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    “ WREN 2010 ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE ‘Time Allowed : 3 Hours ] ( Maximum Marks : 300 Read the following instructions carefully before you begin to answer the questions. 10. 12, DMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS ‘Thie Booklet has a cover ( this page ) which should not be opened till the invigilator gives signal to open it at the commencement of the examination. As soon as the signal is received you should tear the right side of the booklet cover carefully to open the booklet. Then proceed to answer the questions. ‘This Question Booklet contains 200 questions. Answer all questions. All questions carry equal marks. ‘The Test Booklet ts printed in four series e.g. [A] [B] [C] or [D] (See Top left side of this page ). The candidate has to indicate in the space provided in the Answer Sheet the series of the booklet. For example, if the candidate gets [A] series booklet, he/she has to indicate in the ‘aide 2 of the Answer Sheet with Blue or Black Ink Ball point pen as follows : Misi tcp You must write your Register Number tn the space provided on the top right side of this page. Do not write anything else on the Question Booklet. ‘An Answer Sheet will be supplied to you separately by the Invigilator to mark the answers, You must write your Name, Register No. and other particulars on side 1 of the Answer Sheet Provided, failing which.your Answer Sheet will not be evaluated. ‘You will also encode your Register Number, Subject Code etc., with Blue or Black ink Ball point pen in the space provided on the side 2 of the Answer Sheet. If you do not encode properly or fail to encode the above information. your Answer Sheet will not be evaluated, Each question comprises four responses (A), {B). (C) and (D). You are to select ONLY ONE correct response and mark in your Answer Sheet. In case you feel that there are more than one correct Tesponse, mark the response which you consider the best. In any case, choose ONLY ONE response for each question. Your total marks will depend on the number of:correct responses marked by you in the Answer Sheet. In the Answer Sheet there are four brackets { A] | B | | C | and { D | against each question. To answer the questions you are to mark with Ball point pen ONLY ONE bracket of your choice for each question. Select one response for each question in the Question Booklet and mark in the ‘Answer Sheet. If you mark more than one answer for one question, the answer will be treated as wrong. e.g. If for any item, (B) is the correct answer, you have to mark as follows : 1A] MIC) ID) You should not remove or tear off any sheet from this Question Booklet. You are not allowed to take this Question Booklet and the Answer Sheet out of the Examination Hall during the ‘examination. After the examination 1s concluded, you must hand ovey your Answer Sheet {0 the Invigilator. You are allowed to take the Question Booklet with you oyly after the Examination is, over. Failure to comply with any of the above instructions will render you Itable to such action or penalty as the Commission may decide at their discretion. Do not tick-mark or mark the answers in the Question Booklet. woot [1607 16001 [Tum over ‘The most sensuous of poets was A) {Wordsworth B) Keats © | sheuey D) Byron. ‘The’ moral salvation of man is the theme of Shelley's The Cenct B) Prometheus Unbound ©) “Alastor D) Adonats. ‘The Ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.” In these Ines A) Gray depicts the sad mood B) ' Gray describes the plight of farmers : ©) ‘Gray gives a vivid description of evening scene D) | Gray sings hymns to the dead. In “Kubla Khan’ the poet expresses his A)‘ curlosity to build the dome B) fear of being haunted by a demon C) {quest for his lost vision of creativity D) {desire to bring forth hfe. ‘The statement “The praises of Liberty were condemned to harbour spiders and to gather dust” about Thomson was made by “A TS. wtot B) Dr. Johnson ©). ‘Dryden D) Ben