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ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 6

1:-The companion poem to Spenser's "Prothalamion."
 A:-Amoretti
 B:-Epithalamion
 C:-Prosopopoia
 D:-Babel
Ans: B

2:-In which of these plays does death, decay and disease appear as the central motif?
 A:-The Winter's Tale
 B:-The Tempest
 C:-Julius Caesar
 D:-Hamlet
Ans: D

3:-Identify the figure of speech in the line "No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;"
 A:-hyperbole
 B:-metaphysical conceit
 C:-personification
 D:-synecdoche
Ans: A

4:-Shakespeare's sonnets were first published in the year ______
 A:-1600
 B:-1606
 C:-1609
 D:-1619
Ans: C

5:-Bosola is a character in the play ______
 A:-The Duchess of Malfi
 B:-The Way of the World
 C:-Twelfth Night
 D:-The White Devil
Ans: A

6:-The mythological character to whom Dr Faustus is compared to in the prologue to Marlowe's play "Dr Faustus."
 A:-Daedalus
 B:-Apollo
 C:-Theseus
 D:-Icarus
Ans: D

7:-Who applied the epithet "Augustan" for the fist time?
 A:-John Dryden
 B:-Matthew Arnold
 C:-Dr Samuel Johnson
 D:-Ben Jonson
Ans: C

8:-Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is a collection of ______ tales narrated by a group of pilgrims.
 A:-22
 B:-24
 C:-26
 D:-28
Ans: B

9:-Who defined the novel as "a comic epic in prose"?
 A:-Laurence Sterne
 B:-Samuel Richardson
 C:-Henry Fielding
 D:-Daniel Defoe
Ans: C

10:-What happens to Adan and Eve immediately after they eat the forbidden fruit in Milton's "Paradise Lost" Book IX?
 A:-they feel guilty
 B:-they are consumed by lust
 C:-they are banished from the Garden of Eden by God
 D:-they blame Satan for their fall
Ans: B

11:-The Romantic poet noted for the use of a persistent and sustained symbolism in his poetry.
 A:-P. B. Shelley
 B:-Lord Byron
 C:-William Blake
 D:-William Wordsworth
Ans: C

12:-Which poem of Keats has the line, "For-ever wilt thou love, and she be fair"?
 A:-La Belle Dame Sans Merci
 B:-Ode on a Grecian Urn
 C:-A Party of Lovers
 D:-Endymion
Ans: B

13:-The leading figure among the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists.
 A:-Elizabeth Barret Browning
 B:-D. G. Rossetti
 C:-G. M. Hopkins
 D:-Matthew Arnold
Ans: B

14:-The name of Algernon's imaginary invalid friend in "The Importance of Being Earnest."
 A:-Bunbury
 B:-Jack Worthing
 C:-Sir Thomas Cardew
 D:-Dr Frederick
Ans: A

15:-Charles Dickens' novel "Oliver Twist" was published in the year ______.
 A:-1859
 B:-1850
 C:-1838
 D:-1860
Ans: C

16:-J. S. Mill's "The Subjugation of Women" was influenced by the ______ philosophy.
 A:-Moral
 B:-Naturalistic
 C:-Idealistic
 D:-Utilitarian
Ans: D

17:-G. M. Hopkins' "The Windhover" is a ______.
 A:-Petrarchan sonnet
 B:-Shakespearean sonnet
 C:-Spenserian sonnet
 D:-Horatian Ode
Ans: A

18:-Charles Lamb published his letters and essays under the pseudonym Elia in ______.
 A:-The Westminster Review
 B:-Birmingham Journal
 C:-The London Review
 D:-The London Magazine
Ans: D

19:-The literal meaning of the word "wuthering."
 A:-hilly place
 B:-marshy place
 C:-cold weather
 D:-turbulent weather
Ans: D

20:-Tennyson's poem "Ulysses" expresses ______.
 A:-Victorian optimism
 B:-spirit of anarchy
 C:-pessimistic philosophy
 D:-metaphysical outlook
Ans: A
21:-Who is the Irish revolutionary referred to in the lines
"This man had kept a school
 And rode our winged horse" ?
 A:-Mac Bride
 B:-Connolly
 C:-Patrick Pearse
 D:-Mac Donagh
Ans: C

