Dec 2018
December 2018.
1. Laurence Clarkson
2. Gerrard Winstanley
3. George Fox
4. John Lilburne
Answer: 2
Q.2. Who viewed
Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge as representatives of a “sect of
poets …. Dissenters
from the established systems in poetry and criticism” who
constituted “the most
formidable conspiracy against sound judgement in matters
political” ?
1. Henry Vaughhan
2. Francisco Franco
3. Ralph Vaughan
4. Francis Jeffrey
Answer: 4
Q.3. This poet was of
the Auden generation and was only briefly a member of the
Communist party. In his
poem, ”The Pylons”, he averred that the Pylons are “Bare
like nude giant girls
that have no secrets”. This prompted the label, Pylon poets, for
the new generation of
poets who were happy to use the gas works or pistons of a
steam-engine as poetic
imagery. ( Name this poet.)
1. Cecil Day Lewis
2. Christopher
Isherwood
3. Stephen Spender
4. Louis MacNeice
Answer: 3
Q.4. Which of the
following is the most accurate description of Butler English ?
1. A dialect of English
spoken by the descendants of Anglo-Indians.
2. A pidgin, also
called “Kitchen English” spoken by South Asians in Europe.
3. A minimal pidgin that emerged during colonial times in the
Madras Presidency
4. Any non-grammatical
variety of English used by menials in Commonwealth countries.
Answer: 3
Q.5. S.T. Coleridge
“Dejection : An Ode” opens with an epigraph which is a reference to a ballad.
Identify the ballad.
1. “Ballad of the
Goodly Fere”
2. “La Belle Dame Sans
Merci”
3. “Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence”
4. “Ballad of the
Gibbet”
Answer: 3
Q.6. What is the
delicate balancing act of Andrew Marvell’s “Horation Ode” ?
1. Praising Roman
virtues while endorsing Christian beliefs.
2. Celebrating the
Restoration while regretting the frivolity of the new regime.
3. Praising feminine
virtues while mocking the fixation on chastity.
4. Celebrating Cromwell’s victories while inviting sympathy for
the executed King.
Answer: 4
Q.7. Who among the
ancients prescribed that poetry should both instruct and delight ?
1. Longinus
2. Plotinus
3. Aristotle
4. Horace
Answer: 4
Q.8. Braj Kachru has
observed a tendency among Indian-English speakers and writers to use hybridized
lexical items. One example of this is
1. Jugarh
2. Ping-pong
3. Chaywallah
4. Lathi-charge
Answer: 4
Q.9. Identify the
Fireside poets of the US.
1. William Cullen Bryant, H.W. Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes
2. T.S. Eliot, Wallace
Stevens, William Carlos Williams
3. Marianne Moore,
Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Seaton
4. Amy Lowell, Emily
Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley
Answer: 1
Q.10. Evelina was
published in 1778
1. posthumously
2. using the name Fanny
Burney
3. anonymously
4. under a pseudonym
Answer: 3
Q.11. Allen Tate once
made a useful distinction between structure and texture. The
distinction referred to
1. the main line of a narrative, argument, etc., and the rhetorical,
stylistic, metaphorical and other devices respectively.
2. the devices employed
to enlighten objects and materials in a narrative , and the objects and
material themselves, respectively.
3. objects and
materials on which a narrative casts light, and the devices employed to enlighten
them respectively.
4. the rhetorical,
stylistic, metaphorical and other devices, and the main line of a narrative, argument,
etc., respectively
Answer: 1
Q.12. Match the poem
with the opening lines:
(a) “Ode to Psyche”
(b) “Ode on a Grecian
Urn”
(c) “Ode to a
Nightingale”
(d) “Ode on Melancholy”
(1) “My heart aches,
and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of Hemlock I had
drunk,”
(2) “No, no, go not to
Lethe, neither twist Wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its Poisonous wine,”
(3) “Thou still
unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and Slow time,”
(4) “O Goddess ! hear
these tuneless numbers, by sweet enforcement and Remembrance dear,”
1. (a)-(4), (b)-(1),
(c)-(3), (d)-(2)
2. (a)-(3), (b)-(4),
(c)-(2), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
4. (a)-(1), (b)-(3),
(c)-(2), (d)-(4)
Answer: 3
Q.13. Match the
character with the play :
|
(Character) (a)
Dorimant (b)
Lady Fidget (c)
Malevole (d)
Vernish |
(Play) (1)
The plain Dealer (2)
The Man of Mode (3)
The Country Wife (4)
The Malcontent |
1. (a)-(4), (b)-(3),
(c)-(1), (d)-(2)
2. (a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(4), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(2), (b)-(4),
(c)-(3), (d)-(1)
4. (a)-(4), (b)-(1),
(c)-(3), (d)-(2)
Answer: 2
Q.14. What comes “after
great pain” in the famous Emily Dickinson poem ?
1. The letting go
2. A concrete
simplicity
3. Substantial light
4. A formal feeling
Answer: 4
Q.15. The “grammer
bullies” – you read them in places like the New York Times – and
they tell you what is
correct.
You must never use
“hopefully, we will be going there on Thrusday.” That is incorrect and
wrong and you are
basically an ignorant pig if you say it.
This is judgementalism
. The game that is being played there is a game of social class. It
has nothing do with the
morality of writing and speaking and thinking clearly, of which
George Orwell, for
instance, talked so well.
