ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 22
1. 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.
2. 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
3. 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
4. Which of the following is not a screenplay by Bertold Brecht?
(A) Baal (B) A Respectable Wedding (C) The Mother (D) Jumpers
5. “ ‘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
6. 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
7. Who among the following is not an Amatory fiction writer?
(A) James Sterling (B) Eliza Haywood (C) Delarivier Manley (D) Aphra Behn
8. Nimi is the wife of a judge in a novel authored by:
(A) Aravind Adiga (B) Bhabani Bhattacharya
(C) Namita Gokhle (D) Kiran Desai
9. 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
10. 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”
11. 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
12. “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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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)
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. The predominant tone and thrust of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis is
(A) Comic (B) Religious (C) Tragic (D) Solemn
23. 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
24. “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
25. 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”
26. 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
27. Which of the following is not a memoir?
(A) The Liars’ Club (B) The Class Castle (C) Girl, Interrupted (D) Of Thee I Sing
28. 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
29. “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
30. 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
31. “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
32. 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
33. 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
34. “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
35. 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
36. The communication effect of the speed, pitch, volume, and connectivity of spoken words is called ________ .
(A) Kinesics (B) Proxemics (C) Paralanguage (D) Gesture language
37. 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
38. “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
39. 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
40. 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
41. Which of the following cannot be called a Senecan tragedy?
(A) Hercules (B) Medea (C) Oedipus (D) Lysistrata
42. 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
43. “Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love” is an example of
(A) Antithesis (B) Bathos (C) Chiasmus (D) Epiphany
44. A rhetorical device which contains an accumulation of definitions, or repetition by definition is called:
(A) Syzygy (B) Parataxis (C) Systrophe (D) Paradiastole
45. 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
46. 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
47. Who is the author of On Poetic Language?
(A) Mark Schorer (B) W K Wimsatt (C) John Crowe Ransom (D) Jan Mukarovsky
48. 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.
49. 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.
50. Match the writers with the travelogues:
Writers Travelogues
1. Joshua Slocum a. The Sindbad Voyage
2. Tim Severin b. My First Summer in Sierra
3. Mark Twain c. Sailing Alone Around the World
4. John Muir d. A Tramp Abroad
(A) 1-b; 2-c; 3-a; 4-d (B) 1-c; 2-a; 3-d; 4-b
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-b; 4-a (D) 1-b; 2-c; 3-d; 4-a
Answer Key:
1 C
2 B
3 B
4 D
5 B
6 A
7 A
8 D
9 B
10 A
11 D
12 B
13 C
14 A
15 C
16 A
17 A
18 B
19 D
20 D
21 C
22 A
23 A
24 B
25 B
26 B
27 D
28 A
29 D
30 A
31 C
32 B
33 C
34 A
35 D
36 C
37 B
38 A
39 B
40 B
41 D
42 A
43 C
44 C
45 D
46 C
47 D
48 C
49 A
50 B
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.
2. 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
3. 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
4. Which of the following is not a screenplay by Bertold Brecht?
(A) Baal (B) A Respectable Wedding (C) The Mother (D) Jumpers
5. “ ‘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
6. 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
7. Who among the following is not an Amatory fiction writer?
(A) James Sterling (B) Eliza Haywood (C) Delarivier Manley (D) Aphra Behn
8. Nimi is the wife of a judge in a novel authored by:
(A) Aravind Adiga (B) Bhabani Bhattacharya
(C) Namita Gokhle (D) Kiran Desai
9. 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
10. 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”
11. 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
12. “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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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)
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. The predominant tone and thrust of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis is
(A) Comic (B) Religious (C) Tragic (D) Solemn
23. 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
24. “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
25. 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”
