NET EXAM (C) Hudibras

SOLVED PAPERS 2004-18 (D) Journal of the Plague Year

Answer: C
Paper 2- December 2004 7. Which of the following poems did Milton
write in Octosyllabic Couplets ?
1. In Langlands‘ Piers the Plowman, Piers (A) IL Penseroso
appears finally as : (B) On His Blindness”
(A) Charity (C) On the Late Massacre in Piedmont”
(B) The Holy Trinity (D) Lycidas
(C) Jesus Answer: A
(D) The Good Samaritan
Answer: C 8. Which of the following plays is not written
by Congreve ?
2. It is decided that each Canterbury pilgrim (A) The way of the World
would tell in all : (B) The Old Bachelor
(A) One story (C) Love for Love
(B) Two stories (D) The Relapse
(C) Three stories Answer: D
(D) Four stories
Answer: D 9. Dryden‘s All For Love is an adaptation of
:
3. Venus and Adonis is a long narrative (A) Philaster
poem by : (B) Romeo and Juliet
(A) Shakespeare (C) Antony and Cleopatra
(B) Marlowe (D) Edward II
(C) Drayton Answer: C
(D) Sydney
Answer: A 10. Which of the following books proposes a
political theory ?
4. The total number of poems in (A) Principia
Shakespeare‘s Sonnets is : (B) Leviathan
(A) 123 (C) Anatomy of Melancholy
(B) 142 (D) Liberty of Prophesying
(C) 104 Answer: B
(D) 154
Answer: D 11. Which of the following books is written
by a woman ?
5. Which of the following plays has a (A) A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Machiavellean hero ? (B) Social Contract
(A) Tamburlaine Part I (C) A Treatise of Human Nature
(B) Dr. Faustus (D) The Wealth of Nations
(C) Jew of Malta Answer: A
(D) Edward II
Answer: C 12. Which of the following books by
Jonathan Swift is a religious allegory ?
6. Which of the following is written by (A) The Battle of the Books
Samuel Butler ? (B) A Modest Proposal
(A) Religio Laici (C) Gulliver‟s Travels
(B) David Simple
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(D) A Tale of a Tub (D) “Endymion”
Answer: D Answer: D

13. Which of the following is a ―Visionary‖ 19. Which of the following novels is a satire
work by William Blake ? on the Gothic novel ?
(A) The Song of Los (A) Pride and Prejudice
(B) Songs of Experience (B) Emma
(C) Poetical Sketches (C) Sense and Sensibility
(D) The Vision of the Daughters of Albion (D) Northanger Abbey
Answer: D Answer: D

14. Pope‘s An Essay on Man is based on the 20. Who distinguished between 11the
ideas of : literature of Knowledge‖ and ―the literature
(A) Lord Petrie of power‖ ?
(B) Theobald (A) Coleridge
(C) Lord Bolingbroke (B) De Quincey
(D) Lord Harvey (C) Hazlitt
Answer: C (D) Lamb
Answer: B
15. Which of the following works by
Johnson is an imitation of the tenth satire of 21. Who among the following Victorian
Juvenal ? poets is the most sensitive to the conflict
(A) London between the old and the new ?
(B) Vanity of Human Wishes (A) Tennyson
(C) The Life of Savage (B) Rossetti
(D) Rasselas (C) Browning
Answer: B (D) Swinburne
Answer: A
16. The final version of Wordsworth‘s The
Prelude appeared in : 22. Under the Greenwood Tree is written by
(A) 1798 :
(B) 1806 (A) Mrs. Gaskell
(C) 1850 (B) George Eliot
(D) 1860 (C) Thomas Hardy
Answer: C (D) Emily Bronte
Answer: C
17. ―To Suffer woes which Hope thinks
infinite‖ is written by : 23. The Office of Circumlocution occurs in :
(A) Shelley (A) Little Dorrit
(B) Wordsworth (B) Bleak House
(C) Keats (C) Great Expectations
(D) Byron (D) Hard Times
Answer: A Answer: A

18. ―A thing of beauty is a joy for ever‖ 24. The novel Mary Barton is written by :
occurs in : (A)Mrs. Gaskell
(A) “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (B) George Eliot
(B) “Ode to Autumn” (C) Emily Bronte
(C) “Ode to Psyche”

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(D) Dickens (D) The Europeans
Answer: A Answer: B

25. The line‖Poetry is a criticism of life‖ 31. Who of the following authors represents
occurs in : the Sri Lankan diaspora ?
(A) Culture and Anarchy (A) Cyril Dabydeen
(B) Modern Painters (B) Michael Ondaatje
(C) The Study of Poetry (C) Arnold H. Itwaru
(D) Sartor Resartus (D) M.G. Vassanji
Answer: C Answer: B

26. Martha Quest was written by : 32. Australian aborigines receive a

(A) Jean Rhys sympathetic treatment in :
(B) Doris Lessing (A) Les Murray
(C) Iris Murdoch (B) Gwen Harwood
(D) Nadine Gordimer (C) Judith Wright
Answer: B (D) A.D. Hope
Answer: C
27. The term ―Stream of Consciousness‖
was taken from the book : 33. Margaret Atwood‘s Survival makes a
(A) The Human Mind case for :
(B) The Principles of Psychology (A) Canadian literary studies
(C) The Mind of Man (B) Canadian nationalism
(D) Modes of Human Behaviour (C) The future of Canadian literature
Answer: B (D) The past of Canadian literature
Answer: C
28. G.S. Fraser‘s The Golden Bough
focusses on : 34. V.S. Naipaul‘s latest book is :
(A) Images (A) The Mystic Masseur
(B) Metaphors (B) A Bend in the River
(C) Symbols (C) Among the Believers
(D) Archetypes (D) Half a Life
Answer: D Answer: D

29. Arthur Miller‘s Death of a Salesman 35. Which of the following books by Salman
relies for its tragic seriousness on the fate of Rushdie refers to the 15th Century Spain as
: a starting point ?
(A) Willy Loman (A) Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(B) Estragon (B) The Moor‟s Last Sigh
(C) Vladimir (C) Shame
(D) Lucky (D) Grimus
Answer: A Answer: D

30. The character Leopald Bloom makes an 36. Who‘s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is
appearance in the novel : written by :
(A) The Sound and the Fury (A) Arthur Miller
(B) Ulysses (B) Engene O Neil
(C) To the Lighthouse (C) Edward Albee

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(D) Tennessee Williams 43. The word ―Catharsis‖ signifies :
Answer: C (A) Pontification
(B) Personification
37. Imamu Amiri Baraka is : (C) Purgation
(A) A Carribean writer (D) Publication
(B) An American writer Answer: C
(C) An Arab writer
(D) A Sri Lankan writer 44. The rejection of ―Universalism‖ is a
Answer: B mark of :
(A) Deconstruction
38. The Miscellany was published from : (B) New Historicism
(A) Sahitya Akademi (C) Structuralism
(B) The Writers Workshop (D) Postcolonial criticism
(C) PEN Answer: D
(D) Dhwanyalok
Answer: B 45. Eliot‘s theory of ―objective correlative‖
appeared in his essay entitled :
39. Who of the following writers recreates (A) Three voices of Poetry
the life of the Yoruba/Ibo community ? (B) Tradition and the Individual Talent
(A) Derek Walcott (C) The Metaphysical Poets
(B) Wole Soyinka (D) Hamlet
(C) Chinna Achebe Answer: D
(D) Okot
Answer: B 46. Sprung Rhythm is an example of :
(A)Verse
40. Who of the following White female (B) Syllable
authors are sympathetic to the cause of the (C) Stress
Blacks ? (D) Meter
(A) Margaret Drabble Answer: D
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Muriel Spark 47. ―More is thy due than more than all can
(D) Jean Rhys pay‖ is an example of :
Answer: B (A) Weak – ending
(B) Inversion
41. New Criticism considers text as a : (C) Alexandrine
(A) Cultural construct (D) Extra Syllable
(B) Historical construct Answer: B
(C) Linguistic construct
(D) Autotelic 48. Unrhymed metrical composition
Answer: D consisting of five iambic measures in each
line is called :
42. Mythologies was written by : (A) Rhyme royal
(A) Roland Barthes (B) Run-on-lines
(B) Jacques Derrida (C) Blank verse
(C) Homi K. Bhabha (D) Spenserian stanza
(D) Ernest Dowson Answer: C
Answer: A
49. Verse stories dealing with chivalry,
Knight, errantry, enchantments, and love

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are known as :
(A) The epic
(B) The ballad
(C) The ode
(D) The metrical romances
Answer: D

50. ―He is a citizen of no mean city‖ is an

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

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

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(A) Philip Larkin (D) Litotes
(B) Ted Hughes Answer: A
(C) C.D. Lewis
(D) Thom Gunn 20. A metre in which an unaccented syllable
Answer: B precedes the accented is called :
(A) anapaestic
14. Pinter‘s Care Taker can be called a: (B) dactylic
(A) comedy of manners (C) catalectic
(B) comedy of menace (D) iambic
(C) comedy of errors Answer: D
(D) comedy of humours
Answer: B Choose the correct chronological sequence
in question numbers 21-30 :
15. Toni Morrison used male narrator for 21. Choose the correct chronological
the first time in : sequence
(A) Song of Solomon (A) Northanger Abbey , Pride and Prejudice ,
(B) Tar Baby Sense and Sensibility , Mansfield Park
(C) Jazz (B) Mansfield Park , Sense and Sensibility ,
(D) The Bluest Eye Northanger Abbey , Pride and Prejudice
Answer: A (C) Pride and Prejudice , Northanger Abbey ,
Mansfield Park , Sense and Sensibility
16. The author of The Hungry Tide is : (D) Sense and Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice
(A) Vikram Seth , Mansfield Park , Northanger Abbey
(B) Shobha De Answer: D
(C) Amitav Ghosh
(D) Upamanyu Chatterjee 22. Shakespeare criticism by :
Answer: C (A) Spurgeon – T.S. Eliot -Stephen Greenblatt
– Bradley
17. The soul of tragedy, according to (B) Bradley – Spurgeon – T.S. Eliot – Stephen
Aristotle is : Greenblatt
(A) Thought (C) T.S. Eliot – Stephen Greenblatt – Bradley –
(B) Character Spurgeon
(C) Plot (D) Stephen Greenblatt – Bradley – T.S. Eliot –
(D) Spectacle Spurgeon
Answer: C Answer: B