To which famous essay
of Orwell does the author refer here?
1. “Inside the Whale”
2. “Politics and the English Language
3. “Reflections on
Gandhi”
4. “Why I Write”
Answer: 2
Q.16. In the spring of
1941, Nikos Kazantzakis embarked on one of his most
ambitious projects, a
play known as Yangtze. What English/Greek title is it now
known as ?
1. Buddha
2. Brobdingnag
3. Zoroaster
4. Zorba
Answer: 1
Q.17. One of the less
noticed and acknowledged distinction of The Canterbury Tales
is that
1. instead of revealing England’s divisions, it reveled in its
diversity.
2. it upheld the idea
that we cannot divorce poetry from knowledge because poetry itself is an object
of knowledge
3. it alerted us to the
term auctor, someone who is both ‘an originator, or one who gives increase’,
the best description for Chaucer himself.
4. it married
domesticity to divinity, the baker’s Loaf with the bread of life.
Answer: 1
Q.18. The following
epitaph was written by Rudyard Kipling during the war of 1914-18.
HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE
This man is his own
country prayed we know not to what Powers.
We pray Them to reward
him for his bravery in ours.
“Powers” here refers to
_______, “then” to______, and “ours” to______.
1. The Hindus, the
French, the British
2. The divine, Powers, our country
3. The military, the
Hindu sepoys, Powers
4. Authorities, his
compatriots, our country
Answer: 2
Q.19. Which Walter
Scott novel is set in France in the fifteenth century ?
1. Redgauntlet
2. Ivanhoe
3. The Antiquarry
4. Quentin Durward
Answer: 4
Q.20. In which work
does William Blake say that Milton was “a true poet and of
devil’s party without
knowing it” ?
1. “London”
2. “Songs of Innocence”
3. “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
4. “The Chimney
Sweeper”
Answer: 3
Q.21. Which of the
following themes was not common to the works of Cavelier poets
such as Thomas Carew,
Sir John Denham, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, James
Shirley, Richard
Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?
1. Loyalty to the king
2. Country ideals of
the good life
3. Pious devotion to religious virtues
4. Carpe diem
Answer: 3
Q.22. Who among the
following are referred to as the “Scottish Chaucerians” ?
(a) Thomas Hoccleve
(b) Robert Henryson
(c) John Lydgate
(d) William Dunbar
The right combination
according to the code is :
1. (a) and (b)
2. (c) and (d)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (b) and (d)
Answer: 4
Q.23. The enigmatic
castle which K. attempts to reach in vain in Franz Kafka’s Castle
belongs to
1. Count Westwest
2. Count Aloofwest
3. Count Eastwest
4. Count Stangewest
Answer: 1
Q.24. Which of the
following statements is true of The Way of the World ?
1. The Way of the World failed on stage.
2. Millamant and
Mirabell fail to obtain the consent of Millamant’s aunt for their marriage
3. The Way of the World
presents a heroine pretending to love an older man.
4. The Way of the World
was performed and published in 1702.
Answer: 1
Q.25. Which of the
following would not be invoked to describe a form of new
Historicist criticism ?
1. Archaeology of
social constructs
2. Genealogy of
patriarchal discourse
3. Cultural materialism
4. Post-structural recovery of authorial intent
Answer: 4
Q.26. Match the
following authors with the novels :
|
(Name of Novel) (a)
Inheritance (b)
Listening Now (c)
Sister of My Heart (d)
The Hero’s Walk |
(Name of Author) (i)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (ii)
Anita Rau Badami (iii)
Anjana Appachana (iv)
Indira Ganesan |
1.(a)-(i), (b)-(iii),
(c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
2.(a)-(iv), (b)-(ii),
(c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
3.(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
4.(a)-(iv), (b)-(i),
(c)-(iii), (d)-(ii)
Answer: 3
Q.27. The Romantic period
produced a fair amount of dramatic criticism. A notable
examples is “on the
Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth.” Who is the author?
1. Thomas de Quincey
2. Edmund Kean
3. William Hazlitt
4. William Charles
Macready
Answer: 1
Q.28. In his Practical
Criticism I.A. Richards suggests that there are several kinds of
meanings and that the
“total meaning” is a blend of contributory meanings which
are of different types. He identified
four kinds of meaning, or the total meaning of a
word depends upon four
factors. Choose the right combination as proposed by
Richards.
1. Sense, feeling, Tone
and Matter
2. Image, Feeling, Tone
and Intention
3. Sound, Sense, Tone
and Matter
4. Sense, Feeling, Tone and Intention
Answer: 4
Q.29. The following
lines are W.B. Yeats’s metaphor for an old man :
A tattered coat upon a
stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and
sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its
mortal dress.
