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16. “But deeds, and language, such as men do modern letters for those who could not write
use; for themselves. This humble task taught him
And persons, such a comedy would choose, the art of expressing himself in letters. Who is
When she would show an image of the time, the novelist ?
and sport with human follies, not with crime.” (A) Daniel Defoe
In the above lines Jonson— (B) Samuel Richardson
I. Oppose the artificiality of the romantic (C) Henry Fielding
tragic-comedy. (D) Tobias Smollett
II. Initiates the use of realism. 21. “Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be
III. Considers analysis of moral short wise.” Who wrote the following lines ?
comings more important. (A) Pope (B) Gray
IV. Encourages the use of farce with (C) Collins (D) Southey
melodrama.
22. Which of the following works is not actually
Find out the correct combination according to a prose essay ?
the code—
(A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(A) I, II and III are correct
(B) Essay of Man
(B) I, II and IV are correct
(C) An Essay Concerning Human Under-
(C) I, III and IV are correct standing
(D) II, III and IV are correct (D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of
17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove, Vision
We’ll build in ............ pretty roomes.” 23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into believing
(A) lyrics (B) epics that he loves her in The Way of the World ?
(C) sonnets (D) stanzas (A) Millamant (B) Lady Wishfort
18. “That glory never shall his wrath or might (C) Mrs. Marwood (D) Mrs. Fainall
extort from me.” (Paradise Lost, Book I) 24. “Competence to age is supplementary to
What ‘glory’ is being referred to by Satan ? youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear
(A) The courage never to submit or yield the best that is to be had. We must ride where
we formerly walked : live better and be softer
(B) To reign in Hell
and shall be wise to do so than we had means
(C) To defeat God to do in the good old days you speak of.”
(D) To spread evil Who speaks these words and to whom ?
19. It has been described as a “novel without (A) Lamb to Bridget
predecessors”, the product of an original mind (B) Wordsworth to Dorothy
and became immediately popular. It is a (C) Dorothy to Bridget
peculiar blend of pathos and humour, though (D) Lamb to Dorothy
the pathos is sometimes overdone to the point
of becoming offensively sentimental— 25. The Prelude although begun as early as 1799
The novel was published in 1760. What is the and finished in its first version in 1805, was
name of the novel ? not published until ..........
(A) Gulliver’s Travels (A) 1815 (B) 1820
(B) The Castle of Otranto (C) 1830 (D) 1850
(C) Tristram Shandy 26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress
(D) A Tender Husband With the wreathed trellis of a working brain.”
The above lines are quoted from—
20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed as a
printer. He remained a printer throughout his (A) ‘Adonais’
life. He was asked to prepare a series of (B) ‘Ode to Psyche’
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(C) ‘Eve of St. Agnes’ Who is the author of the above lines ?
(D) ‘Endymion’ (A) W.B. Yeats (B) T.S. Eliot
27. “Love seeketh only self to please, (C) W.H. Auden (D) D.H. Lawrence
To bind another to its delight.” 33. “Consume my heart away; sick with desire—
This selfish and possessive nature of love is And fastened to a dying animal.”
illusrated in Blake’s— The above lines are taken from—
(A) ‘The Clod and the Pebble’ (A) “Felix Randal”
(B) ‘The Sick Rose’ (B) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(C) ‘A Poison Tree’ (C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931”
(D) ‘Ah Sunflower’ (D) “The Second Coming”
28. Who is the author of Mary and the unfinished 34. Who among the following is not a surrealist
The Wrongs of Woman ? poet ?
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft (A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(B) William Godwin (B) David Gascoyne
(C) Mary Hay (C) Kenneth Allot
(D) Elizabeth Inchbald (D) C. Day Lewis
29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry James’ 35. The protagonist returns with an admonition,
theory of the novel— the diamond sent to him for smuggling out a
(A) It should be sentimental packet of diamonds as bribe—
(B) It should be objective This scene occurs in one of the novels of
(C) It should be realistic Graham Greene-Identify the novel—
(D) It should be viewed as an artistic form (A) The End of the Affair
30. Match the items in List-I with items in List-II (B) The Heart of the Matter
according to the code given below— (C) The Ministry of Fear
List-I List-II (D) Our man in Havana
(Novels) (Characters)
(a) Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore 36. Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published together
in London in 1959 under the English titles
(b) A Passage to India 2. Molly Bloom is—
(c) To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich
(A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy
(d) Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe
(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Codes :
(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 3 1 2 4 (D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks,
Murphy
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 2 1 3 37. Among the following playwrights, who was
awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920 ?
