ENGLISH
ENGLISH LITERATURE SYLLABUS
ENGLISH
The syllabus consists of two papers, designed to test a firsthand and critical reading of texts prescribed from the following periods in English Literature :
Paper 1 : 1600-1900 and
Paper 2 : 1900–1990.
There will be two compulsory questions in each paper : (a) A short-notes question related to the topics for general study, and (b) A critical analysis of UNSEEN passages both in prose and verse.
PAPER I
(Answers must be written in English) Texts for detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements : The Renaissance; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Metaphysical Poetry; The Epic and the Mock-epic; Neoclassicism; Satire; The Romantic Movement; The Rise of the Novel; The Victorian Age.
Section A
1. William Shakespeare : King Lear and The Tempest. 2. John Donne. The following poems : –Canonization; –Death be not proud; –The Good Morrow; –On his Mistress going to bed; –The Relic; 3. John Milton : Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX. 4. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock. 5. William Wordsworth. The following poems : – Ode on Intimations of Immortality. – Tintern Abbey. – Three years she grew. – She dwelt among untrodden ways. – Michael. – Resolution and Independence. – The World is too much with us. – Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour. – Upon Westminster Bridge. 6. Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam. 7. Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House
Section B
1. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels. 2. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. 3. Henry Fielding. Tom Jones. 4. Charles Dickens. Hard Times. 5. George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss. 6. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. 7. Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
PAPER II (Answers must be written in English)
Texts for detailed study are listed below.
Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements : Modernism; Poets of the Thirties; The stream of-consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama; Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; Indian Writing in English; Marxist, Psychoanalytical and Feminist approaches to literature; Post Modernism.
Section A
1. William Butler Yeats. The following poems : – Easter 1916. – The Second Coming. – A Prayer for my daughter. – Sailing to Byzantium. – The Tower. – Among School Children. – Leda and the Swan. – Meru. – Lapis Lazuli. – The Second Coming. – Byzantium. 2. T.S. Eliot. The following poems : – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. – Journey of the Magi. – Burnt Norton. 3. W.H. Auden. The following poems : – Partition – Musee des Beaux Arts – In Memory of W.B. Yeats – Lay your sleeping head, my love – The Unknown Citizen – Consider – Mundus Et Infans – The Shield of Achilles – September 1, 1939 – Petition 4. John Osborne : Look Back in Anger. 5. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot. 6. Philip Larkin. The following poems : – Next – Please – Deceptions – Afternoons – Days – Mr. Bleaney 7. A.K. Ramanujan. The following poems : – Looking for a Cousin on a Swing – A River – Of Mothers, among other Things – Love Poem for a Wife 1 – Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House – Obituary (All these poems are available in the anthology Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, edited by R. Parthasarthy, published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).
Section B
1. Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim. 2. James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 3. D.H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers. 4. E.M. Forster. A Passage to India. 5. Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway. 6. Raja Rao. Kanthapura. 7. V.S. Naipaul. A House for Mr. Biswas.
The syllabus consists of two papers, designed to test a firsthand and critical reading of texts prescribed from the following periods in English Literature :
Paper 1 : 1600-1900 and
Paper 2 : 1900–1990.
There will be two compulsory questions in each paper : (a) A short-notes question related to the topics for general study, and (b) A critical analysis of UNSEEN passages both in prose and verse.
PAPER I
(Answers must be written in English) Texts for detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements : The Renaissance; Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Metaphysical Poetry; The Epic and the Mock-epic; Neoclassicism; Satire; The Romantic Movement; The Rise of the Novel; The Victorian Age.
Section A
1. William Shakespeare : King Lear and The Tempest. 2. John Donne. The following poems : –Canonization; –Death be not proud; –The Good Morrow; –On his Mistress going to bed; –The Relic; 3. John Milton : Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX. 4. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock. 5. William Wordsworth. The following poems : – Ode on Intimations of Immortality. – Tintern Abbey. – Three years she grew. – She dwelt among untrodden ways. – Michael. – Resolution and Independence. – The World is too much with us. – Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour. – Upon Westminster Bridge. 6. Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam. 7. Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House
Section B
1. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels. 2. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. 3. Henry Fielding. Tom Jones. 4. Charles Dickens. Hard Times. 5. George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss. 6. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. 7. Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
PAPER II (Answers must be written in English)
Texts for detailed study are listed below.
Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements : Modernism; Poets of the Thirties; The stream of-consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama; Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; Indian Writing in English; Marxist, Psychoanalytical and Feminist approaches to literature; Post Modernism.
Section A
1. William Butler Yeats. The following poems : – Easter 1916. – The Second Coming. – A Prayer for my daughter. – Sailing to Byzantium. – The Tower. – Among School Children. – Leda and the Swan. – Meru. – Lapis Lazuli. – The Second Coming. – Byzantium. 2. T.S. Eliot. The following poems : – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. – Journey of the Magi. – Burnt Norton. 3. W.H. Auden. The following poems : – Partition – Musee des Beaux Arts – In Memory of W.B. Yeats – Lay your sleeping head, my love – The Unknown Citizen – Consider – Mundus Et Infans – The Shield of Achilles – September 1, 1939 – Petition 4. John Osborne : Look Back in Anger. 5. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot. 6. Philip Larkin. The following poems : – Next – Please – Deceptions – Afternoons – Days – Mr. Bleaney 7. A.K. Ramanujan. The following poems : – Looking for a Cousin on a Swing – A River – Of Mothers, among other Things – Love Poem for a Wife 1 – Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House – Obituary (All these poems are available in the anthology Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, edited by R. Parthasarthy, published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).
Section B
1. Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim. 2. James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 3. D.H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers. 4. E.M. Forster. A Passage to India. 5. Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway. 6. Raja Rao. Kanthapura. 7. V.S. Naipaul. A House for Mr. Biswas.
