PUBDET-2018 81120001

Subject: English (Booklet Number)

Duration: 90 minutes Full Marks: 100

Instructions
1. All questions are of objective type having four answer options for each. Only one option is
correct. Correct answer will carry full marks 2. In case of incorrect answer or any combination
of more than one answer, ½ marks will be deducted.
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 Read the passage carefully and answer questions 1, 2, 3 and 4
“What passing –bells for these who die as cattle?
-Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires”.

1. What is the setting of this poem?

(A) A war movie (B) A street fight
(C) A clash between police and protesters (D) A battle field

2. What figure of speech is used in the phrases, “monstrous anger of the guns” and “Choirs of wailing
shell”?
(A) simile (B) metaphor (C) personification (D) synecdoche

3. What is the poem about?

(A) Fear of war (B) A lament for dead soldiers
(C) A prayer for peace (D) A celebration of violence

4. Identify the figure of speech in the phrase- “those who die as cattle”.
(A) simile (B) metaphor (C) personification (D) synecdoche

Read the following passage carefully and answer questions 5, 6 and 7

Mr. K, Mrs. K, their four daughters, two sons, three maids, myself and Toby the dog make up
this household. Mr. K is a doctor. His conduct is as amiable as his appearance is pleasant.
Mrs. K. genuinely cares about me. She scolds me if I go out without enough warm clothes.
She coaxes me to eat more if she thinks I am not eating well. The English are terrified of
coughs and colds. If I even cough twice, she stops my daily bath, rustles up mountains of
medicines, and insists on a hot footbath at bedtime.

5. What kind of a narrative is this?

(A) First person narrative (B) Second person narrative
(C) Third person narrative (D) A narrative with multiple narrators.

6. What is the meaning of “amiable”?

(A) Interfering (B) Domineering (C) Helpful (D) Friendly

7. How would one describe Mrs. K?

(A) Bossy (B) Unpleasant (C) Motherly (D) Interfering

8. To which South American country does the poet Pablo Neruda belong?
(A) Colombia (B) Venezuela (C) Guatemala (D) Chile

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9. Which of these authors published his major works at the same time as John Dryden?
(A) John Milton (B) Jonathan Swift
(C) Alexander Pope (D) Dr. Samuel Johnson

10. How many tales are there in The Canterbury Tales?

(A) 20 (B) 24 (C) 26 (D) 28

11. Which Elizabethan dramatist wrote the English history play King John?
(A) William Shakespeare (B) Thomas Kyd
(C) Robert Greene (D) George Peele

12. Which ancient Indian text is the source of Vikram Seth’s poem ‘The Monkey and the crow’?
(A) Meghadutam (B) Panchatantra (C) Katha Sarit Sahar (D) Rajtarangini

13. “-------------”, she cried. “You’ll hit the lamppost”. Fill the blank with the most appropriate
phrase.
(A) Look in (B) Look out (C) Look on (D) Look at

14. To which continent did the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez belong?
(A) Australia (B) North America (C) South America (D) Europe

15. In which year did Doris Lessing win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
(A) 2005 (B) 2006 (C) 2007 (D) 2008

16. Identify the figure of speech in the sentence “India won the Test match against Sri Lanka”.
(A) metaphor (B) mixed metaphor
(C) synecdoche (D) metonymy

17. To which literary period did the playwright Luigi Pirandello belong?

(A) The Romantic Period (B) The Victorian Era

(C) Modernism (D) Postmodernism

18. Which earlier dramatic genre features in Marlowe’s Dr Faustus?

(A) The miracle play (B) The morality play
(C) The Interlude (D) The Chronicle play

19. ‘There is very ____ water in the reservoir’. Choose the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.
(A) less (B) lesser (C) little (D) least

20. Which of these eighteenth century authors did not write poetry set in natural surroundings?
(A) Oliver Goldsmith (B) Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(C) James Thomson (D) Thomas Gray

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21. The Victorian novel ‘Condition of England’ portrayed….
(A) social effects of the Industrial Revolution
(B) social effects of the British imperialism
(C) social effects of the Oxford movement
(D) social effects of the Napoleonic wars

22. Which of these classical dramatists greatly influenced Elizabethan drama?

(A) Aristophanes (B) Euripides (C) Plautus (D) Seneca

23. To whom did Shelley dedicate his poem ‘Adonais’?

(A) Wordsworth (B) Coleridge (C) Byron (D) Keats

24. ‘The lady ______ works here is from Mumbai’. - Choose the most appropriate word to fill in the
blank.
(A) who (B) which (C)that (D) only

