ENGLISH LITERATURE- PAGE 8
1. “The just man justices. What kind of foregrounding do you find in the above lines ?
(A) Syntactic
(B) Semantic
(C) Collocation
(D) None of the above
Ans: A
2. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given :
List – I List – II
i. Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
ii. Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.
iii. Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
iv. Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 3 1 2 4
Ans: D
3. The separation of styles in accordance with class appears more consistently in _______ than in medieval works of literature and art.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Philip Sidney
(D) Edmund Spenser
Ans: B
4. “Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.” This statement is an example of
(A) Irony
(B) Paradox
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Euphemism
Ans: A
5. A Spenserian stanza has
(A) four iambic pentameters
(B) six iambic pentameters
(C) eight iambic pentameters
(D) ten iambic pentameters
Ans: C
6. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Critic)
List – II (Theory)
i. Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity
ii. William Empson 2. Paradox
iii. Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patterns in poetry
iv. Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques as discovery
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 3 4 1
Ans: A
7. “The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible and almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere seen.” Henry James is
talking here about the artist’s
(A) impersonality
(B) absence
(C) presence
(D) creativity
Ans: A
8. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Theorist)
List – II (Book)
i. Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble
ii. Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the Closet
iii. Alan Sinfield 3. History of Sexuality
iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural Politics Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination according to the code :
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
Ans: B
9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life”. But a critic pointed out it was “not a happy way of putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity”. Who was this critic ?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) David Lodge
(D) Allen Tate
Ans: A
10. Derrida’s American disciples were
(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Miller
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Ellman
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Ans: A
11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in late sixteenth century London from the following groups :
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe, Thames
Ans: A
12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. Good Signior, you shall more command with years. Than with your weapons.” The above lines are addresses by Othello to
(A) Roderigo and officers
(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers
(C) The Duke and Senators
(D) Montano and Cassio
Ans: B
13. Act V of Marlowe’s Edward the Second shows the murder of the king. Where does it take place ?
(A) Westminster, a room in the palace
(B) A room in Berkeley Castle
(C) A room in Killingworth Castle
(D) Within the Abbey of Neath
Ans: B
14. Identify the correctly matched set :
(A) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1557
Astrophel and Stella – 1591
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1585
(B) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1559
Tottels Miscellany – 1579
Astrophel and Stella – 1585
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1591
(C) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1585
Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Astrophel and Stella – 1579
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
(D) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Astrophel and Stella – about 1585
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
Ans: A
(A) Syntactic
(B) Semantic
(C) Collocation
(D) None of the above
Ans: A
2. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given :
List – I List – II
i. Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
ii. Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed syllables.
iii. Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
iv. Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 3 1 2 4
Ans: D
3. The separation of styles in accordance with class appears more consistently in _______ than in medieval works of literature and art.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Philip Sidney
(D) Edmund Spenser
Ans: B
4. “Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.” This statement is an example of
(A) Irony
(B) Paradox
(C) Hyperbole
(D) Euphemism
Ans: A
5. A Spenserian stanza has
(A) four iambic pentameters
(B) six iambic pentameters
(C) eight iambic pentameters
(D) ten iambic pentameters
Ans: C
6. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Critic)
List – II (Theory)
i. Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity
ii. William Empson 2. Paradox
iii. Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patterns in poetry
iv. Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques as discovery
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 2 3 4 1
Ans: A
7. “The artist may be present in his work like God in creation, invisible and almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere seen.” Henry James is
talking here about the artist’s
(A) impersonality
(B) absence
(C) presence
(D) creativity
Ans: A
8. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Theorist)
List – II (Book)
i. Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble
ii. Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the Closet
iii. Alan Sinfield 3. History of Sexuality
iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural Politics Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination according to the code :
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 4 3 1 2
Ans: B
9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life”. But a critic pointed out it was “not a happy way of putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the inflamed skin of suffering humanity”. Who was this critic ?
(A) T.S. Eliot
(B) F.R. Leavis
(C) David Lodge
(D) Allen Tate
Ans: A
10. Derrida’s American disciples were
(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Miller
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Ellman
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Ans: A
11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in late sixteenth century London from the following groups :
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe, Thames
Ans: A
12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. Good Signior, you shall more command with years. Than with your weapons.” The above lines are addresses by Othello to
(A) Roderigo and officers
(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers
(C) The Duke and Senators
(D) Montano and Cassio
Ans: B
13. Act V of Marlowe’s Edward the Second shows the murder of the king. Where does it take place ?
(A) Westminster, a room in the palace
(B) A room in Berkeley Castle
(C) A room in Killingworth Castle
(D) Within the Abbey of Neath
Ans: B
14. Identify the correctly matched set :
(A) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1557
Astrophel and Stella – 1591
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1585
(B) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1559
Tottels Miscellany – 1579
Astrophel and Stella – 1585
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1591
(C) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1585
Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Astrophel and Stella – 1579
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
(D) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Astrophel and Stella – about 1585
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
Ans: A
15. Match the items in the List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Authors)
List – II (Works)
i. Lucy Hutchinson 1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
ii. John Bunyan 2. Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees
iii. John Evelyn 3. Natures Pictures
iv. Margaret Cavendish 4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
Ans: C
16. “But deeds, and language, such as men do use;
And persons, such as comedy would choose,
When she would show an image of the time,
and sport with human follies, not with crime.”
