ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 19
1. The origin of structuralism lies in the work of
1) Noam Chomsky 2) Ferdinand de Saussure 3) Roland Barthes 4) Levi Strauss
Ans: 2
2. The book "The New Criticism" was written by
1) Robert Penn Warren 2) W.K. Wimsatt 3) I.A. Richards 4) John Crowe Ransom
Ans: 4
3. Who among the following was not associated with New Criticism ?
1) Walter Pater 2) Cleanth Brooks 3) Allen Tate 4) Monroe C. Beardsley
Ans: 1
4. New Criticism emphasized
1) the use of everyday language
2) the figures of speech in a text
3) the autonomy of the text
4) the influences on the author
Ans: 3
5. The primary focus of New Criticism is
1) language and creation of meaning through it 2) literary background 3) biographical details 4) author's intention
Ans: 1
6. For the New Critics, the poem was
1) an organic system of relationships 2) a network of universal structures 3) a series of related metaphors 4) a system of cultural relations
Ans: 1
7. Which of the following reading strategies did the New Critics emphasize ?
1) slow reading
2) close reading
3) closerange reading
4) skimming
Ans: 2
8. Wimsatt and Beardsley in their essays " Intentional Fallacy" and " Affective Fallacy" argued that in the formation of literary judgement we must take into account
1) the author's intention
2) the effect on the reader
3) both the author's intention and the effect on the reader
4) neither the author's intention nor the effect on the reader
Ans: 4
9.Structuralists believed that the world is
1) divided into structures 2) progressing towards a structure 3) organised as structures 4) structured around meaning
Ans: 3
10. The essay "The Death of the Author" was written by
1) Sigmund Freud 2) Friedrich Nietzsche 3) Roland Barthes 4) Harold Bloom
Ans: 3
11. For Roland Barthes , the text is a linguistic / literary object which is
1) given to us by the author 2) found on the shelves of a library
3) stable, fixed and enclosed within one discipline 4) fluid, has many levels of meaning and is interdisciplinary
Ans: 4
12. Derrida questions
1) certain assumptions underlying western metaphysics 2) assumptions underlying deconstructive readings 3) the worth of literary works of the West 4) the distinction between speech and writing
Ans: 1
13. For Deconstructionists , the reversal of hierarchy in a binary pair of opposition is
1) the final stage 2) the first stage 3) an unnecessary stage 4) an undesirable stage
Ans: 2
14. Which of the following phrases captures the defining characteristic of Modernism
1) "Make it new" 2) "Read the classics" 3) "Follow nature" 4) "Work harder"
Ans: 1
15. Heteroglossia was a concept introduced in literary theory by
1) Henry James 2) Mikhail Bakhtin 3) E.M. Forster 4) Irving Babbitt
Ans: 2
16. Carnivalesque is used in literary theory as a mode that
1) associates distinct phonological systems
2) subverts the assumptions of the dominant style through humour and chaos
3) configures the representation of space and time
4) includes a diversity of philosophical backgrounds
Ans: 2
17. Modernism with reference to literature reveals which of the following tendencies ?
1) Adherence to established rules
2) Conformity in form
3) Experiments in form and style
4) Character as a coherent and unified being
Ans: 3
18. Which of the following authors would NOT be included among the great literary Modernists ?
1) T.S. Eliot 2) Bernard Shaw 3) James Joyce 4) Samuel Beckett
Ans: 2
19. The important characteristics of Postmodernism do NOT include
1) fragmented forms 2) discontinuous narratives 3) blurring of distinction between genres 4) emphasis on objectivity
Ans: 4
20. William H. Gass coined the term ………….. for postmodernist novels that deliberately reflect upon themselves as an artifact.
1) pastiche 2) microfiction 3) metafiction 4) metanarrative
Ans: 3
21. According to Edward Said the European West perceived 'Orientalism' as a homogeneous form of
1) The Asians 2) The Africans 3) The Other 4) The New Continents
Ans: 3
22. "Discourse on Colonialism" is a work by
1) Homi K. Bhabha 2) Harish Trivedi 3) Aime Cesaire 4) Bill Ashcroft
Ans: 3
23. Which of the following statements does NOT reflect the critical purpose of Postcolonial studies ?
1) To understand and value the modernising effect of colonial literature
2) To account for and combat the residual effects of colonialism upon colonised people
3) Creation of social and cultural spaces for subaltern people
4) To counter the dominant ideologies of the west
Ans: 1
24. "Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spresd of Nationalism" is a book by
1) Salman Rushdie 2) Benedict Anderson 3) Partha Chatterji 4) Stuart Hall
Ans: 2
25. Complete the following statement. Virginia Woolf situates literature within a ………….. context.
1) historical 2) spiritual 3) material 4) philosophical
Ans: 3
26. "One is not born , but rather becomes a woman." Who has made the above assertion ?
