NET/SET ENGLISH LITERATURE

In Ben Jonson’s Volpone, the animal imagery includes

A. the fox and the vulture

B. the fly and the cockroach

C. the fly, the crow and the raven

D. the fox, the vulture and the goat

A. and (b) are correct.

B. only (d) is correct.

C. and (d) are correct.

D. A and (c) are correct.

Ans: (a) and (c) are correct.

Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands” is _______.

A. a discussion of imperialist assumptions.

B. an essay that propounds an antiessentialist view of place.

C. an existential lament on triumphant colonialism.

D. an orientalist description of his favourite homelands.

Ans:B

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)

Ans: (C) (a) & (c)

3. 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

Ans:D

Match the following:

(I) James Thomson, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, George Crabbe

(II) George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, John Donne

(III) Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves.

(IV) W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke

A. Metaphysical poets

B. Transitional Poets

C. War Poets

D. Georgians

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

6. The following phrases from Shakespeare have become the titles of famous works. Identify the correctly matched group.

(I) Pale Fire

(II) The Sound and the Fury

(III) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

(IV) Under the Greenwood Tree

(V) Of Cakes and Ale

A. Thomas Hardy

B. Somerset Maugham

C. William Faulkner

D. Tom Stoppard

E. Vladimir Nabokov

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

Ans:C

9.The truth about pale fire is

A)“Pale Fire,” Vladimir Nabokov’s resplendent rare bird of a novel

B)the text of Shade’s opus, “Pale Fire”—“a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety-nine lines, divided into four cantos”; 3) a long commentary on “Pale Fire” by Kinbote

c) I ’ll example you with thievery: The sun ’s a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon ’s an arrant thief,And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea ’s a thief, whose liquid surge resolvesThe moon into salt tears; the earth ’s a thief,That feeds and breeds by a composture stolenFrom general excrement: each thing ’s a thief. Timon of Athens. Act iv. Sc. 3.

D)all the above

Ans: D)all the above

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.

Ans:C

11The 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)

Ans:C

The age of world literature is at hand,” the 77-year-old Johann Wolfgang von Goethe proclaimed to his young disciple Eckermann in 1827, “and everyone must strive to hasten its approach.” As Goethe’s contemporary, J.G. Herder, remarked, even the tongue itself is subject to continual change: Poetry is a Proteus among the peoples; it changes form according to the peoples’ language, customs, habits, according to their temperament, the climate, even according to their accent. As nations migrate, as languages mingle und change, as new matters stir men, as their inclinations take another direction and their endeavours another aim, as new models influence their composition of images and concepts, even as the tongue, this little limb, moves differently and the ear gets used to different sounds: thus the art of poetry changes not only among different nations, but also within one people.the incorrect statement about Gothe is---

A. German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural philosopher is best known for his two-part poetic drama Faust, (1808-1832) which he started around the age of twenty three and didn't finish till shortly before his death sixty years later.

B. Goethe's first novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) a novel written in monologue, inspired by his unrequited love for Charlotte Buff, the fiancé of a friend, became a worldwide success for him at the age of 25

C. Nicholas Boyle, his leading English-language biographer, “More must be known, or at any rate there must be more to know, about Goethe than about almost any other human being.”

D. like a fever and frenzy over the inhabited earth, acting like a spark in a powder magazine, setting free a dangerous amount of pent-up force.”

Ans:D

This short novel tells the story of an unhappy love affair. Through letters written by Werther to a friend, we learn about his hopeless love for Charlotte, an affectionate and virtuous young woman who is already engaged to a worthy man, Albert. After Charlotte and Albert get married, Werther feels that he has nothing to live for, and decides to commit suicide—a decision that he communicates in a gothic rhapsody of emotion: “You see, Charlotte, I do not shudder to take the cold and fatal cup, from which I shall drink the frenzy of death. Your hand gave it to me, and I do not tremble. All, all the wishes and the hopes of my life are fulfilled. Cold and stiff I knock at the brazen gates of death.” The novel is—

A. The Sorrows of Young Werther;

B. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship;

C. "Prometheus";

D. Zur Farbenlehre;

E. Italienische Reise;

F. Westöstlicher Diwan

Ans:A

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

C. Cat and Mouse, and Mouse and Dog Years

D. Crabwalk and The Rat

Ans: C

He is best known for his first novel, "The Tin Drum" (1959), a key text in European magic realism. His own name for this style was “broadened reality.” His other successes of the period were “Cat and Mouse” (1961) and “Dog Years” (1963). These novels, along with “The Tin Drum,” make up what he called his “Danzig Trilogy.”here he means

A. Friedrich Schiller

B. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

C. Gunter Grass

D. Immanuel Kant

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

Ans:C

23. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era?

a) Fanny Burney

b) Mary Wollstonecraft

c) Anna Letitia Barbauld

d) Jane Austen

e) Mary Shelley

Ans-d) Jane Austen

41. Who in the Romantic period developed a new novelistic language for the workings of the mind in flux?

a) Maria Edgeworth

b) Sir Walter Scott

c) Thomas De Quincey

d) Joanna Baillie

e) Jane Austen

Ans-e) Jane Austen

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)

Ans:D

31. Which of the following poem by Keats uses the Spenserian stanza ?

(A) Endymion

(B) The Fall of Hyperion

(D) Lamia

Ans: (C) The Eve of St. Agnes

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

I. a quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative

II. a stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter

III. an eight–line stanza in iambic pentameter followed by a ninth in six iambic feet

IV. an eight–line stanza with six iambic feet followed by a ninth in iambic pentameter

I and II (B) II (C) III (D) IV

Ans: (D) IV

22. Along the shore of silver streaming

Thames; Whose rutty bank, the which

his river hems, Was painted all with

variable flowers, … Fit to deck

maidens’ bowers And crown their

paramours Against their bridal day,

which is not long; Sweet Thames ! run

softly till I end my song. (Spenser’s

Prothalamion)

Another poet fondly recalls these lines but cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone in:

(A) Marianne Moore’s “Spenser’s Ireland”

(B) Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song”

(D) T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land

Ans: (D) T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land

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.

the Roman Catholic Church.

(D) He is a Christian poet.

Ans: (C) He opposed England’s break with

the Roman Catholic Church.

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

Guyon; Justice-Artegall

(D) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance-

Artegall; Justice-Britomart

Ans: (C) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance- Guyon; Justice-Artegall

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

Guyon – Pride

Duessa – Temperance

Orgoglio – Truth

(D) Una – Temperance

Guyon – Truth

Duessa – Pride

Orgoglio – Deceit

Ans: (A) Una – Truth

Guyon – Temperance

Duessa – Deceit

Orgoglio – Pride

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

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

(A) January (B) April

Ans: (B) April

Which one of the following works did Edmund Spenser dedicate to Sir Philip Sidney?

a]The Shepheards Calendar

b]Arcadia

c] Defence of Poetry

d] Astrophel and Stella

Ans-The Shepherd's Calendar was published at Gabriel Harvey's instance, and was dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney.1579

123 Sydney

2. In Sydney’s sonnet sequence,

Astrophil and Stella, the final sonnet

(#108)

(A) brings no resolution

(B) ends in joy

(D) promises another sonnet

sequence

Ans-(B) ends in joy

John Milton

3. Who among the following English

writers opposed the Licensing Act of

1643 ?

(A) John Milton

(B) Thomas Browne

(D) Abraham Cowley

Ans-John Milton-John Milton targeted the powerful bureaucratic system of pre-censorship practiced in late Medieval Europe in his much disputed speech "Areopagitica" to the Parliament of England in 1644. Milton vigorously opposed the Licensing Act that Parliament passed in 1643. In his noble plea for freedom of the press, Milton also quoted Euripides, adding the weight of the ancient struggle for free expression to his own arguments.

Auden Generation

8. Which poet among this group does

not belong to the ‘Auden Generation’

group of poets ?

(A) Stephen Spender

(B) Alun Lewis

(D) Louis Macneice

Ans-(B) Alun Lewis-(1 July 1915 – 5 March 1944) was a Welsh poet.

“Oxford Group” or the “Auden Generation,” which included Stephen Spender, C. Day Lewis, and Louis MacNeice.

Addison

4. Who claimed : “I have not published

a single paper that is not written in a

spirit of benevolence and with a love

of mankind” ?

(A) Pope

(B) Dryden

(D) Addison

Ans-(D) Addison--(Spectator, NO. 34.)

william golding

9. In Lord of the Flies which character

comes to realize that the ‘beast’ is

actually the evil inside the boys

themselves and it is that which is

breaking things up ?

(A) Jack

(B) Simon

(D) Ralph

Ans-(A) Jack

Ralph,

is the golden boy, the born leader type. He is symbolic of the physical presence for leadership, a charismatic type, as it were. At the same time, he is symbolic of the innocent, the ingenuous, who is unprepared for dealing with "the evil that men do," as Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar.

Piggy

is the intellectual, the voice of reason without the brawn necessary to deal with savage forces. His heaviness, near-sightedness, and thinning hair connote age and its acquired wisdom.

Simon

is the intuitive type. He learns through emotional, rather than intellectual, experience as does Piggy. Because he feels, rather than rationalizes, knowledge, it is impossible for him to verbalize his realization that the evil on the island is intrinsic to the boys and not a "beast."

Jack

symbolizes the penchant for savagery and the intrinsic evil in man. Roger best explains this intrinsic evil as in Chapter Four he restrains himself from striking Henry with the stones--"that token of preposterous time"--he throws only because the "taboo of the old life"/his conditioning "by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins."

the pig's head is Beelezebub, the devil. It represents the evil in man after his fall and expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

the conch

is symbolic of order. Like a gavel, it is meant to call the boys to order. However, once anarchy takes over, the conch loses its significance and is broken against the ancient stones.

5. A protagonist writes a letter of

confession, but it gets lost under the

carpet only to be found on the

wedding day. Who is the protagonist ?