Here, the aged man is
_____, and his “soul … in its mortal dress,” is _______.
1. Point, counterpoint
2. Tenor, vehicle
3. Analogy, analogue
4. Vehicle, tenor
Answer: 2
Q.30. Thomas Nashe’s
The Unfortunate Traveler is narrated by
1. Ben Lyte, a coarse
Papist
2. Jack Wilton, an English page
3. Peter Marston, a
sworn Calvinist
4. Philip Foxe, an
English highwayman
Answer: 2
Q.31. Read the
following passage and answer the questions:
I have carried the
manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway
trains, or an the top of omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had to
close it lest some stranger would see how much it moved me. These lyrics –
which are in the original, my … (Indian friends) tell me, full of subtlety of
rhythm, of untranslatable delicacies of colour, of material invention –display
in thought a world I have dreamed of all my life long. The work of a supreme
culture, they yet appear as much a growth of the common soil as the grass and
the rushes. A tradition, where poetry and religion are the same thing, has
passed through the centuries, gathering from learned and unlearned metaphor and
emotion, and carried back again to the multitude the thought of the scholar
and the noble. If the
civilization of Bengal remains unbroken, if that common mind which – as one
divines – runs through all, is not, as with us, broken into a dozen minds that
know nothing of each other, something even of what is most subtle in these
verses will have come, in a few generations, to the beggar on the roads.
— W.B. Yeats, from
Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali
Q. 31. In this passage,
Yeats praises Indian culture primarily because it
1. Is accessible to
Westernes though it is rooted in a different religious tradition.
2. Has been flexible
enough to survive a transition into the modern world.
3. Embodies values and gives rise to art that can be shared by
people of all classes.
4. Reflects a
marvellous eclecticism in drawing from many disparate cultures.
Answer: 3
Q.32. Which of the
following had the alternative title Things as They Are?
1. Horace Walpole’s The
Castle of Otranto
2. Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein
3. Sir Walter Scott’s
Waverley
4. William Godwin’s Caleb Williams
Answer: 4
Q.33. In imitation of
which classical poet did Samuel Johnson write his London and
The Vanity of Human
Wishes?
1. Horace
2. Homer
3. Juvenal
4. Tasso
Answer: 3
Q.34. Identify the
character, a black-eyed dwarf who “constantly revealed a few
discoloured fangs that
were yet scattered in his mouth, and gave him the aspect of a
panting dog”.
1. Mulberry Hawk in
Nicholas Nickleby
2. Rigand in Little
Dorrit
3. Mr. Crook in Bleak
House
4. Daniel Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop
Answer: 4
Q.35. There are helpers
and harmers among fellow-pilgrims in Christian’s journey in
Pilgrim’s Progress. Who
among the following is not a helper?
1. Mr. Worldly Wiseman
2. Good Will
3. The Interpreter
4. The Evangelist
Answer: 1
Q.36. Adherents of the
fourteenth century religious movement associated with
vernacular preaching,
translation of New Testament into English, and challenges to
the authority of priests
and bishops were called
1. Levellers
2. Deists
3. Lollards
4. Agnostics
Answer: 3
Q.37. Match the term
with the theorist:
|
(Term) (a)
Negritude (b)
Womanism (c)
Interpellation (4)
Louis Althusser |
(Theorist) (1)
Alice Walker (2)
Jurgen Habermas (3)
Aime Cesaire (d)
Public Sphere |
1. (a)-(2), (b)-(1),
(c)-(4), (d)-(3)
2. (a)-(3), (b)-(2),
(c)-(4), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(1), (b)-(2),
(c)-(4), (d)-(3)
4. (a)-(3), (b)-(1), (c)-(4), (d)-(2)
Answer: 4
Q.38. In his essay “The
Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (1864) Matthew
Arnold contended that
1. Creative and
critical powers should be ranked equally
2. Creative and
critical powers are not comparable in any way
3. Critical power
should be ranked higher than creative power
4. Creative power should be ranked higher than critical power
Answer: 4
Q.39. David Malouf’s
novel Ransom is based on
1. a war memoir by
Edmund Blunden
2. an episode in The
Mahabharata
3. a war poem by
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
4. an episode in the Trojan war
Answer: 4
Q.40. The title of
Dylan Thomas’s Deaths and Entrances was taken from
1. William
Shakespeare’s Macbeth
2. John Donne’s “Death’s Duell”
3. Rudyard Kipling’s “A
Death-Bed”
4. T.S. Eliot’s Murder
in the Cathedral
Answer: 2
Q.41. What type of
writing Walter Pater define as
“the special and opportune art of
the modern world”?
1. The lyric
2. Comic drama
3. The novel
4. Nonfiction prose
Answer: 4
Q.42. It was the first narrative on the life of a
black woman slave to be published in
England in 1831. It has
profound influence on
the abolition movement in Britain.
Identify the book and
its author
1. Mary Prince – The History of Mary Prince
2. Mattie Jane Jackson
– The Story of Mattie J. Jackson
3. Elizabeth – Memoir
of Old Elizabeth, a coloured Woman
4. Harriet Jacobs –
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Answer: 1
Q.43. 1992 demolition
of the disputed structure in Ayodhya produced two
controversial literary
responses. Identify them.
1. Out of Place, The
Algebra of Infinite Justice
2. Annals and
antiquities, between Sunlight and Shadows
3. The Moor’s Last Sigh, Lajja
4. Chronicles of a Riot
Foretold, Shame
Answer: 3
Q.44. What is peculiar
about the reference in the following in the some poets’ names
in the plural?
“it is a freezing,
bleak day in January, and I am looking for poetry. I see a few
Chaucers, a few
Shakespeares, and a hardcover, three-dollar History of Modern
Poetry published in
1987.”
1. Standard reference
to more texts of one poet.