22:-What is Madam Sosostris's profession in the 'Waste Land' ?
 A:-Prostitute
 B:-Spy
 C:-Dancer
 D:-Fortune tellling
Ans: D

23:-Who is the author of 'From Ritual to Romance' ?
 A:-James Frazer
 B:-Jessie Weston
 C:-William James
 D:-Ezra Pound
Ans: B

24:-Which of the following is NOT true of Virgina Woolf's 'To The Light House' ?
 A:-The novel has three sections
 B:-The mood at the end of the novel is one of pessimism and defeat
 C:-Lily Briscoe represents female creativity
 D:-James is desirous to visit the light house
Ans: B

25:-Which of the following character in 'Waiting for Godot' claims to have been a poet?
 A:-Vladimir
 B:-Estragon
 C:-Pozzo
 D:-Lucky
Ans: A

26:-The Fourth Tempter in Eliot's play 'Murder in the cathedral' appeals to (The Arch Bishop's) :
 A:-The Senses
 B:-Temporal power
 C:-Racial feelings
 D:-Spiritual pride
Ans: D

27:-The 'Hawk' in Hughes' 'Hawk Roosting' is a symbol of:
 A:-A republican
 B:-A dictator
 C:-A democrat
 D:-A socialist
Ans: B

28:-The novel 'A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man' is written using technique of:
 A:-Imagism
 B:-Expressionism
 C:-Stream of consciousness
 D:-Impressionism
Ans: C

29:-Which of the following is NOT true of 'Sons and Lovers' ?
 A:-It has an autobiographical background
 B:-It portrays the mismatch between Walter Morel and Gertrude Coppard
 C:-It portrays the relationship between a mother, three sons, and a daughter
 D:-Paul meets with tragic end at the end of the novel
Ans: D
30. The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is associated with the early plays of
(A) Arnold Wesker
(B) John Arden
(C) Harold Pinter
(D) David Hare

Ans: C

31. Examine the following statements and identify one of them which is not true.
(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.
(B) He was born in India but schooled in England.
(C) He returned to India as a police constable in Burma.
(D) He is the author of
Jungle Book and Barrack Room Ballads.
Ans: C

32. John Dryden’s Absalom and Achotophel a
(A) religious tract
(B) political allegory
(C) comic verse epic
(D) comedy

Ans: B

33. Name the poet who chooses his successor and the successor-poet whom Dryden satirises in his famous poem.
(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten
(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys 

Ans: C

34. “If______ comes, can_______ be far behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)
(A) winter, spring
(B) autumn, summer
(C) wind, rains
(D) spring, winter

Ans: A

35. The following passages are the very first lines of well-known works. Match the lines and the works :
I. Let us go then, you and I…..
II. Call me Ishmael…..
III. When shall we three meet again ?
IV. He disappeared in the dead of winter
V. I wish either….begot me …..

a. Moby Dick
b. Macbeth
c.
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
d. Tristram Shandy
e.
“In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
(A) I-
c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d
(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c
(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a
Ans: A

36. Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy ?
(A) Hamlet
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) Volpone
(D) Gorboduc

Ans: C

37. What is a neologism ?
(A) A word with roots in a native language
(B) A word whose meaning changes with every renewed use
(C) A word newly coined or used in a new sense
(D) An obsession with new words and phrases

Ans: C

38. Which of the following is not true of Edward Said’s Orientalism ?
(A) Makes use of Foucault’s concept of discursive formulation
(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial theory
(C) Makes use of Barthes’s concept of writerly text
(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony

Ans: C

39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry into 4 periods. They are :
(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass
(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond
(C) iron, gold, silver and brass
(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond

Ans: C

40. Which among the following novels has more than one ending ?
(A)
Lucky Jim
(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie
(C) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(D) The Clockwork Orange
Ans: C

