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English Literature

First Edition

2019

Prem Shankar Pandey

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ENGLISH SOLVED
PAPERS WITH
ANSWER KEYS
1994 – 2014

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December 1994 Paper II

1. The renaissance started in 8. What is the sub-title of „The Prelude‟?
A) Italy A) An autobiography B) A
B) France preface to my life C)
C) England Growth of a poet's mind D)
D) Germany A poet's story

2. The line 'The paths of glory lead but to 9. The line 'Love is not Time's fool' occurs in
the grave' occurs in a sonnet by:
A) Shakespeare A) John Keats B)
B) Herbert Philip Sidney C)
C) Pope John Donne
D) Gray D) William Shakespeare

3. By 'character' Aristotle means 10. The Renaissance is written by

A) Personages in drama A) Walter Pater
B) Cause of action B) Mathew Arnold
C) Combination of incidents in drama C) I A Richards
D) Particular nature of drama D) George Saintsbury

4. 'Amor Vincit Omnia' in Chaucer's The 11. In Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson says
Prologue means A) The good is always encouraged
A) Love conquers nothing B) The good is not particularly encouraged
B) Love conquers all nor evil disapproved
C) Love is blind C) The evil is often triumphant
D) Love is fatal D) There is no moral purpose

5. The sonnet form was introduced in 12. The mistakes of a night is the sub-title
England by of
A) Shakespeare A. Clarissa Harlowe
B) Philip Sidney B) She Stoops to Conquer
C) Wyatt C) Joseph Andrews
D) John Skelton D) The Way of the World

6. Which one of the following novels of 13. The Romantic Age in England is
Dickens is based on his own life? distinguished for its
A) Nicholas Nickleby A) Verse drama
B) Great Expectations B) Political prose
C) Hard Times C) Horror novels
D) David Copperfield D) Lyrical poetry

7. Dryden in 'Essay of Dramatic Poesy' 14. Who among the following was not a
rejects 'tragi-comedy' because member of the 'pre-Raphaelite
A) It is an innovative form B) Brotherhood'?
It violates the unity of tone A) Oscar Wilde
C) It is a poor imitation of French drama B) William Holman Hunt
D) It was practiced only by the Ancients C) John Everett Millais D)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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22. Apologia Pro Vista Sua by Newman is

15. Eliot's 'Objective correlative' signifies the A) an attack on Catholicism
writer's ability to B) denunciation of Protestantism
A) relatively delineate his objectives C) a defence of the author's stand
B) relate different objects D) a defence of religious values
C) correlate objects and events
D) objectify the desired states of mind 23. Who is the author of 'Journal of the
Plague Year'?
16. Which one of the following is a A) Richard Steele
Cavalier poet? B) Daniel Defoe C)
A) Herbert Joseph Addison D)
B) Donne Samuel Pepys
C) Herrick
D) Marvell 24. The Chartist Movement sought
A) Recognition of chartered trading
17. Adonais is an elegy written on the death companies
of: B) Political rights for women
A) W.B Yeats C) Protection of the political rights of the
B) John Keats middle class
C) P.B Shelly D) Extension of the political rights to the
D) Wordsworth working class

18. Which one of the following is not a 25. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is
Lake Poet? written by
A) Wordsworth A) William Hazlitt
B) Coleridge C) B) S.T Coleridge
Southey D) C) Charles Lamb
Shelley D) De Quincey

19. 'Negative Capability' is 26. The dictum 'only connect' is central to

A) The ability to overcome unpleasant the writings of
experience A) Aldous Huxley
B) A passive subordination to experience B) Virginia Woolf
C) A subjective response to experience C) E.M Forster D)
D) depersonalized empathy with experience D.H Lawrence

20. “Plurality”, according to John Stuart 27. The criterion of Leavis's Great
Mill, is necessary for the Tradition is
1) cultivation of the genius A) moral purpose
B) success of democracy B) sublime subject matter
C) intellectual enrichment of the society C) reader-response
D) evolution of State D) truth to life

21. “A little learning is a dangerous thing” is 28. Free trade signifies

taken from A) trade without government control
A) Alexander Pope B) trade with only government control
B) John Dryden C) freedom to trade in all commodities
C) William Shakespeare D) freedom to export anything
D) Jonathan Swift

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29. In 'Culture and Anarchy', Mathew 36. The 'Movement' is a literary

Arnold recommends phenomenon in the
A) adoption of Hellenism A) Thirties
B) adoption of Hebraism B) Forties
C) fusion of Hellenism and Hebraism D) C) Fifties
rejection of Hellenism and Hebraism D) Sixties

30. Lamia is a poem by 37. John Donne 'affects the metaphysics'. This
A) Rossetti remark was made by
B) Shelley A) Samuel Johnson
C) Keats B) Allen Tate
D) Spenser C) T.S Eliot
D) John Dryden
31. How long did Robinson Crusoe live on
the deserted Island? 38. “The Lunatic, the love and the poet are of
A) 12 years and 9 days B) imagination all compact”. These lines occur
28 years and 2 months C) in
16 years A) Twelfth Night
D) 21 years and 2 months B) A Midsummer Night's dream
C) As You Like It
32. In which year did the Great Exhibition D) The Tempest
take place?
A) 1851 39. Alexander's Feast is
B) 1857 A) A mock epic by Alexander Pope
C) 1861 B) A play by Dryden
D) 1871 C) A play by Marlow
D) an Ode by Dryden
33. Yeats' Leda and the Swan drawn upon
A) An oriental myth B) 40. Who said this: “Life is not a luminous halo,
East European myth C) a semi-transparent envelope”?
Celtic myth A) Dorothy Richardson
D) A Greek myth B) James Joyce
C) Henry James D)
34. The source of E.M Forster's title Where Virginia Woolf
Angels Fear to Tread is
A) Pope 41. In which book of Gulliver's Travels
B) Dryden does Balnibarbi find a mention?
C) Milton A) “Laputa”
D) Donne B) “Lilliput”
C) “Houyhnhnms”
35. The lines “Things fall apart/ Centre D) “Borbdingnag”
cannot hold” occur in
A) Byzantium 42. The phrase 'Sweetness and Light' was
B) Gerontion first used by
C) Second Coming A) Dr. Johnson
D) Sailing to Byzantium B) Keats
C) Mathew Arnold
D) Swift

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43. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is D) Ferdinand about the Duchess of Malfi.

A) an autobiography
B) a fictional narrative
C) a biography
D) a fictional biography

44. Hopkins's Curtal Sonnet consists of

A) 14 lines B)
101/2lines C)
131/2 lines D)
12 1/2lines

45. God is referred to as the 'president of

Immortals” in
A) The Paradise Lost
B) Tess
C) Ulysses
D) The White Devil

46. Osborne's Look Back in Anger was first

staged in
A) 1956
B) 1957
C) 1958
D) 1960

47. Maurya is a character in

A) She Stoops to Conquer
B) Volpone
C) Riders to the Sea
D) The Golden Gate

48. Which of the following is a poet as well

as a painter?
A) Tennyson
B) Keats C)
Shelley D)
Rossetti

49. Which English poet referred to Oxford

as “that sweet city with her dreaming spires”?
A) Robert Graves
B) Matthew Arnold
C) W. H Auden D)
Alexander Pope

50. “Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle; She

died young” – this was said by
A) Hamlet about Ophelia
B) Othello about Desdemona
C) Lear about Cordelia

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DECEMBER 2004 PAPER

II 8. Which of the following plays is not
written by Congreve?
1. In Langland's Piers the Plowman, Piers (A) The Way of the World
appears finally as (B) The Old Bachelor
(A) Charity (C) Love for Love
(B) Tha Holy Trinity (D) The Relapse
(C) Jesus
(D) The Good Samaritan 9. Dryden's All For Love is an adaptation of:
(A) Philaster
2. It is decided that each Canterbury (B) Romeo and Juliet
pilgrim would tell in all: (C) Antony and Cleopatra
(A) One story (D) Edward II
(B) Two stories
(C) Three stories 10. Which of the following books proposes a
(D) Four stories political theory?
(A) Principia
3. Venus and Adonis is a long narrative (B) Leviathan
poem by: (C) Anatomy of Melancholy
(A) Shakespeare (D) Liberty of Prophesying
(B) Marlowe
(C) Drayton 11. Which of the following books is written
(D) Sydney by a woman?
(A) A Vindication of the Rights of Women
4. The total number of poems in (B) Social Contract
Shakespeare's Sonnets is: (C) A Treatise of Human Nature
(A) 123 (D) The Wealth of Nations
(B) 142 12. Which of the following books by
(C) 104 Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory?
(D) 154 (A) The Battle of the Books
(B) A Modest Proposal
5. Which of the following plays has a (C) Gulliver's Travels
Machiavellan hero? (D) A Tale of a Tub
(A) Tamburlaine Part I
(B) Dr Faustus 13. Which of the following is a "visionary"
(C) Jew of Malta work by William Blake?
(D) Edward II (A) The Song of Los
(B) Songs of Experience
6. Which of the following is written by (C) Poetical Sketches
Samuel Butler? (D) The Vision of the Daughters of Albion
(A) Religio Laici
(B) David Simple 14. Pope's An Essay on Man is based on
(C) Hudibras the ideas of:
(D) Journal of the Plague Year (A) Lord Petrie
(B) Theobald
7. Which of the following poems did Milton (C) Lord Bolingbroke
write in Octosyllabic Couplets? (D) Lord Harvey
(A) Il Penseroso
(B) On His Blindness
(C) On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
(D) Lycidas

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22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written

15. Which of the following works by by:
Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire of (A) Mrs Gaskell
Juvenal? (B) George Eliot
(A) London (C) Thomas Hardy
(B) Vanity of Human Wishes (D) Emily Bronte
(C) The Life of Savage
(D) Rasselas 23. The Office of Circumlocution occurs
in:
16. The final version of Wordsworth's The (A) David Copperfield
Prelude appeared in:
(B) Bleak House
(A) 1798
(C) Great Expectations
(B) 1806
(D) Hard Times
(C) 1850
(D) 1860
24. The novel Mary Barton is written by:
(A) Mrs Gaskell
17. "To suffer woes which Hope thinks (B) George Eliot
infinite" is written by:
(C) Emily Bronte
(A) Shelley
(D) Dickens
(B) Wordsworth
(C) Keats
(D) Byron 25. The line "Poetry is a criticism of life"
occurs in:
(A) Culture and Anarchy
18. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" (B) Modern Painters
occurs in:
(C) The Study of Poetry
(A) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(D) Sartor Resartus
(B) Ode to Autumn
(C) Ode to Psyche
26. Martha Quest was written by:
(D) Endymion
(A) Jean Rhys
(B) Doris Lessing
19. Which of the following novels is a satire
on the Gothic novel? (C) Iris Murdoch
(A) Pride and Prejudice (D) Nadine Gordimer
(B) Emma
(C) Sense and Sensibility 27. The term "Stream of Consciousness" was
(D) Northanger Abbey taken from the book:
(A) The Human Mind
(B) The Principles of Psychology
20. Who distinguished between "the
(C) The Mind of Man
literature of Knowledge" and "the
literature of power"? (D) Modes of Human Behaviour
(A) Coleridge
(B) De Quincey 28.G S Fraser's The Golden Bough focuses
(C) Hazlitt on:
(D) Lamb (A) Images
(B) Metaphors
(C) Symbols
21. Who among the following Victorian poets is
(D) Archetypes
the most sensititve to the conflict between the old
and the new?
(A) Tennyson
(B) Rossetti
(C) Browning
(D) Swinburne

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29. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman 36. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is writtn
relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate of: by:
(A) Willy Loman (A) Arthur Miller
(B) Estragon (B) Eugene O Neil
(C) Vladimir (C) Edward Albee
(D) Lucky (D) Tennessee Williams

30. The character Leopald Bloom makes 37. Imamu Amiri Baraka is
an appearance in the novel: (A) A Carribean writer
(A) The Sound and the Fury (B) An American writer
(B) Ulysses (C) An Arab writer
(C) To the Lighthouse (D) A Sri Lankan writer
(D) The Europeans
38. The Miscellany was published from:
31. Who of the following authors represents (A) Sahitya Akademi
the Sri Lankan diaspora? (B) The Writers Workshop
(A) Cyril Dabydeen (C) PEN
(B) Michael Ondaatje (D) Dhwanyalok
(C) Arnold H Itwaru
(D) M G Gassanji 39. Who of the following writers recreates the life
of the Yoruba/Ibo Community?
32. Australian aborigines receive a (A) Derek Walcott
sympathetic treatment in: (B) Wole Soyinka
(A) Les Murray (C) Chinua Achebe
(B) Gwen Harwood (D) Okot
(C) Judith Wright
(D) A D Hope 40. Who of the following White female
authors are sympathetic to the cause of the
33. Margaret Atwood's Survival makes a Blacks?
case for (A) Margaret Drabble
(A) Canadian literary studies (B) Nadine Gordimer
(B) Canadian nationalism (C) Muriel Spark
(C) The future of Canadian literature (D) Jean Rhys
(D) The past of Canadian literature
41. New Criticism considers text as a:
34. V S Naipaul's latest book is: (A) Cultural construct
(A) The Mystic Masseur (B) Historical construct
(B) A Bend in the River (C) Linguistic construct
(C) Among the Believers (D) Autotelic
(D) Half a Life
42. Mythologies was written by"
35. Which of the following books by Salman (A) Roland Barthes
Rushdie refers to the 15th century Spain as a (B) Jacques Derrida
starting point? (C) Homi K Bhabha
(A) Haroun and the Sea of Stories (D) Ernest Dowson
(B) The Moor's Last Sigh
(C) Shame 43. The word "Catharsis" signifies:
(D) Grimus (A) Pontification
(B) Personification
(C) Purgation
(D) Publication

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44. The rejection of "Universalism" is a

mark of:
(A) Deconstruction
(B) New Historicism
(C) Structuralism
(D) Post Colonial Criticism

45. Eliot's theory of "objective correlative"

appeared in his essay entitled:
(A) Three Voices of Poetry
(B) Tradition and Individual Talent
(C) The Metaphysical Poets
(D) Hamlet

46. Sprung Rhythm is an example of:

(A) Verse
(B) Syllable
(C) Stress
(D) Meter

47. "More is thy due than more than all

can pay" is an example of
(A) Weak - ending
(B) Inversion
(C) Alexandrine
(D) Extra Syllable

48. Unrhymed metrical composition

consisting of five iambic measures in each
line is called
(A) Rhyme royal
(B) Run-on-lines
(C) Blank verse
(D) Spenserian stanza

49. Verse stories dealing with chivalry,

Knight, errantry, enchantments and love are
known as
(A) The epic
(B) The ballad
(C) The ode
(D) The metrical romances

50. "He is a citizen of no mean city" is an

example of:
(A) Periphrasis
(B) Tautology
(C) Prolepsis
(D) Litotes

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June 2005 Paper II

1. The Nun's Priest's Tale had its origin in:
(A) The French Roman de Renart 8. The posthumously published novel of
Jane Austen is:
(B) The Italian Boccaccio's Teseide
(A) Sense and Sensibility
(C) The English John Gower's Confessio (B) Mansfield Park
Amantis
(C) Emma
(D) The German Goethe's Faust
(D) Northanger Abbey
2. The First Folio of Shakespeare's plays 9. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus means:
appeared in:
(A) Satan's story retold
(A) 1664
(B) The tailor retailored
(B) 1631
(C) I know not where
(C) 1623
(D) a set of elegant clothes
(D) 1650
10. The character not created by Hardy is:
3. Restoration comedy begins with:
(A) Sue Bridehead
(A) Congreve
(B) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) Sheridan
(C) Betsy Trotwood
(C) Dryden
(D) Thomasin
(D) Etherege

4. The author of The Progress of the Soul 11. The poet who described poetry as
"inspired mathematics" is:
is:
(A) T S Eliot
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Hopkins
(B) John Donne
(C) Archibald MacLeish
(C) Henry Vaughan
(D) Ezra Pound
(D) Richard Crashaw
12. The woman character who is an artist by
5. Dr Johnson's The Lives of the Poets is an
example of: profession in Virginia Woolf's To the
Lighthouse is:
(A) Psychological criticism
(A) Lily Briscoe
(B) Biographical criticism
(B) Mrs Ramsay
(C) Historical criticism
(C) Mrs Dalloway
(D) Archetypal criticism
(D) Miriam
6. The picaresque novel with a female
picaroom is: 13. The poet who said, "My poems are not
about violence, but vitality," is:
(A) Tom Jones
(A) Philip Larkin
(B) Clarissa
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Moll Flanders
(C) C D Lewis
(D) Amelia
(D) Thom Gunn
7. The expression "ancestral voices 14. Pinter's Care Taker can be called a:
prophesying war" occurs in:
(A) comedy of manners
(A) Kublakhan
(B) comedy of menace
(B) Frost at Midnight
(C) comedy of errors
(C) Christabel
(D) comedy of humours
(D) Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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(D) Sense and Sensibility, Pride and

15. Toni Morrison used male narrator for Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey
the first time in:
(A) Song of Solomon 22. Shakespeare criticism by:
(B) Tar Baby
(C) Jazz (A) Spurgeon - T S Eliot - Stephen Greenblatt
(D) The Bluest Eye - Bradley
(B) Bradley - Spurgeon - T S Eliot – Stephen
16. The author of The Hungry Tide is: Greenblatt
(A) Vikram Seth (C) T S Eliot - Stephen Greenblatt - Bradley -
(B) Shobha De Spurgeon
(C) Amitav Ghosh (D) Stephen Greenblatt - Bradley - T S Eliot
(D) Upamany Chatterjee - Spurgeon

17. The soul of tragedy according to 23.

Aristotle is: (A) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford
(A) Thought Movement, Movement Poetry, Imagism
(B) Character (B) Oxford Movement, Pre-Raphaelite
(C) Plot Brotherhood, Imagism, Movement Poetry
(D) Spectacle (C) Imagism, Movement Poetry,, Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford Movement
18. The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet (D) Movement Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite
occurs in: Brotherhood, Oxford Movement, Imagism
(A) New criticism
(B) Deconstruction 24.
(C) Structuralism (A) Closet drama, Epic Theatre, Theatre
(D) Formalism of the Absurd, Portable Theatre
(B) Epic Theatre, Portable Theatre, Theatre
19. "United we stand, divided we fall" is an of the Absurd, Closet drama
example of: (C) Portable Theatre, Closet drama, Epic
(A) Antithesis Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd
(B) Bathos (D) Theatre of the Absurd, Portable
(C) Tautology Theatre, Closet drama, Epic Theatre
(D) Litotes
25.
20. A metre in which an unaccented (A) Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson,
syllable precedes the accented is called: Kyd, Marlowe
(A) anapaestic (B) Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, Marlowe,
(B) dactylic Thomas Nashe
(C) catalectic (C) Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas Nashe,
(D) iambic Ben Jonson
(D) Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Thomas
Choose the correct chronological sequence in Kyd, Ben Jonson
question numbers 21-30:
26.
21. (A) Essay on Dramatic Poesy, Areopagitica,
(A) Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Urn Burial, Religio Medici
Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park (B) Areopagitica, Urn Burial, Religio Medici,
(B) Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice (C) Religio Medici, Areopagitica, Urn Burial,
(C) Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility (D) Urn Burial, Essay on Dramatic Poesy,

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Areopagitica, Religio Medici William Cowper

(C) The Tower - T S Eliot
27. (D) The Fall of Hyperion - Shelley
(A) Kamala Das, Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt,
Meena Alexander 32.
(B) Meena Alexander, Toru Dutt, Sarojini (A) Hard Times - Psychological novel
Naidu, Kamala Das (B) To The Light-house - Picaresque novel
(C) Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, Meena (C) The Castle of Otranto - Gothic novel
Alexander, Toru Dutt (D) Wuthering Heights - Historical novel
(D) Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das,
Meena Alexander 33.
(A) Emily Bronte - Yorkshire Moors
28. (B) Hardy - Scotland
(A) Jude, Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Mrs (C) Walter Scott - Ireland
Morel (D) Mark Twain - Yoknapatawfa
(B) Dorothea, Mrs Morel, Jude, Lady
Havisham 34.
(C) Dorothea, Jude, Mrs Morel, Lady (A) Surrealism - Tristan Tzara
Havisham (B) Imagism - Spender
(D) Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Jude, Mrs (C) Naturalism - Yeats
Morel (D) Magic Realism - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

29. 35.
(A) The Well-Wrought Urn, The Verbal Icon, (A) Victor Shklovsky - Carnivalesque
Theory of Literature, Literary Theory: An (B) Stanley Fish - Aphasia
Introduction (C) Hjelmslev - Glossematics
(B) The Well-Wrought Urn, Theory of (D) Roland Barthes - Affective Stylistics
Literature, The Verbal Icon, Literary Theory:
An Introduction 36.
(C) The Verbal Icon, The Well-Wrought Urn, (A) Bessie Head - Newzealand
Literary Theory: An Introduction, Theory of (B) Derek Walcott - South Africa
Literature (C) A D Hope - Australia
(D) Literary Theory: An Introduction, The (D) Ondaatje - Nigeria
Well-Wrought Urn, Theory of Literature, The
Verbal Icon 37.
(A) T S Eliot - The Birthday Party
30. Nobel Prize winners in literature: (B) Osborne - The Entertainer
(A) Seamus Heaney, T S Eliot, Nadine (C) Bernard Shaw - Luther
Gordimer, W B Yeats (D) Tom Stoppard - Lear
(B) W B Yeats, T S Eliot, Nadine Gordimer,
Seamus Heaney 38.
(C) T S Eliot, Seamus Heaney, W B Yeats, (A) Periodical Essays - Bacon
Nadine Gordimer (B) Confessional Poetry - Ted Hughes
(D) Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, W B (C) Science Fiction - David Lodge
Yeats, T S Eliot (D) Pre-Raphaelites - William Morris

Select the matching pair in question 39.

numbers 31 to 40 (A) Nissim Ezekiel - Persian
(B) Gieve Patel - Gujarati
31. (C) Dilip Chitre - Sanskrit
(A) Idylls of the King - Browning (D) Adil Jussawallah - Urdu
(B) The Diverting History of John Gilpin -

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40. DECEMBER 2005 PAPER II

(A) Pearl - The Scarlet Letter
(B) Raka - The God of Small Things
1. Chaucer's The Knight's Tale is a high
(C) Raphael - The Great Expectations romance told in:
(D) Pip - Fire on the Mountain (A) rhyme royal
(B) terza rima
(C) heroic couplets
(D) verse libre

2. Marlowe's first original work was:

(A) Tamburlaine the Great
(B) The Tragical History of D. Faustus
(C) The Jew of Malta
(D) The Troublesome Raigne and
Lamentable death of Edward the Second

3. Marvell pays his homage to the Protector

and a tribute to the royal dignity of Charles I in:
(A) The Garden
(B) The Picture of T.C
(C) Bermudas
(D) Horatian ode upon Cromewell's
Return from Ireland

4. The Life and Death of Mr Badman was

written by:
(A) Sir Henry Wotton
(B) John Bunyan
(C) Jeremy Taylor
(D) Richard Baxter

5. Dr Johnson's A Dictionary of the English

Language was published in:
(A) 1755
(B) 1756
(C) 1757
(D) 1758

6. The main idea of The Dunciad was taken

from:
(A) The Hind and the Panther
(B) Religio Laici
(C) Mac Flecknoe
(D) The Medal

7. The character of the leech gatherer

appears in:
(A) The Recluse
(B) The Prelude Book I
(C) Laodamia
(D) Resolution and Independence

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(C) American pragmatism

8. Table Talk is a collection of essays by: (D) American transcendentalism
(A) Lamb
(B) Hunt 16. The patient in Michael Ondaatje's The
(C) Hazlitt English Patient is:
(D) De Quincey (A) Almasy
(B) Caravaggio
9. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus was written under (C) Kripal Singh
the influence of: (D) Hana
(A) Italian romance
(B) German romance 17. Mimetic criticism views literary work
(C) French romance as:
(D) British romance (A) personalisation
(B) depersonalisation
10. The image of Neptune taming the sea (C) imitation
horse appears in: (D) interpretation
(A) Abt Vogler
(B) Prospice 18. The concept of "arche writing" is
(C) Andrea del Sarto developed by:
(D) My Last Duchess (A) Fish
(B) Foucault
11. T S Eliot's The Waste Land is (C) Derrida
dedicated to Il miglior fabro ("The better (D) Paul de Man
Craftsman") which refers to:
(A) Ezra Pound 19. A figure of speech in which two terms
(B) Baudelaire opposite in meaning are placed side by side
(C) G M Hopkins in one phrase is known as
(D) Dante (A) Paradox
(B) Oxymoron
12. The locale of Riders to the Sea is: (C) Sarcasm
(A) Dublin (D) Antithesis
(B) Aran Island
(C) Galway 20. A stanza of eight iambic pentametres
(D) Belfast on the pattern of ab, ab, ab, cc is known as:
(A) Rhyme royal
13. The "Bog" poems are associated with: (B) Ottava rima
(A) Ted Hughes (C) Tennysonian stanza
(B) Elizabeth Jennings (D) Spenserian stanza
(C) Tony Harrison
(D) Seamus Heaney Choose the correct chronological sequence
in question numbers 21 to 30:
14. Edward Bond's Bingo deals with the
life of: 21.
(A) Dryden (A) Love's Labours Lost, Twelfth Night,
(B) Shakespeare Othello, The Tempest
(C) Ben Jonson (B) Twelfth Night, Love's Labours Lost, The
(D) Marlowe Tempest, Othello
(C) Love's Labours Lost, Othello, The
15. Arthur Millers The Death of a Tempest, Twelfth Night
Salesman is mainly about: (D) Othello, Twelfth Night, Love's Labours
(A) American dream Lost, The Tempest
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22.
(A) Ralph Roister Doister, Utopia, Astrophel 27.
and Stella, Shepherds Calendar (A) Sign Structure and Play, Signs Taken for
(B) Astrophel and Stella, Ralph Roister Wonder, The Death of the Author, Two Uses
Doister,Shepherds Calendar of Language
(C) Shepherds Calendar, Astrophel and (B) Two Uses of Language, The Death of the
Stella, Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister Author, Sign Structure and Play, Signs taken
(D) Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister, Shepherds for Wonder
Calendar, Astrophel and Stella (C) The Death of the Author, Two Uses of
Language, Signs Taken for Wonder, Sign
23. Structure and Play
(A) Sonnet, periodical essay, gothic novel, (D) Two Uses of Language, The Death of the
absurd play Author, Sign Structure and Play, Signs Taken
(B) Gothic novel, periodical essay, sonnet, for Wonder
absurd play
(C) Periodical essay, gothic novel, absurd 28.
play, sonnet (A) The Burial of the Dead, A Game of
(D) Sonnet, gothic novel, periodical essay, Chess, Fire Sermon, Death by Water
absurd play (B) A Game of Chess, The Burial of the
Dead, Fire Sermon, Death by Water
24. (C) Fire Sermon, The Burial of the Dead,
(A) Stephen Spender, T S Eliot, Philip Death by Water, A Game of Chess
Larkin, Ted Hughes (D) The Burial of the Dead, Fire Sermon,
(B) T S Eliot, Stephen Spender, Philip Larkin, Death by Water, A Game of Chess
Ted Hughes
(C) Philip Larkin, T S Eliot, Ted Hughes, 29.
Stephen Spender (A) Midnight's Children, Nectar in a Sieve,
(D) T S Eliot, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Kanthapura, Calcutta Chromosome
Stephen Spender (B) Kanthapura, Midnight's Children, Nectar
in a Sieve, Calcutta Chromosome
25. (C) Kanthapura, Midnight's Children,
(A) Negative capability, sublime, dissociation Calcutta Chromosome, Nectar in a Sieve
of sensibility, heteroglossia (D) Kanthapura, Nectar in a Sieve,
(B) Sublime, negative capability, Midnight's Children, Calcutta Chromosome
heteroglossia, dissociation of sensibility
(C) Sublime, negative capability, dissociation 30.
of sensibility, heteroglossia (A) The English Novel: Form and Function,
(D) Heteroglossia, dissociation of sensibility, The Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel,
sublime, negative capability The Sense of an Ending
(B) Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel,
Choose the correct chronological sequence The English Novel: Form and Function, The
in question numbers 26 to 30: Sense of an Ending
(C) The Sense of an Ending, The English
26. Novel: Form and Function, Craft of Fiction,
(A) Thyrsis, Adonais, Lycidas, In Memory of Aspects of the Novel
W B Yeats (D) Aspects of the NOvel, Craft of Fiction,
(B) Lycidas, Thyrsis, Adonais, In Memory of The Sense of an Ending, The English Novel:
W B Yeats Form and Function
(C) Lycidas, Adonais, Thyrsis, In Memory of
W B Yeats Select the matching pairs in question
(D) Adonais, In Memory of W B Yeats, numbers 31 to 40
Lycidas, Thyrsis

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31. (A) Girish Karnad - Kannada

(A) Sohrab and Rustum - Arnold (B) A K Ramanujan - Telugu
(B) The Princess - Browning (C) Kamala Das - Tamil
(C) Hugh Selwyn Mauberly - Hopkins (D) R Parthasarathy - Malayalam
(D) The Excursion - Shelley
40.
32. (A) Mrs Malaprop - The School for Scandal
(A) Middlemarch - Picaresque (B) Nora - The Seagull
(B) Women in Love - Historical (C) Lydia Languish - She Stoops to Conquer
(C) Pamela - Epistolary novel (D) Eliza Doolittle – Pygmalion
(D) Pride and Prejudice - Autobiographical
41. In the assertion "Four out of five
33. people suffer from dreaded pyorrhoea",
(A) Dickens - Manchester the writer wants to arouse the feeling of:
(B) Faulkner - Yoknapatawfa (A) Sympathy
(C) Joyce - Belfast (B) Fear
(D) Lawrence - Brimingham (C) Hatred
(D) Ill-will
34.
(A) Naturalism - Zola 42. "John is six feet tall and 240 lb" is an
(B) Symbolism - T E Hulme assertion of:
(C) Expressionism - V Woolf (A) a fact
(D) Magic Realism - Graham Greene (B) a judgement
(C) an opinion
35. (D) an inference
(A) Audrey Thomas - The Stone Angel
(B) Robert Kroetsch - The Burning Water
(C) Margaret Lawrence - What the Crow Said 43. X: "He's mean and stingy.
(D) Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin Y: "Oh, I wouldn't say that. He is just
thrifty".
Select the matching pairs in question The above dialoge asserts that he:
numbers 36 to 40 (A) is too careful with his money
(B) never spends money
36. (C) is so careful with his money that everyone
(A) Marlowe - Faust admires him for good management
(B) Fletcher - The White Devil (D) is careful with his money
(C) Congreve - The Old Bachelor
(D) Ben Jonson - The Maid's Tragedy 44. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" makes
an assertion that:
37. (A) The poet traveled with the cloud
(A) Nadine Gordimer - Nigeria (B) The poet moved aimlessly with the cloud
(B) Chinua Achebe - Kenya (C) Both the poet and the cloud were lonely
(C) Judith Wright - Australia (D) The poet moved as aimlessly as the cloud
(D) Peter Carey - Canada
45. "Death is here and death is there
38. Death is busy everywhere
(A) Campus novel - Margaret Drabble All around, within, beneath,
(B) Travalogue - Macaulay Above, is death - and we are death"
(C) Diary writing - Samuel Pepys
(D) Periodical essay - Lamb

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The effect of rhythm, sound, word-order institutions that co-opt an intellectual?

and stress in the above lines (A) society, institutions, wordly powers, and
(A) assist the communication of meaning truth
(B) hinder the communication of meaning (B) academy, church, professional guild, and
(C) reflect meaning and mood wordly power
(D) reflect a mechanical regularity (C) society, professional guild, wordly power,
truth
(D) academy, wordly power, truth,
Read the following passage and answer the government
questions that follow based on your
understanding of the passage. 49. What is the meaning of 'relative
independence'?
All of us live in a society, and are members of a (A) Liberating oneself from the pressures of
nationality with its own language, tradition, government and institutions
historical situation. To what extent are (B) liberating oneself from the pressures of
intellectuals servants of these actualities, to what religion and state
extent enemies? The same is true of (C) liberating oneself from the pressures of
intellectuals' relationship with institutions institutions and worldly powers
(academy, church, professional guild) and with (D) liberating oneself from all religious and
wordly powers, which in our times have co- secular pressures
opted the intelligentsia to an extraordinary
degree. Thus in my view the principal 50. What is the duty of an intellectual and
intellectual duty is the search for relative how many identities does he acquire to
independence from such pressures. Hence my perform his role?
characterization of the intellectual as an exile (A) to achieve complete independence
and marginal, as amateur, and as the author of and be characterised as an exile, marginal,
a language that tries to speak the truth to power. and amateur
(B) to achieve partial independence and be
characterised as the author of a language
46. Name four important sources to which an (C) to manoeuvre independence and
intellectual is related basically: be characterised as a keeper of his own
(A) Society, institutions, wordly powers, and conscience
government (D) to search for relative independence and
(B) Institutions, language, truth and power be characterised as exile and marginal, as
(C) Nationality, language, tradition and amateur, and author
historical situation
(D) Nationality, truth, language, and tradition

47. What is the meaning of intellectuals

being 'servants'?
(A) The intellectual may be appropriated by
his tradition, historical and other actualities of
his nation and society
(B) The intellectual may be inappropriately
co-opted by agencies of the government
(C) The intellectual may be sent into exile
and made marginal
(D) The intellectual may be forced into
accepting the unacceptable propositions

48. What are the four important

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JUNE 2006 PAPER II

1. Which one of the following author - book
pair is correctly matched?
(A) J.M. Coetzee - Shame
(B) Saul Bellro - Herzog
(C) Salman Rushdie - Disgrace
(D) Elfriede Jelinek - The Pianist

2. Which novel has a nameless narrator?

(A) Invisible Man
(B) The Grapes of Wrath
(C) Moby Dick
(D) Anna Karenina

3. Samuel Beckett wrote:

(A) Endgame
(B) Volpone
(C) Mother Courage and Her Children
(D) A Doll's House

4. Willy Loman is a character in:

(A) A Doll's House
(B) The Cherry Orchard
(C) Waiting for Godot
(D) The Death of a Salesman

5. The Plough and the Stars was written by:

(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) J.M. Synge
(C) Sean O'casey
(D) Lady Gregory

6. The subtitle of Dryden's Absalom and

Achitophel is:
(A) There was no subtitle
(B) A satire
(C) A satire on the True Blue Protestant Poets
(D) A poem

7. Who of the following is not a periodical

essayist?
(A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Richard Steele
(D) Lancelot Andrews

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8. John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys were the 15. The Montreal group of poets
famous writers of: championed the cause of:
(A) essays (A) Nature poetry
(B) editorials (B) Symbolish poetry
(C) letters (C) Imagist poetry
(D) diaries (D) Modernist poetry

9. Samuel Butlers Hudibras is modeled 16. The figure of the "Abyssinian maid"
upon: appears in:
(A) "Annus Mirabilis" (A) "Frost at midnight"
(B) Endymion (B) "Christabel"
(C) Don Quixote (C) "Kubla Khan"
(D) Pilgrim's Progress (D) "Dejection: an Ode"

10. Who was the last of the Christian 17.Coleridges statement that imagination "dissolves,
Humanists? diffuses, dissipates in order to recreate" relates to:
(A) Oliver Cromowell (A) fancy
(B) John Milton (B) primary imagination
(C) John Bunyan (C) secondary imagination
(D) Richard Crashaw (D) esemplastic imagination

11. The narrative of Raja Rao's 18. "Did he who made the Lamb made
Kanthapura is based on: thee" appears in:
(A) Puranas (A) "The Tyger"
(B) Shastras (B) "Chimney Sweeper"
(C) The Ramayana (C) "London"
(D) The Mahabharata (D) "Introduction"

12. Which of the following author - book 19. "Essays of Elia” are:
pair is correctly matched? (A) political ideology
(A) David Malouf - The City of Djins (B) economic disparity
(B) C.L.R. James - The English Patient (C) literary criticism
(C) Shashi Tharoor - Trotter Nama (D) personal impressions
(D) Arundhati Roy - Algebra of Infinite
Justice 20. Who among the following is a writer of
historical romances?
13. Who wrote "A tiger does not proclaim its (A) Emily Bronte
tigretude”? (B) Jane Austen
(A) Ngugi (C) Walter Scott
(B) Achebe (D) Walter Savage Lander
(C) Soyinka
(D) Derek Walcott 21. Which of the following thinker -
concept pairs is rightly matched?
14. "Jindiworobak" movement relates to: (A) Stanley Fish - Reader Response
(A) Australian literature (B) Jacques Devida - New Historicism
(B) Canadian literature (C) Northrop Frye - Practical Criticism
(C) New Zealand literature (D) I.A. Richards - Archetypal Criticism
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22. Which of the following thinker - 28. Pre - Raphaelite poetry is mainly
concept pairs is rightly matched? concerned with:
(A) Vaman - Dhwanyaloka (A) narrative and style
(B) Bharata - Natya Shastra (B) narrative and nature
(C) Mamata - Vakrokti (C) form and design
(D) Abhinava Gupta - Kavya Alankar (D) form and value

23. Choose the correct sequence of the 29. The concept of "mad woman in the
following schools of criticism: attic" can be traced to:
(A) Structuralism, New Criticism, (A) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Deconstruction, Reader Response (B) Villette
(B) New Criticism, Structuralism, (C) Wuthering Heights
Deconstruction, Reader Response (D) Jane Eyre
(C) Reader Response, Deconstruction,
Structuralism, New Criticism 30. Who among the Victorians is called "the
(D) Deconstruction, New Criticism, prophet of modern society”?
Structuralism, Reader Response (A) Ruskin
(B) Carlyle
24. "Peripetia” means: (C) Macaulay
(A) purgation of emotion (D) Arnold
(B) tragic flaw
(C) reversal of fortune 31. Who among the following is not a
(D) recognition of error pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales?
(A) the Haberdasher
25. "Gynocriticism" focuses on: (B) the Tapyser
(A) Criticism on women (C) the Blacksmith
(B) Criticism by women (D) the Summoner
(C) Criticism of male writers by women
writers 32. Bosola is the executioner in:
(D) Women as writers (A) The Spanish Tragedy
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
26. Which of the following sequences is (C) The White Devil
correct? (D) The Jew of Malta
(A) Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond,
Middlemarch, The Return of the Native 33. The mystery plays deal with:
(B) Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, (A) the life of Christ
Middlemarch, The Return of the Native (B) the New Testament
(C) Middlemarch, The Return of the Native, (C) Psalms
Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond (D) Apocrypha
(D) The Return of the Native, Middlemarch,
Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond 34. The Faerie Queene is based on:
(A) Utopia
27. Queen Victoria's reign, after whom the (B) Tottelis Miscellany
Victorian period is named, spans: (C) Morte d'Arthur
(A) 1833 - 1901 (D) Orlando Furioso
(B) 1837 - 1901
(C) 1840 - 1905 35. Choose the correct chronological
(D) 1842 – 1905 sequence of the following plays :
(A) King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet
(B) Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet
(C) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

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(A) Alice Walker

(D) Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth (B) Margaret Lawrence
(C) Margaret Atwood
36. Pope's "Essay on Criticism" sums up the (D) Alice Munro
art of poetry as taught first by:
(A) Aristotle 44. The Empire writes Back was written by
(B) Horace :
(C) Longinus (A) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Ngugi Wa
(D) Plato Thinngo
(B) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Stephen
37. Swift's Tale of a Tub is a satire on: Slemon
(A) science and philosophy (C) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Chinua
(B) art and morality Achebe
(C) dogma and superstition (D) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Gareth
(D) fake morals and manners Griffiths

38. Dr. Johnson started : 45. The theatre of cruelty is associated

(A) The Postman with:
(B) The Spectator (A) Stanislavosky
(C) The Rambler (B) Grotovsky
(D) The Tatler (C) Antonin Artand
(D) Eugino Barba
39. Who among the following cautioned against 46. A particle is :
the dangers of popular liberty?
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft (A) a patchwork of words, sentences,
passages
(B) Edmund Burke
(B) a satirical poem
(C) Thomas Hobbes
(C) a love song
(D) John Locke
(D) a collection of lines from different poems
40. Which famous American classic opens
47. "Careless she is with artful
with "Call me Ishmael”?
Care/Affecting to seem unaffected" is an
(A) Rip Van Winkle
example of:
(B) The Scarlet Letter
(A) irony
(C) The Grapes of Wrath
(B) paradox
(D) Moby Dick
(C) simile
(D) metaphor
41. Allen Ginsberg's vision of America is 48. A metrical foot containing a stressed,
inspired by:
followed by an unstressed, syllable is:
(A) Walt Whitman
(A) anapaest
(B) Robert Frost
(B) iamb
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(C) trochee
(D) Edgar A. Poe
(D) dactyl
42. Who among the following represents the
Sri Lankan diaspora? 49. The rhyme scheme of a Spenserian
sonnet is:
(A) M.G. Vassanji
(A) abba, cbcb, cdcd, ee
(B) Cyril Debydeen
(B) abab, bccb, ccdd, ee
(C) Michael Ondaatje
(C) aabb, bcbc, ccdd, ee
(D) Arnold H. Itwaru
(D) abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee
43. Out of Africa is a film adaptation of a
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50. Using the expression "Crown" for the DEC 2006 PAPER II
monarchy is an example of:
(A) Metonymy
(B) Synecdoche 1. The title The Sound and the Fury is
taken from:
(C) Irony
(A) Hamlet
(D) Metaphor
(B) Macbeth
(C) The Tempest
(D) King Lear

2. Pecola is a character in :
(A) The Bluest Eye
(B) Oliver Twist
(C) Don Quixote
(D) Beloved

3. Which of the following was associated with

the "Bloomsbury Group".
(A) T. S. Eliot
(B) W. B. Yeats
(C) T. E. Hulme
(D) Virginia Woolf

4. Which of the following characters appear

in Waiting for Godot:
(A) Jerry
(B) Lucky
(C) Jimmy Porter
(D) Ham

5. About whom did T. S. Eliot write "A

thought to him was an experience”:
(A) Herbert
(B) Marvell
(C) Donne
(D) Crashaw

6. The last book of Gulliver's Travels is:

(A) "Voyage to Houyhnhnms"
(B) "Voyage to Laputa"
(C) "Voyage to Brobdingnag"
(D) "Voyage to Lilliput"

7. Who edited The Tatler:

(A) Steele and John Locke
(B) Addison and Dryden
(C) Addison and Blackmore
(D) Addison and Steele

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8. John Locke's "Essay Concerning Human

Understanding" is about: 15. The Tulsis of Naipaul's A House for Mr.
(A) nature of human behaviour Biswas lived in:
(B) nature of the human mind (A) Pagotes House
(C) nature of human society (B) Hanuman Mansion
(D) nature of human ideology (C) Tulsiana
(D) Hanuman House
9. Restoration Comedy marks the
restoration of: 16. The quotation "a repetition in the finite mind
(A) women's rights of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM"
(B) democracy appears in:
(C) monarchy (A) Lyrical Ballads
(D) human rights (B) Biographia Literaria
(C) "In Defense of Poetry"
10. Which of Alexander Pope's poems begins (D) Letters of Keats
with the line "Shut, shut the door,
good John, fatigued I said”: 17. "Fearful Symmetry" appears in the
(A) "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" poem:
(B) "Dunciad" (A) "Introduction"
(C) "Epistles" (B) "Chimney Sweeper"
(D) "Rape of the Lock" (C) "The Tyger"
(D) "London"
11. The statement "One has to convey in a
language that is not one's own the spirit that is 18. The quotation "when a man is capable of being
one's own" appears in: in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any
(A) Ice-Candy Man irritable reaching after fact and reasons" is a
(B) The Guide definition of:
(C) Nagamandala (A) Negative capability
(D) Kanthapura (B) Secondary imagination
(C) Criticism of life
12. Which of the following author-book pair (D) Dissociation of sensibility
is correctly matched:
(A) Arundhati Roy - The Autumn of the 19. Which of the following prose-writers do not
Patriarch belong to the Romantic Period:
(B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the (A) Peacock
Time of Cholera (B) De Quincey
(C) Umber to Eco - The Tin Drum (C) Hazlitt
(D) Jhumpa Lahiri – Beloved (D) Gibbon

13. Which of the following women writers did 20. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia and
not receive the Noble Prize: Wickham eloped to:
(A) Toni Morrison (A) Barchester
(B) Nadine Gordiner (B) Bath
(C) Buchi Emcheta (C) Gretna Green
(D) Doris Lessing (D) Glasgow

14. Which of the following is not an 21. Which of the following thinker-concept
Australian author: pairs is correctly matched?
(A) Margaret Laurence (A) Frye........... Mysticism
(B) David Malauf (B) Derrida............. Deconstruction
(C) Mudooroo Narogin (C) I. A. Richards........... Archetypal
(D) Peter Carey Criticism

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(D) Eagleton............... Psychological 28. The term "The Fleshly School of

Criticism Poetry" is associated with the:
(A) Chartists
22. Which of the following thinker concept (B) Pre-Raphaelites
pairs is correctly matched? (C) Symbolists
(A) Abhinava Gupta.............. Dhwanyaloka (D) Imagists
(B) Vaman .............. Kavya Alankar
(C) Mamata.............. Kavya Prakash 29. The line "The sea is calm tonight"
(D) Bharata .............. Vakrokti occurs in:
(A) Tennyson's "Maude"
23. Choose the correct sequence of the (B) Arnold's "Thyrsis"
following schools of criticism: (C) Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters"
(A) Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader- (D) Arnold's "Dover Beach"
Response, New Historicism
(B) New Historicism, Reader-Response, 30. The term "gothic", a category of
Deconstruction, Structuralism fiction, also applies to:
(C) Deconstruction, New Historicism, (A) architecture
Structuralism, Reader-Response (B) painting
(D) Reader-Response, Deconstruction, New (C) music
Historicism, Structuralism (D) theater

24. "Hamartia” means: 31. The gap-toothed character in

(A) reversal of fortunes "prologue" to The Centerbury Tales is:
(B) purgation of emotions (A) the Prioress
(C) depravity (B) the Nun
(D) error of judgement (C) the Wife of Bath
(D) the Narrator
25. The term "gynocriticism" was coined
by : 32. Which of the following is not a Revenge
(A) Betty Friedman Tragedy:
(B) Elaine Showalter (A) Duchess of Malfi
(C) Luce Irigarey (B) Volpone
(D) Susan Sontag (C) Hamlet
(D) Gorboduc
26. Which is the correct sequence:
(A) D. G. Rossetti, George Eliot, Bronte 33. Miracle plays are based on the lives of:
Sisters, Thackeray (A) Knights
(B) George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti, Bronte (B) Crusaders
Sisters, Thackeray (C) Pilgrims
(C) Thackeray, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, (D) Saints
D. G. Rossetti
(D) Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray, 34. The Red cross Knight is Spenser's
D. G. Rossetti Faerie Queene represents:
(A) Temperance
27. Which of Dickens' novels opens with (B) Chastity
the words "It was the best of times; it was (C) Truth
the worst of times ....” (D) Falsehood
(A) A Tale of Two Cities
(B) Oliver Twist 35. The line "Present fears/Are less than
(C) Pickwick Papers horrible imaginings" appear in:
(D) Hard Times (A) Macbeth
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43. Margaret Atwood's Survival is:

(A) a critical assessment of Canadian writing
(C) Othello (B) a thematic guide to Canadian literature
(D) Julius Caesar (C) a critique of Canadian polity
(D) a exposition of Canadian history
36. The author of Ars Poetica is :
(A) Plato 44. The term "Negritude" was coined By:
(B) Horace (A) Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha
(C) Virgil (B) Ngugi Wa' Thiongo and Wole Soyinka
(D) Aristotle (C) Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
(D) K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe
37. Which of the following is not a work by
Dr. Johnson:
45. Bertolt Brecht's concept of theatre was
(A) Preface to the English Dictionary influenced by:
(B) Preface to Shakespeare (A) Irwin Piscator
(C) Lives of English Poets (B) Antonin Artaud
(D) Cowley (C) Peter Brook
(D) Eugino Barba
38. Which novel of Daniel Defoe was considered to
be the best by E. M. Forster?
46. The relationship between Othello and
(A) Colonel Jack Iago is an example of:
(B) Robinson Crusoe (A) inversion
(C) Captain Singleton (B) irony
(D) Moll Flanders (C) innuendo
(D) invective
39. Edmund Burke denounced the French
Revolution in:
47. A metrical foot consisting of an
(A) Political Philosophy unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
(B) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of syllable is:
our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (A) dactyl
(C) Reflections (B) trochee
(D) The Annual Register (C) iamb
(D) anapaest
40. The line "A man can be destroyed but
not defeated" appears in:
48. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean
(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls sonnet is:
(B) The Old Man and the Sea (A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(C) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (B) abba, cddc, effe, gg
(D) The Sun also Rises (C) abcd, efgh, effe, hh
(D) abca, abca, bcab, dd
41. Who among the following is called "A
New England Poet" :
49. Using "the Bench" for the judiciary is an
(A) Robert Frost example of:
(B) Edwin Arlington Robinson (A) metaphor
(C) William Carlos Williams (B) irony
(D) Allen Ginsberg (C) Synecdoche
(D) metonymy
42. Which of the following is not a play by
Tennessee Williams:
(A) Night of the Iguana
(B) A Streetcar named Desire
(C) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(D) The Zoo Story

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50. Four feet, comprising a monosyllable, JUNE 2007 PAPER II

trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often called :
(A) running rhythm 1. The lines :
(B) sprung rhythm
(C) blank verse 'Even I, a dunce of more renown than they,
Was sent before but to prepare thy way' are
(D) rhymed verse
quoted from :
(A) Pope's Dunciad
(B) Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
(C) Dryden's Mac Flecknoe
(D) Swift's A Tale of a Tub

2. Fanny Burney's Evelina is about:

(A) a young lady's entry into English
fashionable society
(B) English refugees in Paris
(C) an English enthusiast for revolutionary
liberty
(D) money and the world of the country
house

3. The unexpurgated text of Lady

Chatterley's Lover was published after
Obscenity trial in:
(A) 1958
(B) 1965
(C) 1960
(D) 1962

4. Sir Andrew Freeport is a character in:

(A) Humphry Clinker
(B) Joseph Andrews
(C) The Coverley Papers
(D) Clarissa

5. In which of the following novels does Stein

feature as a significant character?
(A) Under Western Eyes
(B) Lord Jim
(C) Heart of Darkness
(D) Nostromo

6. The Grand Inquisitor is a character in:

(A) Crime and Punishment
(B) Notes from the Underground
(C) Brothers Karamazov
(D) The Idiot

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7. Which modern critic described value 14. Who among the following was not a
judgements as 'the donkey's carrot of literary member of the group, 'The University Wits‟?
criticism‟? (A) Thomas Nashe
(A) T. S. Eliot (B) Ben Jonson
(B) I. A. Richards (C) George Peele
(C) William Empson (D) Samuel Daniel
(D) Northrop Frye
15. William Beckford's oriental fantasy
8. Select the matching pair: Vathek was originally written in:
(A) The Book of the Duchess: Blanche (A) Spanish
of Leicester (B) German
(B) The Canterbury Tales: The Host of (C) French
the Tabard (D) Italian
(C) Troilus and Criseyde: Squire
(D) The Parliament of Birds: St. Agnes's Eve 16. The term 'American renaissance' was
first used by:
9. 'The Winter Morning' forms part of a (A) R. W. B Lewis
longer poem by: (B) Leo Marx
(A) Cowper (C) F. O. Matthiessen
(B) Blake (D) Richard Chase
(C) Burns
(D) Byron 17. 'Gladly would he learn, and gladly
teach' is a line from :
10. Bradley Pearson is the narrator of Iris (A) Spenser's Fairie Queen
Murdoch‟s novel: (B) Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village'
(A) Under the Net (C) Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury Tales
(B) Bruno's Dream (D) Langland's Piers Plowman
(C) The Bell
(D) The Black Prince 18. Which of the following arrangement of
the English plays is in correct chronological
11. 'Victorian Compromise' is an order?
expression first used by: (A) Justice - The Family Reunion - Saint Joan -
(A) David Cecil The Playboy of the Western World
(B) G. K. Chesterton (B) Saint Joan - Justice - The Playboy of the
(C) Lytton Strachey Western World - The Family Reunion
(D) Vincent Buckley (C) The Family Reunion - Saint Joan -
Justice - The Playboy of the Western World
12. More's Latin Masterpiece Utopia was (D) The Playboy of the Western World -
translated into English in: Justice - Saint Joan - The Family Reunion
(A) 1551
(B) 1498 19. The second part of The Pilgrim's
(C) 1516 Progress was published in:
(D) 1532 (A) 1690
(B) 1678
13. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of (C) 1686
Poetry is written by: (D) 1684
(A) Maud Bodkin
(B) Stephen Spender
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) Frank Kernode

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20. The Egoist is written by: 27. Which of the following books was not
(A) Blackmore published in 1859?
(B) William Thackeray (A) Darwin : The Origin of Species
(C) Meredith (B) George Eliot : Adam Bede
(D) Hardy (C) Mill : On Liberty
(D) Ruskin : Unto This Last
21. Which is the correct chronological
sequence of the following novels? 28. Three Guineas is the title of a book by:
(A) Decline and Fall - The Time Machine - (A) E. M. Forster
Nineteen Eightyfour - Brave New World (B) Virginia Woolf
(B) Nineteen Eightyfour - Decline and Fall - (C) George Orwell
The Time Machine - Brave New World (D) G. B. Shaw
(C) Brave New World - The Time Machine -
Nineteen Eightyfour - Decline and Fall 29. Harold Pinter's first four plays are :
(D) The Time Machine - Decline and Fall - (A) The Caretaker, The Room, The
Brave New World - Nineteen Eightyfour Homecoming, The Birthday Party
(B) The Room, The Dumb Waiter,
22. Roland Barthes is the author of one of The Birthday Party, The Caretaker
the following texts : (C) The Homecoming, The Caretaker,
(A) The Death of Tragedy Old Times, Betrayal
(B) The Death of a Hero (D) The Dumb Waiter, The Caretaker,
(C) The Death of the Author No Man's Land, Betrayal
(D) The Death of Literature
30. Identify the odd character out:
23. The author of the Elizabethan sonnet (A) Bosola
sequence, Idea, is: (B) De Flores
(A) Samuel Daniel (C) Iago
(B) Michael Drayton (D) Kent
(C) Edmund Spenser
(D) Fulke Greville 31. Select the matching pair:
(A) The Great Gatsby: Chicago
24. Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean (B) The Old Man and the Sea: Cuba
Brodie is a rewriting of the Victorian novel: (C) For Whom the Bell Tolls: Italy
(A) Jane Eyre (D) The Sound and the Fury: Boston
(B) Villette
(C) Wuthering Heights 32. 'The page is printed'. This is the last
(D) North and South line in a poem by:
(A) Sylvia Plath
25. The Romantic Imagination is the title of (B) Dylan Thomas
a book by: (C) Philip Larkin
(A) Harold Bloom (D) Ted Hughes
(B) Graham Hough
(C) C. M. Bowra 33. T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland was first
(D) M. H. Abrahms published in:
(A) The Criterion
26. 'Ode on the spring' was written by: (B) The Dial
(A) Thomas Gray (C) The Yale Review
(B) John Keats (D) New Yorker
(C) Abraham Cowley
(D) William Collins

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34. 'Relationship' is a long poem by: Country Churchyard' - Adonais - In

(A) A. K. Ramanujan Memoriam
(B) R. Parthasarathy
(C) Jayanta Mahapatra 39. The Chartist Demonstration in London
(D) Kamala Das involving the third presentation of Charter took
place in:
35. The phrase, 'bottomless perdition' occurs (A) 1842
in Milton's Paradise Lost in: (B) 1846
(A) Book I (C) 1848
(B) Book IV (D) 1851
(C) Book VI
(D) Book XII 40. 'Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains
the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it
36. Which of the following arrangements of into fragments'
American plays is in the correct The above lines occur in:
chronological sequence? (A) „Dejection: An Ode'
(A) Mourning Becomes Electra - The Hairy (B) Adonais
Ape - Death of a Salesman - A Streetcar (C) In Memoriam
Named Desire (D) 'Thyrsis'
(B) The Hairy Ape - Death of a Salesman -
Mourning Becomes Electra - A Streetcar 41. Arrange the following characters in
Named Desire chronological sequence :
(C) A Streetcar Named Desire - The Hairy (A) Mr. Rochester - David Copperfield
Ape - Mourning Becomes Electra - Death of a Rosamond - Bathsheba
Salesman (B) David Copperfield - Rosamond - Mr.
(D) The Hairy Ape - Mourning Becomes Rochester - Bathsheba
Electra - A Streetcar Named Desire - Death of (C) Bathsheba - Mr. Rochester - David
a Salesman Copperfield - Becky Sharp
(D) David Copperfield - Bathsheba - Mr.
37. Which of the following arrangements of Rochester - Rosamond
famous characters is in the correct
chronological order? 42. The book, The Religion of Man is
(A) Vittoria Corombona - Beatrice - written by:
Christiana - Hermione (A) Sri. Aurobindo
(B) Beatrice - Hermione - Vittoria (B) Rabindranath Tagore
Corombona - Christiana (C) A. K. Coomaraswamy
(C) Hermione - Beatrice - Vittoria (D) V. K. Gokak
Corombona - Christiana
(D) Beatrice - Vittoria Corombona - 43. In the poem 'Windhover' Hopkins uses:
Hermione – Christiana (A) Alternate Rhyme
(B) Disyllabic Rhyme
38. Which of the following is in correct (C) Cross Rhyme
chronological sequence ? (D) Split Rhyme
(A) In Memoriam - 'Lycidas' - 'An Elegy
Written on a Country Churchyard' - Adonais 44. Which Dickens novel attacks the New Poor Law
(B) Adonais - In Memoriam - 'Lycidas' - 'An of 1834 in the opening chapters?
Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard' (A) Great Expectations
(C) 'An Elegy Written on a Country (B) Hard Times
Churchyard' - In Memoriam - Adonais (C) Oliver Twist
'Lycidas' (D) Dombey and Son
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45. 'Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath,

O my God, take the gentle path' These lines are
taken from a poem by :
(A) Herbert
(B) Donne
(C) Crashaw
(D) Vaughan

46. 'Epithalamium' is a :
(A) song of mourning
(B) song of eulogy
(C) nuptial song
(D) funeral song

47. The Gutenberg Bible was first

published in:
(A) 1456
(B) 1516
(C) 1449
(D) 1498

48. Identify the odd one out:

(A) Persuasion: Anne Tilney
(B) Northanger Abbey : Catherine Price
(C) Emma : Jane Fairfax
(D) Mansfield Park : Fanny Dean

49. Which among the following is in the

correct chronological sequence?
(A) Sexual Politics - Thinking About Women -
The Second Sex - The Prisoner of Sex
(B) Thinking About Women - The Prisoner
of Sex - Sexual Politics - The Second Sex
(C) The Second Sex - Thinking About
Women - Sexual Politics - The Prisoner of
Sex
(D) The Prisoner of Sex - The Second Sex -
Sexual Politics - Thinking About Women

50. Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan' remains 'a

fragment' because
(A) He was called by Wordsworth who was
living in Porlock at that time
(B) Dorothy Wordsworth was upset over their
love affair
(C) He was interrupted by a caller, a person
on business from Porlock
(D) He ran out of his stock of opium

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DECEMBER 2007 PAPER II Colonel Hutchinson - Milton's Paradise Lost -

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's The
Hind and the Panther
1. The author of The Provok'd Husband
was: (B) Hutchinson's Memoirs - Bunyan's
Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Hind and the
(A) Etherege
Panther- Milton's Paradise Lost
(B) Colley Cibber
(C) Wycherley (C) Milton's Paradise Lost - Bunyan's
Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Hind and the
(D) Vanbrugh
Panther- Hutchinson's Memoirs
(D) Dryden's Hind and the Panther - Bunyan's
2. Who among the boys in Golding's Lord of the
Pilgrim's Progress Hutchinson's Memoirs-
Flies is associated with Christ?
Milton's Paradise Lost
(A) Piggy
(B) Ralph 8. The Little Minister is a novel by:
(C) Jack
(A) John Galsworthy
(D) Simon
(B)H.G. Wells
(C) James M. Barrie
3. The complete title of Laurance Stern's (D)Rudyard Kipling
novel Tristram Shandy is:
(A)The Strange and Surprising Adventures of 9. Which Augustan writer's epitaph reads :
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman “one who strove with all his might to
(B)A True Account of The Life of champion liberty” ?
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
(A) Alexander Pope
(C)The Life and Opinions of (B) Jonathan Swift
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
(C) Henry Fielding
(D)The Strange and Surprising Opinions of (D) Daniel Defoe
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

4. Feminine ending refers to : 10. In which of the following novels incidents

(A) a stressed final syllable in a line of verse relating to the declaration of Emergency in
India in 1975 figure?
(B) the ending of a poem in a stressed (A) Farrukh Dhondy's Bombay Duck
syllable
(B) Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy
(C) the ending of a poem in an unstressed
syllable (C) Upamanyu Chatterjee's English August:
An Indian Story
(D) an unstressed final syllable in a line of (D) Rohinton Mistry's Such Long Journey
verse
11. Identify the matching pair:
5. The essay 'The Death of the Author' is (A) Edward II: Zenocrate
written by:
(C) The Spanish Tragedy: Horatio
(A) Michel Foucault
(B) Jacques Derrida (B) The Jew of Malta : Barabas
(D)Tamburlaine : Gaveston
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Alvin Kernan
6. Salman Rushdie's Shame is set in : 12. The future ruin of Troy and the murder
(A) East Pakistan of Agamemnon are referred to by W.B.
(B) India and Pakistan Yeats in:
(C) Pakistan (A) The Second Coming
(D) None of the above (B) Circus Animals Desertion
(C) When You Are Old
(D) Leda and Swan
7.Choose the correct chronological
sequence in :
(A) Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the life of

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13. Inscape refers to: 20. After Shakespeare made his debut as a
(A) The indwelling presence of God in nature London playwright, he was described as
(B) The universal character of a natural thing an'upstart crow‟ by:
(C) The individuating character of a natural (A) Robert Greene
thing (B) Thomas Lodge
(D) The moment of release from the (C) Christopher Marlowe
material world (D) John Lyly

14. In which of these plays does Edward 21. What was the first play of Mrs.
Albee use the 'success' myth? Dalloway called ?
(A) A Zoo Story (A) Clarissa
(B) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (B) Hours
(C) American Dream (C) The Big Ben
(D) The Death of Bessie Smith (D)The Party

15. “The voice of poetry comes from a 22. Which of the following Caribbean novels
region above us, a plane of our being above and makes intertextual references to Jane Eyre?
beyond our personal intelligence”. (A) No Telephone to Heaven
Who among the following is the author of the (B) Wide Sargasso Sea
above lines? (C) Crick Crack Monkey
(A) Rabindranath Tagore (D) Between Two Worlds
(B) A.K. Coomaraswamy
(C) Sri Aurobindo 23. The term 'metaphysical poets', was first
(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose used by:
(A) Ben Jonson
16. The number of poems in Sidney's sonnet (B) Dr. Johnson
sequence Astrophil and Stella is : (C) Helen Gardner
(A) 99 (D) Dryden
(B) 47
(C) 112 24. “Only connect” is the epigraph to a
(D) 108 novel by:
(A) George Orwell
17. J.M. Coetzee's Foe is a postmodern (B) Joseph Conrad
retelling of: (C) D.H. Lawrence
(A) Ivanhoe (D) E.M. Forster
(B) Evelina
(C) Robinson Crusoe 25. The expression “Thy hand, great
(D) The Moonstone Anarch” occurs in a satire by:
18. Johnson's edition of Shakespeare (A) Dryden
appeared in : (B) Pope
(A) 1752 (C) Johnson
(B) 1765 (D) Swift
(C)1791
(D) 1760 26. In which of the following novels by
Graham Greene does the little girl Brigitta
19.The main character in Gogol's Dead appear?
Souls is : (A) The Heart of the Matter
(A) Oblomov (B) The Power and the Glory
(B) Bazarov (C) Brighton Rock
(C) Alyosha (D) The Quiet American
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27.The author of 'A Satire Against Reason 34.'The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers' is :

and Mankind' is : (A) a poem by William Blake an essay by
(A)Rochester Charles Lamb
(B)Dryden (B) an elegy by William Wordsworth
(C)Gray (C)an essay by Charles Lamb
(D) Swift (D) an essay by William Hazlitt

28.'Anagnorisis' is a term used by Aristotle for 35.The Loneliness of a Long Distance

describing: Runner is a novel by :
(A) the moment of discovery by the (A) Kingsley Amis
protagonist (B) Alan Sillitoe
(B) the reversal of fortune for the protagonist (C) John Braine
(C) the happy resolution of the plot (D) John Osborne
(D) the convergence of the main plot and the
sub plot 36. In 'Black Venus' Angela Carter takes
elements from the poetry of a famous French
29. In which play by Shakespeare do we find poet and places them in a very different
widowed queens questioning the assumptions paradigm. Who is the French poet?
of male politics? (A)Bundelaire
(A) Henry V (B)Mallarme
(B) Richard III (C)Anthony (C)Verlaine
and Cleopatra (D)Apollinaire
(D) Hamlet
37.Strophe, antistrophe and epode form a
30.Which of the following feminist critics three-part structure in :
used the expression 'Gynocriticism'for the (A) a classic ode
first time ? (B) a Greek chorus
(A) Kate Millet (C)a medieval ballad
(B) Simone de Beauvoir (D) a Petrarchan sonnet
(C) Elaine Showalter
(D) Mary Ellmann 38. The words “where are the songs of
spring? Ay, where are they ?” occur in :
31. John Keats's poem 'Ode to a (A) Ode to the West Wind
Nightingale' was composed in: (B) The Seasons
(A) 1818 (C) Ode to Autumn
(B) 1819 (D) Resolution and Independence
(C) 1820
(D) 1821 39.“Music that gentler on the spirit lies than
tired eyelids upon tired eyes” the
32.The Female Quixote was written by : above lines occur in Tennyson's :
(A) Henry Fielding (A) Tears, Idle Tears
(B)Tobias Smollett (B) In Memoriam
(C) Charlotte Lennox (C) Maud
(D) Aphra Behn (D) The Lotus Eaters

33. Which contemporary British poet has 40.Which of the following pairs is correctly
translated Beowulf? matched ?
(A) Thom Gunn (A) Robert Southey: Lady of the Lake
(B) Alan Lewis (B) T.S. Eliot: Lake Isle of Innisfree
(C)Edward Thomas (C) A.C. Swinburne: The Lady of Shallott
(D) Seamus Heaney (D)Thomas De Quincey : Recollections of the

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Lakes and the Lake Poets (B) irony and synecdoche

(C) apostrophe and synecdoche
41. Which famous English novel opens (D) metonymy and apostrophe
with a young woman who is 'handsome,
clever and rich‟? 47. In which of the following American novels
(A) Middlemarch does 'the Valley of Ashes' occur?
(B) Wuthering Heights (A) Huck Finn
(C) Moll Flanders (B) The Red Badge of Courage
(D) Emma (C) Invisible Man
(D) The Great Gatsby
42. It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I
“Milton belongs to the Devil's party without 48. To whom is Chaucer referring when he
knowing it”. Who among the following made says 'He knew the tavern well in every
this statement? town‟?
(A) Frank Kermode (A) Pardoner
(B) William Empson (B) Monk
(C) C.S. Lewis (C) Squire
(D) William Blake (D) Friar

43.Live Like Pigs is : 49. “Poetry is a criticism of life under the

(A) a humorous poem by Pope conditions fixed for such a criticism by laws of
(B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell poetic truth and poetic beauty”.
(C) a play by Arden Who, among the following, made the above
(D) a satirical sketch by Swift statement?
44. 'A woman drew her long black hair out tight (A) Dr. Johnson
And fiddled whisper music on those strings'. (B) Sidney
From which section of Eliot's The Waste (C) Matthew Arnold
Land are the above lines taken? (D) Wordsworth
(A) A Game of Chess
(B) What the Thunder Said 50. “She is inspired but diabolically
(C) Burial of the Dead inspired”. Who is this lady?
(D) Fire Sermon (A) Candida
(B) Major Barbara
45. Which is the correct sequence of (C) Saint Joan
Achebe's African Trilogy? (D) Ann
(A) Things Fall Apart - Arrow of God - No
Longer At Ease
(B) No Longer At Ease - Arrow of God -
Things Fall Apart
(C) Things Fall Apart - No Longer At Ease -
Arrow of God
(D) Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart - No
Longer At Ease

46. Which are the figures of speech used in

the following lines by Blake?
“Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forest of the night, What
immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?”
(A) simile and personification

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JUNE 2008 PAPER II

1. Tennyson's poem about women's rights
and women's sphere is:
(A) Maud
(B) In Memoriam
(C) Idylls of the King
(D) The Princess

2. 'Hymn To Adversity' is a poem by :

(A) Thomas Gray
(B) Edward Gibbon
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) William Blake

3.The King James Bible was published in :

(A) 1609
(B) 1610
(C) 1611
(D) 1612

4.'IL Migilor Fabro' is the expression Eliot

used for:
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Samuel Beckett
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Ezra Pound

5. 'The Figure a poem Makes' is an essay

by:
(A) Henry James
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Wallace Stevens

6. ''Ripeness is all" occurs in:

(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Macbeth
(D) Julius Caeser

7. A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy

was published in:
(A) 1903
(B) 1904
(C) 1905
(D) 1906

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(A) Rhyming iambic pentameter lines

(B) Unrhyming iambic pentameter lines
8. 'Topsy' appears in: (C) Rhyming iambic hexameter
(A) Uncle Tom's Cabin (D) Unrhyming iambic hexameter
(B) History of the United States
(C) Walden 16. 'Gestalt' theory of literature considers
(D) Tom Sawyer text as:
(A) a structure of metaphors
9. A poem that captures the essence of a (B) a unified whole
moment in a simple image is: (C) an experimentation in form
(A) Lyric (D) construction of history
(B) Ballad
(C) Ode 17. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from :
(D) Haiku (A) Australia
(B) The U.S.A.
10. Which of the following Shakespearean (C) Canada
plays are in the correct chronological (D) Britain
sequence?
(A) The Merchant of Venice - Henry IV Part 18.Sartor Resartus is a text by :
I - Romeo and Juliet - Richard II (A) Ruskin
(B) Richard II - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and (B) Arnold
Juliet - The Merchant of Venice (C) Carlyle
(C) Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The (D) Burke
Merchant of Venice - Richard II
(D) Romeo and Juliet -Richard II - Henry IV 19. Who of the following is not a university
Part I - The Merchant of Venice wit?
(A) Webster
11. The word 'nature' in the eighteenth century (B) Robert Greene
literature stands for: (C) Kyd
(A) Nature of writing (D) Marlowe
(B) External nature
(C) Human nature 20. Bosola is a character in a play by:
(D) The Universe (A) Ben Jonson
(B) Webster
12. Who is given credit for first using the (C) Christopher Marlowe
term "romantic"? (D) Thomas Middleton
(A) Friedrich Schlegel
(B) Kant 21. 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to
(C) Coleridge be young was very heaven'. This occurs in a
(D) Schiller poem by :
(A) William Wordsworth
13. Gudrun is a character in a novel by: (B) S. T. Coleridge
(A) James Joyce (C) Byron
(B) Virginia Woolf (D) Shelley
(C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) E. M. Forster 22. A Dance of the Forest is written by:
(A) Margaret Atwood
14. July's People is a novel by: (B) Nadine Gordimer
(A) Margaret Atwood (C) Chinua Achebe
(B) V. S. Naipul (D) Wole Soyinka
(C) Wole Soyinka
(D) Nadine Gordimer

15. Heroic Couplet is a pair of:

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23. The first Canadian poet is: (C) Margaret Drabble

(A) Charles Sangster (D) William Golding
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Charles Heavysege 31. Which of the following author-book
(D) Alexander Machlachlan pair is correctly matched?
(A) Hard Times - George Eliot
24. Heroic quatrain is : (B) Heroes and Hero Worship - Walter Patar
(A) a stanza in blank verse (C) Sourab and Rustom - Matthew Arnold
(B) eight line stanza in iambic hexameter (D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay
(C) four line stanza in iambic pentameter
(D) six line stanza in iambic pentameter 32. The title of William Faulkner's The Sound
and Fury is derived from a play by:
25. 'Bildungsroman' translated literally (A) William Shakespeare
means: (B) Christopher Marlow
(A) Development novel (C) John Webster
(B) Psychological novel (D) Ben Jonson
(C) Autobiographical novel
(D) Campus novel 33. The new humanism school of
philosophy and literary criticism was
26.A book that faithfully renders a young man's popular in America during:
confused images of love and rejection is : (A)1920-1940
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man (B) 1910-1930
(B) Lucky Jim (C)1930-1940
(C) Daisy Miller (D)1900-1910
(D) The brave New World
34.Internal rhyme is :
27. Victorian Age witnessed a clash (A) the basic rhythmic structure of a poem
between: (B) rhyming of two words in alternative lines
(A) faith and reason (C) rhyming of two or more words in the
(B) tradition and modernity same line of poetry
(C) oriental and occidental civilization (D) all the lines of a poem ending with the
(D) romanticism and neo romanticism same line pattern

28. "For gold in Physique is 35. The macabre element in drama was
Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in introduced by :
special" relates to Chavcer''s (A) John Lyly
(A) Friar (B) Marlow
(B) Monk (C) Ben Jonson
(C) Doctor (D) John Webster
(D) Pardoner
36. The line "I am no Prince Hamlet nor was
29. The historical novel began in; meant to be......." appears in T. S. Eliot's
(A) Restoration Period
(B) Augustan Age (A) Gerontion
(C) Victorian Period (B) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
(D) Romantic Period (C) Four Quartets
(D) The Waste-Land
30. The term 'Campus novel' is associated
with: 37. 'Fancy' deals with:
(A) Graham Green (A) Fixities and definities
(B) Kingsley Amis (B) Imagination and Reason

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(C) Judgement and Memory

(D) Structure and Superstructure 45. The Tale of Two Cities has :
(A) a sentimental buffoon with a moral
38. Swift's Modest proposal is written in purpose
the form of a : (B) a courageous lady in pain
(A) Project in political economy Social Satire (C) an optimist on verge of collapse
(B) Political allegory (D) a romantic hero with a weakness
(C) Social Satire
(D) Old-Testament history 46. Sheridan's first play was:
(A) The Rivals
39. The main idea of Pope's The Dunciad (B) School for Scandal
was taken from : (C) St. Patrick's Day
(A) Absalom and Achitophel (D) A Trip to Scarborough
(B) Mac-Flecknoe
(C) The Medal 47. Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot of:
(A) loss of moral purpose
40. Which of the following is not a (B) excess of emotion
Browning's work ? (C) excess of reason
(A) Dramatic Lyrics Men and Women (D) loss of human feelings
(B) Dramatic Personae
(C) Men and Women 48. Which of the following novel-novelist
(D) The Palace of Art pair is correctly matched?
(A) Bhabani Bhattacharya - All About H.
41. The most obvious feature of Johnson's Hatter
The Lines of the Poets is the equipoise (B) Nayantara Sahgal - Cry, the Peacock
between: (C) Bhagwandas Gidwani - A Bend in the
(A) Language and form Ganges
(B) Style and content (D) Arun Joshi - The Appreutice
(C) Biography and criticism
(D) Myth and archetype 49. The Indian English poet who addressed the
question 'of time' in his poetry is :
42. "The Kelson of creation is love". The (A) Nissim Ezeikel
line occurs in Walt Whitman‟s: (B) R. Parthsarathy
(A) Paumonak (C) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) Passage to India (D) Gieve Patel
(C) O Captain, My Captain
(D) Song of Myself 50. Symbolist movement was influenced by
:
43. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately (A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe
associated in his personal life ? (B) Stephane Mallarme's Poetry
(A) Boswell (C) Prose of Emerson
(B) Dryden (D) Ezra Pound's Cantos
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) Lord Bolingbroke

44. The early religious drama is associated

with :
(A) Superstitions and beliefs
(B) Mysteries and histories
(C) Interludes and mysteries
(D) Miracles and morality

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DECEMBER 2008 PAPER II

1. The Victorian period refers to the reign of

Queen Victoria of England during:
(A) 1830 - 1890
(B) 1837 - 1905
(C) 1837 - 1901
(D) 1850 – 1910

2. The Rambler appeared every :

(A) Tuesday and Saturday
(B) Sunday and Wednesday
(C) Friday and Monday
(D) Thursday and Monday

3. "Tottel's Miscellany” contained:

(A) 30 sonnets
(C) 50 sonnets
(B) 40 sonnets
(D) 60 sonnets

4.'Imagism' is associated with:

(A) T. S. Fliot
(C) E. E. Cummings
(B) D. H. Lawrence
(D) T. E. Hulme

5. The title Things Fall Apart is drawn

from a poem by:
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Robert Lowell

6. 'Formal Criticism' relates to the

structure of :
(A) Literary devices
(B) Myths
(C) Content
(D) Form

7. A 'Foot' in prosody is a basic unit of :

(A) rhyme
(B) length
(C) rhythmic measurement
(D) height

8. Who of the following is known for

aphoristic prose style?
(A) William Hazlitt
(B) Francis Bacon

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(C) mechanizations of politics

(D) simplicity of lower-class
(C) John Ruskin
(D) G. K. Chesterton 16. Heptameter consists of:
(A) five metrical feet
9. The confessions of an English Opium (B) six metrical feet
Eater was written by: (C) seven metrical feet
(A) William Hazlitt (D) eight metrical feet
(B) S. T. Coleridge
(C) Landor 17. In formalistic school of criticism art is:
(D) De Quincey (A) entertainment
(B) preaching
10. Ireland emerges as the most important (C) matter
metaphor in: (D) style
(A) Seamus Heaney
(B) Elizabeth Jennigs 18. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance
(C) Arnold Wesker Runner is a novel by :
(D) Edward Albee (A) Alan Sillitoe
(B) Paul Scott
11. Which of the following Shakespearean plays is (C) Peter Porter
in the correct chronological order? (D) Muriel Spark
(A) King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado..., Troilus
and Cressida 19. 'Rugby Chapel' is a poem by Matthew
(B) Much Ado..., Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus Arnold in the memory of his:
and Cressida (A) mother
(C) Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Hamlet, (B) brother
Much Ado... (C) father
(D) Hamlet, Much Ado..., King Lear, Troilus (D) sister
and Cressida
20. The earliest woman novelist of
12. The major contribution of the significance in the 18th century is:
Restoration period is in the field of: (A)Mary Edgeworth
(A) Philosophical writings (B) Aphra Behn
(B) Poetry (C) Mary Russell
(C) Drama (D) Mrs Gaskell
(D) Letters
21. 'Cut is the branch that might have grown full
13. The correct chronological order of the straight' is a line that occurs in:
following poets is: (A) Dr Faustus
(A) Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott (B) Hamlet
(B) Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron (C) Macbeth
(C) Keats, Byron, Walter Scott, Shelley (D) The Spanish Tragedy
(D) Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats
22. Pope's 'Essay on Man' can best be read as
14. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel a poem of:
by: (A) classical understanding of nature
(A) Virginia Woolf (B) anti-romantic view of life
(B) E. M. Forster (C) sociological estimate of man
(C) D. H. Lawrence (D) philosophical apprehension of life
(D) James Joyce
23. The term 'Victorian' evokes the
15. The plays of Edward Albee deal with: attitudes of:
(A) problems of middle-class
(B) hypocracy of aristocracy

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meaning
(A) philistinism (C) beliefs determine meaning
(B) moral earnestness (D) a style is the hallmark of the text
(C) licentiousness
(D) transcendentalism 31. Which of the following author-book
pair is correctly matched ?
24. Larry slate is a character in: (A) Walter Pater - Unto This Last
(A) Desire Under the Elms (B) Browning - The Ring and the Book
(B) The Emperor Jones (C) M. Arnold - Idylls of the King
(C) The Iceman Cometh (D) Thackray - Bleak House
(D) Hairy Ape
32. 'Myth Criticism' focuses on:
25. 'Iambus' is a metrical foot consisting (A) a study of myths and mythology
of: (B) archetypes of spiritual experience
(A) two syllables (C) recurrence of archetypal patterns
(B) three syllables (D) the confluence of different traditions
(C) four syllables
(D) one syllable 33. The phrase disassociation of sensibility
was first used by:
26. The lines ''Not that he wished is greatness (A) Philip Sydney
to create / For politicians neither love nor (B) T. S. Eliot
hate,'' occur in : (C) John Dryden
(A) The Rape of the Lock (D) Mathew Arnold
(B) Abslam and Achitophel
(C) Mac Flecknoe 34. An Idyll is usually a poem about a :
(D) Essay on man (A) picturesque city life
(B) panoramic view of nature
27. 11,396 definitions of romanticism were (C) picture of industrial society
given by : (D) picturesque country life
(A) Friedrich Schlegel
(B) Victor Hugo 35. 'The Lost Generation' refers to the generation
(C) Edger Allan Poe that came to maturity in the :
(D) F. L. Lucas (A) 1920s
(B) 1930s
28. The term 'a stream of consciousness' is (C) 1910s
derived from the writing of: (D) 1940s
(A) Mary Sinclair
(B) Dorothy Richardson 36. The French Revolution had a
(C) William James significant impact on:
(D) Gertrude Stein (A) Victorian Literature
(B) Romantic Literature
29. Sean O' Casey's Juno and the Paycock (C) Neo-classic Literature
is: (D) Modern Literature
(A) a romantic comedy
(B) a historical tragedy 37. In which poem does the following line
(C) a mythical reconstruction appear ? ''Our birth is but a sleep and
(D) a tragi-comedy aforgetting.'' :
(A) "Michael"
30. The 'Reader-Response Theory' implies (B) "Immortality Ode"
that: (C) "Rejection : An Ode"
(A) there is no one correct meaning of the (D) "Tintern Abbey"
text
(B) the readers of an age construct the

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38. Tale of a Tub is about:

(A) Warring political factions
(B) Struggling lower-class people 45.The most important of the 'evolutionists'
(C) Controversial philosophical documents during the Victorian period was :
(D)Contending religious parties (A) Erasmus Darwin
(B) Robert Chambers
39. Congreve's The way of the world ends (C) Charles Darwin
with: (D) Alfred Russell Wallace
(A) a dance party
(B) punishment of Lady Wishfort 46. A philosophical attitude pervading much
(C) sending of Mr Fainall to prison of modern literature is:
(D) reconciliation of Petulant Whitwood (A) Absurdism
(B) Dadaism
40. On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim, (C) Imagism
"O, father, surely that is a spirit. Lord! How it (D) Surrealism
looks about ?"
(A) Caliban 47. The term 'magic realism' was first
(B) Ferdinand introduced by:
(C) Alonso (A) Hannah Arendt
(D) Stephano (B) Franz Roh
(C) Jean Arp
41. Secular influences on the early English (D) Peter Behrens
drama were :
(A) political squabbles, religious sermons and 48. The Indian English novelist who, for the first
social customs time, addressed the question of language and
(B) rural politicking, hypocracy of the elite indigenous experience was:
and falsity of aristocracy (A) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) village festivals, folk plays and minstrels (B) R K Narayan
(D) middle-class life, moral beliefs and (C) Arun Joshi
uprising of the subaltans (D) Raja Rao

42. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress 49. G. V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr is
was written while he was: written in the :
(A) in prison (A) stream-of- consciousness mode
(B) on a pilgrimage (B) first person narrative mode
(C) on a social mission (C) picaresque mode
(D) in a church (D) naturalistic mode

43. In Juvenalian satire the speaker is: 50. The rhyme scheme of the
(A) a political orator Shakespearean sonnet is :
(B) a propagandist (A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(C) a social revolutionary (B) abba, cddc, effe, gg
(D) a serious moralist (C) abab, cdcd, efef, gh
(D) aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg
44. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice most
clearly shows the influence of :
(A) Fielding Smollett
(B) Richardson
(C) Smollett
(D) Sterne

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1. In a 1817 review of Coleridge's Biographia
Literaria, Francis Jeffrey coined the term 'Lake
School of Poets' grouping...

(A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe

(B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron
(C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

2.'I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I knew

you in this dark...' The above lines are taken
from...
(A) "The Soldier"
(B) "Dulce et Decorum Est"
(C) "To His Dead Body"
(D) "Strange Meeting"

3. Below are two sets of texts one of which has

inspired the other. Match the text with its
inspiration:
(i) Coral Island
(ii) The Odyssey
(iii) The Mahabharat
(iv) Jane Eyre
(v) The Great Indian Novel
(vi) Wide Sargasso Sea
(vii) Omeroos
(viii) Lord of the Flies

(A) (i) - (v), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (viii), (iv) - (vi)

(B) (iv) - (vii), (iii) – (vi), (i) - (viii), (ii) - (v)
(C) (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi), (i) - (vii), (ii) - (viii)
(D) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi)

4. "His life was gentle and the elements So

mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, 'This was a man !'"
Who is the speaker, and about whom is this
spoken?
(A) Enobarbus on Antony
(B) Brutus on Caesar
(C) Cleopatra on Antony
(D) Marc Antony on Caesar

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5. "When my love swears that she is made of irrational and primitive.

truth/I do believe her, though I know she lies". The (iii) The Europeans used the East
author of these lines is... oppositionally to define their self-image as
(A) Philip Sidney rational and modern.
(B) Edmund Spenser (iv) The Oriental people used the West
(C) Christopher Marlowe oppositionally to define their self-image as
(D) William Shakespeare rational and modern.

6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge (A) (iii)

was notably influenced by... (B) (iv)
(A) The Napoleonic Wars (C) (i) and (iv)
(B) The Glorious Revolution (D) (ii) and (iii)
(C) The French Revolution
(D) Poor Laws 12. Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical
periodization often has nothing to do with the
7. "Great wits are sure to madness near allied And lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers born
thin partitions do their bounds divide". The above in the same year belonging to two separate
lines appear in... periods.
(A) Mac Flecknoe Reasoning/ (R): Thomas Carlyle and John
(B) Absalom and Achitophel Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary
(C) Essay on man histories,
(D) Alexander's Feast Example: Keats is a Romantic and Carlyle, a
Victorian.
8. Who among the following developed the (A) (AST) and (R) are correct
term strategic essentialism? (B) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect
(A) Edward Said (C) (AST) and (R) are incorrect
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (D) (R) does not follow from (AST)
(C) Homi Bhabha
(D) Aijaz Ahmed 13. Everyman is...
(A) a medieval play based on an episode from
9. David Malouf's An Imaginary Life is a the Bible
retelling of the story of: (B) a medieval morality play
(A) Aristotle (C) a Tudor interlude
(B) Juvenal (D) a miracle play
(C) Ovid
(D) Horace 14. Which of the following sets would you
call the poets of the Movement ?
10. Jabberwocky is a character in.... (A) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John
(A) The Importance of Being Earnest Wain
(B) Fra Lippo Lippi (B) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen
(C) Through the Looking Glass Spender
(D) Goblin Market (C) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra
Pound
11. Which of the following statements is the (D) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony
most accurate regarding Edward Said's thesis in Thwaite
Orientalism ?
15.Doris Lessing's interest in __________ is
(i) The Europeans used the East dialectically widely recognized :
to describe their self-image as irrational and (A) Hinduism
primitive. (B) Sufism
(ii) The Oriental people used the West (C)Zen
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(A) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (iv); (vii) - (ii); (v) - (vi)

(B) (iii) - (viii); (i) - (iv); (iii) - (ii);(v) - (ii)
16. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way of (C) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (viii); (v) - (iv); (vii) - (ii)
speech/writing, is also known as... (D) (v) - (vi); (i) - (viii); (iii) - (ii); (vii) – (iv)
(A) synecdoche
(B) allusion 22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is a
(C) understatement series of reflections on:
(D) circumlocution (A) Jazz music
(B) Disability sports
17. Arrange the following in chronological (C) Whiteness and the literary imagination
order... (D) Black American folklore
(I) The death of Shakespeare
(ii) Accession of James I to the English 23. "He's not the brightest man in the
throne world" is an example of:
(iii) Caxton and the printing press (A) Chiasmus
(iv) The Norman Conquest of England (B) Hyperbole
(C) Litotes
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) (D) Simile
(B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(C) (iii) (iv) (I) (ii) 24. The term 'horizon of expectations' is
(D) (iv) (iii) (I) (ii) associated with...
(A) Wolfgang Iser
18. “The Muse of History” is a classic (B) Stanley Fish
postcolonial essay by: (C) Harold Bloom
(A) Ngugi wa Thiongo (D) H.R. Jauss
(B) Chinua Achebe
(C) Wilson Harris 25. The following writers have something in
(D) Derek Walcott common: What is it?

19. "Do I contradict myself ? Very well then, I Mary Seacole J.A. Froude
contradict myself, (I am large, I contain Mary Kingsley Anthony Trollope
multitudes.)" The above lines are from...
(A) Walt Whitman (I) They are all victorians
(B) Edgar Allan Poe (ii) They are all writers of children's fiction
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson (iii) They are all members of one literary
(D) John Greenleaf Whittier guild
(iv) They are all travel writers
20. Verses on the Death of Dr Swift was
written by... (A) (i) and (ii)
(A) Jonathan Swift (B) (iii) and (iv)
(B) Alexander Pope (C) ii) and (iv)
(C) Samuel Johnson (D) (i) and (iv)
(D) James Boswell
26. The immediate source of Christopher
21. Match the following elegies with the persons Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is...
for whom they were writte (A) A French narrative
(B) A Dutch narrative
(i) Lycidas (ii)Arthur Hugh Clough (C) A German narrative
(iii)Adonais (iv) A.H. Hallam (D) None of the above
(v) In Memoriam (vi) Edward King
(vii) Thyrsis (viii) Keats

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33. Understanding Poetry used to be a

27. Who among the following were classic textbook that encapsulates the
associated with the Irish Dramatic principles of ...
Movement ? (A) New Historicism
(A) Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge (B) New Aristotelianism
(B) Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. (C) New Criticism
Shaw (D) The New Left
(C) W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw
(D) W.B. Yeats, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Seamus 34. What century is variously called The Age
Heaney of Enlightenment, The Age of Sensibility, The
Augustan Age and The Age of Prose and
28. The term diaspora was originally applied Reason?
to the following ethnic group: (A) sixteenth century
(A) Jews (B) seventeenth century
(B) Muslims (C) eighteenth century
(C) Hindus (D) nineteenth century
(D) French Canadians
35. What is common to the following
29. Who among the following is NOT a poems?
'University Wit' ? Wordsworth's 'The Recluse'
(A) Christopher Marlowe Shelley's 'The Triumph of Life'
(B) George Peele Byron's 'Don Juan'
(C) Robert Greene Keats' 'Hyperion'
(D) Ben Jonson
(A) They are all elegies
30. When a person has a wooden leg, we are (B) They are all unfinished poems
apt to say, 'He has a wooden leg'. Now this (C) They are all divided into cantos
wooden leg is... (D) They are women-centred poems
(i) literal
(ii) metaphorical 36. Who among the following called the
(iii) ambiguous novel 'the bright book of life' ?
(iv) neither literal nor metaphorical (A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) James Joyce
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct (C) Virginia Woolf
(B) (i) is correct (D) Aldous Huxley
(C) (ii) is correct
(D) (iii) and (iv) are correct 37. "Ripeness is all'' is a line from...
(A) Hamlet
31. Prosody studies: (B) King Lear
(A) Line endings (C) Othello
(B) Meanings of words (D) Macbeth
(C) Patterns of prose
(D) Metrics 38. U.R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara was
translated by...
32. Which of the following is a major (A) Himself
Jacobean play? (B) Girish Karnad
(A) Everyman (C) H.S. Shivaprakash
(B) Gorboduc (D) A.K. Ramanujan
(C) Romeo and Juliet
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45. The Globe Theatre opened in:

39. Abel Whittle is a character in: (A) 1585
(A) The Return of the Native (B) 1593
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge (C) 1599
(C) Far from the Madding Crowd (D) 1603
(D) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Read the following passage carefully, and select
40. In which eclogue of The Shepheardes the right answers from the alternatives given
Calender does Spenser praise Queen Elizabeth below in the questions 46 to 50:
I?
(A)January We need to begin by casting doubt on the
(B) April legitimacy of the notion of literature. The mere
(C) August fact that the word exists, or that an academic
(D)November institution has been built around it, does not
mean that the thing itself is self-
41. Which of the following is NOT the evident. Reasons perfectly empirical ones, to
opening of the well-known Romantic begin with are not hard to find. The full history
poem? of the word literature and its equivalents in all
(A) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness languages and all eras has yet to be written, but
pains/ My sense even a perfunctory look at the question makes
(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit! it clear that the term has not been around
(C) Margaret are you grieving/Over Golden forever. In the European languages, the word
grove unleaving? literature in its current sense is quite recent: it
(D) The world is too much with us dates back just barely to the nineteenth century.
Might we be dealing with a historical
42.Politics and the English Language is an phenomenon rather than an 'eternal' one?
essay by : Moreover, many languages (many African
(A) F.R. Leavis languages, for example) have no generic term
(B) Terry Eagleton covering all literary productions. To these initial
(C) George Orwell observations we may add the fragmentation
(D) Raymond Williams characteristic of literature today. Who dares
specify what literature is and what is not, given
43. 'The mind-forged manacles' is phrase the irreducible variety of the writing that tends
from: to be attached to it, from vastly different
(A) „„London‟‟ perspectives?
(B) ''Eternity''
(C) "A Poison Tree" The argument is not conclusive: a notion
(D) "I Asked a Thief" may legitimately exist even if there is no specific
term in the lexicon for it. But we have been led
44. "He is not fully recognized at home; he is not to cast the first shadow of doubt over the
recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly believe that the 'naturalness' of literature. A theoretical
poetical performance of examination of the problem proves no more
__________ is, after that of Shakespeare reassuring. Where do we come by the
and Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in conviction that there is indeed such a thing as
our language." To whom does Matthew Arnold literature? From experience, we study 'literary'
refer in the above statement ? works in school, then in college; we find the
(A) Edmund Spenser 'literary' type of book in specialized stores; we
(B) John Keats are in the habit of referring to 'literary' authors
(C) William Wordsworth in everyday conversation. An entity called
(D) S.T. Coleridge 'literature'

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functions at the level of intersubjective and legitimacy than an 'eternal' one.

social relations; this much seems beyond (C) A historical phenomenon can be debated
question. Fine. But what have we proved? That and possibly settled while an 'eternal' one must
in the broader system of a given society or be taken on trust or not at all.
culture, an identifiable element exists that is (D) historical phenomenon is well above
known by the label literature. Have we thereby disputation while an 'eternal' one is not.
demonstrated that all the particular products
that take on the function of 'literature' possess 50.What does 'the fragmentation
common characteristics, which we can identify characteristic of literature today' suggest to
with legitimac? Not at all. the writer ?
(A) the fragmentation of modern
46. This passage casts doubt on: consciousness.
(A) the assumption called literature. (B) the divided perceptions of literature by its
(B) the idea of literature. readers.
(C) the institution of literature. (C) the lack of specificity of literature.
(D) the notion of literature. (D) the blur that frustrates further
investigation into this concept.
47. Literature is unsustainable because:...
(A) we are unclear as to what it means.
(B) we are unsure as to its message.
(C) we are not persuaded that the claims
made for it are allowable and acceptable.
(D) we cannot prove that its definitions are
the right and the only possible ones.