1) Simone de Beauvoir 2) Betty Friedan 3) Germaine Greer 4) Elaine Showalter
Ans: 1
27. The key characteristic of Luce Irigaray's oeuvre is the focus on
1) Marxian economics 2) Sexual difference 3) Empirical statistics 4) Cultural archetypes
Ans: 2
28. "Woman must write herself : must write about women and bring women to writing … woman must put herself into the text …" is a quote from
1) Helene Cixious 2) Luce Irigaray 3) Elaine Showalter 4) Judith Butler
Ans: 1
29. Elaine Showalter puts the phases of women's writing in the following order
1) feminine , feminist , female 2) female , feminine , feminist
3) feminist , female , feminine 4) female , feminist , feminine
Ans: 1
30. Which Psychoanalytic theory is associated with Jacques Lacan ?
1) Springboard theory 2) Group behaviour theory 3) Mirror stage theory 4) Archetype theory
Ans: 3
31. ……………. is a term coined by Carl Jung to refer to structures shared among beings of the same species.
1) Animus and Anima Principle 2) Collective unconscious 3) Dominant Patterns 4) Maximal effect
Ans: 2
32. All of Sigmund Freud's work depends on the notion of
1) Madness 2) Unconscious 3) Transparence 4) Projection
Ans: 2
33. Psychoanalytic criticism uses :
1) literary theories in techniques of psychoanalysis
2) historical data for the construction of the unconscious
3) some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature
4) some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the treatment of neurotic patients
Ans: 3
34. Freud divided human psyche into :
1) unconscious , anxiety and repression 2) desires and dreams 3) oedipus and electra complex 4) id , ego and super ego
Ans: 4
35. Parallel reading of literary and nonliterary texts usually of the same historical period is called
1) Sociohistorical criticism 2) Sociocultural criticism 3) New Historicism 4) Historiography
Ans: 3
36. Besides the English Renaissance Literature , New Historicists also focus on
1) Romantic poets 2) Victorian critics 3) Colonial novelists 4) Diaspora writers
Ans: 1
37. "The notion of culture as text has a further major attraction : it vastly expands the range of objects available to be read and interpreted" is said by
1) Jerome Mc Gann 2) Catherine Gallangher and Stephen Greenblatt 3) Michel Foucault 4) Clifford Geertz
Ans: 2
38. Complete the following statement.
For New Historicism ……………… are agents of history.
1) cultural texts 2) scientific texts 3) futuristic texts 4) prehistoric texts
Ans: 1
39. New Historicists firmly believe that literary texts can in fact tell us
1) something about the world outside of the text
2) nothing about the world outside the text
3) little about the world outside of the text
4) something about the inner world of the author
Ans: 1
1) Noam Chomsky 2) Ferdinand de Saussure 3) Roland Barthes 4) Levi Strauss
Ans: 2
2. The book "The New Criticism" was written by
1) Robert Penn Warren 2) W.K. Wimsatt 3) I.A. Richards 4) John Crowe Ransom
Ans: 4
3. Who among the following was not associated with New Criticism ?
1) Walter Pater 2) Cleanth Brooks 3) Allen Tate 4) Monroe C. Beardsley
Ans: 1
4. New Criticism emphasized
1) the use of everyday language
2) the figures of speech in a text
3) the autonomy of the text
4) the influences on the author
Ans: 3
5. The primary focus of New Criticism is
1) language and creation of meaning through it 2) literary background 3) biographical details 4) author's intention
Ans: 1
6. For the New Critics, the poem was
1) an organic system of relationships 2) a network of universal structures 3) a series of related metaphors 4) a system of cultural relations