41. “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man” is an example of
(A) Bathos
(B) Epistrophe
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Anti-climax

Ans: C

42. Which of the following statements is NOT correct ?
(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems.
(B) Chaucer was the author of
The Legend of Good Women.
(C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin.
(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor

Ans: D

43. Material feminism studies inequality in terms of
(A) only gender
(B) only class
(C) both class and gender
(D) only patriarchy

Ans: C

44. Who among the following is not an Irish writer ?
(A) Oscar Wilde
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Edmund Burke
(D) Thomas Gray

Ans: D

45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys begins after
(A) The Restoration
(B) The Glorious Revolution
(C) The Reformation
(D) The French Revolution

Ans: A

46. In a poem, a line may either be endstopped or
(A) rhymed
(B) broken
(C) accented
(D) run-on

Ans: D

47. Which of the following poets wrote the essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine” ?
(A) Kamala Das
(B) R. Parthasarthy
(C) A. K. Ramanujam
(D) Nissim Ezekiel

Ans: D

48. Match the following :
I.
James Joyce 1. Peter Ackroyd
II.
T. S. Eliot 2. James Boswell
III.
Life of 3. Samuel Johnson Johnson
IV.
Lives of 4. Richard Poets Ellman
(A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2
(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3
(C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4
(D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4

Ans: B

49. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an example of
(A) simile
(B) image
(C) conceit
(D) metonymy

Ans: D

50. An epilogue is
(A) prefixed to a text which it introduces.
(B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or extends.
(C) a piece of writing or speech that formally begins a book.
(D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no relation to the text at hand.

Ans: B
51. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a text may open up, Derrida makes use of the term :
(A) aporia
(B) difference
(C) erasure
(D) supplement
Ans: A


52. Who, among the following English playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare in Love ?
(A) Harold Pinter
(B) Alan Bennett
(C) Caryl Churchill
(D) Tom Stoppard

Ans: D

53. Arrange the following in the chronological order :
1. Mary Wollstonecraft’s 
Vindication of the Rights of Women
2. Lyrical Ballads 
3. French Revolution
4. Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
(A) 4, 3, 1, 2
(B) 3, 2, 1, 2
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 2, 1, 3, 4

Ans: A

54. Which of the following employs a narrative structure in which the main action is relayed at second hand through an enclosing frame story ?
(A) 
Sons and Lovers
(B) Ulysses
(C) The Power and the Glory
(D) Heart of Darkness
Ans: D

55. The Irish Dramatic Movement was heralded by such figures as
(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn 
(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries
(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John Ervine
(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries

Ans: A
 
56. Which poem by Chaucer was written on the death of Blanche, Wife of John of Gaunt ?
(A) 
Troilus and Criseyde
(B) The House of Fame
(C) The Book of Duchess
(D) The Legend of Good Women
Ans: C

57. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the other title of
(A) 
Gorboduc
(B) Ralph Roister Doister
(C) Damon and Pythias
(D) Lamentable Tragedy
Ans: A

58. Who of the following poets is Australian ?
(A) Austin Clarke
(B) Judith Wright
(C) Edwin Muir
(D) Derek Walcott

Ans: B

59. “He found it [English] brick and left it marble”, remarked one great writer on another. Who were they ?
(A) Milton on Shakespeare
(B) Dryden on Milton
(C) Johnson on Dryden
(D) Jonson on Shakespeare

Ans: C

60. Who, among the following, is a Nobel Laureate ?
(A) Tony Morrison
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Ted Hughes
(D) Geoffrey Hill

Ans: A/B

61. List – I List – II
I. “Because I could not stop for death…” a. Robert Frost
II. “O Captain ! My Captain!” b. William Carlos Williams
III. “Two roads diverged in a wood….” c. Emily  Dickinson
IV. “So much depends /upon” d. Walt Whitman
The correctly matched series would be :
(A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a
(B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c
(D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b

Ans: D

62. The predominant tone and thrust of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” are
(A) comic
(B) solemn
(C) hortatory
(D) irony