48. How does the writer argue that the

existence of literature is hardly self-evident?
(i) by citing reasons for its non-existence.
(ii) by citing reasons for interrogating its
legitimacy.
(iii) by citing reasons and proving by
argument that its legitimacy can be
interrogated.
(iv) by citing reasons to show that the label
does not match the thing we know to be
literature.

(A) (i)
(B) (i) and (ii)
(C) (iii)
(D) (iii) and (iv)

49. "Might we be dealing with a historical

phenomenon rather than an 'eternal' one"? What
makes this a reasonable question to consider in this
context?
(A) A historical phenomenon lends itself to
better empirical verification than an 'eternal'
one.
(B) A historical phenomenon has more

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DECEMBER 2009 PAPER II

1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson's
Volpone is
(A) Juvenal
(B) Aristophanes
(C) Plautus
(D) Terence

2. Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" is

addressed to
(A) The American imperial mission in the
Philippines.
(B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the
Congo.
(C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.
(D) The British colonial entry into
Afghanistan.

3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was

founded by Harriet Monroe in
(A) 1922
(B) 1920
(C) 1918
(D) 1912

4. Who among the following was Geoffrey

Chaucer's contemporary?
(A) Thomas Chatterton
(B) John Gower
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) John Gay

5. Which of the following is NOT written

by Walter Scott?
(A) Ivanhoe
(B) Lady of the Lake
(C) Heart of Midlothian
(D) The English Mail Coach

6. "Provincializing Europe" is a concept

propounded by
(A) Edward Said
(B) Paul Gilroy
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah
(D) Dipesh Chakravarty

7. The earliest tract on feminism is

(A) Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
(B) Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
(C) Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of

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the Rights of Woman 14. Who among the following is associated with
(D) Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the the ideology of Utilitarianism?
Ladies (A) J.A. Froude
(B) Charles Kingsley
8. Match the imaginary location with its (C) J.S. Mill
creator: (D) Cardinal Newman
1. Emily Bronte 2. Thomas Hardy
3. Lowood Parsonage 4. Charles Dickens 15. The 'Condition of England' literature
5. Wessex 6. Egdon Heath refers to
7. Coketown 8. Charlotte Bronte (A) The literature written by the labour class.
(B) The literature of England extolling living
(A) 1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8 conditions.
(B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7 (C) The literature of England depicting the
(C) 1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7 vulnerability of labour classes.
(D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8 (D) The literature of England depicting the
imperial projects abroad.
9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante's
The Divine Comedy? 16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for
(A) The Canterbury Tales Poetry in immediate response to
(B) The Book of the Duchess (A) Plato's Republic
(C) The House of Fame (B) Aristotle's Poetics
(D) Legend of Good Women (C) Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse
(D) Jeremy Collier's Immorality and
10. Essays of Elia was published in Profaneness of the English Stage.
(A) 1800
(B) 1823 17. Silence! The Court is in Session is a
(C) 1827 _________ play translated into English.
(D) 1850 (A) Gujarati
(B) Bengali
11. Which of the following is an example of (C) Marathi
homosexual fiction? (D) Kannada
(A) The Well of Loneliness
(B) Maurice 18. Arrange the following in ascending
(C) Orlando order in terms of size:
(D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol 1. epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. Sonnet

12. W.B. Yeat's "Easter 1916" is (A) 1234

(A) a response to a major political uprising (B) 2134
(B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery (C) 2341
school (D) 1342
(C) a love poem for Maud Gonne
(D) an ode to his native country 19. "Fail I alone in words and deeds? /Why, all
men strive and who succeeds?" These lines are
13. William Empson's Seven Types of from
Ambiguity is (A) "Rabbi Ben Ezra"
(A) A structuralist study of narrative (B) "Fra Lippo Lippi"
(B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism (C) "Caliban upon Setebos"
(C) A study of the media (D) "The Last Ride Together"
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20. Dr. Johnson's "The Vanity of Human Codes :

Wishes" expresses (A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8
(A) Epicureanism (B) 2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6
(B) Humanism (C) 3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7
(C) Stoicism (D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8
(D) Cynicism
27. Who among the following writers
21. "A trivial comedy for serious people" belonged to the American Beat Movement?
was the subtitle for (A) Allen Ginsberg
(A) Everyman in His Humour (B) Mark Beard
(B) Blythe Spirit (C) Isaac McCaslih
(C) The Way of the World (D) Charles Beard
(D) The Importance of Being Earnest.
28. "The Lost Generation" is a name
22. Which famous elegy closes with the applied to the disillusioned intellectuals
following lines? and aesthetes of the years following the
"In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing First World War. Who called them "The
fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/ Lost Generation"?
Teach the free man how to praise." (A) H.L. Mencken
(A) In Memoriam (B) Willa Cather
(B) Thyrsis (C) Jack London
(C) "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" (D) Gertrude Stein
(D) "Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot"
29. Hyperbole is
23. The Temple is a collection of poems by 1. an extravagant exaggeration
(A) Thomas Carew 2. a racist slur
(B) Robert Herrick 3. a metrical skill
(C) George Herbert 4. a figure of speech
(D) Richard Crashaw
(A) 1 is correct
24. Ben Jonson's comedies are (B) 1 and 4 are correct
(A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The (C) 1 and 3 are correct
Shoemaker's Holiday (D) 3 is correct
(B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene
(C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of 30. "Imagined Communities" is a concept
the Burning Pestle propounded by
(D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker's (A) Benedict Anderson
Holiday (B) Homi Bhabha
(C) Aijaz Ahmed
25. What is 'L' Allegro's' companion piece (D) Partha Chatterjee
called?
(A) Lamia 31. The New Historicists include
(B) Hyperion (A) Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose
(C) Il Penseroso (B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler
(D) Thyrsis (C) Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg
(D) Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey
26. Match the character with the novel :
1. Caddy 2. Lennie 32. Wallace Stevens' "The Man with the
3. Jake Barnes 4. Tommy Wilhelm Blue Guitar" may be linked to the work of
5. The Sound and the Fury 6. Of Mice and the following artist:
Men (A) Modigliani
7. The Sun Also Rises 8. Seize the Day (B) Chagall

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Tristram Shandy
(B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy,
(C) Picasso Pamela, Moll Flanders
(D) Cezanne (C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela,
Joseph Andrews
33. The author of Gender Trouble is (D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews,
(A) Elaine Showalter Tristram Shandy
(B) Helene Cixous
(C) Michele Barrett 39. "How can what an Englishman believes be
(D) Judith Butler heresy? It is a contradiction in terms." This
means
34. The structural analysis of signs was 1. An Englishman does not know what heresy
practised by is.
(A) Michel Foucault 2. An Englishman has no beliefs.
(B) Jacques Lacan 3. And, therefore, there is no question of his
(C) Julia Kristeva heresy.
(D) Roland Barthes 4. And, therefore, there cannot be
any question of his acting his beliefs.
35. Which of the following is a spoof of a
Gothic novel? (A) 1 and 4 are correct
(A) Frankenstein (B) 2 and 1 are correct
(B) Northanger Abbey (C) 1 and 3 are correct
(C) Castle of Otranto (D) 2 and 4 are correct
(D) Mysteries of Udolfo
40. Which of the following is an essentially
36. The "madwoman in the attic" is a Freudian concept?
specific reference to (A) Archetype
(A) The narrator of "Goblin Market" (B) The Uncanny
(B) Augusta Egg's 1858 narrative painting (C) The Absurd
(C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper (D) The Imaginary
(D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre
41. He wrote an essay called "Conrad's
37. Assertion (A):Dr Johnson's The Lives of Darkness" where he praises the earlier writer
the Poets carries for offering him a vision of the world's "half-
critical and biographical made societies'. Identify the writer.
studies of poets he (A) Chinua Achebe
admired. It does not, (B) V.S. Naipaul
however, (C) Salman Rushdie
carry a life of William (D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
Wordsworth.
Reason (R): Dr. Johnson singled out poets 42. "Magic Realism" is closely associated
whom he not only admired but with
also (A) Italo Calvino
adored. This explains his (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
omission of Wordsworth. (C) Anita Desai
(D) Rohinton Mistry
Correct.
(B) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(C) (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.

38. What is the correct chronological

sequence of the following?
(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews,

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example, in contemporary Britain there are

43. Who among the following combines discourses which can be labeled 'conservative'
anthropology, history and fiction? – that is, discourses which emphasize values
(A) Kamala Markandya and meanings where the status quo is
(B) Mulk Raj Anand cherished: and there are discourses which can
(C) Upmanyu Chatterjee be labeled 'patriarchal' – that is, discourses
(D) Amitav Ghosh which emphasize meanings and values which
assume the superiority of males. Dominant
44. Which of the following is NOT a discourses such as these appear 'natural': they
Partition novel? are powerful precisely because they are able to
(A) Train to Pakistan make invisible the fact that they are just one
(B) Sunlight on a Broken Column among many different discourses.
(C) The Shadow Lines
(D) In Custody Theorizing language in this way is still new in
linguistics (to the extent that many linguists
45. Which of the following options is would not regard analysis in terms of discourses
correct? as being part of linguistics). One of the
advantages of talking about discourses rather
(i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical than about language is that the concept'
and literary movement. discourse' acknowledges the value-laden nature
(ii) It flourished in the Southern States of of language. There is no neutral discourse:
America in the 19th century. whenever we speak we have to choose between
(iii) It was a reaction against 18th century different systems of meaning, different sets of
rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of values. This process allows us to show how
Locke. language is implicated in our construction of
(iv) Among the major texts of different 'selves': different discourses position
Transcendentalist thought are the essays of us in different ways in relation to the world.
Emerson,Thoreau's Walden and the writings
of Margaret Fuller. Questions:

(A) (i) and (iv) are correct. 46. Which of the following is True in the
(B) (ii) and (iii) are correct. light of this passage?
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct. (A) Language is inaccurate.
(D) (iv) is correct (B) Discourse is accurate.
(C) Language comprises discourse.
Read the following passage carefully, and select (D) Discourse comprises language.
the right answers from the alternatives given
below in the question 46 to 50: 47. What words/phrases suggest the plurality of
discourse in this passage?
It would be more accurate to say that discourse, I. different selves
rather than language, plays a crucial part in II. range
structuring our experience. The whole idea of III. system of statements IV.
'language' is something of a fiction: what we heterogeneous collection
normally refer to as 'language' can more
realistically be seen as heterogeneous collection (A) II and IV
of discourses. Each of us has access to a range (B) II and III
of discourses, and it is these different discourses (C) III and IV
which give us access to, or enable us to perform, (D) I
different 'selves'. A discourse can be
conceptualized as a 'system of statements which
cohere around common meanings and values'.
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48. Having called language "something of a

fiction", how does the author suggest its
opposite?
By using the phrase
(A) conceptualized as a system
(B) more accurate to say
(C) range of discourses
(D) more realistically be seen

49. Which among the following statements is

NOT true?
(A) Conservative discourses plead for the
status quo.
(B) Patriarchal discourses privilege male
values.
(C) Dominant discourses are natural.
(D) Dominant discourses seem natural.

50. What does this passage plead for?

(A) Theorizing language in a new way.
(B) Theorizing language in terms of
discourses.
(C) Studying language as discourse.
(D) Studying discourse as language

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JUNE 2010 PAPER II

1. The epithet "a comic epic in prose" is 7. The famous line ".. Where ignorant
best applied to armies clash by night" is taken from a
(A) Richardson's Pamela poem by
(B) Sterne's A Sentimental Journey (A) Wilfred Owen
(B) W.H. Auden
(C) Fielding's Tom Jones
(C) Siegfried Sassoon
(D) Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
(D) Matthew Arnold
2. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian
novel called 8. Which among the following novels is not
(A) Memento Mori written by Margaret Atwood ?
(A) Surfacing
(B) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(B) The Blind Assassin
(C) Robinson
(C) The Handmaid's Tale
(D) The Ballad of Peckham Rye
(D) The Stone Angel
3. Samuel Butler's Erewhon is an example
of 9. The term 'theatre of cruelty' was coined by
(A) Feminist Literature (A) Robert Brustein
(B) Utopian Literature (B) Antonin Artaud
(C) War Literature (C) Augusto Boal
(D) Famine Literature (D) Luigi Pirandello

4. The line "moments of unageing 10. The verse form of Byron's Childe
intellect" occurs in Yeats's Harold was influenced by
(A) Byzantium (A) Milton
(B) Among School Children (B) Spenser
(C) Sailing to Byzantium (C) Shakespeare
(D) The Circus Animals' Desertion (D) Pope

11. Tennyson's Ulysses is

5. In his 1817 review of Coleridge's
Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey (I) a poem expressing the need for going
forward and braving the struggles of life
grouped the following poets together as the
(II) a dramatic monologue
'Lake School of Poets‟:
(A) Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge (III) a morbid poem
(B) Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge (IV) a poem making extensive use of satire
(C) Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge The right combination for the above
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey statement, according to the code, is

(A) I&IV
6. Which of the following novels is not by
Patrick White? (B) II and III
(A) The Vivisector (C) III and IV
(B) The Tree of Man (D) I and II
(C) Voss
(D) Oscar and Lucienda 12. Which post-war British poet was
involved in a disastrous marriage with
Sylvia Plath ?
(A) Philip Larkin
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Stevie Smith
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13. Chaucer's Parliament of Fowles is in 19. Which of the following author book
part pair is correctly matched?
(I) a puzzle (II) a (A) Muriel Spark – Under the Net
debate (III) a (B) William Golding – Girls of Slender
threnody (IV) a Means
beast fable (C) Angus Wilson – Lucky Jim
(D) Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing
The correct combination for the above
statement, according to the code, is 20. Who among the following is a Canadian
(A) I,II&IV critic?
(B) II, III & IV (A) I.A. Richards
(C) I&IV (B) F.R. Leavis
(D) II&IV (C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Northrop Frye
14. Who among the following wrote a book
with the title The Age of Reason? 21. Sethe is a character in
(A) William Godwin (A) The Colour Purple
(B) Edmund Burke (B) The Women of Brewster Place
(C) Thomas Paine (C) Beloved
(D) Edward Gibbon (D) Lucy

15. The Restoration comedy has been 22. Imagined Communities is a book by
criticized mainly for its (A) Aijaz Ahmad
(A) excessive wit and humour (B) Edward Said
(B) bitter satire and cynicism (C) Perry Anderson
(C) indecency and permissiveness (D) Benedict Anderson
(D) superficial reflection of society
23. Who among the following is a Cavalier
16. Ideology and Ideological State poet ?
Apparatuses is an essay by (A) Henry Vaughan
(A) Terry Eagleton (B) Richard Crashaw
(B) Karl Marx (C) John Suckling
(C) Raymond Williams (D) Anne Finch
(D) Louis Althusser
24. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle, A
17. Sexual possessiveness is a theme of Trivial Comedy for Serious People?
Shakespeare's (A) A Woman of No Importance
(A) Coriolanus (B) Lady Windermere's Fan
(B) Julius Caesar (C) The Importance of Being Earnest
(C) Henry IV Part – I (D) An Ideal Husband
(D) A Midsummer Night's Dream
25. Which of the following plays is not
18. The term 'Cultural Materialism' is written by Wole Soyinka ?
associated with (A) The Lion and the Jewel
(A) Stephen Greenblatt (B) The Dance of the Forests
(B) Raymond Williams (C) Master Harold and the Boys
(C) Matthew Arnold (D) Kongi's Harvest
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26. Which of the following plays by William 33. Which among the following is not a
Wycherley is in part an adaptation of Moliere's The sonnet sequence?
Misanthrope? (A) Philip Sydney – Astrophel and Stella
(A) The Plain Dealer (B) Samuel Daniel – Delia
(B) The Country Wife (C) Derek Walcott – Omeroos
(C) Love in a Wood (D) D.G. Rossetti – The House of Life
(D) The Gentleman Dancing Master
34. 'Incunabula' refers to
27. 'Inversion' is the change in the word (A) books censured by the Roman Emperor
order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this book I (B) books published before the year 1501
like. Another term for inversion is (C) books containing an account of myths and
(A) Hypallage rituals
(B) Hubris (D) books wrongly attributed toan author
(C) Haiku
(D) Hyperbaton 35. The most notable achievement in
Jacobean prose was
28. The phrase 'the willing suspension of (A) Bacon's Essays
disbelief ' occurs in (B) King James' translation of the Bible
(A) Biographia Literaria (C) Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
(B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads (D) None of the above
(C) In Defence of Poetry
(D) Poetics 36. The Court of Chancery is a setting in
Dickens'
29. The religious movement Methodism in the 18th (A) Little Dorrit
century England was founded by (B) Hard Times
(A) John Tillotson (C) Dombey and Son
(B) Bishop Butler (D) Bleak House
(C) Bernard Mandeville
(D) John Welsey 37. Which romantic poet coined the
famous phrase 'spots of time‟?
30. My First Acquaintance with Poets, an (A) John Keats
unforgettable account of meeting with literary (B) William Wordsworth
heroes, is written by (C) S.T. Coleridge
(A) Charles Lamb (D) Lord Byron
(B) Thomas de Quincey
(C) Leigh Hunt 38. The statement 'I think, therefore, I am' is
(D) William Hazlitt by
(A) Schopenhauer
31. The figure of the Warrior Virgin in (B) Plato
Spenser's Faerie Queene is represented by the (C) Descartes
character (D) Sartre
(A) Britomart
(B) Gloriana 39. Verse that has no set theme – no regular meter,
(C) Cynthia rhyme or stanzaic pattern is
(D) Duessa (I) open form
(II) flexible form
32. The book Speech Acts is written by (III) free verse
(A) John Austin (IV) blank verse
(B) John Searle
(C) Jacques Derrida The correct combination for the
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure statement, according to the code, is (A) I,
II and III are correct

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(B) III and IV are correct (A) I&II

(C) II, III and IV are correct (B) I, II & III
(D) I and III are correct (C) III & IV
(D) I&III
40. Which is the correct sequence of
publication of Pinter's plays? 46. In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls for
(A) The Room, One for the Road, No his
Man's Land, The Homecoming (A) ignorance
(B) The Homecoming, No Man's Land, (B) pride
The Room, One for the Road (C) courage
(C) The Room, The Homecoming, No (D) drunkenness
Man's Land, One for the Road
(D) One for the Road, The Room, 47. The first complete printed English
The Homecoming, No Man's Land Bible was produced by
(A) William Tyndale
41. Johnson's Dictionary of the English (B) William Caxton
Language was published in the year (C) Miles Coverdale
(A) 1710 (D) Roger Ascham
(B) 1755
(C) 1739 48. Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton is
(D) 1759 sub-titled
(A) The Two Nations
42. The literary prize, Booker of Bookers, (B) A Tale of Manchester Life
was awarded to (C) A Story of Provincial Life
(A) J.M. Coetzee (D) The Factory Girl
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Martin Amis 49. Some of the Jacobean playwrights were prolific.
(D) Salman Rushdie One of them claimed to have written 200 plays. The
playwright is
43. In Keats „poetic career, the most (A) John Ford
productive year was (B) Thomas Dekker
(A) 1816 (C) Philip Massinger
(B) 1817 (D) Thomas Heywood
(C) 1820
(D) 1819 50. The concept of "Star-equilibrium" in
connection with man-woman relationship
44. Pope's The Rape of the Lock was appears in
published in 1712 in (A) Women in Love
(A) three cantos (B) Maurice
(B) four cantos (C) Mrs. Dalloway
(C) five cantos (D) The Old Wives' Tales
(D) two cantos

45. Stephen Dedalus is a fictional character

associated with
I. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
II. Sons and Lovers
III. Ulysses
IV. The Heart of Darkness

The correct combination for the above

statement according to the code is

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DECEMBER 2010 PAPER II

1. Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the
Immorality and Profaneness of the English
Stage attacked among others.
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Thomas Rhymer
(C) William Congreve
(D) Henry Fielding

2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the

Great Exhibition, was designed by
(A) Charles Darwin
(B) Edward Moxon
(C) Joseph Paxton
(D) Richard Owen

3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen

in the writings of
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Noel Coward
(C) Tom Stoppard
(D) T.S. Eliot

4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver

discovered mountain-like beings?
(A) The land of the Lilliputians
(B) The land of the Brobdingnagians
(C) The land of the Laputans
(D) The land of the Houyhnhnms

5. Patrick White's Voss is a novel about

(A) the sea
(B) the capital market
(C) the landscape
(D) the judicial system

6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus

Heaney writes in English, in voice and
subject matter, his poems are
(A) Welsh
(B) Scottish
(C) Irish
(D) Polish

7. To whom is Mary Shelley's famous work

Frankenstein dedicated?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Claire Clairmont
(C) William Godwin
(D) P.B. Shelley

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8. Which among the following poems by Philip 15. Which of the following is not a Revenge
Larkin records his impressions while travelling to Tragedy?
London by train? (A) The White Devil
(A) "Aubade" (B) The Duchess of Malfi
(B) "Church Going" (C) Doctor Faustus
(C) "The Whitsun Wedding" (D) The Spanish Tragedy
(D) "An Arundel Tomb"
16. Who of the following playwrights rejects
9. The English satirist who used the sharp edge of the Aristotelian concept of tragic play as
praise to attack his victims was imitation of reality?
(A) Ben Jonson (A) G.B. Shaw
(B) John Donne (B) Arthur Miller
(C) John Dryden (C) Bertolt Brecht
(D) Samuel Butler (D) John Galsworthy

10. One of the most famous movements of 17. The label 'Diasporic Writer' can be
direct address to the reader – "Reader, I married applied to
him" – occurs in I. Meena Alexander
(A) Henry Fielding's Tom Jones II. Arundhati Roy
(B) Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre III. Kiran Desai
(C) Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy IV. Shashi Deshpande
(D) George Eliot's Middlemarch
The correct combination for the statement,
11. Langland's Piers Plowman is a satire on according to the code, is
(A) aristocracy (A) I and IV are correct.
(B) chivalry (B) II and III are correct.
(C) peasantry (C) I, II and IV are correct.
(D) clergy (D) I and III are correct.

12. Which of the following thinker concept 18. The letter 'A' in The Scarlet Letter
pair is correctly matched? stands for
(A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal I. Adultery
Criticism II. Able III.
(B) Christopher Frye – Mysticism Angel IV.
(C) Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction Appetite
(D) Terry Eagleton – Psychological
Criticism The correct combination for the
statement, according to the code, is
13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in (A) I and II are correct.
Shakespeare's (B) II and III are correct.
(A) The Merchant of Venice (C) I, II and IV are correct.
(B) The Tempest (D) I, II and III are correct.
(C) Othello
(D) King Lear 19. A monosyllabic rhyme on the final
stressed syllable of two lines of verse is
14. The title, The New Criticism, published called
in 1941, was written by (A) monorhyme
(A) Cleanth Brooks (B) feminine rhyme
(B) John Crowe Ransom (C) masculine rhyme
(C) Robert Penn Warren (D) eye rhyme
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20. A fatwa was issued in Salman Rushdie's imagine – Mine is the hardest task." The poet
name following the publication of: under reference is
(A) Midnight's Children (A) Wordsworth
(B) Shame (B) Coleridge
(C) Satanic Verses (C) Byron
(D) Grimus (D) Southey

21. "There is nothing outside the text" is a key 27. A sequence of repeated consonantal sounds
statement emanating from in a stretch of language is
(A) Feminism (A) alliteration
(B) New Historicism (B) acrostic
(C) Deconstruction (C) assent
(D) Structuralism (D) syllable

22. The Augustan Age is called so because 28. Reformation was predominantly a
(A) King Augustus ruled over England during movement in
this period (A) politics
(B) The English writers imitated the Roman (B) literature
writers during this period (C) religion
(C) The English King was born in the month (D) education
of August
(D) This was an age of sensibility 29. The motto "only connect" is taken
from
23. One of the important texts of Angry (A) Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
Young Man Movement is (B) Rudyard Kipling's Kim
(A) Time's Arrow by Martin Amis (C) H.G. Wells' The History of Mr. Polly
(B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (D) E.M. Forster's Howards End
by James Joyce
(C) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 30. English Iambic Pentameter was
(D) The French Lieutenant's Woman by brought to its first maturity in
John Fowles (A) sonnet
(B) dramatic verse
24. Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in (C) lyric
the portrait of Sporus? (D) elegy
(A) Lady Wortley Montague
(B) Joseph Addison 31. Who among the following was not a
(C) Lord Shaftsbury member of the Bloomsbury Group ?
(D) Lord Harvey (A) Lytton Strachey
(B) Clive Bell
25. The hero of Marlowe's Tamburlaine (C) E.M. Forster
was born as a (D) Winston Churchill
(A) carpenter
(B) goldsmith 32. The concept of human mind as tabula rasa or
(C) shepherd blank tablet was propounded by
(D) fisherman (A) Bishop Berkley
(B) David Hume
26. In a letter to his brother George in (C) Francis Bacon
September 1819, John Keats had this to (D) John Locke
say about a fellow romantic poet: "He describes
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33. The terms 'resonance' and 'wonder' are 40. "Recessional: A Victorian Ode",
associated with Kipling's well-known poem,
(A) Stephen Greenblatt I. laments the end of an Era
(B) Terence Hawkes II. marks a new commitment to scientific
(C) Terry Eagleton knowledge
(D) Ronald Barthes III.expresses the sincerity of his religious
devotion
34. The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer in The IV. was occasioned by Queen Victoria's 1897
Prologue to Canterbury Tales is Jubilee Celebration
(A) ten-syllabic line
(B) eight-syllabic line The correct combination for the statement,
(C) rhyme royal according to the code, is
(D) ottava rima (A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
35. Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species (C) I and IV are correct.
was published in the year (D) I, III and IV are correct.
(A) 1859
(B) 1879 41. Who among the following is not a
(C) 1845 Restoration playwright?
(D) 1866 (A) William Congreve
(B) William Wycherley
36. Who of the following is the author of (C) Ben Jonson
Juno and the Paycock ? (D) George Etherege
(A) Lady Gregory
(B) W.B. Yeats 42. Which famous Romantic poem begins
(C) Oscar Wilde with the line: 'Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! /
(D) Sean O'Casey Bird thou never wert”?
(A) "Ode to a Nightingale"
37. The title of William Faulkner's The Sound (B) "To the Cuckoo"
and the Fury is taken from a play by (C) "To a Skylark"
(A) Christopher Marlowe (D) "To the Daisy"
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Ben Jonson 43. Who among the following Victorian poets
(D) John Webster disliked his middle name?
(A) Arthur Hugh Clough
38. "Silverman has never read Browning." (B) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This is an example of (C) Gerard Manley Hopkins
(A) chiasmus (D) Algernon Charles Swinburne
(B) conceit
(C) zeugma 44. Aston is a character in Pinter‟s
(D) metonymy (A) The Birthday Party
(B) The Caretaker
39. The term 'Intentional Fallacy' is first (C) The Dumb Waiter
used by (D) The Homecoming
(A) William Empson
(B) Northrop Frye 45. Byron's English Bards and Scottish
(C) Wellek and Warren Reviewers is about
(D) Wimsatt and Beardsley I. the survey of English poetry II.
evangelism in English poetry III.
contemporary literary scene IV.
the early English travelers

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The correct combination for the

statement, according to the code, is

(A) III and IV are correct.

(B) II, III and IV are correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.

46. Which Eliotian character utters the

question – "Do I eat a peach" ?
(A) Marina
(B) Prufrock
(C) Sweeney
(D) Stetson

47. Which among the following works by

Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the
pillory?
(A) The True-Born Englishman
(B) Captain Singleton
(C) The Shortest Way with Dissenters
(D) Moll Flanders

48. The arrival of printing in fifteenth

century England was engineered by
(A) Sir Thomas Malory
(B) John Gower
(C) John Barbour
(D) William Caxton

49. About which nineteenth century English writer

was it said that "He had succeeded as a writer not by
conforming to
the Spirit of the Age, but in opposition to it”?
(A) Lord Byron on Coleridge
(B) Coleridge on Keats
(C) Hazlitt on Lamb
(D) De Quincey on Crabbe

50. The Restoration comedy, The Double

Dealer was written by
(A) John Dryden
(B) William Wycherley
(C) William Congreve
(D) George Etherege

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JUNE 2011 PAPER II (II) Nadine Gordimer (2) New Zealand

(III) Margaret Atwood (3) Australia
(IV) Keri Hulme (4) South Africa
1. Little Nell is a character in Dickens‟s
Code :
(A) Hard Times
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(B) Great Expectations
(A) (2) (1) (4) (3)
(C) Oliver Twist
(B) (4) (3) (2) (1)
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop
(C) (3) (4) (1) (2)
(D) (3) (2) (4) (1)
2. Who, among the following Indian
writers in English, has created an
identifiable imagined locale? 8. A Shakespearean sonnet has the
following rhyme scheme :
(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD
(B) Raja Rao
(B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE
(C) R.K. Narayan
(C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
(D) Anita Desai
(D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE
3. Who among the following is not a
9. "The future of poetry is immense, because in
formalist critic?
poetry…. our race, as time goes on, will find an ever
(A) Allen Tate surer and surer stay."
(B) Cleanth Brooks
– This claim for poetry is made in
(C) Stanley Fish
(A) Arnold's "The Study ofPoetry"
(D) William Empson
(B) Shelley's "A Defence ofPoetry"
(C) Sidney's "An Apology forPoetry"
4. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian (D) Eliot's of Poetry and Poets
sonnet is
(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee
(B) abab cdcd efef gg 10. Which of the following is not about a
dystopia?
(C) abba cddc effe gg
(A) George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
(D) abba abba cde cde (B) Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
(C) William Golding's Lord of the Flies
5. Who among the following Marlovian (D) R.M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island
characters is consumed by greed ?
(A) Barabas
(B) Tamburlaine 11. Who among the following is not
associated with the translation of the
(C) Doctor Faustus Bible?
(D) Mephistopheles (A) Miles Coverdale
(B) William Tyndale
6. The plan of Arthurian stories has influenced the (C) John Wycliffe
composition of Tennyson‟s (D) Thomas Browne
(A) In Memoriam
(B) Idylls
12. Arrange the following stages in a sequence
(C) "Maud" in which all Shakespearean tragedies are
(D) "Locksley Hall" structured. Use the code given below:
I. Denouement
7. There are two lists given below. Match the II. Conflict III.
authors in List – I with their nationality in List Exposition IV.
– II by choosing the right option against the Climax
code.
List – I (Author) List – II
(Nationality)
(I) Patrick White (1) Canada

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Code : (C) 373 lines

(A) III, II, IV, I (D) 423 lines
(B) III, IV, II, I
(C) II, IV, III, I 19. Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is set in
(D) II, IV, I, III (A) The Congo region
(B) The Niger Delta
13. The term, 'curtal sonnet', was coined (C) The Caribbean
by (D) The African Savannah
(A) John Milton
(B) William Blake 20. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his
(C) Gerald Manley Hopkins friend, "Horatio, I am dead." This is an
(D) Matthew Arnold example of
14. The author of the pamphlet Short View (A) protasis
of Immorality and Profaneness of the (B) anacrusis
English Stage (1698) was (C) prolepsis
(A) John Bunyan (D) pun
(B) Jeremy Collier
(C) William Wycherley 21. The Castle of Otranto is an example of
(D) John Vanbrugh (A) Gothic fiction
(B) Romance
15. Identify a play in the following list that (C) Comic fiction
is not written by Oscar Wilde: (D) Bildungsroman
(A) A Woman of No Importance
(B) The Importance of Being Earnest 22. "The City of Dreadful Night", a long
(C) Saints and Sinners poem depicting the late Victorian sense of
(D) An Ideal Husband gloom and despondency, is written by
(A) Matthew Arnold
16. Put the following novels by Charles (B) Robert Browning
Dickens in a sequential order with the help (C) James Thomson
of the code: (D) John Davidson
1. Great Expectations
2. Hard Times 23. Which of the following novels by V.S.
3. Bleak House Naipaul is set in Africa and carries echoes
4. A Tale of Two Cities of Joseph Conrad?
(A) The Mystic Masseur
Code : (B) A Bend in the River
(A) 3, 2, 4, 1 (C) A House for Mr. Biswas
(B) 2, 4, 3, 1 (D) The Mimic Men
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 4, 2, 1, 3 24. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda's
lapdog is named
17. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (A) Luck
was influenced by (B) Shock
(A) Seneca (C) Pluck
(B) Tertullian (D) Muck
(C) Virgil
(D) Plautus 25. You Can't Do Both is a novel by
(A) John Fowles
18. In its final published version, Eliot's (B) Doris Lessing
The Waste Land contains a total of (C) Kingsley Amis
(A) 334 lines (D) Irish Murdoch
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26. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is 33. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel
associated with the fiction of Prize for literature in the year
(A) Norman Mailer (A) 1995
(B) Saul Bellow (B) 1996
(C) Philip Roth (C) 1997
(D) Bernard Malamud (D) 1998

27. Plato censured poetry because he 34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition,
believed it "An Address to the Irish People" was
(A) eliminates the ego. composed by
(B) promotes sensuality. (A) W.B. Yeats
(C) distorts reality. (B) P.B. Shelley
(D) cripples the imagination. (C) Jonathan Swift
(D) G.B. Shaw
28. Which of the following Tennyson
poems is a dramatic monologue? 35. Which of the following arrangements of
(A) In Memoriam English novels is in the correct chronological
(B) "The Charge of the Light Brigade" sequence?
(C) "Crossing the Bar" (A) Kim, A Passage to India, Sons and
(D) "Tithonus" Lovers, Brave New World
(B) Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India,
29. The character Giovanni features in one of Kim, Brave New World
the following texts: (C) Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to
(A) John Cleland's Fanny Hill : Memoirs of a India, Brave New World
Woman of Pleasure (D) Brave New World, Kim, Sons and
(B) John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore' Lovers, A Passage to India
(C) John Braine's Room at the Top
(D) John Evelyn's Diaries 36. "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" is
written by
30. Which of the following poems features (A) Alexander Pope
the phrase, "the still, sad music of humanity" (B) Samuel Johnson
? (C) John Gay
(A) "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from (D) Jonathan Swift
Recollections of Early Childhood" 37. Widowers' Houses was written by
(B) "Michael : A Pastoral Poem" (A) Oscar Wilde
(C) "The Solitary Reaper" (B) T.S. Eliot
(D) "Tintern Abbey" (C) John Galsworthy
(D) G.B. Shaw
31. Molly Bloom is a character in James
Joyce's 38. Who among the following Marxist critics
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man has reconsidered the classic problem of 'base
(B) Dubliners and superstructure" in relation to literature?
(C) Ulysses (A) Edmund Wilson
(D) Exiles (B) Raymond Williams
(C) Lucien Goldmann
32. Eliot uses the term "objective (D) Walter Benjamin
correlative" in his essay.
(A) "The Metaphysical Poets"
(B) "Hamlet"
(C) "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
(D) "Dante"

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39. "Heteroglossia" refers to (A) a perilous adventure in the sea

(A) the multiple readings of a text. (B) the accidental killing of an octopus
(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a (C) the curse of a sea God
text. (D) the guilt and expiation of the Ancient
(C) the comments on the margins of a text. Mariner
(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a
text. 47. "To Daffodils" is a poem, written by
(A) Robert Herrick
40. Margaret Drabble is the author of (B) William Wordsworth
(A) The Memoirs of a Survivor (C) John Keats
(B) The Witch of Exmoor (D) P.B. Shelley
(C) The Service of Clouds
(D) The Godless in Eden 48. Which of the following novels
reconstructs the historical events of the
41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden's Indian Mutiny ?
literary rival, (A) The Jewel in the Crown
(A) Richard Flecknoe (B) The Siege of Krishnapur
(B) Thomas Shadwell (C) The Day of the Scorpion
(C) John Wilmot (D) The Towers of Silence
(D) Matthew Prior
49. "England, my England" is a poem by
42. Eighteenth century writers used satire (A) W.E. Henley
frequently for (B) A.E. Housman
(A) attacking human vices and follies. (C) R.L. Stevenson
(B) inciting the reading public. (D) Rudyard Kipling
(C) glorifying the culture of the upper classes.
(D) pleasing their women readers. 50. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford
University due to the publication of
43. Byron's "The Vision of Judgement" is a (A) The Revolt of Islam
satire directed against (B) The Necessity of Atheism
(A) Charles Lamb (C) The Triumph of Life
(B) John Keats (D) The Masque of Anarchy
(C) Henry Hallam
(D) Robert Southey

44. Tom Paine's The Rights of Man was

published in
(A) 1790
(B) 1791
(C) 1792
(D) 1793

45. Andrew Marvell's "An Horatian Ode

upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" was
written in
(A) 1647
(B) 1649
(C) 1650
(D) 1648

46. "The Rime of Ancient Mariner" is

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DECEMBER 2011 PAPER II

1. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and
Scenery is written by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Robert Southey
(C) John Clare
(D) Thomas Gray

2. Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms is

divided into
(A) two books
(B) three books
(C) four books
(D) five books

3. "Panopticism" is the title of a chapter in a

well-known book by
(A) Roman Jakobson
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Michel Foucault
(D) Jacques Derrida

4. The lines,
"She was a worthy woman al hir lyve:
Housbondes at cherche dore she hadde
five",
are an example of
(A) blank verse
(B) clerihew
(C) heroic couplet
(D) free verse

5. Who, among the following women

writers, famously imagined the plight of
Shakespeare's sister?
(A) George Eliot
(B) Virginia Woolf
(C) Irish Murdoch
(D) Frances Burney

6. Read the following statement and the

reason given for it. Choose the right
response.

Assertion (A): Dickens's novels are called

'Newgate Novels'.

Reason (R): They are called so, because

Dickens adulates in these novels the careers
and adventures of criminals.

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(C) Etherege's The Man of Mode

(D) Davenant's The Platonick Lovers
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation. 13. Who famously said, "Three or four
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not families in a Country Village is the very
the correct explanation. thing to work on”?
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. (A) Clara Reeve
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. (B) Maria Edgeworth
(C) Frances Burney
7. Who among the following writers does (D) Jane Austen
not belong to the group, the University
Wits? 14. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel
(A) John Lyly (A) When Rain Clouds Gather
(B) Thomas Nashe (B) The Mimic Men
(C) George Peele (C) Things Fall Apart
(D) Thomas Kyd (D) The Interpreters

8. Which of the following characters of 15. A foot consisting of a strong syllable followed
Webster's The White Devil utters the by a weak syllable is called
memorable words: (A) Trochee
Oft gay and honour'd robes those tortures try: (B) Iambic
We think cag'd birds sing, when indeed they (C) Spondee
cry. (D) Terza Rima
(A) Vittoria Corombona
(B) Bracciano 16. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the
(C) The Cardinal depiction of the Wife of Bath in
(D) Flamineo The Canterbury Tales ?
(A) Meekness
9. "All great literature is, at bottom, a (B) Defiance
criticism of life" – this statement is (C) Chastity
attributed to (D) Experience
(A) Thomas Carlyle
(B) Matthew Arnold
17. Put the following books of Pope in a
(C) J.S. Mill sequence of publication. Answer the question
(D) John Ruskin with the help of the Code given below:
(i) The Dunciad
10. Who amongst the following is not a (ii) The Rape of the Lock
Jewish-American novelist? (iii) An Essay on Man (iv)
(A) J.D. Salinger An Essay on Criticism
(B) Henry Greene
(C) William Faulkner
(D) Philip Roth
11. Which among the following plays by Code:
Christopher Marlowe has epic features? (A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
(A) Doctor Faustus (B) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(B) Edward II (C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
(C) Hero and Leander (D) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)
(D) Tamburlaine

12. Sir Fopling is a character in

(A) Wycherley's The Plain Dealer
(B) Congreve's The Way of theWorld

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18. Dinah Morris is a character in George 25. The phrase 'Only Connect' is
Eliot's novel associated with
(A) Middlemarch (A) D. H. Lawrence
(B) Silas Marner (B) James Joyce
(C) Daniel Deronda (C) E. M. Forster
(D) Adam Bede (D) Virginia Woolf

19. The Booker Prize is awarded by a

panel of judges to the best novel by a 26. Which of the following books is by
citizen of Margaret Atwood?
(A) the United Kingdom (A) The Stone Angel
(B) the British Commonwealth or the (B) No Fixed Address
Republic of Ireland (C) The Edible Woman
(C) the United Kingdom or the British (D) Halfbreed
Commonwealth
(D) the United Kingdom or the British 27. The expression "murderous innocence" is
Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland an example of
(A) Oxymoron
20. A 'curtal sonnet' consists of (B) Zeugma
(A) 11 lines (C) Chiasmus
(B) 12 lines (D) Pun
(C) 13 lines
(D) 14 lines 28. Read the following statement and the
reason given for it. Choose the right
21. The Unfortunate Traveller has been response
authored by
(A) Robert Greene Assertion (A): Othello killed Desdemona.
(B) Thomas Deloney Reason (R): Because Desdemona committed
(C) Thomas Nashe infidelity.
(D) Thomas Lodge
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
22. Who, among the following, is not a correct explanation.
practitioner of Jacobean tragedy? (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
(A) George Villiers the correct explanation.
(B) John Marston (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(C) John Webster (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(D) Thomas Middleton
29. The Enlightenment believed in the
23. The author of Nation and Narration is universal authority of
(A) Edward Said (A) Religion
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (B) Tradition
(C) Frantz Fanon (C) Reason
(D) Homi Bhabha (D) Sentiments

24. Which of the following novels has a 30. Which of the following works of John
great impact on the formal experimentation in Milton is an elegy ?
contemporary fiction? (A) Lycidas
(A) Thomas Nashe's The (B) L'Allegro
Unfortunate Traveller (C) Camus
(B) Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (D) Paradise Lost
(C) Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
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31. Which of the following poem by Keats

uses the Spenserian stanza ? 36. Which of the following is not an
(A) Endymion apocalyptic novel?
(B) The Fall of Hyperion (A) Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City
(C) The Eve of St. Agnes (B) L.P. Hartley's Facial Justice
(D) Lamia (C) Anthony Burgess's The Wanting Seed
(D) V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas
32. Match the following authors with their
respective works with the help 37. Identify the author of the following
of the code given below: lines:
List I List– II Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
I.Oliver Goldsmith 1.The Vanity of Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have
Human Wishes shown
II.John Gay 2.The Vicar of Wakefield Let us possess one world, each hath one, and
III.Samuel Johnson 3. She Stoops to Conquer is one.
IV.Richard Sheridan 4.The Beggar's Opera (A) Shakespeare
(B) George Herbert
Code: (C) John Donne
I II III IV (D) Henry Vaughan
(A) 1 4 3 2
(B) 2 4 1 3 38. In the summer of 1712, The Spectator
(C) 3 2 4 1 published a series of essays on "The
(D) 4 3 2 1 Pleasures of Imagination," written by
(A) Richard Steele
33. The term "egotistical sublime" was (B) John Dennis
coined by (C) John Locke
(A) S.T. Coleridge (D) Joseph Addison
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth 39. Read the following statement and the
(D) William Hazlitt reason given for it. Choose the right
response.
34. Put the following novels of George Eliot
in a sequential order. Answer the question Assertion (A): Gulliver's Travels earned
with the help of the code: Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a
(i) Middlemarch misanthrope.
(ii) Daniel Deronda Reason (R): Swift in the novel was neutral to
(iii) Felix Holt, the Radical the image of man.
(iv) Romola
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the
Code : correct explanation.
(A) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii) (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
(B) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv) the correct explanation.
(C) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii) (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii) (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

35. Who, among the following writers, is 40. Who, amongst the following, does not
known for his unforgettable sense of belong to the 'Great Tradition', enunciated
humour and comedy? by F. R. Leavis ?
(A) D.H. Lawrence (A) Joseph Conrad
(B) P.G. Wodehouse (B) James Joyce
(C) Thomas Hardy (C) Jane Austen
(D) John Galsworthy (D) George Eliot

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41. Isaac Bashevis Singer is an 48. The expression, "dreaming house" is an

(A) African-American writer example of
(B) American-Jewish writer (A) Zeugma
(C) American-Indian writer (B) Transferred epithet
(D) American-Asian writer (C) Chiasmus
(D) Apostrophe
42. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot has
(A) three Acts 49. The term 'Practical Criticism' is coined
(B) five Acts by
(C) four Acts (A) William Empson
(D) two Acts (B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.
(C) I.A. Richards
43. James Joyce's Exiles is a (D) F. R. Leavis
(A) Short Story
(B) Poem 50. Victor Shklovsky's name is associated
(C) Play with
(D) Novel (A) Post-modernism
(B) New Historicism
44. "It was a bright cold day in April and the (C) Reader Response Theory
clocks were striking thirteen" – is the opening (D) Russian Formalism
sentence of
(A) Ulysses
(B) Nostromo
(C) Chrome Yellow
(D) Nineteen Eighty-Four

45. The subtitle of William Godwin's Caleb

Williams is
(A) Man As He Is Not
(B) Man As He Is
(C) Things As They Are
(D) The Pupil of Nature

46. Who amongst the following belongs to the

group of radical feminists?
(A) Helene Cixous
(B) Monica Wittig
(C) Simone de Beauvoir
(D) Luce Irigaray

47. "On the Knocking at the Gate in

Macbeth" is a longer essay by
(A) G. Wilson Knight
(B) A. C. Bradley
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) F. R. Leavis

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1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a
text may open up, Derrida makes use of the
term:
(A) aporia
(B) difference
(C) erasure
(D) supplement

2. Who, among the following English

playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in
Love?
(A) Harold Pinter
(B) Alan Bennett
(C) Caryl Churchill
(D) Tom Stoppard

3. Arrange the following in the

chronological order:
1. Mary Wollstonecraft‟s Vindication of the
Rights of Women
2. Lyrical Ballads
3. French Revolution
4. Percy‟s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

(A) 4,3,1,2
(B) 3,2,1,2
(C) 1,2,4,3
(D) 2,1,3,4

4. Which of the following employs a narrative

structure in which the main action is relayed at
second hand through an enclosing frame story?
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) Ulysses
(C) The Power and the Glory
(D) Heart of Darkness

