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Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions. Each question carries
two (2) marks. All questions are compulsory.
1. ___________ uses the play within a 5. The author of The Journal of the Plague
play technique. Year was
(A) Doctor Faustus (A) Laurence Sterne
(B) The Spanish Tragedy (B) Daniel Defoe
(C) The Duchess of Malfi (C) Sir Thomas Browne
(D) Edward II (D) Francis Bacon
2. O, no end is limited to damned souls is 6. F.R. Leavis does not include ___________
said by in his Great Tradition of English
(A) Othello novelists.
(B) Hamlet (A) Joseph Courad
(C) King Lear (B) D.H. Lawrence
(D) Doctor Faustus (C) Charles Dickens
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9. Shooting The Niagara is written by 14. April is the cruellest month this line in
(A) Matthew Arnold the Waste Land alludes ironically to a line
in a poem by
(B) Thomas Carlyle
(A) Wordsworth
(C) John Ruskin
(B) Chaucer
(D) John Bright
(C) Edmund Spenser
10. Chinna Achebes famous novel Things (D) Sidney
Fall Apart has its title taken from
15. A Bracelet of Bright Hair around the
(A) Eliots poem
Bone occurs in
(B) Yeats poem
(A) The Sunne Rising
(C) Blakes poem
(B) To a Flea
(D) G.M. Hopkins poem
(C) The Relic
11. Faulkners The Sound and the Fury (D) The Canonisation
employs a
16. Edible woman is written by
(A) The realistic mode
(A) Maya Angelou
(B) The stream of consciousness
(B) Margaret Atwood
technique
(C) Kate Millet
(C) The symbolic narrative
(D) Margaret Laurence
(D) All these
17. Nissim Ezekiel wrote his rejoinder
12. James Joyces Ulysses ends with an
Naipauls India and Mine on reading
unpunctuated interior monologue by
(A) India : A Wounded Civilization
(A) Leopald Bloom
(B) An Area of Darkness
(B) Stephen Daedalus
(C) Indian : A Million Mutinies Now
(C) Molly Bloom
(D) The Mimic Men
(D) The author himself
18. Which of the following phrases is not
13. Dickens Hard Times is a satire on used to describe the 18th century ?
(A) Utilitarianism (A) The Neo-classical Period
(B) Liberalism (B) The Age of Good Sense
(C) Trade Unions (C) The Augustan Period
(D) The British Aristocracy (D) The Age of Transition
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19. Which poem by Wordsworth the 24. The Souls of the Black People is written
autobiography of the poets soul ? by
(A) Prelude (A) Ralph Ellison
(B) Immortality Ode (B) Toni Morrison
(C) Michael (C) James Baldwin
(D) Tintern Abbey (D) Du Bois
20. Which writer described the novel as a 25. The Last of the Mohicans is a novel by
comic epic in prose ? (A) Washington Irving
(A) Samuel Richardson (B) Laura Ingalls Wibler
(B) Daniel Defoe (C) James Fenimore Cooper
(C) Laurence Sterne (D) Mark Twain
(D) Henry Fielding
26. Ferdinand Sassure describes actual
speech as
21. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley is a poem by
(A) Langue
(A) Wallace Stevens
(B) Laugage
(B) Ezra Pound
(C) Parole
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Acoustic system
(D) E.E. Cummings
27. Is there a text in the class ? is a well
22. Passage to India is known essay by
(A) A poem by Walt Whitman (A) Jonathan Culler
(B) An essay by Emerson (B) Stanley Fish
(C) An essay by Thoreau (C) Shlovsky
(D) None of these (D) Northrop Frye
23. The King and the Duke are comic villains in 28. Can the Subaltern Speak ? discusses
(A) Tom Sawyer (A) Orientalism
(B) Huckleberry Finn (B) European Feminism
(C) Puddenhead Wilson (C) The Sati System
(D) The Prince and the Pauper (D) The Sepoy Mutiny
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29. F.R. Leavis does not discuss 35. The Imagist Manifesto was drafted by
___________ in his New Bearings in
English Poetry. (A) Ezra Pound
(A) T.S.Eliot (B) Amy Lowell
(B) Ezra Pound (C) Richard Aldington
(C) Walter de la Mare
(D) T.E.Hulme
(D) Stephen Spender
36. The play by J.M.Synge which caused
30. Comrade Pillai is a satirical character in
riots in the Dublin Theater was
(A) Feminist Fables
(B) Midnights Children (A) Riders to the Sea
(C) The God of Small Things (B) The Play boy of the Western World
(D) All About H Hatterr (C) Juno and the Paycock
31. Gungadin appears in a poem by (D) The Well of the Saints
(A) Rudyard Kipling
37. Frantz Fanon proposes ___________ to
(B) Toru Dult
colonisation.
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Jayanta Mahapatra (A) a syncretic approach
(B) an accommodative approach
32. Doing as One Wishes is the ironical
description of individualism by (C) a conciliatory approach
(A) Thomas Carlyle (D) an adversarial approach
(B) Matthew Arnold
(C) Ruskin 38. The post-colonial critic who proposed the
(D) J.S. Mill abolition of the department of English is
(A) Chinna Achebe
33. Gandhi was influenced by a work written
by (B) Wole Soyinka
(A) Ruskin (C) N. Gugi
(B) William Morris (D) Aime Cesaire
(C) Cardinal Newman
(D) Walter Pater 39. The Shakespearean character who is
central to post-colonial theories is
34. Insensibility is a poem by
(A) Hardy (A) Othello
(B) Rupert Brooke (B) Desdemona
(C) Stephen Crane (C) The Fool in King Lear
(D) Wilfred Owen (D) Caliban
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40. John Miltons Lycidas is a 46. Gus and Ben are professional assassins in
(A) An allegory (A) The Birthday Party
(B) A pastoral elegy (B) The Dumb Waiter
(C) A lyric
(C) Mountain Language
(D) A masque
(D) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
41. The author of Sexual Politics is Dead
(A) Dale Spengler
47. Gone With the Wind is a novel about the
(B) Elaine Showalter
South by
(C) Kate Millet
(A) Steinbeck
(D) Judith Butler
(B) Margaret Mitchel
42. One is not born, but rather becomes a (C) Harriet Beecher Stowe
Woman. This statement is by
(D) Toni Morrison
(A) Simone de Beauvoir
(B) Mary Wollstencraft 48. Dr. Johnson defends Shakespeare
(C) Germaine Greer against charges of
(D) Betty Freidan (A) Vulgarity
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