Ans: D

63. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second Street, Uncertain and afraid 
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade.
So begins Auden’s “September 1, 1939”.
What is the meaning of the word in italics ?
(A) bench
(B) night club
(C) house
(D) park

Ans: B

64. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were reputed in the 1930s for introducing 
(A) Practical Criticism
(B) New Criticism
(C) Standard English Project
(D) Basic English Project

Ans: D

65. In which of the following works does Mrs. Malaprop appear ?
(A) 
The Rivals
(B) She Stoops to Conquer
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D) The Way of the World
Ans: A

66. Which of the following statements about Christopher Marlowe are true ?
I. 
Edward II was written in the last year of Marlowe’s life.
II. Many critics consider 
Doctor Faustus to be Marlowe’s best play.
III. His 
Spanish Tragedy comes a close second.
IV. Marlowe was less educated than Shakespeare.
(A) I and II are true.
(B) II and III are true.
(C) II and IV are true.
(D) III and IV are true.

Ans: A

67. “Art for Art’s Sake” became a rallying cry for
(A) the Aesthetes
(B) the Symbolists
(C) the Imagists
(D) the Art Noveau School

Ans: A

68. Confessions of an English Opium Eater is a literary work by
(A) S. T. Coleridge
(B) P. B. Shelley
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) Lord Byron

Ans: C

69. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true ?
(A) “The General Prologue’ is appended to 
The Canterbury Tales.
(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
(C) 
The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.
(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.

Ans: C

70. Who, among the following, was a Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a film critic and set his fictions in far-away places wrecked by
political conflicts ?
(A) Anthony Powell
(B) Evelyn Waugh
(C) William Golding
(D) Graham Greene

Ans: D

71. List – I List – II
1. Good sense is the body of poetic genius I. Brooks, “The Formalist Critic”
2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of all knowledge. II. Sidney, Defence/ An Apology for Poetry
3. Literary criticism is a description and evaluation of its object III. Wordsworth, 
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
4. Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a tapestry as diverse poets have done IV. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
1 2 3 4
(A) IV III I II
(B) II IV III I
(C) III II I IV
(D) IV II I III

Ans: A

72. In which of the following travel books does Mark Twain give an account of his visit to India ?
(A) 
A Tramp Abroad
(B) Roughing It
(C) The Innocents Abroad
(D) Following the Equator
Ans: D

73. William Blake’s famous poems such as “London”, “The Sick Rose”, and “The Tyger” appear in
(A) 
Songs of Innocence
(B) Songs of Experience
(C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion
Ans: B

74. Who among the following English artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott ?
(A) Richard Hogarth
(B) Joshua Reynolds
(C) George Cruishank
(D) John Tennial

Ans: C

75. The last of Gulliver’s Travels is to
(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms
(B) The Land of Homosapiens
(C) The Land of the Hurricanes
(D) The Newfound Land

Ans: A

76. Madam Merle is a character in
(A) 
The Great Gatsby
(B) The Portrait of a Lady
(C) The Jungle
(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Ans: B

77. In which of the following scenes of The Waste Land do we have a departure from Standard English ?
(A) The typist scene
(B) The pub scene
(C) The hyacinth garden scene
(D) The Chapel Perilous scene

Ans: B

78. The words “If it were done when tis done, then twere well / It were done quickly…” are uttered by
(A) Hamlet
(B) Lear
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth

Ans: D
79. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Ralph Waldo Emerson ?
(A) He wrote essays on New England scenery, woodcraft and plantations.
(B) He was an eloquent pulpit orator, a member of the Unitarian Church under William Chawming. 
(C) In essays like “Nature”, he elaborates on the importance of seeing familiar things in new ways.
(D) His famous “American Scholar” was delivered as an address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1837.

