, who is in travelling dress,
and shuts the door.]
Mrs Linde [in a dejected and timid voice]: How do you do, Nora?
Nora [doubtfully]: How do you do–
Mrs Linde: You don’t recognise me, I suppose.
Nora: No, I don’t know–yes, to be sure, I seem to–[Suddenly.] Yes! Christine! Is it really
you?
Mrs Linde: Yes, it is I.
Nora: Christine! To think of my not recognising you! And yet how could I–[In a gentle
voice.] How you have altered, Christine!
Mrs Linde: Yes, I have indeed. In nine, ten long years–
Nora: Is it so long since we met? I suppose it is. The last eight years have been a happy
time for me, I can tell you. And so now you have come into the town, and have taken this
long journey in winter– that was plucky of you.
Mrs Linde: I arrived by steamer this morning.

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Nora: To have some fun at Christmas-time, of course. How delightful! We will have such
fun together!
But take off your things. You are not cold, I hope. [Helps her.] Now we will sit down by the
stove, and be cosy. No, take this armchair; I will sit here in the rocking-chair. [Takes her
hands.] Now you look like your old self again; it was only the first moment–You are a little
paler, Christine, and perhaps a little thinner.
Mrs Linde: And much, much older, Nora.
Nora: Perhaps a little older; very, very little; certainly not much. [Stops suddenly and
speaks seriously.]
What a thoughtless creature I am, chattering away like this. My poor, dear Christine, do
forgive me.
Mrs Linde: What do you mean, Nora?
Nora [gently]: Poor Christine, you are a widow.
Mrs Linde: Yes; it is three years ago now.
Nora: Yes, I knew; I saw it in the papers. I assure you, Christine, I meant ever so often to
write to you at the time, but I always put it off and something always prevented me.
Mrs Linde: I quite understand, dear.
Nora: It was very bad of me, Christine. Poor thing, how you must have suffered. And he
left you nothing?
Mrs Linde: 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 [looking incredulously at her]: But,
Christine, is that possible?
Mrs Linde [smiles sadly and strokes her hair]: It sometimes happens, Nora.
Nora: So you are quite alone. How dreadfully sad that must be. I have three lovely
children. You can’t see them just now, for they are out with their nurse. But now you
must tell me all about it.

(98) Identify the play of which this section is an excerpt.

(A) A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
(B) The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
(C) Wit by Margaret Edson
(D) The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

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(99) Which of the following descriptions best applies to the above extract?
(A) Friends comparing notes and counting losses in a meeting sudden and
unanticipated.
(B) The sense of loss inevitable with the passage of time and the imperceptible
dissolution of the conventional marriage.
(C) A chance meeting between old friends which leaves one puzzling over the
inexplicable losses the other suffered.
(D) A meeting of two friends – one married, the other unmarried after a gap of years.

(100) “Not even a sense of loss to feed on” implies that

(A) Mrs. Linde is given over to feeding on sorrow.
(B) Mrs. Linde is completely devoid of all feeling.
(C) Mrs. Linde’s severance from her tragic pair is total.
(D) Mrs. Linde is sentimentally attached to an irretrievable past.

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Explanation
(1)

(2) In “The Death of the Author” (1967), Roland Barthes’s main argument is that the
author has no sovereignty over his own words (or images, sounds, etc.). These belong
to the reader who interprets them. When we encounter a literary text, says Barthes,
we need not ask ourselves what the author intended in his words but what the
words themselves actually say. Text contain symbols that are deciphered by readers.
Since the sole function of the text is to be read, the author and process of writing is
irrelevant.

(3) The Way of the World is a play written by the English playwright William Congreve. It
premiered in early March 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London.
World was not at first successful because the audience felt it continued with the
immorality theme of the previous decades in theatre. But it gained in reputation over
the years as one of the best Restoration comedies.

(4) When the British set up colonies worldwide they brought with them their language,
which many of the natives accepted, unavoidably adding to it their local speech
nuances. A number of variety of English were used as second language. Butler
English, or Bearer English or Kitchen English, is a dialect of English that first
developed as an occupational dialect in the years of the Madras Presidency in India.
It has developed over time and is now associated mainly with social class rather
than occupation and is still spoken in major metropolitan cities. Structurally, Butler
English is akin to a pidgin, with a subject–verb–object word order, deletion of verb
inflections, and deletion of prepositions. It has been called a “marginal pidgin” and a
“rudimentary pidgin”.

(5) The epigraph containing a quote from Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe (1719),
interpreted the text as an allegory for France during the Second World War, with the
plague representing the Nazis (“la peste brune”), charting the rise of Nazism, the
efforts of the Resistance in the face of oppression, and the eventual decline and
withdrawal of German occupying forces. But the novel is in fact much more than
that: not only is it an allegory of war, but also a comment on the absurdity of the
world around us, religion, and, most importantly, the human condition.

(6) New Historicism is a literary theory based on the idea that literature should be
studied and interpreted within the context of both the history of the author and the
history of the critic. It was a hugely influential approach to literature, especially in
studies of William Shakespeare’s works and literature of the Early Modern period.
It began in earnest in 1980 in the writings of Stephen Greenblatt, and quickly
supplanted New Criticism. It dominated the study of early modern literature in the
1980s and 1990s.
Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (1980)
does a New Historicist reading of Renaissance plays, reavealing how ‘self-fashioning
was an episteme of the era, as depicted in the portraits and literature of the time.

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(7) Native-speakerism as a culturist ideology which is predominant in global English

language teaching (ELT) or teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL).
It especially concerns ELT in Expanding Circle countries, where superiority is usually
granted to native speaker (NS) English, native English speaker teachers (NESTs), NS
culture-embedded teaching materials and teaching methodologies. This is a long-
practiced pro-nativeness ideology which is being challenged by the dynamics and
fluidity of the English language in the current era of globalization and also in the area
of critical scholarship.

(8)

(9) These are the last lines of Philip Larkin’s short poetry “A Study Of Reading Habits”.

(10) Sir David Wilkie was a British painter who painted a wide variety of genres during the
first half of 19th century.

(11) The Lollards were followers of John Wycliffe. At first composed of Wycliffe’s
supporters at Oxford and the royal court, but soon the movement spread and
became a strong popular movement. It was blamed (perhaps unfairly) for some of
the anticlerical aspects of the Peasant’s Revolt. Lollardy has been called ‘England’s
first heresy’. The origins of Lollardy can be traced to the writings of John Wycliffe,
a churchman, writer, and theologian who died on the last day of 1384. He is known
as the father of English Reformation. Wycliffe began a translation of the Bible into
English. For the time, this was an act of extreme courage, and one which brought
him into direct conflict with the church in Rome. Later, in 1401 the Constitutions of
Oxford made it heresy to translate the Bible into English.

(12) The Moors Last Sigh (1995) by Salman Rushdie cites the demolition of the Babri
Masjid, the 1993 Bombay explosions, the gangster Dawood Ibrahim and the Indian
political organisations like Shiv Sena and Bal Thackeray.
Lajja (1993) by Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, deals with the oppression of
the Hindus in Bangladesh following the days after the demolition. It is in Bengali
language.

(13) The Human Factor is an undercover work novel by Graham Greene, initial distributed
in 1978.

(14) According to a literary critic Wolfgang Iser, “an implied reader is a hypothetical figure
who is likely to get most of what the author intended.” When an author writes a book
or article they do so with certain readers in mind and they believe that those known
as the implied reader will understand or appreciate the metaphors and ironies which
the author as written.

(15)

(16) Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850) was known for his acute and severe criticism of literature
and politics of his time. He founded the critical journal The Edinburgh Review-- a
Scottish magazine (1802-1929) and remained it long time editor. In a review of Robert
Southey’s Thalaba, he wrote, that they were dissenters from the established system

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in poetry and criticism ... a sect of dissenters from established systems who have
liberated themselves from the bondage of ancient authority.
The group included Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Southey.

(17)

(18) Blake claims, in the book, that John Milton was a true poet and in his Paradise Lost,
he was ‘of the devil’s party without knowing it’. He also claimed that Milton’s Satan
was truly his ‘Messiah’.

(19) The quote belongs to the famous “Ode on a Grecian Urn” written in 1819.

(20) Rajmohans Wife was the first novel written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in English.
The novel was serialized in 1864 in a short lived magazine published in Calcutta. It
did not appear in book form during the authors lifetime.

(21)

(22) ‘Daniel Quilp’ in ‘The Old Curiosity shop’ by Charles Dickens is the primary villain of
the novel. He is a black-eyed dwarf, a vicious and ill-tempered man who torments
his wife, Besty Quilp.

(23) The tenor is the thing being described. The vehicle is the figurative language you use
to describe it. In a metaphor, the tenor is the subject.

(24) The Pylon Poets was a 1930s group of British poets whose subject matter dealt with
technological modernity. Stephen Spender’s poem The Pylons (1933) inspired the
name of this school.
The Pylon poets took socialist-Marxist position in their writings. The group of 1930s
included W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day Lewis, Louis Macneice. They used
industrial imagery & references to trains, skyscrapers, factories, roads etc.

(25) Lord Byron wrote The sles of Greece in 1819 before Greece fought for its
independence from the rule of Ottoman empire is 1821. It is a song inside the third
canto of Don Juan written in 1819.

(26) The Norman rulers assimilated French into the local English language and forming
the new language called as Norman French. It is a French dialect of modern
Normandy. Norman is spoken in mainland Normandy in France, where it has no
official status, but is classed as a regional language.

(27) Pentameter is composed of a line of poetry having five strong metrical feet.
Much of all great poetry in English has been written in Iambic pentameter. It was
introduced by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century and since then it has become the
commonest of meters in English poetry. Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare excelled in it.

(28) Lycidas, poem by John Milton, written in 1637, to commemorate the death of Edward
King, Milton’s contemporary at the University of Cambridge who had drowned in a
shipwreck in August 1637.

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The poem ‘Lycidas’ can be conveniently divided into six sections a prologue, four
main parts, and an epilogue. The narrator of “Lycidas” is an unnamed shepherd, an
“uncouth swain.”

(29) Ransom is a novel published in 2009 by Australian author David Malouf. It retells the
story of the Iliad, especially from books 22 to 24.

(30) Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb
Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel. The main purpose of
writing the novel was to call for to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a
tyrannical government.

(31) The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1973) is novel written in two parts, by the Italian
writer Italo Calvino, who constructs his story through a tarot pack of cards and
reinterpret the western canon providing new versions of Oedipus Rex, Faust, Hamlet,
Macbeth and King Lear.

(32) The lines are taken from Epitaphs of the War BY RUDYARD KIPLING

(33) “Scottish Chaucerians” were the group of Scottish poets of 15th and 16th century
whose works were influenced by Chaucer exercising his seven line rhyme royal
stanza. Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Sir David Lyndsay, King
James I of Scotland, were notable Scottish Chaucerians.

(34) Deaths and Entrances was published in 1946. The title of the volume is taken from
Donne’s sermon Deaths Duell: ‘Our very birth and entrance into this life, is … an
issue from death.’
The poems in this collection show a great advance in sympathy and understanding
due, in part, to the impact of war.

(35) The kitchen-sink drama is placed in an ordinary domestic setting. Plays in this
category often deal with social issues such as poor living conditions, lack of
employment, poverty and turbulent relationships. It typically tells a relatively
mundane family story where family tensions often come to the fore with realistic
conflict between husband and wife, parent and child, between siblings and with the
wider community. The family may also pull together in unity against outer forces that
range from the rent-collector to rival families.

(36) The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines
written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.

(37) Cavalier Poets concentrated on the pleasures of the moment (Carpe diem),
celebration of love, beauty, wine, sensuality, honour etc. These were staunch
supporters of Charles I and also called Royalists as they were against the
Roundheads, the supporters of the parliament of England During English Civil War
(1642-1651)

(38) The statement is spoken by Bosola in a Jacobean revenge tragedy ‘The Duchess of
Malfi’ written by the English dramatist John Webster.

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(39)

(40) ‘Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias’ is a long elegy in four parts to commemorate the
death of a great bullfighter of Spain, ‘Ignacio Sanchez’.

(41) Quentin Durward is a historical novel by Scott, set in 15th century France where the
titular character, saves the life of Louis XI, falls in love with countess Isabelle and
marries her finally.

(42) A Journal to Stella is a work by Jonathan Swift. It was first partly published
posthumously in 1766.
t consists of 65 letters to his friend, Esther Johnson, whom he called Stella and
whom he may have secretly married, and her companion, Rebecca Dingley, in Ireland.
Swift’s letters contain his comments on eminent people as well as reflective, often
humorous descriptions of occurrences and personalities and warm, affectionate
personal messages.

(43) For Derrida writing has been suppressed by Western discourse for almost 400
years, as speech has been privileged over writing. The function of deconstruction
is to deconstruct the binary opposition between speech and writing. Language is
a constant movement of differences and everything acquires the instability and
ambiguity inherent in language.

(44)

(45)

(46)

(47) Amanuenses is a person who is employed to write or type what the others dictate to
them. Many early African-American texts like the slave narratives were often written
in this way.

(48)

(49) In Ars Poetica (Horace), known for its discussion of the principle of decorum (the use
of appropriate vocabulary and diction in each style of writing). Horace approaches
poetry from a practical standpoint—as a craft, or ars—rather than the theoretical
approach of his predecessors like Plato and Aristotle. The work is also known for
its discussion of the principle of decorum - the use of appropriate vocabulary and
diction, and for Horace’s criticisms of purple prose-- a term coined by him to mean
the use of flowery language. Horace’s injunction is that poetry should both “instruct
and delight”.

(50)

(51) ‘The Coming of Wisdom With Time’ is a four line poem by W B Yeats. It speaks of the
four quarters of life which lead towards higher scales of wisdom. The poem is written
in regretful tone where age and wisdom grow together in a sharp contrast.

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(52) In the chapter on Abraham Cowley in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
(1779–81), Samuel Johnson refers to the beginning of the 17th century in which there
“appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets”. These poets
were not formally affiliated and few were highly regarded until 20th century attention
established their importance.

(53) The Castle (1962) is a novel by Franz Kafka. the protagonist is K who comes in a
village and struggles to overcome the bureaucracy of the village by a castle. Count
Westwest is the ruler of the castle who is mentioned only at the beginning of the
novel.

(54)

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(56) Gerrard Winstanley was an English Protestant religious reformer and activist during
the reign of Oliver Cromwell. He founded an English revolutionary group The true
levellers or the Diggers who were associated with agrarian socialism (an agricultural
way of life). In their protests they conducted occupation of privatized enclosures and
digging them up to cultivate the plots.

(57) The poem is entitled – “After great pain, a formal feeling comes –”

(58) Plato banishes poets from the ideal city in the chapter X in his Republic. He excludes
the poets because they pretend to know all things divinely. He says that the tragic
poet is an imitator and therefore like all other imitators he is thrice removed from
the truth/reality. In representing the sensual aspects of reality, the poet fails to
discern the transcendent reality behind mere experience.

(59)

(60) Dejection: An Ode (1802) expresses feelings of dejection and the inability to write
poetry or to enjoy nature. The poem opens with an epigraph which is a reference to
Ballad of Patrick Spence.
The original draft was titled “Letter to Sara Hutchinson”, and it became Dejection
when he sought to publish it. The poem was a reply to William Wordsworth’s
“Resolution and Independence”
It is also connected to Wordsworth’s Immortality Ode in theme and structure.
When he wrote this poem, Coleridge was addicted to opium, was unhappy in his
marriage, and had fallen in love with Sara Hutchinson. He reveals the disintegration
of his marriage and the damaging effects of opium.

(61) The Adventures of Roderick Random is a picaresque novel by Tobias Smollett,

published in 1748.

(62) Mango Soufflé is a 2002 Indian film written and directed by Mahesh Dattani, starring
Atul Kulnani and Rinkie Khanna. It was promoted as “first gay male film from India”,
adapted from Dattani’s own work – the successful English play On a Muggy Night in
Mumbai.

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(63) The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated is the full title
of the poem by Samuel Johnson. Written in late 1748 and published in 1749, it is an
imitation of Satire X by the Latin poet Juvenal. It was Johnson’s second imitation of
Juvenal (the first being his 1738 poem London).
The poem focuses on human futility and humanity’s quest after greatness like
Juvenal but concludes that Christian values are important to living properly. It
emphasizes philosophy over politics.

(64) The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Jack Wilton, is a picaresque novel by
Thomas Nashe first published in 1594 but set during the reign of Henry VIII of
England. The hero of the work, the irreverent page Jack Wilton, encounters an
array of foreign figures grotesque and comical in his travels through Europe, which
culminate in Jack’s confrontations with the dangers of a corrupt and degenerate
Italy.

(65) Waterland (1983) is a novel by Graham Swift with a new historicist and postmodernist
influence of literature. It is is a complex tale set in low lying Fens region of Eastern
England, narrated by Tom Crick, a middle aged history teacher who tells the story
with a shift from present to the past. The story is told in a fragmented narrative
style.

(66)

(67)

(68) Braj Bihari Kachru (15 May 1932 – 29 July 2016) was an Indian linguist – the founder
of the International Association of World Englishes. He coined the term World English
and published extensive studies on Kashmiri.

(69)

(70) Richards, in his Practical Criticism (1929) 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 – Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention, where sense
refers to what is said, or the ‘items’ referred to by a writer; feeling refers to the
emotion, attitude, interest, will, desire, etc towards what is being said; tone is the
attitude towards the audience/ reader; and intention is the writer’s conscious or
unconscious aim or the effect that s/ he is trying to produce.

(71) The essay by George Orwell was published in 1946 condemning the ugly and
inaccurate English and the connection between political orthodoxies and the
debasement of language.

(72)

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(74) The poem is called ODE ON THE DEATH OF MR. THOMSON

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(75)

(76) Queen Victoria introduced George Eliot’s novel to Prince Albert immediately after re-
reading it. She marked several philosophical passages in the margins. In May 1860 the
Queen commissioned Edward Corbould to paint watercolours of two scenes from the
book.

(77) Hanif Kureishi (1954-Present) is a British playwright. His first novel The Buddha of
Suburbia (1990) focusses on a bisexual British Asian character. A second novel, The
Black Album (1995) deals with Islamic fundamentalism and freedom of speech.
“As the only animals with the power of speech, we should revel in our ability to
challenge the forces that try to silence us, whatever the consequences.”- Hanif
Kureishi

(78)

(79) Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole. E.g.
Many faces I have seen in this world. Faces is meant for people not only faces.

(80)

(81) The above extract is from poem ‘Lady Lazarus’ by American confessional writer
Sylvia Plath. Alluding to the mythological bird the phoenix, the poet describes her
unsuccessful attempts of committing suicide.

(82) Utopia is a Latin fictional work and a socio-political satire by Thomas More,
published in Latin in 1516 in 2 books. It was translated into English and published
by Ralph Robinson in 1551. It depicts a pagan and communist island on which social
and political customs are entirely governed by reason. The work hailed communism
as the only cure for the egoism found in both private and public life of the Christian
Europe which was divided by self-interest and greed.

(83) Walter Pater says – “Such literative and imaginative prose, it may be thought, being
the special art of the modern world. That imaginative prose should be the special
and opportune art of the modern world…”

(84)

(85) Arnold’s view : Critical power less important than creative, but Criticism itself also
engages creative faculty.

(86) Andrew Marvell’s Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland provides an
excellent example for political poetry of seventeenth century Great Britain.

(87) Fireside Poets were late 19th century American poets whose poetry was a source of
entertainment for families gathered around the fire at home, often read aloud by a
mother or father to the gathered family and in school rooms to inculcate wisdom,
morals and patriotic feelings in Americas young population.

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(88) Evelina; the Mystery of a young Lady’s Entrance into the World is a epistolary novel
written by English author Fanny Burney, published in 1778 in 3 volumes novel. The
novel was published anonymously and the authorship was revealed by the poet
George Huddesford.

(89) The poem by Kipling is about the Philippine – American war (1899-1902). The poem
urges the US to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country. The
poem is to encourage American colonization and annexation of the Philippine Islands.

(90)

(91)

(92)

(93)

(94) Women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom was a movement to fight for women’s right
to vote. It finally succeeded through laws in 1918 and 1928. It became a national
movement in the Victorian era.

(95) Mary Prince was born in 1788, to an enslaved family in Bermuda. She was sold to a
number of brutal owners and suffered from terrible treatment. In 1828, she travelled
to England with her owners. She eventually ran away and found freedom. Mary
campaigned against slavery, working alongside the Anti Slavery Society. She became
the first woman to present an anti-slavery petition to Parliament and the first black
woman to write and publish an autobiography, ‘The History of Mary Prince: A West
Indian Slave’. The book was a key part of the anti slavery campaign.

(96)

(97) The essay “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” first published in the October
1823 edition of The London Magazine. The essay concerns Act II, scene iii, in The
Tragedy of Macbeth, in which the murder of King Duncan by Macbeth and Lady
Macbeth is succeeded by Macduff and Lennox knocking at the gate of the castle. It
has been called “De Quincey’s finest single critical piece”.

