PUMDET-2018 82120001 Subject: English (Booklet Number) Duration: 90 Minutes Full Marks: 100

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PUMDET-2018 82120001

Subject: English (Booklet Number)

Duration: 90 minutes Full Marks: 100

Instructions
1. All questions are of objective type having four answer options for each. Only one option is
correct. Correct answer will carry full marks 2. In case of incorrect answer or any
combination of more than one answer, ½ marks will be deducted.
2. Questions must be answered on OMR sheet by darkening the appropriate bubble marked A,
B, C, or D.
3. Use only Black/Blue ball point pen to mark the answer by complete filling up of the
respective bubbles.
4. Do not make any stray mark on the OMR.
5. Write question booklet number and your roll number carefully in the specified locations of
the OMR. Also fill appropriate bubbles.
6. Write your name (in block letter), name of the examination centre and put your full signature
in appropriate boxes in the OMR.
7. The OMRs will be processed by electronic means. Hence it is liable to become invalid if there
is any mistake in the question booklet number or roll number entered or if there is any
mistake in filling corresponding bubbles. Also it may become invalid if there is any
discrepancy in the name of the candidate, name of the examination centre or signature of the
candidate vis-a-vis what is given in the candidate’s admit card. The OMR may also become
invalid due to folding or putting stray marks on it or any damage to it. The consequence of
such invalidation due to incorrect marking or careless handling by the candidate will be sole
responsibility of candidate.
8. Candidates are not allowed to carry any written or printed material, calculator, pen, docu-pen,
log table, any communication device like mobile phones etc. inside the examination hall. Any
candidate found with such items will be reported against & his/her candidature will be
summarily cancelled.
9. Rough work must be done on the question paper itself. Additional blank pages are given in
the question paper for rough work.
10. Hand over the OMR to the invigilator before leaving the Examination Hall.

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1. In Old English poetry the ‘thula’ is:
(A) a verse pattern (B) a metrical list of names
(C) a Scandinavian poetic form (D) a heroic invocation

2. Which Old English poem is referred to as the ‘gleeman’s song’ by the Beowulf poet?
(A) Battle of Maldon (B) Battle of Brunanburgh
(C) The Fight at Finnsburh (D) Waldere

3. Which among the following poems begins as a dream on the Malvern hills on a May morning?
(A) Pearl (B) The Dream of the Road
(C) Book of the Duchess (D) Piers Plowman

4. Which of the tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a beast fable?


(A) The merchants’ Tale (B) The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
(C) The miller’s Tale (D) The Clerk’s Tale

5. Which of the following verse forms was introduced into England by Thomas Wyatt?
(A) Iambic pentameter (B) Alexandrine
(C) Ottava vima (D) Jerza vima

6. Name the theatre some of whose shares were owned by William Shakespeare?
(A) The Rose Theatre (B) The Blackfriars Theatre
(C) Fortune Playhouse (D) The Swan

7. The Book of Philip Sparrow was written by


(A) Philip Sidney (B) Michael Drayton
(C) John Skelton (D) Thomas Lodge

8. Anglo Saxon Attitudes is


(A) a history of English social customs;
(B) a novel by Angus Wilson;
(C) a sociological treatise on early English tribes
(D) a lost fragment of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English .

9. Which of the following deals with a conversation between a hunter and a fisherman?
(A) Urn Burial (B) Anatomy of the World
(C) The Compleat Angler (D) The Unfortunate Traveller

10. Who among the following critics contributed to a revaluation of the metaphysical school of poetry?
(A) Herbert Grierson (B) Patrick Cruttwell
(C) William Empson (D) T.S. Eliot

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11. Select from the following dates the years of the Gunpowder Plot.
(A) 1620 (B) 1605 (C) 1674 (D) 1642

12. Which of the following poems is a eulogy to the family seat of sir Philip Sidney?
(A) Underwoods (B) To Penhurst
(C) Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke (D) The Triumph

13. What does the ‘Leviathan’ in Thomas Hobbes’ treatise of the same name refer to
(A) a mythical monster (B) England
(C) Sovereign power (D) the Church

14. Appelyon is a character in which of the following :


(A) Samson Agonistes (B) Pilgrim’s Progress
(C) Rape of the Lock (D) Battle of the Books

15. Who, in his prose works, developed the inductive method of reasoning?
(A) Thomas Browne (B) Ben Jonson
(C) Francis Bacon (D) Dr Samuel Johnson

16. Indentify among the following the narrative in The Canterburg Tales not written in verse.
(A) The Second Nun’s Tale (B) Chaucer’s Tale of sir Thopas
(C) The Manciple’s Tale (D) The Parson’s Tale

17. Who felt that ‘Donne, for not keeping of accent deserved hanging.’
(A) Robert Crashaw (B) Dr Samuel Johnson
(C) Ben Jonson (D) Thomas Browne

18. Name the author of the novel, The Female Quixote: Or, The Adventures of Arabella.
(A) Sarah Scott (B) Mary Wortley Montagu
(C) Sarah Fielding (D) Charlotte Lennox

19. Identify the periodical Richard Steele did not edit.

(A) London Gazette (B) The Gaurdian

(C) The Spectator (D) The Tatler

20. Which eighteenth century work features the letters of the Chinese traveler Lien Chi Altangi?
(A) The Traveller Or, A Prospect of Society
(B) The Travels of Dean Mahomet
(C) The Citizen of the World
(D) The Man of Feeling