ENGLISH LITERATURE MCQs
1. Who is the Protagonist in ‘The Waste Land’ ?
(A) Belladona (B) Swansea (C) Sisyphus (D) Tiresias
Ans: D
2. Which character is the embodiment of reason and common sense in ‘The Lord of the Flies’ ?
(A) Sam (B) Eric (C) Piggy (D) Ralph
Ans: C
3. What is the original title of ‘the portrait of the Artist as a Young man’ ?
(A) Stephen Hero (B) Stephen Daedalus (C) Stephen Spender (D) Edmund Bond
Ans: A
4. Philip Larkin belonged to the __________ of poetry.
(A) The Brownian School (B) The Liberal School (C) The Movement School (D) The Traditional School
Ans: C
5. Who authored the book ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ ?
(A) Doris Lessing (B) Graham Greene (C) James Joyce (D) Allen Sillitoe
Ans: D
6. Name the playwright who tells his audience “I must warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures”.
(A) Samuel Becket (B) Edward Bond (C) George Bernard shaw (D) J.M Synge
Ans: C
7. ‘The Waste Land’ was published in the year __________.
(A) 1920 (B) 1919 (C) 1922 (D) 1931
Ans: C
8. Michel Foucault views the author as :
(A) Creator of meaning (B) Function (C) Historical figure (D) Individual Consciousness
Ans: B
9. The method according to which old names can be utilized in new circumstances is :
(A) Iterability (B) Neologistics (C) Entame (D) Paleonymy
Ans: D
10. Which among the following is the Vignaa caused by lack of training on the part of the Sahrudaya ?
(A) Lack of clarity and time (B) Intrusion of space (C) Possibility of doubt (D) Improbability of theme
Ans: B
11. According to T.S. Eliot, emotion of art is :
(A) Impersonal (B) Inaccurate (C) Spontaneous (D) Personal
Ans: A
12. Gynocriticism aims to :
(A) Understand specificity of women’s writing as a product of sexism.
(B) Adopt male models and theories
(C) Erase differences between male and female writing
(D) Understand women’s writing as a fundamental aspects of female reality.
Ans: D
13. Sharankumar Limbala states that dalit literature emerges from.
(A) Imagination (B) Experience (C) Exploitation (D) Repression
Ans: B
14. Periphrasis is :
(A) Inversion of Word order (B) Circumlocution (C) Pursuit of novelty (D) Dignified composition
Ans: B
15. ‘Art as Technique’ highlights the concept of :
(A) Alienation (B) Concretization (C) Defamiliarization (D) Historical sense
Ans: C
16. The statement ‘One may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetry’ was made by :
(A) Longinus (B) Plato (C) Sidney (D) Aristotle
Ans: C
17. Which poem by Wordsworth is cited by Cleanth Brooks as based on a paradoxical situation ?
(A) It is a beauteous evening (B) Lucy Gray (C) Daffodils (D) The Solitary Reaper
Ans: A
18. The way in which linguistic elements are put together to form phrases or clauses are called :
(A) semantics (B) syntax (C) deconstruction (D) phonetics
Ans: B
19. Specific features that are superimposed on the utterance of speech are :
(A) Suprasegmentals (B) Stress (C) intonation (D) Phonemes
Ans: A
20. “Derivation” and “compounding” are terms related to __________.
(A) Vocabulary (B) Grammar (C) Morphology (D) Phonology
Ans: C
21. Naom Chomsky is generally associated with :
(A) Generative Grammar (B) Traditional Grammar (C) Informal Grammar (D) English Grammar
Ans: A
22. The signifier and the signified are terms used in the linguistic theory of :
(A) I.A. Richards (B) Ferdinand Saussure (C) T.S. Eliot (D) Roland Barthes
Ans: B
23. The first Germanic sound shift is also known as :
(A) Verner’s Law (B) Grimm’s Law (C) Kluges Law (D) None of these
Ans: B
24. Kentish, Mexican, Northumbrian etc are __________ dialects.
(A) Middle English (B) Standard English (C) Modern English (D) Old English
Ans: D
25. The Language variety unique to a single speaker of a language is called __________.
(A) dialect (B) syntax (C) phonetics (D) idiolect
Ans: D
26. Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” is an example of __________ dialect.
(A) German (B) Middle English (C) Old English (D) Pidgin English
Ans: B
27. The classical words found a way to the English language since the __________.
(A) Renaissance (B) Norman Conquest (C) Industrial Revolution (D) Romantic Revival
Ans: A
28. Name the author of the poem Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher.
(A) Tagore (B) A.K. Ramanujan (C) Nissim Ezekiel (D) Dilip Chithre
Ans: C
29. Which tree is immortalized by Toru Dutt in her autobiographical poem ?
(A) Neermathala (B) Casuarina (C) Pepal Tree (D) Neem
Ans: B
30. Who is the third occupant in the Carriage described in Emily Dickinson’s poem Because I could not Stop for Death ?
(A) Death (B) Childhood (C) Poet (D) Immortality
Ans: D
(A) Belladona (B) Swansea (C) Sisyphus (D) Tiresias
Ans: D
2. Which character is the embodiment of reason and common sense in ‘The Lord of the Flies’ ?
(A) Sam (B) Eric (C) Piggy (D) Ralph
Ans: C
3. What is the original title of ‘the portrait of the Artist as a Young man’ ?
(A) Stephen Hero (B) Stephen Daedalus (C) Stephen Spender (D) Edmund Bond
Ans: A
4. Philip Larkin belonged to the __________ of poetry.
(A) The Brownian School (B) The Liberal School (C) The Movement School (D) The Traditional School
Ans: C
5. Who authored the book ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ ?
(A) Doris Lessing (B) Graham Greene (C) James Joyce (D) Allen Sillitoe
Ans: D
6. Name the playwright who tells his audience “I must warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures”.
(A) Samuel Becket (B) Edward Bond (C) George Bernard shaw (D) J.M Synge
Ans: C
7. ‘The Waste Land’ was published in the year __________.