2. Unusual; awkward
metaphors no longer in use.
3. Usually refer to
biographies of the poets in question.
4. Synecdochic use; names for their respective works.
Answer: 4
Q.45. Deconstructionist
critics argue that texts are never free from
1. the equivocal and
ironically unstable worldview of the author.
2. the material
conditions that determine the production and reception.
3. the interpretations
bestowed by the totalizing critic.
4. distortions inherent in the rhetoricity of language.
Answer: 4
Q.46. “What is honour?
A word. What is that word honour? Air. A trim reckoning!
Who hath it? He that
died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. is it
insensible, then? Yea,
to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. why?
Detraction will not suffer it. – therefore, I’ll none
of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon;
and so ends my
catechism.”
Which character in the
following Shakespearce’s dramas made this statement about
honour?
1. Claudius in Hamlet,
the Prince of Denmark
2. Falstaff in King Henry four-part 1
3. Hotspur in King
Henry four-part 1
4. Hamlet in Hamlet,
the Prince of Denmark
Answer: 2
Q.47. Why did Plato
banish the poet from his ideal state?
1. Poetry makes an
artificial distinction between form and content
2. Poetry deals with
form, to the neglect of content.
3. the poet can never
produce a completely accurate replica of the reality it seeks to represent, and
(moreover) the purpose of art is not to describe reality but to change it.
4. In representing the sensual aspects of reality, the poet fails
to discern the transcendent reality behind mere appearance.
Answer: 4
Q.48. “Search the heads
of the greatest rivers in the world, you shall find them but
bubbles of water.” Who
is the author of this line?
1. Oscar Wilde
2. Francis Bacon
3. John Webster
4. R.B. Sheridan
Answer: 3
Q.49. Match the
character with the work:
|
(Name of work) (1)
Sons and lovers (2)
Kangaroo (3)
Women in love (4)
The Rainbow |
(Characters) (a)
Rupert Birkin (b)
Lydia Lensky (c)
Miriam Leivers (d)
Richard Somers |
1. (a)-(1), (b)-(2),
(c)-(4), (d)-(3)
2. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
3. (a)-(2), (b)-(3),
(c)-(4), (d)-(1)
4. (a)-(4), (b)-(1),
9c)-(2), (d)-(3)
Answer: 2
Q.50. Read the passage
given below
Ah, what a trifle is a
heart,
If once into love’s
hands it come!
All other griefs, allow
a part
To other griefs, and
ask themselves but some;
They come to us, but us
love draws;
He swallows us and
never chaws;
By him, as by chain’d
shot, whole ranks do die;
He is the tyrant pike,
our hearts the fry.
– John Donne, 1633
Which sentence best
paraphrases line of the passage above?
1. Love tends to grab
us and never let go.
2. Distress comes in
many forms, but none lasts as long as heartache.
3. Unbidden pain aflicts us, but we are lured by love.
4. Emotions can damage
us, but none as severely as love.
Answer: 3
Q.51. Which ancient
writer’s name is directly mentioned in Lord Byron’s poem “the
Isles of Greece”?
1. Euripides
2. Sophocles
3. Aeschylus
4. Sappho
Answer: 4
Q.52. What attitude
towards death would you find in
such poems as Tennyson’s
“crossing the bar,”
Whitman’s “Death Carol,” and Kipling’s “L’Envoi”?
1. Resignation
2. Despair
3. Hope
4. Protest
Answer: 3
Q.53. One of the most flexible metres, ________is a five foot line. It was
introduced by
Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth
century and has since then become the
commonest of metres in
English poetry.
1. Iambic
2. Trochaic
3. Hexameter
4. Pentameter
Answer: 4
Q.54. The titular figure
of Federico Garcia Lorca’s elegy “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez
Mejias” was
1. a revolutionary who
was associated with Che Guevara
2. a popular priest and
poet
3. a spy who helped the
revolutionaries during the Spanish Civil War
4. a popular matador and writer
Answer: 4
Q.55. The fault of
Cowley and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphysical race is that of
pursuing his thoughts to their ramiflications, by which he loses the grandeur of
generality; for of the greatest things the parts are little ; what is little
can be but pretty, and by claiming dignity becomes ridiculous. Thus all the
power of description is destroyed by a scrupulous enumeration; and the force of
metaphors is lost, when the mind by the mention of particulars is turned more
upon the original than the secondary sense, more upon that from which the illustration
is drawn than that to which it is applied.
What Dr. Johnson
actually faults here is:
1. The metaphysical
insistence on the particular than the general.
2. The force of
metaphors that blunts description
3. The mind that goes
astray toward the original
4. The metaphysical poets’ tendency to saunter away.
Answer: 4
Q.56. In Marlow’s
Doctor Faustus, what books does Valdes council Faustus to study
in preparation for
conjuring up spirits?
(a) the works of Bacon and Abanus
(b) the Hebrew Psalter and New Testament
(c) the works of Ovid
and Homer
(d) the works of Baxter
and Horst
The right combination
according to the code is:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (a) and (d)
4. (a) and (c)
Answer: 1
Q.57. Match the
following concepts with their definitions:
|
(Concepts) (a)
Collocation (b)
Corpus (c)
Hyponymy (d)
Matrix |
(Definitions) (1)
A semantic relationship of one-to-many (2)
A grid used in lexical analysis (3)
A combination of two lexical items in a grammatical pattern (4)
A large body of texts |
1. (a)-(1), (b)-(3),
(c)-(4), (d)-(2)
2. (a)-(4), (b)-(2),
(c)-(3), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(3), (b)-(1),
(c)-(2), (d)-(4)
4. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
Answer: 4
Q.58. Who among the
following exemplified the role of the “peasant poet”?
