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18707 120 MINUTES

1. Who among the following poets is referred as the “finder of our language”?
A) Sir. Philip Sidney B) Christopher Marlowe
C) Geoffrey Chaucer D) William Langland

2. Le Morte d’Arthur was written by:

A) Sir Thomas More B) Sir Thomas Lucy
C) Sir Thomas Cromwell D) Sir Thomas Malory

3. ‘Aphoristic’ is a term associated with the Essays of:

A) Roger Ascham B) Roger Bacon
C) Francis Bacon D) Charles Lamb

4. Ferrex and Porrex are characters in:

A) Gorboduc B) Gargantua
C) Ab Urbe Condita D) Origo Gentis Romanae

5. The ‘Comedy of Humours’ was popularized by:

A) Thomas Kyd B) Ben Jonson
C) Christopher Marlowe D) Thomas Dekker

6. The speech beginning with the well-known line “To be, or not to be—that is the
question” is an example of:
A) Aside B) Monologue
C) Soliloquy D) Ode dramatique

7. King Lear is derived from the legend of the Celtic king:

A) Lwaere B) Leir C) Lair D) Laier

8. Shakespeare’s Problem Plays is a work by:

A) E.M.W. Tillyard B) F.S. Boas
C) Neil Rhodes D) A.G. Harmon

9. Shakespeare’s Sonnets published in 1609 include a dedication to:

A) Mr T.T. B) Mr W.H.
C) The Earl of Pembroke D) The Earl of Southampton

10. “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love” is a line from
A) “Death, Be Not Proud” B) “The Canonization”
C) “To His Coy Mistress” D) “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”

11. The full title of The Pilgrim’s Progress adds the words:
A) From Earth to Heaven
B) From This World to Heaven
C) From This World to Paradise
D) From This World to That Which is to Come
12. Milton’s pastoral elegy on the death of his Cambridge friend is titled:
A) Adonais B) Lycidas C) Catullus D) Areopagitica

13. Identify the work by William Congreve:

A) Bachelor of Love B) All for Love
C) Love for Love D) The Way of Love

14. ‘Neoclassic’ writers shared the values of:

A) Radical innovation B) Traditionalism
C) Individualism D) Rebellion

15. Match the quotes with their authors:

Quotes Authors
1. I am not Hamlet, nor was meant to be. a. Dylan Thomas
2. The horror! The Horror! b. T.S. Eliot
3. A terrible beauty is born. c. Joseph Conrad
4. Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night. d. W.B.Yeats

A) 1-a, 2-c, 3-d,4-b B) 1-b,2-c,3-d,4-a

C) 1-c, 2-a, 3-b,4-d D) 1-d,2-a,3-c,4-b

16. An eyewitness account of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London is given by:
A) Daniel Deronda B) Albert Camus
C) Samuel Johnson D) Samuel Pepys

17. “All human things are subject to decay/And when fate summons, monarchs must obey”
are lines from:
A) Aeneid B) Odyssey
C) Mac Flecknoe D) Douglas McArthur

18. The Battle of the Books takes place in the:

A) King James Library B) St James’ Library
C) James Royal Library D) James Regent Library

19. This person is not a character in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy:

A) Susannah B) Doctor Slop C) Trim D) Verges

20. The phrase ‘some mute inglorious Milton’ is from:

A) Edmund Burke B) Edward Gibbon
C) Thomas Carlyle D) Thomas Gray

21. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry was compiled by:

A) Francis Childe B) Charles Perrault
C) Thomas Percy D) Jakob Grimm

22. The “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads” was first published in:
A) 1798 B) 1800 C) 1801 D) 1802

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23. The ‘Person from Porlock’ is associated with:
A) Dante B) Charles Lamb
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge D) Leigh Hunt

24. “Song to the Men of England” is a poem by:

A) Voltaire B) Rousseau C) Byron D) Shelley

25. “A Gothic Story” was added as a subtitle to:

A) Frankenstein B) The Castle of Otranto
C) The Monk D) The Moonstone

26. This is one of the ‘Waverley Novels’:

A) Waverley B) Guy Fawkes
C) The Antiquity D) The Dark Dwarf

27. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a work by:

A) Rousseau B) De Quincey C) Coleridge D) Pope

28. The Subjection of Women is a work by:

A) J.S. Mill B) J.S. Ross
C) Mary Wollstonecraft D) Mary Shelley

29. The Victorian Era was followed by this era:

A) Georgian B) Edwardian C) Caroline D) Spenserian

30. Culture and Anarchy is a work by:

A) T.S. Eliot B) G.H. Lewes
C) Matthew Arnold D) George Eliot

31. The periodical published by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was called:

A) The Germ B) Germinal C) The Immortals D) PRB

32. The doctrine of ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ was advocated by:
A) Walter Scott B) Walter Pater
C) Walter Raleigh D) Walter de la Mare