(A) 1920 (B) 1919 (C) 1922 (D) 1931
Ans: C
8. Michel Foucault views the author as :
(A) Creator of meaning (B) Function (C) Historical figure (D) Individual Consciousness
Ans: B
9. The method according to which old names can be utilized in new circumstances is :
(A) Iterability (B) Neologistics (C) Entame (D) Paleonymy
Ans: D
10. Which among the following is the Vignaa caused by lack of training on the part of the Sahrudaya ?
(A) Lack of clarity and time (B) Intrusion of space (C) Possibility of doubt (D) Improbability of theme
Ans: B
11. According to T.S. Eliot, emotion of art is :
(A) Impersonal (B) Inaccurate (C) Spontaneous (D) Personal
Ans: A
12. Gynocriticism aims to :
(A) Understand specificity of women’s writing as a product of sexism.
(B) Adopt male models and theories
(C) Erase differences between male and female writing
(D) Understand women’s writing as a fundamental aspects of female reality.
Ans: D
13. Sharankumar Limbala states that dalit literature emerges from.
(A) Imagination (B) Experience (C) Exploitation (D) Repression
Ans: B
14. Periphrasis is :
(A) Inversion of Word order (B) Circumlocution (C) Pursuit of novelty (D) Dignified composition
Ans: B
15. ‘Art as Technique’ highlights the concept of :
(A) Alienation (B) Concretization (C) Defamiliarization (D) Historical sense
Ans: C
16. The statement ‘One may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetry’ was made by :
(A) Longinus (B) Plato (C) Sidney (D) Aristotle
Ans: C
17. Which poem by Wordsworth is cited by Cleanth Brooks as based on a paradoxical situation ?
(A) It is a beauteous evening (B) Lucy Gray (C) Daffodils (D) The Solitary Reaper
Ans: A
18. The way in which linguistic elements are put together to form phrases or clauses are called :
(A) semantics (B) syntax (C) deconstruction (D) phonetics
Ans: B
19. Specific features that are superimposed on the utterance of speech are :
(A) Suprasegmentals (B) Stress (C) intonation (D) Phonemes
Ans: A
20. “Derivation” and “compounding” are terms related to __________.
(A) Vocabulary (B) Grammar (C) Morphology (D) Phonology
Ans: C
21. Naom Chomsky is generally associated with :
(A) Generative Grammar (B) Traditional Grammar (C) Informal Grammar (D) English Grammar
Ans: A
22. The signifier and the signified are terms used in the linguistic theory of :
(A) I.A. Richards (B) Ferdinand Saussure (C) T.S. Eliot (D) Roland Barthes
Ans: B
23. The first Germanic sound shift is also known as :
(A) Verner’s Law (B) Grimm’s Law (C) Kluges Law (D) None of these
Ans: B
24. Kentish, Mexican, Northumbrian etc are __________ dialects.
(A) Middle English (B) Standard English (C) Modern English (D) Old English
Ans: D
25. The Language variety unique to a single speaker of a language is called __________.
(A) dialect (B) syntax (C) phonetics (D) idiolect
Ans: D
26. Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” is an example of __________ dialect.
(A) German (B) Middle English (C) Old English (D) Pidgin English
Ans: B
27. The classical words found a way to the English language since the __________.
(A) Renaissance (B) Norman Conquest (C) Industrial Revolution (D) Romantic Revival
Ans: A
28. Name the author of the poem Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher.
(A) Tagore (B) A.K. Ramanujan (C) Nissim Ezekiel (D) Dilip Chithre
Ans: C
29. Which tree is immortalized by Toru Dutt in her autobiographical poem ?
(A) Neermathala (B) Casuarina (C) Pepal Tree (D) Neem
Ans: B
30. Who is the third occupant in the Carriage described in Emily Dickinson’s poem Because I could not Stop for Death ?
(A) Death (B) Childhood (C) Poet (D) Immortality
Ans: D
31. “Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them and wise men __________ them.”
(A) preserve them (B) ignore them (C) memorize them (D) use them
Ans: D
32. Which Canterbury pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning “Love Conquers All” ?
(A) The Prioress (B) The Wife of Bath (C) The Monk (D) The Squire
Ans: A
33. In which meter did John Milton Write the Book IX of Paradise Lost ?
(A) Free verse (B) Regular meter (C) Blank Verse (D) Verse libre
Ans: C
34. “Thy _________ makes my circle just And makes me end where I began”.
(A) soul (B) weakness (C) firmness (D) strength
Ans: C
35. Who among the following is not a Graveyard poet ?
(A) Thomas Gray (B) Edward Young (C) Thomas Parnell (D) Alexander Pope
Ans: D
36. Which statement is true regarding the two plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malphi ?
(A) Both are tragedies that deal with the revenge motif.
(B) Both are tragicomedies in which all the female characters are killed.
(C) Both are tragicomedies that deal with historical themes.
(D) Both plays were written in 1620.
Ans: A
37. Where does Act 1 scene 1 of William Congreve’s Way of the World open ?
(A) a pub (B) a chocolate house (C) a Carrefour (D) the drawing room of Sir Willfull’s mansion
Ans: B
38. What does the inscription that appears on Dr Faustus’s arm O Homo fuge mean ?
(A) O Man, cry (B) O Man, fly (C) O Man, sink (D) O Man, walk
Ans: B
39. Who was the famous playwright mentioned thrice in Mac Flecknoe whom Thomas Shadwell greatly admired ?
(A) Ben Jonson (B) William Shakespeare (C) Richard Flecknoe (D) Tennessee Williams
Ans: A
40. Who was the publisher of the Shakespearean sonnets ?
(A) William Herbert (B) Henry Wriothesley (C) Thomas Thorpe (D) William Hall
Ans: C
41. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”. This sentence occurs in :
(A) Sense and sensibility (B) Pride and Prejudice (C) Mansfield Park (D) Emma
Ans: B
42. Who wrote the preface to the second edition of ‘Wuthering Heights’ ?
(A) Mrs. Gaskell (B) D.G. Rossetti (C) Branwell (D) Charlotte Bronte
Ans: D
43. Name of the pupil friend of Jane Eyre at Lowood School :
(A) Helen Burns (B) Adele Varens (C) Fanny (D) Eliza
Ans: A
44. “The Mill on the Floss” was first published in :
(A) 1861 (B) 1860 (C) 1859 (D) 1857
Ans: B
45. Name Cecily Cardew’s governess in “The Importance of Being Earnest”.
(A) Mrs. Moncrieff (B) Lady Bracknell (C) Miss. Prism (D) Miss. Burnbury
Ans: C
46. Which is the scene of the tragic incidents in “The Dream Children” ?
(A) A great house in Norfolk (B) A farm house in Southampton
(C) An old house in Southampton (D) A farmhouse in Norfolk
Ans: A
47. “O Lady! We receive but what we give.” Who is the lady referred to here ?
