December 1994 Paper II

1. The renaissance started in 8. What is the sub-title of „The Prelude‟?

A) Italy A) An autobiography
B) France B) A preface to my life
C) England C) Growth of a poet's mind
D) Germany D) A poet's story

2. The line 'The paths of glory lead but to 9. The line 'Love is not Time's fool' occurs
the grave' occurs in in a sonnet by:
A) Shakespeare A) John Keats
B) Herbert B) Philip Sidney
C) Pope C) John Donne
D) Gray D) William Shakespeare

3. By 'character' Aristotle means 10. The Renaissance is written by

A) Personages in drama A) Walter Pater
B) Cause of action B) Mathew Arnold
C) Combination of incidents in drama C) I A Richards
D) Particular nature of drama D) George Saintsbury

4. 'Amor Vincit Omnia' in Chaucer's The 11. In Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson says
Prologue means A) The good is always encouraged
A) Love conquers nothing B) The good is not particularly encouraged
B) Love conquers all nor evil disapproved
C) Love is blind C) The evil is often triumphant
D) Love is fatal D) There is no moral purpose

5. The sonnet form was introduced in 12. The mistakes of a night is the sub-title
England by of
A) Shakespeare A. Clarissa Harlowe
B) Philip Sidney B) She Stoops to Conquer
C) Wyatt C) Joseph Andrews
D) John Skelton D) The Way of the World

6. Which one of the following novels of 13. The Romantic Age in England is
Dickens is based on his own life? distinguished for its
A) Nicholas Nickleby A) Verse drama
B) Great Expectations B) Political prose
C) Hard Times C) Horror novels
D) David Copperfield D) Lyrical poetry

7. Dryden in 'Essay of Dramatic Poesy' 14. Who among the following was not a
rejects 'tragi-comedy' because member of the 'pre-Raphaelite
A) It is an innovative form Brotherhood'?
B) It violates the unity of tone A) Oscar Wilde
C) It is a poor imitation of French drama B) William Holman Hunt
D) It was practiced only by the Ancients C) John Everett Millais
D) Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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15. Eliot's 'Objective correlative' signifies 22. Apologia Pro Vista Sua by Newman is
the writer's ability to A) an attack on Catholicism
A) relatively delineate his objectives B) denunciation of Protestantism
B) relate different objects C) a defence of the author's stand
C) correlate objects and events D) a defence of religious values
D) objectify the desired states of mind
23. Who is the author of 'Journal of the
16. Which one of the following is a Plague Year'?
Cavalier poet? A) Richard Steele
A) Herbert B) Daniel Defoe
B) Donne C) Joseph Addison
C) Herrick D) Samuel Pepys
D) Marvell
24. The Chartist Movement sought
17. Adonais is an elegy written on the death A) Recognition of chartered trading
of: companies
A) W.B Yeats B) Political rights for women
B) John Keats C) Protection of the political rights of the
C) P.B Shelly middle class
D) Wordsworth D) Extension of the political rights to the
working class
18. Which one of the following is not a
Lake Poet? 25. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
A) Wordsworth is written by
B) Coleridge A) William Hazlitt
C) Southey B) S.T Coleridge
D) Shelley C) Charles Lamb
D) De Quincey
19. 'Negative Capability' is
A) The ability to overcome unpleasant 26. The dictum 'only connect' is central to
experience the writings of
B) A passive subordination to experience A) Aldous Huxley
C) A subjective response to experience B) Virginia Woolf
D) depersonalized empathy with experience C) E.M Forster
D) D.H Lawrence
20. “Plurality”, according to John Stuart
Mill, is necessary for the 27. The criterion of Leavis's Great
1) cultivation of the genius Tradition is
B) success of democracy A) moral purpose
C) intellectual enrichment of the society B) sublime subject matter
D) evolution of State C) reader-response
D) truth to life
21. “A little learning is a dangerous thing”
is taken from 28. Free trade signifies
A) Alexander Pope A) trade without government control
B) John Dryden B) trade with only government control
C) William Shakespeare C) freedom to trade in all commodities
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29. In 'Culture and Anarchy', Mathew 36. The 'Movement' is a literary
Arnold recommends phenomenon in the
A) adoption of Hellenism A) Thirties
B) adoption of Hebraism B) Forties
C) fusion of Hellenism and Hebraism C) Fifties
D) rejection of Hellenism and Hebraism D) Sixties

30. Lamia is a poem by 37. John Donne 'affects the metaphysics'.

A) Rossetti This remark was made by
B) Shelley A) Samuel Johnson
C) Keats B) Allen Tate
D) Spenser C) T.S Eliot
D) John Dryden
31. How long did Robinson Crusoe live on
the deserted Island? 38. “The Lunatic, the love and the poet are
A) 12 years and 9 days of imagination all compact”. These lines
B) 28 years and 2 months occur in
C) 16 years A) Twelfth Night
D) 21 years and 2 months B) A Midsummer Night's dream
C) As You Like It
32. In which year did the Great Exhibition D) The Tempest
take place?
A) 1851 39. Alexander's Feast is
B) 1857 A) A mock epic by Alexander Pope
C) 1861 B) A play by Dryden
D) 1871 C) A play by Marlow
D) an Ode by Dryden
33. Yeats' Leda and the Swan drawn upon
A) An oriental myth 40. Who said this: “Life is not a luminous
B) East European myth halo, a semi-transparent envelope”?
C) Celtic myth A) Dorothy Richardson
D) A Greek myth B) James Joyce
C) Henry James
34. The source of E.M Forster's title Where D) Virginia Woolf
Angels Fear to Tread is
A) Pope 41. In which book of Gulliver's Travels
B) Dryden does Balnibarbi find a mention?
C) Milton A) “Laputa”
D) Donne B) “Lilliput”
C) “Houyhnhnms”
35. The lines “Things fall apart/ Centre D) “Borbdingnag”
cannot hold” occur in
A) Byzantium 42. The phrase 'Sweetness and Light' was
B) Gerontion first used by
C) Second Coming A) Dr. Johnson
D) Sailing to Byzantium B) Keats
C) Mathew Arnold
D) Swift

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43. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is D) Ferdinand about the Duchess of Malfi.
A) an autobiography
B) a fictional narrative
C) a biography
D) a fictional biography

44. Hopkins's Curtal Sonnet consists of

A) 14 lines
B) 101/2lines
C) 131/2 lines
D) 12 1/2lines

45. God is referred to as the 'president of

Immortals” in
A) The Paradise Lost
B) Tess
C) Ulysses
D) The White Devil

46. Osborne's Look Back in Anger was first

staged in
A) 1956
B) 1957
C) 1958
D) 1960

47. Maurya is a character in

A) She Stoops to Conquer
B) Volpone
C) Riders to the Sea
D) The Golden Gate

48. Which of the following is a poet as well

as a painter?
A) Tennyson
B) Keats
C) Shelley
D) Rossetti

49. Which English poet referred to Oxford

as “that sweet city with her dreaming
spires”?
A) Robert Graves
B) Matthew Arnold
C) W. H Auden
D) Alexander Pope

50. “Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle; She

died young” – this was said by
A) Hamlet about Ophelia
B) Othello about Desdemona
C) Lear about Cordelia
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 DECEMBER 2004 PAPER II
8. Which of the following plays is not
1. In Langland's Piers the Plowman, Piers
written by Congreve?
appears finally as
(A) The Way of the World
(A) Charity
(B) The Old Bachelor
(B) Tha Holy Trinity
(C) Love for Love
(C) Jesus
(D) The Relapse
(D) The Good Samaritan
9. Dryden's All For Love is an adaptation
2. It is decided that each Canterbury
of:
pilgrim would tell in all:
(A) Philaster
(A) One story
(B) Romeo and Juliet
(B) Two stories
(C) Antony and Cleopatra
(C) Three stories
(D) Edward II
(D) Four stories
10. Which of the following books proposes
3. Venus and Adonis is a long narrative
a political theory?
poem by:
(A) Principia
(A) Shakespeare
(B) Leviathan
(B) Marlowe
(C) Anatomy of Melancholy
(C) Drayton
(D) Liberty of Prophesying
(D) Sydney
11. Which of the following books is written
4. The total number of poems in
by a woman?
Shakespeare's Sonnets is:
(A) A Vindication of the Rights of Women
(A) 123
(B) Social Contract
(B) 142
(C) A Treatise of Human Nature
(C) 104
(D) The Wealth of Nations
(D) 154
12. Which of the following books by
Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory?
5. Which of the following plays has a
(A) The Battle of the Books
Machiavellan hero?
(B) A Modest Proposal
(A) Tamburlaine Part I
(C) Gulliver's Travels
(B) Dr Faustus
(D) A Tale of a Tub
(C) Jew of Malta
(D) Edward II
13. Which of the following is a "visionary"
work by William Blake?
6. Which of the following is written by
(A) The Song of Los
Samuel Butler?
(B) Songs of Experience
(A) Religio Laici
(C) Poetical Sketches
(B) David Simple
(D) The Vision of the Daughters of Albion
(C) Hudibras
(D) Journal of the Plague Year
14. Pope's An Essay on Man is based on
the ideas of:
7. Which of the following poems did Milton
(A) Lord Petrie
write in Octosyllabic Couplets?
(B) Theobald
(A) Il Penseroso
(C) Lord Bolingbroke
(B) On His Blindness
(D) Lord Harvey
(C) On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
(D) Lycidas

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15. Which of the following works by 22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written
Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire by:
of Juvenal? (A) Mrs Gaskell
(A) London (B) George Eliot
(B) Vanity of Human Wishes (C) Thomas Hardy
(C) The Life of Savage (D) Emily Bronte
(D) Rasselas
23. The Office of Circumlocution occurs
16. The final version of Wordsworth's The
in:
Prelude appeared in:
(A) David Copperfield
(A) 1798
(B) Bleak House
(B) 1806
(C) Great Expectations
(C) 1850
(D) Hard Times
(D) 1860
24. The novel Mary Barton is written by:
17. "To suffer woes which Hope thinks
(A) Mrs Gaskell
infinite" is written by:
(B) George Eliot
(A) Shelley
(C) Emily Bronte
(B) Wordsworth
(D) Dickens
(C) Keats
(D) Byron
25. The line "Poetry is a criticism of life"
occurs in:
18. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"
(A) Culture and Anarchy
occurs in:
(B) Modern Painters
(A) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(C) The Study of Poetry
(B) Ode to Autumn
(D) Sartor Resartus
(C) Ode to Psyche
(D) Endymion
26. Martha Quest was written by:
(A) Jean Rhys
19. Which of the following novels is a satire
(B) Doris Lessing
on the Gothic novel?
(C) Iris Murdoch
(A) Pride and Prejudice
(D) Nadine Gordimer
(B) Emma
(C) Sense and Sensibility
27. The term "Stream of Consciousness"
(D) Northanger Abbey
was taken from the book:
(A) The Human Mind
20. Who distinguished between "the
(B) The Principles of Psychology
literature of Knowledge" and "the
(C) The Mind of Man
literature of power"?
(D) Modes of Human Behaviour
(A) Coleridge
(B) De Quincey
28.G S Fraser's The Golden Bough focuses
(C) Hazlitt
on:
(D) Lamb
(A) Images
(B) Metaphors
21. Who among the following Victorian
(C) Symbols
poets is the most sensititve to the conflict
(D) Archetypes
between the old and the new?
(A) Tennyson
(B) Rossetti
(C) Browning
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29. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman 36. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is writtn
relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate by:
of: (A) Arthur Miller
(A) Willy Loman (B) Eugene O Neil
(B) Estragon (C) Edward Albee
(C) Vladimir (D) Tennessee Williams
(D) Lucky
37. Imamu Amiri Baraka is
30. The character Leopald Bloom makes (A) A Carribean writer
an appearance in the novel: (B) An American writer
(A) The Sound and the Fury (C) An Arab writer
(B) Ulysses (D) A Sri Lankan writer
(C) To the Lighthouse
(D) The Europeans 38. The Miscellany was published from:
(A) Sahitya Akademi
31. Who of the following authors (B) The Writers Workshop
represents the Sri Lankan diaspora? (C) PEN
(A) Cyril Dabydeen (D) Dhwanyalok
(B) Michael Ondaatje
(C) Arnold H Itwaru 39. Who of the following writers recreates
(D) M G Gassanji the life of the Yoruba/Ibo Community?
(A) Derek Walcott
32. Australian aborigines receive a (B) Wole Soyinka
sympathetic treatment in: (C) Chinua Achebe
(A) Les Murray (D) Okot
(B) Gwen Harwood
(C) Judith Wright 40. Who of the following White female
(D) A D Hope authors are sympathetic to the cause of the
Blacks?
33. Margaret Atwood's Survival makes a (A) Margaret Drabble
case for (B) Nadine Gordimer
(A) Canadian literary studies (C) Muriel Spark
(B) Canadian nationalism (D) Jean Rhys
(C) The future of Canadian literature
(D) The past of Canadian literature 41. New Criticism considers text as a:
(A) Cultural construct
34. V S Naipaul's latest book is: (B) Historical construct
(A) The Mystic Masseur (C) Linguistic construct
(B) A Bend in the River (D) Autotelic
(C) Among the Believers
(D) Half a Life 42. Mythologies was written by"
(A) Roland Barthes
35. Which of the following books by (B) Jacques Derrida
Salman Rushdie refers to the 15th century (C) Homi K Bhabha
Spain as a starting point? (D) Ernest Dowson
(A) Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(B) The Moor's Last Sigh 43. The word "Catharsis" signifies:
(C) Shame (A) Pontification
(D) Grimus (B) Personification
(C) Purgation
(D) Publication

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44. The rejection of "Universalism" is a
mark of:
(A) Deconstruction
(B) New Historicism
(C) Structuralism
(D) Post Colonial Criticism

45. Eliot's theory of "objective correlative"

appeared in his essay entitled:
(A) Three Voices of Poetry
(B) Tradition and Individual Talent
(C) The Metaphysical Poets
(D) Hamlet

46. Sprung Rhythm is an example of:

(A) Verse
(B) Syllable
(C) Stress
(D) Meter

47. "More is thy due than more than all

can pay" is an example of
(A) Weak - ending
(B) Inversion
(C) Alexandrine
(D) Extra Syllable

48. Unrhymed metrical composition

consisting of five iambic measures in each
line is called
(A) Rhyme royal
(B) Run-on-lines
(C) Blank verse
(D) Spenserian stanza

49. Verse stories dealing with chivalry,

Knight, errantry, enchantments and love
are known as
(A) The epic
(B) The ballad
(C) The ode
(D) The metrical romances

50. "He is a citizen of no mean city" is an

example of:
(A) Periphrasis
(B) Tautology
(C) Prolepsis
(D) Litotes

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 June 2005 Paper II
1. The Nun's Priest's Tale had its origin in:
8. The posthumously published novel of
(A) The French Roman de Renart
Jane Austen is:
(B) The Italian Boccaccio's Teseide
(A) Sense and Sensibility
(C) The English John Gower's Confessio
(B) Mansfield Park
Amantis
(C) Emma
(D) The German Goethe's Faust
(D) Northanger Abbey
2. The First Folio of Shakespeare's plays
9. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus means:
appeared in:
(A) Satan's story retold
(A) 1664
(B) The tailor retailored
(B) 1631
(C) I know not where
(C) 1623
(D) a set of elegant clothes
(D) 1650
10. The character not created by Hardy is:
3. Restoration comedy begins with:
(A) Sue Bridehead
(A) Congreve
(B) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) Sheridan
(C) Betsy Trotwood
(C) Dryden
(D) Thomasin
(D) Etherege
11. The poet who described poetry as
4. The author of The Progress of the Soul
"inspired mathematics" is:
is:
(A) T S Eliot
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Hopkins
(B) John Donne
(C) Archibald MacLeish
(C) Henry Vaughan
(D) Ezra Pound
(D) Richard Crashaw
12. The woman character who is an artist
5. Dr Johnson's The Lives of the Poets is an
by profession in Virginia Woolf's To the
example of:
Lighthouse is:
(A) Psychological criticism
(A) Lily Briscoe
(B) Biographical criticism
(B) Mrs Ramsay
(C) Historical criticism
(C) Mrs Dalloway
(D) Archetypal criticism
(D) Miriam
6. The picaresque novel with a female
13. The poet who said, "My poems are not
picaroom is:
about violence, but vitality," is:
(A) Tom Jones
(A) Philip Larkin
(B) Clarissa
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Moll Flanders
(C) C D Lewis
(D) Amelia
(D) Thom Gunn
7. The expression "ancestral voices
14. Pinter's Care Taker can be called a:
prophesying war" occurs in:
(A) comedy of manners
(A) Kublakhan
(B) comedy of menace
(B) Frost at Midnight
(C) comedy of errors
(C) Christabel
(D) comedy of humours
(D) Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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15. Toni Morrison used male narrator for (D) Sense and Sensibility, Pride and
the first time in: Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey
(A) Song of Solomon
(B) Tar Baby 22. Shakespeare criticism by:
(C) Jazz
(D) The Bluest Eye (A) Spurgeon - T S Eliot - Stephen Greenblatt
- Bradley
16. The author of The Hungry Tide is: (B) Bradley - Spurgeon - T S Eliot – Stephen
(A) Vikram Seth Greenblatt
(B) Shobha De (C) T S Eliot - Stephen Greenblatt - Bradley -
(C) Amitav Ghosh Spurgeon
(D) Upamany Chatterjee (D) Stephen Greenblatt - Bradley - T S Eliot
- Spurgeon
17. The soul of tragedy according to
Aristotle is: 23.
(A) Thought (A) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford
(B) Character Movement, Movement Poetry, Imagism
(C) Plot (B) Oxford Movement, Pre-Raphaelite
(D) Spectacle Brotherhood, Imagism, Movement Poetry
(C) Imagism, Movement Poetry,, Pre-
18. The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford Movement
occurs in: (D) Movement Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite
(A) New criticism Brotherhood, Oxford Movement, Imagism
(B) Deconstruction
(C) Structuralism 24.
(D) Formalism (A) Closet drama, Epic Theatre, Theatre of
the Absurd, Portable Theatre
19. "United we stand, divided we fall" is an (B) Epic Theatre, Portable Theatre, Theatre of
example of: the Absurd, Closet drama
(A) Antithesis (C) Portable Theatre, Closet drama, Epic
(B) Bathos Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd
(C) Tautology (D) Theatre of the Absurd, Portable Theatre,
(D) Litotes Closet drama, Epic Theatre

20. A metre in which an unaccented 25.

syllable precedes the accented is called: (A) Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson, Kyd,
(A) anapaestic Marlowe
(B) dactylic (B) Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, Marlowe,
(C) catalectic Thomas Nashe
(D) iambic (C) Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas Nashe,
Ben Jonson
Choose the correct chronological sequence (D) Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd,
in question numbers 21-30: Ben Jonson

21.
(A) Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice,
Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park
(B) Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility,
Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice
(C) Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey,
Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility
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26.
(A) Essay on Dramatic Poesy, Areopagitica,
Urn Burial, Religio Medici
(B) Areopagitica, Urn Burial, Religio Medici,
Essay on Dramatic Poesy
(C) Religio Medici, Areopagitica, Urn Burial,
Essay on Dramatic Poesy
(D) Urn Burial, Essay on Dramatic Poesy,

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Areopagitica, Religio Medici
27.
(A) Kamala Das, Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt,
Meena Alexander
(B) Meena Alexander, Toru Dutt, Sarojini
Naidu, Kamala Das
(C) Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das, Meena
Alexander, Toru Dutt
(D) Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das,
Meena Alexander
28.
(A) Jude, Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Mrs
Morel
(B) Dorothea, Mrs Morel, Jude, Lady
Havisham
(C) Dorothea, Jude, Mrs Morel, Lady
Havisham
(D) Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Jude, Mrs
Morel
29.
(A) The Well-Wrought Urn, The Verbal Icon,
Theory of Literature, Literary Theory: An
Introduction
(B) The Well-Wrought Urn, Theory of
Literature, The Verbal Icon, Literary Theory:
An Introduction
(C) The Verbal Icon, The Well-Wrought Urn,
Literary Theory: An Introduction, Theory of
Literature
(D) Literary Theory: An Introduction, The
Well-Wrought Urn, Theory of Literature, The
Verbal Icon
30. Nobel Prize winners in literature:
(A) Seamus Heaney, T S Eliot, Nadine
Gordimer, W B Yeats
(B) W B Yeats, T S Eliot, Nadine Gordimer,
Seamus Heaney
(C) T S Eliot, Seamus Heaney, W B Yeats,
Nadine Gordimer
(D) Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, W B
Yeats, T S Eliot
Select the matching pair in question
numbers 31 to 40
31.
(A) Idylls of the King - Browning
(B) The Diverting History of John Gilpin -
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(C) The Tower - T S Eliot
(D) The Fall of Hyperion - Shelley
32.
(A) Hard Times - Psychological novel
(B) To The Light-house - Picaresque novel
(C) The Castle of Otranto - Gothic novel
(D) Wuthering Heights - Historical novel
33.
(A) Emily Bronte - Yorkshire Moors
(B) Hardy - Scotland
(C) Walter Scott - Ireland
(D) Mark Twain - Yoknapatawfa
34.
(A) Surrealism - Tristan Tzara
(B) Imagism - Spender
(C) Naturalism - Yeats
(D) Magic Realism - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
35.
(A) Victor Shklovsky - Carnivalesque
(B) Stanley Fish - Aphasia
(C) Hjelmslev - Glossematics
(D) Roland Barthes - Affective Stylistics
36.
(A) Bessie Head - Newzealand
(B) Derek Walcott - South Africa
(C) A D Hope - Australia
(D) Ondaatje - Nigeria
37.
(A) T S Eliot - The Birthday Party
(B) Osborne - The Entertainer
(C) Bernard Shaw - Luther
(D) Tom Stoppard - Lear
38.
(A) Periodical Essays - Bacon
(B) Confessional Poetry - Ted Hughes
(C) Science Fiction - David Lodge
(D) Pre-Raphaelites - William Morris
39.
(A) Nissim Ezekiel - Persian
(B) Gieve Patel - Gujarati
(C) Dilip Chitre - Sanskrit
(D) Adil Jussawallah - Urdu
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(A) Pearl - The Scarlet Letter
(B) Raka - The God of Small Things 1. Chaucer's The Knight's Tale is a high
(C) Raphael - The Great Expectations romance told in:
(D) Pip - Fire on the Mountain (A) rhyme royal
(B) terza rima
(C) heroic couplets
(D) verse libre

2. Marlowe's first original work was:

(A) Tamburlaine the Great
(B) The Tragical History of D. Faustus
(C) The Jew of Malta
(D) The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable
death of Edward the Second

3. Marvell pays his homage to the

Protector and a tribute to the royal dignity
of Charles I in:
(A) The Garden
(B) The Picture of T.C
(C) Bermudas
(D) Horatian ode upon Cromewell's Return
from Ireland

4. The Life and Death of Mr Badman was

written by:
(A) Sir Henry Wotton
(B) John Bunyan
(C) Jeremy Taylor
(D) Richard Baxter

5. Dr Johnson's A Dictionary of the

English Language was published in:
(A) 1755
(B) 1756
(C) 1757
(D) 1758

6. The main idea of The Dunciad was taken

from:
(A) The Hind and the Panther
(B) Religio Laici
(C) Mac Flecknoe
(D) The Medal

7. The character of the leech gatherer

appears in:
(A) The Recluse
(B) The Prelude Book I
(C) Laodamia
(D) Resolution and Independence
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8. Table Talk is a collection of essays by: (D) American transcendentalism
(A) Lamb
(B) Hunt 16. The patient in Michael Ondaatje's The
(C) Hazlitt English Patient is:
(D) De Quincey (A) Almasy
(B) Caravaggio
9. Carlyle's Sartor Resartus was written under (C) Kripal Singh
the influence of: (D) Hana
(A) Italian romance
(B) German romance 17. Mimetic criticism views literary work
(C) French romance as:
(D) British romance (A) personalisation
(B) depersonalisation
10. The image of Neptune taming the sea (C) imitation
horse appears in: (D) interpretation
(A) Abt Vogler
(B) Prospice 18. The concept of "arche writing" is
(C) Andrea del Sarto developed by:
(D) My Last Duchess (A) Fish
(B) Foucault
11. T S Eliot's The Waste Land is (C) Derrida
dedicated to Il miglior fabro ("The better (D) Paul de Man
Craftsman") which refers to:
(A) Ezra Pound 19. A figure of speech in which two terms
(B) Baudelaire opposite in meaning are placed side by side
(C) G M Hopkins in one phrase is known as
(D) Dante (A) Paradox
(B) Oxymoron
12. The locale of Riders to the Sea is: (C) Sarcasm
(A) Dublin (D) Antithesis
(B) Aran Island
(C) Galway 20. A stanza of eight iambic pentametres
(D) Belfast on the pattern of ab, ab, ab, cc is known as:
(A) Rhyme royal
13. The "Bog" poems are associated with: (B) Ottava rima
(A) Ted Hughes (C) Tennysonian stanza
(B) Elizabeth Jennings (D) Spenserian stanza
(C) Tony Harrison
(D) Seamus Heaney Choose the correct chronological sequence
in question numbers 21 to 30:
14. Edward Bond's Bingo deals with the
life of: 21.
(A) Dryden (A) Love's Labours Lost, Twelfth Night,
(B) Shakespeare Othello, The Tempest
(C) Ben Jonson (B) Twelfth Night, Love's Labours Lost, The
(D) Marlowe Tempest, Othello
(C) Love's Labours Lost, Othello, The
15. Arthur Millers The Death of a Tempest, Twelfth Night
Salesman is mainly about: (D) Othello, Twelfth Night, Love's Labours
(A) American dream Lost, The Tempest
(B) American imperialism
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22.
(A) Ralph Roister Doister, Utopia, Astrophel
and Stella, Shepherds Calendar
(B) Astrophel and Stella, Ralph Roister
Doister,Shepherds Calendar
(C) Shepherds Calendar, Astrophel and
Stella, Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister
(D) Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister, Shepherds
Calendar, Astrophel and Stella
23.
(A) Sonnet, periodical essay, gothic novel,
absurd play
(B) Gothic novel, periodical essay, sonnet,
absurd play
(C) Periodical essay, gothic novel, absurd
play, sonnet
(D) Sonnet, gothic novel, periodical essay,
absurd play
24.
(A) Stephen Spender, T S Eliot, Philip
Larkin, Ted Hughes
(B) T S Eliot, Stephen Spender, Philip Larkin,
Ted Hughes
(C) Philip Larkin, T S Eliot, Ted Hughes,
Stephen Spender
(D) T S Eliot, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes,
Stephen Spender
25.
(A) Negative capability, sublime, dissociation
of sensibility, heteroglossia
(B) Sublime, negative capability,
heteroglossia, dissociation of sensibility
(C) Sublime, negative capability, dissociation
of sensibility, heteroglossia
(D) Heteroglossia, dissociation of sensibility,
sublime, negative capability
Choose the correct chronological sequence
in question numbers 26 to 30:
26.
(A) Thyrsis, Adonais, Lycidas, In Memory of
W B Yeats
(B) Lycidas, Thyrsis, Adonais, In Memory of
W B Yeats
(C) Lycidas, Adonais, Thyrsis, In Memory of
W B Yeats
(D) Adonais, In Memory of W B Yeats,
Lycidas, Thyrsis
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27.
(A) Sign Structure and Play, Signs Taken for
Wonder, The Death of the Author, Two Uses
of Language
(B) Two Uses of Language, The Death of the
Author, Sign Structure and Play, Signs taken
for Wonder
(C) The Death of the Author, Two Uses of
Language, Signs Taken for Wonder, Sign
Structure and Play
(D) Two Uses of Language, The Death of the
Author, Sign Structure and Play, Signs Taken
for Wonder
28.
(A) The Burial of the Dead, A Game of
Chess, Fire Sermon, Death by Water
(B) A Game of Chess, The Burial of the
Dead, Fire Sermon, Death by Water
(C) Fire Sermon, The Burial of the Dead,
Death by Water, A Game of Chess
(D) The Burial of the Dead, Fire Sermon,
Death by Water, A Game of Chess
29.
(A) Midnight's Children, Nectar in a Sieve,
Kanthapura, Calcutta Chromosome
(B) Kanthapura, Midnight's Children, Nectar
in a Sieve, Calcutta Chromosome
(C) Kanthapura, Midnight's Children,
Calcutta Chromosome, Nectar in a Sieve
(D) Kanthapura, Nectar in a Sieve,
Midnight's Children, Calcutta Chromosome
30.
(A) The English Novel: Form and Function,
The Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel,
The Sense of an Ending
(B) Craft of Fiction, Aspects of the Novel,
The English Novel: Form and Function, The
Sense of an Ending
(C) The Sense of an Ending, The English
Novel: Form and Function, Craft of Fiction,
Aspects of the Novel
(D) Aspects of the NOvel, Craft of Fiction,
The Sense of an Ending, The English Novel:
Form and Function
Select the matching pairs in question
numbers 31 to 40
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(A) Sohrab and Rustum - Arnold
(B) The Princess - Browning
(C) Hugh Selwyn Mauberly - Hopkins
(D) The Excursion - Shelley
32.
(A) Middlemarch - Picaresque
(B) Women in Love - Historical
(C) Pamela - Epistolary novel
(D) Pride and Prejudice - Autobiographical
33.
(A) Dickens - Manchester
(B) Faulkner - Yoknapatawfa
(C) Joyce - Belfast
(D) Lawrence - Brimingham
34.
(A) Naturalism - Zola
(B) Symbolism - T E Hulme
(C) Expressionism - V Woolf
(D) Magic Realism - Graham Greene
35.
(A) Audrey Thomas - The Stone Angel
(B) Robert Kroetsch - The Burning Water
(C) Margaret Lawrence - What the Crow Said
(D) Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
Select the matching pairs in question
numbers 36 to 40
36.
(A) Marlowe - Faust
(B) Fletcher - The White Devil
(C) Congreve - The Old Bachelor
(D) Ben Jonson - The Maid's Tragedy
37.
(A) Nadine Gordimer - Nigeria
(B) Chinua Achebe - Kenya
(C) Judith Wright - Australia
(D) Peter Carey - Canada
38.
(A) Campus novel - Margaret Drabble
(B) Travalogue - Macaulay
(C) Diary writing - Samuel Pepys
(D) Periodical essay - Lamb
39.
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(A) Girish Karnad - Kannada
(B) A K Ramanujan - Telugu
(C) Kamala Das - Tamil
(D) R Parthasarathy - Malayalam
40.
(A) Mrs Malaprop - The School for Scandal
(B) Nora - The Seagull
(C) Lydia Languish - She Stoops to Conquer
(D) Eliza Doolittle – Pygmalion
41. In the assertion "Four out of five
people suffer from dreaded pyorrhoea",
the writer wants to arouse the feeling of:
(A) Sympathy
(B) Fear
(C) Hatred
(D) Ill-will
42. "John is six feet tall and 240 lb" is an
assertion of:
(A) a fact
(B) a judgement
(C) an opinion
(D) an inference
43. X: "He's mean and stingy.
Y: "Oh, I wouldn't say that. He is just
thrifty".
The above dialoge asserts that he:
(A) is too careful with his money
(B) never spends money
(C) is so careful with his money that everyone
admires him for good management
(D) is careful with his money
44. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" makes
an assertion that:
(A) The poet traveled with the cloud
(B) The poet moved aimlessly with the cloud
(C) Both the poet and the cloud were lonely
(D) The poet moved as aimlessly as the cloud
45. "Death is here and death is there
Death is busy everywhere
All around, within, beneath,
Above, is death - and we are death"
punitha
The effect of rhythm, sound, word-order
and stress in the above lines
(A) assist the communication of meaning
(B) hinder the communication of meaning
(C) reflect meaning and mood
(D) reflect a mechanical regularity
Read the following passage and answer the
questions that follow based on your
understanding of the passage.
All of us live in a society, and are members of
a nationality with its own language, tradition,
historical situation. To what extent are
intellectuals servants of these actualities, to
what extent enemies? The same is true of
intellectuals' relationship with institutions
(academy, church, professional guild) and
with wordly powers, which in our times have
co-opted the intelligentsia to an extraordinary
degree. Thus in my view the principal
intellectual duty is the search for relative
independence from such pressures. Hence my
characterization of the intellectual as an exile
and marginal, as amateur, and as the author of
a language that tries to speak the truth to
power.
46. Name four important sources to which
an intellectual is related basically:
(A) Society, institutions, wordly powers, and
government
(B) Institutions, language, truth and power
(C) Nationality, language, tradition and
historical situation
(D) Nationality, truth, language, and tradition
47. What is the meaning of intellectuals
being 'servants'?
(A) The intellectual may be appropriated by
his tradition, historical and other actualities of
his nation and society
(B) The intellectual may be inappropriately
co-opted by agencies of the government
(C) The intellectual may be sent into exile
and made marginal
(D) The intellectual may be forced into
accepting the unacceptable propositions
48. What are the four important
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institutions that co-opt an intellectual?
(A) society, institutions, wordly powers, and
truth
(B) academy, church, professional guild, and
wordly power
(C) society, professional guild, wordly power,
truth
(D) academy, wordly power, truth,
government
49. What is the meaning of 'relative
independence'?
(A) Liberating oneself from the pressures of
government and institutions
(B) liberating oneself from the pressures of
religion and state
(C) liberating oneself from the pressures of
institutions and worldly powers
(D) liberating oneself from all religious and
secular pressures
50. What is the duty of an intellectual and
how many identities does he acquire to
perform his role?
(A) to achieve complete independence and
be characterised as an exile, marginal, and
amateur
(B) to achieve partial independence and be
characterised as the author of a language
(C) to manoeuvre independence and be
characterised as a keeper of his own
conscience
(D) to search for relative independence and
be characterised as exile and marginal, as
amateur, and author
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1. Which one of the following author -
book pair is correctly matched?
(A) J.M. Coetzee - Shame
(B) Saul Bellro - Herzog
(C) Salman Rushdie - Disgrace
(D) Elfriede Jelinek - The Pianist

2. Which novel has a nameless narrator?

(A) Invisible Man
(B) The Grapes of Wrath
(C) Moby Dick
(D) Anna Karenina

3. Samuel Beckett wrote:

(A) Endgame
(B) Volpone
(C) Mother Courage and Her Children
(D) A Doll's House

4. Willy Loman is a character in:

(A) A Doll's House
(B) The Cherry Orchard
(C) Waiting for Godot
(D) The Death of a Salesman

5. The Plough and the Stars was written by:

(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) J.M. Synge
(C) Sean O'casey
(D) Lady Gregory

6. The subtitle of Dryden's Absalom and

Achitophel is:
(A) There was no subtitle
(B) A satire
(C) A satire on the True Blue Protestant Poets
(D) A poem

7. Who of the following is not a periodical

essayist?
(A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Joseph Addison
(C) Richard Steele
(D) Lancelot Andrews

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8. John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys were the 15. The Montreal group of poets
famous writers of: championed the cause of:
(A) essays (A) Nature poetry
(B) editorials (B) Symbolish poetry
(C) letters (C) Imagist poetry
(D) diaries (D) Modernist poetry

9. Samuel Butlers Hudibras is modeled 16. The figure of the "Abyssinian maid"
upon: appears in:
(A) "Annus Mirabilis" (A) "Frost at midnight"
(B) Endymion (B) "Christabel"
(C) Don Quixote (C) "Kubla Khan"
(D) Pilgrim's Progress (D) "Dejection: an Ode"

10. Who was the last of the Christian 17.Coleridges statement that imagination
Humanists? "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to
(A) Oliver Cromowell recreate" relates to:
(B) John Milton (A) fancy
(C) John Bunyan (B) primary imagination
(D) Richard Crashaw (C) secondary imagination
(D) esemplastic imagination
11. The narrative of Raja Rao's
Kanthapura is based on: 18. "Did he who made the Lamb made
(A) Puranas thee" appears in:
(B) Shastras (A) "The Tyger"
(C) The Ramayana (B) "Chimney Sweeper"
(D) The Mahabharata (C) "London"
(D) "Introduction"
12. Which of the following author - book
pair is correctly matched? 19. "Essays of Elia” are:
(A) David Malouf - The City of Djins (A) political ideology
(B) C.L.R. James - The English Patient (B) economic disparity
(C) Shashi Tharoor - Trotter Nama (C) literary criticism
(D) Arundhati Roy - Algebra of Infinite (D) personal impressions
Justice
20. Who among the following is a writer of
13. Who wrote "A tiger does not proclaim historical romances?
its tigretude”? (A) Emily Bronte
(A) Ngugi (B) Jane Austen
(B) Achebe (C) Walter Scott
(C) Soyinka (D) Walter Savage Lander
(D) Derek Walcott
21. Which of the following thinker -
14. "Jindiworobak" movement relates to: concept pairs is rightly matched?
(A) Australian literature (A) Stanley Fish - Reader Response
(B) Canadian literature (B) Jacques Devida - New Historicism
(C) New Zealand literature (C) Northrop Frye - Practical Criticism
(D) Caribbean literature (D) I.A. Richards - Archetypal Criticism

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22. Which of the following thinker - 28. Pre - Raphaelite poetry is mainly
concept pairs is rightly matched? concerned with:
(A) Vaman - Dhwanyaloka (A) narrative and style
(B) Bharata - Natya Shastra (B) narrative and nature
(C) Mamata - Vakrokti (C) form and design
(D) Abhinava Gupta - Kavya Alankar (D) form and value

23. Choose the correct sequence of the 29. The concept of "mad woman in the
following schools of criticism: attic" can be traced to:
(A) Structuralism, New Criticism, (A) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Deconstruction, Reader Response (B) Villette
(B) New Criticism, Structuralism, (C) Wuthering Heights
Deconstruction, Reader Response (D) Jane Eyre
(C) Reader Response, Deconstruction,
Structuralism, New Criticism 30. Who among the Victorians is called
(D) Deconstruction, New Criticism, "the prophet of modern society”?
Structuralism, Reader Response (A) Ruskin
(B) Carlyle
24. "Peripetia” means: (C) Macaulay
(A) purgation of emotion (D) Arnold
(B) tragic flaw
(C) reversal of fortune 31. Who among the following is not a
(D) recognition of error pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales?
(A) the Haberdasher
25. "Gynocriticism" focuses on: (B) the Tapyser
(A) Criticism on women (C) the Blacksmith
(B) Criticism by women (D) the Summoner
(C) Criticism of male writers by women
writers 32. Bosola is the executioner in:
(D) Women as writers (A) The Spanish Tragedy
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
26. Which of the following sequences is (C) The White Devil
correct? (D) The Jew of Malta
(A) Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond,
Middlemarch, The Return of the Native 33. The mystery plays deal with:
(B) Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, (A) the life of Christ
Middlemarch, The Return of the Native (B) the New Testament
(C) Middlemarch, The Return of the Native, (C) Psalms
Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond (D) Apocrypha
(D) The Return of the Native, Middlemarch,
Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond 34. The Faerie Queene is based on:
(A) Utopia
27. Queen Victoria's reign, after whom the (B) Tottelis Miscellany
Victorian period is named, spans: (C) Morte d'Arthur
(A) 1833 - 1901 (D) Orlando Furioso
(B) 1837 - 1901
(C) 1840 - 1905 35. Choose the correct chronological
(D) 1842 – 1905 sequence of the following plays :
(A) King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet
(B) Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet
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(D) Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth (A) Alice Walker
(B) Margaret Lawrence
36. Pope's "Essay on Criticism" sums up (C) Margaret Atwood
the art of poetry as taught first by: (D) Alice Munro
(A) Aristotle
(B) Horace 44. The Empire writes Back was written by
(C) Longinus :
(D) Plato (A) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Ngugi Wa
Thinngo
37. Swift's Tale of a Tub is a satire on: (B) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Stephen
(A) science and philosophy Slemon
(B) art and morality (C) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Chinua
(C) dogma and superstition Achebe
(D) fake morals and manners (D) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Gareth
Griffiths
38. Dr. Johnson started :
(A) The Postman 45. The theatre of cruelty is associated
(B) The Spectator with:
(C) The Rambler (A) Stanislavosky
(D) The Tatler (B) Grotovsky
(C) Antonin Artand
39. Who among the following cautioned (D) Eugino Barba
against the dangers of popular liberty?
46. A particle is :
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft
(A) a patchwork of words, sentences,
(B) Edmund Burke
passages
(C) Thomas Hobbes
(B) a satirical poem
(D) John Locke
(C) a love song
(D) a collection of lines from different poems
40. Which famous American classic opens
with "Call me Ishmael”?
47. "Careless she is with artful
(A) Rip Van Winkle
Care/Affecting to seem unaffected" is an
(B) The Scarlet Letter
example of:
(C) The Grapes of Wrath
(A) irony
(D) Moby Dick
(B) paradox
(C) simile
(D) metaphor
41. Allen Ginsberg's vision of America is
inspired by:
48. A metrical foot containing a stressed,
(A) Walt Whitman
followed by an unstressed, syllable is:
(B) Robert Frost
(A) anapaest
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(B) iamb
(D) Edgar A. Poe
(C) trochee
(D) dactyl
42. Who among the following represents
the Sri Lankan diaspora?
49. The rhyme scheme of a Spenserian
(A) M.G. Vassanji
sonnet is:
(B) Cyril Debydeen
(A) abba, cbcb, cdcd, ee
(C) Michael Ondaatje
(B) abab, bccb, ccdd, ee
(D) Arnold H. Itwaru
(C) aabb, bcbc, ccdd, ee
(D) abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee
43. Out of Africa is a film adaptation of a
work by:
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50. Using the expression "Crown" for the DEC 2006 PAPER II
monarchy is an example of:
(A) Metonymy
1. The title The Sound and the Fury is
(B) Synecdoche
taken from:
(C) Irony
(A) Hamlet
(D) Metaphor
(B) Macbeth
(C) The Tempest
(D) King Lear

2. Pecola is a character in :
(A) The Bluest Eye
(B) Oliver Twist
(C) Don Quixote
(D) Beloved

3. Which of the following was associated

with the "Bloomsbury Group".
(A) T. S. Eliot
(B) W. B. Yeats
(C) T. E. Hulme
(D) Virginia Woolf

4. Which of the following characters

appear in Waiting for Godot:
(A) Jerry
(B) Lucky
(C) Jimmy Porter
(D) Ham

5. About whom did T. S. Eliot write "A

thought to him was an experience”:
(A) Herbert
(B) Marvell
(C) Donne
(D) Crashaw

6. The last book of Gulliver's Travels is:

(A) "Voyage to Houyhnhnms"
(B) "Voyage to Laputa"
(C) "Voyage to Brobdingnag"
(D) "Voyage to Lilliput"

7. Who edited The Tatler:

(A) Steele and John Locke
(B) Addison and Dryden
(C) Addison and Blackmore
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8. John Locke's "Essay Concerning
Human Understanding" is about: 15. The Tulsis of Naipaul's A House for Mr.
(A) nature of human behaviour Biswas lived in:
(B) nature of the human mind (A) Pagotes House
(C) nature of human society (B) Hanuman Mansion
(D) nature of human ideology (C) Tulsiana
(D) Hanuman House
9. Restoration Comedy marks the
restoration of: 16. The quotation "a repetition in the finite
(A) women's rights mind of the eternal act of creation in the
(B) democracy infinite I AM" appears in:
(C) monarchy (A) Lyrical Ballads
(D) human rights (B) Biographia Literaria
(C) "In Defense of Poetry"
10. Which of Alexander Pope's poems (D) Letters of Keats
begins with the line "Shut, shut the door,
good John, fatigued I said”: 17. "Fearful Symmetry" appears in the
(A) "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" poem:
(B) "Dunciad" (A) "Introduction"
(C) "Epistles" (B) "Chimney Sweeper"
(D) "Rape of the Lock" (C) "The Tyger"
(D) "London"
11. The statement "One has to convey in a
language that is not one's own the spirit 18. The quotation "when a man is capable
that is one's own" appears in: of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts,
(A) Ice-Candy Man without any irritable reaching after fact
(B) The Guide and reasons" is a definition of:
(C) Nagamandala (A) Negative capability
(D) Kanthapura (B) Secondary imagination
(C) Criticism of life
12. Which of the following author-book (D) Dissociation of sensibility
pair is correctly matched:
(A) Arundhati Roy - The Autumn of the 19. Which of the following prose-writers do
Patriarch not belong to the Romantic Period:
(B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the (A) Peacock
Time of Cholera (B) De Quincey
(C) Umber to Eco - The Tin Drum (C) Hazlitt
(D) Jhumpa Lahiri – Beloved (D) Gibbon

13. Which of the following women writers 20. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia and
did not receive the Noble Prize: Wickham eloped to:
(A) Toni Morrison (A) Barchester
(B) Nadine Gordiner (B) Bath
(C) Buchi Emcheta (C) Gretna Green
(D) Doris Lessing (D) Glasgow

14. Which of the following is not an 21. Which of the following thinker-concept
Australian author: pairs is correctly matched?
(A) Margaret Laurence (A) Frye........... Mysticism
(B) David Malauf (B) Derrida............. Deconstruction
(C) Mudooroo Narogin (C) I. A. Richards........... Archetypal
(D) Peter Carey Criticism
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(D) Eagleton............... Psychological 28. The term "The Fleshly School of
Criticism Poetry" is associated with the:
(A) Chartists
22. Which of the following thinker concept (B) Pre-Raphaelites
pairs is correctly matched? (C) Symbolists
(A) Abhinava Gupta.............. Dhwanyaloka (D) Imagists
(B) Vaman .............. Kavya Alankar
(C) Mamata.............. Kavya Prakash 29. The line "The sea is calm tonight"
(D) Bharata .............. Vakrokti occurs in:
(A) Tennyson's "Maude"
23. Choose the correct sequence of the (B) Arnold's "Thyrsis"
following schools of criticism: (C) Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters"
(A) Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader- (D) Arnold's "Dover Beach"
Response, New Historicism
(B) New Historicism, Reader-Response, 30. The term "gothic", a category of
Deconstruction, Structuralism fiction, also applies to:
(C) Deconstruction, New Historicism, (A) architecture
Structuralism, Reader-Response (B) painting
(D) Reader-Response, Deconstruction, New (C) music
Historicism, Structuralism (D) theater

24. "Hamartia” means: 31. The gap-toothed character in

(A) reversal of fortunes "prologue" to The Centerbury Tales is:
(B) purgation of emotions (A) the Prioress
(C) depravity (B) the Nun
(D) error of judgement (C) the Wife of Bath
(D) the Narrator
25. The term "gynocriticism" was coined
by : 32. Which of the following is not a Revenge
(A) Betty Friedman Tragedy:
(B) Elaine Showalter (A) Duchess of Malfi
(C) Luce Irigarey (B) Volpone
(D) Susan Sontag (C) Hamlet
(D) Gorboduc
26. Which is the correct sequence:
(A) D. G. Rossetti, George Eliot, Bronte 33. Miracle plays are based on the lives of:
Sisters, Thackeray (A) Knights
(B) George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti, Bronte (B) Crusaders
Sisters, Thackeray (C) Pilgrims
(C) Thackeray, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, (D) Saints
D. G. Rossetti
(D) Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray, 34. The Red cross Knight is Spenser's
D. G. Rossetti Faerie Queene represents:
(A) Temperance
27. Which of Dickens' novels opens with (B) Chastity
the words "It was the best of times; it was (C) Truth
the worst of times ....” (D) Falsehood
(A) A Tale of Two Cities
(B) Oliver Twist 35. The line "Present fears/Are less than
(C) Pickwick Papers horrible imaginings" appear in:
(D) Hard Times (A) Macbeth
(B) King Lear
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(C) Othello 43. Margaret Atwood's Survival is:
(D) Julius Caesar (A) a critical assessment of Canadian writing
(B) a thematic guide to Canadian literature
36. The author of Ars Poetica is : (C) a critique of Canadian polity
(A) Plato (D) a exposition of Canadian history
(B) Horace
(C) Virgil 44. The term "Negritude" was coined By:
(D) Aristotle (A) Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha
(B) Ngugi Wa' Thiongo and Wole Soyinka
37. Which of the following is not a work by (C) Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
Dr. Johnson: (D) K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe
(A) Preface to the English Dictionary
(B) Preface to Shakespeare 45. Bertolt Brecht's concept of theatre was
(C) Lives of English Poets influenced by:
(D) Cowley (A) Irwin Piscator
(B) Antonin Artaud
38. Which novel of Daniel Defoe was (C) Peter Brook
considered to be the best by E. M. Forster? (D) Eugino Barba
(A) Colonel Jack
(B) Robinson Crusoe 46. The relationship between Othello and
(C) Captain Singleton Iago is an example of:
(D) Moll Flanders (A) inversion
(B) irony
39. Edmund Burke denounced the French (C) innuendo
Revolution in: (D) invective
(A) Political Philosophy
(B) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin 47. A metrical foot consisting of an
of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
(C) Reflections syllable is:
(D) The Annual Register (A) dactyl
(B) trochee
40. The line "A man can be destroyed but (C) iamb
not defeated" appears in: (D) anapaest
(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(B) The Old Man and the Sea 48. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean
(C) The Snows of Kilimanjaro sonnet is:
(D) The Sun also Rises (A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(B) abba, cddc, effe, gg
41. Who among the following is called "A (C) abcd, efgh, effe, hh
New England Poet" : (D) abca, abca, bcab, dd
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Edwin Arlington Robinson 49. Using "the Bench" for the judiciary is
(C) William Carlos Williams an example of:
(D) Allen Ginsberg (A) metaphor
(B) irony
42. Which of the following is not a play by (C) Synecdoche
Tennessee Williams: (D) metonymy
(A) Night of the Iguana
(B) A Streetcar named Desire
(C) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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50. Four feet, comprising a monosyllable, JUNE 2007 PAPER II
trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often
called :
1. The lines :
(A) running rhythm
'Even I, a dunce of more renown than they,
(B) sprung rhythm
Was sent before but to prepare thy way'
(C) blank verse
are quoted from :
(D) rhymed verse
(A) Pope's Dunciad
(B) Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
(C) Dryden's Mac Flecknoe
(D) Swift's A Tale of a Tub