5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was

heralded by such figures as
(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward
Martyn
(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries
(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and
John Ervine
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6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the The correctly matched series would be :
death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt? (A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a
(A) Troilus and Criseyde (B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d
(B) The House of Fame (C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c
(C) The Book of Duchess (D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b
(D) The Legend of Good Women
12. The predominant tone and thrust of
7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the Jonathan Swift‟s “A Modest Proposal” are
other title of (A) comic
(A) Gorboduc (B) solemn
(B) Ralph Roister Doister (C) hortatory
(C) Damon and Pythias (D) irony
(D) Lamentable Tragedy
13. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second
8. Who of the following poets is Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever
Australian? hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. So begins
(A) Austin Clarke Auden‟s “September 1, 1939”. What is
(B) Judith Wright the meaning of the word in italics?
(C) Edwin Muir (A) bench
(D) Derek Walcott (B) night club
(C) house
9. “He found it [English] brick and left it (D) park
marble”, remarked one great writer on another.
Who were they? 14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were
(A) Milton on Shakespeare reputed in the 1930s for introducing
(B) Dryden on Milton (A) Practical Criticism
(C) Johnson on Dryden (B) New Criticism
(D) Jonson on Shakespeare (C) Standard English Project
(D) Basic English Project
10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel
Laureate? 15. In which of the following works does
(A) Tony Morrison Mrs. Malaprop appear ?
(B) Seamus Heaney (A) The Rivals
(C) Ted Hughes (B) She Stoops to Conquer
(D) Geoffrey Hill (C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D) The Way of the World
11. List – I List – II
16. Which of the following statements about
I. “Because I could not stop for Christopher Marlowe are true?
death…” a. Robert
Frost I. Edward II was written in the last year of
II. “O Captain ! My Marlowe‟s life.
Captain!” b. William II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be
Carlos Williams Marlowe‟s best play.
III. “Two roads diverged in a III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close
wood….” c. Emily second.
Dickinson IV. Marlowe was less educated than
IV. “So much depends Shakespeare.
/upon” d. Walt
Whitman (A) I and II are true.
(B) II and III are true.
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(A) IV III I II
17. “Art for Art‟s Sake” became a rallying (B) II IV III I
cry for (C) III II I IV
(A) the Aesthetes (D) IV II I III
(B) the Symbolists
(C) the Imagists 22. In which of the following travel books does
(D) the Art Noveau School Mark Twain give an account of his visit to
India?
18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is (A) A Tramp Abroad
a literary work by (B) Roughing It
(A) S. T. Coleridge (C) The Innocents Abroad
(B) P. B. Shelley (D) Following the Equator
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) Lord Byron 23. William Blake‟s famous poems such as
“London”, “The Sick Rose”, and “The Tyger”
19. Which of the following statements appear in
about The Canterbury Tales is true? (A) Songs of Innocence
(A) “The General Prologue‟ is appended to (B) Songs of Experience
The Canterbury Tales. (C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this (D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion
work.
(C) The Canterbury Tales remained 24. Who among the following English artists
unfinished at the time of its author‟s death. illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott?
(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir (A) Richard Hogarth
Gawain and The Franklin are characters and (B) Joshua Reynolds
tale-tellers in this work. (C) George Cruishank
(D) John Tennial
20. Who, among the following, was a Catholic
novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set 25. The last of Gulliver‟s Travels is to
his fictions in far-away places wrecked by political (A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms
conflicts? (B) The Land of Homosapiens
(A) Anthony Powell (C) The Land of the Hurricanes
(B) Evelyn Waugh (D) The Newfound Land
(C) William Golding
(D) Graham Greene 26. Madam Merle is a character in
(A) The Great Gatsby
21. List – I List – II (B) The Portrait of a Lady
(C) The Jungle
1. Good sense is the body of poetic (D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
genius I. Brooks, “The
Formalist Critic” 27. In which of the following scenes of The
2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of all Waste Land do we have a departure from
knowledge. II. Sidney, Defence/ An Standard English?
Apology for Poetry (A) The typist scene
3. Literary criticism is a description and (B) The pub scene
evaluation of its object III. Wordsworth, (C) The hyacinth garden scene
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (D) The Chapel Perilous scene
4. Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a
tapestry as diverse poets have done
IV. Coleridge,
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28. The words “If it were done when tis 34. “If______ comes, can_______ be far
done, then twere well / It were done behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)
quickly…” are uttered by (A) winter, spring
(A) Hamlet (B) autumn, summer
(B) Lear (C) wind, rains
(C) Othello (D) spring, winter
(D) Macbeth
35. The following passages are the very first
29. John Dryden‟s Absalom and lines of well-known works. Match the lines and
Achotophel a the works:
(A) religious tract I. Let us go then,
(B) political allegory you and I….. a. Moby Dick
(C) comic verse epic II. Call me Ishmael….. b. Macbeth
(D) comedy III. When shall we
three meet again? c. “The Love Song of
30. The term „the comedy of menace‟ is J. Alfred Prufrock”
associated with the early plays of IV. He disappeared in
(A) Arnold Wesker the dead of winter d. Tristram Shandy
(B) John Arden V. I wish either…
(C) Harold Pinter .begot me ….. e. “In Memory of W.
(D) David Hare B. Yeats”

31. Examine the following statements and identify (A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d
one of them which is not true. (B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d
(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936. (C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c
(B) He was born in India but schooled in (D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a
England.
(C) He returned to India as a police constable 36. Which of the following is not a revenge
in Burma. tragedy?
(D) He is the author of Jungle Book and (A) Hamlet
Barrack Room Ballads. (B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Volpone
32. What is the correct combination of the (D) Gorboduc
following?
I. Balachandra Rajan a. The Tamarind 37. What is a neologism?
Tree (A) A word with roots in a native language
II. R. K. Narayan b. The Coffer Dams (B) A word whose meaning changes with
III. Kamala Markandaya c. The Dark Dancer every renewed use
IV. Romen Basu d. The Dark Room (C) A word newly coined or used in a new
sense
(A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b (D) An obsession with new words and
(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c phrases
(C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b
(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b 38. Which of the following is not true of
Edward Said‟s Orientalism?
33. Name the poet who chooses his successor and (A) Makes use of Foucault‟s concept of
the successor-poet whom Dryden satirises in his discursive formulation
famous poem. (B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial
(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley theory
(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten (C) Makes use of Barthes‟s concept of
(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell writerly text
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45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys

(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of begins after
hegemony (A) The Restoration
(B) The Glorious Revolution
39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry (C) The Reformation
into 4 periods. They are: (D) The French Revolution
(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass
(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond 46. In a poem, a line may either be end-
(C) iron, gold, silver and brass stopped or
(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond (A) rhymed
(B) broken
40. Which among the following novels has (C) accented
more than one ending? (D) run-on
(A) Lucky Jim
(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie 47. Which of the following poets wrote the
(C) The French Lieutenant‟s Woman essay “Naipaul‟s India and Mine”?
(D) The Clockwork Orange (A) Kamala Das
(B) R. Parthasarthy
41. “You have seen how a man was made a (C) A. K. Ramanujam
slave; you shall see how a slave was made a (D) Nissim Ezekiel
man” is an example of
(A) Bathos 48. Match the following:
(B) Epistrophe I. James Joyce 1. Peter Ackroyd
(C) Chiasmus II. T. S. Eliot 2. James Boswell
(D) Anti-climax III. Life of 3. Samuel Johnson
Johnson
42. Which of the following statements is IV. Lives of 4. Richard Poets Ellman
NOT correct?
(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic (A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2
form in some of his major poems. (B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3
(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of (C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4
Good Women. (D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4
(C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court
poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman 49. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an
and Latin. example of
(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the (A) simile
Governor (B) image
(C) conceit
43. Material feminism studies inequality in (D) metonymy
terms of
(A) only gender 50. An epilogue is
(B) only class (A) prefixed to a text which it introduces.
(C) both class and gender (B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or
(D) only patriarchy extends.
(C) a piece of writing or speech that formally
44. Who among the following is not an Irish begins a book.
writer? (D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no
(A) Oscar Wilde relation to the text at hand.
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Thomas Gray

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1. In Ben Jonson‟s Volpone, the animal
imagery includes
(a) the fox and the vulture
(b) the fly and the cockroach
(c) the fly, the crow and the raven
(d) the fox, the vulture and the goat

(A) (a) and (b) are correct.

(B) only (d) is correct.
(C) (b) and (d) are correct.
(D) (a) and (c) are correct.

2. Salman Rushdie‟s “Imaginary

Homelands” is _______.
(A) a discussion of imperialist assumptions.
(B) an essay that propounds an antiessentialist
view of place.
(C) an existential lament on triumphant
colonialism.
(D) an orientalist description of his favourite
homelands.

3. Identify the incorrect statement below:

(a) BASIC was an experiment initiated by C. K.
Ogden and I. A. Richards from 1926 to about
1940.
(b) Expanded, BASIC read: Broadly
Ascertained Scientific International Course.
(c) BASIC English was an attempt to reduce
the number of essential words to 850.
(d) While keeping to normal constructions,
BASIC failed as an experiment because its
documents were far too complicated and
technical to understand.

(A) (a) & (b) (B) (b) & (d)

(C) (a) & (c) (D) (c) & (d)

4. Items in a published book appear in the

following order:
(A) Index, Copyright Page, Bibliography,
Footnotes
(B) Copyright Page, Bibliography, Index,
Footnotes
(C) Copyright Page, Footnotes, Bibliography,
Index
(D) Bibliography, Copyright Page, Index,
Footnotes

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5. Match the following: 7. Identify the statement that is NOT

(I) James Thomson, TRUE among those that explain “stage
Oliver Goldsmith, directions” in drama.
William Cowper, (A) Stage directions inform readers how to
George Crabbe (a) Metaphysical stage, perform or imagine the play.
poets (B) The place, time of action, design of the set
(II) George Herbert, and at times characters‟ actions or tone of
Henry Vaughan, voice are indicated by stage directions.
Andrew Marvell, (C) Stage directions are often italicized in the
Abraham Cowley, text of a play in order to be spoken aloud.
John Donne (b) Transitional (D) Stage directions may appear at the
Poets beginning of a play, before a scene or
(III) Rupert Brooke, attached to a line of dialogue.
Wilfred Owen,
Siegfried Sassoon, 8. The emergence of the concept of “World
Edmund Blunden, literature” is associated with:
Robert Graves. (c) War Poets (a) Friedrich Schiller
(IV) W. H. Davies, (b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Walter de la Mare, (c) Johann Goltfried Herder
John Drinkwater, (d) Immanuel Kant
Rupert Brooke (d) Georgians
(A) (a) & (b)
(B) (c) & (d)
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (C) (b) & (c)
(A) (d) (a) (c) (b) (D) (a) & (d)
(B) (d) (b) (d) (a)
(C) (b) (a) (c) (d) 9. Günter Grass‟s Tin Drum is part of a
(D) (a) (c) (d) (b) trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy.
The other two novels are:
6. The following phrases from Shakespeare have (A) The Flounder and Dog Years
become the titles of famous works. Identify the (B) The Rat and Cat and Mouse
correctly matched group. (C) Cat and Mouse and Dog Years
(D) Crabwalk and The Rat
(I) Pale Fire (a) Thomas Hardy
(II) The Sound and
10. The hostess proudly announces that the
the Fury (b) Somerset
family can afford a servant and her daughters
Maugham have nothing to do with the kitchen. Who is the
(III) Rosencrantz and proud mother in this Jane Austen novel?
Guildenstern are Dead (c) William Faulkner (A) Mrs. Morland
(IV) Under the Greenwood (B) Lady Catherine de Burgh
Tree (d) Tom Stoppard (C) Mrs. Bennet
(V) Of Cakes and Ale (e) Vladimir (D) Mrs. Dashwood
Nabokov
11. When Keats writes about the “beaker full”
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (V)
of “The blushful Hippocrene”,
(A) (e) (d) (c) (a) (b)
Hippocrene is:
(B) (d) (e) (b) (c) (a)
(A) the fountain of the horse
(C) (e) (c) (d) (a) (b)
(B) a spring sacred to the Muses
(D) (c) (d) (b) (e) (a)
(C) Mount Helicon produced from a blow of
Pegasus
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12. Which of the following statements on The 15. William Shakespeare‟s Julius Caesar,
Prelude by William Wordsworth is/are not Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus are
true? based on _______.
(A) Holinshed‟s Chronicles
(a) The Prelude was published posthumously. (B) Folk-tales and legends
(b) In this poem, Wordsworth records his (C) Older Roman Plays
development as a poet. (D) Plutarch‟s Lives
(c) The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial
stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural 16. The basic concept that creation was ordered, that
scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and every species exists in a hierarchy of status, from God
imaginative nature. to the lowest creature, was prevalent in the
(d) Poems like “Michael”, “The Old Renaissance. In this hierarchical continuum, man
Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the occupies the middle position between the animal
untrodden ways”, “Nutting” etc. are the kinds and the angels.
highlights of this volume. This world view is known as:
(A) Humanism
(A) (a) to (d) are true. (B) The Enlightenment
(B) (a) is not true. (C) The Great Chain of Being
(C) (d) is not true. (D) Calvinism
(D) Only (c) is true.
17. In Virginia Woolf‟s To the Lighthouse
13. Assertion (A): At the end of Heart of the lighthouse does not symbolize:
Darkness, Marlow tells a lie to the Intended (A) permanence at the heart of change.
about Kurtz when he tells her “The last word (B) change in the unchanging world.
he pronounced was – your name”. (C) celebration of life in the heart of death.
Reason (R): Marlow tells this lie because he is (D) celebration of order in the heart of chaos.
secretly in love with the Intended and tells her
what she wants to hear. 18. “Can one imagine any private soldier, in the
nineties or now, reading Barrack-Room Ballads
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true ; (R) is the and feeling that here was a writer
correct explanation.
who spoke for him? It is very hard to do so. [….]
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not When he is writing not of British but of
the correct explanation. “loyal” Indians he carries the „Salaam, Sahib‟
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. motif to sometimes disgusting lengths. Yet it
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. remains true that he has far more interest in the
common soldier, far more anxiety that he shall get
14. Ear-training in ELT is easily achieved a fair deal, than most of the
by: “liberals” of his day and our own. He sees that
(a) composition
the soldier is neglected, meanly
(b) dictation
(c) cloze tests underpaid and hypocritically despised by the
people whose incomes he safeguards”.
(d) listening exercises
(e) précis writing (A) This is E. M. Forster‟s “India, Again”.
(A) (c) and (e)
(B) This is Malcolm Muggeridge on E. M.
(B) (a), (c) and (e)
Forster‟s India.
(C) (b), (c) and (d)
(C) This is T. S. Eliot on Rudyard Kipling.
(D) (b) and (d)
(D) This is George Orwell on Rudyard
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19. In the well-known poem “To his coy 25. In English literature, the trope of the
mistress”, the word coy means vampire was used for the first time by:
(A) shy (A) Matthew Gregory Lewis
(B) timid (B) John Polidori
(C) voluptuous (C) John Stagg
(D) sensuous (D) Bram Stoker

20. From the following list, identify 26. Why is “Universal grammar” so
“backformation”: Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke, called?
swindle, bundle. (A) It is a set of basic grammatical principles
(A) Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke universally followed and easily recognized by
(B) Stoke, poke, swindle, bundle people.
(C) Sulk, stoke, bundle (B) It is a set of basic grammatical principles
(D) Bulk, poke, bundle assumed to be fundamental to all natural
languages.
21. “It blurs distinctions among literary, non- (C) It is a set of advanced grammatical
literary and cultural texts, showing principles assumed to be fundamental to all
how all three intercirculate, share in, and mutually natural languages.
constitute each other.” What does (D) It is a set of universally respected
it in this statement stand for? practices that have come, in time, to be known
(A) Marxism as “grammar”.
(B) Structuralism
(C) Formalism 27. Identify the novel with the wrong subtitle
(D) New Historicism listed below:
(A) Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life
22.For, though, I‟ve no idea. What this accoutred (B) Tess of the D‟Urbervilles, A Pure Woman
frowsty ____ is worth, it pleases (C) The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Man of
me to stand in silence here. (Fill in the blank) Character
(A) bar (D) Felix Holt, the Socialist
(B) barn
(C) attic 28. Match List – I with List – II.
(D) alcove
List – I List – II
23. Which of the following novels is NOT a (I) David Malouf (a) The Solid
Partition novel? Mandala
(A) Azadi (II) Patrick White (b) Wild Cat Falling
(B) Tamas (III) Peter Carey (c) Remembering
(C) Clear Light of the Day Babylon
(D) That Long Silence (IV) Colin Johnson (d) True History of
the Kelly Gang
24. Of the following characters, which one
does not belong to A House for Mr. Biswas? (I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) Raghu (A) (a) (c) (b) (d)
(B) Ralph Singh (B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(C) Dehuti (C) (b) (c) (a) (d)
(D) Tara (D) (c) (d) (b) (a)

29. The opening sentence of Tolstoy‟s Anna

Karenina, “Happy families are all alike,
every unhappy family is unhappy in its own
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unhappiness in Oblonsky‟s house was the (A) (c) and (d) are incorrect.
husband‟s affair with: (B) (a) and (b) are incorrect.
(A) a kitchen – maid (C) (a) to (d) are correct.
(B) an English governess (D) only (a) and (d) are correct.
(C) a French governess
(D) a socialite 33. What is register?
(A) The way in which a language registers in
30. This periodical had the avowed intention “to the minds of its users.
enliven morality with wit and to temper wit with (B) The way users of a language register the
morality… to bring philosophy out of the closets and nuances of that language.
libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and (C) A variety of language used in social
assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee houses”. It situations or one specially designed for the
also promoted family, marriage subject it deals with.
and courtesy. (D) A variety of language used in non-
The periodical under reference is: professional or informal situations by
(A) The Tatler professionals.
(B) The Spectator
(C) The Gentleman‟s Magazine 34. Jeremy Collier‟s Short View of the
(D) The London Magazine Immorality and Profaneness of the English
Stage (1698) attacked ______.
31. Assertion (A) : “Tam O‟ Shanter” by (A) the practice of mixing tragic and comic
John Clare is about the themes in Shakespeare‟s plays.
experience of an (B) the bawdiness of “low” characters in
ordinary human being Shakespeare‟s plays.
and became quite (C) the coarseness and ugliness of Restoration
popular during that Theatre.
time. (D) irreligious themes and irreverent attitudes
Reason (R) : John Clare, having suffered in the plays of the seventeenth century.
bouts of madness, could really
feel for the misery of common 35. One of the most important themes the
man. In the context of the two speakers debate in Dryden‟s An Essay on
statements, which of the Dramatic Poesy is______.
following is correct? (A) European and non-European perceptions
of reality.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) (B) English and non-English perceptions of
explains (A). reality.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) does (C) the relative merits of French and English
not explain (A). theatre.
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. (D) the relative merits of French and English
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true. poetry.

32. Alexander Pope‟s An Essay in 36. Identify the correctly matched pair:
Criticism: (A) Amitav Ghosh – All About H.
(a) Purports to define “wit” and “nature” as Halterr
they apply to the literature of his age. (B) Anita Desai – Inheritance of Loss
(b) Claims no originality in the thought that (C) Shashi Deshpande – A Bend in the
governs this work. Ganges
(c) is a prose essay that gives us such quotes as (D) Salman Rushdie–
“A little learning is a dangerous thing !” The Enchantress of
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37. Match the following correctly: (D) Rossetti‟s “Blessed Damozel” displays
(I) Langue / Parole (a) Noam Chomsky his remarkable gifts as a poet and painter.
(II) Competence / Performance (b) C. S.
Pierce 41. Goethe‟s Faust (Part I , Scene 1) opens
(III) Ieonic / Indexical (c) Ferdinand de in :
Saussure (A) heaven
(IV) Readerly / Writerly (d) Roland Barthes (B) hell
(C) forest
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (D) Faust‟s study
(A) (c) (b) (a) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (b) (d) 42. “Is it their single-mind-sized skulls or a
(C) (a) (c) (d) (b) trained Body, or genius, or a nestful of brats
(D) (b) (c) (a) (d) Gives their days this bullet and automatic
purpose….” (Thrushes) In the above lines
38. what does „their‟ refer to and what quality of
1. Joy Kogawa (a) Bloody Rites „their‟ does the poet speak of?
2. M. G.(b) Obasan Vasanjee I. Human beings and their intelligence
3. Sky Lee (c) The Gunny Sack II. The thrushes and their concentration in
4. Arnold (d) Disappearing Itwaru Moon achieving what they set out for
Cafe III. The efficiency of the thrushes in getting at
1 2 3 4 their prey
(A) (d) (a) (b) (c) IV. All the above
(B) (a) (d) (c) (b) (A) Only III is correct.
(C) (b) (c) (d) (a) (B) Only IV is correct.
(D) (a) (b) (c) (d) (C) I and II are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
39. Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt
Disneyland as his own sign? 43. Find the odd (wo)man out :
(A) Disneyland is by far the most eminently Belladonna – Engenides – The Typist – Marie
noticeable cultural sign in the post modern – Madame Sosostris – the ruinbibber – Tiresias
world. – the Youngman Carbuncular
(B) Disneyland captures „essences‟ and „non- (A) Belladonna
essences‟ of Reality more convincingly than (B) Madame Sosostris
other cultural venues. (C) Tiresias
(C) Disneyland is an artefact that so obviously (D) The ruin – bibber
announces its own fictiveness that it would seem
to imply some counter 44. Wilkie Collins‟s novel, The Moonstone
balancing reality. (1868) tells the story of ______.
(D) Disneyland is both „appearance‟ and (A) a detective‟s exploits in Victorian
„reality‟ in the post modern visual game of England.
handy-dandy. (B) a doctor‟s adventures in a Middle-Eastern
Suburb.
40. Which of the following statements is NOT (C) a fabulous yellow diamond stolen from an
TRUE of Dante Gabriel Rossetti? Indian shrine.
(A) D. G. Rossetti was a Londoner, the son of (D) illegal mining of diamonds in eastern
an Italian refugee who taught Italian at King‟s U.P. during British rule.
college.
(B) Rossetti formed the Pre- Raphaelite
Brotherhood with Holman Hunt, Ford Madox
Brown and Painter Millais.
(C) He married Christina Georgina who was a
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45. Identify the correctly matched group: 49. In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster
(I) “Because I could Geryon represents ______.
not stop for death… (a) Walt Whitman (A) fraud
(II) “O Captain ! (B) usury
My Captain!” (b) William Carlos
(C) sloth
Williams
(D) gluttony
(III) “Two roads diverged
in a wood…” (c) Emily
50. I-A. Richards‟s famous experiment with
Dickinson
(IV) “So much depends poems and his Cambridge students is detailed in
upon…” (d) Robert Frost Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgement
(1929). Richards was
(I) (II) (III) (IV) astonished by
(A) (a) (b) (c) (d) (A) the poor quality of his students‟ “stock
(B) (c) (a) (d) (b) responses”
(C) (a) (c) (b) (d) (B) the very astute remarks made by his
(D) (c) (a) (b) (d) students
(C) the non-availability of poems, worthy of
46. “Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, class-room attention
For here‟s a tun of midnight – work to (D) the success of his experiment
come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home.
Round as a globe and liquor‟d e‟vry 51. Based on the following description, identify
the text in reference:
chink, Goodly and great he rails behind his
link”. In the above passage from Absalom This is a play in which no one comes, no one
and Achitophel, link means: goes, nothing happens. In its opening scene a
(A) a connection in the court man struggles hard to remove his boot. The
(B) a hired servant who carries a lighted torch play was originally written in French, later
(C) a social tie translated into English. It was first performed in
(D) a rich patron 1953.
(A) Look Back in Anger
(B) Waiting for Godot
47. Which among the following is NOT a
(C) The Zoo Story
typical “Indian English Poem” by Nissim
Ezekiel? (D) The Birthday Party
(A) “How the English Lessons Ended”
(B) “The Railway Clerk” 52. One of the following Canterbury Tales
(C) “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” is in prose, identify.
(D) “The Patriot” (A) The Pardoner‟s Tale
(B) The Parson‟s Tale
48. Match the correct pair: (C) The Monk‟s Tale
(D) The Knight‟s Tale
(I) George Eliot 1. Ellis Bell
(II) Saki 2. Mary Anne Evans 53. In his distinction between imagination and
(III) Emily Bronte 3. Samuel Langhorne fancy, Coleridge identifies the following:
Clemens (a) it dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to
(IV) Mark Twain 4. H. H. Munro recreate.
(b) it has aggregative and associative power.
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (c) it plays with fixities and definites.
(A) 2314 (d) it has shaping and modifying power.
(B) 2413
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(A) (a) and (b) for fancy; (c) and (d) for (A) The casting out of evil spirits
imagination. (B) Deconstructing of myths involving
(B) (a) and (c) for fancy; (b) and (d) for marriage, fertility and sons
imagination. (C) Facing life without illusions
(C) (b) and (c) for fancy; (a) and (d) for (D) Exposing all attempts at illusion making
imagination.
(D) (c) and (d) for fancy; (a) and (b) for 58. “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to
imagination. lavender”. This is an important statement
defining the womanist perspective advanced by
54. Julia Kristeva‟s „Intertextuality‟ (A) Toni Morrison
derives from: (B) Zora Neale Hurston
(a) Saussure‟s signs (C) Alice Walker
(b) Chomsky‟s deep structure (D) Bell Hooks
(c) Bakhtin‟s dialogism
(d) Derrida‟s difference 59. Identify the mismatched pair in the
following where characters in Golding‟s
(A) (a) and (d) Lord of the Flies fit the allegorized pattern of
(B) (a) and (c) virtues and vices.
(C) (c) and (d) (A) Ralph - rationality
(D) (a) and (b) (B) Piggy - pragmatism
(C) Jack - pity
55. Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths (D) Simon – innocence
about white purity through characters like:
(a) Norton 60. A Subaltern perspective is one where
(b) Bledsoe (A) Power-structures define and determine
(c) Rhinehart your command of language and language of
(d) all of the above command in an uneven world.
(B) The politically dispossessed could be
(A) (a) and (b) voiceless, written out of the historical record
(B) (a), (b) and (c) and ignored because their activities do not
(C) (b) and (c) count for “Cultural” or “Structured”.
(D) (a) and (c) (C) You don‟t know what your „story‟ is, how to
deal with a „story‟ and therefore you are
56. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of forced to put stereotyped situations in it to
Ralph Waldo Emerson? please your listeners.
(A) He wrote essays on New England (D) You begin to see how we live, how we
scenery, woodcraft and plantations. have been living, how we have been led to
(B) He was an eloquent pulpit orator, a imagine ourselves, how our language has
member of the Unitarian Church under trapped as well as liberated us.
William Chawming.
(C) In essays like “Nature”, he elaborates on 61. (a) “Interlanguage” is a term we owe to
the importance of seeing familiar things in M.A.K. Halliday.
new ways. (b) Interlanguage develops an autonomous
(D) His famous “American Scholar” was and self-contained grammatical system
delivered as an address before the Phi Beta (c) It is a distinct stage in a learner‟s progress
Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1837. in the study of a second language.
(d) It owes nothing at all either to the learner‟s
57. “Exorcism” is the title of Act III of who‟s native or target / second language.
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? What is the (A) (d) is correct.
significance of „exorcism‟ in the context of the (B) (b) is correct.
play? (C) (a) and (c) are correct.

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(D) (c) and (d) are correct.

(A) (a) is incorrect.
62. In a classic statement that inaugurated (B) (d) is incorrect.
Feminist thought in English, we read: (C) (c) is incorrect.
“A woman writing thinks back through her (D) (b) and (c) are incorrect.
mothers”. Where does this occur?
(A) Virginia Woolf‟s A Room of One‟s Own 66. “Like walking, criticism is a pretty nearly
(B) Kate Millet‟s Sexual Politics universal art; both require a constant intricate
(C) Gertrude Stein‟s Three Lives shifting and catching of balance; neither can be
(D) Mary Hiatt‟s The Way Women Write. questioned much in process; and few perform
either really well. For either a new terrain is
63. Identify the correctly matched pair of fatiguing and awkward, and in our day most men
translators and translations. prefer paved walks and some
(I) A. K. Ramanujan (a) The Ramayana form of rapid transportsome easy theory or
(II) Manmathanath Dutt (b) The Bhagavad overmastering dogma.” (R.P.Blackmur, “A
Gita Critic‟s Job of Work”)
(III) Mohini Chatterjee (c) Speaking of (a) Blackmur compares walking with
Shiva criticism because he considers both to be
(IV) Romesh Chandra Dutt d) The “arts” of a similar kind that call for attention to
Mahabharata detail and utmost care.
(b) Blackmur admits that some people do
(I) (II) (III) (IV) however manage to be good critics and good
(A) (c) (d) (b) (a) walkers.
(B) (d) (c) (a) (b) (c) Critics prefer tried and tested approaches
(C) (d) (a) (b) (c) for much the same reason as Walkers would
(D) (b) (a) (d) (c) look for paved walks and rapid transport.
(d) Blackmur does not quite give us the
64. Assertion (A): In The Power and the equivalents of “Some paved walks and some
Glory, Greene shows how the Whisky Priest form of rapid transport” in order to press his
transcends his weakness for drink and his comparison.
human fears, moving towards martyrdom.
Reason (R): Transcendence in Greene‟s (A) (a) and (d) are correct.
novels is generally an outcome of love for (B) (a) and (c) are correct.
humanity, but pride is also an essential (C) only (d) is correct.
ingredient in the Priest‟s character. (D) only (b) is correct.
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true. 67. The world dominated by cold and hypocritical
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but materialists is represented by William Blake in the
(R) is not the correct explanation for (A). mythological figure of
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the __________ .
correct explanation for (A). (A) Urizen
(B) Albion
65. Which of the following statements on (C) Geryon
John Dryden is incorrect? (D) Satan
(a) John Milton and John Dryden were
contemporaries. 68. Identify the correctly matched group:
(b) Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton (A) Third Space – Wolfgang Iser Hybridity –
fiercely opposed monarchy. Edward Soja Reception aesthetics – Ferdinand
(c) Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal de
Emperor Humayun. Saussure Langue – Homi Bhabha
(d) Dryden was appointed the Poet Laureate
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(B) Third Space – Ernst Bloch Hybridity – IV. The protagonist realizes the importance of
Edward Said Reception aesthetics – Eve K. harmonizing humanity and the universe.
Sedgwick
Langue – G. S. Frazer (A) Beloved
(C) Third Space – Edward Soja Hybridity – (B) Ceremony
Homi Bhabha Reception aesthetics – (C) Daisy Miller
Wolfgang Iser (D) Enter, Conversing
Langue – Ferdinand de Saussure
(D) Third Space – G. S. Frazer Hybridity – Eve 72. One of the following poems in Men and Women
K. Sedgwick Reception aesthetics – Edward is addressed to Elizabeth Barrett
Soja Langue – Edward Said Browning by the poet. Identify it.
(A) “In Three Days”
69. Which of the following can be best (B) “By the Fireside”
described as: (C) “One Way of Love”
(i) the first statement of Bernard Shaw‟s idea (D) “One Word More”
of Life Force;
(ii) a play dealing with a woman‟s pursuit of 73. Match List-I with List-II according to the
her mate; and codes given below:
(iii) a play whose third act called “Don Juan in List – I List – II
Hell” is both unconventional and hilarious I. Tennessee William 1. Emperor Jones
? II. Eugene O‟Neill 2. A Streetcar Named
Desire
(A) The Devil‟s Disciple III. Lorraine Hansberry 3. After the Fall
(B) Man and Superman IV. Arthur Miller 4. A Raisin in the Sun
(C) Candida
(D) Arms and the Man I II III IV
(A)3142
70. Identify the untrue statement on the (B)1324
CONTACT ZONE below: (C)4231
(A) “The contact zone” is a space where (D)2143
disparate cultures meet, clash and grapple
with each other. 74. Match the correct pair:
(B) In Postcolonial societies “contact” I. Theatre of Cruelty 1. Safdar
suggests the historical moment when settler and Hashmi
indigenous cultures first met. II. Theatre of the Oppressed 2. Georg
(C) The idea of the Contact Zone was first Kaiser
proposed and defined by Mary Louise Pratt‟s III. Expressionist Theatre 3. Jerzy
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Grotowsky
Transculturation (1992) IV. Agitprop 4. Augusto Bal
(D) It is believed that the Contact Zone was I II III IV
largely instrumental in spearheading nationalist (A)1243
movements across the world. (B)3423
(C)2314
71. Name the novel in which (D)4132
I. the protagonist is a war veteran called Tayo.
75. Bertolt Brecht‟s Epic Theatre
II. Tayo returns from World War II,
thoroughly disillusioned and haunted by his (a) turns the spectator into an observer
violent actions of war time. (b) wears down the spectator‟s capacity for
III. Tayo seeks consolation and counsel from action
old Betonie. (c) relies on argument
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DECEMBER 2012 PAPER II

(A) (a) and (d) are correct; (b) and (c) are
incorrect.
(B) (a), (c) and (d) are correct; (b) is wrong. 1. Identify the work below that does not belong
to the literature of the eighteenth century:
(C) (b) and (d) are correct; (a) and (c) are (A) Advancement of Learning
incorrect.
(B) Gulliver‟s Travels
(D) (a), (b) and (c) are correct; (d) is
incorrect. (C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

2. Which, among the following, is a place

through which John Bunyan‟s Christian does
NOT pass?
(A) The Slough of Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C) The Valley of Humiliation
(D) Vanity Fair

3. The period of Queen Victoria‟s reign is

(A) 1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(C) 1830–1901
(D) 1837–1900

4. Which of the following statements about

The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true?
(A) It carried only one ballad proper, which
was Coleridge‟s The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.
(B) It also carried pastoral and other poems.
(C) It carried a “Preface” which Wordsworth
added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray‟s Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard.

5. One of the following texts was published earlier

than 1955. Identify the text:
(A) William Golding, the Inheritors
(B) Philip Larkin, the Less Deceived
(C) William Empson, Collected Poems
(D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot

6. Who among the poets in England during the

1930s had left–leaning tendencies?
(A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard
Aldington
(B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert
Brooke
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil
Day Lewis
(D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh

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13. The Puritans shut down all theatres in

7. Match the following: England in
1. The Sage of Concord 5. Emily Dickinson (A) 1642
2. The Nun of Amherst 6. R.W. Emerson (B) 1640
3. Mark Twain 7. T.S. Eliot (C) 1659
4. Old Possum 8. Samuel L. Clemens (D) 1660

(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7 14. Who of the following was not a
(B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8 contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge?
(C) 1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5 (A) Robert Southey
(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6 (B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
(D) A. C. Swinburne
8. Name the theorist who divided poets into
“strong” and “weak” and popularized the 15. Which of the following statements
practice of misreading: about Waiting for Godot is NOT true?
(A) Alan Bloom 1. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
(B) Harold Bloom acts”.
(C) Geoffrey Hartman 2. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
(D) Stanley Fish scenes”.
3. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
9. In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly parts”.
compares Belinda to 4. It does not carry a subtitle.
(A) The sun
(B) The moon (A) 4
(C) The North Star (B) 2
(D) The rose (C) 3
(D) 1
10. Which of the following awards is not given
to Indian–English writers? 16. The Bloomsbury Group included British
(A) The Booker Prize intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who
(B) The Sahitya Akademi Award among the following belonged to the
(C) The Gyanpeeth Bloomsbury Group?
(D) Whitbread Prize I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell III.
11. Identify the correct statement below: Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter
Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton‟s Pater
Needle are tragedies.
(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph (A) I and II
Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton‟s Needle (B) I
are comedies. (C) II and III
(C) All of them are problem plays. (D) IV
(D) All of them are farces.
17. Who, among the following is credited with the
12. W.M. Thackeray‟s Vanity Fair owes its making of the first authoritative Dictionary of the
title to English Language?
(A) Browning‟s Fifine at the Fair (A) Bishop Berkeley
(B) Shakespeare‟s Merchant of Venice (B) Samuel Johnson
(C) Goldsmith‟s Vicar of Wakefield (C) Edmund Burke
(D) Bunyan‟s Pilgrim‟s Progress (D) Horace Walpole

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18. In Dryden‟s Essay of Dramatic Poesy neglect of free will.
(1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of
the ancients? 23. Which Shakespearean play contains the
(A) Lisideius line: “...there is a special providence in the fall
(B) Crites of a sparrow”?
(C) Eugenius (A) King Lear
(D) Neander (B) Hamlet
(C) Coriolanus
19. The term invective refers to (D) Macbeth
(A) The abusive writing or speech in which
there is harsh denunciation of some person or 24. Match the following pairs of books and
thing. authors:
(B) An insulting writing attack upon a real Books
person, in verse or prose, usually involving
caricature and ridicule. Authors
(C) A written or spoken text in which an I. Condition of the Working
apparently straightforward statement or event is Class in England i. John Ruskin
undermined in its context so as to give it a very II. London Labour and
different significance. the London Poor ii. Henry
(D) The chanting or reciting of words deemed Mayhew
to have magical power. III. Past and
Present iii. Thomas
20. Which of the following novels depicts the Carlyle
plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East IV. Theunto This Last iv. Friedrich
London? Engels
(A) How far can you go
(B) The White Teeth Codes:
(C) An Equal Music I II III IV
(D) Brick Lane (A) iv i ii iii
(B) iv ii iii i
21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial year for (C) ii iv i ii
two important writers in England. Identify the (D) iii ii iv iv
correct phrase below:
(A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left 25. In which of the following texts do Aston,
England for the U. S. Davies and Mick appear as
(B) For Eliot who started publishing verse– characters?
drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were (A) Wyndham Lewis‟s Enemy
published. (B) Harold Pinter‟s Caretaker
(C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, (C) Katherine Mansfield‟s “Life of Ma
each for publishing his first novels. Parker”
(D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and (D) Graham Greene‟s Brighton Rock
Orwell who published his Animal Farm.
26. What is common to the following writers?
22. The Enlightenment was characterized Identify the correct description below:
by
William Congreve
(A) Accelerated industrial production and George Etherege
general well–being of the public. William Wycherley
(B) A belief in the universal authority of Thomas Otway
reason and emphasis on scientific
experimentation.
(C) The Protestant work ethic and compliance
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(A) All of these were Restoration playwrights 32. Which of the following author– theme is
(B) All of them were critics of Orwell‟s correctly matched?
regime (A) The Battle of the Books- Tribute to “The
(C) All of them edited Shakespeare‟s plays rude forefathers of the hamlet”.
(D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same (B) The Rape of the Lock- Quarrel between
age ancient and modern authors.
(C) Gray‟s “Elegy”-Accumulation of wealth
27. In which Jane Austen novel do you find the and the consequent loss of human lives and
characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, values.
Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth? (D) The Deserted Village- Quarrel between
(A) Emma two families caused by Lord Petre.
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion 33. Which among the following titles set a course
(D) Northanger Abbey for academic literary feminism?
(A) Nostromo
28. In which of his essays does Homi (B) From Ritual to Romance
Bhabha discuss the „discovery‟ of English (C) A Room of One‟s Own
in colonial India? (D) A Dance to the Music of Time
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry” 34. In which play do we see a reworking of
(C) Nation and Narration E.M.Forster‟s A Passage to India as a
(D) “The Commitment to Theory” camaeo?
(A) The Birthday Party
29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in (B) A Resounding Tinkle
English. (C) Indian Ink
(A) Edmund Spenser‟s Amoretti (D) Amadeus
(B) Philip Sidney‟s Astrophel and Stella
(C) Samuel Daniel‟s Delia 35. Shakespeare‟s sonnets
(D) Michael Drayton‟s Idea‟s Mirror (A) Do not carry a dedication.
(B) Are dedicated to James I of England.
30. Which is the correct sequence of the (C) Are dedicated to Mary Arden.
novels of V.S. Naipaul? (D) Are dedicated to an unknown “Mr. W.H.”
(A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The
Suffrage of Elvira – A House for Mr. Biswas. 36. Which of the following poems uses
(B) Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A terzarima?
House for Mr.Biswas – The Suffrage of Elvira. (A) John Keats‟s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street – (B) P.B. Shelley‟s “Ode to the West Wind”
The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas. (C) William Wordsworth‟s “The Solitary
(D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of Reaper”
Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr. Biswas. (D) Alfred Tennyson‟s “Ulysses”

31. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from 37. When one says that “someone is no more”
(A) Samuel Purchas‟ Purchas His Pilgrimage or that “someone has breathed his/ her last”,
(B) Hakluyt‟s Voyages the speaker is resorting to
(C) The Book Named the Governour (A) Euphism
(D) Sir Thomas More‟s Utopia (B) Euphony
(C) Understatement
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38. Which of the following are “companion (B) The Deserted Village – A Poison Tree –
poems”? Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets” (C) The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree –
(B) “L‟Allegro” and “II Penseroso” The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun (D) The Deserted Village – The Blessed
Rising” Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! The
Lark” 45. The term homology means a
correspondence between two or more
39. What does the term episteme signify? structures. Who of the following developed a
(A) Knowledge theory of relations between literary works and
(B) Archive social classes in terms of homologies
(C) Theology (A) Raymond Williams
(D) Scholarship (B) Christopher Caudwell
(C) Lucien Goldmann
40. Which of the following is a better definition (D) Antonio Gramsci
of an image in literary writing?
(A) A reflection 46. F. Turner‟s famous hypothesis is that
(B) A speaking picture (A) The Frontier has outlived its ideological
(C) A refraction utility in American civilization.
(D) A reflected picture (B) The Frontier has posed a challenge to the
American creative imagination.
41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime (C) The Frontier has been the one great
example of „negative capability‟? determinant of American civilization.
(A) John Milton (D) The Frontier has been the one great
(B) William Wordsworth deterrent to American progress.
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley 47. Which statement(s) below on the
Spenserian stanza is/are accurate?
42. Charles Dickens‟s A Tale of Two Cities I. A quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative
begins with the sentence II. A stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter
(A) It was the best of times; it was the worst of III. An eight–line stanza in iambic pentameter
times. followed by a ninth in six iambic feet
(B) It was the brightest of times; it was the IV. An eight–line stanza with six use of
darkest of times. figurative language. Iambic feet followed by a
(C) It was the richest of times; it was the ninth in iambic pentameter
poorest of times.
(D) It was the happiest of times; it was the (A) I and II
saddest of times. (B) II
(C) III
43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were (D) IV
published posthumously by
(A) Edwin Muir 48. Match the following texts with their
(B) Edward Thomas respective themes:
(C) Robert Bridges I.Areopagitica (Milton) i. Fashion, courtship,
(D) Coventry Patmore seduction
II. Leviathan (Hobbes) ii.The liberty For
44. Which of the following is the correct Unlicensed Printing
chronological sequence? III. Alexander‟s Feast
(A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – (Dryden) iii. Absolute Sovereignty IV. The
The Blessed Damozel– Ozymandias Way of The

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World (Congreve) iv. The power of

music

Codes:
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii i ii

49. The preliminary version of James

Joyce‟s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
was called
(A) Stephen Hero
(B) Bloom‟s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
(D) The Dead

50.
(i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic
elements or subjects borrowed from other
works.
(ii) It is distinguished from parody because
not all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a „purple
passage‟.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style,
especially in its

(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.

(B) Only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) Only (iv) is correct.

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DECEMBER 2012 PAPER III

5.
1. Which of the following book by V. S. The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The
Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean Revisited? University Wits – The Rhymers‟ Club –
(A) In a Free State
The Transitional Poets – The Scottish
(B) A Bend in the River
Chaucerians.
(C) The Middle Passage
The right chronological sequence would be
(D) An Area of Darkness
(A) The Scottish Chaucerians – The
2. „Fluency‟ in language is the same as
University Wits – The Transitional Poets –
(A) The ability to put oneself across The Pre- Raphaelite brotherhood – The
comfortably in speech and/or writing. Rhymers‟ Club.
(B) The ability to command language rather (B) The Rhymers‟ Club, The University Wits
than language commanding the user.
(C) Glibness – The Scottish Chaucerians – The Transitional
(D) Accuracy Poets, The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.
(C) The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The
Rhymers‟ Club – The Transitional Poets, The
3. Which of the following statements on
Pathetic Fallacy is NOT TRUE? Scottish Chaucerians –The University Wits.
(A) This term applies to descriptions that are (D) The University Wits, The Scottish
Chaucerians – The Pre-Raphaelite
not true but imaginary and fanciful.
brotherhood, The Transitional Poets – The
(B) Pathetic Fallacy is generally understood as
human traits being applied or attributed to non- Rhymers‟ Club.
human things in nature.
6. „Aucitya‟ refers to:
(C) In its first use, the term was used with
disapproval because nature cannot be equated I. Decorum
with the human in respect of emotions and II. Propriety
responses. III.
(D) The term was originally used by Proportion
Alexander Pope in his Pastorals (1709). IV. Accuracy

4. Identify the correctly matched group: (A) I and IV are correct.

List – I List – II (B) I and III are correct.
i. „L‟ Allegro and (C) II is correct.
„IlPensoro so‟ 1. Pastoral elegy (D) II and IV are correct.
ii. „Lycidas‟ 2. Masque
iii. Comus 3. Sonnet 7. In the closing paragraph of The Trial two
iv. „On His Blindness‟ 4. Prose tract men accompany Joseph K to a part of the city
v. Areopagitica 5. Companion to eventually execute him. The place is
poems (A) A Public Park
in octo-syllabic (B) A Church
couplets (C) A Quarry
Codes: (D) An Abandoned Factory
i ii iii iv v
(A)12345
(B)51234
(C)13245
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8. Match List – I with List – II according to the 12. In his preface to The Order of Things,
code given below: List – II Foucault mentions being influenced by a Latin
List – I (Work) American writer and his work.
(Character) Choose the correct answer:
i. Telemachus 1. Notes from (A) Marquez – “The Solitude of Latin
underground America”
ii. Anya 2. Old Goriot (B) Borges – “Chinese Encyclopaedia”
iii. Zverkov 3. The Cherry Orchard (C) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
iv. Rastignac 4. The Odyssey (D) Alejo Carpentier – “On the Marvelous in
America”
Codes:
i ii iii iv 13. Here is a list of Partition novels which have
(A) 4123 „violence on the woman‟s body‟ as a significant
(B) 3142 theme. Pick the odd one out:
(C) 2413 (A) The Pakistani Bride
(D) 4312 (B) What the Body Remembers
(C) Train to Pakistan
9. This renowned German poet was born in Prague (D) The Ice-Candy Man
and died of Leukemia. When young he met Tolstoy
and was influenced 14. Match the translators in List – I with the
by him. The titles of his last two works contain English translations of Indian Literature texts in
the words “sonnets” and “elegies”. List – II according to the code given below:
He is
(A) Herman Hesse List – I List – II
(B) Heinrich Heine i. K.B. Vaid 1. Says Tuka
(C) Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff ii. O.V. Vijayan 2. The Diary of a Maid
(D) Raine Marie Rilke Servant
iii. Dilip Chitre 3. Samskara
10. Which of the following plays gained iv. A.K. Ramanujan 4. Saga of Dharmapuri
notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher
Socrates? Codes:
(A) The Birds i ii iii iv
(B) The Wasps (A) 4123
(C) The Clouds (B) 3214
(D) The Frogs (C) 2413
(D) 1234
11. Raskolnikov murders the old lady:
I. To get her money and achieve his ambition 15. In his poem “A Morning Walk” Nissim Ezekiel
in life. talks about a „Barbaric City sick with slums /
II. To achieve his political goal as an Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains / its
extremist and a nihilist hawkers, beggars,
III. To prove his superiority over other ironlunged/ Processions led by frantic drums.‟
young men of the time. Identify the city:
IV. All of the above (A) Calcutta
Find the correct combination according to the (B) Banares
code: (C) Bombay
(D) Agra
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) I, II and III are correct.

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16. In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards links Find the most appropriate combination
four kinds of meanings in most human according to the code:
utterances to four aspects. These are
(A) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention (A) I and II are correct.
(B) Sound, Feeling, Nuance, Intention (B) I and III are correct.
(C) Sense, Voice, Emotion, Intention (C) I and IV are correct.
(D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention (D) I, III and IV are correct.