(A) Wordsworth’s sister (B) Nature (C) Coleridge’s sister (D) Sara Hutchinson
Ans: D
48. The flowers that the blessed Damozel had in her hands are :
(A) Roses (B) Violets (C) Lilies (D) Lotus
Ans: C
49. The sub-title of “Windhover” is :
(A) From Christ our lord (B) Submit befer you O! Lord (C) To Christ our Lord (D) O! Christ My Lord
Ans: C
50. “Death Closes All” - appears in :
(A) Browning’s “My Last Duchess” (B) Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
(C) Milton’s ‘Lycidas’ (D) Coleridge’s “Dejection-An Ode.”
Ans: B
(A) preserve them (B) ignore them (C) memorize them (D) use them
Ans: D
32. Which Canterbury pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning “Love Conquers All” ?
(A) The Prioress (B) The Wife of Bath (C) The Monk (D) The Squire
Ans: A
33. In which meter did John Milton Write the Book IX of Paradise Lost ?
(A) Free verse (B) Regular meter (C) Blank Verse (D) Verse libre
Ans: C
34. “Thy _________ makes my circle just And makes me end where I began”.
(A) soul (B) weakness (C) firmness (D) strength
Ans: C
35. Who among the following is not a Graveyard poet ?
(A) Thomas Gray (B) Edward Young (C) Thomas Parnell (D) Alexander Pope
Ans: D
36. Which statement is true regarding the two plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malphi ?
(A) Both are tragedies that deal with the revenge motif.
(B) Both are tragicomedies in which all the female characters are killed.
(C) Both are tragicomedies that deal with historical themes.
(D) Both plays were written in 1620.
Ans: A
37. Where does Act 1 scene 1 of William Congreve’s Way of the World open ?
(A) a pub (B) a chocolate house (C) a Carrefour (D) the drawing room of Sir Willfull’s mansion
Ans: B
38. What does the inscription that appears on Dr Faustus’s arm O Homo fuge mean ?
(A) O Man, cry (B) O Man, fly (C) O Man, sink (D) O Man, walk
Ans: B
39. Who was the famous playwright mentioned thrice in Mac Flecknoe whom Thomas Shadwell greatly admired ?
(A) Ben Jonson (B) William Shakespeare (C) Richard Flecknoe (D) Tennessee Williams
Ans: A
40. Who was the publisher of the Shakespearean sonnets ?
(A) William Herbert (B) Henry Wriothesley (C) Thomas Thorpe (D) William Hall
Ans: C
41. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”. This sentence occurs in :
(A) Sense and sensibility (B) Pride and Prejudice (C) Mansfield Park (D) Emma
Ans: B
42. Who wrote the preface to the second edition of ‘Wuthering Heights’ ?
(A) Mrs. Gaskell (B) D.G. Rossetti (C) Branwell (D) Charlotte Bronte
Ans: D
43. Name of the pupil friend of Jane Eyre at Lowood School :
(A) Helen Burns (B) Adele Varens (C) Fanny (D) Eliza
Ans: A
44. “The Mill on the Floss” was first published in :
(A) 1861 (B) 1860 (C) 1859 (D) 1857
Ans: B
45. Name Cecily Cardew’s governess in “The Importance of Being Earnest”.
(A) Mrs. Moncrieff (B) Lady Bracknell (C) Miss. Prism (D) Miss. Burnbury
Ans: C
46. Which is the scene of the tragic incidents in “The Dream Children” ?
(A) A great house in Norfolk (B) A farm house in Southampton
(C) An old house in Southampton (D) A farmhouse in Norfolk
Ans: A
47. “O Lady! We receive but what we give.” Who is the lady referred to here ?
(A) Wordsworth’s sister (B) Nature (C) Coleridge’s sister (D) Sara Hutchinson
Ans: D
48. The flowers that the blessed Damozel had in her hands are :
(A) Roses (B) Violets (C) Lilies (D) Lotus
Ans: C
49. The sub-title of “Windhover” is :
(A) From Christ our lord (B) Submit befer you O! Lord (C) To Christ our Lord (D) O! Christ My Lord
Ans: C
50. “Death Closes All” - appears in :
(A) Browning’s “My Last Duchess” (B) Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
(C) Milton’s ‘Lycidas’ (D) Coleridge’s “Dejection-An Ode.”