(A) Bathsheba

(B) Lucetta

(D) Tes

Ans-(D) Tess is a beautiful and sensitive country girl, although uneducated. She is the eldest daughter of the descendant of a ruined family. To help her parents rear their numerous children, she is sent to work for a wealthy young man, Alec d’Urberville, who probably rapes her. She leaves him and returns home where she gives birth to a child who doesn’t survive long. Then Tess finds work on a farm where she meets Angel Care, who falls in love with her. When he proposes to her, she finally accepts (she feels unworthy of him) but writes a letter to him in which she reveals her past. On their wedding day she discovers that her letter ended up under a carpet so Angel never read the confession.

Graham Greene

7. In Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock,

Hale is murdered with the help of

‘brighton rock’ which is

(A) a kind of sugar-candy

(B) a form of grenade

(D) a kind of rock

Ans-(A) a kind of sugar-candy

10. Which text exemplifies the anti-

Victorian feeling prevalent in the

early twentieth century ?

Code :

I. Eminent Victorians

II. Jungle Book

III. Philistine Victorians

IV. The Way of All Flesh

The correct combination according to

the code is

(A) II and IV are correct.

(B) I and IV are correct.

(D) II and III are correct.

Ans-(A) II and IV are correct.

35. What is common to the following poems?

Wordsworth’s “The Recluse” Shelley’s “The Triumph of Life” Byron’s “Don Juan” Keats’ “Hyperion”

They are all elegies (B) They are all unfinished poems (C) They are all divided into cantos (D) They are women-centred poems

Ans _(B) They are all unfinished poems

John Keats

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

(A) 1818 (B) 1819 (C) 1820 (D) 1821

Ans: (B) 1819

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

Ans : (C) The Eve of St. Agnes

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”

Ans : (A) “Ode to a Nightingale

Tennyson

Tennyson’s poem about women’s rights and women’s sphere is:

(A) Maud (B) In Memoriam (C) Idylls of the King (D) The Princess

Ans: (D) The Princess

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”

Ans : (D) “Tithonus”

28. Which of the following Tennyson poems is a dramatic monologue?

A) lotos eater,Ulysses,tiresis,persphone

B) oenone , lucriteus,Demeter and Persephone

C) Tithonus

D) all the above

Ans: D) all the above

6) the lines belong to keats------

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

(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit !

(D) The world is too much with us

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

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

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

(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit !

(D) The world is too much with us

Ans : ) Margaret, are you grieving/Over Goldengrove unleaving

Wordsworth

21. “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven”. This occurs in a poem by: (A) William Wordsworth (B) S. T. Coleridge (C) Byron (D) Shelley

Ans : (A) William Wordsworth

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.
Ans; (D) It also printed from Gray’s
Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard.

It carried only one ballad proper, which was Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The Lyrical Ballads includes; Samuel Johnson was the first of many critics to put forward the view that Gray spoke in two languages, one public and the other private, and that the private language—that of his best-known and most-loved poem, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (published in 1751 as An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard)—was too seldom heard. William Wordsworth decided in his preface to Lyrical Ballads (1798), using Gray's "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West" (1775) as his example, that Gray, governed by a false idea of poetic diction, spoke in the wrong language; and Matthew Arnold, in an equally well-known judgment, remarked that the age was wrong for a poetry of high seriousness, that Gray was blighted by his age and never spoke out at all. Such judgments sum up the major critical history of Gray's reception and reputation as a poet.

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”

Ans : ” (D) “Tintern Abbey”

47. “To Daffodils” is a poem, written by:

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

Ans : (B) William Wordsworth

34. An “Idyll” is usually a poem about a:

(A) picturesque city life (B) panoramic view of nature (C) picture of industrial society (D) picturesque country life]

Ans: (D) picturesque country life]

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

(A) “Michael” (B) “Immortality Ode” (C) “Rejection: An Ode” (D) “Tintern Abbey”

Ans ; ) “Immortality Ode

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

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

(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit !

(D) The world is too much with us

Ans : Margaret, are you grieving/Over Goldengrove unleaving

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

(A) “Michael” (B) “Immortality Ode” (C) “Rejection: An Ode” (D) “Tintern Abbey”

Ans: (B) “Immortality Ode

6) the lines belong to wordsworth-------

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

(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit !

(D) The world is too much with us

Ans : (D) The world is too much with us

4) incorrect line from wordsworth is----------

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

And O ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves,
Forebode not any severing of our loves!

The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye

WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high-pilèd books, in charact'ry
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain

P B shelly-

36. Which poem by Shelley bears the alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude”?

(A) Mont Blanc

(B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”

(D) Alastor

Ans: ” (D) Alastor

1. In the following cluster of poems by Shelley, which one has the voyage motif?

(A) “Adonais”

(B) The Revolt of Islam

(D) Alastor

Answer: (D)

2. In Sydney’s sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, the final sonnet (#108)

(A) Brings no resolution

(B) Ends in joy

(D) Promises another sonnet sequence

Answer: (A)

21. The following are two lists of lines from poems and their titles. Match them:

List – I List – II

(Lines from poems) (Titles of poems)

I. “The squat pen rests as snug as a gun.” 1. “Church Going”

II. “A serious house on serious earth it is.” 2. “Hawk- Roosting”

III. “Time held me green and dying.” 3. “Digging”

IV. “I hold creation in my foot.” 4. “Fern Hill”

Which is the correct combination according to the above code?

Code:

I II III IV

(A) 4 1 2 3

(B) 2 3 4 1

(D) 3 1 4 2

Answer: (D)

6) the lines belong to shelly------

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

(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit !

(D) The world is too much with us

Ans : (B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit !

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”

Ans : (B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, a

Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead b

Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing a

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red. b

Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, c

Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed . . . b

The rhyme-scheme is

aba, bab, cdc, ded, etc.

In terza rima the first and third lines of each tercet rhyme with each other and with the central line in the antecedent terzina (aba bcb cdc and so on), producing the effect of two steps forward and one step back. With its seamless blend of forward motion and backward glance, the verse form has the nearly compulsive energy of waltz rhythm. Since rhyme is achieved so much more easily in Italian, the rhymes feel neither forced nor exaggeratedly emphatic. Because English is a language with greater lexical resources but far less capacity for rhyme, rhyming on the scale demanded by terza rima feels more like chiming, and is often obtrusive or comic. For this reason, some translators have modified the verse form (rhyming only the first and third lines of the tercet), or allowed themselves great leeway with inexact rhymes, or rhymed sporadically.

Which of the following statements on The Prelude by William Wordsworth is/are not true?

The Prelude was published posthumously.

In this poem, Wordsworth records his development as a poet.

The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and imaginative nature.

Poems like “Michael”, “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the untrodden ways”, “Nutting” etc. are the highlights of this volume.

(a) to (d) are true.

(a) is not true.

(d) is not true.

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.

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Ans:B)

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), (c) and (d)

(b) and (d)

Ans: (b) and (d)

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

Ans:D

The plays are Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Titus Andronicus. What they have in common is that they are all set in ancient Rome and that their source is the Roman historian, Plutarch, translated by the Renaissance English writer

A. Shakespeare’s Comedy Plays

B. Shakespeare’s History Plays

C. Shakespeare’s Lost Plays

D. Shakespeare’s Masque Plays

E. Shakespeare’s roman Plays

Ans:E

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:

1. Humanism

2. The Enlightenment

3. The Great Chain of Being

4. Calvinism

Ans:4

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.

Ans:A

This novel is published on 5^th May – 1927. The novel is landmark of high modernism. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf used the language of psychoanalysis. Reader can find stream of consciousness during reading the novel. The novel set on duration of 10 years (it deals with the year - 1910 to 1920). The centre of the novel is Mr. and Mrs. Ramsays and their visit to the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

Virginia Woolf wrote about this novel that – “I suppose that I did this work for myself.”

The novel captures its readers with its characterization of Ramsay family and their guest who meet at their holiday home on Isle of Skye, an island near the Scottish mainland. As know that novel is set on a ten years period of time, the wrong statement about to the light house is---

1) The novel’s first section taking place on a day before the First World War,

2) A Middle period in which all the action happens “off stage” during the war

3) Last section taking place on a day after the First World War.)

4) the novel is milestone in postmodernism

Ans:4

“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, than most of the “liberals” of his day and our own. He sees that the soldier is neglected, meanly underpaid and hypocritically despised by the people whose incomes he safeguards”.

1.This is E. M. Forster’s “India, Again”.

2.This is Malcolm Muggeridge on E. M. Forster’s India.

3.This is T. S. Eliot on Rudyard Kipling.

4.This is George Orwell on Rudyard Kipling.

Ans: 4.This is George Orwell on Rudyard Kipling

“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?

1.Marxism

2.Structuralism

3.Formalism

4.New Historicism

Ans:4.New Historicism

It is the process by which dominant culture maintains its dominant position. For example, the use of institutions to formalize power, the employment of a bureaucracy to make power seem abstract (and, therefore, not attached to any one individual); the inculcation of the populace in the ideals of the hegemonic group through education, advertising, publication, etc; the mobilization of a police force as well as military personal to subdue opposition (ibidem) What does it stand for?

1.Ideaology

2.Hegemony

3.Power

4. Marxicism

Ans:2

Aram Veeser, in his book New Historicism (1989), points out:

1. that every expressive act is embedded in a network of material practices.

2. that every act of unmasking, critique and opposition use of tools it condemn and risks falling prey to the practices it exposes.

3. that literary and non-literary texts circulate inseparable.

4. that no discourse, imaginative or archival, gives access to unchanging truths nor expresses inalterable human nature.

5. finally,… that a critical method and language adequate to describe culture under capitalism participate in the economy

6. all the above

Ans:6

Peter barry has mentioned methods that the New Historicists adopt for their approach to literature in his book Beginning Theory:

1. They juxtapose literay and non-literary texts, reading the former in the light of the latter.

2. They try to ‘defamiliarise’ the canonical literary text, detaching it from the accumulative weight of previous literary scholarship being it’s as if new.