(a) John Clare
(b) John Keats
(c) William Cobbett
(d) Robert Burns
The right combination
according to the code is:
1. (a) and (b)
2. (c) and (d)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (a) and (d)
Answer: 4
Q.59. “The good thing
about words, “Hanif Kureishi remarks in “loose tongues”, “is
that their final effect
is incalculable. […] you can never know what your words might
turn out to mean for
yourself or for someone else; or what the world they make will
be like. Anything could
happen. The problem with silence is that we know exactly
what it will be like.”
Kureishi, in sum,
suggests:
(a) There is always some risk involved in writing/speaking.
(b) It is better to
avoid using words than to risk miscommunication.
(c) Words being
predictable, are always open to misinterpretation.
(d) The unpredictable, in deed, is the strength of words.
Determine the correct
combination according to the code:
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (b) and (c)
4. (a) and (d)
Answer: 4
Q.60. Which
interpretation of Keats’s “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” best represents
the mimetic
perspective?
1. The line is an
ironic quotation, the equation of “beauty” and “truth” as “all we know on earth”
suggests that reality is an illusory concept and that the primary function of
art is to construct a world within an aesthetic reality of its own.
2. Those aspects of
reality which we perceive to be “beautiful” are the only worthy subject matter
of the artist, and it is the artist’s job to observe closely and isolate those
sublime elements from the flux of the mundane.
3. The author’s
arbitrary imposition of order upon the chaotic impressions of reality constitutes
the only “truth” in a work of art.
4. A work of literature is “beautiful” insofar as it offers an
accurate representation of its subject matter, with fully realized characters
and vivid description of events.
Answer: 4
Q.61. Fill in the
blanks
“Tomorrow, and
tomorrow, and tomorrow,
________ in this petty
pace from day to day,
To the last _______ of
recorded time;
And all our yesterdays
have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking
shadow, a poor player,
That _______ and frets
his hour upon the stage,
And then is _______ no
more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full
of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
Fill in the blanks.
Choose the set that carries the correct words.
1. Walks. Breath,
creeps, shown
2. Creeps, syllable, struts, heard
3. Moves, syllable,
frowns, heard
4. Creeps, moment,
struts, seen
Answer: 2
Q.62. What is an
“implied reader”?
1.The ideal audience
envisioned by the author and to whom the work of literature is
supposedly addressed.
2. A reader who embodies all those predispositions necessary for a
literary work to exercise its effect.
3. The ideal reader of
a work of literature which is approximated over time by successive responses of
generations of actual readers.
4. The ideal “average”
reader who can approach a work of literature with no preconceived ideas about
the author’s life, the time of composition, etc.
Answer: 2
Q.63. Read the lines
from the poem
Alas ! what boots it
with uncessant care
To tend the homely, slighted
Shepherd’s trade,
And strictly meditate
the thankless Muse ?
Were it not better
done, as others use,
To sport with Amaryllis
in the shade,
Or with the tangles of
Neaera’s hair ?
Who are Amaryllis and
Neaera in the above extract from John Milton’s “Lycidas”?
1. Both were goddesses
of love and war respectively appearing in Greek pastoral poetry.
2. Amaryllis is a
shepherdess mentioned in Shakespearce’s romantic comedies; Neaera, a minor
character in love’s Labour’s lost
3. Amaryllis is a shepherdess mentioned in ancient pastoral
poetry, notably in Virgil’s Eculogues; Neaera, a nymph who appears in Virgil’s
Eclogues.
4. Both were one-time
lovers of Lycidas, the dead shepherd.
Answer: 3
Q.64. “The chapter on
the fall of the rupee you may omit. It is somewhat too
sensational. Even these
metallic problems have their melodramatic side.” The fall of the Indian rupee
in the final decades of 19 century is referred to in one of Oscar
Wilde’s plays .
identify the play.
1. The importance of being earnest
2. Lady Windermere’s
fan
3. An Ideal Husband
4. A Woman of no
importance
Answer: 1
Q.65. “Why don’t we
have a little game? Let’s pretend that we’re human beings, and that we are
actually alive.”
This passage forms part
of
1. Agatha Christie’s The
Mousetrap
2. John Osborne’s look Back in anger
3. Samuel Beckett’s
waiting for Godot
4. Harold Pinter’s the
birthday party
Answer: 2
Q.66. What tone will be
best suited to the following poem ?
THE COMING OF WISDOM
WITH AGE
Through leaves are many
, the root Is one;
Through all the lying
days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and
flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into
the truth.