Ans: 1
7. Which of the following reading strategies did the New Critics emphasize ?
1) slow reading
2) close reading
3) closerange reading
4) skimming
Ans: 2
8. Wimsatt and Beardsley in their essays " Intentional Fallacy" and " Affective Fallacy" argued that in the formation of literary judgement we must take into account
1) the author's intention
2) the effect on the reader
3) both the author's intention and the effect on the reader
4) neither the author's intention nor the effect on the reader
Ans: 4
9.Structuralists believed that the world is
1) divided into structures 2) progressing towards a structure 3) organised as structures 4) structured around meaning
Ans: 3
10. The essay "The Death of the Author" was written by
1) Sigmund Freud 2) Friedrich Nietzsche 3) Roland Barthes 4) Harold Bloom
Ans: 3
11. For Roland Barthes , the text is a linguistic / literary object which is
1) given to us by the author 2) found on the shelves of a library
3) stable, fixed and enclosed within one discipline 4) fluid, has many levels of meaning and is interdisciplinary
Ans: 4
12. Derrida questions
1) certain assumptions underlying western metaphysics 2) assumptions underlying deconstructive readings 3) the worth of literary works of the West 4) the distinction between speech and writing
Ans: 1
13. For Deconstructionists , the reversal of hierarchy in a binary pair of opposition is
1) the final stage 2) the first stage 3) an unnecessary stage 4) an undesirable stage
Ans: 2
14. Which of the following phrases captures the defining characteristic of Modernism
1) "Make it new" 2) "Read the classics" 3) "Follow nature" 4) "Work harder"
Ans: 1
15. Heteroglossia was a concept introduced in literary theory by
1) Henry James 2) Mikhail Bakhtin 3) E.M. Forster 4) Irving Babbitt
Ans: 2
16. Carnivalesque is used in literary theory as a mode that
1) associates distinct phonological systems
2) subverts the assumptions of the dominant style through humour and chaos
3) configures the representation of space and time
4) includes a diversity of philosophical backgrounds
Ans: 2
17. Modernism with reference to literature reveals which of the following tendencies ?
1) Adherence to established rules
2) Conformity in form
3) Experiments in form and style
4) Character as a coherent and unified being
Ans: 3
18. Which of the following authors would NOT be included among the great literary Modernists ?
1) T.S. Eliot 2) Bernard Shaw 3) James Joyce 4) Samuel Beckett
Ans: 2
19. The important characteristics of Postmodernism do NOT include
1) fragmented forms 2) discontinuous narratives 3) blurring of distinction between genres 4) emphasis on objectivity
Ans: 4
20. William H. Gass coined the term ………….. for postmodernist novels that deliberately reflect upon themselves as an artifact.
1) pastiche 2) microfiction 3) metafiction 4) metanarrative
Ans: 3
21. According to Edward Said the European West perceived 'Orientalism' as a homogeneous form of
1) The Asians 2) The Africans 3) The Other 4) The New Continents
Ans: 3
22. "Discourse on Colonialism" is a work by
1) Homi K. Bhabha 2) Harish Trivedi 3) Aime Cesaire 4) Bill Ashcroft
Ans: 3
23. Which of the following statements does NOT reflect the critical purpose of Postcolonial studies ?
1) To understand and value the modernising effect of colonial literature
2) To account for and combat the residual effects of colonialism upon colonised people
3) Creation of social and cultural spaces for subaltern people
4) To counter the dominant ideologies of the west
Ans: 1
24. "Imagined Communities : Reflections on the Origin and Spresd of Nationalism" is a book by
1) Salman Rushdie 2) Benedict Anderson 3) Partha Chatterji 4) Stuart Hall
Ans: 2
25. Complete the following statement. Virginia Woolf situates literature within a ………….. context.
1) historical 2) spiritual 3) material 4) philosophical
Ans: 3
26. "One is not born , but rather becomes a woman." Who has made the above assertion ?
1) Simone de Beauvoir 2) Betty Friedan 3) Germaine Greer 4) Elaine Showalter
Ans: 1
27. The key characteristic of Luce Irigaray's oeuvre is the focus on
1) Marxian economics 2) Sexual difference 3) Empirical statistics 4) Cultural archetypes
Ans: 2
28. "Woman must write herself : must write about women and bring women to writing … woman must put herself into the text …" is a quote from
1) Helene Cixious 2) Luce Irigaray 3) Elaine Showalter 4) Judith Butler
Ans: 1
29. Elaine Showalter puts the phases of women's writing in the following order
1) feminine , feminist , female 2) female , feminine , feminist
3) feminist , female , feminine 4) female , feminist , feminine
Ans: 1
30. Which Psychoanalytic theory is associated with Jacques Lacan ?
1) Springboard theory 2) Group behaviour theory 3) Mirror stage theory 4) Archetype theory
Ans: 3
31. ……………. is a term coined by Carl Jung to refer to structures shared among beings of the same species.