(98)

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Answer Key

(1) 4 (21) c (41) d (61) (B) (81) (C)

(2) c (22) d (42) 4 (62) (A) (82) (A)

(3) c (23) b (43) c (63) (B) (83) (A)

(4) d (24) d (44) a (64) (B) (84) (A)

(5) b (25) c (45) a (65) (C) (85) (A)

(6) b (26) b (46) 4 (66) (C) (86) (D)

(7) c (27) d (47) c (67) 2 (87) (C)

(8) a (28) d (48) a (68) (A) (88) (A)

(9) a (29) b (49) c (69) 4 (89) (A)

(10) d (30) c (50) 4 (70) (A) (90) (C)

(11) b (31) b (51) d (71) (C) (91) 3

(12) c (32) b (52) c (72) (A) (92) (D)

(13) d (33) 1 (53) c (73) (C) (93) (B)

(14) d (34) c (54) d (74) (C) (94) (A)

(15) 2 (35) 1 (55) 4 (75) (D) (95) (C)

(16) a (36) b (56) b (76) (D) (96) (D)

(17) a (37) b (57) (D) (77) 2 (97) (D)

(18) d (38) d (58) (C) (78) 4 (98) (A)

(19) d (39) a (59) 1 (79) (C) (99) (C)

(20) c (40) b (60) (C) (80) (C) (100) (C)

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2019 June Paper – 2

(1) The medieval English university organized 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

(2) Who speaks the following lines and to whom?

“O, 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

(3) 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)

(4) 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)

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(5) “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

(6) 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

(7) 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

(8) 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

(9) Which one of the following novels of Jane Austen was abandoned unfinished?
(1) Northanger Abbey
(2) Persuasion
(3) The Watsons
(4) Emma

(10) “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

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(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 [Link]
(4) Erewhon

(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)

(13) 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

(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.

(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

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(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

(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

(18) Match the works with authors :

Works Authors

(a) Image-Music-Text (i) M. H. Abrams

(b) Why Marx was Right (ii) Raymond Williams

(c) Mirror and the Lamp (iii) Roland Barthes

(d) Culture and Society (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)

(19) What was Gramsci’s term for cultural consensus supporting capitalism?
(1) Monopoly
(2) Ideology
(3) Discourse
(4) Hegemony

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(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

(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)

(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

(23) Match the following items/ideas with the writers who first used/popularized them :

(a) The Frontier Thesis (i) Raymond Williams

b) The Lost Generation (ii) Homi Bhabha

(c) Third Space (iii) F . J . Turner

(d) Structure of Feeling (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)

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(24) Which of the following plays is characterized by the exclusivity of a Single character
talking to himself?
(1) A Streetcar Named Desire
(2) Equus
(3) The Misanthrope
(4) Krapp’s Last Tape

(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

(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

(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

(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

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(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) Institutionalization
(4) Dissension

(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,
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

(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

(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 Mistri

(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

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(34) 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

(35) Who among the following is mourned in Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain!?
(1) R. W. Emerson
(2) John Keats
(3) P. B Shelley
(4) Abraham Lincoln

(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
(4) Base copy

(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

(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

(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

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(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

(41) What term used by Ferdinand de Saussure corresponds to Noam Chomsky’s term
‘performance’?
(1) Difference
(2) Parole
(3) Paradigm
(4) Langue

(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

(43) Match each of the following concepts/objects with the corresponding description :

(a) Farce (i) Articles and objects used on the stage

(b) Props (ii) Drama written to be read rather than acted

(c) Music hall iii) Characterized by broad, humor, wild antics, slapstick etc.

(iv) Variety entertainment of songs, comic turns that flourished

(d) Closet drama
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)

(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

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(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

(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

(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

(48) Which version of the Lyrical Ballads was the first one to have the Preface by
Wordsworth?
(1) 1798
(2) 1800
(3) 1802
(4) 1804

(49) 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

(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.

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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 truer which are consistent with motivations and intentions,
but they often, if not usually, also have unanticipated outcomes.

(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

(52) 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

(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?
(1) The Sandcastle
(2) Under the Net
(3) The Sea, the Sea
(4) Flight from the Enchanter

(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 1920 and 1930
(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

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(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

(56) What is ‘euphemism’?

(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

(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

(58) Match the following journals with their distinguishing aims and methods of
scholarship:

(a) Obsidian (i) Literature, history and the philosophy of history

(b) Clio (ii) Literature and arts in the African diaspora

(c)
(iii) Feminist writing
Interventions

(d) Sign (iv) Postcolonial Writing

Choose the correct option frorn 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)

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(58) Match the following journals with their distinguishing aims and methods of
scholarship:

(a) Obsidian (i) Literature, history and the philosophy of history

(b) Clio (ii) Literature and arts in the African diaspora

(c) Interventions (iii) Feminist writing

(d) Sign (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)

(59) Who among the following established and popularised the concept of ‘Cardinal
Vowels’?
(1) A. S. Homby
(2) E. V. Lucas
(3) Danial Jones
(4) C. J. Dodson

(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

(61) For which one of the following reasons, in Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of Dorian
Gray, Gray breaks down when he sees his finished portrait?
(1) Overwhelmed by the beauty of the portrait
(2) Overjoyed by the feeling that his beauty will be known to all
(3) Distraught by the fact that his beauty will fade while the portrait stays beautiful
(4) Distraught by the badly drawn portrait

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(62) Match the Novelist with the Publisher :

(a) Laurence Sterne (i) Thomas Lowndes

(b) Henry Fielding (ii) Andrew Millar

(c) Frances Burney (iii) William Taylor

(d) Daniel Defoe (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)

(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
(4) Prior rejection

(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
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(65) Match the critics and their works :

(a) Edward Said (i) The Illusion: of Postmodernism

(b) Terry Eagleton (ii) Contemporary Marxist Criticism

(c) Francis Mulhern (iii) Theory into Practice

(d) K. M. Newton (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)

(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)

(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

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(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
(2) A cradle
(3) A small cot
(4) An Infant’s grave

(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

(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

(71) 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

(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

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(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.

(74) Which of the following correctly describes ‘black humor’ as a morbid and provocative
treatment of
(1) old age and disease
(2) youth and passionate love
(3) death and disease
(4) childhood and accident

(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

Iamb (or iambus or jambus)

Trochee, choree (or choreus)

dactyl
anapest, antidactylus

(76) Which two titles from among the following deal with issues related to the
institutionalization 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)

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(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

(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

(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

(80) Who among the following explored the shifting and contested power-relations,
knowledge and the human body?
(1) Louis Althusser
(2) Clifford Geertz
(3) Jacques Lacan
(4) Michel Foucault

(81) Match the character with the novel :

(a) Kate (i) Great Expectations

(b) Florence (ii) Nicholas Nickleby

(c) Miss Havisham (iii) David Copperfield

(d) Agnes (iv) Dombey and Son

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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)

(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

(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
(1) Alain Robbe Grillet
(2) Cesare Pavese
(3) Umberto Eco
(4) Leo Spitzer

(84) Which of the following descriptions fits the unit of verse, Dactyl?
(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

(85) Match the books with the writers :

(a) The Madwoman in the Attic (i) Frantz Fanon

(b) The Wretched of the Earth (ii) Stephen Greenblatt

(c) Shakespearean Negotiations (iii) Stanley Fish

(d) There a Text in This Class? (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)

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(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

(87) Which among the following clusters matches the prose style that came to be known
as ‘CarIylese’?
(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

(88) 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

QUESTIONS 89-90
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.

(89) 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

(90) According to the passage given, which of the following correctly captures the
meaning of ‘a cyclopaedic history of the universe’?
(1) The knowledge about the universe from its beginning to its possible end
(2) A catalogue of rivers, mountains and continents
(3) Statements about the universe based on logic and mathematics
(4) A published encyclopaedia of the universe

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(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

(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

(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

(94) Who among the following is one of the University Wits?

(1) Thomas Hooker
(2) Thomas Nashe
(3) Michael Drayton
(4) William Harvey

(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 (i) John Milton

(b) Jerome McGann (ii) Ezra Pound

(c) Stanley Fish (iii) W. H. Auden

(d) Hugh Kenner (iv) Textual Scholarship

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Choose the correct option from those given below :

(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)

(96) Match the play with the subject matter of the play :

(a) The Doctor’s Dilemma (i) Flouting of stage conventions

(b) You Never Can Tell (ii) Satire on military heroes

(c) Candida (iii) Devaluation of social traditions

(d) Arms and the Man (iv) Mockery of physicians’ ignorance

Choose the correct option from those given below :

(1) (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)

(97-100) 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.

(97) Which of the following words best describes the last sentence of the poem?
(1) Ironic
(2) Paradoxical
(3) Pathetic
(4) Disdainful

(98) Whose point of view seems to have been stated in the poem?
(1) The gorcer’s
(2) The children’s
(3) The narrator’s
(4) The poet’s

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(99) What is suggested by the word ‘tainted’ in line 11?

(1) Tinctured
(2) Cooked
(3) Spoiled
(4) Boiled

(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

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Explanation
(1) Seven liberal arts were taught in two groups: the trivium and the quadrivium. The
Trivium consisted of : Grammar, Dialectic and Rhetoric. The Quadrivium consisted of:
Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music.

(2) The lines are from Act 4 Scene 7 , dialogue between King Lear and his daughter
Cordelia in the play King Lear by William Shakespeare.

(3) Michel Foucault, the French postmodernist, has been hugely influential in shaping
understandings of power. He proposed the idea that ‘power is everywhere’, diffused
and embodied in discourse, knowledge and ‘regimes of truth’. Foucault is one of the
few writers on power who recognise that power is not just a negative, coercive or
repressive thing that forces us to do things against our wishes, but can also be a
necessary, productive and positive force in society.

(4) Hermeneutics is the theory or study of interpretation of the scriptures, biblical texts,
wisdom literature and philosophical texts. In the modern context it is applied to the
law, humanities, history and theology. The rise of postmodernism has proved to be
an important impetus for developments within hermeneutics.

(5) Resources of Hope : Culture, Democracy and Socialism is a book of essays by

Raymond Williams

(6) Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock is the first professionally published poem by
American-born British poet T S Eliot was published in 1915 issue of Poetry : A
Magazine of Verse at the request of Ezra Pound. Eliot used French poet Jules
LaForgue as inspiration for his repeated women who come and go talking of
Michelangelo in the poem.

(7) Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959) was among the leading bibliographers and
Shakespeare scholars of the 20th century. His 1950 essay ‘The Rationale of Copy-Text’
proved conducive for the Anglo-
American textual criticism in the last half of the 20th century.

(8) The Watsons was abandoned by Jane Austen after her father’s death. Sanditon is
another novel that remained unfinished.

(10) Lines from Francis Bacon’s essay Of Unity in Religion.

(11) The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its
religious, social, and political customs. Full title : “Of a republic’s best state and of
the new island Utopia”.
In Utopia we find for the first time, the three great words, Liberty, Fraternity, Equality,
as the foundations of civilized society,and which inspired the ideals of French
Revolution.

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(12) Wood’s Dispatch of 1854, has been called the ‘Magna Carta’ of Indian education.
Sir Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control, played a key role in
dissemination of English learning and female education in India. In 1854, he sent a
letter to Lord Dalhousie, the Governor General of India with a suggestion that primary
schools must adopt vernacular languages, high schools must adopt Anglo vernacular
language and on college-level English medium for education. Three universities at the
then Bombay Calcutta and Madras were established for the higher education.

(13) John Keats composed the poem ‘Lines on the Mermaid Tavern’ in early February 1819
following the culture of writing poetry on Mermaid Tavern as initiated by Jonson and
Beaumont.

(14) Evaluation of work by one or more people with scholarly abilities is known as peer
review.
In academia, scholarly peer review is often used to determine an academic paper’s
suitability for publication. Peer review helps validate research, establish a method
by which it can be evaluated and increase networking possibilities within research
communities.

(15) Ferdinand de Saussure divided language into three levels, langage, langue, and
parole.
Langue denotes a system of internalized, shared rules governing a national language’s
vocabulary, grammar, and sound system; parole designates actual oral and written
communication by a member or members of a particular speech community.

(16) FR Leavis’ The Great Tradition (1948) controversially begins thus: “The great English
novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad!” Leavis
believed that a literary work had a comparative rather than an inherent value, which
helps it carve a niche for itself in tradition. He followed Arnold’s Touchstone method,
endorsing that the purpose of evaluating literature is to keep alive the tradition.
Leavis stresses the originality of his great writers who are all strongly individual, each
making innovations in the art of the novel which they practise in common.

(17) Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T.S. Eliot, first performed in 1935. It
portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral
during the reign of Henry II in 1170. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edward Grim, a
clerk who was an eyewitness to the event.
The play begins with the thoughts of the Chorus, a group of common women of
Canterbury.
Archbishop Becket with its associated political power discounts all the tempters’
proposals, thinking that none of their visions for his future are sourced in the higher,
spiritual dimension of fate or God’s plan. He decides that martyrdom—sacrificing his
life in devotion to God—is his fate, and refuses to be tempted by other, more earthly
pursuits of political power or worldly, secular desires.

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(19) Hegemony is power exerted by a dominant group over others. It requires the consent
of the majority to keep the dominant group in power. Hegemony is achieved through
consensus not force.

(20) Semiology is the sign system. Etymology deals with the origin of words in a language.
Morphology is the study of the structure of words and its relation with other words in
the language.

(21)

(22) Roland Barthes wrote ‘Mythologies’ (1957) containing 54 short articles on a variety
of subjects and trends that took place in France in the 1950s. For Barthes, Myth
subtly obscures, distorts and hides truth and reality and finally the reality is robbed
from us. He argues that myth functions to naturalize an ideology. Roland Barthes
in ‘Mythologies’ explores this further by looking at the mechanisms through which
meanings are produced and circulated. He is interested in ‘how’ things mean.

(23)

(24) Krapp’s Last Tape is a one act play with a cast of only one man. Although there is
only one person onstage, there are a number of ‘characters’ mentioned throughout.
The play dramatizes one man’s confrontation with his mortality and his attempts to
come to terms with it.

(25) A pidgin arises when speakers of two different languages encounter one another
and have a need for limited communications. Pidgin has a simplified grammatical
structure, just enough to allow communication for some limited purpose. It differs
from creole , as a creole has a consistent system of grammar with a large stable
vocabulary, and is acquired by children as their native language. The term dialect
means either a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the
language’s speakers, or, colloquial usage in specific geographical areas, usually within
a region or nation-state.

(26) Cultural materialism is a theory which views culture as a productive process,

focusing on arts such as literature. Within this culture art is translated as a social
use of material means of production.

(27) Notes Towards the Definition of Culture was written by T S Eliot and appeared as a
series of articles in New England Weekly in 1943 and later published in the form of a
book in 1948.
Eliot presents culture an organic, shared system of beliefs that cannot be planned or
artificially induced.

(28) J Hillis Miller, the Yale critic published his the Critic As Host in response to M H
Abram’s lecture the Deconstructive Angel that criticized deconstruction and the
methods of Miller.

(29) Ziauddin Sardar is one of the world’s foremost Muslim intellectuals and author of
more than fifty books on Islam, science and contemporary culture. He is based
in London. The fundamental principle of Sardar’s thought is that ‘there is more

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than one way to be human’. Sardar’s contribution to critical scholarship ranges far
and wide, but is particularly relevant in six areas: Islam, Islamic Science, Futures,
Postmodernism and Transmodernity, identity and multiculturalism and Postnormal
Times.

(30) Chiaroscuro is a literary device that displays the juxtaposition of light and shade. It is
best applied by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He uses chiaroscuro affectively in The Scarlet
Letter to define which side of good and sinfulness envelops the characters of Hester
Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Pearl.
Chiaroscuro, (from Italian chiaro, “light,” and scuro, “dark”), technique employed
in the visual arts to represent light and shadow as they define three-dimensional
objects.

(31) Dropped According to Lacan, minor stage happens between the imaginary stage and
symbolic stage. To him, human infants pass through a stage in which an external
image of the body (reflected in a mirror, or represented to the infant through the
mother or primary caregiver) produces a psychic response that gives rise to the
mental representation of an ‘I”.

(32) Lines 21-30 in Act 5 Scene 5 is a soliloquy in the dialogues in which Macbeth
expresses the meaninglessness of life.

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(34) John Skelton, skeltonic verse has a few simple rules:

Lines are short with two or three stresses, with irregular rhymes, rhythms, and bonus
points for alliteration. James VI called skeltonics “tumbling verse,” because of how
it tumbles down the page. Often humorous, there are no specific rules for subject,
tone, or length.

(35) O Captain, My Captain! was written by Walt Whitman after the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and is elegiac in tone.

(36) Ideal copy is a type of textual copy which 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.

(37) “Inside the Whale” is a long review of the novel Tropic of Cancer, published in
1935 the by American writer Henry Miller. Orwell praises Tropic of Cancer because
it honestly describes the squalid everyday thoughts in most people’s head, the
everyday worries and fidgets, without any glamour, without any political purpose.

(38) The Lung (1965), is about polio suffering in which he drew upon his own affliction
with polio, which he contracted at Oxford, to present a downbeat portrait of an
irritable man confined to an iron lung.

(39) Philip Sidney, the Elizabethan poet wrote An Apology for Poetry in 1580 that was
published posthumously in 1595. It was written in response to the School of Abuse by
Stephen Gosson.

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P. B Shelley wrote critical essay Defence of Poetry in 1821 that was published
posthumously in 1821. It was written in response to Thomas Love Peacock’s article
the Four Ages of Poetry.

(40) Dombey and Son is considered a feminist novel as the novel concentrates on what
happens when Dombey has a daughter instead of the desired son. Mr Dombey,
is frustrated at not having a son to follow him in the job, and initially rejects his
daughter’s love, eventually becoming reconciled with her before his death. It is 7th
novel of Dickens and It follow the fortunes of a shipping firm, whose owner is Mr
Dombey.

(41) The terms performance and competence were first coined by Noam Chomsky.
The term linguistic performance used by Chomsky in 1960 is used to “the actual
use of language in concrete situations, sometimes called parole, as well as the
comprehension of language.

(42) The copyright page is found on the back of the title page. It is also known as edition
notice. The back cover also contains a copyright notice, legal notices, publication
information, printing history, and an ISBN that uniquely identifies the work.

(43)

(44) The word “comedy” is derived from the Classical Greek komoidía, which is a
compound of kômos (revel) and oide (singing).

(45) The character William Ashenden features in many of the works of English writer,
William Somerset Maugham. He appears in Cakes and Ale, The Moon and Sixpence
and The Razor’s Edge. Ashenden also featured in many of the stories of Somerset
Maugham. A collection of stories with the name Ashenden: or The British Agent was
published in 1927.

(46) Sidney, though his work proved the superiority of poetry over Philosophy and History.
For Sidney, the poet, unlike the other scholars who are constrained within the narrow
range of nature, is free as the poet has the power of making something which is
superior to nature.

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(48) The first publication of Lyrical Ballads was in 1798. The second edition was published
in 1800 with a preface by Wordsworth containing the principles of poetry. The third
edition was published in 1802 in which Wordsworth added an appendix titled Poetic
Diction explaining his poetic principles mentioned in the preface.

(49) Coriolanus is a play based on the life of Gnaues Marcius Corionanus, a legendary
Roman hero of the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC.

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(51) The 14-line poem “In A Station of the Metro” is a 1913 poem written by Ezra Pound.
The poem is considered the best example of Imagist poetry. Because of the
treatment of the subject’s appearance by way of the poem’s own visuality, it is
considered a quintessential Imagist text.

(52) These lines occur in the famous play by Shakespeare, Macbeth in Act I, Scene 3. The
lines were spoken by Banquo (Macbeth’s friend and General in King Duncan’s Army)
who addressed the three witches on the way with a confusion about their weird
appearance.

(53) British novelist, Iris Murdoch published in 1978, his novel – the Sea, the Sea . The
novel won him the Booker Prize. The novel written as a journal or in first person
narrative, is the story of an eventful summer late in the life of Charles Arrowby, a
famous man of the British theatre. Arrowby is an actor, playwright, director, and
romancer of women.

(54) Harlem Renaissance was the first significant movement of black writers and artists
in the United States in the 1920s.

(55) One of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the nineteenth century, Edmund Kean
(1789-1833), the turning point in Kean’s career came in 1814, when he appeared
as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Drury Lane. Kean quickly proved himself
a master at portraying Shakespeare’s classic villains, such as Iago, Macbeth, and
Richard III. He also undertook such roles as Barabas in Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta
and Sir Giles Overreach in Massinger’s A New Way to Pay Old Debts. In the age of
romanticism, Kean was a romantic actor of the first degree. Kean’s final performance
was on March 25, 1833 with Kean playing Othello to Charles’s Iago. Kean collapsed on
stage and later died on May 15, 1833. With his death an era had passed.

(56) Euphemisms are polite, mild phrases which substitute unpleasant ways of saying
something sad or uncomfortable. It is derived from the Greek phrase euphēmismos,
meaning “to sound good.”

