ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 21

1. Which of the following is not written by John Keats ?
(a) Ode to Autumn (b) The Eve of St. Agnes
(c) The Fall of Hyperion, A Dream (d) Adonais
Ans: D

2. Who succeeded Wordsworth as the poet Laureate in 1850 ?
(a) Matthew Arnold (b) Lord Tennyson
(c) Cardinal Newman (d) Robert Browning
Ans: B

3. The term ‘Negative Capability’ is associated with
(a) Wordsworth (b) T.S. Eliot
(c) John Keats (d) Shelley
Ans: C

4. “Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.” Who wrote these lines ?
(a) T.S. Eliot (b) John Keats
(c) Wordsworth (d) Tennyson
Ans: A

5. Who is the author of the poem ‘Sohrab and Rustam’ ?
(a) R.N. Tagore (b) Matthew Arnold
(c) Raja Rao (d) Arvind Adiga
Ans: B

6. Which of the following is not a poem by Kamala Das ?
(a) The Freaks (b) My Grandmother’s House (c) Tejuri (d) A Hot Noon in Malabay
Ans: C

7. Which of the following poems of Wordsworth has the subtitle “Growth of Poet’s Mind” ?
(a) Tintern Abbey (b) The Prelude
(c) Ode on Intimation of Immortality (d) Laodamia
Ans: B

8. In which collection of Robert Frost “Birches” was published ?
(a) A Boy’s Will (b) North of Boston (c) Mountain Interval (d) A Farther Range
Ans: C

9. Which of the following works does not belong to Sarojini Naidu ?
(a) The Temple (b) The Golden Threshold
(c) The Broken Wing (d) The Bird of Time
Ans: A

10. Which of the following poem has been written by Stephen Spender ?
(a) A Spring Wind (b) Prayer Before Birth
(c) To My Daughter (d) Ego
Ans: C

11. To which century did Charles Lamb belong ?
(a) 16th Century (b) 18th Century (c) 19th Century (d) 20th Century
Ans: C

12. What was the pen name of A.G. Gardiner ?
(a) H.H. (b) O’Henry (c) Elia (d) Alpha of the Plough
Ans: D

13. From whom did Francis Bacon drive his concept of essay ?
(a) Thomas Nashe (b) Montaigne
(c) Sidney (d) John Lily
Ans: B

14. Which of the following is not a work of William Hazlitt ?
(a) The Plain Speaker (b) Tales from Shakespeare (c) Table Talk (d) The Round Table
Ans: B

15. Which of the following belongs to A.G. Gardiner ?
(a) The Essays of Elia (b) Sketches and Essays (c) Pillars of Society (d) Wit and Humour
Ans: C

16. Train to Pakistan is written by
(a) Khushwant Singh (b) M.K. Gandhi (c) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (d) None of these
Ans: A

17. That Long Silence is a work by
(a) Khushwant Singh (b) Shashi Deshpande (c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Ans: B

18. Bertrand Russel was born in the year
(a) 1885 (b) 1890 (c) 1857 (d) 1872
Ans: D

19. A History of Western philosophy was written by
(a) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (b) M.K. Gandhi (c) Bertrand Russel (d) T.S. Eliot
Ans: C

20. Wings of Fire is an
(a) Autobiography (b) Analytical poem (c) Anthology of poems (d) None of these
Ans: A

21. A Room of One’s Own was written by
(a) Ruskin Bond (b) Virginia Woolf (c) William Hazlitt (d) Arundhati Roy
Ans: B

22. Who has created the famous character ‘Rosie’ in his novel ?
(a) Raja Rao (b) R.K. Narayan (c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) Amitav Ghosh
Ans: B

23. In which year was Arvind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger awarded the Man Booker Prize ?
(a) 2007 (b) 2008 (c) 2009 (d) 2010
Ans: B

24. Who among the following novelists has written about the opium war ?
(a) Arvind Adiga (b) Raja Rao (c) Shashi Tharoor (d) Amitav Ghosh
Ans: D

25. Which among the following was a novel written by Henry Fielding ?
(a) Tom Jones (b) Evelina (c) Camilla (d) The Wanderer
Ans: A