18. The discussion of Fabula/Syuzhet occurs 23. Choose the correct chronological
in : sequence
(A) New criticism (A) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford
(B) Deconstruction Movement, Movement Poetry, Imagism
(C) Structuralism (B) Oxford Movement, Pre-Raphaelite
(D) Formalism Brotherhood, Imagism, Movement Poetry
Answer: D (C) Imagism, Movement Poetry, Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood, Oxford Movement
19. ―United we stand, divided we fall‖ is an (D) Movement Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite
example of : Brotherhood, Oxford Movement, Imagism
(A) Antithesis Answer: B
(B) Bathos
(C) Tautology 24. Choose the correct chronological
sequence
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(A) Closet drama, Epic Theatre, Theatre of the
Absurd, Portable Theatre
(B)Epic Theatre, Portable Theatre, Theatre of
the Absurd, Closest drama
(C)Portable Theatre, Closet drama, Epic
Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd
(D)Theatre of the Absurd, Portable Theatre,
Closet drama, Epic Theatre
Answer: A
25. Choose the correct chronological
sequence
(A) Thomas Nashe, Ben Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe
(B)Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, Marlowe,
Thomas Nashe
(C)Thomas Kyd, Marlowe, Thomas Nashe,
Ben Jonson
(D)Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Kyd,
Ben Jonson
Answer: C
26. Choose the correct chronological
sequence
(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 ,
Areopagitica , Religio Medici
Answer: C
27. Choose the correct chronological
sequence
(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
Answer: D
28. Choose the correct chronological
sequence
(A) Jude, Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Mrs.
Morel
(B)Dorothea, Mrs. Morel, Jude, Lady
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Havisham
(C)Dorothea, Jude, Mrs. Morel, Lady
Havisham
(D)Lady Havisham, Dorothea, Jude, Mrs.
Morel
Answer: D
29. Choose the correct chronological
sequence
(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
Answer: A
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,
Answer: B
Select the matching pair in question
numbers 31 to 40 :
31. Select the matching pair
(A) A Idylls of the King – Browning
(B)The Diverting History of John Gilpin –
William Cowper
(C)The Tower – T.S. Eliot
(D)The Fall of Hyperion – Shelley
Answer: B
32. Select the matching pair
(A) Hard Times – Psychological novel
(B)To The Light-house – Picaresque novel
(C)The Castle of Otranto – Gothic novel
(D)Wuthering Heights – Historical novel
Answer: C
33. Select the matching pair
(A) Emily Bronte – Yorkshire Moors
(B)Hardy – Scotland
(C)Walter Scott – Ireland
(D)Mark Twain – Yoknapatawfa
Answer: A
34. Select the matching pair
(A) Surrealism – Tristan Tzara
(B)Imagism – Spender
(C)Naturalism – Yeats
(D)Magic Realism – Galriel Garcia Marquez
Answer: D
35. Select the matching pair
(A) Victor Shklovsky – Carnivalesque
(B)Stanley Fish – Aphasia
(C)Hjelmslev – Glossematics
(D)Roland Barthes – Affective Stylistics
Answer: C
36. Select the matching pair
(A) Bessie Head – Newzealand
(B)Derek Walcott – South Africa
(C)A.D. Hope – Australia
(D)Ondaatje – Nigeria
Answer: C
37. Select the matching pair
(A) T.S. Eliot – The Birthday Party
(B)Osborne – The Entertainer
(C)Bernard Shaw – Luther
(D)Tom Stoppard – Lear
Answer: B
38. Select the matching pair
(A) Periodical Essays – Bacon
(B)Confessional Poetry – Ted Hughes
(C)Science Fiction – David Lodge
(D)Pre-Raphaelites – William Morris
Answer: D
39. Select the matching pair
(A) Nissim Ezekiel – Persian
(B)Gieve Patel – Gujarati
(C)Dilip Chitre – Sanskrit
(D)Adil Jussawallah – Urdu
Answer: B
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40. Select the matching pair
(A) Pearl- The Scarlet Letter
(B) Raka- The God of Small Things
(C) Raphael- The Great Expectations
(D)Pip- Fire on the Mountain
Answer: A
41. The assertion, ―We had a very restful
holiday,‖ implies :
(A) We didn‟t exert ourselves
(B) We did nothing
(C) We were very lazy
(D) We had a very dull time
Answer: A
42. ―The progress of an artist is an continual
self sacrifice, a continual extinction of
personality. ―This assertion implies :
(A) Merely by a continual extinction of
personality an artist is sure to make progress
(B) An artist is likely to make progress through
continual self sacrifice and extinction of
personality
(C) Continual self sacrifice and extinction of
personality will undermine the progress of the
artist
(D) An artist must have a personality to create
art
Answer: b
43. ―The best poetry will be found to have a
power of forming, sustaining and delighting
us‖. This assertion implies :
(A)Poetry has multiple functions to perform
(B)Poetry is more useful than other arts
(C)All other arts including poetry have their
limitations
(D)Poetry has no role to play
Answer: b
44. ―Human beings, and especially human
beings as an integral part of a social
organisation are regarded as primary
subject matter of literature‖. This assertion
implies :
(A)Human beings alone can be the subject
matter of literature
(B)All living beings-animal and human,
contribute towards the creation of literature
(C)Humans as social beings are the nucleus of
all literary exercise (D) liberty with representations of fictional
(D)Literature transcends the human and the characters
non-human. Answer: A
Answer: c
47. ‗Linguistic freedom‘ is :
45. ―We must learn to see more, to hear (A) freedom with diction, newly-coined words,
more, to feel more‖. The assertion implies : syntax
(A)Human beings have only three faculties at (B) freedom with the use of colloquial
their command to comprehend all knowledge language
(B)A sharpening of three faculties mentioned (C) freedom with the use of figurative
would help human beings to become better construction
(C)Only with the combination of all senses, we (D) freedom with literal truth
may become better Answer: A
(D)Seeing, hearing and feeling are not enough
to become better human beings 48. How do you justify the linguistic freedom
Answer: B taken ?
(A) on the basis of scholarship embedded
Read the passage below, and answer the (B) on the basis of form
questions that follow based on your (C) on the basis of the success of the effect
understanding of the passage : (D) on the basis of the thematic grandeur
John Dryden in the late seventeenth century Answer: C
defined poetic license as “The liberty which
poets have assumed to themselves, in all ages, 49. ―Diction‖ means :
of speaking things in verse which are beyond (A) severity of prose
the severity of prose”. In its most common use (B) devices of metre and rhyme
the term is confined to diction alone, to justify (C) poetic license
the poet‟s departure from the rules and (D) syntax and word order
conventions of standard spoken and written Answer: D
prose in matters such as syntax, word order, the
use of archaic or newly coined words, and the 50. ―Poetic license‖ applies to :
conventional use of eye-rhymes. The degree (A) Poets alone
and kinds of linguistic freedom assumed by (B) All literary
poets have varied according to the conventions (C) Dramatists only
of each age, but in every case the justification (D) Epic writers only
of the freedom lies in the success of the effect. Answer: B
In a broader sense, “Poetic License” is applied
not only to language, but to all the ways in
which poets and other literacy authors are held
to be free to violate, for special effects, the
ordinary norms not only of common discourse
but also of literal and historical truth, including
the devices of metre and rhyme, the recourse to Paper 2- December 2005
literary conventions, and the representation of
fictional characters and events. 1. Chaucer‘s The Knight‘s Tale is a high
romance told in :
46. ‗Poetic license‘ means : (A) rhyme royal
(A) liberty with diction, alone (B) terza rima
(B) liberty with diction and norms of common (C) heroic couplets
discourse (D) verse libre
(C) liberty with historical truth Answer: C
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2. Marlowe‘s first original work was : 8. Table-Talk is a collection of essays by :
(A) Tamburlaine the Great (A) Lamb
(B) The Tragical History of D. Faustus (B) Hunt
(C) The Jew of Malta (C) Hazlitt
(D) The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable (D) De Quincey
Death of Edward the second Answer: C
Answer: A
9. Carlyle‘s Sartor Resartus was written
3. Marvell pays his homage to the Protector under the influence of :
and a tribute to the royal dignity of Charles (A) Italian romance
I in : (B) German romance
(A) “The Garden” (C) French romance
(B) “The Picture of T.C.” (D) British romance
(C) “Bermudas” Answer: B
(D) “Horatian ode upon Cromewells‟ Return
From Ireland” 10. The image of the Neptune taming the sea
Answer: D horse appears in :
(A) “Abt Vogler”
4. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman was (B) “Prospice”
written by : (C) “Andrea del Sarto”
(A) Sir Henry Wotton (D) “My Last Duchess”
(B) John Bunyan Answer: D
(C) Jeremy Taylor
(D) Richard Baxter 11. T.S. Eliot‘s The Waste Land is dedicated
Answer: B to Il miglior fabro (―The better Craftsman‖)
which refers to :
5. Dr. Johnson‘s A Dictionary of the English (A) Ezra Pound
Language was published in : (B) Baudelaire
(A) 1755 (C) G.M. Hopkins
(B) 1756 (D) Dante
(C) 1757 Answer: A
(D) 1758
Answer: A 12. The locale of Riders to the Sea is :
(A) Dublin
6. The main idea of The Dunciad was taken (B) Aran Island
from : (C) Galway
(A) The Hind and the Panther (D) Belfast
(B) Religio Laici Answer: B
(C) Mac-Flecknoe
(D) The Medal 13. The ―Bog‖ poems are associated with :
Answer: C (A) Ted Hughes
(B) Elizabeth Jennings
7. The character of the leech gatherer (C) Tony Harrison
appears in : (D) Seamus Heaney
(A) The Recluse Answer: D
(B) The Prelude Book I
(C) Laodamia 14. Edward Bond‘s Bingo deals with the life
(D) Resolution and Independence of :
Answer: D (A) Dryden

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(B) Shakespeare (B) Ottava rima
(C) Ben Jonson (C) Tennysonian stanza
(D) Marlowe (D) Spenserian stanza
Answer: B Answer: B

15. Arthur Millers The Death of a Salesman Choose the correct chronological sequence
is mainly about : in question numbers 21 to 30 :
(A) American dream
(B) American imperialism (A) Love‟s Labour‟s Lost, Twelfth Night,
(C) American pragmatism Othello, The Tempest
(D) American transcendentalism (B) Twelfth Night, Love‟s Labour‟s Lost, The
Answer: A Tempest, Othello
(C) Love‟s Labour‟s Lost, Othello, The
16. The patient in Michael Ondaatje‘s The Tempest, Twelfth Night
English Patient is : (D) Othello, Twelfth Night, Love‟s Labour‟s
(A) Almasy Lost, The Tempest
(B) Caravaggio Answer: A
(C) Kirpal Singh
(D) Hana (A) Ralph Roister Doister, Utopia, Astrophel
Answer: A and Stella, Shepherds Calendar
(B) Astrophel and Stella, Ralph Roister
17. Mimetic criticism views literary work as Doister, Shepherds Calendar
: (C) Shepherds Calendar, Astrophel and Stella,
(A) personalisation Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister
(B) depersonalization (D) Utopia, Ralph Roister Doister, Shepherds
(C) imitation Calendar, Astrophel and Stella
(D) interpretation Answer: D
Answer: C
(A) Sonnet, periodical essay, gothic novel,
18. The concept of ―arche writing‖ is absurd play
developed by : (B) Gothic novel, periodical essay, sonnet,
(A) Fish absurd play
(B) Foucault (C) Periodical essay, gothic novel, absurd play,
(C) Derrida sonnet
(D) Paul de Man (D) Sonnet, gothic novel, periodical essay,
Answer: C absurd play
Answer: A
19. A figure of speech in which two terms
opposite in meaning are placed side by side (A) Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin,
in one phrase is known as : Ted Hughes
(A) paradox (B) T.S. Eliot, Stephen Spender, Philip Larkin,
(B) oxymoron Ted Hughes
(C) sarcasm (C) Philip Larkin, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes,
(D) antithesis Stephen Spender
Answer: B (D) T.S. Eliot, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes,
Stephen Spender
20. A stanza of eight iambic pentametres on Answer: B
the pattern of ab, ab, ab, cc is known as :
(A) Rhyme royal