Ans: B
51. Who is described as ‘a drunken vain glorious lout in yeats’ Easter 1916 ?
(A) Maud Gonne (B) John Mac Bride (C) W.H. Auden (D) Dylan Thomas
Ans: B
52. Harold Pinter’s plays are usually associated with the theatre of __________.
(A) Elizabethan age (B) The Absurd (C) Abbey Theatre (D) The intellectual
Ans: B
53. Whose poetry abounds with animals symbols ?
(A) Sylvia Plath (B) Thom Gunn (C) Ted Hughes (D) William Blake
Ans: C
54. Kamaladas’s concept of language in the poem Introduction.
(A) Writes in three (B) Speak two (C) Knows three (D) Dream in one
Ans: D
55. The following are two lists of statements and the poets / critics who made them. Match them correctly:
List – I List – II
(Statements on imagination) (Poets / critics)
I. One power alone makes a poet – The Imagination, The Divine Vision 1. Shelley
II. … what the imagination seizes on beauty must be the truth 2. Coleridge
III. The greatinstrument ofmoral good isthe imagination 3. Blake
IV. Works of imagination should be written in a very plain language 4. Keats
The right combination according to the code is:
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Ans: B
56. In Lord of Flies Golding inverts the morality of R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island involving adventures of three boys marooned on South Pacific Island. Two names are repeated in Golding’s tale. They are
Code:
I. Ralph
II. Roger
III. Jack
IV. Simon
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Ans: D
57. The following are two lists of characters and the works in which we find them. Match them correctly according to the code:
List – I List – II
(Characters) (Works)
I. Ratna 1. A House for Mr Biswas
II. Raghu 2. Midnight’s Children
III. Padma 3. The Last Labyrinth
IV. Gargi 4. Kanthapura
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 1 2 3 4
Ans: C
58. In spite of being constant in his relationship with Sophia, Tom is involved in relationships with three other ladies in the three parts of Tom Jones. Here is a list of these women. Find the odd one:
(A) Molly Seagrim
(B) Mrs Western
(C) Lady Booby
(D) Lady Bellaston
Ans: C
59. This novel by Lawrence was greeted with the headlines: ‘A book the police should ban; loathsome study of sex depravity; misleading youth to unspeakable disaster.’ Its opening chapter was originally suppressed. Name the novel:
(A) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(B) The Rainbow
(C) Women in Love
(D) The White Peacock
Ans: C
60. In Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” the key ideas are best described as the following except one. Which one?
(A) Movement versus stasis
(B) Disappointing love versus eternal bliss
(C) Scars of history versus consolations of art
(D) Beauty versus truth
Ans: C
61. These critics transcend the subjective point of view. They bow to other forms of objective authority: the authority of the past and the authority of the social consensus. They adopt the scientific attitude without the science.
The above formulation best describes
(A) The Neoclassical Critics
(B) The Romantic Critics
(C) The Art for Art Sake Critics
(D) The Symbolist Critics
Ans: A
62. In Beckett’s Waiting for Godo, which character has two pages of unpunctuated speech?
(A) Estragon
(B) Vladimir
(C) Lucky
(D) Pozzo
Ans: C
63. Laura Mulvey’s pioneering essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is an instance of the feminist appropriation of psychoanalysis. It particularly uses
(A) Freud’s concept of sublimation
(B) Jung’s concept of collective unconscious
(C) Lacan’s concept of the gaze
(D) Lacan’s notion of the fragmented body
Ans: C
64. Which of the following novelists does not belong to the “Campus Novelists” Group?
(A) Angus Wilson
(B) David Lodge
(C) Anthony Powell
(D) Malcolm Bradbury
Ans: C
65. Which of the following statements is not true of The Stranger by Camus?
(A) The title character is Meursault, an Algerian who kills an Arab man.
(B) The story, divided into two parts, gives Meursault’s first person narrative before and after the murder respectively.
(C) It is a realistic novel, true to the locale it depicts.
(D) The theme and outlook of the novel are cited as exemplars of existentialism.
Ans: C
66. The Faerie Queene is an epic celebration of
Code:
I. Queen Elizabeth
II. The Irish Nation
III. The Roman Catholic Church
IV. The Protestant Faith
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Ans: C
67. Which of the following statements is not a correct description of Pope’s The Dunciad?
(A) The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers and bad writing.
(B) It is a pessimistic commentary on the civilization of the time.
(C) It is about the coronation of Theobald.
(D) It wishes to satirize Theobald only.
Ans: D
68. Which of the following statements cannot be subsumed under the “Sapir-Whorf” hypothesis?
(A) Each language presents us with its own categorization of the universe.
(B) Language is a guide to social reality.
(C) One adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language.
(D) A language and the society that uses it interlock.
Ans: C
69. Which philosophers do Dante encounter in Limbo, the first circle of hell?
Code:
I. Socrates
II. Aristotle
III. Heraclitus
IV. Plato
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Ans: B
70. Which of the following best describes the role of revision in the writing process?
(A) Revision is discrete phase of the writing process that should occur after the initial drafting phase.
(B) Substantive revisions should be finalized during the second draft phase of the writing process.
(C) Revision is a recursive activity that may occur at any phase of the writing process.
(D) Substantive revision should occur primarily during the editing phase of the writing process.
Ans: C
71. Who among the following eighteenth century English poets committed suicide after years of living close to starvation as a struggling poet?
(A) Robert Burns
(B) Thomas Chatterton
(C) William Collins
(D) Charlotte Smith
Ans: B
72. “Why can’t we be friends now’ … it’s what I want. It’s what you want.’ But the horses didn’t want it – they swerved apart; the earth didn’t want it.” At the end of A Passage to India Forster suggests that
(A) If Fielding and Aziz want, they can be friends.
(B) Probably if the Indians and the English want, they can still be friends.
(C) Though Fielding and Aziz want, the horses and the earth of India do not want the English and the Indians to be friends, not yet.
(D) The East is east and the West is west and the twain shall never meet.
Ans: C
73. An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different languages is a
(A) Dialect
(B) Creole
(C) Pidgin
(D) Register
Ans: C
74. Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic and novelist, took sides in the literary squabbles of the 1860s against Swinburne and the Rossettis. Hewrote a review which introduced the term:
(A) The Earthly School of Poetry
(B) The Fleshly School of Poetry
(C) The Stealthy School of Poetry
(D) The Esoteric School of Poetry
Ans: B
75. The narrator of Piers Plowman falls asleep on
(A) The Mendip hills
(B) The Purbeck hills
(C) The Malvern Hills
(D) The Cheviot Hills
Ans: C
76. In an age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys. The italicised words are an example of
(A) A transferred epithet
(B) A simile
(C) A metaphor
(D) A hyperbaton
Ans: A
77. In Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, Hale is murdered with the help of ‘brighton rock’ which is
(A) A kind of sugar-candy
(B) A form of grenade
(C) A baton
(D) A kind of rock
Ans: A
78. Which poet among this group does not belong to the ‘Auden Generation’ group of poets?
(A) Stephen Spender
(B) Alun Lewis
(C) Cecil Day Lewis
(D) Louis Macneice
Ans: B
79. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the ‘beast’ is actually the evil inside the boys themselves and it is that which is breaking things up?