26. 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
27. Which of the following is not a memoir?
(A) The Liars’ Club (B) The Class Castle (C) Girl, Interrupted (D) Of Thee I Sing
28. 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
29. “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
30. 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
31. “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
32. 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
33. 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
34. “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
35. 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
36. The communication effect of the speed, pitch, volume, and connectivity of spoken words is called ________ .
(A) Kinesics (B) Proxemics (C) Paralanguage (D) Gesture language
37. 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
38. “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
39. 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
40. 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
41. Which of the following cannot be called a Senecan tragedy?
(A) Hercules (B) Medea (C) Oedipus (D) Lysistrata
42. 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
43. “Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love” is an example of
(A) Antithesis (B) Bathos (C) Chiasmus (D) Epiphany
44. A rhetorical device which contains an accumulation of definitions, or repetition by definition is called:
(A) Syzygy (B) Parataxis (C) Systrophe (D) Paradiastole
45. 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
46. 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
47. Who is the author of On Poetic Language?
(A) Mark Schorer (B) W K Wimsatt (C) John Crowe Ransom (D) Jan Mukarovsky
48. 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.
49. 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.
50. Match the writers with the travelogues:
Writers Travelogues
1. Joshua Slocum a. The Sindbad Voyage
2. Tim Severin b. My First Summer in Sierra
3. Mark Twain c. Sailing Alone Around the World
4. John Muir d. A Tramp Abroad
(A) 1-b; 2-c; 3-a; 4-d (B) 1-c; 2-a; 3-d; 4-b
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-b; 4-a (D) 1-b; 2-c; 3-d; 4-a
Answer Key:
1 C
2 B
3 B
4 D
5 B
6 A
7 A
8 D
9 B
10 A
11 D
12 B
13 C
14 A
15 C
16 A
17 A
18 B
19 D
20 D
21 C
22 A
23 A
24 B
25 B
26 B
27 D
28 A
29 D
30 A
31 C
32 B
33 C
34 A
35 D
36 C
37 B
38 A
39 B
40 B
41 D
42 A
43 C
44 C
45 D
46 C
47 D
48 C
49 A
50 B
51. “But while the language became more refined, the feeling became more crude. The feeling, the ______, expressed in the ______ is cruder than that in the Coy Mistress” -- T S Eliot
(A) emotions, Rape of the Lock (B) sensibility, Country Churchyard
(C) sensibility, Rape of the Lock (D) emotions, Annus Mirabilis
52. ‘Monodrama’ is a theatrical entertainment which has only one:
(A) Act (B) Scene (C) Character (D) All of the above
53. Who of the following is not a character in Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist?
(A) Isabel (B) Mehring (C) Jacobus (D) Terry
54. Dickens changed the ending of one of his novels at the suggestion of a friend, the novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton. Identify the novel. (A) Oliver Twist (B) Bleak House (C) Tom Jones (D) Great Expectations
55. “When my grave is broke up againe Some second guest to entertaine, (For graves have learn’d that women-head to be to more than one a bed)’” These lines occur in the poem:
(A) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (B) “The Scholar Gipsy” (C) “Funerall” (D) “The Relique”
56. “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
57. 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
58. “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”
59. 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
60. 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
61. The Epilogue of As You Like It is spoken by: (A) Duke (B) Rosalind (C) Touchstone (D) Celia
62. In Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist is shipwrecked and reaches on the shore of an island which he calls the Island of ________ (A) Despondency (B) Misery (C) Despair (D) Misfortune
63. The word “still” in “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness”, in “Ode to a Grecian Urn” is an instance of:
(A) Ambiguity (B) Entelechy (C) Epiphany (D) Reflection
64. The play was originally written in French. It was first performed in 1953. It was translated into English by the author himself. The English language version was premiered in London in 1955. In a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre it was voted the “Most significant English language play of the 20th century’’. Identify the play.