33. The Oxford Movement was led by (among others):

A) Ford Maddox Ford B) William Dean Howells
C) John Henry Newman D) Cardinal Richelieu

34. Eminent Victorians is a work by:

A) James Tait B) Bertrand Russell
C) John Maynard Keynes D) Lytton Strachey

35. Mr Gradgrind is a character in:

A) Hard Times B) The Mill on the Floss
C) Westward Ho! D) Tom Jones

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36. Match the list of characters and works:
Characters Works
1. Michael Henchard a. The Scarlet Letter
2. Gogol Ganguli b. The Catcher in the Rye
3. Holden Caulfield c. The Namesake
4. Pearl d. The Mayor of Casterbridge

A) 1-d, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a B) 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a

C) 1-d, 2-c, 3-a, 4-b D) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a, 4-d

37. George Meredith was a writer who lived during:

A) The Elizabethan Age B) The Augustan Age
C) The Victorian Era D) The Modern Era

38. The title ‘Arms and the Man” is borrowed from:

A) Homer B) Virgil C) Chaucer D) Shakespeare

39. ‘Sprung rhythm’ was an innovation from:

A) Gerard Hopkins B) Philip Sidney
C) Dylan Thomas D) R.S. Thomas

40. Rudyard Kipling was born in:

A) Birmingham B) Belfast C) Bordeaux D) Bombay

41. Match the list of Shakespearean characters and the plays in which they appear:
Characters Plays
1. Bassanio a. The Tempest
2. Benedick b. Much Ado About Nothing
3. Trinculo c. Twelfth Night
4. Malvolio d. The Merchant of Venice

A) 1-c, 2-b, 3-a, 4-d B) 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c

C) 1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c D) 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-c

42. “I am the enemy you killed, my friend. “ This is a line from:

A) “Strange Meeting” B) “Insensibility”
C) “Trench Duty” D) “Dreamers”

43. The Age of Anxiety is a work by:

A) T.S. Eliot B) W.H. Auden
C) William James D) Henry James

44. Maud Gonne married:

A) John MacBride B) Thomas MacDonagh
C) James Connolly D) Padraig Pearse

45. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley is a work by:

A) Dylan Thomas B) Stephen Mallarme
C) Ezra Pound D) Rupert Brooke

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46. The concept of aucitya was discussed by:
A) Vamana B) Mammata
C) Kshemendra D) Dhandi

47. Identify the one who is not a “Movement” writer:

A) Philip Larkin B) Thom Gunn
C) Ted Hughes D) Robert Conquest

48. Identify the poet who was not a ‘Poet Laureate’:

A) John Dryden B) William Wordsworth
C) T.S. Eliot D) Andrew Motion

49. ‘The Bog Poems’ refer to a series of poems by:

A) Ezra Pound B) Samuel Beckett
C) Seamus Heaney D) Dylan Thomas

50. ‘Father Brown’ is a Roman Catholic priest-detective created by:

A) Graham Greene B) G.K. Chesterton
C) Evelyn Waugh D) Horace Walpole

51. Identify the novel which is not written by Joseph Conrad:

A) Heart of Darkness B) The Nigger of Narcissus
C) Typhoon D) Lord of the Rings

52. Paul Morel is a character in:

A) Fathers and Sons B) Sons and Lovers
C) Difficult Daughters D) Strangers and Brothers

53. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can best be called:

A) a bildungsroman B) a kunstlerroman
C) a roman à clef D) a nouveauroman

54. ‘Doublespeak’ and ‘thoughtcrime’ are concepts found in the work:

A) Brave New World B) Fahrenheit 451
C) Nineteen Eighty-Four D) Homage to Catalonia

55. Identify the one who is not a character in Lord of the Flies:
A) Ralph B) Piggy
C) Simon D) Peter

56. In A Doll’s House, Nora’s husband is:

A) Torvald B) Nils
C) Krogstad D) Rank

57. The Abbey Theatre is associated with:

A) The Shakespeare Society B) Royal Shakespeare Company
C) Irish Literary Revival D) Westminster Literary Festival

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58. Match the names of writers and the names of groups/movements associated with them:
Writers Groups/Movements
1. Cecil Day-Lewis a. Imagist Poets
2. Hilda Doolittle b. Symbolist Poets
3. Stephen Mallarme c. Confessional Poets
4. Robert Lowell d. Pylon Poets

A) 1-d, 2-c, 3-a,4-b B) 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b

C) 1-a, 2-c, 3-b, 4-d D) 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c

59. Identify the play that is not by Harold Pinter:

A) The Birthday Party B) The Cocktail Party
C) The Caretaker D) The Dumb Waiter

60. The Golden Notebook is a work by:

A) Doris Lessing B) Iris Murdoch
C) Jeanette Winterson D) Ralph Ellison

61. Kazuo Ishiguro writes novels in:

A) Spanish B) Japanese C) English D) Korean

62. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” This is a quote from:
A) Rousseau B) Thoreau C) Emerson D) Dickinson