(A) Jack
(B) Simon
(C) Roger
(D) Ralph
Ans: B
80. Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorian feeling prevalent in the early twentieth century?
Code:
I. Eminent Victorians
II. Jungle Book
III. Philistine Victorians
IV. The Way of All Flesh
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) II and IV are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Ans: B
81. What event allowed mainstream British theatre companies to commission and performs work that was politically, socially and sexually controversial without fear of censorship?
(A) The abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1968.
(B) The illegal performance of works by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond.
(C) The collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s.
(D) A combined appeal to the Queen by a group of London dramatists.
Ans: A
82. The Wife of Bath’s philosophy ofmarriage shows that she
(A) Is a strong person with keen awareness of her own rights?
(B) Tends to say one thing and do the opposite.
(C) Cares only for pleasure, not for right and wrong.
(D) Trusts thought too much instead of feeling.
Ans: A
83. Which of the following characters is killed in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in conformity with an African tribal custom?
(A) Okonkwo
(B) Obierika
(C) Ikemefuna
(D) Nwoye
Ans: B
84. “We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.” The repetition of a phrase is
(A) Antiphrasis
(B) Diacope
(C) Aposiopesis
(D) Enumeratio
Ans: A
85. Find the poet who is the odd one in the group:
(A) Wallace Stevens
(B) Robert Lowell
(C) Sylvia Plath
(D) Anne Sexton
Ans: A
86. Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare’s Tempest is associated with the Earth?
(A) Ferdinand
(B) Ariel
(C) Caliban
(D) Prospero
Ans: C
87. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon attempted a preliminary survey of the entire field of learning, by analyzing the principal obstacles to its advancement. Identify from among the following choices the one that he did not mention as an obstacle:
(A) Rhetoric
(B) Medieval scholasticism
(C) Inductive method
(D) Pseudo sciences
Ans: C
88. Who among this group of youngmale characters in Jane Austen’snovels is not sent to the University for Education?
(A) Tom Bertram
(B) John Thorpe
(C) James Morland
(D) Henry Tilney
Ans: D
89. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in his portrayal of
(A) Paul Dombey
(B) Thomas Gradgrind
(C) Philip Pirrip
(D) Harold Skimpole
Ans: B
90. Which one of the following playwrights will not be covered under the category / term ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?
(A) Jean Genet
(B) Jean Giraudoux
(C) Samuel Beckett
(D) Eugene Ionesco
Ans: B
91. The following are two lists of lines from poems and their titles. Match them:
List – I List – II
(Lines from poems) (Titles of poems)
I. “The squat pen rests as snug as a gun.” 1. “Church Going”
II. “A serious house on serious earth it is.” 2. “Hawk- Roosting”
III. “Time held me green and dying.” 3. “Digging”
IV. “I hold creation in my foot.” 4. “Fern Hill”
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 2 3 4 1
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 3 1 4 2
Ans: D
92. _________ is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes.
(A) Alliteration
(B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Oxymoron
(D) Enthymeme
Ans: B
93. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below:
I. The Dictionary of the English Language
II. The History of Rasselas
III. The Vanity of Human Wishes
IV. Lives of the English Poets
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
Code:
(A) III, I, II, IV
(B) I, II, III, IV
(C) IV, III, II, I
(D) II, III, I, IV
Ans: A
94. Arrange the following forms in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below:
I. commedia dell’arte
II. Confessional poetry
III. Agitprop
IV. Picaresque novel
The correct combination is:
Code:
(A) IV, I, II, III
(B) I, IV, III, II
(C) II, IV, I, III
(D) I, III, IV, II
Ans: B
95. Which of the following poems deals with neighbourly relations?
(A) “Birches”
(B) “Home Burial”
(C) “Mending Wall”
(D) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Ans: C
96. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them:
List – I List – II
(Writers) (Works)
I. Katherine Susannah Prichard 1. Barungin
II. Colin Johnson 2. My Place
III. Sally Morgan 3. Wild Cat Falling
IV. Jack Davis 4. Coonardoo
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 1 4 3 2
Ans: B
97. How does John Stuart Mill define ‘happiness’?
(A) Doing what one wants to do
(B) Leading a fulfilling life
(C) Pleasure and the absence of pain
(D) Virtuous activity
Ans: C
98. “Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime … But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.” Andrew Marvell in these lines emphasizes the theme of
(A) Love
(B) Love and transience
(C) Love and political passion
(D) Love and flattery
Ans: B
99. The following are two lists of dramatists and their plays. Match them:
List – I List – II
(Dramatists) (Plays)
I. George Etheredge 1. The Country Wife
II. William Wycherley 2. The Man of Mode
III. John Vanbrugh 3. The Double Dealer
IV. William Congreve 4. The Provok’d Wife
The correct combination is:
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 3 4 1
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 4 3
Ans: D
100. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them:
List – I List – II
(Writers) (Works)