1) Animus and Anima Principle 2) Collective unconscious 3) Dominant Patterns 4) Maximal effect
Ans: 2
32. All of Sigmund Freud's work depends on the notion of
1) Madness 2) Unconscious 3) Transparence 4) Projection
Ans: 2
33. Psychoanalytic criticism uses :
1) literary theories in techniques of psychoanalysis
2) historical data for the construction of the unconscious
3) some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature
4) some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the treatment of neurotic patients
Ans: 3
34. Freud divided human psyche into :
1) unconscious , anxiety and repression 2) desires and dreams 3) oedipus and electra complex 4) id , ego and super ego
Ans: 4
35. Parallel reading of literary and nonliterary texts usually of the same historical period is called
1) Sociohistorical criticism 2) Sociocultural criticism 3) New Historicism 4) Historiography
Ans: 3
36. Besides the English Renaissance Literature , New Historicists also focus on
1) Romantic poets 2) Victorian critics 3) Colonial novelists 4) Diaspora writers
Ans: 1
37. "The notion of culture as text has a further major attraction : it vastly expands the range of objects available to be read and interpreted" is said by
1) Jerome Mc Gann 2) Catherine Gallangher and Stephen Greenblatt 3) Michel Foucault 4) Clifford Geertz
Ans: 2
38. Complete the following statement.
For New Historicism ……………… are agents of history.
1) cultural texts 2) scientific texts 3) futuristic texts 4) prehistoric texts
Ans: 1
39. New Historicists firmly believe that literary texts can in fact tell us
1) something about the world outside of the text
2) nothing about the world outside the text
3) little about the world outside of the text
4) something about the inner world of the author
Ans: 1
40. Who among the following was not a University wits ?
(a) Robert Greene (b) Thomas Nashe (c) Francis Bacon (d) George Peele
Ans: C
41. In which year was The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, first published ?
(a) 1997 (b) 1998 (c) 2000 (d) 2001
Ans: A
42. Which was the first short story written by Ernest Hemingway ?
(a) Up in Michigan (b) Indian Camp (c) The End of Something (d) The Battler
Ans: A
43. Angry River is written by
(a) Hemingway (b) Karnard (c) Ruskin Bond (d) Mahesh Dattani
Ans: C
44. In which year was Guy de Maupassant born ?
(a) 1840 (b) 1845 (c) 1852 (d) 1850
Ans: D
45. Velutha is a prominent character in the novel of
(a) Hemingway (b) Ruskin Bond (c) Arundhati Roy (d) Shashi Deshpande
Ans: C
46. Which among the following novels is not a work by Shashi Deshpande ?
(a) Small Remedies (b) That Long Silence (c) Roots and Shadows (d) Nectar in a Sieve
Ans: D
47. Santiago is a character described by
(a) O’Henry (b) Hemingway (c) Ruskin Bond (d) None of these
Ans: B
48. The first printing press was introduced by
(a) Caxton (b) Milton (c) Bacon (d) Shakespeare
Ans: A
49. Who is associated with theory of Deconstruction ?
(a) Maud Badkin (b) Gayatri C. Spivak (c) Allen Tate (d) Jacques Derrida
Ans: D
50. In which year was the ‘Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’ established ?
(a) 1845 (b) 1846 (c) 1848 (d) 1849
Ans: C
(a) Robert Greene (b) Thomas Nashe (c) Francis Bacon (d) George Peele
Ans: C
41. In which year was The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, first published ?
(a) 1997 (b) 1998 (c) 2000 (d) 2001
Ans: A
42. Which was the first short story written by Ernest Hemingway ?
(a) Up in Michigan (b) Indian Camp (c) The End of Something (d) The Battler
Ans: A
43. Angry River is written by
(a) Hemingway (b) Karnard (c) Ruskin Bond (d) Mahesh Dattani
Ans: C
44. In which year was Guy de Maupassant born ?
(a) 1840 (b) 1845 (c) 1852 (d) 1850
Ans: D
45. Velutha is a prominent character in the novel of
(a) Hemingway (b) Ruskin Bond (c) Arundhati Roy (d) Shashi Deshpande
Ans: C
46. Which among the following novels is not a work by Shashi Deshpande ?
(a) Small Remedies (b) That Long Silence (c) Roots and Shadows (d) Nectar in a Sieve