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(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
Answer: C
(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
Answer: C
(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”
Answer: B
(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”
Answer: A
(A) Midnight‟s Children, Nectar in a Sie‟ve,
Kanthapura, Calcutta Chromosome
(B) Kanthapura, Midnight‟s Children, Nectar
in a Sieve, Calcutta Chromosome
(C) Kanthapura, Midnight‟s Children, Calcutta
Chromosome, Nectar in a Sie‟ve
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(D) Kanthapura, Nectar in a Sie‟ve, Midnight‟s
Children, Calcutta Chromosome
Answer: D
(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
Answer: B
Select the matching pairs in question
numbers 31 to 40 :
(A) Sohrab and Rustum – Arnold
(B) The Princess – Browning
(C) Hugh Selwyn Mauberly – Hopkins
(D) The Excursion – Shelley
Answer: A
(A) Middlemarch – Picaresque
(B) Women in Love – Historical
(C) Pamela – Epistolary novel
(D) Pride and Prejudice – Autobiographical
Answer: C
(A) Dickens – Manchester
(B) Faulkner – Yoknapatawfa
(C) Joyce – Belfast
(D) Lawrence – Birmingham
Answer: B
(A) Naturalism – Zola
(B) Symbolism – T.E. Hulme
(C) Expressionism – V. Woolf
(D) Magic realism – Graham Greene
Answer: A
(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 43. X : ―He‘s mean and stingy.
Answer: D Y : ―Oh, I wouldn‘t say that. He is just
thrifty‖. The above dialogue asserts that he :
(A) Marlowe – Faust (A) is too careful with his money
(B) Fletcher – The White Devil (B) never spends money
(C) Congreve – The Old Bachelor (C) is so careful with his money that everyone
(D) Ben Jonson – The Maid‟s Tragedy admires him for good management
Answer: C (D) is careful with his money
Answer: A
(A) Nadine Gordimer – Nigeria
(B) Chinua Achebe – Kenya 44. ―I wandered lonely as a cloud‖ makes an
(C) Judith Wright – Australia assertion that :
(D) Peter Carey – Canada (A) The poet travelled with the cloud
Answer: C (B) The poet moved aimlessly with the cloud
(C) Both the poet and the cloud were lonely
(A) Campus novel – Margaret Drabble (D) The poet moved as aimlessly as the cloud
(B) Travelogue – Macaulay Answer: D
(C) Diary writing – Samuel Pepys
(D) Periodical essay – Lamb 45. ―Death is here, and death is there Death
Answer: C is busy everywhere All around, within,
beneath, Above, is death – and we are
(A) Girish Karnad – Kannada death‖ The effect of rhythm, sound, word-
(B) A.K. Ramanujan – Telugu order and stress in the above lines
(C) Kamala Das – Tamil (A) assist the communication of meaning
(D) R. Parthasarathy – Malayalam (B) hinder the communication of meaning
Answer: A (C) reflect meaning and mood
(D) reflect a mechanical regularity
(A) Mrs. Malaprop – The School for Scandal Answer: C
(B) Nora – The Seagull
(C) Lydia Languish – She Stoops to Conquer Read the following passage and answer the
(D) Eliza Doolittle – Pygmalion questions that follow based on your
Answer: D understanding of the passage.
All of us live in a society, and are members of
41. In the assertion ―Four out of five people a nationality wtih its own language, tradition,
suffer from dreaded pyorrhoea‖, the writer historical situation. To what extent are
wants to arouse the feeling of : intellectuals servants of these actualities, to
(A) Sympathy what extent enemies ? The same is true of
(B) Fear intellectuals‟ relationship with institutions
(C) Hatred (academy, church, professional guild) and with
(D) Ill-will wordly powers, which in our times have co-
Answer: B opted the intelligentsia to an extraordinary
degree. Thus in my view the principal
42. ―John is six feet tall and 240 lb‖ is an intellectual duty is the search for relative
assertion of : independence from such pressures. Hence my
(A) a fact characterization of the intellectual as an exile
(B) a judgement and marginal, as amateur, and as the author of
(C) an opinion a language that tries to speak the truth to
(D) an inference power.
Answer: D

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46. Name four important sources to which characterised as an exile, marginal, and
an intellectual is related basically : amateur
(A) Society, institutions, wordly powers, and (B) to achieve partial independence and be
government characterised as the author of a language
(B) Institutions, language, truth, and power (C) to manoeuvre independence and be
(C) Nationality, language, tradition, and characterised as a keeper of his own conscience
historical situation (D) to search for relative independence and be
(D) Nationality, truth, language, and tradition characterised as exile and marginal, as amateur,
Answer: C and author
Answer: D
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
Answer: A

48. What are the four important 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
Answer: B

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 Paper 2- June 2006
religion and state
(C) liberating oneself from the pressures of
1. Which one of the following author – book
institutions and wordly powers
pair is correctly matched ?
(D) liberating oneself from all religious and
(A) J.M. Coetzee – Shame
secular pressures
(B) Saul Bellow – Herzog
Answer: C
(C) Salman Rushdie – Disgrace
(D) Elfriede Jelinek – The Pianist
50. What is the duty of an intellectual and Answer: B
how many identities does he acquire to
perform his role ?
(A) to achieve complete independence and be
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2. Which novel has a nameless narrator ? (D) diaries
(A) Invisible Man (B) Answer: D
(B) The Grapes of Wrath
(C) Moby Dick 9. Samuel Butlers Hudibras is modeled upon
(D) Anna Karenina :
Answer: A (A) “Annus Mirabilis”
(B) Endymion
3. Samuel Beckett wrote : (C) Don Quixote
(A) Endgame (D) Pilgrim‟s Progress
(B) Volpone Answer: C
(C) Mother Courage and Her Children
(D) A Doll‟s House 10. Who was the last of the Christian
Answer: A Humanists ?
(A) Oliver Cromowell
4. Willy Loman is a character in : (B) John Milton
(A) A Doll‟s House (C) John Bunyan
(B) The Cherry Orchard (D) Richard Crashaw
(C) Waiting for Godot Answer: C
(D) The Death of a Salesman
Answer: D 11. The narrative of Raja Rao‘s Kanthapura
is based on :
5. The Plough and the Stars was written by : (A) Puranas
(A) G.B. Shaw (B) Shastras
(B) J.M. Synge (C) The Ramayana
(C) Sean O‟casey (D) The Mahabharata
(D) Lady Gregory Answer: A
Answer: C
12. Which of the following author – book
6. The subtitle of Dryden‘s Absalom and pair is correctly matched ?
Achitophel is : (A) David Malouf – The City of Djins
(A) There was no subtitle (B) C.L.R. James – The English Patient
(B) A satire (C) Shashi Tharoor – Trotter Nama
(C) A satire on the True Blue Protestant Poets (D) Arundhati Roy – Algebra of Infinite Justice
(D) A poem Answer: D
Answer: A
13. Who wrote ―A tiger does not proclaim its
7. Who of the following is not a periodical tigretude‖ ?
essayist ? (A) Ngugi
(A) Jonathan Swift (B) Achebe
(B) Joseph Addison (C) Soyinka
(C) Richard Steele (D) Derek Walcott
(D) Lancelot Andrews Answer:C
Answer: D
14. ―Jindiworobak‖ movement relates to :
8. John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys were the (A) Australian literature
famous writers of : (B) Canadian literature
(A) essays (C) New Zealand literature
(B) editorials (D) Caribbean literature
(C) letters Answer: A

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15. The Montreal group of poets 21. Which of the following thinker – concept
championed the cause of : pairs is rightly matched ?
(A) Nature poetry (A) Stanley Fish – Reader Response
(B) Symbolish poetry (B) Jacques Devida – New Historicism
(C) Imagist poetry (C) Northrop Frye – Practical Criticism
(D) Modernist poetry (D) I.A. Richards – Archetypal Criticism
Answer: D Answer: A

16. The figure of the ―Abyssinian maid‖ 22. Which of the following thinker – concept
appears in : pairs is rightly matched ?
(A) “Frost at midnight” (A) Vaman – Dhwanyaloka
(B) “Christabel” (B) Bharata – Natya Shastra
(C) “Kubla Khan” (C) Mamata – Vakrokti
(D) “Dejection : an Ode” (D) Abhinava Gupta – Kavya Alankar
Answer: C Answer: B

17. Coleridges statement that imagination 23. Choose the correct sequence of the
―dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to following schools of criticism :
recreate‖ relates to : (A) Structuralism, New Criticism,
(A) fancy Deconstruction, Reader Response
(B) primary imagination (B) New Criticism, Structuralism,
(C) secondary imagination Deconstruction, Reader Response
(D) esemplastic imagination (C) Reader Response, Deconstruction,
Answer: C Structuralism, New Criticism
(D) Deconstruction, New Criticism,
18. ―Did he who made the Lamb made thee‖ Structuralism, Reader Response
appears in : Answer: B
(A) “The Tyger”
(B) “Chimney Sweeper” 24. ―Peripetia‖ means :
(C) “London” (A) purgation of emotion
(D) “Introduction” (B) tragic flaw
Answer: A (C) reversal of fortune
(D) recognition of error
19. ―Essays of Elia‖ are : Answer: C
(A) political ideology
(B) economic disparity 25. ―Gynocriticism‖ focuses on :
(C) literary criticism (A) Criticism on women
(D) personal impressions (B) Criticism by women
Answer: D (C) Criticism of male writers by women writers
(D) Women as writers
20. Who among the following is a writer of Answer: D
historical romances ?
(A) Emily Bronte 26. Which of the following sequences is
(B) Jane Austen correct ?
(C) Walter Scott (A) Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond, Middlemarch,
(D) Walter Savage Lander The Return of the Native
Answer: C (B) Henry Esmond, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch,
The Return of the Native
(C) Middlemarch, The Return of the Native,
Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond
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(D) The Return of the Native, Middlemarch, (D) The Jew of Malta
Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond Answer: B
Answer: A
33. The mystery plays deal with :
27. Queen Victoria‘s reign, after whom the (A) the life of Christ
Victorian period is named, spans : (B) the New Testament
(A) 1833 – 1901 (C) Psalms
(B) 1837 – 1901 (D) Apocrypha
(C) 1840 – 1905 Answer: A
(D) 1842 – 1905
Answer: B 34. The Faerie Queene is based on :
(A) Utopia
28. Pre – Raphaelite poetry is mainly (B) Tottelis Miscellany
concerned with : (C) Morte d‟Arthur
(A) narrative and style (D) Orlando Furioso
(B) narrative and nature Answer: D
(C) form and design
(D) form and value 35. Choose the correct chronological
Answer: C sequence of the following plays :
(A) King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet
29. The concept of ―mad woman in the attic‖ (B) Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet
can be traced to : (C) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
(A) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (D) Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth
(B) Villette Answer: C
(C) Wuthering Heights
(D) Jane Eyre 36. Pope‘s ―Essay on Criticism‖ sums up the
Answer: D art of poetry as taught first by :
(A) Aristotle
30. Who among the Victorians is called ―the (B) Horace
prophet of modern society‖ ? (C) Longinus
(A) Ruskin (D) Plato
(B) Carlyle Answer: B
(C) Macaulay
(D) Arnold 37. Swift‘s Tale of a Tub is a satire on :
Answer: D (A) science and philosophy
(B) art and morality
31. Who among the following is not a (C) dogma and superstition
pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales ? (D) fake morals and manners
(A) the Haberdasher Answer: A
(B) the Tapyser
(C) the Blacksmith 38. Dr. Johnson started :
(D) the Summoner (A) The Postman
Answer: C (B) The Spectator
(C) The Rambler
32. Bosola is the executioner in : (D) The Tatler
(A) The Spanish Tragedy Answer: C
(B) The Duchess of Malfi
(C) The White Devil 39. Who among the following cautioned
against the dangers of popular liberty ?