26. Which was the first published novel of Thomas Hardy ?
(a) Under the Greenwood Tree (b) Desperate Remedies
(c) A Pair of Blue Eyes (d) Far From the Madding Crowd
Ans: B

27. Who among the following novelists began his literary career as a dramatist ?
(a) Henry Fielding (b) Samuel Richardson (c) Thomas Hardy (d) Lawrence Sterne
Ans: A

28. When was E.M. Forster’s novel, A Passage to India first published ?
(a) 1910 (b) 1905
(c) 1915 (d) 1924
Ans: D

29. Which of the following is not a work of Amitav Ghosh ?
(a) The Hungry Tide (b) The Circle of Reason
(c) Last Man in Tower (d) The Shadow Lines
Ans: C

30. In which of the following plays of Bernard Shaw, Marchbanks appears as a character ?
(a) Man and Superman (b) Candida (c) Getting Married (d) The Doctor’s Dilemma
Ans: B

31. “There is a soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distill it out.” Who has written it ?
(a) Ben Jonson (b) Christopher Marlowe (c) William Shakespeare (d) G.B. Shaw
Ans: C

32. Name the play in which Shakespeare had written : “It is a tale told by an idiot, Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
(a) Hamlet (b) King Lear (c) Othello (d) Macbeth
Ans: D

33. Who translated Vijay Tendulkar’s Shantata ! Court Chalu Ahe into English as Silence ! The Court is in Session ?
(a) Priya Adarkar (b) Badar Sircar (c) Mohan Rakesh (d) Vijay Tendulkar
Ans: A

34. Which of the following was the first play by Harold Pinter ?
(a) The Room (b) The Birthday Party (c) The Caretaker (d) Lover
Ans: A

35. In which year was Chitra, the famous play by R. N. Tagore, first published ?
(a) 1911 (b) 1912 (c) 1913 (d) 1915
Ans: C

36. When was Mahesh Dattani’s play Dance Like a Man first performed ?
(a) 1985 (b) 1988 (c) 1989 (d) 1991
Ans: C

37. In which year did the first folio of Shakespeare’s plays appear ?
(a) 1620 (b) 1622 (c) 1623 (d) 1632
Ans: C

38. Who said about Shakespeare that he knew ‘Small Latin and Less Greek’ ?
(a) Robert Greene (b) Thomas Kud (c) Dr. Samuel Johnson (d) Ben Jonson
Ans: D

39. In the play The Tempest, Prospero is the Duke of
(a) Milan (b) Kent (c) Edinburgh (d) Naples
Ans: A

40. Which of the following statements about ‘polyglossia’ are true?
1. It is a term generally associated with the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
2. The term is extensively used to indicate the core meaning of a text.
3. The term indicates the multiple voices present in the novel form.
4. The term is only used in linguistics and not in any other form of literary criticism.
5. The term is also related to the idea of ‘dialogism’
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are true.
(B) 3, 4 and 5 are true
(C) 1, 3 and 5 are true.
(D) 2, 4 and 5 are true.
Ans: C

41. An example of important Freudian terminology is the ‘dream work’, the process by which real events or desires are transformed into dream images. The twin strategies that go together in a dream work are displacement and
(A) transference (B) condensation
(C) projection (D) death principle
Ans: B

42. Arrange the following in chronological order:
1. Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
2. Invention of printing press by Johannes Gutenberg
3. Wordsworth’s Preface to lyrical Ballads
4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
(A) 2, 3, 4, 1
(B) 2, 4, 3, 1
(C) 3, 4, 2, 1
(D) 1, 2, 4, 3
Ans: B

43. Which of the following is not a screenplay by Bertold Brecht?
(A) Baal (B) A Respectable Wedding
(C) The Mother (D) Jumpers
Ans: D

44. Name the ecclesiastical character of Chaucer:
1. Who has a face red like a ‘cherubinne’.
2. Children are afraid of his appearance.
3. He is hot and lustful like a sparrow.
4. When drunk, he utters no word, except Latin, of which he knows a few terms picked up from a legal document.
5. He has a garland on his head as large as an ‘ale-stake’.
(A) Summoner
(B) Pardoner
(C) Monk
(D) Friar
Ans: A

