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