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(A) Mary Wollstonecraft 45. The theatre of cruelty is associated with :
(B) Edmund Burke (A) Stanislavosky
(C) Thomas Hobbes (B) Grotovsky
(D) John Locke (C) Antonin Artand
Answer: C (D) Eugino Barba
Answer: C
40. Which famous American classic opens
with ―Call me Ishmael‖ ? 46. A particle is :
(A) Rip Van Winkle (A) a patchwork of words, sentences, passages
(B) The Scarlet Letter (B) a satirical poem
(C) The Grapes of Wrath (C) a love song
(D) Moby Dick (D) a collection of lines from different poems
Answer: D Answer: A

41. Allen Ginsberg‘s vision of America is 47. ―Careless she is with artful
inspired by : Care/Affecting to seem unaffected‖ is an
(A) Walt Whitman example of :
(B) Robert Frost (A) irony
(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson (B) paradox
(D) Edgar A. Poe (C) simile
Answer: A (D) metaphor
Answer: B
42. Who among the following represents the
Sri Lankan diaspora ? 48. A metrical foot containing a stressed,
(A) M.G. Vassanji followed by an unstressed, syllable is :
(B) Cyril Debydeen (A) anapaest
(C) Michael Ondaatje (B) iamb
(D) Arnold H. Itwaru (C) trochee
Answer: C (D) dactyl
Answer: C
43. Out of Africa is a film adaptation of a
work by : 49. The rhyme scheme of a Spenserian
(A) Alice Walker sonnet is :
(B) Margaret Lawrence (A) abba, cbcb, cdcd, ee
(C) Margaret Atwood (B) abab, bccb, ccdd, ee
(D) None of them (C) aabb, bcbc, ccdd, ee
Answer: D (D) abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee
Answer: D
44. The Empire writes Back was written by :
(A) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Ngugi Wa 50. Using the expression ―Crown‖ for the
Thinngo monarchy is an example of :
(B) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Stephen (A) Metonymy
Slemon (B) Synecdoche
(C) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Chinua (C) Irony
Achebe (D) Metaphor
(D) Bill Ashcroft, Helen Tiffin, Gareth Answer: A
Griffiths
Answer: D

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1. The title The Sound and the Fury is taken
from :
(A) Hamlet
(B) Macbeth
(C) The Tempest
(D) King Lear
Answer: B

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2. Pecola is a character in : (C) nature of human society
(A) The Bluest Eye (D) nature of human ideology
(B) Oliver Twist Answer: B
(C) Don Quixote
(D) Beloved 9. Restoration Comedy marks the
Answer: A restoration of :
(A) women‟s rights
3. Which of the following was associated (B) democracy
with the ―Bloomsbury Group‖. (C) monarchy
(A) T. S. Eliot (D) human rights
(B) W. B. Yeats Answer: C
(C) T. E. Hulme
(D) Virginia Woolf 10. Which of Alexander Pope‘s poems
Answer: D begins with the line ―Shut, shut the door,
good
4. Which of the following characters appear John, fatigued I said‖ :
in Waiting for Godot : (A) “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”
(A) Jerry (B) “Dunciad”
(B) Lucky (C) “Epistles”
(C) Jimmy Porter (D) “Rape of the Lock”
(D) Ham Answer: A
Answer: B
11. The statement ―One has to convey in a
5. About whom did T. S. Eliot write ―A language that is not one‘s own the spirit that
thought to him was an experience‖ : is
(A) Herbert one‘s own‖ appears in :
(B) Marvell (A) Ice-Candy Man
(C) Donne (B) The Guide
(D) Crashaw (C) Nagamandala
Answer: C (D) Kanthapura
Answer: D
6. The last book of Gulliver‘s Travels is :
(A) “Voyage to Houyhnhnms” 12. Which of the following author-book pair
(B) “Voyage to Laputa” is correctly matched :
(C) “Voyage to Brobdingnag” (A) Arundhati Roy – The Autumn of the
(D) “Voyage to Lilliput” Patriarch
Answer: A (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the
Time of Cholera
7. Who edited The Tatler : (C) Umber to Eco – The Tin Drum
(A) Steele and John Locke (D) Jhumpa Lahiri – Beloved
(B) Addison and Dryden Answer: B
(C) Addison and Blackmore
(D) Addison and Steele 13. Which of the following women writers
Answer: D did not receive the Noble Prize :
(A) Toni Morrison
8. John Locke‘s ―Essay Concerning Human (B) Nadine Gordiner
Understanding‖ is about : (C) Buchi Emcheta
(A) nature of human behaviour (D) Doris Lessing
(B) nature of the human mind Answer: C

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14. Which of the following is not an 20. In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia and
Australian author : Wickham eloped to :
(A) Margaret Laurence (A) London
(B) David Malauf (B) Bath
(C) Mudooroo Narogin (C) Gretna Green
(D) Peter Carey (D) Glasgow
Answer: A Answer: A

15. The Tulsis of Naipaul‘s A House for Mr. 21. Which of the following thinker-concept
Biswas lived in : pairs is correctly matched :
(A) Pagotes House (A) Frye ……….. Mysticism
(B) Hanuman Mansion (B) Derrida …………. Deconstruction
(C) Tulsiana (C) I. A. Richards ……….. Archetypal
(D) Hanuman House Criticism
Answer: D (D) Eagleton …………… Psychological
Criticism
16. The quotation ―a repetition in the finite Answer: B
mind of the eternal act of creation in the
infinite I AM‖ appears in : 22. Which of the following thinker concept
(A) Lyrical Ballads pairs is correctly matched :
(B) Biographia Literaria (A) Abhinava Gupta ………….. Dhwanyaloka
(C) “In Defense of Poetry” (B) Vaman ………….. Kavya Alankar
(D) Letters of Keats (C) Mamata ………….. Kavya Prakash
Answer: B (D) Bharata ………….. Vakrokti
Answer: C
17. ―Fearful Symmetry‖ appears in the
poem : 23. Choose the correct sequence of the
(A) “Introduction” following schools of criticism :
(B) “Chimney Sweeper” (A) Structuralism, Deconstruction, Reader-
(C) “The Tyger” Response, New Historicism
(D) “London” (B) New Historicism, Reader-Response,
Answer: C Deconstruction, Structuralism
(C) Deconstruction, New Historicism,
18. The quotation ―when a man is capable of Structuralism, Reader-Response
being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, (D) Reader-Response, Deconstruction, New
without any irritable reaching after fact and Historicism, Structuralism
reasons‖ is a definition of : Answer: A
(A) Negative capability
(B) Secondary imagination 24. ―Hamartia‖ means :
(C) Criticism of life (A) reversal of fortunes
(D) Dissociation of sensibility (B) purgation of emotions
Answer: A (C) depravity
(D) error of judgement
19. Which of the following prose-writers do Answer: D
not belong to the Romantic Period :
(A) Peacock 25. The term ―gynocriticism‖ was coined by
(B) De Quincey :
(C) Hazlitt (A) Betty Friedman
(D) Gibbon (B) Elaine Showalter
Answer: D (C) Luce Irigarey
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(D) Susan Sontag (A) the Prioress
Answer: B (B) the Nun
(C) the Wife of Bath
26. Which is the correct sequence : (D) the Narrator
(A) D. G. Rossetti, George Eliot, Bronte Answer: C
Sisters, Thackeray
(B) George Eliot, D. G. Rossetti, Bronte 32. Which of the following is not a Revenge
Sisters, Thackeray Tragedy :
(C) Thackeray, Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, D. (A) Duchess of Malfi
G. Rossetti (B) Volpone
(D) Bronte Sisters, George Eliot, Thackeray, D. (C) Hamlet
G. Rossetti (D) Gorboduc
Answer: C Answer: B

27. Which of Dickens‘ novels opens with the 33. Miracle plays are based on the lives of :
words ―It was the best of times, it was the (A) Knights
worst of times …. ―. (B) Crusaders
(A) A Tale of Two Cities (C) Pilgrims
(B) Oliver Twist (D) Saints
(C) Pickwick Papers Answer: D
(D) Hard Times
Answer: A 34. The Red cross Knight is Spenser‘s Faerie
Queene represents :
28. The term ―The Fleshly School of Poetry‖ (A) Temperance
is associated with the : (B) Chastity
(A) Chartists (C) Truth
(B) Pre-Raphaelites (D) Falsehood
(C) Symbolists Answer: C
(D) Imagists
Answer: B 35. The line ―Present fears/Are less than
horrible imaginings‖ appear in :
29. The line ―The sea is calm tonight‖ occurs (A) Macbeth
in : (B) King Lear
(A) Tennyson‟s “Maude” (C) Othello
(B) Arnold‟s “Thyrsis” (D) Julius Caesar
(C) Tennyson‟s “The Lotos-Eaters” Answer: A
(D) Arnold‟s “Dover Beach”
Answer: D 36. The author of Ars Poetica is :
(A) Plato
30. The term ―gothic‖, a category of fiction, (B) Horace
also applies to : (C) Virgil
(A) architecture (D) Aristotle
(B) painting Answer: B
(C) music
(D) theater 37. Which of the following is not a work by
Answer: A Dr. Johnson :
(A) Preface to the English Dictionary
31. The gap-toothed character in ―prologue‖ (B) Preface to Shakespeare
to The Centerbury Tales is : (C) Lives of English Poets

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(D) Cowley (D) a exposition of Canadian history
Answer: D Answer: B

38. Which novel of Daniel Defoe was 44. The term ―Negritude‖ was coined by :
considered to be the best by E. M. Forster ? (A) Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha
(A) Colonel Jack (B) Ngugi Wa‟ Thiongo and Wole Soyinka
(B) Robinson Crusoe (C) Ainee Cesaire and Leopold Senghor
(C) Captain Singleton (D) K. Alfred Memi and Chinua Achebe
(D) Moll Flanders Answer: C
Answer: D
45. Bertolt Brecht‘s concept of theatre was
39. Edmund Burke denounced the French influenced by :
Revolution in : (A) Irwin Piscator
(A) Political Philosophy (B) Antonin Artaud
(B) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of (C) Peter Brook
our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (D) Eugino Barba
(C) Reflections Answer: A
(D) The Annual Register
Answer: C 46. The relationship between Othello and
Iago is an example of :
40. The line ―A man can be destroyed but (A) inversion
not defeated‖ appears in : (B) irony
(A) For Whom the Bell Tolls (C) innuendo
(B) The Old Man and the Sea (D) invective
(C) The Snows of Kilimanjaro Answer: D
(D) The Sun also Rises
Answer: B 47. A metrical foot consisting of an
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
41. Who among the following is called ―A syllable is :
New England Poet‖ : (A) dactyl
(A) Robert Frost (B) trochee
(B) Edwin Arlington Robinson (C) iamb
(C) William Carlos Williams (D) anapaest
(D) Allen Ginsberg Answer: C
Answer: A
48. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean
42. Which of the following is not a play by sonnet is :
Tennessee Williams : (A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(A) Night of the Iguana (B) abba, cddc, effe, gg
(B) A Streetcar named Desire (C) abcd, efgh, effe, hh
(C) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (D) abca, abca, bcab, dd
(D) The Zoo Story Answer: A
Answer: D
49. Using ―the Bench‖ for the judiciary is an
43. Margaret Atwood‘s Survival is : example of :
(A) a critical assessment of Canadian writing (A) metaphor
(B) a thematic guide to Canadian literature (B) irony
(C) a critique of Canadian polity (C) Synecdoche

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(D) metonymy
Answer: D

50. Four feet, comprising a monosyllable,

trochee, dactyl and first paeon is often called
:
(A) running rhythm
(B) sprung rhythm
(C) blank verse
(D) rhymed verse
Answer: B

Paper 2- June 2007

1. The lines :
‗Even I, a dunce of more renown than they,
Was sent before but to prepare thy way‘ are
quoted from :
(A) Pope‟s Dunciad
(B) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel
(C) Dryden‟s Mac Flecknoe
(D) Swift‟s A Tale of a Tub
Answer: C

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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
Answer: A
8. Select the matching pair :
(A) The Book of the Duchess : Blanche of
Leicester
(B) The Canterbury Tales : The Host of the
Tabard
(C) Troilus and Criseyde : Squire
(D) The Parliament of Birds : St. Agnes‟s Eve
Answer: C