Ans: D
47. Santiago is a character described by
(a) O’Henry (b) Hemingway (c) Ruskin Bond (d) None of these
Ans: B
48. The first printing press was introduced by
(a) Caxton (b) Milton (c) Bacon (d) Shakespeare
Ans: A
49. Who is associated with theory of Deconstruction ?
(a) Maud Badkin (b) Gayatri C. Spivak (c) Allen Tate (d) Jacques Derrida
Ans: D
50. In which year was the ‘Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’ established ?
(a) 1845 (b) 1846 (c) 1848 (d) 1849
Ans: C
51. In which century did the Renaissance begin in Italy ?
(a) 13th Century (b) 14th Century (c) 15th Century (d) 16th Century
Ans: B
52. Who wrote the novel The Voyage Out ?
(a) Virginia Woolf (b) E.M. Forster (c) Harold Pinter (d) Amitav Ghosh
Ans: A
53. “A form of verse adopted for singing or recitation, which presents a dramatic or exciting episode in simple narrative form” is called
(a) Ode (b) Ballad (c) Epic (d) Elegy
Ans: B
54. Heroic couplet consists :
(a) A line of verse consisting seven feet (b) A stanza of seven lines
(c) A verse line with seven syllables (d) Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs
Ans: D
55. Who pioneered heroic couplet in English ?
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer (b) William Langland
(c) John Dryden (d) John Milton
Ans: A
56. Who has written the following lines ? “’Tis more to guide than spur the Muse’s steed; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed; The winged courser, like a gen’rous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.”
(a) Chaucer (b) Donne
(c) Pope (d) Wordsworth
Ans: C
57. Shashi Deshpande won Sahitya Akademy Award for her novel :
(a) A Matter of Time (b) Roots and Shadows (c) That Long Silence (d) The Bending Vine
Ans: C
58. The term ‘ecological imperialism’ was coined by
(a) Vandana Shiva (b) Laurence Buell
(c) Paulo Freire (d) Alfred Crosby
Ans: D
59. The book Science and Poetry is written by
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) I.A. Richards (c) Thomas Hardy (d) Charles Darwin
Ans: B
60. The World My Wilderness, a novel by Rose Macaulay is categorised as
(a) Post-War novel (b) Gothic novel (c) Victorian novel (d) Wessex novel
Ans: A
61. The Pre-Raphaelite movement in literature was basically inspired by
(a) Music (b) Architecture (c) Painting (d) Politics
Ans: C
62. The Lyrical Ballads was published for the first time in the year
(a) 1798 (b) 1802 (c) 1805 (d) 1789
Ans: A
63. Who among the following is not associated with the metaphysical school of poetry ?
(a) John Donne (b) George Herbert
(c) Henry Vaughan (d) John Milton
Ans: D
64. Which novel does not come under the category of ‘Gothic Novel’ ?
(a) The Castle of Otranto (b) The Old English Baron
(c) The Italian (d) Pride and Prejudice
Ans: D
65. Whose collected poems appeared under the title “The Sceptred Flute” ?
(a) Toru Dutt (b) Sri Aurobindo
(c) Sarojini Naidu (d) A.K. Ramanujan
Ans: C
66. Choose the correct word for the expression “One who settles in another country”.
(a) Migrant (b) Immigrant (c) Native (d) Parasite
Ans: B
67. One who looks at everything from a personal point of view is known as
(a) Egocentric (b) Quixotic
(c) Sadistic (d) Complacent
Ans: A
68. The meaning of ‘modus operandi’ is
(a) The conditions of human mind (b) Work is worship
(c) The manner of operating or proceeding (d) Cause or tending to cause sleep
Ans: C
69. The synonym of “diligent” is
(a) Intelligent (b) Wise
(c) Talented (d) Hard-working
Ans: D
70. Choose the correct Antonym of ‘Captivity’ :
(a) Slavery (b) Freedom
(c) dependent (d) bondage
Ans: B
71. Write the correct meaning of the following idiom : ‘The heat of the day’
(a) a burning issue of the time (b) warm and hot day
(c) bright sunshine (d) summer season
Ans: A
72. Choose the word which is correctly spelt.
(a) Begining (b) Beginning (c) Beggining (d) Bigining
Ans: B
73. Choose the correctly spelt word.
(a) Symetrical (b) Symmetrical (c) Symatrical (d) Symmatrical
Ans: B
74. Find out an appropriate figure of speech in the following lines : “He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.”
(a) Hyperbole (b) Personification (c) Simile (d) Metaphor
Ans: C
75. “Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard around the word.” Which figure of speech has been used in the above sentence ?