(D) 1 3 2 4
(A) Eugene O’ Neill
31. Which among the following novels was not
written in 1922 ? (B) Sean O’Casey
(A) Ulysses (B) Jacob’s room (C) William Somerset Maugham
(C) Aaron’s Rod (D) A Passage to India (D) J.B. Priestly
32. “A sudden blow : the great wings beating still 38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept of
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed .......... in his novels.
By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill, (A) Realism (B) Naturalism
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.” (C) Primitivism (D) Expressionism
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39. Who among the following is not an American 44. Which of the following is true ?
modernist poet ? (A) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a poem in nine books
(A) William Carlos Williams (B) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a collection of sonnets
(B) Ezra Pound from the Portuguese
(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger (C) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is a nursery rhyme book
(D) Marianne Moore (D) ‘Aurora Leigh’ is “the Seeds and Fruits
40. An important poet and playwright who in the of English Poetry”
1960s led the Black Arts Movement, in the 45. “The old order changeth yielding place to
spirit of negritude, posited a ‘Black Aesthetic’ new,
that expressed a pan-African, organic and
whole sensibility— And God fulfils himself in many way.”
(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr. In which of the following poems do these
lines appear ?
(B) Amiri Baraka
(A) ‘Locksley Hall’
(C) Ishmael Reed
(B) ‘Two Voices’
(D) Bell Hooks
(C) ‘Morte d’ Arthur’
41. Match the items in List-I with items in List-II (D) ‘Ulysses’
according to the code given below—
List-I (Authors) 46. George Eliot’s attempt to write a historical
novel of the Italian Renaissance was not
(a) V.S. Naipaul (b) Jean Rhys successful. Which was this novel ?
(c) Marina Warners (d) J.M. Coetzee (A) Adam Bede (B) Felix Holt
List-II (Books) (C) Silas Marner (D) Romola
1. Foe
47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by
2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters passion and revenge, add a new dimension to
3. Wide Sargasso Sea the concept of suffering ?
4. Mimic Men (A) Wuthering Heights
Codes : (B) Jude the Obscure
(a) (b) (c) (d) (C) Mill on the Floss
(A) 4 2 3 1 (D) Hard Times
(B) 4 1 2 3 48. From the following women characters in
(C) 4 3 2 1 Hardy’s novels choose the odd one out—
(D) 1 3 4 2 (A) Bathsheba Everdene
42. Yasmine Gooneratne’s The Pleasures of (B) Eustacia Vye
Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel of (C) Elizabeth Jane
the nineties is ironically enough set in the (D) Lucetta
tropical island nation of—
49. “Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte
(A) Sri Lanka (B) Fiji
And this figure he added eek therto,
(C) The Caribbean (D) Amnesia That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”
43. Which of the following is not an Asian- In the Prologue the Parson is represented as
Canadian writer ? man—
(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin 1. who loved money
(B) Himani Banerjee 2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
(C) Joy Kogawa 3. who practiced what he preached
(D) Meena Alexander 4. who was a poor but honest clerk
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Find the correct combination according to the 9. (A) Eliot attracted widespread attention for
code— his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct Modernist movement. It was followed by
some of the best-known poems in the English
(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct language.
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct 10. (A) Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher,
50. Match the items in List-I with items in List-II born in French Algeria. Derrida is best known
according to the code given below— for developing a form of semiotic analysis
List-I (Plays) known as deconstruction. He is one of the
(a) White Devil major figures associated with post-structura-
lism and post-modern philosophy.