(A) Trapped by Fear (B) The State of Siege (C) The Just Assassins (D) Waiting for Godot
65. Identify the author who did not commit suicide.
(A) John Suckling (B) Virginia Woolf (C) John O’Brien (D) T E Hulme
66. Which one of the following works by Tom Stoppard is a novel?
(A) Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (B) Rosenerantz and Guildenstern are Dead (C) Arcadia (D) Shakespeare in Love
67. The first full melodrama was Pygmalion, it was written by:
(A) Georg Benda (B) Beethoven (C) Jacques Offenbach (D) Jean Jacques Rousseau
68. What is the figure of speech in the line “O for the touch of a vanished hand” by Tennyson?
(A) Metonymy (B) Anaphora (C) Paradox (D) Pun
69. During the course of language learning, after initial progress, at times, a learner seems to make no significant progress and there is a sort of “temporary fossilization”. The language teacher has to make some special efforts for overcoming this situation. This sort of teaching is called:
(A) Remediation (B) Consolidation (C) Enrichment (D) Plateau teaching
70. “And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom unbroken tranquillity had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” These are the closing lines of the novel:
(A) David Copperfield (B) Tess of the D’Urberville (C) Jude the Obscure (D) The Mayor of Casterbridge
71. Mar. But what trade art thou? Answer me directly. Cob. A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles. Mar. What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade? Cob. Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet, if you be out, sir, I can mend you. Mar. What meanest thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow? Cob. Why, sir, cobble you. This conversation from Julius Caesar is an instance of:
(A) Exergesia (B) Litote (C) Palillogy (D) Irony
72. Arrange the following items in the “Back Matter” of a report in proper order:
1. Glossary 2. List of References 3. Appendices 4. Index 5. Bibliography
(A) 4, 1, 5, 3, 2 (B) 2, 5, 3, 4, 1 (C) 3, 2, 5, 1, 4 (D) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4
73. Some scholars of Stylistics hold the view that style is inseparable from content. ‘Sense’ and ‘significance’ blend into one, especially in poetry which is considered largely unparaphrasable or untranslable. This view is called:
(A) Monism (B) Dualism (C) Pluralism (D) De-automatisation
74. There are letters that communicate official correspondence along with personal news. Because of personal relationship between sender and receiver, there are topics of personal interest in such letters. There are no strict official rules to be followed in drafting such letters. These letters are called:
(A) Official-Personal Letters (B) Official letters (C) D O Letters (D) Covering Letters
75. Which of the following literary works does not have a character named Edmund?
(A) King Lear (B) Mansfield Park (C) Blackadder (D) The Dynasts
76. Who among the following is not a Pakistani English Poet?
(A) Omer Tarin (B) Ejaz Rahim (C) Shamim Azad (D) Harris Khalique
77. Which of the following periodicals was associated with Imagist Movement?
(A) The London Magazine (B) Poetry (C) The Yellow Book (D) Top Spot
78. Find the odd one out:
(A) Angelo (B) Richard III (C) Tamora (D) Speed
79. Who among the following has won Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?
(A) Patrick Modiano (B) Alice Munro (C) Bob Dylan (D) Mo Yan
80. In Greek mythology he is regarded as the wisest Titan, a benefactor of mankind, whom he created. His name means “forethought”. Originally an ally of Zeus; he later tickled Zeus and was chained in the Caucasus Mountains, where an eagle fed upon his liver daily. Identify the Titan:
(A) Oceanus (B) Epimetheus (C) Prometheus (D) Hyperion
81. “This foot once planted on the goal, / This-glory garland round my soul, / Could I descry such?” These lines occur in the poem:
(A) “Ulysses” (B) “The Scholar Gipsy” (C) “The Last Ride Together” (D) “Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”
82. ‘The critical term was coined by the American critic Stephen Greenblatt. It is a critical method based on the parallel reading of literary and non-literary texts, usually of the same period. It is known as:
(A) Narratology (B) New Historicism (C) Post-structuralism (D) Post-Modernism
83. “My lips were wet, my throat was cold, My ________ were all dank; Sure I had drunken in my dreams, And still my body drank.” -The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(A) hair (B) thoughts (C) garments (D) shipmates
84. Identify the book with wrong sub-title:
(A) Oliver Twist: The Parish Boy’s Progress (B) Peter Pan: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up
(C) Vanity Fair: The Novel without a Heroine (D) Roots: The Saga of an American Family
85. Assertion (A): In Biographia Literaria II, Coleridge, the close friend of Wordsworth and collaborator of Lyrical Ballads, argues that uneducated common man’s language violates “grammar, logic, psychology”, “good sense” and “taste”.