2. Fanny Burney's Evelina is about:

(A) a young lady's entry into English
fashionable society
(B) English refugees in Paris
(C) an English enthusiast for revolutionary
liberty
(D) money and the world of the country
house

3. The unexpurgated text of Lady

Chatterley's Lover was published after
Obscenity trial in:
(A) 1958
(B) 1965
(C) 1960
(D) 1962

4. Sir Andrew Freeport is a character in:

(A) Humphry Clinker
(B) Joseph Andrews
(C) The Coverley Papers
(D) Clarissa

5. In which of the following novels does

Stein feature as a significant character?
(A) Under Western Eyes
(B) Lord Jim
(C) Heart of Darkness
(D) Nostromo

6. The Grand Inquisitor is a character in:

(A) Crime and Punishment
(B) Notes from the Underground
(C) Brothers Karamazov
(D) The Idiot

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7. Which modern critic described value 14. Who among the following was not a
judgements as 'the donkey's carrot of member of the group, 'The University
literary criticism‟? Wits‟?
(A) T. S. Eliot (A) Thomas Nashe
(B) I. A. Richards (B) Ben Jonson
(C) William Empson (C) George Peele
(D) Northrop Frye (D) Samuel Daniel

8. Select the matching pair: 15. William Beckford's oriental fantasy

(A) The Book of the Duchess: Blanche of Vathek was originally written in:
Leicester (A) Spanish
(B) The Canterbury Tales: The Host of the (B) German
Tabard (C) French
(C) Troilus and Criseyde: Squire (D) Italian
(D) The Parliament of Birds: St. Agnes's Eve
16. The term 'American renaissance' was
9. 'The Winter Morning' forms part of a first used by:
longer poem by: (A) R. W. B Lewis
(A) Cowper (B) Leo Marx
(B) Blake (C) F. O. Matthiessen
(C) Burns (D) Richard Chase
(D) Byron
17. 'Gladly would he learn, and gladly
10. Bradley Pearson is the narrator of Iris teach' is a line from :
Murdoch‟s novel: (A) Spenser's Fairie Queen
(A) Under the Net (B) Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village'
(B) Bruno's Dream (C) Chaucer's Prologue to Canterbury Tales
(C) The Bell (D) Langland's Piers Plowman
(D) The Black Prince
18. Which of the following arrangement of
11. 'Victorian Compromise' is an the English plays is in correct
expression first used by: chronological order?
(A) David Cecil (A) Justice - The Family Reunion - Saint Joan
(B) G. K. Chesterton - The Playboy of the Western World
(C) Lytton Strachey (B) Saint Joan - Justice - The Playboy of the
(D) Vincent Buckley Western World - The Family Reunion
(C) The Family Reunion - Saint Joan -
12. More's Latin Masterpiece Utopia was Justice - The Playboy of the Western World
translated into English in: (D) The Playboy of the Western World -
(A) 1551 Justice - Saint Joan - The Family Reunion
(B) 1498
(C) 1516 19. The second part of The Pilgrim's
(D) 1532 Progress was published in:
(A) 1690
13. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of (B) 1678
Poetry is written by: (C) 1686
(A) Maud Bodkin (D) 1684
(B) Stephen Spender
(C) Harold Bloom
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20. The Egoist is written by: 27. Which of the following books was not
(A) Blackmore published in 1859?
(B) William Thackeray (A) Darwin : The Origin of Species
(C) Meredith (B) George Eliot : Adam Bede
(D) Hardy (C) Mill : On Liberty
(D) Ruskin : Unto This Last
21. Which is the correct chronological
sequence of the following novels? 28. Three Guineas is the title of a book by:
(A) Decline and Fall - The Time Machine - (A) E. M. Forster
Nineteen Eightyfour - Brave New World (B) Virginia Woolf
(B) Nineteen Eightyfour - Decline and Fall - (C) George Orwell
The Time Machine - Brave New World (D) G. B. Shaw
(C) Brave New World - The Time Machine -
Nineteen Eightyfour - Decline and Fall 29. Harold Pinter's first four plays are :
(D) The Time Machine - Decline and Fall - (A) The Caretaker, The Room, The
Brave New World - Nineteen Eightyfour Homecoming, The Birthday Party
(B) The Room, The Dumb Waiter, The
22. Roland Barthes is the author of one of Birthday Party, The Caretaker
the following texts : (C) The Homecoming, The Caretaker, Old
(A) The Death of Tragedy Times, Betrayal
(B) The Death of a Hero (D) The Dumb Waiter, The Caretaker, No
(C) The Death of the Author Man's Land, Betrayal
(D) The Death of Literature
30. Identify the odd character out:
23. The author of the Elizabethan sonnet (A) Bosola
sequence, Idea, is: (B) De Flores
(A) Samuel Daniel (C) Iago
(B) Michael Drayton (D) Kent
(C) Edmund Spenser
(D) Fulke Greville 31. Select the matching pair:
(A) The Great Gatsby: Chicago
24. Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean (B) The Old Man and the Sea: Cuba
Brodie is a rewriting of the Victorian (C) For Whom the Bell Tolls: Italy
novel: (D) The Sound and the Fury: Boston
(A) Jane Eyre
(B) Villette 32. 'The page is printed'. This is the last
(C) Wuthering Heights line in a poem by:
(D) North and South (A) Sylvia Plath
(B) Dylan Thomas
25. The Romantic Imagination is the title (C) Philip Larkin
of a book by: (D) Ted Hughes
(A) Harold Bloom
(B) Graham Hough 33. T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland was first
(C) C. M. Bowra published in:
(D) M. H. Abrahms (A) The Criterion
(B) The Dial
26. 'Ode on the spring' was written by: (C) The Yale Review
(A) Thomas Gray (D) New Yorker
(B) John Keats
(C) Abraham Cowley
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34. 'Relationship' is a long poem by: Country Churchyard' - Adonais - In
(A) A. K. Ramanujan Memoriam
(B) R. Parthasarathy
(C) Jayanta Mahapatra 39. The Chartist Demonstration in London
(D) Kamala Das involving the third presentation of Charter
took place in:
35. The phrase, 'bottomless perdition' (A) 1842
occurs in Milton's Paradise Lost in: (B) 1846
(A) Book I (C) 1848
(B) Book IV (D) 1851
(C) Book VI
(D) Book XII 40. 'Life, like a dome of many-coloured
glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
36. Which of the following arrangements of Until Death tramples it into fragments'
American plays is in the correct The above lines occur in:
chronological sequence? (A) „Dejection: An Ode'
(A) Mourning Becomes Electra - The Hairy (B) Adonais
Ape - Death of a Salesman - A Streetcar (C) In Memoriam
Named Desire (D) 'Thyrsis'
(B) The Hairy Ape - Death of a Salesman -
Mourning Becomes Electra - A Streetcar 41. Arrange the following characters in
Named Desire chronological sequence :
(C) A Streetcar Named Desire - The Hairy (A) Mr. Rochester - David Copperfield
Ape - Mourning Becomes Electra - Death of a Rosamond - Bathsheba
Salesman (B) David Copperfield - Rosamond - Mr.
(D) The Hairy Ape - Mourning Becomes Rochester - Bathsheba
Electra - A Streetcar Named Desire - Death of (C) Bathsheba - Mr. Rochester - David
a Salesman Copperfield - Becky Sharp
(D) David Copperfield - Bathsheba - Mr.
37. Which of the following arrangements of Rochester - Rosamond
famous characters is in the correct
chronological order? 42. The book, The Religion of Man is
(A) Vittoria Corombona - Beatrice - written by:
Christiana - Hermione (A) Sri. Aurobindo
(B) Beatrice - Hermione - Vittoria (B) Rabindranath Tagore
Corombona - Christiana (C) A. K. Coomaraswamy
(C) Hermione - Beatrice - Vittoria (D) V. K. Gokak
Corombona - Christiana
(D) Beatrice - Vittoria Corombona - 43. In the poem 'Windhover' Hopkins uses:
Hermione – Christiana (A) Alternate Rhyme
(B) Disyllabic Rhyme
38. Which of the following is in correct (C) Cross Rhyme
chronological sequence ? (D) Split Rhyme
(A) In Memoriam - 'Lycidas' - 'An Elegy
Written on a Country Churchyard' - Adonais 44. Which Dickens novel attacks the New
(B) Adonais - In Memoriam - 'Lycidas' - 'An Poor Law of 1834 in the opening chapters?
Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard' (A) Great Expectations
(C) 'An Elegy Written on a Country (B) Hard Times
Churchyard' - In Memoriam - Adonais (C) Oliver Twist
'Lycidas' (D) Dombey and Son
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45. 'Throw away thy rod, throw away thy
wrath, O my God, take the gentle path'
These lines are taken from a poem by :
(A) Herbert
(B) Donne
(C) Crashaw
(D) Vaughan

46. 'Epithalamium' is a :
(A) song of mourning
(B) song of eulogy
(C) nuptial song
(D) funeral song

47. The Gutenberg Bible was first

published in:
(A) 1456
(B) 1516
(C) 1449
(D) 1498

48. Identify the odd one out:

(A) Persuasion: Anne Tilney
(B) Northanger Abbey : Catherine Price
(C) Emma : Jane Fairfax
(D) Mansfield Park : Fanny Dean

49. Which among the following is in the

correct chronological sequence?
(A) Sexual Politics - Thinking About Women
- The Second Sex - The Prisoner of Sex
(B) Thinking About Women - The Prisoner of
Sex - Sexual Politics - The Second Sex
(C) The Second Sex - Thinking About
Women - Sexual Politics - The Prisoner of
Sex
(D) The Prisoner of Sex - The Second Sex -
Sexual Politics - Thinking About Women

50. Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan' remains 'a

fragment' because
(A) He was called by Wordsworth who was
living in Porlock at that time
(B) Dorothy Wordsworth was upset over their
love affair
(C) He was interrupted by a caller, a person
on business from Porlock
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DECEMBER 2007 PAPER II Colonel Hutchinson - Milton's Paradise Lost -
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's The
Hind and the Panther
1. The author of The Provok'd Husband
(B) Hutchinson's Memoirs - Bunyan's
was:
Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Hind and the
(A) Etherege
Panther- Milton's Paradise Lost
(B) Colley Cibber
(C) Milton's Paradise Lost - Bunyan's
(C) Wycherley
Pilgrim's Progress - Dryden's Hind and the
(D) Vanbrugh
Panther- Hutchinson's Memoirs
(D) Dryden's Hind and the Panther - Bunyan's
2. Who among the boys in Golding's Lord
Pilgrim's Progress Hutchinson's Memoirs-
of the Flies is associated with Christ?
Milton's Paradise Lost
(A) Piggy
(B) Ralph
8. The Little Minister is a novel by:
(C) Jack
(A) John Galsworthy
(D) Simon
(B)H.G. Wells
(C) James M. Barrie
3. The complete title of Laurance Stern's
(D)Rudyard Kipling
novel Tristram Shandy is:
(A)The Strange and Surprising Adventures of
9. Which Augustan writer's epitaph reads :
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“one who strove with all his might to
(B)A True Account of The Life of Tristram
champion liberty” ?
Shandy, Gentleman
(A) Alexander Pope
(C)The Life and Opinions of Tristram
(B) Jonathan Swift
Shandy, Gentleman
(C) Henry Fielding
(D)The Strange and Surprising Opinions of
(D) Daniel Defoe
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
10. In which of the following novels
4. Feminine ending refers to :
incidents relating to the declaration of
(A) a stressed final syllable in a line of verse
Emergency in India in 1975 figure?
(B) the ending of a poem in a stressed
(A) Farrukh Dhondy's Bombay Duck
syllable
(B) Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy
(C) the ending of a poem in an unstressed
(C) Upamanyu Chatterjee's English August:
syllable
An Indian Story
(D) an unstressed final syllable in a line of
(D) Rohinton Mistry's Such Long Journey
verse
11. Identify the matching pair:
5. The essay 'The Death of the Author' is
(A) Edward II: Zenocrate
written by:
(C) The Spanish Tragedy: Horatio
(A) Michel Foucault
(B) The Jew of Malta : Barabas
(B) Jacques Derrida
(D)Tamburlaine : Gaveston
(C) Roland Barthes
(D) Alvin Kernan
12. The future ruin of Troy and the
6. Salman Rushdie's Shame is set in :
murder of Agamemnon are referred to by
(A) East Pakistan
W.B. Yeats in:
(B) India and Pakistan
(A) The Second Coming
(C) Pakistan
(B) Circus Animals Desertion
(D) None of the above
(C) When You Are Old
(D) Leda and Swan
7.Choose the correct chronological
sequence in :
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13. Inscape refers to: 20. After Shakespeare made his debut as a
(A) The indwelling presence of God in nature London playwright, he was described as
(B) The universal character of a natural thing an'upstart crow‟ by:
(C) The individuating character of a natural (A) Robert Greene
thing (B) Thomas Lodge
(D) The moment of release from the material (C) Christopher Marlowe
world (D) John Lyly

14. In which of these plays does Edward 21. What was the first play of Mrs.
Albee use the 'success' myth? Dalloway called ?
(A) A Zoo Story (A) Clarissa
(B) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (B) Hours
(C) American Dream (C) The Big Ben
(D) The Death of Bessie Smith (D)The Party

15. “The voice of poetry comes from a 22. Which of the following Caribbean
region above us, a plane of our being above novels makes intertextual references to
and beyond our personal intelligence”. Jane Eyre?
Who among the following is the author of (A) No Telephone to Heaven
the above lines? (B) Wide Sargasso Sea
(A) Rabindranath Tagore (C) Crick Crack Monkey
(B) A.K. Coomaraswamy (D) Between Two Worlds
(C) Sri Aurobindo
(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose 23. The term 'metaphysical poets', was first
used by:
16. The number of poems in Sidney's (A) Ben Jonson
sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella is : (B) Dr. Johnson
(A) 99 (C) Helen Gardner
(B) 47 (D) Dryden
(C) 112
(D) 108 24. “Only connect” is the epigraph to a
novel by:
17. J.M. Coetzee's Foe is a postmodern (A) George Orwell
retelling of: (B) Joseph Conrad
(A) Ivanhoe (C) D.H. Lawrence
(B) Evelina (D) E.M. Forster
(C) Robinson Crusoe
(D) The Moonstone 25. The expression “Thy hand, great
Anarch” occurs in a satire by:
18. Johnson's edition of Shakespeare (A) Dryden
appeared in : (B) Pope
(A) 1752 (C) Johnson
(B) 1765 (D) Swift
(C)1791
(D) 1760 26. In which of the following novels by
Graham Greene does the little girl Brigitta
19.The main character in Gogol's Dead appear?
Souls is : (A) The Heart of the Matter
(A) Oblomov (B) The Power and the Glory
(B) Bazarov (C) Brighton Rock
(C) Alyosha (D) The Quiet American
(D) Chichikov
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27.The author of 'A Satire Against Reason 34.'The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers' is :
and Mankind' is : (A) a poem by William Blake an essay by
(A)Rochester Charles Lamb
(B)Dryden (B) an elegy by William Wordsworth
(C)Gray (C)an essay by Charles Lamb
(D) Swift (D) an essay by William Hazlitt

28.'Anagnorisis' is a term used by Aristotle 35.The Loneliness of a Long Distance

for describing: Runner is a novel by :
(A) the moment of discovery by the (A) Kingsley Amis
protagonist (B) Alan Sillitoe
(B) the reversal of fortune for the protagonist (C) John Braine
(C) the happy resolution of the plot (D) John Osborne
(D) the convergence of the main plot and the
sub plot 36. In 'Black Venus' Angela Carter takes
elements from the poetry of a famous
29. In which play by Shakespeare do we French poet and places them in a very
find widowed queens questioning the different paradigm. Who is the French
assumptions of male politics? poet?
(A) Henry V (A)Bundelaire
(B) Richard III (B)Mallarme
(C)Anthony and Cleopatra (C)Verlaine
(D) Hamlet (D)Apollinaire

30.Which of the following feminist critics 37.Strophe, antistrophe and epode form a
used the expression 'Gynocriticism'for the three-part structure in :
first time ? (A) a classic ode
(A) Kate Millet (B) a Greek chorus
(B) Simone de Beauvoir (C)a medieval ballad
(C) Elaine Showalter (D) a Petrarchan sonnet
(D) Mary Ellmann
38. The words “where are the songs of
31. John Keats's poem 'Ode to a spring? Ay, where are they ?” occur in :
Nightingale' was composed in: (A) Ode to the West Wind
(A) 1818 (B) The Seasons
(B) 1819 (C) Ode to Autumn
(C) 1820 (D) Resolution and Independence
(D) 1821
39.“Music that gentler on the spirit lies
32.The Female Quixote was written by : than tired eyelids upon tired eyes” the
(A) Henry Fielding above lines occur in Tennyson's :
(B)Tobias Smollett (A) Tears, Idle Tears
(C) Charlotte Lennox (B) In Memoriam
(D) Aphra Behn (C) Maud
(D) The Lotus Eaters
33. Which contemporary British poet has
translated Beowulf? 40.Which of the following pairs is correctly
(A) Thom Gunn matched ?
(B) Alan Lewis (A) Robert Southey: Lady of the Lake
(C)Edward Thomas (B) T.S. Eliot: Lake Isle of Innisfree
(D) Seamus Heaney (C) A.C. Swinburne: The Lady of Shallott
(D)Thomas De Quincey : Recollections of the
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Lakes and the Lake Poets (B) irony and synecdoche
(C) apostrophe and synecdoche
41. Which famous English novel opens (D) metonymy and apostrophe
with a young woman who is 'handsome,
clever and rich‟? 47. In which of the following American
(A) Middlemarch novels does 'the Valley of Ashes' occur?
(B) Wuthering Heights (A) Huck Finn
(C) Moll Flanders (B) The Red Badge of Courage
(D) Emma (C) Invisible Man
(D) The Great Gatsby
42. It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I
“Milton belongs to the Devil's party 48. To whom is Chaucer referring when he
without knowing it”. Who among the says 'He knew the tavern well in every
following made this statement? town‟?
(A) Frank Kermode (A) Pardoner
(B) William Empson (B) Monk
(C) C.S. Lewis (C) Squire
(D) William Blake (D) Friar

43.Live Like Pigs is : 49. “Poetry is a criticism of life under the

(A) a humorous poem by Pope conditions fixed for such a criticism by
(B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty”.
(C) a play by Arden Who, among the following, made the above
(D) a satirical sketch by Swift statement?
44. 'A woman drew her long black hair out (A) Dr. Johnson
tight And fiddled whisper music on those (B) Sidney
strings'. (C) Matthew Arnold
From which section of Eliot's The Waste (D) Wordsworth
Land are the above lines taken?
(A) A Game of Chess 50. “She is inspired but diabolically
(B) What the Thunder Said inspired”. Who is this lady?
(C) Burial of the Dead (A) Candida
(D) Fire Sermon (B) Major Barbara
(C) Saint Joan
45. Which is the correct sequence of (D) Ann
Achebe's African Trilogy?
(A) Things Fall Apart - Arrow of God - No
Longer At Ease
(B) No Longer At Ease - Arrow of God -
Things Fall Apart
(C) Things Fall Apart - No Longer At Ease -
Arrow of God
(D) Arrow of God - Things Fall Apart - No
Longer At Ease

46. Which are the figures of speech used in

the following lines by Blake?
“Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?”
(A) simile and personification
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 JUNE 2008 PAPER II
1. Tennyson's poem about women's rights
and women's sphere is:
(A) Maud
(B) In Memoriam
(C) Idylls of the King
(D) The Princess

2. 'Hymn To Adversity' is a poem by :

(A) Thomas Gray
(B) Edward Gibbon
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) William Blake

3.The King James Bible was published in :

(A) 1609
(B) 1610
(C) 1611
(D) 1612

4.'IL Migilor Fabro' is the expression Eliot

used for:
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Samuel Beckett
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Ezra Pound

5. 'The Figure a poem Makes' is an essay

by:
(A) Henry James
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Wallace Stevens

6. ''Ripeness is all" occurs in:

(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
(C) Macbeth
(D) Julius Caeser

7. A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy

was published in:
(A) 1903
(B) 1904
(C) 1905
(D) 1906

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8. 'Topsy' appears in: (A) Rhyming iambic pentameter lines
(A) Uncle Tom's Cabin (B) Unrhyming iambic pentameter lines
(B) History of the United States (C) Rhyming iambic hexameter
(C) Walden (D) Unrhyming iambic hexameter
(D) Tom Sawyer
16. 'Gestalt' theory of literature considers
9. A poem that captures the essence of a text as:
moment in a simple image is: (A) a structure of metaphors
(A) Lyric (B) a unified whole
(B) Ballad (C) an experimentation in form
(C) Ode (D) construction of history
(D) Haiku
17. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from :
10. Which of the following Shakespearean (A) Australia
plays are in the correct chronological (B) The U.S.A.
sequence? (C) Canada
(A) The Merchant of Venice - Henry IV Part (D) Britain
I - Romeo and Juliet - Richard II
(B) Richard II - Henry IV Part I - Romeo and 18.Sartor Resartus is a text by :
Juliet - The Merchant of Venice (A) Ruskin
(C) Henry IV Part I - Romeo and Juliet - The (B) Arnold
Merchant of Venice - Richard II (C) Carlyle
(D) Romeo and Juliet -Richard II - Henry IV (D) Burke
Part I - The Merchant of Venice
19. Who of the following is not a university
11. The word 'nature' in the eighteenth wit?
century literature stands for: (A) Webster
(A) Nature of writing (B) Robert Greene
(B) External nature (C) Kyd
(C) Human nature (D) Marlowe
(D) The Universe
20. Bosola is a character in a play by:
12. Who is given credit for first using the (A) Ben Jonson
term "romantic"? (B) Webster
(A) Friedrich Schlegel (C) Christopher Marlowe
(B) Kant (D) Thomas Middleton
(C) Coleridge
(D) Schiller 21. 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven'. This
13. Gudrun is a character in a novel by: occurs in a poem by :
(A) James Joyce (A) William Wordsworth
(B) Virginia Woolf (B) S. T. Coleridge
(C) D. H. Lawrence (C) Byron
(D) E. M. Forster (D) Shelley

14. July's People is a novel by: 22. A Dance of the Forest is written by:
(A) Margaret Atwood (A) Margaret Atwood
(B) V. S. Naipul (B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Wole Soyinka (C) Chinua Achebe
(D) Nadine Gordimer (D) Wole Soyinka

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23. The first Canadian poet is: (C) Margaret Drabble
(A) Charles Sangster (D) William Golding
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
(C) Charles Heavysege 31. Which of the following author-book
(D) Alexander Machlachlan pair is correctly matched?
(A) Hard Times - George Eliot
24. Heroic quatrain is : (B) Heroes and Hero Worship - Walter Patar
(A) a stanza in blank verse (C) Sourab and Rustom - Matthew Arnold
(B) eight line stanza in iambic hexameter (D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay
(C) four line stanza in iambic pentameter
(D) six line stanza in iambic pentameter 32. The title of William Faulkner's The
Sound and Fury is derived from a play by:
25. 'Bildungsroman' translated literally (A) William Shakespeare
means: (B) Christopher Marlow
(A) Development novel (C) John Webster
(B) Psychological novel (D) Ben Jonson
(C) Autobiographical novel
(D) Campus novel 33. The new humanism school of
philosophy and literary criticism was
26.A book that faithfully renders a young popular in America during:
man's confused images of love and (A)1920-1940
rejection is : (B) 1910-1930
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man (C)1930-1940
(B) Lucky Jim (D)1900-1910
(C) Daisy Miller
(D) The brave New World 34.Internal rhyme is :
(A) the basic rhythmic structure of a poem
27. Victorian Age witnessed a clash (B) rhyming of two words in alternative lines
between: (C) rhyming of two or more words in the
(A) faith and reason same line of poetry
(B) tradition and modernity (D) all the lines of a poem ending with the
(C) oriental and occidental civilization same line pattern
(D) romanticism and neo romanticism
35. The macabre element in drama was
28. "For gold in Physique is introduced by :
Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in (A) John Lyly
special" relates to Chavcer''s (B) Marlow
(A) Friar (C) Ben Jonson
(B) Monk (D) John Webster
(C) Doctor
(D) Pardoner 36. The line "I am no Prince Hamlet nor
was meant to be......." appears in T. S.
29. The historical novel began in; Eliot's
(A) Restoration Period
(B) Augustan Age (A) Gerontion
(C) Victorian Period (B) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
(D) Romantic Period (C) Four Quartets
(D) The Waste-Land
30. The term 'Campus novel' is associated
with: 37. 'Fancy' deals with:
(A) Graham Green (A) Fixities and definities
(B) Kingsley Amis (B) Imagination and Reason
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(C) Judgement and Memory
(D) Structure and Superstructure 45. The Tale of Two Cities has :
(A) a sentimental buffoon with a moral
38. Swift's Modest proposal is written in purpose
the form of a : (B) a courageous lady in pain
(A) Project in political economy Social Satire (C) an optimist on verge of collapse
(B) Political allegory (D) a romantic hero with a weakness
(C) Social Satire
(D) Old-Testament history 46. Sheridan's first play was:
(A) The Rivals
39. The main idea of Pope's The Dunciad (B) School for Scandal
was taken from : (C) St. Patrick's Day
(A) Absalom and Achitophel (D) A Trip to Scarborough
(B) Mac-Flecknoe
(C) The Medal 47. Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot of:
(A) loss of moral purpose
40. Which of the following is not a (B) excess of emotion
Browning's work ? (C) excess of reason
(A) Dramatic Lyrics Men and Women (D) loss of human feelings
(B) Dramatic Personae
(C) Men and Women 48. Which of the following novel-novelist
(D) The Palace of Art pair is correctly matched?
(A) Bhabani Bhattacharya - All About H.
41. The most obvious feature of Johnson's Hatter
The Lines of the Poets is the equipoise (B) Nayantara Sahgal - Cry, the Peacock
between: (C) Bhagwandas Gidwani - A Bend in the
(A) Language and form Ganges
(B) Style and content (D) Arun Joshi - The Appreutice
(C) Biography and criticism
(D) Myth and archetype 49. The Indian English poet who addressed
the question 'of time' in his poetry is :
42. "The Kelson of creation is love". The (A) Nissim Ezeikel
line occurs in Walt Whitman‟s: (B) R. Parthsarathy
(A) Paumonak (C) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) Passage to India (D) Gieve Patel
(C) O Captain, My Captain
(D) Song of Myself 50. Symbolist movement was influenced by
:
43. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately (A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe
associated in his personal life ? (B) Stephane Mallarme's Poetry
(A) Boswell (C) Prose of Emerson
(B) Dryden (D) Ezra Pound's Cantos
(C) Alexander Pope
(D) Lord Bolingbroke

44. The early religious drama is associated

with :
(A) Superstitions and beliefs
(B) Mysteries and histories
(C) Interludes and mysteries
(D) Miracles and morality
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 DECEMBER 2008 PAPER II

1. The Victorian period refers to the reign

of Queen Victoria of England during:
(A) 1830 - 1890
(B) 1837 - 1905
(C) 1837 - 1901
(D) 1850 – 1910

2. The Rambler appeared every :

(A) Tuesday and Saturday
(B) Sunday and Wednesday
(C) Friday and Monday
(D) Thursday and Monday

3. "Tottel's Miscellany” contained:

(A) 30 sonnets
(C) 50 sonnets
(B) 40 sonnets
(D) 60 sonnets

4.'Imagism' is associated with:

(A) T. S. Fliot
(C) E. E. Cummings
(B) D. H. Lawrence
(D) T. E. Hulme

5. The title Things Fall Apart is drawn

from a poem by:
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Robert Lowell

6. 'Formal Criticism' relates to the

structure of :
(A) Literary devices
(B) Myths
(C) Content
(D) Form

7. A 'Foot' in prosody is a basic unit of :

(A) rhyme
(B) length
(C) rhythmic measurement
(D) height

8. Who of the following is known for

aphoristic prose style?
(A) William Hazlitt
(B) Francis Bacon

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(C) John Ruskin (C) mechanizations of politics
(D) G. K. Chesterton (D) simplicity of lower-class

9. The confessions of an English Opium 16. Heptameter consists of:

Eater was written by: (A) five metrical feet
(A) William Hazlitt (B) six metrical feet
(B) S. T. Coleridge (C) seven metrical feet
(C) Landor (D) eight metrical feet
(D) De Quincey
17. In formalistic school of criticism art is:
10. Ireland emerges as the most important (A) entertainment
metaphor in: (B) preaching
(A) Seamus Heaney (C) matter
(B) Elizabeth Jennigs (D) style
(C) Arnold Wesker
(D) Edward Albee 18. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance
Runner is a novel by :
11. Which of the following Shakespearean (A) Alan Sillitoe
plays is in the correct chronological order? (B) Paul Scott
(A) King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado..., Troilus (C) Peter Porter
and Cressida (D) Muriel Spark
(B) Much Ado..., Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus
and Cressida 19. 'Rugby Chapel' is a poem by Matthew
(C) Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Hamlet, Arnold in the memory of his:
Much Ado... (A) mother
(D) Hamlet, Much Ado..., King Lear, Troilus (B) brother
and Cressida (C) father
(D) sister
12. The major contribution of the
Restoration period is in the field of: 20. The earliest woman novelist of
(A) Philosophical writings significance in the 18th century is:
(B) Poetry (A)Mary Edgeworth
(C) Drama (B) Aphra Behn
(D) Letters (C) Mary Russell
(D) Mrs Gaskell
13. The correct chronological order of the
following poets is: 21. 'Cut is the branch that might have
(A) Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott grown full straight' is a line that occurs in:
(B) Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron (A) Dr Faustus
(C) Keats, Byron, Walter Scott, Shelley (B) Hamlet
(D) Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats (C) Macbeth
(D) The Spanish Tragedy
14. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel
by: 22. Pope's 'Essay on Man' can best be read
(A) Virginia Woolf as a poem of:
(B) E. M. Forster (A) classical understanding of nature
(C) D. H. Lawrence (B) anti-romantic view of life
(D) James Joyce (C) sociological estimate of man
(D) philosophical apprehension of life
15. The plays of Edward Albee deal with:
(A) problems of middle-class 23. The term 'Victorian' evokes the
(B) hypocracy of aristocracy attitudes of:
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(A) philistinism meaning
(B) moral earnestness (C) beliefs determine meaning
(C) licentiousness (D) a style is the hallmark of the text
(D) transcendentalism
31. Which of the following author-book
24. Larry slate is a character in: pair is correctly matched ?
(A) Desire Under the Elms (A) Walter Pater - Unto This Last
(B) The Emperor Jones (B) Browning - The Ring and the Book
(C) The Iceman Cometh (C) M. Arnold - Idylls of the King
(D) Hairy Ape (D) Thackray - Bleak House

25. 'Iambus' is a metrical foot consisting 32. 'Myth Criticism' focuses on:
of: (A) a study of myths and mythology
(A) two syllables (B) archetypes of spiritual experience
(B) three syllables (C) recurrence of archetypal patterns
(C) four syllables (D) the confluence of different traditions
(D) one syllable
33. The phrase disassociation of sensibility
26. The lines ''Not that he wished is was first used by:
greatness to create / For politicians neither (A) Philip Sydney
love nor hate,'' occur in : (B) T. S. Eliot
(A) The Rape of the Lock (C) John Dryden
(B) Abslam and Achitophel (D) Mathew Arnold
(C) Mac Flecknoe
(D) Essay on man 34. An Idyll is usually a poem about a :
(A) picturesque city life
27. 11,396 definitions of romanticism were (B) panoramic view of nature
given by : (C) picture of industrial society
(A) Friedrich Schlegel (D) picturesque country life
(B) Victor Hugo
(C) Edger Allan Poe 35. 'The Lost Generation' refers to the
(D) F. L. Lucas generation that came to maturity in the :
(A) 1920s
28. The term 'a stream of consciousness' is (B) 1930s
derived from the writing of: (C) 1910s
(A) Mary Sinclair (D) 1940s
(B) Dorothy Richardson
(C) William James 36. The French Revolution had a
(D) Gertrude Stein significant impact on:
(A) Victorian Literature
29. Sean O' Casey's Juno and the Paycock (B) Romantic Literature
is: (C) Neo-classic Literature
(A) a romantic comedy (D) Modern Literature
(B) a historical tragedy
(C) a mythical reconstruction 37. In which poem does the following line
(D) a tragi-comedy appear ? ''Our birth is but a sleep and
aforgetting.'' :
30. The 'Reader-Response Theory' implies (A) "Michael"
that: (B) "Immortality Ode"
(A) there is no one correct meaning of the (C) "Rejection : An Ode"
text (D) "Tintern Abbey"
(B) the readers of an age construct the
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38. Tale of a Tub is about:
(A) Warring political factions
(B) Struggling lower-class people 45.The most important of the
(C) Controversial philosophical documents 'evolutionists' during the Victorian period
(D)Contending religious parties was :
(A) Erasmus Darwin
39. Congreve's The way of the world ends (B) Robert Chambers
with: (C) Charles Darwin
(A) a dance party (D) Alfred Russell Wallace
(B) punishment of Lady Wishfort
(C) sending of Mr Fainall to prison 46. A philosophical attitude pervading
(D) reconciliation of Petulant Whitwood much of modern literature is:
(A) Absurdism
40. On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim, (B) Dadaism
"O, father, surely that is a spirit. Lord! (C) Imagism
How it looks about ?" (D) Surrealism
(A) Caliban
(B) Ferdinand 47. The term 'magic realism' was first
(C) Alonso introduced by:
(D) Stephano (A) Hannah Arendt
(B) Franz Roh
41. Secular influences on the early English (C) Jean Arp
drama were : (D) Peter Behrens
(A) political squabbles, religious sermons and
social customs 48. The Indian English novelist who, for
(B) rural politicking, hypocracy of the elite the first time, addressed the question of
and falsity of aristocracy language and indigenous experience was:
(C) village festivals, folk plays and minstrels (A) Mulk Raj Anand
(D) middle-class life, moral beliefs and (B) R K Narayan
uprising of the subaltans (C) Arun Joshi
(D) Raja Rao
42. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
was written while he was: 49. G. V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr is
(A) in prison written in the :
(B) on a pilgrimage (A) stream-of- consciousness mode
(C) on a social mission (B) first person narrative mode
(D) in a church (C) picaresque mode
(D) naturalistic mode
43. In Juvenalian satire the speaker is:
(A) a political orator 50. The rhyme scheme of the
(B) a propagandist Shakespearean sonnet is :
(C) a social revolutionary (A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(D) a serious moralist (B) abba, cddc, effe, gg
(C) abab, cdcd, efef, gh
44. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (D) aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg
most clearly shows the influence of :
(A) Fielding Smollett
(B) Richardson
(C) Smollett
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 JUNE 2009 PAPER II
1. In a 1817 review of Coleridge's
Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey
coined the term 'Lake School of Poets'
grouping...

(A) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Crabbe

(B) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron
(C) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Hazlitt
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

2.'I am the enemy you killed, my friend/I

knew you in this dark...' The above lines
are taken from...
(A) "The Soldier"
(B) "Dulce et Decorum Est"
(C) "To His Dead Body"
(D) "Strange Meeting"

3. Below are two sets of texts one of which

has inspired the other. Match the text with
its inspiration:
(i) Coral Island
(ii) The Odyssey
(iii) The Mahabharat
(iv) Jane Eyre
(v) The Great Indian Novel
(vi) Wide Sargasso Sea
(vii) Omeroos
(viii) Lord of the Flies

(A) (i) - (v), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (viii), (iv) - (vi)

(B) (iv) - (vii), (iii) – (vi), (i) - (viii), (ii) - (v)
(C) (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi), (i) - (vii), (ii) - (viii)
(D) (i) - (viii), (ii) - (vii), (iii) - (v), (iv) - (vi)

4. "His life was gentle and the elements

So mixed in him, that Nature might stand
up
And say to all the world, 'This was a man
!'"
Who is the speaker, and about whom is
this spoken?
(A) Enobarbus on Antony
(B) Brutus on Caesar
(C) Cleopatra on Antony
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5. "When my love swears that she is made irrational and primitive.
of truth/I do believe her, though I know (iii) The Europeans used the East
she lies". The author of these lines is... oppositionally to define their self-image as
(A) Philip Sidney rational and modern.
(B) Edmund Spenser (iv) The Oriental people used the West
(C) Christopher Marlowe oppositionally to define their self-image as
(D) William Shakespeare rational and modern.

6. The poetry of Wordsworth and (A) (iii)

Coleridge was notably influenced by... (B) (iv)
(A) The Napoleonic Wars (C) (i) and (iv)
(B) The Glorious Revolution (D) (ii) and (iii)
(C) The French Revolution
(D) Poor Laws 12. Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical
periodization often has nothing to do with the
7. "Great wits are sure to madness near lifetime of writers. Thus we see two writers
allied And thin partitions do their bounds born in the same year belonging to two
divide". The above lines appear in... separate periods.
(A) Mac Flecknoe Reasoning/ (R): Thomas Carlyle and John
(B) Absalom and Achitophel Keats were born in 1795. In standard literary
(C) Essay on man histories,
(D) Alexander's Feast Example: Keats is a Romantic and Carlyle, a
Victorian.
8. Who among the following developed the (A) (AST) and (R) are correct
term strategic essentialism? (B) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect
(A) Edward Said (C) (AST) and (R) are incorrect
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (D) (R) does not follow from (AST)
(C) Homi Bhabha
(D) Aijaz Ahmed 13. Everyman is...
(A) a medieval play based on an episode from
9. David Malouf's An Imaginary Life is a the Bible
retelling of the story of: (B) a medieval morality play
(A) Aristotle (C) a Tudor interlude
(B) Juvenal (D) a miracle play
(C) Ovid
(D) Horace 14. Which of the following sets would you
call the poets of the Movement ?
10. Jabberwocky is a character in.... (A) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John
(A) The Importance of Being Earnest Wain
(B) Fra Lippo Lippi (B) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen
(C) Through the Looking Glass Spender
(D) Goblin Market (C) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra
Pound
11. Which of the following statements is the (D) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony
most accurate regarding Edward Said's Thwaite
thesis in Orientalism ?
15.Doris Lessing's interest in __________ is
(i) The Europeans used the East dialectically widely recognized :
to describe their self-image as irrational and (A) Hinduism
primitive. (B) Sufism
(ii) The Oriental people used the West (C)Zen
dialectically to define their self-image as (D)Judaism
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 (A) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (iv); (vii) - (ii); (v) - (vi)
16. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way (B) (iii) - (viii); (i) - (iv); (iii) - (ii);(v) - (ii)
of speech/writing, is also known as... (C) (i) - (vi); (iii) - (viii); (v) - (iv); (vii) - (ii)
(A) synecdoche (D) (v) - (vi); (i) - (viii); (iii) - (ii); (vii) – (iv)
(B) allusion
(C) understatement 22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
(D) circumlocution is a series of reflections on:
(A) Jazz music
17. Arrange the following in chronological (B) Disability sports
order... (C) Whiteness and the literary imagination
(I) The death of Shakespeare (D) Black American folklore
(ii) Accession of James I to the English
throne 23. "He's not the brightest man in the
(iii) Caxton and the printing press world" is an example of:
(iv) The Norman Conquest of England (A) Chiasmus
(B) Hyperbole
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) (C) Litotes
(B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i) (D) Simile
(C) (iii) (iv) (I) (ii)
(D) (iv) (iii) (I) (ii) 24. The term 'horizon of expectations' is
associated with...
18. “The Muse of History” is a classic (A) Wolfgang Iser
postcolonial essay by: (B) Stanley Fish
(A) Ngugi wa Thiongo (C) Harold Bloom
(B) Chinua Achebe (D) H.R. Jauss
(C) Wilson Harris
(D) Derek Walcott 25. The following writers have something
in common: What is it?
19. "Do I contradict myself ? Very well
then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I Mary Seacole J.A. Froude
contain multitudes.)" The above lines are Mary Kingsley Anthony Trollope
from...
(A) Walt Whitman (I) They are all victorians
(B) Edgar Allan Poe (ii) They are all writers of children's fiction
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson (iii) They are all members of one literary
(D) John Greenleaf Whittier guild
(iv) They are all travel writers
20. Verses on the Death of Dr Swift was
written by... (A) (i) and (ii)
(A) Jonathan Swift (B) (iii) and (iv)
(B) Alexander Pope (C) ii) and (iv)
(C) Samuel Johnson (D) (i) and (iv)
(D) James Boswell
26. The immediate source of Christopher
21. Match the following elegies with the Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is...
persons for whom they were writte (A) A French narrative
(B) A Dutch narrative
(i) Lycidas (ii)Arthur Hugh Clough (C) A German narrative
(iii)Adonais (iv) A.H. Hallam (D) None of the above
(v) In Memoriam (vi) Edward King
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27. Who among the following were 33. Understanding Poetry used to be a
associated with the Irish Dramatic classic textbook that encapsulates the
Movement ? principles of ...
(A) Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge (A) New Historicism
(B) Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. (B) New Aristotelianism
Shaw (C) New Criticism
(C) W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw (D) The New Left
(D) W.B. Yeats, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Seamus
Heaney 34. What century is variously called The
Age of Enlightenment, The Age of
28. The term diaspora was originally Sensibility, The Augustan Age and The
applied to the following ethnic group: Age of Prose and Reason?
(A) Jews (A) sixteenth century
(B) Muslims (B) seventeenth century
(C) Hindus (C) eighteenth century
(D) French Canadians (D) nineteenth century

29. Who among the following is NOT a 35. What is common to the following
'University Wit' ? poems?
(A) Christopher Marlowe Wordsworth's 'The Recluse'
(B) George Peele Shelley's 'The Triumph of Life'
(C) Robert Greene Byron's 'Don Juan'
(D) Ben Jonson Keats' 'Hyperion'

30. When a person has a wooden leg, we (A) They are all elegies
are apt to say, 'He has a wooden leg'. Now (B) They are all unfinished poems
this wooden leg is... (C) They are all divided into cantos
(i) literal (D) They are women-centred poems
(ii) metaphorical
(iii) ambiguous 36. Who among the following called the
(iv) neither literal nor metaphorical novel 'the bright book of life' ?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(A) (i) and (ii) are correct (B) James Joyce
(B) (i) is correct (C) Virginia Woolf
(C) (ii) is correct (D) Aldous Huxley
(D) (iii) and (iv) are correct
37. "Ripeness is all'' is a line from...
31. Prosody studies: (A) Hamlet
(A) Line endings (B) King Lear
(B) Meanings of words (C) Othello
(C) Patterns of prose (D) Macbeth
(D) Metrics
38. U.R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara was
32. Which of the following is a major translated by...
Jacobean play? (A) Himself
(A) Everyman (B) Girish Karnad
(B) Gorboduc (C) H.S. Shivaprakash
(C) Romeo and Juliet (D) A.K. Ramanujan
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39. Abel Whittle is a character in: 45. The Globe Theatre opened in:
(A) The Return of the Native (A) 1585
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge (B) 1593
(C) Far from the Madding Crowd (C) 1599
(D) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (D) 1603

40. In which eclogue of The Shepheardes Read the following passage carefully, and
Calender does Spenser praise Queen select the right answers from the
Elizabeth I? alternatives given below in the questions 46
(A)January to 50:
(B) April
(C) August We need to begin by casting doubt on the
(D)November legitimacy of the notion of literature. The
mere fact that the word exists, or that an
41. Which of the following is NOT the academic institution has been built around it,
opening of the well-known Romantic does not mean that the thing itself is self-
poem? evident. Reasons perfectly empirical ones,
(A) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness to begin with are not hard to find. The full
pains/ My sense history of the word literature and its
(B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit! equivalents in all languages and all eras has
(C) Margaret are you grieving/Over Golden yet to be written, but even a perfunctory look
grove unleaving? at the question makes it clear that the term
(D) The world is too much with us has not been around forever. In the European
languages, the word literature in its current
42.Politics and the English Language is an sense is quite recent: it dates back just barely
essay by : to the nineteenth century. Might we be
(A) F.R. Leavis dealing with a historical phenomenon rather
(B) Terry Eagleton than an 'eternal' one? Moreover, many
(C) George Orwell languages (many African languages, for
(D) Raymond Williams example) have no generic term covering all
literary productions. To these initial
43. 'The mind-forged manacles' is phrase observations we may add the fragmentation
from: characteristic of literature today. Who dares
(A) „„London‟‟ specify what literature is and what is not,
(B) ''Eternity'' given the irreducible variety of the writing
(C) "A Poison Tree" that tends to be attached to it, from vastly
(D) "I Asked a Thief" different perspectives?

44. "He is not fully recognized at home; he The argument is not conclusive: a notion
is not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly may legitimately exist even if there is no
believe that the poetical performance of specific term in the lexicon for it. But we
__________ is, after that of Shakespeare have been led to cast the first shadow of
and Milton, undoubtedly most doubt over the 'naturalness' of literature. A
considerable in our language." To whom theoretical examination of the problem proves
does Matthew Arnold refer in the above no more reassuring. Where do we come by
statement ? the conviction that there is indeed such a
(A) Edmund Spenser thing as literature? From experience, we
(B) John Keats study 'literary' works in school, then in
(C) William Wordsworth college; we find the 'literary' type of book in
(D) S.T. Coleridge specialized stores; we are in the habit of
referring to 'literary' authors in everyday
conversation. An entity called 'literature'
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functions at the level of intersubjective and
social relations; this much seems beyond
question. Fine. But what have we proved?
That in the broader system of a given society
or culture, an identifiable element exists that
is known by the label literature. Have we
thereby demonstrated that all the particular
products that take on the function of
'literature' possess common characteristics,
which we can identify with legitimac? Not at
all.
46. This passage casts doubt on:
(A) the assumption called literature.
(B) the idea of literature.
(C) the institution of literature.
(D) the notion of literature.
legitimacy than an 'eternal' one.
(C) A historical phenomenon can be debated
and possibly settled while an 'eternal' one
must be taken on trust or not at all.
(D) historical phenomenon is well above
disputation while an 'eternal' one is not.
50.What does 'the fragmentation
characteristic of literature today' suggest
to the writer ?
(A) the fragmentation of modern
consciousness.
(B) the divided perceptions of literature by its
readers.
(C) the lack of specificity of literature.
(D) the blur that frustrates further
investigation into this concept.

47. Literature is unsustainable because:...

(A) we are unclear as to what it means.
(B) we are unsure as to its message.
(C) we are not persuaded that the claims
made for it are allowable and acceptable.
(D) we cannot prove that its definitions are
the right and the only possible ones.