In the above lines Jonson
I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic tragic-comedy.
II. Initiates the use of realism.
III. Considers analysis of moral short comings more important
IV. Encourages the use of farce with melodrama.
Find out the correct combination according to the code :
(A) I, II and III are correct
(B) I, II and IV are correct
(C) I, III and IV are correct
(D) II, III and IV are correct
Ans: A
17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove,
We’ll build in ________ pretty roomes.”
(A) lyrics
(B) epics
(C) sonnets
(D) stanzas
Ans: C
18. “That glory never shall his wrath or might extort from me.” (Paradise Lost, Book I)
What ‘glory’ is being referred to by Satan ?
(A) The courage never to submit or yield
(B) To reign in Hell
(C) To defeat God
(D) To spread evil
Ans: A
19. It has been described as a “novel without predecessors”, the product of an original mind and became immediately popular. It is a peculiar blend of pathos and humour, though the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point of becoming offensively sentimental.
The novel was published in 1760. What is the name of the novel ?
(A) Gulliver’s Travels
(B) The Castle of Otranto
(C) Tristram Shandy
(D) A Tender Husband
Ans: C
20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a printer. He remained a printer throughout his life. He was asked to prepare a series of modern letters for those who could not write for themselves. This humble task taught him the art of expressing himself in letters. Who is the novelist ?
(A) Daniel Defoe
(B) Samuel Richardson
(C) Henry Fielding
(D) Tobias Smollett
Ans: B
21. “Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be wise.” Who wrote the following lines ?
(A) Pope
(B) Gray
(C) Collins
(D) Southey
Ans: B
22. Which of the following works is not actually a prose essay ?
(A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) Essay on Man
(C) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
Ans: B
List – I (Authors)
List – II (Works)
i. Lucy Hutchinson 1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
ii. John Bunyan 2. Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees
iii. John Evelyn 3. Natures Pictures
iv. Margaret Cavendish 4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
Ans: C
16. “But deeds, and language, such as men do use;
And persons, such as comedy would choose,
When she would show an image of the time,
and sport with human follies, not with crime.”
In the above lines Jonson
I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic tragic-comedy.
II. Initiates the use of realism.
III. Considers analysis of moral short comings more important
IV. Encourages the use of farce with melodrama.
Find out the correct combination according to the code :
(A) I, II and III are correct
(B) I, II and IV are correct
(C) I, III and IV are correct
(D) II, III and IV are correct
Ans: A
17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove,
We’ll build in ________ pretty roomes.”
(A) lyrics
(B) epics
(C) sonnets
(D) stanzas
Ans: C
18. “That glory never shall his wrath or might extort from me.” (Paradise Lost, Book I)
What ‘glory’ is being referred to by Satan ?
(A) The courage never to submit or yield
(B) To reign in Hell
(C) To defeat God
(D) To spread evil
Ans: A
19. It has been described as a “novel without predecessors”, the product of an original mind and became immediately popular. It is a peculiar blend of pathos and humour, though the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point of becoming offensively sentimental.
The novel was published in 1760. What is the name of the novel ?
(A) Gulliver’s Travels
(B) The Castle of Otranto
(C) Tristram Shandy
(D) A Tender Husband
Ans: C
20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a printer. He remained a printer throughout his life. He was asked to prepare a series of modern letters for those who could not write for themselves. This humble task taught him the art of expressing himself in letters. Who is the novelist ?
(A) Daniel Defoe
(B) Samuel Richardson
(C) Henry Fielding
(D) Tobias Smollett
Ans: B
21. “Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be wise.” Who wrote the following lines ?
(A) Pope
(B) Gray
(C) Collins
(D) Southey
Ans: B
22. Which of the following works is not actually a prose essay ?
(A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) Essay on Man
(C) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
Ans: B
23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into believing that he loves her in The Way of the World ?
(A) Millamant
(B) Lady Wishfort
(C) Mrs. Marwood
(D) Mrs. Fainall
Ans: B
24. “Competence to age is supplementary to youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had. We must ride where
we formerly walked : live better and be softer and shall be wise to do so – than we had means to do in the good old days you speak of.”
Who speaks these words and to whom ?
(A) Lamb to Bridget
(B) Wordsworth to Dorothy
(C) Dorothy to Bridget
(D) Lamb to Dorothy
Ans: A
25. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799 and finished in its first version in 1805, was not published until ________.
(A) 1815
(B) 1820
(C) 1830
(D) 1850
Ans: D
26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress
With the wreathed trellis of a working brain.”
The above lines are quoted from
(A) ‘Adonais’
(B) ‘Ode to Psyche’
(C) ‘Eve of St. Agnes’
(D) ‘Endymion’
Ans: B
27. “Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to its delight.”
This selfish and possessive nature of love is illustrated in Blake’s
(A) ‘The Clod and the Pebble’
(B) ‘The Sick Rose’
(C) ‘A Poison Tree’
(D) ‘Ah Sunflower’
Ans: A
28. Who is the author of Mary, and the unfinished The Wrongs of Woman ?
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft
(B) William Godwin
(C) Mary Hay
(D) Elizabeth Inchbald
Ans: A
29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry James’ theory of the novel :
(A) It should be sentimental
(B) It should be objective
(C) It should be realistic
(D) It should be viewed as an artistic form
Ans: A
30. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Novels)
List – II (Characters)
i. Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore
ii. A Passage to India 2. Molly Bloom
iii. To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich
iv. Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 1 3 2 4
Ans: B
31. Which among the following novels was not written in 1922 ?
(A) Ulysses
(B) Jacob’s room
(C) Aaron’s Rod
(D) A Passage to India
Ans: D
32. “A sudden blow : the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.”
