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Paper – III
Note : This paper contains seventy-five (75) objective type questions. Each question
carries two (2) marks. All questions are compulsory.
Read the following stanzas and answer the And marked their ways upon the ancient
five questions given below it : deep ?
Down all the caverns of Hell to their last gulf
The Man with the Hoe
There is no shape more terrible than this –
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans More tongued with cries against the world’s
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, blind greed –
The emptiness of ages in his face, More filled with signs and portents for the
And on his back, the burden of the world. soul –
Who made him dead to rapture and despair, More packed with danger to the universe.
Is this the Thing the Lord God made and (D) A refugee
gave
To have dominion over sea and land; 2. What has made the man unemotional ?
(C) implies the writer’s alienation from (D) A friend of the monk
the man
7. Mirror for Magistrates was written by
(D) shows the writer’s cynicism
(A) Thomas Sackville
(C) Epithalamion
5. What is the poet’s view of the man ?
(D) Prothalamion
(A) that he should be subdued by force
9. ‘Come live with me and be my love’ this
(B) that the man should be banished
is the first line of two poems by
from society
(A) Shakespeare and Donne
(C) society should understand his
condition (B) Marlowe and Donne
4. Coleridge 8. Dejection : An
19. Moll Flanders is best described as Ode
(A) 1 – 6; 2 – 7; 3 – 5; 4 – 8
(B) female picaresque
(B) 1 – 5; 2 – 6; 3 – 7; 4 – 8
(C) a well made novel
(C) 1 – 8; 2 – 6; 3 – 5; 4 – 7
(D) autobiographical novel
(D) 1 – 7; 2 – 8; 3 – 6; 4 – 5
24. The Wanderer, a novel about woman’s 27. “A study of provincial life” is the sub
psychology, was written by
title of
30. Match the following : 32. In which poem does the poet encounter
List – I List – II the enemy soldier ?
(Novels) (Subtitles)
(A) ‘Insensibility’
i. Vanity Fair 1. The Weaver of
Raveloe (B) ‘Strange meeting’
36. Match List – I with List – II : 39. Union Street, a novel about England
List – I List – II written in the ‘Eighties, is authored by
42. Affective fallacy refers to the evaluation 45. Which of the following was not written
by Roland Barthes ?
of a literary text on the basis of
(A) S/Z
(A) the authors’s intention
(B) Mythologies
(B) the attitudes of the author
(C) Critical Practice
(C) the emotional response of the
(D) Writing Degree Zero
reader
46. The Country and The City is a work by
(D) the ideology of the author
(A) Terry Eagleton
44. ‘Is there A Text in the class ?’ is an (D) admiring Europe’s progress
example of
48. Stuart Hall is a powerful proponent of
(A) The New Historicism
(A) Cultural studies
(B) Reader Response Theory
(B) Reader response theory
(C) Formalist Criticism (C) Post colonial theory
56. Which novel by Dostoevsky deals with 60. Salim Sinai in Midnight’s Children is
the idea of the Superman ?
(A) a reliable narrator
(A) The Idiot (B) an unreliable narrator
(B) The Brothers Karamazov (C) the author’s mouthpiece
59. Karukku is a dalit life narrative by 63. The Lowland is a novel in English by
65. Match the poets with the poems : 68. Edible Woman is a novel by
71. The philosopher Plato says that in the 73. The concept of hegemony was
introduced by
Ideal Republic
(A) Michel Foucault
(A) Poets should be made
(B) Edward Said
administrators
(C) Autonio Gramsci
(B) Poets should be honoured and
(D) Raymond Williams
then banished
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