(a) Metaphor (b) Simile (c) Personification (d) Hyperbole
Ans: D
76. What kind of figure of speech represents the sound it describes ?
(a) Simile (b) Onomatopoeia (c) Metaphor (d) Hyperbole
Ans: B
77. Which among the following is not an essential component of a formal letter ?
(a) Sender’s address (b) Greeting (c) Closure (d) None of these
Ans: D
78. Which of the following would be a suitable closure for the formal letter sent to a close friend ?
(a) Yours faithfully (b) Yours Sincerely (c) Warm Regards (d) None of these
Ans: C
79. Fill in the blank space from the options given below : ________ my friends knew I was getting married.
(a) Not of much (b) Not many of (c) Not much (d) Not many
Ans: B
80. Choose the correct option to complete this sentence : The government has introduced ________.
(a) a children’s clothes tax (b) a tax on children clothes (c) a children clothes tax (d) a tax on children’s clothes
Ans: D
81. Choose the correct option for completing this sentence : I still feel very tired ______ in the morning.
(a) when I wake up (b) as I wake up (c) when I will wake up (d) while I wake up
Ans: A
82. Complete the sentence by choosing right choice : The Vice-President was invited to give _______ prizes to the winners.
(a) on (b) of (c) upon (d) away
Ans: D
83. The meaning of word ‘Mitigate’ is
(a) Gruesome (b) Harmful (c) Lessen (d) Increase
Ans: C
84. Choose the correct indirect narration of the following sentence : She said to me, “What can I do for you ?”
(a) She asked me what she could do for me. (b) She asked me what can she do for me.
(c) She told me what she can do for me. (d) None of these
Ans: A
85. How many lines does the ballad meter traditionally consist ?
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 8
Ans: B
86. The meaning of word ‘Hamartia’ is
(a) Fatal Flaw (b) Discovery (c) Emotion (d) Evil
Ans: A
87. The meaning of ‘Win laurels’ is
(a) Honest person (b) Reluctantly (c) Win fame (d) To fight
Ans: C
Note : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given in the last :
“A man who has no sense of history,” Hitler declared, “is like a man who has no ears or eyes”. He himself claimed to have had a passionate interest in history since his school days and he displayed considerable familiarity with the course of European history. His conversation was studied with historical references and historical parallels. More than that Hitler’s whole cast of thought was historical, and his sense of mission was derived from his sense of history.
Like his contemporary Spengler, Hitler was fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations. He was himself born at a critical moment in European history when the liberal bourgeois world of the nineteenth century was disintegrating. What would take its place ? The future lay with the ‘Jew-Bolshevik’ ideology of the masses unless Europe could be saved by the Nazi racist ideology of the elite.
88. “A man who has no ears or eyes” is like
(a) A man having sense of history. (b) A man who has no sense of history.
(c) A man who has extra knowledge. (d) A man having passionate interest in history.
Ans: B
89. Hitler showed his familiarity with :
(a) Scientific facts (b) Indian history (c) European history (d) None of these
Ans: C
90. Hitler derived his sense of mission from
(a) His love of mankind (b) Contemporary Society (c) Religion of Past (d) His sense of history
Ans: D
91. The rise and fall of civilization fascinated
(a) Hitler (b) Scientists (c) Alexander (d) None of these
Ans: A
92. Hitler was born at a moment when
(a) the bourgeois world of 19th century was integrating. (b) everything was liberally treated.
(c) the bourgeois world of the 19th century was disintegrating. (d) None of these
Ans: C
Note : Read the following stanzas and answer the questions that follow it : Now the river is rich, but her voice is low. It is her mighty majesty the sea Travelling among the villages incognito. Now the river is poor, no song, just a thin mad whisper. The winter floods have ruined her. She squats between draggled banks, fingering her rags and rubbish.