45. Assertion (A): In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo must take his family into exile for seven years in order to atone. He gathers his most valuable belongings and takes his family to his mother’s natal village, Mbanta.
Reason (R): During Ezendu’s large and elaborate funeral Okonkwo quarrels with Ogbuefi and kills him.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true; (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true; but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true
Ans: C

46. Assertion (A): In Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel, Lakunle is courteous towards Sidi and helps her by carrying water, though in Nigeria carrying water is traditionally a woman’s task.
Reason (R): Lakunle tries to emulate European culture by adopting English ways, habits, proverbs, books etc.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true; (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true; but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but(R) is true
Ans: A

47. In one of the novels by Robertson Davies the whole story is told in the form of a letter written by the protagonist on his retirement from teaching at Colborne College, addressed to the school Headmaster. Identify the novel.
(A) Fifth Business
(B) The Cunning Man
(C) A Mixture of Frailties
(D) World of Wonders
Ans: A

48. “ ‘The Bottoms’ succeeded to ‘Hell Row’ Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brook side on Greenhill Lane. There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away. The brook ran under the alder-trees, scarcely soiled by these small mines, whose coal was drawn to the surface by donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle round the gin.” These are the opening lines of the novel:
(A) Oliver Twist (B) Sons and Lovers
(C) Nicholas Nickleby (D) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Ans: B

49. This style of writing is a genre of narrative fiction that had its origins in German Expressionist art of the early twentieth-century. It presents primarily a realistic view of the world but presents them in a fabular and fantastic manner often making them dreamlike and fabulous. It is called
(A) Magic Realism (B) Fabular Realism
(C) Fabulism (D) Dream realism
Ans: A

50. Who among the following is not an Amatory fiction writer?
(A) James Sterling (B) Eliza Haywood
(C) Delarivier Manley (D) Aphra Behn
Ans: A

51. Nimi is the wife of a judge in a novel authored by:
(A) Aravind Adiga (B) Bhabani Bhattacharya
(C) Namita Gokhle (D) Kiran Desai
Ans: D

52. Match the poems with their authors
Titles Authors
1. “Men who March Away” a. Laurence Housman
2. “Carrion Comfort’” b. W B Yeats
3. “Annus Mirabilis” c. Thomas Hardy
4. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” d. Gerard Manley Hopkins
(A) 1-b; 2-c; 3-a; 4-d
(B) 1-c; 2-d; 3-a; 4-b
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-a; 4-b
(D) 1-a; 2-c; 3-d; 4-b
Ans: B

53. Find the odd one out from the works of Salman Rushdie:
1. The Moor’s Last Sigh
2. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
3. Joseph Anton
4. Fury
(A) 2 - Travelogue (others are novels)
(B) 3 - Memoir (others are novels)
(C) 1 - Short Story Collection (others are novels)
(D) 4 - Children’s Book (others are novels)
Ans: B

54. Which of the following is not a partition novel?
(A) A Fine Family (B) The Dark Dancer
(C) A Bend in the Ganges (D) The Foreigner
Ans: D

55. Match the authors with their pen names:
Pen-Name    Real Name
1. Nirala a. Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
2.Ajneya b. Mary Ann Evans
3. George Elliot c. Suryakant Tripathi
4. J. I. Vatanen d.Algot Untola
(A) 1-b; 2-c; 3-a; 4-d
(B) 1-a; 2-c; 3-d; 4-b
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-b; 4-a
(D) 1-c; 2-a; 3-b; 4-d
Ans: D

56. “They call her a young country, but they lie:
She is the last of lands, the emptiest,
A woman beyond her change of life, a breast
Still tender but within the womb is dry.”
Which country has been described in these lines by the poet?
(A) America (B) Australia
(C) Great Britain (D) India
Ans: B

57. The communication effect of the speed, pitch, volume, and connectivity of spoken words is called ________ .
(A) Kinesics (B) Proxemics
(C) Paralanguage (D) Gesture language
Ans: C

58. Match the categories with communication barriers:
Categories             Barriers
1. Intrapersonal a. Limited vocabulary
2. Interpersonal b. Information overload
3. Organizational c. Varied perceptions
(A) 1-b; 2-c; 3-a
(B) 1-c; 2-a; 3-b
(C) 1-a; 2-c; 3-b
(D) 1-a; 2-b; 3-c
Ans: B