17. In „Christabel‟ after Geraldine enters Sir 21. In Aristotle‟s Poetics we read that it is the
Leoline‟s castle on her way to Christabel‟s imitation of an action that is complete
chamber there are several ill omens which warn the and whole, and of a certain magnitude….having
reader about Geraldine. Pick out the phrase which a beginning, a middle, and an end‟. What is
does „it‟?
not serve as an omen: (A) Tragedy
(A)The „angry moan‟ of the ailing mastiff (B) Epic
bitch (C) Poetry
(B) „The Owlet‟s Scritch‟ (D) Farce
(C) „The Moaning Wind‟
(D) „A tongue of light, a fit of flame‟ 22. According to Matthew Arnold,
„touchstones‟ help us test truth and
18. The word resurrect is seriousness that constitute the best poetry.
(A) An abbreviation What are the „touchstones‟?
(B) A spurious verb (A) The purple passages of lyric poetry
(C) A back-formation (B) Passages from ancient poets
(D) A disguised compound (C) The lines and expressions of the great
masters
19. Match List – I with List – II according to (D) Passages of epic strength and vigour
the code given below:
List – I List – II 23. „An extremely simplified form of language used
i. Annie John 1. Picaresque for oral, verbal contact among a community whose
ii. Tom Jones 2. members speak different languages but do not share a
Bildungsroman common language in order to fulfill the
iii. The Sorrows of Young Werther 3. Gothic essential needs of communication.‟
iv. Vathek 4. Epistolary Which of the following is best described by
this definition?
(A) Creole
Codes: (B) Pidgin
i ii iii iv (C) Dialect
(A) 1234 (D) Lingua franca
(B) 2143
(C) 4321 24. What do the prosodic features of a
(D) 3412 language tell us?
(A) The speaker‟s native language and its
20. Ted Hughes‟s poem „The Thought- cognate languages.
Fox‟ is (B) The speaker‟s age, emotional state, social
I. About Thought as Fox class, educational background, geographical
II. about the Fox as Thought provenance etc.
III. About the process of writing poetry. (C) The speaker‟s self-confidence or lack of
IV. About Thought entering the poet‟s brain it.
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(D) The speaker‟s command of the resources (D) William Tyndall‟s New Testament
of the language spoken by him/her and their – The Norman Conquest – The Death
deployment. of Geoffrey Chaucer – The Birth of
William Shakespeare
25. What novel answers to the following
descriptions? 29. Which of the following arrangements is in the
This was a 1990 best-seller by a British writer. correct chronological sequence?
The work incorporates many genres such as (A) Mary Wellstone Craft‟s A
letters, diaries and poetry as also Vindication of the Rights of Woman –
third-person narratives. The plot here involves Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and
two time-periods – contemporary and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with
Victorian. The work is subtitled A Romance. „Preface‟, second edition by
(A) The Virgin in the Garden Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund
(B) Possession Burke‟s Reflections on the Revolution
(C) The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress in France.
(D) The Sea Lady (B) Edmund Burke‟s Reflections on
the Revolution in France – Mary
26. The following words and phrases, Wollstone Craft‟s A Vindication of
„peace makers‟, „help-meet‟, „the fat of the the Rights of Woman – Lyrical Ballads
land‟, „a labour of love‟, „the eleventh hour‟ by Wordsworth and Coleridge
and „the shadow of death‟ were made current – Lyrical Ballads with „Preface‟,
by second edition by Wordsworth and
(A) The British Greek scholars like Roger Coleridge.
Ascham (C) Lyrical Ballads with „Preface‟,
(B) The fifteenth century British prelates second edition by Wordsworth and
(C) The Puritan tractarians Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads by
(D) The sixteen-century translators of the Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund
Bible Burke‟s Reflections on, the
Revolution in France – Mary
Wollstone Craft‟s A Vindication of
27. Who among the following writers asserted
the Rights of Woman.
„Commonwealth Literature‟ does not exist?
(D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth
(A) Amitav Ghosh
and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with
(B) Sulman Rushdie
„Preface‟, second edition by
(C) V.S. Naipaul
Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund
(D) Nirad Chaudhari
Burke‟s Reflections on the Revolution in
France – Mary Wollstone Craft‟s A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
28.Identifytheoneincorrect
chronological sequence: 30. Who is John Keats‟s „Sylvan
(A) The Norman Conquest – The Historian‟?
Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – William (A) Fanny Brawne
Tyndall‟s New Testament – The Birth (B) Nightingale
of William Shakespeare (C) The Grecian Urn
(B) The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – (D) The Bridge of Quietness
William Tyndall‟s New Testament –
The Birth of William Shakespeare – 31. This periodical was started in 1709 with
The Norman Conquest a motive „to expose the false arts of life, to
(C) The Norman Conquest –William pull the disguise of cunning, vanity and
Tyndall‟s New Testament – The affectation, and to recommend a general
Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The simplicity in our dress, our discourse and
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periodical wrote under the pseudonym of Isaac famous essay is called „Mr. Bennet and Mrs.
Bickerstaff. The periodical described above is Brown‟. Who is Mrs. Brown?
(A) The Tatler (A) The name Woolf gives a woman whom
(B) The Spectator she happens to meet in a train.
(C) The Critical Review (B) A servant in Mr. Bennett‟s household.
(D) The Rambler (C) A character in a Bennett story.
(D) Mr. Bennett‟s neighbour who happens to
32. Arrange the following in the order in which be a writer.
the details of a research article / essay appear in
your bibliography. 36. E.M. Forster uses some recurrent images
(A) Page numbers, the title of the in A Passage to India. Pick the odd one out:
essay, the title of the journal, volume & (A) Wasp
issue numbers, year of publication (B) Stone
(B) The title of the essay, page (C) Thunder
numbers, the title of the journal, (D) Echo
volume and issue numbers, year of
publication 37. „Now stop your noses, readers, all and some,
(C) The title of the journal, the title of For here‟s a tun of midnight-work to
the essay, page numbers, volume and come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling
issue numbers, year of publication home. Round as a globe, and liquor‟dev‟ry
(D) The title of the essay, the title of the chink Goodly and great he rails behind his
journal, volume & issue numbers, the link‟.
year of publication, page numbers
In the above extract from Absalom and
Achitophel Og is
33. From the following indicate the work (A) Elkanah Settle
which is not a Dystopia: (B) Lord Harvey
(A) Aldous Huxley – A Brave New World (C) Thomas Shadwell
(B) George Orwell – 1984 (D) Joseph Addison
(C) Yevgeny Zamyatin– We
(D) Evelyn Waugh – Brideshed Revisited 38. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression „a
bright book of life‟ to describe
34. „Unless wariness be used, as good almost (A) The novel
(B) The dramatic monologue
kill a man as kill a good book.
(C) The Bible
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, (D) The short lyric
God‟s image, but he who destroys
a good book, kills reason itself, kills the 39. Identify the correctly matched group:
image of God as it were in the eye. Many a List – I List – II
man lives a burden to the earth; but a good I.Where Angles Fear to Tread 1. Malay
book is the precious life-blood of a master ii.A Portrait of the Artist as a
spirit….‟ Young Man 2. Russia
Where is the passage from? iii.The Plumed Serpent 3. Italy
(A) Milton‟s Areopagitica iv.An Outcast of the Islands 4. Mexico
(B) Sidney‟s Apologie for Poetry v.Under Western Eyes 5. Dublin
(C) Dryden‟s „Preface to the Fables‟
(D) Marvell‟s The Rehearsal Transposed Codes:
i ii iii iv v
35. Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of (A)35412
character and the understanding of (B)43521
realism of writers like Arnold Bennett, (C)54321
John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her (D)21345

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From forth day‟s path and Titan‟s

40. Given below are two statements, one burning wheels.‟
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled (Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 – 4)
as Reason (R). The speaker describes
Assertion (A): Chaucer describes (A) The Setting Sun
„Madame Eglentyne‟ thus: „She was so (B) The Return Home of a Drunkard
charitable and so pitous, She wolde (C) The Drawing of a New Day
wepe, if that she sawe a mous caught (D) The Rising Sun
in atrappe‟
Reason (R): On her „broche of gold full 44. „How noble in reason! How infinitein faculty!
shene‟ was written Amor Vincit In form and moving how express
Omnia. and admirable! In action how like anangel!
In apprehension how like a God!‟
In the context of the two statements, which What does Hamlet marvel at in this passage?
one of the following is correct?
(A) His own self
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the (B) His father
correct explanation of (A). (C) Man
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but(R) is not the (D) Woman
correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. 45. Said identifies Orientalism as:
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true. I. What an Orientalist does.
II. A style of thought based on anontological
41. Identify the correct statements on and epistemological distinction made between
Langue and Parole below: the Orient and the Occident.
1. Langue is the abstract language system, the III. a discourse dealing with the Orient
grammar of a language. IV. a fact of nature rather than oneof human
2. Parole is the language actually produced by production
its user following langue. In the light of the statement above:
3. Langue is the language actually produced (A) II and III are correct, I and IVare wrong.
by its users following parole. (B) I and III are correct, II and IV are wrong.
4. Parole is the abstract language system, the (C) I, II and III are correct and IV is wrong.
grammar of a system. (D) IV is correct and I, II and III are wrong.

(A) 1 and 3 are correct. 46. Identify the period during which the
(B) 1 and 2 are correct. Puritans under the rule of Oliver Cromwell and
(C) 2 and 3 are correct. his Commonwealth shut down all English
(D) 2 and 4 are correct. theatres on religious and moral grounds:
(A) 1640-1660
42. In Monica Ali‟s Brick Lane which (B) 1649-1660
among the following characters has „a face (C) 1649-1659
like a frog‟? (D) 1640-1659
(A) Nazneen
(B) Chanu 47. “To tell the truth Shug act more manly
(C) Hasina than rest, men. I means she upright,
(D) Karim honest, speak her mind…”What light does
the quotation throwon ShugAvery?
43. „The grey-eyed morn smiles on the (A) She is a manly woman.
frowning night, Check‟ring the eastern clouds (B) She is upright and honest in asserting her
with streaks of light; and flecked darkness like lesbian identity.
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(D) Both (B) and (C) (B) Ambiguous and indeterminate

(C) Suggestive of both forward and backward
48. movements in terms of sense
1. A content word is not a function word. (D) Suggestive of links but equivocally
2. A content word has lesser meaning than a
function word. 53. Readers of Tayeb Salih‟s Seasons of
3. A content word has no function. Migration to the North will undoubtedly notice its
4. A content word bears lexical meaning parallels with the story/stories of:
whereas a function word just about means I. Death in Venice
functionally. II. Othello
Which of these statements are correct? III. Bartleby the Scrivener
(A) 1 and 4 are correct. IV. Heart of Darkness
(B) 1 and 2 are correct. Of the above:
(C) 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct. (A) I and II are correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
49. The year 1828 is a landmark in the history (C) II and III are correct.
of American language and literature. Identify (D) II and IV are correct.
the reason from the
following: 54. Which statement is not true of Benedict
(A) Mark twain‟s The Adventures of Anderson‟s Imagined Communities?
Huckleberry Finn was published in that year. (A) It is a prosaic response to the
(B) The Southern Literary Messenger gained myth of El Dorado.
wide circulation since that year. (B) It is subtitled Reflections on the
(C) Washington Irving was adjudged the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
nation‟s greatest writer in that year. (C) In this book, Anderson advances
(D) Noah Webster published An American the view that nations are not natural
Dictionary of the English Language in that entities but narrative constructs.
year. (D) In Anderson‟s view, modern
nationalism was basically a
50. What alternative title to her Frankenstein consequence of the convergence of
did Marry Shelley give? capitalism, the new print technology
(A) A Gothic Tale and the fixity that resulted from print
(B) A Gothic Romance extending to „Vernacular‟ languages.
(C) The Modern Prometheus
(D) A Modern Parable 55. „By swaggering could I never thrive, for the
rain it raineth everyday. ‟These
51. Which of the following statements on lines from Twelfth Night occur in the
George Lamming‟s In the Castle ofMy novel:
Skin [1953] is not true? (A) Middlemarch
(A) On one level this is a coming of-age (B) Vanity Fair
story. (C) Our Mutual Friend
(B) It is an elegiac account of a village‟s (D) Far From the Madding Crowd
growth into awareness in the late colonial
period. 56. What is a mock-heroic poem?
(C) Its themes parody The Tempest. A mock-heroic poem
(D) This was George Lamming‟s first novel. (A) Mocks at heroic pretensions in poets and
critics
52. We are likely to misunderstand an (B) Mocks heroism, an exaggerated virtue in
Emily Dickinson poem if we take her all epics
famous dashes to be … (C) Uses a heroic style to deride airs and
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(D) Uses a mocking style to deride heroes and 60. “There is nothing outside the text,” is a
hero-worship statement by
(A) Victor Shklovsky
57. Which of the following statements is not (B) Jacques Derrida
true of Laurence Sterne‟s Tristram Shandy? (C) Roland Barthes
(A) It has a linear plot. (D) Ferdinand de Saussure
(B) It opens and ends with the theme of birth.
(C) It contains a trip to France. 61. Here is a list of women abandoned by
(D) It contains a marbled page. their lovers in Hardy‟s novels.
Pick the odd one out:
58. In drama, an aside is addressed… (A) Fanny Robin
(A) To an audience by an actor; the words so (B) Tess D‟Urberville
spoken are not meant to be heard by other (C) Marty South
actors on the stage. (D) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) To other actors on the stage; the words so
spoken are not meant to be heard by the 62. What is the following a description of?
audience. „A loose sally of the mind; an irregular
(C) By the playwright to the audience. indigested piece‟
(D) By the protagonist to his/her antagonist (A) Essay
(B) Autobiography
59. Match List – I with List – II according to (C) Epistolary Fiction
the code given below: (D) Diary
List – I List – II
(Novels) (Last 63. From the following indicate the critic who
Lines) is not a New Critic:
i. The Mayor of (A) Allen Tate
Casterbridge 1. „He walked towards (B) Robert Penn Warren
the Faintly humming, (C) Cleanth Brooks
Glowing town, (D) Claude Levi-Strauss
quickly.‟
ii. Sons and Lovers 2. „In their death, 64. From the following list, pick out a
they were not divided.‟ woman character who does not belong to
iii. The Great Gatsby 3. „Happiness was Amitav Ghosh‟s novels:
but the occasional (A) Ila
episode in a general (B) Urvashi
drama of pain.‟ (C) Sonali
iv. The Mill on the (D) Piyali
Floss 4. „So we beat on, boats
against the current, 65. Pick the odd man out of the following
borne back ceaselessly members of the subaltern group:
into the past.‟ (A) Ranajit Guha
Codes: (B) Partha Chatterjee
i ii iii iv (C) DipeshChakrabarty
(A) 1234 (D) Sumit Sarkar
(B) 2134
(C) 4321 66. Statement (S): “Our birth is but a sleep
(D) 3142 and forgetting.”
Interpretation (I): The human soul never
tires in the course of life, it never dies.
Therefore, the human life is a long sleep and
ephemeral events are better forgotten.
(A) (S) is a view and (I) is not correct.

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(B) (S) is a view and (I) is correct. 71. Why is The Signifying Monkey of Henry
(C) (S) is a poetic view; the (I) does not suit Louis Gates JR. a notable contribution to the
it. study of African-American literature?
(D) (S) is a poetic view and bears no (A) It focuses on largely neglected African-
relationship to (I). American novelists and poets.
(B) It offers a theory of African- American
67. „The parish of rich women, physical criticism that draws upon rhetorical and
decay, / yourself…‟ signifying practices.
What do these make of W.B. Yeats in W.H. (C) It offers a theory of African- American films
Auden‟s view? and dramatic arts that signify Black ethos.
(A) Proud (D) It departs from critical theory of
(B) Vainglorious autobiographical narratives involving Black
(C) Avaricious lives and cultural traditions.
(D) Silly
72. This influential critic
68. Who among Charles Dickens‟s I. wrote influential commentaries on
characters is „umble‟ and who „willin‟? such poets as Shelley, Blake and
(A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp Yeats.
(B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby II. Published such titles as The
(C) Martin, Little Nell Anxiety of Influence, A Map of
(D) Uriah Heep, Barkis Misreading, Poetry and Repression and
The Western Canon.
69. “Fourth World Literature” refers to III. Asserted that most literary
I. The works of native people living in a land criticism is but slightly disguised religion
that has been taken over by non-natives. and
II. The works of black people in the United IV. Is, arguably, the most widely known
States. and contrarian among his American
III. The literature of the marginalized. peers in the English Academy.
IV. Refers to the works of non heterosexuals
Of the above: Identify the critic
(A) Edward Said
(A) I and II are correct. (B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(B) I and III are correct. (C) Harold Bloom
(C) II and IV are correct. (D) Sven Birkrets
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
73. According to the Italian Marxist theorist
70. Assertion (A): In The Duchess of Malfi Antonio Gramsci:
Ferdinand sets a whole group of mad men on
the (A) Hegemony is synonymous with
Duchess and they dance and sing in a crazy domination
manner. (B) Hegemony involves a degree of consent
Reason (R): His desire was to provide a strange on the part of subject people.
entertainment to drive the Duchess mad. (C) Hegemony involves a degree of coercion
In the context of the two statements, which on the part of a dominant political entity.
one of the following is correct? (D) Hegemony is synonymous with
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong. subjugation
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
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74. Match the following: i.

George Peele,
Robert Greene,
Thomas Lodge,
Thomas Kyd 1. The Rhymers‟ Club /
The
Decadents of the
1890‟s
ii. William Congreve,
William Wycherley
George Eltherege,
George Farquha 2. The Pre- Raphaelite
Brotherhood
iii. John Everett Millais,
James Collinson, Ford
Madox Brown,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 3. The University Wits
iv. Ernest Dowson,
Lionel Johnson,
W.B. Yeats 4. The Restoration
Playwrights
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3214
(B) 1432
(C) 2143
(D) 3421

75. Combine the statements correctly:

According to Homi Bhabha________
1. Mimicry is not mere copying or emulating
the colonizer‟s culture, behaviour and
manners.
2. But it is further aimed at perfection and
excess.
3. Mimicry is mere copying the colonizer‟s
culture, behaviour and manners…
4. But is informed by both mockery and a
certain menace.

(A) 1 and 4
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 3 and 4
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DECEMBER 2013 PAPER III. a witness to masculine oppression

IV. bubbling with vitality
II Find the correct combination according to the
code:
1. ____ the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self! (A) I, II and III are correct.
Which word? (B) I, II and IV are correct.
(A) Bird (C) I, III and IV are correct.
(B) Immortal (D) II, III and IV are correct.
(C) Forlorn
(D) Fancy 6. The novel tells the story of twin brothers,
Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and
2. In poems like “The Altar” and “Easter Arthur, the innocent half-wit, the way their lives
Wings” ________ exploits _______. are inextricably intertwined. Which is the novel?
(A) John Donne, alliteration (A) The Tree of Man
(B) Robert Herrick, trimetre (B) Voss
(C) G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm (C) The Solid Mandala
(D) George Herbert, typographic space (D) The Vivisector

3. No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of 7. Who among the following was NOT a
hours! member of the Scriblerus Club?
For what wears out the life of mortal (A) Thomas Parnell
men? (B) Alexander Pope
„Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, (C) Joseph Addison
Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And (D) John Gay
numb the elastic powers …
Who does the poet address here? 8. _______ is a theological term brought into
(A) The Scholar Gipsy literary criticism by _______.
(B) Telemachus (A) Entelechy, St. Augustine
(C) The Nightingale (B) Ambiguity, William Empson
(D) The Poet‟s Sister, Dorothy (C) Adequation, Fr Walter Ong
(D) Epiphany, James Joyce
4. The roman a clef (French for “novel with a
key”) uses contemporary historical figures as its 9. ________ the Almighty Power Hurled
chief characters. They are of headlong flaming from th‟ Ethereal Sky,
course given fictional names. One example is Aldous With hideous ruin and combustion down
Huxley‟s Point Counter Point. To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
Its Mark Rampion is modelled on In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who
M_______. durst defy th‟ Omnipotent to Arms.
(A) D.H. Lawrence (Paradise Lost, I.44-49.)
(B) E.M. Forster Choose the appropriate word:
(C) Wyndham Lewis (A) Him
(D) Arnold Bennett (B) He
(C) Satan
5. She was a worthy woman al hir lyve, (D) The Fiend
Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde
fyve, 10. Which of the following works does not have a
mad woman as a character in it?
In the „Prologue‟ Chaucer represents the (A) The Yellow Wallpaper
Wife of Bath as: (B) The Mad Woman in the Attic
(C) Jane Eyre
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(D) Wide Sargasso Sea 16. “The story and the novel, the idea and the
form, are the needle and thread, and I never
11. Which of the following is NOT a quest heard of a guild of tailors who recommended the
narrative? use of the thread
(A) Shelley‟s Alastor without the needle, or the needle without the
(B) Byron‟s Manfred thread.”
(C) Coleridge‟s Christabel This famous passage describing the relation of
(D) Keats‟s Endymion idea to form is found in
(A) Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
12. The novel has a scene where African (B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia
American students are made to compete and fight Literaria
with each other as they rush for the gold coins (C) Henry James, “The Art of Fiction”
tossed on an electric blanket. Identify the novel. (D) I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary
(A) Richard Wright: Native Son Criticism
(B) James Baldwin: Another Country
(C) Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man 17. Identify the correctly matched set
(D) Toni Morrison: Bluest Eye below:
(A) The Norman Conquest – 1066 William
13. G.M. Hopkins‟s “Windhover” is Caxton and the introduction of printing – 1575
dedicated: The King James Bible – 1611
(A) To Christ, our Lord Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1755
(B) To Christ our lord The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate
(C) To no one – 1649-1660
(D) To Christ, the Lord (B) The Norman Conquest – 1066
William Caxton and the introduction of
14. Match List – I with List – II according to printing – 1475
the code given below: The King James Bible – 1611
List – I (Authors) List – II (Poems) Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary - 1755
i. Ted Hughes 1. “The Otter” The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate
ii. Seamus Heaney 2. “Snake” – 1649-1660
iii. W.H. Auden 3. “Ghost Crabs” (C) The Norman Conquest – 1016
iv. D.H. Lawrence 4. “Prevent the Dog William Caxton and the introduction of
from Barking with a Juicy Bone.” printing- 1475
Codes: The King James Bible – 1564
i ii iii iv Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary -1780
(A) 1243 The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate
(B) 2314 – 1649-1660
(C) 3142 (D) The Norman Conquest – 1013
(D) 3214 William Caxton and the introduction of
printing – 1575
15. His cooks with long disuse their trade The King James Bible – 1627
forgot; Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1746
Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate
hot. – 1624-1660
Who is this character whose stinginess passed
into a proverb? 18. Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is
(A) Corah (A) a Great War veteran
(B) Shimei (B) a Dublin bar owner
(C) Zimri (C) a Jewish advertising agent
(D) Achitophel (D) an Irish nationalist

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19. “Late capitalism”, by which is meant accelerated Against their bridal day, which is not
technological development and the massive extension long;
of intellectually qualified labour, was first popularised Sweet Thames! run softly till I end my
by song.
______. (Spenser‟s Prothalamion)
(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Ernst Mandel Another poet fondly recalls these lines but
(C) Raymond Williams cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone in:
(D) Stanley Fish (A) Marianne Moore‟s “Spenser‟s Ireland”
(B) Sylvia Plath‟s “Morning Song”
20. Which of the following arrangements is in (C) W.H. Auden‟s “In Praise of Limestone”
the correct chronological sequence? (D) T.S. Eliot‟s Waste Land
(A) Native Son by Richard Wright –
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Their 23. The tramp in Pinter‟s first big hit, The
Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neil Caretaker, often travels under an assumed
Hurston – Another Country by James name. It is
Baldwin (A) Bernard Jenkins
(B) Their Eyes Were Watching God (B) Roly Jenkins
by Zora Neil Hurston – Native Son by (C) Jack Jenkins
Richard Wright – Invisible Man by (D) Peter Jenkins
Ralph Ellison – Another Country by
James Baldwin 24. Here is a list of early English plays imitating
(C) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison – Greek and Latin plays. Pick the odd one out:
Native Son by Richard Wright – (A) Gorboduc
Another Country by James Baldwin – (B) Tamburlaine
Their Eyes Were Watching God by (C) Ralph Roister Doister
Zora Neil Hurston (D) Gammer Gurton‟s Needle
(D) Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neil Hurston – Another 25. Where does Act I Scene 1 of William
Country by James Baldwin – Native Congreve‟s Way of the World open?
Son by Richard Wright – Invisible Man (A) A Chocolate-House
by Ralph Ellison (B) A Pub
(C) A Carrefour
21. Metaphor is so widespread that it is often used as (D) The drawing room of Sir Willfull‟s
an umbrella term to include other figures of speech mansion
such as metonyms which can be technically
distinguished from it in its narrower usage. 26. While “a well-boiled icicle” for “a well-oiled
Identify the metaphorical phrase in this bicycle” is an example of Spoonerism, someone
sentence: saying “Congenital food” for „Continental food‟ is
(A) narrower usage
an example of ______.
(B) technically distinguished
(A) Malaproprism
(C) figures of speech
(B) Pleonasm
(D) umbrella term
(C) Neologism
(D) Archaism
22. Along the shore of silver streaming 27. It is unimaginable that all the following
Thames; events happened in one year:
Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems, 1. Arthur Evans discovered the first
Was painted all with variable flowers,… European civilization; his excavations
in Crete revealed a culture that was far
Fit to deck maidens‟ bowers older than either Attic Greece or
And crown their paramours Ancient Rome.

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2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published (D) The people of East Egg

the Oxford Book of English Verse.
3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the 32. William Wordsworth‟s statement of purpose in
Barcelona train at Gare d‟ Orsay, publishing the Lyrical Ballads carries the following
Paris. phrase. (Complete the
4. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum phrase correctly).
Theory. “to choose incidents from common life and
5. Hugo de Vries identified what to relate or describe them, throughout, as
would later come to be called genes. far as possible, ______.”
6. Sigmund Freud published (A) in a selection of language really used by
The Interpretation of Dreams. men.
7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain. (B) in a relation to language really used by
Identify the year: men.
(A) 1899 (C) in a selection of language really used by
(B) 1900 common man.
(C) 1901 (D) in deference to language actually used by
(D) 1903 men.

28. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar 33. Match List – I with List – II according to
if he be found worthy. the code given below:
This is the epigraph to List – I (Novels) List – II (Last lines)
(A) T.S. Eliot‟s “The Hollow Men” i.Lord Jim 1. „It was done; it was
(B) Rudyard Kipling‟s “The Man Who finished. Yes, she thought laying down her
Would be the King” brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my
(C) George Eliot‟s Silas Marner vision.‟
(D) E.M. Forster‟s Howard‟s End ii.To the Lighthouse 2. „April 27. Old father,
old artificer, stand me now and ever in good
29. Robert Graves‟s “In Broken Images” stead…‟
ends thus: iii. A Passage to India 3. „He feels it himself
He in a new confusion of his understanding; and says often that he is “preparing to leave
I in a new understanding of my confusion. The all this; preparing to leave,...”, while he waves
figure of speech here is _______. his hands sadly at his butterflies.‟
(A) Chiasmus iv. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(B) Catachresis 4. „ “No not yet,” and
(C) Inversion thesky said, “No, not there”.‟
(D) Zeugma
Codes:
30. The phrase “leaves dancing” is an i ii iii iv
example of ________. (A) 2431
(A) pathetic fallacy (B) 3241
(B) hyperbole (C) 3142
(C) pun (D) 2314
(D) conceit
34. Identify the incorrect description/s of
“Sprung Rhythm” from the following:
31. At the end of The Great Gatsby, the
narrator Nick Carraway observes: 1. This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our
“They were careless people”. Who were minds – hence Sprung Rhythm.
they? 2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal
(A) Tom and Daisy length.
(B) The Wilsons 3. A foot may have one to four syllables in
(C) Gatsby and his friends Sprung Rhythm.

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4. Its metre is derived from the metre of (B) P.B. Shelley – William Blake
Anglo-Saxon poetry which was based on (C) William Wordsworth – John Milton
accent and linked by alliteration. (D) Ben Jonson – William Shakespeare

(A) 4 is incorrect. 39. Samuel Johnson‟s Lives of Poets (1781) was

(B) 1 & 4 are incorrect. originally a series of introductions to the poets he
(C) 3 is incorrect. wrote for a group of London publishers. They were
(D) 1 is incorrect. collected as:
(A) Lives of English Poets: Critical and
35. Who among the following proposes that Biographical Essays.
the unconscious comes into being only in (B) Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the
language? Works of English Poets.
(A) Sigmund Freud (C) Notes, Biographical and Critical, on the
(B) Jacques Lacan Works of English Poets.
(C) Stuart Hall (D) Lives of English Poets: Biographical and
(D) Paul de Man Critical Notes.

36. The Elizabethan Settlement established 40. Which of the following is NOT
during the reign of Elizabeth I mentioned in Northrop Frye‟s four „generic
I. ensured the supremacy of the Church plots‟?
of England. (A) The comic
II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the (B) The tragic
authority of the Pope. (C) The lyric
III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be (D) The ironic
part of the Anglican church.
IV. created a group known as the 41. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land
Roundheads. in the order in which they appear in the poem:
The correct combination according to the 1. The Fire Sermon
code is: 2. Death by Water
(A) I and III are correct. 3. A Game of Chess
(B) I and II are correct. 4. What the Thunder Said
(C) II and III are correct. 5. The Burial of the Dead
(D) III and IV are correct.
(A) 3,2,1,5,4
37. Which of the following poems by Tennyson (B) 5,1,2,3,4
does NOT speak of old age and (C) 5,2,3,1,4
death? (D) 5,3,1,2,4
(A) “The Beggar Maid”
(B) “The Lotus-Eaters” 42. Sir Plume is a character in ____ .
(C) “Ulysses” (A) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel
(D) “Tithonus” (B) Congreve‟s The Way of the World
(C) Pope‟s The Rape of the Lock
38. One English poet addressing another: Thy (D) Farquhar‟s The Beaux‟ Strategem
soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hast
a voice whose sound was like the sea: 43. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, Macbeth calls on ______ to “unsex me here”.
So didst thou travel on life‟s common way, (Macbeth I.5.39)
In cheerful godliness….
Choose the right option to fill in the blank:
Whose lines are these? To whom are they (A) God
addressed? (B) the spirits of hell
(A) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats
(C) the angels in heaven

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(D) no one in particular 48. Which novel of Graham Greene in the

following list does NOT end in some form of
44. You will find the following lines in an suicide by the protagonist?
English poem: (A) The Heart of the Matter
Thou by the Indian Ganges‟ side (B) England Made Me
Shouldst rubies find; I by the side (C) Brighton Rock
Of Humber would complain. (D) The Power and the Glory
Which poem? Who is the poet? (A)
“Lonely Hearts.” Wendy Cope 49. Who among the following gave a happy
(B) “Holy Thursday.” William Blake ending to King Lear?
(C) “Tiger Mask Ritual.” Chitra Banerjee (A) James Quin
Divakaruni (B) Nahum Tate
(D) “To His Coy Mistress.” Andrew Marvell (C) Peg Woffington
(D) Charles Macklin
45. Teach me half the gladness That
thy brain must know, 50. Jane Austen‟s Pride and Prejudice starts
Such harmonious madness From my with the famous statement: “It is a truth
lips would flow universally acknowledged that a
The world should listen then, as I am listening single man in possession of a good fortune must
now. be in want of a life.”
Whose lines are these? To whom are they As we get to read the novel this statement seems
addressed? to be made from the point of view of:
(A) John Keats. The Nightingale I. The surrounding families
(B) P.B. Shelley. The Skylark II. Mrs Bennet
(C) William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley III. Mr Bennet
(D) Robert Browning. The Grammarian IV. The women of Jane Austen‟s age and
society
46. Match List – I with List – II according to
the code given below: Find out the correct combination according to
List – I (Novel) List – II (Major symbol) the code:
i. Dombey and Son 1. fog (A) I, II and III are correct.
ii. The Return of the Native 2. train (B) I, II and IV are correct.
iii. Bleak House 3. heath (C) II, III and IV are correct.
iv. Tess 4. mist (D) I, III and IV are correct.

Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 2314
(B) 4231
(C) 2341
(D) 1341

47. The following postmodernist novel has an

unusual protagonist whose gender is not
revealed. So much so, that we keep wondering
whether that person‟s
relationships are homo /hetero-sexual:
(A) The French Lieutenant‟s Woman
(B) English Music
(C) Written on the Body
(D) Enduring Love

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DECEMBER 2013 PAPER III

1. In which of the following novels

Harikatha is strategically used as a medium of
„consciousness raising‟?
(A) Waiting for the Mahatma
(B) The Serpent and the Rope
(C) A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Kanthapura

2. Identify the text in the following list which

offers a fictionalized survey of English
Literature from Elizabethan times to 1928:
(A) E.M. Forster, the Eternal Moment
(B) Virginia Woolf, Orlando
(C) Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
(D) David Jones, In Parenthesis

3. Match List – I with List – II according to

the code given below:
List – I List – II
i. John Ruskin 1. London Labour
and the London Poor
ii. Henry Mayhew 2. The Golden
Bough
iii. Sir Charles Lyell 3. Unto The Last
iv. Sir James George Frazer 4. The Principles
of Geology
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 3 1 4 2

4. Which of the following poems DOES NOT

begin in the first person pronoun?
(A) Shelley‟s “Adonais”
(B) Byron‟s “Don Juan”
(C) Keats‟s “Lamia”
(D) Coleridge‟s „The Aeolian Harp‟

5. In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert

Burton proposes the following two principal
kinds:
I. Love II.
Death III.
Spiritual IV.
Religious

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In the context of the two statements, which

one of the following is correct?
The correct combination according to the (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
code is: correct explanation of (A).
(A) I and II are correct. (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not
(B) I and III are correct. the correct explanation of (A).
(C) I and IV are correct. (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) II and IV are correct. (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

6. Listed below are some English journals 10. Ian McEwan‟s Saturday spans one day in
widely read by professionals: Screen, Critical the life of
Quarterly, Review of English, Wasafiri. (A) A divorce lawyer
One of the above founded by C.B. Cox, and now (B) An ageing pianist
being edited by Colin MacCabe, carries not only (C) A London neurosurgeon
critical and scholarly essays in English Studies but (D) A famous poet
reviews film, culture, language and contemporary
political issues. Identify the journal: 11. “Open Forum” as applied to poetry, is the
(A) Wasafiri same as ________. It is poetry that is not
(B) Screen written according to traditional fixed patterns.
(C) Critical Quarterly (Fill up)
(D) Review of English Studies (A) Blank verse
(B) Concrete poetry
7. In Marvell‟s “A Dialogue between Soul and (C) L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poetry
Body”, who/which of the following has the last (D) Free verse
word?
(A) Body 12. The author of the book observes “I have
(B) God attempted, through the medium of
(C) Soul biography, to present some Victorian visions to
(D) Satan the modern eye”. The four main
characters in this book are Cardinal Manning,
8. In Blake‟s poem “A Poison Tree” the Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold and General
speaker‟s anger grows and becomes Gordon. Who is this author?
________. (A) Mathew Arnold
(A) A cherry (B) Robert Browning
(B) An apple (C) Lytton Strachey
(C) An orange (D) Oscar Wilde
(D) A rose
13. In his attack delivered on the theatre in A Short
9. Given below are two statements, one View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as English Stage, Jeremy Collier specially arraigned
Reason (R): ______ and
Assertion (A): For deconstructive critics _______.
how human beings read and interpret (A) Congreve and Vanbrugh
signs they receive will determine their (B) Farquhar and Vanbrugh
modes of knowing and being, whether (C) Wycherley and Farquhar
those signs come in the form of literary (D) Congreve and Etherege
texts or bank statements.
Reason (R): The fact of the matter is
that human beings use signs to function
in the world and are always likely to do
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14. I.A. Richards‟ Practical Criticism all? Surely one Swinburne; one Brooke,
(1929) inaugurated a new phase in the and one Eliot are enough in any age? (Robert
history of English critical thought. What was Graves, “The Poet and his Public”)
this book‟s subtitle? 1. Graves is critical of blind adulation
(A) Studies in Poetry and imitation of successful poets.
(B) A Study in Literary Judgement 2. Graves is critical of blind
(C) Essays and Studies conformity to standards set by
(D) A Theoretical Guide Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot.
3. Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot
15. Which of the following arrangements is in the represent the movements: Decadence,
correct chronological sequence? the Georgian, and Modernist
(A) The Castle of Otranto – Melmoth the respectively.
Wanderer – The Monk – The Mysteries of 4. The poets in question are Algernon
Udolpho Charles Swinburne, Stopford Brooke,
(B) The Castle of Otranto – The Mysteries of and Thomas Stearns Eliot.
Udolpho – The Monk – Melmoth the (A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
Wanderer (B) Only 4 is incorrect.
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho – The Castle of (C) Only 3 and 4 are correct.
Otranto – The Monk – Melmoth the (D) Only 3 is incorrect.
Wanderer
(D) Melmoth the Wanderer – The Castle of 18. During the colonial era, the British used to
Otranto – The Mysteries of Udolpho – The call the Indian Languages vernaculars. We do
Monk not use this word for our bhashas because:
I. we consider English to be equally
16. Select from among the following plays, the vernacular.
one that best suits the description below: II. verna is, literally a home-born slave.
I. Alyque Padamsee invited its author to write III. Not all Indian languages are languages of
it. the Indo-European family, and therefore not all
II. The play had communalism as its theme. vernacular.
III. This play was banned from the Deccan IV. the natives of India were never slaves.
Herald Theatre Festival for dealing with a
sensitive issue. (A) IV
IV. The play, however, was produced by (B) II and IV
Playpen in Bangalore on July 1993. (C) III
The play is _______. (D) I and III

(A) Dance like a Man 19. More‟s Utopia displays strong influence
(B) Where there‟s a Will of
(C) Final Solutions I. The Arthurian legends
(D) The Wisest Fool on Earth II. Plato‟s Republic
III. Amerigo Vespucci‟s account of the
17. I have known three generations of John Smiths. travels
The type breeds true. John Smith II and III went to IV. The teachings of John Wycliffe
the same school, university and learned profession
as John Smith I. Yet John Smith I wrote pseudo- The correct combination according to the
Swinburne; John Smith II wrote pseudo-Brooke; code is
and John Smith III is now writing pseudo-Eliot. But (A) I and III are correct.
unless John Smith can write John Smith, however (B) II and III are correct.
unfashionable the result, why does he bother to (C) II and IV are correct.
write at (D) I and IV are correct.

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20. By „language transfer‟ is meant 24. The following is an exchange between two
(A) Knowledge generated in the development characters, husband and wife, in a famous play. The
of a learner on account of other domains of lines appear at the very end of an emotionally-charged
knowledge. sequence of
(B) The carryover of rules of the mother the last scene:
tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic system “… I‟ve stopped believing in miracles.”
to the Second language in question. “But I‟ll believe. Tell me!
(C) The carryover of rules of the Second Transform ourselves to the point that ….?”
language syntax, phonology, or semantic system “That our living together could be a true
to the mother tongue in question. marriage.”
(D) The vocabulary and sentence structure (She goes out down the hall.)
transferred haphazardly during Second
language acquisition from any other language Which play? Name the characters.
accessed by the learner. (A) Othello. Othello, Desdemona
(B) Sure Thing. Bill, Betty
21. Which of the following descriptions is (C) A Doll’s House. Helmer, Nora
NOT true of Peter Carey‟s The True (D) Death of a Salesman. Willy, Linda
History of the Kelly Gang?
(A) It is an epistolary novel. 25. The following statements relate to the early
(B) It has such characters as Edward Kelly, his history of the English language. Identify the set
mother, and his wife. that gives INCORRECT statements:
(C) It is also about the Bush and the frontier. 1. English has borrowed words such as
(D) The novel is dedicated to Edward Kelly‟s sky, give, law, and leg from Norse.
father. 2. English has also borrowed some
pronouns like they, their, them from
22. Identify the poem that opens with the Norse.
lines: 3. In grammar, Modern English is
I walk through the long schoolroom much more highly inflected than Old
questioning; English.
A kind old nun in a white hood replies; 4. After the Norman Conquest, French
thechildren learn to cipher and to sing … became the language of the court, the
(A) “Among the Schoolchildren” language of nobility and polite society,
(B) “Among School Children” and literature.
(C) “A Man Young and Old” 5. Following the Norman Conquest,
(D) “The Man Young and Old” French virtually replaced English as the
language of the people.
23. Which of the following statements is 6. Among the French words that came
NOT true of Foucault‟s position in History of into English are: study, logic, grammar,
Sexuality? noun, etc.
(A) Modern sexuality is produced (A) 1,2,3
through and as discourse. (B) 3, 5
(B) The proliferation of modern (C) 4,5,6
discourses of sexuality is more striking than (D) 2, 4
their suppression.
(C) To write historically about
sexuality involves increasingly direct,
immediate knowledge or understanding of an
unchanging sexual essence.
(D) Modern sexuality is intimately
entangled with the historically distinctive
contexts and structures now called
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26. Choices of linguistic forms in using a language, (D) “The Leechgatherer”

or how a language is actually spoken/written,
especially one that differs from its prescribed 30. In Henry James‟s Ambassadors, there is a
grammar, is called character who never appears in the novel. We get
(A) Utterance to know about this significant person, however,
(B) Use from the other characters. Who is this character?
(C) Usage (A) Maria Gostrey
(D) Deviation (B) Madame de Vionette
(C) Mrs. Newsome
27. Jamaica Kincaid‟s narrative A Small (D) Mrs. Sarah Pocock
Place
(A) is all about learning Farsi and 31. Why are Scott‟s novels called
meeting young people in modern Iran. “Waverley Novels”?
(B) is an essay that discusses the (A) His novels are all set in Waverley.
politics of tourism and other neo- (B) The Waverley Castle has a significant
colonial modes of foreign role in his novels.
intervention? (C) Waverley (in his first novel of that
(C) is a collection of tiny narratives name) is a model hero for the
about gender relations and includes protagonists of Scott‟s novels.
stories concerning the Sumerian (D) Scott started his novel-writing career in
goddess Inanna. his 43rd year with the novel, Waverley.
(D) a novella that looksunblinkingly at
maritalceremonies and maternity 32. Which of these descriptions/ statements
inAntigua. best suits the idea of the „Renaissance Man‟?
I. A fop, a scoundrel, who enjoys
28. Identify the correctly-matched poets and enormous power in Renaissance courts
their works from the following: and aristocratic families.
(A) Nissim Ezekiel-Hymns in Darkness, II. A near-mythical figure: a knight,
Kamala Das – The Sirens, R. courtier, musician, poet, scholar and
Parthasarthy – Rough Passage, A.K. statesman.
Ramanujan – The Striders III. One who ploughs a lonely furrow and
(B) Nissim Ezekiel – The Striders, Kamala keeps away from politicking and
Das – Rough Passage, R. Parthasarthy – scandals.
Hymns in Darkness, A.K. Ramanujan – IV. Someone like Sir Philip Sydney best
The Sirens suits the ideal of the Renaissance Man.
(C) Nissim Ezekiel – The Sirens, Kamala
Das – Hymns in Darkness, R. (A) I
Parthasarthy – The Striders, A.K. (B) IV
Ramanujan– Rough Passage (C) I&III
(D) Nissim Ezekiel – Rough Passage, (D) II&IV
Kamala Das – The Striders, R.
Parthasarthy – The Striders, A.K. 33. Maxim Gorky, the Great Russian writer of
Ramanujan – Hymns in Darkness fiction and drama, was in real life a man called
______.
29. William Wordsworth had a deep influence (A) Goliardic Kreshkov
on Thomas Hardy. According to (B) Ronsardo Felixikov
Hardy a particular poem by Wordsworth was his (C) Malthias Serpieri
„best cure for despair‟. Which is (D) Aleksei Peshkov
that poem?
(A) “Michael”
(B) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(C) “The Idiot Boy”

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34. After the prediction of the oracle that he 38. How would you best describe George
was destined to kill his father, Oedipus could Meredith‟s Modern Love (1862)?
have avoided patricide (A) A ballad
I. Had he not determined in horror (B) A lyric travelogue
never to return to the only parents he (C) A verse romance
knew. (D) A sonnet sequence
II. Had he been a man of unusual self-
control. 39. The play was written in 1881 when its author
III. Had he remembered the prediction was in Italy. This is considered to be his most
and had he been more cautious having remarkable intellectual effort. The softening of the
recognized that possibly after all brain as a result of a disease inherited from his
Polybos was not his father. father is the subject. Which is the play?
IV. Had he never struck any man who was (A) An Enemy of the People
older than himself saying at the moment (B) Ghosts
of provocation „This insolent (C) Rhinoceros
man is grey-haired; let him have the (D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
road‟?
40. In many ways, grammatical categories
Find the correct combination according to the remain mysterious. Whatdoes it mean
code: to speak a language that in every
(A) I, II and III are correct. sentence requires you to locate yourself
(B) I, II and IV are correct. in time, or specify your source of
(C) I, III and IV are correct. knowledge, or the shape of
(D) II, III and IV are correct. what you are talking about? We still
don‟t know. But putting the question like
35. Identify the Post-Apartheid novel by this suggests a clear andlimited way of
Nadine Gordimer. interpreting the idea that different
(A) The Conservationist languages represent different worlds.
(B) The House of Gun Which of the following statements on this
(C) The Lying Days passage interprets it
(D) Burger‟s Daughter most accurately?
(A) The passage reflects the unreliability of
36. The Duchess of Malfi married her steward, grammatical categories of a language
Antonio. For the Elizabethan audience her marriage generally.
was a triple offence. Which of the following is NOT (B) The passage concedes that the Sapir-
one? Whorf hypothesis cannot be
(A) She was a widow marrying a second time. discounted entirely.
(B) She married on her own outside the (C) The passage upholds the reliability of
Church. grammatical categories of a language
(C) She married beneath her status in generally.
disregard of „degree‟. (D) The passage suggests that the Sapir-
(D) She married against the wishes of her Whorf hypothesis is largely discredited
brothers who almost acted like her guardians. today.

37. Who among the following has written the

essay, “The Indian Jugglers”?
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Thomas de Quincey
(D) Thomas Love Peacock

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41. Tolstoy‟s War and Peace carries a lengthy 5. This narrative details the adventures of
discussion of determinism and free will in an Anglo-Indian orphan.
________. 6. Money is the only criterion for success
(A) Its prologue for the players in this play‟s share-
(B) An exchange between Pierre and Natasha market.
(C) An exchange between Nikolai Rostof and
Princess Bezukhoi (A) 1 and 6 are correct.
(D) Its epilogue (B) 2 and 5 are correct.
(C) 4 and 6 are correct.
42. Which from among the following is NOT (D) 5 and 6 are correct.
true of Nagmandala?
(A) It does not have multiple narratives. 45. Identify from among the following
(B) It is open-ended. FALSE statements:
(C) It combines conventional and subversive 1. Eric Arthur Blair became the famous
modes. British novelist, George Orwell.
(D) Story is personified in the play. 2. Orwell was conversant in Hindustani
and fond of Indian food.
43. Arrange the following literary journals 3. Young Eric Blair lived in Myanmar‟s
chronologically: trading town, Katha.
(A) The London Magazine 4. This town gave him the model for the
The Quarterly Review fictional district of Kyauktada in
Blackwood‟s Magazine Burmese Days.
The Saturday Review 5. Orwell was born on June 25, 1903 in
The Tatler Motihari, Bihar.
(B) The Tatler 6. The Orwell Commemorative
The Saturday Review Committee in Motihari has been
Blackwood‟s Magazine demanding a restoration of Orwell‟s
The Quarterly Review birthplace as a heritage site.
The London Magazine 7. Orwell never returned to his birth
(C) The Quarterly Review place.
Blackwood‟s Magazine 8. The British journalist Ian Jack was
The Tatler mainly responsible for our knowledge
The Saturday Review of Orwell‟s antecedents relating to
The London Magazine Katha and Motihari.
(D) The Tatler
The London Magazine (A) 2, 4, 8 are false.
The Quarterly Review (B) 7 and 8 are false.
Blackwood‟s Magazine (C) 3, 6 and 8 are false.
The Saturday Review (D) All statements above are true.