Reason (R): In Preface to Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth opines that the language of poetry should be the “very language of men,” the language of “low and rustic” persons.
(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.
86. “________ my spirit’s bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and shepherd skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; ” Who beckons the speaker in these lines?
(A) Urania
(B) Nature
(C) Souls of great poets from heaven
(D) Soul of Adonais from eternal abode
87. Articulating his creative experience during composition of one his plays Girish Karnad says, it was “as if the characters were dictating and I was just a steno.” Identify the play:
(A) Yayati (B) Hayavadana (C) Tughlaq (D) Bali
88. Arrange the following literary periods in chronological order:
1. The Neoclassical period 2. The Romantic period
3. The Caroline Period 4. The Puritan Period
(A) 4, 3, 1, 2 (B) 3, 4, 2, 1
(C) 1.3, 2, 4 (D) 2, 1, 3, 4
89. Consider the following facts and identify the theory.
1. They make a division between the ‘overt’ and ‘convert’ content of a literary work and then relate the convert subject matter to the basic themes of the theory.
2. They relate the context of a work to the social class status of the author.
3. They explain the nature of a whole literary genre in terms of the social period which produced it.
4. They claim that literary forms are determined by political circumstances.
(A) Post-colonialism (B) Post-modernism
(C) Marxism (D) New Historicism
90. Which of the following novels is not written by Arun Joshi?
(A) The Foreigner (B) The Last Labyrinth
(C) A House for Mr Biswas (D) The Apprentice
91. Which of the following is not an African-American novel?
(A) Native Son (B) The Round House
(C) Song of Solomon (D) The Known World
92. Consider the following statements about The Sellout by Paul Beatty and identify the wrong one:
(A) It is a 2015 American novel and was published in UK in 2016.
(B) The story takes place in and around New York.
(C) It concerns a protagonist who grows artisanal marijuana and watermelons.
(D) It won the 2016 Man Booker Prize, making Beatty the first US writer to win that award.
93. Following are email novels; one of them consists of unanswered emails. Identify the novel.
(A) The White Tiger (B) The Lawgiver
(C) The Correspondence Artist (D) The Closeness that Separates Us
94. Which of these novels is narrated by a first person narrator?
(A) The Wuthering Heights (B) Robinson Crusoe
(C) Pride and Prejudice (D) Rock Redemption
95. 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
96. In Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist is shipwrecked and reaches on the shore of an island which he calls the Island of ________
(A) Despondency (B) Misery (C) Despair (D) Misfortune
Ans: C
97. The word “still” in “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness”, in “Ode to a Grecian Urn” is an instance of:
(A) Ambiguity (B) Entelechy (C) Epiphany (D) Reflection
Ans: A
98. The play was originally written in French. It was first performed in 1953. It was translated into English by the author himself. The English language version was premiered in London in 1955. In a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre it was voted the “Most significant English language play of the 20th century’’.
Identify the play.