59. “This seemed to be both due to his idealism as well as the shortcomings within him, such as his impatience, his cruelty, his feeling that he had only correct answer. And I felt in the early sixties India had also come far in the same direction—the twenty-year period seemed to me very much a striking parallel.”
Girish Karnad makes this comparison between the plot of one of his plays and the state of affairs in early sixties in India.
Identify the play.
(A) Tughlaq (B) Naga-Mandala
(C) Dreams of Tipu Sultan (D) Hayavadana
Ans: A

60. During the early stage of the development of English drama, a series of plays were written “in which the characters represent abstract qualities. At first sight this seems rather a dull method of drama, but the abstract qualities are given very lively human features.’’ Identify the plays:
(A) Miracles (B) Morality plays
(C) Interludes (D) Mystery plays
Ans: B

61. The following are the first lines of well-known works. Match the lines with the works.
Lines Works
1. Hence loathed Melancholy a. To Autumn
2. Strange fits of passion have I known b. Rabbi Ben Ezra
3. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness c. Lucy
4. Grow old along with me d. L’allegro
(A) 1-b; 2-c; 3-a; 4-d
(B) 1-d; 2-c; 3-a; 4-b
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-b; 4-a
(D) 1-a; 2-b; 3-d; 4-c
Ans: B

62. Which of the following cannot be called a Senecan tragedy?
(A) Hercules (B) Medea (C) Oedipus (D) Lysistrata
Ans: D

63. In one of her celebrated essays, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak begins with “Some of the most radical criticism coming out of the West today is the result of an interested desire to conserve the subject of the West, or the West as subject”. The essay is titled
(A) “Theory in the Margin”
(B) “Can the subaltern speak?”
(C) “Feminism and Critical Theory”
(D) “Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing historiography”
Ans: B

64. Match the titles of the critical works with their authors:
Critical works    Authors
1. Critical Approaches to Literature a. Simone de Beauvoir
2. The Rhetoric of Fiction b. Ernest Jones
3. Hamlet and Oedipus c. David Daiches
4. The Second Sex d. Wayne Booth
(A) 1-b; 2-c; 3-a; 4-d
(B) 1-c; 2-d; 3-b; 4-a
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-b; 4-a
(D) 1-a; 2-c; 3-d; 4-b
Ans: B

65. One of O Henry’s story ends with these lines. “But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the ________”
Supply the missing word.
(A) Wisest (B) Best
(C) Gems (D) Magi
Ans: D

66. One of Katherine Mansfield’s famous stories echoes these lines from King Lear: “As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ Gods./ They kill us for their sport.”
Identify the story.
(A) “Bliss” (B) “The Garden Party”
(C) “The fly” (D) “Something Childish”
Ans: C

67. The Times Literary Supplement is a ________ literary review published in London.
(A) Daily (B) Weekly (C) Bi-monthly (D) Monthly
Ans: B

68. Who has criticized Shakespeare’s art of characterization asserting that Shakespeare “is lacking in the chief, if not the sole, means of portraying character, which is individuality of language— that each person should speak in a way suitable to his own character.” “The words of one can be put in the mouth of another, and by the character of the speech it is impossible to know who is speaking”?
(A) Dr Johnson (B) T S Eliot
(C) Tolstoy (D) G Wilson Knight
Ans: C

69. The protagonist of D H Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers is often associated with the hero of a famous play by
(A) Aeschylus (B) Euripides (C) Sophocles (D) Aristophanes
Ans: C

70. Match the critics with the theories they are associated with:
Critics        Theories
1. Boris Eichenbaum a. Gender Studies
2. Margaret Mahler b. Marxism
3. Gayle Rubin c. Formalism
4. Louis Althusser d. Psychoanalysis
(A) 1-b; 2-d; 3-a; 4-c
(B) 1-c; 2-d; 3-a; 4-b
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-b; 4-a
(D) 1-a; 2-c; 3-b; 4-d
Ans: B

71. Which of the following is not a memoir?
(A) The Liars’ Club (B) The Class Castle (C) Girl, Interrupted (D) Of Thee I Sing
Ans: D