44. Pick out the two relevant and correct 46. Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of
descriptions of Caryl Churchill‟s Serious the common reader from Dr. Johnson. To
Money (1987): which particular work of Johnson‟s does she
1. This play proposes the foundation of a remain indebted?
monastery for the education of British (A) The Lives of the Most Eminent English
gentlewomen. Poets; the essay on Milton
2. This narrative deals with children who (B) The Lives of the Most EminentEnglish
are sick of their “enforced idleness.” Poets; the essay onGray
3. This play is subtitled “City Comedy.” (C) Preface to Shakespeare
4. In this play, the state of the British (D) The Patriot
economy is symbolized by a takeover
bid by an international cartel.

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They are only words.

47. J.M. Coetzee was the first writer to be Words alone are certain good, said someone.
awarded the Booker Prize twice. He won the And someone also said
prize for unlike sticks and stones
(A) Life and Times of Michael K. and Words will never break your bones.
Disgrace
(B) Dusklands and Disgrace (That is called rhyme. A rhyme is nice to play
(C) Foe and Elizabeth Costello with too from time to time.)
(D) Age of Iron and Disgrace
48. After the Norman Conquest England became a What? They‟ve turned nasty?
three-language nation for at least two centuries. The They‟ve clawed you and bitten you?
three languages were Dear me, there‟s blood all over the place.
(A) English, French and German And broken bones.
(B) English, Latin and German
(C) English, French and Latin They were perfectly tame when I left them.
(D) English, French and Greek Something they ate might have disagreed with
them.
49. Here are sentences labelled Assertion You mean you fed them on meaning?
(A) and Reason (R): No wonder then.
Assertion (A): In who‟s Afraid of – D.J. Enright
Virginia Woolf? George and
Martha‟s blue and green-eyed 51. The poet‟s remark on „rhyme‟ is
son is a myth. _____.
Reason (R): He is a creation of the couple‟s (A) Put in parenthesis
imagination originating from (B) Put in parentheses
their sense of sterility and (C) Framed rhetorically
vacuum in life. (D) Put in apposition

In the light of (A) and (R), which of the 52. The poem is cast in the form of a
following is correct? ______.
(A) Romantic lyric
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the (B) Verse epistle
correct explanation of (A). (C) Dramatic monologue
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not (D) Dialogue
the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. 53. What is the “fault” to which the
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. speaker refers here?
(A) Playing with words
50. In the word rapidly, „ly‟ is an adverbial suffix (B) Using only words
indicating manner while rapid is a (C) Taking words too seriously
______, ly is a ____. (D) Reading meanings into words
(A) Word, wordling
(B) Morpheme, morpheme-bit 54. What tone is most appropriate for
(C) Free morpheme, bound-morpheme reading this poem?
(D) Full morpheme, half-morpheme (A) Evasive
(B) Plaintive
Question Nos. 51 to 55 is based on a poem. Read (C) Ironic
the poem carefully and pick out the most (D) Sarcastic
appropriate answers.

It‟s Your Own Fault

Of course you can play with them.
There‟s no harm in them.

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55. “No wonder then.” Explain. Spivak), Simulacrum / Simulacra

(A) No wonder that the words here begin to (Antonio Gramsci), The Subaltern
mean. (Mikhael Bakhtin), Metahistory
(B) No wonder that you now find the words (Walter Benjamin), Aura (Julia
menacing. Kristeva), Polyphony (Mikhael
(C) No wonder that the words find you Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio
menacing. Gramsci)
(D) No wonder the words still mean and are (B) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur
tame. (Walter Benjamin), Chora (Julia
Kristeva), Simulacrum / Simulacra
56. “Nothing odd will do long. ______ did not (Jean Baudrillard), the Subaltern
last long.” Dr. Johnson had this to say about one (Gayatri C. Spivak) Metahistory
of the eighteenth century novels. Identify it from (Hayden White), Polyphony (Mikhael
the following list: Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio
(A) Tom Jones Gramsci)
(B) The Female Quixote (C) Habitus (Julia Kristeva), Flaneur
(C) Tristram Shandy (Walter Benjamin), Chora (Pierre
(D) Clarissa Bourdieu), Simulacrum / Simulacra
(Hayden White), The Subaltern
57. Identify the sonnet upon sonnet by (Gayatri C. Spivak), Metahistory
William Wordsworth: (JeanBaudrillard),Polyphony
(A) “London, 1802” (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony
(B) “The world is too much with us…” (Antonio Gramsci)
(C) “Friend! I know not which way…” (D) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur
(D) “Nuns fret not at their convent‟s narrow (Antonio Gramsci), Chora (Julia
room…” Kristeva), Simulacrum / Simulacra
(Jean Baudrillard), The Subaltern
58. Who among the following women writers (Gayatri C. Spivak), Metahistory
has written Novel on Yellow Paper? (Hayden White), Polyphony (Mikhael
(A) Elizabeth Smither Bakhtin), Hegemony (Walter
(B) Stevie Smith Benjamin)
(C) Zulu Sofola
(D) Gita Mehta 61. What was the mandate of the
Stationer‟s Company incorporated in London
59. In most people, the first language / dialect in 1557?
acquired is „mother tongue‟. (A) To oversee the affairs of the Royal
Among the commonly used terms for mother Registry.
tongue, one of the following is avoided. Identify (B) To oversee authors‟ and printers‟, or
the one term NOT applied to mother tongue: printer-publishers‟ rights.
(A) First language (C) To oversee authors‟ and printers‟ or
(B) Prime language printer-publishers‟ use of stationery.
(C) Native language (D) To oversee the quality of stationery
(D) Primary language harnessed by the Royal Registry.

62. One of the following was described by its

author as “a poem including history.”
60. Identify the group of critical concepts Identify the poem.
that parenthetically aligns them with their (A) Robert Lowell, Life Studies
respective theorists: (B) William Carlos Williams, Paterson
(A) The Carnivalesque (Jean Baudrillard), (C) Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel
Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur (D) Ezra Pound, the Cantos
(Walter Benjamin), Chora (Gayatri C.

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63. Arrange the following groups of

English writers in chronological order: Escapist fiction lacks serious fiction‟s
(A) The Metaphysical poets apocalyptic experience of finality. The two
The High Modernists versions of literary experience are
Transitional poets qualitatively different; every novel fits one
The Georgians category or the other, not both. Serious
The Aesthetes fiction, however, compels our attention by
The University Wits representing improvements (the “world of
(B) The University Wits potency”) as being achieved (a “world of
The Metaphysical poets act”) and by showing narrative movement
Transitional poets “through time to an end, an end, we must
The Aesthetes sense even if we cannot know it.”
The Georgians
The High Modernists (A) Sincerity and Authenticity
(C) The High Modernists (B) The Sense of an Ending: Studies in
The Georgians the Theory of Fiction
The Aesthetes (C) Beyond the Apocalypse
Transitional poets (D) The Rhetoric of Fiction
The Metaphysical poets
The University Wits 67. Philip Larkin‟s “The Whitsun
(D) The University Wits Weddings”
The Metaphysical poets I. describes a long train journey
The Aesthetes II. Establishes a „we‟ voice of collective
Transitional poets outlook
The Georgians III. Traces the disfigurement of a sunny
The High Modernists landscape on an advertising poster
IV. Gives an account of a drug pusher
64. Which Bible is the earliest English version
printed with verse divisions? The correct combination according to the
(A) Tyndale‟s Translation code is:
(B) The Geneva Bible (A) I and III are correct.
(C) The Douay-Rheims Version (B) I and II are correct.
(D) King James Version (C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
65. E.M. Forster‟s Passage to India begins with
a description of the city of Chandrapore. It has 68. Match the last lines of the poems with
an old Indian part and a new part consisting of their correct titles:
the British civil station. Which of the following List – I List – II
descriptions of the city is not found in the text? (Last lines of poems) (Titles of poems)
(A) The streets are mean, the temples I. And we are here as on a
ineffective. darkling plain Swept with
(B) It is a city of gardens. confused alarms of struggle
(C) It is a tropical pleasaunce washed by a and flight, Where ignorant
noble river. armies clash by night. 1. “Death, be
(D) The new civil station is not sensibly not
planned and not modern. proud…”
II. Thus, though we cannot
66. In which of the following books would you make our sun Stand still,
find the following arguments / observations? yet we will make
him run. 2. “The Great
Lover”
III. One short sleep past,

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we wake eternally, and secure. It is with this mythical norm that the
death shall be no more; trappings of power reside within the society.
death, thou shalt Those of us who stand outside that power often
die. 3. “Dover Beach” IV. This one last gift I identify one way in which we are different, and
give: we assume that to be the primary cause of all
that after men shall know, and oppression, forgetting other distortions around
later lovers, far-removed, difference, some of
Praise you, “All these were which we ourselves may be practicing. By and
lovely;” say, “He loved.” 4. “To His Coy large within the women‟s movement
Mistress” today, white women focus upon their
oppression as women and ignore differences
Codes: of race, sexual preference, class, and age.
I II III IV There is a pretense to homogeneity of
(A) 3 4 1 2 experience covered by the word sisterhood
(B) 4 3 2 1 that does not in fact exist. (Audre Lorde)
(C) 2 1 4 1
(D) 1 2 3 4 71. A mythical norm is endemic to societies:
1. Where racial myths are prevalent and
69. The Oxford Companions are handy widely respected and perpetuated through
reference volumes for teachers and students of utterances that establish „we‟ and „they‟
English. Identify the one volume that has NOT groups.
yet appeared in this series: 2. Where the superiority of one‟s own culture and
(A) The Oxford Companion to Twentieth- nation no longer emphasized openly or
Century Literature in English straightforwardly.
(B) The Oxford Companion to Canadian 3. Where „difference‟ has been a
Literature preoccupation in the representation of people
(C) The Oxford Companion to American who are racially, ethnically, and in terms of
Literature gender and sexual preference different from an
(D) The Oxford Companion to Indian assumed majority.
Literature in English 4. That believes that the norm is part of their
right to defend the ways of life enjoyed by a
70. While writing or printing, scholarly use dominant group, their traditions and customs
prefers titles in italics. Which of the following is against outsiders – not because these outsiders
the correct way of are inferior, but because they belong to other
writing/printing? cultures.
(A) Charles Dicken‟s Tale of Two Cities
(B) Charles Dickens‟ Tale of Two Cities (A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(C) Charles Dickens‟ A Tale of Two Cities (B) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) Charles Dicken‟s A Tale of Two Cities (C) Only 4 is correct.
(D) Only 3 is correct.
Questions from 71 to 75 are based on the
following passage. Read the passage carefully 72. How does the author mark her difference
and select the most appropriate option: from other writers on similar issues and
underscore her radical style typographically?
Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, 1. By her use of parataxis
there is what I call a mythical norm, which each 2. By italicizing „mythical norm‟ and
one of us within our hearts knows “that is not „sisterhood‟
me”. In America, this norm is usually 3. By using lowercase for proper and
defined as white, thin, male, young, common nouns
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4. By using phrases like „Those of us who

stand outside…‟

(A) 1 & 4 are correct.

(B) 2 is correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 & 3 are correct.

73. That there are levels and grades of

powerlessness in societies entertaining „a
mythical norm‟ is indicated
1. By the overall tone and tenor of the
passage.
2. By the suggestion that „a mythical norm‟ is
responsible for the unequal distribution of
power among people.
3. By referring to „other distortions around
difference‟.
4. By referring to white women who narrow
down oppression directed only at white women.

(A) 4 is correct.
(B) 1 & 2 are correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 is correct.

74. Why is the author dismissive about

„sisterhood‟?
1. Because it is italicised.
2. Because it does not exist in principle.
3. Because it assumes that all „sisters‟ are
alike.
4. Because it assumes that all „sisters‟ are
unique.

(A) 3 is correct
(B) 1 is correct
(C) 4 is correct
(D) 2 is correct

75. Does the author absolve all women from

the „distortions around difference‟?
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Not sure.
4. Yes, in a qualified manner though.

(A) 1 is correct
(B) 2 is correct
(C) 3 is correct
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JUNE 7. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for

Love takes the story of Shakespeare‟s
2013 PAPER II (A) Troilus and Cressida
(B) The Merchant of Venice
1. In Pinter‟s Birthday Party, Stanley is given (C) Antony and Cleopatra
a birthday present. What is it? (D) Measure for Measure
(A) A toy
(B) A piano 8. Arrange the following works in the order in
(C) A drum which they appear. Identify the correct code:
(D) A violin I. No Longer at Ease II.
Things Fall apart III. A
2. How does Lord Jim end? Man of the People IV.
(A) Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin. Arrow of God
(B) Jim kills himself with a last unflinching
glance. The correct combination according to the
(C) Jim answers “the call of exalted egoism” code is:
and betrays Jewel. Code:
(D) Jim surrenders himself to Doramin. (A) III, IV, II, I
(B) IV, III, I, II
3. “Where I lacked a political purpose, I wrote (C) II, I, IV, III
lifeless books.” To which of the following (D) I, II, III, IV
authors can we attribute the above admission?
(A) Graham Greene 9. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from
(B) George Orwell (A) 1660 to 1669
(C) Charles Morgan (B) 1649 to 1660
(D) Evelyn Waugh (C) 1662 to 1689
4. Modernism has been described as being (D) 1660 to 1689
concerned with “disenchantment of our culture
with culture itself”. Who is the critic? 10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did
(A) Stephen Spender Sydney attribute to poetry?
(B) Malcolm Bradbury (A) A magical power whereby poetry plays
(C) Lionel Trilling tricks on the reader.
(D) Joseph Frank (B) A divine power whereby poetry transmits
a message from God to the reader.
5. “Only that film, which fluttered on the (C) A moral power whereby poetry
grate, still flutters there, the sole unquiet encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous
thing.” models.
The above lines are quoted from (D) A realistic power that cannot be made to
(A) “Tintern Abbey Revisited” seem like mere illusion and trickery.
(B) “Michael”
(C) “Frost at Midnight” 11. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents
(D) “This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison” portraits of the following contemporary
individuals:
6. Which one of the following modern poems (A) Addison and Lord Hervey
employs ottava rima? (B) Dryden and Rochester
(A) “Among School Children” (C) Swift and Steele
(B) “In Praise of Limestone” (D) Smollett and Defoe
(C) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
(D) “The Shield of Achilles”

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12. Match the following authors with their 17. Which one of the following is not written
works: by an Australian Aboriginal writer?
List – A List – B (A) Kath Walker
(Authors) (Works) (B) Peter Carey
I. Alice Walker 1. Invisible Man (C) Robert Bropho
II. Ralph Ellison 2. The Colour (D) Jack Davis
Purple
III. Richard Wright 3. Their Eyes Were 18. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of
Watching God Surrey jointly brought out Tottel‟s
IV Zora Neale Hurston 4. Native Son Miscellany during the Renaissance. Identify
the name of the Earl of Surrey from the
Which is the correct combination following:
according to the code? (A) Thomas Lodge
(B) Thomas Nashe
Code: (C) Thomas Sackville
I II III IV (D) Henry Howard
(A) 2134
(B) 3421 19. Match the following lists:
(C) 4312 List – I List – I
(D) 1243 (Novelists) (Novels)
I. Margaret Laurence 1. Surfacing
13. Which of these plays by Shakespeare does II. Margaret Atwood 2. The Stone Angel
not use „cross-dressing‟ as a device? III. Sinclair Ross 3. Medicine River
(A) As You Like It IV. Thomas King 4. As for Me and My
(B) Julius Caesar House
(C) Cymbeline
(D) Two Gentlemen of Verona Which is the correct combination according to
the code?
14. Which of the following works cannot be Code:
categorised under postcolonial theory? I II III IV
(A) Nation and Narration (A) 1432
(B) Orientalism (B) 3214
(C) Discipline and Punish (C) 4321
(D) White Mythologies (D) 2143

15. Locke‟s Essay Concerning Human 20. The dramatic structure of Restoration
Understanding is a classic statement of comedies combines in it the features of
_________ Philosophy. I. The Elizabethan Theatre
(A) Aesthetic II. The Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and
(B) Empiricist France
(C) Nationalist III. The Irish Theatre
(D) Realist IV. The Greek Theatre

16. “Power circulates in all directions, to and The correct combination according to the
from all social levels, at all times.” code is
Who said this? Codes:
(A) Edward Said (A) I and IV are correct.
(B) Michel Foucault (B) III and IV are correct.
(C) Jacques Derrida (C) II and III are correct.
(D) Roland Barthes (D) I and II are correct.

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21. Which American poet wrote: “I sound 26. In the late seventeenth century a “Battle of
my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the Books” erupted between which two groups?
world”? (A) Cavaliers and Roundheads
(A) Robert Lowell (B) Abolitionists and Enthusiasts for slaves
(B) Walt Whitman (C) Champions of Ancient and Modern
(C) Wallace Stevens Learning
(D) Langston Hughes (D) The Welsh and the Scots

22. The etymological meaning of the word 27. “Everything that man esteems Endures a
“trope” is moment or a day Love‟s pleasure drives his
(A) Gesture love away…” In the above quote the last line is
(B) Turning an example of
(C) Mirror (A) Allusion
(D) Desire (B) Pleonasm
(C) Paradox
23. Who among the following English poets (D) Zeugma
defined poetic imagination as “a repetition in the
finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the 28. Match the author with the work:
infinite „I AM‟ ”? List – I List – II
(A) Blake (Authors) (Works)
(B) Wordsworth I. Kingsely Amis1. Saturday and Sunday
(C) Coleridge Morning
(D) Shelley II. Allan Silletoe 2. The Golden Note
Book III. Doris Lessing3. The Left Bank
24. Little Nell is a character in Dickens‟ IV. Jean Rhys 4. Lucky Jim
(A) David Copperfield
(B) The Old Curiosity Shop Which is the correct combination according
(C) Bleak House to the code?
(D) Great Expectations Code:
I II III IV
25. Match the following: (A) 3412
List – A List – B (B) 4123
(Schools/Concept of Criticism) (Critics) (C) 2314
I. Formalism 1. John Crow (D) 1234
Ransom
II. New Critics 2. The Jungians 29. In which of Hardy‟s novels does the
III. Psychological Theory character Abel Whittle appear?
of the Value of Literature 3. Victor (A) Far from the Madding Crowd
Shklovsky (B) The Return of the Native
IV. Literary art as (C) A Pair of Blue Eyes
Archetypal image 4. I.A. Richards (D) The Mayor of Caster bridge

The correct combination according to the 30. The phrase “dark satanic mills” has become
code is: the most famous description of the force at the
Code: centre of the industrial revolution. The phrase
I II III IV was used by
(A) 3142 (A) William Wordsworth
(B) 2413 (B) William Blake
(C) 4123 (C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) 3214 (D) John Ruskin

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31. “Five miles meandering with a mazy (C) “Adonais”

motion through wood and dale the scared (D) Alastor
river ran.” Where does this „sacred river‟
directly run to? 37. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses
(A) A lifeless ocean the tradition of the Beast Fable?
(B) The caverns measureless (A) The Knight‟s Tale
(C) A fountain (B) The Monk‟s Tale
(D) The waves (C) The Nun‟s Priest‟s Tale
(D) The Miller‟s Tale
32. Who is the twentieth century poet, a
winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who 38. At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul
rejected the label “British” though he Morel
has always written in English rather than his (A) Sets off in quest of life away from his
regional language? mother.
(A) Douglas Dunn (B) Considers the option of committing
(B) Seamus Heaney suicide.
(C) Geoffrey Hill (C) Joins his elder brother William in
(D) Philip Larkin London.
(D) Embraces a Schopenhauer – like
33. Which of the following statements best nihilism.
describes Sir Thomas Browne‟s Religion
Medici? 39. When you say “I love her eyes, her hair,
(A) It is a story of conversion or her nose, her cheeks, her lips” you are using a
providential experiences. rhetorical device of
(B) It emphasizes Browne‟s love of (A) Enumeration
mystery and wonder. (B) Ant anagoge
(C) It is full of angst, melancholy and (C) Parataxis
dread of death. (D) Hypo taxis
(D) It reports the facts of Browne‟s life. 40. The following are two lists of plays and
characters. Match them.
34. Which of the following characters from List – I List – II
Eliot‟s Waste Land is not correctly (Plays)
mentioned? (Characters)
(A) The typist I. Women Beware Women 1. Malevole
(B) Madam Sosostris II. The Malcontent 2. Beatrice
(C) The Merchant from Eugenides III. The City Madam 3. Bianca
(D) The Young Man Carbuncular IV. The Changeling 4. Doll Tear
sheet
35. Which one of the following best describes
the general feeling expressed in literature Which is the correct combination according to
during the last decade of the Victorian era? the code?
(A) Studied melancholy and aestheticism Code:
(B) The triumph of science and morbidity I II III IV
(C) Sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal (A) 3142
(D) Raucous celebration combined with (B) 2124
paranoid interpretation (C) 1234
(D) 4321
36. Which poem by Shelley bears the
alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude”?
(A) Mont Blanc
(B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”

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41. With Bacon the essay form is 47. Which character in Jane Eyre uses
(A) An intimate, personal confession religion to justify cruelty?
(B) Witty and boldly imagistic (A) Blanche Ingram
(C) The aphoristic expression of accumulated (B) Mr. Brocklehurst
public wisdom (C) Sir John Rivers
(D) Homely and vulgar (D) Eliza Reed

42. Evelyn Waugh‟s Trilogy published 48. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as
together as Sword of Honour is about „a person perverted into a thing‟?
(A) The English at War (A) Blake
(B) The English Aristocracy (B) Coleridge
(C) The Irish question (C) Keats
(D) Scottish nationalism (D) Shelley

43. Who coined the phrase “The Two 49. John Suckling belongs to the group of
Nations” to describe the disparity in (A) Metaphysical poets
Britain between the rich and the poor? (B) Cavalier poets
(A) Charles Dickens (C) Neo-classical poets
(B) Thomas Carlyle (D) Religious poets
(C) Benjamin Disraeli
(D) Frederick Engels 50. Sir Thomas More creates the character of a
traveller into whose mouth the account of Utopia is
44. Milton introduces Satan and the fallen put. His name is
angels in the Book I of Paradise Lost. Two of (A) Michael
the chief devils reappear in Book II. They are (B) Raphael
I. Moloch (C) Henry
II. Clemos (D) Thomas
III. Belial
IV. Thamuz

The correct combination according to the

code is
Code:
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.

45. When Chaucer describes the Friar as a

“noble pillar of order”, he is using
(A) Irony
(B) Simile
(C) Understatement
(D) Personification

46. John Osborne‟s Look Back in Anger is

an example of
(A) Drawing room comedy
(B) kitchen-sink drama
(C) Absurd drama
(D) Melodrama

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JUNE
2013 PAPER III
1. Match the following:
List – I List – II
(Browning’s poems) (Type of Character)
I. Abt Vogler 1. A Medieval
Knight
II. Andrea Del Sarto 2. A Musician
III. Childe Ronald
to the Dark Tower Came 3. A Poet
IV. Cleon 4. An Artist

The right combination according to the

code is:
I II III IV
(A) 4231
(B) 2413
(C) 3124
(D) 1342

2. All forms of feminism posit that:

Code:
I. The relationship between the sexes is
one of inequality and oppression.
II. There should be an end to all wars.
III. Women need financial independence.
IV. All men are prone to violence.

The correct combination according to the

code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
(C) I and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.

3. Which one of Brecht‟s works was intended

to lampoon the conventional
sentimental musical but the public lapped up the
work‟s sentiment and missed the
humour?
(A) Man is Man
(B) Three Penny Opera
(C) The Mother
(D) Life of Galileo

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4. Ostensibly a musical treatise, The Anatomy (D) Still Life

of Melancholy is a reflection on human
learning and endeavour published under the 9. Which of the following statements best
pseudonym describes JM Coetzee‟s Disgrace?
(A) Vox Populi (A) It is a murder mystery set in post-
(B) Epicurus Senior apartheid South Africa.
(C) Democritus Junior (B) It is a complex narrative of sin and
(D) Jesting Pilate redemption which involves both White
and Black South Africans.
5. Horace Walpole‟s novel The Castle of (C) The protagonist David Lurie is a priest
Otranto tells the story of who brings disgrace to his calling.
(A) A defiant and heartless tyrant who kills (D) Coetzee has a schematic and reductive
his own son mercilessly. view on the relations between Whites
(B) An usurper and a tyrant who kills his and the Blacks in South Africa.
own daughter by mistake.
(C) A castle that collapses andcrushes the 10. Which of the following statements is not
young and sicklyprince to death. true of Mahesh Dattani‟s Final Solutions?
(D) A tyrant who retires to a monastery at (A) The play centres on a middle class Hindu
the end and lives happily ever after with family during a communal riot.
his queen. (B) It challenges communalism.
(C) It is concerned with homosexual
6. In the Literature of Romanticism there was a relationship.
widespread frustration with visions experienced in (D) It promotes religious pluralism in South
dreams, in nightmares and other altered states. The Asia.
following list contains poems which illustrate this
theme, 11. According to Bakhtin the idea of the
with one exception. Identify the exception Carnivalesque represents the following
(A) “Kubla Khan” characteristics except:
(B) “Confessions of an English Opium Eater”
(A) A liberation from the prevailing truth
(C) “The Ruined Cottage” and established order
(D) “The Fall of Hyperion” (B) A harking back to the past
(C) Emphasis on play, parody, pleasure
7. The book was for many years banned for and the body
obscenity in Britain and the United States. The (D) The suspension of all hierarchical
central character is a Catholic Jew in Ireland. The rank, principles, norms and
author claimed that the book is meant to make prohibitions
you laugh. Which is this book?
(A) The Picture of Dorian Grey 12. Which of the following statements is not
(B) Herzog true of Patrick White?
(C) Portnoy‟s Complaint (A) He is remembered today for his epic
(D) Ulysses and psychological narrative art.
(B) He is the only Australian to receive the
8. A.S. Byatt in her famous award winning Nobel Prize in literature.
novel of 1990 contrasts past and present involving (C) He pioneered a new fictional landscape
a search for a Victorian poet‟s and introduced a new continent in
past illuminating a contemporary literature.
university researcher‟s life and times. Which (D) His style is noted for lucidity and
is the novel? simplicity.
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) Babel Tower

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13. Conventional scholarship dates „Early III. Anglo Norman

Modern English‟ as beginning around IV. Early Tudor
(A) 450
(B) 1066 The correct combination according to the
(C) 1500 code is
(D) 1800 (A) III, II, IV, I
(B) III, IV, II, I
14. “Every demon carries within him unknown (C) II, III, IV, I
to himself, a tiny seed of self- (D) III, IV, I, II
destruction and goes up in thin air at the most
unexpected moment.” To which of R.K. 18. Which of the following plays is not
Narayan‟s characters the above written by Rabindranath Tagore?
statement applies? (A) Sacrifice
(A) Raju – The Guide (B) Chandalika
(B) Jagan – The Sweet Vendor (C) Muktadhara
(C) Vasu – Man Eater of Malgudi (D) Eknath
(D) Margayya – The Financial Expert
19. Given below are two statements, one is
15. Which of the following is not true of post- labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
structuralism? as Reason (R):
(A) It seeks to undermine the idea that Assertion (A):A quarto refers to a text in which
meaning pre-exists its linguistic each leaf was a quarter the size
expression. of the original sheet.
(B) There can be no meaning which is not
formulated and no language Reason (R): Because eight pages of text were
formulation reaches anywhere beyond printed on large sheets of
language. paper, which were then folded
(C) There is no a-textual „origin‟ of a text. four times to produce four
(D) Every sign refers to every other sign leaves.
adequately.
In the context of the above statements, which
16. Which of the following statements is not one of the following is correct?
true of Wole Soyinka‟s The Swamp Dwellers? (A) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong.
(A) It talks about the family, the extended (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
family in the African society. (C) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct
(B) It is a confrontation between the (D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
traditional and modern society.
(C) It talks about the migration of people, 20. The purpose of the Pre-Raphaelites was
crossing of borders and diasporic primarily to promote
anguish. (A) Complexity and ambivalence in art and
(D) It is a comment about the city, urban, literature.
modern and the country rural, the (B) Simplicity and naturalness in art and
swamp, the ancient. literature.
(C) Symbolic and classical modes in art and
17. Arrange the following English literary periods literature.
in the order in which they appeared. Use the codes (D) Psychological and mythic modes in art
given below: and literature.

Codes:
I. Elizabethan
II. Caroline

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21. Which one of the following plays does not 24. “She dwells with beauty – Beauty that must
use the device of “the play within the play”? die”, – wrote Keats in one of his odes, referring
(A) Hamlet to
(B) Women Beware Women (A) Indolence
(C) The Spanish Tragedy (B) Autumn
(D) A Midsummer Nights‟ Dream (C) Melancholy
(D) Psyche
22. Given below are two statements, one is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled 25. Kafka‟s Trial has all the following
as Reason (R): characteristics except:
Assertion (A):In the Absurd plays of Pinter (A) Vivid yet surreal
and Beckett, lack of (B) Dystopian
communication seems to be a (C) The use of historical details of setting
predominant theme. (D) The depiction of totalitarian society
Reason (R): Existentialist philosophy had a
tremendous influence on the 26. Match the following lists:
dramatists of the period, List – I List – II
nihilism and meaninglessness (Phrases from poems) (Titles of poems)
of life taking a front seat. I. “Sound of stick
upon the floor” 1. “Byzantium”
In the context of the above statements, which II. “Hade‟s bobbin bound
one of the following is correct? in mummy cloth” 2. “Sailing to
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the Byzantium”
correct explanation of (A). III. “With beauty like a
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not tightened bow” 3. “Coole and Ballylee,
the correct explanation of (A). 1931”
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. IV. “A tattered coat
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true. upon a stick” 4. “No Second Troy”

23. Which of the following observations are The right combination according to the code
true about Beatrice Culleton‟s April Rain tree? is:
I. It is a fictional account of the lives of two I II III IV
metis sisters growing up in (A) 4132
Winnipeg. (B) 3214
II. April has a darker complexion and (C) 4321
identifies herself with Metis (D) 3142
population.
III. The two sisters have been removed 27. Given below are the two statements, one is
from their parents home and placed labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as
with a series of foster families. Reason (R).
IV. Cheryl has a lighter complexion and
identifies herself with white population. Assertion (A): The literature of the
Jacobean Age is dominated by
(A) I and III are correct. works revealing symptoms of
(B) I and II are correct. melodrama and
(C) II and III are correct. sensationalism.
(D) III and IV are correct. Reason (R): The Jacobean Age is generally
ruled by the spirit of decadence.

In the context of the two statements which one

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in terms of
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the utilitarianism and who
correct explanation of (A). reject the humanity and
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not uniqueness of the
the correct explanation of (A). individual person.
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true. (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation of (A).
28. Which of the following statements best (B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not
describes the term „deconstruction‟? the correct explanation of (A).
(A) It seeks to expose the problematic nature (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
of „cantered‟ discourses. (D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
(B) It advocates „subjective‟ or „free‟
interpretation. 32. “A Tun of Man in thy large Bulk is writ,
(C) It emphasizes the importance of historical but sure thou‟rt but a Kilderkin of wit” In the
context. above lines what does Dryden mean by
(D) It is a method of critical analysis. „Kilderkin‟?
(A) A trivial instance
29. Which of these authors is not a writer of (B) A small barrel of wine
African American slave narratives? (C) kith and kin
(A) Solomon Northrop (D) A small amount, as contrasted with „tun‟
(B) Frederick Douglass
(C) Phillis Wheatley 33. Which of the following statements is not
(D) Sojourner Truth true of Kazuo Ishiguro‟s Remains of the Day?
The novel
30. “For nature then (A) Usesa butler as a pivotal character.
The courser pleasures of my boyish days, And (B) Uses the classic English detective story
their glad animal movements all gone by form.
to me was all in all”. (C) Refers to England in the 1930s.
In these lines from “Tintern Abbey Revisited”, (D) Became a very successful film.
Wordsworth is talking about:
34. “From a Second Space perspective city space
(A) The second stage in his relationship with becomes more of a mental and ideational field,
Nature. conceptualised in imagery,
(B) The first stage in his relationship with reflexive thought and symbolic representation, a
Nature. conceived space of the
(C) Both the first and second stages in his imagination or what I will henceforth describe
relationship with Nature. as the urban imagery.” (Edward
(D) The third stage in his relationship with Soja, Post metropolis) Which of the
Nature. following statements cannot be applied to Soja‟s
proposition on the Second Space?
31. Assertion (A):One of Flaubert‟s (A) Second Space perspective tends to be
mainmotivations in more subjective.
writing the novel (B) SecondSpaceperspectiveis
Madam Bovary was his concerned with symbolic
antipathy for the representation of reality.
bourgeoisie. (C) Second Space perspective is concerned
Reason (R): Flaubert with the fundamentally materialist
strongly believed that approach.
bourgeoisie are those (D) Second Space perspective deals with
who think, feel and act „thoughts about space‟.

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35. “Lightly, O lightly, we bear her along; she (C) Locating the meaning of a literary work
sways like a flower in the wind of our song; in the internal relations of the language
She skims like a bird on the foam of a that constitute a text.
stream; she floats like a laugh from the lips of a (D) Evaluating a literary text against a
dream.....” These lines occur in the backdrop of historical events.

poem 40. Who among the following figures give a

(A) “Palanquin bearers” preview of Achenbach‟s fatal end in Death in
(B) “The Illusion of Love” Venice?
(C) “Indian Love Song” Codes:
(D) “Cradle Song” I. The Graveyard Stranger
II. The Governess
36. Which among the following novels of III. The barber
Anita Desai is a children‟s book? IV. The
(A) Fire and the Mountain Gondolier
(B) Fasting, Feasting
(C) The Zig zag Way The right combination according to the code
(D) The Village by the Sea is:
(A) III and IV are correct.
37. Who among the following writers (B) I and IV are correct.
describes novels as “not form which you see (C) II and III are correct.
but emotion which you feel”? (D) I and III are correct.
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) Jean Rhys 41. Jacques Lacan posits three „orders‟ which
(C) Virginia Woolf structure human existence. In the list that
(D) Joseph Conrad follows: Identify the one that is not included by
Lacan:
38. In Paradise Lost, Milton invokes his (A) Imaginary
„Heavenly Muse‟, „Urania‟ at the beginning (B) Unconscious
of: (C) Real
Codes: (D) Symbolic
I. Book one II.
Book four III. 42. Given below are two statements, one
Book nine IV. labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
Book seven as Reason (R).
Assertion (A):Deconstructive reading is
The right combination according to the code apolitical.
is Reason (R): Because it focuses exclusively on
(A) I and II are correct. language. It primarily holds that
(B) I, III and IV correct. all texts or linguistic structures
(C) II and III are correct. contain within them a principle
(D) I and IV are correct. of destabilisation and hence it
is difficult to pin down
39. Which one of the following best describes meaning. Such a reading,
the basic principle of New Criticism? therefore, is unable to assign
(A) An emphasis on the distinctive style historical agency.
and personality of the authors. In this context above statements, identify
(B) Stressing the virtues of discipline, order which one of the following is correct?
and the ethical mean. (A) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.

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43. Match the following lists:

List – I List – II 47. The Divine Comedy is divided into three
(Title of poem) (Poet) canticas, each consisting of
I. “I hear a fly Buzz” 1. Wallace (A) 30 cantos
Stevens (B) 33 cantos
II. “Birches” 2. Emily (C) 24 cantos
Dickinson
III. “Sunday Morning” 3. Allen Ginsberg (D) 28 cantos
IV. “A Supermarket in California” 4. Robert
Frost 48. The Modern Promethean is the
alternative title of
The correct combination is: (A) Dracula
I II III IV (B) Frankenstein
(A) 2431 (C) Caleb Williams
(B) 2134 (D) The Italian
(C) 2413
(D) 3214 49. In Words upon Words, Saussure says,
“The actual birth of a new language has never
44. „Lexis‟ refers to reported in the world” because “we have never
known of a language which was
(A) All word forms having meaning or
grammatical functions not spoken the day before or which was not
(B) The history of words spoken in the same way the day before”.
(C) Study of select word forms What does he mean?
(D) The selection of words (A) Old languages die making way for new
ones.
(B) The birth and death of a language are
45. The following writers are involved in social
not subject to human laws.
activism in addition to their practice of creative
writing: (C) Languages do not get borne, they evolve
Codes: out of previously existing linguistic
situations.
I. Mahasweta Devi II.
Shashi Deshpande (D) Old speech patterns trigger the birth of
a new language.
III. Arundhati Roy
IV. Shobha De
50. What did Henry James describe as
“Loose Baggy Monsters”?
The correct combination according to the
code is (A) Novels
(A) I and II are correct. (B) The Spaniards
(B) III and IV are correct. (C) Epic Poems
(C) I and III are correct. (D) His trousers
(D) II and IV are correct.
51. “High above the north pole, on the first day
46. In relation to Spenser‟s Faerie Queene of 1969, two professors of English
which of the following character virtue link is literature approached each other at a combined
rightly matched? velocity of 1200 miles per hour.” This is the
opening of David Lodge‟s
(A) Justice-Artegall; Courtsey- Guyan;
Temperance-Calidore (A) Nice Work
(B) Changing Places
(B) Chasity-Britomart; Justice- Guyan;
(C) Small World
Temperance-Talus
(D) The British Museum is Falling Down
(C) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance-
Guyon; Justice-Artegall
(D) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance-
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52. At the end of The Portrait of a Lady (D) Pragmatics

Isabel Archer
I. Goes back to the house from the Garden. 57. The term „ecological imperialism‟ was
II. Accepts the proposal of Casper Good coined by
wood. (A) Vandana Shiva
III. Straight away refuses the offer of Good (B) Laurence Buell
wood. (C) Paulo Freire
IV. Probably goes back to Rome and (D) Alfred Crosby
Osmond.
58. Emotional ties and personal
Which are the correct combinations according relationships play a minor part in Defoe‟s
to the code? works. The following protagonists of Defoe
Codes: have no family except one who leaves family at
(A) I and II are correct. an early age. Which is that character?
(B) III and IV are correct. (A) Moll Flanders
(C) I and IV are correct. (B) Colonel Jacque
(D) I and III are correct. (C) Robinson Crusoe
(D) Captain Singleton
53. “I will put myself in poor and mean
attire and with a kind of umber smirch my 59. Match the following lists:
face”. The word umber means: List – I List – II
(A) A dusty yellow or brown pigment (Novels)
(B) A dark brown pigment (Settings)
(C) Light brown powder I. The Power and the Glory 1.
(D) Yellow paste Vietnam
II. The Quiet American 2. Haiti
54. Which of the following psychoanalysts rewrote III. The Honorary Consul 3.
Descartes‟s dictum: “I think therefore I am‟ as „I Paraguay
am not where I think, and I think where I am not‟? IV. The Comedians 4. Mexico
(A) Lacan
(B) Freud The right combination according to the code
(C) Jung is:
(D) Cixous I II III IV
(A) 4132
55. By the end of In Memorium the speaker (B) 1234
(A) Re-embraces a Christian vision of after (C) 4321
life (D) 3412
(B) Re-asserts religious doubts and scientific
scepticism. 60. “...... Every other stone is god or cousin
(C) Reiterates the Darwinian view of social there is no crop other than god and god is
life. harvested here around the year.” This
(D) Reaffirms his faith in universal extract is from:
brotherhood. (A) Jayanta Mahapatra‟s “Konarak”
(B) Arun Kolatkar‟s Jejuri
56. The system of social rules that a speaker (C) P. Lal‟s “Being Very Simple, God”
knows about language and uses it is called (D) R. Parthasarathy‟s “Under another Sky”
(A) Grammar
(B) Morphology
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61. In EM Foster‟s A Passage to India some (C) II and III are correct.
of the major symbols are associated with: (D) I and II are correct.
Code:
I. Mountains 65. Th‟ inferior Priestess, at her Altar‟s side,
II. Tigers III. trembling, begins the sacred Rites of Pride. In
Echoes IV. this description of Belinda at the dressing table,
Clouds
What does the word Pride refer to?
The right combination according to the code (A) Vanity
is: (B) Pride as the first of man‟s sins
(A) I and II are correct. (C) Both (A) and (B)
(B) I, II and IV are correct. (D) Complacency
(C) I and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct. 66. “Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she
died young..... She and I were twins: And
62. Which of the following features are should I die this instant, I had liv‟d her time
present in Dostoevsky‟s Crime and to a minute” In the light of the above
Punishment? quotation which of the following
I. Nihilism interpretations is not correct?
II. Utilitarianism (A) The beauty and youth of the Duchess
III. Rationalism become obvious to Ferdinand when he
IV. Christian Symbolism sees her dead body.
(B) Only when he identifies himself with
The correct combination according to the her, does he realize the enormity of his
code is: crime.
(A) I and II are correct (C) When he compares the age of the
(B) I and IV are correct Duchess with his own and puts himself
(C) III and IV are correct in her position does he realize his guilt?
(D) I and III are correct (D) He wants her face to be covered
because it reminds him of her infidelity.
63. “Count no man happy until he dies, free
of pain at last”, is the last line of 67. All except one of the following scholars
(A) Oedipus at Colonus have come up with models which aim to
(B) Agamemnon characterise world English‟s within one
(C) Oedipus the King conceptual set. Identify the lone exception.
(D) Orestes (A) Tom McArthur
(B) Noam Chomsky
64. What characteristics of 17th century (C) Braj Kachru
metaphysical poetry sparked the enthusiasm of (D) Manfred Gorlach
modernist poets and critics?
Code: 68. In the very opening scene of Volpone, the
I. its intellectual complexity protagonist says, “Open the shrine, that I may
II. Its uncompromising engagement with see my Saint,” By the word „Saint‟, Volpone is
politics referring to
III. Its religious fervour (A) The Sun
IV. Its union of thought and passion (B) Saint Arthur
(C) Gold
The right combination according to the code (D) Apollo
is
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.

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69. A close friend of Dickens objected to the 73. Which of the following second language
original ending of Great Expectations in which learners would most likely acquire the second
Estella remarries and Pip remains single. Dickens language more easily?
accordingly revised to a more conventional ending (A) A high school student who has been
which suggests that Pip and Estella will marry. Who enrolled in mandatory classes in the
was the friend? second language since elementary
(A) Willkie Collins school.
(B) Thomas Beard (B) A visitor to a country where the second
(C) Thomas Carlyle language is spoken; he interacts with
(D) Richard Bentley hotel and restaurant personnel using
the second language.
70. Which of the following statements best (C) A business person for whom fluency in
describes an example of the influence of an the second language may lead to career
affective factor on second language acquisition? advancement.
(A) A second language learner makes (D) An immigrant living in a country where
educated guesses about word meanings the second language is spoken; he feels
in a text by recognizing cognates. accepted by speakers of the second
(B) A second language learner uses familiar language.
vocabulary to mentally form sentences
before speaking. 74. In Wuthering Heights, Cathy appears
(C) An adult second language learner finds in a dream beating at a window, wailing “Let me
it impossible to form second language in”, and blood running down her
sounds that do not occur in his first wrist. Who dreams her?
language. (A) Lockwood
(D) A second language learner employs (B) Nelly
several words from the first language (C) Heathcliff
when peaking the second language but (D) Edgar Linton
not when writing it.
75. Who among the following characters in
71. Marvell‟s “The Coronet” seeks to Thomas More‟s Utopia did not correspond in
explore the human condition in terms of the biographical background to an actual historical
conflict between person?
(A) Body and soul (A) Morton
(B) War and peace (B) Hythloday
(C) Nature and grace (C) Giles
(D) Flesh and spirit (D) More

72. Which of the following is not true of post-

structuralism?
(A) It seeks to undermine the idea that
meaning pre-exists its linguistic
expression.
(B) There can be no meaning which is not
formulated and no language
formulation reaches anywhere beyond
language.
(C) There is no a-textual „origin‟ of a text.
(D) Every sign refers to every other sign
adequately.