48. How does the writer argue that the

existence of literature is hardly self-
evident?
(i) by citing reasons for its non-existence.
(ii) by citing reasons for interrogating its
legitimacy.
(iii) by citing reasons and proving by
argument that its legitimacy can be
interrogated.
(iv) by citing reasons to show that the label
does not match the thing we know to be
literature.

(A) (i)
(B) (i) and (ii)
(C) (iii)
(D) (iii) and (iv)

49. "Might we be dealing with a historical

phenomenon rather than an 'eternal'
one"? What makes this a reasonable
question to consider in this context?
(A) A historical phenomenon lends itself to
better empirical verification than an 'eternal'
one.
(B) A historical phenomenon has more
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1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson's
Volpone is
(A) Juvenal
(B) Aristophanes
(C) Plautus
(D) Terence

2. Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" is

addressed to
(A) The American imperial mission in the
Philippines.
(B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the
Congo.
(C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.
(D) The British colonial entry into
Afghanistan.

3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was

founded by Harriet Monroe in
(A) 1922
(B) 1920
(C) 1918
(D) 1912

4. Who among the following was Geoffrey

Chaucer's contemporary?
(A) Thomas Chatterton
(B) John Gower
(C) Thomas Shadwell
(D) John Gay

5. Which of the following is NOT written

by Walter Scott?
(A) Ivanhoe
(B) Lady of the Lake
(C) Heart of Midlothian
(D) The English Mail Coach

6. "Provincializing Europe" is a concept

propounded by
(A) Edward Said
(B) Paul Gilroy
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah
(D) Dipesh Chakravarty

7. The earliest tract on feminism is

(A) Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
(B) Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
(C) Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of

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the Rights of Woman 14. Who among the following is associated
(D) Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the with the ideology of Utilitarianism?
Ladies (A) J.A. Froude
(B) Charles Kingsley
8. Match the imaginary location with its (C) J.S. Mill
creator: (D) Cardinal Newman
1. Emily Bronte 2. Thomas Hardy
3. Lowood Parsonage 4. Charles Dickens 15. The 'Condition of England' literature
5. Wessex 6. Egdon Heath refers to
7. Coketown 8. Charlotte Bronte (A) The literature written by the labour class.
(B) The literature of England extolling living
(A) 1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8 conditions.
(B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7 (C) The literature of England depicting the
(C) 1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7 vulnerability of labour classes.
(D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8 (D) The literature of England depicting the
imperial projects abroad.
9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante's
The Divine Comedy? 16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for
(A) The Canterbury Tales Poetry in immediate response to
(B) The Book of the Duchess (A) Plato's Republic
(C) The House of Fame (B) Aristotle's Poetics
(D) Legend of Good Women (C) Stephen Gosson's The School of Abuse
(D) Jeremy Collier's Immorality and
10. Essays of Elia was published in Profaneness of the English Stage.
(A) 1800
(B) 1823 17. Silence! The Court is in Session is a
(C) 1827 _________ play translated into English.
(D) 1850 (A) Gujarati
(B) Bengali
11. Which of the following is an example of (C) Marathi
homosexual fiction? (D) Kannada
(A) The Well of Loneliness
(B) Maurice 18. Arrange the following in ascending
(C) Orlando order in terms of size:
(D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol 1. epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. Sonnet

12. W.B. Yeat's "Easter 1916" is (A) 1 2 3 4

(A) a response to a major political uprising (B) 2 1 3 4
(B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery (C) 2 3 4 1
school (D) 1 3 4 2
(C) a love poem for Maud Gonne
(D) an ode to his native country 19. "Fail I alone in words and deeds?
/Why, all men strive and who succeeds?"
13. William Empson's Seven Types of These lines are from
Ambiguity is (A) "Rabbi Ben Ezra"
(A) A structuralist study of narrative (B) "Fra Lippo Lippi"
(B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism (C) "Caliban upon Setebos"
(C) A study of the media (D) "The Last Ride Together"
(D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence

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20. Dr. Johnson's "The Vanity of Human Codes :
Wishes" expresses (A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8
(A) Epicureanism (B) 2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6
(B) Humanism (C) 3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7
(C) Stoicism (D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8
(D) Cynicism
27. Who among the following writers
21. "A trivial comedy for serious people" belonged to the American Beat Movement?
was the subtitle for (A) Allen Ginsberg
(A) Everyman in His Humour (B) Mark Beard
(B) Blythe Spirit (C) Isaac McCaslih
(C) The Way of the World (D) Charles Beard
(D) The Importance of Being Earnest.
28. "The Lost Generation" is a name
22. Which famous elegy closes with the applied to the disillusioned intellectuals
following lines? and aesthetes of the years following the
"In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing First World War. Who called them "The
fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/ Lost Generation"?
Teach the free man how to praise." (A) H.L. Mencken
(A) In Memoriam (B) Willa Cather
(B) Thyrsis (C) Jack London
(C) "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" (D) Gertrude Stein
(D) "Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot"
29. Hyperbole is
23. The Temple is a collection of poems by 1. an extravagant exaggeration
(A) Thomas Carew 2. a racist slur
(B) Robert Herrick 3. a metrical skill
(C) George Herbert 4. a figure of speech
(D) Richard Crashaw
(A) 1 is correct
24. Ben Jonson's comedies are (B) 1 and 4 are correct
(A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The (C) 1 and 3 are correct
Shoemaker's Holiday (D) 3 is correct
(B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene
(C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of 30. "Imagined Communities" is a concept
the Burning Pestle propounded by
(D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker's (A) Benedict Anderson
Holiday (B) Homi Bhabha
(C) Aijaz Ahmed
25. What is 'L' Allegro's' companion piece (D) Partha Chatterjee
called?
(A) Lamia 31. The New Historicists include
(B) Hyperion (A) Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose
(C) Il Penseroso (B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler
(D) Thyrsis (C) Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg
(D) Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey
26. Match the character with the novel :
1. Caddy 2. Lennie 32. Wallace Stevens' "The Man with the
3. Jake Barnes 4. Tommy Wilhelm Blue Guitar" may be linked to the work of
5. The Sound and the Fury 6. Of Mice and the following artist:
Men (A) Modigliani
7. The Sun Also Rises 8. Seize the Day (B) Chagall
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(C) Picasso Tristram Shandy
(D) Cezanne (B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy,
Pamela, Moll Flanders
33. The author of Gender Trouble is (C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela,
(A) Elaine Showalter Joseph Andrews
(B) Helene Cixous (D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews,
(C) Michele Barrett Tristram Shandy
(D) Judith Butler
39. "How can what an Englishman believes
34. The structural analysis of signs was be heresy? It is a contradiction in terms."
practised by This means
(A) Michel Foucault 1. An Englishman does not know what heresy
(B) Jacques Lacan is.
(C) Julia Kristeva 2. An Englishman has no beliefs.
(D) Roland Barthes 3. And, therefore, there is no question of his
heresy.
35. Which of the following is a spoof of a 4. And, therefore, there cannot be any
Gothic novel? question of his acting his beliefs.
(A) Frankenstein
(B) Northanger Abbey (A) 1 and 4 are correct
(C) Castle of Otranto (B) 2 and 1 are correct
(D) Mysteries of Udolfo (C) 1 and 3 are correct
(D) 2 and 4 are correct
36. The "madwoman in the attic" is a
specific reference to 40. Which of the following is an essentially
(A) The narrator of "Goblin Market" Freudian concept?
(B) Augusta Egg's 1858 narrative painting (A) Archetype
(C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper (B) The Uncanny
(D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre (C) The Absurd
(D) The Imaginary
37. Assertion (A): Dr Johnson's The Lives
of the Poets carries 41. He wrote an essay called "Conrad's
critical and Darkness" where he praises the earlier
biographical studies of writer for offering him a vision of the
poets he admired. It world's "half-made societies'. Identify the
does not, however, writer.
carry a life of William (A) Chinua Achebe
Wordsworth. (B) V.S. Naipaul
Reason (R): Dr. Johnson singled out poets (C) Salman Rushdie
whom he not only admired but (D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
also
adored. This explains his 42. "Magic Realism" is closely associated
omission of Wordsworth. with
(A) Italo Calvino
Correct. (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(B) (A) is true but (R) is false. (C) Anita Desai
(C) (A) and (R) are true. (D) Rohinton Mistry
(D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.

38. What is the correct chronological

sequence of the following?
(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews,
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43. Who among the following combines
anthropology, history and fiction?
(A) Kamala Markandya
(B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Upmanyu Chatterjee
(D) Amitav Ghosh
44. Which of the following is NOT a
Partition novel?
(A) Train to Pakistan
(B) Sunlight on a Broken Column
(C) The Shadow Lines
(D) In Custody
45. Which of the following options is
correct?
(i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical
and literary movement.
(ii) It flourished in the Southern States of
America in the 19th century.
(iii) It was a reaction against 18th century
rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of
Locke.
(iv) Among the major texts of
Transcendentalist thought are the essays of
Emerson,Thoreau's Walden and the writings
of Margaret Fuller.
(A) (i) and (iv) are correct.
(B) (ii) and (iii) are correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
(D) (iv) is correct
Read the following passage carefully, and
select the right answers from the
alternatives given below in the question 46
to 50:
It would be more accurate to say that
discourse, rather than language, plays a
crucial part in structuring our experience. The
whole idea of 'language' is something of a
fiction: what we normally refer to as
'language' can more realistically be seen as
heterogeneous collection of discourses. Each
of us has access to a range of discourses, and
it is these different discourses which give us
access to, or enable us to perform, different
'selves'. A discourse can be conceptualized as
a 'system of statements which cohere around
common meanings and values'. So, for
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example, in contemporary Britain there are
discourses which can be labeled 'conservative'
– that is, discourses which emphasize values
and meanings where the status quo is
cherished: and there are discourses which can
be labeled 'patriarchal' – that is, discourses
which emphasize meanings and values which
assume the superiority of males. Dominant
discourses such as these appear 'natural': they
are powerful precisely because they are able
to make invisible the fact that they are just
one among many different discourses.
Theorizing language in this way is still new in
linguistics (to the extent that many linguists
would not regard analysis in terms of
discourses as being part of linguistics). One
of the advantages of talking about discourses
rather than about language is that the concept'
discourse' acknowledges the value-laden
nature of language. There is no neutral
discourse: whenever we speak we have to
choose between different systems of meaning,
different sets of values. This process allows
us to show how language is implicated in our
construction of different 'selves': different
discourses position us in different ways in
relation to the world.
Questions:
46. Which of the following is True in the
light of this passage?
(A) Language is inaccurate.
(B) Discourse is accurate.
(C) Language comprises discourse.
(D) Discourse comprises language.
47. What words/phrases suggest the
plurality of discourse in this passage?
I. different selves
II. range
III. system of statements
IV. heterogeneous collection
(A) II and IV
(B) II and III
(C) III and IV
(D) I
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48. Having called language "something of a
fiction", how does the author suggest its
opposite?
By using the phrase
(A) conceptualized as a system
(B) more accurate to say
(C) range of discourses
(D) more realistically be seen

49. Which among the following statements

is NOT true?
(A) Conservative discourses plead for the
status quo.
(B) Patriarchal discourses privilege male
values.
(C) Dominant discourses are natural.
(D) Dominant discourses seem natural.

50. What does this passage plead for?

(A) Theorizing language in a new way.
(B) Theorizing language in terms of
discourses.
(C) Studying language as discourse.
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7. The famous line ".. Where ignorant
1. The epithet "a comic epic in prose" is
armies clash by night" is taken from a
best applied to
(A) Richardson's Pamela poem by
(A) Wilfred Owen
(B) Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
(B) W.H. Auden
(C) Fielding's Tom Jones
(C) Siegfried Sassoon
(D) Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
(D) Matthew Arnold
2. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian
8. Which among the following novels is not
novel called
(A) Memento Mori written by Margaret Atwood ?
(A) Surfacing
(B) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(B) The Blind Assassin
(C) Robinson
(C) The Handmaid's Tale
(D) The Ballad of Peckham Rye
(D) The Stone Angel
3. Samuel Butler's Erewhon is an example
9. The term 'theatre of cruelty' was coined
of
(A) Feminist Literature by
(A) Robert Brustein
(B) Utopian Literature
(B) Antonin Artaud
(C) War Literature
(C) Augusto Boal
(D) Famine Literature
(D) Luigi Pirandello
4. The line "moments of unageing
10. The verse form of Byron's Childe
intellect" occurs in Yeats's
(A) Byzantium Harold was influenced by
(A) Milton
(B) Among School Children
(B) Spenser
(C) Sailing to Byzantium
(C) Shakespeare
(D) The Circus Animals' Desertion
(D) Pope
5. In his 1817 review of Coleridge's
11. Tennyson's Ulysses is
Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey
(I) a poem expressing the need for going
grouped the following poets together as the
forward and braving the struggles of life
'Lake School of Poets‟:
(II) a dramatic monologue
(A) Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge
(III) a morbid poem
(B) Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge
(IV) a poem making extensive use of satire
(C) Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge
The right combination for the above
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
statement, according to the code, is
6. Which of the following novels is not by
(A) I & IV
Patrick White?
(B) II and III
(A) The Vivisector
(C) III and IV
(B) The Tree of Man
(D) I and II
(C) Voss
(D) Oscar and Lucienda
12. Which post-war British poet was
involved in a disastrous marriage with
Sylvia Plath ?
(A) Philip Larkin
(B) Ted Hughes
(C) Stevie Smith
(D) Geoffrey Hill
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13. Chaucer's Parliament of Fowles is in 19. Which of the following author book
part pair is correctly matched?
(I) a puzzle (A) Muriel Spark – Under the Net
(II) a debate (B) William Golding – Girls of Slender
(III) a threnody Means
(IV) a beast fable (C) Angus Wilson – Lucky Jim
(D) Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing
The correct combination for the above
statement, according to the code, is 20. Who among the following is a
(A) I, II & IV Canadian critic?
(B) II, III & IV (A) I.A. Richards
(C) I & IV (B) F.R. Leavis
(D) II & IV (C) Cleanth Brooks
(D) Northrop Frye
14. Who among the following wrote a book
with the title The Age of Reason? 21. Sethe is a character in
(A) William Godwin (A) The Colour Purple
(B) Edmund Burke (B) The Women of Brewster Place
(C) Thomas Paine (C) Beloved
(D) Edward Gibbon (D) Lucy

15. The Restoration comedy has been 22. Imagined Communities is a book by
criticized mainly for its (A) Aijaz Ahmad
(A) excessive wit and humour (B) Edward Said
(B) bitter satire and cynicism (C) Perry Anderson
(C) indecency and permissiveness (D) Benedict Anderson
(D) superficial reflection of society
23. Who among the following is a Cavalier
16. Ideology and Ideological State poet ?
Apparatuses is an essay by (A) Henry Vaughan
(A) Terry Eagleton (B) Richard Crashaw
(B) Karl Marx (C) John Suckling
(C) Raymond Williams (D) Anne Finch
(D) Louis Althusser
24. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle, A
17. Sexual possessiveness is a theme of Trivial Comedy for Serious People?
Shakespeare's (A) A Woman of No Importance
(A) Coriolanus (B) Lady Windermere's Fan
(B) Julius Caesar (C) The Importance of Being Earnest
(C) Henry IV Part – I (D) An Ideal Husband
(D) A Midsummer Night's Dream
25. Which of the following plays is not
18. The term 'Cultural Materialism' is written by Wole Soyinka ?
associated with (A) The Lion and the Jewel
(A) Stephen Greenblatt (B) The Dance of the Forests
(B) Raymond Williams (C) Master Harold and the Boys
(C) Matthew Arnold (D) Kongi's Harvest
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26. Which of the following plays by 33. Which among the following is not a
William Wycherley is in part an sonnet sequence?
adaptation of Moliere's The Misanthrope? (A) Philip Sydney – Astrophel and Stella
(A) The Plain Dealer (B) Samuel Daniel – Delia
(B) The Country Wife (C) Derek Walcott – Omeroos
(C) Love in a Wood (D) D.G. Rossetti – The House of Life
(D) The Gentleman Dancing Master
34. 'Incunabula' refers to
27. 'Inversion' is the change in the word (A) books censured by the Roman Emperor
order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this (B) books published before the year 1501
book I like. Another term for inversion is (C) books containing an account of myths and
(A) Hypallage rituals
(B) Hubris (D) books wrongly attributed toan author
(C) Haiku
(D) Hyperbaton 35. The most notable achievement in
Jacobean prose was
28. The phrase 'the willing suspension of (A) Bacon's Essays
disbelief ' occurs in (B) King James' translation of the Bible
(A) Biographia Literaria (C) Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
(B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads (D) None of the above
(C) In Defence of Poetry
(D) Poetics 36. The Court of Chancery is a setting in
Dickens'
29. The religious movement Methodism in (A) Little Dorrit
the 18th century England was founded by (B) Hard Times
(A) John Tillotson (C) Dombey and Son
(B) Bishop Butler (D) Bleak House
(C) Bernard Mandeville
(D) John Welsey 37. Which romantic poet coined the
famous phrase 'spots of time‟?
30. My First Acquaintance with Poets, an (A) John Keats
unforgettable account of meeting with (B) William Wordsworth
literary heroes, is written by (C) S.T. Coleridge
(A) Charles Lamb (D) Lord Byron
(B) Thomas de Quincey
(C) Leigh Hunt 38. The statement 'I think, therefore, I am'
(D) William Hazlitt is by
(A) Schopenhauer
31. The figure of the Warrior Virgin in (B) Plato
Spenser's Faerie Queene is represented by (C) Descartes
the character (D) Sartre
(A) Britomart
(B) Gloriana 39. Verse that has no set theme – no
(C) Cynthia regular meter, rhyme or stanzaic pattern is
(D) Duessa (I) open form
(II) flexible form
32. The book Speech Acts is written by (III) free verse
(A) John Austin (IV) blank verse
(B) John Searle
(C) Jacques Derrida The correct combination for the statement,
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure according to the code, is
(A) I, II and III are correct
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(B) III and IV are correct (A) I & II
(C) II, III and IV are correct (B) I, II & III
(D) I and III are correct (C) III & IV
(D) I & III
40. Which is the correct sequence of
publication of Pinter's plays? 46. In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls for
(A) The Room, One for the Road, No Man's his
Land, The Homecoming (A) ignorance
(B) The Homecoming, No Man's Land, The (B) pride
Room, One for the Road (C) courage
(C) The Room, The Homecoming, No Man's (D) drunkenness
Land, One for the Road
(D) One for the Road, The Room, The 47. The first complete printed English
Homecoming, No Man's Land Bible was produced by
(A) William Tyndale
41. Johnson's Dictionary of the English (B) William Caxton
Language was published in the year (C) Miles Coverdale
(A) 1710 (D) Roger Ascham
(B) 1755
(C) 1739 48. Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton
(D) 1759 is sub-titled
(A) The Two Nations
42. The literary prize, Booker of Bookers, (B) A Tale of Manchester Life
was awarded to (C) A Story of Provincial Life
(A) J.M. Coetzee (D) The Factory Girl
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Martin Amis 49. Some of the Jacobean playwrights were
(D) Salman Rushdie prolific. One of them claimed to have
written 200 plays. The playwright is
43. In Keats „poetic career, the most (A) John Ford
productive year was (B) Thomas Dekker
(A) 1816 (C) Philip Massinger
(B) 1817 (D) Thomas Heywood
(C) 1820
(D) 1819 50. The concept of "Star-equilibrium" in
connection with man-woman relationship
44. Pope's The Rape of the Lock was appears in
published in 1712 in (A) Women in Love
(A) three cantos (B) Maurice
(B) four cantos (C) Mrs. Dalloway
(C) five cantos (D) The Old Wives' Tales
(D) two cantos

45. Stephen Dedalus is a fictional character

associated with
I. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
II. Sons and Lovers
III. Ulysses
IV. The Heart of Darkness

The correct combination for the above

statement according to the code is
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1. Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the
Immorality and Profaneness of the English
Stage attacked among others.
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Thomas Rhymer
(C) William Congreve
(D) Henry Fielding

2. The Crystal Palace, a key exhibit of the

Great Exhibition, was designed by
(A) Charles Darwin
(B) Edward Moxon
(C) Joseph Paxton
(D) Richard Owen

3. Influence of the Indian Philosophy is

seen in the writings of
(A) G.B. Shaw
(B) Noel Coward
(C) Tom Stoppard
(D) T.S. Eliot

4. In which of his voyages, Gulliver

discovered mountain-like beings?
(A) The land of the Lilliputians
(B) The land of the Brobdingnagians
(C) The land of the Laputans
(D) The land of the Houyhnhnms

5. Patrick White's Voss is a novel about

(A) the sea
(B) the capital market
(C) the landscape
(D) the judicial system

6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus

Heaney writes in English, in voice and
subject matter, his poems are
(A) Welsh
(B) Scottish
(C) Irish
(D) Polish

7. To whom is Mary Shelley's famous work

Frankenstein dedicated?
(A) Lord Byron
(B) Claire Clairmont
(C) William Godwin
(D) P.B. Shelley

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8. Which among the following poems by 15. Which of the following is not a Revenge
Philip Larkin records his impressions Tragedy?
while travelling to London by train? (A) The White Devil
(A) "Aubade" (B) The Duchess of Malfi
(B) "Church Going" (C) Doctor Faustus
(C) "The Whitsun Wedding" (D) The Spanish Tragedy
(D) "An Arundel Tomb"
16. Who of the following playwrights
9. The English satirist who used the sharp rejects the Aristotelian concept of tragic
edge of praise to attack his victims was play as imitation of reality?
(A) Ben Jonson (A) G.B. Shaw
(B) John Donne (B) Arthur Miller
(C) John Dryden (C) Bertolt Brecht
(D) Samuel Butler (D) John Galsworthy

10. One of the most famous movements of 17. The label 'Diasporic Writer' can be
direct address to the reader – "Reader, I applied to
married him" – occurs in I. Meena Alexander
(A) Henry Fielding's Tom Jones II. Arundhati Roy
(B) Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre III. Kiran Desai
(C) Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy IV. Shashi Deshpande
(D) George Eliot's Middlemarch
The correct combination for the statement,
11. Langland's Piers Plowman is a satire on according to the code, is
(A) aristocracy (A) I and IV are correct.
(B) chivalry (B) II and III are correct.
(C) peasantry (C) I, II and IV are correct.
(D) clergy (D) I and III are correct.

12. Which of the following thinker concept 18. The letter 'A' in The Scarlet Letter
pair is correctly matched? stands for
(A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal I. Adultery
Criticism II. Able
(B) Christopher Frye – Mysticism III. Angel
(C) Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction IV. Appetite
(D) Terry Eagleton – Psychological
Criticism The correct combination for the statement,
according to the code, is
13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in (A) I and II are correct.
Shakespeare's (B) II and III are correct.
(A) The Merchant of Venice (C) I, II and IV are correct.
(B) The Tempest (D) I, II and III are correct.
(C) Othello
(D) King Lear 19. A monosyllabic rhyme on the final
stressed syllable of two lines of verse is
14. The title, The New Criticism, published called
in 1941, was written by (A) monorhyme
(A) Cleanth Brooks (B) feminine rhyme
(B) John Crowe Ransom (C) masculine rhyme
(C) Robert Penn Warren (D) eye rhyme
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20. A fatwa was issued in Salman imagine – Mine is the hardest task." The
Rushdie's name following the publication poet under reference is
of: (A) Wordsworth
(A) Midnight's Children (B) Coleridge
(B) Shame (C) Byron
(C) Satanic Verses (D) Southey
(D) Grimus
27. A sequence of repeated consonantal
21. "There is nothing outside the text" is a sounds in a stretch of language is
key statement emanating from (A) alliteration
(A) Feminism (B) acrostic
(B) New Historicism (C) assent
(C) Deconstruction (D) syllable
(D) Structuralism
28. Reformation was predominantly a
22. The Augustan Age is called so because movement in
(A) King Augustus ruled over England during (A) politics
this period (B) literature
(B) The English writers imitated the Roman (C) religion
writers during this period (D) education
(C) The English King was born in the month
of August 29. The motto "only connect" is taken
(D) This was an age of sensibility from
(A) Joseph Conrad's Nostromo
23. One of the important texts of Angry (B) Rudyard Kipling's Kim
Young Man Movement is (C) H.G. Wells' The History of Mr. Polly
(A) Time's Arrow by Martin Amis (D) E.M. Forster's Howards End
(B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce 30. English Iambic Pentameter was
(C) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis brought to its first maturity in
(D) The French Lieutenant's Woman by John (A) sonnet
Fowles (B) dramatic verse
(C) lyric
24. Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in (D) elegy
the portrait of Sporus?
(A) Lady Wortley Montague 31. Who among the following was not a
(B) Joseph Addison member of the Bloomsbury Group ?
(C) Lord Shaftsbury (A) Lytton Strachey
(D) Lord Harvey (B) Clive Bell
(C) E.M. Forster
25. The hero of Marlowe's Tamburlaine (D) Winston Churchill
was born as a
(A) carpenter 32. The concept of human mind as tabula
(B) goldsmith rasa or blank tablet was propounded by
(C) shepherd (A) Bishop Berkley
(D) fisherman (B) David Hume
(C) Francis Bacon
26. In a letter to his brother George in (D) John Locke
September 1819, John Keats had this to
say about a fellow romantic poet: "He
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33. The terms 'resonance' and 'wonder' are 40. "Recessional: A Victorian Ode",
associated with Kipling's well-known poem,
(A) Stephen Greenblatt I. laments the end of an Era
(B) Terence Hawkes II. marks a new commitment to scientific
(C) Terry Eagleton knowledge
(D) Ronald Barthes III.expresses the sincerity of his religious
devotion
34. The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer IV. was occasioned by Queen Victoria's 1897
in The Prologue to Canterbury Tales is Jubilee Celebration
(A) ten-syllabic line
(B) eight-syllabic line The correct combination for the statement,
(C) rhyme royal according to the code, is
(D) ottava rima (A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
35. Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species (C) I and IV are correct.
was published in the year (D) I, III and IV are correct.
(A) 1859
(B) 1879 41. Who among the following is not a
(C) 1845 Restoration playwright?
(D) 1866 (A) William Congreve
(B) William Wycherley
36. Who of the following is the author of (C) Ben Jonson
Juno and the Paycock ? (D) George Etherege
(A) Lady Gregory
(B) W.B. Yeats 42. Which famous Romantic poem begins
(C) Oscar Wilde with the line: 'Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! /
(D) Sean O'Casey Bird thou never wert”?
(A) "Ode to a Nightingale"
37. The title of William Faulkner's The (B) "To the Cuckoo"
Sound and the Fury is taken from a play by (C) "To a Skylark"
(A) Christopher Marlowe (D) "To the Daisy"
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Ben Jonson 43. Who among the following Victorian
(D) John Webster poets disliked his middle name?
(A) Arthur Hugh Clough
38. "Silverman has never read Browning." (B) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
This is an example of (C) Gerard Manley Hopkins
(A) chiasmus (D) Algernon Charles Swinburne
(B) conceit
(C) zeugma 44. Aston is a character in Pinter‟s
(D) metonymy (A) The Birthday Party
(B) The Caretaker
39. The term 'Intentional Fallacy' is first (C) The Dumb Waiter
used by (D) The Homecoming
(A) William Empson
(B) Northrop Frye 45. Byron's English Bards and Scottish
(C) Wellek and Warren Reviewers is about
(D) Wimsatt and Beardsley I. the survey of English poetry
II. evangelism in English poetry
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The correct combination for the statement,
according to the code, is

(A) III and IV are correct.

(B) II, III and IV are correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.

46. Which Eliotian character utters the

question – "Do I eat a peach" ?
(A) Marina
(B) Prufrock
(C) Sweeney
(D) Stetson

47. Which among the following works by

Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the
pillory?
(A) The True-Born Englishman
(B) Captain Singleton
(C) The Shortest Way with Dissenters
(D) Moll Flanders

48. The arrival of printing in fifteenth

century England was engineered by
(A) Sir Thomas Malory
(B) John Gower
(C) John Barbour
(D) William Caxton

49. About which nineteenth century

English writer was it said that "He had
succeeded as a writer not by conforming to
the Spirit of the Age, but in opposition to
it”?
(A) Lord Byron on Coleridge
(B) Coleridge on Keats
(C) Hazlitt on Lamb
(D) De Quincey on Crabbe

50. The Restoration comedy, The Double

Dealer was written by
(A) John Dryden
(B) William Wycherley
(C) William Congreve
(D) George Etherege

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 JUNE 2011 PAPER II (II) Nadine Gordimer (2) New Zealand
(III) Margaret Atwood (3) Australia
(IV) Keri Hulme (4) South Africa
1. Little Nell is a character in Dickens‟s
Code :
(A) Hard Times
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(B) Great Expectations
(A) (2) (1) (4) (3)
(C) Oliver Twist
(B) (4) (3) (2) (1)
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop
(C) (3) (4) (1) (2)
(D) (3) (2) (4) (1)
2. Who, among the following Indian
writers in English, has created an
8. A Shakespearean sonnet has the
identifiable imagined locale?
(A) Mulk Raj Anand following rhyme scheme :
(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD
(B) Raja Rao
(B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE
(C) R.K. Narayan
(C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
(D) Anita Desai
(D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE
3. Who among the following is not a
9. "The future of poetry is immense,
formalist critic?
(A) Allen Tate because in poetry…. our race, as time goes
(B) Cleanth Brooks on, will find an ever surer and surer stay."
(C) Stanley Fish – This claim for poetry is made in
(A) Arnold's "The Study ofPoetry"
(D) William Empson
(B) Shelley's "A Defence ofPoetry"
(C) Sidney's "An Apology forPoetry"
4. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian
(D) Eliot's of Poetry and Poets
sonnet is
(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee
(B) abab cdcd efef gg 10. Which of the following is not about a
(C) abba cddc effe gg dystopia?
(A) George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
(D) abba abba cde cde
(B) Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
(C) William Golding's Lord of the Flies
5. Who among the following Marlovian
(D) R.M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island
characters is consumed by greed ?
(A) Barabas
(B) Tamburlaine 11. Who among the following is not
(C) Doctor Faustus associated with the translation of the
(D) Mephistopheles Bible?
(A) Miles Coverdale
(B) William Tyndale
6. The plan of Arthurian stories has
(C) John Wycliffe
influenced the composition of Tennyson‟s
(D) Thomas Browne
(A) In Memoriam
(B) Idylls
(C) "Maud" 12. Arrange the following stages in a
(D) "Locksley Hall" sequence in which all Shakespearean
tragedies are structured. Use the code
given below:
7. There are two lists given below. Match
I. Denouement
the authors in List – I with their
II. Conflict
nationality in List – II by choosing the
III. Exposition
right option against the code.
IV. Climax
List – I (Author) List – II
(Nationality)
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Code : (C) 373 lines
(A) III, II, IV, I (D) 423 lines
(B) III, IV, II, I
(C) II, IV, III, I 19. Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is set in
(D) II, IV, I, III (A) The Congo region
(B) The Niger Delta
13. The term, 'curtal sonnet', was coined (C) The Caribbean
by (D) The African Savannah
(A) John Milton
(B) William Blake 20. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his
(C) Gerald Manley Hopkins friend, "Horatio, I am dead." This is an
(D) Matthew Arnold example of
14. The author of the pamphlet Short View (A) protasis
of Immorality and Profaneness of the (B) anacrusis
English Stage (1698) was (C) prolepsis
(A) John Bunyan (D) pun
(B) Jeremy Collier
(C) William Wycherley 21. The Castle of Otranto is an example of
(D) John Vanbrugh (A) Gothic fiction
(B) Romance
15. Identify a play in the following list that (C) Comic fiction
is not written by Oscar Wilde: (D) Bildungsroman
(A) A Woman of No Importance
(B) The Importance of Being Earnest 22. "The City of Dreadful Night", a long
(C) Saints and Sinners poem depicting the late Victorian sense of
(D) An Ideal Husband gloom and despondency, is written by
(A) Matthew Arnold
16. Put the following novels by Charles (B) Robert Browning
Dickens in a sequential order with the help (C) James Thomson
of the code: (D) John Davidson
1. Great Expectations
2. Hard Times 23. Which of the following novels by V.S.
3. Bleak House Naipaul is set in Africa and carries echoes
4. A Tale of Two Cities of Joseph Conrad?
(A) The Mystic Masseur
Code : (B) A Bend in the River
(A) 3, 2, 4, 1 (C) A House for Mr. Biswas
(B) 2, 4, 3, 1 (D) The Mimic Men
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 4, 2, 1, 3 24. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda's
lapdog is named
17. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (A) Luck
was influenced by (B) Shock
(A) Seneca (C) Pluck
(B) Tertullian (D) Muck
(C) Virgil
(D) Plautus 25. You Can't Do Both is a novel by
(A) John Fowles
18. In its final published version, Eliot's (B) Doris Lessing
The Waste Land contains a total of (C) Kingsley Amis
(A) 334 lines (D) Irish Murdoch
(B) 433 lines
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26. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is 33. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel
associated with the fiction of Prize for literature in the year
(A) Norman Mailer (A) 1995
(B) Saul Bellow (B) 1996
(C) Philip Roth (C) 1997
(D) Bernard Malamud (D) 1998

27. Plato censured poetry because he 34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition,
believed it "An Address to the Irish People" was
(A) eliminates the ego. composed by
(B) promotes sensuality. (A) W.B. Yeats
(C) distorts reality. (B) P.B. Shelley
(D) cripples the imagination. (C) Jonathan Swift
(D) G.B. Shaw
28. Which of the following Tennyson
poems is a dramatic monologue? 35. Which of the following arrangements of
(A) In Memoriam English novels is in the correct
(B) "The Charge of the Light Brigade" chronological sequence?
(C) "Crossing the Bar" (A) Kim, A Passage to India, Sons and
(D) "Tithonus" Lovers, Brave New World
(B) Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India,
29. The character Giovanni features in one Kim, Brave New World
of the following texts: (C) Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to
(A) John Cleland's Fanny Hill : Memoirs of a India, Brave New World
Woman of Pleasure (D) Brave New World, Kim, Sons and
(B) John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore' Lovers, A Passage to India
(C) John Braine's Room at the Top
(D) John Evelyn's Diaries 36. "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" is
written by
30. Which of the following poems features (A) Alexander Pope
the phrase, "the still, sad music of (B) Samuel Johnson
humanity" ? (C) John Gay
(A) "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from (D) Jonathan Swift
Recollections of Early Childhood" 37. Widowers' Houses was written by
(B) "Michael : A Pastoral Poem" (A) Oscar Wilde
(C) "The Solitary Reaper" (B) T.S. Eliot
(D) "Tintern Abbey" (C) John Galsworthy
(D) G.B. Shaw
31. Molly Bloom is a character in James
Joyce's 38. Who among the following Marxist
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man critics has reconsidered the classic problem
(B) Dubliners of 'base and superstructure" in relation to
(C) Ulysses literature?
(D) Exiles (A) Edmund Wilson
(B) Raymond Williams
32. Eliot uses the term "objective (C) Lucien Goldmann
correlative" in his essay. (D) Walter Benjamin
(A) "The Metaphysical Poets"
(B) "Hamlet"
(C) "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
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39. "Heteroglossia" refers to (A) a perilous adventure in the sea
(A) the multiple readings of a text. (B) the accidental killing of an octopus
(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a (C) the curse of a sea God
text. (D) the guilt and expiation of the Ancient
(C) the comments on the margins of a text. Mariner
(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a
text. 47. "To Daffodils" is a poem, written by
(A) Robert Herrick
40. Margaret Drabble is the author of (B) William Wordsworth
(A) The Memoirs of a Survivor (C) John Keats
(B) The Witch of Exmoor (D) P.B. Shelley
(C) The Service of Clouds
(D) The Godless in Eden 48. Which of the following novels
reconstructs the historical events of the
41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden's Indian Mutiny ?
literary rival, (A) The Jewel in the Crown
(A) Richard Flecknoe (B) The Siege of Krishnapur
(B) Thomas Shadwell (C) The Day of the Scorpion
(C) John Wilmot (D) The Towers of Silence
(D) Matthew Prior
49. "England, my England" is a poem by
42. Eighteenth century writers used satire (A) W.E. Henley
frequently for (B) A.E. Housman
(A) attacking human vices and follies. (C) R.L. Stevenson
(B) inciting the reading public. (D) Rudyard Kipling
(C) glorifying the culture of the upper classes.
(D) pleasing their women readers. 50. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford
University due to the publication of
43. Byron's "The Vision of Judgement" is (A) The Revolt of Islam
a satire directed against (B) The Necessity of Atheism
(A) Charles Lamb (C) The Triumph of Life
(B) John Keats (D) The Masque of Anarchy
(C) Henry Hallam
(D) Robert Southey

44. Tom Paine's The Rights of Man was

published in
(A) 1790
(B) 1791
(C) 1792
(D) 1793

45. Andrew Marvell's "An Horatian Ode

upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
was written in
(A) 1647
(B) 1649
(C) 1650
(D) 1648

46. "The Rime of Ancient Mariner" is

about
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 DECEMBER 2011 PAPER II
1. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and
Scenery is written by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Robert Southey
(C) John Clare
(D) Thomas Gray

2. Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms

is divided into
(A) two books
(B) three books
(C) four books
(D) five books

3. "Panopticism" is the title of a chapter in

a well-known book by
(A) Roman Jakobson
(B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Michel Foucault
(D) Jacques Derrida

4. The lines,
"She was a worthy woman al hir lyve:
Housbondes at cherche dore she hadde
five",
are an example of
(A) blank verse
(B) clerihew
(C) heroic couplet
(D) free verse

5. Who, among the following women

writers, famously imagined the plight of
Shakespeare's sister?
(A) George Eliot
(B) Virginia Woolf
(C) Irish Murdoch
(D) Frances Burney

6. Read the following statement and the

reason given for it. Choose the right
response.

Assertion (A): Dickens's novels are called

'Newgate Novels'.

Reason (R): They are called so, because

Dickens adulates in these novels the careers
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(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the (C) Etherege's The Man of Mode
correct explanation. (D) Davenant's The Platonick Lovers
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
the correct explanation. 13. Who famously said, "Three or four
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. families in a Country Village is the very
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. thing to work on”?
(A) Clara Reeve
7. Who among the following writers does (B) Maria Edgeworth
not belong to the group, the University (C) Frances Burney
Wits? (D) Jane Austen
(A) John Lyly
(B) Thomas Nashe 14. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel
(C) George Peele (A) When Rain Clouds Gather
(D) Thomas Kyd (B) The Mimic Men
(C) Things Fall Apart
8. Which of the following characters of (D) The Interpreters
Webster's The White Devil utters the
memorable words: 15. A foot consisting of a strong syllable
Oft gay and honour'd robes those tortures followed by a weak syllable is called
try: (A) Trochee
We think cag'd birds sing, when indeed (B) Iambic
they cry. (C) Spondee
(A) Vittoria Corombona (D) Terza Rima
(B) Bracciano
(C) The Cardinal 16. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in
(D) Flamineo the depiction of the Wife of Bath in
The Canterbury Tales ?
9. "All great literature is, at bottom, a (A) Meekness
criticism of life" – this statement is (B) Defiance
attributed to (C) Chastity
(A) Thomas Carlyle (D) Experience
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) J.S. Mill 17. Put the following books of Pope in a
(D) John Ruskin sequence of publication. Answer the
question with the help of the Code given
10. Who amongst the following is not a below:
Jewish-American novelist? (i) The Dunciad
(A) J.D. Salinger (ii) The Rape of the Lock
(B) Henry Greene (iii) An Essay on Man
(C) William Faulkner (iv) An Essay on Criticism
(D) Philip Roth
11. Which among the following plays by Code:
Christopher Marlowe has epic features? (A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
(A) Doctor Faustus (B) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
(B) Edward II (C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
(C) Hero and Leander (D) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)
(D) Tamburlaine

12. Sir Fopling is a character in

(A) Wycherley's The Plain Dealer
(B) Congreve's The Way of theWorld

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18. Dinah Morris is a character in George 25. The phrase 'Only Connect' is
Eliot's novel associated with
(A) Middlemarch (A) D. H. Lawrence
(B) Silas Marner (B) James Joyce
(C) Daniel Deronda (C) E. M. Forster
(D) Adam Bede (D) Virginia Woolf

19. The Booker Prize is awarded by a

panel of judges to the best novel by a 26. Which of the following books is by
citizen of Margaret Atwood?
(A) the United Kingdom (A) The Stone Angel
(B) the British Commonwealth or the (B) No Fixed Address
Republic of Ireland (C) The Edible Woman
(C) the United Kingdom or the British (D) Halfbreed
Commonwealth
(D) the United Kingdom or the British 27. The expression "murderous innocence"
Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland is an example of
(A) Oxymoron
20. A 'curtal sonnet' consists of (B) Zeugma
(A) 11 lines (C) Chiasmus
(B) 12 lines (D) Pun
(C) 13 lines
(D) 14 lines 28. Read the following statement and the
reason given for it. Choose the right
21. The Unfortunate Traveller has been response
authored by
(A) Robert Greene Assertion (A): Othello killed Desdemona.
(B) Thomas Deloney Reason (R): Because Desdemona committed
(C) Thomas Nashe infidelity.
(D) Thomas Lodge
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
22. Who, among the following, is not a correct explanation.
practitioner of Jacobean tragedy? (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
(A) George Villiers the correct explanation.
(B) John Marston (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(C) John Webster (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(D) Thomas Middleton
29. The Enlightenment believed in the
23. The author of Nation and Narration is universal authority of
(A) Edward Said (A) Religion
(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (B) Tradition
(C) Frantz Fanon (C) Reason
(D) Homi Bhabha (D) Sentiments

24. Which of the following novels has a 30. Which of the following works of John
great impact on the formal Milton is an elegy ?
experimentation in contemporary fiction? (A) Lycidas
(A) Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate (B) L'Allegro
Traveller (C) Camus
(B) Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (D) Paradise Lost
(C) Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
(D) Samuel Richardson's Pamela
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31. Which of the following poem by Keats
uses the Spenserian stanza ? 36. Which of the following is not an
(A) Endymion apocalyptic novel?
(B) The Fall of Hyperion (A) Doris Lessing's The Four-Gated City
(C) The Eve of St. Agnes (B) L.P. Hartley's Facial Justice
(D) Lamia (C) Anthony Burgess's The Wanting Seed
(D) V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas
32. Match the following authors with their
respective works with the help 37. Identify the author of the following
of the code given below: lines:
List I List– II Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
I.Oliver Goldsmith 1.The Vanity of Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have
Human Wishes shown
II.John Gay 2.The Vicar of Wakefield Let us possess one world, each hath one, and
III.Samuel Johnson 3. She Stoops to Conquer is one.
IV.Richard Sheridan 4.The Beggar's Opera (A) Shakespeare
(B) George Herbert
Code: (C) John Donne
I II III IV (D) Henry Vaughan
(A) 1 4 3 2
(B) 2 4 1 3 38. In the summer of 1712, The Spectator
(C) 3 2 4 1 published a series of essays on "The
(D) 4 3 2 1 Pleasures of Imagination," written by
(A) Richard Steele
33. The term "egotistical sublime" was (B) John Dennis
coined by (C) John Locke
(A) S.T. Coleridge (D) Joseph Addison
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth 39. Read the following statement and the
(D) William Hazlitt reason given for it. Choose the right
response.
34. Put the following novels of George Eliot
in a sequential order. Answer the question Assertion (A): Gulliver's Travels earned
with the help of the code: Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a
(i) Middlemarch misanthrope.
(ii) Daniel Deronda Reason (R): Swift in the novel was neutral to
(iii) Felix Holt, the Radical the image of man.
(iv) Romola
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the
Code : correct explanation.
(A) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii) (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
(B) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv) the correct explanation.
(C) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii) (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii) (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

35. Who, among the following writers, is 40. Who, amongst the following, does not
known for his unforgettable sense of belong to the 'Great Tradition', enunciated
humour and comedy? by F. R. Leavis ?
(A) D.H. Lawrence (A) Joseph Conrad
(B) P.G. Wodehouse (B) James Joyce
(C) Thomas Hardy (C) Jane Austen
(D) John Galsworthy (D) George Eliot
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41. Isaac Bashevis Singer is an 48. The expression, "dreaming house" is
(A) African-American writer an example of
(B) American-Jewish writer (A) Zeugma
(C) American-Indian writer (B) Transferred epithet
(D) American-Asian writer (C) Chiasmus
(D) Apostrophe
42. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot has
(A) three Acts 49. The term 'Practical Criticism' is coined
(B) five Acts by
(C) four Acts (A) William Empson
(D) two Acts (B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr.
(C) I.A. Richards
43. James Joyce's Exiles is a (D) F. R. Leavis
(A) Short Story
(B) Poem 50. Victor Shklovsky's name is associated
(C) Play with
(D) Novel (A) Post-modernism
(B) New Historicism
44. "It was a bright cold day in April and (C) Reader Response Theory
the clocks were striking thirteen" – is the (D) Russian Formalism
opening sentence of
(A) Ulysses
(B) Nostromo
(C) Chrome Yellow
(D) Nineteen Eighty-Four

45. The subtitle of William Godwin's Caleb

Williams is
(A) Man As He Is Not
(B) Man As He Is
(C) Things As They Are
(D) The Pupil of Nature

46. Who amongst the following belongs to

the group of radical feminists?
(A) Helene Cixous
(B) Monica Wittig
(C) Simone de Beauvoir
(D) Luce Irigaray

47. "On the Knocking at the Gate in

Macbeth" is a longer essay by
(A) G. Wilson Knight
(B) A. C. Bradley
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) F. R. Leavis

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 JUNE 2012 PAPER II
1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a
text may open up, Derrida makes use of
the term:
(A) aporia
(B) difference
(C) erasure
(D) supplement

2. Who, among the following English

playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare
in Love?
(A) Harold Pinter
(B) Alan Bennett
(C) Caryl Churchill
(D) Tom Stoppard

3. Arrange the following in the

chronological order:
1. Mary Wollstonecraft‟s Vindication of the
Rights of Women
2. Lyrical Ballads
3. French Revolution
4. Percy‟s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

(A) 4, 3, 1, 2
(B) 3, 2, 1, 2
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 2, 1, 3, 4

4. Which of the following employs a

narrative structure in which the main
action is relayed at second hand through
an enclosing frame story?
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) Ulysses
(C) The Power and the Glory
(D) Heart of Darkness

5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was

heralded by such figures as
(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward
Martyn
(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries
(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John
Ervine
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6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on The correctly matched series would be :
the death of Blanche, Wife of John of (A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a
Gaunt? (B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d
(A) Troilus and Criseyde (C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c
(B) The House of Fame (D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b
(C) The Book of Duchess
(D) The Legend of Good Women 12. The predominant tone and thrust of
Jonathan Swift‟s “A Modest Proposal” are
7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the (A) comic
other title of (B) solemn
(A) Gorboduc (C) hortatory
(B) Ralph Roister Doister (D) irony
(C) Damon and Pythias
(D) Lamentable Tragedy 13. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second
Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever
8. Who of the following poets is hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. So
Australian? begins Auden‟s “September 1, 1939”. What is
(A) Austin Clarke the meaning of the word in italics?
(B) Judith Wright (A) bench
(C) Edwin Muir (B) night club
(D) Derek Walcott (C) house
(D) park
9. “He found it [English] brick and left it
marble”, remarked one great writer on 14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were
another. Who were they? reputed in the 1930s for introducing
(A) Milton on Shakespeare (A) Practical Criticism
(B) Dryden on Milton (B) New Criticism
(C) Johnson on Dryden (C) Standard English Project
(D) Jonson on Shakespeare (D) Basic English Project

10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel 15. In which of the following works does
Laureate? Mrs. Malaprop appear ?
(A) Tony Morrison (A) The Rivals
(B) Seamus Heaney (B) She Stoops to Conquer
(C) Ted Hughes (C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
(D) Geoffrey Hill (D) The Way of the World

11. List – I List – II 16. Which of the following statements

about Christopher Marlowe are true?
I. “Because I could not stop for
death…” a. Robert I. Edward II was written in the last year of
Frost Marlowe‟s life.
II. “O Captain ! My II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be
Captain!” b. William Marlowe‟s best play.
Carlos Williams III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close
III. “Two roads diverged in a second.
wood….” c. Emily IV. Marlowe was less educated than
Dickinson Shakespeare.
IV. “So much depends
/upon” d. Walt (A) I and II are true.
Whitman (B) II and III are true.
(C) II and IV are true.
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(D) III and IV are true. 12 3 4
(A) IV III I II
17. “Art for Art‟s Sake” became a rallying (B) II IV III I
cry for (C) III II I IV
(A) the Aesthetes (D) IV II I III
(B) the Symbolists
(C) the Imagists 22. In which of the following travel books
(D) the Art Noveau School does Mark Twain give an account of his
visit to India?
18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater (A) A Tramp Abroad
is a literary work by (B) Roughing It
(A) S. T. Coleridge (C) The Innocents Abroad
(B) P. B. Shelley (D) Following the Equator
(C) Thomas De Quincey
(D) Lord Byron 23. William Blake‟s famous poems such as
“London”, “The Sick Rose”, and “The
19. Which of the following statements Tyger” appear in
about The Canterbury Tales is true? (A) Songs of Innocence
(A) “The General Prologue‟ is appended to (B) Songs of Experience
The Canterbury Tales. (C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this (D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion
work.
(C) The Canterbury Tales remained 24. Who among the following English
unfinished at the time of its author‟s death. artists illustrated the novels of Dickens and
(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain Scott?
and The Franklin are characters and tale- (A) Richard Hogarth
tellers in this work. (B) Joshua Reynolds
(C) George Cruishank
20. Who, among the following, was a (D) John Tennial
Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a
film critic and set his fictions in far-away 25. The last of Gulliver‟s Travels is to
places wrecked by political conflicts? (A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms
(A) Anthony Powell (B) The Land of Homosapiens
(B) Evelyn Waugh (C) The Land of the Hurricanes
(C) William Golding (D) The Newfound Land
(D) Graham Greene
26. Madam Merle is a character in
21. List – I List – II (A) The Great Gatsby
(B) The Portrait of a Lady
1. Good sense is the body of poetic (C) The Jungle
genius I. Brooks, “The (D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Formalist Critic”
2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of all 27. In which of the following scenes of The
knowledge. II. Sidney, Waste Land do we have a departure from
Defence/ An Apology for Poetry Standard English?
3. Literary criticism is a description and (A) The typist scene
evaluation of its object III. (B) The pub scene
Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (C) The hyacinth garden scene
4. Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a (D) The Chapel Perilous scene
tapestry as diverse poets have done
IV. Coleridge,
Biographia Literaria
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28. The words “If it were done when tis 34. “If______ comes, can_______ be far
done, then twere well / It were done behind ?” (Shelley, “Ode to the West
quickly…” are uttered by Wind”)
(A) Hamlet (A) winter, spring
(B) Lear (B) autumn, summer
(C) Othello (C) wind, rains
(D) Macbeth (D) spring, winter

29. John Dryden‟s Absalom and 35. The following passages are the very
Achotophel a first lines of well-known works. Match the
(A) religious tract lines and the works:
(B) political allegory I. Let us go then,
(C) comic verse epic you and I….. a. Moby Dick
(D) comedy II. Call me Ishmael….. b. Macbeth
III. When shall we
30. The term „the comedy of menace‟ is three meet again? c. “The Love Song of
associated with the early plays of J. Alfred Prufrock”
(A) Arnold Wesker IV. He disappeared in
(B) John Arden the dead of winter d. Tristram Shandy
(C) Harold Pinter V. I wish either…
(D) David Hare .begot me ….. e. “In Memory of W.
B. Yeats”
31. Examine the following statements and
identify one of them which is not true. (A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d
(A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936. (B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d
(B) He was born in India but schooled in (C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c
England. (D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a
(C) He returned to India as a police constable
in Burma. 36. Which of the following is not a revenge
(D) He is the author of Jungle Book and tragedy?
Barrack Room Ballads. (A) Hamlet
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
32. What is the correct combination of the (C) Volpone
following? (D) Gorboduc
I. Balachandra Rajan a. The Tamarind
Tree 37. What is a neologism?
II. R. K. Narayan b. The Coffer Dams (A) A word with roots in a native language
III. Kamala Markandaya c. The Dark Dancer (B) A word whose meaning changes with
IV. Romen Basu d. The Dark Room every renewed use
(C) A word newly coined or used in a new
(A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b sense
(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c (D) An obsession with new words and
(C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b phrases
(D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b
38. Which of the following is not true of
33. Name the poet who chooses his Edward Said‟s Orientalism?
successor and the successor-poet whom (A) Makes use of Foucault‟s concept of
Dryden satirises in his famous poem. discursive formulation
(A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley (B) Is one of the founding texts of
(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten Postcolonial theory
(C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell (C) Makes use of Barthes‟s concept of
(D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys writerly text
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(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of 45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys
hegemony begins after
(A) The Restoration
39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry (B) The Glorious Revolution
into 4 periods. They are: (C) The Reformation
(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass (D) The French Revolution
(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond
(C) iron, gold, silver and brass 46. In a poem, a line may either be end-
(D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond stopped or
(A) rhymed
40. Which among the following novels has (B) broken
more than one ending? (C) accented
(A) Lucky Jim (D) run-on
(B) The Prime of Jean Brodie
(C) The French Lieutenant‟s Woman 47. Which of the following poets wrote the
(D) The Clockwork Orange essay “Naipaul‟s India and Mine”?
(A) Kamala Das
41. “You have seen how a man was made a (B) R. Parthasarthy
slave; you shall see how a slave was made a (C) A. K. Ramanujam
man” is an example of (D) Nissim Ezekiel
(A) Bathos
(B) Epistrophe 48. Match the following:
(C) Chiasmus I. James Joyce 1. Peter Ackroyd
(D) Anti-climax II. T. S. Eliot 2. James Boswell
III. Life of 3. Samuel Johnson
42. Which of the following statements is Johnson
NOT correct? IV. Lives of 4. Richard Poets Ellman
(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic
form in some of his major poems. (A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2
(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of (B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3
Good Women. (C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4
(C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court (D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4
poetry of his day was written in Anglo-
Norman and Latin. 49. “The pen is mightier than the sword” is
(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the an example of
Governor (A) simile
(B) image
43. Material feminism studies inequality in (C) conceit
terms of (D) metonymy
(A) only gender
(B) only class 50. An epilogue is
(C) both class and gender (A) prefixed to a text which it introduces.
(D) only patriarchy (B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or
extends.
44. Who among the following is not an (C) a piece of writing or speech that formally
Irish writer? begins a book.
(A) Oscar Wilde (D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no
(B) Oliver Goldsmith relation to the text at hand.
(C) Edmund Burke
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1. In Ben Jonson‟s Volpone, the animal
imagery includes
(a) the fox and the vulture
(b) the fly and the cockroach
(c) the fly, the crow and the raven
(d) the fox, the vulture and the goat

(A) (a) and (b) are correct.