Jonson. t Which of the following of Thomas Gray was criticised for being obscure ? A) ‘The Pindaric Odes i B) The Progress of Poesy ©) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard D) The Bard. ' , [F356] ‘ux (i607 6001 (Tum over WREN 4 7 10, Which one of the following ts correctly matched ? John Dryden - ‘The Spleen ‘William Congreve = The Seasons Sheridan - ‘The Last Day D) Goldsmith ~ The Citizen of the World. ‘The character ‘Booth’ in ‘Amelia’ is based upon that of A Henry Fielding himself B) Henry Fielding's father ©) Henry Fielding's brother D) Henry Fielding's friend. The crown of Congreve's qeation is ‘Mellament’ who is A) extremely proud of her vanity B) insincere in her love for Mirabell ©) not witty, but cause of wit in others 1D) deviates often into sentimentality. “Ensign Beverley-Lydia Absolute-Julia ©) Julia-Faukland D) Fag-Lucy. William Hazlitt’s reason for objecting Dr. Johnson's style of writing is A) lack of variety . B) there ts no selection ) absence of discrimination D) all of these. 1607 : 16001, episode is woven skilfully by Sheridan in his ‘The Rivals 5 WREN B) Keats and Coleridge i : oe Wordsworth and Shelley D) Wordsworth and Colertdge. fC 13. Who among the following was called “critic's critic" ? : : nN Charles Lamb /B) William Hazlitt mn ° Walter Scott D) Thomson. 4. Charles Lamb's essays which appeared in ‘The London Magazine’ was signed as B) Cousin Bridget D) John Woodvil. hoo gs 115. As @ revoluttonary poet, Byron represents the revolutionary movement's of }4 KL AL constructive side B) destructive side é if ©) creative side D) humanistic side. i i L £ 1 t ‘4.16. Jane Austen introduces the match-making mother, Mrs. Bennet in beg ie A) Northanger Abbey B) Emma wg i ©) Pride and Prejudice D) Sense and Sensibility. 17. Coleridge's Kubla Khan ts a/an A Sonnet B) Ode : ©) Dream fragment D) Novel. | 18. Wordsworth's autobiographical poem is t ‘A) The Prelude B) Immortality Ode tog ©). Tintern Abbey Lines D) An Evening Walk. 4 xox [1607 16001 {Turn over of go} jd < $$ WREN 7 6 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24, Hazlitt’s best criticism ts contained in A) two collections of lectures B) _ three collections of lectures ©) four collections of lectures D) _ five collections of lectures. When Francis de Bonnivard was released. from prison in “The Prisoner of ‘Chillon” . A) he loved to see the people again B) - was very happy to be out of the dungeon ©) he was indifferent to freedom D) was pining to see his family members. George Eliot is the pen name of =. ' 4) Mary Ann B) Romola ©) William Collins D) Edwin Drood. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest’ is a play on A) Comedy of Errors B) . Comedy of Manners ©)» Comedy of Characters D) Comedy on Situation. , Dickens sprang suddenly into fame with the publication of A) Great Expectations B) David Copperfield ©) Pickwick Papers D) A Tale of Two Cities. ‘The novels of Dickens belong entirely to the A) Humanitarian movement B) Oxford movement ©) .Cambridge movement D) _ Revolutionary movement. ieo7 660% ‘The ‘novels of Thomas Hardy : ‘The Return of the Native’, ‘The Mayor of . Casterbridge’, ‘Tess of the d'Urbervilles’ and ‘Jude the Obscure’ are classified as ne ; 5 7 WREN A ‘pastoral comedies B) pastoral tragedies o ‘pastoral romances D) _ pastoral extravaganza. Tica Hardy's novela ae che set gana he background of |y Bssex B) Sussex ©) ‘Wessex D) Somerset. . \Charles Dickens attacks the injustice which persecutes poor debtors in 5A); Oliver Twist B) Bleak House ! $0 | Little Dorit D) _ Nicholas Nickleby. 4 . | Arnold takes the readers into the field of legendary, Persian History in +A) The Scholar-Gipsy B) — Sohrab and Rustum a 2 ©)" Rugby Chapel D) Obermann. ." “The triumph of the individual will over all obstacles’ is the message of | A Browning B) Tennyson i o Arnold D) Elizabeth Barrett. 30.| Tennyson challenged materialism and asserted the eternal vareties of God in A) Morte d'Arthur B) The Ancient Sage o In Memoriam D) The Idylls of the King. ais ‘The moon, the swan and Byzantium are symbols used by i B) T.S. Eliot D) DH. Lawrence. 