(57)

(58) Oedipus is approached by a group of people led by a priest at the opening of the play.
They ask Oedipus for his help in healing the city from plague. Oedipus agrees that
the troubles are very serious but his search for the cause of the woes in Thebes are
necessarily ironic as his own transgressions are the cause of the trouble in Thebes.
True to his oath, Oedipus leaves the city when he finally finds out that he is the
source of the problems in Thebes.

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(59) A cardinal vowel is a vowel sound produced when the tongue is in an extreme
position, either front or back, high or low. It was systematised by Daniel Jones in the
early 20th century. There are eight cardinal vowels.

(60) The Picture of Dorian Gray, the novel by Oscar Wilde, was published in 1890. It is a
Gothic and Philosophic novel.

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(63) When a learner is already aware of something before attaining the new information,
it is known as prior knowledge. A learner’s understanding of a text can be improved
by activating their prior knowledge before dealing with the text, and developing this
habit is good learner training for them.

(64) In the collection of essay – On Poetry and Poets – there is an essay titled “Virgil and
Christian World”.
Eliot found the Greek language a much more exciting study than Latin. Yet he was
at ease with Virgil and not Homer. Eliot while reading Iliad, found it shocking how
Homer’s “gods were as irresponsible, as much a prey to their passions, as devoid of
public spirit and the sense of fair play, as the heroes.”

(65)

(66) The British use more accent than the Indian. British English focuses on the sound of
vowels and mostly skips alphabets.

(67) Dramatic irony is a drama technique in which the audience knows something that the
character doesn’t.
Dramatic irony is one of the most effective types of irony because it makes the
audience feel helpless to change the outcome.

(68) “The Thorn,” tells a story about a woman’s hardship dealing with her incredible loss
and grief.
The poem is considered to be a form of gossip, told through the words of a sea
captain.
Wordsworth’s poem describes an “aged” and “poor” thorn on top of a beautiful hill.
This thorn is later revealed to be the visiting place of a woman named Martha Ray.
The reasons for Martha Ray’s visits all surround the idea that her dead child is buried
beneath this thorn. How or when exactly this child passed away is brought into
question throughout the poem. The grave of the child is a grave of innocence among
an otherwise dreadful and horrifying story. The thorn which is short, dark, old, and
grey represents distraught Martha and her sadness.

(69) In “My First Acquaintance with Poets (1823), Hazlitt describes his impressions of
two great poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge, In this essay, Hazlitt expresses his
profound admiration for Coleridge’s talent for conversation and also supports most
of Coleridge’s opinions about various persons in the spheres of literature politics and
religion. Hazlitt paints Wordsworth in a visionary light as ‘Don Quixote’ like with a fire
in his eyes.

(70) “The Darkling Thrush” is a lyric poem was first published in The Graphic, a weekly
newspaper, on December 29, 1900, under the title “By Century’s Deathbed”.

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(71) Some linguists, Chomsky in particular, have tried to account for similarity between
concepts of active/passive and deep/surface structures .They posit that the two
sentence forms (active and passive) are distinct surface forms that derive from
a common (or very similar) deep structure. As the theory developed, it became
necessary to mark whether a sentence was active or passive in the deep structure
itself, with the result that active/passive pairs had almost-but-not-quite identical
deep structures.

(72)

(73) T. S. Eliot calls that Hamlet is an artistic failure. According to him, Hamlet is the
Monalisa of literature, a work that is interesting, but not a work of art. It means the
writer is unable to objectify the emotions. Shakespeare drew the material for his
Hamlet from the plays of Thomas Kyd, but failed to make his play correspond to the
original material. Another reason for calling Hamlet an artistic failure has to do with
the lack of objective correlative. Hamlet possesses excessive emotion which has no
equivalence to the action of the character and the other facts and details in the play.

(74) Black humor, in literature, drama, and film, grotesque or morbid humor used to
express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world. It is
a non-serious way of treating or dealing with serious subjects and a tool to explore
serious issues, inciting serious thoughts and discomfort in the audience. It makes
the serious incident or event bit lighter in intensity. Although it is often inserted to
induce laughter, it plays a significant role in advancing the action of the play or novel.

(75)

Iamb (or iambus or jambus) Syllables in one foot:

Trochee, choree (or choreus) Iambic – 1 unstressed , 1 stressed
Trochaic - 1 stressed, 1 unstressed
dactyl Dactyle – 1 stressed, 2 unstressed

anapest, antidactylus Anapest – 2 unstressed, 1 stressed

(76) The Lie of the Land is a novel by Amanda Craig. It portrays a grim picture of a family
that is forced to leave London for the Devon countryside and their further problems
while settling in the new environment. The novel is based on the complexities of
marriage and how to deal with them.
Provocations by Camille Paglia is a collection of essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex
and Education.

(77) In 1792, that Charles Grant (1746-1823), an employee of East India Company
recommended the dissemination of European literature and sciences through the
medium of English among the people of India. The reasons given by Grant for this
extraordinary importance that form the backbone of all later arguments demanding
an official approval of English studies. Grant believed that if India need to progress
from its original state of superstition, idolatry and immorality, inherent in her society,
then it needs to be introduced to the English education and embrace the western
civilization.

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(78) ‘Cultural poetics’ is defined by Greenblatt in his work - Shakespearean Negotiations

as the ‘study of the collective making of distinct cultural practices and inquiry into
the relations among these practices’.
He defined New Historicism itself as a Poetics of Culture, or, later as an example in
his essay “Towards a Poetics of Culture,” a “poetics of everyday behavior”.

(79) The lines are derived from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. This is taken from dialogue
between Cassius and Brutus.

(80) In his works – Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 – Foucault
traces the emergence of some of the practices, concepts, forms of knowledge,
social institutions and techniques of government which have contributed to shaping
modern European culture. His treatment of the relations between power, the body
and sexuality has stimulated extensive feminist interest. Foucault’s idea that the
body and sexuality are cultural constructs rather than natural phenomena has made
a significant contribution to the feminist critique of essentialism.

(81)

(82) In 1917 the British government appointed the Sadler Commission to inquire into the
“conditions and prospects of the University of Calcutta,”. The government appointed
the Calcutta University Commission in 1917 under the chairmanship of Dr. M.E. Sadler,
the then vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds.
The commission recognized the importance of the mother-tongue. They argued:
“mother-tongue may be used only in high schools; in the higher classes they urged
the retention of English.”

(83)

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(86) The chant (Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood), becomes part of a ritual
chanting with which they pursue the prey to hunt. Roger becomes the game’s first
victim, and he is hurt by the other boys when they prod at him while uttering the
chant. The extent of their innate savagery is is fully evident when they, with the other
boys, kill Simon on the beach.

(87) Thomas Carlyle’s unique style takes full advantage of punctuation, using exclamation
marks or question marks almost every other sentence. He uses scare quotes and
italics and capital letters to give importance or emotion to his words.

(88) P B Shelley’s critical essay Defence of Poetry in 1821 contains Shelley’sfamous claim
that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”. It was written in
response to Thomas Love Peacock’s article the Four Ages of Poetry.

(89)

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(91) John Updike designed a fictional character Henry Beck which first appeared in
assorted short stories, stories which were later compiled in the books Bech: A Book
(1970), Bech Is Back (1982), and Bech at Bay (1998). Bech is Updike’s alter ego, a
mouthpiece for Updike’s often sarcastic, even caustic insight into writers and the
writing life.

(92) The picaresque novel (Spanish: ‘picaresco’, from ‘picaro’, for ‘rogue’ and ‘rascal’) is a
popular genre of novel that originated in Spain and flourished in Europe in the 17th
and 18th centuries.
A picaresque novel is the life story of rogue or picaro, a clever and amusing
adventurer of low social status. The story is usually narrated in the first person as
autobiography. Episodic in nature, the plot consists of a series of thrilling incidents.
Characteristically, the picaresque novel is anti-romantic in nature. It sharply attacks
the romance, courtly marriage and chivalry of the medieval literature.

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(94) Prominent members of the group included Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene,
Thomas Nashe, John Lyly, Thomas Lodge and George Peele.

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Answer Key

(1) 4 (21) 4 (41) 2 (61) 3 (81) 2

(2) 2 (22) 4 (42) 2 (62) 3 (82) 2

(3) 2 (23) 3 (43) 2 (63) 1 (83) 3

(4) 1 (24) 4 (44) 2 (64) 1 (84) 2

(5) 2 (25) 4 (45) 4 (65) 1 (85) 3

(6) 3 (26) 3 (46) 1 (66) 2 (86) 3

(7) 2 (27) 2 (47) 1 (67) 1 (87) 1

(8) 3 (28) 3 (48) 2 (68) 4 (88) 3

(9) 3 (29) 3 (49) 2 (69) 1 (89) 3

(10) 3 (30) 4 (50) 1 (70) 3 (90) 1

(11) 3 (31) (51) 4 (71) 1 (91) 4

(12) 1 (32) 4 (52) 3 (72) 2 (92) 2

(13) 4 (33) 2 (53) 3 (73) 1 (93) 1

(14) 2 (34) 4 (54) 2 (74) 1 (94) 2

(15) 1 & 4 (35) 4 (55) 4 (75) 3 (95) 2

(16) 3 (36) 2 (56) 3 (76) 2 (96) 4

(17) 3 (37) 1 (57) 2 (77) 3 (97) 1

(18) 4 (38) 3 (58) 1 (78) 1 (98) 3

(19) 4 (39) 4 (59) 3 (79) 3 (99) 3

(20) 1 (40) 1 (60) 3 (80) 4 (100) 2

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2019 December Paper - 2

(1) Which two of the following correctly describe the features of Wuthering Heights?
(a) Flash backs and time shifts
(b) Oedipal obsessions
(c) Magic and ritual
(d) Acute evocation of place
Choose the correct option:
(A) (a) and (c)
(B) (b) and (d)
(C) (a) and (d)
(D) (c) and (d)

(2) 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
Choose Your Answer:
(A) (1)
(B) (2)
(C) (3)
(D) (4)

(3) 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
Choose Your Answer:
(A) (1)
(B) (2)
(C) (3)
(D) (4)

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(4) What is the Chronological order of the appearance of the following periodicals?
(a) The Tatler
(b) The Spectator
(c) The Examiner
(d) The Reflector
Choose the correct option :
(1) (b), (a), (d), (c)
(2) (c), (b), (a), (d)
(3) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(4) (d), (a), (b), (c)

(5) Who are the co-editors of Chutneyfying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish?
(a) Jamuna Kachru
(b) Rita Kothari
(c) Rupert Snell
(d) Alastair Pennycook
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (d)
(2) (a) and (b)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)

(6) In the following list, which two actors belong to the Elizabethan period?
(a) Richard Burbage
(b) Will Kempe
(c) David Garrick
(d) John Kemble
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (b) and (d)
(3) (a) and (b)
(4) (c) and (d)

(7) Who among the following proposed that the English language is “man made”, not
‘woman made’?
(1) Mary Haas
(2) Dorothy L. Sayers
(3) Dale Spender
(4) Carol Chomsky

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(8) The Wife of Bath’s philosophy of marriage shows that she

(1) Is a strong person with keen awareness of her own rights?
(2) Tends to say one thing and do the opposite.
(3) Cares only for pleasure, not for right and wrong
(4) Trusts thought too much instead of feeling.

(9) In Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, Hale is murdered with the help of ‘brighton rock’
which is
(1) A kind of sugar-candy
(2) A form of grenade
(3) A baton
(4) A kind of rock

(10) 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 person
against whom it is directed?
(1) Conflict
(2) Intrigue
(3) Ally
(4) Foil

(11) 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

(12) Which two of the following plays were written by Thomas Heywood?
(a) Gorboduc
(b) The Play Called the Four P.P.
(c) The Play of the Weather
(d) The Spanish Tragedy
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (c) and (d)

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(13) 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 Tramps (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)
(3) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(4) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)

(14) 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

(15) Given below are two statements : Assertion (A) and Reason (R)
Assertion (A): The Primary component in novelistic forms is a plot that evolves
coherently from its beginning to an end in which all complications are resolved.
Reason (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 (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.

(16) Which one of the following titles of Robert Browning’s works means, ‘to disport in the
open air, to amuse oneself at random?
(1) Jocosena
(2) “Andrea del Sarto”
(3) “Abt Vogler”
(4) Asolando

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(17) Given below are two statements : Assertion (A) and Reason (R)
Assertion (A): Only actual research develops research skills.
Reason (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 (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.

(18) 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

(19) 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 Flies?
(a) Ralph
(b) Roger
(c) Jack
(d) Simon
The correct option is :
(1) (a) and (d)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (d)

(20) Which two of the following poems can be categorized as poems belonging to the
neo-classical period of English literature.
(a) “The Ring and the Book”
(b) “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
(c) “Cato”
(d) “Lamia”
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)

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(21) Which of the following describes Foucault’s views on knowledge?

(a) Knowledge is not metaphysical or transcendental.
(b) Knowledge is not a matter of perspective.
(c) Knowledge is not pure or neutral but is always from a point of view.
(d) Knowledge is unconstrained by regimes of power.
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (d)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)

(22) What is the correct chronological order of the publication of the following?
(a) German Grammar (Jacob Grimm)
(b) Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic and
German (Franz Bopp)
(c) An Investigation into the Origin of Old Norse or Icelandic Language (Rasmus
Rask)
(d) Concerning the Conjugation System of the Sanskrit Language in Comparison with
those of the Greek, Latin, Persian and German Languages (Franz Bopp)
(1) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(2) (b), (c), (d), (a)
(3) (c), (d), (a), (b)
(4) (d), (c), (b), (a)

(23) 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

(24) What is the order of publication of the following books of Noam Chomsky?
(a) Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
(b) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
(c) Syntactic Structures
(d) 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)

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(25) How many syllables are there in the word intransigently?

(1) Three
(2) Six
(3) Five
(4) Four

(26) 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

(27) 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

(28) Which three of the following writers are associated with ‘kitchen sink drama’?
(a) Arnold Wesker
(b) John Arden
(c) Shelagh Delaney
(d) 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)

(29) Which two of the following are autobiographical narratives?

(a) Kanthapura
(b) Meatless Days
(c) Prison and Chocolate Cake
(d) The God of Small Things
The correct option is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (c) and (d)

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(30) Which two of the following works were published after 1947?
(a) The Dark Room
(b) Mr. Sampath: A Printer of Malgudi
(c) Seven Summers
(d) The Big Heart
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)

(31) Who made the remark: “Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to
the utmost possible degree”?
(1) Rabindranath Tagore
(2) Ezra Pound
(3) W.B. Yeats
(4) T.S. Eliot

(32) Examples of poetic compounding are found in the work of which two modernist
writers?
(a) Graham Greene
(b) James Joyce
(c) Gerard Manley Hopkins
(d) Stephen Spender
Choose the correct option:
(1) (c) and (d)
(2) (a) and (b)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (a) and (c)

(33) Given below are two statements : Assertion (A) and Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Dialects are the broad range of social as well as regional varieties.
Reason (R): A dialect describes variations not only at the phonological level, but also
at the levels of lexis and syntax.
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.

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(34) 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?
(a) Uni directionality
(b) Multi directionality
(c) Complex and extensive
(d) Simplistic and abbreviated
Choose the correct option :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (d) and (a)

(35) The following is a list of key critical terms. Which is the right chronological order of
their formulation?
(1) Langue / the unconscious / differance / heresy of paraphrase
(2) The unconscious / langue / heresy of paraphrase / differance
(3) Differance / langue / heresy of paraphrase / the unconscious
(4) Langue / differance / the unconscious / heresy of paraphrase

(36) Which one of W.M. Thackeray’s novels has the following as the closing sentence?
“Which of us is 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

(37) Who among the following theorists believes that the proliferation of television images
is producing a cultural condition akin to ‘historical amnesia’?
(1) Jean Baudrillard
(2) Ihab Hassan
(3) Frederic Jameson
(4) Daniel Bell

(38) Match the works with authors

(a) Homi Bhabha (i) Saving the Text

(b) Geoffrey Hartman (ii) The Location of Culture

(c) Edward Said (iii) Desire in Language

(d) Julia Kristeva (iv) Culture and Imperialism

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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)

(39) In the following list, which two journals relate to the field of post-colonial literature?
(a) Kunapipi
(b) Interventions
(c) Daedalus
(d) Clio
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (b)

(40) 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

(41) Which two principal kinds of melancholy are proposed by Robert Burton in Volume III
of Anatomy of Melancholy?
(a) ‘Love’
(b) ‘Religious’
(c) ‘Morbid’
(d) ‘Psychic’
The correct option is:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (b) and (d)
(4) (c) and (d)

(42) 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”

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(43) Which of the following stylistic features characterize spoken discourse?

(a) Greater use of explicit connectives
(b) Greater dependence on non-verbal connectives
(c) Greater syntactic embedding
(d) Greater use of fillers and repetitions
Choose the correct option :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (d)

(44) 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)

(45) 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 Europeans living in America

(46) 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

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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)

(47) 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

(48) 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

(49) In Paradise Lost Milton invokes his ‘Heavenly Muse’, ‘Urania’, at the beginning of which
two books?
(a) Book I
(b) Book IV
(c) Book IX
(d) Book VII
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (d)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (d)

(50) Which two concepts, developed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, have
become increasingly influential in cultural studies?
(a) Dissemination
(b) Gynesis
(c) Cultural Capital
(d) Habitus
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (d)

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(51) 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.

(52) The key figures in the development of British cultural studies are
(a) Richard Hoggart
(b) Raymond Williams
(c) Stuart Hall
(d) 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)

(53) 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

(54) 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) [Link] (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)

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(55) 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
imitations.
(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.

(56) Which two of the following novels deal with the theme of apartheid?
(a) Purple Hibiscus
(b) July’s People
(c) Cry, The Beloved Country
(d) The Mimic Men
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (b) and (d)
(3) (b) and (c)
(4) (a) and (d)

(57) 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?
(a) Uni directionality
(b) Multi directionality
(c) Complex and extensive
(d) Simplistic and abbreviated
Choose the correct option :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (d) and (a)

(58) Which of the following plays by Ben Jonson ends with the performance 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

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(59) Which British administrator passed a resolution for the “Promotion of European
literatures and Science among the natives of India?
(1) Lord Hastings
(2) Lord Cornwallis
(3) Lord Bentick
(4) Lord Hardinge

(60) 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”

(61) 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

(62) 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

(63) 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 that into words.

(64) How many tales and pilgrims are there in Chaucer’s The Caunterbury Tales?
(1) 24 pilgrims and 23 tales
(2) 23 pilgrims and 24 tales
(3) 22 pilgrims and 24 tales
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(65) Match the poet with the opening line of the poem.

(a) Shelley (i) I cry your mercy pity love! aye, love!

(b) Coleridge (ii) The world is too much with us

(c) Keats (iii) O world, O life, O time

(d) Wordsworth (iv) When true love burns desire is Love’s 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)

(66) Which two of the the following statements are applicable to feminist criticism?
(a) Recuperate the female writers ignored by the canon
(b) Fully endorse the social construction of gender
(c) Valorize the traditional canon uncritically
(d) 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)

(67) 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)

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(68) Match the theorist with the text:

(a) John Fiske (i) Distinction

(b) Michel de Certeau (ii) The Postmodern Condition

(c) Pierre Bourdieu (iii) Reading the Popular

(d) Jean Francois Lyotard (iv) The Practice of Everyday Life

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)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(4) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)

(69) Which three of the following poets figure in William Dunbar’s Lament for the Makers?
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer
(b) John Gower
(c) Robert Henryson
(d) William Langland
Choose the most appropriate option :
(1) (a), (b) and (d)
(2) (a), (b) and (c)
(3) (b), (c) and (d)
(4) (a), (c) and (d)

(70) 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 Dos Passos and Sherwood Anderson
(4) Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson

(71) 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

(72) Which two of the following novels belong to the Victorian Age in English Literature?
(a) Pendennis
(b) The Way of All Flesh
(c) The Battle of the Books
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Choose the correct option :

(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (b) and (d)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)

(73) 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

(74) Which two of the following are associated with Deconstruction?

(a) Jacques Derrida
(b) Raymond Williams
(c) Paul de Man
(d) Jonathan Dolli more
Choose the correct option:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (a) and (d)
(4) (b) and (d)

(75) Given below are two statements : Assertion (A) and Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Many modern British writers infused their works with an extreme sense
of uncertainty, disillusionment and despair.
Reason (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 (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.

(76) 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

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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)

(77) How often did Richard Steele’s Tatler appear every week and how many issues of
Tatler in 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; 261 issues

(78) 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

(79) 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

(80) 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

(81) Given below are two statements : Assertion (A) and Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Cultural Studies is simply the study of culture as a discrete entity
divorced from its social and political context.
Reason (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.

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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.

(82) 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

(83) 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.