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21. ‘The passions are perfectly unknown to her: she rejects even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy
sisterhood.’
Who is Charlotte Bronte referring to?
(A) Mary Shelley (B) Jane Austen (C) Anne Bronte (D) Frances Burney

22. Which of his novels did Henry Fielding describe as a ‘feast’ whose main course was ‘human nature’?
(A) Amelia (B) Joseph Andrews
(C) Jonathan Wild, the Great (D) Tom Jones

23. Which 18th century novel deliberately disrupts narrative coherence to explore the relativity of time in
human experience?
(A) A Sentimental Journey (B) The Adventures of David Simple
(C) Tristram Shandy (D) The Adventures of Caleb Williams

24. In which of his novels did William Godwin portray Mary Wollstenecraft?
(A) St. Leon (B) The Adventures of Caleb Williams
(C) Mandeville (D) Deloraine

25. Name the writer who dealt with ‘Condition of England’ question in his prose works.
(A) Matthew Arnold (B) Thomas Carlyle
(C) Benjamin Disraeli (D) Thomas Macaulay

26. Identify in this list the priest and poet who helped to originate and lead the Oxford Movement.
(A) G.K Chesterton (B) Henry Newman (C) G.M. Hopkins (D) John Keble

27. Which of the following industrial novels deals with the Chartist movement?
(A) Sybil (B) Hard Times (C) North and South (D) Alton Locke

28. Which among the following novels deals with the rise the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin?
(A) The Last King of Scotland (B) Trainspotting
(C) Cloud Howe (D) The Panopticon

29. One among the following list of novels is not a modern rewriting of an earlier classic?
(A) Brazil (B) Foe (C) Malone Dies (D) Wide Sargasso Sea

30. Identify from the following the poet associated with Beat Poetry.
(A) Christopher Logue (B) Adrian Mitchell
(C) Roy Fisher (D) Philip Larkin

31. Which Shakespearean critic adopted the pseudonym Michael Innes to write detective novels?
(A) G. Wilson Knight (B) Kenneth Burke
(C) J. I. M. Stewart (D) Michael Taylor

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32. In which American novel by Paul Auster does its fictional author assume the role of a detective named
Paul Auster?
(A) Ghosts (B) City of Glass (C) The Locked Room (D) Moon Palace

33. Name the British playwright who was referred to as the ‘angry young woman’ of theatre.
(A) Caryl Churchill (B) Ann Jellicoe (C) Shelagh Delaney (D) Louise Page

34. In which poem by T.S. Eliot are there references to the Hyacinth girl and Madame Sosostris?
(A) The Dry Salvages (B) The Burial of the Dead
(C) Ash Wednesday (D) Sweeney Among the Nightingales

35. Identify the poem Walt Whitman wrote to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal.
(A) Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (B) Song of the Open Road
(C) Beat! Beat! Drums (D) Passage to India

36. Which among the following is not a primary epic?


(A) Odyssey (B) Gilgamesh (C) Song of Roland (D) Beowulf

37. A ‘confusion between the poem and its results(what it is and what it does)’ has been termed-
(A) an intentional fallacy (B) an aporia
(C) a pathetic fallacy (D) an affective fallacy

38. Who among the following poets felt ‘poetry makes nothing happen: it survives/…. A way of
happening, a mouth.’
(A) Wallace Stevens (B) W. H. Auden
(C) T.S.Eliot (D) Wilfred Owen

39. The protagonist in which Indian novel speaks in this form of outlandish but comic English : ‘My poor
taste compliment as to his sister, and his vulgar return tribute – abuse as to my mother, absolutely
established cordial relations between us, both in the E minor and the D major so to speak’.
(A) Trotternama (B) All About H. Hatterr
(C) Narcopolis (D) Gachar Ghochar

40. The 18th century concept of ‘imitatio’ actually referred to-


(A) mime
(B) literary representations reality
(C) emulating classical literary models
(D) adhering to the principles of reason and moderation

41. Who defined language as a differential system of signs?


(A) Jacques Derrida (B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) Jacques Lacan (D) Emile Benveniste

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42. In whose theory is language seen as performance?
(A) J. L. Austin (B) Ferdinand de Saussure
(C) C. S. Peirce (D) Noam Chomsky

43. In which novel by Philip Dick do the Axis powers win the Second World War?
(A) Eye in the Sky (B) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
(C) The Divine Invasion (D) The Man in the High Castle

44. In which of his plays did Aristophanes satirise the education system and intellectuals?
(A) Lysistrata (B) The Frogs (C) The Wasps (D) The Clouds

45. Which 1986 graphic novel first used ‘prestige’ formatting (shinier pages, heavy stock paper)?
(A) The Dark Knight (B) The Contract with God (C) Maus (D) Watchmen

46. Name the country which forms the setting of the graphic novel, Persepolis.
(A) Lebanon (B) Iraq (C) Kuwait (D) Iran

47. The term ‘High Comedy’ was coined by


(A) Henri Bergson (B) George Meredith
(C) Sigmund Freud (D) John Morreall

48. Emile Zola is considered to be the pioneer of one of the following literary movements?
(A) Transcendentalism (B) Realism
(C) Dadaism (D) Naturalism

49. Name the African writer who broke with English as a literary medium and returned to writing in his
native language.
(A) Chinua Achebe (B) Ngugi wa Thiongo
(C) Wole Soyinka (D) Ben Okri

50. Graham Greenes’ novel, The Third Man was adapted into a film version by
(A) David Lean (B) Carol Reed (C) Ken Roach (D) Karel Reisz

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