3. They focus attention (within both text and co-text) on issues of state power and how it is maintained, on patriarchal structures and their perpetuation, and on the process of colonization, with its accompanying ‘mind-set’.

4. They make us, in doing so, of aspects of the post-structuralist otlook, especially Derrida’s notion that every facet of reality is textualized, and Foucault’s idea of social structures as determined by dominant ‘discursive practices’ (1999:179).

5.All the above

Ans:5

“The historicity of the text and the texttuality of history.”The phrase was coined by Stephen Greenblatt around 1980. "New Historicism focuses on the way literature expresses-and sometimes disguises-power relations at work in the social context in which the literature was produced, often this involves making connections between a literary work and other kinds of texts. Literature is often shown to “negotiate” conflicting power interests. New historicism has made its biggest mark on literary studies of the Renaissances and Romantic periods and has revised motions of literature as privileged, apolitical writing. Much new historicism focuses on the marginalization of subjects such as those identified as witches, the insane, heretics, vagabonds, and political prisoners. Other practitioners are

A) J.W. Lever. Jonathan Dollimore.

B) J.W. Lever.

C) Jonathan Dollimore.

D) Stephen Greenblatt

Ans:

Arundhati Roy, in her novel The God of Small Things, collection of essays and speeches The Algebra of Infinite Justice and An Ordinary Person’s Guide Empire, The Great Indian Rape Trick – I, The Great Indian Rape Trick – II, In Which Annie Gives It those Ones and her Interviews as well has effectively presented such prevailing practices in society. The God of Small Things is a highly celebrated novel of Arundhati Roy. The novel deals with

1. tragic love-story of Ammu and Velutha

2. They juxtapose literay and non-literary texts, reading the former in the light of the latter.

3. They try to ‘defamiliarise’ the canonical literary text, detaching it from the accumulative weight of previous literary scholarship being it’s as if new.

4. Bakha in Untouchable, Gangu in Two Leaves and a Bud, Munoo in Coolie, Velutha in The God of Small Things and many others always suffer

Ans:1

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

(D) alcove

Ans:B

Which of the following novels is NOT a Partition novel?

1.Azadi

2.Tamas

3.Clear Light of the Day

4.That Long Silence

Ans: That Long Silence

The protagonist Jaya is an educated middle class woman who lives with her husband Mohan and their kids Rahul and Rati. She is the typical Indian middle class woman in the present century who is confined between her realizations and the restrictions. Her father brought up Jaya as an "individual", who has the rights in the society as well as family irrespective of gender. Yet, this upbringing still looks strange in front a society that hesitates to accept the woman as an individual.The novel is

1.Azadi

2.Tamas

3.Clear Light of the Day

4.That Long Silence

Ans: That Long Silence

The novel deals with the political situation in India before, during, and after Independence in 1947, and how the partition in turn affected both India as a country, and individuals on a personal level. Through the characters in the novel we are given an insight into how everyday Indians dealt with the crisis, and how their lives have been in the aftermath of the partition. Authors focus is mainly on the women of the Das family, and through the various female characters we get to see the different choices they have in life. I will show how Author uses imagery and symbolism in order to guide us through an India which stands in between tradition and modernity. The characters of the novel have to find a way to come to terms with themselves on a personal level, and India needs to find its own path in order to move on. The novel is
1. Azadi by Chaman Nahal

2.Sahani’s Tamas

3. Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day

4.That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande

Ans: 3. Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day

The wrong statement about partition novel is---

1. K.A. Abbas‟s Inquilab32 (1955) is a detailed picture of the Indian political scene over a period of almost two decades upto the 1930‟s.The novels offers glimpses of Bhagat Singh, Tilak, the Ali brothers, Gandhiji, Nehru etc.
2. Attia Hosain is the only women novelist who evokes Partition in a nostalgic mood in her novel “Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961)”33 . Manohar Malgonkar‟s “A Bend in the Ganges” (1984), 34 is an epic presentation of India‟s struggle for freedom from the late 30‟s upto the down of Independence in August 1947, thus encompassing the history of a saga depicting the movement for Independence, the world war and the Partition of India

3. Raj Gill‟s novel, “The Rape”(1974) 35 dramatizes the dehumanization of life and the collapse of all values. Dalipjit, the protagonist in the novel, is dazed to discover; on his return home after Partition, that his Muslim girlfriend, Leila. Whom he had rescued and who has been given shelter by him, has been raped by his own father.

4. H.S. Gill‟s “Ashes and Petals” (1975)37 , records another gruesome aspect of Partitionthe killing of one‟s own women folk, in order to save their honour. The novel opens with a trainload of Hindus and Sikhs on their way to India. When the train is attacked by Muslim hooligans, Risaldar Santa Singh shoots his fourteen year old grand- daughter, Baljeeto. Her seven year old brother Ajit, sits through the act as a silent witness.

5. In Kartar Singh Duggal‟s novels “Twice born Twice Dead‟‟ (1979)38, we are given a panoramic picture of human suffering. Anita Desai‟s “Clear Light of Day” (1980)39, is another novel which refers to India‟s independence struggle and the Partition that followed it. However, this appears only as the background of the events in the life of the Das family.

6. “ A Fine Family” (1990)43 by Gurcharan Das is another Partition novel that traces the fortunes and misfortunes of Lala Dewan chand‟s family from the year 1942 to the PostIndependence era, right through till the 1970‟s it provides a means of understanding the past in order to understand the present.

7. “Tamas” (1974)41(darkness), by Bhisham Sahani also portrays the tragic period of the Partition of the country. He attempts to depict the communal frenzy that gripped the west Punjab in Pre- Partition days. The novel “Ice- Candy- Man”(1988)42 by Bapsi Sidhwa is also a poignant tale of Partition. The novel is set in Lahore in the 1940‟s in the period when Independence and Partition were brewing and it culminates in the ultimate horrors of the holocaust, seen through the eyes of a young Parsi child, Lenny.

8. The holocaust of the partition has been a recurring theme in the writing of girish karnard

Ans;8

The trauma of Partition also was a major theme in fiction as in the stories of Krishna Chander, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Amrita Pritam, Saadat Hasan Manto. K.S.Duggal or Nanak Singh or in novels like Khushwant Singhs „Train to Pakistan‟, Amitav Ghosh‟s „Shadow Lines‟, Salman rushdie‟s „Midnight’s children. Chaman Nahals „Azadi‟ and K.A.Abbas‟s „ Inquilab‟ in English, Bhisham Sahni‟s „Tamas‟ and Yashpal‟s „Jhoota sach‟ in Hindi. A monumental novel like Qurratulain Hyders „Aag ka Dariya‟is

1.Hindi Novel

2.Urdu Novel

3.English Novel

4.Kannad Novel

Ans: 2.Urdu Novel

The wrong statement about partition novel is---

1. Salman Rushdies novel “Midnight‟s Children”(1982)44 covers the period of India‟s Independence to the lifting of the Emergency. The novel begins with the narrator- protagonist Saleem Sinai, who is the embodiment of a supreme movement of the history

2. B. Rajan‟s „The Dark Dancer‟, Collins and Lapierre‟s 45 „Freedom at Midnight‟ Yashpal in „Jhoota- Sacha‟ (Hindi) or Qurratullain Haider in „Aag Ka Darya‟ (Urdu), is not deal with patition

Ans:2

Of the following characters, which one does not belong to A House for Mr.Biswas?

1.Raghu

2.Ralph Singh

3.Dehuti

4.Tara

Ans:2

Ten weeks before he died, Mr. Mohun Biswas, a journalist of Sikkim Street, St. James, Port of Spain, was sacked. He had been ill for some time. In less than a year he had spent more than nine weeks at the Colonial Hospital and convalesced at home for even longer. When the doctor advised him to take a complete rest the Trinidad Sentinel had no choice. It gave Mr. Biswas three months’ notice and continued, up to the time of his death, to supply him every morning with a free copy of the paper.the novel is

1. Azadi by Chaman Nahal

2.Naipuals A House For Mr. Biswas

3. Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day

4.That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande

Ans: 2.Naipuals A House For Mr. Biswas

As the son of an iconoclastic journalist, he is a bundle of contradictions. He is an East Indian in a primarily black West Indian society, a colonial in the English metropolis, an East Indian who is a West Indian out of place in the motherland of India, a writer from a developing country living in a developed country, and writing about peoples in developing countries, and a non-believer among believers. the novel is

1. Azadi by Chaman Nahal

2.Naipuals A House For Mr. Biswas

3. Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day

4.That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande

Ans: 2.Naipuals A House For Mr. Biswas

In English literature, the trope of the vampire was used for the first time by:

1.Matthew Gregory Lewis

2.John Polidori

3.John Stagg

4.Bram Stoker

Ans:3

Why is “Universal grammar” so called?

1.It is a set of basic grammatical principles universally followed and easily recognized by people.

2.It is a set of basic grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural languages.

3.It is a set of advanced grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural languages.

4.It is a set of universally respected practices that have come, in time,to be known as “grammar”.

Ans:3

Identify the novel with the wrong subtitle listed below:

1.Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life

2.Tess of the D’Urbervilles, A Pure Woman

3.The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Man of Character

4.Felix Holt, the Socialist

Ans:4

Match List – I with List – II.