(84) 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

(85) Which arrangement 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

(86) Match the types of writing with their descriptions :

(a) exegesis (i) writing about saints’ lives

(b) invective (ii) detailed explanation of a passage

(c) hagiography (iii) a defense or justification of one’s actions and beliefs

(d) apology (iv) a bitterly critical attack of something

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Choose the correct option :

(1) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
(2) (a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
(3) (a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
(4) (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)

(87) From whose work did John Milton the epigraph to his Areopagitica?
(1) Sophocles
(2) Euripides
(3) Plato
(4) More

(88) Following Plato, which two of the following statements about ‘Phantasm’ and
‘Semblance’ are correct?
(a) ‘Phantasm’ is an image, while ‘Semblance’ is the real object.
(b) ‘Phantasm’ is the real object while ‘Semblance’ is only a resemblance.
(c) Phantasm unlike semblance has the same proportions as the object.
(d) 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)

(89) Which of the following characters Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour Lost over uses formal
Latinate diction?
(1) Holofernes
(2) Dull Sahityum
(3) Costard
(4) Moth

(90) Who said the following? “Discursive practices are not purely and simply modes of
manufacture of discourse. They take shape in technical ensembles, in institutions,
in behavioural schemes, in types of transmission and dissemination, in pedagogical
forms that both impose and maintain them”
(1) Roland Barthes
(2) Michel Foucault
(3) Homi Bhabha
(4) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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Read the following poem and answer the questions 91 to 94 :

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.

(91) There is a ‘thief’ in the poem. Who is that thief?

(1) The time that ticks away
(2) The fate that overpowers
(3) The tenant who leaves
(4) The past that beckons

(92) 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

(93) 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

(94) Why is the ‘home’ ‘Sad’?

(1) Because it has waited in vain
(2) Because it remains unchanged
(3) Because its joy has faded
(4) Because it is devoid of residents

Read the following passage and answer the questions 95 to 98 :

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 misdemeanours fermenting 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, a 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.

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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.

(95) ‘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

(96) According to the author “thoughtless actions”

(1) Torment others
(2) Are strictly not misdemeanours
(3) Mean nothing and are soon forgotten
(4) Are punishments for children

(97) 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

(98) 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.

Read the following passage and answer the question 99 :

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 incredulity, 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 insisted on its being
received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

(99) The Age described in the above passage is best described as the Age of
(1) Parallelisms
(2) Inconsistencies
(3) Contraries
(4) Anomalies

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(100) 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

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Explanation
(1) Wuthering Heights (pb. 1847) has elements of gothic fiction and shape shifting.
The novel is based on flash backs and time shifts and even the evocation of place
because the plot is based on dual locations, i.e. two neighbouring houses- Wuthering
Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The novel also moves to and fro in the realms of
the past, present and future.

(2)

(3) Charles Wilkins’ novel Armadale (1864-66) is the third of his four ‘great novels’ of the
1860s. The other three are The Woman in White (1859-60) and No Name (1862), and
The Moonstone (1868). In Armadale, there are three characters of the same name:
father, son and an outsider.

(4) The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-1714), The Examiner (1808-1886), The
Reflector (1810-1811).

(5) Chutnefying English is a work that breaks all perceptions of the spoken language. It
brings to front the idea that: there is a possibility of a new language already in use
in our country and it can be the best way to communicate, considering most of the
population is comfortable with it.
It shows that English is anyway a second language to the nation, and it can be
mangled and used to our communication advantage. The book explores various
perceptions regarding language in its entirety It then goes on to analyze what
language is being created in the nation.

(6)

(7) Dale Spender authored her book Man Made Language in 1980. She said that the
English language is man-made not woman made. She examines numerous areas of
sexism as it appears in nature and in the use of the English language.

(8) Before the Wife of Bath tells her tale, she offers in a long prologue a condemnation
of celibacy and a lusty account of her five marriages. It is for this prologue that her
tale is perhaps best known.

(9) Brighton Rock is a novel by Graham Greene, published in 1938. The novel is a murder
thriller set in 1930s Brighton. The title refers to a confectionery traditionally sold at
seaside resorts with the name of the resort embedded in the centre.

(10) When a character initiates a scheme which depends for its success on the ignorance
or gullibility of the person or persons against whom it is directed, it is called intrigue.

(11) Youth culture is the way children, adolescents and young adults live, and the norms,
values, and practices they share. McRobbie, a British cultural theorist and feminist
shows an interest in exploring themes of gender, popular culture and sexuality.

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(12) The Play of the Wether (1533): An English interlude or morality play from the early
Tudor period.
The Play Called the Four Ps (1530): A farcical interlude with the four characters that
are a pardoner, a palmer, an apothecary and a pedlar.

(13)

(14) the poet Arthur Symons’ essay The Decadent Movement in Literature (1893),
described decadence as ‘a new and beautiful and interesting disease’.

(15)

(16) Asolando is the last volume of poems by Victorian poet Robert Browning which
was published in 1889 on the day of his death. The title derives from a fanciful verb
‘asolare’, ‘to disport in the open air, to amuse oneself at random’.
The ‘Epilogue’ to Asolando, contains the self-description ‘One who never turned
his back but marched breast forward’, which is a high-water mark of Browning’s
optimism.

(17)

(18) The poem Very Indian Poem in Indian English, written in a very light vein is an ‘Indian
poem’ as here the poet looks at the world around him through the eyes of a typical
middle-class Indian. The speaker, the ‘I’ of the poem is apparently literate but not
highly educated. In the poem the personna is voicing his opinions to a visitor.

(19) R M Ballantyne is a Scottish author, whose The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific
Ocean (1857) features the characters Ralph and Jack. Both characters were found in
Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding.

(20)

(21) Foucault shows how the terms of power and knowledge are insidiously related, as
the exercise of these powers is based mainly on knowledge. Every exercise of power
depends on a scaffold of knowledge that supports it. And claims to knowledge
advance the interests and power of certain groups while marginalizing others.

(22)

(23) In his critical work On the Sublime, Longinus sets out five sources of sublimity great
thoughts, strong emotions, certain figures of thought and speech, noble diction, and
dignified word arrangement.

(24)

(25) Intransigently = in + tran + si + gent + ly (There are five syllables)

(26) Hind Swaraj by Mahatma Gandhi is a small book of about 30,000 words was written
in Gujarati, in November 1909, on board the ship during Gandhi’s return trip from
England to South Africa after an abortive mission. It was banned by the Government

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in India because it contained ‘matter declared to be seditious’. The ban was lifted on
21 December 1938.
It was published as ‘Sermon on the Sea’, from Chicago IN 1924 with an Intro. by John
Haynes Holmes.

(27)

(28) Kitchen-sink drama depict the daily struggles of ordinary working class people. Plays
in this category often deal with social issues such as poor living conditions, lack of
employment, poverty and turbulent relationships.

(29) Nayantara Sahgal’s Prison and Chocolate Cake, published in 1954, is an autobiography
of young daughter of Mme. Pandit and niece of Nehru, who received part of her
education in the United States.
Meatless Days by Sara Suleri Goodyear, published in 1989., is autobiographical work, a
personal memoir and the history of the development of Pakistan, position of females
and experiences from US.

(30) The Dark Room (1938) , Mr. Sampath: A Printer of Malgudi (1949), – by R. K. Narayan
Seven Summers (1951), The Big Heart (1945) – by Mulk Raj Anand.

(31) The statement was introduced by Ezra Pound in his book ABC of Reading (1934).

(32)

(33)

(34) The dissemination of cultural beliefs and activities is known as cultural diffusion.
Multidirectional and extensive features of culture are quintessential features.

(35)

(36) “historical amnesia” is the loss of history in a consumer society. It suggests

forgetfulness about past experience, past policies and past knowledge, which is
a dangerous condition. Frederic Jameson considers that television viewers in the
postmodern time are often characterized victims in an epidemic of cultural amnesia
for which television is both disease and carrier.

(37)

(38)

(39) Joseph Andrews (1742) or “The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of
his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams” is a parody of Samuel Richardson’s epistolary novel
Pamela. It is the story of a good-natured footman’s adventures on the road home
from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams.

(40)

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(41) The Anatomy of Melancholy was published in 1621. In the first part of the treatise,
Burton defines the “inbred malady” of melancholy, its causes and symptoms. The
second part tells its cure.
The third part deals with Love melancholy. The fourth section deals with religious
melancholy.

(42) the Prioress, Madame Eglantine, maintains a secular lifestyle and sports a brooch
inscribed with “Amor vincit omnia” (Love Conquers All). Her story is about a child
martyr killed by Jews, a common theme in Medieval Christianity dealing with the
theme of antisemitism.

(43)

(44)

(45) Gertrude Stein coined the term ‘Lost Generation’. It was popularized by Ernest
Hemingway who used it in the epigraph for his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: “You
are all a lost generation”.
The famous personalities of The Lost Generation consisted of Gertrude Stein, Ernest
Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S. Eliot. The generation was “lost” in the sense
that its inherited values were no longer relevant in the postwar world and because of
its spiritual alienation from a United States.

(46)

(47) In Paradise Lost, Ariel is a rebel angel. overcome by the seraph Abdiel in the first day
of the War of Heaven. In The Tempest, Ariel is a spirit is bound to serve the magician
Prospero. Aerial in the Rape of the Lock is Belinda’s guardian sylph who is bound to
protect her beauty and chastity.

(48)

(49)

(50) Habitus is a term used by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) to
describe a social property of individuals that orients human behavior without strictly
determining it.
Cultural capital is the accumulation of knowledge, behaviors, and skills that a person
can tap into to demonstrate one’s cultural competence and social status.

(51) Langue is the whole system of language that precedes and makes speech possible
while Parole is the concrete use of the language, the actual utterances.
Parole is an external manifestation of langue. It is the usage of the system, but not
the system.

(52)

(53) The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts, is a poetic drama by W H Auden and
Christopher Isherwood. It was published in 1936 and performed in 1937. F6 is an

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unconquered mountain in the Himalayan range. The play has the story of the climber
Michael Ransom, who becomes the leader of an expedition to the peak of F6,
located in the imaginary country of Ostina. The central character, Michael Ransom,
‘scholar and man of action’, succumbs to his mother’s persuasions and leads a
mountaineering expedition up F6, a haunted peak on the borders of disputed colonial
territory of Ostina; all his men die en route and he himself dies as he achieves his
mission, destroyed by his own self‐knowledge.

(54)

(55) Aristotle stresses unified action, where all action in the plot carries a definite link to
other actions, and subsequent actions are the necessary and probable outcomes of
the former.

(56) Nadine Gordimer’s works include novels, short stories, and essays. During the 1960s
and 1970s she wrote a number of novels set against the backdrop of the emerging
resistance movement against apartheid, while the liberated South Africa provides
the backdrop for her later works, written in the 1990s. She found her themes in the
injustices and cruelties of her country’s policies of racial division, and she left no
quarter of South African society unexplored. Three of Ms. Gordimer’s books were
banned in her own country at some point during the apartheid era — 1948 to 1994 .

(57) Multidirectional and extensive features of culture are to be addressed with due
attention.

(58) Bartholomew Fair : The climax of the play occurs at the puppet show. The puppet
show is seen as a burlesque of Hero and Leander (by Christopher Marlowe) and
Damon and Pythias (a Greek legend).

(59) Macaulay declared in 1835 that “the great objects of the British government ought to
be the promotion of European literature and science’ and the available funds should
‘be henceforth employed in imparting to the native population knowledge of English
literature and science through the medium of the English language”.
The proposition was passed by Lord Bentick.

(60) Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published
in book form in 1823. Charles first used the pseudonym Elia for an essay on the
South Sea House, where he had worked decades earlier; Elia was the last name of an
Italian man who worked there at the same time as Charles.

(61) “On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts” by Thomas De Quincey, was first
published in 1827 in Blackwood’s Magazine. The essay focuses particularly on a series
of murders allegedly committed in 1811 by John Williams in the neighborhood of
Ratcliffe Highway, London.

(62) The university wits include Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe,
Thomas Lodge, George Peele Thomas Kyd and John Lyly.

(63) In Plato’s Ion, Socrates is shown discussing with the titular character (Ion of
Ephesus- the rhapsode.). Ion is a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer.

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Socrates discusses the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry,

gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine
possession. Socrates deduces from this observation that Ion has no real skill, but is
like a soothsayer or prophet in being divinely possessed. Thus Plato concludes that
“Ion’s talent as an interpreter cannot be an art, a definable body of knowledge or an
ordered system of skills,” but instead must come from the divine inspiration of the
Muses.

(64)

(65)

(66) Feminist literary criticism seeks to analyze and describe the ways in which literature
portrays the narrative of male domination by exploring the economic, social, political,
and psychological forces embedded within literature. In the first and second waves
of feminism—feminist literary criticism was concerned with women’s authorship
and the representation of women’s condition within the literature; in particular the
depiction of fictional female characters. third-wave feminists embraced individualism
in women and diversity and sought to redefine what it meant to be a feminist.

(67)

(68)

(69) The Lament for the Makaris”, is a poem in the form of a danse macabre (dance of
death) by the Scottish poet William Dunbar. Dunbar laments for some of the poets
including Chaucer, John Gower, Robert Henryson, Walter Kennedy etc.

(70) The Jazz Age (1920s and 1930s ) was a time period in which jazz music and dance
styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States. F. Scott Fitzgerald
coined the term, first using it in his 1922 short story collection titled Tales of the Jazz
Age. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun also Rises is also a jazz age work.

(71)

(72) Barchester Towers (1857) is the second novel of Anthony Trollope’s novel series
“Chronicles of Barsetshire”. The Way of All Flesh is a novel by Samuel Butler. The
novel is also known as Ernest Pontifex (as it traces the four generation of Pontifex)
and is a semi-autobiographical targeting attacks on Victorian-era hypocrisy.

(73) The story revolves around a lecturer, James Dixon at an unnamed university. Dixon
presents the image of Angry Young Man who is disillusioned with the modern society
and its ways.

(74) Following the pioneering work of Derrida, the scholars associated with it are Paul de
Man, Geoffrey Hartman, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Geoffrey Bennington.

(75)

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(77)

(78)

(79) Roman à clef is a French term that translates to “novel with a key.” Roman à clef
novels are loosely fictionalized novels based on real-world events that have been
a popular form for famous writers for centuries. The fictitious names in the novel
represent real people, and the “key” is the relationship between the nonfiction and
the fiction. The reasons an author might choose the roman à clef format include
satire; writing about controversial topics and/or reporting inside information on
scandals without giving rise to charges of libel.

(80) The German playwright and novelist Gustav Freytag wrote Die Technik des Dramas,
a definitive study of the 5-act dramatic structure, in which he laid out what has
come to be known as Freytag’s pyramid. Under Freytag’s pyramid, the plot of a
story consists of five parts: Exposition (originally called introduction), Rising action
(rise), Climax, Falling action (return or fall), Catastrophe, denouement, resolution, or
revelation.

(81)

(82) The Oresteia tells the story of the house of Atreus. The first play, Agamemnon,
portrays the victorious return of that king from the Trojan War and his murder
by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus. The second play, Choephoroi
(Libation Bearers), takes its title from the chorus of women servants who come
to pour propitiatory offerings at the tomb of the murdered Agamemnon. The third
play, Eumenides, opens at the shrine of Apollo at Delphi, where Orestes has taken
sanctuary from the Furies. At the command of the Delphic oracle, Orestes journeys
to Athens to stand trial for his matricide.
The trilogy ends with the cycle of retributive bloodshed closed and supplanted by
the rule of law and the justice of the state.

(83)

(84) The Interregnum was the period between the execution of Charles I on 30 January
1649 and the arrival of his son Charles II in London on 29 May 1660 which marked the
start of the Restoration.

(85)

(86)

(87) Areopagitica is a political prose work by John Milton published in 1644. The epigraph
is from Euripides’ play, The Suppliants. The quote asserts that true Liberty consists
of freedom of speech.

(88) The history of the faculty of imagination, or phantasia, as it was known in the
Classical Age, begins in Plato. Plato viewed imagination as an inherently false
production of the mind. His idea of phantasia equates phantasms (the mental images
produced by the faculty of the mind phantasia) to copies, or simulacra (semblance).

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Plato views the imagistic productions of the mind as kind of mimetic image with the
strong implication of unreality.

(89) French philosopher Michel Foucault ‘s writings are crucial in understanding the
socially constructed nature of truth and its role in knowledge and power relations.
He remarks the above statement in favor of his theory.

(90)

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Answer Key

(1) C (21) (3) (41) (1) (61) (3) (81) (1)

(2) C (22) (3) (42) (3) (62) (4) (82) (3)

(3) D (23) (3) (43) (4) (63) (3) (83) (1)

(64) (Marks
(4) (3) (24) (3) (44) (3) (84) (4)
given to all)

(5) (3) (25) (3) (45) (2) (65) (1) (85) (2)

(6) (3) (26) (3) (46) (3) (66) (3) (86) (1)

(7) (3) (27) (4) (47) (4) (67) (2) (87) (2)

(8) (1) (28) (4) (48) (3) (68) (1) (88) (2)

(9) (1) (29) (2) (49) (1) (69) (2) (89) (1)

(10) (2) (30) (2) (50) (3) (70) (4) (90) (2)

(11) (1) (31) (2) (51) (1) (71) (1) (91) (3)

(12) (3) (32) (3) (52) (3) (72) (3) (92) (3)

(13) (3) (33) (2) (53) (3) (73) (2) (93) (2)

(14) (3) (34) (Dropped) (54) (1) (74) (2) (94) (1)

(15) (2) (35) (2) (55) (3) (75) (2) (95) (4)

(16) (4) (36) (3) (56) (3) (76) (2) (96) (3)

(17) (2) (37) (3) (57) (Dropped) (77) (3) (97) (1)

(18) (3) (38) (2) (58) (3) (78) (3) (98) (2)

(19) (2) (39) (4) (59) (3) (79) (2) (99) (3)

(20) (2) (40) (4) (60) (4) (80) (1) (100) (3)

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2020 October Shift 1

Question No.: 1
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Medium Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: British Literature Sub-concept: Short Stories Concept fields:
Detective fiction

(1) 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”

Question No.: 2
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Medium Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Chronology Sub-concept: Magazines Concept fields: Non Fiction

(2) Arrange the following 18th-century magazines in the chronological order of

publication:
(A) The Critical Review
(B) The Monthly Review
(C) The Gentleman’s Magazine
(D) The Rambler 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

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Question No.: 3
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: British Literature Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: Modern
Poetry

(3) 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”

Question No.: 4
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: British Literature Sub-concept: Chronology Concept fields: NA

(4) 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

Question No.: 5
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Medium Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Drama Sub-concept: Modern Age Concept fields: Samuel Beckett

(5) Who makes the following speech in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?
“Astride 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

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Question No.: 6
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Medium Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: German Literature Concept: German theatre Sub-concept: Type of Dramas
Concept fields: Bertolt Brecht

(6) 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

Question No.: 7
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Literary Theories Sub-concept: New criticism Concept fields:
Ambiguity

(7) “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) B and D only
(4) C and D only

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Question No.: 8
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Moderate Sub-concept: Assertion and Reason Concept fields:
Statements

(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

Question No.: 9
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: novel Sub-concept: Fyodor Dostoevsky Concept fields: Russian
novel

(9) 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

Question No.: 10
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: Key Terms Concept fields: NA

(10) Match List I with List II

List I Linguist List II Concept

A. Paul Grice I. language death

B. Edward Sapir II. linguistic signs

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C. Ferdinand de Saussure III. linguistic relativity

D. Nancy Dorian 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

Question No.: 11
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Medium Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: English in India Sub-concept: Evolution Concept fields: Peasant
Movement during Colonial India

(11) Which British administrator sought “to make everything as English as possible in a
country which resembles England in nothing”, as recorded by Sir Thomas Munro?
(1) Lord Bentick
(2) Lord Hastings
(3) Lord Cornwallis
(4) Lord Wellesley

Question No.: 12
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Research methods and material in English Sub-concept: style of
citation Concept fields: na

(12) Which two of the following strictly follow the parameters of documentation
prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA 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:
(1) A and B only
(2) A and C only
(3) A and D only
(4) B and C only

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Question No.: 13
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Assertion and Reason Sub-concept: Research Methods Concept
fields: NA

(13) 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

Question No.: 14
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Non-Fiction Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: Thomas Hobbes

(14) 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

Question No.: 15
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: non fiction Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(15) 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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Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
(1) A and B only
(2) A and C only
(3) B and C only
(4) B and D only

Question No.: 16
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Drama Sub-concept: Elizabethan Plays Concept fields:
Shakespeare

(16) 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

Question No.: 17
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Romantic Age Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: Lord Byron

(17) 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

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Question No.: 18
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: contemporary literary theories Sub-concept: Critics Concept
fields: Terms

(18) Match List I with List II

List I List II
Terms Theorists

A. arche-ecriture I. Julia Kristeva

B. cyborg II. Donna Haraway

C. genotext III. Friedrich Schleiermacher

D. hermeneutic circle IV. Jacques Derrida

Choose the correct answer from the 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, D - I
(4) A - IV, B - I, C - II, D – III

Question No.: 19
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Romantic Age Sub-concept: Non fiction Concept fields: De
Quincey

(19) 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

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Question No.: 20
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: medium Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: Vladimir
Nabokov

(20) Which of the following novels is structured into a poem of 999 lines, preceded by a
Foreword, followed by a Commentary and an Index?
(1) Ragtime
(2) Pale Fire
(3) The Inner Side of the Wind
(4) Hourglass

Question No.: 21
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Literary Terms Sub-concept: Dramatic monologue Concept
fields: NA

(21) 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”

Question No.: 22
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Research Methods Sub-concept: plagiarism Concept fields: NA

(22) Which two of the following aspects are to be scrupulously followed to avoid the trap
of plagiarism?
(A) subjectivity
(B) acknowledgment
(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

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Question No.: 23
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Classical criticism Sub-concept: Aristotle Concept fields: NA

(23) 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.

