Sophisticated, socialite Adam Bede Yaugh at the d take a haughty view — ~ Whereas the simpler tracted to the gentle love 2 preaches, den (8) Dinah Morris tel (D) Maggie Tulivar Dinah Morris ve transforms. Hetty in jail '@ comforts and listens to Hetty tot. her, (B) tke 2 (0) praise ‘(e)udge dog, Gyp, loves his master and ondition reflects Adam’s love of the —and his desire to help and care ase Who depended on him, velpless (8) powerful strong: (0) helping ‘Ans: (A) helpless. portraying the narrator as a character, ot presents a —__Perspective cause the narrator is a real person who judgmental throughout the story. A) moral (©) intellectual > Ans: (A) moral (8) social {0) conventional WW. MODERNISM AND MODERN NOVEL \n 1911, nearly 70 per cent of the Britain's, 45 million inhabitants lived in (8) rural (C) peripheries > Ans: (B) urban areas. (8) urban (0) parochial 2. Till the dawn of the twentieth century, the sense of ‘local’ community was being lost and its result was a greater anonymity of the individual inthe context. (A) rural {C) peripheries > Ans: (B) urban (8) urban {D) parochial 3. In the modern age, society became more and individual identities more fluid, (A) organized (B) stable (C) organic (D) fragmented > Ans: (D) fragmented 4, The Boer War (1899-1902), which was fought by the British to establish control over the Boer republics in South Africa, marked the beginning of rebellion against imperialism. (A) French (C)_ British > Ans: (C) British (B) Italian (0) American 5. The British won the Boer war but it was a hollow victory, and the war inspired other to rebel. (A) colonies (C) regions > Ans: (A) colonies 6 In the age, liberal beliefs in the gradual transition to a better world began tobe questioned, (8) parts (0) communities (a) modern (C) Victorian > Ans: (A) modern (8) romantic (0) Renaissance 7, ‘The mass destruction of the First World War led many towards more extreme affiliations, and both and Marxism held attractions for manyintellectuals and workers, particularly during the 1930s. (a) liberalism (©) realism > Ans: (8) Fascism (8) fascism {0) imperialism In 1928 universal suffrage for women was obtained, paradoxically during a time when growing economic depression and slump appeared to lend increasing weight to analysis of the inevitable failure of capitalist economic systems. (A) capitalist, (C) Marxist > Ans: (C) Marxist (8) eastern {D) radical The increasing literacy rate led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of literature for a semiiterate ‘Towbrow’ readership. (a) high (8) classical (C) neoclassical (0) ‘popular’ > Ans: (D) ‘popular’ ). By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. (a) writers (8) men (©) women (0) soldiers > Ans: (D) soldiers . Isolation and alienation, together with forms of expression, came to characterise serious modernist literature, while cinematic techniques and the elaboration of popular genres came to is k . Having influenced by Freud and Carl jy dominate other forms of t Cultura expression. (A) classical (B) romantic (©) experimental (0) conventionat > Ans: (C) experimental To some writers, the alienation they jy and depicted was an exploration of i" individual sensibility in a world whieh’ was felt was becoming ever, Moy standardised and uniform, an age of te (A) nobles (C) scholars > Ans: (B) masses (8) masses {D) dramatists Under the general influence of work psychologists such as Sigmund Frey and , writers came to believe thy, we are our memories, that the present the sum of our past and that the form ay style of the novel have to capture thy understanding. (a) Karl Marx (8) CarlJung (c) Darwin (0) Einstein > Ans: (B) Carl Jung the novelists concentrated less on a soi, public world and more on thy world of unique and isolates individuals or the shapeless, unstructure sensations of life. (a) outer (8) external (C) inner (D) changing > Ans: (C) inner The modern novel rejected the rg plotted and form of Victor novel. (a) fragmented (B) sensational16. v7, 18, 19. 