(A) Trapped by Fear (B) The State of Siege (C) The Just Assassins (D) Waiting for Godot
Ans: D
99. Match the writers with the travelogues:
Writers Travelogues
1. Joshua Slocum a. The Sindbad Voyage
2. Tim Severin b. My First Summer in Sierra
3. Mark Twain c. Sailing Alone Around the World
4. John Muir d. A Tramp Abroad
(A) 1-b; 2-c; 3-a; 4-d (B) 1-c; 2-a; 3-d; 4-b
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-b; 4-a (D) 1-b; 2-c; 3-d; 4-a
Ans: B
100. “But while the language became more refined, the feeling became more crude. The feeling, the ______, expressed in the ______ is cruder than that in the Coy Mistress” -- T S Eliot
(A) emotions, Rape of the Lock (B) sensibility, Country Churchyard
(C) sensibility, Rape of the Lock (D) emotions, Annus Mirabilis
Ans: B
Answer Key:
51 B
52 C
53 A
54 D
55 D
56 C
57 A
58 A
59 D
60 B
61 B
62 C
63 A
64 D
65 D
66 A
67 D
68 C
69 D
70 D
71 D
72 C
73 A
74 C
75 D
76 C
77 B
78 D
79 C
80 C
81 C
82 B
83 C
84 C
85 A
86 D
87 A
88 A
89 C
90 C
91 B
92 B
93 A
94 B
95 B
96 C
97 A
98 D
99 B
100 B
(A) emotions, Rape of the Lock (B) sensibility, Country Churchyard
(C) sensibility, Rape of the Lock (D) emotions, Annus Mirabilis
52. ‘Monodrama’ is a theatrical entertainment which has only one:
(A) Act (B) Scene (C) Character (D) All of the above
53. Who of the following is not a character in Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist?
(A) Isabel (B) Mehring (C) Jacobus (D) Terry
54. Dickens changed the ending of one of his novels at the suggestion of a friend, the novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton. Identify the novel. (A) Oliver Twist (B) Bleak House (C) Tom Jones (D) Great Expectations
55. “When my grave is broke up againe Some second guest to entertaine, (For graves have learn’d that women-head to be to more than one a bed)’” These lines occur in the poem:
(A) “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (B) “The Scholar Gipsy” (C) “Funerall” (D) “The Relique”
56. “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
57. 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
58. “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”
59. 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
60. 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
61. The Epilogue of As You Like It is spoken by: (A) Duke (B) Rosalind (C) Touchstone (D) Celia
62. In Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist is shipwrecked and reaches on the shore of an island which he calls the Island of ________ (A) Despondency (B) Misery (C) Despair (D) Misfortune
63. The word “still” in “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness”, in “Ode to a Grecian Urn” is an instance of:
(A) Ambiguity (B) Entelechy (C) Epiphany (D) Reflection
64. The play was originally written in French. It was first performed in 1953. It was translated into English by the author himself. The English language version was premiered in London in 1955. In a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre it was voted the “Most significant English language play of the 20th century’’. Identify the play.
(A) Trapped by Fear (B) The State of Siege (C) The Just Assassins (D) Waiting for Godot
65. Identify the author who did not commit suicide.
(A) John Suckling (B) Virginia Woolf (C) John O’Brien (D) T E Hulme
66. Which one of the following works by Tom Stoppard is a novel?
(A) Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (B) Rosenerantz and Guildenstern are Dead (C) Arcadia (D) Shakespeare in Love