63. Leaves of Grass is a work by:

A) Alex Haley B) Allan Tate
C) Hart Crane D) Walt Whitman

64. The poem at the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the US was read by:
A) Arthur Miller B) Henry Miller
C) Robert Frost D) Robert Penn Warren

65. ‘Uncle Tom’ is a character in a work by:

A) Mark Twain B) Harriet Beecher Stowe
C) Herman Melville D) Tennessee Williams

66. Invisible Man is a work by:

A) H.G. Wells B) J.B. Priestley C) Philip Roth D) Ralph Ellison

67. “I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument/while the song I came to
sing remains unsung.” These lines are by:
A) Sri Aurobindo B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Toru Dutt D) Sarojini Naidu

68. The first poet to win the Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry was:
A) Nissim Ezekiel B) Dom Moraes
C) A.K. Ramanujam D) Jayanta Mahapatra

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69. Hukum Chand, Iqbal Singh and Juggut Singh are characters in a work by:
A) Raja Rao B) Mulk Raj Anand
C) R.K. Narayan D) Khushwant Singh

70. Salman Rushdie’s novel published in 2017 is:

A) The Ground Beneath Her Feet
B) The Golden House
C) Shalimar the Clown
D) Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

71. Girish Karnad wrote plays in:

A) English and Hindi B) English and Marathi
C) English and Malayalam D) English and Kannada

72. The Lion and the Jewel is a work by:

A) Chinua Achebe B) Christopher Okikbo
C) Wole Soyinka D) Leopold Senghor

73. Azaro, the spirit child, is a character created by:

A) Ben Okri B) Ngugi Wa Thiongo
C) John Pepper Clark D) Athol Fugard

74. The Wretched of the Earth is an influential work by:

A) Paulo Freire B) Ivan Illich
C) Frantz Fanon D) Franz Kafka

75. “A Far Cry from Africa” is a work by:

A) Edward Brathwaite B) George Lamming
C) Derek Walcott D) V.S. Naipaul

76. The Rez Sisters by Highway is:

A) a play B) a novel
C) a collection of short stories D) a collection of poems

77. The English Patient and Coming through Slaughter are works by:
A) Rohinton Mistry B) Cyrus Mistry
C) Michael Fassbender D) Michael Ondaatje

78. The Moving Image and Birds are collections of poetry by:
A) Dorothy Livesay B) Dorothy Parker
C) Judith Miller D) Judith Wright

79. Patrick White, the Nobel laureate, was:

A) American B) Australian C) Canadian D) Irish

80. Lajja is a work by:

A) Yasmine Gooneratne B) Taslima Nasrin
C) Edwin Thumboo D) Romesh Gunesekera

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81. I.P.A. stands for:
A) International Phonetic Association
B) International Phonetic Alphabet
C) International Phonological Association
D) International Phonemic Alphabet

82. The term which refers to the influence of one sound segment upon the articulation of
another, so that the two sounds become more alike, or even identical is:
A) Anticipation B) Assimilation
C) Amelioration D) Aspiration

83. A word element that can be attached either to the beginning, the middle, the root, or the
base of a word to form a new word is called:
A) Affix B) Prefix C) Infix D) Suffix

84. The branch of linguistcs that is concerned with meaning is known as:
A) Semiotics B) Semiology C) Semantics D) Symbology

85. The original language from which the Indo-European family is believed to have
descended is known as:
A) Ur-Indo-European B) Proto-Indo-European
C) Pre-Indo-European D) Preter-Indo-European

86. Old English is also known as:

A) Anglic B) Aenglisc C) Angle-Saxon D) Anglo-Saxon

87. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in:

A) Old English B) Middle English
C) Modern English D) New English

88. ‘Lovelorn’ and ‘pandemonium’ are words believed to have been coined by:
A) John Milton B) John Keats
C) William Wordsworth D) William Shakespeare

89. Languages formed by attempts at communication by two mutually unintelligible speech

communities can be called:
A) Pidgin B) Register C) Cant D) Dialect

90. The notion of ‘World Englishes’ was propounded by:

A) George Bernard Shaw B) Braj B. Kachru
C) Noam Chomsky D) Dwight D. Eisenhower

91. The psychology of learning which is focused on intelligence and inner mental activities is:
A) Cognitivism B) Behaviourism
C) Constructivism D) Human Constructivism

92. In the context of language learning, RFT refers to:

A) Relational Frame Theory B) Rapid Fire Testing
C) Right Frontal Testing D) Rigid Frame Theory