20. {c)_ psychological > Ans: (D) natural (0) naturalistic In modern novel, the definite shape of a novel’s plot, which organises characters and events, gave way to less logical and modes of organisation. (a) artificial (8) fabricated {C) structured (0) sequential > Ans: (D) sequential ‘A common motif in Modernist fiction is that of an alienated or dysfunctional individual trying in vain to make sense of a predominantly urban and society. (a) organized (8) managed (c) united (0) fragmented > Ans: (D) fragmented Modernist fiction transcends the limitations. of the Realist novel with its concern for larger factors such as social or historical (a) scene (C) scenario > Ans: (B) change (8) change (D) realism The term, stream of consciousness, refers to the flow of, perceptions, and thoughts which stream unbidden through ‘our minds. (A) ideas (8) impressions {C) idealism (D) season > Ans: (B) impressions The stream of consciousness can be illogical and. (a) logical (8) random (c)_ grand (0) material > Ans: (B) random 2. 22. 23. 24, 25. The ‘stream of consciousness’ technique was developed by the novelists in order to render directly and in depth the experience of characters. (A) universal (8) type (C) classical (D) individual > Ans: (D) individual During 1900-1930, the themes of loneliness and isolation and the difficulties of _____both with other individuals and with a wider social and cultural community were explored by the novelists. (A) relationships (8) interaction (©) living (D) individual > Ans: (A) relationships Rudyard Kipling wrote about the Psychological and moral problems of living, among people who are subject to rule but of a different culture. (A) French (C) Portuguese > Ans: (B) British (8) British (0) German Kipling confirmed the importance and value of an Empire and the white man’s to create a single rich civilisation among diverse races, cultures, and creeds. (A) right (8) obsession (C) desire (0) responsibility > Ans: (D) responsibility The Kailyard School of Scottish novel refers to highly and romanticized form of novel. A) sentimental (8). sensitive (C) refined {0) objective > Ans: (A) sentimental122 ; : 1s novels The Murder of Roge, 26. John Galsworthy is deeply concerned with oo exroyd (1926) and Murder on the Orient issues of ___and social awareness. Express (1934) are considered to b¢ (A) morality (8) spirit classics. oe (a) wilkie Collins (8) Agatha Christe a {c) Dickens ' 27. Galsworthy is best known for his Forsyte (0) Arthur Conan Dove Saga (1906-34), a series of nine novels > Ans: (B) Agatha Christie which covers late Victorian days to the iti 32, EM, Forster offers a more critique of the early ee the fortunes of an cand cultural world of the early pay glish family. cof twentieth century and of the values (A) upper class {B) middle class which held the British __together. (©) poor ‘i (D) lower middle class (a) nation Se > Ans: (A) upper class oS rrr > Ans: (A) nation H.G. Wells took many of his characters : froma social level. 33. In his last novel, A Passage to India (1924), a | questions whether the dualities (A) upper (8) middle of East and West, the Indian people and (C) elite (0) lower the ruling British, can be truly brought > Ans: (D) lower together. . Wells’ characters are_-—_ generally (A) E.M. Forster — (B) Woolf and positive and, though not (C) Joyce (0) Bennett always successful, in the end more fully > Ans: (A) E. M. Forster understand what they need to have to be happy. 34. ____co-relates constitute the basis of (Al pessima {B) energetic two major literary styles of modem {C) melancholic (0) discouraged bata > Ans: (B) energetic (A) narrative (B) metonymy (C) dramatic {0) tyrical 30. Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat > Ans: (B) metonymy (1889), the story of three young men and their on a boating holiday on the 35. According to Lodge, metaphor corresponds Thames, contains a great many comic set to Modernism and Symbolism, while pieces. corresponds to anti-Modernism (a) dog (8) goat and Realism. (C) cat (D) rabbit (A) narrative (8) metonymy > Ans: (A) dog (©) dramatic (0) lyrical > Ans: (B) metonymyx 36. 