67. The first full melodrama was Pygmalion, it was written by:
(A) Georg Benda (B) Beethoven (C) Jacques Offenbach (D) Jean Jacques Rousseau
68. What is the figure of speech in the line “O for the touch of a vanished hand” by Tennyson?
(A) Metonymy (B) Anaphora (C) Paradox (D) Pun
69. During the course of language learning, after initial progress, at times, a learner seems to make no significant progress and there is a sort of “temporary fossilization”. The language teacher has to make some special efforts for overcoming this situation. This sort of teaching is called:
(A) Remediation (B) Consolidation (C) Enrichment (D) Plateau teaching
70. “And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom unbroken tranquillity had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” These are the closing lines of the novel:
(A) David Copperfield (B) Tess of the D’Urberville (C) Jude the Obscure (D) The Mayor of Casterbridge
71. Mar. But what trade art thou? Answer me directly. Cob. A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles. Mar. What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade? Cob. Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet, if you be out, sir, I can mend you. Mar. What meanest thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow? Cob. Why, sir, cobble you. This conversation from Julius Caesar is an instance of:
(A) Exergesia (B) Litote (C) Palillogy (D) Irony
72. Arrange the following items in the “Back Matter” of a report in proper order:
1. Glossary 2. List of References 3. Appendices 4. Index 5. Bibliography
(A) 4, 1, 5, 3, 2 (B) 2, 5, 3, 4, 1 (C) 3, 2, 5, 1, 4 (D) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4
73. Some scholars of Stylistics hold the view that style is inseparable from content. ‘Sense’ and ‘significance’ blend into one, especially in poetry which is considered largely unparaphrasable or untranslable. This view is called:
(A) Monism (B) Dualism (C) Pluralism (D) De-automatisation
74. There are letters that communicate official correspondence along with personal news. Because of personal relationship between sender and receiver, there are topics of personal interest in such letters. There are no strict official rules to be followed in drafting such letters. These letters are called:
(A) Official-Personal Letters (B) Official letters (C) D O Letters (D) Covering Letters
75. Which of the following literary works does not have a character named Edmund?
(A) King Lear (B) Mansfield Park (C) Blackadder (D) The Dynasts
76. Who among the following is not a Pakistani English Poet?
(A) Omer Tarin (B) Ejaz Rahim (C) Shamim Azad (D) Harris Khalique
77. Which of the following periodicals was associated with Imagist Movement?
(A) The London Magazine (B) Poetry (C) The Yellow Book (D) Top Spot
78. Find the odd one out:
(A) Angelo (B) Richard III (C) Tamora (D) Speed
79. Who among the following has won Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?
(A) Patrick Modiano (B) Alice Munro (C) Bob Dylan (D) Mo Yan
80. In Greek mythology he is regarded as the wisest Titan, a benefactor of mankind, whom he created. His name means “forethought”. Originally an ally of Zeus; he later tickled Zeus and was chained in the Caucasus Mountains, where an eagle fed upon his liver daily. Identify the Titan:
(A) Oceanus (B) Epimetheus (C) Prometheus (D) Hyperion
81. “This foot once planted on the goal, / This-glory garland round my soul, / Could I descry such?” These lines occur in the poem:
(A) “Ulysses” (B) “The Scholar Gipsy” (C) “The Last Ride Together” (D) “Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”
82. ‘The critical term was coined by the American critic Stephen Greenblatt. It is a critical method based on the parallel reading of literary and non-literary texts, usually of the same period. It is known as:
(A) Narratology (B) New Historicism (C) Post-structuralism (D) Post-Modernism
83. “My lips were wet, my throat was cold, My ________ were all dank; Sure I had drunken in my dreams, And still my body drank.” -The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(A) hair (B) thoughts (C) garments (D) shipmates
84. Identify the book with wrong sub-title:
(A) Oliver Twist: The Parish Boy’s Progress (B) Peter Pan: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up
(C) Vanity Fair: The Novel without a Heroine (D) Roots: The Saga of an American Family
85. Assertion (A): In Biographia Literaria II, Coleridge, the close friend of Wordsworth and collaborator of Lyrical Ballads, argues that uneducated common man’s language violates “grammar, logic, psychology”, “good sense” and “taste”.
Reason (R): In Preface to Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth opines that the language of poetry should be the “very language of men,” the language of “low and rustic” persons.
(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.
86. “________ my spirit’s bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and shepherd skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; ” Who beckons the speaker in these lines?
