Englishi I (X) FINAL
Englishi I (X) FINAL
Englishi I (X) FINAL
ENGLISH
Time : 2 Hours Maximum Marks: 200
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ENGLISH
PAPER II
1. Which of the following is the proper sequence, for 5. The census carried out by the Government of
writing a dissertation? India is an example of
a. Write a preliminary draft (A) Exploratory research
b. Develop a thesis statement (B) Causal research
c. State your purpose in writing a paper (C) Descriptive research
d. Make an outline to help you keep to your plan (D) Hermeneutic research
as you write
(A) a, b, c, d
(B) c, b, d, a 6. Identify the incorrect statement :
(C) d, a, b, c (A) A hypothesis is made on the basis of limited
(D) b, d, a, c evidence as a starting point for furture
investigations.
2. Which of the following belongs to the category of (B) A hypothesis is a basis for reasoning without
good “research ethics”? any assumption of its truth.
(A) Publishing the same paper in two research (C) A hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a
journals without telling the editors phenomenon.
(B) Conducting a review of the literature that (D) Scientific hypothesis is a scientific theory.
acknowledges the contributions of other
people in the relevant field
(C) Including a colleague as an author on a 7. “A work can become modern only if it is first
research paper in return for a favour even postmodern.” This line is from:
though the colleague did not make a serious
contribution to the paper (A) ‘Answering the Question: What is the
Postmodern?’ Jean-François Lyotard
(D) Copying texts from published sources
without giving credit to those who produced (B) ‘The Death of the Author’ by Roland Barthes
the sources (C) “What is an Author?” by Michel Foucault
(D) ‘Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of
3. ‘Proquest’ is a Late Capitalism’ by Fredric Jameson
(A) Book
(B) Text database
(C) Search engine 8. Which of the following novelists does not show
(D) Online journal fictionality of the text?
(A) John Fowles
4. Which of the following best describes the phrase (B) Kurt Vonnegut
“data abuse protocols” in literary research? (C) Laurence Sterne
1. Plagiarism (D) George Meredith
2. Translating withouth permission
3. Non-payment of copyright dues
4. Quoting without acknowledgment 9. Which of the following American novels was
Ans. used by Edward Said to illustrate American Imperialism?
(A) 1 and 2 are correct. (A) The Last of the Mohicans
(B) 1,2 and 3 are correct. (B) The Old Man and the Sea
(C) 1, 2 and 3 are incorrect. (C) Beloved
(D) 1 and 4 are correct and the rest are incorrect. (D) Moby Dick
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10. Who links literary genres to seasons? 15. ‘Bracketing’ is a term used in phenomenological
(A) Northrop Frye criticism to describe
(B) Richard Chase (A) Meeting of the writer’s world and the reader’s
world.
(C) Maud Bodkin
(B) Meeting of the writer’s world and the
(D) Francis Fergusson
Publisher’s world.
(C) Meeting of the writer’s language and the
reader’s language.
11. Which of the following is not a book by Stephen (D) Meeting of the writer’s world and the world
Greenblatt? of the writer’s inner self.
(A) Will in the world
(B) Hamlet in Purgatory
(C) Beginnings 16. In which of her books does Julia Kristeva introduce
(D) Marvellous Possessions the idea of the ‘abject’?
(A) Powers of Horror
(B) Desire in Language
12. Camera Lucida is a book by (C) Revolution in Poetic Language
(A) Roland Barthes (D) The Abject and the Horrible
(B) John Berger
(C) Laura Mulvey
(D) Jacques Derrida 17. New Historicism was fundamentally influenced
by
(A) Marx
13. “It is about time that criticism and philosophy (B) Henri LeFebvre
acknowledged the disappearance or the death of the (C) Derrida
author.” Which critic is credited with the statement? (D) Foucault
(A) Jacques Lacan
(B) Michel Foucult
(C) Harold Bloom 18. With which theoretical movement can one
(D) Jacques Derrida associate the idea that a work of art should ideally be
marked by distancing and estrangement rather than by
cohesion and progression ?
(A) Post-colonialism
14. Match the writers in List I with their ideas in
(B) The Frankfurt School
List II.
(C) Queer Theory
List I List II
(D) Post-feminism
I. Raymond Williams i. Speech-act Theory
II. J. L. Austin ii. Dialogism
III. Michel Foucault iii. Marxism
19. Which of the following books offers an argument
IV. Mikhail Bakhtin iv. Poststructuralism
diametrically opposed to T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the
Choose the correct option Individual Talent” ?