(b) Maids Tragedy
11. (A)
(c) Every Man in his Humour
12 (B) The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of
(d) The Spanish Tragedie Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare,
List-II (Characters) believed to have been written in approxi-
1. Hieornimo mately 1603 and based on the Italian short
2. Old Knowell story Un Capitano Moro.
3. Vittoria Corombona 13. (B) 14. (A) 15. (C) 16. (A) 17. (C)
4. Aspatia 18. (A)
Codes : 19. (C) Travels into Several Remote Nations of
(a) (b) (c) (d) the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel
Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain
(A) 4 3 1 2
of Several Ships, better known simply as
(B) 2 1 3 4 Gulliver’s Travels is a novel by Anglo-Irish
(C) 3 4 2 1 writer and clergy man Jonathan Swift, that is
(D) 4 3 2 1 both a satire on human nature and a parody of
the ‘travellers’ tales’ literary sub-genre. It is
Answers with Explanation Swift’s best known full-length work and a
classic of English literature.
1. (A) A syntactic category is a set of words
and/or phrases in a language which share a 20. (B) Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century
significant number of common characteristics. English writer and printer. He is best known
for his three epistolary novels : Pamela : Or,
2. (D) 3. (B)
Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa : Or the
4. (A) Irony meaning ‘dissimulation, feigned History of a Young Lady (1748) and The
ignorance’ in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753).
device, literary technique, or event
21. (B)
characterized by an incongruity, or contrast,
between what the expectations of a situation 22. (B) An Essay on Man is a poem published by
are and what is really the case, with a third Alexander Pope in 1734. It is a rationalistic
element, that defines that what is really the effort to use philosophy in order to “vindicate
case is ironic because of the situation that led the ways of God to man” a variation of John
to it. Irony may be divided into categories Milton’s claim in the opening lines of
such as : verbal, dramatic and situational. Paradise Lost, that he will “justify the ways of
5. (C) The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse God to men”.
form invented by Edmund Spenser for his 23. (B) The play is based around the two lovers,
epic poem The Faerie Queene. Each stanza Mirabell and Millamant. In order for the two
contains nine lines in total : eight lines in to get married and receive Millamant’s full
iambic pentameter followed by a single dowry, Mirabell must receive the blessing of
‘alexandrine’ line in iambic hexameter. Millamant’s aunt, Lady Wishfort.
6. (A) 7. (A) 8. (B) 24. (A)
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25. (D) The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind; 32 (A) William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet
An Autobiographical Poem is an autobio- and one of the foremost figures of 20th
graphical conversation poem in blank verse century literature. A pillar of both the Irish
by the English poet William Wordsworth. and British literary establishments. In 1923 he
Intended as the introduction to the more was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as
philosophical Recluse, which Wordsworth the first Irishman so honoured for what the
never finished, The Prelude is an extremely Nobel Committee described as “inspired
personal and revealing work on the details of poetry”.
Wordsworth's life. Wordsworth began The 33. (B) “Sailing to Byzantium” is a poem by
Prelude in 1798 at the age of 28 and William Butler Yeats, first published in the
continued to work on it throughout his life. 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four
He never gave it a title; he called it the “Poem stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight
(title not yet fixed upon) to Coleridge” and in tensyllable lines. It uses a journey to
his letters to Dorothy Wordsworth referred to Constantinople (Byzantium) as a metaphor
it as “the poem on the growth of my own for a spiritual journey.
mind”. The poem was unknown to the general
public until published three months after 34. (D) Cecil Day-Lewis was an Anglo-Irish poet
Wordsworth’s death in 1850, its final name and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
given to it by his widow Mary. from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also
wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of
26. (B) “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by John Keats Nicholas Blake.
written in spring 1819. The poem is the first
35. (B) The Heart of the Matter (1948) is a novel
of his 1819 odes, which include “Ode on a
by English author Graham Greene. The book
Grecian Urn” and “Ode to a Nightingale”.
details a life-changing moral crisis for Henry
“Ode to Psyche” is an experiment in the ode
Scobie. Greene, a British intelligence officer
genre and Keats’s attempt at an expanded
in Freetown, Sierra Leone, drew on his
version of the sonnet format that describes a
experience there.
dramatic scene.