37. 38. 39, 40. Ford's trilogy, Fifth Queen (1907-8), and the tetralogy Parade’s End (1924-28), with its hero Tietjens, were notable contributions to_—_—sthe experimentation with narrative techniques and styles which Ford promoted. (A) expressionist (8) symbolic (C) postcolonial —_(D)_ impressionist > Ans: (A) expressionist D.H, Lawrence’s first major novel Sons and Lovers (1913), autobiographical, chronicles the domestic conflicts in his own home between a coarse, father and a self-consciously genteel mother. (a) articulate (8) inarticulate (C) judicial (D) middleclass > Ans: (B) inarticulate In The Rainbow and it’s sequel Women in love (1921), Lawrence explore human relationships with precision and with intense poetic feeling. (a) personal {C) poetical > Ans: (C) poetical (B) social (D) psychological There are creative tensions both in his novels and extensively in his short stories between different generations, between man and his environment and between human reason and human. (8) instinct (D) approach (A) intellect (C)_ mind > Ans: (B) instinct In Lawrence's fiction, the industrial world is associated with mechanised feelings and with the death of spontaneous, responses to life. (A) intellectual (8). instinctive 41. 42. 43. (c)_ mental (0) wise > Ans: (B) instinctive Lawrence believes that complete honesty between lovers will lead to greater self. knowledge, deeper. ee stronger will to live. (A) fulfillment (8) corruption (C) mystical (0) hypocrisy > Ans: (A) fulfillment Where Modern was a keyword for the first part of the twentieth century, the term has been widely used to describe the attitudes and creative production which followed the Second World War. (A) modern (8) postmodern {C) Anglican (0) Edwardian > Ans: (B) postmodern __ celebrates diversity, eclecticism, and parody in all forms of art, from architecture to cinema, from music to literature. (a) modernism (8) _ postmodernism ()_marxism (0) humanism > Ans: (B) postmodernism VIRGINIA WOOLF (TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, MRS. DALLOWAY) Virginia Woolf was born into a large, talented, class, intellectual family in London. (a) lower (8) middle (c) proletariat (0) upper > Ans: (B) middleJAMES JOYCE’S “A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST ASA YOUNGMAN” Stream of consciousness abandons, cohesion, syntax, and punctuation and lexical correctness which previously brought and clarity to narration. (A) intention (8) order (C) flow (0) impression > Ans: (B) order James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in the town of Rathgar, near. Ireland. (A) Dublin (8) London (C) Glasgow (D) Warwickshire > Ans: (A) Dublin Joyce's parents managed to scrape together “endugh’ money to send their talented son to the Wood College, a prestigious boarding school. (A) Clongowes (8) Eton (C) Harrow (0) Je > Ans: (A) Clongowes Joyce excelled as an actor and’ writer at College. (A) Belvedere (8) Eton (C) Harrow (D) Jesuit > Ans: (A) Belvedere Joyce attended University College where he became increasingly committed to language and literature as a champion of Modernism. (A) Dublin (8) London (©) Glasgow (0) Warwi > Ans: (A) Dublin126 Joyce wrote something in each of. the principal genres before concentrating on, Chamber Music and Pomes Penyeach (poetry); Exiles (play), and Dubliners (short stories). (A) fiction (8) drama (C) poetry (0) criticism > Ans: (A) fiction The protagonist of A Portrait of the Artist as a Youngman, Stephen Dedalus, is in many ways Joyce's fictional, (A) single (C) character > Ans: (B) double (8) double (0) worth Joyce even published stories under the pseudonym. before writing the novel. (A) Simon (C) Eliot Daedalus > Ans: (D) Stephen Daedalus (8) Dedalus (0) ‘Stephen Joyce spent most of his adult life in Europe, mainly in France, Italy, and, (A) Germany (8) Spain (C) Poland (0) Switzerland > Ans: (D) Switzerland Stephen attends Clongowes_ Wood, Belvedere, and University Colleges, struggling with questions of faith and before leaving Ireland to make his own way