16001 { Turn over WREN 8 32. 33. 34. 35. D.H. Lawrence's ‘Sons and Lovers’ deals with the relationship between A) son and father B) daughter and father ©) daughter and mother D) son and mother. Consider the following statements : 1. John Galsworthy was the son of a wealthy lawyer. II. John Galsworthy began his literary career as a novelist. Ill. One of John Galsworthy's best known plays is ‘Strife’. IV. John Galsworthy did not write any verses. Of the statements : , A) [alone is correct B) Land Il are correct a 1, 1 and Il are correct D) all are correct. W.B. Yeats strove hard to bring into existence a/an A) Irish National Theatre B) Literary Club ©) Magnificent Library D) Well furnished inn. TLS, Eliot's ‘The Waste Land’ presents a A) disturbing vision of the contemporary world B) portrait of a dry area. ©) picture of a desert D) depiction of his old age. Shaw developed from a propagandist to a playwright, dealing with A) social problems B) real problems ©) political problems D) financial problems. 607 e001 “8 WREN ts reecang her ag 1 'B) image of her own exquisite sensibilities | a) because novela were the common form of literature Dy becnue shelved in an age of rose 38! some ofthe novels of DH, Lawrence af based on A personal experience B) controversial figures § 'o satirteal portraits D) political situation. 39. Yeats ues ‘the falcon’ and ‘the widening gyre’ in a “Byzantium B) Sailing to Byzantium oO ‘The Second Coming D) Easter 1916. 40. i Romesh Chunder Dutt's fame rests on the fact that \'q) hele the translator of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata “Be he isa patriotic poet ie) he isa great orator a) he han easy. ; tn maton’ ‘Paradise Lost’ "athe hero and the grandest character 1s Adain ‘B) the hero and the grandest character is Eve 0) the hero and the grandest character is Arch-Felon D) _ the hero and the grandest character is Beelzebub. 42. |, Which of the following was not written by Ben Jonson ? a Epicoene or The Silent Woman B) _Defence of Poesie oO Bartholomew Fair D) Volpone. ‘ . 16003 [Turn over WREN 10 43. “Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man." These lines appear in Bacon's A) Of Revenge B) Of Death ©) Of Studies D) Of Gardens. 44, Ben Jonson's place in literature fs determined by his A) dramatic work for the popular theatres B) poetic collections ©) prose work D) eplgrams. 45. The Jonsonian characters of Volpone exclusively associated with beasts and | birds of prey are " A) Corbaccio as hawk B) —Corbaccto as gor-crow ©) Corbaccio as raven D) Corbaccio as vulture. 46. Donne's ‘The Anniversary’ reveals love fulfilment and A) variety of mood in love B) affirmation of constancy in love ©) shows his cynical wit D) fondness for conceit. 47, The theme of ‘King Lear’ is A 7 distribution of wealth B) _ filial ingratitude ©) senile dimensia D) Lear's high expectation, 48. The most famous early poem of Milton ts Lycidas which 1s written A) about an attack on the clergy B) ‘about a moral teaching C) on the death of his friend D) about the corrupt clergy. xox [1607 16001, 49. Marlowe in his ‘Dr. Faustus’ a conjures ‘the spirit of the Pope a comedy” B) farce 7 roa ©) tragedy D) melodrama. 51 ‘Dr. Radhakrtdhnan i fa) a phowopber 'B) “ statesman with an international reputation. ' ©) © a deep student of English and Sanskrit languages ‘ on | a an intellectual who has the courage to stand aside and be different from i the| crowd. ; i a ? 52. in Raja Rao's Kanthapura, Hemavathy is ° A) a person and a presence B) a feminine personality ‘C).__ the portrait of a young intellectual D) _ a rebel against formalism. 53.) Sarojin! Naidu's poetry reveals her 4 4) fen England B) inner itfe 'Q) outer life D) vision of love. 54. Apart from India, the other country that has chosen Rabindranath Tagore's song \\as Its National Anthem is Shay Palaistan B) Ceylon ag Bangladesh D) Malaysia. [Turn over mx [i607] 1 I 16001, WREN : 12 55. 56. 57. 59. 