Ans: A

80. “Exorcism” is the title of Act III of who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? What is the significance of ‘exorcism’ in the context of the play ?
(A) The casting out of evil spirits  
(B) Deconstructing of myths involving marriage, fertility and sons
(C) Facing life without illusions
(D) Exposing all attempts at illusionmaking

Ans: D

81. “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender”. This is an important statement defining the womanist perspective advanced by
(A) Toni Morrison
(B) Zora Neale Hurston
(C) Alice Walker
(D) Bell Hooks

Ans: C

82. Identify the mismatched pair in the following where characters in Golding’s Lord of the Flies fit the allegorized pattern of virtues and vices.
(A) Ralph - rationality
(B) Piggy - pragmatism
(C) Jack - pity
(D) Simon - innocence

Ans: C

83. A Subaltern perspective is one where 
(A) Power-structures define and determine your command of language and language of command in an uneven world.
(B) The politically dispossessed could be voiceless, written out of the historical record and ignored because their activities do not count for “Cultural” or “Structured”.
(C) You don’t know what your ‘story’ is, how to deal with a ‘story’ and therefore you are forced to put stereotyped situations in it to please your listeners.
(D) You begin to see how we live, how we have been living, how we have been led to imagine ourselves, how our language has trapped as well as liberated us.

Ans: B

84. (a) “Interlanguage” is a term we owe to M.A.K. Halliday.
(b) Interlanguage develops an autonomous and self-contained grammatical system
(c) It is a distinct stage in a learner’s progress in the study of a second language.
(d) It owes nothing at all either to the learner’s native or target / second language.
(A) (d) is correct.
(B) (b) is correct.
(C) (a) and (c) are correct.
(D) (c) and (d) are correct.

Ans: C

85. In a classic statement that inaugurated Feminist thought in English, we read : “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers”. Where does this occur ?
(A) Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
(B) Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics
(C) Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives
(D) Mary Hiatt’s The Way Women Write.

Ans: A

86. Identify the correctly matched pair of translators and translations.
(I) A. K. Ramanujan (a) The Ramayana
(II) Manmathanath Dutt (b) The Bhagavad Gita
(III) Mohini Chatterjee (c) Speaking of Shiva
(IV) Romesh Chandra Dutt (d) The Mahabharata
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (c) (d) (b) (a)
(B) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(C) (d) (a) (b) (c)
(D) (b) (a) (d) (c)

Ans: A

87. Assertion (A) : In The Power and the Glory, Greene shows how the Whisky Priest transcends his weakness for drink and his human fears, moving towards martyrdom.
Reason (R) : Transcendence in Greene’s novels is generally an outcome of love for humanity, but pride is also an essential ingredient in the Priest’s character.
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation for (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).

Ans: C

88. Which of the following statements on John Dryden is incorrect ?
(a) John Milton and John Dryden were contemporaries.
(b) Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton fiercely opposed monarchy.
(c) Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal Emperor Humayun.
(d) Dryden was appointed the Poet Laureate of England in 1668.
(A) (a) is incorrect.
(B) (d) is incorrect.
(C) (c) is incorrect.
(D) (b) and (c) are incorrect.

Ans: C

89. “Like walking, criticism is a pretty nearly universal art; both require a constant intricate shifting and catching of balance; neither can be questioned much in process; and few perform either really well. For either a new terrain is fatiguing and awkward, and in our day most men prefer paved walks and some form of rapid transportsome easy theory or overmastering dogma.” (R.P.Blackmur, “A Critic’s Job of Work”)
(a) Blackmur compares walking with criticism because he considers both to be “arts” of a similar kind that call for attention to detail and utmost care.
(b) Blackmur admits that some people do however manage to be good critics and good walkers.
(c) Critics prefer tried and tested approaches for much the same reason as Walkers would look for paved walks and rapid transport.
(d) Blackmur does not quite give us the equivalents of “Some paved walks and some form of rapid transport” in order to press his  comparison.
(A) (a) and (d) are correct.
(B) (a) and (c) are correct.
(C) only (d) is correct.
(D) only (b) is correct.

