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Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions. Each question carrying
two (2) marks. All questions are compulsory.
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7. Human kind cannot bear very much 11. Which of the following poems is not
reality. Who says this in Murder in the written by Sylvia Plath ?
Cathedral ?
(A) Arrival of the Bee Box
(A) The Chorus (B) Lady Lazarus
(B) The Priests (C) Mirror
(D) The Bell Jar
(C) The First Tempter
(D) Becket 12. Identify the work of Francis Bacon
related to science
8. The protagonist in the novel Disgrace (A) Utopia
is a professor of (B) An Essay Concerning Human
(A) Economics (B) Philosophy Understanding
(C) Novum Organum
(C) English (D) Mathematics (D) The Complete Angler
9. Mid Term Break by Seamus Heany is
13. T.S. Eliot considers Hamlet an inferior
about
work because
(A) the death of the father (A) it has a loose plot
(B) the death of a younger brother (B) characters are not fully developed
(C) the famine in Ireland (C) it contains excessive violence
(D) the Irish rebellion (D) the authors intention is not realised
(C) Both (A) and (R) are false (C) An Outcast of the Islands
(D) The Confidence-Man : His
(D) (A) is true but (R) is false Masquerade
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16. The protagonist in The Namesake is 21. In Coleridges Kubla Khan, the line
named after the Russian writer weave a circle round him thrice refers to
(A) Kubla Khan
(A) Anton Chekhov
(B) The Maker of the Summer Palace
(B) Maxim Gorky
(C) The Poet
(C) Vladimir Nabokov (D) Kubla Khans ancestor
(D) Nikolai Gogol
22. Dr. Johnson claimed in his plan for the
17. Mark Twain is the pen name of Dictionary that he would Fix the English
Language in three years.
(A) Samuel L. Claudius To whom did he write this ?
(B) Samuel L. Clemens (A) Boswell
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26. Match the following : 31. Earth felt the wound, and Nature from
her seat
i. Stella a) Shakespeare
Sighing through all her works gave signs
ii. Anne Boleyn b) John Keats of woe
iii. Fanny Brawne c) Thomas Wyatt That all was lost
These lines describe
iv. The Dark Lady d) Philip Sydney
(A) The Shock of Queen Elizabeths
Codes : death
(A) ia; ii b ; iii d ; iv c (B) Vision of Doomsday
(B) id; ii c ; iii b ; iv a (C) The consequence of the original sin
(C) id; ii b ; iii c ; iv a (D) The trauma of Charles execution
(D) ic; ii b ; iii d; iv a
32. The line the better part of Valour is
27. In the title The Citizen of the World Oliver discretion figures in the play
Goldsmith adopts the mask of (A) Julius Caesar
(A) A Chinese Philosopher (B) Henry V
(B) A Persian Scholar (C) Richard II
(C) A Greek Traveller (D) Henry IV Part 1
(D) A Russian Diarist
33. The complete title of Fredric Jamesons
28. Every man I will go with thee and be work is
thy guide. This line from the play Every
Man is spoken by (A) Postmodernism and the Logic of
High Capitalism
(A) Good Deeds (B) Fellowship
(B) Postmodernism or the Logic of
(C) Knowledge (D) Pleasure Global Capitalism
29. He was the man who of all modern, and (C) Postmodernism or the Cultural
perhaps ancient poets had the largest Logic of Late Capitalism
and most comprehensive soul. This
tribute to Shakespeare was paid by (D) Postmodernism as the Cultural
Logic of Market Capitalism
(A) Dr. Johnson (B) Milton
(C) Ben Jonson (D) Dryden 34. Name the critic who formulated the
concept of interpretive communities
30. But rich he was of holy Thought and
Work the narrator of the Prologue to (A) Woolfgang Iser
The Canterbury Tales says this of the (B) Fredric Jameson
(A) Monk (B) Parson (C) Stanley Fish
(D) Norman Holland
(C) Summoner (D) Franklin
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35. Match the following : 39. Darwins influential work The Origin of
Species was published in the year
i. Stephen a) Cultural Studies
Greenblatt (A) 1859 (B) 1849
ii. J.C.Ransom b) Cultural (C) 1865 (D) 1860
Materialism
iii. Stuart Hall c) New Criticism 40. Vandana Shivas Staying Alive does
not deal with
iv. Alan Sinfield d) New Historicism
(A) The Green Revolution
Codes : (B) Patriarchy and Capitalism
(A) id; ii c ; iii a ; iv b (C) Religious Fundamentalism
(B) ia; ii b ; iii c ; iv d (D) The Idea of Progress
(C) ib; ii c ; iii a ; iv d
41. ... are grown
(D) ic; ii b ; iii d; iv a Cosmographers, and I their Map.
In which poem do we find this reference
36. Here is Gods Plenty. Dryden made to the science of the times ?
this remark about
(A) The Sun Rising
(A) Shakespeares plays
(B) Thoughts in a garden
(B) Chaucers Canterbury Tales
(C) Hymn to God, My God, in my
(C) Miltons Paradise Lost Sickness
(D) Dantes Divine Comedy (D) The Collar
44. April is the cruellest month 48. The line Then all smiles stopped
This opening line of The Waste Land together in My Last Duchess
contains suggests that
(A) oxymoron (A) The duchess became serious and
(B) transferred epithet stopped smiling
(C) an allusion (B) She took the Dukes warning and
stopped smiling
(D) personification
(C) The Duke had her killed
45. Choose the correct chronological (D) The duchess abandoned the Duke
sequence in which the following works
appeared ?
49. Match the following names of the
i. David Copperfield women characters with the novels in
ii. Bleak House which they appear :
iii. Hard Times i. Sissy Jupe a. Daniel Deronda
iv. Our Mutual Friend ii. Gwendolen b. Withering
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