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JUNE 2013
(RE-EXAM)
PAPER II

1. In the following cluster of poems by Shelley,

which one has the voyage motif?
(A) “Adonais”
(B) The Revolt of Islam
(C) “Ode to the West Wind”
(D) Alastor

2. In Sydney‟s sonnet sequence, Astrophil

and Stella, the final sonnet (#108)
(A) Brings no resolution
(B) Ends in joy
(C) Brings a definite resolution
(D) Promises another sonnet sequence

3. Who among the following English writers

opposed the Licensing Act of 1643?
(A) John Milton
(B) Thomas Browne
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) Abraham Cowley

4. Who claimed: “I have not published a single

paper that is not written in a spirit
of benevolence and with a love of mankind”?
(A) Pope
(B) Dryden
(C) Swift
(D) Addison

5. A protagonist writes a letter of confession,

but it gets lost under the carpet only to be found
on the wedding day. Who is the protagonist?
(A) Bathsheba
(B) Lucetta
(C) Sue
(D) Tess

6. In an age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes

grow insensitive to subtle joys. The italicised words are
an example of
(A) A transferred epithet
(B) A simile
(C) A metaphor
(D) A hyperbaton

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(C) The collapse of liberal humanist

consensus in the late 1960s.
(D) A combined appeal to the Queen by a
7. In Graham Greene‟s Brighton Rock, group of London dramatists.
Hale is murdered with the help of „brighton
rock‟ which is 12. The Wife of Bath‟s philosophy
(A) A kind of sugar-candy ofmarriage shows that she
(B) A form of grenade (A) Is a strong person with keen awareness of
(C) A baton her own rights?
(D) A kind of rock
8. Which poet among this group does not (B) Tends to say one thing and do the
belong to the „Auden Generation‟ group of opposite.
poets? (C) Cares only for pleasure, not for right and
(A) Stephen Spender wrong.
(B) Alun Lewis (D) Trusts thought too much instead of
(C) Cecil Day Lewis feeling.
(D) Louis Macneice
13. Which of the following characters is killed in
9. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to Achebe‟s Things Fall Apart in conformity with an
realize that the „beast‟ is actually the evil inside African tribal custom?
the boys themselves and it is that which is (A) Okonkwo
breaking things up? (B) Obierika
(A) Jack (C) Ikemefuna
(B) Simon (D) Nwoye
(C) Roger
(D) Ralph 14. “We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.”
The repetition of a phrase is
10. Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorian (A) Antiphrasis
feeling prevalent in the early twentieth century? (B) Diacope
Code: (C) Aposiopesis
I. Eminent Victorians (D) Enumeratio
II. Jungle Book
III. Philistine Victorians 15. Find the poet who is the odd one in the
IV. The Way of All Flesh group:
(A) Wallace Stevens
The correct combination according to the (B) Robert Lowell
code is (C) Sylvia Plath
(A) II and IV are correct. (D) Anne Sexton
(B) I and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct. 16. Which one of the following characters in
(D) II and III are correct. Shakespeare‟s Tempest is associated with the
Earth?
11. What event allowed mainstream British theatre (A) Ferdinand
companies to commission and performs work that (B) Ariel
was politically, socially and sexually controversial (C) Caliban
without fear of censorship? (D) Prospero
(A) The abolition of the Lord
Chamberlain‟s office in 1968. 17. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon
(B) The illegal performance of works by attempted a preliminary survey of the entire field of
Howard Brenton and Edward Bond. learning, by analyzing the principal obstacles to its
advancement. Identify from among the following
choices

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the one that he did not mention as an obstacle:

(A) Rhetoric 22. _________ is the use of words whose
(B) Medieval scholasticism pronunciation imitates the sound the word
(C) Inductive method describes.
(D) Pseudo sciences (A) Alliteration
(B) Onomatopoeia
18. Who among this group of young male (C) Oxymoron
characters in Jane Austen‟s novels is not sent to the (D) Enthymeme
University for Education?
(A) Tom Bertram 23. Arrange the following books in the order
(B) John Thorpe in which they appeared. Use the code given
(C) James Morland below:
(D) Henry Tilney I. The Dictionary of the English Language
II. The History of Rasselas
19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian III. The Vanity of Human
thinking with telling directness in his portrayal Wishes IV. Lives of the English
of Poets
(A) Paul Dombey
(B) Thomas Gradgrind Which is the correct combination according
(C) Philip Pirrip to the above code?
(D) Harold Skimpole Code:
(A) III, I, II, IV
20. Which one of the following playwrights (B) I, II, III, IV
will not be covered under the category / term (C) IV, III, II, I
„Theatre of the Absurd‟? (D) II, III, I, IV
(A) Jean Genet
(B) Jean Giraudoux 24. Arrange the following forms in the order in
(C) Samuel Beckett which they appeared. Use the code
(D) Eugene Ionesco given below:
I. commedia dell‟arte
21. The following are two lists of lines from II. Confessional poetry
poems and their titles. Match them: III. Agitprop
List – I List – II IV. Picaresque novel
(Lines from poems) (Titles of poems)
I. “The squat pen rests The correct combination is:
as snug as a gun.” 1. “Church Code:
Going” (A) IV, I, II, III
II. “A serious house on (B) I, IV, III, II
serious earth it is.” 2. “Hawk- Roosting” (C) II, IV, I, III
III. “Time held me green (D) I, III, IV, II
and dying.” 3. “Digging”
IV. “I hold creation in 25. Which of the following poems deals with
neighbourly relations?
my foot.” 4. “Fern Hill”
(A) “Birches”
Which is the correct combination
according to the above code? (B) “Home Burial”
Code: (C) “Mending Wall”
I II III IV (D) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
(A) 4 1 2 3 Evening”
(B) 2 3 4 1
(C) 1 2 3 4 26. The following are two lists of writers and
(D) 3 1 4 2 their works. Match them:
List – I List – II

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(Writers) (D) 2 1 4 3
(Works)
I. Katherine Susannah Prichard 1. Barungin 30. The following are two lists of writers and
II. Colin Johnson 2. My Place their works. Match them:
III. Sally Morgan 3. Wild Cat Falling List – I List – II
IV. Jack Davis 4. Coonardoo (Writers) (Works)
I. Uma Parameswaran 1. Drums of My Flesh
Which is the correct combination according II. Bharati Mukherjee 2. Trishanku
to the above code? III. Michael Ondaatje 3. Jasmine
Code: IV. Cyril Dabydeen 4. Anil‟s Ghost
I II III IV
(A) 3 2 1 4 Which is the correct combination according
(B) 4 3 2 1 to the above code?
(C) 2 1 4 3 Code:
(D) 1 4 3 2 I II III IV
(A) 1 3 2 4
27. How does John Stuart Mill define (B) 3 4 1 2
„happiness‟? (C) 2 3 4 1
(A) Doing what one wants to do (D) 4 1 3 2
(B) Leading a fulfilling life
(C) Pleasure and the absence of pain 31. Dryden‟s dramatization of Paradise Lost
(D) Virtuous activity is entitled
(A) All for Love
28. “Had we but world enough, and time, this (B) The State of Innocence
coyness, lady, were no crime … But at my back I (C) Annus Mirabilis
always hear Time‟s winged chariot hurrying (D) Religio Medici
near.” Andrew Marvell in
these lines emphasizes the theme of 32. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate
(A) Love Millet‟s Sexual Politics and Germaine
(B) Love and transience Greer‟s The Female Eunuch were
(C) Love and political passion published in
(D) Love and flattery (A) 1969
(B) 1968
29. The following are two lists of (C) 1970
dramatists and their plays. Match them: (D) 1967
List – I List – II
(Dramatists) (Plays) 33. Who defined poetry as „the best words
I. George Etheredge 1. The Country in the best order‟?
Wife (A) Wordsworth
Th
II. William Wycherley 2. e Man of (B) Coleridge
Mode (C) Keats
III. John Vanbrugh 3. The Double (D) Shelley
Dealer
IV. William Congreve 4. The Provok‟d 34. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by
Wife “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe”?
(A) Britain‟s pre-eminence as a global
The correct combination is: power will depend on mastery of
Code: foreign languages.
I II III IV (B) Abandon the introspection of the
(A) 2 3 4 1 Romantics and turn to the higher
(B) 3 2 1 4 moral purpose found in Goethe.
(C) 4 3 2 1

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(C) Even a foreign author is better than a 41. The „Vulgate Bible‟ was prepared to
home-grown scoundrel. make the Bible available to
(D) Leave England and immigrate to (A) The ecclesiastics
Germany. (B) The elite class
(C) The courtiers
35. Conrad‟s Heart of Darkness presents two (D) The common men
conflicting discourses present in his own
culture. Identify the two discourses from the 42. Literary works such as Charles
following: Dickens‟s David Copperfield, Samuel
(A) Modernism and anticolonialism Butler‟s The Way of All Flesh and James
(B) Modernism and structuralism Joyce‟s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(C) Anti-colonialism and Eurocentricism provide examples of which following novelistic
(D) Material culturalism and tribalism form?
(A) Nouveau roman or new novel
36. Who among the following poets defined free (B) Epistolary novel
verse as playing tennis without a net? (C) Bildugsroman
(A) Robert Frost (D) Historical novel
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) Philip Larkin 43. “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
(D) William Carlos Williams expresses a pathetic cry of a wounded
heart from “Ode to the West Wind” by
37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the Shelley. The poem consists of
following plays except (A) Fourteen line terzarima stanzas
(A) Tamburlaine the Great (B) four-lined stanza characterized by swift
(B) The Jew of Malta action
(C) Richard III (C) A particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle
(D) Edward II (D) An unstressed syllable followed by a
stressed one
38. According to Barthes, a text which draws
attention to its artifice, to the ways in which it is 44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats‟s Muse
structured, is called figure is
(A) Writerly text (A) Thea
(B) Aesthetic text (B) Moneta
(C) Readerly text (C) Lamia
(D) Formal text (D) Calliope

39. Which of the following descriptions is not 45. What literary work best captures a sense of the
applicable to Pope‟s The Rape of the Lock? political turmoil particularly regarding the issue of
(A) A mock heroic poem religion just after the
(B) Written in heroic couplets Restoration?
(C) Pope‟s tribute to Queen Anne (A) Gay‟s Beggar‟s Opera
(D) Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 (B) Butler‟s Hudibras
and 5 cantos (C) Pope‟s Dunciad
(D) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel
40. From the following list, choose the work which
is not written by E.M. Forster: 46. Who among the Victorian authors has
(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread described himself/herself as an agnostic?
(B) Maurice (A) Matthew Arnold
(C) A Room of One‟s Own (B) Charles Dickens
(D) The Longest Journey (C) George Eliot
(D) Thomas Hardy

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47. Preface to Frantz Fanon‟s The

Wretched of the Earth was written by
(A) AimeCesaire
(B) AniaLoomba
(C) Jean Paul Sartre
(D) Edward Said

48. Who among the following theorists

formulated the concept of the utile dulci, profit
combined with delight?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Horace
(D) Longinus

49. Out of the four humours of the body, the

Jacobeans thought of themselves as especially
prone to
(A) Choler
(B) Blood
(C) Phlegm
(D) Melancholy

50. Who among the following Romantic

poets ended his life, lauded and respected as
„The Sage of High gate‟?
(A) William Blake
(B) S.T. Coleridge
(C) P.B. Shelley
(D) William Wordsworth

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JUNE (C) III, II, I, IV

(D) I, III, II, IV
(RE-EXAM)
2013 PAPER III 5. Which of the following statements is not
applicable to Derrida‟s rejection of the notion of
the „Metaphysics of Presence‟?
(A) The desire for immediate access to
1. Which of the following statements isnot true
meaning privileges presence over
of Tolstoy‟s Anna Karenina? It is concerned absence.
with
(A) The jumbled trivia of day-today life. (B) All presences are necessarily
metaphysical and, therefore, are to be
(B) The belief in social progress and rejected.
scientific advancement.
(C) A fleeting meaning of the text is
(C) Insistent quest for meaning.
created through the play of
(D) The reaction of immediate family „difference‟ and „differance‟.
members to someone‟s terminal illness.
(D) Metaphysicsinvolves
installinghierarchiesandorders
2. In The Rape of Lock Belinda‟s guardian
sylph is unable to prevent the Baron‟s fatal ofsubordination in the variousdualisms
that it encounters.
mischief because
(A) He discovers an earthly lover lurking in 6. Read the following and its code:
Belinda‟s heart.
“a prince‟s court
(B) He is disturbed by Clarissa‟s speech.
is like a common fountain, whence should flow
(C) The view is blocked by the imposing Pure silver drop in general: but if‟t
figure of Sir Plume. chance
(D) He is yet to return from a visit to the Cave Some curs‟d example poison‟t near the head
of Spleen. Death and disease through the whole
land spread.”
3. „Ah! I‟ll never, never meet such a man
Code:
again. You ought to have heard him recite
poetry … I. It is the description of the French Court at
the beginning of The Duchess of Malfi.
Oh, he enlarged my mind.” In Heart of
II. It is about the English court. Such was
Darkness these words about Kurtz are spoken Webster‟s England, but to avoid censorship
by
Webster gives his play a foreign location.
(A) The manager
III. It is about the Italian court.
(B) The intended
IV. The court is located in Malfi.
(C) The first-class agent
(D) The Russian
The correct combination according to the
code is:
4. Arrange the following ELT methods and (A) I and IV are correct.
approaches in the order in which they appear. (B) I and II are correct.
Use the codes given below:
(C) II and III are correct.
Code:
(D) II and IV are correct.
I. Direct Method
II. The Communicative Language Teaching
III. The Grammar Translation Method 7. Literary works by post-modern British
IV. The Silent Way writers such as Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie
and Jeanette Winterson generally tend to share
which of the following characteristics?
The correct combination according to the
code is: (A) The use of fragmented narrative
structures with multiple shifts in
(A) I, III, IV, III
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consciousness, chronology and 10. Which of the following statements is not

location. true of many contemporary African writers?
(B) An emphasis on the rich universality of (A) They convey a melancholy tone of
life in cultures and countries all over the longing for traditionalreligious rituals.
world. (B) They celebrate unambiguously the
(C) A sense of sentimental nostalgia for benefits of Western education.
nineteenth and early twentieth century (C) They bemoan the loss of values and
life, typically expressed in rueful, indict aspirations of wealth.
melancholic tones. (D) They assess the social impact of systems
(D) The use of brief, economic literary and institutions of colonial rule.
forms and a spare, astringent literary
style. 11. The „Angel in the House‟ became a
common label for the Victorian ideal of
respectable middle-class femininity. The
8. Given below are two statements, one is phrase originated with a popular long poem by
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled (A) Arthur Munby
as Reason (R): (B) Arthur Hugh Clough
Assertion (A): Some post-colonial writers (C) Charlotte Mew
maintain that being „unhomed‟ is not the same (D) Coventry Patmore
as being „homeless‟.
Reason (R): Because the migrants are not at 12. Which of the following literary types is
home in themselves: their cultural identity associated with the poetry of Charles
crisis has made them psychological refugees. Baudelaire?
In the context of the above statements, which (A) Flaneur
one of the following is correct? (B) Poete Maudit
(C) Encomium
Code: (D) Honnete Homme
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct. 13. In A Farewell to Arms the main image
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct. clusters are associated with
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong. Code:
I. Rain II.
9. Which of the following statements are not true Beasts III.
about Margaret Laurence‟s Novel, Insects IV.
The Stone Angel? River
Code:
I. The novel is set in a fictional small town in The correct combination according to the
Manitoba called Manawaka. code is:
II. The novel was written when she was away (A) I and III are correct.
from Canada. (B) I, II and IV are correct.
III. The novel is narrated retrospectively by (C) III and IV are correct.
Hagar Shipley. (D) I and IV are correct.
IV. The novel is least known of her works.
14. Which of the following poets describes his
The correct combination according to the “mistress” as “No, she is not Anglo-
code is: Indian. She is Indian English, the language
(A) I and II are correct. that I use.”
(B) II and III are correct. (A) Nissim Ezekiel
(C) II and IV are correct. (B) Keki Daruwalla
(D) I and IV are correct.

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(C) A.K. Ramanujan 18. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen portrays

(D) R. Parthasarathy an „excess of sensibility‟ in
(A) Marianne
15. All of the following are characteristics of (B) Margaret
Renaissance humanism except (C) Elinor
(A) Sanctity of the Latin texts of Scriptures. (D) Lucy
(B) Rejection of Christian principles.
(C) Belief that ancient Latin and Greek 19. Ben Jonson disliked
writers were inferior to later authors. Code:
(D) Primary causative agent of the I. fantastic comedy
Reformation. II. Wide-ranging chronicle-history and
stupendous tragedy
16. „Stand up, young woman … and tell me what III. The comedies of Terence and Plautus
sort of a barbarous people your country folk are, IV. The ability of satire to expose human vices
where child-murder is and follies
become so commonplace as to require the
restraint of laws like yours.‟ The queen in Scott‟s The correct combination according to the
The Heart of Midlothian is code is:
referring to a strange (A) I and III are correct.
Scottish law according to which if a woman (B) III and IV are correct.
(A) gives birth to a child and the child is (C) I and IV are correct.
missing, she is considered guilty of (D) I and II are correct.
infanticide.
(B) Secretly gives birth to a child and the 20. Given below are two statements, one
child is missing and she has not labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled
confided to anyone about her as Reason (R):
pregnancy, she is considered guilty of Assertion (A):In the 1950s and 60s Baldwin
infanticide. and Ellison returned to
(C) gives birth to a child and the child is universal themes and focused
missing and she has not confided to on innovations in literary
anyone about her pregnancy, she is forms.
considered guilty of infanticide. Reason (R): In the 1930s and 40s African and
(D) gives birth to a child and kills the child American Literature was
and she is guilty of infanticide. mostly preoccupied with
protest.
17. Which of the following statements is not
applicable to the definition of New Historicism? In the context of the above statements, which
New historicist critics one of the following is correct? Code:
(A) Remind us that it is treacherous to
reconstruct the past as it really was – (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
rather than as we have been correct explanation of (A).
conditioned by our own place and time (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not
to believe the way it was. the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Are less likely to see history as linear (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
and progressive, as something (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
developing toward the present.
(C) Tend to view history as literature‟s 21. In coining the term „Ecriture feminine‟ Helene
background. Cixous signifies a mode of textual production, not
(D) Are unlikely to suggest that a literary necessarily written by women. Who among the
text has a single or easily identifiable following male writers is used by her as an example?
historical context. (A) D.H. Lawrence

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(B) Joseph Conrad (B) I and II are correct.

(C) James Joyce (C) III and IV are correct.
(D) E.M. Forster (D) I and III are correct.

22. Of the following characters in Jacobean 26. Judith Wright‟s works reveal the following
plays, choose the one who is not a villainous features except one. Which one?
character: (A) A keen focus on the Australian
(A) De Flores (The Changeling) environment
(B) Luke Frugal (The City Madam) (B) Concern for the relationship between the
(C) Sir Giles Overreach (A New Way to Pay settlers, indigenous Australians and the bush.
Old Debts) (C) A correspondence between inner
(D) Bosola (The Duchess of Malfi) existence and objective reality.
(D) An obsession with religious and political
23. Resistance to slavery created a literature issues.
of the abolitionist movement in the last quarter
of the eighteenth century in Britain. 27. Arrange the following books in the order
Suchliterature included books written byformer in which they appeared:
slaves. Two such writings are Code:
Code: I. Leviathan
I. Mary Robinson II. II. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
Olaudah Equiano III. Le MorteD‟Arthur
III. Mary Prince IV. Utopia
IV. Anne Cromarty Yearsley
The correct combination according to the
The right combination according to the code code is:
is (A) I, IV, III, II
(A) I and IV are correct. (B) III, IV, I, II
(B) I and II are correct. (C) III, IV, II, I
(C) II and IV are correct. (D) III, I, IV, II
(D) II and III are correct.
28. Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were
24. Hippolyte Taine published his four shortlisted for the Booker Prize?
volumes History of English Literature in 1864 (A) The Artist of Disappearance and In
based on the following categories except one. Custody
Which one? (B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting
(A) Race (C) Feasting, Fasting and the Zig Zag Way
(B) Psychology (D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain
(C) Historical moment
(D) Milieu 29. Edward Said points to two forms of
orientalism. They are
25. The two „mother-figures‟ in Dickens‟s (A) Real and fake
Great Expectations are (B) Voluntary and involuntary
Code: (C) Subjective and objective
I. Estella (D) Latent and manifest
II. Miss Havisham
III. Mrs Joe 30. Which of the plays in its Preface was
IV. Georgiana described by Eugene O‟Neill as „a play of old
sorrow, written in tears and blood‟?
The right combination according to the code (A) Desire under the Elms
is: (B) The Hairy Ape
(A) II and III are correct. (C) Long Day‟s Journey into Night
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(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
31. “With all the eagerness to know the correct explanation of (A).
truths of life, she retained very childlike ideas (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
about marriage … the really the correct explanation of (A).
delightful marriage must be that when your (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
husband was a sort ofa father, and (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
could even teach you Hebrew, if you wished it.”
She is the protagonist in one of George Eliot‟s 34. Which of the following novels acted as an
novels. Who is she? influence on Salman Rushdie in forging
(A) Romola a new narrative style in English?
(B) Hetty Sorel (A) Raja Rao‟s Kanthapura
(C) Maggie (B) G.V. Desani‟s All about H Hatterr
(D) Dorothea (C) Mulk Raj Anand‟s Untouchable
(D) R.K. Narayan‟s The Sweet Vendor
32. Given below are two statements, one is labelled
as Assertion (A) and the other 35. Ann Radcliffe‟s The Mysteries of
labelled as Reason (R): Udolpho is a novel about
Assertion (A): The term “Standard English” is (A) A father and a daughter setting out on
misleading. a journey.
Reason (R): There are many linguistic (B) The kidnapping of Emily by Montoni
communities that do have a and her visit to Venice.
genuine standard variety, a fixed (C) Emily‟s adventures in the castle of
and invariant form of the Udolpho, the outcome of the
language that is used for adventures, her escape and her final
certain kinds of union with Valencourt.
communication. (D) The adventures of Montoni and his
men in Udolpho.
In the context of the above statements, which
one of the following is correct? Code: 36. In Marxist criticism the term
„interpellation‟ defines
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the (A) The ways in which the ideological
correct explanation of (A). structure in social formation is
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not constructed out of material practices.
the correct explanation of (A). (B) The ways in which the ideological
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. structure in social formation is
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. constructed out of discursive practices.
(C) The ways in which the subjects of an
33. Given below are two statements, one is ideology are placed in false positions of
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled knowledge regarding themselves.
as Reason (R):
(D) The ways in which the subjects ofan
Assertion (A):The Waste Land ends in a flurry ideology resist false positionsof
of random allusions. knowledge regarding others.
Reason (R): The ending of the poem
reflects the poet‟s divided life 37. According to Longinus, the sublime has the
between America and England following features except :
and a life given over to (A) It is the essence of all great poetry and
primitivism. oratory.
(B) It is interested in the usual rhetorical goal
In the context of the above statements, which of persuasion.
one of the following is correct? (C) It valorises a special use of language.
(D) It is a matter of reader-response.

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38. In a trickster tale

Code: 42. In the sonnet “Death, Be Not Proud”,
I. an anthropomorphized animal often serves Donne says to death: “Those whom thou
as the protagonist think‟st thou dost over-throw / Die not, poor
II. The ending is ambiguous death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”
III. The hero can be a shape shifter, a cheat What does he mean?
or a liar (A) Death is very strong.
IV. Humans act as a mouth piece for the gods (B) Death is not death, because after death we
wake up to live eternally.
The correct combination according to the (C) One must face death courageously and
code is: defiantly.
(A) II and III are correct. (D) Death is not as strong as he thinks he is.
(B) I, II and III are correct.
(C) I and III are correct. 43. In which of the following plays of Luigi
(D) I and IV are correct. Pirandello the stage itself, the symbol of
appearance and reality, becomes the setting of
39. The best source for historical evidence of the play?
individual words in English is (A) Right You Are (If You Think, You Are)
(A) The American Heritage Dictionary (B) To Clothe the Naked
(B) Fennell (C) The Life I Gave You
(C) The Oxford English Dictionary (D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
(D) TheOnlineMerriam-Webster‟s
Dictionary 44. Given below are two statements, one is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is
40. Which of the following statements on the labelled as Reason (R):
ending of Kafka‟s “Metamorphosis” is correct? Assertion (A):Many modern British writers
The death of Gregor Samsa is marked by infused their works with an
(A) Violent convulsions. extreme sense of uncertainty,
(B) A slow ebbing a way of life hardly disillusionment and despair.
perceptible.
(C) The miraculous appearance of a priest to Reason (R): The writers were responding to
administer the last rites. the devastation of war and
(D) The intense mourning of the cleaner who feeling disconnected from the
discovers the body. traditions of the past.

41. Archetypal criticism accepts as its informing In the context of the above statements, which
principle that archetypes are present in all one of the following is correct? Codes:
literature and provide the
basis of its interconnectedness. Practitioners (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
include correct explanation of (A).
Code: (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
I. Northrop Frye the correct explanation of (A).
II. Dorothy Van Ghent (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
III. Derek Traversi IV. (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Maud Bodkin
The correct combination according to 45. Which among the following statements is
the code is: not correct? Badal Sircar‟s Pagla Ghora is a
(A) I and IV are correct. play about
(B) I and III are correct. (A) The condition of women in post-
(C) II and IV are correct. Second World War Bengal.
(D) I and II are correct. (B) The political and religious conditions
of the time.

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(C) Sexual passion. Code:

(D) Lack of communication between men List – I List – II
and women. (Works) (Themes)
I. The Heart of Midlothian,
46. The various symbols used in Girish Tess of the D‟urbervilles 1. Suicide
Karnad‟s Tughlaq are associated with II. The End of the Affair,
Code: the Golden Bowl 2. Greed
I. Pythons II. III. The Heart of the
Vultures III. Matter,
Wasps IV. Lord Jim 3. Infanticide
Butterflies IV. Heart of Darkness,
Nostromo 4. Adultery
The correct combination according to the
code is: The correct combination according to the
(A) I and II are correct. code is:
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct. I II III IV
(D) II and III are correct. (A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 1 2
47. “Collocations” refer to (C) 1 3 2 1
(A) The combination of words in a phrase (D) 4 1 3 2
(B) The act of positioning words
(C) Grouping of words in a sentence 51. In As You Like It when Oliver brings in the
(D) Combination of natural words bloody napkin dyed in Orlando‟s blood, why
does Rosalind faint? Which of the following is not
48. Of the following statements, which one is the correct answer?
not true of Congreve‟s The Way of the (A) Many will swoon when they look at blood.
World? (B) She faints because of her real concern and
(A) The Way of the World was staged in anxiety for Orlando.
1700. (C) Frailty, thy name is woman.
(B) It was played at the theatre in Lincoln‟s (D) She is counterfeiting as she herself later
Inn Fields. claims.
(C) It was a failure on the stage.
(D) The dialogue was unintelligible. 52. Which is the correct statement about
Euripides‟s Medea? In Euripides‟s Medea
49. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne‟s Look the chorus consists of
Back in Anger displays (A) Fifteen Corinthian women who are
Code: Medea‟s next door neighbours
I. Rebelliousness (B) Fifteen Athenian elders
II. Nostalgia III. (C) Fifteen Spartan women
Restlessness IV. (D) Fifteen Sicilian Women
Mendacity
53. Which of the following is not an award
The right combination according to the code received by Mahasweta Devi?
is: (A) Ramon Magsaysay Award
(A) I and II are correct. (B) Jnanpith Award
(B) I and III are correct. (C) Padmashri
(C) II and III are correct. (D) Commonwealth Writers Prize
(D) III and IV are correct.

50. The following are two lists of works and

their themes. Match them correctly:

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54. The Statute of Pleadings makes English the

official language of the English Parliament in 57. The following are two lists of characters
(A) 1755 and the works in which we find them. Match
(B) 1362 them correctly according to the code:
(C) 1611 List – I List – II
(D) 1879 (Characters) (Works)
I. Ratna 1. A House for Mr Biswas
55. The following are two lists of statements II. Raghu 2. Midnight‟s Children
and the poets / critics who made them. Match III. Padma 3. The Last Labyrinth
them correctly: IV. Gargi 4. Kanthapura
List – I List – II Code:
(Statements on imagination) (Poets / I II III IV
critics) (A) 2 1 3 4
I. One power alone makes (B) 3 2 1 4
a poet – The Imagination, (C) 4 1 2 3
The Divine Vision 1. Shelley (D) 1 2 3 4
II. … what the imagination seizes
on beauty must be the truth 2. 58. In spite of being constant in his relationship
Coleridge with Sophia, Tom is involved in relationships with
III. The great instrument of three other ladies in the three parts of Tom Jones.
moral good is the imagination 3. Blake Here is a list of these women. Find the odd one:
IV. Works of imagination should (A) Molly Seagrim
be written in a very plain language 4. Keats (B) Mrs Western
(C) Lady Booby
The right combination according to the code (D) Lady Bellaston
is:
Code:
I II III IV 59. This novel by Lawrence was greeted with the
(A) 2 1 3 4 headlines: „A book the police should ban;
(B) 3 4 1 2 loathsome study of sex
(C) 1 3 2 1 depravity; misleading youth to unspeakable
(D) 4 1 3 2 disaster.‟ Its opening chapter
was originally suppressed. Name the novel:
56. In Lord of Flies Golding inverts the morality of (A) Lady Chatterley‟s Lover
R.M. Ballantyne‟s The Coral Island involving (B) The Rainbow
adventures of three boys (C) Women in Love
marooned on South Pacific Island. Two names are (D) The White Peacock
repeated in Golding‟s tale. They
are 60. In Keats‟s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” the key
Code: ideas are best described as the following except
I. Ralph one. Which one?
II. Roger (A) Movement versus stasis
III. Jack (B) Disappointing love versus eternal bliss
IV. Simon (C) Scars of history versus consolations of art
(D) Beauty versus truth
The correct combination according to the
code is: 61. These critics transcend the subjective point of
(A) I and II are correct. view. They bow to other forms of objective
(B) III and IV are correct. authority: the authority of the past and the authority
(C) I and IV are correct. of the social
(D) I and III are correct.

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consensus. They adopt the scientific attitude III. The Roman Catholic
without the science. Church IV. The Protestant Faith
The above formulation best describes
(A) The Neoclassical Critics The correct combination according to the
(B) The Romantic Critics code is:
(C) The Art for Art Sake Critics (A) I and III are correct.
(D) The Symbolist Critics (B) I and II are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
62. In Beckett‟s Waiting for Godo, which (D) II and III are correct.
character has two pages of unpunctuated
speech? 67. Which of the following statements is not a
(A) Estragon correct description of Pope‟s The Dunciad?
(B) Vladimir (A) The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers
(C) Lucky and bad writing.
(D) Pozzo (B) It is a pessimistic commentary on the
civilization of the time.
63. Laura Mulvey‟s pioneering essay, “Visual (C) It is about the coronation of Theobald.
Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is an instance of (D) It wishes to satirize Theobald only.
the feminist appropriation of
psychoanalysis. It particularly uses 68. Which of the following statements cannot
(A) Freud‟s concept of sublimation be subsumed under the “Sapir-
(B) Jung‟s concept of collective unconscious Whorf” hypothesis?
(C) Lacan‟s concept of the gaze (A) Each language presents us with its own
(D) Lacan‟s notion of the fragmented body categorization of the universe.
(B) Language is a guide to social reality.
64. Which of the following novelists does not (C) One adjusts to reality essentially without
belong to the “Campus Novelists” the use of language.
Group? (D) A language and the society that uses it
(A) Angus Wilson interlock.
(B) David Lodge
(C) Anthony Powell 69. Which philosophers do Dante encounter in
(D) Malcolm Bradbury Limbo, the first circle of hell?
Code:
65. Which of the following statements is not I. Socrates II.
true of The Stranger by Camus? Aristotle III.
(A) The title character is Meursault, an Heraclitus
Algerian who kills an Arab man. IV. Plato
(B) The story, divided into two parts, gives
Meursault‟s first person narrative The correct combination according to the
before and after the murder code is:
respectively. (A) I and II are correct.
(C) It is a realistic novel, true to the locale (B) I and IV are correct.
it depicts. (C) II and IV are correct.
(D) The theme and outlook of the novel are (D) I and III are correct.
cited as exemplars of existentialism.
70. Which of the following best describes
66. The Faerie Queene is an epic the role of revision in the writing process?
celebration of (A) Revision is discrete phase of the
Code: writing process that should occur after
I. Queen Elizabeth the initial drafting phase.
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(B) Substantive revisions should be

finalized during the second draft 75. The narrator of Piers Plowman falls
phase of the writing process. asleep on
(C) Revision is a recursive activity that (A) The Mendip hills
may occur at any phase of the writing (B) The Purbeck hills
process. (C) The Malvern Hills
(D) Substantive revision should occur (D) The Cheviot Hills
primarily during the editing phase of
the writing process.

71. Who among the following eighteenth

century English poets committed suicide after
years of living close to starvation as a struggling
poet?
(A) Robert Burns
(B) Thomas Chatterton
(C) William Collins
(D) Charlotte Smith

72. “Why can‟t we be friends now‟ … it‟s what I

want. It‟s what you want.‟ But the horses didn‟t
want it – they swerved apart; the earth didn‟t want
it.” At the end of A
Passage to India Forster suggests that
(A) If Fielding and Aziz want, they can be
friends.
(B) Probably if the Indians and the English
want, they can still be friends.
(C) Though Fielding and Aziz want, the
horses and the earth of India do not
want the English and the Indians to be
friends, not yet.
(D) The East is east and the West is west
and the twain shall never meet.

73. An extremely simplified form of a language used

as a contact language among speakers of different
languages is a
(A) Dialect
(B) Creole
(C) Pidgin
(D) Register

74. Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic and

novelist, took sides in the literary squabbles of
the 1860s against Swinburne and the Rossettis.
Hewrote a review which introduced the term:
(A) The Earthly School of Poetry
(B) The Fleshly School of Poetry
(C) The Stealthy School of Poetry
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JUNE 2014 PAPER II 5. A Spenserian stanza has

(A) four iambic pentameters
(B) six iambic pentameters
1. “The just man justices. What kind of
(C) eight iambic pentameters
foregrounding do you find in the above
(D) ten iambic pentameters
lines?
(A) Syntactic 6. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II
(B) Semantic
according to the code given below
(C) Collocation
(D) None of the above :

2. Match the items in List – I with items in List List – I (Critic) List – II (Theory)
– II according to the code given: i. Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity
List – I List – II ii. William Empson 2. Paradox
iii. Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patterns in
i. Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable poetry
followed iv. Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques as discovery
by a stressed syllable
Codes :
ii. Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by
two i ii iii iv
unstressed syllables. (A) 2143
(B) 3214
iii. Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is
followed by a stressed (C) 1234
syllable (D) 2341
iv. Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is 7. “The artist may be present in his work like
followed
by an unstressed syllable God in creation, invisible and
Codes : almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere seen.”
i ii iii iv Henry James is talking here about the artist‟s
(A) 2134 (A) impersonality
(B) 3214 (B) absence
(C) 4123 (C) presence
(D) 3124 (D) creativity

8. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II

3. The separation of styles in accordance with class according to the code given below:
appears more consistently in
List – I (Theorist) List – II (Book)
_______ than in medieval works of literature
and art. i. Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble
(A) Ben Jonson ii. Judith Butler2.
(B) Shakespeare Epistemology of the
(C) Philip Sidney Closet
(D) Edmund Spenser iii. Alan Sinfield3. History of Sexuality
4. “Had we but world enough, and time, iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural
This coyness, lady, were no crime.” This Politics-
Queer Reading
statement is an example of
(A) Irony
Which is the correct combination according
(B) Paradox
to the code:
(C) Hyperbole
Codes:
(D) Euphemism
i ii iii iv
(A) 3124
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(C) 4213 14. Identify the correctly matched set :

(D) 4312 (A) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1557
9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “lies Astrophel and Stella – 1591
in his powerful and beautiful application of The Spanish Tragedie – about 1585
ideas to life”. But a critic pointed out it was “not (B) “The Shepheards Calender” –
a happy way of 1559 Tottels Miscellany – 1579
putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the Astrophel and Stella – 1585
inflamed skin of suffering humanity”. Who The Spanish Tragedie – about 1591
was this critic ? (C) “The Shepheards Calender” –
(A) T.S. Eliot 1585 Tottels Miscellany – 1591
(B) F.R. Leavis Astrophel and Stella – 1579
(C) David Lodge The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
(D) Allen Tate (D) “The Shepheards Calender” –
1579 Tottels Miscellany – 1591
10. Derrida‟s American disciples were Astrophel and Stella – about 1585
(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man,J. Hills The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
Miller
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson,Michael 15. Match the items in the List – I with
Ryan items in List – II according to the code
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan,Mary given below :
Ellman
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze,Felix List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
Guattari i. Lucy Hutchinson 1. The Life and Death
of Mr.
11. Identify the correct group of Badman
playhouses in late sixteenth century ii. John Bunyan2. Sylva : or a Discourse
London from the following groups : of
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope Forest Trees
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe,Sejanus iii. John Evelyn 3. Natures Pictures
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe iv. Margaret Cavendish 4. Memoirs of the
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe,Thames Life of
Colonel
12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the Hutchinson
dew will rust them. Codes :
Good Signior, you shall more command i ii iii iv
with years (A)2314
Than with your weapons.” The above lines (B)4321
are addresses by Othello to (C)4123
(A) Roderigo and officers (D)4213
(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers
(C) The Duke and Senators 16. “But deeds, and language, such as men
(D) Montano and Cassio do use;
And persons, such as comedy would
13. Act V of Marlowe‟s Edward the Second choose,
shows the murder of the king. Where does When she would show an image of the
it take place ? time,
(A) Westminster, a room in the palace and sport with human follies, not with
(B) A room in Berkeley Castle crime.”
(C) A room in Killingworth Castle In the above lines Jonson
(D) Within the Abbey of Neath I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic
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II. Initiates the use of realism. (A) Daniel Defoe

III. Considers analysis of moral short (B) Samuel Richardson
comings more important (C) Henry Fielding
IV. Encourages the use of farce with (D) Tobias Smollett
melodrama.
21. “Where ignorance is Bliss
Find out the correct combination according to Tis folly to be wise.”
the code: Who wrote the following[sic] lines ?
(A) I, II and III are correct (A) Pope
(B) I, II and IV are correct (B) Gray
(C) I, III and IV are correct (C) Collins
(D) II, III and IV are correct (D) Southey

17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove, 22. Which of the following works is not
We‟ll build in ________ pretty roomes.” actually a prose essay ?
(A) lyrics (A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) epics (B) Essay on Man
(C) sonnets (C) An Essay Concerning Human
(D) stanzas Understanding
(D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of
18. “That glory never shall his wrath or might Vision
extort from me.” (Paradise Lost,
Book I) 23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into
What „glory‟ is being referred to by Satan ? believing that he loves her in The Way of
(A) The courage never to submit or yield the World ?
(B) To reign in Hell (A) Millamant
(C) To defeat God (B) Lady Wishfort
(D) To spread evil (C) Mrs. Marwood
(D) Mrs. Fainall
19. It has been described as a “novel without
predecessors”, the product of an 24. “Competence to age is supplementary to
original mind and became immediately popular. It youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the
is a peculiar blend of pathos and humour, though best that is to be had. We must
the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point of ride where we formerly walked: live better and be
becoming offensively sentimental. The novel was softer and shall be wise to do so –
published in 1760. What is the than we had means to do in the good old
name of the novel? days you speak of.” Who speaks these words
(A) Gulliver‟s Travels and to whom?
(B) The Castle of Otranto (A) Lamb to Bridget
(C) Tristram Shandy (B) Wordsworth to Dorothy
(D) A Tender Husband (C) Dorothy to Bridget
(D) Lamb to Dorothy
20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as
a printer. He remained a printer throughout his 25. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799
life. He was asked to prepare a series of and finished in its first version in 1805, was not
modern letters for those who could not write published until ________.
for themselves. This humble task taught him (A) 1815
the art of expressing himself in letters. Who is (B) 1820
the novelist? (C) 1830
(D) 1850

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26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the (C) Aaron‟s Rod
wreathed trellis of a working brain.” (D) A Passage to India
The above lines are quoted from
32. “A sudden blow : the great wings
(A) „Adonais‟ beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs
(B) „Ode to Psyche‟ caressed
(C) „Eve of St. Agnes‟
(D) „Endymion‟ By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.”
27. “Love seeketh only self to please, Who is the author of the above lines ?
To bind another to its delight.”
This selfish and possessive nature of love is (A) W.B. Yeats
illustrated in Blake‟s (B) T.S. Eliot
(A) „The Clod and the Pebble‟ (C) W.H. Auden
(B) „The Sick Rose‟ (D) D.H. Lawrence
(C) „A Poison Tree‟
(D) „Ah Sunflower‟ 33. “Consume my heart away; sick with
desire And fastened to a dying animal.”
The above lines are taken from
28. Who is the author of Mary, and the
unfinished The Wrongs of Woman? (A) “Felix Randal”
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft (B) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(B) William Godwin (C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931”
(C) Mary Hay (D) “The Second Coming”
(D) Elizabeth Inchbald
34. Who among the following is not a
surrealist poet ?
29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry
James‟ theory of the novel : (A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(A) It should be sentimental (B) David Gascoyne
(B) It should be objective (C) Kenneth Allot
(C) It should be realistic (D) C. Day Lewis
(D) It should be viewed as an artistic form
35. The protagonist returns with an
30. Match the items in List – I with items in admonition, the diamond sent to him for
List – II according to the code given below : smuggling out a packet of diamonds as bribe.
This scene occurs in one of the novels of
List – I (Novels) List – II (Characters) Graham Greene – Identify the novel
i. Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore (A) The End of the Affair
ii. A Passage to India 2. Molly Bloom (B) The Heart of the Matter
iii. To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich (C) The Ministry of Fear
iv. Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe (D) Our Man in Havana
Codes :
i ii iii iv 36. Samuel Beckett‟s trilogy published
(A) 3124 together in London in 1959 under the English
(B) 2143 titles is
(C) 4213
(D) 1324 (A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy
(B) Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
31. Which among the following novels was (C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies
not written in 1922 ? (D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks,
(A) Ulysses
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Murphy the nineties is

ironically enough set in the tropical island
37. Among the following playwrights, who was nation of
awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920? (A) Sri Lanka
(A) Eugene O‟Neill (B) Fiji
(B) Sean O‟Casey (C) The Caribbean
(C) William Somerset Maugham (D) Amnesia
(D) J.B. Priestly
43. Which of the following is not an Asian –
38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept Canadian writer ?
of ________ in his novels. (A) Shauna Singh Badlwin
(A) Realism (B) Himani Banerjee
(B) Naturalism (C) Joy Kogawa
(C) Primitivism (D) Meena Alexander
(D) Expressionism
44. Which of the following is true ?
39. Who among the following is not an (A) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a poem in nine books
American modernist poet? (B) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a collection of sonnets
(A) William Carlos Williams from the Portuguese
(B) Ezra Pound (C) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a nursery rhyme book
(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger (D) „Aurora Leigh‟ is “the Seeds and Fruits
(D) Marianne Moore of English Poetry”

40. An important poet and playwright who 45. “The old order changeth yielding place to
in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement, in the new,
spirit of negritude, posited a „Black Aesthetic‟ that And God fulfils himself in many way.” In
expressed a pan-African, which of the following poems do[sic] these
organic and whole sensibility. lines appear ?
(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr. (A) „Locksley Hall‟
(B) Amiri Baraka (B) „Two Voices
(C) Ishmael Reed (C) „Morte d‟Arthur‟
(D) Bell Hooks (D) „Ulysses‟

41. Match List – I with List – II according to 46. George Eliot‟s attempt to write a
the code given below: historical novel of the Italian Renaissance
was not successful.
List – I (Authors) List – II (Books) Which was this novel ?
i. V.S. Naipaul 1. Foe (A) Adam Bede
ii. Jean Rhys 2. Indigo or Mapping the (B) Felix Holt
Waters (C) Silas Marner
iii. Marina Warners 3. Wide Sargasso Sea (D) Romola
iv. J.M. Coetzee 4. Mimic Men
47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by
Codes: passion and revenge, add a new dimension to the
i ii iii iv concept of suffering?
(A)4231 (A) Wuthering Heights
(B)4123 (B) Jude the Obscure
(C)4321 (C) Mill on the Floss
(D)1342 (D) Hard Times
42. Yasmine Gooneratne‟s The Pleasures of
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48. From the following women characters in

Hardy‟s novels choose the odd one out :
(A) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) Eustacia Vye
(C) Elizabeth Jane
(D) Lucetta

49. “Out of the gosple he tho wordes

caughte
And this figure he added eek therto, That
if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”
In the Prologue the Parson is represented as
a man :
1. who loved money
2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
3. who practiced what he preached
4. who was a poor but honest clerk

Find the correct combination according to the

code :
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

50. Match the items in List – I with items in

List – II according to the code given below:

List – I (Plays) List – II

(Characters)
i. White Devil 1. Hieornimo
ii. Maids Tragedy 2. Old Knowell
iii. Every Man in his
Humour 3. Vittoria Corombona
iv. The Spanish
Tragedie 4. Aspatia

Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A)4312
(B)2134
(C)3421
(D)4321

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JUNE 2014 (C) Una – Deceit Guyon –

Pride Duessa –
PAPER III Temperance Orgoglio
– Truth
1. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted (D) Una –
Petrarch and Petrarchanism to English sounds Temperance
and metres, Survey‟s verse tends to Guyon – Truth
look back beyond Petrarch to the Duessa – Pride
(A) French verse Orgoglio – Deceit
(B) Italian verse
(C) Spanish verse 4. “Fop at the toilet, flatt‟rer at the board Now
(D) Latin verse trips a lady, a now struts a lord.”
The above lines are quoted from
2. Here are some characteristics of (A) McFlecknoc
Morality Plays: (B) The Rape of the Lock
1. They are dramatized allegories of the (C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
life (D) Absalom and Achitrphel
of man.
2. They depict man‟s temptation and 5. Which of the following arrangements is in the
sinning, his quest for salvation and correct chronological sequence?
his (A) Every Man in His Humour
confrontation with Death. The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
3. Though the hero represents Mankind, Antonio‟s Revenge
the The Changeling
other characters are by no means (B) The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
personifications, of virtues, vices and Every Man in his Humour
death. The Changeling
4. A character known as the Vice often Antonia‟s Revenge
plays the role of the hero, a (C) The Changeling
predecessor Antonio‟s Revenge
of the Villainhero in Elizabethan Every Man in His Humour
drama. The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
(D) Antonio‟s Revenge
Find the correct combination Every Man in His Humour
according to the code :
The Changeling
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
(B) Only 1 and 3 are correct.
(C) Only 1 and 4 are correct.
6. Though Coleridge refers to
(D) Only 2 and 3 are correct.
“Motivehunting of a motiveless malignity”, the
“human villain” Iago is far from
3. In Spenser‟s Re Faerie Queene there are
“motiveless”. His motives are
the allegorized moral and religious virtues with
I. He has been disappointed of military
their counterparts in the
promotion.
vices. Identify the correctly matched set:
II. He suspects Othello of cuckolding
(A)Una – Truth Guyon –
him
Temperance Duessa III. He has been in love with Desdemona
– Deceit Orgoglio – IV. He wants to become Othello.
Pride
Find the most appropriate combination
(B) Una – Pride Guyon – according to the code:
Deceit Duessa – (A) I and II are correct
Temperance Orgoglio (B) I and III are correct
– Truth (C) I and IV are correct
(D) II and IV are correct