Who is the author of the above lines ?
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) D.H. Lawrence
Ans: A
(A) Millamant
(B) Lady Wishfort
(C) Mrs. Marwood
(D) Mrs. Fainall
Ans: B
24. “Competence to age is supplementary to youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had. We must ride where
we formerly walked : live better and be softer and shall be wise to do so – than we had means to do in the good old days you speak of.”
Who speaks these words and to whom ?
(A) Lamb to Bridget
(B) Wordsworth to Dorothy
(C) Dorothy to Bridget
(D) Lamb to Dorothy
Ans: A
25. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799 and finished in its first version in 1805, was not published until ________.
(A) 1815
(B) 1820
(C) 1830
(D) 1850
Ans: D
26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress
With the wreathed trellis of a working brain.”
The above lines are quoted from
(A) ‘Adonais’
(B) ‘Ode to Psyche’
(C) ‘Eve of St. Agnes’
(D) ‘Endymion’
Ans: B
27. “Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to its delight.”
This selfish and possessive nature of love is illustrated in Blake’s
(A) ‘The Clod and the Pebble’
(B) ‘The Sick Rose’
(C) ‘A Poison Tree’
(D) ‘Ah Sunflower’
Ans: A
28. Who is the author of Mary, and the unfinished The Wrongs of Woman ?
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft
(B) William Godwin
(C) Mary Hay
(D) Elizabeth Inchbald
Ans: A
29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry James’ theory of the novel :
(A) It should be sentimental
(B) It should be objective
(C) It should be realistic
(D) It should be viewed as an artistic form
Ans: A
30. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Novels)
List – II (Characters)
i. Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore
ii. A Passage to India 2. Molly Bloom
iii. To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich
iv. Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 2 1 3
(D) 1 3 2 4
Ans: B
31. Which among the following novels was not written in 1922 ?
(A) Ulysses
(B) Jacob’s room
(C) Aaron’s Rod
(D) A Passage to India
Ans: D
32. “A sudden blow : the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.”
Who is the author of the above lines ?
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) T.S. Eliot
(C) W.H. Auden
(D) D.H. Lawrence
Ans: A
33. “Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal.”
The above lines are taken from
(A) “Felix Randal”
(B) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931”
(D) “The Second Coming”
Ans: B
34. Who among the following is not a surrealist poet ?
(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(B) David Gascoyne
(C) Kenneth Allot
(D) C. Day Lewis
Ans: D
35. The protagonist returns with an admonition, the diamond sent to him for smuggling out a packet of diamonds as bribe. This scene occurs in one of the novels of Graham Greene – Identify the novel
(A) The End of the Affair
(B) The Heart of the Matter
(C) The Ministry of Fear
(D) Our Man in Havana
Ans: B
36. Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published together in London in 1959 under the English titles is
(A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy
(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies
(D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy
Ans: B
37. Among the following playwrights, who was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920 ?
(A) Eugene O’Neill
(B) Sean O’Casey
(C) William Somerset Maugham
(D) J.B. Priestly
Ans: A
38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of ________ in his novels.
(A) Realism
(B) Naturalism
(C) Primitivism
(D) Expressionism
Ans: C
39. Who among the following is not an American modernist poet ?
(A) William Carlos Williams
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger
(D) Marianne Moore
Ans: C
40. An important poet and playwright who in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement, in the spirit of negritude, posited a ‘Black Aesthetic’ that expressed a pan-African, organic and whole sensibility.
(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(B) Amiri Baraka
(C) Ishmael Reed
(D) Bell Hooks
Ans: B
41. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Authors)
List – II (Books)
i. V.S. Naipaul 1. Foe
ii. Jean Rhys 2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters
iii. Marina Warners 3. Wide Sargasso Sea
iv. J.M. Coetzee 4. Mimic Men
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 1 3 4 2
Ans: C
42. Yasmine Gooneratne’s The Pleasures of Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel of the nineties is ironically enough set in the tropical
island nation of
(A) Sri Lanka
(B) Fiji
(C) The Caribbean
(D) Amnesia
Ans: D
And fastened to a dying animal.”
The above lines are taken from
(A) “Felix Randal”
(B) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931”
(D) “The Second Coming”
Ans: B
34. Who among the following is not a surrealist poet ?
(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(B) David Gascoyne
(C) Kenneth Allot
(D) C. Day Lewis
Ans: D
35. The protagonist returns with an admonition, the diamond sent to him for smuggling out a packet of diamonds as bribe. This scene occurs in one of the novels of Graham Greene – Identify the novel
(A) The End of the Affair
(B) The Heart of the Matter
(C) The Ministry of Fear
(D) Our Man in Havana
Ans: B
36. Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published together in London in 1959 under the English titles is
(A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy
(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies
(D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy
Ans: B
37. Among the following playwrights, who was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920 ?
(A) Eugene O’Neill
(B) Sean O’Casey
(C) William Somerset Maugham
(D) J.B. Priestly
Ans: A
38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of ________ in his novels.