60. ‘The theme of Gandhism is found in Raja Rao's A) Cat and Shakespeare B) The Serpent and the Rope © Kanthapura D) The Cow of the Barricades. Sarojini Naidu was also known by the sobriquet “Bharatiya Kokila” which means A) child prodigy B) many talents ©) The Nightingale of India D) The Nightingale of the World. Along with Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan who Is the other writer regarded as the “founding fathers” of the Indian English novel? A) Toru Dutt B) RC. Dutt ) Mulk Raj Anand D) Nirad C. Chaudhuri. Rabindranath Tagore's ‘Gitanjalt' ts mainly considered as A) Song of Reality B) Song of Innocence ©) Song of Bhakti D) Song of Sorrow. Toru Dutt's sonnet “The Lotus” is regarded as A) a mystic experience B) a fancy-free poem © an elegiac note D) _ tenderness and purity. Consider the following statements : Sri Aurobindo’s Thought the Paraclete’ is I. the aspiration of the mind. 11, enlightenment in the face of person. Ml, understanding the mystical mind. IV. quest in solitude. Of the statements : A) Talone fs correct B) and Ill are correct ©) Mand WV are correct D) all are correct.” xxx [1807] T6007 : 13 WREN ' Mui Raj Anand’s ‘Two Leaves and a Bud’ is | A a powerful study of ie in an Assamese tea estate 4 ‘a a communication of the totality of the vision, |’) an expression of both understanding and love \'D) a revelation of contemporary human situation. 61. 62, ° The confessional poetry of Kamala Das can be compared to that of LA) Anne Sexton B) Jayanta Mahapatra 1. Vimala Rao D)__ Eunice de Souza. 63. 'Nissim Ezekiel is one of the wontan novelists in Indian Literature } new poets prominent prose writers > major playwrights. 64. Milk Raj Anand’s ‘Private Life of an Indian Prince’ deals with a . * interesting events in Anand's life B) the memory of the Prince who had become mad 9. t ae overtones his adel to avotd entanglements 65. Th reurignten Eze poms A)" his absorption in American poetry B)__ his influence of Sanskrit classics | the hurt that urban civilization inflicts on modern man D)}" hts confessional tone. 66. Farce la ype of comedy dsgned to A a ‘arouse laughter by Yokes 6 gage B. iy provoke ‘the audience to ‘belly laughs’ 9 fe ‘evoke the audience to ‘thoughtful laughter’ D) ‘rely on the wit and sparkle of the dialogue. {Tum over WREN 14 67. 68. 69. 70. 7. 72. 73. 74, 75. Mulk Raj Anand explores the impact of caste cruelty in A) Coolie B €) Across the Black Waters D) ‘A Passage to England! was written by A) Raja Rao B. © Nired C. Chaudhuri D) R.K. Narayan's first novel is Ay Bachelor of Arts B ©) Swami and Friends D) ‘The Continent of Circe’ was written by A) Nirad C. Chaudburt B) Cc) RK. Narayan D) ‘The first locomotive was invented by ‘The Village Untouchable. RK. Narayan E.M. Forster. ‘The Dark Room ‘The Financial Expert. Nayantara Shegal Mulk Raj Anand. John Kay Richard Arkwright. ‘The Scholar Gipsy A) George Stephenson 5) C) James Hargreaves D) ‘The poem Amold wrote in memory of his father is A) Rugby Chapel B) ©) Dover Beach D) Thyrsis. ‘The Supreme Comic Novel of Charles Dickens 1s A) David Copperfield B) © Great Expectations D) Charles Dickens’ aim was to satirise the A) middle classes . B) ©) upper middle clases D) ‘Wuthering Heights’ was written by 4) Charlotte Bronte B) ©) . Emily Bronte . D) 1607 16001 A Tale of Two Cities Pickwick Papers. lower classes upper classes. . Anne Bronte none of them. 4. 15 ‘WREN 76. ° William Caxton introduced the improved method of printing in ‘A 3476 B) 1447 “0 1467, D) 1477. 77. : The centres of Renaissance culture in Germany were “A schools B) colleges “9 monasteries, D) _ universities. 78. ‘The Oxford reformers wanted to liberalise and reform A) the church B) the universities ©) the orphanages D) - the prisons. 79. The Pope conferred the title of ‘Fidel Defensor’ upon Henry Vi B) Charles V [)Q)) Henry vir D) Charles IV. ‘Three of the accused who were charged of stealing secret documents have been 1 Sequitted. In the above sentence, the error is in ; * Al three of the accused B) who were charged of stealing “a. secret documents D) “have been acquitted. -81. Eccentricity is sattrised in Ben Jonson's A) the intrigue comedy B) the humour comedy © the sentimental comedy D) _ the genteel comedy. 