List – I

1.David Malouf II.Patrick White III.Peter Carey IV. Colin Johnson

List – II

a.The Solid Mandala

b.Wild Cat Falling

c.Remembering Babylon

d.True History of the Kelly Gang

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

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 kitchen – maid

an English governess

a French governess

a socialite

"Happy families are all alike," Tolstoy writes as the first words of Anna Karenina, "Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Specifying this generalization the author details the life of a well favored aristocrat. Stepan Arkadyevitch has an excellent post in Moscow, is the head of a loving and smoothly run household. His wife, Darya, Stiva's feminine counterpart in the Russian class system, centers her life on raising the children and tending her husband. But his infidelity shatters their harmonious life and Dolly must confront the problem of how to repair her personal ruin. For Stiva, his marital life is of secondary value; his official duties, his social activities, and his pleasures are primary. Thus we see that the values of men and women in this society are oriented toward different goals and Stiva's affair with

1. a kitchen – maid

2.an English governess

3.a French governess

4.a socialite

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

Ans:B

Joseph Addison and Richard Steele easily referred to as Addison and Steele started a paper (in England) call the “The Spectator.” The expressed goal of this paper was “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 coffeehouses” (No. 10).The March 8^th edition (1711) Addison is said to have said,

A)“To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.” Amen.

B) I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find their account in the Speculation of the Day. And to the End that their Virtue and Discretion may not be short transient intermitting Starts of Thought, I have resolved to refresh their Memories from Day to Day, till I have recovered them out of that desperate State of Vice and Folly, into which the Age is fallen.

C) The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven, to inhabit among Men; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee houses.

D)all the above

Ans: D)all the above

The Spectator (1711-1712 and 1714) was a weekly magazine written by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, which followed an earlier weekly magazine, also written by Addison and Steele, called The Tatler. While The Tatler was designed, chiefly by Steele, to discuss moral issues in light, somewhat gentle and humorous essays, The Spectator focused more consistently on political, philosophical, religious and literary issues, for the most part from what we would now call a liberal perspective (in the 18thC., the Whigs) as opposed to the more conservative political party, the Tories. Despite the political focus, however, the characters who form the Spectator Club are not viciously satirized--rather, like the essays in The Tatler, the satire is relatively mild but, from a political perspective, pointed enough so that readers understood that Tories should not be running the government. The remainder of the club members included

A) Mr. Spectator, who gave opinions on many issues (for example, politics, education, morality, literature);

B) the Templar--all things related to education, legal matters and literature;

C)Will Honeycomb--social life, including fashion; the Clergyman--religion and moral issues;

D)Sir Andrew Freeport--business and economic matters (he was the opposite of Sir Roger); and Captain Sentry--military matters. In short, some member of the club could and would discuss virtually every meaningful aspect of 18thC. British society.

E) all the above

Ans:E

Begun on March 1, 1711, this one-page essay sheet was published six days a week, Monday through Saturday, and reached 555 issues by its last issue on December 6, 1712. Each issue was numbered, the articles were unsigned, and many had mottoes from classical authors. The periodical is

A. The Tatler

B. The Spectator

C. The Gentleman’s Magazine

D. The London Magazine

Ans:B

Association of early 18th-century Whig leaders that met in London. Members included the writers Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, and William Congreve and such political figures as Robert Walpole and the duke of Marlborough. They first met in the tavern of Christopher Cat, whose mutton pies were called kit-cats. Portraits of the 42 members were painted by Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723), the club is

A)Manchester

B) Kit cat

C) Spectator

D) brtish

Ans: B) Kit cat

The first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of an ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behavior, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege, fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster. the club is

A)Manchester

B) Kit cat

C) Spectator

D) British

Ans: C) Spectator

Isaac Bickerstaff Esq was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrologer John Partridge. In 1709, Richard Steele bolstered the release of his new paper The Tatler by naming the fictitious Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. as editor. The Tatler had occasional contributions from Swift, although largely written by

A) Steele B) Addison

C) Swift D) Arnold

Ans: A) Steele

This I find particularly necessary for me before I retire to Rest, in order to draw my Slumbers upon me by Degrees, and fall asleep insensibly. This is the particular Use I make of a Set of heavy honest Men, with whom I have passed many Hours with much Indolence, though not with great Pleasure. Their Conversation is a kind of Preparative for Sleep: It takes the Mind down from its Abstractions, leads it into the familiar Traces of Thought, and lulls it into that State of Tranquility, which is the Condition of a thinking Man when he is but half awake. After this, my Reader will not be surprised to hear the Account which I am about to give of a Club of my own Contemporaries, among whom I pass Two or Three Hours every Evening. This I look upon as taking my first Nap before I go to Bed. The Truth of it is, I should think my self unjust to Posterity, as well as to the Society at the Trumpet of which I am a Member, did not I in some Part of my Writings give an Account of the Persons among whom I have passed almost a Sixth Part of my Time for these last Forty Years. Our Club consisted originally of Fifteen; but partly by the Severity of the Law in arbitrary Times, and partly by the natural Effects of old Age, we are at present reduced to a Third Part of that Number: In which however we have this Consolation, That the best Company is said to consist of Five Persons. I must confess, besides the afore-mentioned Benefit which I meet with in the Conversation of this select Society, I am not the less pleased with the Company, in that I find my self the greatest Wit among them, and am heard as their Oracle in all Points of Learning and Difficulty. The club is

A) Manchester

B) Kit cat by Addison and steele

C) Spectator by Addison

D) the trumpet club by steele

Ans:D)

Our Club meets precisely at Six a Clock in the Evening; but I did not come last Night till Half an Hour after Seven, by which Means I escaped the Battle of Naseby, which the Major usually begins at about Three Quarters after Six; I found also, that my good Friend the Bencher had already spent Three of his Distichs, and only waiting an Opportunity to hear a Sermon spoken of, that he might introduce the Couplet where a-Stick rhymes to Ecclestiastic. At my Entrance into the Room, they were naming a red Petticoat and a Cloak, by which I found that the Bencher had been diverting them with a Story of Jack Ogle. the members of the trumpet club by steele is---

A) Sir Jeoffrey Notch, who is the oldest of the Club, has been in Possession of the Right-Hand Chair Time out of Mind, and is the only Man among us that has the Liberty of stirring the Fire.

B) Major Matchlock is the next Senior, who served in the last Civil Wars, and has all the Battles by Heart.

C) Honest old Dick Reptile is the Third of our Society: He is a good-natured indolent Man, who speaks little himself, but laughs at our Jokes

D) All the above

Ans:D)

The Gentleman’s Magazine was originally founded in London, England, in 1731. Cave was born in 1691 in Warwickshire, England. His boyhood was somewhat turbulent as he was continually getting himself into trouble. Though the exact date is not known, the first such incident was when, at an early age, Cave was accused of stealing a rooster. Nothing came of the charge, but young Cave was labeled as a troublemaker—a label that would stay with him for quite some time.

A) by Edward Cave Junior

B) by Addison

C) by Steele

D) BY swift

Ans:A

The London Magazine is England’s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732. Today – reinvigorated for a new century – the Magazine’s essence remains unchanged: it is a home for the best writing, and an indispensable feature on the British literary landscape.Across a long life – spanning several incarnations – the pages of the Magazine have played host to a wide range of canonical writers, from Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt and John Keats in the 18th-century, to T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Evelyn Waugh in the early 20th-century. Meanwhile, in recent decades the Magazine has published work by giants of contemporary fiction and poetry such as William Boyd, Nadine Gordimer, and Derek Walcott. The London Magazine is started by

A) by Edward Cave Junior

B) by Addison

C) by Steele

D) none of the above

Ans: D)

29.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 false but (R) is true.
Answer: (B)

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 (c) are correct.
Answer: (D)

Pope wrote “An Essay on Criticism” when he was 23; he was influenced by Quintillian, Aristotle, Horace’s Ars Poetica, and Nicolas Boileau’s L’Art Poëtique. Written in heroic couplets, the tone is straight-forward and conversational. It is a discussion of what good critics should do; his incorrect Quotation from essay on criticism is---

A) 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic's share;

B) First follow NATURE, and your judgment frame
By her just standard, which is still the same:
Unerring Nature, still divinely bright,
One clear, unchang'd, and universal light,
Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and test of art.

C) Those RULES of old discover'd, not devis'd,
Are Nature still, but Nature methodis'd;
Nature, like liberty, is but restrain'd
By the same laws which first herself ordain'd.

D) Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;

The proper study of mankind is man.

Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,

A being darkly wise, and rudely great:

E) A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.

Ans:D

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.

Ans:C

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.

Ans:C

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.

Ans:C

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

Ans:D

Match the following correctly:

List I

(I)Langue /Parole

(II) Competence / Performance

(III) Ieonic /Indexical

(IV) Readerly /Writerly

List II

A. Noam Chomsky

B. S. Pierce

C. Ferdinand de Saussure

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)

Competence refers to a speaker's knowledge of his language as manifest in his ability to produce and to understand a theoretically infinite number of sentences most of which he may have never seen or heard before. Performance refers to the specific utterances, including grammatical mistakes and non-linguistic features like hesitations, accompanying the use of language. The distinction parallels Varela's distinction between organization and structure. The former refers to the relations and interactions specifically excluding reference to the properties of the refi's components, whereas the latter refers to the relations manifest in the concrete realization of such a system in a physical space. Competence like organization describes the potentiality of a system. Performance like structure describes the forms actually realized as a subset of those conceivable. Competence And Performance is concept argumented by

A. Noam Chomsky

B. S. Pierce

C. Ferdinand de Saussure

D. Roland Barthes

Ans:1

In Linguistic, The terms were proposed by Noam CHOMSKY in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, when he stressed the need for a GENERATIVE GRAMMAR that mirrors a speaker's competence and captures the creative aspect of linguistic ability. In Knowledge of Language (1986), Chomsky replaced the terms with I-language (internalized language) and E-language (externalized language). A similar dichotomy, LANGUE and PAROLE, was proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure (1915), who stressed the social aspects of langue, regarding it as shared knowledge, whereas Chomsky stressed the individual nature of competence. See COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE, MISTAKE.

A) COMPETENCE AND PERFORMANCE. In LINGUISTICS, the distinction between a person's knowledge of language (competence) and use of it (performance).

B) Performance contains slips of the tongue and false starts, and represents only a small sample of possible utterances: I own two-thirds of an emu is a good English sentence, but is unlikely to occur in any collected sample.