3. The unexpurgated text of Lady 9. ‗The Winter Morning‘ forms part of a

Chatterley‘s Lover was published after longer poem by :
Obscenity trial in (A) Cowper
: (B) Blake
(A) 1958 (C) Burns
(B) 1965 (D) Byron
(C) 1960 Answer: A
(D) 1962
Answer: C 10. Bradley Pearson is the narrator of Iris
Murdoch‘s novel :
4. Sir Andrew Freeport is a character in : (A) Under the Net
(A) Humphry Clinker (B) Bruno‟s Dream
(B) Joseph Andrews (C) The Bell
(C) The Coverley Papers (D) The Black Prince
(D) Clarissa Answer: D
Answer: C
11. ‗Victorian Compromise‘ is an expression
5. In which of the following novels does Stein first used by :
feature as a significant character ? (A) David Cecil
(A) Under Western Eyes (B) G. K. Chesterton
(B) Lord Jim (C) Lytton Strachey
(C) Heart of Darkness (D) Vincent Buckley
(D) Nostromo Answer: B
Answer: B
12. More‘s Latin Masterpiece Utopia was
6. The Grand Inquisitor is a character in : translated into English in :
(A) Crime and Punishment (A) 1551
(B) Notes from the Underground (B) 1498
(C) Brothers Karamazov (C) 1516
(D) The Idiot (D) 1532
Answer: C Answer: A

7. Which modern critic described value 13. The Anxiety of Influence : A Theory of
judgements as ‗the donkey‘s carrot of Poetry is written by :
literary criticism‘ ? (A) Maud Bodkin
(A) T. S. Eliot (B) Stephen Spender
(B) I. A. Richards (C) Harold Bloom
(C) William Empson (D) Frank Kernode
(D) Northrop Frye Answer: C
Answer: D

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14. Who among the following was not a (C) 1686
member of the group, ‗The University Wits‘ (D) 1684
? Answer: D
(A) Thomas Nashe
(B) Ben Jonson 20. The Egoist is written by :
(C) George Peele (A) Blackmore
(D) Samuel Daniel (B) William Thackeray
Answer: B (C) Meredith
(D) Hardy
15. William Beckford‘s oriental fantasy Answer: C
Vathek was originally written in :
(A) Spanish 21. Which is the correct chronological
(B) German sequence of the following novels ?
(C) French (A) Decline and Fall – The Time Machine –
(D) Italian Nineteen Eightyfour – Brave New World
Answer: C (B) Nineteen Eightyfour – Decline and Fall –
The Time Machine – Brave New World
16. The term ‗American renaissance‘ was (C) Brave New World – The Time Machine –
first used by : Nineteen Eightyfour – Decline and Fall
(A) R. W. B Lewis (D) The Time Machine – Decline and Fall –
(B) Leo Marx Brave New World – Nineteen Eightyfour
(C) F. O. Matthiessen Answer: D
(D) Richard Chase
Answer: C 22. Roland Barthes is the author of one of
the following texts :
17. ‗Gladly would he learn, and gladly (A) The Death of Tragedy
teach‘ is a line from : (B) The Death of a Hero
(A) Spenser‟s Fairie Queen (C) The Death of the Author
(B) Goldsmith‟s „The Deserted Village‟ (D) The Death of Literature
(C) Chaucer‟s Prologue to Canterbury Tales Answer: C
(D) Langland‟s Piers Plowman
Answer: C 23. The author of the Elizabethan sonnet
sequence, Idea, is :
18. Which of the following arrangement of (A) Samuel Daniel
the English plays is in correct chronological (B) Michael Drayton
order ? (C) Edmund Spenser
(A) Justice – The Family Reunion – Saint Joan (D) Fulke Greville
– The Playboy of the Western World Answer: B
(B) Saint Joan – Justice – The Playboy of the
Western World – The Family Reunion 24. Muriel Spark‘s The Prime of Miss Jean
(C) The Family Reunion – Saint Joan – Justice Brodie is a rewriting of the Victorian novel :
– The Playboy of the Western World (A) Jane Eyre
(D) The Playboy of the Western World – (B) Villette
Justice – Saint Joan – The Family Reunion (C) Wuthering Heights
Answer: D (D) North and South
Answer: A
19. The second part of The Pilgrim‘s
Progress was published in : 25. The Romantic Imagination is the title of
(A) 1690 a book by :
(B) 1678
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(A) Harold Bloom (C) For Whom the Bell Tolls : Italy
(B) Graham Hough (D) The Sound and the Fury : Boston
(C) C. M. Bowra Answer: B
(D) M. H. Abrahms
Answer: C 32. ‗The page is printed‘. This is the last line
in a poem by :
26. ‗Ode on the Spring‘ was written by : (A) Sylvia Plath
(A) Thomas Gray (B) Dylan Thomas
(B) John Keats (C) Philip Larkin
(C) Abraham Cowley (D) Ted Hughes
(D) William Collins Answer: D
Answer: A
33. T. S. Eliot‘s The Wasteland was first
27. Which of the following books was not published in :
published in 1859 ? (A) The Criterion
(A) Darwin : The Origin of Species (B) The Dial
(B) George Eliot : Adam Bede (C) The Yale Review
(C) Mill : On Liberty (D) New Yorker
(D) Ruskin : Unto This Last Answer: A
Answer: D
34. ‗Relationship‘ is a long poem by :
28. Three Guineas is the title of a book by : (A) A. K. Ramanujan
(A) E. M. Forster (B) R. Parthasarathy
(B) Virginia Woolf (C) Jayanta Mahapatra
(C) George Orwell (D) Kamala Das
(D) G. B. Shaw Answer: C
Answer: B
35. The phrase, ‗bottomless perdition‘
29. Harold Pinter‘s first four plays are : occurs in Milton‘s Paradise Lost in :
(A) The Caretaker, The Room, The (A) Book I
Homecoming, The Birthday Party (B) Book IV
(B) The Room, The Dumb Waiter, The (C) Book VI
Birthday Party, The Caretaker (D) Book XII
(C) The Homecoming, The Caretaker, Old Answer: A
Times, Betrayal
(D) The Dumb Waiter, The Caretaker, No 36. Which of the following arrangements of
Man‟s Land, Betrayal American plays is in the correct
Answer: B chronological sequence ?
(A) Mourning Becomes Electra – The Hairy
30. Identify the odd character out : Ape – Death of a Salesman – A Streetcar
(A) Bosola Named Desire
(B) De Flores (B) The Hairy Ape – Death of a Salesman –
(C) Iago Mourning Becomes Electra – A Streetcar
(D) Kent Named Desire
Answer: D (C) A Streetcar Named Desire – The Hairy Ape
– Mourning Becomes Electra – Death of a
31. Select the matching pair : Salesman
(A) The Great Gatsby : Chicago (D) The Hairy Ape – Mourning Becomes
(B) The Old Man and the Sea : Cuba Electra – A Streetcar Named Desire – Death of

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a Salesman 41. Arrange the following characters in
Answer: D chronological sequence :
(A) Mr. Rochester – David Copperfield –
37. Which of the following arrangements of Rosamond – Bathsheba
famous characters is in the correct (B) David Copperfield – Rosamond – Mr.
chronological order ? Rochester – Bathsheba
(A) Vittoria Corombona – Beatrice – (C) Bathsheba – Mr. Rochester – David
Christiana – Hermione Copperfield – Becky Sharp
(B) Beatrice – Hermione – Vittoria Corombona (D) David Copperfield – Bathsheba – Mr.
– Christiana Rochester – Rosamond
(C) Hermione – Beatrice – Vittoria Corombona Answer: A
– Christiana
(D) Beatrice – Vittoria Corombona – Hermione 42. The book, The Religion of Man is written
– Christiana by :
Answer: B (A) Sri. Aurobindo
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
38. Which of the following is in correct (C) A. K. Coomaraswamy
chronological sequence ? (D) V. K. Gokak
(A) In Memoriam – „Lycidas‟ – „An Elegy Answer:B
Written on a Country Churchyard‟ – Adonais
(B) Adonais – In Memoriam – „Lycidas‟ – „An 43. In the poem ‗Windhover‘ Hopkins uses :
Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard‟ (A) Alternate Rhyme
(C) „An Elegy Written on a Country (B) Disyllabic Rhyme
Churchyard‟ – In Memoriam – Adonais (C) Cross Rhyme
„Lycidas‟ (D) Split Rhyme
(D) „Lycidas‟ – „An Elegy Written on a Answer: D
Country Churchyard‟ – Adonais – In
Memoriam 44. Which Dickens novel attacks the New
Answer:D Poor Law of 1834 in the opening chapters ?
(A) Great Expectations
39. The Chartist Demonstration in London (B) Hard Times
involving the third presentation of Charter (C) Oliver Twist
took place in : (D) Dombey and Son
(A) 1842 Answer: C
(B) 1846
(C) 1848 45. ‗Throw away thy rod, throw away thy
(D) 1851 wrath, O my God, take the gentle path‘
Answer: C These lines are taken from a poem by :
(A) Herbert
40. ‗Life, like a dome of many-coloured (B) Donne
glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, (C) Crashaw
Until Death tramples it into fragments‘ The (D) Vaughan
above lines occur in : Answer: A
(A) „Dejection : An Ode‟
(B) Adonais 46. ‗Epithalamium‘ is a :
(C) In Memoriam (A) song of mourning
(D) „Thyrsis‟ (B) song of eulogy
Answer: B (C) nuptial song
(D) funeral song
Answer: C
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47. The Gutenberg Bible was first published
in :
(A) 1456
(B) 1516
(C) 1449
(D) 1498
Answer: A

48. Identify the odd one out :

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

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
Answer: C

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 Paper 2- December 2007
(D) He ran out of his stock of opium
Answer: C 1. The author of The Provok‘d Husband
was:
(A) Etherege
(B) Colley Cibber
(C)Wycherley
(D)Vanbrugh
Answer: B

2. Who among the boys in Golding‘s Lord of

the Flies is associated with Christ ?
(A) Piggy
(B) Ralph
(C) Jack

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(D) Simon Panther- Hutchinson‟s Memoirs
Answer: D (D) Dryden‟s Hind and the Panther – Bunyan‟s
Pilgrim‟s Progress Hutchinson‟s Memoirs-
3. The complete title of Laurance Stern‘s Milton‟s Paradise Lost
novel Tristram Shandy is: Answer: C
(A)The Strange and Surprising Adventures of
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 8. The Little Minister is a novel by :
(B)A True Account of The Life of Tristram (A) John Galsworthy
Shandy, Gentleman (B)H.G. Wells
(C)The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, (C) James M. Barrie
Gentleman (D)Rudyard Kipling
(D)The Strange and Surprising Opinions of Answer: C
Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Answer: C 9. Which Augustan writer‘s epitaph reads :
―one who strove with all his might to
4. Feminine ending refers to : champion liberty‖ ?
(A) a stressed final syllable in a line of verse (A) Alexander Pope
(B) the ending of a poem in a stressed syllable (B) Jonathan Swift
(C) the ending of a poem in an unstressed (C) Henry Fielding
syllable (D) Daniel Defoe
(D) an unstressed final syllable in a line of Answer: B
verse
Answer: C 10. In which of the following novels incidents
relating to the declaration of Emergency in
5. The essay ‗The Death of the Author‘ is India in 1975 figure?
written by : (A) Farrukh Dhondy‟s Bombay Duck
(A) Michel Foucault (B) Vikram Seth‟s A Suitable Boy
(B) Jacques Derrida (C) Upamanyu Chatterjee‟s English August :
(C) Roland Barthes An Indian Story
(D) Alvin Kernan (D) Rohinton Mistry‟s Such Long Journey
Answer: C Answer: D