1. Regret
2. Excitement
3. Revulsion
4. Exultation
Answer: 1
Q.67. Match the author
with the title:
|
(Author) (a)
Alan paton (b) Ngugi
wa thiong’o (c)
Teju cole (d)
Wole Soyinka |
(Title) (1)
open city (2)
cry, the beloved country (3)
a grain of wheat (4)
the interpreters |
1. (a)-(3), (b)-(2),
(c)-(4), (d)-(1)
2. (a)-(1), (b)-(3),
(c)-(4), (d)-(2)
3. (a)-(2), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(4)
4. (a)-(3), (b)-(1),
(c)-(4), (d)-(2)
Answer: 3
Q.68. Which of the
following is the most accurate statement by W.E.B. Du Bois’s
famous articulation of
the ‘twoness’ of black Americans?
1. “it is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this
scene of always lokking at
one’s self through the eyes of others.”
2. “This sense of
always looking at one’s self, a peculiar sensation through the eyes is
double consciousness.”
3. “Through the eyes of
others, this sense of always looking at one’s self, we acquire the
double-consciousness.”
4. “this double
consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of
others, is a peculiar
sensation.”
Answer: 1
Q.69. Match the plays
to their setting:
(a) Krapp’s last tape
(b) Happy days
(c) Waiting for Godot
(d) Endgame
(1) a country road;a
tree
(2) bare interior; two
small windows high up ; grey light
(3) expanse of
scorched grass forming a low mound; blinding light
(4) a laze evening in
future, white light.
1. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1),
(d)-(2)
2. (a)-(2), (b)-(3),
(c)-(1), (d)-(4)
3. (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(2)
4. (a)-(2), (b)-(4),
(c)-(3), (d)-(1)
Answer: 3
Q.70. Albert Camus
borrows the following epigraph to his novel The Plague
form________
“it is as reasonable to
represent one kind of imprisonment by another , as it is to
represent anything that
really exists by that which exists not,”
1. James Hogg’s The
Confessions of a Justified Sinner
2. Jeremy Bentham’s the
principles of morals and legislation
3. Robert Burton’s the
anatomy of melancholy
4. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
Answer: 4
Q.71. “We know now that
a text is not a line of words releasing a single “theological”
meaning (the “message”
of the Author-god) but a multidimensional space in which a
variety of writings,
none of them original, blend and clash . . . . literature . . . . by
refusing to assign a
“secret”, an ultimate meaning, to the text (and to the world as
text) liberates what
may be called an anti-theological activity , that is truly
revolutionary since to
refuse to fix meaning is, in the end to refuse god and his
hypostases- reason,
science, law.” The passage comes from which of the following
essays?
1. “tradition and
individual talent” by T.S. eliot
2. “discource in the
novel “ by Mikhail bakhtin
3. “what is an author?”
by Michel Foucault
4. “the death of the author” by roland barthes
Answer: 4
Q.72. The Norman
Conquest was a significant landmark in English history. What
French did the Normans
speak and what was it known as?
1. They spoke a
dialectal French (also called Anglo-Frisian), somewhat closer to the Parisian.
2. They spoke Norman French (Anglo-Norman). Theirs was certainly
not the standard French.
3. They spoke standard
French (of mainland France). Their French was very sweet and musical.
4. They spoke normal
French, rather distinct from Anglo-Norman, another standard language.
Answer: 2
Q.73. Nicholas Nickleby
_rmly established Charles Dickens as a dominant novelist of
his time and the book
as an unrivalled literacy phenomenon. To celebrate the
completion of the book,
a painter noted that there had been nothing comparable to
him since the days of
Samuel Richardson. Identify the painter.
1. Leonard Woolf
2. David Wilkie
3. John Cruickshank
4. Ernest Dawson
Answer: 2
Q.74. Match the writer
with the work:
|
(Writer) (a)
George Puttenham (b)
Thomas Spart (c)
Lewis Bayly (d)
Thomas Hobbes |
(Name
of work) (1)
Leviathan (2)
The Practice of Piety (3)
The Art of English Poesy (4)
The History of the Royal Society |
1. (a)-(3), (b)-(4),
(c)-(1), (d)-(2)
2. (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(2), (d)-(1)
3. (a)-(4), (b)-(3),
(c)-(2), (d)-(1)
4. (a)-(3), (b)-(2),
(c)-(4), (d)-(1)
Answer: 2
Q.75. Which of the
following is not indebted to the Gothic genre?
1. Tobias Smollett’s
Roderick Random
2. Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
3. Mathew Lewis’s The
Monk
4. William Beckford’s
Vathek
Answer: 1
Q.76. Jonathan Swift
arrived in London in 1710 and confronted a rapidly changing world in the new
Tory ministry. His reactions to this world are vividly recorded in his journal
to Stella, a series of letters addressed to
(a) Hester Vanhomrigh
(b) Esther Johnson
(c) Rebecca Dingley
(d) Lady Mary Montagu
The right combination
according to the code is:
1. (b) and (c)
2. (b) and (d)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (b)
Answer: 1
Q.77. __________ read
Adam Bede with such pleasure that she not only keenly
recommended it to her
relatives but also commissioned two paintings of scenes
from the novel.
1. Horace Nightingale
2. George Eliot
3. Margaret Cavendish
4. Queen Victoria
Answer: 4
Q.78. Which of the
following statements on Rajmohan’s Wife is not true?
1. Bankim Chandra published it soon after serialization and was
elated in seeing its first copy.
2. The novel was
serialized in 1864 in a short-lived magazine in Calcutta.
3. By common consent,
Rajmohan’s Wife is the _rst novel in English published by an Indian.