C) only A

D) A & B

Ans:D

The distinction corresponds to a further distinction Barthes makes between texte lisible and texte scriptible, translated respectively as "readerly" and "writerly" texts (a more literal translation would be "readable" and "writable" texts). Scriptible is a neologism in French. Readerly means

A) Refers to those types of texts that encourage us to remain (and enjoy) being readers that is, to find pleasure in devouring a well-crafted to story

B) The emotions we are supposed to feel, the experiences we are supposed to go through, the secrets we are supposed to find, have all been designed and crafted by masterful hand of the author

C)Like a roller-coaster, we are encouraged to sit back and enjoy the ride that has been designed for us – also, like a roller-coaster, the text is pretty much the same for each person who reads it

D)The text is fully complete by the time it reaches us – to use the words of Edward Brunner: the work of integrating all of the different pieces has already been done by the author, and the reader can proceed confidently, knowing the way has been prepared. So carefully has the work been assembled, so elaborately yet professionally, that reading will only deepen appreciation.

E)We take in the text passively, we remain consumers, we stay in our seat, we enjoy what has been created for us

F) All the above

Ans: F) All the above

French critic Roland Barthes in his book S/Z (1970). Barthes used the terms lisible (“readerly”) and scriptible(“writerly”) to distinguish, respectively, between texts that are straightforward and demand no special effort to understand and those whose meaning is not immediately evident and demand some effort on the part of the reader.According to Barthes, a readerly text is one that presents a world of easily identifiable characters and events and one in which the characters and their actions are understandable. Novels such as those of George Eliot and Arnold Bennett are readerly texts. The writerly text means---

- Refers to those types of texts in which we are actively encouraged to take part in the creation of the text – not just what it means, but the actual production – we are encouraged to become writers, an active participant, co-producers

- The text is not fully complete by the time it gets to us – it is kind of a pre-text you might say, it needs us to complete it

- Meanings are not placed by the author for us to find – there is pleasure to be found in taking different routes through the text (particularly if the text encourages us to take different routes) or to wrestle with ideas without consideration of what the author meant by it – we are encouraged to notice, to pay attention, to find connections that are of our own design

A)In the writerly text, the way has not been prepared, it is not a narrative to be read in the traditional sense, it is a work in which the reader is required to acknowledge and participate in the writing process

B) When you encounter a writerly text, you are not immediately sure what to do with it – it requires you to change your perspective, to reconsider how you are going to read, what you are going to do with the thing in front of you

C)the writerly text is a thinking movie – the most important thing is that we go out to eat sometimes for different reasons – sometimes you want a meal prepared for you, sometimes you want to make it yourself – sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you don’t

D) all the above

Ans:D

Langue:La langue is the whole system of language that precedes and makes speech possible. A sign is a basic unit of langue.Learning a language, we master the system of grammar, spelling, syntax and punctuation. These are all elements of langue. Langue is a system in that it has a large number of elements whereby meaning is created in the arrangements of its elements and the consequent relationships between these arranged elements.

Parole:Parole is the concrete use of the language, the actual utterances. It is an external manifestation of langue. It is the usage of the system, but not the system.the concept is propounded by

Noam Chomsky

C. S. Pierce

Ferdinand de Saussure

Roland Barthes

Ans:7

38. 1. Joy Kogawa (a) Bloody Rites

2. M. G. Vasanjee (b) Obasan

3. Sky Lee (c) The Gunny Sack

4. Arnold Itwaru (d) Disappearing Moon Café

1 2 3 4

(A) (d) (a) (b) (c)

(B) (a) (d) (c) (b)

(C) (b) (c) (d) (a)

(D) (a) (b) (c) (d)

Ans:C

She went on to recast the Obasan story as two children’s books: the Japanese-language Ushinawareta (1983) and the English-language Naomi’s Road (1986), adapted into an opera by the Vancouver Opera, and eventually translated into Japanese and published as Naomi No Michi (1988). She continues Naomi’s story, the main character in Obasan, in her novel Itsuka (1992), which examines Japanese Canadian efforts to win redress from the government. Itsuka was republished as Emily Kato in 2005. Her other works include the novel

The Rain Ascends (1995) and the poetry collections The Splintered Moon (1967), A Choice of Dreams(1974), Jericho Road (1977), Woman in the Woods (1985), A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems (2003), A Song of Lilith (2000). Here he means---

A. Joy Kogawa

B. M. G. Vasanjee

C. Sky Lee

D. Arnold Itwaru

Ans:1

Kogawa’s best-known work, tells the story of one Japanese Canadian family living through World War II. Although a work of fiction, Kogawa describes events based on her own life and the novel aims to present an historically accurate picture of the Japanese Canadian wartime experience. During the war, many Japanese Canadians endured brutal mistreatment in silence, rather than voicing their anger or standing up for their rights. In Obasan, Kogawa conveys the devastating effects of silence. Simply by writing the novel, she registers her refusal to keep quiet about the cruelty of racism. The novel won several awards, including the Book of the Year Award from the Canadian Authors Association, and the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. The Literary Review of Canada listed it among the most important books in Canadian literary history.

a)Bloody Rites

(b) Obasan

D)Disappearing Moon Café

Ans:B

The nuts and bolts of this story is that the protagonist, Salim Juma, inherits his great aunt’s gunny sack. In the first few pages while looking through the sack he begins to reminisce about growing up in eastern Africa. We are taken through many generations and many historical events in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, most notably the Mau Mau uprising and Idi Amin’s rise to power. On a fundamental level this book is about how your memory can play an important role in your interpretation of history.

a)Bloody Rites

(b) Obasan

D)Disappearing Moon Café

Ans: (c) The Gunny Sack

M.G. Vassanji, like Michael Ondaatje and Rohinton Mistry, is one of Canada’s most prolific immigrant writers. Being of Indian descent, born in Kenya, raised in Tanzania, educated in the US, and eventually ending up in Canada, his most well-known books are his Giller winners

A) The Gunny Sack

B) The Book of Secrets and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

C) The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

D) The Book of Secrets

Ans:C)

A compelling first novel by the Canadian Sky Lee that tries to do for Asian-Canadian women what Amy Tan and Maxine Hong-Kingston have done for their Asian-American counterparts: give mythical shape to the experiences of immigration, assimilation, and struggle for identity in the West. Kae Ying Woo narrates this tapestry-like story, which traces three generations of the Asian-Canadian Wong family. The book opens with a recollection of the settler experiences of Kelora Chen, a half-native/half-Chinese, and the Wong family patriarch, Wong Gwei Chang, who in 1892 left China to find his fortune in North America. Kelora's heroic act of saving Wong's life symbolizes almost too obviously the great strength and struggle of the women who follow in their family line. Their lives revolve around the Disappearing Moon Cafe, the largest restaurant in Vancouver's Chinatown, operated by the overbearing matriarch Lee Mui Lan. The book is

A) "bellydancer,"

B) Teach me to fly skyfighter

C) Disappearing Moon cafe

D) The Book of Secrets

Ans:C

For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there is something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film's producer believes he's the target of a sinister entropy. The book is ---

a)Bloody Rites

(b) Obasan

D)Disappearing Moon Café

Ans:A

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 post modern visual game of handy-dandy.

Ans:C

Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE of Dante Gabriel Rossetti?

E. G. Rossetti was a Londoner, the son of an Italian refugee who taught Italian at King’s college.

A. Rossetti formed the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood with Holman Hunt, Ford Madox Brown and Painter Millais.

B. He married Christina Georgina who was a poet in her right.

C. Rossetti’s “Blessed Damozel” displays his remarkable gifts as a poet and painter.

Ans:C

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

(A) heaven (B) hell

Ans:D

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.
Answer: (D)

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

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.

Ans:C

Identify the correctly matched group:

List I

1. “Because I could not stop for death…

2. “O Captain ! My Captain!”

3. “Two roads diverged in a wood…”

4. “So much depends upon…”

List II

A. Walt Whitman

B. William Carlos Williams

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Robert Frost

I (II) (III) (IV)

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(b) (a) (d) (b)

(a) (c) (b) (d)

(b) (a) (b) (d)

46. “Nowstop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of midnight– work tocome, 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

(D) a rich patron

Which among the following is NOT a typical “Indian English Poem” by Nissim Ezekiel?

1. “How the English Lessons Ended”

2. “The Railway Clerk”

3. “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”

4. “The Patriot”

Ans:A

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”

(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

(D) 3 2 1 4

Ans:B

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

(A) fraud

(B) usury- the action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest.

(D) gluttony-- habitual greed or excess in eating.

Ans:A

I- 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

1. the poor quality of his students’ “stock responses”

2. the very astute remarks made by his students

3. the non-availability of poems, worthy of class-room attention

4. the success of his experiment

Ans:1

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

Ans:B

The overeducated and underemployed Jimmy Porter rails against his work and life. He often lashes out at his wife, Alison, who reveals that she's pregnant in Act I. Jimmy's anger and frustration lead Alison to move back in with her father, but by the end of the play, they manage to reconcile. The play is

A. Look Back in Anger

B. Waiting for Godot

C. The Zoo Story

D. The Birthday Party

Ans:A

The play by Albee, opens in a park with Peter sitting on a bench. Jerry comes up and says he's been to the zoo. Peter doesn't want to talk, but he gets sucked in anyway, and the two chat a bit. Peter has a wife and two daughters and a high-paying job in publishing, but is vaguely dissatisfied with his life—and his masculinity. Jerry lives in a crappy apartment and his parents are dead; he is scornful and unhappy.