(A) Realism
(B) Naturalism
(C) Primitivism
(D) Expressionism
Ans: C
39. Who among the following is not an American modernist poet ?
(A) William Carlos Williams
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger
(D) Marianne Moore
Ans: C
40. An important poet and playwright who in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement, in the spirit of negritude, posited a ‘Black Aesthetic’ that expressed a pan-African, organic and whole sensibility.
(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr.
(B) Amiri Baraka
(C) Ishmael Reed
(D) Bell Hooks
Ans: B
41. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Authors)
List – II (Books)
i. V.S. Naipaul 1. Foe
ii. Jean Rhys 2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters
iii. Marina Warners 3. Wide Sargasso Sea
iv. J.M. Coetzee 4. Mimic Men
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 1 3 4 2
Ans: C
42. Yasmine Gooneratne’s The Pleasures of Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel of the nineties is ironically enough set in the tropical
island nation of
(A) Sri Lanka
(B) Fiji
(C) The Caribbean
(D) Amnesia
Ans: D
43. Which of the following is not an Asian – Canadian writer ?
(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin
(B) Himani Banerjee
(C) Joy Kogawa
(D) Meena Alexander
Ans: D
44. Which of the following is true ?
(A) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a poem in nine books
(B) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a collection of sonnets from the Portuguese
(C) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a nursery rhyme book
(D) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is “the Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry”
Ans: A
45. “The old order changeth yielding place to new,
And God fulfils himself in many way.”
In which of the following poems do these lines appear ?
(A) ‘Locksley Hall’
(B) ‘Two Voices
(C) ‘Morte d’Arthur’
(D) ‘Ulysses’
Ans: C
46. George Eliot’s attempt to write a historical novel of the Italian Renaissance was not successful. Which was this novel ?
(A) Adam Bede
(B) Felix Holt
(C) Silas Marner
(D) Romola
Ans: D
47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by passion and revenge, add a new dimension to the concept of suffering ?
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) Mill on the Floss
(D) Hard Times
Ans: A
48. From the following women characters in Hardy’s novels choose the odd one out :
(A) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) Eustacia Vye
(C) Elizabeth Jane
(D) Lucetta
Ans: C
49. “Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte
And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”
In the Prologue the Parson is represented as a man :
1. who loved money
2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
3. who practiced what he preached
4. who was a poor but honest clerk
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
Ans: C
50. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Plays)
List – II (Characters)
i. White Devil 1. Hieornimo
ii. Maids Tragedy 2. Old Knowell
iii. Every Man in his Humour 3. Vittoria Corombona
iv. The Spanish Tragedie 4. Aspatia
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 4 3 2 1
Ans: C
(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin
(B) Himani Banerjee
(C) Joy Kogawa
(D) Meena Alexander
Ans: D
44. Which of the following is true ?
(A) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a poem in nine books
(B) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a collection of sonnets from the Portuguese
(C) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a nursery rhyme book
(D) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is “the Seeds and Fruits of English Poetry”
Ans: A
45. “The old order changeth yielding place to new,
And God fulfils himself in many way.”
In which of the following poems do these lines appear ?
(A) ‘Locksley Hall’
(B) ‘Two Voices
(C) ‘Morte d’Arthur’
(D) ‘Ulysses’
Ans: C
46. George Eliot’s attempt to write a historical novel of the Italian Renaissance was not successful. Which was this novel ?
(A) Adam Bede
(B) Felix Holt
(C) Silas Marner
(D) Romola
Ans: D
47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by passion and revenge, add a new dimension to the concept of suffering ?
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) Mill on the Floss
(D) Hard Times
Ans: A
48. From the following women characters in Hardy’s novels choose the odd one out :
(A) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) Eustacia Vye
(C) Elizabeth Jane
(D) Lucetta
Ans: C
49. “Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte
And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”
In the Prologue the Parson is represented as a man :
1. who loved money
2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
3. who practiced what he preached
4. who was a poor but honest clerk
Find the correct combination according to the code :
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
Ans: C
50. Match the items in List – I with items in List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Plays)
List – II (Characters)
i. White Devil 1. Hieornimo
ii. Maids Tragedy 2. Old Knowell
iii. Every Man in his Humour 3. Vittoria Corombona
iv. The Spanish Tragedie 4. Aspatia
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 4 3 2 1
Ans: C
51. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha discuss the ‘discovery’ of English in colonial India ?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment to Theory”
Ans: A
52. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English.
(A) Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella
(C) Samuel Daniel’s Delia
(D) Michael Drayton’s Idea’s Mirror
Ans: B
53. Which is the correct sequence of the novels of V.S.Naipaul ?
(A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The Suffrage of Elvira – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(B) Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas – The Suffrage of Elvira.
(C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr, Biswas.
Ans: D
54. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from
(A) Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimage
(B) Hakluyt’s Voyages
(C) The Book Named the Governour
(D) Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
Ans: A
55. Which among the following titles set a course for academic literary feminism ?
(A) Nostromo
(B) From Ritual to Romance
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) A Dance to the Music of Time
Ans: C
56. In which play do we see a reworking of E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India as a camaeo ?
(A) The Birthday Party
(B) A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Indian Ink
(D) Amadeus
Ans: C
57. Shakespeare’s sonnets
(A) do not carry a dedication.