(B) only (d) is correct.
(C) (b) and (d) are correct.
(D) (a) and (c) are correct.

2. Salman Rushdie‟s “Imaginary

Homelands” is _______.
(A) a discussion of imperialist assumptions.
(B) an essay that propounds an antiessentialist
view of place.
(C) an existential lament on triumphant
colonialism.
(D) an orientalist description of his favourite
homelands.

3. Identify the incorrect statement below:

(a) BASIC was an experiment initiated by C.
K. Ogden and I. A. Richards from 1926 to
about 1940.
(b) Expanded, BASIC read: Broadly
Ascertained Scientific International Course.
(c) BASIC English was an attempt to reduce
the number of essential words to 850.
(d) While keeping to normal constructions,
BASIC failed as an experiment because its
documents were far too complicated and
technical to understand.

(A) (a) & (b) (B) (b) & (d)

(C) (a) & (c) (D) (c) & (d)

4. Items in a published book appear in the

following order:
(A) Index, Copyright Page, Bibliography,
Footnotes
(B) Copyright Page, Bibliography, Index,
Footnotes
(C) Copyright Page, Footnotes, Bibliography,
Index
(D) Bibliography, Copyright Page, Index,
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5. Match the following: 7. Identify the statement that is NOT
(I) James Thomson, TRUE among those that explain “stage
Oliver Goldsmith, directions” in drama.
William Cowper, (A) Stage directions inform readers how to
George Crabbe (a) Metaphysical stage, perform or imagine the play.
poets (B) The place, time of action, design of the
(II) George Herbert, set and at times characters‟ actions or tone of
Henry Vaughan, voice are indicated by stage directions.
Andrew Marvell, (C) Stage directions are often italicized in the
Abraham Cowley, text of a play in order to be spoken aloud.
John Donne (b) Transitional (D) Stage directions may appear at the
Poets beginning of a play, before a scene or
(III) Rupert Brooke, attached to a line of dialogue.
Wilfred Owen,
Siegfried Sassoon, 8. The emergence of the concept of “World
Edmund Blunden, literature” is associated with:
Robert Graves. (c) War Poets (a) Friedrich Schiller
(IV) W. H. Davies, (b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Walter de la Mare, (c) Johann Goltfried Herder
John Drinkwater, (d) Immanuel Kant
Rupert Brooke (d) Georgians
(A) (a) & (b)
(B) (c) & (d)
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (C) (b) & (c)
(A) (d) (a) (c) (b) (D) (a) & (d)
(B) (d) (b) (d) (a)
(C) (b) (a) (c) (d) 9. Günter Grass‟s Tin Drum is part of a
(D) (a) (c) (d) (b) trilogy known as the Danzig trilogy.
The other two novels are:
6. The following phrases from Shakespeare (A) The Flounder and Dog Years
have become the titles of famous works. (B) The Rat and Cat and Mouse
Identify the correctly matched group. (C) Cat and Mouse and Dog Years
(D) Crabwalk and The Rat
(I) Pale Fire (a) Thomas Hardy
(II) The Sound and 10. The hostess proudly announces that the
the Fury (b) Somerset family can afford a servant and her
Maugham daughters have nothing to do with the
(III) Rosencrantz and kitchen. Who is the proud mother in this
Guildenstern are Dead (c) William Faulkner Jane Austen novel?
(IV) Under the Greenwood (A) Mrs. Morland
Tree (d) Tom Stoppard (B) Lady Catherine de Burgh
(V) Of Cakes and Ale (e) Vladimir (C) Mrs. Bennet
Nabokov (D) Mrs. Dashwood

(I) (II) (III) (IV) (V) 11. When Keats writes about the “beaker
(A) (e) (d) (c) (a) (b) full” of “The blushful Hippocrene”,
(B) (d) (e) (b) (c) (a) Hippocrene is:
(C) (e) (c) (d) (a) (b) (A) the fountain of the horse
(D) (c) (d) (b) (e) (a) (B) a spring sacred to the Muses
(C) Mount Helicon produced from a blow of
Pegasus
(D) Both (A) & (B)
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12. Which of the following statements on
The Prelude by William Wordsworth
is/are not true?
(a) The Prelude was published posthumously.
(b) In this poem, Wordsworth records his
development as a poet.
(c) The poem runs to 14 books; at crucial
stages the poet celebrates the sublime natural
scenery in developing his spiritual, moral and
imaginative nature.
(d) Poems like “Michael”, “The Old
Cumberland Beggar”, “She dwelt among the
untrodden ways”, “Nutting” etc. are the
highlights of this volume.
(A) (a) to (d) are true.
(B) (a) is not true.
(C) (d) is not true.
(D) Only (c) is true.
15. William Shakespeare‟s Julius Caesar,
Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus are
based on _______.
(A) Holinshed‟s Chronicles
(B) Folk-tales and legends
(C) Older Roman Plays
(D) Plutarch‟s Lives
16. The basic concept that creation was
ordered, that every species exists in a
hierarchy of status, from God to the lowest
creature, was prevalent in the Renaissance.
In this hierarchical continuum, man
occupies the middle position between the
animal kinds and the angels.
This world view is known as:
(A) Humanism
(B) The Enlightenment
(C) The Great Chain of Being
(D) Calvinism

13. Assertion (A): At the end of Heart of 17. In Virginia Woolf‟s To the Lighthouse
Darkness, Marlow tells a lie to the Intended the lighthouse does not symbolize:
about Kurtz when he tells her “The last word (A) permanence at the heart of change.
he pronounced was – your name”. (B) change in the unchanging world.
Reason (R): Marlow tells this lie because he (C) celebration of life in the heart of death.
is secretly in love with the Intended and tells (D) celebration of order in the heart of chaos.
her what she wants to hear.
18. “Can one imagine any private soldier, in
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true ; (R) is the the nineties or now, reading Barrack-Room
correct explanation. Ballads and feeling that here was a writer
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not who spoke for him? It is very hard to do so.
the correct explanation. [….] When he is writing not of British but of
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. “loyal” Indians he carries the „Salaam, Sahib‟
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. motif to sometimes disgusting lengths. Yet it
remains true that he has far more interest in
14. Ear-training in ELT is easily achieved the common soldier, far more anxiety that he
by: shall get a fair deal, than most of the
(a) composition “liberals” of his day and our own. He sees
(b) dictation that the soldier is neglected, meanly
(c) cloze tests underpaid and hypocritically despised by the
(d) listening exercises people whose incomes he safeguards”.
(e) précis writing
(A) (c) and (e) (A) This is E. M. Forster‟s “India, Again”.
(B) (a), (c) and (e) (B) This is Malcolm Muggeridge on E. M.
(C) (b), (c) and (d) Forster‟s India.
(D) (b) and (d) (C) This is T. S. Eliot on Rudyard Kipling.
(D) This is George Orwell on Rudyard
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19. In the well-known poem “To his coy 25. In English literature, the trope of the
mistress”, the word coy means vampire was used for the first time by:
(A) shy (A) Matthew Gregory Lewis
(B) timid (B) John Polidori
(C) voluptuous (C) John Stagg
(D) sensuous (D) Bram Stoker

20. From the following list, identify 26. Why is “Universal grammar” so
“backformation”: Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke, called?
swindle, bundle. (A) It is a set of basic grammatical principles
(A) Sulk, bulk, stoke, poke universally followed and easily recognized by
(B) Stoke, poke, swindle, bundle people.
(C) Sulk, stoke, bundle (B) It is a set of basic grammatical principles
(D) Bulk, poke, bundle assumed to be fundamental to all natural
languages.
21. “It blurs distinctions among literary, (C) It is a set of advanced grammatical
non-literary and cultural texts, showing principles assumed to be fundamental to all
how all three intercirculate, share in, and natural languages.
mutually constitute each other.” What does (D) It is a set of universally respected
it in this statement stand for? practices that have come, in time, to be
(A) Marxism known as “grammar”.
(B) Structuralism
(C) Formalism 27. Identify the novel with the wrong
(D) New Historicism subtitle listed below:
(A) Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life
22.For, though, I‟ve no idea. What this (B) Tess of the D‟Urbervilles, A Pure Woman
accoutred frowsty ____ is worth, it pleases (C) The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Man of
me to stand in silence here. (Fill in the Character
blank) (D) Felix Holt, the Socialist
(A) bar
(B) barn 28. Match List – I with List – II.
(C) attic
(D) alcove List – I List – II
(I) David Malouf (a) The Solid
23. Which of the following novels is NOT a Mandala
Partition novel? (II) Patrick White (b) Wild Cat Falling
(A) Azadi (III) Peter Carey (c) Remembering
(B) Tamas Babylon
(C) Clear Light of the Day (IV) Colin Johnson (d) True History of
(D) That Long Silence the Kelly Gang

24. Of the following characters, which one (I) (II) (III) (IV)
does not belong to A House for Mr. (A) (a) (c) (b) (d)
Biswas? (B) (c) (a) (d) (b)
(A) Raghu (C) (b) (c) (a) (d)
(B) Ralph Singh (D) (c) (d) (b) (a)
(C) Dehuti
(D) Tara 29. The opening sentence of Tolstoy‟s Anna
Karenina, “Happy families are all alike,
every unhappy family is unhappy in its
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unhappiness in Oblonsky‟s house was the (A) (c) and (d) are incorrect.
husband‟s affair with: (B) (a) and (b) are incorrect.
(A) a kitchen – maid (C) (a) to (d) are correct.
(B) an English governess (D) only (a) and (d) are correct.
(C) a French governess
(D) a socialite 33. What is register?
(A) The way in which a language registers in
30. This periodical had the avowed the minds of its users.
intention “to enliven morality with wit and (B) The way users of a language register the
to temper wit with morality… to bring nuances of that language.
philosophy out of the closets and libraries, (C) A variety of language used in social
schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and situations or one specially designed for the
assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee subject it deals with.
houses”. It also promoted family, marriage (D) A variety of language used in non-
and courtesy. professional or informal situations by
The periodical under reference is: professionals.
(A) The Tatler
(B) The Spectator 34. Jeremy Collier‟s Short View of the
(C) The Gentleman‟s Magazine Immorality and Profaneness of the English
(D) The London Magazine Stage (1698) attacked ______.
(A) the practice of mixing tragic and comic
31. Assertion (A) : “Tam O‟ Shanter” by themes in Shakespeare‟s plays.
John Clare is about the (B) the bawdiness of “low” characters in
experience of an Shakespeare‟s plays.
ordinary human being (C) the coarseness and ugliness of Restoration
and became quite Theatre.
popular during that (D) irreligious themes and irreverent attitudes
time. in the plays of the seventeenth century.
Reason (R) : John Clare, having suffered
bouts of madness, could really 35. One of the most important themes the
feel for the misery of common speakers debate in Dryden‟s An Essay on
man. In the context of the two Dramatic Poesy is______.
statements, which of the (A) European and non-European perceptions
following is correct? of reality.
(B) English and non-English perceptions of
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) reality.
explains (A). (C) the relative merits of French and English
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) does theatre.
not explain (A). (D) the relative merits of French and English
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. poetry.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
36. Identify the correctly matched pair:
32. Alexander Pope‟s An Essay in (A) Amitav Ghosh – All About H.
Criticism: Halterr
(a) Purports to define “wit” and “nature” as (B) Anita Desai – Inheritance of Loss
they apply to the literature of his age. (C) Shashi Deshpande – A Bend in the
(b) Claims no originality in the thought that Ganges
governs this work. (D) Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of
(c) is a prose essay that gives us such quotes Florence
as “A little learning is a dangerous thing !”
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37. Match the following correctly: (D) Rossetti‟s “Blessed Damozel” displays
(I) Langue / Parole (a) Noam Chomsky his remarkable gifts as a poet and painter.
(II) Competence / Performance (b) C. S.
Pierce 41. Goethe‟s Faust (Part I , Scene 1) opens
(III) Ieonic / Indexical (c) Ferdinand de in :
Saussure (A) heaven
(IV) Readerly / Writerly (d) Roland Barthes (B) hell
(C) forest
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (D) Faust‟s study
(A) (c) (b) (a) (d)
(B) (c) (a) (b) (d) 42. “Is it their single-mind-sized skulls or a
(C) (a) (c) (d) (b) trained Body, or genius, or a nestful of brats
(D) (b) (c) (a) (d) Gives their days this bullet and automatic
purpose….” (Thrushes) In the above lines
38. what does „their‟ refer to and what quality of
1. Joy Kogawa (a) Bloody Rites „their‟ does the poet speak of?
2. M. G. (b) Obasan Vasanjee I. Human beings and their intelligence
3. Sky Lee (c) The Gunny Sack II. The thrushes and their concentration in
4. Arnold (d) Disappearing Itwaru Moon achieving what they set out for
Cafe III. The efficiency of the thrushes in getting at
1 2 3 4 their prey
(A) (d) (a) (b) (c) IV. All the above
(B) (a) (d) (c) (b) (A) Only III is correct.
(C) (b) (c) (d) (a) (B) Only IV is correct.
(D) (a) (b) (c) (d) (C) I and II are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
39. Why does Jean Baudrillard adopt
Disneyland as his own sign? 43. Find the odd (wo)man out :
(A) Disneyland is by far the most eminently Belladonna – Engenides – The Typist – Marie
noticeable cultural sign in the post modern – Madame Sosostris – the ruinbibber –
world. Tiresias – the Youngman Carbuncular
(B) Disneyland captures „essences‟ and „non- (A) Belladonna
essences‟ of Reality more convincingly than (B) Madame Sosostris
other cultural venues. (C) Tiresias
(C) Disneyland is an artefact that so (D) The ruin – bibber
obviously announces its own fictiveness that
it would seem to imply some counter 44. Wilkie Collins‟s novel, The Moonstone
balancing reality. (1868) tells the story of ______.
(D) Disneyland is both „appearance‟ and (A) a detective‟s exploits in Victorian
„reality‟ in the post modern visual game of England.
handy-dandy. (B) a doctor‟s adventures in a Middle-Eastern
Suburb.
40. Which of the following statements is (C) a fabulous yellow diamond stolen from an
NOT TRUE of Dante Gabriel Rossetti? Indian shrine.
(A) D. G. Rossetti was a Londoner, the son of (D) illegal mining of diamonds in eastern
an Italian refugee who taught Italian at King‟s U.P. during British rule.
college.
(B) Rossetti formed the Pre- Raphaelite
Brotherhood with Holman Hunt, Ford Madox
Brown and Painter Millais.
(C) He married Christina Georgina who was a
poet in her right.
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45. Identify the correctly matched group: 49. In Canto 17 of the Inferno, the monster
(I) “Because I could Geryon represents ______.
not stop for death… (a) Walt Whitman (A) fraud
(II) “O Captain ! (B) usury
My Captain!” (b) William Carlos (C) sloth
Williams (D) gluttony
(III) “Two roads diverged
in a wood…” (c) Emily 50. I-A. Richards‟s famous experiment
Dickinson with poems and his Cambridge students is
(IV) “So much depends detailed in Practical Criticism: A Study of
upon…” (d) Robert Frost Literary Judgement (1929). Richards was
astonished by
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (A) the poor quality of his students‟ “stock
(A) (a) (b) (c) (d) responses”
(B) (c) (a) (d) (b) (B) the very astute remarks made by his
(C) (a) (c) (b) (d) students
(D) (c) (a) (b) (d) (C) the non-availability of poems, worthy of
class-room attention
46. “Now stop your noses, readers, all and (D) the success of his experiment
some, For here‟s a tun of midnight – work to
come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling 51. Based on the following description,
home. Round as a globe and liquor‟d e‟vry identify the text in reference:
chink, Goodly and great he rails behind his This is a play in which no one comes, no one
link”. In the above passage from Absalom goes, nothing happens. In its opening scene a
and Achitophel, link means: man struggles hard to remove his boot. The
(A) a connection in the court play was originally written in French, later
(B) a hired servant who carries a lighted torch translated into English. It was first performed
(C) a social tie in 1953.
(D) a rich patron (A) Look Back in Anger
(B) Waiting for Godot
47. Which among the following is NOT a (C) The Zoo Story
typical “Indian English Poem” by Nissim (D) The Birthday Party
Ezekiel?
(A) “How the English Lessons Ended” 52. One of the following Canterbury Tales
(B) “The Railway Clerk” is in prose, identify.
(C) “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.” (A) The Pardoner‟s Tale
(D) “The Patriot” (B) The Parson‟s Tale
(C) The Monk‟s Tale
48. Match the correct pair: (D) The Knight‟s Tale

(I) George Eliot 1. Ellis Bell 53. In his distinction between imagination
(II) Saki 2. Mary Anne Evans and fancy, Coleridge identifies the
(III) Emily Bronte 3. Samuel Langhorne following:
Clemens (a) it dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order
(IV) Mark Twain 4. H. H. Munro to recreate.
(b) it has aggregative and associative power.
(I) (II) (III) (IV) (c) it plays with fixities and definites.
(A) 2 3 1 4 (d) it has shaping and modifying power.
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 1 3 4 2 The correct combination reads:
(D) 3 2 1 4
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(A) (a) and (b) for fancy; (c) and (d) for (A) The casting out of evil spirits
imagination. (B) Deconstructing of myths involving
(B) (a) and (c) for fancy; (b) and (d) for marriage, fertility and sons
imagination. (C) Facing life without illusions
(C) (b) and (c) for fancy; (a) and (d) for (D) Exposing all attempts at illusion making
imagination.
(D) (c) and (d) for fancy; (a) and (b) for 58. “Womanist is to feminist as purple is to
imagination. lavender”. This is an important statement
defining the womanist perspective
54. Julia Kristeva‟s „Intertextuality‟ advanced by
derives from: (A) Toni Morrison
(a) Saussure‟s signs (B) Zora Neale Hurston
(b) Chomsky‟s deep structure (C) Alice Walker
(c) Bakhtin‟s dialogism (D) Bell Hooks
(d) Derrida‟s difference
59. Identify the mismatched pair in the
(A) (a) and (d) following where characters in Golding‟s
(B) (a) and (c) Lord of the Flies fit the allegorized pattern
(C) (c) and (d) of virtues and vices.
(D) (a) and (b) (A) Ralph - rationality
(B) Piggy - pragmatism
55. Ralph Ellison enjoys subverting myths (C) Jack - pity
about white purity through characters (D) Simon – innocence
like:
(a) Norton 60. A Subaltern perspective is one where
(b) Bledsoe (A) Power-structures define and determine
(c) Rhinehart your command of language and language of
(d) all of the above command in an uneven world.
(B) The politically dispossessed could be
(A) (a) and (b) voiceless, written out of the historical record
(B) (a), (b) and (c) and ignored because their activities do not
(C) (b) and (c) count for “Cultural” or “Structured”.
(D) (a) and (c) (C) You don‟t know what your „story‟ is, how
to deal with a „story‟ and therefore you are
56. Which of the following is NOT TRUE forced to put stereotyped situations in it to
of Ralph Waldo Emerson? please your listeners.
(A) He wrote essays on New England (D) You begin to see how we live, how we
scenery, woodcraft and plantations. have been living, how we have been led to
(B) He was an eloquent pulpit orator, a imagine ourselves, how our language has
member of the Unitarian Church under trapped as well as liberated us.
William Chawming.
(C) In essays like “Nature”, he elaborates on 61. (a) “Interlanguage” is a term we owe to
the importance of seeing familiar things in M.A.K. Halliday.
new ways. (b) Interlanguage develops an autonomous
(D) His famous “American Scholar” was and self-contained grammatical system
delivered as an address before the Phi Beta (c) It is a distinct stage in a learner‟s progress
Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1837. in the study of a second language.
(d) It owes nothing at all either to the
57. “Exorcism” is the title of Act III of learner‟s native or target / second language.
who‟s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? What is (A) (d) is correct.
the significance of „exorcism‟ in the context (B) (b) is correct.
of the play? (C) (a) and (c) are correct.
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(D) (c) and (d) are correct.
62. In a classic statement that inaugurated
Feminist thought in English, we read:
“A woman writing thinks back through
her mothers”. Where does this occur?
(A) Virginia Woolf‟s A Room of One‟s Own
(B) Kate Millet‟s Sexual Politics
(C) Gertrude Stein‟s Three Lives
(D) Mary Hiatt‟s The Way Women Write.
63. Identify the correctly matched pair of
translators and translations.
(I) A. K. Ramanujan (a) The Ramayana
(II) Manmathanath Dutt (b) The Bhagavad
Gita
(III) Mohini Chatterjee (c) Speaking of
Shiva
(IV) Romesh Chandra Dutt d) The
Mahabharata
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
(A) (c) (d) (b) (a)
(B) (d) (c) (a) (b)
(C) (d) (a) (b) (c)
(D) (b) (a) (d) (c)
64. Assertion (A): In The Power and the
Glory, Greene shows how the Whisky Priest
transcends his weakness for drink and his
human fears, moving towards martyrdom.
Reason (R): Transcendence in Greene‟s
novels is generally an outcome of love for
humanity, but pride is also an essential
ingredient in the Priest‟s character.
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but
(R) is not the correct explanation for (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation for (A).
65. Which of the following statements on
John Dryden is incorrect?
(a) John Milton and John Dryden were
contemporaries.
(b) Dryden was a Royalist, while Milton
fiercely opposed monarchy.
(c) Dryden wrote a play on the Mughal
Emperor Humayun.
(d) Dryden was appointed the Poet Laureate
of England in 1668.
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(A) (a) is incorrect.
(B) (d) is incorrect.
(C) (c) is incorrect.
(D) (b) and (c) are incorrect.
66. “Like walking, criticism is a pretty nearly
universal art; both require a constant intricate
shifting and catching of balance; neither can
be questioned much in process; and few
perform either really well. For either a new
terrain is fatiguing and awkward, and in our
day most men prefer paved walks and some
form of rapid transportsome easy theory or
overmastering dogma.” (R.P.Blackmur, “A
Critic‟s Job of Work”)
(a) Blackmur compares walking with
criticism because he considers both to be
“arts” of a similar kind that call for attention
to detail and utmost care.
(b) Blackmur admits that some people do
however manage to be good critics and good
walkers.
(c) Critics prefer tried and tested approaches
for much the same reason as Walkers would
look for paved walks and rapid transport.
(d) Blackmur does not quite give us the
equivalents of “Some paved walks and some
form of rapid transport” in order to press his
comparison.
(A) (a) and (d) are correct.
(B) (a) and (c) are correct.
(C) only (d) is correct.
(D) only (b) is correct.
67. The world dominated by cold and
hypocritical materialists is represented by
William Blake in the mythological figure of
__________ .
(A) Urizen
(B) Albion
(C) Geryon
(D) Satan
68. Identify the correctly matched group:
(A) Third Space – Wolfgang Iser Hybridity –
Edward Soja Reception aesthetics –
Ferdinand de
Saussure Langue – Homi Bhabha
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(B) Third Space – Ernst Bloch Hybridity – IV. The protagonist realizes the importance of
Edward Said Reception aesthetics – Eve K. harmonizing humanity and the universe.
Sedgwick
Langue – G. S. Frazer (A) Beloved
(C) Third Space – Edward Soja Hybridity – (B) Ceremony
Homi Bhabha Reception aesthetics – (C) Daisy Miller
Wolfgang Iser (D) Enter, Conversing
Langue – Ferdinand de Saussure
(D) Third Space – G. S. Frazer Hybridity – 72. One of the following poems in Men and
Eve K. Sedgwick Reception aesthetics – Women is addressed to Elizabeth Barrett
Edward Soja Langue – Edward Said Browning by the poet. Identify it.
(A) “In Three Days”
69. Which of the following can be best (B) “By the Fireside”
described as: (C) “One Way of Love”
(i) the first statement of Bernard Shaw‟s idea (D) “One Word More”
of Life Force;
(ii) a play dealing with a woman‟s pursuit of 73. Match List-I with List-II according to
her mate; and the codes given below:
(iii) a play whose third act called “Don Juan List – I List – II
in Hell” is both unconventional and hilarious I. Tennessee William 1. Emperor Jones
? II. Eugene O‟Neill 2. A Streetcar Named
Desire
(A) The Devil‟s Disciple III. Lorraine Hansberry 3. After the Fall
(B) Man and Superman IV. Arthur Miller 4. A Raisin in the Sun
(C) Candida
(D) Arms and the Man I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
70. Identify the untrue statement on the (B) 1 3 2 4
CONTACT ZONE below: (C) 4 2 3 1
(A) “The contact zone” is a space where (D) 2 1 4 3
disparate cultures meet, clash and grapple
with each other. 74. Match the correct pair:
(B) In Postcolonial societies “contact” I. Theatre of Cruelty 1. Safdar
suggests the historical moment when settler Hashmi
and indigenous cultures first met. II. Theatre of the Oppressed 2. Georg
(C) The idea of the Contact Zone was first Kaiser
proposed and defined by Mary Louise Pratt‟s III. Expressionist Theatre 3. Jerzy
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Grotowsky
Transculturation (1992) IV. Agitprop 4. Augusto Bal
(D) It is believed that the Contact Zone was I II III IV
largely instrumental in spearheading (A) 1 2 4 3
nationalist movements across the world. (B) 3 4 2 3
(C) 2 3 1 4
71. Name the novel in which (D) 4 1 3 2
I. the protagonist is a war veteran called
Tayo. 75. Bertolt Brecht‟s Epic Theatre
II. Tayo returns from World War II, (a) turns the spectator into an observer
thoroughly disillusioned and haunted by his (b) wears down the spectator‟s capacity for
violent actions of war time. action
III. Tayo seeks consolation and counsel from (c) relies on argument
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(A) (a) and (d) are correct; (b) and (c) are DECEMBER 2012 PAPER II
incorrect.
(B) (a), (c) and (d) are correct; (b) is wrong.
1. Identify the work below that does not
(C) (b) and (d) are correct; (a) and (c) are
belong to the literature of the eighteenth
incorrect.
century:
(D) (a), (b) and (c) are correct; (d) is
(A) Advancement of Learning
incorrect.
(B) Gulliver‟s Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

2. Which, among the following, is a place

through which John Bunyan‟s Christian
does NOT pass?
(A) The Slough of Despond
(B) Mount Helicon
(C) The Valley of Humiliation
(D) Vanity Fair

3. The period of Queen Victoria‟s reign is

(A) 1830–1900
(B) 1837–1901
(C) 1830–1901
(D) 1837–1900

4. Which of the following statements about

The Lyrical Ballads is NOT true?
(A) It carried only one ballad proper, which
was Coleridge‟s The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.
(B) It also carried pastoral and other poems.
(C) It carried a “Preface” which Wordsworth
added in 1800.
(D) It also printed from Gray‟s Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard.

5. One of the following texts was published

earlier than 1955. Identify the text:
(A) William Golding, the Inheritors
(B) Philip Larkin, the Less Deceived
(C) William Empson, Collected Poems
(D) Samuel Becket, Waiting for Godot

6. Who among the poets in England during

the 1930s had left–leaning tendencies?
(A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard
Aldington
(B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert
Brooke
(C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil
Day Lewis
(D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh

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 13. The Puritans shut down all theatres in
7. Match the following: England in
1. The Sage of Concord 5. Emily Dickinson (A) 1642
2. The Nun of Amherst 6. R.W. Emerson (B) 1640
3. Mark Twain 7. T.S. Eliot (C) 1659
4. Old Possum 8. Samuel L. Clemens (D) 1660

(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7 14. Who of the following was not a
(B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8 contemporary of Wordsworth and
(C) 1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5 Coleridge?
(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6 (A) Robert Southey
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
8. Name the theorist who divided poets into (D) A. C. Swinburne
“strong” and “weak” and popularized the
practice of misreading: 15. Which of the following statements
(A) Alan Bloom about Waiting for Godot is NOT true?
(B) Harold Bloom 1. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
(C) Geoffrey Hartman acts”.
(D) Stanley Fish 2. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
scenes”.
9. In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly 3. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
compares Belinda to parts”.
(A) The sun 4. It does not carry a subtitle.
(B) The moon
(C) The North Star (A) 4
(D) The rose (B) 2
(C) 3
10. Which of the following awards is not (D) 1
given to Indian–English writers?
(A) The Booker Prize 16. The Bloomsbury Group included
(B) The Sahitya Akademi Award British intellectuals, critics, writers and
(C) The Gyanpeeth artists. Who among the following belonged
(D) Whitbread Prize to the Bloomsbury Group?
I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
11. Identify the correct statement below: II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell
(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton‟s Needle IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter
are tragedies. Pater
(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph
Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton‟s Needle (A) I and II
are comedies. (B) I
(C) All of them are problem plays. (C) II and III
(D) All of them are farces. (D) IV

12. W.M. Thackeray‟s Vanity Fair owes its 17. Who, among the following is credited
title to with the making of the first authoritative
(A) Browning‟s Fifine at the Fair Dictionary of the English Language?
(B) Shakespeare‟s Merchant of Venice (A) Bishop Berkeley
(C) Goldsmith‟s Vicar of Wakefield (B) Samuel Johnson
(D) Bunyan‟s Pilgrim‟s Progress (C) Edmund Burke
(D) Horace Walpole
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18. In Dryden‟s Essay of Dramatic Poesy (D) An undue faith in predestination and
(1668), who opens the discussion on behalf neglect of free will.
of the ancients?
(A) Lisideius 23. Which Shakespearean play contains the
(B) Crites line: “...there is a special providence in the
(C) Eugenius fall of a sparrow”?
(D) Neander (A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet
19. The term invective refers to (C) Coriolanus
(A) The abusive writing or speech in which (D) Macbeth
there is harsh denunciation of some person or
thing. 24. Match the following pairs of books and
(B) An insulting writing attack upon a real authors:
person, in verse or prose, usually involving Books
caricature and ridicule.
(C) A written or spoken text in which an Authors
apparently straightforward statement or event I. Condition of the Working
is undermined in its context so as to give it a Class in England i. John Ruskin
very different significance. II. London Labour and
(D) The chanting or reciting of words deemed the London Poor ii. Henry
to have magical power. Mayhew
III. Past and
20. Which of the following novels depicts Present iii. Thomas
the plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in Carlyle
East London? IV. Theunto This Last iv. Friedrich
(A) How far can you go Engels
(B) The White Teeth
(C) An Equal Music Codes:
(D) Brick Lane I II III IV
(A) iv i ii iii
21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial (B) iv ii iii i
year for two important writers in England. (C) ii iv i ii
Identify the correct phrase below: (D) iii ii iv iv
(A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left
England for the U. S. 25. In which of the following texts do
(B) For Eliot who started publishing verse– Aston, Davies and Mick appear as
drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were characters?
published. (A) Wyndham Lewis‟s Enemy
(C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, (B) Harold Pinter‟s Caretaker
each for publishing his first novels. (C) Katherine Mansfield‟s “Life of Ma
(D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and Parker”
Orwell who published his Animal Farm. (D) Graham Greene‟s Brighton Rock

22. The Enlightenment was characterized 26. What is common to the following
by writers? Identify the correct description
(A) Accelerated industrial production and below:
general well–being of the public. William Congreve
(B) A belief in the universal authority of George Etherege
reason and emphasis on scientific William Wycherley
experimentation. Thomas Otway
(C) The Protestant work ethic and compliance
with Christian values of life.
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(A) All of these were Restoration playwrights
(B) All of them were critics of Orwell‟s
regime
(C) All of them edited Shakespeare‟s plays
(D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same
age
27. In which Jane Austen novel do you find
the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell,
Louisa Musgrove and Captain
Wentworth?
(A) Emma
(B) Mansfield Park
(C) Persuasion
(D) Northanger Abbey
28. In which of his essays does Homi
Bhabha discuss the „discovery‟ of English
in colonial India?
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders”
(B) “Mimicry”
(C) Nation and Narration
(D) “The Commitment to Theory”
29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in
English.
(A) Edmund Spenser‟s Amoretti
(B) Philip Sidney‟s Astrophel and Stella
(C) Samuel Daniel‟s Delia
(D) Michael Drayton‟s Idea‟s Mirror
30. Which is the correct sequence of the
novels of V.S. Naipaul?
(A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The
Suffrage of Elvira – A House for Mr. Biswas.
(B) Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A
House for Mr.Biswas – The Suffrage of
Elvira.
(C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street –
The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr.
Biswas.
(D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of
Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr.
Biswas.
31. “Kubla Khan” takes an epigraph from
(A) Samuel Purchas‟ Purchas His Pilgrimage
(B) Hakluyt‟s Voyages
(C) The Book Named the Governour
(D) Sir Thomas More‟s Utopia
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32. Which of the following author– theme
is correctly matched?
(A) The Battle of the Books- Tribute to “The
rude forefathers of the hamlet”.
(B) The Rape of the Lock- Quarrel between
ancient and modern authors.
(C) Gray‟s “Elegy”-Accumulation of wealth
and the consequent loss of human lives and
values.
(D) The Deserted Village- Quarrel between
two families caused by Lord Petre.
33. Which among the following titles set a
course for academic literary feminism?
(A) Nostromo
(B) From Ritual to Romance
(C) A Room of One‟s Own
(D) A Dance to the Music of Time
34. In which play do we see a reworking of
E.M.Forster‟s A Passage to India as a
camaeo?
(A) The Birthday Party
(B) A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Indian Ink
(D) Amadeus
35. Shakespeare‟s sonnets
(A) Do not carry a dedication.
(B) Are dedicated to James I of England.
(C) Are dedicated to Mary Arden.
(D) Are dedicated to an unknown “Mr. W.H.”
36. Which of the following poems uses
terzarima?
(A) John Keats‟s “Ode to a Nightingale”
(B) P.B. Shelley‟s “Ode to the West Wind”
(C) William Wordsworth‟s “The Solitary
Reaper”
(D) Alfred Tennyson‟s “Ulysses”
37. When one says that “someone is no
more” or that “someone has breathed his/
her last”, the speaker is resorting to
(A) Euphism
(B) Euphony
(C) Understatement
(D) Euphemism
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38. Which of the following are “companion (B) The Deserted Village – A Poison Tree –
poems”? Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets” (C) The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree –
(B) “L‟Allegro” and “II Penseroso” The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun (D) The Deserted Village – The Blessed
Rising” Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! The
Lark” 45. The term homology means a
correspondence between two or more
39. What does the term episteme signify? structures. Who of the following developed
(A) Knowledge a theory of relations between literary
(B) Archive works and social classes in terms of
(C) Theology homologies
(D) Scholarship (A) Raymond Williams
(B) Christopher Caudwell
40. Which of the following is a better (C) Lucien Goldmann
definition of an image in literary writing? (D) Antonio Gramsci
(A) A reflection
(B) A speaking picture 46. F. Turner‟s famous hypothesis is that
(C) A refraction (A) The Frontier has outlived its ideological
(D) A reflected picture utility in American civilization.
(B) The Frontier has posed a challenge to the
41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime American creative imagination.
example of „negative capability‟? (C) The Frontier has been the one great
(A) John Milton determinant of American civilization.
(B) William Wordsworth (D) The Frontier has been the one great
(C) William Shakespeare deterrent to American progress.
(D) P.B. Shelley
47. Which statement(s) below on the
42. Charles Dickens‟s A Tale of Two Cities Spenserian stanza is/are accurate?
begins with the sentence I. A quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative
(A) It was the best of times; it was the worst II. A stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter
of times. III. An eight–line stanza in iambic pentameter
(B) It was the brightest of times; it was the followed by a ninth in six iambic feet
darkest of times. IV. An eight–line stanza with six use of
(C) It was the richest of times; it was the figurative language. Iambic feet followed by
poorest of times. a ninth in iambic pentameter
(D) It was the happiest of times; it was the
saddest of times. (A) I and II
(B) II
43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (C) III
were published posthumously by (D) IV
(A) Edwin Muir
(B) Edward Thomas 48. Match the following texts with their
(C) Robert Bridges respective themes:
(D) Coventry Patmore I.Areopagitica (Milton) i. Fashion, courtship,
seduction
44. Which of the following is the correct II. Leviathan (Hobbes) ii.The liberty For
chronological sequence? Unlicensed Printing
(A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village – III. Alexander‟s Feast
The Blessed Damozel– Ozymandias (Dryden) iii. Absolute Sovereignty
IV. The Way of The
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World (Congreve) iv. The power of
music

Codes:
I II III IV
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv i ii
(D) iv iii i ii

49. The preliminary version of James

Joyce‟s Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man was called
(A) Stephen Hero
(B) Bloom‟s Blunder
(C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
(D) The Dead

50.
(i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes, stylistic
elements or subjects borrowed from other
works.
(ii) It is distinguished from parody because
not all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a „purple
passage‟.
(iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style,
especially in its

(A) (i) and (ii) are correct.