(A) Urania
(B) Nature
(C) Souls of great poets from heaven
(D) Soul of Adonais from eternal abode
87. Articulating his creative experience during composition of one his plays Girish Karnad says, it was “as if the characters were dictating and I was just a steno.” Identify the play:
(A) Yayati (B) Hayavadana (C) Tughlaq (D) Bali
88. Arrange the following literary periods in chronological order:
1. The Neoclassical period 2. The Romantic period
3. The Caroline Period 4. The Puritan Period
(A) 4, 3, 1, 2 (B) 3, 4, 2, 1
(C) 1.3, 2, 4 (D) 2, 1, 3, 4
89. Consider the following facts and identify the theory.
1. They make a division between the ‘overt’ and ‘convert’ content of a literary work and then relate the convert subject matter to the basic themes of the theory.
2. They relate the context of a work to the social class status of the author.
3. They explain the nature of a whole literary genre in terms of the social period which produced it.
4. They claim that literary forms are determined by political circumstances.
(A) Post-colonialism (B) Post-modernism
(C) Marxism (D) New Historicism
90. Which of the following novels is not written by Arun Joshi?
(A) The Foreigner (B) The Last Labyrinth
(C) A House for Mr Biswas (D) The Apprentice
91. Which of the following is not an African-American novel?
(A) Native Son (B) The Round House
(C) Song of Solomon (D) The Known World
92. Consider the following statements about The Sellout by Paul Beatty and identify the wrong one:
(A) It is a 2015 American novel and was published in UK in 2016.
(B) The story takes place in and around New York.
(C) It concerns a protagonist who grows artisanal marijuana and watermelons.
(D) It won the 2016 Man Booker Prize, making Beatty the first US writer to win that award.
93. Following are email novels; one of them consists of unanswered emails. Identify the novel.
(A) The White Tiger (B) The Lawgiver
(C) The Correspondence Artist (D) The Closeness that Separates Us
94. Which of these novels is narrated by a first person narrator?
(A) The Wuthering Heights (B) Robinson Crusoe
(C) Pride and Prejudice (D) Rock Redemption
95. 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
96. In Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist is shipwrecked and reaches on the shore of an island which he calls the Island of ________
(A) Despondency (B) Misery (C) Despair (D) Misfortune
Ans: C
97. The word “still” in “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness”, in “Ode to a Grecian Urn” is an instance of:
(A) Ambiguity (B) Entelechy (C) Epiphany (D) Reflection
Ans: A
98. The play was originally written in French. It was first performed in 1953. It was translated into English by the author himself. The English language version was premiered in London in 1955. In a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre it was voted the “Most significant English language play of the 20th century’’.
Identify the play.
(A) Trapped by Fear (B) The State of Siege (C) The Just Assassins (D) Waiting for Godot
Ans: D
99. Match the writers with the travelogues:
Writers Travelogues
1. Joshua Slocum a. The Sindbad Voyage
2. Tim Severin b. My First Summer in Sierra
3. Mark Twain c. Sailing Alone Around the World
4. John Muir d. A Tramp Abroad
(A) 1-b; 2-c; 3-a; 4-d (B) 1-c; 2-a; 3-d; 4-b
(C) 1-d; 2-c; 3-b; 4-a (D) 1-b; 2-c; 3-d; 4-a
Ans: B
100. “But while the language became more refined, the feeling became more crude. The feeling, the ______, expressed in the ______ is cruder than that in the Coy Mistress” -- T S Eliot
(A) emotions, Rape of the Lock (B) sensibility, Country Churchyard
(C) sensibility, Rape of the Lock (D) emotions, Annus Mirabilis
Ans: B
Answer Key:
51 B
52 C
53 A
54 D
55 D
56 C
57 A
58 A
59 D
60 B
61 B
62 C
63 A
64 D
65 D
66 A
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68 C
69 D
70 D
71 D
72 C
73 A
74 C
75 D
76 C
77 B
78 D
79 C
80 C
81 C
82 B
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84 C
85 A
86 D
87 A
88 A
89 C
90 C
91 B
92 B
93 A
94 B
95 B
96 C
97 A
98 D
99 B
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