Question No.: 24
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Post Modern Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: Anthony
Burgess

(24) The lives of which of the following writers have been the subject matter of novels by
Anthony Burgess?
(A) Milton
(B) Marlowe
(C) Shelley
(D) Keats
(1) A and B only
(2) A and D only
(3) B and C only
(4) B and D only

Question No.: 25
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Neoclassical Sub-concept: Drama Concept fields: Playwrights

(25) 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

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) B, C, A, D
(2) D, A, B, C
(3) C, B, D, A
(4) A, D, C, B

Question No.: 26
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Romantic Age Sub-concept: Prose writers Concept fields:
William Hazlitt

(26) 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

Question No.: 27
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Classical criticism Sub-concept: Renaissance Critic Concept
fields: Philip Sidney

(27) Poetry according to Sir Philip Sidney is of three kinds. They are :
(1) religious, dramatic, romantic
(2) classical, romantic, neoclassical
(3) philosophical, imaginative, narrative
(4) religious, philosophical, imaginative

Question No.: 28
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary Criticism Sub-concept: Modern critics
Concept fields: Harold Bloom

(28) 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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Question No.: 29
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Medium Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary Criticism Sub-concept: Russian Critics
Concept fields: NA

(29) 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

Question No.: 30
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Renaissance Sub-concept: Puritan Age Concept fields: Milton

(30) Which book of Paradise Lost incorporates the speech rhythms of Adam and Eve’s
marital quarrel?
(1) Book 4
(2) Book 6
(3) Book 7
(4) Book 9

Question No.: 31
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary Criticism Sub-concept: Post-Structuralist
Concept fields: NA

(31) Which one of the following assumptions best expresses the position of Post-
Structuralist criticism?
(1) Definite structures underlie empirical events.
(2) Language is representational.
(3) Apprehension of reality is a construct.
(4) Knowledge operates according to procedures that are axiomatic.

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Question No.: 32
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: Irish

(32) In which of the Bog poems does Seamus Heaney speak about the “perishable
treasure” of a body “Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible”?
(1) ‘’Bog Queen”
(2) ‘’Grauballe Man”
(3) “Punishment”
(4) “Strange Fruit”

Question No.: 33
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Victorian Age Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: Robert
Browning

(33) 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

Question No.: 34
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: Na

(34) 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

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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

Question No.: 35
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Medium Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Criticism Sub-concept: Classical criticism Concept fields: Na

(35) 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

Question No.: 36
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Renaissance Sub-concept: Elizabethan Drama Concept fields:
Shakespeare

(36) 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

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Question No.: 37
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Romantic Age Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: Lord Byron

(37) 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

Question No.: 38
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theory Sub-concept: Feminism Concept
fields: NA

(38) 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

Question No.: 39
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level:Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(39) Match List I with List II

List I Word Borrowed List II Source Indian Language

A. mongoose I. Tamil

B. loot II. Malayalam

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List I Word Borrowed List II Source Indian Language

C. curry III. Hindi/ Urdu

D. betel 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

Question No.: 40
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Romantic Age Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: NA

(40) Match List I with List II

List I List II
Author Work

A. John Keats I. Alastor

B. William Wordsworth II. Songs of Experience

C. P. B. Shelley III. Lamia

D. William Blake IV. The Excursion

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) A - III, B - I, C - IV, D - II
(2) A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II
(3) A - I, B - IV, C - III, D - II
(4) A - IV, B - II, C - I, D – III

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Question No.: 41
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Neoclassical age Sub-concept: Drama Concept fields: NA

(41) 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

Question No.: 42
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Victorian Age Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: Charles
Dickens

(42) Harold Skimpole is a character in :

(1) Bleak House
(2) Dombey and Son
(3) Great Expectations
(4) Oliver Twist

Question No.: 43
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Non Fiction Sub-concept: Works Concept fields: NA

(43) 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

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Question No.: 44
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Classical Criticism Sub-concept: Critics and their Works
Concept fields: Na

(44) Match List I with List II

List I List II
Critics Text

A. Horace I. A Defence of Rhyme

B. John Dryden II. Timber: or, Discoveries

C. Samuel Daniel III. Ars Poetica

D. Ben Jonson 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

Question No.: 45
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Medium Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern age Sub-concept: Drama Concept fields: Harold Pinter

(45) 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

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Question No.: 46
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Cultural Studies Sub-concept: na Concept fields: na

(46) Match List I with List II

List I List II
Author Text

A. Michel de Certeau I. Distinction

B. John Fiske II. Reading the Romance

C. Pierre Bourdieu III. Understanding Popular Culture

D Janice Radway IV The Practice of Everyday Life

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

Question No.: 47
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: linguistics Sub-concept: na Concept fields: na

(47) Who among the following linguists proposed the terms, ‘competence’ and
‘performance’?
(1) Noah Webster
(2) Steven Pinker
(3) Roman Jakobson
(4) Noam Chomsky

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Question No.: 48
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Neoclassical age Sub-concept: criticism Concept fields: NA

(48) 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

Question No.: 49
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Research Method Sub-concept: research hypothesis Concept
fields: NA

(49) 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

Question No.: 50
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: History Of English Literature Sub-concept: NA Concept fields:
NA

(50) 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

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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

Question No.: 51
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: Terms Concept fields: NA

(51) 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.

Question No.: 52
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Renaissance Sub-concept: Elizabethan Age Concept fields:
Drama

(52) To which mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue of Dr. Faustus?
(1) Perseus
(2) Theseus
(3) Icarus
(4) Achilles

Question No.: 53
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theories Sub-concept: Major terms
Concept fields: NA

(53) Match List I with List II

List I Terms List II Theorists

A. Super Reader I. Michel Foucault

B. Biopower II. Mikhail Bakhtin

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List I Terms List II Theorists

C. Bricolage III. Michael Riffaterre

D. Chronotope I V. 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

Question No.: 54
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(54) Which one of the following is correct about Saussure’s analysis of language?
(1) La langue is the system of a language.
(2) Parole focuses on language as a system at a particular time.
(3) La langue is a particular instance of speech and writing.
(4) Parole is the study of language over a period of time.

Question No.: 55
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: English in India History Evolution and future Sub-concept: NA
Concept fields: NA

(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

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Question No.: 56
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary literary Theories Sub-concept: na Concept fields:
na

(56) Which one of the following journals publishes articles related to critical theory
exclusively?
(1) Salmagundi
(2) Diacritics
(3) Callaloo
(4) Grand Street

Question No.: 57
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: modern Age Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: NA

(57) Which one of the following essays holds that “As a method, realism is a complete
failure”?
(1) Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall”
(2) Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying”
(3) D. H Lawrence, “Why the Novel Matters”
(4) Mary McCarthy, “My Confession”

Question No.: 58
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Cultural Studies Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(58) 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

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Question No.: 59
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theories Sub-concept: Post Colonialism
Concept fields: NA

(59) 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
(3) Statement I is correct but Statement II is false
(4) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is true

Question No.: 60
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theories Sub-concept: Reception theory
Concept fields: NA

(60) Who among the following theorists particularly emphasized the social and historical
dimensions of a text’s reception?
(1) Wolfgang Iser
(2) Stanley Fish
(3) Hans Robert Jauss
(4) Pierre Bourdieu

Question No.: 61
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(61) 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. Iyengar

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Question No.: 62
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: History of English Literature Sub-concept: Essayist Concept
fields: Non Fiction

(62) Match List I with List II

List I Essayist List II Essay

A. George Orwell I. “On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century”

B. Michel de Montaigne II. “Why I Write”

C. Charles Lamb III. “A Modest Proposal”

D. Jonathan Swift IV. “On the Cannibals”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) A - B - IV, C - III, D - I
(2) A - II, B - IV, C - I, D - III
(3) A - IV, B - III, C - II, D-I
(4) A - II, B - III, C - I, D – IV

Question No.: 63
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Cultural Studies Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(63) 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

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Question No.: 64
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Drama Concept fields: Harold Pinter

(64) 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.

Question No.: 65
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Renaissance Sub-concept: Metaphysical Concept fields: Poetry

(65) 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

Question No.: 66
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary Theory Sub-concept: Formalism Concept
fields: NA

(66) Which two terms among the following are associated with formalist criticism?
(A) aura
(B) actant
(C) narratee
(D) defamiliarization E. foregrounding

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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

Question No.: 67
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: English In India Sub-concept: Main Figure Concept fields: NA

(67) 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

Question No.: 68
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literature Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(68) 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 Italo Calvino

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Question No.: 69
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age, Post Modern Age Sub-concept: Novel Concept
fields: NA

(69) Match List I with List II

List I Author List II Text

A. Thomas Pynchon I. G

B. Howard Jacobson II. V

C. Anthony Burgess III. J

D. John Berger IV. M/F

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) A - II, B - IV, C - I, D - Ill
(2) A - II, B - III, C - IV, D - I
(3) A - II, B - Ill, C - I, D - IV
(4) A - IV, B - III, C - I, D – II

Question No.: 70
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: W.B. Yeats

(70) Match List I with List II

List I Lines List II Poems

A.”Monuments of unageing intellect” I. “Leda and the Swan”

B. “In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart” II. “Adam’s Curse”

C. “So mastered by the brute blood of the air” Ill. “Sailing to Byzantium”

D. “As weary-hearted as that hollow moon” IV. “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) A - III, B - IV, C - II, D - I
(2) A - III, B - I, C - IV, D - II
(3) A - III, B - IV, C - I, D - II
(4) A - II, B - I, C - IV, D – III

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Question No.: 71
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: na Concept fields: na

(71) 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

Question No.: 72
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Cultural Studies Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(72) Who among the following is known to have popularized the term ‘glocalization’?
(1) Ronald Robertson
(2) Francis Fukuyama
(3) John Urry
(4) John Tomlinson

Question No.: 73
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Non Fiction Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(73) Which two of the following inspired the rise of the periodical essay?
(A) Robert Burton
(B) François Rabelais
(C) Francis Bacon
(D) Michel de Montaigne
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
(1) C and A only
(2) A and B only
(3) C and D only
(4) B and D only

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Question No.: 74
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Renaissance Sub-concept: Drama Concept fields: Revenge
Tragedy

(74) The Duchess of Malfi is based on :

(1) a French romance
(2) an Italian novella
(3) a German fable
(4) a Scottish chronicle

Question No.: 75
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Research Methods and Material In English Sub-concept: NA
Concept fields: NA

(75) The deductive method differs from the inductive method in drawing its conclusions
from :
(1) verification
(2) particular instances
(3) applications
(4) general truths

Question No.: 76
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theories Sub-concept: Feminism Concept
fields: NA

(76) 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

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Question No.: 77
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: History Of English Literature Sub-concept: Novelists Concept
fields: NA

(77) 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

Question No.: 78
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: American Literature Sub-concept: Essay Concept fields: NA

(78) According to his essay “Civil Disobedience”, what two things did Thoreau learn from
the night he spent in jail?
(A) He concluded that the State is ultimately weak.
(B) He realized that captivity inspires courage.
(C) He realized that the neighbours are only friends during good times.
(D) He concluded that captivity brings wisdom about human affairs.
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

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Question No.: 79
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theories Sub-concept: Structuralism
Concept fields: NA

(79) 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

Question No.: 80
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: English in India Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(80) 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

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Question No.: 81
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Neoclassical Age Sub-concept: Non fiction Concept fields: NA

(81) 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

Question No.: 82
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Indian Writing In English Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields:
Partition Literature

(82) 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

Question No.: 83
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Victorian Age Sub-concept: Non-Fiction Concept fields: NA

(83) 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 Miserables
(D) Faust

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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

Question No.: 84
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(84) 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

Question No.: 85
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Literary Terms Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(85) 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

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Question No.: 86
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Essay, Criticism Concept fields: NA

(86) 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
(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

Question No.: 87
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(87) Which one of the following best explains the term ‘paralanguage’?
(1) The ways in which people mask what they mean by the words they use
(2) The ways in which people show what they mean other than by the words they
use
(3) The ways in which words carry meanings unintended by the speaker
(4) The ways in which the silence underlying speech communicates wrong meanings

Question No.: 88
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: History of English Literature Sub-concept: Drama Concept
fields: NA

(88) Arrange the following plays in their chronological order:

(A) The Country Wife
(B) Cymbeline
(C) The Spanish Tragedy
(D) The Rivals

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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

Question No.: 89
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Renaissance Sub-concept: Jacobean Age Poetry Concept fields:
Metaphysical poets

(89) 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

Question No.: 90
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Cultural Studies Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(90) Who among the following coined the dictum, “the medium is the message”?
(1) Raymond Williams
(2) Erving Goffman
(3) Marshall McLuhan
(4) John Fiske

Question No.: 91
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(91) 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

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you to my dream of you.’ 0, then my waking dream dared to assume The audacity of
her sleep.
Our dreams Flowed into each other’s arms, like streams.
— Stephen Spender
Which among the following best describes the lady’s face as “At dawn she lay...”
asleep?
(1) Her face appears to be that of a stone sculpture.
(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.

Question No.: 92
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(92) (Based On the above Passage)

Match List I with List II

List I List II
The Item What it is an example of

A. ‘Her hair ‘ I. player

B. ‘pillows’ II. ‘a harp’

C. ‘breeze ‘ III. ‘rose’

D. ‘cheeks’ IV. ‘cloud’

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

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Question No.: 93
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(93) (Based On the above Passage)

Match List I with List II

List I Item List II What it is an example of

A. ‘Her hair a harp’ I. Simile

B. ‘the hand of a breeze’ II. Metaphor

C. ‘seems the stone face’ Ill. Oxymoron

D. ‘my waking dream’ 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

Question No.: 94
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(94) 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
“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.

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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

Question No.: 95
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Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(95) (Passage) 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

Question No.: 96
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(96) 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 furr’d gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of
justice hurtless breaks; Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw doth pierce it.
— King Lear
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.

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Question No.: 97
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Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(97) The two sentences in the lines from “Through tatter’d clothes...” to “...straw doth
pierce it” deal with two foibles, (i) vice and (ii) sin. About these two, the speaker says
that
(1) Vice afflicts all but sin afflicts only the weak.
(2) Sin afflicts all but vice afflicts only the strong.
(3) Sin and vice are seen in both the weak and the strong.
(4) Sin and vice are palpable in the weak and impalpable in the strong.

Question No.: 98
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(98) Who speaks these lines and to whom?

(1) Edgar to Lear
(2) Goneril to Edgar
(3) Lear to Gloucester
(4) Gloucester to Lear

Question No.: 99
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(99) 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 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 a stranger to ‘comfort’ for too long.
(3) ‘Hope and comfort’ had been strange to the patient for too long.
(4) ‘Hope and comfort’ had been strangers to the surgeon, nurse and the patient for
too long.

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Question No.: 100

Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(100) In the expression, “passed her hands over her face”, the ‘face’ is of:
(1) the lady surgeon
(2) the child
(3) the nurse
(4) the patient

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Explanation
(1) ‘The Musgrove Ritual ‘’ is associated with the English Civil War & Crowning Of King
Charles II.

(2) The Gentleman’s Magazine 1731, The Rambler 1750, The Monthly Review 1949, The
Critical Review 1986.

(3) “Deceptions” poem was composed by Larkin after reading about a young girl’s rape
case in a magazine named “London Labor and the London Poor” (1840). Larkin
consoles the rape victim and says that he empathizes with her desolation and can
envision the terrible agony which the rapist caused to her.

(4)

(5) The speech of a tramp named Vladimir at the end of the play, where he offers a
grim vision of human life: “Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole,
lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.”

(6) Brecht’s earliest work was heavily influenced by German Expressionism, but it was
his preoccupation with Marxism and his insistence on intellectual analysis of man
and society, that led him to develop his theory of “epic theatre.” Brecht was a Marxist
and made his theatre highly political. He wanted his theatre to spark an interest in
his audiences’ perception of the world, rather than to make them sit passively and
get lost in a show’s story. His plays make them think critically and question the world
they live in. His work is often mischievous, provocative and ironic.

(7) Structural ambiguity (also called syntactic ambiguity or Lexical ambiguity

grammatical ambiguity) is the presence of two or more possible meanings within a
single sentence or sequence of words.
Lexical ambiguity : more presence of two or meanings within a single word.

(8)

(9) “The Brothers Karamazov” has a courtroom drama and an investigation of the sexual
rivalry of triangular love affairs. It is a story with a plot about a murder.

(10)

(11) Cornwallis was charged by the directors of the British East India Company to
overhaul and reform its administration in India. Lord Cornwallis twice held the high
post of governor general. His first tenure lasted from 1786 to 1793. For the second
time, he came to India in 1805, but died before he could do any crucial work.

(12)

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(14) Thomas Hobbes discovered geometry by accident at the age of 40. He chanced to
come across an edition of “Euclid’s Elements”. He attempted to write philosophy on
geometry for the rest of his life.

(15) “Testaments Betrayed” is An Essay in Nine Parts by Milan Kundera, a Czech novelist.
The same characters appear and reappear throughout the nine parts of the book.
Kundera is a passionate defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect
due a work of art and its creator’s wishes. The betrayal of both—often by their most
passionate proponents—is one of the key ideas that informs this strikingly original
and elegant book.
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist is a fascinating set of essays, based on
the talks he delivered at Harvard University, Pamuk presents a comprehensive
and provocative theory of the novel and the experience of reading. Drawing on
Friedrich Schiller’s famous distinction between “naïve” writers—those who write
spontaneously—and “sentimental” writers—those who are reflective and aware—
Pamuk reveals two unique ways of processing and composing the written word.

(16)

(17) Mazeppa is a narrative poem about Lord Byron in 1819. Byron found his protagonist
in Voltaire’s History of Charles XII, King of Sweden. The real historical Ivan Mazepa
(Byron added the extra “p”) was a Cossack leader famous for defecting from Russia
to Sweden before the 1709 Battle of Poltava. In Ukraine he is still a hero, in Russia, a
villain. Byron’s Mazeppa has fallen in love with Theresa, of “the Asiatic eye,” and his
punishment involves tying him naked on a wild untamed horse and setting it loose.
The story is about the terrified wild horse who for two days and nights dashes across
the country with bleeding and swooning Mezeppa. In the end, the horse dies and
Mezeppa is rescued by a Cossack maiden who is also “wild.”

(18)

(19) “The English Mail-Coach” essay is written in four parts: “The Glory of Motion”, “Going
Down with Victory”, “The Vision of Sudden Death,” and “Dream-Fugue”.

(20) Pale Fire, a novel in English by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1962, is a brilliant
parody of literary scholarship. The 999-line poem in heroic couplets is a prime
example of the literature of exhaustion. The novel is centred is the masterwork of an
academic, John Shade, and this American poet John Shade is killed by an assassin’s
bullet not meant for him. His last poem, ‘Pale Fire’, is put into a book, together with
a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade’s editor, Charles Kinbote (the
apparent narrator) – who is suffering from paranoia and the onset of madness. He
twists every detail of Shade’s poem into a version of his own history.

(21)

(22) Plagiarism is the practice of taking credit for someone else’s words or ideas. It’s
an act of intellectual dishonesty. Plagiarism may occur when a person fails to
place quotation marks around someone else’s exact words, directly rephrasing or
paraphrasing someone else’s words while still following the general form of the
original, and/or failing to issue the proper citation to one’s source material.

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All research papers must include citations. Citations ensure: that anyone reading the
research paper can easily find its sources, that the words and ideas used from the
sources are not assumed to be your own, and that original authors and researchers
are properly credited for their original work. Good paraphrasing also requires that you
cite the original source.

(23) Aristotle viewed Imitation as not a mere photographic representation of the surface
of things, but as a creative process. It is the objective representation of life in
literature, as well as the imaginative reconstruction of life.

(24) In Anthony Burgess’s novel - “A Dead Man in Deptford”, published in 1993, Marlowe
is portrayed as a homosexual secret agent. He also wrote a short novel (ABBA ABBA)
about the last couple of months of the life of John Keats, in 1977.

(25)

(26) “My First Acquaintance with Poets” was first published in 1823 in a short-lived but
highly significant periodical of the Romantic Age, The Liberal. The essay is a memoir
as it moves round his meeting with Coleridge, and the successive interactions they
had, and Coleridge’s impact on the 20-yr-old Hazlitt. Hazlitt remembers how he met
a “poet” for the first time in life, a moment of “baptism”, as he says, in the world
of poetry and philosophy. In his depiction, Coleridge was a man who had the power
to paint imagery with words. Hazlitt was so impressed by his way of preaching that
he ended up fixing a meeting with the author. At this meeting she also encountered
William Wordsworth.