I. Uma Parameswaran 1. Drums of My Flesh
II. Bharati Mukherjee 2. Trishanku
III. Michael Ondaatje 3. Jasmine
IV. Cyril Dabydeen 4. Anil’s Ghost
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Ans: C
(A) Maud Gonne (B) John Mac Bride (C) W.H. Auden (D) Dylan Thomas
Ans: B
52. Harold Pinter’s plays are usually associated with the theatre of __________.
(A) Elizabethan age (B) The Absurd (C) Abbey Theatre (D) The intellectual
Ans: B
53. Whose poetry abounds with animals symbols ?
(A) Sylvia Plath (B) Thom Gunn (C) Ted Hughes (D) William Blake
Ans: C
54. Kamaladas’s concept of language in the poem Introduction.
(A) Writes in three (B) Speak two (C) Knows three (D) Dream in one
Ans: D
55. The following are two lists of statements and the poets / critics who made them. Match them correctly:
List – I List – II
(Statements on imagination) (Poets / critics)
I. One power alone makes a poet – The Imagination, The Divine Vision 1. Shelley
II. … what the imagination seizes on beauty must be the truth 2. Coleridge
III. The greatinstrument ofmoral good isthe imagination 3. Blake
IV. Works of imagination should be written in a very plain language 4. Keats
The right combination according to the code is:
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Ans: B
56. In Lord of Flies Golding inverts the morality of R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island involving adventures of three boys marooned on South Pacific Island. Two names are repeated in Golding’s tale. They are
Code:
I. Ralph
II. Roger
III. Jack
IV. Simon
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Ans: D
57. The following are two lists of characters and the works in which we find them. Match them correctly according to the code:
List – I List – II
(Characters) (Works)
I. Ratna 1. A House for Mr Biswas
II. Raghu 2. Midnight’s Children
III. Padma 3. The Last Labyrinth
IV. Gargi 4. Kanthapura
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 1 2 3 4
Ans: C
58. In spite of being constant in his relationship with Sophia, Tom is involved in relationships with three other ladies in the three parts of Tom Jones. Here is a list of these women. Find the odd one:
(A) Molly Seagrim
(B) Mrs Western
(C) Lady Booby
(D) Lady Bellaston
Ans: C
59. This novel by Lawrence was greeted with the headlines: ‘A book the police should ban; loathsome study of sex depravity; misleading youth to unspeakable disaster.’ Its opening chapter was originally suppressed. Name the novel:
(A) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(B) The Rainbow
(C) Women in Love
(D) The White Peacock
Ans: C
60. In Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” the key ideas are best described as the following except one. Which one?
(A) Movement versus stasis
(B) Disappointing love versus eternal bliss
(C) Scars of history versus consolations of art
(D) Beauty versus truth
Ans: C
61. These critics transcend the subjective point of view. They bow to other forms of objective authority: the authority of the past and the authority of the social consensus. They adopt the scientific attitude without the science.
The above formulation best describes
(A) The Neoclassical Critics
(B) The Romantic Critics
(C) The Art for Art Sake Critics
(D) The Symbolist Critics
Ans: A
62. In Beckett’s Waiting for Godo, which character has two pages of unpunctuated speech?
(A) Estragon
(B) Vladimir
(C) Lucky
(D) Pozzo
Ans: C
63. Laura Mulvey’s pioneering essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is an instance of the feminist appropriation of psychoanalysis. It particularly uses
(A) Freud’s concept of sublimation
(B) Jung’s concept of collective unconscious
(C) Lacan’s concept of the gaze
(D) Lacan’s notion of the fragmented body
Ans: C
64. Which of the following novelists does not belong to the “Campus Novelists” Group?
(A) Angus Wilson
(B) David Lodge
(C) Anthony Powell
(D) Malcolm Bradbury
Ans: C
65. Which of the following statements is not true of The Stranger by Camus?
(A) The title character is Meursault, an Algerian who kills an Arab man.
(B) The story, divided into two parts, gives Meursault’s first person narrative before and after the murder respectively.
(C) It is a realistic novel, true to the locale it depicts.
(D) The theme and outlook of the novel are cited as exemplars of existentialism.
Ans: C
66. The Faerie Queene is an epic celebration of
Code:
I. Queen Elizabeth
II. The Irish Nation
III. The Roman Catholic Church
IV. The Protestant Faith
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Ans: C
67. Which of the following statements is not a correct description of Pope’s The Dunciad?
(A) The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers and bad writing.
(B) It is a pessimistic commentary on the civilization of the time.
(C) It is about the coronation of Theobald.
(D) It wishes to satirize Theobald only.
Ans: D
68. Which of the following statements cannot be subsumed under the “Sapir-Whorf” hypothesis?
(A) Each language presents us with its own categorization of the universe.
(B) Language is a guide to social reality.
(C) One adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language.
(D) A language and the society that uses it interlock.
Ans: C
69. Which philosophers do Dante encounter in Limbo, the first circle of hell?
Code:
I. Socrates
II. Aristotle
III. Heraclitus
IV. Plato
The correct combination according to the code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Ans: B
70. Which of the following best describes the role of revision in the writing process?
(A) Revision is discrete phase of the writing process that should occur after the initial drafting phase.
(B) Substantive revisions should be finalized during the second draft phase of the writing process.
(C) Revision is a recursive activity that may occur at any phase of the writing process.
(D) Substantive revision should occur primarily during the editing phase of the writing process.
Ans: C
71. Who among the following eighteenth century English poets committed suicide after years of living close to starvation as a struggling poet?
(A) Robert Burns
(B) Thomas Chatterton
(C) William Collins
(D) Charlotte Smith
Ans: B
72. “Why can’t we be friends now’ … it’s what I want. It’s what you want.’ But the horses didn’t want it – they swerved apart; the earth didn’t want it.” At the end of A Passage to India Forster suggests that
(A) If Fielding and Aziz want, they can be friends.
(B) Probably if the Indians and the English want, they can still be friends.
(C) Though Fielding and Aziz want, the horses and the earth of India do not want the English and the Indians to be friends, not yet.
(D) The East is east and the West is west and the twain shall never meet.
Ans: C
73. An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different languages is a
(A) Dialect
(B) Creole
(C) Pidgin
(D) Register
Ans: C
74. Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic and novelist, took sides in the literary squabbles of the 1860s against Swinburne and the Rossettis. Hewrote a review which introduced the term:
(A) The Earthly School of Poetry
(B) The Fleshly School of Poetry
(C) The Stealthy School of Poetry
(D) The Esoteric School of Poetry
Ans: B
75. The narrator of Piers Plowman falls asleep on
(A) The Mendip hills
(B) The Purbeck hills
(C) The Malvern Hills
(D) The Cheviot Hills
Ans: C
76. In an age of pressurized happiness, we sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys. The italicised words are an example of
(A) A transferred epithet
(B) A simile
(C) A metaphor
(D) A hyperbaton
Ans: A
77. In Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, Hale is murdered with the help of ‘brighton rock’ which is
(A) A kind of sugar-candy
(B) A form of grenade
(C) A baton
(D) A kind of rock
Ans: A
78. Which poet among this group does not belong to the ‘Auden Generation’ group of poets?
(A) Stephen Spender
(B) Alun Lewis
(C) Cecil Day Lewis
(D) Louis Macneice
Ans: B
79. In Lord of the Flies which character comes to realize that the ‘beast’ is actually the evil inside the boys themselves and it is that which is breaking things up?