(B) Only (i) is correct.
(C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
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DECEMBER 2012 PAPER III
5.
1. Which of the following book by V. S.
The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The
Naipaul is subtitled The Caribbean
University Wits – The Rhymers‟ Club –
Revisited?
(A) In a Free State The Transitional Poets – The Scottish
(B) A Bend in the River Chaucerians.
The right chronological sequence would be
(C) The Middle Passage
(D) An Area of Darkness
(A) The Scottish Chaucerians – The
University Wits – The Transitional Poets –
2. „Fluency‟ in language is the same as
The Pre- Raphaelite brotherhood – The
(A) The ability to put oneself across
Rhymers‟ Club.
comfortably in speech and/or writing.
(B) The Rhymers‟ Club, The University Wits
(B) The ability to command language rather
– The Scottish Chaucerians – The
than language commanding the user.
Transitional Poets, The Pre-Raphaelite
(C) Glibness
brotherhood.
(D) Accuracy
(C) The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood – The
Rhymers‟ Club – The Transitional Poets, The
3. Which of the following statements on
Scottish Chaucerians –The University Wits.
Pathetic Fallacy is NOT TRUE?
(D) The University Wits, The Scottish
(A) This term applies to descriptions that are
Chaucerians – The Pre-Raphaelite
not true but imaginary and fanciful.
brotherhood, The Transitional Poets – The
(B) Pathetic Fallacy is generally understood
Rhymers‟ Club.
as human traits being applied or attributed to
non-human things in nature.
(C) In its first use, the term was used with 6. „Aucitya‟ refers to:
I. Decorum
disapproval because nature cannot be equated
II. Propriety
with the human in respect of emotions and
III. Proportion
responses.
IV. Accuracy
(D) The term was originally used by
Alexander Pope in his Pastorals (1709).
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
4. Identify the correctly matched group:
(C) II is correct.
List – I List – II
(D) II and IV are correct.
i. „L‟ Allegro and
„IlPensoro so‟ 1. Pastoral elegy
ii. „Lycidas‟ 2. Masque 7. In the closing paragraph of The Trial
iii. Comus 3. Sonnet two men accompany Joseph K to a part of
iv. „On His Blindness‟ 4. Prose tract the city to eventually execute him. The
v. Areopagitica 5. Companion place is
(A) A Public Park
poems
(B) A Church
in octo-syllabic
(C) A Quarry
couplets
(D) An Abandoned Factory
Codes:
i ii iii iv v
(A) 1 2 3 4 5
(B) 5 1 2 3 4
(C) 1 3 2 4 5
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8. Match List – I with List – II according to 12. In his preface to The Order of Things,
the code given below: Foucault mentions being influenced by a
List – I List – II Latin American writer and his work.
(Character) (Work) Choose the correct answer:
i. Telemachus 1. Notes from (A) Marquez – “The Solitude of Latin
underground America”
ii. Anya 2. Old Goriot (B) Borges – “Chinese Encyclopaedia”
iii. Zverkov 3. The Cherry Orchard (C) Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo
iv. Rastignac 4. The Odyssey (D) Alejo Carpentier – “On the Marvelous in
America”
Codes:
i ii iii iv 13. Here is a list of Partition novels which
(A) 4 1 2 3 have „violence on the woman‟s body‟ as a
(B) 3 1 4 2 significant theme. Pick the odd one out:
(C) 2 4 1 3 (A) The Pakistani Bride
(D) 4 3 1 2 (B) What the Body Remembers
(C) Train to Pakistan
9. This renowned German poet was born in (D) The Ice-Candy Man
Prague and died of Leukemia. When
young he met Tolstoy and was influenced 14. Match the translators in List – I with
by him. The titles of his last two works the English translations of Indian
contain the words “sonnets” and “elegies”. Literature texts in List – II according to
He is the code given below:
(A) Herman Hesse
(B) Heinrich Heine List – I List – II
(C) Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff i. K.B. Vaid 1. Says Tuka
(D) Raine Marie Rilke ii. O.V. Vijayan 2. The Diary of a Maid
Servant
10. Which of the following plays gained iii. Dilip Chitre 3. Samskara
notoriety for its caricature of the iv. A.K. Ramanujan 4. Saga of Dharmapuri
philosopher Socrates?
(A) The Birds Codes:
(B) The Wasps i ii iii iv
(C) The Clouds (A) 4 1 2 3
(D) The Frogs (B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 2 4 1 3
11. Raskolnikov murders the old lady: (D) 1 2 3 4
I. To get her money and achieve his
ambition in life. 15. In his poem “A Morning Walk” Nissim
II. To achieve his political goal as an Ezekiel talks about a „Barbaric City sick
extremist and a nihilist with slums / Deprived of seasons, blessed
III. To prove his superiority over other with rains / its hawkers, beggars,
young men of the time. ironlunged/ Processions led by frantic
IV. All of the above drums.‟ Identify the city:
Find the correct combination according to (A) Calcutta
the code: (B) Banares
(C) Bombay
(A) I and II are correct. (D) Agra
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
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16. In Practical Criticism I.A. Richards
links four kinds of meanings in most
human utterances to four aspects. These
are
(A) Sense, Feeling, Tone, Intention
(B) Sound, Feeling, Nuance, Intention
(C) Sense, Voice, Emotion, Intention
(D) Sense, Image, Tone, Intention
17. In „Christabel‟ after Geraldine enters
Sir Leoline‟s castle on her way to
Christabel‟s chamber there are several ill
omens which warn the reader about
Geraldine. Pick out the phrase which does
not serve as an omen:
(A)The „angry moan‟ of the ailing mastiff
bitch
(B) „The Owlet‟s Scritch‟
(C) „The Moaning Wind‟
(D) „A tongue of light, a fit of flame‟
18. The word resurrect is
(A) An abbreviation
(B) A spurious verb
(C) A back-formation
(D) A disguised compound
19. Match List – I with List – II according
to the code given below:
List – I List – II
i. Annie John 1. Picaresque
ii. Tom Jones
Bildungsroman
iii. The Sorrows of Young Werther 3. Gothic
iv. Vathek
Epistolary
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
20. Ted Hughes‟s poem „The Thought-
Fox‟ is
I. About Thought as Fox
II. about the Fox as Thought
III. About the process of writing poetry.
IV. About Thought entering the poet‟s brain
like the Fox emerging from darkness.
Find the most appropriate combination
according to the code:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
21. In Aristotle‟s Poetics we read that it is
the imitation of an action that is complete
and whole, and of a certain
magnitude….having a beginning, a middle,
and an end‟. What is „it‟?
(A) Tragedy
(B) Epic
(C) Poetry
(D) Farce
22. According to Matthew Arnold,
„touchstones‟ help us test truth and
seriousness that constitute the best poetry.
What are the „touchstones‟?
(A) The purple passages of lyric poetry
(B) Passages from ancient poets
(C) The lines and expressions of the great
masters
(D) Passages of epic strength and vigour
23. „An extremely simplified form of
language used for oral, verbal contact
among a community whose members speak
2. different languages but do not share a
common language in order to fulfill the
essential needs of communication.‟
4. Which of the following is best described by
this definition?
(A) Creole
(B) Pidgin
(C) Dialect
(D) Lingua franca
24. What do the prosodic features of a
language tell us?
(A) The speaker‟s native language and its
cognate languages.
(B) The speaker‟s age, emotional state, social
class, educational background, geographical
provenance etc.
(C) The speaker‟s self-confidence or lack of
it.
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(D) The speaker‟s command of the resources
of the language spoken by him/her and their
deployment.
25. What novel answers to the following
descriptions?
This was a 1990 best-seller by a British
writer. The work incorporates many genres
such as letters, diaries and poetry as also
third-person narratives. The plot here
involves two time-periods – contemporary
and Victorian. The work is subtitled A
Romance.
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
(D) The Sea Lady
26. The following words and phrases,
„peace makers‟, „help-meet‟, „the fat of the
land‟, „a labour of love‟, „the eleventh
hour‟ and „the shadow of death‟ were
made current by
(A) The British Greek scholars like Roger
Ascham
(B) The fifteenth century British prelates
(C) The Puritan tractarians
(D) The sixteen-century translators of the
Bible
27. Who among the following writers
asserted „Commonwealth Literature‟ does
not exist?
(A) Amitav Ghosh
(B) Sulman Rushdie
(C) V.S. Naipaul
(D) Nirad Chaudhari
28. Identify the one in correct
chronological sequence:
(A) The Norman Conquest – The
Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – William
Tyndall‟s New Testament – The Birth
of William Shakespeare
(B) The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer –
William Tyndall‟s New Testament –
The Birth of William Shakespeare –
The Norman Conquest
(C) The Norman Conquest –William
Tyndall‟s New Testament – The
Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The
Birth of William Shakespeare
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(D) William Tyndall‟s New
Testament – The Norman Conquest –
The Death of Geoffrey Chaucer – The
Birth of William Shakespeare
29. Which of the following arrangements is
in the correct chronological sequence?
(A) Mary Wellstone Craft‟s A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman –
Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and
Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with
„Preface‟, second edition by
Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund
Burke‟s Reflections on the Revolution
in France.
(B) Edmund Burke‟s Reflections on
the Revolution in France – Mary
Wollstone Craft‟s A Vindication of
the Rights of Woman – Lyrical
Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge
– Lyrical Ballads with „Preface‟,
second edition by Wordsworth and
Coleridge.
(C) Lyrical Ballads with „Preface‟,
second edition by Wordsworth and
Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads by
Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund
Burke‟s Reflections on, the
Revolution in France – Mary
Wollstone Craft‟s A Vindication of
the Rights of Woman.
(D) Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth
and Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads with
„Preface‟, second edition by
Wordsworth and Coleridge – Edmund
Burke‟s Reflections on the Revolution
in France – Mary Wollstone Craft‟s A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
30. Who is John Keats‟s „Sylvan
Historian‟?
(A) Fanny Brawne
(B) Nightingale
(C) The Grecian Urn
(D) The Bridge of Quietness
31. This periodical was started in 1709 with
a motive „to expose the false arts of life, to
pull the disguise of cunning, vanity and
affectation, and to recommend a general
simplicity in our dress, our discourse and
our behaviour.‟ The founder of the
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periodical wrote under the pseudonym of famous essay is called „Mr. Bennet and
Isaac Bickerstaff. The periodical described Mrs. Brown‟. Who is Mrs. Brown?
above is (A) The name Woolf gives a woman whom
(A) The Tatler she happens to meet in a train.
(B) The Spectator (B) A servant in Mr. Bennett‟s household.
(C) The Critical Review (C) A character in a Bennett story.
(D) The Rambler (D) Mr. Bennett‟s neighbour who happens to
be a writer.
32. Arrange the following in the order in
which the details of a research article / 36. E.M. Forster uses some recurrent
essay appear in your bibliography. images in A Passage to India. Pick the odd
(A) Page numbers, the title of the one out:
essay, the title of the journal, volume (A) Wasp
& issue numbers, year of publication (B) Stone
(B) The title of the essay, page (C) Thunder
numbers, the title of the journal, (D) Echo
volume and issue numbers, year of
publication 37. „Now stop your noses, readers, all and
(C) The title of the journal, the title of some, For here‟s a tun of midnight-work to
the essay, page numbers, volume and come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling
issue numbers, year of publication home. Round as a globe, and liquor‟dev‟ry
(D) The title of the essay, the title of chink Goodly and great he rails behind his
the journal, volume & issue numbers, link‟.
the year of publication, page numbers In the above extract from Absalom and
Achitophel Og is
33. From the following indicate the work (A) Elkanah Settle
which is not a Dystopia: (B) Lord Harvey
(A) Aldous Huxley – A Brave New World (C) Thomas Shadwell
(B) George Orwell – 1984 (D) Joseph Addison
(C) Yevgeny Zamyatin– We
(D) Evelyn Waugh – Brideshed Revisited 38. D.H. Lawrence uses the expression „a
bright book of life‟ to describe
(A) The novel
34. „Unless wariness be used, as good (B) The dramatic monologue
almost kill a man as kill a good book. (C) The Bible
Who kills a man kills a reasonable (D) The short lyric
creature, God‟s image, but he who destroys
a good book, kills reason itself, kills the 39. Identify the correctly matched group:
image of God as it were in the eye. Many a List – I List – II
man lives a burden to the earth; but a good I.Where Angles Fear to Tread 1. Malay
book is the precious life-blood of a master ii.A Portrait of the Artist as a
spirit….‟ Young Man 2. Russia
Where is the passage from? iii.The Plumed Serpent 3. Italy
(A) Milton‟s Areopagitica iv.An Outcast of the Islands 4. Mexico
(B) Sidney‟s Apologie for Poetry v.Under Western Eyes 5. Dublin
(C) Dryden‟s „Preface to the Fables‟
(D) Marvell‟s The Rehearsal Transposed Codes:
i ii iii iv v
35. Virginia Woolf rubbished the idea of (A) 3 5 4 1 2
character and the understanding of (B) 4 3 5 2 1
realism of writers like Arnold Bennett, (C) 5 4 3 2 1
John Galsworthy and H.G. Wells. Her (D) 2 1 3 4 5
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40. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Chaucer describes
„Madame Eglentyne‟ thus: „She was
so charitable and so pitous, She wolde
wepe, if that she sawe a mous caught
in atrappe‟
Reason (R): On her „broche of gold
full shene‟ was written Amor Vincit
Omnia.
In the context of the two statements, which
one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but(R) is not the
correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
41. Identify the correct statements on
Langue and Parole below:
1. Langue is the abstract language system, the
grammar of a language.
2. Parole is the language actually produced by
its user following langue.
3. Langue is the language actually produced
by its users following parole.
4. Parole is the abstract language system, the
grammar of a system.
(A) 1 and 3 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.
42. In Monica Ali‟s Brick Lane which
among the following characters has „a face
like a frog‟?
(A) Nazneen
(B) Chanu
(C) Hasina
(D) Karim
43. „The grey-eyed morn smiles on the
frowning night, Check‟ring the eastern clouds
with streaks of light; and flecked darkness
like a drunkard reels
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From forth day‟s path and Titan‟s burning
wheels.‟
(Romeo and Juliet II 3, 1 – 4)
The speaker describes
(A) The Setting Sun
(B) The Return Home of a Drunkard
(C) The Drawing of a New Day
(D) The Rising Sun
44. „How noble in reason! How infinitein
faculty! In form and moving how express
and admirable! In action how like anangel!
In apprehension how like a God!‟
What does Hamlet marvel at in this passage?
(A) His own self
(B) His father
(C) Man
(D) Woman
45. Said identifies Orientalism as:
I. What an Orientalist does.
II. A style of thought based on anontological
and epistemological distinction made between
the Orient and the Occident.
III. a discourse dealing with the Orient
IV. a fact of nature rather than oneof human
production
In the light of the statement above:
(A) II and III are correct, I and IVare wrong.
(B) I and III are correct, II and IV are wrong.
(C) I, II and III are correct and IV is wrong.
(D) IV is correct and I, II and III are wrong.
46. Identify the period during which the
Puritans under the rule of Oliver
Cromwell and his Commonwealth shut
down all English theatres on religious and
moral grounds:
(A) 1640-1660
(B) 1649-1660
(C) 1649-1659
(D) 1640-1659
47. “To tell the truth Shug act more manly
than rest, men. I means she upright,
honest, speak her mind…”What light does
the quotation throwon ShugAvery?
(A) She is a manly woman.
(B) She is upright and honest in asserting her
lesbian identity.
(C) She is bent on self-assertion
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48.
1. A content word is not a function word.
2. A content word has lesser meaning than a
function word.
3. A content word has no function.
4. A content word bears lexical meaning
whereas a function word just about means
functionally.
Which of these statements are correct?
(A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(B) 1 and 2 are correct.
(C) 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) 2 and 4 are correct.
49. The year 1828 is a landmark in the
history of American language and
literature. Identify the reason from the
following:
(A) Mark twain‟s The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn was published in that year.
(B) The Southern Literary Messenger gained
wide circulation since that year.
(C) Washington Irving was adjudged the
nation‟s greatest writer in that year.
(D) Noah Webster published An American
Dictionary of the English Language in that
year.
50. What alternative title to her
Frankenstein did Marry Shelley give?
(A) A Gothic Tale
(B) A Gothic Romance
(C) The Modern Prometheus
(D) A Modern Parable
51. Which of the following statements on
George Lamming‟s In the Castle ofMy
Skin [1953] is not true?
(A) On one level this is a coming of-age
story.
(B) It is an elegiac account of a village‟s
growth into awareness in the late colonial
period.
(C) Its themes parody The Tempest.
(D) This was George Lamming‟s first novel.
52. We are likely to misunderstand an
Emily Dickinson poem if we take her
famous dashes to be …
(A) Quite specific and unambiguous
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(B) Ambiguous and indeterminate
(C) Suggestive of both forward and backward
movements in terms of sense
(D) Suggestive of links but equivocally
53. Readers of Tayeb Salih‟s Seasons of
Migration to the North will undoubtedly
notice its parallels with the story/stories of:
I. Death in Venice
II. Othello
III. Bartleby the Scrivener
IV. Heart of Darkness
Of the above:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) Only IV is correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
54. Which statement is not true of Benedict
Anderson‟s Imagined Communities?
(A) It is a prosaic response to the
myth of El Dorado.
(B) It is subtitled Reflections on the
Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
(C) In this book, Anderson advances
the view that nations are not natural
entities but narrative constructs.
(D) In Anderson‟s view, modern
nationalism was basically a
consequence of the convergence of
capitalism, the new print technology
and the fixity that resulted from print
extending to „Vernacular‟ languages.
55. „By swaggering could I never thrive,
for the rain it raineth everyday. ‟These
lines from Twelfth Night occur in the
novel:
(A) Middlemarch
(B) Vanity Fair
(C) Our Mutual Friend
(D) Far From the Madding Crowd
56. What is a mock-heroic poem?
A mock-heroic poem
(A) Mocks at heroic pretensions in poets and
critics
(B) Mocks heroism, an exaggerated virtue in
all epics
(C) Uses a heroic style to deride airs and
affectations
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hero-worship statement by
(A) Victor Shklovsky
57. Which of the following statements is (B) Jacques Derrida
not true of Laurence Sterne‟s Tristram (C) Roland Barthes
Shandy? (D) Ferdinand de Saussure
(A) It has a linear plot.
(B) It opens and ends with the theme of birth. 61. Here is a list of women abandoned by
(C) It contains a trip to France. their lovers in Hardy‟s novels.
(D) It contains a marbled page. Pick the odd one out:
(A) Fanny Robin
58. In drama, an aside is addressed… (B) Tess D‟Urberville
(A) To an audience by an actor; the words so (C) Marty South
spoken are not meant to be heard by other (D) Bathsheba Everdene
actors on the stage.
(B) To other actors on the stage; the words so 62. What is the following a description of?
spoken are not meant to be heard by the „A loose sally of the mind; an irregular
audience. indigested piece‟
(C) By the playwright to the audience. (A) Essay
(D) By the protagonist to his/her antagonist (B) Autobiography
(C) Epistolary Fiction
59. Match List – I with List – II according (D) Diary
to the code given below:
List – I List – II 63. From the following indicate the critic
(Novels) (Last who is not a New Critic:
Lines) (A) Allen Tate
i. The Mayor of (B) Robert Penn Warren
Casterbridge 1. „He walked towards (C) Cleanth Brooks
the Faintly humming, (D) Claude Levi-Strauss
Glowing town,
quickly.‟ 64. From the following list, pick out a
ii. Sons and Lovers 2. „In their death, woman character who does not belong to
they were not divided.‟ Amitav Ghosh‟s novels:
iii. The Great Gatsby 3. „Happiness was (A) Ila
but the occasional (B) Urvashi
episode in a general (C) Sonali
drama of pain.‟ (D) Piyali
iv. The Mill on the
Floss 4. „So we beat on, 65. Pick the odd man out of the following
boats against the current, members of the subaltern group:
borne back ceaselessly (A) Ranajit Guha
into the past.‟ (B) Partha Chatterjee
Codes: (C) DipeshChakrabarty
i ii iii iv (D) Sumit Sarkar
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 2 1 3 4 66. Statement (S): “Our birth is but a sleep
(C) 4 3 2 1 and forgetting.”
(D) 3 1 4 2 Interpretation (I): The human soul never
tires in the course of life, it never dies.
Therefore, the human life is a long sleep and
ephemeral events are better forgotten.
(A) (S) is a view and (I) is not correct.
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(B) (S) is a view and (I) is correct.
(C) (S) is a poetic view; the (I) does not suit
it.
(D) (S) is a poetic view and bears no
relationship to (I).
67. „The parish of rich women, physical
decay, / yourself…‟
What do these make of W.B. Yeats in W.H.
Auden‟s view?
(A) Proud
(B) Vainglorious
(C) Avaricious
(D) Silly
68. Who among Charles Dickens‟s
characters is „umble‟ and who „willin‟?
(A) Mr. Pickwick, Mrs. Gamp
(B) Master Humphrey, Nicolas Nickleby
(C) Martin, Little Nell
(D) Uriah Heep, Barkis
69. “Fourth World Literature” refers to
I. The works of native people living in a land
that has been taken over by non-natives.
II. The works of black people in the United
States.
III. The literature of the marginalized.
IV. Refers to the works of non heterosexuals
Of the above:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
70. Assertion (A): In The Duchess of Malfi
Ferdinand sets a whole group of mad men on
the
Duchess and they dance and sing in a crazy
manner.
Reason (R): His desire was to provide a
strange entertainment to drive the Duchess
mad.
In the context of the two statements, which
one of the following is correct?
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong
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71. Why is The Signifying Monkey of
Henry Louis Gates JR. a notable
contribution to the study of African-
American literature?
(A) It focuses on largely neglected African-
American novelists and poets.
(B) It offers a theory of African- American
criticism that draws upon rhetorical and
signifying practices.
(C) It offers a theory of African- American
films and dramatic arts that signify Black
ethos.
(D) It departs from critical theory of
autobiographical narratives involving Black
lives and cultural traditions.
72. This influential critic
I. wrote influential commentaries on
such poets as Shelley, Blake and
Yeats.
II. Published such titles as The
Anxiety of Influence, A Map of
Misreading, Poetry and Repression
and The Western Canon.
III. Asserted that most literary
criticism is but slightly disguised
religion and
IV. Is, arguably, the most widely
known and contrarian among his
American peers in the English
Academy.
Identify the critic
(A) Edward Said
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) Harold Bloom
(D) Sven Birkrets
73. According to the Italian Marxist
theorist Antonio Gramsci:
(A) Hegemony is synonymous with
domination
(B) Hegemony involves a degree of consent
on the part of subject people.
(C) Hegemony involves a degree of coercion
on the part of a dominant political entity.
(D) Hegemony is synonymous with
subjugation
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74. Match the following:
i. George Peele,
Robert Greene,
Thomas Lodge,
Thomas Kyd 1. The Rhymers‟ Club /
The
Decadents of the
1890‟s
ii. William Congreve,
William Wycherley
George Eltherege,
George Farquha 2. The Pre- Raphaelite
Brotherhood
iii. John Everett Millais,
James Collinson,
Ford Madox Brown,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 3. The University
Wits
iv. Ernest Dowson,
Lionel Johnson,
W.B. Yeats 4. The Restoration
Playwrights
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 1 4 3 2
(C) 2 1 4 3
(D) 3 4 2 1

75. Combine the statements correctly:

According to Homi Bhabha________
1. Mimicry is not mere copying or emulating
the colonizer‟s culture, behaviour and
manners.
2. But it is further aimed at perfection and
excess.
3. Mimicry is mere copying the colonizer‟s
culture, behaviour and manners…
4. But is informed by both mockery and a
certain menace.

(A) 1 and 4
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 3 and 4
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 DECEMBER 2013 PAPER II III. a witness to masculine oppression
IV. bubbling with vitality
Find the correct combination according to the
1. ____ the very word is like a bell
code:
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Which word?
(A) I, II and III are correct.
(A) Bird
(B) I, II and IV are correct.
(B) Immortal
(C) I, III and IV are correct.
(C) Forlorn
(D) II, III and IV are correct.
(D) Fancy
6. The novel tells the story of twin
2. In poems like “The Altar” and “Easter
brothers, Waldo, the man of reason and
Wings” ________ exploits _______.
(A) John Donne, alliteration intellect, and Arthur, the innocent half-wit,
(B) Robert Herrick, trimetre the way their lives are inextricably
(C) G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm intertwined. Which is the novel?
(A) The Tree of Man
(D) George Herbert, typographic space
(B) Voss
(C) The Solid Mandala
3. No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of
(D) The Vivisector
hours!
For what wears out the life of mortal
7. Who among the following was NOT a
men?
member of the Scriblerus Club?
„Tis that repeated shocks, again, again,
(A) Thomas Parnell
Exhaust the energy of strongest souls
(B) Alexander Pope
And numb the elastic powers …
(C) Joseph Addison
Who does the poet address here?
(D) John Gay
(A) The Scholar Gipsy
(B) Telemachus
(C) The Nightingale 8. _______ is a theological term brought
(D) The Poet‟s Sister, Dorothy into literary criticism by _______.
(A) Entelechy, St. Augustine
(B) Ambiguity, William Empson
4. The roman a clef (French for “novel
(C) Adequation, Fr Walter Ong
with a key”) uses contemporary historical
(D) Epiphany, James Joyce
figures as its chief characters. They are of
course given fictional names. One example
9. ________ the Almighty Power Hurled
is Aldous Huxley‟s Point Counter Point.
headlong flaming from th‟ Ethereal Sky,
Its Mark Rampion is modelled on
With hideous ruin and combustion down
M_______.
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
(A) D.H. Lawrence
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who
(B) E.M. Forster
durst defy th‟ Omnipotent to Arms.
(C) Wyndham Lewis
(Paradise Lost, I.44-49.)
(D) Arnold Bennett
Choose the appropriate word:
(A) Him
5. She was a worthy woman al hir lyve,
(B) He
Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde
(C) Satan
fyve,
(D) The Fiend
In the „Prologue‟ Chaucer represents the Wife
of Bath as: 10. Which of the following works does not
have a mad woman as a character in it?
(A) The Yellow Wallpaper
I. crude and vulgar
(B) The Mad Woman in the Attic
II. outspoken and boastfully licentious
(C) Jane Eyre
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(D) Wide Sargasso Sea 16. “The story and the novel, the idea and
the form, are the needle and thread, and I
11. Which of the following is NOT a quest never heard of a guild of tailors who
narrative? recommended the use of the thread
(A) Shelley‟s Alastor without the needle, or the needle without
(B) Byron‟s Manfred the thread.”
(C) Coleridge‟s Christabel This famous passage describing the relation
(D) Keats‟s Endymion of idea to form is found in
(A) Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
12. The novel has a scene where African (B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia
American students are made to compete Literaria
and fight with each other as they rush for (C) Henry James, “The Art of Fiction”
the gold coins tossed on an electric blanket. (D) I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary
Identify the novel. Criticism
(A) Richard Wright: Native Son
(B) James Baldwin: Another Country 17. Identify the correctly matched set
(C) Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man below:
(D) Toni Morrison: Bluest Eye (A) The Norman Conquest – 1066 William
Caxton and the introduction of printing –
13. G.M. Hopkins‟s “Windhover” is 1575
dedicated: The King James Bible – 1611
(A) To Christ, our Lord Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1755
(B) To Christ our lord The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate
(C) To no one – 1649-1660
(D) To Christ, the Lord (B) The Norman Conquest – 1066
William Caxton and the introduction of
14. Match List – I with List – II according printing – 1475
to the code given below: The King James Bible – 1611
List – I (Authors) List – II (Poems) Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary - 1755
i. Ted Hughes 1. “The Otter” The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate
ii. Seamus Heaney 2. “Snake” – 1649-1660
iii. W.H. Auden 3. “Ghost Crabs” (C) The Norman Conquest – 1016
iv. D.H. Lawrence 4. “Prevent the Dog William Caxton and the introduction of
from Barking with a Juicy Bone.” printing- 1475
Codes: The King James Bible – 1564
i ii iii iv Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary -1780
(A) 1 2 4 3 The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate
(B) 2 3 1 4 – 1649-1660
(C) 3 1 4 2 (D) The Norman Conquest – 1013
(D) 3 2 1 4 William Caxton and the introduction of
printing – 1575
15. His cooks with long disuse their trade The King James Bible – 1627
forgot; Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1746
Cool was his kitchen, though his brains The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate
were hot. – 1624-1660
Who is this character whose stinginess
passed into a proverb? 18. Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is
(A) Corah (A) a Great War veteran
(B) Shimei (B) a Dublin bar owner
(C) Zimri (C) a Jewish advertising agent
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19. “Late capitalism”, by which is meant
accelerated technological development and
the massive extension of intellectually
qualified labour, was first popularised by
______.
(A) Terry Eagleton
(B) Ernst Mandel
(C) Raymond Williams
(D) Stanley Fish
20. Which of the following arrangements is in
the correct chronological sequence?
(A) Native Son by Richard Wright –
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison –
Their Eyes Were Watching God by
Zora Neil Hurston – Another Country
by James Baldwin
(B) Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neil Hurston – Native Son by
Richard Wright – Invisible Man by
Ralph Ellison – Another Country by
James Baldwin
(C) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison –
Native Son by Richard Wright –
Another Country by James Baldwin –
Their Eyes Were Watching God by
Zora Neil Hurston
(D) Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neil Hurston – Another
Country by James Baldwin – Native
Son by Richard Wright – Invisible
Man by Ralph Ellison
21. Metaphor is so widespread that it is
often used as an umbrella term to include
other figures of speech such as metonyms
which can be technically distinguished
from it in its narrower usage.
Identify the metaphorical phrase in this
sentence:
(A) narrower usage
(B) technically distinguished
(C) figures of speech
(D) umbrella term
22. Along the shore of silver streaming
Thames;
Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,
Was painted all with variable flowers,…
Fit to deck maidens‟ bowers
And crown their paramours
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Against their bridal day, which is not
long;
Sweet Thames! run softly till I end my
song.
(Spenser‟s Prothalamion)
Another poet fondly recalls these lines but
cannot conceal their heavily ironic tone in:
(A) Marianne Moore‟s “Spenser‟s Ireland”
(B) Sylvia Plath‟s “Morning Song”
(C) W.H. Auden‟s “In Praise of Limestone”
(D) T.S. Eliot‟s Waste Land
23. The tramp in Pinter‟s first big hit, The
Caretaker, often travels under an assumed
name. It is
(A) Bernard Jenkins
(B) Roly Jenkins
(C) Jack Jenkins
(D) Peter Jenkins
24. Here is a list of early English plays
imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the
odd one out:
(A) Gorboduc
(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Ralph Roister Doister
(D) Gammer Gurton‟s Needle
25. Where does Act I Scene 1 of William
Congreve‟s Way of the World open?
(A) A Chocolate-House
(B) A Pub
(C) A Carrefour
(D) The drawing room of Sir Willfull‟s
mansion
26. While “a well-boiled icicle” for “a well-
oiled bicycle” is an example of Spoonerism,
someone saying “Congenital food” for
„Continental food‟ is an example of ______.
(A) Malaproprism
(B) Pleonasm
(C) Neologism
(D) Archaism
27. It is unimaginable that all the following
events happened in one year:
1. Arthur Evans discovered the first
European civilization; his excavations
in Crete revealed a culture that was far
older than either Attic Greece or
Ancient Rome.
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the Oxford Book of English Verse.
3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the
Barcelona train at Gare d‟ Orsay,
Paris.
4. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum
Theory.
5. Hugo de Vries identified what
would later come to be called genes.
6. Sigmund Freud published The
Interpretation of Dreams.
7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain.
Identify the year:
(A) 1899
(B) 1900
(C) 1901
(D) 1903
(D) The people of East Egg
32. William Wordsworth‟s statement of
purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads
carries the following phrase. (Complete the
phrase correctly).
“to choose incidents from common life and
to relate or describe them, throughout, as
far as possible, ______.”
(A) in a selection of language really used by
men.
(B) in a relation to language really used by
men.
(C) in a selection of language really used by
common man.
(D) in deference to language actually used by
men.

28. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a 33. Match List – I with List – II according
beggar if he be found worthy. to the code given below:
This is the epigraph to List – I (Novels) List – II (Last lines)
(A) T.S. Eliot‟s “The Hollow Men” i.Lord Jim 1. „It was done; it was
(B) Rudyard Kipling‟s “The Man Who finished. Yes, she thought laying down her
Would be the King” brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my
(C) George Eliot‟s Silas Marner vision.‟
(D) E.M. Forster‟s Howard‟s End ii.To the Lighthouse 2. „April 27. Old father,
old artificer, stand me now and ever in good
29. Robert Graves‟s “In Broken Images” stead…‟
ends thus: iii. A Passage to India 3. „He feels it himself
He in a new confusion of his and says often that he is “preparing to leave
understanding; all this; preparing to leave,...”, while he
I in a new understanding of my confusion. waves his hands sadly at his butterflies.‟
The figure of speech here is _______. iv. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(A) Chiasmus 4. „ “No not yet,” and
(B) Catachresis thesky said, “No, not there”.‟
(C) Inversion
(D) Zeugma Codes:
i ii iii iv
30. The phrase “leaves dancing” is an (A) 2 4 3 1
example of ________. (B) 3 2 4 1
(A) pathetic fallacy (C) 3 1 4 2
(B) hyperbole (D) 2 3 1 4
(C) pun
(D) conceit 34. Identify the incorrect description/s of
“Sprung Rhythm” from the following:
31. At the end of The Great Gatsby, the
narrator Nick Carraway observes: 1. This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our
“They were careless people”. Who were minds – hence Sprung Rhythm.
they? 2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal
(A) Tom and Daisy length.
(B) The Wilsons 3. A foot may have one to four syllables in
(C) Gatsby and his friends Sprung Rhythm.
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4. Its metre is derived from the metre of (B) P.B. Shelley – William Blake
Anglo-Saxon poetry which was based on (C) William Wordsworth – John Milton
accent and linked by alliteration. (D) Ben Jonson – William Shakespeare

(A) 4 is incorrect. 39. Samuel Johnson‟s Lives of Poets (1781)

(B) 1 & 4 are incorrect. was originally a series of introductions to
(C) 3 is incorrect. the poets he wrote for a group of London
(D) 1 is incorrect. publishers. They were collected as:
(A) Lives of English Poets: Critical and
35. Who among the following proposes that Biographical Essays.
the unconscious comes into being only in (B) Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the
language? Works of English Poets.
(A) Sigmund Freud (C) Notes, Biographical and Critical, on the
(B) Jacques Lacan Works of English Poets.
(C) Stuart Hall (D) Lives of English Poets: Biographical and
(D) Paul de Man Critical Notes.

36. The Elizabethan Settlement established 40. Which of the following is NOT
during the reign of Elizabeth I mentioned in Northrop Frye‟s four
I. ensured the supremacy of the Church of „generic plots‟?
England. (A) The comic
II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the (B) The tragic
authority of the Pope. (C) The lyric
III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be (D) The ironic
part of the Anglican church.
IV. created a group known as the 41. Arrange the sections of The Waste
Roundheads. Land in the order in which they appear in
The correct combination according to the the poem:
code is: 1. The Fire Sermon
(A) I and III are correct. 2. Death by Water
(B) I and II are correct. 3. A Game of Chess
(C) II and III are correct. 4. What the Thunder Said
(D) III and IV are correct. 5. The Burial of the Dead

37. Which of the following poems by (A) 3, 2, 1, 5, 4

Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and (B) 5, 1, 2, 3, 4
death? (C) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4
(A) “The Beggar Maid” (D) 5, 3, 1, 2, 4
(B) “The Lotus-Eaters”
(C) “Ulysses” 42. Sir Plume is a character in ____ .
(D) “Tithonus” (A) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel
(B) Congreve‟s The Way of the World
38. One English poet addressing another: (C) Pope‟s The Rape of the Lock
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; (D) Farquhar‟s The Beaux‟ Strategem
Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the
sea: 43. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, Macbeth calls on ______ to “unsex me
So didst thou travel on life‟s common way, here”. (Macbeth I.5.39)
In cheerful godliness…. Choose the right option to fill in the blank:
Whose lines are these? To whom are they (A) God
addressed? (B) the spirits of hell
(A) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats (C) the angels in heaven
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(D) no one in particular 48. Which novel of Graham Greene in the
following list does NOT end in some form
44. You will find the following lines in an of suicide by the protagonist?
English poem: (A) The Heart of the Matter
Thou by the Indian Ganges‟ side (B) England Made Me
Shouldst rubies find; I by the side (C) Brighton Rock
Of Humber would complain. (D) The Power and the Glory
Which poem? Who is the poet?
(A) “Lonely Hearts.” Wendy Cope 49. Who among the following gave a happy
(B) “Holy Thursday.” William Blake ending to King Lear?
(C) “Tiger Mask Ritual.” Chitra Banerjee (A) James Quin
Divakaruni (B) Nahum Tate
(D) “To His Coy Mistress.” Andrew Marvell (C) Peg Woffington
(D) Charles Macklin
45. Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know, 50. Jane Austen‟s Pride and Prejudice
Such harmonious madness starts with the famous statement: “It is a
From my lips would flow truth universally acknowledged that a
The world should listen then, as I am single man in possession of a good fortune
listening now. must be in want of a life.”
Whose lines are these? To whom are they As we get to read the novel this statement
addressed? seems to be made from the point of view
(A) John Keats. The Nightingale of:
(B) P.B. Shelley. The Skylark I. The surrounding families
(C) William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley II. Mrs Bennet
(D) Robert Browning. The Grammarian III. Mr Bennet
IV. The women of Jane Austen‟s age and
46. Match List – I with List – II according society
to the code given below:
List – I (Novel) List – II (Major symbol) Find out the correct combination according to
i. Dombey and Son 1. fog the code:
ii. The Return of the Native 2. train (A) I, II and III are correct.
iii. Bleak House 3. heath (B) I, II and IV are correct.
iv. Tess 4. mist (C) II, III and IV are correct.
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 4 2 3 1
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 1 3 4 1

47. The following postmodernist novel has

an unusual protagonist whose gender is not
revealed. So much so, that we keep
wondering whether that person‟s
relationships are homo /hetero-sexual:
(A) The French Lieutenant‟s Woman
(B) English Music
(C) Written on the Body
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 DECEMBER 2013 PAPER III

1. In which of the following novels

Harikatha is strategically used as a
medium of „consciousness raising‟?
(A) Waiting for the Mahatma
(B) The Serpent and the Rope
(C) A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Kanthapura

2. Identify the text in the following list

which offers a fictionalized survey of
English Literature from Elizabethan times
to 1928:
(A) E.M. Forster, the Eternal Moment
(B) Virginia Woolf, Orlando
(C) Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
(D) David Jones, In Parenthesis

3. Match List – I with List – II according to

the code given below:
List – I List – II
i. John Ruskin 1. London Labour
and the London Poor
ii. Henry Mayhew 2. The Golden
Bough
iii. Sir Charles Lyell 3. Unto The Last
iv. Sir James George Frazer 4. The Principles
of Geology
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 3 1 4 2

4. Which of the following poems DOES

NOT begin in the first person pronoun?
(A) Shelley‟s “Adonais”
(B) Byron‟s “Don Juan”
(C) Keats‟s “Lamia”
(D) Coleridge‟s „The Aeolian Harp‟

5. In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert

Burton proposes the following two
principal kinds:
I. Love
II. Death
III. Spiritual
IV. Religious

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The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
6. Listed below are some English journals
widely read by professionals: Screen,
Critical Quarterly, Review of English,
Wasafiri.
One of the above founded by C.B. Cox, and
now being edited by Colin MacCabe,
carries not only critical and scholarly
essays in English Studies but reviews film,
culture, language and contemporary
political issues. Identify the journal:
(A) Wasafiri
(B) Screen
(C) Critical Quarterly
(D) Review of English Studies
7. In Marvell‟s “A Dialogue between Soul
and Body”, who/which of the following has
the last word?
(A) Body
(B) God
(C) Soul
(D) Satan
8. In Blake‟s poem “A Poison Tree” the
speaker‟s anger grows and becomes
________.
(A) A cherry
(B) An apple
(C) An orange
(D) A rose
9. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as
Reason (R):
Assertion (A): For deconstructive
critics how human beings read and
interpret signs they receive will
determine their modes of knowing and
being, whether those signs come in
the form of literary texts or bank
statements.
Reason (R): The fact of the matter is
that human beings use signs to
function in the world and are always
likely to do so.
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In the context of the two statements, which
one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not
the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
10. Ian McEwan‟s Saturday spans one day
in the life of
(A) A divorce lawyer
(B) An ageing pianist
(C) A London neurosurgeon
(D) A famous poet
11. “Open Forum” as applied to poetry, is
the same as ________. It is poetry that is
not written according to traditional fixed
patterns. (Fill up)
(A) Blank verse
(B) Concrete poetry
(C) L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poetry
(D) Free verse
12. The author of the book observes “I
have attempted, through the medium of
biography, to present some Victorian
visions to the modern eye”. The four main
characters in this book are Cardinal
Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr.
Arnold and General Gordon. Who is this
author?
(A) Mathew Arnold
(B) Robert Browning
(C) Lytton Strachey
(D) Oscar Wilde
13. In his attack delivered on the theatre in
A Short View of the Immorality and
Profaneness of the English Stage, Jeremy
Collier specially arraigned ______ and
_______.
(A) Congreve and Vanbrugh
(B) Farquhar and Vanbrugh
(C) Wycherley and Farquhar
(D) Congreve and Etherege
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(1929) inaugurated a new phase in the
history of English critical thought. What
was this book‟s subtitle?
(A) Studies in Poetry
(B) A Study in Literary Judgement
(C) Essays and Studies
(D) A Theoretical Guide
15. Which of the following arrangements is
in the correct chronological sequence?
(A) The Castle of Otranto – Melmoth the
Wanderer – The Monk – The Mysteries of
Udolpho
(B) The Castle of Otranto – The Mysteries of
Udolpho – The Monk – Melmoth the
Wanderer
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho – The Castle of
Otranto – The Monk – Melmoth the Wanderer
(D) Melmoth the Wanderer – The Castle of
Otranto – The Mysteries of Udolpho – The
Monk
16. Select from among the following plays,
the one that best suits the description
below:
I. Alyque Padamsee invited its author to write
it.
II. The play had communalism as its theme.
III. This play was banned from the Deccan
Herald Theatre Festival for dealing with a
sensitive issue.
IV. The play, however, was produced by
Playpen in Bangalore on July 1993.
The play is _______.
(A) Dance like a Man
(B) Where there‟s a Will
(C) Final Solutions
(D) The Wisest Fool on Earth
17. I have known three generations of John
Smiths. The type breeds true. John Smith
II and III went to the same school,
university and learned profession as John
Smith I. Yet John Smith I wrote pseudo-
Swinburne; John Smith II wrote pseudo-
Brooke; and John Smith III is now writing
pseudo-Eliot. But unless John Smith can
write John Smith, however unfashionable
the result, why does he bother to write at
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all? Surely one Swinburne; one Brooke,
and one Eliot are enough in any age?
(Robert Graves, “The Poet and his
Public”)
1. Graves is critical of blind adulation
and imitation of successful poets.
2. Graves is critical of blind
conformity to standards set by
Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot.
3. Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot
represent the movements: Decadence,
the Georgian, and Modernist
respectively.
4. The poets in question are Algernon
Charles Swinburne, Stopford Brooke,
and Thomas Stearns Eliot.
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) Only 4 is incorrect.
(C) Only 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) Only 3 is incorrect.
18. During the colonial era, the British
used to call the Indian Languages
vernaculars. We do not use this word for
our bhashas because:
I. we consider English to be equally
vernacular.
II. verna is, literally a home-born slave.
III. Not all Indian languages are languages of
the Indo-European family, and therefore not
all vernacular.
IV. the natives of India were never slaves.
(A) IV
(B) II and IV
(C) III
(D) I and III
19. More‟s Utopia displays strong influence
of
I. The Arthurian legends
II. Plato‟s Republic
III. Amerigo Vespucci‟s account of the
travels
IV. The teachings of John Wycliffe
The correct combination according to the
code is
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
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20. By „language transfer‟ is meant
(A) Knowledge generated in the development
of a learner on account of other domains of
knowledge.
(B) The carryover of rules of the mother
tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic
system to the Second language in question.
(C) The carryover of rules of the Second
language syntax, phonology, or semantic
system to the mother tongue in question.
(D) The vocabulary and sentence structure
transferred haphazardly during Second
language acquisition from any other language
accessed by the learner.
21. Which of the following descriptions is
NOT true of Peter Carey‟s The True
History of the Kelly Gang?
(A) It is an epistolary novel.
(B) It has such characters as Edward Kelly,
his mother, and his wife.
(C) It is also about the Bush and the frontier.
(D) The novel is dedicated to Edward Kelly‟s
father.
22. Identify the poem that opens with the
lines:
I walk through the long schoolroom
questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
thechildren learn to cipher and to sing …
(A) “Among the Schoolchildren”
(B) “Among School Children”
(C) “A Man Young and Old”
(D) “The Man Young and Old”
23. Which of the following statements is
NOT true of Foucault‟s position in History
of Sexuality?
(A) Modern sexuality is produced
through and as discourse.
(B) The proliferation of modern
discourses of sexuality is more striking than
their suppression.
(C) To write historically about
sexuality involves increasingly direct,
immediate knowledge or understanding of an
unchanging sexual essence.
(D) Modern sexuality is intimately
entangled with the historically distinctive
contexts and structures now called
„knowledge‟.
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24. The following is an exchange between
two characters, husband and wife, in a
famous play. The lines appear at the very
end of an emotionally-charged sequence of
the last scene:
“… I‟ve stopped believing in miracles.”
“But I‟ll believe. Tell me!
Transform ourselves to the point that ….?”
“That our living together could be a true
marriage.”
(She goes out down the hall.)
Which play? Name the characters.
(A) Othello. Othello, Desdemona
(B) Sure Thing. Bill, Betty
(C) A Doll’s House. Helmer, Nora
(D) Death of a Salesman. Willy, Linda
25. The following statements relate to the
early history of the English language.
Identify the set that gives INCORRECT
statements:
1. English has borrowed words such
as sky, give, law, and leg from Norse.
2. English has also borrowed some
pronouns like they, their, them from
Norse.
3. In grammar, Modern English is
much more highly inflected than Old
English.
4. After the Norman Conquest, French
became the language of the court, the
language of nobility and polite
society, and literature.
5. Following the Norman Conquest,
French virtually replaced English as
the language of the people.
6. Among the French words that came
into English are: study, logic,
grammar, noun, etc.
(A) 1, 2, 3
(B) 3, 5
(C) 4, 5, 6
(D) 2, 4
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26. Choices of linguistic forms in using a
language, or how a language is actually
spoken/written, especially one that differs
from its prescribed grammar, is called
(A) Utterance
(B) Use
(C) Usage
(D) Deviation
27. Jamaica Kincaid‟s narrative A Small
Place
(A) is all about learning Farsi and
meeting young people in modern Iran.
(B) is an essay that discusses the
politics of tourism and other neo-
colonial modes of foreign
intervention?
(C) is a collection of tiny narratives
about gender relations and includes
stories concerning the Sumerian
goddess Inanna.
(D) a novella that looksunblinkingly
at maritalceremonies and maternity
inAntigua.
28. Identify the correctly-matched poets
and their works from the following:
(A) Nissim Ezekiel-Hymns in Darkness,
Kamala Das – The Sirens, R.
Parthasarthy – Rough Passage, A.K.
Ramanujan – The Striders
(B) Nissim Ezekiel – The Striders,
Kamala Das – Rough Passage, R.
Parthasarthy – Hymns in Darkness,
A.K. Ramanujan – The Sirens
(C) Nissim Ezekiel – The Sirens, Kamala
Das – Hymns in Darkness, R.
Parthasarthy – The Striders, A.K.
Ramanujan– Rough Passage
(D) Nissim Ezekiel – Rough Passage,
Kamala Das – The Striders, R.
Parthasarthy – The Striders, A.K.
Ramanujan – Hymns in Darkness
29. William Wordsworth had a deep
influence on Thomas Hardy. According to
Hardy a particular poem by Wordsworth
was his „best cure for despair‟. Which is
that poem?
(A) “Michael”
(B) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(C) “The Idiot Boy”
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(D) “The Leechgatherer”
30. In Henry James‟s Ambassadors, there
is a character who never appears in the
novel. We get to know about this
significant person, however, from the other
characters. Who is this character?
(A) Maria Gostrey
(B) Madame de Vionette
(C) Mrs. Newsome
(D) Mrs. Sarah Pocock
31. Why are Scott‟s novels called
“Waverley Novels”?
(A) His novels are all set in Waverley.
(B) The Waverley Castle has a significant
role in his novels.
(C) Waverley (in his first novel of that
name) is a model hero for the
protagonists of Scott‟s novels.
(D) Scott started his novel-writing career
in his 43rd year with the novel,
Waverley.
32. Which of these descriptions/ statements
best suits the idea of the „Renaissance
Man‟?
I. A fop, a scoundrel, who enjoys
enormous power in Renaissance
courts and aristocratic families.
II. A near-mythical figure: a knight,
courtier, musician, poet, scholar and
statesman.
III. One who ploughs a lonely furrow and
keeps away from politicking and
scandals.
IV. Someone like Sir Philip Sydney best
suits the ideal of the Renaissance
Man.
(A) I
(B) IV
(C) I & III
(D) II & IV
33. Maxim Gorky, the Great Russian
writer of fiction and drama, was in real life
a man called ______.
(A) Goliardic Kreshkov
(B) Ronsardo Felixikov
(C) Malthias Serpieri
(D) Aleksei Peshkov
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34. After the prediction of the oracle that
he was destined to kill his father, Oedipus
could have avoided patricide
I. Had he not determined in horror never
to return to the only parents he knew.
II. Had he been a man of unusual self-
control.
III. Had he remembered the prediction
and had he been more cautious having
recognized that possibly after all
Polybos was not his father.
IV. Had he never struck any man who was
older than himself saying at the
moment of provocation „This insolent
man is grey-haired; let him have the
road‟?
Find the correct combination according to the
code:
(A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) I, III and IV are correct.
(D) II, III and IV are correct.
35. Identify the Post-Apartheid novel by
Nadine Gordimer.
(A) The Conservationist
(B) The House of Gun
(C) The Lying Days
(D) Burger‟s Daughter
36. The Duchess of Malfi married her
steward, Antonio. For the Elizabethan
audience her marriage was a triple offence.
Which of the following is NOT one?
(A) She was a widow marrying a second
time.
(B) She married on her own outside the
Church.
(C) She married beneath her status in
disregard of „degree‟.
(D) She married against the wishes of her
brothers who almost acted like her guardians.
37. Who among the following has written
the essay, “The Indian Jugglers”?
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Thomas de Quincey
(D) Thomas Love Peacock
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38. How would you best describe George
Meredith‟s Modern Love (1862)?
(A) A ballad
(B) A lyric travelogue
(C) A verse romance
(D) A sonnet sequence
39. The play was written in 1881 when its
author was in Italy. This is considered to
be his most remarkable intellectual effort.
The softening of the brain as a result of a
disease inherited from his father is the
subject. Which is the play?
(A) An Enemy of the People
(B) Ghosts
(C) Rhinoceros
(D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
40. In many ways, grammatical categories
remain mysterious. Whatdoes it mean
to speak a language that in every
sentence requires you to locate
yourself in time, or specify your
source of knowledge, or the shape of
what you are talking about? We still
don‟t know. But putting the question
like this suggests a clear andlimited
way of interpreting the idea that
different languages represent different
worlds. Which of the following
statements on this passage interprets it
most accurately?
(A) The passage reflects the unreliability
of grammatical categories of a
language generally.
(B) The passage concedes that the Sapir-
Whorf hypothesis cannot be
discounted entirely.
(C) The passage upholds the reliability of
grammatical categories of a language
generally.
(D) The passage suggests that the Sapir-
Whorf hypothesis is largely
discredited today.
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41. Tolstoy‟s War and Peace carries a 5. This narrative details the adventures
lengthy discussion of determinism and free of an Anglo-Indian orphan.
will in ________. 6. Money is the only criterion for
(A) Its prologue success for the players in this play‟s
(B) An exchange between Pierre and Natasha share-market.
(C) An exchange between Nikolai Rostof and
Princess Bezukhoi (A) 1 and 6 are correct.
(D) Its epilogue (B) 2 and 5 are correct.
(C) 4 and 6 are correct.
42. Which from among the following is (D) 5 and 6 are correct.
NOT true of Nagmandala?
(A) It does not have multiple narratives. 45. Identify from among the following
(B) It is open-ended. FALSE statements:
(C) It combines conventional and subversive 1. Eric Arthur Blair became the famous
modes. British novelist, George Orwell.
(D) Story is personified in the play. 2. Orwell was conversant in Hindustani
and fond of Indian food.
43. Arrange the following literary journals 3. Young Eric Blair lived in Myanmar‟s
chronologically: trading town, Katha.
(A) The London Magazine 4. This town gave him the model for the
The Quarterly Review fictional district of Kyauktada in
Blackwood‟s Magazine Burmese Days.
The Saturday Review 5. Orwell was born on June 25, 1903 in
The Tatler Motihari, Bihar.
(B) The Tatler 6. The Orwell Commemorative
The Saturday Review Committee in Motihari has been
Blackwood‟s Magazine demanding a restoration of Orwell‟s
The Quarterly Review birthplace as a heritage site.
The London Magazine 7. Orwell never returned to his birth
(C) The Quarterly Review place.
Blackwood‟s Magazine 8. The British journalist Ian Jack was
The Tatler mainly responsible for our knowledge
The Saturday Review of Orwell‟s antecedents relating to
The London Magazine Katha and Motihari.
(D) The Tatler
The London Magazine (A) 2, 4, 8 are false.
The Quarterly Review (B) 7 and 8 are false.
Blackwood‟s Magazine (C) 3, 6 and 8 are false.
The Saturday Review (D) All statements above are true.