93. Which figure of speech has been used in above lines ?
(a) Personification (b) Metonymy (c) Metaphor (d) Simile
Ans: A
94. What is the meaning of the word ‘incognito’ in the above stanza ?
(a) in full splendour (b) in flood (c) in disguise (d) silently
Ans: C
95. What is the synonym of ‘rubbish’ ?
(a) Soil (b) Sandstone (c) Useful thing (d) Garbage
Ans: D
96. A defence of Poetry is written by
(a) William Wordsworth (b) P. B. Shelley (c) John Keats (d) Lord Byron
Ans: B
97. Who had written ‘Introduction’ to Gitanjali by Tagore ?
(a) W. B. Yeats (b) Ezra Pound (c) T. S. Eliot (d) I.A. Richards
Ans: A
98. In which year was Fielding’s novel Amelia, first published ?
(a) 1749 (b) 1751 (c) 1743 (d) 1742
Ans: B
99. The English Romantic poets were influenced by
(a) Oxford Movement (b) Darwinism (c) Peasants’ movement (d) French Revolution
Ans: D
100. Who had written the novel Private Life of an Indian Prince ?
(a) R.K. Narayan (b) Raja Rao (c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) Amitav Ghosh
Ans: C
(a) 13th Century (b) 14th Century (c) 15th Century (d) 16th Century
Ans: B
52. Who wrote the novel The Voyage Out ?
(a) Virginia Woolf (b) E.M. Forster (c) Harold Pinter (d) Amitav Ghosh
Ans: A
53. “A form of verse adopted for singing or recitation, which presents a dramatic or exciting episode in simple narrative form” is called
(a) Ode (b) Ballad (c) Epic (d) Elegy
Ans: B
54. Heroic couplet consists :
(a) A line of verse consisting seven feet (b) A stanza of seven lines
(c) A verse line with seven syllables (d) Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs
Ans: D
55. Who pioneered heroic couplet in English ?
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer (b) William Langland
(c) John Dryden (d) John Milton
Ans: A
56. Who has written the following lines ? “’Tis more to guide than spur the Muse’s steed; Restrain his fury, than provoke his speed; The winged courser, like a gen’rous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.”
(a) Chaucer (b) Donne
(c) Pope (d) Wordsworth
Ans: C
57. Shashi Deshpande won Sahitya Akademy Award for her novel :
(a) A Matter of Time (b) Roots and Shadows (c) That Long Silence (d) The Bending Vine
Ans: C
58. The term ‘ecological imperialism’ was coined by
(a) Vandana Shiva (b) Laurence Buell
(c) Paulo Freire (d) Alfred Crosby
Ans: D
59. The book Science and Poetry is written by
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) I.A. Richards (c) Thomas Hardy (d) Charles Darwin
Ans: B
60. The World My Wilderness, a novel by Rose Macaulay is categorised as
(a) Post-War novel (b) Gothic novel (c) Victorian novel (d) Wessex novel
Ans: A
61. The Pre-Raphaelite movement in literature was basically inspired by
(a) Music (b) Architecture (c) Painting (d) Politics
Ans: C
62. The Lyrical Ballads was published for the first time in the year
(a) 1798 (b) 1802 (c) 1805 (d) 1789
Ans: A
63. Who among the following is not associated with the metaphysical school of poetry ?
(a) John Donne (b) George Herbert
(c) Henry Vaughan (d) John Milton
Ans: D
64. Which novel does not come under the category of ‘Gothic Novel’ ?
(a) The Castle of Otranto (b) The Old English Baron
(c) The Italian (d) Pride and Prejudice
Ans: D
65. Whose collected poems appeared under the title “The Sceptred Flute” ?
(a) Toru Dutt (b) Sri Aurobindo
(c) Sarojini Naidu (d) A.K. Ramanujan
Ans: C
66. Choose the correct word for the expression “One who settles in another country”.
(a) Migrant (b) Immigrant (c) Native (d) Parasite
Ans: B
67. One who looks at everything from a personal point of view is known as
(a) Egocentric (b) Quixotic
(c) Sadistic (d) Complacent
Ans: A
68. The meaning of ‘modus operandi’ is
(a) The conditions of human mind (b) Work is worship
(c) The manner of operating or proceeding (d) Cause or tending to cause sleep
Ans: C
69. The synonym of “diligent” is
(a) Intelligent (b) Wise
(c) Talented (d) Hard-working
Ans: D
70. Choose the correct Antonym of ‘Captivity’ :
(a) Slavery (b) Freedom
(c) dependent (d) bondage
Ans: B
71. Write the correct meaning of the following idiom : ‘The heat of the day’
(a) a burning issue of the time (b) warm and hot day
(c) bright sunshine (d) summer season
Ans: A
72. Choose the word which is correctly spelt.
(a) Begining (b) Beginning (c) Beggining (d) Bigining
Ans: B
73. Choose the correctly spelt word.
(a) Symetrical (b) Symmetrical (c) Symatrical (d) Symmatrical
Ans: B
74. Find out an appropriate figure of speech in the following lines : “He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.”
(a) Hyperbole (b) Personification (c) Simile (d) Metaphor
Ans: C
75. “Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard around the word.” Which figure of speech has been used in the above sentence ?