A. Look Back in Anger

B. Waiting for Godot

C. The Zoo Story

D. The Birthday Party

Ans:C

Petey allows the two men to take Stanley away, but before they leave, he cries out “Stan, don’t let them tell you what to do!”Afterward, Petey returns to the living room table and picks up his newspaper. Meg arrives and asks if Stanley has come down to breakfast yet. Petey lies and tells her Stanley is still sleeping.the play is--

1. Look Back in Anger

2. Waiting for Godot

3. The Zoo Story

4. The Birthday Party

Ans:D

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

The Pardoner’s Tale

The Parson’s Tale and ‎The Tale of Melibee

The Monk’s Tale

The Knight’s Tale

Ans:

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:

1 (a) and (b) for fancy; (c) and (d) for imagination.

2 (a) and (c) for fancy; (b) and (d) for imagination.

3 (b) and (c) for fancy; (a) and (d) for imagination.

4 (c) and (d) for fancy; (a) and (b) for imagination.

Ans:4

18. Douglas Steward who wrote many verse plays like Kelly, Shipwreck, The Golden Lover and Fischer’s Ghost originally belonged to

a. Australia

b. New Zealand

c. Trinidad

d. China

Ans:A

24. The famous book on culture wars in USA, Illiberal Education : The politics of Sex and Race on Campus is written by

a. Dinesh D’souza b. Amartya Sen

c. Arundhadi Roy d. Noam Chomsky

Ans: a. Dinesh D’souza

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)

Ans:B

The idea of intertextuality, a concept originated by French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late 1960s, was founded on Ferdinand de Saussure’s (1857-1913) theories of semiology and Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1895-1975) interests in the social aspects of language and his ideas of dialogism which he theorised in the 1920s.the incorrect statement about intertextuality is

A) For Kristeva and Bakhtin, every text forms a “mosaic of citations” or leaves traces over which other texts can be written. As mentioned, Bakhtin tended to focus on the social and historical and human whereas Kristeva’s theory paid close attention to text, textuality, and their relation to ideological structures.

B) intertextuality suggests that a text cannot exist alone as a self-contained, enclosed whole. A text is formed by the repetition and transformation and inclusion of other textual structures. This is based on the idea that since the writer is a reader of texts before he creates his work, the work inevitably gets inflected with references, quotations and influences of every kind.

C) Bakhtin’s interests in the social and cultural aspects of language led to what he called “dialogism” which he viewed as “the necessary relation of any utterance to other utterances.”

D) The idea of intertextuality is originated by French semiotician Julia Kristeva

Ans:C

55. Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths about white purity through characters like :

(a) Norton (b) Bledsoe

(A) (a) and (b) (B) (a), (b) and (c)

Ans:A

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.

(D) His famous “American Scholar” was delivered as an address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1837.

Ans:A

“Exorcism” जादू

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

(D) Exposing all attempts at illusionmaking

Ans:D

“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

Ans:D

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

D. Simon – innocence

perspective - दृष्टीकोन

Ans:c

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.

Ans:B

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

(b) Interlanguage develops an autonomous and self-contained grammatical system

(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.

Ans:C

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

A. “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers”. Where does this occur?

B. Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

C. Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics

D. Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives

E. Mary Hiatt’s The Way Women Write.

Ans:B

It can think back through its fathers or through its mothers, as I have said that a woman writing thinks back through her mothers. Again if one is a woman one is often surprised by a sudden splitting off of consciousness, say in walking down Whitehall, when from being the natural inheritor of that civilization, she becomes, on the contrary, outside of it, alien and critical. Clearly the mind is always altering its focus, and bringing the world into different perspectives.

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.

Ans:A

Shakespeare’s sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down. Drawing her life from the lives of the unknown who were her forerunners, as her brother did before her, she will be born. As for her coming without that preparation, without that effort on our part, without that determination that when she is born again she shall find it possible to live and write her poetry, that we cannot expect, for that would he impossible. But I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity, is worth while.

1. Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

2. Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics

3. Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives

4. Mary Hiatt’s The Way Women Write Ans:A

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)

(D) (b) (a) (d) (c)

Ans:A

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

Reason (R): Transcendence in Greene’s novels is generally an outcome of love for humanity, but pride is also an essential ingredient in the Priest’s character.

1(A) is true, but (R) is false.

2(A) is false, but (R) is true.

3Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation for (A).

4Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).

Ans:3

Which of the following statements on John Dryden is incorrect?

1. John Milton and John Dryden were contemporaries.

2. Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton fiercely opposed monarchy.

3. Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal Emperor Humayun.

4. Dryden was appointed the Poet Laureate of England in 1668.

(a) is incorrect.

(d) is incorrect.

(b) and (c) are incorrect.

Ans:C

ureng-zebe is a Restoration drama, written in 1675 . It is based loosely on the figures of Aurangzeb (Aureng-zebe), the then-reigning Mughal Emperor of India ; his brother, Murad Baksh (Morat); and their father, Shah Jahan (Emperor). ... He also played Sesmar on an episode of Lost in Space , "The Dream ...the drama is writeen by

A)John Dryden , B) Milton

C) wycherly D) Etherage

Ans:A

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.

(D) only (b) is correct.

Ans: B

67. The world dominated by cold and hypocritical materialists is represented by William Blake in the mythological figure of __________ .

(A) Urizen (B) Albion

C) Geryon (D) Satan

Ans:A

Which of the following can be best described as:

the first statement of Bernard Shaw’s idea of Life Force;

a play dealing with a woman’s pursuit of her mate; and

iii) play whose third act called “Don Juan in Hell” is both unconventional and hilarious ?

1. The Devil’s Disciple

2. Man and Superman

3. Candida

4. Arms and the Man

Ans:2

Man and Superman opened at The Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905, but with the omission of the 3rd Act. A part of the act, Don Juan in Hell (Act 3, Scene 2), was performed when the drama was staged on 4 June 1907 at the Royal Court. The play was not performed in its entirety until 1915, when the Travelling Repertory Company played it at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. Don Juan in Hell consists of a philosophical debate between Don Juan (played by the same actor who plays Jack Tanner), and the Devil, with Doña Ana (Ann) and the Statue of Don Gonzalo, Ana's father (Roebuck Ramsden, an aged acquaintance of Tanner's and Ann's Guardian) looking on. This third act is often performed separately as a play in its own right, most famously during the 1950s in a concert version, featuring Charles Boyer as Don Juan, Charles Laughton as the Devil, Cedric Hardwicke as the Commander and Agnes Moorehead as Doña Ana. Don Juan is used synonymously for

1. "womanizer",

2. Manish

3. Lesbian

4. Sexy

Ans:A

Jack Tanner- Ann Whitefield- Roebuck Ramsden- Octavius Robinson- The Devil Don Juan Tenorio- Violet Robinson- Mrs Whitefield- Henry Straker- Hector Malone are the characters from ---

A)‘Widower's Houses’

B) ‘man and superman

C)Arms and the Man’

D)‘Mrs. Warren's Profession

Ans:B

The setting is a study in Portland Place, London. Onstage is Roebuck Ramsden, a rather elderly man of affluence and affairs. Octavius Robinson, a young poet, is announced by the maid. He appears dressed in an elegant suit of mourning. As Ramsden consoles him, the audience learns that Octavius' benefactor and friend, Mr. Whitefield, is dead. Ramsden is confident that he will be the one who will serve as guardian of Whitefield's daughters, Ann and Rhoda, and he expresses his hope that Ann and Octavius will marry. Octavius can think of nothing which would make him happier. As they discuss this matter, Ramsden warns the young poet against the latter's friend, John Tanner, author of the notorious Revolutionist's Handbook. Ramsden prides himself on being an advanced thinker and liberal but regards Tanner as an immoral person. If Ramsden indeed is to be the guardian of the lovely Ann, he will see to it that Tanner is kept away from her.the play is---

A)‘Widower's Houses’

B) ‘man and superman

C)Arms and the Man’

D)‘Mrs. Warren's Profession

Ans:B

In Pygmalion, phonetics professor Henry Higgins takes in a flower girl named Eliza Doolittle. He intends to turn Eliza into a lady by teaching her elocution. He succeeds, but never truly believes that she's a lady, and as a result Eliza runs away, escaping his tyranny.what happens in Pygmalion?

A)Henry meets Eliza on the street one night when she attempts to sell him a flower. He bets that he can teach her elocution and pass her off as a lady, and after many objections Eliza agrees to their experiment.

B)Eliza turns out to be an apt student and easily convinces the ladies at a garden party that she's one of them. Nevertheless, Henry never truly thinks of her as a lady and still treats her as a servant. She runs away, seeking her independence.

C)Meanwhile, Eliza's father, who previously milked Henry out of money, becomes a rich man thanks to an offhand comment Henry makes in a letter to a rich philanthropist. He bemoans his new station in life, but of course doesn't return the money.

D) all the above

Ans:D

Candida: A Mystery is included among “Plays: Pleasant” in George Bernard Shaw’s first collection of plays, Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898). Like each of the other “Plays: Pleasant” (Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny, and You Never Can Tell), Morell and Eugene ask Candida to choose between...

A) Morell and Eugene

B) Morell

C) Eugene

D) none

Ans:B

I know very well that fashionable morality is all a pretence, and that if I took your money and devoted the rest of my life to spending it fashionably, I might be as worthless and vicious as the silliest woman could possibly be without having a word said to me about it. But I don't want to be worthless. I shouldn't enjoy trotting about the park to advertize my dressmaker and carriage builder, or being bored at the opera to shew off a shopwindowful of diamonds. who states---

A)Vivie

B) MRS.Warren

C) Reverend Samuel Gardner,

D) none of the above

Ans:A

Both plays are from the same period and use comic techniques hinging on issues of false identities. More importantly, both plays address the "woman question." For both Wilde and Shaw the issues of women and careers were twofold. First, there was the practical issue of how women could earn their livings outside marriage, and second was the issue of how rich women who did not need to work, could employ their intelligence productively. Mrs. Prism shows the limitations of the traditional female occupations of novelist and governess, albeit humorously. Cecily, in Earnest, is potentially a "New Woman" like Vivie, but relegated to use her education in the trivial arena of high society. Although Mrs. Warren succeeds in amassing wealth froim her brothel, she fails to model a viable option for the new woman because ideologically she remain mired in the conventional role of supporting herself by pleasing men, and in the end proves less willing to break gender role conventions than her daughter Vivie. here

Womens Mrs. Prism and Cecily are character from—

A) Lady Windermere's Fan was produced in 1892,

B)A Woman of No Importance in 1893,

C) The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895.
D)An Ideal Husband and

Ans:C

Major Barbara is a literary use of myths and their cultural references. Its conception was facilitated by the two-volume 1890 publication of Sir James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough and its treatment of the Christian Gospel story as only one myth among others. Shaw based Major Barbara on several Christian legends; the myth of Barbara, the patron saint of gunners and miners, is linked with a version of Christ’s mission, betrayal, passion, and ascension. These Christian elements are combined with the myth of Faust, who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power. The dramatist is

A) shaw B) wilde

C)Dickson D)Shakespeare

Ans:A

31.Identify the untrue statement on the CONTACT ZONE below:

1. “The contact zone” is a space where disparate cultures meet, clash and grapple with each other.