82.', Consider the following statements : 1. | Lyric ts a short poem dealing with a single emotion omy Lyric ts a musical poem "WL, tyrte fs a subjective poem } Savi) Lyric possesses a definite structure. ‘A)’ Talone ts correct B) I and Il are correct C) « Land IV are correct D) all are correct. xxx [1607 % ‘16008 [Tum over ‘WREN 83. 84. 85. 87. 89. 90. 16 The Ode originated from A Latin B) German ©) Greek D) Spanish, The Italian sonnet is often known as A) Miltonic sonnet B) -Petrarchan sonnet ©) Shakespearean sonnet D) —Spenserian sonnet. Milton's ‘Lycidas’ ts A) a pastoral elegy B) a modem elegy ©) aChristian elegy D) anode. ‘The classic examples of the epic in European literature are A Aeneid, Paradise Lost B) =‘ Morte d’Arthur, The Lusiad ©) Faerie Queene, Beowulf D) Iliad and Odyssey. A Ballad was originally intended to be A acted B) recited ©) sung D) danced. Of the given statements; which one statement does not belong to the category of a tragedy ? A) Observance of the three unities B) Chorus ts.a noteworthy element ©) Atmosphere is somber and serious D),__ It moves us to laughter. Comedy that attacks the disorders of society and ridicules the violators of its standards of morals is Al satiric comedy B) romantic comedy ©) © restoration comedy D) comedy of manners. ‘The Industrial Revolution took place first in A) sOBritain B) France ©) Germany D) Italy. is . 4 : 17 an. Sir Toby Belch is a character in : “A Dwele Night 4. © As You Like It 92. Nymphidia is a fairy-tale written by o A Michael Drayton =| ©) Bamaby Barnes D) B) D) ‘The Merchant of Venice Much Ado About Nothing. Spenser ‘Thomas Watson. 98.' “Let me not think on it, Frailty, thy name is woman !" This line is said by (A) Othello ‘Q) Hamlet B) D) 94.” Milton's “Paradise Lost” was published in ‘A 1666 1671 oO M 1 95. Milton's pastoral elegy is > ‘A) Paradise Lost O ‘Samson Agonistes 96.” ‘The interest! of Marlowe's tragedies Ite in the \ } , A) death of the heroes oO ‘ poverty of the heroes B) D) B) D B) D) 97. "The first'of the “Metaphysical” love poets is ‘al Cowley “© Andrew Marvell B) D) Portia Rosalind. 1667 1673. Paradise Regained Lycldas. struggle of the soul loneliness of the heroes. Crashaw John Donne. 98. , The supernatural elements that figure in 'Macbeth'are { ‘Ay Angels * 0 16001 B) D) Witches Noise of Thunder. WREN 18 99. Which one of the following is a comedy written by Ben Jonson ? A) The Blind Beggar of Alexandria B)_—_The Alchemist ©) The Captives D) The Shoemaker's Holiday. 100. A poem of Milton which tells of Christ's temptation and victory is 4) Samson Agonistes B) Paradise Regained © Lycidas D) Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity. 101. According to Nehru's views, ‘The Lahore Congress was attended by a large number of A) All-India Congress Committee * B) people from Allahabad ©) people from the Frontier province D) Congress members of the Legislative Assembly. 102. In ‘Natir Puja’ by Tagore the issue in the play is between the I. temporal power Il, manly power Il. kingly power IV. spiritual power. Of these : A) Land Il are correct B) I and IV are correct ©) Wand Il are correct D) Iand IV are correct. 103, The world war was seen as a grapple between two forces, the Divine and the Asuric by A) Sri Aurobindo B) Dr. Radhakrishnan “©) Tagore D) Mulk Raj Anand. sox [7607 16001 ey am 19 : WREN “104. ‘Discovery of India’ was written by A) Gandhi B) Nehru Oo “Raja Rao D) AK. Ramanujam. 105.,R.C.'Duitt translated Sanskrit poetry into ‘a ‘Tem B) Urdu | Bngish | D) Bengal. : 106. “The Striders’ was written by j A ' Mulk Raj Anand B) Raja Rao oO jak. Ramanujam D) _R. Parthasarathy. t 107. Tagore's ‘Gora’ is a/an AD y essay B) poem ©) short story D) fiction. 108. Rabindranath Tagore wrote primarily in 4 English B) Bengali a) Marathi D) Urdu. 109. In 1906, Sri Aurobindo assumed charge as the Editor of A) Bande Mataram B) Dharma 2 8 ikarmayogin D) Yugantar. 