(a) Metaphor (b) Simile (c) Personification (d) Hyperbole
Ans: D
76. What kind of figure of speech represents the sound it describes ?
(a) Simile (b) Onomatopoeia (c) Metaphor (d) Hyperbole
Ans: B
77. Which among the following is not an essential component of a formal letter ?
(a) Sender’s address (b) Greeting (c) Closure (d) None of these
Ans: D
78. Which of the following would be a suitable closure for the formal letter sent to a close friend ?
(a) Yours faithfully (b) Yours Sincerely (c) Warm Regards (d) None of these
Ans: C
79. Fill in the blank space from the options given below : ________ my friends knew I was getting married.
(a) Not of much (b) Not many of (c) Not much (d) Not many
Ans: B
80. Choose the correct option to complete this sentence : The government has introduced ________.
(a) a children’s clothes tax (b) a tax on children clothes (c) a children clothes tax (d) a tax on children’s clothes
Ans: D
81. Choose the correct option for completing this sentence : I still feel very tired ______ in the morning.
(a) when I wake up (b) as I wake up (c) when I will wake up (d) while I wake up
Ans: A
82. Complete the sentence by choosing right choice : The Vice-President was invited to give _______ prizes to the winners.
(a) on (b) of (c) upon (d) away
Ans: D
83. The meaning of word ‘Mitigate’ is
(a) Gruesome (b) Harmful (c) Lessen (d) Increase
Ans: C
84. Choose the correct indirect narration of the following sentence : She said to me, “What can I do for you ?”
(a) She asked me what she could do for me. (b) She asked me what can she do for me.
(c) She told me what she can do for me. (d) None of these
Ans: A
85. How many lines does the ballad meter traditionally consist ?
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 8
Ans: B
86. The meaning of word ‘Hamartia’ is
(a) Fatal Flaw (b) Discovery (c) Emotion (d) Evil
Ans: A
87. The meaning of ‘Win laurels’ is
(a) Honest person (b) Reluctantly (c) Win fame (d) To fight
Ans: C
Note : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given in the last :
“A man who has no sense of history,” Hitler declared, “is like a man who has no ears or eyes”. He himself claimed to have had a passionate interest in history since his school days and he displayed considerable familiarity with the course of European history. His conversation was studied with historical references and historical parallels. More than that Hitler’s whole cast of thought was historical, and his sense of mission was derived from his sense of history.
Like his contemporary Spengler, Hitler was fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations. He was himself born at a critical moment in European history when the liberal bourgeois world of the nineteenth century was disintegrating. What would take its place ? The future lay with the ‘Jew-Bolshevik’ ideology of the masses unless Europe could be saved by the Nazi racist ideology of the elite.
88. “A man who has no ears or eyes” is like
(a) A man having sense of history. (b) A man who has no sense of history.
(c) A man who has extra knowledge. (d) A man having passionate interest in history.
Ans: B
89. Hitler showed his familiarity with :
(a) Scientific facts (b) Indian history (c) European history (d) None of these
Ans: C
90. Hitler derived his sense of mission from
(a) His love of mankind (b) Contemporary Society (c) Religion of Past (d) His sense of history
Ans: D
91. The rise and fall of civilization fascinated
(a) Hitler (b) Scientists (c) Alexander (d) None of these
Ans: A
92. Hitler was born at a moment when
(a) the bourgeois world of 19th century was integrating. (b) everything was liberally treated.
(c) the bourgeois world of the 19th century was disintegrating. (d) None of these
Ans: C
Note : Read the following stanzas and answer the questions that follow it : Now the river is rich, but her voice is low. It is her mighty majesty the sea Travelling among the villages incognito. Now the river is poor, no song, just a thin mad whisper. The winter floods have ruined her. She squats between draggled banks, fingering her rags and rubbish.
93. Which figure of speech has been used in above lines ?
(a) Personification (b) Metonymy (c) Metaphor (d) Simile
Ans: A
94. What is the meaning of the word ‘incognito’ in the above stanza ?
(a) in full splendour (b) in flood (c) in disguise (d) silently
Ans: C
95. What is the synonym of ‘rubbish’ ?
(a) Soil (b) Sandstone (c) Useful thing (d) Garbage
Ans: D
96. A defence of Poetry is written by
(a) William Wordsworth (b) P. B. Shelley (c) John Keats (d) Lord Byron
Ans: B
97. Who had written ‘Introduction’ to Gitanjali by Tagore ?
(a) W. B. Yeats (b) Ezra Pound (c) T. S. Eliot (d) I.A. Richards
Ans: A
98. In which year was Fielding’s novel Amelia, first published ?
(a) 1749 (b) 1751 (c) 1743 (d) 1742
Ans: B
99. The English Romantic poets were influenced by
(a) Oxford Movement (b) Darwinism (c) Peasants’ movement (d) French Revolution
Ans: D
100. Who had written the novel Private Life of an Indian Prince ?
(a) R.K. Narayan (b) Raja Rao (c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) Amitav Ghosh
Ans: C
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