as an artist. (A) reason (8) painting {) music (0) nationality > Ans: (D) nationality . During his exile in Paris, Joyce wrote two major novels, and Finnegans Wake. (A) Ulysses. (8) The Ambassadors (C) Inheritors (0) The Spire > Ans: (A) Ulysses 12. The novel shows how Stephen Daedalys gradually frees himself from these influences and decides to become an from Ireland and to dedicate his jfg to writing. (A) ascetic (8) exile (C) artist (D) affluent > Ans: (C) artist 13. Stephen Daedalus develops a view of the writer as necessarily from the values of society and committed only to artistic values. (A) associated {C) alienated > Ani (8) absorbed {O) aristocrat C) alienated 14, Stephen Dedalus compared the artist to the of creation who ‘remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails’. (a) God (8) creator (Cc) artist (D) intelligent > Ans: (A) God 15, Ulysses tells the story of one day in the lives of Dublin and vividly evokes the life of the city. (B) citizens (0) st (a) city (©) haste > Ans: (B) citizensx 16. In the many sections of “Joyce’s fiction which involve narrative recounts, Irish speech patterns are prevalent. (A) formal (8) informal (C) discursive (0) colloquial > Ans: (D) colloquial JOSEPH CONRAD’S HEART OF DARKNESS Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski of parents in Russia and did not learn English till he was twenty one. (A) Russian, (C) English > Ans: (B) Polish (8) Polish (D) British Conrad's novels have a variety of locations which reflect his own extensive. mainly as a merchant seaman. + (B) research (0) travels (A) study (©) visits > Ans: (D) travels Conrad brought to his novels. experiences and attitudes which were unusual for a writer of his time. (A) innate (C)_ exotic > Ans: (C) exotic (B) native (D) intrinsic early novels, Conrad uses his experiences in remote places as a means of exploring human character and English codes of honour and loyalty in Particular. (A) intellectual (C) nostalgic > Ans: (D) sea (8) magic (0) sea 127 10. Themes of trust and betrayal, ignorance and dominate Conrad's works. (A) knowledge (B)_ corruption (C) hysteria {0) self-knowledge > Ans: (A) knowledge Lord Jim, a young Englishman who panics and deserts his ship,dies an honourable death but not before his moral are explored in detail. (a) beliefs (8) concerns (C) creeds {0) conflicts > Ans: (D) conflicts The treasure of corrupts Nostromo in Conrad's novel, Nostromo, (A) Wwory (8) gold {C) diamond (0) silver > Ans: (D) silver Conrad is a master of complex techniques such as time-shifting and flashbacks, which prevent a reader from adopting too simplistic an interpretation of events. (A) narrative (8) dramatic (C) lyrical (0) characterisation > Ans: (A) narrative In Heart of Darkness, Conrad describes a long journey to a place deep inside the Congo, the heart of darkness of the title. (A) Belgian (8) English (c) Mexican (0) European > Ans: (A) Belgian The intermediate narrator Marlow, retraces his first visit to Africa and his growing awareness of the evils he encounters.1. . Conrad's most explicitly & (A) West (8) democratic {C) South (0) colonial > Ans: (D) colonial The story told by Marlow contrasts Western in Europe with what that has done to Africa (A) world (8) government | (C) state (0) civilisation > Ans: (D) civilisation . Kurtz, the central character, is a portrait of how the commercial and material exploitation of lands can make men morally hollow, and create a permanent nightmare in the soul. (A) West (8) democratic (C) South (D) colonial > Ans: (0) colonial Kurt's last words were, “The. ! The. (A) power (8) horror (C) justice (0) brute > Ans: (8) horror novels are Nostromo (1904), The Secret ‘Agent (1907), and Under Western Eyes (1911). (A) social (8) political (C) economic (0) historical | > Ans: (8) political | . Throughout his fiction Conrad depicts human isolation, the conflict between different parts of one’s personality and external fate as well as the difficulties of human, (A) will (8) power {C) intellect (0) communication > Ans: (D) communication