2. In Postcolonial societies “contact” suggests the historical moment when settler and indigenous cultures first met.

3. The idea of the Contact Zone was first proposed and defined by Mary Louise Pratt’s Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992)

4. It is believed that the Contact Zone was largely instrumental in spearheading nationalist movements across the world.

Ans:4

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.

1. Beloved

2. Ceremony

3. Daisy Miller

4. Enter, Conversing

Ans:2

In Leslie Marmon Silko's novel, Ceremony, the main character Tayo must come to terms with himself and his surrounding environment upon his return from World War II. He is suffering from a sort of post traumatic stress disorder which has affected him physcially as well as emotionally due to the fact that he has survived as a prisoner of war in Japan. Consequently he must deal with

A) all of the horrific memories when he returns from war to live with his family on the Laguna Pueblo reservation in New Mexico.

B)Tayo is half Caucasian and half Native American, so he must also deal with the added pressures of bi-culturalism.

C)He is torn between the Native American world and the white world, and is unable to feel a secure security or belonging.

D) Tayo's friends and family believe that they know the nature of and antidote for Tayo's illness and depression,

E) all the above

Ans:E

One of the following poems in Men and Women is addressed to Elizabeth Barrett Browning by the poet. Identify it.

1. “In Three Days”

2. “By the Fireside”

3. “One Way of Love”

4. “One Word More”

Ans:4

The wrong statement about Elizabeth Barrett Browning is----

A)In 1826, Elizabeth anonymously published her collection An Essay on Mind and Other Poems.

B) Elizabeth published her translation of Prometheus Bound (1833), by the Greek dramatist Aeschylus.

C) she wrote The Seraphim and Other Poems (1838), expressing Christian sentiments in the form of classical Greek tragedy.

D) Elizabeth’s Sonnets from the Portuguese, dedicated to her husband and written in secret before her marriage, was published in 1850.

E)One word more addressed to Robert browning

F) In 1857 Browning published her verse novel Aurora Leigh, which portrays male domination of a woman.

Ans:E

Arthur Miller’s most personal and autobiographical play, After the Fall, The middle-aged Quentin is courting Holga, a German woman still struggling with her experiences during World War II. As he seeks to define his own feelings and decide the future of their relationship, his fragmented memories reassert themselves, sometimes without his willing participation. His mother, his first wife Louise, and his second wife Maggie feature most prominently in the large ensemble cast, which also portrays his father and brother, clients, partners, friends, and other fleeting romances . the character in After the fall is------

A)Mother -- a sensitive, intelligent woman whose husband kept her from fulfilling her potential. She thinks the world of Quentin the child and encourages his talents. Quentin relives a childhood memory of her insulting and fighting with his father. As an adult, he and his brother Dan are faced with the difficult task of having to inform their ailing father of her death.

B)Felice -- repeatedly appears briefly to raise her hand and bless Quentin. She was a client of his who was divorcing her husband, and was immensely appreciative of Quentin. She is one of the few women Quentin hasn't harmed and/or been harmed by.

C)Louise -- Quentin's first wife. He recalls her dawning realization that he didn't take her seriously (their relationship in many way parallels that of Quentin's parents). She also points out Quentin's inability to connect with women, to communicate with them on a real, emotional level. He cheats on her with Maggie before their marriage completely falls apart.

D)Maggie -- an attractive woman whom no one takes seriously. We would probably call her ditzy. She becomes a successful actress, claiming that she was inspired by the fact that Quentin helped her to see herself as more than an object. After carrying on an affair, they eventually marry. The more successful she becomes, the more Maggie drinks and takes sleeping pills. This leads to erratic behavior that contributes to the failure of the marriage. She ultimately dies of an overdose, and Quentin feels guilty that he wasn't able to save her from herself.

E)Holga -- a German woman Quentin has recently fallen in love with. Visiting a former concentration camp, the guilt and inhuman actions it brings to mind become intertwined with Quentin's memories of his treatment of women and subsequent guilt. Because of his past failures, he is somewhat hesitant to allow himself to marry Holga. But she does represent the possibility of change and hope for a happy life.

F) all

Ans:F

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).
Ans-(D)--

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. and (d) are correct; (b) and (c) are incorrect.

2. (a), (c) and (d) are correct; (b) is wrong.

3. A and (d) are correct; (a) and (c) are incorrect.

4. (a), (b) and (c) are correct; (d) is incorrect.

Ans:3

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

Ans:C

‘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

Ans:A

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).

Ans:D

British cultural critic John Ruskin created the definition of pathetic fallacy in the mid-1800s in his book Modern Painters. The term sounds derogative, and indeed Ruskin coined it to denounce the sentimentality that he saw as being overused in poetry in the late 18^th century. The two terms “pathetic” and “fallacy” have changed quite a bit since Ruskin first joined them. In his day, “pathetic” meant anything pertaining to emotion, while “fallacy” meant “falseness.” Thus, the original definition of pathetic fallacy was simply emotional falseness. pathetic fallacy refers to

A)giving human emotions and actions to animals, plants, and other parts of nature.

B) the attribution of human characteristics and qualities to animals or deities.

C) the projection of characteristics that normally belong only to humans onto inanimate objects, animals, deities, or forces of nature.

D) animals in the role of the protagonist and usually includes or illustrates a moral. A fable can also have other inanimate objects, mythical creatures, or forces of nature as main characters.

Ans:A

1.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.

Ans:A

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

1. a Public Park

2. a Church

3. a Quarry

4. an Abandoned Factory

Ans:3

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

Ans:D

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
Answer: (C)

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 nihilistIII. 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.
Answer: (B)

The women are no longer willing to be subservient to the men. This shocks the men when the women are vocal about their discontent, and willing to fight about it if necessary. They are giving up the usual, traditional roles of wife and mother to fight. Another theme is that of sex. The women are using sex as a weapon to fight the men. They band together and withhold sex in an attempt to weaken the men and have them give in. It is one of the few true weapons that these women have in their arsenal.Theme is war or violence. The women rebel against the men and get together (from both sides) to plan how to end the war their men are fighting. The women withhold sex on both sides of the war in order to end the fighting. So, ultimately, the men are fighting against one another and the women are uniting to fight against the men to end the war/violence. The play is---

(A) The Birds by Aristophenes
(B) Lysistrata by Aristophenes
(C) The Clouds by Aristophenes
(D) The Frogs by Aristophenes
Ans:B

Wishing to visit the underworld, Bacchus sets out with his slave, Xanthias, to visit Hercules, from whom the god of wine hopes to get directions for his visit to the lower regions. On the way, Xanthias grumbles and moans about his many bundles. Xanthias is actually being carried on a donkey, but he complains until Bacchus loses patience and suggests that perhaps Xanthias would like to carry the donkey for a while.

(A) The Birds by Aristophenes
(B) Lysistrata by Aristophenes
(C) The Clouds by Aristophenes
(D) The Frogs by Aristophenes
Ans:D

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”

(D) Alejo Carpentier – “On the Marvelous in America”

Answer: (B)

the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man.Roop is a young girl whose mother has died and whose father is deep in debt. So she is elated to learn she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner in a union beneficial to both. For Sardaji’s first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him children. Roop believes that she and Satya, still very much in residence, will be friends. But the relationship between the older and younger woman is far more complex. The novel is---

A. The Pakistani Bride by Bapsi Sidhawa

B. What the Body Remembers By Shauna Singh Baldwin

C. Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh

D. The Ice-Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhawa

Ans:B

Here is a list of Partition novels which have ‘violence on the woman’s body’ as a significant theme. Pick the odd one out:

E. The Pakistani Bride

F. What the Body Remembers

G. Train to Pakistan

H. The Ice-Candy Man

Ans:C

Gil Courtemanche’s A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India deal with the themes of violence and rapes as the background is the period of intense violence. A novel by the author of Ice-Candy-Man Zaitoon, a new bride, is desperately unhappy in her marriage and is contemplating the ultimate escape??"the one from which there is no return. Zaitoon, an orphan, is adopted by Qasim, who has left the isolated hill town where he was born and made a home for the two of them in the glittering, decadent city of Lahore. As the years pass, Qasim makes a fortune but grows increasingly nostalgic about his life in the mountains. Impulsively, he promises Zaitoon in marriage to a man of his tribe. The novel is

A. The Pakistani Bride

B. What the Body Remembers

C. Train to Pakistan

D. The Ice-Candy Man

Ans:A

She, Qasim’s adopted daughter. After her parents are killed in the partition riots of 1947, she is rescued by Qasim, who rears her with the assistance of friends. she grows into a beautiful young woman, remains in the background, a sketchily developed character who represents the facelessness of females in Pakistani society. Once she finds herself in a situation of conflict, however, she reacts, draws on a well of strength not revealed before, and develops into a fully realized character.the character is—