(A) Jack
(B) Simon
(C) Roger
(D) Ralph
Ans: B
80. Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorian feeling prevalent in the early twentieth century?
Code:
I. Eminent Victorians
II. Jungle Book
III. Philistine Victorians
IV. The Way of All Flesh
The correct combination according to the code is
(A) II and IV are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Ans: B
81. What event allowed mainstream British theatre companies to commission and performs work that was politically, socially and sexually controversial without fear of censorship?
(A) The abolition of the Lord Chamberlain’s office in 1968.
(B) The illegal performance of works by Howard Brenton and Edward Bond.
(C) The collapse of liberal humanist consensus in the late 1960s.
(D) A combined appeal to the Queen by a group of London dramatists.
Ans: A
82. The Wife of Bath’s philosophy ofmarriage shows that she
(A) Is a strong person with keen awareness of her own rights?
(B) Tends to say one thing and do the opposite.
(C) Cares only for pleasure, not for right and wrong.
(D) Trusts thought too much instead of feeling.
Ans: A
83. Which of the following characters is killed in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in conformity with an African tribal custom?
(A) Okonkwo
(B) Obierika
(C) Ikemefuna
(D) Nwoye
Ans: B
84. “We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.” The repetition of a phrase is
(A) Antiphrasis
(B) Diacope
(C) Aposiopesis
(D) Enumeratio
Ans: A
85. Find the poet who is the odd one in the group:
(A) Wallace Stevens
(B) Robert Lowell
(C) Sylvia Plath
(D) Anne Sexton
Ans: A
86. Which one of the following characters in Shakespeare’s Tempest is associated with the Earth?
(A) Ferdinand
(B) Ariel
(C) Caliban
(D) Prospero
Ans: C
87. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon attempted a preliminary survey of the entire field of learning, by analyzing the principal obstacles to its advancement. Identify from among the following choices the one that he did not mention as an obstacle:
(A) Rhetoric
(B) Medieval scholasticism
(C) Inductive method
(D) Pseudo sciences
Ans: C
88. Who among this group of youngmale characters in Jane Austen’snovels is not sent to the University for Education?
(A) Tom Bertram
(B) John Thorpe
(C) James Morland
(D) Henry Tilney
Ans: D
89. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian thinking with telling directness in his portrayal of
(A) Paul Dombey
(B) Thomas Gradgrind
(C) Philip Pirrip
(D) Harold Skimpole
Ans: B
90. Which one of the following playwrights will not be covered under the category / term ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?
(A) Jean Genet
(B) Jean Giraudoux
(C) Samuel Beckett
(D) Eugene Ionesco
Ans: B
91. The following are two lists of lines from poems and their titles. Match them:
List – I List – II
(Lines from poems) (Titles of poems)
I. “The squat pen rests as snug as a gun.” 1. “Church Going”
II. “A serious house on serious earth it is.” 2. “Hawk- Roosting”
III. “Time held me green and dying.” 3. “Digging”
IV. “I hold creation in my foot.” 4. “Fern Hill”
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 2 3 4 1
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 3 1 4 2
Ans: D
92. _________ is the use of words whose pronunciation imitates the sound the word describes.
(A) Alliteration
(B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Oxymoron
(D) Enthymeme
Ans: B
93. Arrange the following books in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below:
I. The Dictionary of the English Language
II. The History of Rasselas
III. The Vanity of Human Wishes
IV. Lives of the English Poets
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
Code:
(A) III, I, II, IV
(B) I, II, III, IV
(C) IV, III, II, I
(D) II, III, I, IV
Ans: A
94. Arrange the following forms in the order in which they appeared. Use the code given below:
I. commedia dell’arte
II. Confessional poetry
III. Agitprop
IV. Picaresque novel
The correct combination is:
Code:
(A) IV, I, II, III
(B) I, IV, III, II
(C) II, IV, I, III
(D) I, III, IV, II
Ans: B
95. Which of the following poems deals with neighbourly relations?
(A) “Birches”
(B) “Home Burial”
(C) “Mending Wall”
(D) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Ans: C
96. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them:
List – I List – II
(Writers) (Works)
I. Katherine Susannah Prichard 1. Barungin
II. Colin Johnson 2. My Place
III. Sally Morgan 3. Wild Cat Falling
IV. Jack Davis 4. Coonardoo
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 1 4 3 2
Ans: B
97. How does John Stuart Mill define ‘happiness’?
(A) Doing what one wants to do
(B) Leading a fulfilling life
(C) Pleasure and the absence of pain
(D) Virtuous activity
Ans: C
98. “Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime … But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.” Andrew Marvell in these lines emphasizes the theme of
(A) Love
(B) Love and transience
(C) Love and political passion
(D) Love and flattery
Ans: B
99. The following are two lists of dramatists and their plays. Match them:
List – I List – II
(Dramatists) (Plays)
I. George Etheredge 1. The Country Wife
II. William Wycherley 2. The Man of Mode
III. John Vanbrugh 3. The Double Dealer
IV. William Congreve 4. The Provok’d Wife
The correct combination is:
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 3 4 1
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 4 3
Ans: D
100. The following are two lists of writers and their works. Match them:
List – I List – II
(Writers) (Works)
I. Uma Parameswaran 1. Drums of My Flesh
II. Bharati Mukherjee 2. Trishanku
III. Michael Ondaatje 3. Jasmine
IV. Cyril Dabydeen 4. Anil’s Ghost
Which is the correct combination according to the above code?
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 1 3 2 4
(B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Ans: C
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