(27)

(28) The theory of anxiety of influence is a theory applied principally to early nineteenth
century romantic poetry. In order to determine the effects of the theory on literature,
Bloom has established the six “revisionary ratios”. Clinamen, Tessera, Kenosis,
Daemonization, Askesis, and Apophrades.
Bloom defines this as “poetic misreading or misprision proper”.[

(29) Valentin Voloshinov says that words are dynamic social signs, which take various
meanings for various social classes in different historical contexts. The meaning of
words does not depend on their passive understanding but it depends on the active
participation of both the speaker (or author) and hearer (or reader). Each word is
a kind of “sign” taken from an inventory of available signs. The control of a word,
contained in each speech, is regulated by social relations. The meaning of word
signs is the field of continuous class struggle: a ruling class will try to narrow the
significance of social signs, making them “uni-accentual”, but the clash of various
class-interests in times of social unrest will make clear the “multi-accentuality” of
words.

(30) In book 9, Milton depicts how Eve was tempted to eat fruit of the forbidden tree and
the ensuing quarrel between Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden. Adam blames
Eve for wanting to work separately, and Eve says that the serpent would surely have
tempted Adam as well if he had been there. She says Adam should have been firmer

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with her, which makes Adam angrier, and he calls her ungrateful, reminding her that
he ate the forbidden fruit just so they could be together.

(31) There are 3 basic assumptions of Structuralism: 1. knowable structures underlie

empirical events, 2.
knowledge operates according to procedures that are axiomatic and not open to
question, and 3.
reality is not radically contingent, not a play of forces without order or a series of
accidents or events without meaning or logical sequence.

(32)

(33)

(34)

(35) Samuel Daniel, in his The Defense of Rhyme in 1503, defended rhyme by saying that It
imparts form and outline to the conceptions of a poet, and gives a deeper impression
of what is delivered. It helps in limiting the excesses of a poet’s imagination but does
not check poetic fancy, rather it helps poetic flight.

(36) Hamlet is an educated, sensitive, and young boy who dwells in a dilemma. Il
Penseroso more closely reflects Milton’s own studious and cloistered lifestyle.

(37) “Fragment of a Novel” is an unfinished 1819 vampire horror story by Lord Byron. It is
also known as “A Fragment” and “The Burial: A Fragment”. It was one of the first in
English to feature a vampire theme. The central character was Augustus Darvell. John
William Polidori based his novella The Vampyre (1819), on the Byron fragment.

(38) Écriture féminine, or «women›s writing», is a term coined by French feminist and
literary theorist Hélène Cixous in her 1975 essay «The Laugh of the Medusa». It is a
genre of literary writing that deviates from traditional masculine styles of writing.
This strand of feminist literary theory originated through the works of Cixous and
other theorists including Luce Irigaray, Chantal Chawaf,Catherine Clément, and Julia
Kristeva, and the later psychoanalytic theorist Bracha Ettinger.

(39)

(40)

(41) The play can be viewed as a dramatic presentation of varieties of love in England of
the year 1700. In the play, everybody is involved in intrigue.

(42) Harold Skimpole is a significant Dickensian villain. He is a parasite and does not
acknowledge the people who support him. Harold Skimpole symbolizes all that is
wrong with religious radicalism within the Church. Harold Skimpole has a very bad
habit of getting others to pay his debts.

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(44)

(45)

(46)

(47) Chomsky’s Linguistic Competence is somewhat similar to Saussure’s concept

of language and parole. Competence, by Chomsky,refers to the native speaker’s
knowledge of his language, the system of rules, his ability to produce and
understand.. Performance on the other hand is the study of the system of rules;
performance is the study of actual sentences themselves, of the actual use of the
language in real-life situations. So the speaker’s knowledge of the structure of
language is his linguistic competence and the way in which it is used is his linguistic
performance.

(48) Johnson says about Milton’s opinion of meter and rhyme – in his “Lives of Poets” –
“Rhyme,’ he [Milton] says, and says truly, ‘is no necessary adjunct of true poetry.’ But
perhaps of poetry as a mental operation metre or musick is no necessary adjunct;
it is however by the musick of metre that poetry has been discriminated in all
languages, and in languages melodiously constructed with a due proportion of long
and short syllables metre is sufficient.”
Johnson writes again – “The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of
blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a disclaimer;
and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton who enable their
audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. ‘Blank verse,’ said an ingenious
critique, ‘seems to be verse only to the eye.’ ”.

(49)

(50)

(51) The scope of semiotics is very wide, perhaps unlimited. The range of subjects include
literary works, advertisements, architecture, clothing, games, human-computer
interaction, music, urban planning, sports, and law.

(52) At the start of the play, the prologue connects Doctor Faustus to the Greek legend of
Icarus. The prologue compares the temperament and experiences of the protagonist
Faustus’ to Icarus’ ruined effort to fly on waxen wings. Despite his father’s warning,
the child Icarus flew extremely close to the sun, causing his wings to meltdown and
sending him plunging to his death. Dr. Faustus comes to a similar fate.

(53)

(54)

(55) 12 years before Macaulay presented his notorious Minute, Raja Ram Mohun Roy
had already written a lengthy memorial to Lord Amherst. In response to that
memorial, Lord Amherst, on December 11, 1823, launched a horrible assault on the
traditional Sanskrit education system prevalent at that time in India. Ram Mohun Roy

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questioned the effectiveness of imparting traditional education through the Sanskrit

language.
While the British empire’s agenda was to further colonise the minds of its Indian
subjects, Roy believed that the introduction of English education, with a scientific
temperament, would aid in establishing a “more liberal and enlightened system of
instruction.”

(56) Diacritics is a journal covering the advancements/fields/classifications related

with Literature and Literary Theory. It is published & distributed by Johns Hopkins
University Press.

(57) Oscar Wilde’s essay “The Decay of Lying” mocks the instructional and moralizing tone
of sage-like essayists, esp. – Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin.

(58) Bourdieu said that a person’s position in society depends on his or her ‘distinction’
and ‘habitus’. These refer to self-stylization and socio-cultural outlook.

(59)

(60) Hans Robert Jauss proposed a version of Reception theory in the late 1960s, which
led to institutional and methodological reforms. His major essays responsible
for the introduction of reception theory were “Paradigmenwechsel in der
Literaturwissenschaft,” and “Literary History as a Challenge to Literary theory”.
Jauss’s version of reception theory focused on the reader rather than the author or
text.

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(63)

(64) In Pinter’s plays Violence emerges with the arrival of an unexpected visitor at the
door, and by the end of the play, someone has defeated the other. Pinter insisted
that, “Menace is everywhere. There is plenty of menace in this very room, at this
very moment, you know. You can’t avoid it; you can’t get away from it”. . Printer
thinks that these feelings spring from within human beings. It is a matter of critical
circumstances one may pass through. They are not only external elements that come
from sinister people but also these things embodied within.

(65) “Thou by the Indian Ganges side Shouldst Rubies find; I by the Tide Of Humber would
complain.”

(66) In 1917 Russian formalist Viktor Shklovsky first coined the term “defamiliarization”, in
his essay “Art as Technique”. Defamiliarization refers to the literary device whereby
language is used in such a way that ordinary and familiar objects are made to look
different. It is a process of transformation where language asserts its power to
affect our perception. Jan Mukarovsky emphasized that literariness consists in
foregrounding the linguistic medium.

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Although the concept of defamiliarization was first advocated by the Coleridge in his
Biographia Literaria (1817), it was related to subject matter and novelty of expression.
But The formalists endorse defamiliarization in the usage of formal linguistic devices
in poetry, such as rhyme, metre, metaphor, image and symbol.

(67) (68) Some of the questions asked were : Do you like the story so far? Yes ( ) No ( );
Does Snow White resemble the Snow White you remember? Yes ( ) No ( );
Have you understood, in reading to this point, that Paul is the prince-figure? Yes ( )
No ( )

(69)

(70)

(71) Metalanguage is the language used to talk about language. The language under
study is called the object language and the language being used to make assertions
about it is the metalanguage. Metalanguage is a second-order language. Barthes
distinguished it from the first-order language in modern logic. Since metalanguage
is able to portray, or clarify, or refer, or describe, or explain a natural language, it is
sometimes called the linguist’s “jargon”.

(72) “Glocalization” is a business buzzword that exploded in popularity in 1980s Japan.

Glocalization is the simultaneous occurrence of both universalizing and
particularizing tendencies in contemporary social, political, and economic systems.
The term is a linguistic hybrid of globalization and localization. It was popularized
by the sociologist Roland Robertson and coined by Japanese economists to explain
Japanese global marketing strategies. A glocalization mindset might drive a company
to “think globally and act locally”.

(73) Sir Francis Bacon introduced and popularized the ‘Formal’ essays in the English-
speaking world. Bacon was influenced by the French essays of Michel de Montaigne.
Montaigne first used the term “essais” (or “attempts”) to describe his prose
reflections on ordinary topics.

(74) The Duchess of Malfi is based on the English novel “The Palace of Pleasure” by
William Painter.
“The Palace of Pleasure” is the translation of an Italian novella. The play is set in the
court of Malfi
(Amalfi), Italy, from 1504 to 1510.

(75)

(76)

(77)

(78) Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience espouses the need to prioritize one’s conscience over
the dictates of laws. It criticizes American social institutions and policies, especially
slavery and the Mexican-American War. Thoreau opens Civil Disobedience with the

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maxim “That government is best which governs least,” and he speaks in favor of
government that does not intrude upon men’s lives.

(79)

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(81) The diary by which Pepys is chiefly known was kept between his 27th and 36th years.
He wrote the Diary in a cryptic code, which was his own variation on an existing
form of shorthand, with the names in longhand. In the diary he used to record the
everyday events that were happening whilst he worked for the Navy. His personal
accounts documented an important period in English history from 1660 until 1669;
as a historical source his diary continues to hold great value. At the time in which
Pepys began to write his diary, England was going through a tumultuous period both
politically and socially. Pepys starts The Diary of Samuel Pepys on January 1, 1660,
with a summary of the latest events of the times. The coronation of King Charles II,
the dissolution of the “rump” Parliament by the king, the Great Plague in London, and
in The following year The Great Fire of 1666 which claimed much of London’s original
architecture – all his eyewitness accounts were subsequently reported in his diary. In
the following year, the Second Anglo-Dutch Wars was accounted in the diary, the war
in which the English were badly defeated.
Thinking he is going blind from the strain of too much reading and writing, Pepys
officially ends The Diary of Samuel Pepys on May 31, 1669.

(82) Lala Kanshi Ram is the protagonist of Chaman Nahal’s novel Azadi. Lala Kanshi Ram
and his family i lived in Sialkot. He is a grain merchant. The setting of the novel is
1947 – on the eve of Indian independence. It is also the time when people from both
sides of the Indo - Pakistan border started migrating.

(83) In his definition of “style” Pater echoes Longinus. Pater draws a distinction between
good art and great art, which depends not on its form, but on the matter. It is good
art when the writer is successful in faithfully portraying his sense of fact. But it is
great art when a great subject is treated in great manner. Great art results only when
it ‘has the soul of humanity,’ and nobility of the artist.
The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, Les Miserables, The English Bible are great art.

(84)

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(87) Paralanguage, or vocalics, is the study of non-verbal, non-linguistic elements of the

conversation or voice. It deals with the ways in which people show what they mean
other than by the words they use. For example when we clear our throats, change our
tone, emphasize certain words, frown, gasp, sigh, whisper, shout, wave our hands, or
smile, laugh or cry, string vocal identifiers like umm… and aha... between our words,
or pause or speak faster or slower. Paralanguage deals with the non-verbal qualities
of speech, like amplitude, pitch, rate, and voice quality.

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(88)

(89) Critic Samuel Johnson refers to a loose group of17th-century English poets AS
Metaphysical Poets. Most important poets –
John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, Wallace Stevens,
William Carlos Williams, Thomas Traherne, Abraham Cowley, and Richard Crashaw

(90) The Canadian Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “The medium is the message” in
his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964.
It means that a form (print, visual, musical, etc.) of any message determines the way
in which that message will be perceived.

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(1) 1 (21) 4 (41) 2 (61) 3 (81) 1

(2) 4 (22) 4 (42) 1 (62) 2 (82) 2

(3) 1 (23) 4 (43) 3 (63) 1 (83) 3

(4) 3 (24) 4 (44) 3 (64) 3 (84) 3

(5) 3 (25) 2 (45) 3 (65) 3 (85) 3

(6) 4 (26) 1 (46) 3 (66) 4 (86) 3

(7) 2 (27) 4 (47) 4 (67) 1 (87) 2

(8) 1 (28) 2 (48) 4 (68) 3 (88) 3

(9) 4 (29) 4 (49) 3 (69) 2 (89) 3

(10) 2 (30) 4 (50) 1 (70) 3 (90) 3

(11) 3 (31) 3 (51) 2 (71) 3 (91) 2

(12) 2 (32) 4 (52) 3 (72) 1 (92) 3

(13) 2 (33) 4 (53) 2 (73) 3 (93) 1

(14) 4 (34) 4 (54) 1 (74) 2 (94) 2

(15) 4 (35) 2 (55) 1 (75) 4 (95) 4

(16) 1 (36) 2 (56) 2 (76) 3 (96) 3

(17) 2 (37) 2 (57) 2 (77) 2 (97) 4

(18) 1 (38) 4 (58) 2 (78) 2 (98) 3

(19) 3 (39) 1 (59) 4 (79) 2 (99) 3

(20) 2 (40) 4 (60) 3 (80) 2 (100) 4

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2020 October Shift 2

Question No.: 1
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Non fiction Sub-concept: Magazines Concept fields: Romantic
Age

(1) Arrange the following 19th Century magazines in the chronological order of their
publication :
(A) The London Magazine
(B) Quarterly Review
(C) The Spectator
(D) Edinburgh Review
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (A), (D), (C), (B)
(2) (B), (A), (D), (C)
(3) (D), (B), (A), (C)
(4) (C), (D), (B), (A)

Question No.: 2
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theory Sub-concept: Structuralism and
Post Structuralism Concept fields: NA

(2) A deconstructive reading of a text shows that

(A) a text is to be read always in a context
(B) there is nothing except the text
(C) a text may betray itself
(D) a text may possess an ascertainable meaning
(E) there is an endless postponement of meaning
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (A), (B) and (C) Only
(2) (C), (D) and (E) Only
(3) (B), (C) and (E) Only
(4) (B). (C) and (D) Only

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Question No.: 3
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theory Sub-concept: Feminism Concept
fields: NA

(3) Which two of the following edited the defining work of third-wave feminism, This
Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color?
(A) Audre Lorde
(B) Barbara Smith
(C) Gloria Anzaldua
(D) Cherrie Moraga
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (A) and (B) Only
(2) (C) and (D) Only
(3) (A) and (C) Only
(3) (B) and (D) Only

Question No.: 4
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Language Theories and Pedagogy Sub-concept: Teaching of
English Concept fields: NA

(4) Given below are two statements :

One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion (A): English today is not only the language we teach but also the subject
that enables its learners to become subtle and tough minded readers
Reason (R): Students are encouraged to think and analyse the historical and
ontological status of the texts they read. and how best to read them.
In the light of the above statements.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is correct but (R) is not correct
(4) (A) is not correct but (R) is correct

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Question No.: 5
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theory Sub-concept: T.S. Eliot Concept
fields: NA

(5) Which two of the following plays are mentioned in T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and
Individual Talent”?
(A) Agamemnon
(B) Antigone
(C) Othello
(D) Dr. Faustus
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (A) and (D) Only
(2) (A) and (C) Only
(3) (B) and (C) Only
(4) (B) and (D) Only

Question No.: 6
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Victorian Age Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: Major Works

(6) Who is the author of the short play, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets?
(1) Ben Jonson
(2) George Bernard Shaw
(3) Oscar Wilde
(4) Oliver Goldsmith

Question No.: 7
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Short Stories Concept fields: NA

(7) In which short story does the narrator witness a consumptive young man named Mr.
Shaynor recreate “The Eve of St. Agnes” in a trance?
(1) E.M. Forster’s “The Eternal Moment”
(2) Rudyard Kipling’s “Wireless”
(3) Somerset Maugham’s “The Creative Impulse”
(4) Aldous Huxley’s “The Bookshop”

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Question No.: 8
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theory Sub-concept: NA Concept fields:
NA

(8) Who among the following critics is said to have developed the notion of ‘interpretive
communities’?
(1) Terry Eagleton
(2) Jane Tompkins
(3) Roland Barthes
(4) Stanley Fish

Question No.: 9
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: Key terms Concept fields: NA

(9) Match List I with List II

List I List II
Authors Works

(a) Ferdinand de (i) Two Aspects of language and two types of Aphasic
Saussure Disturbances”

(b) Edward Sapir (ii) Of Grammatology

(c) Jacques Derrida (iii) A Course in General Linguistics

(d) Roman Jakobson (iv) Language

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)
(2) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(3) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(4) (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)

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Question No.: 10
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(10) Who among the following drew attention to the role of print languages in enabling
the rise and spread of nationalism?
(1) Ernest Gellner
(2) Charles Jenks
(3) Benedict Anderson
(4) Frederic Jameson

Question No.: 11
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Rhetoric and Prosody Sub-concept: Figure of speech Concept
fields: Metaphor and simile

(11) Metaphor differs from simile in that

(1) A comparison in metaphor is usually explicit whereas in simile it is implicit
(2) A comparison in metaphor is usually implicit whereas in simile it is explicit
(3) Neither metaphor or simile is rooted in comparison
(4) Simile involves superimposition while metaphor involves comparison

Question No.: 12
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theories Sub-concept: Russian formalism
Concept fields: NA

(12) Which one of the following statements by Roman Jacobson is true about metaphor
and metonymy?
(1) Metaphor is alien to the continuity disorder whereas metonymy is alien to
similarity disorder
(2) Metaphor is alien to the similarity disorder and metonymy to the continuity
disorder
(3) Metaphor is alien to both similarity disorder and continuity disorder and
metonymy is common to both
(4) Metaphor is common to both similarity disorder and continuity disorder but
metonymy is alien to both

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Question No.: 1
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Rural and Urban transformation Sub-concept: Agrarian unrest
and Peasant Movements Concept fields: Peasant Movement during Colonial India
Question No.: 13
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(13) Who is the author of The Complete Plain Words?

(1) Samuel Jhonson
(2) Daniel Jones
(3) Ernest Gowers
(4) Michael Everson

Question No.: 14
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Imagism Concept fields: NA

(14) Which one of these essays by Ezra Pound defines an Image as “that which presents
an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time”?
(1) “A Retrospect”
(2) “The Tradition”
(3) “The Renaissance”
(4) “How to Read”

Question No.: 15
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Renaissance Sub-concept: Jacobean Age Concept fields: Drama

(15) Which of the following characters instruct Faustus in the dark arts?
(1) Robin and Rafe
(2) Cornelius and Valdes
(3) Wagner and Bruno
(4) Old Man and Evil Angel

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Question No.: 16
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: American Literature Sub-concept: Non-Fiction Concept fields:
Essay

(16) In his “Self-Reliance” which two qualities does Emerson refer to as “the Chancellors
of God”?
(A) Truth
(B) Cause
(C) Spirit
(D) Effect
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (A) and (B) Only
(2) (A) and (C) Only
(3) (B) and (C) Only
(4) (B) and (D) Only

Question No.: 17
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: American literature Sub-concept: Novels Concept fields: NA

(17) Which two of the following novels are part of Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy?
(A) The Book of Illusions
(B) Ghosts
(C) The Locked Room
(D) Winter Journal
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

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Question No.: 18
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: Key terms Concept fields: NA

(18) Match List I with List I

List I List II
Concepts Theorists

(a) Competence/ Performance (i) Noam Chomsky

(b) Signifier/Signified (ii) Roman Jakobson

(c) Metaphor/ Metonomy (iii) Louis Hjelmslev

(d) Content/ Expression (iv) Ferdinand de Saussure

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)
(2) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)
(3) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(4) (a)-(i), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)

Question No.: 19
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level:Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theories Sub-concept: Criticism Concept
fields: Mikhail Bakhtin

(19) Who among the following theorists defines novel as “a phenomenon multiform in
style and variform in speech and voice”?
(1) E.M. Forster
(2) Henry James
(3) Mikhail Bakhtin
(4) Eric Auerbach

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Question No.: 20
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(20) “Nice day again, isn’t it?” This sentence is an example of:
(1) Code-switching
(2) Multiple negation
(3) Phatic communication
(4) Nominalization

Question No.: 21
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Puritan Age Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: John Milton

(21) Who was Milton’s model when he recast the first edition (1667) of Paradise Lost in 10
books to 12 books of the second edition (1674)?
(1) Lucan
(2) Ovid
(3) Virgil
(4) Homer

Question No.: 22
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Neoclassical Age Sub-concept: Drama Concept fields: William
Congreve

(22) In which Act of William Congreve’s The Way of the World does the Proviso scene
between Mirabell and Millamant take place?
(1) Act I
(2) Act II
(3) Act III
(4) Act IV

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Question No.: 23
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Victorian Age Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: Charles
Dickens

(23) Match List I with List II

List I List II
Novel Character

(a) Barnaby Rudge (i) Miss La Creevy

(b) Little Dorrit (ii) Miss Dolly

(c) Nicholas Nickleby (iii) Mrs. Boffin

(d) Our Mutual Friend (iv) Mrs. Flintwinch

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
(2) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
(3) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
(4) (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)

Question No.: 24
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Renaissance Sub-concept: Non-Fiction Concept fields: Francis
Bacon

(24) In “Advancement of learning” Francis Bacon divides poetry into three divisions:
(1) Philosophical, religious, imaginative
(2) Epic, dramatic, lyrical
(3) Narrative, representative, allusive
(4) Odes, sonnets, eclogues

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Question No.: 25
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: History of English language Sub-concept: Words from Different
Language Concept fields: NA

(25) Which two of the following words are borrowed into English from Czech?
(A) pistol
(B) robot
(C) sauna
(D) coach
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) (A) and (D) Only

Question No.: 26
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theories Sub-concept: Major Concepts
Concept fields: NA

(26) Match List I with List II

List I List II
Terms Theorists

(a) Heteroglossia (i) Michel Foucault

(b) Heterotopia (ii) Louis Althusser

(c) Grand Narrative (iii) Mikhail Bakhtin

(d) Interpellation (iv) Jean—Francois Lyotard

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(2) (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
(3) (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
(4) (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)

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Question No.: 27
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Renaissance Elizabethan Age Sub-concept: Drama Concept
fields: William Shakespeare

(27) Which of the following statements is correct in relation to Shakespeare’s works?