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (A) Geoffrey Hartmann, Saving the Text:
(A) i ii iii iv Literature/Derrida/Philosophy
(B) iii i iv ii (B) Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence
(C) iv iii ii i (C) Paul de Man, Blindness and Insight
(D) iii iv ii i (D) Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination
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20. Longinus’ On the Sublime begins with an attack 25. The Fugitives and The Agrarians are linked to
on the incompleteness of the work of a Greek rhetorician (A) New Criticism at Yale University
called
(B) New Criticism at Vanderbilt University
(A) Anaximenes
(C) Chicago Aristotelians and New Criticism
(B) Demosthenes
(D) New Historicism at Berkeley
(C) Isocrates
(D) Caecilius
51. Match the plays in List A with their authors in 55. Match the autobiographies in List I with their
List B. authors in List II.
List A List B I II
(a) Bussy D’Ambois 1. Thomas Middleton (a) Going Home 1. Salman Rushdie
(b) Antonio and Mellida 2. Cyril Tourneur (b) Joseph Anton 2. Booker T Washington
(c) Women Beware Women 3. George Chapman (c) Up From Slavery 3. Bob Dylan
(d) The Revengers Tragedie 4. John Marston (d) Chronicles 4. Doris Lessing
(a) (b) (c) (d) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 3 2 1 4 (A) 3 4 2 1
(B) 1 3 4 2 (B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 2 4 3 1 (C) 1 3 4 2
(D) 3 4 1 2 (D) 2 4 1 3
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56. Who, and in which document, sought to change 59. Here is a statement followed by two assumptions.
the people of India in the following manner: “a class of With respect to the assumptions choose the correct
persons Indian in blood and colour but English in taste, option below.
in opinion, in morals, and in intellect [who] may be Statement:
interpreters between us and the millions whom we
An autobiography focuses on the sequence of
govern” ?
events of the writer’s life up to the point of writing while
(A) Lord Minto in the Minto-Morley Reforms a memoir covers certain aspects of a writer’s life.
(1909)
Assumption:
(B) Lord Cornwallis and the Permanent
(i) The above statement suggests that an
Settlement Act (1793)
autobiography is chronologically ordered while a
(C) Lord Macaulay and the Minute on Indian memoir is not necessarily so.
Education (1835)
(ii) The above statement suggests that an
(D) The Charles Act on Indian Education (1813) autobiography is written in the first person while
a memoir is written in the third person.
(A) (i) is correct and (ii) is incorrect
(B) (i) is incorrect and (ii) is correct
(C) Both (i) and (ii) are correct
(D) Both (i) and (ii) are incorrect
58. Which of the following characteristics is not true 61. Which was the first book of essays to be published?
of the emerging mode of ‘prose poetry’? (A) Bacon’s Essays
(A) It is written in paragraphs and not verses. (B) La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims
(B) It uses images and figures of speech. (C) Montaigne’s Essais
(C) It uses rhythm but not rhyme. (D) Pico della Mirandola’s On the Dignity of
(D) It is expository and not emotive. Man
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62. Which of the following is not a detective character? 67. Robinson Crusoe lived in an uninhabited island
(A) Father Brown for
(B) Reginal Wexford (A) Twenty eight years
(C) Anne Catherick (B) Twenty six years
(D) Mike Hooligan (C) Thirteen years
(D) Thirty seven years
64. It was said that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was “the book
which started the great war ...”
69. Match the novelists named in List I with their
Which is the ‘great war’ referred to? novels given in List II from the codes given below:
(A) The American War of Independence List I List II
(B) The Spanish-American War a. Margaret Laurence i) Cat’s Eye
(C) The American Civil War b. Rohinton Mistry ii) The Diviners
(D) The Mexican-American War c. Margaret Atwood iii. Warlight
d. Michael Ondaatje iv) Such A Long Journey
(A) (a)–i, (b)–iii, (c)–iv, (d)–ii
65. The works of Franz Kafka were originally written (B) (a)–ii, (b)–iv, (c)–i, (d)–iii
in
(C) (a)–iii, (b)–ii, (c)–iv, (d)–i
(A) French
(D) (a)–ii, (b)–iii, (c)–i, (d)–iv
(B) German
(C) Czech
(D) English
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