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Officer
7. In „The Prologue‟ to Dr. Faustus, the iii. Colley Cibber 3. The Country Wife
chorus proposes that the theme should be – I. 4. The Orphan, or
“cursed necromancy” iv. George Farquhar the
II. “audacious deeds” unhappy marriage
III. “dalliance of love” Codes :
IV. “self-conceit” i ii iii iv
(A)4312
The correct combination according to the (B)3212
code is (C)4231
(A) I and II are correct (D)3124
(B) II and III are correct
(C) I and IV are correct 12. “Thou wast no born for death immortal
(D) III and IV are correct Bird.”
In what sense is the Bird “immortal” as
compared to mortal man ?
8. The centre of his plays is a proud character on I. Here man as an individual is unfairly
Marlowe‟s model, with a bold licence in speech compared to a bird as a species.
and action, full of elaborate metaphors, phrase II. The word “Bird” stands for the
tumbling after phrase, as he asserts himself in the nightingale‟s song.
French Court. Dryden unjustly described his style III. When considered as a species man is
as “a dwarfish thought, dressed up in gigantic equally “immortal” as the “Bird”.
words”. Who is this Jacobean IV. The “Bird” is “Immortal” because
playwright ? songs
(A) John Fletcher of birds have given pleasure to man
(B) John Webster through the ages.
(C) George Chapman
(D) John Marston Find the correct combination according to the
code:
9. In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes that (A) Only I and III are correct
Adam was overcome with “______” (B) Only IV is incorrect
and so ate the forbidden fruit against his (C) Only II and IV are correct
“better knowledge”. (D) Only I and IV are incorrect
(A) “female charm”
(B) “exceeding love” 13. Coleridge‟s “The Rime of the Ancient
(C) “faithful love” Mariner” is a poem in _________
(D) “taste so divine” (A) 8 parts
(B) 9 parts
10. In which poem of Donne‟s is the lover‟s face (C) 7 parts
reflected in the eyes of his beloved? (D) 6 parts
(A) “The Good Morrow”
(B) “The Canonization” 14. Scott is known for the creation of mad,
(C) “The Apparition” irrational witch-like women characters. From
(D) “A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning” the following list pick the odd one out :
(A) Madge Wildfive
11. Match List – I with List – II according to (B) Meg Murdockson
the code given below: (C) Euphemia Deans
(D) Meg Merrilees
List – I (Dramatists) List – II (Plays)
i. Thomas Otway 1. The Provok‟d
Husband
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15. Joseph Addison called him “The Miracle be great that has a distinct limit, or that borders on
of the present age” and Alexander something evidently greater than itself. Besides,
Pope wrote the epitaph for the monument erected what is shortlived and
in his memory. Who is he ? pampered into mere notoriety, is of a gross and
(A) John Locke vulgar quality in itself.”
(B) Isaac Newton This passage describing the quality of greatness
(C) Ashley Cooper is taken from
(D) Christopher Wren (A) “Of studies” by Francis Bacon
(B) “The Indian Jugglers” by William Hazlitt
16. The play was first performed in 1773. The (C) Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel
author asked a friend “Did it make you laugh ?” and Johnson
getting the answer “Exceedingly” said then that was (D) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John
all he required. He used for plot a reputed Dryden
experience of his own as a schoolboy when he lost
his way and asked to 20. In Blake‟s “The Human Abstract”, the
be directed to an inn but was shown the fragmented world of Experience is
gateway to the local squire‟s house. Which symbolized in the image of the
play is this? (A) Caterpillar
(B) Fly
(A) Sheridan‟s The Rivals (C) Raven
(B) Sheridan‟s The School for Scandal (D) Fruit of Deceit
(C) Goldsmith‟s She Stoops to Conquer
(D) Goldsmith‟s The Good Natured Man 21. Here are sentences labelled Assertion
(A) and Reason (R) :
17. What is Johnson‟s opinion regarding Assertion (A) : While referring to
the “Violation” of the three unities in the Charlotte
plays of Shakespeare ? Bronte‟s claim that she has
I. Shakespeare should have followed the excluded public interest from
Unities. her novels Graham Greene
II. Shakespeare followed the important Unity writes : „Public interest in her
of Action satisfactorily. day was surely more separate
III. Shakespeare‟s plays suffered because from public life… with us,
they did not follow the Unities. however consciously
IV. Unity of Time and Place arise from false unconcerned we are, it
assumptions. obtrudes through the cracks of
our stories terribly persistent
The correct combination according to the like grass through cement‟.
code is
(A) I and II are correct. Reason (R) : The decade of the “thirties was
(B) II and IV are correct. bristling with recurring
(C) III and IV are correct. economic and political crisis
(D) I and III are correct like the Great Depression,
Wall Street Crash,
18. The Tatler appeared thrice a week Unemployment, rise of Hitler
(A) On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and Mussolini, series of
(B) On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays murders, invasions and
(C) On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays tensions;
(D) On Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays writers could not remain
unaffected.
19. “No man is truly great, who is great only in his
lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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In the light of (A) and (R) which of the Shalott‟ 4. “It little profists that
following is correct ? an idle king, By this still hearth, among these
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I
correct explanation of (A). mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not race.”
the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. Codes:
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. i ii iii iv
(A) 2143
22. Match the titles of the books with their (B) 3214
authors: (C) 4321
List – I List – II (D) 2431
i. Psychology and Art Today 1. John Strachey
ii. Revolution in Writing 2. W.H. Auden 25. Why are Elizabeth Barrett Browning‟s
iii. The Coming Struggle Sonnets called “From Sonnets from the
for Power 3. C. Day Lewis Portuguese”?
iv. Arrow in the Blue 4. Arthur (A) She wrote the whole in Portugal
Koestler (B) The sonnets were translated from the
Portuguese.
Codes : (C) She presented it under the guise of a
i ii iii iv translation from the Portuguese language.
(A) 3124 (D) The sonnets were narrated by a
(B) 4231 Portuguese.
(C) 2314
(D) 1243
26. Yeast‟s “Sailing to Byzantium” is about
23. George Meredith‟s first novel was banned (A) Irish Culture
by Mudie‟s Circulating Library (B) The art and culture of Byzantium in
for its supposed moral offence. Identify the general
novel : (C) Irish revolutionaries
(A) The Egoist (D) Regenerating the art and culture that
(B) Evan Harrington existed in Byzantium
(C) Diana of the Crossways
(D) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel 27. “She had _______ lilies in her hand and
the stars in her hair were ______.”
24. Match the titles of the following poems by (Rossetti‟s “The Blessed Damozel”)
Tennyson with their opening lines according to (A) 7 and 3
the code given below: (B) 3 and 7
(C) 6 and 4
List – I (Titles of poems) List – II (Opening (D) 4 and 6
Lines)
i. “Tithonus” 1. “„Courage‟ he said, and 28. Which of the following arrangements is
pointed towards the land. in the correct chronological sequence?
The mounting wave will roll us shoreward (A) Adam Bede – Wuthering Heights –
soon.” North and South – Villette
ii. “The Lotos- Eaters” 2. “The woods decay, (B) Wuthering Heights – Villete – North and
the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep South – Adam Bede
their burthen to the ground.” (C) Villettee – North and South –
iii. „Ulysses‟ 3. “On either side the river lie Wuthering Heights – Adam Bede
Long fields of barley and of rye.” (D) North and South – Wuthering Heights
iv. „The Lady of – Adam Bede – Villette

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29. In which of the following novels by Conrad 34. Match the pairs of authors and their works
do the Gould couple and Decoud appear as according to the code given :
characters with Costaguana as the setting? List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
(A) Victory i. Alexander Dumas 1. Remembrance of
(B) Under Western Eyes Things Past
(C) Nostromo ii. Honore de Balzac 2. Madame Bovary
(D) The Nigger of the Narcissus iii. Gustav Flaubert 3. The Human Comedy
iv. Marcel Proust 4. The Count of Monte
30. Match the following plays with their Christo
authors according to the code given below :
Codes:
List – I (Plays) List – II i ii iii iv
(Authors) (A) 4321
i. Heartbreak House 1. John Galsworthy (B) 1234
ii. Loyalties 2. Bertolt Brecht (C) 2143
iii. In the Jungle of Cities 3. T.S. Eliot (D) 3412
iv. The Family Reunion 4. George
Bernard Shaw 35. Which of the following statements best
applies to Anna Karenina?
Codes: 1. Among her most prominent qualities are
i ii iii iv her passionate spirit and determination to live
(A) 3421 life on her own terms.
(B) 1234 2. She accepts the exile to which she has been
(C) 2143 condemned.
(D) 4123 3. She is a victim of Russian patriarchal
system.
31. In November 1910 in an exhibition 4. Anna is deeply devoted to her family and
organized by Roger Fry, the paintings of three children.
painters were displayed. Identify the painters :
(A) Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell (A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin (B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) Matisse, Picasso, Braque (C) 1 and 3 are correct
(D) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse (D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

32. Why did Phaedra, wife of Theseus, 36. Match the pairs of authors and their works
commit suicide by hanging herself ? according to the code given :
(A) Theseus hated her List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
(B) Her stepson, Hippolytus rejected her love i. Vladimir Nabokov 1. Germinal
(C) Hippolytus wanted to marry her ii. Italo Calvino2. Foucault‟s Pendulum
(D) She was lonely and depressed iii. Umberto Eco3. If on a Winter‟s Night
a
33. Identify the poet in whose verse rural Traveller
Ulster figures prominently iv. Emile Zola 4. Lolita
(A) Tony Harrison
(B) Ted Hughes Codes :
(C) Seamus Heaney i ii iii iv
(D) Louis MacNeice (A)3142
(B)4321
(C)1234
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37. Which among the following plays by 42. Modern English emerged from the
Aristophanes is an attack on „modern‟ (A) South Midland dialect
education and morals as imparted and taught (B) East Midland dialect
by the radical intellectuals known as The (C) French language
Sophists ? (D) Northumbrian dialect
(A) Clouds
(B) Wasps 43. Most culinary terms in English are
(C) Acharnians derived from
(D) Knights (A) Exotic cooking
(B) French cooking
38. In which novel of Virginia Woolf does a (C) Native sources
painter in the act of painting actually figure as a (D) Arabic cooking
character ?
(A) The Voyage Out 44. “Blended learning” is a mode of
(B) The Waves instruction/learning in which
(C) Jacob‟s Room (A) the learner‟s mother tongue and the
(D) To the Lighthouse target language are blended
(B) learning is accessed through the mother
39. Religious controversies in England tongue
particularly during the 15th century led to the (C) a variety of instructional modes are
promotion of integrated
(A) English prose (D) learning of a language is mediated by
(B) The British Empire humanistic approaches
(C) Naval power
(D) The Missionary Movement 45. „Risk-taking‟ is one of the traits of a
good
40. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word (A) language learner
from the list below: (B) language teacher
In his fiction, Ian McEwan more than often (C) teacher of grammar rules
suggests the _________ of love (D) printer of books and authors
(A) Fragility
(B) Madness 46. A teaching method advocated by Dr.
(C) Completeness Georgia Lozanav which is based on the
(D) Security principle of „joy and easiness‟ is
called
41. Match List – I with List – II according to (A) Suggesto paedia
the code given below : (B) Total physical response
List – I (Dramatists) List – II (Plays) (C) The Direct Method
i. Arnold Wesker 1. Jumpers (D) The audio-lingual method
ii. Harold Pinter 2. What the Butler
Saw 47. Albert Camus, in his essay, „The Myth
iii. Joe Orton 3. The Room of Sisyphus‟ conveys :
iv. Tom Stoppard 4. Roots 1. The concept of Naturalism
2. The Absurdity of Human Existence
Codes : 3. The Futility of all Human Endeavour
i ii iii iv 4. The concept of Existentialism
(A)3241
(B)1243 (A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(C)4321 (B) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(D)4312 (C) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
48. In The Portrait of a Lady Gilbert

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Osmond marries Isabel Archer because: They gave me a drug that slowed the
1. Osmond wanted to get hold of healing of wounds.
Isabel‟s property.
2. He loved her I want you to see this before I leave : the
3. Though he did not like her moral ideas experience of repetition as death the
about many things in life, he had hoped to failure of criticism to locate the pain the
win her over. poster in the bus that said : my bleeding
4. He realized that her moral ideas were quite is under control
deep-rooted.
Find the correct combination according to the A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths.

code : A last attempt : the language is a dialect

(A) only 1 and 2 are correct called metaphor.
(B) only 1, 2 and 3 are correct These images go unglossed : hair, glacier,
(C) only 3 and 4 are correct flashlight.
(D) only 1 is correct When I think of a landscape I am
thinking of a time.
49. Pick out the two relevant and correct When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. I
descriptions of U.R. Ananthamurthy‟s could say : those mountains have a meaning
Samskara. but further than that I could not say.
1. The novel is written in English
2. The novel is concerned with the
progressive ideas of the times. To do something very common, in my own
3. The novel is set in Malgudi way.
4. The novel is a satire on the representatives Adrienne Rich
of a decadent Brahmin society.
5. Samskara is a regional novel
6. Praneschacharya does not atone for his sin.
51. How does the poet suggest that the
(A) 4 and 5 are correct lover has not left?
(B) 1 and 4 are correct (A) The words “a last attempt” indicate
(C) 5 and 6 are correct that
(D) 3 and 2 are correct she is trying her best to leave.
(B) The words “before I leave” suggest
50. Willy in Arthur Miller‟s play Death of a that
Salesman compares Biff and Happy to the the speaker has not left yet.
mythic characters / figures (C) The speaker talks of a trip „forever‟
(A) Venus and Adonais which means she will never return.
(B) Adonais and Hercules (D) A drug she takes slows the healing of
(C) Jupiter and Hercules her wounds perhaps indicating that
(D) Venus and Hercules she
may be able to leave sometime in
Question Nos 51 to 55 are based on a poem. future.
Read the poem carefully and pick out the most
appropriate answers. 52. Why does the speaker/lover in Rich‟s
poem plan to leave?
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning I. Because her love has not been
My swirling wants, your frozen lips. returned.
The grammar turned and attacked II. Because of the pain she has suffered in
me. Themes, written under duress. the relationship.
Emptiness of the notations. III. Because the lover has criticized her so
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IV. Because though the pain has been sections. Arrange them in their chronological
located, the bleeding continues. The right order
combination according to the code is (A) The striders – The Relations –
Second Sight– the Black Hen
(A) I and II are correct (B) The Relations– The Striders–
(B) I and IV are correct The Black Hen– Second Sight
(C) I, II and III are correct (C) Second Sight– The Relations–
(D) I and III are correct The Black Hen– Striders
(D) The Black Hen– Second Sight
53. What does rich imply when she says – The Striders– The Relations
“The grammar turned and attacked me”?
(A) Language that has been used to hurt her. 58. In one of her novels, Margaret
(B) Her lover has beaten her. Atwood demonstrated the potentially
(C) The person she is leaving is not the „Cannibalistic‟ nature of human
source of pain but something else. relationships. Identify the novel
(D) The pain she has herself inflicted (A) Surfacing
through language. (B) Lady Oracle
(C) Life Before Man
54. How would you compare Rich‟s poem (D) The Edible Woman
and Donne‟s poem with the same
title ? 59. Match the characters with the novels of
(A) Rich is recreating Donne‟s poem Amitav Ghosh in which they appear according to
(B) Rich is eulogising Donne‟s poem the code given below
(C) Rich‟s poem is a scathing attack on List – I (Characters) List – II
Donne‟s poem. (Novels)
(D) Rich is defining Donne‟s concept of i. Fakir 1. The Glass Palace
love ii. Tridip 2. The Hungry Tide
iii. Rajkumar 3. The Calcutta
55. What is the theme of the poem ? Chromosome
Identify the false statement in the list iv. Murugan 4. Shadow Lines
below :
It is Codes:
(A) about the difficulty of actually saying i ii iii iv
goodbye. (A) 2413
(B) about not having the strength to leave (B) 2431
though one might want to. (C) 13 14
(C) about the pain suffered in (D) 3241
relationship.
(D) a Classical love poem like Donne‟s 60. Which of the following is not a play by
where the speaker dominates the addressee. Badal Sircar ?
(A) Bhooma
56. Why does Girish Karnad base his (B) Evam Indrajeet
play Hayavadana on Thomas Mann‟s (C) That Other History
Transposed Heads? (D) Agra Bazar
(A) It is a mock-heroic transcription of the
original Sanskrit tales. 61. Who is the protagonist ofShashi
(B) It is concerned with materialism. Deshpande‟s That Long Silence?
(C) It deals with domestic strife. (A) Mohan
(D) It deals with ancient times (B) Jaya
(C) Rati
57. The collected poems of A.K. Ramanujan (D) Kamat
has been divided into four

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62. In Derek Walcott‟s Dream on Monkey (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
Mountain, Makak‟s vision of freedom for his correct explanation of (A).
people is (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not
(A) through money the correct explanation of (A).
(B) through violence (C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(C) through black power (D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
(D) through a decolonisation of the mind
65. Match the following authors with their
63. Given below are two statements, one works from the given below :
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as
List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
Reason (R). i. Buchi Emecheta 1. Burger‟s Daughter
Assertion (A) : To give a text an author ii. Ama Ata Aidoo 2. Joy of Motherhood
is iii. Nadine Gordimer 3. Devil on the Cross
to impose a limit on iv. Nqugi Wa Thiongo 4. Our Sister Killjoy
thatext,
to furnish it with a final Find the correct combination according to
signified, to close the the code :
writing. Codes :
Reason (R) : A text is made up of i ii iii iv
multiple (A) 1234
meanings drawn from many (B) 2413
sources, and this multiplicity (C) 3142
is (D) 4321
focused on the reader.
66. Match the following authors with their
In the context of the two statements, which plays from the lists given below :
one of the following is correct: List – I (Authors) List – II (Plays)
i. Langston Hughes 1. Dutchman
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is ii. Lorraine Hansberry 2. Clara‟s Ole Man
the correct explanation of (A). iii. Ed Bullins 3. Don‟t You want to be Free
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not iv. Amiri Baraka 4. Raisin in the Sun
the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. Find the correct combination according to
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true. the code :
Codes :
64. Given below are two statements, one i ii iii iv
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as (A) 3421
Reason (R) (B) 1234
Assertion (A) : Spivak sees the project (C) 2143
of colonialism as characterized by what (D) 4312
Foucault had called „epistemic violence‟, the
imposition of a given set of beliefs over 67. Identify the critics and their respective
another. works:
Reason (R) : Spivak suggests that (A) Horace – Ars Poetica Aristotle –
participation in the political process – Poetics Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria
access to citizenship, becoming a voter – Ben Jonson – Discoveries Sidney – An
will help to mobilize the subaltern on Apology for Poetry Dryden – An Essay
“the long road to hegemony.” of Dramatic Poesy

In the context of the two statements, which (B) Horace – Poetics

one of the following is correct : Aristotle – Ars Poetica
Quintillian – On the sublime

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Longinus – Discoveries 70. According to Northrop Frye there are four main
Ben Jonson – Institutio Oratoria narrative genres associated with the seasonal cycle of
Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic spring, summer, autumn and winter. They are
Poesy comedy,
Dryden – An Apology for Poetry ________, tragedy and irony (satire). Which is
(C) Horace – On the sublime the second one?
Aristotle – Poetics (A) Romance
Quintillian – Discoveries (B) Epic
Longinus – Institutio Oratoria (C) Fiction
Ben Jonson – An Essay of Dramatic (D) Novel
Poesy Questions No. 71 – 75 are based on the
Sidney – Ars Poetica following passage :
Dryden – An Apology for Poetry Read the passage carefully and select the most
(D) Horace – Ars Poetica appropriate option.
Aristotle – Poetics
Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria The town belonging to the colonized people, or
Longinus – On the Sublime at least the native town, the negro village, the
Ben Jonson – An Apology for Poetry medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame,
Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic peopled by men of evil repute. They are born
Poesy there, it matters little where or how; they die
Dryden – Discoveries there, it matters not where, nor how. The native
town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of
68. Which of the following is not true of meat, of shoes, of coal, of light. The native town
Imagist poetry? is a crouching village, town on its knees, a town
wallowing in the mire. The
(A) The poet spreads his language across the
page as though language were look that the native turns on the settler is a look
sensation, to reproduce the mental effect of of lust, of envy…. The colonized man is
„image‟. an envious man. And this the settler knows very
(B) The image is itself an instrument of well… It is true, for there is no
vision, or lens, as well as an expression of native who does not dream atleast once a day
imagination of setting himself up in the settler‟s place.
(C) The imagist like a scientist learns from (From Frantz Fanon‟s The Wretched of The
history and uses it, and like a scientist does not Earth)
deal in emotions.
71. To Frantz Fanon, the „Negro‟ village is
(D) The new artist as scientist focuses vision
through image as against the symbol which 1. the worst face of apartheid
resorts to reduction to simplicity. 2. a protected area
3. a place of moral and physical
degradation
69. Who among the following is not a myth 4. a special village with its own
critic? amenities.
(A) Robert Graves
(B) Raymond Williams (A) 1 and 3 are correct
(C) Francis Fergusson (B) 1 and 2 are correct
(D) Northrop Frye (C) only 3 is correct
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72. Why is the „native town‟ a hungry

town ?
1. it did not have agricultural farms
2. it did not have markets
3. the blacks were steeped in poverty
4. they were denied their fundamental
rights by the Whites.

(A) 1 and 2 are correct

(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 4 is correct

73. What does the term „crouching

village‟ indicate ?
1. The latent aggressiveness of the blacks
2. The defenselessness of the people
3. Hopelessness and despair
4. Overflowing filth
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 2 is correct

74. Why does the native look at the

settler‟s town with envy ?
1. it arises from a sense of desperation
2. he has no other option in his life
3. he wants to occupy a position of
power.
4. he wants to be the colonizer instead of the
colonized.

(A) only 1 is correct

(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 2 is correct
(D) 1 and 4 are correct

75. What is the settler‟s attitude towards

the blacks?
1. the settler is not afraid
2. the settler considers the blacks to be
harmless
3. the settler is contemptuous of the
blacks.
4. the settler feels resentment because he
knows that his position is never safe.

(A) Only 1 is correct

(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 4 is correct
(D) 3 and 4 are correct

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6. Match the columns:

Terms Theorists
CBSE NET DECEMBER I. Apollonian – Dionysian 1. Matthew
Arnold
2014 PAPER II II. Fancy – Imagination 2. Friedrich
Nietzsche
1. Two of the following list are “Angry G.H.
Young Men” of the 1950‟s British literary III. Hellenism – Hebraism 3. Hopkins
scene. IV. Inscape – Instress 4. S.T.
I. John Osborne Coleridge
II. C.P. Snow
III. Anthony Powell
IV. Kingsley Amis I II III IV
(A) 2413
The right combination, according to the code (B) 24 31
(A) I&II (B)II&IV (C) I&IV (D) I&III (C) 14 23
(D) 42 13
2. Laurence Sterne‟s Tristram Shandy
contains 7. In King Lear who among the following
(A) Six volumes speaks in the voice of Poor Tom?
(B) Nine volumes (A) Kent
(C) Ten volumes (B) Edgar
(D) Four volumes (C) Edmund
(D) Gloucester
3. Which of the following statement is NOT
true of Areopagitica? 8. In Wordsworth‟s Prelude the Boy of
(A) It was published in 1644. Winander is affected by
(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed (A) Blindness
Printing. (B) Deafness
(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding (C) Muteness
Free Trade. (D) Lameness
(D) It is a speech addressed to the
Parliament of England. 9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as
part of the London locale in
4. Thomas Hardy‟s last major novel was The Waste Land?
_______. (A) St. Magnus Martyr
(A) Tess of the D‟Urbervilles (B) King Arthur Street
(B) Jude the Obscure (C) St. Mary Woolnoth
(C) The Return of the Native (D) Lower Thames Street
(D) The Trumpet Major
10. Which of the following novels is NOT
5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers‟d to written by Jean Rhys?
the Story of the Country Mouse and the City (A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Mouse is a satire on (B) Good Morning, Midnight
(A) Alexander Pope (C) The Quiet American
(B) Jonathan Swift (D) Wide Sargasso Sea
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler 11. The first official royal Poet Laureate in
English literary history was _______.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) William Davenant
(C) John Dryden
(D) Thomas Shadwell

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(C) By pardoning those who stole property

or committed other crimes
12. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in (D) By assisting the Friar in Church services
the following lines?
“Born to no pride; inheriting no strife, Nor 17. From among the following, identify
marrying discord in a noble wife, Stranger Coleridge‟s companion in a fanciful scheme to
to civil and religious rage, establish a Utopian community of free love on
The good man walked innoxious through his the banks of the Susquehaina river ?
age.” (A) Lord Byron
(A) Pope‟s father (B) Robert Southey
(B) Pope himself (C) William Hazlitt
(C) Dr. Arbuthnot (D) William Wordsworth
(D) The Duke of Marlborough
18. Which of the following novels by H.G.
13. The Theory of Natural Selection is Wells is about the condition of England as
attributed to ________. Empire?
(A) Arthur Schopenhauer (A) The Island of Dr. Moreau
(B) Charles Darwin (B) The War of the Worlds
(C) A.N. Whitehead (C) Tono-Bungay
(D) Aldous Huxley (D) The Invisible Man

14. Which character in William Golding‟s 19. Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is

Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is (A) a collection of poems
scientific” ? (B) a play
(A) Simon (C) an autobiography
(B) Piggy (D) a novel
(C) Ralph
(D) Jack 20. Listed below are some English plays
across several centuries:
15. Match the authors under List – I with Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The
the titles under List – II : Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion and
List – I List – II Blithe Spirit.
I. Claude Levi-Strauss 1. Of Grammatology What is common to them?
II. Jacques Derrida 2. The Archaeology (A) All problem plays; scheming and
of intrigue
Knowledge (B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
III. Northrop Frye 3. Structural (C) All ideologically framed; class and
Anthropology gender
IV. Michel Foucault 4. Anatomy of (D) All romantic comedies; love and
Criticism laughter

I II III IV 21. Who among the following wrote a poem

(A) 1342 comparing a lover‟s heart to a hand grenade?
(B) 3124 (A) John Donne
(C) 3142 (B) Abraham Cowley
(D) 2134 (C) Wilfred Owen
(D) Robert Graves
16. How did Chaucer‟s Pardoner make his
living?
(A) By selling stolen cattle from the
neighbourhood ottery
(B) By selling indulgences to those who
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29. Which of the following writers writes

22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed to from Canada?
(A) William James (A) V.S. Naipaul
(B) John Dewey (B) Margaret Atwood
(C) Werner Heisenberg (C) Derek Walcott
(D) Charles Darwin (D) James Joyce

23. “Jabberwocky” is a creation in 30. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of

_______. power,
(A) Edward Lear‟s poetry And all that beauty, all that wealth
(B) Lewis Carroll‟s work e‟er gave,
(C) Charles Dickens‟s Martin Chuzzlewit Awaits alike the inevitable hour
(D) Thomas Hardy‟s Woodlanders The paths of glory lead but to the
grave.”
24. Who are Didi and Gogo ? What the subject is of awaits?
(A) They are two characters in Endgame. (A) Hour
(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for (B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
Lucky and Pozzo. (C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e‟er
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for gave”
Vladimir and Estragon. (D) Grave
(D) They are two characters in Breath.
31. “Heav‟n has no rage, like love to hatred
25. Who among the following theorists turn‟d / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman
talks about “the circulation of social scorn‟d.”
energy”? Identify the text in which the above quote
(A) Raymond Williams occurs:
(B) Stephen Greenblatt (A) The Double-Dealer
(C) Antonio Gramsci (B) The Way of the World
(D) Haydon White (C) The Mourning Bride
(D) Love for Love
26. How many legends of good women could
Chaucer complete in his The Legend of 32. A Young Lady‟s Entrance into the
Good Women? World is the sub-title of _______.
(A) Six
(A) Belinda
(B) Seven (B) Cecilia
(C) Eight (C) Evelina
(D) Nine (D) Camilla
27. The Round Table is a collection of essays 33. “The old order changeth, yielding place to
jointly written by ________. new” is from ________.
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt (A) “Morte d‟Arthur”
(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt (B) “Idylls of the King”
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt (C) “Paracelsus”
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey (D) “Asolando”
28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the
34. Which of the following cannotbe
group _______.
classified as fantasy fiction?
(A) The New Apocalypse
(A) The Inheritors (William Golding)
(B) The Black Arts
(B) The Magus (John Fowles)
(C) The Movement
(C) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein)
(D) Deep Image Poetry
(D) The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury)

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35. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a (A) Murky

work associated with _______. (B) Winding
(A) Wilhelm von Humboldt (C) Crooked
(B) Ernst Cassirer (D) Sinister
(C) Immanuel Kant
(D) Battista Vico 42. In Jeremy Collier‟s 1698 pamphlet
attacking the immorality and
36. Which of the following facts is NOT profaneness of the English stage, who
true of Spenser? among the following was the principal
(A) He is a kind of English Homer, telling target ?
stories of heroic confrontations. (A) William Congreve
(B) He fashioned an original verse form : (B) John Dryden
The Spenserian Stanza. (C) John Vanbrugh
(C) He opposed England‟s break with the (D) William Wycherley
Roman Catholic Church.
(D) He is a Christian poet. 43. Charles Dickens‟s visit to the United
States produced _________.
37. William Blake developed the ideas of (A) Hard Times
“Prolifics” and “Devourers” in (B) Nicholas Nickleby
(A) Jerusalem (C) Martin Chuzzlewit
(B) Milton (D) Oliver Twist
(C) Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) Songs of Innocence and Songs of 44. Who among the following is a working-
Experience class poet ?
(A) John Betjeman
38. Surrealism is associated with (B) Tony Harrison
(A) Ernst Cassirer (C) Thom Gunn
(B) Tristan Tzara (D) Robert Graves
(C) Henrik Ibsen
(D) Andre Breton 45. New Scienceis a work associated with
_______.
39. “And miles to go before I sleep” is a (A) Ernest Cassirer
line from a poem by (B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(A) Emily Dickinson (C) G. Battista Vico
(B) Walt Whitman (D) Immanuel Kant
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) Robert Frost 46. Identify Petrarch‟s sonnet sequence
from among the following:
40. What common link do you find among? (A) Rine Sparse
“The Disquieting Muses” by Sylvia Plath, (B) Astrophel and Stella
“The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton, (C) Amoretti
“Mourning Picture” by Adrienne Rich, (D) Delia
and
“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden? 47. The island setting of Latmos figures in
(A) They inspired paintings. Keats‟s
(B) They are confessional poems. (A) Endymion
(C) They are all inspired by paintings. (B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(D) They are all inspired by Van Gogh‟s (C) Lamia
paintings. (D) Hyperion

41. “All Rising to Great Placeis by a _____

staire.” (Francis Bacon)

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48. The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation

emphasized by ________.
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) Charles Baudelaire
(C) Oscar Wilde
(D) Andre Gide

49. Which of the following African writers won

the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong‟o
(D) Bessie Head

50. “My lute, be as thou wert when thou

didst grow
With thy green mother in some
shady groove”
– William Drummond
The above quote is an example of _______.
(A) End-stopped rhyme
(B) Alliteration
(C) Run-on line
(D) Tercet

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(B) Muriel Spark‟s The Driver‟s Seat

(C) Doris Lessing‟s Children of Violence
CBSE NET DECEMBER (D) Angela Carter‟s The Passion of the New
Eve
2014 ENGLISH PAPER – III
6. The library where the “Battle of Books”
1. This work was a satire in Ottava rima, takes place is _______.
attacking George III and Robert Southey. (A) St. James‟ Library
Identify the poem: (B) King‟s Library
(A) Dunciad
(C) Sir William‟s Library
(B) The Vision of Judgment
(C) Childe Harold‟s Pilgrimage (D) Christ Church Library
(D) Alastor
7. In Sophocles‟ Oedipus Rex the first scene
2. Here‟s a famous exchange from Arthur finds Oedipus
Conan Doyle‟s Silver Blaze: (A) in conversation with a priest
„Is there any point to which you would (B) in consultation with a general
(C) giving audience to an ambassador
wish to draw my attention ?‟
(D) in consultation with a minister
„To the curious incident of the dog in the
night-time.‟ 8. Who among Shakespeare‟s contemporaries
„The dog did nothing in the night-time.‟
did not write tragedies?
What was Sherlock Holmes‟ response ?
(A) „Nothing ? Nothing at all? (A) Thomas Kyd
Rather unbelievable.‟ (B) John Lyly
(B) „That was the curious incident.‟ (C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) Ben Jonson
(C) „Anything else, at all?‟
(D) „That sounds rather curious, don‟t
9. The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled
you think?‟ Hosseini tells the story of ________.
(A) Ahmed
3. “The shrill, demented choirs of waiting
(B) Nadira
shells, (C) Amir
And bugles calling for them from sad (D) Amourrah
shires.”
These lines are from Wilfred Owen‟s:
10. Thomas Babington Macaulay, the writer of
(A) “Strange Meeting” the infamous Minute of 1835,
(B) “Futility” finds a mention in Salman Rushdie‟s
(C) “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
(A) Midnight‟s Children
(D) “Duke et Decorum Est”
(B) Shame
(C) The Moor‟s Last Sigh
4. In Aphra Behn‟s Oronooko, how does
(D) Fury
the titular character die?
(A) He disembowels himself. 11. The issue of privileging speech over
(B) He is whipped to death. writing was taken up for discussion in
(C) He is hanged in the public square. Plato‟s :
(D) He is cut to pieces slowly by the (A) Ion
executioner. (B) RepublicBook III
(C) RepublicBook X
5. The narrative of this novel is a meticulous, (D) Phaedrus
present-tense account of a
woman with a death-wish who plots the
circumstances of her own violent murder.
Identify the novel.
(A) Iris Murdoch‟s A Fairly Honourable
Defeat

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12. „The Medium is the Message‟ is a (B) 1, 5, 6 are correct.

concept given by (C) 1, 3, 5 are correct.
(A) Ernest Hemingway (D) 3, 4, 5 are correct.
(B) Sylvia Plath 17. In 1722 the Crown awarded a certain English
(C) Seymour Hersh merchant a patent to manufacture copper coins for
(D) Marshal McLuhan Ireland. Jonathan Swift intervened by way of
composing a
13. Seamus Heaney‟s famous poem series of letters in response, better known as The
“Digging” forms a part of his celebrated Drapier‟s Letters. Who was the
collection called merchant?
(A) North (A) Isaac Bickerstaff
(B) Death of a Naturalist (B) William Bickerstaff
(C) Field Work (C) William Wood
(D) Door into the Dark (D) William Sacheverell

14. The first major report on The Teaching of 18. “While the world moves
English in Englandwas published in 1921. It is In appentency on its metalled way Of
known as ________, named after the Chair, time past and time future”
Board of Education, These lines are from:
_______. (A) “Little Gidding”
(A) the Newbolt Report; Sir Henry Newbolt (B) “Dry Salvages”
(B) the Wood‟s Despatch; Charles Wood, (C) “Burnt Norton”
Lord Halifax (D) “East Coker”
(C) the Chatham Report; Earl John Chatham
(D) the Landow Document; Sir George 19. The following is the stage-description of an
Landow opening scene of a famous modern play:
A basement room.Two beds, flat against the
15. Who first developed the notion of back wall. A serving hatch, closed, between the
„competence‟ in language studies ? beds. A door to the kitchen and lavatory, left. A
(A) Dell Hymes door to a passage, right.
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) Leech and Svartvik Identify the play:
(D) Henry Sweet (A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Travesties
16. The fruit was eaten.
(C) The Dumb Waiter
The fruit is ripening. (D) Look Back in Anger
Which of the following statement(s) is/are
correct? 20. „Homonyms‟ are words that _______
(1) English has two kinds of participle : the (A) are pronounced differently but have the
present and the past. same meaning.
(2) English has three kinds of participle : the (B) refer to both the male and female of
present, the past and the future. the human species.
(3) The first sentence here is an example of (C) are spelt similarly but have different
a verb in past participle. meanings.
(4) The first sentence here is an example of (D) refer to people who live in houses with
a verb in the perfect tense. similar structures.
(5) The second sentence here is an example
of a verb in present participle. 21. Match the columns :
(6) The second sentence here is an example Shakespearean Actors Period
th
of a verb in the continuous tense. I. David Garrick 1. The 19 century
th
II. John Gielgud 2. The 18 century
(A) 2, 4, 6 are correct. III. Henry Irving 3. The Restoration

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th
IV. Thomas Betterton 4. The 20 (B) II and III
century (C) III and IV
(D) I and IV
I II III IV 24. Michel Foucault‟s earlier “archaeological”
(A) 2413 study is found in
(B) 4213 (A) Power/Knowledge
(C) 3412 (B) Social Theory and Transgression
(D) 2341 (C) The Birth of the Clinic
(D) Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
22. In his “Structure, Sign, and Play in the
Discourse of the Human Sciences,” Derrida is 25. Invisible Manby Ralph Ellison is widely
all praise for the bricoleur whom Levi-Strauss recognized as a masterpiece. It is also one of the
sees as a supreme methodologist, “someone finest examples of
who uses „the means at hand‟.” (A) science fiction
Who does Levi-Strauss contrast bricoleurwith (B) picaresque novel
in terms of method and approach? (C) coming-of-age novel
(A) The Botanist (D) crime thriller
(B) The Anthropologist
(C) The Engineer 26. Match the following correctly:
(D) The Semiotician List – I List – II
I. Mulk Raj Anand 1. Premashram
23. Heinrich Böll has something to say, and II. Raja Rao 2. The Cat and
not of course merely something about the Shakespeare
Germans. He says it several times. A common III. Prem Chand 3. Coolie
weakness of writers with something to say IV. Girish Karnad 4. Nagamandala
is their inability to understand that saying it four
times is not necessarily four times as effective as I II III IV
saying it once. But to have (A) 3241
something to say – how rare this is ! (B) 2314
– D. J. Enright, “Three New Germans”. (C) 3214
From a reading of the above, the reader can (D) 4321
deduce:
I. Enright mildly disapproves of 27. From which of Sheridan‟s plays the
Heinrich Böll‟s saying not merely following extract is taken?
something about Germans. Lady Sneerwell : Why truly Mrs. Clackitt has a
II. Enright is disappointed that very pretty talent and a great deal
Heinrich Böll has practically of industry.
nothing to say about people other Snake : True, Madam, and has been tolerably
than Germans. successful in her day. To my knowledge she has
III. Enright agrees that Heinrich Böll been the cause of six
shares a weakness with writers who matches being broken off and three sons
prefer saying something four times to disinherited, of four forced elopements ….
saying it once. Lady Sneerwell: She certainly has talents but
IV. Enright does not believe that saying her manner is gross.
something four timeswill necessarily
make the same effective. (A) The Rivals
(B) The School for Scandal
The right combination, according to the code, (C) St. Patrick‟s Day
is (D) The Critic
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28. Who, from among the following, has 33.What a mockery this.
NOT been discussed by Simon-de-Bevoir in Of history, the past and that to come !
“The Now do I feel how all men are deceived,
Myth of Woman in Five Authors” in The Reading of nations and their, in faith,
Second Sex? Faith given to vanity and emptiness …
(A) Montherlant The prelude
(B) Lawrence The above extract is from
(C) Stendhal (A) Book 9 Residence in France
(D) Kafka (B) Book 7 Residence in London
(C) Book 3 Residence in Cambridge
29. In a collection of essays Orhan Pamuk (D) Book 4 Summer Vacations
shares how he writes his novels, tells about his
friendship with his daughter, talks about his 34. While foregrounding the marginal
loneliness and happiness. presence of women in history in A Room of
Identify the text: One’s Own,
(A) Other Colors Virginia Woolf refers to ______ History of
(B) The Silent House England.
(C) The Black Book (A) Campbell‟s
(D) The White Castle (B) Trevelyan‟s
(C) Sander‟s
30. Two of the following plays won the Sultan (D) Carter‟s
Padamsee Prize for Indian plays in English :
I. Princes 35. Salonieis a play written by Oscar Wilde
II. Where There‟s a written in
Will III. Larins Sahib (A) English
IV. Doongaji House (B) Irish
The right combination according to the code (C) French
is : (D) Italian
(A) III and IV
(B) I and III 36. In More‟s Utopia, the fictional traveller
(C) II and III Raphael Hythloday‟s second name in Greek
(D) I and IV means
(A) Dispenser of Justice
31. Who among the following is NOT an (B) Dispenser of Nonsense
Australian writer? (C) Dispenser of Grace
(A) Morris West (D) Dispenser of Mercy
(B) Patrick White
(C) Thomas Keneally 37. “You do not dwell in me nor I in you
(D) Bill Pearson however much I pander to your name” These
lines from Geoffrey Hill‟s “Lachrimae”
address
32. After Independence, Mulk Raj Anand, (A) Christ
wrote a number of semi-autobiographical (B) The Devil
works to narrate chunks of his own life (C) The poet‟s beloved
through a fictional persona. The name he (D) The poet‟s enemy
gave this persona is _______.
(A) Lal Singh 38. The author of Black Skin, White Masks
(B) Krishan Chander is
(C) Puran Singh (A) Ngugi wa Thiong‟o
(D) Rahul Singh (B) Frantz Fanon
(C) Richard Wright
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39. Match the following : 44. Edward Said‟s well-known book

Poet Bird Orientalism was published in
I. John Keats 1. Hawk (A) 1978
II. P.B. Shelley 2. Falcon (B) 1968
III. G.H. Hopkins 3. Skylark (C) 2008
IV. Ted Hughes 4. Nightingale (D) 1988

I II III IV 45. “To the Memory of my Beloved, the

(A) 4321 Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And
(B) 4312 What He
(C) 3421 Hath Left Us” is an ode composed by
(D) 3412 (A) John Milton
(B) Ben Jonson
40. Who of the following has written the (C) Andrew Marvell
novel The Return? (D) John Suckling
(A) Bapsi Sidhwa
(B) V.S. Naipaul 46. Call me Ishmail Tonight is written by
(C) K. S. Maniam (A) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) Pankaj Mishra (B) Agha Shahid Ali
(C) Saleem Peeradina
41. Who among the following is a well-known (D) Nissim Ezekiel
Neo-Aristotelian critic ?
(A) R.P. Blackmur 47. “All fiction for me is a kind of magic or
(B) John Crowe Ranson trickery – a confidence trick.” The statement
(C) R.S. Crane has been made by
(D) Lionel Trilling (A) Angus Wilson
(B) Anthony Powell
42. Assertion (A): The act of reading a text is (C) John Fowles
both determinate and (D) George Orwell
indeterminate.
Reason (R): Since our reading includes 48. Here is a list of American words and word-
both a sense of the unity of the makers. Match the following:
narrative held in place at the I. H.L. Mencken 1. Babbit
end and the different wishes II. Philip Wylie 2. Yes man
and guesses made along the III. Jack Conway 3. Bible belt
way. IV. Sinclair Lewis 4. Monism

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the I II III IV
true explanation of (A). (A) 4321
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not (B) 3412
the true explanation of (A). (C) 3421
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. (D) 4312
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
49. Which of the following in Jacques
43. Girish Karnad‟s Hayavadana, originally Derrida‟s epigraph to his “Structure, Sign
in Kannada, has been translated into English and Play in the Discourse of the Human
by Sciences” ?
(A) U.R. Ananthamurthy (A) More body, hence more writing. …….
(B) By the playwright himself Helene Cixous.
(C) G.S. Amur (B) We need to interpret interpretations
(D) A.K. Ramanujan more than to interpret things. ………
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.

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(C) But unlike philosophical reflection,

…. the reflections we are dealing with 55. “No wonder then.” Explain.
here concern rays whose only source is (A) No wonder that the words here begin to
hypothetical… Claude Levi-Strauss mean.
(D) If Cleopatra‟s nose had been shorter (B) No wonder that you now find the words
the whole history of the world would menacing.
have been different. ……… Blaise (C) No wonder that the words find you
Pascal. menacing.
(D) No wonder the words still mean and are
50. In Mann‟s Death in Venice, death of the tame.
protagonist occurs
(A) in a bar 56. The term “womanism” was first used
(B) in a beach by
(C) in a church (A) Helene Cixous
(D) on the highway (B) Gayatri Spivak
(C) Kate Millet
51. Two among the following poets wrote the (D) Alice Walker
“Village” poems that address
the perennial theme of rural poverty : 57. Two among the following critics have dealt
I. Oliver Goldsmith with the reproduction of motherhood in
II. William Collins feminist theory :
III. Samuel Johnson I. Nancy Chodorow
IV. George Gabbe II. Judith Fetterley
III. Catherine R. Stimpson
The right combination according to the code IV. Carol Gilligan
is
(A) I and III The right combination according to the code
(B) II and III is
(C) I and IV (A) I and II
(D) I and II (B) II and IV
(C) I and IV
52. In which of the following works Yeats (D) III and IV
developed his theory of „gyres‟?
(A) “A Vision” 58. Flowers is a short play written by
(B) “The Secret Rose” (A) Mahesh Dattani
(C) “John Sherman and Dhoya” (B) Asif Currimbhoy
(D) “The Celtic Twilight” (C) Girish Karnad
(D) Paoli Sengupta
53. Mystery and Miracle plays in English were
based on ______. 59. Match the columns:
(A) English folklore Character Novel
(B) English legends I. Lady Dedlock 1. Vanity Fair
(C) Biblical stories II. Lady Bertram 2. Wives and Daughters
(D) Anglo-Saxon myths III. Lady Harriet 3. Mansfield Park
IV. Lady Jane 4. Bleak House
54. When we rewrite a piece of discourse from one
script into another, it is called I II III IV
________. (A) 4231
(A) Translation (B) 3214
(B) Transliteration (C) 4321
(C) Transcreation (D) 3412
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60. “The Books You Needn‟t Read, the (D) The Duchess of Malfi – Volpone –
Books Made For Purposes Other Than A Game of Chess – The City Madam
Reading,
Books Read Before You Open Them Since They 63. „Nasal tone‟ in speech is a
Belong To The Category of Books distinguishing feature of _______.
Read (A) British English
Before Being Written …” (B) Scottish English
The above extract is taken from (C) Australian English
(A) Jorge Luis Borges‟s “The Library of (D) American English
Babel”
(B) Italo Colvino‟s If on a winter‟s Night a 64. Which of the following writers did
Traveller NOT receive the Nobel Prize for
(C) Umberto Eco‟s The Name of the Rose Literature?
(D) Francis Bacon‟s “Of Studies” (A) Wole Soyinka
(B) Chinua Achebe
61. Listed below are the titles of novels and (C) J. M. Coetzee
the sources to which theyare aligned by (D) Nadine Gordimer
readers.
Match them appropriately: 65. The Decline and Fall of the Roman
List – I List – II Empireby Edward Gibbon is a significant work
I. Peter Carey‟s in ______ Volumes.
Jack Maggs 1. Daniel Defoe‟s (A) 3
Robinson Crusoe (B) 4
II. J.M. Coetzee‟s Foe 2. Charlotte (C) 5
Bronte‟s (D) 6
Jane Eyre
III. Jean Rhys‟s Wide 66. The first novel written by Graham
Sargasso Sea 3.R.M. Ballantyne‟s Greene is
The Coral Island (A) Stamboul Train
IV. William Golding‟s Lord (B) England Made Me
of the Flies 4. Charles Dickens‟s (C) The Heart of the Matter
Great (D) The Man Within
Expectations
67. From among the Canterbury pilgrims,
I II III IV which group would qualify as the „upper class‟
(A) 4132 ?
(B) 4312 (A) The Pardoner, The Miller, The Nun‟s
(C) 4123 Priest
(D) 4213 (B) Franklin, Parson, Wife of Bath
(C) The Knight, The Squire, The Prioress
(D) The Reeve, The Manciple, The Clerk

68. Plagiarism is a well-known word and concept

62. Identify the right chronological in academic circles. The word plagiariusin Latin,
sequence: however, meant
(A) The Game of Chess – Volpone – (A) a trickster, a cheat
The Duchess of Malfi – The City Madam (B) a quack, a swindler
(B) The City Madam – The Duchess of Malfi (C) a loafer, a lout
– Volpone – A Game of Chess (D) a torturer, a plunderer
(C) Volpone – The Duchess of Malfi – A
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69. What superstition around the Eve of St. And rowed him softer home –
Agnes is crucial to an understanding John Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Keat‟s famous poem? Too silver for a seam –
(A) If a virgin performed the proper ritual Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would dream Leap, plashless as they swim.
of her future husband.
(B) If a virgin performed the proper ritual 72. Is “a convenient Grass” an example of
on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would marry “transferred epithet”?
herlover. (A) Yes, it is. The “convenience” of grass is
(C) If a married woman performed the transferred from the bird to the poet who
proper ritual on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she finds grass convenient of access.
would be reunited with her husband. (B) Yes, it is. The grass is not
(D) If a woman performed the proper “convenient”, but is transferred from
ritual on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would the bird who finds the grass
dream of her future lover. convenient of access.
(C) No. It is a regular epithet.
70. Identify the person who sets himself up as the (D) No. It is not an epithet in the strict
„Knight‟ with a pestle rather than a sword in the sense.
play The Knight of the
Burning Pestle: 73. Which of the following is NOT an
(A) Ralph example of kinetic imagery?
(B) Tim (A) “unrolled his feathers”
(C) George (B) “hopped sidewise”
(D) Squire (C) “Velvet Head”
(D) “rowed him”
71. Works like The Earthly Paradise, Dante
and His Circle, Goblin Market and Other 74. The poem stages an encounter between:
Poems and the journal, The Germare (A) the human and the non-human
associated with ________. (B) distrust of the non-human about the
(A) the Pre-Raphaelites humans
(B) Higher Criticism (C) two old friends
(C) the Cavalier Poets (D) two old enemies
(D) the Pre-Romantics
75. “Like one in danger …” Who is in
Read the following poem and answer danger?
questions (72to 75): (A) The Bird
A Bird came down the Walk (B) The Poet
– He did not know I saw – (C) The Angleworm
He bit an Angleworm in halves (D) Frightened Beads
And ate the fellow, raw,
And then he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass –
And then hopped sidewise to the
Wall To let a Beetle pass –
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all around –
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought
–
He stirred his Velvet Head
Like one in danger, Cautious, I
offered him a Crumb
And he unrolled his feathers

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D A A C A A C C A A C C D B D D C - A A
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