(B) are dedicated to James I of England.
(C) are dedicated to Mary Arden.
(D) are dedicated to an unknown “Mr. W.H.”
Ans: D
58. Which of the following poems uses terza rima ?
(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
Ans: B
59. When one says that “someone is no more” or that “someone has breathed his/ her last”, the speaker is resorting to
(A) euphism
(B) euphony
(C) understatement
(D) euphemism
Ans: D
60. Which of the following are “companion poems” ?
(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets”
(B) “L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun Rising”
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! the Lark”
Ans: B
61. What does the term episteme signify ?
(A) Knowledge
(B) Archive
(C) Theology
(D) Scholarship
Ans: A
62. Which of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing ?
(A) A reflection
(B) A speaking picture
(C) A refraction
(D) A reflected picture
Ans: B
63. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’ ?
(A) John Milton
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley
Ans: C
64. Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence
(A) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
(B) It was the brightest of times, it was the darkest of times.
(C) It was the richest of times, it was the poorest of times.
(D) It was the happiest of times, it was the saddest of times.
Ans: A
65. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by
(A) Edwin Muir
(B) Edward Thomas
(C) Robert Bridges
(D) Coventry Patmore
Ans: C
66. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel – Ozymandias
(B) The Deserted Village – A Poison Tree – Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
(C) The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(D) The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
Ans: B
67. The term homology means a of music correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social classes in terms of homologies ?
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Christopher Caudwell
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Antonio Gramsci
Ans: A or C
68. F. Turner’s famous hypothesis is that
(A) the Frontier has outlived its ideological utility in American civilization.
(B) the Frontier has posed a challenge to the American creative imagination.
(C) the Frontier has been the one great determinant of American civilization.
(D) the Frontier has been the one great deterrent to American progress.
Ans: C
69. Which statement(s) below on the Spenserian Stanza is/are accurate ?
I. a quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative pastiche
II. a stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter
III. an eight–line stanza in iambic pentameter followed by a ninth in six iambic feet
IV. an eight–line stanza with six iambic feet followed by a ninth in iambic pentameter
(A) I and II
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
Ans: C
70. Match the following texts with their respective themes :
I. Areopagitica (Milton) i. Fashion, courtship, seduction
II. Leviathan (Hobbes) ii. The liberty for unlicensed printing
III. Alexander’s Feast (Dryden) iii. Absolute sovereignty
IV. The Way of the World (Congreve) iv. The power
Codes :
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii i ii
Ans: B
71. The preliminary version of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was called
(A) Stephen Hero
(B) Bloom’s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
(D) The Dead
Ans: A
72. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from other works.
(ii) It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a ‘purple passage’.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its use of figurative language.
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) only (iv) is correct.
Ans: A
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment to Theory”
Ans: A
52. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in English.
(A) Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella
(C) Samuel Daniel’s Delia
(D) Michael Drayton’s Idea’s Mirror
Ans: B
53. Which is the correct sequence of the novels of V.S.Naipaul ?
(A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The Suffrage of Elvira – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(B) Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas – The Suffrage of Elvira.
(C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr, Biswas.
Ans: D
54. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from
(A) Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimage
(B) Hakluyt’s Voyages
(C) The Book Named the Governour
(D) Sir Thomas More’s Utopia
Ans: A
55. Which among the following titles set a course for academic literary feminism ?
(A) Nostromo
(B) From Ritual to Romance
(C) A Room of One’s Own
(D) A Dance to the Music of Time
Ans: C
56. In which play do we see a reworking of E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India as a camaeo ?
(A) The Birthday Party
(B) A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Indian Ink
(D) Amadeus
Ans: C
57. Shakespeare’s sonnets
(A) do not carry a dedication.
(B) are dedicated to James I of England.
(C) are dedicated to Mary Arden.
(D) are dedicated to an unknown “Mr. W.H.”
Ans: D
58. Which of the following poems uses terza rima ?
(A) John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
Ans: B
59. When one says that “someone is no more” or that “someone has breathed his/ her last”, the speaker is resorting to
(A) euphism
(B) euphony
(C) understatement
(D) euphemism
Ans: D
60. Which of the following are “companion poems” ?
(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets”
(B) “L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun Rising”
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! the Lark”
Ans: B
61. What does the term episteme signify ?
(A) Knowledge
(B) Archive
(C) Theology
(D) Scholarship
Ans: A
62. Which of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing ?
(A) A reflection
(B) A speaking picture
(C) A refraction
(D) A reflected picture
Ans: B
63. Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’ ?
(A) John Milton
(B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) P.B. Shelley
Ans: C
64. Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence
(A) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
(B) It was the brightest of times, it was the darkest of times.
(C) It was the richest of times, it was the poorest of times.
(D) It was the happiest of times, it was the saddest of times.
Ans: A
65. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by
(A) Edwin Muir
(B) Edward Thomas
(C) Robert Bridges
(D) Coventry Patmore
Ans: C
66. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence ?
(A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel – Ozymandias
(B) The Deserted Village – A Poison Tree – Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
(C) The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(D) The Deserted Village – The Blessed Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
Ans: B
67. The term homology means a of music correspondence between two or more structures. Who of the following developed a theory of relations between literary works and social classes in terms of homologies ?