44. Pick out the two relevant and correct
descriptions of Caryl Churchill‟s Serious
Money (1987):
1. This play proposes the foundation of a
monastery for the education of British
gentlewomen.
2. This narrative deals with children who
are sick of their “enforced idleness.”
3. This play is subtitled “City Comedy.”
4. In this play, the state of the British
economy is symbolized by a takeover
bid by an international cartel.
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46. Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of
the common reader from Dr. Johnson. To
which particular work of Johnson‟s does
she remain indebted?
(A) The Lives of the Most Eminent English
Poets; the essay on Milton
(B) The Lives of the Most EminentEnglish
Poets; the essay onGray
(C) Preface to Shakespeare
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47. J.M. Coetzee was the first writer to be They are only words.
awarded the Booker Prize twice. He won Words alone are certain good, said someone.
the prize for And someone also said
(A) Life and Times of Michael K. and unlike sticks and stones
Disgrace Words will never break your bones.
(B) Dusklands and Disgrace
(C) Foe and Elizabeth Costello (That is called rhyme. A rhyme is nice to play
(D) Age of Iron and Disgrace with too from time to time.)
48. After the Norman Conquest England
became a three-language nation for at least What? They‟ve turned nasty?
two centuries. The three languages were They‟ve clawed you and bitten you?
(A) English, French and German Dear me, there‟s blood all over the place.
(B) English, Latin and German And broken bones.
(C) English, French and Latin
(D) English, French and Greek They were perfectly tame when I left them.
Something they ate might have disagreed
49. Here are sentences labelled Assertion with them.
(A) and Reason (R): You mean you fed them on meaning?
Assertion (A): In who‟s Afraid of No wonder then.
Virginia Woolf? George and – D.J. Enright
Martha‟s blue and green-eyed
son is a myth. 51. The poet‟s remark on „rhyme‟ is
Reason (R): He is a creation of the couple‟s _____.
imagination originating from (A) Put in parenthesis
their sense of sterility and (B) Put in parentheses
vacuum in life. (C) Framed rhetorically
(D) Put in apposition
In the light of (A) and (R), which of the
following is correct? 52. The poem is cast in the form of a
______.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the (A) Romantic lyric
correct explanation of (A). (B) Verse epistle
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not (C) Dramatic monologue
the correct explanation of (A). (D) Dialogue
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. 53. What is the “fault” to which the
speaker refers here?
50. In the word rapidly, „ly‟ is an adverbial (A) Playing with words
suffix indicating manner while rapid is a (B) Using only words
______, ly is a ____. (C) Taking words too seriously
(A) Word, wordling (D) Reading meanings into words
(B) Morpheme, morpheme-bit
(C) Free morpheme, bound-morpheme 54. What tone is most appropriate for
(D) Full morpheme, half-morpheme reading this poem?
(A) Evasive
Question Nos. 51 to 55 is based on a poem. (B) Plaintive
Read the poem carefully and pick out the (C) Ironic
most appropriate answers. (D) Sarcastic

It‟s Your Own Fault

Of course you can play with them.
There‟s no harm in them.
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55. “No wonder then.” Explain. Spivak), Simulacrum / Simulacra
(A) No wonder that the words here begin to (Antonio Gramsci), The Subaltern
mean. (Mikhael Bakhtin), Metahistory
(B) No wonder that you now find the words (Walter Benjamin), Aura (Julia
menacing. Kristeva), Polyphony (Mikhael
(C) No wonder that the words find you Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio
menacing. Gramsci)
(D) No wonder the words still mean and are (B) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur
tame. (Walter Benjamin), Chora (Julia
Kristeva), Simulacrum / Simulacra
56. “Nothing odd will do long. ______ did (Jean Baudrillard), the Subaltern
not last long.” Dr. Johnson had this to say (Gayatri C. Spivak) Metahistory
about one of the eighteenth century novels. (Hayden White), Polyphony (Mikhael
Identify it from the following list: Bakhtin), Hegemony (Antonio
(A) Tom Jones Gramsci)
(B) The Female Quixote (C) Habitus (Julia Kristeva), Flaneur
(C) Tristram Shandy (Walter Benjamin), Chora (Pierre
(D) Clarissa Bourdieu), Simulacrum / Simulacra
(Hayden White), The Subaltern
57. Identify the sonnet upon sonnet by (Gayatri C. Spivak), Metahistory
William Wordsworth: (Jean Baudrillard), Polyphony
(A) “London, 1802” (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony
(B) “The world is too much with us…” (Antonio Gramsci)
(C) “Friend! I know not which way…” (D) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur
(D) “Nuns fret not at their convent‟s narrow (Antonio Gramsci), Chora (Julia
room…” Kristeva), Simulacrum / Simulacra
(Jean Baudrillard), The Subaltern
58. Who among the following women (Gayatri C. Spivak), Metahistory
writers has written Novel on Yellow (Hayden White), Polyphony (Mikhael
Paper? Bakhtin), Hegemony (Walter
(A) Elizabeth Smither Benjamin)
(B) Stevie Smith
(C) Zulu Sofola 61. What was the mandate of the
(D) Gita Mehta Stationer‟s Company incorporated in
London in 1557?
59. In most people, the first language / (A) To oversee the affairs of the Royal
dialect acquired is „mother tongue‟. Registry.
Among the commonly used terms for (B) To oversee authors‟ and printers‟, or
mother tongue, one of the following is printer-publishers‟ rights.
avoided. Identify the one term NOT (C) To oversee authors‟ and printers‟ or
applied to mother tongue: printer-publishers‟ use of stationery.
(A) First language (D) To oversee the quality of stationery
(B) Prime language harnessed by the Royal Registry.
(C) Native language
(D) Primary language 62. One of the following was described by
its author as “a poem including history.”
60. Identify the group of critical concepts Identify the poem.
that parenthetically aligns them with their (A) Robert Lowell, Life Studies
respective theorists: (B) William Carlos Williams, Paterson
(A) The Carnivalesque (Jean Baudrillard), (C) Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel
Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur (D) Ezra Pound, the Cantos
(Walter Benjamin), Chora (Gayatri C.
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 63. Arrange the following groups of
English writers in chronological order: Escapist fiction lacks serious fiction‟s
(A) The Metaphysical poets apocalyptic experience of finality. The two
The High Modernists versions of literary experience are
Transitional poets qualitatively different; every novel fits one
The Georgians category or the other, not both. Serious
The Aesthetes fiction, however, compels our attention by
The University Wits representing improvements (the “world of
(B) The University Wits potency”) as being achieved (a “world of
The Metaphysical poets act”) and by showing narrative movement
Transitional poets “through time to an end, an end, we must
The Aesthetes sense even if we cannot know it.”
The Georgians
The High Modernists (A) Sincerity and Authenticity
(C) The High Modernists (B) The Sense of an Ending: Studies in
The Georgians the Theory of Fiction
The Aesthetes (C) Beyond the Apocalypse
Transitional poets (D) The Rhetoric of Fiction
The Metaphysical poets
The University Wits 67. Philip Larkin‟s “The Whitsun
(D) The University Wits Weddings”
The Metaphysical poets I. describes a long train journey
The Aesthetes II. Establishes a „we‟ voice of collective
Transitional poets outlook
The Georgians III. Traces the disfigurement of a sunny
The High Modernists landscape on an advertising poster
IV. Gives an account of a drug pusher
64. Which Bible is the earliest English
version printed with verse divisions? The correct combination according to the
(A) Tyndale‟s Translation code is:
(B) The Geneva Bible (A) I and III are correct.
(C) The Douay-Rheims Version (B) I and II are correct.
(D) King James Version (C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
65. E.M. Forster‟s Passage to India begins
with a description of the city of 68. Match the last lines of the poems with
Chandrapore. It has an old Indian part their correct titles:
and a new part consisting of the British List – I List – II
civil station. Which of the following (Last lines of poems) (Titles of poems)
descriptions of the city is not found in the I. And we are here as on a
text? darkling plain Swept with
(A) The streets are mean, the temples confused alarms of struggle
ineffective. and flight, Where ignorant
(B) It is a city of gardens. armies clash by night. 1. “Death, be
(C) It is a tropical pleasaunce washed by a not
noble river. proud…”
(D) The new civil station is not sensibly II. Thus, though we cannot
planned and not modern. make our sun Stand still,
yet we will make
66. In which of the following books would him run. 2. “The Great
you find the following arguments / Lover”
observations? III. One short sleep past,
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 we wake eternally, and secure. It is with this mythical norm that the
death shall be no more; trappings of power reside within the society.
death, thou shalt Those of us who stand outside that power
die. 3. “Dover Beach” often identify one way in which we are
IV. This one last gift I give: different, and we assume that to be the
that after men shall know, primary cause of all oppression, forgetting
and later lovers, far-removed, other distortions around difference, some of
Praise you, “All these were which we ourselves may be practicing. By
lovely;” say, “He loved.” 4. “To His Coy and large within the women‟s movement
Mistress” today, white women focus upon their
oppression as women and ignore differences
Codes: of race, sexual preference, class, and age.
I II III IV There is a pretense to homogeneity of
(A) 3 4 1 2 experience covered by the word sisterhood
(B) 4 3 2 1 that does not in fact exist. (Audre Lorde)
(C) 2 1 4 1
(D) 1 2 3 4 71. A mythical norm is endemic to
societies:
69. The Oxford Companions are handy 1. Where racial myths are prevalent and
reference volumes for teachers and widely respected and perpetuated through
students of English. Identify the one utterances that establish „we‟ and „they‟
volume that has NOT yet appeared in this groups.
series: 2. Where the superiority of one‟s own culture
(A) The Oxford Companion to Twentieth- and nation no longer emphasized openly or
Century Literature in English straightforwardly.
(B) The Oxford Companion to Canadian 3. Where „difference‟ has been a
Literature preoccupation in the representation of people
(C) The Oxford Companion to American who are racially, ethnically, and in terms of
Literature gender and sexual preference different from
(D) The Oxford Companion to Indian an assumed majority.
Literature in English 4. That believes that the norm is part of their
right to defend the ways of life enjoyed by a
70. While writing or printing, scholarly use dominant group, their traditions and customs
prefers titles in italics. Which of the against outsiders – not because these
following is the correct way of outsiders are inferior, but because they belong
writing/printing? to other cultures.
(A) Charles Dicken‟s Tale of Two Cities
(B) Charles Dickens‟ Tale of Two Cities (A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(C) Charles Dickens‟ A Tale of Two Cities (B) 2 and 3 are correct.
(D) Charles Dicken‟s A Tale of Two Cities (C) Only 4 is correct.
(D) Only 3 is correct.
Questions from 71 to 75 are based on the
following passage. Read the passage 72. How does the author mark her
carefully and select the most appropriate difference from other writers on similar
option: issues and underscore her radical style
typographically?
Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, 1. By her use of parataxis
there is what I call a mythical norm, which 2. By italicizing „mythical norm‟ and
each one of us within our hearts knows “that „sisterhood‟
is not me”. In America, this norm is usually 3. By using lowercase for proper and
defined as white, thin, male, young, common nouns
heterosexual, Christian, and financially
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4. By using phrases like „Those of us who
stand outside…‟

(A) 1 & 4 are correct.

(B) 2 is correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 & 3 are correct.

73. That there are levels and grades of

powerlessness in societies entertaining „a
mythical norm‟ is indicated
1. By the overall tone and tenor of the
passage.
2. By the suggestion that „a mythical norm‟ is
responsible for the unequal distribution of
power among people.
3. By referring to „other distortions around
difference‟.
4. By referring to white women who narrow
down oppression directed only at white
women.

(A) 4 is correct.
(B) 1 & 2 are correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 is correct.

74. Why is the author dismissive about

„sisterhood‟?
1. Because it is italicised.
2. Because it does not exist in principle.
3. Because it assumes that all „sisters‟ are
alike.
4. Because it assumes that all „sisters‟ are
unique.

(A) 3 is correct
(B) 1 is correct
(C) 4 is correct
(D) 2 is correct

75. Does the author absolve all women

from the „distortions around difference‟?
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Not sure.
4. Yes, in a qualified manner though.

(A) 1 is correct
(B) 2 is correct
(C) 3 is correct
(D) 4 is correc
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 JUNE 7. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All
for Love takes the story of Shakespeare‟s
2013 PAPER II (A) Troilus and Cressida
(B) The Merchant of Venice
1. In Pinter‟s Birthday Party, Stanley is (C) Antony and Cleopatra
given a birthday present. What is it? (D) Measure for Measure
(A) A toy
(B) A piano 8. Arrange the following works in the
(C) A drum order in which they appear. Identify the
(D) A violin correct code:
I. No Longer at Ease
2. How does Lord Jim end? II. Things Fall apart
(A) Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin. III. A Man of the People
(B) Jim kills himself with a last unflinching IV. Arrow of God
glance.
(C) Jim answers “the call of exalted egoism” The correct combination according to the
and betrays Jewel. code is:
(D) Jim surrenders himself to Doramin. Code:
(A) III, IV, II, I
3. “Where I lacked a political purpose, I (B) IV, III, I, II
wrote lifeless books.” To which of the (C) II, I, IV, III
following authors can we attribute the (D) I, II, III, IV
above admission?
(A) Graham Greene 9. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from
(B) George Orwell (A) 1660 to 1669
(C) Charles Morgan (B) 1649 to 1660
(D) Evelyn Waugh (C) 1662 to 1689
4. Modernism has been described as being (D) 1660 to 1689
concerned with “disenchantment of our
culture with culture itself”. Who is the 10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did
critic? Sydney attribute to poetry?
(A) Stephen Spender (A) A magical power whereby poetry plays
(B) Malcolm Bradbury tricks on the reader.
(C) Lionel Trilling (B) A divine power whereby poetry transmits
(D) Joseph Frank a message from God to the reader.
(C) A moral power whereby poetry
5. “Only that film, which fluttered on the encourages the reader to evaluate virtuous
grate, still flutters there, the sole unquiet models.
thing.” (D) A realistic power that cannot be made to
The above lines are quoted from seem like mere illusion and trickery.
(A) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(B) “Michael” 11. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents
(C) “Frost at Midnight” portraits of the following contemporary
(D) “This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison” individuals:
(A) Addison and Lord Hervey
6. Which one of the following modern (B) Dryden and Rochester
poems employs ottava rima? (C) Swift and Steele
(A) “Among School Children” (D) Smollett and Defoe
(B) “In Praise of Limestone”
(C) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
(D) “The Shield of Achilles”
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12. Match the following authors with their 17. Which one of the following is not
works: written by an Australian Aboriginal
List – A List – B writer?
(Authors) (Works) (A) Kath Walker
I. Alice Walker 1. Invisible Man (B) Peter Carey
II. Ralph Ellison 2. The Colour (C) Robert Bropho
Purple (D) Jack Davis
III. Richard Wright 3. Their Eyes Were
Watching God 18. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of
IV Zora Neale Hurston 4. Native Son Surrey jointly brought out Tottel‟s
Miscellany during the Renaissance.
Which is the correct combination Identify the name of the Earl of Surrey
according to the code? from the following:
(A) Thomas Lodge
Code: (B) Thomas Nashe
I II III IV (C) Thomas Sackville
(A) 2 1 3 4 (D) Henry Howard
(B) 3 4 2 1
(C) 4 3 1 2 19. Match the following lists:
(D) 1 2 4 3 List – I List – I
(Novelists) (Novels)
13. Which of these plays by Shakespeare I. Margaret Laurence 1. Surfacing
does not use „cross-dressing‟ as a device? II. Margaret Atwood 2. The Stone Angel
(A) As You Like It III. Sinclair Ross 3. Medicine River
(B) Julius Caesar IV. Thomas King 4. As for Me and My
(C) Cymbeline House
(D) Two Gentlemen of Verona
Which is the correct combination according
14. Which of the following works cannot be to the code?
categorised under postcolonial theory? Code:
(A) Nation and Narration I II III IV
(B) Orientalism (A) 1 4 3 2
(C) Discipline and Punish (B) 3 2 1 4
(D) White Mythologies (C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 4 3
15. Locke‟s Essay Concerning Human
Understanding is a classic statement of 20. The dramatic structure of Restoration
_________ Philosophy. comedies combines in it the features of
(A) Aesthetic I. The Elizabethan Theatre
(B) Empiricist II. The Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and
(C) Nationalist France
(D) Realist III. The Irish Theatre
IV. The Greek Theatre
16. “Power circulates in all directions, to
and from all social levels, at all times.” The correct combination according to the
Who said this? code is
(A) Edward Said Codes:
(B) Michel Foucault (A) I and IV are correct.
(C) Jacques Derrida (B) III and IV are correct.
(D) Roland Barthes (C) II and III are correct.
(D) I and II are correct.

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21. Which American poet wrote: “I sound 26. In the late seventeenth century a
my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the “Battle of Books” erupted between which
world”? two groups?
(A) Robert Lowell (A) Cavaliers and Roundheads
(B) Walt Whitman (B) Abolitionists and Enthusiasts for slaves
(C) Wallace Stevens (C) Champions of Ancient and Modern
(D) Langston Hughes Learning
(D) The Welsh and the Scots
22. The etymological meaning of the word
“trope” is 27. “Everything that man esteems Endures
(A) Gesture a moment or a day Love‟s pleasure drives
(B) Turning his love away…” In the above quote the
(C) Mirror last line is an example of
(D) Desire (A) Allusion
(B) Pleonasm
23. Who among the following English poets (C) Paradox
defined poetic imagination as “a repetition (D) Zeugma
in the finite mind of the eternal act of
creation in the infinite „I AM‟ ”? 28. Match the author with the work:
(A) Blake List – I List – II
(B) Wordsworth (Authors) (Works)
(C) Coleridge I. Kingsely Amis1. Saturday and Sunday
(D) Shelley Morning
II. Allan Silletoe 2. The Golden Note Book
24. Little Nell is a character in Dickens‟ III. Doris Lessing3. The Left Bank
(A) David Copperfield IV. Jean Rhys 4. Lucky Jim
(B) The Old Curiosity Shop
(C) Bleak House Which is the correct combination according
(D) Great Expectations to the code?
Code:
25. Match the following: I II III IV
List – A List – B (A) 3 4 1 2
(Schools/Concept of Criticism) (Critics) (B) 4 1 2 3
I. Formalism 1. John Crow (C) 2 3 1 4
Ransom (D) 1 2 3 4
II. New Critics 2. The Jungians
III. Psychological Theory 29. In which of Hardy‟s novels does the
of the Value of Literature 3. Victor character Abel Whittle appear?
Shklovsky (A) Far from the Madding Crowd
IV. Literary art as (B) The Return of the Native
Archetypal image 4. I.A. Richards (C) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(D) The Mayor of Caster bridge
The correct combination according to the
code is: 30. The phrase “dark satanic mills” has
Code: become the most famous description of the
I II III IV force at the centre of the industrial
(A) 3 1 4 2 revolution. The phrase was used by
(B) 2 4 1 3 (A) William Wordsworth
(C) 4 1 2 3 (B) William Blake
(D) 3 2 1 4 (C) Thomas Carlyle
(D) John Ruskin

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31. “Five miles meandering with a mazy (C) “Adonais”
motion through wood and dale the scared (D) Alastor
river ran.” Where does this „sacred river‟
directly run to? 37. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales
(A) A lifeless ocean uses the tradition of the Beast Fable?
(B) The caverns measureless (A) The Knight‟s Tale
(C) A fountain (B) The Monk‟s Tale
(D) The waves (C) The Nun‟s Priest‟s Tale
(D) The Miller‟s Tale
32. Who is the twentieth century poet, a
winner of the Nobel Prize for literature 38. At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul
who rejected the label “British” though he Morel
has always written in English rather than (A) Sets off in quest of life away from his
his regional language? mother.
(A) Douglas Dunn (B) Considers the option of committing
(B) Seamus Heaney suicide.
(C) Geoffrey Hill (C) Joins his elder brother William in
(D) Philip Larkin London.
(D) Embraces a Schopenhauer – like
33. Which of the following statements best nihilism.
describes Sir Thomas Browne‟s Religion
Medici? 39. When you say “I love her eyes, her
(A) It is a story of conversion or hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips” you
providential experiences. are using a rhetorical device of
(B) It emphasizes Browne‟s love of (A) Enumeration
mystery and wonder. (B) Ant anagoge
(C) It is full of angst, melancholy and (C) Parataxis
dread of death. (D) Hypo taxis
(D) It reports the facts of Browne‟s life. 40. The following are two lists of plays and
characters. Match them.
34. Which of the following characters from List – I List – II
Eliot‟s Waste Land is not correctly (Plays)
mentioned? (Characters)
(A) The typist I. Women Beware Women 1. Malevole
(B) Madam Sosostris II. The Malcontent 2. Beatrice
(C) The Merchant from Eugenides III. The City Madam 3. Bianca
(D) The Young Man Carbuncular IV. The Changeling 4. Doll Tear
sheet
35. Which one of the following best
describes the general feeling expressed in Which is the correct combination according
literature during the last decade of the to the code?
Victorian era? Code:
(A) Studied melancholy and aestheticism I II III IV
(B) The triumph of science and morbidity (A) 3 1 4 2
(C) Sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal (B) 2 1 2 4
(D) Raucous celebration combined with (C) 1 2 3 4
paranoid interpretation (D) 4 3 2 1

36. Which poem by Shelley bears the

alternative title, “The Spirit of Solitude”?
(A) Mont Blanc
(B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
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41. With Bacon the essay form is 47. Which character in Jane Eyre uses
(A) An intimate, personal confession religion to justify cruelty?
(B) Witty and boldly imagistic (A) Blanche Ingram
(C) The aphoristic expression of accumulated (B) Mr. Brocklehurst
public wisdom (C) Sir John Rivers
(D) Homely and vulgar (D) Eliza Reed

42. Evelyn Waugh‟s Trilogy published 48. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as
together as Sword of Honour is about „a person perverted into a thing‟?
(A) The English at War (A) Blake
(B) The English Aristocracy (B) Coleridge
(C) The Irish question (C) Keats
(D) Scottish nationalism (D) Shelley

43. Who coined the phrase “The Two 49. John Suckling belongs to the group of
Nations” to describe the disparity in (A) Metaphysical poets
Britain between the rich and the poor? (B) Cavalier poets
(A) Charles Dickens (C) Neo-classical poets
(B) Thomas Carlyle (D) Religious poets
(C) Benjamin Disraeli
(D) Frederick Engels 50. Sir Thomas More creates the character
of a traveller into whose mouth the account
44. Milton introduces Satan and the fallen of Utopia is put. His name is
angels in the Book I of Paradise Lost. Two (A) Michael
of the chief devils reappear in Book II. (B) Raphael
They are (C) Henry
I. Moloch (D) Thomas
II. Clemos
III. Belial
IV. Thamuz

The correct combination according to the

code is
Code:
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.

45. When Chaucer describes the Friar as a

“noble pillar of order”, he is using
(A) Irony
(B) Simile
(C) Understatement
(D) Personification

46. John Osborne‟s Look Back in Anger is

an example of
(A) Drawing room comedy
(B) kitchen-sink drama
(C) Absurd drama
(D) Melodrama
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2013 PAPER III
1. Match the following:
List – I List – II
(Browning’s poems) (Type of Character)
I. Abt Vogler 1. A Medieval
Knight
II. Andrea Del Sarto 2. A Musician
III. Childe Ronald
to the Dark Tower Came 3. A Poet
IV. Cleon 4. An Artist

The right combination according to

the code is:
I II III IV
(A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 3 1 2 4
(D) 1 3 4 2

2. All forms of feminism posit that:

Code:
I. The relationship between the sexes is
one of inequality and oppression.
II. There should be an end to all wars.
III. Women need financial independence.
IV. All men are prone to violence.

The correct combination according to the

code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
(C) I and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.

3. Which one of Brecht‟s works was

intended to lampoon the conventional
sentimental musical but the public lapped
up the work‟s sentiment and missed the
humour?
(A) Man is Man
(B) Three Penny Opera
(C) The Mother
(D) Life of Galileo

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4. Ostensibly a musical treatise, The
Anatomy of Melancholy is a reflection on
human learning and endeavour published
under the pseudonym
(A) Vox Populi
(B) Epicurus Senior
(C) Democritus Junior
(D) Jesting Pilate
5. Horace Walpole‟s novel The Castle of
Otranto tells the story of
(A) A defiant and heartless tyrant who
kills his own son mercilessly.
(B) An usurper and a tyrant who kills his
own daughter by mistake.
(C) A castle that collapses andcrushes the
young and sicklyprince to death.
(D) A tyrant who retires to a monastery at
the end and lives happily ever after
with his queen.
6. In the Literature of Romanticism there
was a widespread frustration with visions
experienced in dreams, in nightmares and
other altered states. The following list
contains poems which illustrate this theme,
with one exception. Identify the exception
(A) “Kubla Khan”
(B) “Confessions of an English Opium Eater”
(C) “The Ruined Cottage”
(D) “The Fall of Hyperion”
7. The book was for many years banned
for obscenity in Britain and the United
States. The central character is a Catholic
Jew in Ireland. The author claimed that
the book is meant to make you laugh.
Which is this book?
(A) The Picture of Dorian Grey
(B) Herzog
(C) Portnoy‟s Complaint
(D) Ulysses
8. A.S. Byatt in her famous award winning
novel of 1990 contrasts past and present
involving a search for a Victorian poet‟s
past illuminating a contemporary
university researcher‟s life and times.
Which is the novel?
(A) The Virgin in the Garden
(B) Possession
(C) Babel Tower
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(D) Still Life
9. Which of the following statements best
describes JM Coetzee‟s Disgrace?
(A) It is a murder mystery set in post-
apartheid South Africa.
(B) It is a complex narrative of sin and
redemption which involves both
White and Black South Africans.
(C) The protagonist David Lurie is a priest
who brings disgrace to his calling.
(D) Coetzee has a schematic and
reductive view on the relations
between Whites and the Blacks in
South Africa.
10. Which of the following statements is
not true of Mahesh Dattani‟s Final
Solutions?
(A) The play centres on a middle class Hindu
family during a communal riot.
(B) It challenges communalism.
(C) It is concerned with homosexual
relationship.
(D) It promotes religious pluralism in South
Asia.
11. According to Bakhtin the idea of the
Carnivalesque represents the following
characteristics except:
(A) A liberation from the prevailing truth
and established order
(B) A harking back to the past
(C) Emphasis on play, parody, pleasure
and the body
(D) The suspension of all hierarchical
rank, principles, norms and
prohibitions
12. Which of the following statements is
not true of Patrick White?
(A) He is remembered today for his epic
and psychological narrative art.
(B) He is the only Australian to receive
the Nobel Prize in literature.
(C) He pioneered a new fictional
landscape and introduced a new
continent in literature.
(D) His style is noted for lucidity and
simplicity.
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13. Conventional scholarship dates „Early III. Anglo Norman
Modern English‟ as beginning around IV. Early Tudor
(A) 450
(B) 1066 The correct combination according to the
(C) 1500 code is
(D) 1800 (A) III, II, IV, I
(B) III, IV, II, I
14. “Every demon carries within him (C) II, III, IV, I
unknown to himself, a tiny seed of self- (D) III, IV, I, II
destruction and goes up in thin air at the
most unexpected moment.” To which of 18. Which of the following plays is not
R.K. Narayan‟s characters the above written by Rabindranath Tagore?
statement applies? (A) Sacrifice
(A) Raju – The Guide (B) Chandalika
(B) Jagan – The Sweet Vendor (C) Muktadhara
(C) Vasu – Man Eater of Malgudi (D) Eknath
(D) Margayya – The Financial Expert
19. Given below are two statements, one is
15. Which of the following is not true of labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
post-structuralism? labelled as Reason (R):
(A) It seeks to undermine the idea that Assertion (A): A quarto refers to a
meaning pre-exists its linguistic text in which each leaf was a
expression. quarter the size of the original
(B) There can be no meaning which is not sheet.
formulated and no language Reason (R): Because eight pages of text
formulation reaches anywhere beyond were printed on large sheets of
language. paper, which were then folded
(C) There is no a-textual „origin‟ of a text. four times to produce four
(D) Every sign refers to every other sign leaves.
adequately.
In the context of the above statements, which
16. Which of the following statements is one of the following is correct?
not true of Wole Soyinka‟s The Swamp (A) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong.
Dwellers? (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(A) It talks about the family, the extended (C) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct
family in the African society. (D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
(B) It is a confrontation between the
traditional and modern society. 20. The purpose of the Pre-Raphaelites was
(C) It talks about the migration of people, primarily to promote
crossing of borders and diasporic (A) Complexity and ambivalence in art and
anguish. literature.
(D) It is a comment about the city, urban, (B) Simplicity and naturalness in art and
modern and the country rural, the literature.
swamp, the ancient. (C) Symbolic and classical modes in art and
literature.
17. Arrange the following English literary (D) Psychological and mythic modes in art
periods in the order in which they and literature.
appeared. Use the codes given below:

Codes:
I. Elizabethan
II. Caroline
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21. Which one of the following plays does 24. “She dwells with beauty – Beauty that
not use the device of “the play within the must die”, – wrote Keats in one of his odes,
play”? referring to
(A) Hamlet (A) Indolence
(B) Women Beware Women (B) Autumn
(C) The Spanish Tragedy (C) Melancholy
(D) A Midsummer Nights‟ Dream (D) Psyche

22. Given below are two statements, one is 25. Kafka‟s Trial has all the following
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other characteristics except:
labelled as Reason (R): (A) Vivid yet surreal
Assertion (A): In the Absurd plays of (B) Dystopian
Pinter and Beckett, lack of (C) The use of historical details of setting
communication seems to be a (D) The depiction of totalitarian society
predominant theme.
Reason (R): Existentialist philosophy had a 26. Match the following lists:
tremendous influence on the List – I List – II
dramatists of the period, (Phrases from poems) (Titles of poems)
nihilism and meaninglessness I. “Sound of stick
of life taking a front seat. upon the floor” 1. “Byzantium”
II. “Hade‟s bobbin bound
In the context of the above statements, which in mummy cloth” 2. “Sailing to
one of the following is correct? Byzantium”
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the III. “With beauty like a
correct explanation of (A). tightened bow” 3. “Coole and Ballylee,
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not 1931”
the correct explanation of (A). IV. “A tattered coat
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. upon a stick” 4. “No Second Troy”
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
The right combination according to the code
23. Which of the following observations are is:
true about Beatrice Culleton‟s April Rain I II III IV
tree? (A) 4 1 3 2
I. It is a fictional account of the lives of (B) 3 2 1 4
two metis sisters growing up in (C) 4 3 2 1
Winnipeg. (D) 3 1 4 2
II. April has a darker complexion and
identifies herself with Metis 27. Given below are the two statements,
population. one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the
III. The two sisters have been removed other labelled as Reason (R).
from their parents home and placed
with a series of foster families. Assertion (A): The literature of the
IV. Cheryl has a lighter complexion and Jacobean Age is dominated by
identifies herself with white works revealing symptoms of
population. melodrama and
sensationalism.
(A) I and III are correct. Reason (R): The Jacobean Age is generally
(B) I and II are correct. ruled by the spirit of
(C) II and III are correct. decadence.
(D) III and IV are correct.
In the context of the two statements which
one of the following is correct?
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 in terms of
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the utilitarianism and who
correct explanation of (A). reject the humanity and
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not uniqueness of the
the correct explanation of (A). individual person.
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true. (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation of (A).
28. Which of the following statements best (B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not
describes the term „deconstruction‟? the correct explanation of (A).
(A) It seeks to expose the problematic nature (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
of „cantered‟ discourses. (D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
(B) It advocates „subjective‟ or „free‟
interpretation. 32. “A Tun of Man in thy large Bulk is
(C) It emphasizes the importance of historical writ, but sure thou‟rt but a Kilderkin of
context. wit” In the above lines what does Dryden
(D) It is a method of critical analysis. mean by „Kilderkin‟?
(A) A trivial instance
29. Which of these authors is not a writer (B) A small barrel of wine
of African American slave narratives? (C) kith and kin
(A) Solomon Northrop (D) A small amount, as contrasted with „tun‟
(B) Frederick Douglass
(C) Phillis Wheatley 33. Which of the following statements is
(D) Sojourner Truth not true of Kazuo Ishiguro‟s Remains of
the Day? The novel
30. “For nature then (A) Usesa butler as a pivotal character.
The courser pleasures of my boyish days, (B) Uses the classic English detective story
And their glad animal movements all gone form.
by (C) Refers to England in the 1930s.
to me was all in all”. (D) Became a very successful film.
In these lines from “Tintern Abbey
Revisited”, Wordsworth is talking about: 34. “From a Second Space perspective city
space becomes more of a mental and
(A) The second stage in his relationship with ideational field, conceptualised in imagery,
Nature. reflexive thought and symbolic
(B) The first stage in his relationship with representation, a conceived space of the
Nature. imagination or what I will henceforth
(C) Both the first and second stages in his describe as the urban imagery.” (Edward
relationship with Nature. Soja, Post metropolis) Which of the
(D) The third stage in his relationship with following statements cannot be applied to
Nature. Soja‟s proposition on the Second Space?
(A) Second Space perspective tends to be
31. Assertion (A): One of Flaubert‟s more subjective.
mainmotivations in (B) Second Space perspective is
writing the novel concerned with symbolic
Madam Bovary was his representation of reality.
antipathy for the (C) Second Space perspective is
bourgeoisie. concerned with the fundamentally
Reason (R): Flaubert materialist approach.
strongly believed that (D) Second Space perspective deals with
bourgeoisie are those „thoughts about space‟.
who think, feel and act
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35. “Lightly, O lightly, we bear her along; (C) Locating the meaning of a literary
she sways like a flower in the wind of our work in the internal relations of the
song; language that constitute a text.
She skims like a bird on the foam of a (D) Evaluating a literary text against a
stream; she floats like a laugh from the lips backdrop of historical events.
of a dream.....” These lines occur in the
poem 40. Who among the following figures give a
(A) “Palanquin bearers” preview of Achenbach‟s fatal end in Death
(B) “The Illusion of Love” in Venice?
(C) “Indian Love Song” Codes:
(D) “Cradle Song” I. The Graveyard Stranger
II. The Governess
36. Which among the following novels of III. The barber
Anita Desai is a children‟s book? IV. The Gondolier
(A) Fire and the Mountain
(B) Fasting, Feasting The right combination according to the code
(C) The Zig zag Way is:
(D) The Village by the Sea (A) III and IV are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.
37. Who among the following writers (C) II and III are correct.
describes novels as “not form which you (D) I and III are correct.
see but emotion which you feel”?
(A) D.H. Lawrence 41. Jacques Lacan posits three „orders‟
(B) Jean Rhys which structure human existence. In the
(C) Virginia Woolf list that follows: Identify the one that is not
(D) Joseph Conrad included by Lacan:
(A) Imaginary
38. In Paradise Lost, Milton invokes his (B) Unconscious
„Heavenly Muse‟, „Urania‟ at the (C) Real
beginning of: (D) Symbolic
Codes:
I. Book one 42. Given below are two statements, one
II. Book four labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
III. Book nine labelled as Reason (R).
IV. Book seven Assertion (A): Deconstructive reading
is apolitical.
The right combination according to the code Reason (R): Because it focuses exclusively
is on language. It primarily holds
(A) I and II are correct. that all texts or linguistic
(B) I, III and IV correct. structures contain within them
(C) II and III are correct. a principle of destabilisation
(D) I and IV are correct. and hence it is difficult to pin
down meaning. Such a
39. Which one of the following best reading, therefore, is unable to
describes the basic principle of New assign historical agency.
Criticism? In this context above statements, identify
(A) An emphasis on the distinctive style which one of the following is correct?
and personality of the authors. (A) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong.
(B) Stressing the virtues of discipline, (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
order and the ethical mean. (C) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.

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43. Match the following lists:
List – I List – II 47. The Divine Comedy is divided into three
(Title of poem) (Poet) canticas, each consisting of
I. “I hear a fly Buzz” 1. Wallace (A) 30 cantos
Stevens (B) 33 cantos
II. “Birches” 2. Emily (C) 24 cantos
Dickinson (D) 28 cantos
III. “Sunday Morning” 3. Allen Ginsberg
IV. “A Supermarket in California” 4. Robert 48. The Modern Promethean is the
Frost alternative title of
(A) Dracula
The correct combination is: (B) Frankenstein
I II III IV (C) Caleb Williams
(A) 2 4 3 1 (D) The Italian
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 4 1 3 49. In Words upon Words, Saussure says,
(D) 3 2 1 4 “The actual birth of a new language has
never reported in the world” because “we
44. „Lexis‟ refers to have never known of a language which was
(A) All word forms having meaning or not spoken the day before or which was not
grammatical functions spoken in the same way the day before”.
(B) The history of words What does he mean?
(C) Study of select word forms (A) Old languages die making way for
(D) The selection of words new ones.
(B) The birth and death of a language are
45. The following writers are involved in not subject to human laws.
social activism in addition to their practice (C) Languages do not get borne, they
of creative writing: evolve out of previously existing
Codes: linguistic situations.
I. Mahasweta Devi (D) Old speech patterns trigger the birth of
II. Shashi Deshpande a new language.
III. Arundhati Roy
IV. Shobha De 50. What did Henry James describe as
“Loose Baggy Monsters”?
The correct combination according to the (A) Novels
code is (B) The Spaniards
(A) I and II are correct. (C) Epic Poems
(B) III and IV are correct. (D) His trousers
(C) I and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct. 51. “High above the north pole, on the first
day of 1969, two professors of English
46. In relation to Spenser‟s Faerie Queene literature approached each other at a
which of the following character virtue link combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour.”
is rightly matched? This is the opening of David Lodge‟s
(A) Justice-Artegall; Courtsey- Guyan; (A) Nice Work
Temperance-Calidore (B) Changing Places
(B) Chasity-Britomart; Justice- Guyan; (C) Small World
Temperance-Talus (D) The British Museum is Falling Down
(C) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance-
Guyon; Justice-Artegall
(D) Courtsey-Calidore; Temperance-
Artegall; Justice-Britomart
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52. At the end of The Portrait of a Lady (D) Pragmatics
Isabel Archer
I. Goes back to the house from the Garden. 57. The term „ecological imperialism‟ was
II. Accepts the proposal of Casper Good coined by
wood. (A) Vandana Shiva
III. Straight away refuses the offer of Good (B) Laurence Buell
wood. (C) Paulo Freire
IV. Probably goes back to Rome and (D) Alfred Crosby
Osmond.
58. Emotional ties and personal
Which are the correct combinations according relationships play a minor part in Defoe‟s
to the code? works. The following protagonists of Defoe
Codes: have no family except one who leaves
(A) I and II are correct. family at an early age. Which is that
(B) III and IV are correct. character?
(C) I and IV are correct. (A) Moll Flanders
(D) I and III are correct. (B) Colonel Jacque
(C) Robinson Crusoe
53. “I will put myself in poor and mean (D) Captain Singleton
attire and with a kind of umber smirch my
face”. The word umber means: 59. Match the following lists:
(A) A dusty yellow or brown pigment List – I List – II
(B) A dark brown pigment (Novels)
(C) Light brown powder (Settings)
(D) Yellow paste I. The Power and the Glory 1.
Vietnam
54. Which of the following psychoanalysts II. The Quiet American 2. Haiti
rewrote Descartes‟s dictum: “I think III. The Honorary Consul 3.
therefore I am‟ as „I am not where I think, Paraguay
and I think where I am not‟? IV. The Comedians 4. Mexico
(A) Lacan
(B) Freud The right combination according to the code
(C) Jung is:
(D) Cixous I II III IV
(A) 4 1 3 2
55. By the end of In Memorium the (B) 1 2 3 4
speaker (C) 4 3 2 1
(A) Re-embraces a Christian vision of after (D) 3 4 1 2
life
(B) Re-asserts religious doubts and scientific 60. “...... Every other stone is god or cousin
scepticism. there is no crop other than god and god is
(C) Reiterates the Darwinian view of social harvested here around the year.” This
life. extract is from:
(D) Reaffirms his faith in universal (A) Jayanta Mahapatra‟s “Konarak”
brotherhood. (B) Arun Kolatkar‟s Jejuri
(C) P. Lal‟s “Being Very Simple, God”
56. The system of social rules that a (D) R. Parthasarathy‟s “Under another Sky”
speaker knows about language and uses it
is called
(A) Grammar
(B) Morphology
(C) Orthography
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61. In EM Foster‟s A Passage to India (C) II and III are correct.
some of the major symbols are associated (D) I and II are correct.
with:
Code: 65. Th‟ inferior Priestess, at her Altar‟s
I. Mountains side, trembling, begins the sacred Rites of
II. Tigers Pride. In this description of Belinda at the
III. Echoes dressing table,
IV. Clouds
What does the word Pride refer to?
The right combination according to the code (A) Vanity
is: (B) Pride as the first of man‟s sins
(A) I and II are correct. (C) Both (A) and (B)
(B) I, II and IV are correct. (D) Complacency
(C) I and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct. 66. “Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she
died young..... She and I were twins: And
62. Which of the following features are should I die this instant, I had liv‟d her
present in Dostoevsky‟s Crime and time to a minute” In the light of the above
Punishment? quotation which of the following
I. Nihilism interpretations is not correct?
II. Utilitarianism (A) The beauty and youth of the Duchess
III. Rationalism become obvious to Ferdinand when
IV. Christian Symbolism he sees her dead body.
(B) Only when he identifies himself with
The correct combination according to the her, does he realize the enormity of
code is: his crime.
(A) I and II are correct (C) When he compares the age of the
(B) I and IV are correct Duchess with his own and puts
(C) III and IV are correct himself in her position does he realize
(D) I and III are correct his guilt?
(D) He wants her face to be covered
63. “Count no man happy until he dies, because it reminds him of her
free of pain at last”, is the last line of infidelity.
(A) Oedipus at Colonus
(B) Agamemnon 67. All except one of the following scholars
(C) Oedipus the King have come up with models which aim to
(D) Orestes characterise world English‟s within one
conceptual set. Identify the lone exception.
64. What characteristics of 17th century (A) Tom McArthur
metaphysical poetry sparked the (B) Noam Chomsky
enthusiasm of modernist poets and critics? (C) Braj Kachru
Code: (D) Manfred Gorlach
I. its intellectual complexity
II. Its uncompromising engagement with 68. In the very opening scene of Volpone,
politics the protagonist says, “Open the shrine,
III. Its religious fervour that I may see my Saint,” By the word
IV. Its union of thought and passion „Saint‟, Volpone is referring to
(A) The Sun
The right combination according to the code (B) Saint Arthur
is (C) Gold
(A) I and III are correct. (D) Apollo
(B) I and IV are correct.
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69. A close friend of Dickens objected to 73. Which of the following second language
the original ending of Great Expectations learners would most likely acquire the
in which Estella remarries and Pip remains second language more easily?
single. Dickens accordingly revised to a (A) A high school student who has been
more conventional ending which suggests enrolled in mandatory classes in the
that Pip and Estella will marry. Who was second language since elementary
the friend? school.
(A) Willkie Collins (B) A visitor to a country where the
(B) Thomas Beard second language is spoken; he
(C) Thomas Carlyle interacts with hotel and restaurant
(D) Richard Bentley personnel using the second language.
(C) A business person for whom fluency
70. Which of the following statements best in the second language may lead to
describes an example of the influence of an career advancement.
affective factor on second language (D) An immigrant living in a country
acquisition? where the second language is spoken;
(A) A second language learner makes he feels accepted by speakers of the
educated guesses about word second language.
meanings in a text by recognizing
cognates. 74. In Wuthering Heights, Cathy appears
(B) A second language learner uses in a dream beating at a window, wailing
familiar vocabulary to mentally form “Let me in”, and blood running down her
sentences before speaking. wrist. Who dreams her?
(C) An adult second language learner (A) Lockwood
finds it impossible to form second (B) Nelly
language sounds that do not occur in (C) Heathcliff
his first language. (D) Edgar Linton
(D) A second language learner employs
several words from the first language 75. Who among the following characters in
when peaking the second language but Thomas More‟s Utopia did not correspond
not when writing it. in biographical background to an actual
historical person?
71. Marvell‟s “The Coronet” seeks to (A) Morton
explore the human condition in terms of (B) Hythloday
the conflict between (C) Giles
(A) Body and soul (D) More
(B) War and peace
(C) Nature and grace
(D) Flesh and spirit

72. Which of the following is not true of

post-structuralism?
(A) It seeks to undermine the idea that
meaning pre-exists its linguistic
expression.
(B) There can be no meaning which is not
formulated and no language
formulation reaches anywhere beyond
language.
(C) There is no a-textual „origin‟ of a text.
(D) Every sign refers to every other sign
adequately.
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 JUNE 2013
(RE-EXAM)
PAPER II
1. In the following cluster of poems by
Shelley, which one has the voyage motif?
(A) “Adonais”
(B) The Revolt of Islam
(C) “Ode to the West Wind”
(D) Alastor

2. In Sydney‟s sonnet sequence, Astrophil

and Stella, the final sonnet (#108)
(A) Brings no resolution
(B) Ends in joy
(C) Brings a definite resolution
(D) Promises another sonnet sequence

3. Who among the following English

writers opposed the Licensing Act of 1643?
(A) John Milton
(B) Thomas Browne
(C) Andrew Marvell
(D) Abraham Cowley

4. Who claimed: “I have not published a

single paper that is not written in a spirit
of benevolence and with a love of
mankind”?
(A) Pope
(B) Dryden
(C) Swift
(D) Addison

5. A protagonist writes a letter of

confession, but it gets lost under the carpet
only to be found on the wedding day. Who
is the protagonist?
(A) Bathsheba
(B) Lucetta
(C) Sue
(D) Tess

6. 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
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 (C) The collapse of liberal humanist
7. In Graham Greene‟s Brighton Rock, consensus in the late 1960s.
Hale is murdered with the help of (D) A combined appeal to the Queen by a
„brighton rock‟ which is group of London dramatists.
(A) A kind of sugar-candy
(B) A form of grenade 12. The Wife of Bath‟s philosophy
(C) A baton ofmarriage shows that she
(D) A kind of rock (A) Is a strong person with keen awareness of
her own rights?
8. Which poet among this group does not (B) Tends to say one thing and do the
belong to the „Auden Generation‟ group of opposite.
poets? (C) Cares only for pleasure, not for right and
(A) Stephen Spender wrong.
(B) Alun Lewis (D) Trusts thought too much instead of
(C) Cecil Day Lewis feeling.
(D) Louis Macneice
13. Which of the following characters is
9. In Lord of the Flies which character killed in Achebe‟s Things Fall Apart in
comes to realize that the „beast‟ is actually conformity with an African tribal custom?
the evil inside the boys themselves and it is (A) Okonkwo
that which is breaking things up? (B) Obierika
(A) Jack (C) Ikemefuna
(B) Simon (D) Nwoye
(C) Roger
(D) Ralph 14. “We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.”
The repetition of a phrase is
10. Which text exemplifies the anti- (A) Antiphrasis
Victorian feeling prevalent in the early (B) Diacope
twentieth century? (C) Aposiopesis
Code: (D) Enumeratio
I. Eminent Victorians
II. Jungle Book 15. Find the poet who is the odd one in the
III. Philistine Victorians group:
IV. The Way of All Flesh (A) Wallace Stevens
(B) Robert Lowell
The correct combination according to the (C) Sylvia Plath
code is (D) Anne Sexton
(A) II and IV are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct. 16. Which one of the following characters
(C) III and IV are correct. in Shakespeare‟s Tempest is associated
(D) II and III are correct. with the Earth?
(A) Ferdinand
11. What event allowed mainstream British (B) Ariel
theatre companies to commission and (C) Caliban
performs work that was politically, socially (D) Prospero
and sexually controversial without fear of
censorship? 17. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon
(A) The abolition of the Lord attempted a preliminary survey of the
Chamberlain‟s office in 1968. entire field of learning, by analyzing the
(B) The illegal performance of works by principal obstacles to its advancement.
Howard Brenton and Edward Bond. Identify from among the following choices