36. (B)
27. (A) The Clod and the Pebble is a poem
written by the English poet William Blake. It 37. (A) Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was an Irish
was published as part of his collection Songs American playwright and Nobel laureate in
of Experience in 1794. The poem seeks to Literature. O’Neill’s first published play,
form a comparison between disorganised love Beyond the Horizon, opened on Broadway in
1920 to great acclaim and was awarded the
and strict, controlled love which is represented
by the Pebble. Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
38. (C) Primitivism is a Western art movement
28. (A) Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth- that borrows visual forms from non-Western
century English writer, philosopher and or prehistoric peoples, such as Paul Gauguin’s
advocate of women’s rights. During her brief inclusion of Tahitian motifs in paintings and
career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel ceramics. Borrowings from primitive art has
narrative, a history of the French Revolution, been important to the development of modern
a conduct book and a children’s book. art.
Wollstonecraft is best known for A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), 39. (C) William Ellery Channing was a
in which she argues that women are not Transcendentalist poet, nephew of the
naturally inferior to men, but appear to be Unitarian preacher Dr. William Ellery
only because they lack education. Channing. (His namesake uncle was usually
known as ‘Dr. Channing’, while the nephew
29. (A) 30. (B) was commonly called ‘Ellery Channing’, in
31 (D) A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by print.)
English author E. M. Forster set against the 40. (B) Amiri Baraka formerly known as LeRoi
backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an
independence movement in the 1920s. African-American writer of poetry, drama,
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fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere,
the author of numerous books of poetry and Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table.
taught at a number of universities. Malory interprets existing French and English
41. (C) 42. (D) stories about these figures and adds original
43. (D) Meena Alexander (born 1951) is an material.
internationally acclaimed poet, scholar and 46. (D) Romola is a historical novel by George
writer. Born in Allahabad Alexander lives and Eliot set in the fifteenth century and is “a
works in New York City, where she is deep study of life in the city of Florencefrom
Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter an intellectual, artistic, religious and social
College. point of view”.
44. (A) Aurora Leigh (1856) is an epic novel/ 47. (A) Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily
poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brontë, written between October 1845 and
poem is written in blank verse and encom- June 1846 and published in 1847 under the
passes nine books (the woman’s number, the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It was her first and
number of the prophetic books of the Sibyl). only published novel : she died the following
45. (C) Le Morte d’Arthur is a compilation by year, aged 30.
Sir Thomas Malory of romance-era tales about 48. (C) 49. (C) 50. (C)
English
(Paper-III)
UGC-NET/JRF Exam., 2014
Solved Paper
June 2014
English
(Paper – III)
Directions—This paper contains seventy five (B) Una – Pride
(75) objective type questions of two (2) marks Guyon – Deceit
each. All questions are compulsory. Duessa – Temperance
1. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch Orgoglio – Truth
and Petrarchanism to English sounds and (C) Una – Deceit
metres, Survey’s verse tends to look back Guyon – Pride
beyond Petrarch to the— Duessa – Temperance
(A) French verse (B) Italian Verse Orgoglio – Truth
(C) Spanish verse (D) Latin Verse (D) Una – Temperance
2. How are some characteristics of Morality Guyon – Truth
Plays— Duessa – Pride
1. They are dramatized allegories of the life Orgoglio – Deceit
of man. 4. “Fop at the toilet, flatt’rer at the board
2. They depict man’s temptation and Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord.”
sinning, his quest for salvation and his
The above lines are quoted from
confrontation with Death.
(A) McFlecknoc
3. Though the hero represents Mankind, the
other characters are by not means (B) The Rape of the Lock
personifications, of virtues, vices and (C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
death. (D) Absalom and Achitrphel
4. A character known as the Vice often 5. Which of the following arrangements is in the
plays the role of the hero, a predecessor correct chronological sequence ?
of the Villian-hero in Elizabethan drama. (A) Every Man in His Humour
Find the correct combination according to the The Shoemaker’s Holiday
code—
Antonio’s Revenge
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct
The Changeling
(B) Only 1 and 3 are correct
(B) The Shoemaker’s Holiday
(C) Only 1 and 4 are correct
Every Man in His Humour
(D) Only 2 and 3 are correct
The Changeling
3. In Spenser’s Re Faerie Queene there are the
Antonio’s Revenge
allegorized moral and religious virtues with
their counterparts in the vices. Identify the (C) The Changeling
correctly matched set— Antonio’s Revenge
(A) Una – Truth Every Man in His Humour
Guyon – Temperance The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Duessa – Deceit (D) Antonio’s Revenge
Orgoglio – Pride Every Man in His Humour
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