(A) Raymond Williams
(B) Christopher Caudwell
(C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Antonio Gramsci
Ans: A or C
68. F. Turner’s famous hypothesis is that
(A) the Frontier has outlived its ideological utility in American civilization.
(B) the Frontier has posed a challenge to the American creative imagination.
(C) the Frontier has been the one great determinant of American civilization.
(D) the Frontier has been the one great deterrent to American progress.
Ans: C
69. Which statement(s) below on the Spenserian Stanza is/are accurate ?
I. a quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative pastiche
II. a stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter
III. an eight–line stanza in iambic pentameter followed by a ninth in six iambic feet
IV. an eight–line stanza with six iambic feet followed by a ninth in iambic pentameter
(A) I and II
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
Ans: C
70. Match the following texts with their respective themes :
I. Areopagitica (Milton) i. Fashion, courtship, seduction
II. Leviathan (Hobbes) ii. The liberty for unlicensed printing
III. Alexander’s Feast (Dryden) iii. Absolute sovereignty
IV. The Way of the World (Congreve) iv. The power
Codes :
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii i ii
Ans: B
71. The preliminary version of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was called
(A) Stephen Hero
(B) Bloom’s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
(D) The Dead
Ans: A
72. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from other works.
(ii) It is distinguished from parody because not all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a ‘purple passage’.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style, especially in its use of figurative language.
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
(B) only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) only (iv) is correct.
Ans: A
73. While “a well-boiled icicle” for “a well-oiled bicycle” is an example of Spoonerism, someone saying “Congenital food” for ‘Continental
food’ is an example of ______.
(A) Malaproprism
(B) Pleonasm
(C) Neologism
(D) Archaism
Ans: A
74.It is unimaginable that all the following events happened in one year :
1. Arthur Evans discovered the first European civilization; his excavations in Crete revealed a culture that was far older than either Attic
Greece or Ancient Rome.
2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published the Oxford Book of English Verse.
3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train at Gare d’ Orsay, Paris.
4. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.
5. Hugo de Vries identified what would later come to be called genes.
6. Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams.
7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain.
Identify the year :
(A) 1899
(B) 1900
(C) 1901
(D) 1903
Ans: B
75. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. This is the epigraph to
(A) T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”
(B) Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would be the King”
(C) George Eliot’s Silas Marner
(D) E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End
Ans: B
76. Robert Graves’s “In Broken Images” ends thus :
He in a new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion.
The figure of speech here is _______.
(A) Chiasmus
(B) Catachresis
(C) Inversion
(D) Zeugma
Ans: A
77. The phrase “leaves dancing” is an example of ________.
(A) pathetic fallacy
(B) hyperbole
(C) pun
(D) conceit
Ans: A
78. At the end of The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway observes : “They were careless people”. Who were they ?
(A) Tom and Daisy
(B) The Wilsons
(C) Gatsby and his friends
(D) The people of East Egg
Ans: A
79. William Wordsworth’s statement of purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads carries the following phrase. (Complete the phrase
correctly). “to choose incidents from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible, ______.”
(A) in a selection of language really used by men.
(B) in a relation to language really used by men.
(C) in a selection of language really used by common man.
(D) in deference to language actually used by men.
Ans: A
80. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Novels)
List – II (Last lines)
i. Lord Jim 1. ‘It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.’
ii. To the Lighthouse 2. ‘April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead…’
iii. A Passage to India 3. ‘He feels it himself and says often that he is “preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave,...”, while he waves his
hands sadly at his butterflies.’
iv. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 4. ‘ “No not yet,” and the sky said, “No, not there”.’
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 4 3 1
(B) 3 2 4 1
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 2 3 1 4
Ans: C
81. Identify the incorrect description/s of “Sprung Rhythm” from the following :
1. This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our minds – hence Sprung Rhythm.
2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal length.
3. A foot may have one to four syllables in Sprung Rhythm.
4. Its metre is derived from the metre of Anglo-Saxon poetry which was based on accent and linked by alliteration.
(A) 4 is incorrect.
(B) 1 & 4 are incorrect.
(C) 3 is incorrect.
(D) 1 is incorrect.
Ans: D
82. Who among the following proposes that the unconscious comes into being only in language ?
(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Stuart Hall
(D) Paul de Man
Ans: B
83. The Elizabethan Settlement established during the reign of Elizabeth I
I. ensured the supremacy of the Church of England.
II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the authority of the Pope.
III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be part of the Anglican church.
IV. created a group known as the Roundheads.
The correct combination according to the code is :
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Ans: A
84. Which of the following poems by Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and death ?
(A) “The Beggar Maid”
(B) “The Lotus-Eaters”
(C) “Ulysses”
(D) “Tithonus”
Ans: A
85. One English poet addressing another :
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life’s common way,
In cheerful godliness… .
Whose lines are these ? To whom are they addressed ?
(A) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats
(B) P.B. Shelley – William Blake
(C) William Wordsworth – John Milton
(D) Ben Jonson – William Shakespeare
Ans: C
86. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of Poets (1781) was originally a series of introductions to the poets he wrote for a group of London publishers.
They were collected as :
(A) Lives of English Poets : Critical and Biographical Essays.
(B) Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of English Poets.
(C) Notes, Biographical and Critical, on the Works of English Poets.