4. His vivid
descriptions of the routine of Bengali households reveal a lot about the nineteenth
century.
Answer: 1
Q.79. In Thomas Moore’s
Utopia (Book2) , the reader is told that in this new world
there are few mistakes
in marriage because
1. there is an
extensive courtship period preceding the actual wedding.
2. the family gods are
invoked before finalizing the nuptials.
3. there is a community
get together where prospective husbands and wives announce wedding plans
endorsed by elders.
4. prospective husbands and wives see one another naked before
agreeing to the match.
Answer: 4
Q.80. “Reality is that
nothing happens. How many of the events of history have occurred, ask
yourselves, for this and for that reason, but for no other reason, fundamentally,
than the desire to make things happen? I present to you History, the fabrication,
the diversion, the reality-obscuring drama.” Which postmodern novel thus subverts
the truth claims of traditional historiography?
1. A.S. Byatt’s
possession
2. John Fowles’s The
French Lieutenant’s Woman
3. Graham Swift’s Waterland
4. Michael Ondaatje’s
The English Patient
Answer: 3
Q.81. In which of his
novels does Italo Calvino construct his narrative through a tarot
pack of cards and
re-interpret the Western canon providing new versions of Oedipus
Rex, Faust, Hamlet,
Macbeth and King Lear?
1. The Castle of Crossed Destinations
2. Our Ancestors
3. Invisible Cities
4. The Path to the Nest
of Spiders
Answer: 1
Q.82. Herr God, Herr
Lucifer
Beware Beware
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
Lines 4 and 5 in the
above evoke:
1. Christ’s
resurrection
2. The fairy-tale of a
girl in the woods
3. The myth of the phoenix
4. The legend of the
Lady of the Lake
Answer: 3
Q.83. which post-war
British poet ends a poem with the line , “get stewed : books are aload of
crap”?
1. Philip Larkin
2. Ted Hughes
3. Thom Gunn
4. Craig Raine
Answer: 1
Q.84. Arnold Wesker is
associated with “kitchen-sink drama”, a rather condescending title applied to
the then new-wave realistic drama depicting the family lives of working-class
characters on stage and in broadcast plays. Two of the following plays begin
with one character doing the dishes in a kitchen sink. Identify the pair.
(a) the Kitchen
(b) chicken soup with barley
(c) roots
(d) menace
The right combination
according to the code is:
1. (b) and (d)
2. (a) and (d)
3. (a) and (b)
4. (b) and (c)
Answer: 4
Q.85. Early
African-American texts like slave narratives were often described as told
to narratives as their
‘authors’ dictated their experiences. The persons who noted
down these experiences
are
1. Amanuenses
2. Abolitionists
3. Translators
4. Slave-drives
Answer: 1
Q.86. Which of the
following poems is quoted as the epigraph to A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine
Hansberry?
1. “The Negro Speaks of
Rivers”
2. “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”
3. “The Big Sea”
4. “I, too, Sing
America”
Answer: 2
Q.87. As a boy growing
up in Squire Allworth’s estate, Tom gets one of the following
characters into
trouble. Identify the character.
1. Partridge
2. Black George
3. Nightingale
4. Blifil
Answer: 2
Q.88. During the Raj,
the British viewed their rule in terms of a thankless duty to uplift the
downtrodden and inculcate order into Oriental minds. The mission to civilize
the “ silent, sullen peoples” of the east was a burden imposed upon them by destiny.
The last observation is
a fairly obvious allusion to
1. J.R. Ackerley’s
Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal
2. Flora Annie Steel’s
“The Garden of Fidelity
3. Maud Diver’s the
Englishwoman in India
4. Rudyard Kipling’s “the White Man’s Burden”
Answer: 4
Q.89. Read the passage
given below
“Full many a lady
I have eye’d with best
regard: and many a time
The harmony of their
tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent
ear; for several virtues
Have I liked several
women; never any
With so full soul, but
some defect in her
Did quarrel with the
noblest grace she ow’d,
And put it to the foil.
But you, O you,
So perfect and so
peerless , are created
Of every creature’s
best.”
This passage admiring
the perfect matching of inner and outward beauty of a woman is
taken from
1. Marlowe’s Dr.
Faustus
2. John Webster’s The
Duchess of Mal_
3. Thomas Middleton’s
Women Beware Women
4. Shakespeare’s Tempest
Answer: 4
Q.90. I, Allan Sealy’s
the Trotter-Nama traces the history of the Anglo-Indian
community in a
chronicle of seven generations of the Trotter family, told by the
seventh Trotter. This
narrator is
1. a quack in the
Indian outback
2. a forget of Indian miniatures
3. an accountant in the
Indian army.
4. a collector of rare
manuscripts.
Answer: 2
Q.91. Mango Souffle,
India’s first major gay themed film, is an adaptation of Mahesh
Dattani’s play
1. Do the Needful
2. Bravely Fought the
Queen
3. Dance like a Man
4. On a Muggy Night in Mumbai
Answer: 4
Q.92. In this novel by
Graham Greene a double agent uses classic works of fiction to encode secret
information. “He put Clarissa Harlowe back in the bookcase” is the first clue
to his treachery. Then he draws on War and Peace and The Way We Live Now as
matrices for secretly transmitting information. Identify the novel.