72. Barack Obama has written a memoir which is the story of Race and Inheritance and explores the events of his early years till his entry into law school in 1988.
Identify the title of the book.
(A) Dreams from My Father (B) The Audacity of Hope
(C) Words that Changed a Nation (D) Our Enduring Spirit
Ans: A

73. “The book was impossible to lay aside, once I had begun it. It gripped me. Johannesburg to Durban was a twenty-four hours’ journey. The train reached there in the evening. I could not get any sleep that night. I determined to change my life in accordance with the ideals of the book.”
The author, M.K. Gandhi, talks about which book here?
(A) Sartor Resartus (B) Capital (C) Things Fall Apart (D) Unto This Last
Ans: D

74. Elaine Showalter describes four current models of difference taken up by many feminists around the world: biological, ________ , psychoanalytic and cultural.
(A) religious (B) sociological (C) linguistic (D) ethnical
Ans: C

75. The predominant tone and thrust of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis is
(A) Comic (B) Religious (C) Tragic (D) Solemn
Ans: A

76. Match the illegitimately born characters with the works in which they occur:
Characters              Works
1. Edmund a. Bleak House
2. Harriet Smith b.King Lear
3. Esther Summerson c. The Sound and the Fury
4. Miss Quentin d. Emma
(A) 1-b; 2-d; 3-a; 4-c (B) 1-c; 2-b; 3-a; 4-d
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-b; 4-a (D) 1-a; 2-c; 3-d; 4-b
Ans: A

77. Which poem of Thomas Hardy was written on the theme of the death of the old world without properly being replaced by a new one?
(A) “The Darkling Thrush”
(B) “A Commonplace Day”
(C) “A Meeting With Despair”
(D) “After a Journey”
Ans: A

78. Match the titles and sub-titles
Titles    Subtitles
1. Twelfth Night a. A Romance of Exmoor
2. Frankenstein b. Stories from the Grave
3. On the Day I Died c. What You Will
4. Lorna Doone d. The Modern Prometheus
(A) 1-a; 2-d; 3-b; 4-c
(B) 1-c; 2-a; 3-d; 4-b
(C) 1-b; 2-c; 3-d; 4-a
(D) 1-c; 2-d; 3-b; 4-a
Ans: D

79. “Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility”, is a famous remark by;
(A) Dr Johnson (B) T S Eliot
(C) Harold Bloom (D) F R Leavis
Ans: B

80. Match the critics with the books:
Critics          Books
1. Lentricchia Frank a. Revolution in Poetic language
2. Sigmund Freud b. After the New Criticism
3. Kate Millet c. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
4. Julia Kristeva d. Sexual Politics
(A) 1-b; 2-c; 3-d; 4-a (B) 1-c; 2-d; 3-a; 4-b
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-b; 4-a (D) 1-a; 2-c; 3-b; 4-d
Ans: A

81. “But I speak to this purpose, that all the end of comical part be not upon such scornful matters as stir laughter only, but, mixed with it, that delightful teaching which is the end of all poetry.” Who comments thus on the purpose of comedy?
(A) Aristotle (B) Longinus (C) Sidney (D) Ben Jonson
Ans: C

82. Which of the following statements about John Donne are true?
1. His father died when Donne was hardly four and his mother remarried within six months.
2. Was briefly imprisoned in 1602.
3. Was denied degree in law for not taking the oath of supremacy.
4. Was granted an Honorary Master’s degree by Oxford University in 1610.
5. Was ordained as a Priest in Catholic Church in 1615.
6. Was appointed Dean of St Paul’s in 1621.
(A) 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are true (B) 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 are true
(C) 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are true (D) 1, 3, 4, and 5 are true
Ans: B

83. Consider the following statements about Stylistics.
1. It is a branch of applied linguistics concerned with the study of style in texts.
2. Its aim is demystification of both literature and language.
3. Stylistics suggests new interpretations of literary works based on thematic evidence.
4. It attempts to establish general points about how literary meanings are made.
(A) 1, 2 and 4 are correct (B) 1, 2 and 3 are correct (C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct (D) All are correct
Ans: A

84. “Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love” is an example of
(A) Antithesis (B) Bathos (C) Chiasmus (D) Epiphany
Ans: C

85. A rhetorical device which contains an accumulation of definitions, or repetition by definition is called:
(A) Syzygy (B) Parataxis (C) Systrophe (D) Paradiastole
Ans: C