(D) Lives of English Poets : Biographical and Critical Notes.
Ans: B
87. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Northrop Frye’s four ‘generic plots’ ?
(A) The comic
(B) The tragic
(C) The lyric
(D) The ironic
Ans: C
88. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land in the order in which they appear in the poem :
1. The Fire Sermon
2. Death by Water
3. A Game of Chess
4. What the Thunder Said
5. The Burial of the Dead
(A) 3, 2, 1, 5, 4
(B) 5, 1, 2, 3, 4
(C) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4
(D) 5, 3, 1, 2, 4
Ans: D
89. Sir Plume is a character in ____ .sa
(A) Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
(B) Congreve’s The Way of the World
(C) Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
(D) Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Strategem
Ans: C
90. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady Macbeth calls on ______ to “unsex me here”. (Macbeth I.5.39) Choose the right option to fill in the
blank :
(A) God
(B) the spirits of hell
(C) the angels in heaven
(D) no one in particular
Ans: B
91. You will find the following lines in an English poem :
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the side
Of Humber would complain.
Which poem ? Who is the poet ?
(A) “Lonely Hearts.” Wendy Cope
(B) “Holy Thursday.” William Blake
(C) “Tiger Mask Ritual.” Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
(D) “To His Coy Mistress.” Andrew Marvell
Ans: D
92. Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Whose lines are these ? To whom are they addressed ?
(A) John Keats. The Nightingale
(B) P.B. Shelley. The Skylark
(C) William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley
(D) Robert Browning. The Grammarian
Ans: B
93. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Novel)
List – II (Major symbol)
i. Dombey and Son 1. fog
ii. The Return of the Native 2. train
iii. Bleak House 3. heath
iv. Tess 4. mist
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 1 3 4 1
Ans: A
94. The following postmodernist novel has an unusual protagonist whose gender is not revealed. So much so, that we keep wondering whether that person’s relationships are homo-/hetero-sexual :
(A) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(B) English Music
(C) Written on the Body
(D) Enduring Love
Ans: C
95. Which novel of Graham Greene in the following list does NOT end in some form of suicide by the protagonist ?
(A) The Heart of the Matter
(B) England Made Me
(C) Brighton Rock
(D) The Power and the Glory
Ans: B
96. Who among the following gave a happy ending to King Lear ?
(A) James Quin
(B) Nahum Tate
(C) Peg Woffington
(D) Charles Macklin
Ans: B
97. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice starts with the famous statement : “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a life.”
As we get to read the novel this statement seems to be made from the point of view of :
I. the surrounding families
II. Mrs Bennet
III. Mr Bennet
IV. The women of Jane Austen’s age and society
Find out the correct combination according to the code :
(A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) II, III and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
Ans: B
98. The tramp in Pinter’s first big hit, The Caretaker, often travels under an assumed name. It is
(A) Bernard Jenkins
(B) Roly Jenkins
(C) Jack Jenkins
(D) Peter Jenkins
Ans: A
99. Here is a list of early English plays
imitating Greek and Latin plays.
Pick the odd one out :
(A) Gorboduc
(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Ralph Roister Doister
(D) Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Ans: B
100. Where does Act I Scene 1 of William Congreve’s Way of the World open ?
(A) A Chocolate-House
(B) A Pub
(C) A Carrefour
(D) The drawing room of Sir Willfull’s mansion
Ans: A
food’ is an example of ______.
(A) Malaproprism
(B) Pleonasm
(C) Neologism
(D) Archaism
Ans: A
74.It is unimaginable that all the following events happened in one year :
1. Arthur Evans discovered the first European civilization; his excavations in Crete revealed a culture that was far older than either Attic
Greece or Ancient Rome.
2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published the Oxford Book of English Verse.
3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train at Gare d’ Orsay, Paris.
4. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.
5. Hugo de Vries identified what would later come to be called genes.
6. Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams.
7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain.
Identify the year :
(A) 1899
(B) 1900
(C) 1901
(D) 1903
Ans: B
75. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy. This is the epigraph to
(A) T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”
(B) Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would be the King”
(C) George Eliot’s Silas Marner
(D) E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End
Ans: B
76. Robert Graves’s “In Broken Images” ends thus :
He in a new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion.
The figure of speech here is _______.
(A) Chiasmus
(B) Catachresis
(C) Inversion
(D) Zeugma
Ans: A
77. The phrase “leaves dancing” is an example of ________.
(A) pathetic fallacy
(B) hyperbole
(C) pun
(D) conceit
Ans: A
78. At the end of The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway observes : “They were careless people”. Who were they ?
(A) Tom and Daisy
(B) The Wilsons
(C) Gatsby and his friends
(D) The people of East Egg
Ans: A
79. William Wordsworth’s statement of purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads carries the following phrase. (Complete the phrase
correctly). “to choose incidents from common life and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as possible, ______.”
(A) in a selection of language really used by men.
(B) in a relation to language really used by men.
(C) in a selection of language really used by common man.
(D) in deference to language actually used by men.
Ans: A
80. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Novels)
List – II (Last lines)
i. Lord Jim 1. ‘It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.’
ii. To the Lighthouse 2. ‘April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead…’
iii. A Passage to India 3. ‘He feels it himself and says often that he is “preparing to leave all this; preparing to leave,...”, while he waves his
hands sadly at his butterflies.’
iv. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 4. ‘ “No not yet,” and the sky said, “No, not there”.’