6. Salman Rushdie‘s Shame is set in : 11. Identify the matching pair :

(A) East Pakistan (A) Edward II : Zenocrate
(B) India and Pakistan (B) The Jew of Malta : Barabas
(C) Pakistan (C) The Spanish Tragedy : Horatio
(D) None of the above (D)Tamburlaine : Gaveston
Answer: C Answer: C

7. Choose the correct chronological sequence 12. The future ruin of Troy and the murder
in : of Agamemnon are referred to by W.B.
(A) Lucy Hutchinson‟s Memoirs of the life of Yeats in :
Colonel Hutchinson – Milton‟s Paradise Lost – (A) The Second Coming
Bunyan‟s Pilgrim‟s Progress – Dryden‟s The (B) Circus Animals Desertion
Hind and the Panther (C) When You Are Old
(B) Hutchinson‟s Memoirs – Bunyan‟s (D) Leda and Swan
Pilgrim‟s Progress – Dryden‟s Hind and the Answer: A
Panther- Milton‟s Paradise Lost
(C) Milton‟s Paradise Lost – Bunyan‟s
Pilgrim‟s Progress – Dryden‟s Hind and the
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13. Inscape refers to : (D) 1760
(A) The indwelling presence of God in nature Answer: B
(B) The universal character of a natural thing
(C) The individuating character of a natural 19.The main character in Gogol‘s Dead
thing Souls is :
(D) The moment of release from the material (A) Oblomov
world (B) Bazarov
Answer: C (C) Alyosha
(D) Chichikov
14. In which of these plays does Edward Answer: D
Albee use the ‗success‘ myth ?
(A) A Zoo Story 20. After Shakespeare made his debut as a
(B) Who‟s Afraid of Virginia Woolf London playwright, he was described as
(C) American Dream an‘upstart crow‘ by :
(D) The Death of Bessie Smith (A) Robert Greene
Answer: C (B) Thomas Lodge
(C) Christopher Marlowe
15. ―The voice of poetry comes from a (D) John Lyly
region above us, a plane of our being above Answer: A
and beyond our personal intelligence‖. Who
among the following is the author of the 21. What was the first play of Mrs. Dalloway
above lines? called ?
(A) Rabindranath Tagore (A) Clarissa
(B) A.K. Coomaraswamy (B) Hours
(C) Sri Aurobindo (C)The Big Ben
(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose (D)The Party
Answer: C Answer: D

16. The number of poems in Sidney‘s sonnet 22. Which of the following Caribbean novels
sequence Astrophil and Stella is : makes inter textual references to Jane Eyre
(A) 99 ?
(B) 47 (A) No Telephone to Heaven
(C) 112 (B) Wide Sargasso Sea
(D) 108 (C) Crick Crack Monkey
Answer: D (D) Between Two Worlds
Answer: B
17. J.M. Coetzee‘s Foe is a postmodern
retelling of : 23. The term ‗metaphysical poets‘, was first
(A) Ivanhoe used by :
(B) Evelina (A) Ben Jonson
(C) Robinson Crusoe (B) Dr. Johnson
(D) The Moonstone (C) Helen Gardner
Answer: C (D) Dryden
Answer: B
18. Johnson‘s edition of Shakespeare
appeared in : 24. ―Only connect‖ is the epigraph to a novel
(A) 1752 by :
(B) 1765 (A) George Orwell
(C) 1791 (B) Joseph Conrad

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(C) D.H. Lawrence 30. Which of the following feminist critics
(D) E.M. Forster used the expression ‗Gynocriticism‘for the
Answer: D first time ?
(A) Kate Millet
25. The expression ―Thy hand, great (B) Simone de Beauvoir
Anarch‖ occurs in a satire by : (C)Elaine Showalter
(A) Dryden (D) Mary Ellmann
(B) Pope Answer: C
(C) Johnson
(D)Swift 31. John Keats‘s poem ‗Ode to a
Answer: B Nightingale‘ was composed in :
(A) 1818
26. In which of the following novels by (B) 1819
Graham Greene does the little girl Brigitta (C) 1820
appear ? (D) 1821
(A) The Heart of the Matter Answer: B
(B) The Power and the Glory
(C) Brighton Rock 32. The Female Quixote was written by :
(D) The Quiet American (A)Henry Fielding
Answer: B (B)Tobias Smollett
(C) Charlotte Lennox
27. The author of ‗A Satire Against Reason (D) Aphra Behn
and Mankind‘ is : Answer: C
(A)Rochester
(B)Dryden 33. Which contemporary British poet has
(C)Gray translated Beowulf ?
(D) Swift (A) Thom Gunn
Answer: A (B) Alan Lewis
(C)Edward Thomas
28.‘Anagnorisis‘ is a term used by Aristotle (D) Seamus Heaney
for describing : Answer: D
(A) The moment of discovery by the
protagonist 34.‘The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers‘ is :
(B) The reversal of fortune for the protagonist (A) A poem by William Blake an essay by
(C) The happy resolution of the plot Charles Lamb
(D) The convergence of the main plot and the (B) An elegy by William Wordsworth
sub plot (C) An essay by Charles Lamb
Answer: A (D) An essay by William Hazlitt
Answer: C
29. In which play by Shakespeare do we find
widowed queens questioning the 35. The Loneliness of a Long Distance
assumptions of male politics ? Runner is a novel by :
(A) Henry V (A) Kingsley Amis
(B) Richard III (B) Alan Sillitoe
(C)Anthony and Cleopatra (C) John Braine
(D) Hamlet (D) John Osborne
Answer: B Answer: B

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36. In ‗Black Venus‘ Angela Carter takes (C) Moll Flanders
elements from the poetry of a famous (D) Emma
French poet and places them in a very Answer: D
different paradigm. Who is the French poet
? 42. It appears that in Paradise Lost Book I
(A)Baudelaire ―Milton belongs to the Devil‘s party without
(B)Mallarme knowing it‖. Who among the following made
(C)Verlaine this statement ?
(D)Apollinaire (A) Frank Kermode
Answer: A (B) William Empson
(C) C.S. Lewis
37. Strophe, antistrophe and epode form a (D) William Blake
three-part structure in : Answer: D
(A) a classic ode
(B) a Greek chorus 43. Live Like Pigs is :
(C)a medieval ballad (A) a humorous poem by Pope
(D) a Petrarchan sonnet (B) an allegorical narrative by Orwell
Answer: A (C) a play by Arden
(D) a satirical sketch by Swift
38. The words ―where are the songs of Answer: C
spring ? Ay, where are they ?‖ occur in :
(A) Ode to the West Wind 44. ‗A woman drew her long black hair out
(B) The Seasons tight And fiddled whisper music on those
(C) Ode to Autumn strings‘. From which section of Eliot‘s The
(D) Resolution and Independence Waste Land are the above lines taken ?
Answer: C (A) A Game of Chess
(B) What the Thunder Said
39. ―Music that gentler on the spirit lies than (C) Burial of the Dead
tired eyelids upon tired eyes‖ the above lines (D) Fire Sermon
occur in Tennyson‘s : Answer: B
(A) Tears, Idle Tears
(B) In Memoriam 45. Which is the correct sequence of
(C) Maud Achebe‘s African Trilogy ?
(D) The Lotus Eaters (A) Things Fall Apart – Arrow of God – No
Answer: D Longer At Ease
(B) No Longer At Ease – Arrow of God –
40. Which of the following pairs is correctly Things Fall Apart
matched ? (C) Things Fall Apart – No Longer At Ease –
(A) Robert Southey : Lady of the Lake Arrow of God
(B) T.S. Eliot : Lake Isle of Innisfree (D) Arrow of God – Things Fall Apart – No
(C) A.C. Swinburne : The Lady of Shallott Longer At Ease
(D)Thomas De Quincey : Recollections of the Answer: C
Lakes and the Lake Poets
Answer: D 46. Which are the figures of speech used in
the following lines by Blake
41. Which famous English novel opens with ―Tyger, tyger, burning bright
a young woman who is ‗handsome, clever In the forest of the night,
and rich‘ ? What immortal hand or eye
(A) Middlemarch Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?‖
(B) Wuthering Heights (A) simile and personification
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(B) irony and synecdoche
(C) apostrophe and synecdoche
(D) metonymy and apostrophe
Answer: C

47. In which of the following American

novels does ‗the Valley of Ashes‘ occur ?
(A) Huck Finn
(B) The Red Badge of Courage
(C) Invisible Man
(D) The Great Gatsby
Answer: D

48. To whom is Chaucer referring when he

says ‗He knew the tavern well in every town‘
?
(A) Pardoner
(B) Monk
(C) Squire
(D) Friar
Answer: D

49. ―Poetry is a criticism of life under the

conditions fixed for such a criticism by laws
of poetic truth and poetic beauty‖. Who,
among the following, made the above
statement ?
(A) Dr. Johnson
(B) Sidney
(C) Matthew Arnold
(D) Wordsworth
Answer: C
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50. ―She is inspired but diabolically
inspired‖. Who is this lady ? 1. Tennyson‘s poem about women‘s rights
(A) Candida and women‘s sphere is :
(B) Major Barbara (A) Maud
(C) Saint Joan (B) In Memoriam
(D) Ann (C) Idylls of the King
Answer: C (D) The Princess
Answer: D

2. ‗Hymn To Adversity‘ is a poem by :

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

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3.The King James Bible was published in : (C) Ode
(A)1609 (D) Haiku
(B) 1610 Answer: D
(C)1611
(D) 1612 10. Which of the following Shakespearean
Answer: C plays are in the correct chronological
sequence ?
4.‘IL Migilor Fabro‘ is the expression Eliot (A) The Merchant of Venice – Henry IV Part I
used for : – Romeo and Juliet – Richard II
(A) W. B. Yeats (B) Richard II – Henry IV Part I – Romeo and
(B) Samuel Beckett Juliet – The Merchant of Venice
(C) W. H. Auden (C) Henry IV Part I – Romeo and Juliet – The
(D) Ezra Pound Merchant of Venice – Richard II
Answer: D (D) Romeo and Juliet -Richard II – Henry IV
Part I – The Merchant of Venice
5. ‗The Figure a poem Makes‘ is an essay by Answer: D
:
(A) Henry James 11. The word ‗nature‘ in the eighteenth
(B) Sylvia Plath century literature stands for :
(C) Robert Frost (A) Nature of writing
(D) Wallace Stevens (B) External nature
Answer: C (C) Human nature
(D) The Universe
6. ‖Ripeness is all‖ occurs in : Answer: C
(A) King Lear
(B) Hamlet 12. Who is given credit for first using the
(C) Macbeth term―romantic?
(D) Julius Caeser (A) Friedrich Schlegel
Answer: A (B) Kant
(C) Coleridge
7. A. C. Bradley‘s Shakespearean Tragedy (D) Schiller
was published in : Answer: A
(A) 1903
(B) 1904 13. Gudrun is a character in a novel by :
(C) 1905 (A) James Joyce
(D) 1906 (B) Virginia Woolf
Answer: B (C) D. H. Lawrence
(D) E. M. Forster
8. ‗Topsy‘ appears in : Answer: C
(A) Uncle Tom‟s Cabin
(B) History of the United States 14. July‘s People is a novel by :
(C) Walden (A) Margaret Atwood
(D) Tom Sawyer (B) V. S. Naipul
Answer: A (C) Wole Soyinka
(D) Nadine Gordimer
9. A poem that captures the essence of a Answer: D
moment in a simple image is :
(A) Lyric 15. Heroic Couplet is a pair of :
(B) Ballad (A) Rhyming iambic pentameter lines