25. In which of these genres did T. S. Eliot not write?

(A) Fiction (B) Drama (C) Poetry (D) Prose

26. The age of Wordsworth is often called the ‘Romantic Revival’. Which is considered to be the first
Romantic Age?
(A) The age of Chaucer (B) The Elizabethan Age
(C) The Jacobean era (D) The Restoration period

27. In which of her works did Jane Austen satirize the Gothic novel?
(A) Northanger Abbey (B) Sense and sensibility
(C) Mansfield Park (D) Persuasion

28. Which of these is not a ‘condition of England’ novel?

(A) Disraeli’s Sybil (B) Thackeray’s Pendennis
(C) Charles Kingsleys’s Alton Locke (D) Charles Dickens’ Hard Times

29. Choose the correct option to change voice in the sentence ‘The electric heater was repaired by me’.
(A) I repaired the electric heater. (B) I was repairing the electric heater.
(C) I am repairing the electric heater (D) I would repair the electric heater

30. Which of these literary modes does not belong to the eighteenth century?
(A) Periodical essay (B) Sentimental comedy
(C) Caroline poetry (D) Gothic novel

31. The group, consisting of children and their parents, _____________having a good time at the
picnic.
Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
(A)are (B)is (C) will (D) would

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32. Which of these plays was not written by W. B. Yeats?
(A)The Countless Cathleen (B) At the hawk’s well
(C) Juno and the Paycock (D) The land of Hearts Desire

33. Which of these major Victorian prose works was written by Mathew Arnold?
(A) Culture and Anarchy (B) Of Heroes and Hero worship
(C) The stones of Venice (D) The Renaissance

34. Which of these Victorian women authors did not use a pseudonym while publishing her novels?
(A) Charlotte Bronte (B) Emily Bronte
(C) Elizabeth Gaskell (D) Mary Ann Evans

35. ‘Santosh looked very happy and _______ when he heard that his proposed scheme was _____ by
the committee’. – Choose the most appropriate pair of words to fill in the two blanks.
(A) energetic, rejected (B) elated, accepted
(C) satisfied, stalled (D) disconsolate, received

36. Tennyson’s lines from ‘In Memoriam’ – “Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of
reverence in us dwell” - articulate…..
(A) The Victorian Compromise (B) The Victorian imperial idea
(C) Victorian family values (D) Victorian educational norms

37. Who wrote Frankenstein?

(A) Aphra Behu (B)Mary Shelley
(C) Ann Radcliffe (D) Eliza Haywood

38. In Browning’ s dramatic monologues we always have

(A) a large audience listening to the speaker
(B) no one at all listening to the speaker
(C) an uninterested listener
(D) a silent but attentive listener

39. Who wrote ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley’?

(A) T.S.Eliot (B) Dylan Thomas
(C) W.B.Yeats (D) Ezra Pound

40. Along with Sigmund Freud, who was another major exponent of psychoanalysis?
(A) Friedrich Nietzsche (B) C. G. Jung
(C) Bertrand Russell (D) Ludwig Wittgenstein

41. In which work by Dickens does the famous character of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge appear?
(A) Oliver Twist (B) A Christmas Carol
(C) David Copperfield (D) Great Expectations

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42. What is the name of the Faerie Queene Spencer’s poem?
(A) Una (B) Duessa (C) Gloriana (D) Florimell

43. Who wrote the novel The Egoist?

(A) Charles Dickens (B) William Makepeace Thackeray
(C) George Eliot (D) George Meredith

44. Who wrote the line – “Oh, East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet”?
(A) Rudyard Kipling (B) Robert Louis Stevenson
(C) Alfred Lord Tennyson (D) Joseph Conrad

45. Which of these author’s major prose works did not belong to the Elizabethan period?
(A) John Lily (B) Philip Sidney
(C) Thomas More (D) Thomas Nashe

46. Which contemporary critical theory is applied nowadays for new insights on Wordsworth as a poet
of nature?
(A) Psychoanalytic literary theory (B) Trauma theory
(C) Feminist bioethics (D) Ecocriticism

47. Which of these poems by Tennyson is a dramatic monologue?

(A) Mariana (B) Ulysses (C) Enoch Arden (D) Mand

48. Who wrote the novel Dracula?

(A) Thomas Love Peacock (B) Bram Stocker
(C) Wilkie Collins (D) Arthur Conan Doyle

49. Which of these English words is taken from Hindustani?

(A) Bed (B) Berth (C) Couch (D) Cot

50. Who wrote ‘Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra’?

(A) Anita Desai (B) Ruskin Bond (C) R. K. Narayan (D) Vikram Seth

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