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93. The official languages of the country are listed in this ‘Schedule’ to the Constitution of
India:
A) First B) Fourth C) Sixth D) Eighth

94. ESL refers to:

A) English as a State Language B) English as a Second Language
C) English for Special Learners D) English for Specific Learners

95. The method of language teaching where students learn in a close-knit community with the
teacher-counseller is:
A) CLL B) ALL C) ACL D) CSL

96. Match the sub-titles/alternate titles with the titles of the works:
Titles Sub-titles
1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles a. Mistakes of a Night
2. She Stoops to Conquer b. Virtue Rewarded
3. Pamela c. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
4. The Importance of Being Earnest d. A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

A. 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-d B) 1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c

C) 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c D) 1-b, 2-c, 3-d, 4-a

97. In language teaching at the elementary and secondary levels, the best lesson plans are:
A) Superficial B) Superfluous
C) Deconstructive D) Dynamic

98. CALL refers to:

A) Computer Assisted Language Learning
B) Cyber Assisted Language Learning
C) Close Assisted Language Learning
D) Classroom Agnostic Language Learning

99. A test designed to assess the current state of a student’s ability or progress is:
A) Diagnostic B) Terminal C) Formative D) Summative

100. ‘Mother-tongue interference’ refers to the influence of:

A) L1 on L2 B) L2 on L1
C) L1 and L2 on each other D) Parents on the pupil

101. The purgation of pity and terror through art is known as:
A) Hamartia B) Catharsis C) Mimesis D) Anagnorisis

102. The distinction between ‘fancy’ and ‘imagination’ is discussed in:

A) Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
B) Biographia Literaria
C) De Profundis
D) Preface to the Fables

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103. The theory of the impersonality of the poet was put forward by:
A) Samuel T. Coleridge B) Samuel Johnson
C) T.S. Eliot D) W.S. Merwin

104. Seven Types of Ambiguity is a work by:

A) Geoffrey Leech B) Jan Svartvik
C) William Wallace D) William Empson

105. Identify the writer who was not one of the Russian Formalists:
A) Viktor Skhlovsky B) Vladimir Propp
C) Boris Pasternak D) Roman Jacobson

106. Antonio Gramsci’s ideas on ---------- can be found in the work---------.

A) Marxist theory, Prison Notebooks
B) Insanity, Madness and Civilization
C) Morality, Genealogy of Morals
D) Literary theory, “The Death of the Author”

107. The Raw and the Cooked is a work by:

A) Susan Sontag B) James Frazer
C) Franz Boas D) Claude Levi-Strauss

108. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious was a work by ---------, published in 1905.
A) Sigmund Freud B) Alfred Adler
C) Carl Jung D) Rudolf Reitler

109. Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act completes the title:

A) Reading Capital B) The Political Unconscious
C) Literature of the Graveyard D) Art and the Human Adventure

110. Identify the work that is not by Jacques Derrida:

A) Of Grammatology B) Of Hospitality
C) Being and Nothingness D) The Beast and the Sovereign

111. In the work--------, Elaine Showalter traces the history of women’s literature in Europe in
three phases, which are ------,------, and --------.
A) Feminist Manifesto, female, feminist, femme fatale
B) Gynocritique, feminine, feminist, femme de guerre
C) Feminist Poetics, feminine, feminist, female
D) Towards a Feminist Poetics, feminine, feminist, female

112. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Bodies That Matter: On the
Discursive Limits of Sex are works by:
A) Jean Paul Sartre B) Simone de Beauvoir
C) Judith Butler D) Helene Cixous

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113. Eurocentric prejudices against Asian and Arab-Islamic people and culture are examined by
------, in ------.
A) Edward Said, Orientalism
B) Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
C) Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth
D) Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

114. “The Empire Writes Back with a Vengeance” is a piece by:

A) Helen Tiffin B) Bill Ashcroft
C) Salman Rushdie D) Arundhati Roy

115. Political Shakespeare, edited by Dollimore and Sinfield, is a collection of essays in:
A) Dialectical Materialism B) Cultural Materialism
C) Philosophical Materialism D) Behavioural Psychology

116. Akkarmashi is the autobiography of:

A) Baburao Bagul B) Shantabai Kale
C) Sharankumar Limbale D) Namdev Dhasal

117. ‘Dynamic equivalence’ and ‘formal equivalence’ are terms relation to concepts on:
A) Economics B) Jurisprudence
C) Religion D) Translation

118. “Culture is Ordinary” is a piece by:

A) Terry Eagleton B) Terry Pratchett
C) Raymond Williams D) Langston Hughes

119. Erich Fromm presents a re-interpretation of the story of:

A) Adam and Eve B) The Judgement of Paris
C) The Hare and the Tortoise D) Noah’s Ark

120. The vakroti siddhantha was postulated by:

A) Bharata B) Kuntaka
C) Anandavardana D) Abhinavagupta

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