(1) The Folio edition appeared in the sixteenth century and the ‘quartos’ appeared in
the seventeenth century
(2) The ‘quartos’ appeared during his lifetime and the Folio edition appeared
posthumously
(3) The Folio edition appeared during his lifetime and the ‘quartos’ appeared
posthumously
(4) The ‘quartos refer to works written between 1594 and 1599. and the Folio
includes works written between 1608 and 1613

Question No.: 28
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: Philip Larkin

(28) Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin ends with the line “Never such
innocence again”?
(1) An Arundel Tomb”
(2) “MCMXIV”
(3) “This Be the Verse”
(4) “Aubade”

Question No.: 29
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(29) Arrange the following in the chronological order of publication

(A) Modern English Usage
(B) Proposals for Perfecting the English Language
(C) Usage and Abusage
(D) An American Dictionary of the English Language
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (D), (B), (C), (A)
(2) (B), (C), (D), (A)
(3) (B), (D), (A), (C)
(4) (D), (C), (A), (B)

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Question No.: 30
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Drama Concept fields: theatre of
Absurd

(30) In Harold Pinter’s play The Birthday Party, who suggests the idea of having a birthday
party?
(1) Meg
(2) Goldberg
(3) Lulu
(4) McCann

Question No.: 31
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(31) Which of these following statements are true about Pidgin and Creole?
(A) Pidgin begins as Creole and eventually becomes the first language of a speech
community
(B) Creole begins as Pidgin and eventually becomes the first language of a speech
community
(C) Pidgin is simple but a rule governed language developed for communication
whereas Creole in free from grammatical rules
(D) Pidgin and Creole evolve successively out of a situation where speakers of
mutually unintelligible languages develop a shared language for communication
(often based on one of those languages)
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (A) and (B) Only
(2) (B) and (D) Only
(3) (C) and (D) Only
(4) (A) and (D) Only

Question No.: 32
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Cultural Studies Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(32) Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is
labelled as Reason R.
Assertion (A): Understanding the meaning of any cultural form would not simply
locate it within a specific culture.

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Reason (R): Cultural forms are best studied in terms of how these fit into the
intersection between different cultural networks.
In the light of the above statements,
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(2) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is NOT the correct explanation of (A)
(3) (A) is correct but (R) is not correct
(4) (A) is not correct but (R) is correct

Question No.: 33
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Literary Terms Sub-concept: Ode Concept fields: Horatian Ode

(33) Which two poems in the following list are Odes Written in the Horatian manner?
(A) Ben Jonson, “To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir
Ludy.: Cary and Sir H. Morison”
(B) Andrew Marwell, “Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland”
(C) Alexander Pope, “Ode on Solitude”
(D) Alfred Tennyson, “Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington”
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) (A) and (D) Only

Question No.: 34
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Language In India Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(34) Given below are two statements:

Statement I: The Education Commission (1964-66) recommended the removal of
English as a medium of instruction at the college level.
Statement II: English is still largely the language of administration and jurisprudence
in India.
In the 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

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Question No.: 35
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(35) Which two of the following meanings are admissible for the following sentences :
“You do not know how good oysters taste”
(A) You do not know that oysters taste good as food
(B) You do not know how the oysters taste when cooked
(C) You do not know what the oysters taste when they eat
(D) You do not know how the good oysters taste when they eat
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(1) (A) and (D) Only
(2) (B) and (C) Only
(3) (B) and (D) Only
(4) (C) and (D) Only

Question No.: 36
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Cultural Studies Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA
(36) Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Cultures and cultural meanings are the same the world over.
Statement II : It is impossible to divide the world into exclusive cultural blocs.
In the light of the above statements,
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(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

Question No.: 37
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA
(37) Which of the following journals deals with the analysis of only theoretical concepts?
(1) Granta
(2) Manoa
(3) boundary 2
(4) Arethusa

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Question No.: 38
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Cultural Studies Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(38) Which two of the following essays have proved particularly productive in the
disciplinary practices of Cultural Studies?
(A) Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
(B) Viktor Shklovsky, “Art as Technique”
(C) Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny”
(D) Stuart Hall, “Encoding/decoding”
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(1) (A) and (B) Only
(2) (B) and (C) Only
(3) (A) and (D) Only
(4) (A) and (C) Only

Question No.: 39
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Renaissance Sub-concept: Jacobean age Concept fields: Ben
johnson

(39) Who among the following called the ‘Poetasters’, ‘The rhyming friends”?
(1) Lucan
(2) Horace
(3) Pindar
(4) Plato

Question No.: 40
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Victorian Age Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: Charles
dickens

(40) Mr. Pumblechook is a character in:

(1) Little Dorret
(2) Nicholas Nickleby
(3) Hard Times
(4) Great Expectations

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Question No.: 41
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Non fiction Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(41) Arrange the following in the chronological order of their publication :

(A) Past and Present
(B) Leviathan
(C) Unto This Last
(D) The Life of Samuel Johnson
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (B), (D), (A), (C)
(2) (C), (D), (A), (B)
(3) (B), (A), (D), (C)
(4) (C), (A), (D), (B)

Question No.: 42
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Romantic Age Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: NA

(42) To which of these boarding schools is Jane Eyre sent by her aunt Mrs. Reed?
(1) Lowood School
(2) Hailsham school
(3) Abbey Mount
(4) Greyfriar’s School

Question No.: 43
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Classical criticism Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(43) Arrange the following critical works in the chronological order of publication: -
(A) ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
(B) A Defence of Rhyme
(C) “Life of Cowley”
(D) “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)

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Question No.: 44
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Rural and Urban transformation Sub-concept: Agrarian unrest
and Peasant Movements Concept fields: Peasant Movement during Colonial India

(44) Match List I with List II

List I Text List II Author

(a) After Amnesia (i) Gauri Viswanathan

(b) The Indianization of English (ii) Harish Trivedi

(c) Masks of Conquest (iii) G.N. Devy

(d) Colonial Transactions (iv) B.B. Kachru

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(2) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
(3) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(4) (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)

Question No.: 45
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Literary criticism Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(45) Who among the following coined the term, ‘aesthetics’?

(1) Arthur Danto
(2) Alexander Baumgarten
(3) Immanuel Kant
(4) David Hume

Question No.: 46
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Classical criticism Sub-concept: Plato Concept fields: NA

(46) The two broad divisions of reality in Plato’s theory of reality are:
(1) visible and assumable
(2) intelligible and opinable
(3) visible and intelligible
(4) intelligible and shadows

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Question No.: 47
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age and Postmodern Sub-concept: Angry young man
Concept fields: John Osborne

(47) Which two of the following plays were written by John Osborne?
(A) Look Back in Anger
(B) Loot
(C) Funeral Games
(D) Dejavu
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) (B) and (C) Only

Question No.: 48
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theories Sub-concept: Feminism Concept
fields: NA

(48) Which two of the following periodicals are devoted to feminist theoretical
discussion?
(A) Spectrum
(B) Signs
(C) Chrysalis
(D) Transition
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
(1) (B) and (C) only
(2) (A) and (C) only
(3) (B) and (D) only
(4) (A) and (D) only

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Question No.: 49
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Classical Criticism Sub-concept: Philip Sideny Concept fields:
NA

(49) Who among the following refutes Plato’s charge that poets are liars, by arguing that
the poet “Nothing affirms, and therefore never lieth”?
(1) John Dryden
(2) Philip Sidney
(3) George Puttenham
(4) Richard Hooker

Question No.: 50
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: NA

(50) Joyce Cary’s The Horse’s Mouth, considered by many to be his masterpiece, is part of
a trilogy of novels. Which two titles from the following list belong to this trilogy?
(A) Aissa Saved
(B) To Be a Pilgrim
(C) Herself Surprised
(D) Charley Is My Darling
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) (A) and (D) Only

Question No.: 51
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(51) Match List I with List II

List I Institutions List II Locations

(a) The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (i) Shimla

(b) Indian Institute of Advanced Study (ii) New Delhi

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List I Institutions List II Locations

(c) National Library of India (iii) Kolkata

(d) Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (iv) Pune

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(2) (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
(3) (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)
(4) (a)-(i), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)

Question No.: 52
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Language In India Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(52) Who among the following held that “the people of Hindustan” are “a race of men
lamentably degenerate and base, retaining but a feeble sense of moral obligation...”?
(1) Charles Wilkins
(2) Thomas Macaulay
(3) Charles Grant
(4) David Hare

Question No.: 53
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Indian Writing In English Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: NA

(53) Arrange in the chronological order of publication :

(A) The Unfinished Man
(B) Gitanjali
(C) Jejuri
(D) The Sceptred Flute
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (B), (A), (D), (C)
(2) (D), (B), (C), (A)
(3) (B), (D), (A), (C)
(4) (B), (D), (C), (A)

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Question No.: 54
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: World Literature Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(54) Match List I with List II

List I List II
Author Autobiography/Memoir

(a) Pablo Neruda (i) Under My Skin

(b) Graham Greene (ii) Speak, Memory

(c) Doris Lessing (iii) Memoirs

(d) Vladimir Nabakov (iv) A Sort of Life

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(2) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
(3) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(4) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)

Question No.: 55
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Research Method and Material In English Sub-concept: Research
Paper Writing Concept fields: NA

(55) Which of the following information has now been excluded while making an entry for
a book in the 8th edition of MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers?
(1) Year of publication
(2) Place of publication
(3) Name of the publisher
(4) Omission of subtitle

Question No.: 56
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Non-Fiction Concept fields: NA

(56) Which two of the following are part of Virginia Woolf’s collection of autobiographical
essays

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(A) “A Will to Word It”

(B) “A Sketch of the Past”
(C) “A Faint Hue of the Past”
(D) “Am I a Snob”
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

Question No.: 57
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Research Method and Material in English Sub-concept: NA
Concept fields: NA

(57) While assembling a working bibliography which two of the following reference
sources will be particularly useful to a literary researcher?
(A) MLA International Bibliography
(B) New Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry and Poetics
(C) Library of Congress Catalogue
(D) Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature
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) (C) and (D) only

Question No.: 58
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Post Modern Age Sub-concept: Drama Concept fields: Absurd
plays

(58) What is the content of the suitcases that Lucky carries in the second Act of Waiting
for Godot?
(1) Books
(2) Pozzo’s Clothing
(3) Sand
(4) Tiny Skulls

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Question No.: 59
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Restoration age Sub-concept: Non fiction Concept fields: NA

(59) Which of the following short stories by Jorge Luis Borges has its epigraph from The
Anatomy of Melancholy?
(1) “Borges and I”
(2) ‘Death and the Compass”
(3) ‘The Library of Babel”
(4) “The Garden of Forking Paths”

Question No.: 60
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Research Method and Material in English Sub-concept: Steps Of
research Concept fields: NA

(60) Which of the following is the correct sequence of stages in empirical research?
(A) Data Collection
(B) Hypothesis
(C) Validation
(D) Findings
(E) Analysis
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (A), (E), (D), (B) and (C)
(2) (B), (A), (E), (C) and (D)
(3) (B), (C), (A), (D) and (E)
(4) (A), (C), (B), (E) and (D)

Question No.: 61
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Jacobean Age Sub-concept: Metaphysical Poetry Concept fields:
NA

(61) Match List I with List II

List I Poet List II Poem

(a) John Donne (i) “The Retreat’

(b) Andrew Marvell (ii) “A Valediction of Weeping”

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List I Poet List II Poem

(c) George Herbert (iii) “The Garden”

(d) Henry Vaugham (iv) “The Collar”

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(2) (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
(3) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
(4) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)

Question No.: 62
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Elizabethan Period Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: Edmund
Spenser

(62) Which of the following is true in relation to Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene?
(1) A letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh was prefixed to the 1590 edition of the
poem.
(2) A letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh was appended to the 1590 edition of the
poem.
(3) A letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh was prefixed to the 1596 edition of the
poem.
(4) A letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh was appended to the 1596 edition of the
poem.

Question No.: 63
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Neoclassical Age Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: Daniel
Defoe

(63) Which two of the following works are Daniel Defoe’s historical narratives?
(A) History of the Rebellion
(B) Meditations on a Broomstick
(C) Journal of the Plague Year
(D) Memories of a Cavalier
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (A) and (B) Only
(2) (B) and (C) Only
(3) (B) and (D) Only
(4) (C) and (D) Only

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Question No.: 64
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Indian Writing in English Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: NA

(64) Arrange the following novels in the chronological order of their publication:
(A) The White Tiger
(B) A Tiger for Malgudi
(C) A Suitable Boy
(D) Heat and Dust
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (D), (B), (C), (A)
(2) (B), (D), (C), (A)
(3) (B), (C), (A), (D)
(4) (B), (C), (B), (A)

Question No.: 65
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: English In India history evolution future Sub-concept: NA
Concept fields: NA

(65) Which agency among the following was of the view that “use of English, - divides the
people into two nations, the few who govern and the many who are governed”?
(1) The Kunzru Committee (1955)
(2) The Education Commission (1948)
(3) The Education commission (1964-66)
(4) The working Group (UGC) on Regional Languages (1978)

Question No.: 66
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: American literature Sub-concept: Fiction and Short stories
Concept fields: NA

(66) Which of the following short stories by Edgar Allan Poe has a narrator who has a rival
with the same name and uncanny physical resemblance?
(1) “Hop-Frog”
(2) “William Wilson”
(3) “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether”
(4) “The Imp of the Perverse”

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Question No.: 67
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Linguistics Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(67) Language allows us to talk about the things and events not present in the immediate
environment.
Which of the following terms describes this property of language?
(1) Arbitrariness
(2) Displacement
(3) Productivity
(4) Discreteness

Question No.: 68
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: English in India History Evolution future Sub-concept: Education
commission Concept fields: NA

(68) Which agency among the following made a distinction between the teaching of
English as a skill and the teaching of English literature?
(1) The University Education Commission, 1948-49
(2) The Secondary Education Commission, 1952-53
(3) Indian Universities Commission, 1902
(4) The Education Commission, 1964-66

Question No.: 69
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary Theories Sub-concept: Marxism Concept
fields: Frankfurt School

(69) Which one of the following captures accurately the view of Frankfurt School of
Critical Theory?
(1) The culture industries in still in their mass audiences a capacity to question and
transform
(2) The culture industries engender passivity and conformity among their mass
audiences
(3) Power and culture are two distinct modes of social articulation, separate from
each other
(4) The analysis of culture should be divorced from politics and power relations

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Question No.: 70
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary Theories Sub-concept: Structuralism and
Poststructuralism Concept fields: Roland Barthes

(70) Which two of the following features shall apply to Roland Barthes’s notion of a
‘writerly text’?
(A) In case of writerly text, the reader accepts the meaning without too much
reading effort
(B) A writerly text tends to focus attention on what is written
(C) A writerly text makes the reader a producer
(D) A writerly text tends to be self-conscious.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (A) and (B) Only
(2) (B) and (C) Only
(3) (A) and (C) Only
(4) (C) and (D) Only

Question No.: 71
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Post Modern Age Sub-concept: Non fiction Concept fields: Peter
Ackroyd

(71) Which two of the following are non-fictional works by Peter Ackroyd?
(A) Escape from Earth
(B) The Great Fire of London
(C) The English Ghost
(D) English Music
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

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Question No.: 72
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Indian Writing in English Sub-concept: Non fiction Concept
fields: NA

(72) Arrange these autobiographical texts in the chronological order of publication:

(A) Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
(B) My Experiments with Truth
(C) Prison and Chocolate Cake
(D) My Story
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (D), (A), (C), (B)
(2) (C), (B), (A), (D)
(3) (B), (A), (C), (D)
(4) (B), (C), (A), (D)

Question No.: 73
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Victorian Age Sub-concept: Novel/Fiction Concept fields: NA

(73) Which two of the following were published in the year 1859?
(A) On the Origin of Species
(B) A Tale of Two Cities
(C) Alice in Wonderland
(D) Silas Marner
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

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Question No.: 74
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Indian Writing in english Sub-concept: Non fiction Concept
fields: Nissim Ezekiel

(74) Who wrote the essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine” (1984) as a reply to V.S. Naipaul’s “An
Area of Darkness”?
(1) A. K. Ramanujan
(2) Nissim Ezekiel
(3) Nayantara Sahgal
(4) Mahesh Dattani

Question No.: 75
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Neoclassical Period Sub-concept: Transitional period Concept
fields: Non Fiction

(75) Which two of the following are Samuel Johnson’s statements about metaphysical
poets?
(A) they were singular in their thoughts
(B) they were careful in their diction
(C) they affected combination of dissimilar images
(D) they avoided occult resemblances
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(1) (B) and (C) Only
(2) (C) and (D) Only
(3) (B) and (A) Only
(4) (A) and (C) Only

Question No.: 77
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Cultural Studies Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(77) Arrange the following in their chronological order of publication:

(A) The Pisan Canto
(B) Ballad of Reading Gaol
(C) Mourn not for Adonais
(D) First step-up Parnassus
(E) The Complaint of Troilus

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (E), (D), (B), (C), (A)
(2) (B), (C), (A), (E), (D)
(3) (C). (A), (B), (D), (E)
(4) (E), (D), (C), (B), (A)

Question No.: 78
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Victorian Age Sub-concept: Poetry Concept fields: Robert
Browning

(78) What does the titular Setebos in Robert Browning’s “Caliban upon Setebos” refer to?
(1) The original name of Sycorax, Caliban’s mother
(2) The brutal god in whom Caliban believes
(3) The name of the island in which Caliban lives
(4) The monster whom Caliban is afraid of

Question No.: 79
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: History of English language Development Sub-concept: Origin of
words Concept fields: NA

(79) Match List I with List II

List I List II
Word Borrowed Source Language

(a) caste (i) Norse

(b) beef (ii) German

(c) blunder (iii) Portuguese

(d) flak (iv) French

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
(2) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
(3) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(4) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)

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Question No.: 80
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Renaissance Sub-concept: Drama Concept fields: NA

(80) Arrange the following plays in their chronological order :

(A) The Tempest
(B) All For Love
(C) Volpone
(D) The School for Scandal
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (A), (C), (B), (D)
(2) (C), (A), (B), (D)
(3) (C), (B), (A), (D)
(4) (A), (D), (B), (C)

TITLE YEAR

(C) Volpone 1606

(A) The Tempest 1 November 1611

(B) All For Love 1678

(D) The School for Scandal 8 May 1777

Question No.: 81
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Novel Concept fields: John Galsworthy

(81) Which two of the following are the interludes in John Galsworthy’s “The Forsyte
Saga” (1922)?
(A) To Let
(B) Indian Summer of a Forsyte
(C) Awakening
(D) In Chancery
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

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Question No.: 82
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Research method and Material in English Sub-concept: NA
Concept fields: NA

(82) Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is
labelled as Reason R.
Assertion (A): No piece of research will be the first of its kind.
Reason (R): The reliability of progress in knowledge is dependent on the honesty of
the researchers.
In the light of the above statements,
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(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 true but (R) is true

Question No.: 83
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Research method and Material in English Sub-concept: NA
Concept fields: NA

(83) Which two of the following citations conform to the documentation format of the
eighth edition of The MLA Handbook?
(A) Baron, Naomi S. “Redefining Reading: The impact of Digital Communication
Media” ‘MLA, vol 128, no.1, Jan.2013, PP. 193-200.
(B) Adichie, Chimamanda Ngosi. “On Monday of Last Week”, The Thing Around Your
Neck. London: Knopf, 2009. 74-94
(C) Baron, Naomi S. “Redefining Reading: The impact of Digital communication
Media”. PMLA 128.1
(D) Adichie, Chiraamanda Ngosi “On Monday of Last Week”. The Thing Around Your
Neck. AI/Ted A. Knopf, 2009, PP. 74-94.
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 (A) only