A) Nikka

B) Zaitoon

C) Carol

D) Sakhi

Ans:B

The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious three years child Lenny who describes the brutal transition with chilling veracity. Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She spends her days with Ayah, her beautiful nanny, visiting with the large group of admirers that Ayah draws. It is in the company of these working class characters that Lenny learns about religious differences, religious intolerance, and the blossoming genocidal strife on the eve of Partition.Lenny enjoys a happy, privileged life in Lahore, but the kidnapping of her beloved Ayah signals a dramatic change. Soon Lenny’s world erupts in religious, ethnic, and racial violence. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, the domestic drama serves as a microcosm for a profound political upheaval. The novel is--

A. The Pakistani Bride

B. Cracking India

C. Train to Pakistan

D. The Ice-Candy Man

Ans:B

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

(D) 1 2 3 4

Answer: (C)

In his poem “A Morning Walk” Nissim Ezekiel talks about a ‘Barbaric City sick with slums /Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains / Its hawkers, beggars, ironlunged / Processions led by frantic drums.’ Identify the city:

(A) Calcutta (B) Banares

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

Ans:A

17. In ‘Christabel’ after Geraldine enters SirLeoline’s castle on her way to Christabel’s chamber there are several ill omens which warn the reader about Geraldine. Pick out the phrase which does not serve as an omen:

(A)The ‘angry moan’ of the ailing mastiff bitch

(B) ‘The Owlet’s Scritch’

(D) ‘A tongue of light, a fit of flame’

Answer: (C)

18. The word resurrect is

(A) An abbreviation

(B) A spurious verb

(D) A disguised compound

Answer: (C)

Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:

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

(D) 3 4 1 2

Answer: (B)

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.

(D) I, III and IV are correct.

Answer: (D)

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

(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

(D) Passages of epic strength and vigour

Answer: (C)

‘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

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.

(D) The speaker’s command of the resources of the language spoken by him/her and their deployment.

Answer: (B)

5. 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

(D) The Sea Lady

Answer: (B)

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

(D) The sixteen-century translators of the Bible

Answer: (D)

27. Who among the following writers asserted ‘Commonwealth Literature’ does not exist?

(A) Amitav Ghosh

(B) Sulman Rushdie

(D) Nirad Chaudhari

Answer: (B)

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

Answer: (A)

29. Which of the following arrangements is in the correct chronological sequence?

(A) Mary Wellstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France.

(B) Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

(C) Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on, the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

(D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with ‘Preface’, second edition by Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France – Mary Wollstone Craft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Answer: (B)

30. Who is John Keats’s ‘Sylvan Historian’?

(A) Fanny Brawne

(B) Nightingale

(D) The Bridge of Quietness

Answer: (C)

31. This periodical was started in 1709 with a motive ‘to expose the false arts of life, to pull the disguise of cunning, vanity and affectation, and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse and our behaviour.’ The founder of the periodical wrote under the pseudonym of Isaac Bickerstaff. The periodical described above is

(A) The Tatler

(B) The Spectator

(D) The Rambler

Answer: (A)

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

(D) The title of the essay, the title of the journal, volume & issue numbers, the year of publication, page numbers

Answer: (D)

33. From the following indicate the work which is not a Dystopia:

(A) Aldous Huxley – A Brave New World

(B) George Orwell – 1984

(D) Evelyn Waugh – Brideshed Revisited

Answer: (D)

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

(D) Marvell’s The Rehearsal Transposed

Answer: (A)

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.

(D) Mr. Bennett’s neighbour who happens to be a writer.

Answer: (A)

36. E.M. Forster uses some recurrent images in A Passage to India. Pick the odd one out:

(A) Wasp

(B) Stone

(D) Echo

Answer: (C)

37. ‘Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here’s a tun of midnight-work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home. Round as a globe, and liquor’dev’ry chink Goodly and great he rails behind his link’.

In the above extract from Absalom and AchitophelOg is

(A) Elkanah Settle

(B) Lord Harvey

(D) Joseph Addison

Answer: (C)

38. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression ‘a bright book of life’ to describe

(A) The novel

(B) The dramatic monologue

(D) The short lyric

Answer: (A)

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

Codes:

i ii iii iv v

(A) 3 5 4 1 2

(B) 4 3 5 2 1

(D) 2 1 3 4 5

Answer: (A)

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).

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

Answer: (B)

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.

(D) 2 and 4 are correct.

Answer: (B)

42. In Monica Ali’s Brick Lane which among the following characters has ‘a face like a frog’?

(A) Nazneen

(B) Chanu

(D) Karim

Answer: (B)

43. ‘The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light; and flecked darkness like a drunkardreels

From forth day’s path and Titan’sburning wheels.’

(Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 – 4)The speaker describes

(A) The Setting Sun

(B) The Return Home of a Drunkard

(D) The Rising Sun

Answer: (C)

44. ‘How noble in reason ! How infinitein faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like anangel! In apprehension how like a God!’

What does Hamlet marvel at in this passage?

(A) His own self

(B) His father

(D) Woman

Answer: (C)

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 oneof 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.

(D) IV is correct and I, II and III are wrong.

Answer: (C)

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

(D) 1640-1659

Answer: (B)

47. “To tell the truth Shug act more manly than rest, men. I means she upright, honest, speak her mind…”What light does the quotation throwon ShugAvery?

(A) She is a manly woman.

(B) She is upright and honest in asserting her lesbian identity.

(D) Both (B) and (C)

Answer: (D)

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.

(D) 2 and 4 are correct.

Answer: (A)

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.

(D) Noah Webster published An American Dictionary of the English Language in that year.

Answer: (D)

50. What alternative title to her Frankenstein did Marry Shelley give?

(A) A Gothic Tale

(B) A Gothic Romance

(D) A Modern Parable

Answer: (C)

51. Which of the following statements on George Lamming’s In the Castle ofMy Skin [1953] is not true?

(A) On one level this is a coming of-age story.

(B) It is an elegiac account of avillage’s growth into awareness in the late colonial period.

(D) This was George Lamming’s first novel.

Answer: (C)

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

(D) Suggestive of links but equivocally

Answer: (A)

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.

(D) II and IV are correct.

Answer: (D)

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.

(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.

Answer: (A)

55. ‘By swaggering could I never thrive, for the rain it raineth everyday. ’These lines from Twelfth Night occur in the novel:

(A) Middlemarch

(B) Vanity Fair

(D) Far From the Madding Crowd

Answer: (A)

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

(D) Uses a mocking style to deride heroes and hero-worship

Answer: (C)

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.

(D) It contains a marbled page.

Answer: (A)

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.

(D) By the protagonist to his/her antagonist

Answer: (A)

59. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:

List – I List – II

(Novels) (Last Lines)

i. The Mayor of Casterbridge 1. ‘He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly.’

ii. Sons and Lovers 2. ‘In their death, they were not divided.’

iii. The Great Gatsby 3. ‘Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.’

iv. The Mill on the Floss 4. ‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’

Codes:

i ii iii iv

(A) 1 2 3 4

(B) 2 1 3 4

(D) 3 1 4 2

Answer: (D)

60. “There is nothing outside the text,” is a statement by

(A) Victor Shklovsky

(B) Jacques Derrida

(D) Ferdinand de Saussure

Answer: (B)

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

(D) Bathsheba Everdene

Answer: (D)

62. What is the following a description of? ‘A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece’

(A) Essay

(B) Autobiography

(D) Diary

Answer: (A)

63. From the following indicate the critic who is not a New Critic:

(A) Allen Tate

(B) Robert Penn Warren

(D) Claude Levi-Strauss

Answer: (D)

64. From the following list, pick out a woman character who does not belong to Amitav Ghosh’s novels:

(A) Ila

(B) Urvashi

(D) Piyali

Answer: (B)

65. Pick the odd man out of the following members of the subaltern group:

(A) Ranajit Guha

(B) Partha Chatterjee

(D) Sumit Sarkar

Answer: (D)

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.

(D) (S) is a poetic view and bears no relationship to (I).

Answer: (B)

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

(D) Silly

Answer: (D)

68. Who among Charles Dickens’s characters is ‘umble’ and who ‘willin’?

(A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp

(B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby

(D) Uriah Heep, Barkis

Answer: (D)

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.

(D) I, III and IV are correct.

Answer: (C)

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.

(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.

Answer: (B)

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.

(D) It departs from critical theory of autobiographical narratives involving Black lives and cultural traditions.

Answer: (B)

72. This influential critic

I. wrote influential commentaries on such poets as Shelley, Blake and Yeats.

II. Published such titles as The Anxiety of Influence, A Map of Misreading, Poetry and Repression and The Western Canon.

III. Asserted that most literary criticism is but slightly disguised religion and

IV. Is, arguably, the most widely known and contrarian among his American peers in the English Academy.

Identify the critic

(A) Edward Said

(B) Geoffrey Chaucer

(D) Sven Birkrets

Answer: (C)www.netugc.com

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.

(D) Hegemony is synonymous with subjugation

Answer: (B)

74. Match the following:

i. George Peele, Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Kyd 1. The Rhymers’ Club / The Decadents of the 1890’s

ii. William Congreve, William Wycherley George Eltherege, George Farquhar 2. The Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood

iii. John Everett Millais, James Collinson, Ford Madox Brown, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 3. The

University Wits

iv. Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, W.B. Yeats 4. The Restoration Playwrights

Codes:

i ii iii iv

(A) 3 2 1 4

(B) 1 4 3 2

(D) 3 4 2 1

Answer: (D)

75. Combine the statements correctly: According to Homi Bhabha________

1. Mimicry is not mere copying or emulating the colonizer’s culture, behaviour and manners.

2. But it is further aimed at perfection and excess.

3. Mimicry is mere copying the colonizer’s culture, behaviour and manners…

4. But is informed by both mockery and a certain menace.

(A) 1 and 4

(B) 1 and 2

(D) 3 and 2

Answer: (A)

NET/SET ENGLISH LITERATURE

No comments:

Post a Comment

VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM PRECIDENCY

NET/SET ENGLISH LITERATURE

English literature