Ans: B

90. The world dominated by cold and hypocritical materialists is represented by William Blake in the mythological figure of __________ .
(A) Urizen
(B) Albion
(C) Geryon
(D) Satan

Ans: A

91. Identify the correctly matched group :
(A) Third Space – Wolfgang Iser  
Hybridity – Edward Soja  
Reception aesthetics – Ferdinand de Saussure 
Langue – Homi Bhabha 
(B) Third Space – Ernst Bloch 
Hybridity – Edward Said 
Reception aesthetics – Eve K. Sedgwick 
Langue – G. S. Frazer
(C) Third Space – Edward Soja 
Hybridity – Homi Bhabha 
Reception aesthetics – Wolfgang Iser 
Langue – Ferdinand de Saussure
(D) Third Space – G. S. Frazer
Hybridity – Eve K. Sedgwick
Reception aesthetics – Edward Soja
Langue – Edward Said

Ans: C

92. Which of the following can be best described as :
(i) the first statement of Bernard Shaw’s idea of Life Force;
(ii) a play dealing with a woman’s pursuit of her mate; and
(iii) a play whose third act called “Don Juan in Hell” is both unconventional and hilarious ?
(A) The Devil’s Disciple 
(B) Man and Superman
(C) Candida
(D) Arms and the Man

Ans: B

93. Identify the untrue statement on the CONTACT ZONE below :
(A) “The contact zone” is a space where disparate cultures meet, clash and grapple with each other.
(B) In Postcolonial societies “contact” suggests the historical moment when settler and indigenous cultures first met.
(C) The idea of the Contact Zone was first proposed and defined by Mary Louise Pratt’s Imperial Eyes : Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992)
(D) It is believed that the Contact Zone was largely instrumental in spearheading nationalist movements across the world.

Ans: D

94. Name the novel in which 
I. the protagonist is a war veteran called Tayo.
II. Tayo returns from World War II, thoroughly disillusioned and haunted by his violent actions of war time.
III. Tayo seeks consolation and counsel from old Betonie.
IV. The protagonist realizes the importance of harmonizing humanity and the universe.
(A) Beloved
(B) Ceremony
(C) Daisy Miller
(D) Enter, Conversing

Ans: B

95. One of the following poems in Men and Women is addressed to Elizabeth Barrett Browning by the poet. Identify it.
(A) “In Three Days”
(B) “By the Fireside”
(C) “One Way of Love”
(D) “One Word More”

Ans: D

96. Match List-I with List-II according to the codes given below :
List – I List – II
I. Tennessee Williams 1. Emperor Jones
II. Eugene O’Neill 2. A Streetcar Named Desire
III. Lorraine Hansberry 3. After the Fall
IV. Arthur Miller 4. A Raisin in the Sun
I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 1 3 2 4
(C) 4 2 3 1
(D) 2 1 4 3

Ans: D

97. Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre 
(a) turns the spectator into an observer
(b) wears down the spectator’s capacity for action 
(c) relies on argument
(d) presents man as a process
(A) (a) and (d) are correct; (b) and (c) are incorrect.
(B) (a), (c) and (d) are correct; (b) is wrong.
(C) (b) and (d) are correct; (a) and (c) are incorrect.
(D) (a), (b) and (c) are correct; (d) is incorrect.

Ans: B

98. In his distinction between imagination and fancy, Coleridge identifies the following :
(a) it dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate.
(b) it has aggregative and associative power.
(c) it plays with fixities and definites.
(d) it has shaping and modifying power.
The correct combination reads :
(A) (a) and (b) for fancy; (c) and (d) for imagination.
(B) (a) and (c) for fancy; (b) and (d) for imagination.
(C) (b) and (c) for fancy; (a) and (d) for imagination.
(D) (c) and (d) for fancy; (a) and (b) for imagination.

Ans: C

99. Julia Kristeva’s ‘Intertextuality’ derives from :
(a) Saussure’s signs 
(b) Chomsky’s deep structure
(c) Bakhtin’s dialogism
(d) Derrida’s difference
(A) (a) and (d) (B) (a) and (c)
(C) (c) and (d) (D) (a) and (b)

Ans: B

100. Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths about white purity through characters like :
(a) Norton
(b) Bledsoe
(c) Rhinehart
(d) all of the above
(A) (a) and (b)
(B) (a), (b) and (c)
(C) (b) and (c)
(D) (a) and (c)

Ans: A
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