COMMON P.G.

ENTRANCE TEST–2022 (CPET-2022)

Subject Code : 59 Test Booklet No.:

Entrance Subject : English Hall Ticket No.:

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Time Allowed : 90 Minutes Full Marks : 70

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1. What is Alexandrine?

(A) A line of four iambic feet occasionally used in a heroic couplet

(B) A line of six iambic feet occasionally used in a heroic couplet

(C) A line without iambic metre occasionally used in a heroic couplet

(D) A line without end-stop occasionally used in a heroic couplet

(A) Sir Thomas Wyatt

(B) William Shakespeare

(C) Earl of Surrey

(D) Milton

(A) Tamburlaine the Great

(B) The Jew of Malta

(C) Richard III

(D) Edward II

1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women

2. Lyrical Ballads

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

the present

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6. Wh

(C) A romantic focus on home and family

(C) Raymond Williams

(D) Northrop Frye

8. How does the Pardoner in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales relate to the other

(B) He confronts them about their wicked ways and reminds them that death could come
at any moment.

9. Spenser’s Amoretti

(D) none

sun?

(A) Saucy

(B) Pedantic

(C) Busy

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 (B) Elaine Showalter

(C) Kate Millet

(A) 1, 2, 3 and 4

(B) 1, 2 and 3 only

(C) 2, 3 and 4 only

(D) 2 and 3 only

(A) word

(B) sentence

(D) noun

(A) Audience

(B) Topic

(C) Analysis

(D) Purpose

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 (A) Audience analysis

(D) Topic analysis

(A) Confessional poetry

(C) Pastoral poetry

(D) Sonnets

Ice-Candy-Man?

(A) Anand

(B) Bikash

(C) Rehmat

(D) Adi

19. What kind of word is composed of parts of two or more words?

(C) Double-decker

(D) Portmanteau word

20. Who translated the book The Story of My Experiment with Truth written by M K Gandhi

(C) Mohanlal Pandya

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21.
(A) One Night at the Call Centre
(B) 2 States
(C) Five Point Someone
(D) The 3 Mistakes of My Life

3. Cato

Choose the correct option:

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

poems?
Paradise Lost–Alastor–The Dunciad
(B) The Dunciad–Alastor–Lamia–Paradise Lost
The Dunciad–Paradise Lost–Lamia
(D) Paradise Lost–The Dunciad–Alastor–Lamia

(B) Arun Kolatkar

(C) Nissim Ezekiel
(D) Keki N Daruwalla

(B) Ezra Pound

(C) W. B. Yeats
(D) T. S. Eliot

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 (A) Macbeth

(B) Macduff

(C) Duncan

(D) Malcolm

Palaka?

(A) Mrcchakatika

(B) Raghuvansa

(C) Mudrarakshasa

29. Kalidasa’s works include:

I. Abhijnanashakuntalam

II. Meghadutam

III. Raghuvamsa

Malvikagnimitram

Ritusamhara

Kumarasambhava

Select the correct option

(D) All of them

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30. What does Natyashatra mean?

(B) Fiction book

(C) Critical work

(D) Teaches you how to dance

(A) Synecdoche

(B) Circumlocution

(C) Transferred epithet

(D) Conceit

32. “Know thyself, presume not God to scan;

(A) Euphemism

(B) Irony

33. A Short View of the Immortality and Profaneness of the English Stage,

34. The foundation of modern educational system in India was laid by

(A) The Charter Act of 1813

(B) Macaulay’s Minutes of 1835

(C) The Hunter Commission of 1882

(D) Woods Dispatch of 1854

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35. Final Solutions?

(C) It is concerned with homosexual relationship.

36. What is ‘Hamartia’?

(C) A weak trait in the character of the hero

tale:

(A) Hyperion

(B) Endymion

(B) Mathew Arnold

(D) Hazlitt

(A) 1, 2 and 3

(B) 1, 3 and 4

(C) 2, 3 and 4

(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

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40. ‘Expectancy relation’ between lexical items is called:

(A) Repetition

(B) Collocation

(C) Synonymy

(B) APA

(D) APSA

42. Syntax refers to:

(A) use synonyms for many of the words

(A) morpheme

(B) bound morpheme

(C) phoneme

(A) /t/, /d/

(B) /s/, /z/

(C) /m/, /n/

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46. In the

(B) too much

(A) Creole

same syntax.

(B) Proofreader

(C) Copy editor

(A) partial obstruction in the mouth

(B) complete obstruction in the mouth

(C) friction in the mouth

(D) no friction and obstruction in the mouth

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52. What is polysemy?

(A

(B) The existence of a word because of its opposite

(D) The literal expression of a word

(A) Clarity

(D) Completeness

(A) Syntactic

(B) Semantic

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 (B) primarily concerned with the collection and analysis of numerical data

(C) primarily concerned with in-depth exploration of phenomena

context.

Portend:

(A) Introduces

(C) Spells

(D) Bodes

(A) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

(C) Mahatma Gandhi

(D) Motilal Nehru

(B) Annie Besant

(C) Sarojini Naidu

(D) Aruna Asif Ali

(A) It is a numerical concept

(C) It is the same as the sex of a person

(D) It is a social construct

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62.
(A) I consider her to be a brilliant student.
(B) I consider her a brilliant student.
(C) I consider her brilliant student.
(D) I consider her to be brilliant.
63. Fill in the blank.

(A) PQRS
(B) RQPS
(C) RPSQ
(D) PSRQ

(A) a nice old stone

(B) a nice stone old
(C) a stone old nice
(D) an old nice stone
66. “These bottles are

(A) Gruesome
(B) Horrible

(D) Adorable

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 days.

(A) Train to Pakistan

(B) Ice-Candy-Man

(C) Clear Light of the Day

(A) Alienation effect

(B) Audience effect

(C) Special effect

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