210. Munoo is the hero of Mull Raj Anand’s A Untouchable B) Coolie ©) ~The Sword and the Sickle D) The Big Hea-t. 111. *To take the bull by the horns” means a to accept as true : B) to grapple with a difficulty with courage i ' ©) to meet before hand “Dy to take a hint. (F380) ox [1e07 Teoor {Turn over i ‘WREN 20 112, Choose the exact meaning of the idiom / phrase : ‘The pros and cons A) for and against a thing B) ©) good and evil D) 113. Choose the exact meaning of the idiom : foul and fair former and latter. . Rahul fought tooth and nail to save his company. , A) with weapons B) ©) ustng unfair means D) 114, Fill tn the blank with correct article : CQ An D) Choose the best ‘word to substitute the following phrase : 115. ‘A person who eats too much’ A) polyglot B) C) precocious ‘D) 116, Choose the correct spelling : 4) consentious: B) ) consencious D) 117. Substitute the statement with one word : A song of sorrow for the dead A) souvenir B) ©) sacrilege D) 118. Choose the meaning of the phrase : ‘To beat the air’ A) to make vain efforts B) OC) togive airs D) xxx [1607 16001 as best as he could with great fury. None of these. abstemious glutton. conscentious conscientious. ‘ to brag and boast to submit. a i 21 WREN | : B) fell © falls D) falling. 120.' Find out the correct spelling : 2°) seudonym B) sudonym “@) scodonym D) pseudonym. t 121. A storm at sea is described by Conrad in his ‘ A) Under Western Eyes B) APoint of Honor t ‘9 ‘The Nigger of the Narcissus D) Typhoon. 122. ‘History of Western Philosophy’ was written by : A) Harold Nicolson B) Peter Fleming : a Freya Stark D) Bertrand Russell. 123.°E.M. Forster represents the division between the English ruling clase and the Indians in ‘his | A) Where Angels Fear to Tread B) The Longest Journey 50) A Passage to India D) Howards End. + e 124, Bernard Shaw puts a few puppets on the stage to talk in his “\A) The Doctor's Dilemma B) Back to Methuselah i 4 hc) arms and the Man D) Pygmalion. 125.°“The Unknown Citizen” of Auden was .A) acommon man who died unnoticed '*B) a popular individual involving in strikes ©) an'inaividual who disappointed the workers D) an ideal person to be followed by modern men. xxx [3667 : [Teoor [Tum over WREN 22 126. Macaulay in ‘The History of England’ after describing the country gentlemen Proceeds to A) intellectual life of the time B) tragic history of adventurer's bid for throne ©) changes which came over towns and cities D) trial of seven bishops who refused royal command. 127. Bertrand Russell hopes that man can have a future A)__ by skill of human slaughter in the name of war B) _ by utilizing universal knowledge of wise people ) to minimize population with scientific development D) to emphasise the growth of culture. 128, The narrator in Conrad's ‘Heart of Darkness‘ is a/an A) Observer-cum-Reporter B) _Reporter-cum-Commentator ©) Commentator-cum-Participant D) all of these. 129. Marlowe, a seaman who narrates his experiences in Congo is the story of Joseph Conrad's A) Typhoon x B) Nostromo ©) Heart of Darkness D) Lord Jim. 130, Which among the following is not a play of G.B. Shaw ? A) The Gipsy Girl B) Heartbreak House © Candida . D) Man and Superman. ex [1607 16001 mod 131, The first great modern prose writer was A! Walton: B) Hobbes 9 Dryden D) ‘Locke. 132. ‘Rape of the Lock’ is a mock-herole poem of “Ay Swift B) Pope O Gray D) Addison. 193, “The Tatler’ perlodical Journal was started by 51M Addison B) Steele “'G) Addison and Steele D) Pope. 134. Congreve's “The Morning Bride’ is a a comedy B) farce : 7.) tragl-comedy D) tragedy. 135. ‘Goldsmith was the laughing-stock of the wits of London B) the literary genius of the age an interesting story teller a historian of the period. 136. The mock herole description of the great battle in the king's Mbrary between the ‘rival hosts is represented in Swift's “! a) ATale of a Tub B) Gulliver's Travels | ©) The Battle of the Books D) Captain Singleton. 