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 4 3 1
(B) 3 2 4 1
(C) 3 1 4 2
(D) 2 3 1 4
Ans: C
81. Identify the incorrect description/s of “Sprung Rhythm” from the following :
1. This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our minds – hence Sprung Rhythm.
2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal length.
3. A foot may have one to four syllables in Sprung Rhythm.
4. Its metre is derived from the metre of Anglo-Saxon poetry which was based on accent and linked by alliteration.
(A) 4 is incorrect.
(B) 1 & 4 are incorrect.
(C) 3 is incorrect.
(D) 1 is incorrect.
Ans: D
82. Who among the following proposes that the unconscious comes into being only in language ?
(A) Sigmund Freud
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Stuart Hall
(D) Paul de Man
Ans: B
83. The Elizabethan Settlement established during the reign of Elizabeth I
I. ensured the supremacy of the Church of England.
II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the authority of the Pope.
III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be part of the Anglican church.
IV. created a group known as the Roundheads.
The correct combination according to the code is :
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Ans: A
84. Which of the following poems by Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and death ?
(A) “The Beggar Maid”
(B) “The Lotus-Eaters”
(C) “Ulysses”
(D) “Tithonus”
Ans: A
85. One English poet addressing another :
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life’s common way,
In cheerful godliness… .
Whose lines are these ? To whom are they addressed ?
(A) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats
(B) P.B. Shelley – William Blake
(C) William Wordsworth – John Milton
(D) Ben Jonson – William Shakespeare
Ans: C
86. Samuel Johnson’s Lives of Poets (1781) was originally a series of introductions to the poets he wrote for a group of London publishers.
They were collected as :
(A) Lives of English Poets : Critical and Biographical Essays.
(B) Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of English Poets.
(C) Notes, Biographical and Critical, on the Works of English Poets.
(D) Lives of English Poets : Biographical and Critical Notes.
Ans: B
87. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in Northrop Frye’s four ‘generic plots’ ?
(A) The comic
(B) The tragic
(C) The lyric
(D) The ironic
Ans: C
88. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land in the order in which they appear in the poem :
1. The Fire Sermon
2. Death by Water
3. A Game of Chess
4. What the Thunder Said
5. The Burial of the Dead
(A) 3, 2, 1, 5, 4
(B) 5, 1, 2, 3, 4
(C) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4
(D) 5, 3, 1, 2, 4
Ans: D
89. Sir Plume is a character in ____ .sa
(A) Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel
(B) Congreve’s The Way of the World
(C) Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
(D) Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Strategem
Ans: C
90. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady Macbeth calls on ______ to “unsex me here”. (Macbeth I.5.39) Choose the right option to fill in the
blank :
(A) God
(B) the spirits of hell
(C) the angels in heaven
(D) no one in particular
Ans: B
91. You will find the following lines in an English poem :
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the side
Of Humber would complain.
Which poem ? Who is the poet ?
(A) “Lonely Hearts.” Wendy Cope
(B) “Holy Thursday.” William Blake
(C) “Tiger Mask Ritual.” Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
(D) “To His Coy Mistress.” Andrew Marvell
Ans: D
92. Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now.
Whose lines are these ? To whom are they addressed ?
(A) John Keats. The Nightingale
(B) P.B. Shelley. The Skylark
(C) William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley
(D) Robert Browning. The Grammarian
Ans: B
93. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
List – I (Novel)
List – II (Major symbol)
i. Dombey and Son 1. fog
ii. The Return of the Native 2. train
iii. Bleak House 3. heath
iv. Tess 4. mist
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 1 3 4 1
Ans: A
94. The following postmodernist novel has an unusual protagonist whose gender is not revealed. So much so, that we keep wondering whether that person’s relationships are homo-/hetero-sexual :
(A) The French Lieutenant’s Woman
(B) English Music
(C) Written on the Body
(D) Enduring Love
Ans: C
95. Which novel of Graham Greene in the following list does NOT end in some form of suicide by the protagonist ?
(A) The Heart of the Matter
(B) England Made Me
(C) Brighton Rock
(D) The Power and the Glory
Ans: B
96. Who among the following gave a happy ending to King Lear ?
(A) James Quin
(B) Nahum Tate
(C) Peg Woffington
(D) Charles Macklin
Ans: B
97. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice starts with the famous statement : “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a life.”
As we get to read the novel this statement seems to be made from the point of view of :
I. the surrounding families
II. Mrs Bennet
III. Mr Bennet
IV. The women of Jane Austen’s age and society
Find out the correct combination according to the code :
(A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) II, III and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
Ans: B
98. The tramp in Pinter’s first big hit, The Caretaker, often travels under an assumed name. It is
(A) Bernard Jenkins
(B) Roly Jenkins
(C) Jack Jenkins
(D) Peter Jenkins
Ans: A
99. Here is a list of early English plays
imitating Greek and Latin plays.
Pick the odd one out :
(A) Gorboduc
(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Ralph Roister Doister
(D) Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Ans: B
100. Where does Act I Scene 1 of William Congreve’s Way of the World open ?
(A) A Chocolate-House
(B) A Pub
(C) A Carrefour
(D) The drawing room of Sir Willfull’s mansion
Ans: A
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