86. Whose poetry does Robert Buchanan consider to be “fleshy”?
(A) Rossetti, Swinburne, and Arnold (B) Hardy, William Morris, and Swinburne
(C) William Morris, Ruskin, and Rossetti (D) Swinburne, Rossetti, and William Morris
Ans: D

87. Vladimir Propp in his book The Morphology of the Folktale, studies a hundred tales and concludes that these tales are constructed by thirty-one functions, He also talks of seven ‘spheres of action’, some of them are:
1. The villain 2. The donor 3. The writer 4. The princess 5. The dispatcher 6. The hero 7. The heroine
(A) 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 are correct (B) 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 are correct
(C) 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 are correct (D) 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 are correct
Ans: C

88. Who is the author of On Poetic Language?
(A) Mark Schorer (B) W K Wimsatt (C) John Crowe Ransom (D) Jan Mukarovsky
Ans: D

89. Assertion (A): In Kalidasa’s Abhijnanasakuntalam Dushyanta is rewarded by Indra with a journey through the Hindu heaven. Returned to Earth years later, Dushyanta finds Shakuntala and their son by chance, and recognizes them.
Reason (R): Dushyanta defeats the army of Durvasa who has cursed Shakuntala.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true; (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true; but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
Ans: C

90. The language of an official letter should be:
(A) Direct, abstract and informal (B) Concrete, verbose and formal
(C) Formal, direct and concrete (D) Formal, abstract and direct
Ans: C

91. “Men, in general employ their reason to justify their inherited prejudice against women, rather than to understand them”, is a famous comment by:
(A) Mary Woolstonecraft (B) Simone de Beauvoir (C) Virginia Woolf (D) Elaine Showalter
Ans: A

92. Arrange the following elements of an official letter in proper order:
1. Date 2. Signature 3. Body 4. Identification mark 5. Complimentary close 6. Subject 7. Heading 8. Enclosure
(A) 7, 1, 4, 6, 3, 2, 5, 8 (B) 7, 6, 4, 2, 3, 5, 1, 8 (C) 4, 7, 6, 1, 3, 5, 8, 2 (D) 7, 1, 6, 3, 5, 2, 4, 8
Ans: D

93. This is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the market of Tangiers and into the Egyptian desert.
Name the title of the book.
(A) The Old Man and the Sea (B) Red Midnight
(C) The Alchemist (D) On the Road
Ans: C

94. Assertion (A): In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus and Jocasta rejoice as they are convinced that Oedipus has not murdered his father and slept with his mother.
Reason (R): A messenger approaches Jocasta and tells her that he has come from Corinth to inform Oedipus that Polybus is dead and Oedipus is to rule in his place.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true; (R) is the correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true; but (R) is not the correct explanation.
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
Ans: A

95. “None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for instruction, retire harassed and overburdened, and look elsewhere for recreation; we desert our master, and seek for companions.”
This is a critique of ________ by Dr Johnson.
(A) Lycidas (B) Samson Agonistes (C) Paradise Lost (D) Counts
Ans: C

96. Arrange the following in chronological order. Identify the correct code:
1. Between the Assassinations 2. Last Man in Tower 3. The White Tiger 4. Selection Day
(A) 3, 1, 2, 4 (B) 2, 3, 4, 1 (C) 3, 4, 1, 2 (D) 1, 3, 2, 4
Ans: A

97. “If Jonson’s learned sock be on, / or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy’s child, / Warble his native wood-notes wild,” are oft quoted lines from the poem:
(A) “L’allegro” (B) “Il Penseroso” (C) “Lycidas” (D) “Essay on Man”
Ans: A

98. Which of the following works cannot be categorized under Mythological and Archetypal Theory?
(A) Death of a Woman (B) The Masks of God (C) Euripides and his Age (D) The Second Sex
Ans: D

99. Henry James called ________ “the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest” of Hawthorne’s “unhumorous fictions”.
(A) The Scarlett Letter (B) The Blithdale Romance (C) The House of Seven Gables (D) The Birth Mark
Ans: B

100. The Epilogue of As You Like It is spoken by:
(A) Duke (B) Rosalind (C) Touchstone (D) Celia
Ans: B

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