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the one that he did not mention as an
obstacle: 22. _________ is the use of words whose
(A) Rhetoric pronunciation imitates the sound the word
(B) Medieval scholasticism describes.
(C) Inductive method (A) Alliteration
(D) Pseudo sciences (B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Oxymoron
18. Who among this group of young male (D) Enthymeme
characters in Jane Austen‟s novels is not
sent to the University for Education? 23. Arrange the following books in the
(A) Tom Bertram order in which they appeared. Use the code
(B) John Thorpe given below:
(C) James Morland I. The Dictionary of the English Language
(D) Henry Tilney II. The History of Rasselas
III. The Vanity of Human Wishes
19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian IV. Lives of the English Poets
thinking with telling directness in his
portrayal of Which is the correct combination according
(A) Paul Dombey to the above code?
(B) Thomas Gradgrind Code:
(C) Philip Pirrip (A) III, I, II, IV
(D) Harold Skimpole (B) I, II, III, IV
(C) IV, III, II, I
20. Which one of the following playwrights (D) II, III, I, IV
will not be covered under the category /
term „Theatre of the Absurd‟? 24. Arrange the following forms in the
(A) Jean Genet order in which they appeared. Use the code
(B) Jean Giraudoux given below:
(C) Samuel Beckett I. commedia dell‟arte
(D) Eugene Ionesco II. Confessional poetry
III. Agitprop
21. The following are two lists of lines from IV. Picaresque novel
poems and their titles. Match them:
List – I List – II The correct combination is:
(Lines from poems) (Titles of poems) Code:
I. “The squat pen rests (A) IV, I, II, III
as snug as a gun.” 1. “Church (B) I, IV, III, II
Going” (C) II, IV, I, III
II. “A serious house on (D) I, III, IV, II
serious earth it is.” 2. “Hawk- Roosting”
III. “Time held me green 25. Which of the following poems deals
and dying.” 3. “Digging” with neighbourly relations?
IV. “I hold creation in (A) “Birches”
my foot.” 4. “Fern Hill” (B) “Home Burial”
Which is the correct combination (C) “Mending Wall”
according to the above code? (D) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Code: Evening”
I II III IV
(A) 4 1 2 3 26. The following are two lists of writers
(B) 2 3 4 1 and their works. Match them:
(C) 1 2 3 4 List – I List – II
(D) 3 1 4 2
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(Writers) (D) 2 1 4 3
(Works)
I. Katherine Susannah Prichard 1. Barungin 30. The following are two lists of writers
II. Colin Johnson 2. My Place and their works. Match them:
III. Sally Morgan 3. Wild Cat Falling List – I List – II
IV. Jack Davis 4. Coonardoo (Writers) (Works)
I. Uma Parameswaran 1. Drums of My Flesh
Which is the correct combination according II. Bharati Mukherjee 2. Trishanku
to the above code? III. Michael Ondaatje 3. Jasmine
Code: IV. Cyril Dabydeen 4. Anil‟s Ghost
I II III IV
(A) 3 2 1 4 Which is the correct combination according
(B) 4 3 2 1 to the above code?
(C) 2 1 4 3 Code:
(D) 1 4 3 2 I II III IV
(A) 1 3 2 4
27. How does John Stuart Mill define (B) 3 4 1 2
„happiness‟? (C) 2 3 4 1
(A) Doing what one wants to do (D) 4 1 3 2
(B) Leading a fulfilling life
(C) Pleasure and the absence of pain 31. Dryden‟s dramatization of Paradise
(D) Virtuous activity Lost is entitled
(A) All for Love
28. “Had we but world enough, and time, (B) The State of Innocence
this coyness, lady, were no crime … But at (C) Annus Mirabilis
my back I always hear Time‟s winged (D) Religio Medici
chariot hurrying near.” Andrew Marvell in
these lines emphasizes the theme of 32. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate
(A) Love Millet‟s Sexual Politics and Germaine
(B) Love and transience Greer‟s The Female Eunuch were
(C) Love and political passion published in
(D) Love and flattery (A) 1969
(B) 1968
29. The following are two lists of (C) 1970
dramatists and their plays. Match them: (D) 1967
List – I List – II
(Dramatists) (Plays) 33. Who defined poetry as „the best words
I. George Etheredge 1. The Country in the best order‟?
Wife (A) Wordsworth
II. William Wycherley 2. The Man of (B) Coleridge
Mode (C) Keats
III. John Vanbrugh 3. The Double (D) Shelley
Dealer
IV. William Congreve 4. The Provok‟d 34. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by
Wife “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe”?
(A) Britain‟s pre-eminence as a global
The correct combination is: power will depend on mastery of
Code: foreign languages.
I II III IV (B) Abandon the introspection of the
(A) 2 3 4 1 Romantics and turn to the higher
(B) 3 2 1 4 moral purpose found in Goethe.
(C) 4 3 2 1
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(C) Even a foreign author is better than a 41. The „Vulgate Bible‟ was prepared to
home-grown scoundrel. make the Bible available to
(D) Leave England and immigrate to (A) The ecclesiastics
Germany. (B) The elite class
(C) The courtiers
35. Conrad‟s Heart of Darkness presents (D) The common men
two conflicting discourses present in his
own culture. Identify the two discourses 42. Literary works such as Charles
from the following: Dickens‟s David Copperfield, Samuel
(A) Modernism and anticolonialism Butler‟s The Way of All Flesh and James
(B) Modernism and structuralism Joyce‟s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
(C) Anti-colonialism and Eurocentricism Man provide examples of which following
(D) Material culturalism and tribalism novelistic form?
(A) Nouveau roman or new novel
36. Who among the following poets defined (B) Epistolary novel
free verse as playing tennis without a net? (C) Bildugsroman
(A) Robert Frost (D) Historical novel
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) Philip Larkin 43. “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
(D) William Carlos Williams expresses a pathetic cry of a wounded
heart from “Ode to the West Wind” by
37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the Shelley. The poem consists of
following plays except (A) Fourteen line terzarima stanzas
(A) Tamburlaine the Great (B) four-lined stanza characterized by swift
(B) The Jew of Malta action
(C) Richard III (C) A particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle
(D) Edward II (D) An unstressed syllable followed by a
stressed one
38. According to Barthes, a text which
draws attention to its artifice, to the ways 44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats‟s Muse
in which it is structured, is called figure is
(A) Writerly text (A) Thea
(B) Aesthetic text (B) Moneta
(C) Readerly text (C) Lamia
(D) Formal text (D) Calliope

39. Which of the following descriptions is
not applicable to Pope‟s The Rape of the
Lock?
(A) A mock heroic poem
(B) Written in heroic couplets
(C) Pope‟s tribute to Queen Anne
(D) Produced in two versions, consisting of 2
and 5 cantos
45. What literary work best captures a
sense of the political turmoil particularly
regarding the issue of religion just after the
Restoration?
(A) Gay‟s Beggar‟s Opera
(B) Butler‟s Hudibras
(C) Pope‟s Dunciad
(D) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel

40. From the following list, choose the 46. Who among the Victorian authors has
work which is not written by E.M. Forster: described himself/herself as an agnostic?
(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread (A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Maurice (B) Charles Dickens
(C) A Room of One‟s Own (C) George Eliot
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47. Preface to Frantz Fanon‟s The
Wretched of the Earth was written by
(A) AimeCesaire
(B) AniaLoomba
(C) Jean Paul Sartre
(D) Edward Said

48. Who among the following theorists

formulated the concept of the utile dulci,
profit combined with delight?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Horace
(D) Longinus

49. Out of the four humours of the body,

the Jacobeans thought of themselves as
especially prone to
(A) Choler
(B) Blood
(C) Phlegm
(D) Melancholy

50. Who among the following Romantic

poets ended his life, lauded and respected
as „The Sage of High gate‟?
(A) William Blake
(B) S.T. Coleridge
(C) P.B. Shelley
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 JUNE
(RE-EXAM)
2013 PAPER III
1. Which of the following statements isnot
true of Tolstoy‟s Anna Karenina? It is
concerned with
(A) The jumbled trivia of day-today life.
(B) The belief in social progress and
scientific advancement.
(C) Insistent quest for meaning.
(D) The reaction of immediate family
members to someone‟s terminal illness.
2. In The Rape of Lock Belinda‟s guardian
sylph is unable to prevent the Baron‟s fatal
mischief because
(A) He discovers an earthly lover lurking in
Belinda‟s heart.
(B) He is disturbed by Clarissa‟s speech.
(C) The view is blocked by the imposing
figure of Sir Plume.
(D) He is yet to return from a visit to the
Cave of Spleen.
3. „Ah! I‟ll never, never meet such a man
again. You ought to have heard him recite
poetry …
Oh, he enlarged my mind.” In Heart of
Darkness these words about Kurtz are
spoken by
(A) The manager
(B) The intended
(C) The first-class agent
(D) The Russian
4. Arrange the following ELT methods and
approaches in the order in which they
appear. Use the codes given below:
Code:
I. Direct Method
II. The Communicative Language Teaching
III. The Grammar Translation Method
IV. The Silent Way
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I, III, IV, III
(B) III, I, IV, II
(C) III, II, I, IV
(D) I, III, II, IV
5. Which of the following statements is not
applicable to Derrida‟s rejection of the
notion of the „Metaphysics of Presence‟?
(A) The desire for immediate access to
meaning privileges presence over
absence.
(B) All presences are necessarily
metaphysical and, therefore, are to be
rejected.
(C) A fleeting meaning of the text is
created through the play of
„difference‟ and „differance‟.
(D) Metaphysics involves
installinghierarchies and orders
ofsubordination in the
variousdualisms that it encounters.
6. Read the following and its code:
“a prince‟s court
is like a common fountain, whence should
flow Pure silver drop in general: but if‟t
chance
Some curs‟d example poison‟t near the
head Death and disease through the whole
land spread.”
Code:
I. It is the description of the French Court at
the beginning of The Duchess of Malfi.
II. It is about the English court. Such was
Webster‟s England, but to avoid censorship
Webster gives his play a foreign location.
III. It is about the Italian court.
IV. The court is located in Malfi.
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
7. Literary works by post-modern British
writers such as Angela Carter, Salman
Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson generally
tend to share which of the following
characteristics?
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 consciousness, chronology and 10. Which of the following statements is
location. not true of many contemporary African
(B) An emphasis on the rich universality writers?
of life in cultures and countries all (A) They convey a melancholy tone of
over the world. longing for traditionalreligious rituals.
(C) A sense of sentimental nostalgia for (B) They celebrate unambiguously the
nineteenth and early twentieth century benefits of Western education.
life, typically expressed in rueful, (C) They bemoan the loss of values and
melancholic tones. indict aspirations of wealth.
(D) The use of brief, economic literary (D) They assess the social impact of
forms and a spare, astringent literary systems and institutions of colonial
style. rule.

11. The „Angel in the House‟ became a

8. Given below are two statements, one is common label for the Victorian ideal of
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other respectable middle-class femininity. The
labelled as Reason (R): phrase originated with a popular long
Assertion (A): Some post-colonial writers poem by
maintain that being „unhomed‟ is not the (A) Arthur Munby
same as being „homeless‟. (B) Arthur Hugh Clough
Reason (R): Because the migrants are not at (C) Charlotte Mew
home in themselves: their cultural identity (D) Coventry Patmore
crisis has made them psychological refugees.
In the context of the above statements, which 12. Which of the following literary types is
one of the following is correct? associated with the poetry of Charles
Baudelaire?
Code: (A) Flaneur
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong. (B) Poete Maudit
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct. (C) Encomium
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct. (D) Honnete Homme
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
13. In A Farewell to Arms the main image
9. Which of the following statements are clusters are associated with
not true about Margaret Laurence‟s Novel, Code:
The Stone Angel? I. Rain
Code: II. Beasts
I. The novel is set in a fictional small town in III. Insects
Manitoba called Manawaka. IV. River
II. The novel was written when she was away
from Canada. The correct combination according to the
III. The novel is narrated retrospectively by code is:
Hagar Shipley. (A) I and III are correct.
IV. The novel is least known of her works. (B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
The correct combination according to the (D) I and IV are correct.
code is:
(A) I and II are correct. 14. Which of the following poets describes
(B) II and III are correct. his “mistress” as “No, she is not Anglo-
(C) II and IV are correct. Indian. She is Indian English, the language
(D) I and IV are correct. that I use.”
(A) Nissim Ezekiel
(B) Keki Daruwalla
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(C) A.K. Ramanujan 18. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen
(D) R. Parthasarathy portrays an „excess of sensibility‟ in
(A) Marianne
15. All of the following are characteristics (B) Margaret
of Renaissance humanism except (C) Elinor
(A) Sanctity of the Latin texts of Scriptures. (D) Lucy
(B) Rejection of Christian principles.
(C) Belief that ancient Latin and Greek 19. Ben Jonson disliked
writers were inferior to later authors. Code:
(D) Primary causative agent of the I. fantastic comedy
Reformation. II. Wide-ranging chronicle-history and
stupendous tragedy
16. „Stand up, young woman … and tell me III. The comedies of Terence and Plautus
what sort of a barbarous people your IV. The ability of satire to expose human
country folk are, where child-murder is vices and follies
become so commonplace as to require the
restraint of laws like yours.‟ The queen in The correct combination according to the
Scott‟s The Heart of Midlothian is code is:
referring to a strange (A) I and III are correct.
Scottish law according to which if a woman (B) III and IV are correct.
(A) gives birth to a child and the child is (C) I and IV are correct.
missing, she is considered guilty of (D) I and II are correct.
infanticide.
(B) Secretly gives birth to a child and the 20. Given below are two statements, one
child is missing and she has not labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
confided to anyone about her labelled as Reason (R):
pregnancy, she is considered guilty of Assertion (A): In the 1950s and 60s
infanticide. Baldwin and Ellison returned
(C) gives birth to a child and the child is to universal themes and
missing and she has not confided to focused on innovations in
anyone about her pregnancy, she is literary forms.
considered guilty of infanticide. Reason (R): In the 1930s and 40s African
(D) gives birth to a child and kills the and American Literature was
child and she is guilty of infanticide. mostly preoccupied with
protest.
17. Which of the following statements is
not applicable to the definition of New In the context of the above statements, which
Historicism? New historicist critics one of the following is correct?
(A) Remind us that it is treacherous to Code:
reconstruct the past as it really was – (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
rather than as we have been correct explanation of (A).
conditioned by our own place and (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not
time to believe the way it was. the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Are less likely to see history as linear (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
and progressive, as something (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
developing toward the present.
(C) Tend to view history as literature‟s 21. In coining the term „Ecriture feminine‟
background. Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual
(D) Are unlikely to suggest that a literary production, not necessarily written by
text has a single or easily identifiable women. Who among the following male
historical context. writers is used by her as an example?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
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(B) Joseph Conrad (B) I and II are correct.
(C) James Joyce (C) III and IV are correct.
(D) E.M. Forster (D) I and III are correct.

22. Of the following characters in Jacobean 26. Judith Wright‟s works reveal the
plays, choose the one who is not a following features except one. Which one?
villainous character: (A) A keen focus on the Australian
(A) De Flores (The Changeling) environment
(B) Luke Frugal (The City Madam) (B) Concern for the relationship between the
(C) Sir Giles Overreach (A New Way to Pay settlers, indigenous Australians and the bush.
Old Debts) (C) A correspondence between inner
(D) Bosola (The Duchess of Malfi) existence and objective reality.
(D) An obsession with religious and political
23. Resistance to slavery created a issues.
literature of the abolitionist movement in
the last quarter of the eighteenth century 27. Arrange the following books in the
in Britain. Suchliterature included books order in which they appeared:
written byformer slaves. Two such writings Code:
are I. Leviathan
Code: II. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
I. Mary Robinson III. Le MorteD‟Arthur
II. Olaudah Equiano IV. Utopia
III. Mary Prince
IV. Anne Cromarty Yearsley The correct combination according to the
code is:
The right combination according to the code (A) I, IV, III, II
is (B) III, IV, I, II
(A) I and IV are correct. (C) III, IV, II, I
(B) I and II are correct. (D) III, I, IV, II
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct. 28. Which of the two novels of Anita Desai
were shortlisted for the Booker Prize?
24. Hippolyte Taine published his four (A) The Artist of Disappearance and In
volumes History of English Literature in Custody
1864 based on the following categories (B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting
except one. Which one? (C) Feasting, Fasting and the Zig Zag Way
(A) Race (D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain
(B) Psychology
(C) Historical moment 29. Edward Said points to two forms of
(D) Milieu orientalism. They are
(A) Real and fake
25. The two „mother-figures‟ in Dickens‟s (B) Voluntary and involuntary
Great Expectations are (C) Subjective and objective
Code: (D) Latent and manifest
I. Estella
II. Miss Havisham 30. Which of the plays in its Preface was
III. Mrs Joe described by Eugene O‟Neill as „a play of
IV. Georgiana old sorrow, written in tears and blood‟?
(A) Desire under the Elms
The right combination according to the code (B) The Hairy Ape
is: (C) Long Day‟s Journey into Night
(A) II and III are correct. (D) Mourning Becomes Electra
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31. “With all the eagerness to know the
truths of life, she retained very childlike
ideas about marriage … the really
delightful marriage must be that when
your husband was a sort ofa father, and
could even teach you Hebrew, if you
wished it.” She is the protagonist in one of
George Eliot‟s novels. Who is she?
(A) Romola
(B) Hetty Sorel
(C) Maggie
(D) Dorothea
32. Given below are two statements, one is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The term “Standard
English” is misleading.
Reason (R): There are many linguistic
communities that do have a
genuine standard variety, a
fixed and invariant form of the
language that is used for
certain kinds of
communication.
In the context of the above statements, which
one of the following is correct?
Code:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not
the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
33. Given below are two statements, one is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other
labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The Waste Land ends
in a flurry of random allusions.
Reason (R): The ending of the poem
reflects the poet‟s divided life
between America and England
and a life given over to
primitivism.
In the context of the above statements, which
one of the following is correct?
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(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
34. Which of the following novels acted as
an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging
a new narrative style in English?
(A) Raja Rao‟s Kanthapura
(B) G.V. Desani‟s All about H Hatterr
(C) Mulk Raj Anand‟s Untouchable
(D) R.K. Narayan‟s The Sweet Vendor
35. Ann Radcliffe‟s The Mysteries of
Udolpho is a novel about
(A) A father and a daughter setting out on
a journey.
(B) The kidnapping of Emily by Montoni
and her visit to Venice.
(C) Emily‟s adventures in the castle of
Udolpho, the outcome of the
adventures, her escape and her final
union with Valencourt.
(D) The adventures of Montoni and his
men in Udolpho.
36. In Marxist criticism the term
„interpellation‟ defines
(A) The ways in which the ideological
structure in social formation is
constructed out of material practices.
(B) The ways in which the ideological
structure in social formation is
constructed out of discursive
practices.
(C) The ways in which the subjects of an
ideology are placed in false positions
of knowledge regarding themselves.
(D) The ways in which the subjects ofan
ideology resist false positionsof
knowledge regarding others.
37. According to Longinus, the sublime has
the following features except :
(A) It is the essence of all great poetry and
oratory.
(B) It is interested in the usual rhetorical goal
of persuasion.
(C) It valorises a special use of language.
(D) It is a matter of reader-response.
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38. In a trickster tale
Code: 42. In the sonnet “Death, Be Not Proud”,
I. an anthropomorphized animal often serves Donne says to death: “Those whom thou
as the protagonist think‟st thou dost over-throw / Die not,
II. The ending is ambiguous poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”
III. The hero can be a shape shifter, a cheat or What does he mean?
a liar (A) Death is very strong.
IV. Humans act as a mouth piece for the gods (B) Death is not death, because after death we
wake up to live eternally.
The correct combination according to the (C) One must face death courageously and
code is: defiantly.
(A) II and III are correct. (D) Death is not as strong as he thinks he is.
(B) I, II and III are correct.
(C) I and III are correct. 43. In which of the following plays of Luigi
(D) I and IV are correct. Pirandello the stage itself, the symbol of
appearance and reality, becomes the
39. The best source for historical evidence setting of the play?
of individual words in English is (A) Right You Are (If You Think, You Are)
(A) The American Heritage Dictionary (B) To Clothe the Naked
(B) Fennell (C) The Life I Gave You
(C) The Oxford English Dictionary (D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
(D) The Online Merriam-Webster‟s
Dictionary 44. Given below are two statements, one is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is
40. Which of the following statements on labelled as Reason (R):
the ending of Kafka‟s “Metamorphosis” is Assertion (A): Many modern British
correct? The death of Gregor Samsa is writers infused their works
marked by with an extreme sense of
(A) Violent convulsions. uncertainty, disillusionment
(B) A slow ebbing a way of life hardly and despair.
perceptible. Reason (R): The writers were responding to
(C) The miraculous appearance of a priest to the devastation of war and
administer the last rites. feeling disconnected from the
(D) The intense mourning of the cleaner who traditions of the past.
discovers the body.
In the context of the above statements, which
41. Archetypal criticism accepts as its one of the following is correct?
informing principle that archetypes are Codes:
present in all literature and provide the (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
basis of its interconnectedness. correct explanation of (A).
Practitioners include (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not
Code: the correct explanation of (A).
I. Northrop Frye (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
II. Dorothy Van Ghent (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
III. Derek Traversi
IV. Maud Bodkin 45. Which among the following statements
The correct combination according to is not correct? Badal Sircar‟s Pagla Ghora
the code is: is a play about
(A) I and IV are correct. (A) The condition of women in post-
(B) I and III are correct. Second World War Bengal.
(C) II and IV are correct. (B) The political and religious conditions
(D) I and II are correct. of the time.
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(C) Sexual passion. Code:
(D) Lack of communication between men List – I List – II
and women. (Works) (Themes)
I. The Heart of Midlothian,
46. The various symbols used in Girish Tess of the D‟urbervilles 1. Suicide
Karnad‟s Tughlaq are associated with II. The End of the Affair,
Code: the Golden Bowl 2. Greed
I. Pythons III. The Heart of the Matter,
II. Vultures Lord Jim 3. Infanticide
III. Wasps IV. Heart of Darkness,
IV. Butterflies Nostromo 4. Adultery

The correct combination according to the The correct combination according to the
code is: code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct. I II III IV
(C) III and IV are correct. (A) 3 4 1 2
(D) II and III are correct. (B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 1
47. “Collocations” refer to (D) 4 1 3 2
(A) The combination of words in a phrase
(B) The act of positioning words 51. In As You Like It when Oliver brings in
(C) Grouping of words in a sentence the bloody napkin dyed in Orlando‟s
(D) Combination of natural words blood, why does Rosalind faint? Which of
the following is not the correct answer?
48. Of the following statements, which one (A) Many will swoon when they look at
is not true of Congreve‟s The Way of the blood.
World? (B) She faints because of her real concern and
(A) The Way of the World was staged in anxiety for Orlando.
1700. (C) Frailty, thy name is woman.
(B) It was played at the theatre in Lincoln‟s (D) She is counterfeiting as she herself later
Inn Fields. claims.
(C) It was a failure on the stage.
(D) The dialogue was unintelligible. 52. Which is the correct statement about
Euripides‟s Medea? In Euripides‟s Medea
49. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne‟s Look the chorus consists of
Back in Anger displays (A) Fifteen Corinthian women who are
Code: Medea‟s next door neighbours
I. Rebelliousness (B) Fifteen Athenian elders
II. Nostalgia (C) Fifteen Spartan women
III. Restlessness (D) Fifteen Sicilian Women
IV. Mendacity
53. Which of the following is not an award
The right combination according to the code received by Mahasweta Devi?
is: (A) Ramon Magsaysay Award
(A) I and II are correct. (B) Jnanpith Award
(B) I and III are correct. (C) Padmashri
(C) II and III are correct. (D) Commonwealth Writers Prize
(D) III and IV are correct.

50. The following are two lists of works

and their themes. Match them correctly:
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54. The Statute of Pleadings makes English
the official language of the English 57. The following are two lists of
Parliament in characters and the works in which we find
(A) 1755 them. Match them correctly according to
(B) 1362 the code:
(C) 1611 List – I List – II
(D) 1879 (Characters) (Works)
I. Ratna 1. A House for Mr Biswas
55. The following are two lists of II. Raghu 2. Midnight‟s Children
statements and the poets / critics who made III. Padma 3. The Last Labyrinth
them. Match them correctly: IV. Gargi 4. Kanthapura
List – I List – II Code:
(Statements on imagination) (Poets / I II III IV
critics) (A) 2 1 3 4
I. One power alone makes (B) 3 2 1 4
a poet – The Imagination, (C) 4 1 2 3
The Divine Vision 1. Shelley (D) 1 2 3 4
II. … what the imagination seizes
on beauty must be the truth 2. 58. In spite of being constant in his
Coleridge relationship with Sophia, Tom is involved
III. The great instrument of in relationships with three other ladies in
moral good is the imagination 3. Blake the three parts of Tom Jones. Here is a list
IV. Works of imagination should of these women. Find the odd one:
be written in a very plain language 4. Keats (A) Molly Seagrim
(B) Mrs Western
The right combination according to the code (C) Lady Booby
is: (D) Lady Bellaston
Code:
I II III IV 59. This novel by Lawrence was greeted
(A) 2 1 3 4 with the headlines: „A book the police
(B) 3 4 1 2 should ban; loathsome study of sex
(C) 1 3 2 1 depravity; misleading youth to
(D) 4 1 3 2 unspeakable disaster.‟ Its opening chapter
was originally suppressed. Name the novel:
56. In Lord of Flies Golding inverts the (A) Lady Chatterley‟s Lover
morality of R.M. Ballantyne‟s The Coral (B) The Rainbow
Island involving adventures of three boys (C) Women in Love
marooned on South Pacific Island. Two (D) The White Peacock
names are repeated in Golding‟s tale. They
are 60. In Keats‟s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” the
Code: key ideas are best described as the
I. Ralph following except one. Which one?
II. Roger (A) Movement versus stasis
III. Jack (B) Disappointing love versus eternal bliss
IV. Simon (C) Scars of history versus consolations of art
(D) Beauty versus truth
The correct combination according to the
code is: 61. These critics transcend the subjective
(A) I and II are correct. point of view. They bow to other forms of
(B) III and IV are correct. objective authority: the authority of the
(C) I and IV are correct. past and the authority of the social
(D) I and III are correct.
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consensus. They adopt the scientific III. The Roman Catholic Church
attitude without the science. IV. The Protestant Faith
The above formulation best describes
(A) The Neoclassical Critics The correct combination according to the
(B) The Romantic Critics code is:
(C) The Art for Art Sake Critics (A) I and III are correct.
(D) The Symbolist Critics (B) I and II are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
62. In Beckett‟s Waiting for Godo, which (D) II and III are correct.
character has two pages of unpunctuated
speech? 67. Which of the following statements is
(A) Estragon not a correct description of Pope‟s The
(B) Vladimir Dunciad?
(C) Lucky (A) The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers
(D) Pozzo and bad writing.
(B) It is a pessimistic commentary on the
63. Laura Mulvey‟s pioneering essay, civilization of the time.
“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is (C) It is about the coronation of Theobald.
an instance of the feminist appropriation of (D) It wishes to satirize Theobald only.
psychoanalysis. It particularly uses
(A) Freud‟s concept of sublimation 68. Which of the following statements
(B) Jung‟s concept of collective unconscious cannot be subsumed under the “Sapir-
(C) Lacan‟s concept of the gaze Whorf” hypothesis?
(D) Lacan‟s notion of the fragmented body (A) Each language presents us with its own
categorization of the universe.
64. Which of the following novelists does (B) Language is a guide to social reality.
not belong to the “Campus Novelists” (C) One adjusts to reality essentially without
Group? the use of language.
(A) Angus Wilson (D) A language and the society that uses it
(B) David Lodge interlock.
(C) Anthony Powell
(D) Malcolm Bradbury 69. Which philosophers do Dante
encounter in Limbo, the first circle of hell?
65. Which of the following statements is Code:
not true of The Stranger by Camus? I. Socrates
(A) The title character is Meursault, an II. Aristotle
Algerian who kills an Arab man. III. Heraclitus
(B) The story, divided into two parts, IV. Plato
gives Meursault‟s first person
narrative before and after the murder The correct combination according to the
respectively. code is:
(C) It is a realistic novel, true to the locale (A) I and II are correct.
it depicts. (B) I and IV are correct.
(D) The theme and outlook of the novel (C) II and IV are correct.
are cited as exemplars of (D) I and III are correct.
existentialism.
70. Which of the following best describes
66. The Faerie Queene is an epic the role of revision in the writing process?
celebration of (A) Revision is discrete phase of the
Code: writing process that should occur after
I. Queen Elizabeth the initial drafting phase.
II. The Irish Nation
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(B) Substantive revisions should be
finalized during the second draft 75. The narrator of Piers Plowman falls
phase of the writing process. asleep on
(C) Revision is a recursive activity that (A) The Mendip hills
may occur at any phase of the writing (B) The Purbeck hills
process. (C) The Malvern Hills
(D) Substantive revision should occur (D) The Cheviot Hills
primarily during the editing phase of
the writing process.

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

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.

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

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
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 JUNE 2014 PAPER II 5. A Spenserian stanza has
(A) four iambic pentameters
(B) six iambic pentameters
1. “The just man justices. What kind of
(C) eight iambic pentameters
foregrounding do you find in the above
(D) ten iambic pentameters
lines?
(A) Syntactic
6. Match the items in List – I with items in
(B) Semantic
List – II according to the code given below
(C) Collocation
:
(D) None of the above
List – I (Critic) List – II (Theory)
2. Match the items in List – I with items in
i. Cleanth Brooks 1. Ambiguity
List – II according to the code given:
ii. William Empson 2. Paradox
List – I List – II
iii. Mark Schorer 3. Archetypal patterns in
poetry
i. Lambic 1. An unstressed syllable
iv. Maud Bodkin 4. Techniques as discovery
followed
by a stressed syllable
Codes :
ii. Anapaestic 2. A stressed is followed by
i ii iii iv
two
(A) 2 1 4 3
unstressed syllables.
(B) 3 2 1 4
iii. Dactylic 3. An unstressed syllable is
(C) 1 2 3 4
followed by a stressed
(D) 2 3 4 1
syllable
iv. Trochaic 4. A stressed syllable is
7. “The artist may be present in his work
followed
like God in creation, invisible and
by an unstressed syllable
almighty, everywhere felt but nowhere
Codes :
seen.” Henry James is talking here about
i ii iii iv
the artist‟s
(A) 2 1 3 4
(A) impersonality
(B) 3 2 1 4
(B) absence
(C) 4 1 2 3
(C) presence
(D) 3 1 2 4
(D) creativity
3. The separation of styles in accordance
8. Match the items in List – I with items in
with class appears more consistently in
List – II according to the code given below:
_______ than in medieval works of
List – I (Theorist) List – II (Book)
literature and art.
i. Michel Foucault 1. Gender Trouble
(A) Ben Jonson
ii. Judith Butler 2. Epistemology of the
(B) Shakespeare
Closet
(C) Philip Sidney
iii. Alan Sinfield 3. History of Sexuality
(D) Edmund Spenser
iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4. Cultural
4. “Had we but world enough, and time,
Politics-
This coyness, lady, were no crime.”
Queer Reading
This statement is an example of
(A) Irony
Which is the correct combination according
(B) Paradox
to the code:
(C) Hyperbole
Codes:
(D) Euphemism
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
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(C) 4 2 1 3 14. Identify the correctly matched set :
(D) 4 3 1 2 (A) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1557
9. “The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, Astrophel and Stella – 1591
“lies in his powerful and beautiful The Spanish Tragedie – about 1585
application of ideas to life”. But a critic (B) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1559
pointed out it was “not a happy way of Tottels Miscellany – 1579
putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the Astrophel and Stella – 1585
inflamed skin of suffering humanity”. Who The Spanish Tragedie – about 1591
was this critic ? (C) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1585
(A) T.S. Eliot Tottels Miscellany – 1591
(B) F.R. Leavis Astrophel and Stella – 1579
(C) David Lodge The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
(D) Allen Tate (D) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
Tottels Miscellany – 1591
10. Derrida‟s American disciples were Astrophel and Stella – about 1585
(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man,J. Hills The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
Miller
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson,Michael 15. Match the items in the List – I with
Ryan items in List – II according to the code
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan,Mary given below :
Ellman
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze,Felix List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
Guattari i. Lucy Hutchinson 1. The Life and Death of
Mr.
11. Identify the correct group of Badman
playhouses in late sixteenth century ii. John Bunyan 2. Sylva : or a Discourse
London from the following groups : of
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope Forest Trees
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe,Sejanus iii. John Evelyn 3. Natures Pictures
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe iv. Margaret Cavendish 4. Memoirs of the
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe,Thames Life of
Colonel
12. “Keep up your bright swords, for the Hutchinson
dew will rust them. Codes :
Good Signior, you shall more command i ii iii iv
with years (A) 2 3 1 4
Than with your weapons.” The above lines (B) 4 3 2 1
are addresses by Othello to (C) 4 1 2 3
(A) Roderigo and officers (D) 4 2 1 3
(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers
(C) The Duke and Senators 16. “But deeds, and language, such as men
(D) Montano and Cassio do use;
And persons, such as comedy would
13. Act V of Marlowe‟s Edward the Second choose,
shows the murder of the king. Where does When she would show an image of the
it take place ? time,
(A) Westminster, a room in the palace and sport with human follies, not with
(B) A room in Berkeley Castle crime.”
(C) A room in Killingworth Castle In the above lines Jonson
(D) Within the Abbey of Neath I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic
tragic-comedy.
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II. Initiates the use of realism. (A) Daniel Defoe
III. Considers analysis of moral short (B) Samuel Richardson
comings more important (C) Henry Fielding
IV. Encourages the use of farce with (D) Tobias Smollett
melodrama.
21. “Where ignorance is Bliss
Find out the correct combination according to Tis folly to be wise.”
the code: Who wrote the following[sic] lines ?
(A) I, II and III are correct (A) Pope
(B) I, II and IV are correct (B) Gray
(C) I, III and IV are correct (C) Collins
(D) II, III and IV are correct (D) Southey

17. “And if no peece of chronicle we prove, 22. Which of the following works is not
We‟ll build in ________ pretty roomes.” actually a prose essay ?
(A) lyrics (A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) epics (B) Essay on Man
(C) sonnets (C) An Essay Concerning Human
(D) stanzas Understanding
(D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of
18. “That glory never shall his wrath or Vision
might extort from me.” (Paradise Lost,
Book I) 23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into
What „glory‟ is being referred to by Satan believing that he loves her in The Way of
? the World ?
(A) The courage never to submit or yield (A) Millamant
(B) To reign in Hell (B) Lady Wishfort
(C) To defeat God (C) Mrs. Marwood
(D) To spread evil (D) Mrs. Fainall

19. It has been described as a “novel 24. “Competence to age is supplementary

without predecessors”, the product of an to youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I
original mind and became fear the best that is to be had. We must
immediately popular. It is a peculiar blend ride where we formerly walked: live better
of pathos and humour, though the pathos and be softer and shall be wise to do so –
is sometimes overdone to the point of than we had means to do in the good old
becoming offensively sentimental. The days you speak of.”
novel was published in 1760. What is the Who speaks these words and to whom?
name of the novel? (A) Lamb to Bridget
(A) Gulliver‟s Travels (B) Wordsworth to Dorothy
(B) The Castle of Otranto (C) Dorothy to Bridget
(C) Tristram Shandy (D) Lamb to Dorothy
(D) A Tender Husband
25. The Prelude although begun as early as
20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed 1799 and finished in its first version in
as a printer. He remained a printer 1805, was not published until ________.
throughout his life. He was asked to (A) 1815
prepare a series of modern letters for those (B) 1820
who could not write for themselves. This (C) 1830
humble task taught him the art of (D) 1850
expressing himself in letters. Who is the
novelist?
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26. “A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the (C) Aaron‟s Rod
wreathed trellis of a working brain.” (D) A Passage to India
The above lines are quoted from
32. “A sudden blow : the great wings
(A) „Adonais‟ beating still
(B) „Ode to Psyche‟ Above the staggering girl, her thighs
(C) „Eve of St. Agnes‟ caressed
(D) „Endymion‟ By the dark webs, her nap caught in his
bill,
27. “Love seeketh only self to please, He holds her helpless breast upon his
To bind another to its delight.” breast.”
This selfish and possessive nature of love is Who is the author of the above lines ?
illustrated in Blake‟s
(A) „The Clod and the Pebble‟ (A) W.B. Yeats
(B) „The Sick Rose‟ (B) T.S. Eliot
(C) „A Poison Tree‟ (C) W.H. Auden
(D) „Ah Sunflower‟ (D) D.H. Lawrence

28. Who is the author of Mary, and the 33. “Consume my heart away; sick with
unfinished The Wrongs of Woman? desire And fastened to a dying animal.”
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft The above lines are taken from
(B) William Godwin (A) “Felix Randal”
(C) Mary Hay (B) “Sailing to Byzantium”
(D) Elizabeth Inchbald (C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931”
(D) “The Second Coming”
29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry
James‟ theory of the novel : 34. Who among the following is not a
(A) It should be sentimental surrealist poet ?
(B) It should be objective (A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(C) It should be realistic (B) David Gascoyne
(D) It should be viewed as an artistic form (C) Kenneth Allot
(D) C. Day Lewis
30. Match the items in List – I with items
in List – II according to the code given 35. The protagonist returns with an
below : admonition, the diamond sent to him for
smuggling out a packet of diamonds as
List – I (Novels) List – II (Characters) bribe.
i. Ulysses 1. Mrs. Moore This scene occurs in one of the novels of
ii. A Passage to India 2. Molly Bloom Graham Greene – Identify the novel
iii. To the Lighthouse 3. Gerald Crich (A) The End of the Affair
iv. Women in Love 4. Lily Briscoe (B) The Heart of the Matter
Codes : (C) The Ministry of Fear
i ii iii iv (D) Our Man in Havana
(A) 3 1 2 4
(B) 2 1 4 3 36. Samuel Beckett‟s trilogy published
(C) 4 2 1 3 together in London in 1959 under the
(D) 1 3 2 4 English titles is

31. Which among the following novels was (A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy
not written in 1922 ? (B) Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
(A) Ulysses (C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies
(B) Jacob‟s room (D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks,
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Murphy the nineties is
ironically enough set in the tropical island
37. Among the following playwrights, who nation of
was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920? (A) Sri Lanka
(A) Eugene O‟Neill (B) Fiji
(B) Sean O‟Casey (C) The Caribbean
(C) William Somerset Maugham (D) Amnesia
(D) J.B. Priestly
43. Which of the following is not an Asian –
38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept Canadian writer ?
of ________ in his novels. (A) Shauna Singh Badlwin
(A) Realism (B) Himani Banerjee
(B) Naturalism (C) Joy Kogawa
(C) Primitivism (D) Meena Alexander
(D) Expressionism
44. Which of the following is true ?
39. Who among the following is not an (A) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a poem in nine books
American modernist poet? (B) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a collection of sonnets
(A) William Carlos Williams from the Portuguese
(B) Ezra Pound (C) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a nursery rhyme book
(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger (D) „Aurora Leigh‟ is “the Seeds and Fruits of
(D) Marianne Moore English Poetry”

40. An important poet and playwright who 45. “The old order changeth yielding place
in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement, to new,
in the spirit of negritude, posited a „Black And God fulfils himself in many way.”
Aesthetic‟ that expressed a pan-African, In which of the following poems do[sic]
organic and whole sensibility. these lines appear ?
(A) Henry Louis Gates Jr. (A) „Locksley Hall‟
(B) Amiri Baraka (B) „Two Voices
(C) Ishmael Reed (C) „Morte d‟Arthur‟
(D) Bell Hooks (D) „Ulysses‟

41. Match List – I with List – II according 46. George Eliot‟s attempt to write a
to the code given below: historical novel of the Italian Renaissance
was not successful.
List – I (Authors) List – II (Books) Which was this novel ?
i. V.S. Naipaul 1. Foe (A) Adam Bede
ii. Jean Rhys 2. Indigo or Mapping the (B) Felix Holt
Waters (C) Silas Marner
iii. Marina Warners 3. Wide Sargasso Sea (D) Romola
iv. J.M. Coetzee 4. Mimic Men
47. In which novel, does the hero, driven
Codes: by passion and revenge, add a new
i ii iii iv dimension to the concept of suffering?
(A) 4 2 3 1 (A) Wuthering Heights
(B) 4 1 2 3 (B) Jude the Obscure
(C) 4 3 2 1 (C) Mill on the Floss
(D) 1 3 4 2 (D) Hard Times

42. Yasmine Gooneratne‟s The Pleasures of

Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel of
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48. From the following women characters
in Hardy‟s novels choose the odd one out :
(A) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) Eustacia Vye
(C) Elizabeth Jane
(D) Lucetta

49. “Out of the gosple he tho wordes

caughte
And this figure he added eek therto,
That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?”
In the Prologue the Parson is represented
as a man :
1. who loved money
2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
3. who practiced what he preached
4. who was a poor but honest clerk

Find the correct combination according to the

code :
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct

50. Match the items in List – I with items

in List – II according to the code given
below:

List – I (Plays) List – II

(Characters)
i. White Devil 1. Hieornimo
ii. Maids Tragedy 2. Old Knowell
iii. Every Man in his
Humour 3. Vittoria Corombona
iv. The Spanish
Tragedie 4. Aspatia

Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 4 3 2 1

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 JUNE 2014 (C) Una – Deceit
Guyon – Pride
PAPER III Duessa – Temperance
Orgoglio – Truth
1. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted (D) Una – Temperance
Petrarch and Petrarchanism to English Guyon – Truth
sounds and metres, Survey‟s verse tends to Duessa – Pride
look back beyond Petrarch to the Orgoglio – Deceit
(A) French verse
(B) Italian verse 4. “Fop at the toilet, flatt‟rer at the board
(C) Spanish verse Now trips a lady, a now struts a lord.”
(D) Latin verse The above lines are quoted from
(A) McFlecknoc
2. Here are some characteristics of (B) The Rape of the Lock
Morality Plays: (C) Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
1. They are dramatized allegories of the (D) Absalom and Achitrphel
life
of man. 5. Which of the following arrangements is
2. They depict man‟s temptation and in the correct chronological sequence?
sinning, his quest for salvation and (A) Every Man in His Humour
his The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
confrontation with Death. Antonio‟s Revenge
3. Though the hero represents Mankind, The Changeling
the (B) The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
other characters are by no means Every Man in his Humour
personifications, of virtues, vices and The Changeling
death. Antonia‟s Revenge
4. A character known as the Vice often (C) The Changeling
plays the role of the hero, a Antonio‟s Revenge
predecessor Every Man in His Humour
of the Villainhero in Elizabethan The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
drama. (D) Antonio‟s Revenge
Every Man in His Humour
Find the correct combination The Changeling
according to the code : The Shoemaker‟s Holiday
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) Only 1 and 3 are correct. 6. Though Coleridge refers to
(C) Only 1 and 4 are correct. “Motivehunting of a motiveless malignity”,
(D) Only 2 and 3 are correct. the “human villain” Iago is far from
“motiveless”. His motives are
3. In Spenser‟s Re Faerie Queene there I. He has been disappointed of military
are the allegorized moral and religious promotion.
virtues with their counterparts in the II. He suspects Othello of cuckolding
vices. Identify the correctly matched set: him
(A)Una – Truth III. He has been in love with Desdemona
Guyon – Temperance IV. He wants to become Othello.
Duessa – Deceit Find the most appropriate combination
Orgoglio – Pride according to the code:
(B) Una – Pride (A) I and II are correct
Guyon – Deceit (B) I and III are correct
Duessa – Temperance (C) I and IV are correct
Orgoglio – Truth (D) II and IV are correct
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 Officer
7. In „The Prologue‟ to Dr. Faustus, the iii. Colley Cibber 3. The Country Wife
chorus proposes that the theme should be – iv. George Farquhar 4. The Orphan, or the
I. “cursed necromancy” unhappy marriage
II. “audacious deeds” Codes :
III. “dalliance of love” i ii iii iv
IV. “self-conceit” (A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 3 2 1 2
The correct combination according to the (C) 4 2 3 1
code is (D) 3 1 2 4
(A) I and II are correct
(B) II and III are correct 12. “Thou wast no born for death immortal
(C) I and IV are correct Bird.”
(D) III and IV are correct In what sense is the Bird “immortal” as
compared to mortal man ?
8. The centre of his plays is a proud I. Here man as an individual is unfairly
character on Marlowe‟s model, with a bold compared to a bird as a species.
licence in speech and action, full of II. The word “Bird” stands for the
elaborate metaphors, phrase tumbling nightingale‟s song.
after phrase, as he asserts himself in the III. When considered as a species man is
French Court. Dryden unjustly described equally “immortal” as the “Bird”.
his style as “a dwarfish thought, dressed up IV. The “Bird” is “Immortal” because
in gigantic words”. Who is this Jacobean songs
playwright ? of birds have given pleasure to man
(A) John Fletcher through the ages.
(B) John Webster
(C) George Chapman Find the correct combination according to the
(D) John Marston code:
(A) Only I and III are correct
9. In Paradise Lost BK IX Milton writes (B) Only IV is incorrect
that Adam was overcome with “______” (C) Only II and IV are correct
and so ate the forbidden fruit against his (D) Only I and IV are incorrect
“better knowledge”.
(A) “female charm” 13. Coleridge‟s “The Rime of the Ancient
(B) “exceeding love” Mariner” is a poem in _________
(C) “faithful love” (A) 8 parts
(D) “taste so divine” (B) 9 parts
(C) 7 parts
10. In which poem of Donne‟s is the lover‟s (D) 6 parts
face reflected in the eyes of his beloved?
(A) “The Good Morrow” 14. Scott is known for the creation of mad,
(B) “The Canonization” irrational witch-like women characters.
(C) “The Apparition” From the following list pick the odd one
(D) “A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning” out :
(A) Madge Wildfive
11. Match List – I with List – II according (B) Meg Murdockson
to the code given below: (C) Euphemia Deans
(D) Meg Merrilees
List – I (Dramatists) List – II (Plays)
i. Thomas Otway 1. The Provok‟d
Husband
ii. William Wycherley 2. The Recruiting
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15. Joseph Addison called him “The be great that has a distinct limit, or that
Miracle of the present age” and Alexander borders on something evidently greater
Pope wrote the epitaph for the monument than itself. Besides, what is shortlived and
erected in his memory. Who is he ? pampered into mere notoriety, is of a gross
(A) John Locke and vulgar quality in itself.”
(B) Isaac Newton This passage describing the quality of
(C) Ashley Cooper greatness is taken from
(D) Christopher Wren (A) “Of studies” by Francis Bacon
(B) “The Indian Jugglers” by William Hazlitt
16. The play was first performed in 1773. The (C) Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel
author asked a friend “Did it make you laugh Johnson
?” and getting the answer “Exceedingly” said (D) An Essay of Dramatic Poesy by John
then that was all he required. He used for plot Dryden
a reputed experience of his own as a
schoolboy when he lost his way and asked to 20. In Blake‟s “The Human Abstract”, the
be directed to an inn but was shown the fragmented world of Experience is
gateway to the local squire‟s house. Which symbolized in the image of the
play is this? (A) Caterpillar
(B) Fly
(A) Sheridan‟s The Rivals (C) Raven
(B) Sheridan‟s The School for Scandal (D) Fruit of Deceit
(C) Goldsmith‟s She Stoops to Conquer
(D) Goldsmith‟s The Good Natured Man 21. Here are sentences labelled Assertion
(A) and Reason (R) :
17. What is Johnson‟s opinion regarding Assertion (A) : While referring to
the “Violation” of the three unities in the Charlotte
plays of Shakespeare ? Bronte‟s claim that she has
I. Shakespeare should have followed the excluded public interest from
Unities. her novels Graham Greene
II. Shakespeare followed the important Unity writes : „Public interest in her
of Action satisfactorily. day was surely more separate
III. Shakespeare‟s plays suffered because from public life… with us,
they did not follow the Unities. however consciously
IV. Unity of Time and Place arise from false unconcerned we are, it
assumptions. obtrudes through the cracks of
our stories terribly persistent
The correct combination according to the like grass through cement‟.
code is
(A) I and II are correct. Reason (R) : The decade of the “thirties was
(B) II and IV are correct. bristling with recurring
(C) III and IV are correct. economic and political crisis
(D) I and III are correct like the Great Depression,
Wall Street Crash,
18. The Tatler appeared thrice a week Unemployment, rise of Hitler
(A) On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and Mussolini, series of
(B) On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays murders, invasions and
(C) On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays tensions;
(D) On Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays writers could not remain
unaffected.
19. “No man is truly great, who is great
only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is
the page of history. Nothing can be said to
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In the light of (A) and (R) which of the Shalott‟ 4. “It little profists that
following is correct ? an idle king, By this still hearth, among these
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I
correct explanation of (A). mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not race.”
the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. Codes:
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. i ii iii iv
(A) 2 1 4 3
22. Match the titles of the books with their (B) 3 2 1 4
authors: (C) 4 3 2 1
List – I List – II (D) 2 4 3 1
i. Psychology and Art Today 1. John Strachey
ii. Revolution in Writing 2. W.H. Auden 25. Why are Elizabeth Barrett Browning‟s
iii. The Coming Struggle Sonnets called “From Sonnets from the
for Power 3. C. Day Lewis Portuguese”?
iv. Arrow in the Blue 4. Arthur (A) She wrote the whole in Portugal
Koestler (B) The sonnets were translated from the
Portuguese.
Codes : (C) She presented it under the guise of a
i ii iii iv translation from the Portuguese language.
(A) 3 1 2 4 (D) The sonnets were narrated by a
(B) 4 2 3 1 Portuguese.
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 1 2 4 3
26. Yeast‟s “Sailing to Byzantium” is about
23. George Meredith‟s first novel was (A) Irish Culture
banned by Mudie‟s Circulating Library (B) The art and culture of Byzantium in
for its supposed moral offence. general
Identify the novel : (C) Irish revolutionaries
(A) The Egoist (D) Regenerating the art and culture that
(B) Evan Harrington existed in Byzantium
(C) Diana of the Crossways
(D) The Ordeal of Richard Feverel 27. “She had _______ lilies in her hand and
the stars in her hair were ______.”
24. Match the titles of the following poems (Rossetti‟s “The Blessed Damozel”)
by Tennyson with their opening lines (A) 7 and 3
according to the code given below: (B) 3 and 7
(C) 6 and 4
List – I (Titles of poems) List – II (Opening (D) 4 and 6
Lines)
i. “Tithonus” 1. “„Courage‟ he said, 28. Which of the following arrangements is
and pointed towards the land. in the correct chronological sequence?
The mounting wave will roll us shoreward (A) Adam Bede – Wuthering Heights – North
soon.” and South – Villette
ii. “The Lotos- Eaters” 2. “The woods decay, (B) Wuthering Heights – Villete – North and
the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep South – Adam Bede
their burthen to the ground.” (C) Villettee – North and South – Wuthering
iii. „Ulysses‟ 3. “On either side the Heights – Adam Bede
river lie Long fields of barley and of rye.” (D) North and South – Wuthering Heights –
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29. In which of the following novels by 34. Match the pairs of authors and their
Conrad do the Gould couple and Decoud works according to the code given :
appear as characters with Costaguana as List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
the setting? i. Alexander Dumas 1. Remembrance of
(A) Victory Things Past
(B) Under Western Eyes ii. Honore de Balzac 2. Madame Bovary
(C) Nostromo iii. Gustav Flaubert 3. The Human Comedy
(D) The Nigger of the Narcissus iv. Marcel Proust 4. The Count of Monte
Christo
30. Match the following plays with their
authors according to the code given below : Codes:
i ii iii iv
List – I (Plays) List – II (A) 4 3 2 1
(Authors) (B) 1 2 3 4
i. Heartbreak House 1. John Galsworthy (C) 2 1 4 3
ii. Loyalties 2. Bertolt Brecht (D) 3 4 1 2
iii. In the Jungle of Cities 3. T.S. Eliot
iv. The Family Reunion 4. George Bernard 35. Which of the following statements best
Shaw applies to Anna Karenina?
1. Among her most prominent qualities are
Codes: her passionate spirit and determination to live
i ii iii iv life on her own terms.
(A) 3 4 2 1 2. She accepts the exile to which she has been
(B) 1 2 3 4 condemned.
(C) 2 1 4 3 3. She is a victim of Russian patriarchal
(D) 4 1 2 3 system.
4. Anna is deeply devoted to her family and
31. In November 1910 in an exhibition children.
organized by Roger Fry, the paintings of
three painters were displayed. Identify the (A) 1 and 2 are correct
painters : (B) 2 and 3 are correct
(A) Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell (C) 1 and 3 are correct
(B) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin (D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
(C) Matisse, Picasso, Braque
(D) Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse 36. Match the pairs of authors and their
works according to the code given :
32. Why did Phaedra, wife of Theseus, List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
commit suicide by hanging herself ? i. Vladimir Nabokov 1. Germinal
(A) Theseus hated her ii. Italo Calvino 2. Foucault‟s Pendulum
(B) Her stepson, Hippolytus rejected her love iii. Umberto Eco 3. If on a Winter‟s Night
(C) Hippolytus wanted to marry her a
(D) She was lonely and depressed Traveller
iv. Emile Zola 4. Lolita
33. Identify the poet in whose verse rural
Ulster figures prominently Codes :
(A) Tony Harrison i ii iii iv
(B) Ted Hughes (A) 3 1 4 2
(C) Seamus Heaney (B) 4 3 2 1
(D) Louis MacNeice (C) 1 2 3 4
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37. Which among the following plays by 42. Modern English emerged from the
Aristophanes is an attack on „modern‟ (A) South Midland dialect
education and morals as imparted and (B) East Midland dialect
taught by the radical intellectuals known (C) French language
as The Sophists ? (D) Northumbrian dialect
(A) Clouds
(B) Wasps 43. Most culinary terms in English are
(C) Acharnians derived from
(D) Knights (A) Exotic cooking
(B) French cooking
38. In which novel of Virginia Woolf does a (C) Native sources
painter in the act of painting actually (D) Arabic cooking
figure as a character ?
(A) The Voyage Out 44. “Blended learning” is a mode of
(B) The Waves instruction/learning in which
(C) Jacob‟s Room (A) the learner‟s mother tongue and the target
(D) To the Lighthouse language are blended
(B) learning is accessed through the mother
39. Religious controversies in England tongue
particularly during the 15th century led to (C) a variety of instructional modes are
the promotion of integrated
(A) English prose (D) learning of a language is mediated by
(B) The British Empire humanistic approaches
(C) Naval power
(D) The Missionary Movement 45. „Risk-taking‟ is one of the traits of a
good
40. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word (A) language learner
from the list below: (B) language teacher
In his fiction, Ian McEwan more than often (C) teacher of grammar rules
suggests the _________ of love (D) printer of books and authors
(A) Fragility
(B) Madness 46. A teaching method advocated by Dr.
(C) Completeness Georgia Lozanav which is based on
(D) Security the principle of „joy and easiness‟ is
called
41. Match List – I with List – II according (A) Suggesto paedia
to the code given below : (B) Total physical response
List – I (Dramatists) List – II (Plays) (C) The Direct Method
i. Arnold Wesker 1. Jumpers (D) The audio-lingual method
ii. Harold Pinter 2. What the Butler
Saw 47. Albert Camus, in his essay, „The Myth
iii. Joe Orton 3. The Room of Sisyphus‟ conveys :
iv. Tom Stoppard 4. Roots 1. The concept of Naturalism
2. The Absurdity of Human Existence
Codes : 3. The Futility of all Human Endeavour
i ii iii iv 4. The concept of Existentialism
(A) 3 2 4 1
(B) 1 2 4 3 (A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(C) 4 3 2 1 (B) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
(D) 4 3 1 2 (C) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
(D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
48. In The Portrait of a Lady Gilbert
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Osmond marries Isabel Archer because:
1. Osmond wanted to get hold of Isabel‟s
property.
2. He loved her
3. Though he did not like her moral ideas
about many things in life, he had hoped to
win her over.
4. He realized that her moral ideas were quite
deep-rooted.
Find the correct combination according to the
code :
(A) only 1 and 2 are correct
(B) only 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 3 and 4 are correct
(D) only 1 is correct
49. Pick out the two relevant and correct
descriptions of U.R. Ananthamurthy‟s
Samskara.
1. The novel is written in English
2. The novel is concerned with the
progressive ideas of the times.
3. The novel is set in Malgudi
4. The novel is a satire on the representatives
of a decadent Brahmin society.
5. Samskara is a regional novel
6. Praneschacharya does not atone for his sin.
(A) 4 and 5 are correct
(B) 1 and 4 are correct
(C) 5 and 6 are correct
(D) 3 and 2 are correct
50. Willy in Arthur Miller‟s play Death of
a Salesman compares Biff and Happy to
the mythic characters / figures
(A) Venus and Adonais
(B) Adonais and Hercules
(C) Jupiter and Hercules
(D) Venus and Hercules
Question Nos 51 to 55 are based on a
poem. Read the poem carefully and
pick out the most appropriate answers.
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
My swirling wants, your frozen lips.
The grammar turned and attacked me.
Themes, written under duress.
Emptiness of the notations.
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They gave me a drug that slowed the
healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave :
the experience of repetition as death
the failure of criticism to locate the pain
the poster in the bus that said :
my bleeding is under control
A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths.
A last attempt : the language is a dialect
called metaphor.
These images go unglossed : hair, glacier,
flashlight.
When I think of a landscape I am thinking
of a time.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
I could say : those mountains have a
meaning but further than that I could not
say.
To do something very common, in my own
way.
Adrienne Rich
51. How does the poet suggest that the
lover has not left?
(A) The words “a last attempt” indicate
that
she is trying her best to leave.
(B) The words “before I leave” suggest
that
the speaker has not left yet.
(C) The speaker talks of a trip „forever‟
which means she will never return.
(D) A drug she takes slows the healing of
her wounds perhaps indicating that
she
may be able to leave sometime in
future.
52. Why does the speaker/lover in Rich‟s
poem plan to leave?
I. Because her love has not been
returned.
II. Because of the pain she has suffered
in the relationship.
III. Because the lover has criticized her so
much.
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 IV. Because though the pain has been sections. Arrange them in their
located, the bleeding continues. The right chronological order
combination according to the code is (A) The striders – The Relations – Second
Sight– the Black Hen
(A) I and II are correct (B) The Relations– The Striders–
(B) I and IV are correct The Black Hen– Second Sight
(C) I, II and III are correct (C) Second Sight– The Relations–
(D) I and III are correct The Black Hen– Striders
(D) The Black Hen– Second Sight
53. What does rich imply when she says – The Striders– The Relations
“The grammar turned and attacked me”?
(A) Language that has been used to hurt her. 58. In one of her novels, Margaret
(B) Her lover has beaten her. Atwood demonstrated the potentially
(C) The person she is leaving is not the „Cannibalistic‟ nature of human
source of pain but something else. relationships. Identify the novel
(D) The pain she has herself inflicted (A) Surfacing
through language. (B) Lady Oracle
(C) Life Before Man
54. How would you compare Rich‟s (D) The Edible Woman
poem and Donne‟s poem with the same
title ? 59. Match the characters with the novels
(A) Rich is recreating Donne‟s poem of Amitav Ghosh in which they appear
(B) Rich is eulogising Donne‟s poem according to the code given below
(C) Rich‟s poem is a scathing attack on List – I (Characters) List – II
Donne‟s poem. (Novels)
(D) Rich is defining Donne‟s concept of i. Fakir 1. The Glass Palace
love ii. Tridip 2. The Hungry Tide
iii. Rajkumar 3. The Calcutta
55. What is the theme of the poem ? Chromosome
Identify the false statement in the list iv. Murugan 4. Shadow Lines
below :
It is Codes:
(A) about the difficulty of actually saying i ii iii iv
goodbye. (A) 2 4 1 3
(B) about not having the strength to leave (B) 2 4 3 1
though one might want to. (C) 1 3 1 4
(C) about the pain suffered in (D) 3 2 4 1
relationship.
(D) a Classical love poem like Donne‟s 60. Which of the following is not a play by
where the speaker dominates the addressee. Badal Sircar ?
(A) Bhooma
56. Why does Girish Karnad base his (B) Evam Indrajeet
play Hayavadana on Thomas Mann‟s (C) That Other History
Transposed Heads? (D) Agra Bazar
(A) It is a mock-heroic transcription of the
original Sanskrit tales. 61. Who is the protagonist of Shashi
(B) It is concerned with materialism. Deshpande‟s That Long Silence?
(C) It deals with domestic strife. (A) Mohan
(D) It deals with ancient times (B) Jaya
(C) Rati
57. The collected poems of A.K. (D) Kamat
Ramanujan has been divided into four
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62. In Derek Walcott‟s Dream on Monkey (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
Mountain, Makak‟s vision of freedom for the correct explanation of (A).
his people is (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
(A) through money not the correct explanation of (A).
(B) through violence (C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(C) through black power (D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
(D) through a decolonisation of the mind
65. Match the following authors with
63. Given below are two statements, one their works from the given below :
labelled as Assertion (A) and the List – I (Authors) List – II (Works)
other as Reason (R). i. Buchi Emecheta 1. Burger‟s Daughter
Assertion (A) : To give a text an author ii. Ama Ata Aidoo 2. Joy of Motherhood
is iii. Nadine Gordimer 3. Devil on the Cross
to impose a limit on iv. Nqugi Wa Thiongo 4. Our Sister Killjoy
thatext,
to furnish it with a final Find the correct combination according to
signified, to close the the code :
writing. Codes :
Reason (R) : A text is made up of i ii iii iv
multiple (A) 1 2 3 4
meanings drawn from many (B) 2 4 1 3
sources, and this multiplicity (C) 3 1 4 2
is (D) 4 3 2 1
focused on the reader.
66. Match the following authors with
In the context of the two statements, which their plays from the lists given below :
one of the following is correct: List – I (Authors) List – II (Plays)
i. Langston Hughes 1. Dutchman
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is ii. Lorraine Hansberry 2. Clara‟s Ole Man
the correct explanation of (A). iii. Ed Bullins 3. Don‟t You want to be Free
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is iv. Amiri Baraka 4. Raisin in the Sun
not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false. Find the correct combination according to
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true. the code :
Codes :
64. Given below are two statements, one i ii iii iv
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as (A) 3 4 2 1
Reason (R) (B) 1 2 3 4
Assertion (A) : Spivak sees the project (C) 2 1 4 3
of colonialism as characterized by what (D) 4 3 1 2
Foucault had called „epistemic violence‟, the
imposition of a given set of beliefs over 67. Identify the critics and their respective
another. works:
Reason (R) : Spivak suggests that (A) Horace – Ars Poetica
participation in the political process – Aristotle – Poetics
access to citizenship, becoming a voter – Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria
will help to mobilize the subaltern on Ben Jonson – Discoveries
“the long road to hegemony.” Sidney – An Apology for Poetry
Dryden – An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
In the context of the two statements, which (B) Horace – Poetics
one of the following is correct : Aristotle – Ars Poetica
Quintillian – On the sublime
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 Longinus – Discoveries 70. According to Northrop Frye there are
Ben Jonson – Institutio Oratoria four main narrative genres associated with
Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic the seasonal cycle of spring, summer,
Poesy autumn and winter. They are comedy,
Dryden – An Apology for Poetry ________, tragedy and irony (satire).
(C) Horace – On the sublime Which is the second one?
Aristotle – Poetics (A) Romance
Quintillian – Discoveries (B) Epic
Longinus – Institutio Oratoria (C) Fiction
Ben Jonson – An Essay of Dramatic (D) Novel
Poesy Questions No. 71 – 75 are based on the
Sidney – Ars Poetica following passage :
Dryden – An Apology for Poetry Read the passage carefully and select
(D) Horace – Ars Poetica the most appropriate option.
Aristotle – Poetics
Quintillian – Institutio Oratoria The town belonging to the colonized
Longinus – On the Sublime people, or at least the native town, the
Ben Jonson – An Apology for Poetry negro village, the medina, the reservation,
Sidney – An Essay of Dramatic is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of
Poesy evil repute. They are born there, it matters
Dryden – Discoveries little where or how; they die there, it
matters not where, nor how. The native
68. Which of the following is not true of town is a hungry town, starved of bread, of
Imagist poetry? meat, of shoes, of coal, of light. The native
town is a crouching village, town on its
(A) The poet spreads his language across knees, a town wallowing in the mire. The
the page as though language were look that the native turns on the settler is a
sensation, to reproduce the mental effect look of lust, of envy…. The colonized man is
of „image‟. an envious man. And this the settler knows
(B) The image is itself an instrument of very well… It is true, for there is no
vision, or lens, as well as an expression of native who does not dream atleast once a day
imagination of setting himself up in the settler‟s place.
(C) The imagist like a scientist learns (From Frantz Fanon‟s The Wretched of The
from history and uses it, and like a scientist Earth)
does not deal in emotions.
(D) The new artist as scientist focuses 71. To Frantz Fanon, the „Negro‟ village is
vision through image as against the 1. the worst face of apartheid
symbol which resorts to reduction to 2. a protected area
simplicity. 3. a place of moral and physical
degradation
69. Who among the following is not a myth 4. a special village with its own
critic? amenities.
(A) Robert Graves
(B) Raymond Williams (A) 1 and 3 are correct
(C) Francis Fergusson (B) 1 and 2 are correct
(D) Northrop Frye (C) only 3 is correct
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72. Why is the „native town‟ a hungry
town ?
1. it did not have agricultural farms
2. it did not have markets
3. the blacks were steeped in poverty
4. they were denied their fundamental
rights by the Whites.

(A) 1 and 2 are correct

(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 4 is correct

73. What does the term „crouching

village‟ indicate ?
1. The latent aggressiveness of the blacks
2. The defenselessness of the people
3. Hopelessness and despair
4. Overflowing filth
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 1 is correct
(D) only 2 is correct

74. Why does the native look at the

settler‟s town with envy ?
1. it arises from a sense of desperation
2. he has no other option in his life
3. he wants to occupy a position of
power.
4. he wants to be the colonizer instead of
the colonized.

(A) only 1 is correct

(B) 3 and 4 are correct
(C) only 2 is correct
(D) 1 and 4 are correct

75. What is the settler‟s attitude towards

the blacks?
1. the settler is not afraid
2. the settler considers the blacks to be
harmless
3. the settler is contemptuous of the
blacks.
4. the settler feels resentment because he
knows that his position is never safe.

(A) Only 1 is correct

(B) 2 and 3 are correct
(C) only 4 is correct
(D) 3 and 4 are correct
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CBSE NET DECEMBER 2014 6. Match the columns:
Terms Theorists
PAPER II I. Apollonian – Dionysian 1. Matthew
Arnold
1. Two of the following list are “Angry II. Fancy – Imagination 2. Friedrich
Young Men” of the 1950‟s British literary Nietzsche
scene. III. Hellenism – Hebraism 3. G.H. Hopkins
I. John Osborne IV. Inscape – Instress 4. S.T.
II. C.P. Snow Coleridge
III. Anthony Powell
IV. Kingsley Amis
I II III IV
The right combination, according to the code (A) 2 4 1 3
(A) I & II (B) II & IV (B) 2 4 3 1
(C) I & IV (D) I & III (C) 1 4 2 3
(D) 4 2 1 3
2. Laurence Sterne‟s Tristram Shandy
contains 7. In King Lear who among the following
(A) Six volumes speaks in the voice of Poor Tom?
(B) Nine volumes (A) Kent
(C) Ten volumes (B) Edgar
(D) Four volumes (C) Edmund
(D) Gloucester
3. Which of the following statement is NOT
true of Areopagitica? 8. In Wordsworth‟s Prelude the Boy of
(A) It was published in 1644. Winander is affected by
(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed (A) Blindness
Printing. (B) Deafness
(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding (C) Muteness
Free Trade. (D) Lameness
(D) It is a speech addressed to the
Parliament of England. 9. Which of the following is NOT
mentioned as part of the London locale in
4. Thomas Hardy‟s last major novel was The Waste Land?
_______. (A) St. Magnus Martyr
(A) Tess of the D‟Urbervilles (B) King Arthur Street
(B) Jude the Obscure (C) St. Mary Woolnoth
(C) The Return of the Native (D) Lower Thames Street
(D) The Trumpet Major
10. Which of the following novels is NOT
5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers‟d written by Jean Rhys?
to the Story of the Country Mouse and the (A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
City Mouse is a satire on (B) Good Morning, Midnight
(A) Alexander Pope (C) The Quiet American
(B) Jonathan Swift (D) Wide Sargasso Sea
(C) John Dryden
(D) Samuel Butler 11. The first official royal Poet Laureate in
English literary history was _______.
(A) Ben Jonson
(B) William Davenant
(C) John Dryden
(D) Thomas Shadwell
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 (C) By pardoning those who stole property
12. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in or committed other crimes
the following lines? (D) By assisting the Friar in Church services
“Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife, 17. From among the following, identify
Stranger to civil and religious rage, Coleridge‟s companion in a fanciful
The good man walked innoxious through his scheme to establish a Utopian community
age.” of free love on the banks of the
(A) Pope‟s father Susquehaina river ?
(B) Pope himself (A) Lord Byron
(C) Dr. Arbuthnot (B) Robert Southey
(D) The Duke of Marlborough (C) William Hazlitt
(D) William Wordsworth
13. The Theory of Natural Selection is
attributed to ________. 18. Which of the following novels by H.G.
(A) Arthur Schopenhauer Wells is about the condition of England as
(B) Charles Darwin Empire?
(C) A.N. Whitehead (A) The Island of Dr. Moreau
(D) Aldous Huxley (B) The War of the Worlds
(C) Tono-Bungay
14. Which character in William Golding‟s (D) The Invisible Man
Lord of the Flies maintains, “Life is
scientific” ? 19. Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is
(A) Simon (A) a collection of poems
(B) Piggy (B) a play
(C) Ralph (C) an autobiography
(D) Jack (D) a novel

15. Match the authors under List – I with 20. Listed below are some English plays
the titles under List – II : across several centuries:
List – I List – II Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The
I. Claude Levi-Strauss 1. Of Grammatology Importance of Being Earnest, Pygmalion and
II. Jacques Derrida 2. The Archaeology Blithe Spirit.
of What is common to them?
Knowledge (A) All problem plays; scheming and
III. Northrop Frye 3. Structural intrigue
Anthropology (B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
IV. Michel Foucault 4. Anatomy of (C) All ideologically framed; class and
Criticism gender
(D) All romantic comedies; love and
I II III IV laughter
(A) 1 3 4 2
(B) 3 1 2 4 21. Who among the following wrote a poem
(C) 3 1 4 2 comparing a lover‟s heart to a hand
(D) 2 1 3 4 grenade?
(A) John Donne
16. How did Chaucer‟s Pardoner make his (B) Abraham Cowley
living? (C) Wilfred Owen
(A) By selling stolen cattle from the (D) Robert Graves
neighbourhood ottery
(B) By selling indulgences to those who
committed sins
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22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed 29. Which of the following writers writes
to (A) William James from Canada?
(B) John Dewey (A) V.S. Naipaul
(C) Werner Heisenberg (B) Margaret Atwood
(D) Charles Darwin (C) Derek Walcott
(D) James Joyce
23. “Jabberwocky” is a creation in
_______. 30. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of
(A) Edward Lear‟s poetry power,
(B) Lewis Carroll‟s work And all that beauty, all that wealth
(C) Charles Dickens‟s Martin Chuzzlewit e‟er gave,
(D) Thomas Hardy‟s Woodlanders Awaits alike the inevitable hour
The paths of glory lead but to the
24. Who are Didi and Gogo ? grave.”
(A) They are two characters in Endgame. What the subject is of awaits?
(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for (A) Hour
Lucky and Pozzo. (B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for (C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e‟er
Vladimir and Estragon. gave”
(D) They are two characters in Breath. (D) Grave

25. Who among the following theorists 31. “Heav‟n has no rage, like love to hatred
talks about “the circulation of social turn‟d / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman
energy”? scorn‟d.”
(A) Raymond Williams Identify the text in which the above quote
(B) Stephen Greenblatt occurs:
(C) Antonio Gramsci (A) The Double-Dealer
(D) Haydon White (B) The Way of the World
(C) The Mourning Bride
26. How many legends of good women (D) Love for Love
could Chaucer complete in his The Legend
of Good Women? 32. A Young Lady‟s Entrance into the
(A) Six World is the sub-title of _______.
(B) Seven (A) Belinda
(C) Eight (B) Cecilia
(D) Nine (C) Evelina
(D) Camilla
27. The Round Table is a collection of
essays jointly written by ________. 33. “The old order changeth, yielding place
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt to new” is from ________.
(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt (A) “Morte d‟Arthur”
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt (B) “Idylls of the King”
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey (C) “Paracelsus”
(D) “Asolando”
28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the
group _______. 34. Which of the following cannotbe
(A) The New Apocalypse classified as fantasy fiction?
(B) The Black Arts (A) The Inheritors (William Golding)
(C) The Movement (B) The Magus (John Fowles)
(D) Deep Image Poetry (C) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein)
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35. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a (A) Murky
work associated with _______. (B) Winding
(A) Wilhelm von Humboldt (C) Crooked
(B) Ernst Cassirer (D) Sinister
(C) Immanuel Kant
(D) Battista Vico 42. In Jeremy Collier‟s 1698 pamphlet
attacking the immorality and
36. Which of the following facts is NOT profaneness of the English stage, who
true of Spenser? among the following was the principal
(A) He is a kind of English Homer, telling target ?
stories of heroic confrontations. (A) William Congreve
(B) He fashioned an original verse form : (B) John Dryden
The Spenserian Stanza. (C) John Vanbrugh
(C) He opposed England‟s break with the (D) William Wycherley
Roman Catholic Church.
(D) He is a Christian poet. 43. Charles Dickens‟s visit to the United
States produced _________.
37. William Blake developed the ideas of (A) Hard Times
“Prolifics” and “Devourers” in (B) Nicholas Nickleby
(A) Jerusalem (C) Martin Chuzzlewit
(B) Milton (D) Oliver Twist
(C) Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) Songs of Innocence and Songs of 44. Who among the following is a working-
Experience class poet ?
(A) John Betjeman
38. Surrealism is associated with (B) Tony Harrison
(A) Ernst Cassirer (C) Thom Gunn
(B) Tristan Tzara (D) Robert Graves
(C) Henrik Ibsen
(D) Andre Breton 45. New Scienceis a work associated with
_______.
39. “And miles to go before I sleep” is a (A) Ernest Cassirer
line from a poem by (B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(A) Emily Dickinson (C) G. Battista Vico
(B) Walt Whitman (D) Immanuel Kant
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) Robert Frost 46. Identify Petrarch‟s sonnet sequence
from among the following:
40. What common link do you find among? (A) Rine Sparse
“The Disquieting Muses” by Sylvia Plath, (B) Astrophel and Stella
“The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton, (C) Amoretti
“Mourning Picture” by Adrienne Rich, (D) Delia
and
“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden? 47. The island setting of Latmos figures in
(A) They inspired paintings. Keats‟s
(B) They are confessional poems. (A) Endymion
(C) They are all inspired by paintings. (B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(D) They are all inspired by Van Gogh‟s (C) Lamia
paintings. (D) Hyperion

41. “All Rising to Great Placeis by a _____

staire.” (Francis Bacon)
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48. The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation
emphasized by ________.
(A) W.B. Yeats
(B) Charles Baudelaire
(C) Oscar Wilde
(D) Andre Gide

49. Which of the following African writers

won the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
(A) Chinua Achebe
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong‟o
(D) Bessie Head

50. “My lute, be as thou wert when thou

didst grow
With thy green mother in some
shady groove”
– William Drummond
The above quote is an example of _______.
(A) End-stopped rhyme
(B) Alliteration
(C) Run-on line
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CBSE NET DECEMBER 2014 (B) Muriel Spark‟s The Driver‟s Seat
(C) Doris Lessing‟s Children of Violence
ENGLISH PAPER – III (D) Angela Carter‟s The Passion of the New
Eve
1. This work was a satire in Ottava rima,
attacking George III and Robert Southey. 6. The library where the “Battle of Books”
Identify the poem: takes place is _______.
(A) Dunciad (A) St. James‟ Library
(B) The Vision of Judgment (B) King‟s Library
(C) Childe Harold‟s Pilgrimage (C) Sir William‟s Library
(D) Alastor (D) Christ Church Library

2. Here‟s a famous exchange from Arthur 7. In Sophocles‟ Oedipus Rex the first scene
Conan Doyle‟s Silver Blaze: finds Oedipus
„Is there any point to which you would (A) in conversation with a priest
wish to draw my attention ?‟ (B) in consultation with a general
„To the curious incident of the dog in the (C) giving audience to an ambassador
night-time.‟ (D) in consultation with a minister
„The dog did nothing in the night-time.‟
What was Sherlock Holmes‟ response ? 8. Who among Shakespeare‟s
(A) „Nothing ? Nothing at all? contemporaries did not write tragedies?
Rather unbelievable.‟ (A) Thomas Kyd
(B) „That was the curious incident.‟ (B) John Lyly
(C) „Anything else, at all?‟ (C) Christopher Marlowe
(D) „That sounds rather curious, don‟t you (D) Ben Jonson
think?‟
9. The Kite Runner, a novel by Khaled
3. “The shrill, demented choirs of waiting Hosseini tells the story of ________.
shells, (A) Ahmed
And bugles calling for them from sad (B) Nadira
shires.” (C) Amir
These lines are from Wilfred Owen‟s: (D) Amourrah
(A) “Strange Meeting”
(B) “Futility” 10. Thomas Babington Macaulay, the
(C) “Anthem for Doomed Youth” writer of the infamous Minute of 1835,
(D) “Duke et Decorum Est” finds a mention in Salman Rushdie‟s
(A) Midnight‟s Children
4. In Aphra Behn‟s Oronooko, how does (B) Shame
the titular character die? (C) The Moor‟s Last Sigh
(A) He disembowels himself. (D) Fury
(B) He is whipped to death.
(C) He is hanged in the public square. 11. The issue of privileging speech over
(D) He is cut to pieces slowly by the writing was taken up for discussion in
executioner. Plato‟s :
(A) Ion
5. The narrative of this novel is a (B) RepublicBook III
meticulous, present-tense account of a (C) RepublicBook X
woman with a death-wish who plots the (D) Phaedrus
circumstances of her own violent murder.
Identify the novel.
(A) Iris Murdoch‟s A Fairly Honourable
Defeat
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12. „The Medium is the Message‟ is a (B) 1, 5, 6 are correct.
concept given by (C) 1, 3, 5 are correct.
(A) Ernest Hemingway (D) 3, 4, 5 are correct.
(B) Sylvia Plath 17. In 1722 the Crown awarded a certain
(C) Seymour Hersh English merchant a patent to manufacture
(D) Marshal McLuhan copper coins for Ireland. Jonathan Swift
intervened by way of composing a
13. Seamus Heaney‟s famous poem series of letters in response, better known
“Digging” forms a part of his celebrated as The Drapier‟s Letters. Who was the
collection called merchant?
(A) North (A) Isaac Bickerstaff
(B) Death of a Naturalist (B) William Bickerstaff
(C) Field Work (C) William Wood
(D) Door into the Dark (D) William Sacheverell

14. The first major report on The Teaching 18. “While the world moves
of English in Englandwas published in In appentency on its metalled way
1921. It is known as ________, named Of time past and time future”
after the Chair, Board of Education, These lines are from:
_______. (A) “Little Gidding”
(A) the Newbolt Report; Sir Henry Newbolt (B) “Dry Salvages”
(B) the Wood‟s Despatch; Charles Wood, (C) “Burnt Norton”
Lord Halifax (D) “East Coker”
(C) the Chatham Report; Earl John Chatham
(D) the Landow Document; Sir George 19. The following is the stage-description of
Landow an opening scene of a famous modern play:
A basement room.Two beds, flat against the
15. Who first developed the notion of back wall. A serving hatch, closed, between
„competence‟ in language studies ? the beds. A door to the kitchen and lavatory,
(A) Dell Hymes left. A door to a passage, right.
(B) Noam Chomsky
(C) Leech and Svartvik Identify the play:
(D) Henry Sweet (A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Travesties
16. The fruit was eaten. (C) The Dumb Waiter
The fruit is ripening. (D) Look Back in Anger
Which of the following statement(s) is/are
correct? 20. „Homonyms‟ are words that _______
(1) English has two kinds of participle : the (A) are pronounced differently but have the
present and the past. same meaning.
(2) English has three kinds of participle : the (B) refer to both the male and female of the
present, the past and the future. human species.
(3) The first sentence here is an example of (C) are spelt similarly but have different
a verb in past participle. meanings.
(4) The first sentence here is an example of (D) refer to people who live in houses with
a verb in the perfect tense. similar structures.
(5) The second sentence here is an example
of a verb in present participle. 21. Match the columns :
(6) The second sentence here is an example Shakespearean Actors Period
th
of a verb in the continuous tense. I. David Garrick 1. The 19 century
II. John Gielgud 2. The 18th century
(A) 2, 4, 6 are correct. III. Henry Irving 3. The Restoration
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IV. Thomas Betterton 4. The 20th (B) II and III
century (C) III and IV
(D) I and IV
I II III IV 24. Michel Foucault‟s earlier
(A) 2 4 1 3 “archaeological” study is found in
(B) 4 2 1 3 (A) Power/Knowledge
(C) 3 4 1 2 (B) Social Theory and Transgression
(D) 2 3 4 1 (C) The Birth of the Clinic
(D) Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
22. In his “Structure, Sign, and Play in the
Discourse of the Human Sciences,” Derrida is 25. Invisible Manby Ralph Ellison is
all praise for the bricoleur whom Levi-Strauss widely recognized as a masterpiece. It is
sees as a supreme methodologist, “someone also one of the finest examples of
who uses „the means at hand‟.” (A) science fiction
Who does Levi-Strauss contrast (B) picaresque novel
bricoleurwith in terms of method and (C) coming-of-age novel
approach? (D) crime thriller
(A) The Botanist
(B) The Anthropologist 26. Match the following correctly:
(C) The Engineer List – I List – II
(D) The Semiotician I. Mulk Raj Anand 1. Premashram
II. Raja Rao 2. The Cat and
23. Heinrich Böll has something to say, Shakespeare
and not of course merely something about III. Prem Chand 3. Coolie
the Germans. He says it several times. A IV. Girish Karnad 4. Nagamandala
common weakness of writers with something
to say I II III IV
is their inability to understand that saying (A) 3 2 4 1
it four times is not necessarily four times (B) 2 3 1 4
as effective as saying it once. But to have (C) 3 2 1 4
something to say – how rare this is ! (D) 4 3 2 1
– D. J. Enright, “Three New Germans”.
From a reading of the above, the reader can 27. From which of Sheridan‟s plays the
deduce: following extract is taken?
I. Enright mildly disapproves of Lady Sneerwell : Why truly Mrs. Clackitt
Heinrich Böll‟s saying not merely has a very pretty talent and a great deal
something about Germans. of industry.
II. Enright is disappointed that Snake : True, Madam, and has been
Heinrich Böll has practically tolerably successful in her day. To my
nothing to say about people other knowledge she has been the cause of six
than Germans. matches being broken off and three sons
III. Enright agrees that Heinrich Böll disinherited, of four forced elopements ….
shares a weakness with writers who Lady Sneerwell: She certainly has talents but
prefer saying something four times to her manner is gross.
saying it once.
IV. Enright does not believe that saying (A) The Rivals
something four timeswill necessarily (B) The School for Scandal
make the same effective. (C) St. Patrick‟s Day
(D) The Critic
The right combination, according to the code,
is
(A) I and II
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28. Who, from among the following, has 33.What a mockery this.
NOT been discussed by Simon-de-Bevoir Of history, the past and that to come !
in “The Now do I feel how all men are deceived,
Myth of Woman in Five Authors” in The Reading of nations and their, in faith,
Second Sex? Faith given to vanity and emptiness …
(A) Montherlant The prelude
(B) Lawrence The above extract is from
(C) Stendhal (A) Book 9 Residence in France
(D) Kafka (B) Book 7 Residence in London
(C) Book 3 Residence in Cambridge
29. In a collection of essays Orhan Pamuk (D) Book 4 Summer Vacations
shares how he writes his novels, tells
about his friendship with his daughter, talks 34. While foregrounding the marginal
about his loneliness and happiness. presence of women in history in A Room of
Identify the text: One’s Own,
(A) Other Colors Virginia Woolf refers to ______ History of
(B) The Silent House England.
(C) The Black Book (A) Campbell‟s
(D) The White Castle (B) Trevelyan‟s
(C) Sander‟s
30. Two of the following plays won the (D) Carter‟s
Sultan Padamsee Prize for Indian plays in
English : 35. Salonieis a play written by Oscar
I. Princes Wilde written in
II. Where There‟s a Will (A) English
III. Larins Sahib (B) Irish
IV. Doongaji House (C) French
The right combination according to the code (D) Italian
is :
(A) III and IV 36. In More‟s Utopia, the fictional
(B) I and III traveller Raphael Hythloday‟s second
(C) II and III name in Greek means
(D) I and IV (A) Dispenser of Justice
(B) Dispenser of Nonsense
31. Who among the following is NOT an (C) Dispenser of Grace
Australian writer? (D) Dispenser of Mercy
(A) Morris West
(B) Patrick White 37. “You do not dwell in me nor I in you
(C) Thomas Keneally however much I pander to your name”
(D) Bill Pearson These lines from Geoffrey Hill‟s
“Lachrimae” address
32. After Independence, Mulk Raj Anand, (A) Christ
wrote a number of semi-autobiographical (B) The Devil
works to narrate chunks of his own life (C) The poet‟s beloved
through a fictional persona. The name he (D) The poet‟s enemy
gave this persona is _______.
(A) Lal Singh 38. The author of Black Skin, White Masks
(B) Krishan Chander is
(C) Puran Singh (A) Ngugi wa Thiong‟o
(D) Rahul Singh (B) Frantz Fanon
(C) Richard Wright
(D) Martin Luther King (Jr.
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39. Match the following : 44. Edward Said‟s well-known book
Poet Bird Orientalism was published in
I. John Keats 1. Hawk (A) 1978
II. P.B. Shelley 2. Falcon (B) 1968
III. G.H. Hopkins 3. Skylark (C) 2008
IV. Ted Hughes 4. Nightingale (D) 1988

I II III IV 45. “To the Memory of my Beloved, the

(A) 4 3 2 1 Author Mr. William Shakespeare: And
(B) 4 3 1 2 What He
(C) 3 4 2 1 Hath Left Us” is an ode composed by
(D) 3 4 1 2 (A) John Milton
(B) Ben Jonson
40. Who of the following has written the (C) Andrew Marvell
novel The Return? (D) John Suckling
(A) Bapsi Sidhwa
(B) V.S. Naipaul 46. Call me Ishmail Tonight is written by
(C) K. S. Maniam (A) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) Pankaj Mishra (B) Agha Shahid Ali
(C) Saleem Peeradina
41. Who among the following is a well- (D) Nissim Ezekiel
known Neo-Aristotelian critic ?
(A) R.P. Blackmur 47. “All fiction for me is a kind of magic or
(B) John Crowe Ranson trickery – a confidence trick.” The
(C) R.S. Crane statement has been made by
(D) Lionel Trilling (A) Angus Wilson
(B) Anthony Powell
42. Assertion (A): The act of reading a (C) John Fowles
text is both determinate (D) George Orwell
and indeterminate.
Reason (R): Since our reading includes 48. Here is a list of American words and
both a sense of the unity of the word-makers. Match the following:
narrative held in place at the I. H.L. Mencken 1. Babbit
end and the different wishes II. Philip Wylie 2. Yes man
and guesses made along the III. Jack Conway 3. Bible belt
way. IV. Sinclair Lewis 4. Monism

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the I II III IV
true explanation of (A). (A) 4 3 2 1
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not (B) 3 4 1 2
the true explanation of (A). (C) 3 4 2 1
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. (D) 4 3 1 2
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
49. Which of the following in Jacques
43. Girish Karnad‟s Hayavadana, Derrida‟s epigraph to his “Structure, Sign
originally in Kannada, has been translated and Play in the Discourse of the Human
into English by Sciences” ?
(A) U.R. Ananthamurthy (A) More body, hence more writing. …….
(B) By the playwright himself Helene Cixous.
(C) G.S. Amur (B) We need to interpret interpretations
(D) A.K. Ramanujan more than to interpret things. ………
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
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(C) But unlike philosophical reflection,
…. the reflections we are dealing with 55. “No wonder then.” Explain.
here concern rays whose only source (A) No wonder that the words here begin to
is hypothetical… Claude Levi-Strauss mean.
(D) If Cleopatra‟s nose had been shorter (B) No wonder that you now find the words
the whole history of the world would menacing.
have been different. ……… Blaise (C) No wonder that the words find you
Pascal. menacing.
(D) No wonder the words still mean and are
50. In Mann‟s Death in Venice, death of the tame.
protagonist occurs
(A) in a bar 56. The term “womanism” was first used
(B) in a beach by
(C) in a church (A) Helene Cixous
(D) on the highway (B) Gayatri Spivak
(C) Kate Millet
51. Two among the following poets (D) Alice Walker
wrote the “Village” poems that address
the perennial theme of rural poverty : 57. Two among the following critics
I. Oliver Goldsmith have dealt with the reproduction of
II. William Collins motherhood in feminist theory :
III. Samuel Johnson I. Nancy Chodorow
IV. George Gabbe II. Judith Fetterley
III. Catherine R. Stimpson
The right combination according to the code IV. Carol Gilligan
is
(A) I and III The right combination according to the code
(B) II and III is
(C) I and IV (A) I and II
(D) I and II (B) II and IV
(C) I and IV
52. In which of the following works Yeats (D) III and IV
developed his theory of „gyres‟?
(A) “A Vision” 58. Flowers is a short play written by
(B) “The Secret Rose” (A) Mahesh Dattani
(C) “John Sherman and Dhoya” (B) Asif Currimbhoy
(D) “The Celtic Twilight” (C) Girish Karnad
(D) Paoli Sengupta
53. Mystery and Miracle plays in English
were based on ______. 59. Match the columns:
(A) English folklore Character Novel
(B) English legends I. Lady Dedlock 1. Vanity Fair
(C) Biblical stories II. Lady Bertram 2. Wives and Daughters
(D) Anglo-Saxon myths III. Lady Harriet 3. Mansfield Park
IV. Lady Jane 4. Bleak House
54. When we rewrite a piece of discourse
from one script into another, it is called I II III IV
________. (A) 4 2 3 1
(A) Translation (B) 3 2 1 4
(B) Transliteration (C) 4 3 2 1
(C) Transcreation (D) 3 4 1 2
(D) Transformation
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60. “The Books You Needn‟t Read, the (D) The Duchess of Malfi – Volpone – A
Books Made For Purposes Other Than Game of Chess – The City Madam
Reading,
Books Read Before You Open Them Since 63. „Nasal tone‟ in speech is a
They Belong To The Category of Books distinguishing feature of _______.
Read (A) British English
Before Being Written …” (B) Scottish English
The above extract is taken from (C) Australian English
(A) Jorge Luis Borges‟s “The Library of (D) American English
Babel”
(B) Italo Colvino‟s If on a winter‟s Night a 64. Which of the following writers did
Traveller NOT receive the Nobel Prize for
(C) Umberto Eco‟s The Name of the Rose Literature?
(D) Francis Bacon‟s “Of Studies” (A) Wole Soyinka
(B) Chinua Achebe
61. Listed below are the titles of novels and (C) J. M. Coetzee
the sources to which theyare aligned by (D) Nadine Gordimer
readers.
Match them appropriately: 65. The Decline and Fall of the Roman
List – I List – II Empireby Edward Gibbon is a significant
I. Peter Carey‟s work in ______ Volumes.
Jack Maggs 1. Daniel Defoe‟s (A) 3
Robinson Crusoe (B) 4
II. J.M. Coetzee‟s Foe 2. Charlotte (C) 5
Bronte‟s (D) 6
Jane Eyre
III. Jean Rhys‟s Wide 66. The first novel written by Graham
Sargasso Sea 3. R.M. Ballantyne‟s Greene is
The Coral Island (A) Stamboul Train
IV. William Golding‟s Lord (B) England Made Me
of the Flies 4. Charles Dickens‟s (C) The Heart of the Matter
Great (D) The Man Within
Expectations
67. From among the Canterbury pilgrims,
I II III IV which group would qualify as the „upper
(A) 4 1 3 2 class‟ ?
(B) 4 3 1 2 (A) The Pardoner, The Miller, The Nun‟s
(C) 4 1 2 3 Priest
(D) 4 2 1 3 (B) Franklin, Parson, Wife of Bath
(C) The Knight, The Squire, The Prioress
(D) The Reeve, The Manciple, The Clerk

68. Plagiarism is a well-known word and

62. Identify the right chronological concept in academic circles. The word
sequence: plagiariusin Latin, however, meant
(A) The Game of Chess – Volpone – The (A) a trickster, a cheat
Duchess of Malfi – The City Madam (B) a quack, a swindler
(B) The City Madam – The Duchess of Malfi (C) a loafer, a lout
– Volpone – A Game of Chess (D) a torturer, a plunderer
(C) Volpone – The Duchess of Malfi – A
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69. What superstition around the Eve of St. And rowed him softer home –
Agnes is crucial to an understanding John Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Keat‟s famous poem? Too silver for a seam –
(A) If a virgin performed the proper ritual Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would dream Leap, plashless as they swim.
of her future husband.
(B) If a virgin performed the proper ritual 72. Is “a convenient Grass” an example of
on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would marry “transferred epithet”?
herlover. (A) Yes, it is. The “convenience” of grass
(C) If a married woman performed the is transferred from the bird to the poet
proper ritual on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she who finds grass convenient of access.
would be reunited with her husband. (B) Yes, it is. The grass is not
(D) If a woman performed the proper “convenient”, but is transferred from
ritual on St. Agnes‟ Eve, she would the bird who finds the grass
dream of her future lover. convenient of access.
(C) No. It is a regular epithet.
70. Identify the person who sets himself up (D) No. It is not an epithet in the strict
as the „Knight‟ with a pestle rather than a sense.
sword in the play The Knight of the
Burning Pestle: 73. Which of the following is NOT an
(A) Ralph example of kinetic imagery?
(B) Tim (A) “unrolled his feathers”
(C) George (B) “hopped sidewise”
(D) Squire (C) “Velvet Head”
(D) “rowed him”
71. Works like The Earthly Paradise,
Dante and His Circle, Goblin Market and 74. The poem stages an encounter between:
Other Poems and the journal, The (A) the human and the non-human
Germare associated with ________. (B) distrust of the non-human about the
(A) the Pre-Raphaelites humans
(B) Higher Criticism (C) two old friends
(C) the Cavalier Poets (D) two old enemies
(D) the Pre-Romantics
75. “Like one in danger …” Who is in
Read the following poem and answer danger?
questions (72to 75): (A) The Bird
A Bird came down the Walk – (B) The Poet
He did not know I saw – (C) The Angleworm
He bit an Angleworm in halves (D) Frightened Beads
And ate the fellow, raw,
And then he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass –
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass –
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all around –
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought
–
He stirred his Velvet Head
Like one in danger, Cautious,
I offered him a Crumb
And he unrolled his feathers
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C * D B A D C B D C
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A D D A B A C D B A
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B C A A A D D C A B A
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C B C B C * B C A B D,C D A B A A B B A A
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C D D A B A A C D B A A C B C
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21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 D B C C B C B A D C
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D D D D B D B D B B
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B C B B C A C A C C D A D(x) C D B A C A C
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A B B A C A C A C B D D B A B C C C C C
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B B B A D B A A A B A C C C C C B D A A
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D A B D B B A C C B D B A B - B A B A C
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C D D A C D A C C C C A B A B B A - B B
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- A C B - D C C C B
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71 72 73 74 75
D A A C A A C C A A
A B C - A
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A C C C B C B A B D
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A C D A C D B B C D
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B B C A D B A D A A
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C B B C A A B B A B
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B C A A D A A D A D
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B D A B B A A C B A
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A B B B C

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C B C B C A B C B C
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C A B B C B B C C D
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