137, The entteal work of Coleridge is 1) A) Christabel + |B) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner o Defection : An Ode 16001 (Turn over At 23 WREN WREN 24 138. Wordsworth is the greatest poet of the A) artificial society B) country and natural life ©) moder city life D) spiritual life. 139. Thompson's “Hound of the Heaven" is about A) an sxpression of feeling to God B) a thought of evading God ©) repentance and surrendering to God D) _ shwering in.encomium for the gift of God. 140. The theme of Byron's “The Prisoner of Chillon” is A) Iberty and freedom in politics B) _Uberty and freedom in religion ©) liberty and freedom in free love D) _ liberty and freedom in religion and politics. 141. Oscar Wilde achieved real artistic harmony in Lady Windermere's Fan ‘The Importance of Being Earnest. An Ideal Husband ZSoaoge A Woman of No Importance. 142, Consider the following statements : I, Fra Pandolf is an imaginary character. Hl, Fra Pandolf 1s a sculptor of the last duchess. HI. Claus of Innsbruck loved the last duchess. IV. Claus of Innsbruck is an imaginary character. Of the statements : A) Land Il are correct B) and Ill are correct ©) Wand IV are correct > I and IV are correct. xxx (1607 Fre0o! i 5 25 wren 143,’ In Amold’s ‘Dover Beach’ a reflection of “AL disbelief ts depicted vividly - B) ~ hatred of men finds-full expression ©) haunting sense of melancholy is expressed “D) Psychology of men are affétted. 7 144, When Oliver's feelings were hurt A) he'weeps bitterly and stays within i) he turns out to be violent ' ©) he'submits himself to the situation '-D)-he'questions the authorities. 3 ' 145." Baron Hausberg, the model millionaire is worth admiring for his 1. | awareness of humanity | I,J passion for art . MI. personal charm IV. possession of wealth, ? Of these: , % Land IV are correct B) I and Ill are correct 1.0) Mand IV are correct D) Land I are correct. + 146. Galsworthy's “The Forsyte Saga” comprises three novels. Match the dates : | 1,1 ‘The Man of Property : u.! In Chancery m. ‘Summer of a Forsyte : To Let. | i JA) 1, land Ill are correct B) 1, Ml and IV are correct 0 Il, IV and I are correct D) OU, Ml and IV are correct. WREN 7 ” 26 147. Consider the following statements : I.. Tennyson won Chancellor’s medal for the poem ‘Timbuctoo’ Il, Tennyson became poet-laureate in 1850 Il. Tennyson died in 1992 IV. Tennyson wrote a poem ‘Akbar's Dream’. Of the statements : A) Lalone is correct B) 1 and Ill are correct ©) 1, Wand Ml are correct D) 1, Wand IV are correct. 148. Another term used for “dramatic monologue” is. A) detached speech B) attached speech ©) connected speech D) combined speech. 149. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ? A) The Woodlanders am Sue B) Jude the Obscure - Marty South ©) ‘Far from the Madding Crowd = Gabriel Oak D) The Return of the Native - Giles. 150. Mr. Lockwood narrates the story of ‘Wuthering Heights’ and so docs Nelly Dean. It means A) only Lockwood Is the narrator B) only Nelly Dean ts the narrator ©) both are not the narrators D) _ both are the narrators. wx (1607 16001 7 : 4 27 ‘WREN 4181. Addison in his “Sir Roger at Church” considers “Sabbath” as the best method mead fg for giving complete rest to people 1. _ for making people polished and civilized a , IIL. | prevent men from becoming savages low. to change men into atheists. 7 Of the statements : i: 9 | talone ts correct B) both | and IV are correct 7 © | both Hand Mt are correct D) both Ii and IV are correct. ‘152. According to Steele in the Coverley household, 7 » 2) AD the servants fly away at the master’s eight Ba | tbe master rages ints fary on secing the mats OQ |e servants always walt upon thets master D) fhe servants pretend to be sincere to their master. 153. Pope's thasterpiece 1s S°) 8) [an Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot B) Four Pastorals > ©) The Rape of the Lock D) The Duneiad. 154. Addidon and Steele catered to the taste ofthe reading public through {

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