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Question No.: 84
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Research method and Material in English Sub-concept: NA
Concept fields: NA

(84) Inductive method differs from deductive method in drawing its conclusion from
(1) Verification
(2) Particular instances
(3) Applications
(4) General truths

Question No.: 85
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Difficult Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: World Literature Sub-concept: Russian Concept fields: Fyodor
Dostoevsky

(85) How does Christ respond to the Grand Inquisitor’s accusations in Brothers
Karamazov?
(1) He kneels before the Grand Inquisitor
(2) He kisses the Grand Inquisitor on his lips
(3) He begins to weep in remorse
(4) He says, “Mea culpa, mia culpa, mia maxima culpa”

Question No.: 86
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Moderate Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Literary Criticism Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(86) Match List I with List II

List I Critics List II Essays

(a) L.C. Knights (i) “The Study of Poetry”

(b) Lionel Trilling (ii) “Restoration Comedy: The Reality and the Myth”

(c) Matthew Arnold (iii) “Poetry for Poetry’s Sake”

(d) A.C. Bradley (iv) “The Sense of the Past”

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Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(2) (a)-(iv). (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
(3) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
(4) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)

Question No.: 87
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Greco Roman period Sub-concept: Drama Concept fields: na

(87) In which two of the following plays does the blind seer, Tiresias, appear?
(A) Oedipus the King
(B) Agamemnon
(C) Antigone
(D) Oedipus at Colonus
The blind prophet, or seer, or Tiresias appears in Antigone, he also appears in
Oedipus the King.
He warns Creon not to execute Antigone. When Creon insults Tiresias, the blind
prophet or seer, prophecies that the gods will punish Creon for Antigone’s death by
taking the life of his child.
Tiresias in the story of Oedipus the King, knows the details of Oedipus’ ancestry and
the death of King Laius, who died before Oedipus came to power.
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) (C) and (D) Only

Question No.: 88
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Classical Criticism Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(88) Which two of the following poets defended poetry against Plato’s denigration of
Poetry?
(A) John Dryden
(B) P.B. Shelley
(C) T.S. Eliot
(D) Philip Sidney

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Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(1) (B) and (D) Only
(2) (A) and (B) Only
(3) (B) and (C) Only
(4) (C) and (A) Only

Question No.: 89
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Contemporary Literary theories Sub-concept: Feminism Concept
fields: NA

(89) Who among the following has coined the term, ‘genderlect’?
(1) Lydia Callis
(2) Kate Burridge
(3) Deborah Tannen
(4) Mary Haas

Question No.: 90
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: Modern Age Sub-concept: Irish literature Concept fields:
Seamus Heaney

(90) Which two of the following poems by Seamus Heaney come under his Bog Poems?
(A) “Personal Helicon”
(B) “Punishment”
(C) “The Early Purges”
(D) “Tollund Man”
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

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Question No.: 91
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(91) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
WHEN I’M ALONE
‘When I’m alone’— the words tripped off his tongue As though to be alone were
nothing strange. ‘When I was young, he said, when I was young ...’ I thought of age,
and loneliness, and change, I thought how strange we grow when we’re alone, And
how unlike the selves that meet, and talk, And blow the candles out, and say good-
night, Alone ...The word is life endured and known. It is the stillness where our spirits
walk And all but in most faith is overthrown.
— SIEGFRIED SASSOON
For the poet. ‘Being alone’ is a condition conducive to
(1) happiness of the self
(2) becoming different from others
(3) growing up in an unexpected way
(4) thinking in a strange way

Question No.: 92
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(92) (Passage)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
For the speaker of the words When rm alone’, being alone is
(1) The normal fate of a human being all his life
(2) The normal fate of a human being when he is young
(3) Not unlike being with others whom we meet
(4) Not strange as a person should feel alone

Question No.: 93
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(93) (Passage)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
Which two of the following statements aptly captures the meaning of ‘Alone’ for
thinking beings?

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(A) Meeting talking and bidding goodnight

(B) Quietude and calmness of self
(C) Life lived and understood
(D) Becoming free from faith
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (A) and (B) Only
(2) (B) and (C) Only
(3) (C) and (A) Only
(4) (D) and (B)

Question No.: 94
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(94) Read the following passage and answer questions that follow:
Poetry, as a mania — one of Plato’s two higher forms of “divine” mania — has, in all
its species, a men insanity incidental to it, the “defect of its quality”, into which it
may lapse in its moment of weakness and the insanity which follows a vivid poetic
anthropomorphism like that of Rossetti may be noted here and there in his work, in a
forced and almost grotesque materializing of abstractions, as Dante also became at
times a mere subject of the scholastic realism of the Middle Me.
— Walter Pater
In the above. Passage poetry is described as one of Plato’s two higher forms of
‘divine’ madness.
Which is the other one?
Choose the correct option?
(1) Beloved
(2) Love
(3) Jealously
(4) Lover

Question No.: 95
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(95) (Passage)
Read the following passage and answer questions that follow:
In Rossetti, the forced personifications may be :
(A) an incidental defect of poetic quality

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(B) examples of a madness of thought

(C) an exaggerated concretisation of things
(D) a divinely inspired poetic expression
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
(1) (A) and (B) Only
(2) (D) and (C) Only
(3) (B) and (A) Only
(4) (C) and (A) Only

Question No.: 96
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(96) Read the following passage and answer questions:

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

Question No.: 97
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(97) (Passage)
Read the following passage and answer questions:
Who is the speaker of the above lines?
(1) Helena
(2) Thisbe
(3) Peasblossom
(4) Hermia

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Question No.: 98
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(98) (Passage)
Read the following passage and answer questions:
The above lines are addressed to
(1) Theseus
(2) Egeus
(3) Oberon
(4) Philostrate

Question No.: 99
Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(99) Read the following and then answer the questions that follow :
He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves:
looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they
contained. Say, good M’Choakumchild. When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill
each jar brim full by-and-by; dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the
robber Fancy lurking within —or sometimes only maim him and distort him!
— Dickens Hard Times
In the expression, “looking into all the vessels ranged before him”, which one of the
following devices is used?
(1) Synecdoche
(2) Metonymy
(3) Metaphor
(4) Simile

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Question No.: 100

Question Type: MCQ Marking: (+2), (-0)
Difficulty Level: Easy Expected time to Solve (in second): 90
TOPIC: English Concept: NA Sub-concept: NA Concept fields: NA

(100) (Passage)
Read the following and then answer the questions that follow :
‘Fancy’ is opposed to which two of the following?
(A) Emotion
(B) Reason
(C) Fact
(D) Imagination
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (B) and (C) Only
(2) (C) and (D) Only
(3) (A) and (C) Only
(4) (B) and (D) Only

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Explanation
(1)

(2)

(3) Third-wave feminism began around the 1990s to about 2011/2013. It primarily
focused on issues like individualism, stopping of gender violence, intersectionality,
reproductive rights, the reclamation of derogatory terms, etc. Third-wave feminists
often focus on “micro-politics” and challenge the second wave’s paradigm as to what
is, or is not, good for females. Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa had published
the anthology, This Bridge Called My Back (1981).

(4)

(5)

(6) The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a 1910 short parody play by George Bernard Shaw. It
shows how William Shakespeare, intending to meet the “Dark Lady”, but by chance
encounters Queen Elizabeth I and tries to convince her to make a public theater.
The play was written as part of a campaign to make a “Shakespeare National
Theater” by 1916.

(7)

(8) Stanley Fish proposed the concept of “interpretive community”. He says that there
are some communities (or groups of people) who interpret literary text in a similar
manner. These communities follow the same pattern and strategies for reading
literary texts, for writing literary texts, for constituting their properties, and assigning
their intentions.

(9)

(10) Benedict Anderson wrote “Imagined Communities” in 1983, where he coined the
term “Print capitalism”. According to him – “Print capitalism” is a theory underlying
the concept of a nation, which emerges with a common language and discourse
generated from the use of the printing press, and proliferated by a capitalist
marketplace.

(11) The main difference is that Similes use connecting words such as’ and `as’, whereas
Metaphors do not use connecting words.

(12) In a metaphor, the comparison is based on the similarities. In metonymy, the

comparison is based on contiguity. Metaphor is used for substitution. Metonymy is
used for association.

(13) The Complete Plain Words is an essential guide for anyone who needs to
communicate clearly, accurately, and fluently in writing.

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(14) In his essay, “A Retrospect” Pound presents his beliefs about what makes good
poetry. In the essay, Pound explains the “rules” of imagism. Pound defines “image” as
“an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

(15)

(16) In his essay “Self-Reliance” , Emerson argues that “Cause and effect” are “the
chancellors of God”. He claims that “Cause and effect” are very opposites of fortune,
luck, or chance. By self-reliance, a man is able to turn his wheel of fortune, according
to his own wish. Through the wisdom of self-reliance, people become masters of
their own destinies.

(17) “The New York Trilogy” is a series of novels by American author Paul Auster : City of
Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986), and The Locked Room (1986). The three were later on
collected into a single volume.

(18)

(19)

(20) Phatic communication is small talk, or a small casual conversation. It’s only purpose
is to reinforce social bonds. It is neither informative nor deep.

(21) Milton’s model was Virgil’s Aeneid (I century BC)

(22)

(23)

(24) According to Bacon ,The narrative is a mere imitation of history, Representative is as

a visible history, Allusive, or parabolical, is a narration applied only to express some
special purpose or conceit.

(25)

(26)

(27) Before the publication of the First Folio in 1623, nineteen of the thirty-seven plays
in Shakespeare’s canon had appeared in quarto format. With the exception of
Othello (1622), all of the quartos were published prior to the date of Shakespeare’s
retirement from the theatre in about 1611.
William Shakespeare’s First Folio was published in 1623 and contains 36 Comedies,
Histories, & Tragedies.

(28) “MCMXIV” (1914) is a single sentence spread over four stanzas. It was published in
Larkin’s 1964 volume The Whitsun Weddings. ‘MCMXIV’ is the year 1914 in Roman
numerals. ‘MCMXIV’ suggests the lapidary inscriptions on tombs – or, indeed, on war
memorials. It focuses on the year 1914 – the year of the outbreak of the First World
War, in August 1914. The poem might be viewed as a war poem, but a war poem
which analyses and explores the impact of the war from a civilian perspective.

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(29)

(30)

(31) Pidgin refers to a language used as a means of communication between people who
do not share a common language. When a pidgin develops into a more complex
language and becomes the first language of a community, it is called a creole. A
pidgin is nobody’s natural language; a creole develops as a new generation grows up
speaking the pidgin as its main language. The grammar of a creole generally remains
simpler than that of the parent languages, but the new language begins to develop
larger vocabularies to provide for a wider range of situations.

(32)

(33) The Horatian Ode is simply a stanzaic form in which all stanzas are structured in the
same pattern at the discretion of the poet (rhyme, meter, number of lines etc.). It is
a short lyric poem written in stanzas of two or four lines in the manner of the 1st-
century-BC Latin poet Horace. Andrew Marvell produced one of the finest English
Horatian odes in 1650 on Cromwell’s return from Ireland. Alexander Pope’s “Ode on
Solitude” is a beautiful example of an ode in the Horatian tradition. Pope uses four-
line stanzas, which are typical of Horatian odes.

(34)

(35)

(36)

(37)

(38) Laura Mulvey developed the ‘male gaze’ theory in her 1975 essay ‘Visual pleasure and
narrative cinema’. She shows how the classic Hollywood film typically positioned its
female as a passive object within the narrative, merely functioning in relation to an
active male who drives the story to unwind.
Stuart Hall developed an ‘encoding/decoding’ model of communication that describes
how media messages are created, circulated, and consumed by people in society.

(39)

(40) In Great Expectations, Mr. Pumblechook was a large hard- breathing middle-
aged slow man’, a greedy merchant who is obsessed with money. Pumblechook is
responsible for arranging Pip’s first meeting with Miss Havisham.

(41)

(42)

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(44) G. N. Devy’s “After Amnesia” was first published in 1992. It presents a penetrating
analysis of contemporary literary scholarship in Indian languages.
“Masks of Conquest” by Gauri Viswanathan is a classic work in postcolonial
literature. It describes how the introduction of English studies in India under British
rule functioned as an effective form of political control “Colonial Transactions”
by Harish Trivedi deals with literary and cultural exchanges that have taken place
between England and India over the past 200 years under British rule.
Braj Kachru 1984, who has considered the process of Indianization of English
in detail, maintains that features of the English language in India have been
considerably influenced by the Indian socio-cultural norms that stipulate rules by
which word symbols are related to each other to transmit messages

(45) Alexander Baumgarten – a German rationalist philosopher – coined the term

“aesthetics” in 1735.
He defined “aesthetics” as the study of the nature of beauty and art, which
comprises one of the five classical fields of philosophical inquiry.

(46) According to Plato, reality is divided into two basic parts: the invisible (intelligible),
unchanging realm of universals (or Ideas also sometimes called Forms), and the
visible, ever-changing realm of particulars (i.e., physical objects).

(47) Other works-

The Devil Inside Him 1950
Look Back in Anger 1956
The Entertainer 1957
Hedda Gabler 1972
Déjàvu 1992

(48) Signs is the leading international journal in women’s studies that publishes
pathbreaking articles, comparative perspectives, review essays, and retrospectives of
interdisciplinary interest addressing race, gender, class, culture, nation, and sexuality.
Chrysalis, a self-publishedmagazine of Women’s Culture, was a feminist publication
produced from 1977 to 1980.

(49)

(50)

(51)

(52) Charles Grant in his – Observations on the State of Society Among the Asiatics of
Great Britain, writes…
“We cannot avoid recognising in the people of Hindostan, a race of men lamentably
degenerate and base, retaining but a feeble sense of moral obligation; yet obstinate
in their disregard of what they know to be right, governed by malevolent and
licentious passions, strongly exemplifying the effects produced on society by a great
and general corruption of manners, and sunk in misery by their vices, in a country

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peculiarly calculated by its natural advantages to promote the prosperity of its

inhabitants”.

(53)

(54) Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), was the poet and politician from «Chile». He wrote,
«Memoirs».
y Henry Graham Greene (1904 –1991), was an English novelist and journalist who wrote,
“A Sort of Life”.
y Doris May Lessing (1919 –2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist who
wrote, “Under My Skin”.
y Vladimir Nabokov (1899 –1977), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, wrote,
«Speak, Memory

(55)

(56) Virginia Woolf provides insight into her early life in her autobiographical essays,
including Reminiscences (1908), 22 Hyde Park Gate (1921), and A Sketch of the Past
(1940).

(57) MLA International Bibliography is an index of scholarship on all aspects of modern

literature and languages. It indexes bibliographies, dissertations, journal articles,
monographs, proceedings, series, scholarly websites, etc. It includes over 2.8 million
citations, and over 66,000 are added each year.
The Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature is an index of 300 general-interest
periodicals in the English language.

(58) Lucky is a slave to the character Pozzo. His props include a picnic basket, a coat, and
a suitcase full of sand – symbolic of the sands of time.

(59) Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “The Library of Babel”, was first published in 1941.
The story is basically connected to melancholy. The inhabitants of the Library are
depressed because they are unable to handle too much information about this
universe. Both Burton’s and Borges’ narrators would write in order to avoid being
melancholy.
The epigraph – “By this art you may contemplate the variation of the twenty-three
letters...”
(Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy) – is the opening of Borges’ short story “The
Library of Babel”.

(60) Hypothesis
y Data collection
y Analysis
y Validation
y Findings

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(62) In a letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh and appended to the 1590 edition of The
Faerie Queene, Spenser explains the plan, purpose, and reason of the poem, which
he was never able to finish.

(63)

(64)

(65) The Government of India appointed a university Education Commission under the
chairmanship of Dr. Radhakrishnan in November 1948. The Commission made a
number of significant recommendations on various aspects of higher education and
submitted its report in August 1949. One of the recommendations of the Commission
was that – the medium of instruction for higher education should be regional
language and English be replaced as early as possible by an Indian language which
cannot be Sanskrit on account of vital difficulties,

(66) The narrator of this classical story by Poe, – assumes the name ‘William Wilson’
to hide his real name. He is telling the events of the story from his deathbed. He
remembers his childhood and schooldays in England, esp. a boy with the same name
as him, who joined the school on the same day as the narrator. They are also the
same height. As he gets to know this other William Wilson better, the narrator comes
to dislike him more and more, because of their resemblance. His double turns up
again and again at different points of time, in his lifetime to his great annoyance. The
narrator drags ‘William Wilson’ into a private room, and stabs him in a fit of rage. But
suddenly, the room transforms, and the body of his double has turned into a mirror,
in which the narrator sees that he is the one who has actually been stabbed. Then
he hears his double-speaking as if in the narrator’s own voice, telling him that the
narrator only existed through his double, and now that he has killed his double, he
has murdered himself.

(67) In linguistics, displacement is the capability of language to communicate about

things that are not immediately present; i.e., things that are either not here or are
not here now. It is a characteristic of language that allows users to talk about things
and events other than those occurring in the here and now.
Displacement is one of the distinct properties of human language. Its significance as
one of the 13 (later 16) “design features of language” was noted by American linguist
Charles Hockett in 1960.
Different languages accomplish displacement in different ways. English has a system
of auxiliary verbs (e.g., will, was, were, had) and affixes (e.g., pre- in predates; -ed
in dated) to signal when an event occurred relative to the moment of speaking or
relative to other events.

(68)

(69) Frankfurt School is group of German researchers who applied Marxism to a radical
interdisciplinary social theory. Its members tried to develop a theory of society that
was based on Marxism and Hegelian philosophy, and also utilized the insights of
psychoanalysis, sociology, existential philosophy, and other disciplines. Most of the
institute’s scholars were forced to leave Germany after Adolf Hitler’s accession to
power (1933), and many found refuge in the United States.

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Jürgen Habermas emerged as the most prominent member of the Frankfurt School.
Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, and Jürgen
Habermas were its important proponents.

(70) Roland Barthes used the terms: — Visible (“readerly”) means texts that are
straightforward and demand no special effort to understand, and — Scriptible
(“writerly”) means texts whose meaning is not immediately evident and demand
some effort on the part of the reader.

(71)

(72)

(73) Explanation:
(A) On the Origin of Species1859
(B) A Tale of Two Cities 1859
(C) Alice in Wonderland 1865
(D) Silas Marner1861

(74)

(75) According to Samuel Johnson, metaphysical poets were: singular in their thoughts,
careless in their diction, affected by a combination of dissimilar images, and very
fond of occult resemblances.

(76)

(77)

(78) In the story, Caliban is said to be an undeclared son of Sycorax and “the devil”.
Setebos is a demonic god worshipped by Sycorax and Caliban, and the Greater-Scope
antagonist of the 1611 tragedy comedy play, “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare.

(79)

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(84) Inductive reasoning moves from specific observations to broad generalizations, and
deductive reasoning the other way around. Inductive reasoning aims at developing a
theory while deductive reasoning aims at testing an existing theory.

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(86)

(87)

(88)

(89) Deborah Tannen believes that women and men use language differently. They
have different ways of communicating and different dialects or genderlects. The
Genderlect Theory explains the communication differences between men and
women. She states that most of the time men and women appear to misunderstand
each other despite speaking the same language.

(90) Seamus Heaney’s important Bog Poems —Bogland, Tollund Man, Bog Queen, The
Grauballe Man, Punishment, Strange Fruit

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Answer Key

(1) 3 (21) 3 (41) 1 (61) 4 (81) 3

(2) 3 (22) 4 (42) 1 (62) 2 (82) 2

(3) 2 (23) 3 (43) 3 (63) 4 (83) Dropped

(4) 1 (24) 3 (44) 3 (64) 1 (84) 2

(5) 2 (25) 1 (45) 2 (65) 2 (85) 2

(6) 2 (26) 3 (46) 3 (66) 2 (86) 3

(7) 2 (27) 2 (47) 3 (67) 2 (87) 2

(8) 4 (28) 2 (48) 1 (68) 4 (88) 1

(9) 3 (29) 3 (49) 2 (69) 2 (89) 3

(10) 3 (30) 2 (50) 2 (70) 4 (90) 4

(11) 2 (31) 2 (51) 3 (71) 2 (91) 3

(12) 2 (32) 1 (52) 3 (72) 1 (92) 1

(13) 3 (33) 2 (53) 3 (73) 1 (93) 2

(14) 1 (34) 4 (54) 4 (74) 2 (94) 2

(15) 2 (35) 1 (55) 2 (75) 3 (95) 4

(16) 4 (36) 4 (56) 4 (76) 2 (96) 2

(17) 3 (37) 3 (57) 3 (77) Dropped (97) 4

(18) 4 (38) 3 (58) 3 (78) 2 (98) 1

(19) 3 (39) Dropped (59) 3 (79) 3 (99) 3

(20) 3 (40) 4 (60) 2 (80) 2 (100) 1

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