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(B) Unrhyming iambic pentameter lines (D) Shelley
(C) Rhyming iambic hexameter Answer: A
(D) Unrhyming iambic hexameter
Answer: A 22. A Dance of the Forest is written by :
(A) Margaret Atwood
16. ‗Gestalt‘ theory of literature considers (B) Nadine Gordimer
text as : (C) Chinua Achebe
(A) a structure of metaphors (D) Wole Soyinka
(B) a unified whole Answer: D
(C) an experimentation in form
(D) construction of history 23. The first Canadian poet is :
Answer: B (A) Charles Sangster
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
17. Margaret Laurence is a novelist from : (C) Charles Heavysege
(A) Australia (D) Alexander Machlachlan
(B) The U.S.A. Answer: A
(C) Canada
(D) Britain 24. Heroic quatrain is :
Answer: C (A) a stanza in blank verse
(B) eight line stanza in iambic hexameter
18.Sartor Resartus is a text by : (C) four line stanza in iambic pentameter
(A)Ruskin (D) six line stanza in iambic pentameter
(B) Arnold Answer: C
(C) Carlyle
(D) Burke 25. ‗Bildungsroman‘ translated literally
Answer: C means :
(A) Development novel
19. Who of the following is not a university (B) Psychological novel
wit ? (C) Autobiographical novel
(A)Webster (D) Campus novel
(B) Robert Greene Answer: A
(C) Kyd
(D) Marlowe 26.A book that faithfully renders a young
Answer: A man‘s confused images of love and rejection
is :
20. Bosola is a character in a play by : (A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
(A)Ben Jonson (B) Lucky Jim
(B) Webster (C) Daisy Miller
(C) Christopher Marlowe (D) The brave New World
(D) Thomas Middleton Answer: A
Answer: B
27. Victorian Age witnessed a clash between
21. ‗Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But :
to be young was very heaven‘. This occurs in (A) faith and reason
a poem by : (B) tradition and modernity
(A) William Wordsworth (C) oriental and occidental civilization
(B) S. T. Coleridge (D) romanticism and neo romanticism
(C) Byron Answer: A

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28. ―For gold in Physique is 34.Internal rhyme is :
Cordial/Therefore, he loved gold in special‖ (A) the basic rhythmic structure of a poem
relates to Chaucer‖s (B) rhyming of two words in alternative lines
(A) Friar (C) rhyming of two or more words in the same
(B) Monk line of poetry
(C) Doctor (D) all the lines of a poem ending with the
(D) Pardoner same line pattern
Answer: C Answer: C

29. The historical novel began in ; 35. The macabre element in drama was
(A)Restoration Period introduced by :
(B) Augustan Age (A) John Lyly
(C) Victorian Period (B) Marlow
(D) Romantic Period (C)Ben Jonson
Answer: D (D)John Webster
Answer: D
30. The term ‗Campus novel‘ is associated
with : 36. The line ―I am no Prince Hamlet nor was
(A) Graham Green meant to be…….‖ appears in T. S. Eliot‘s
(B) Kingsley Amis (A) Gerontion
(C) Margaret Drabble (B) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
(D) William Golding (C) Four Quartets
Answer: B (D) The Waste-Land
Answer: B
31. Which of the following author-book pair
is correctly matched ? 37. ‗Fancy‘ deals with :
(A) Hard Times – George Eliot (A) Fixities and definities
(B) Heroes and Hero Worship – Walter Patar (B) Imagination and Reason
(C) Sourab and Rustom – Matthew Arnold (C) Judgement and Memory
(D) Ethics of the Dust- Macaulay (D) Structure and Superstructure
Answer: C Answer: A

32. The title of William Faulkner‘s The 38. Swift‘s Modest proposal is written in the
Sound and Fury is derived from a play by : form of a :
(A) William Shakespeare (A) Project in political economy Social Satire
(B) Christopher Marlow (B) Political allegory
(C) John Webster (C) Social Satire
(D) Ben Jonson (D) Old-Testament history
Answer: A Answer: C

33. The new humanism school of philosophy 39. The main idea of Pope‘s The Dunciad
and literary criticism was popular in was taken from :
America during : (A) Absalom and Achitophel
(A)1920-1940 (B) Mac-Flecknoe
(B) 1910-1930 (C) The Medal
(C)1930-1940 (D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
(D)1900-1910 Answer: B
Answer: B

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40. Which of the following is not a 46. Sheridan‘s first play was :
Browning‘s work ? (A) The Rivals
(A) Dramatic Lyrics Men and Women (B) School for Scandal
(B) Dramatic Personae (C) St. Patrick‟s Day
(C) Men and Women (D) A Trip to Scarborough
(D) The Palace of Art Answer: A
Answer: D
47. Anti-sentimental comedy is a criticism of
41. The most obvious feature of Johnson‘s :
The Lives of the Poets is the equipoise (A) loss of moral purpose
between : (B) excess of emotion
(A) Language and form (C) excess of reason
(B) Style and content (D) loss of human feelings
(C) Biography and criticism Answer: B
(D) Myth and archetype
Answer: C 48. Which of the following novel-novelist
pair is correctly matched ?
42. ―The Kelson of creation is love‖. The line (A) Bhabani Bhattacharya – All About H.
occurs in Walt Whitman‘s : Hatter
(A) Paumonak (B) Nayantara Sahgal – Cry, the Peacock
(B) Passage to India (C) Bhagwandas Gidwani – A Bend in the
(C) O Captain, My Captain Ganges
(D) Song of Myself (D) Arun Joshi – The Apprentice
Answer: D Answer: D

43. With whom was Dr. Johnson intimately 49. The Indian English poet who addressed
associated in his personal life ? the question ‗of time‘ in his poetry is :
(A) Boswell (A) Nissim Ezeikel
(B) Dryden (B) R. Parthsarathy
(C) Alexander Pope (C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) Lord Bolingbroke (D) Gieve Patel
Answer: A Answer: B

44. The early religious drama is associated 50. Symbolist movement was influenced by :
with : (A) Poetic theory of Edgar Allan Poe
(A) Superstitions and beliefs (B) Stephane Mallarme‟s Poetry
(B) Mysteries and histories (C) Prose of Emerson
(C) Interludes and mysteries (D) Ezra Pound‟s Cantos
(D) Miracles and morality Answer: B
Answer: D

45. The Tale of Two Cities has :

(A) a sentimental buffoon with a moral purpose
(B) a courageous lady in pain
(C) an optimist on verge of collapse
(D) a romantic hero with a weakness
Answer: B

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 Paper 2- December 2008
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
Answer: C

2. The Rambler appeared every :

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

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(D) Thursday and Monday 9. The confessions of an English Opium
Answer: A Eater was written by :
(A) William Hazlitt
3. ―Tottel‘s Miscellany‖ contained : (B) S. T. Coleridge
(A) 30 sonnets (C) Landor
(B) 54 sonnets (D) De Quincey
(C) 50 sonnets Answer: D
(D) 60 sonnets
Answer: B 10. Ireland emerges as the most important
metaphor in :
4.‘Imagism‘ is associated with : (A) Seamus Heaney
(A) T. S. Fliot (B) Elizabeth Jennigs
(C) E. E. Cummings (C) Arnold Wesker
(B) D. H. Lawrence (D) Edward Albee
(D) T. E. Hulme Answer: A
Answer: D
11. Which of the following Shakespearean
5. The title Things Fall Apart is drawn from plays is in the correct chronological order ?
a poem by : (A) King Lear, Hamlet, Much Ado…, Troilus
(A) W. B. Yeats and Cressida
(B) Ted Hughes (B) Much Ado…, Hamlet, King Lear, Troilus
(C) W. H. Auden and Cressida
(D) Robert Lowell (C) Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Hamlet,
Answer: A Much Ado…
(D) Hamlet, Much Ado…, King Lear, Troilus
6. ‗Formal Criticism‘ relates to the structure and Cressida
of : Answer: B
(A) Literary devices
(B) Myths 12. The major contribution of the
(C) Content Restoration period is in the field of :
(D) Form (A) Philosophical writings
Answer: A (B) Poetry
(C) Drama
7. A ‗Foot‘ in prosody is a basic unit of : (D) Letters
(A) rhyme Answer: C
(B) length
(C) rhythmic measurement 13. The correct chronological order of the
(D) height following poets is :
Answer: C (A) Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott
(B) Shelley, Walter Scott, Keats, Byron
8. Who of the following is known for (C) Keats, Byron, Walter Scott, Shelley
aphoristic prose style ? (D) Walter Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats
(A) William Hazlitt Answer: D
(B) Francis Bacon
(C) John Ruskin 14. Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel
(D) G. K. Chesterton by :
Answer: B (A) Virginia Woolf
(B) E. M. Forster
(C) D. H. Lawrence

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(D) James Joyce 21. ‗Cut is the branch that might have
Answer: B grown full straight‘ is a line that occurs in :
(A) Dr Faustus
15. The plays of Edward Albee deal with : (B) Hamlet
(A) problems of middle-class (C) Macbeth
(B) hypocracy of aristocracy (D) The Spanish Tragedy
(C) mechanizations of politics Answer: A
(D) simplicity of lower-class
Answer: A 22. Pope‘s ‗Essay on Man‘ can best be read
as a poem of :
16. Heptameter consists of : (A) classical understanding of nature
(A) five metrical feet (B) anti-romantic view of life
(B) six metrical feet (C) sociological estimate of man
(C) seven metrical feet (D) philosophical apprehension of life
(D) eight metrical feet Answer: D
Answer: C
23. The term ‗Victorian‘ evokes the attitudes
17. In formalistic school of criticism art is : of :
(A) entertainment (A) philistinism
(B) preaching (B) moral earnestness
(C) matter (C) licentiousness
(D) style (D) transcendentalism
Answer:D Answer: B

18. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance 24. Larry slate is a character in :

Runner is a novel by : (A) Desire Under the Elms
(A) Alan Sillitoe (B) The Emperor Jones
(B) Paul Scott (C) The Iceman Cometh
(C) Peter Porter (D) Hairy Ape
(D) Muriel Spark Answer: C
Answer: A
25. ‗Iambus‘ is a metrical foot consisting of :
19. ‗Rugby Chapel‘ is a poem by Matthew (A) two syllables
Arnold in the memory of his : (B) three syllables
(A) mother (C) four syllables
(B) brother (D) one syllable
(C) father Answer: A
(D) sister
Answer: C 26. The lines ‖Not that he wished is
greatness to create / For politicians neither
20. The earliest woman novelist of love nor hate,‖ occur in :
significance in the 18th century is : (A) The Rape of the Lock
(A)Mary Edgeworth (B) Abslam and Achitophel
(B) Aphra Behn (C) Mac Flecknoe
(C) Mary Russell (D) Essay on man
(D) Mrs Gaskell Answer: B
Answer: A
27. 11,396 definitions of romanticism were
given by :