1. The Man Within
2. Our Man in Havana
3. The Human Factor
4. The confidential
Agent
Answer: 3
Q.93. In an ode,
William Collins lamented the passing of a contemporary poet. The
ode began with the
line: “In yonder grave a Druid lies.” Name the poet whose
passing Collins
Laments.
1. James Thomson
2. William Cowper
3. Alexander Pope
4. Thomas Gray
Answer: 1
Q.94. In tradition ELT
methods and materials, the native speaker is elevated and
idealized against
stereotyped non-native speakers. This tendency is dubbed ______ by
Adrian Holliday.
1. Native speakerism
2. The non-native
fallacy
3. The near-native
fallacy
4. The native-speaker
bias
Answer: 1
Q.95. Which of the
following acts were not passed during the Victorian Era?
1. The Married Women’s
property Rights Act
2. A series of Factory
acts
3. The Custody Act
4. The Women’s Suffrage Act
Answer: 4
Q.96. Given below are
two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
labelled as Reason(R).
Read the statements and choose the correct answer using the
code given below:
Assertion (A) : Gender studies
do not see an urgent need to help us navigate the various
pitfalls of racism,
ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, and plain ignorance that flow from
using “culture” as an
explanatory tool.
Reason (R) : Issues
relating to Women’s rights, gender roles, sexuality and family
obligations are
centrally implicated in the so-called clash of civilizations between
Christianity or
Secularism, and Islaam.
1. (A) is only partly
addressed in (R)
2. (R) does not follow logically from (A).
3. (R) is (A) and vice
versa
4. (A) and (R) are most
logically related.
Answer: 2
Q.97. The en-ending to
denote the plural nous (as is oxen, children, brethren) has survived from the
1. Middle English
hymnals and chants in English parishes
2. Anglo-Norman case of
making plural nouns
3. Odd Middle-English
pronouncing custom of plurals
4. Old English practice of making plural nouns
Answer: 4
Comprehension :
The following is an
extract from a famous play. Read it carefully to answer questions that follow.
Maid : [from the hall
doorway] ma’am, a lady to see you –
Nora: all right, let
her come in.
[…the maid shows in
MRS. LINDE, dressed in travelling clothes, and shuts the door after
her.]
Mrs. Linde : [in a
dispirited and somewhat hesitant voice] Hello, Nora.
Nora : hello –
Mrs Linde: you don’t
recognize me.
Nora : no, I don’t know
– but wait , I think – what ! what ! is it really you ?
Mrs linde : yes its me
Nora : Kristine ! to
think I didn’t recognize you. But then , how could i?
How you’ve changed,
Kristine !
Mrs. Linde : yes, no
doubt I have. In nine – ten long years.
Nora : it is so long
since we met ! yes, it’s all of that. Oh, these last eight years have been a
happy time, believe me.
And so now you’ve come in to town, too. Made the long trip in the
winter. That took
courage.
Mrs linde : I just got
here by ship this morning .
Nora : to enjoy
yourself over Christmas , of course. Oh,how lovely !yes, enjoy ourselves
we’ll do that . but
take your coat off. You
are not still cold? There now, lets get cozy here by
the stove. No, the easy
chair there ! I will take the rocker here. Yes, now you have your old
look again; it was only
in that first
moment. You are a bit more pale, Kristine – and maybe a
bit thinner.
Mrs Linde : and much,
much older Nora.
Nora : yes, perhaps a
bit older ; a tiny, tiny bit ; not much at all. Oh, but thoughtless me , to
sit here , chattering
away. Sweet, can u forgive me?
Mrs Linde: what do you
mean?
Nora : you have become
a widow.
Mrs Linde : yes, three
years ago.
Nora : I knew it, of
course; I read it in the papers. Oh, Kristine, you must believe me; I often
thought of writing you
then , but kept postponing it, and something always interfered
Mrs Linde : nora ,
dear, I understand completely.
Nora : it was awful of
me. You poor thing, how much you have gone through. And he left
you nothing?
Mrs Linse : no
Nora : and no children?
Mrs Linde : no.
Nora : nothing at all
then?
Mrs Linde : not even a
sense of loss to feed on.
Nora : but how could
that be?
Mrs Linde : oh,
sometimes it happens, Nora.
Nora : so completely
alone. How terribly hard that must be for you. I have three lovely
children. You can’t see
them now; they are out with the maid.
Q.98. “Not even a sense
of loss to feed on” implies that
1. Mrs. Linde is given
over to feeding on sorrow.
2. Mrs.Linde is
completely devoid of all feeling.
3. Mrs.Linde is
sentimentally attached to an irretrievable past
4. Mrs. Linde’s severance from her tragic pair is total.
Answer: 4
Q.99. Identify the play
of which this section is an excerpt.
1. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
2. The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
3. Wit by Margaret
Edson
4. The importance of
Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Answer: 1
Q.100. Which of the
following description best applies to the above extract?
1. Friends comparing
notes and counting losses in a meeting sudden and unanticipated.
2. the sense of loss
inevitable with the passage of time and the imperceptible dissolution
of the conventional
marriage.
3. A chance meeting between old friends which leaves one puzzling
over the inexplicable losses the other suffered.
4. A meeting of two
friends – one married, the other unmarried after a gap of years.
Answer: 3
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