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(A) Friedrich Schlegel (C) John Dryden
(B) Victor Hugo (D) Mathew Arnold
(C) Edger Allan Poe Answer: B
(D) F. L. Lucas
Answer: D 34. An Idyll is usually a poem about a :
(A) picturesque city life
28. The term ‗a stream of consciousness‘ is (B) panoramic view of nature
derived from the writing of : (C) picture of industrial society
(A) Mary Sinclair (D) picturesque country life
(B) Dorothy Richardson Answer: D
(C) William James
(D) Gertrude Stein 35. ‗The Lost Generation‘ refers to the
Answer: C generation that came to maturity in the :
(A) 1920s
29. Sean O‘ Casey‘s Juno and the Paycock is (B) 1930s
: (C) 1910s
(A) a romantic comedy (D) 1940s
(B) a historical tragedy Answer: A
(C) a mythical reconstruction
(D) a tragi-comedy 36. The French Revolution had a significant
Answer: D impact on :
(A) Victorian Literature
30. The ‗Reader-Response Theory‘ implies (B) Romantic Literature
that : (C) Neo-classic Literature
(A) there is no one correct meaning of the text (D) Modern Literature
(B) the readers of an age construct the meaning Answer: B
(C) beliefs determine meaning
(D) a style is the hallmark of the text 37. In which poem does the following line
Answer: A appear ? ‖Our birth is but a sleep and
aforgetting.‖ :
31. Which of the following author-book pair (A) “Michael”
is correctly matched ? (B) “Immortality Ode”
(A) Walter Pater – Unto This Last (C) “Rejection : An Ode”
(B) Browning – The Ring and the Book (D) “Tintern Abbey”
(C) M. Arnold – Idylls of the King Answer: B
(D) Thackray – Bleak House
Answer: B 38. Tale of a Tub is about :
(A) Warring political factions
32. ‗Myth Criticism‘ focuses on : (B) Struggling lower-class people
(A) a study of myths and mythology (C) Controversial philosophical documents
(B) archetypes of spiritual experience (D)Contending religious parties
(C) recurrence of archetypal patterns Answer: D
(D) the confluence of different traditions
Answer: C 39. Congreve‘s The way of the world ends
with :
33. The phrase disassociation of sensibility (A) a dance party
was first used by : (B) punishment of Lady Wishfort
(A) Philip Sydney (C) sending of Mr Fainall to prison
(B) T. S. Eliot

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(D)reconciliation of Petulant Whitwood (B) Robert Chambers
Answer: A (C) Charles Darwin
(D) Alfred Russell Wallace
40. On seeing whom does Miranda exclaim, Answer: C
―O, father, surely that is a spirit. Lord! How
it looks about ?‖ 46. A philosophical attitude pervading much
(A) Caliban of modern literature is :
(B) Ferdinand (A) Absurdism
(C) Alonso (B) Dadaism
(D) Stephano (C) Imagism
Answer: B (D) Surrealism
Answer: A
41. Secular influences on the early English
drama were : 47. The term ‗magic realism‘ was first
(A) political squabbles, religious sermons and introduced by :
social customs (A) Hannah Arendt
(B) rural politicking, hypocracy of the elite and (B) Franz Roh
falsity of aristocracy (C) Jean Arp
(C) village festivals, folk plays and minstrels (D) Peter Behrens
(D) middle-class life, moral beliefs and Answer: B
uprising of the subaltans
Answer: C 48. The Indian English novelist who, for the
first time, addressed the question of
42. John Bunyan‘s The Pilgrim‘s Progress language and indigenous experience was
was written while he was : (A) Mulk Raj Anand
(A) in prison (B) R K Narayan
(B) on a pilgrimage (C) Arun Joshi
(C) on a social mission (D) Raja Rao
(D) in a church Answer: A
Answer: A
49. G. V. Desani‘s All About H. Hatterr is
43. In Juvenalian satire the speaker is : written in the :
(A) a political orator (A) stream-of- consciousness mode
(B) a propagandist (B) first person narrative mode
(C) a social revolutionary (C) picaresque mode
(D) a serious moralist (D) naturalistic mode
Answer: D Answer: A

44. Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice most 50. The rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean
clearly shows the influence of : sonnet is :
(A) Fielding Smollett (A) abab, cdcd, efef, gg
(B) Richardson (B) abba, cddc, effe, gg
(C) Smollett (C) abab, cdcd, efef, gh
(D) Sterne (D) aabb, ccdd, eeff, gg
Answer: B Answer: A

45.The most important of the ‗evolutionists‘

during the Victorian period was :
(A) Erasmus Darwin

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 Paper 2- June 2009
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
Answer: D

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”

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(D) “Strange Meeting” 7. ―Great wits are sure to madness near
Answer: D allied And thin partitions do their bounds
divide‖. The above lines appear in…
3. Below are two sets of texts one of which (A) Mac Flecknoe
has inspired the other. Match the text with (B) Absalom and Achitophel
its inspiration : (C) Essay on man
(i) Coral Island (D) Alexander‟s Feast
(ii) The Odyssey Answer: B
(iii) The Mahabharat
(iv) Jane Eyre 8. Who among the following developed the
(v) The Great Indian Novel term strategic essentialism ?
(vi) Wide Sargasso Sea (A) Edward Said
(vii) Omeroos (B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(viii) Lord of the Flies (C) Homi Bhabha
(D) Aijaz Ahmed
(A) (i) – (v), (ii) – (vii), (iii) – (viii), (iv) – (vi) Answer: B
(B) (iv) – (vii), (iii) – (vi), (i) – (viii), (ii) – (v)
(C) (iii) – (v), (iv) – (vi), (i) – (vii), (ii) – (viii) 9. David Malouf‘s An Imaginary Life is a
(D) (i) – (viii), (ii) – (vii), (iii) – (v), (iv) – (vi) retelling of the story of :
Answer: D (A) Aristotle
(B) Juvenal
4. ―His life was gentle and the elements (C) Ovid
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up (D) Horace
And say to all the world, ‗This was a man !‘‖ Answer: C
Who is the speaker, and about whom is this
spoken ? 10. Jabberwocky is a character in….
(A) Enobarbus on Antony (A) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Brutus on Caesar (B) Fra Lippo Lippi
(C) Cleopatra on Antony (C) Through the Looking Glass
(D) Marc Antony on Caesar (D) Goblin Market
Answer: D Answer: C

5. ―When my love swears that she is made of 11. Which of the following statements is the
truth/I do believe her, though I know she most accurate regarding Edward Said‘s
lies‖. The author of these lines is… thesis in Orientalism
(A) Philip Sidney (i) The Europeans used the East dialectically to
(B) Edmund Spenser describe their self-image as irrational and
(C) Christopher Marlowe primitive.
(D) William Shakespeare (ii) The Oriental people used the West
Answer: D dialectically to define their self-image as
irrational and primitive.
6. The poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge (iii) The Europeans used the East
was notably influenced by… oppositionally to define their self-image as
(A) The Napoleonic Wars rational and modern.
(B) The Glorious Revolution (iv) The Oriental people used the West
(C) The French Revolution oppositionally to define their self-image as
(D) Poor Laws rational and modern.
Answer: C
(A) (iii)
(B) (iv)
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(C) (i) and (iv) (C) understatement
(D) (ii) and (iii) (D) circumlocution
Answer: A Answer: D

12.Assertion (AST) : Literary and historical 17. Arrange the following in chronological
periodization often has nothing to do with order…
the lifetime of writers. Thus we see two (I) The death of Shakespeare
writers born in the same year belonging to (ii) Accession of James I to the English throne
two separate periods. (iii) Caxton and the printing press
Reasoning/ (R) : Thomas Carlyle and John (iv) The Norman Conquest of England
Keats were born in 1795. In standard
literary histories, Example: Keats is a (A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
Romantic and Carlyle, a Victorian. (B) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(A) (AST) and (R) are correct (C) (iii) (iv) (I) (ii)
(B) (AST) is correct; (R) is incorrect (D) (iv) (iii) (I) (ii)
(C) (AST) and (R) are incorrect Answer: A
(D) (R) does not follow from (AST)
Answer: A 18. The Muse of History is a classic
postcolonial essay by :
13. Everyman is… (A) Ngugi wa Thiongo
(A) a medieval play based on an episode from (B) Chinua Achebe
the Bible (C) Wilson Harris
(B) a medieval morality play (D) Derek Walcott
(C) a Tudor interlude Answer: D
(D) a miracle play
Answer: B 19. ―Do I contradict myself ? Very well then,
I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain
14. Which of the following sets would you multitudes.)‖ The above lines are from…
call the poets of the Movement ? (A) Walt Whitman
(A) Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John (B) Edgar Allan Poe
Wain (C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(B) W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen (D) John Greenleaf Whittier
Spender Answer: A
(C) T.S. Eliot, Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound
(D) Alan Brownjohn, C.H. Sisson, Anthony 20. Verses on the Death of Dr Swift was
Thwaite written by…
Answer: A (A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Alexander Pope
15.Doris Lessing‘s interest in __________ is (C) Samuel Johnson
widely recognized : (D) James Boswell
(A) Hinduism Answer: A
(B) Sufism
(C)Zen 21. Match the following elegies with the
(D)Judaism persons for whom they were written:
Answer: B (i) Lycidas
(ii)Arthur Hugh Clough
16. Periphrasis, which is a roundabout way (iii)Adonais
of speech/writing, is also known as… (iv) A.H. Hallam
(A) synecdoche (v) In Memoriam
(B) allusion
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(vi) Edward King 26. The immediate source of Christopher
(vii) Thyrsis Marlowe‘s Doctor Faustus is…
(viii) Keats (A) A French narrative
(B) A Dutch narrative
(A) (i) – (vi); (iii) – (iv); (vii) – (ii); (v) – (vi) (C) A German narrative
(B) (iii) – (viii); (i) – (iv); (iii) – (ii);(v) – (ii) (D) None of the above
(C) (i) – (vi); (iii) – (viii); (v) – (iv); (vii) – (ii) Answer: C
(D) (v) – (vi); (i) – (viii); (iii) – (ii); (vii) – (iv)
Answer: C 27. Who among the following were
associated with the Irish Dramatic
22. Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison is Movement ?
a series of reflections on: (A) Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge
(A) Jazz music (B) Jonathan Swift, R.B. Sheridan, G.B. Shaw
(B) Disability sports (C) W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, G.B. Shaw
(C) Whiteness and the literary imagination (D) W.B. Yeats, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Seamus
(D) Black American folklore Heaney
Answer: C Answer: A

23. ―He‘s not the brightest man in the 28. The term diaspora was originally applied
world‖ is an example of: to the following ethnic group :
(A) Chiasmus (A) Jews
(B) Hyperbole (B) Muslims
(C) Litotes (C) Hindus
(D) Simile (D) French Canadians
Answer: C Answer: A

24. The term ‗horizon of expectations‘ is 29. Who among the following is NOT a
associated with… ‗University Wit‘ ?
(A) Wolfgang Iser (A) Christopher Marlowe
(B) Stanley Fish (B) George Peele
(C) Harold Bloom (C) Robert Greene
(D) H.R. Jauss (D) Ben Jonson
Answer: D Answer: D

25. The following writers have something in 30. When a person has a wooden leg, we are
common : What is it ? apt to say, ‗He has a wooden leg‘. Now this
Mary Seacole J.A. Froude wooden leg is…
Mary Kingsley Anthony Trollope (i) literal
(ii) metaphorical
(I) They are all victorians (iii) ambiguous
(ii) They are all writers of children‟s fiction (iv) neither literal nor metaphorical
(iii) They are all members of one literary guild (A) (i) and (ii) are correct
(iv) They are all travel writers (B) (i) is correct
(C) (ii) is correct
(A) (i) and (ii) (D) (iii) and (iv) are correct
(B) (iii) and (iv) Answer: B
(C) ii) and (iv)
D) (i) and (iv) 31. Prosody studies:
Answer: D (A) Line endings
(B) Meanings of words
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(C) Patterns of prose (D) Aldous Huxley
(D) Metrics Answer: A
Answer: D
37. ―Ripeness is all‖ is a line from…
32. Which of the following is a major (A) Hamlet
Jacobean play? (B) King Lear
(A) Everyman (C) Othello
(B) Gorboduc (D) Macbeth
(C) Romeo and Juliet Answer: B
(D) The Duchess of Malfi
Answer: D 38. U.R. Ananthamurthy‘s Samskara was
translated by…
33. Understanding Poetry used to be a (A) Himself
classic textbook that encapsulates the (B) Girish Karnad
principles of … (C) H.S. Shivaprakash
(A) New Historicism (D) A.K. Ramanujan
(B) New Aristotelianism Answer: D
(C) New Criticism
(D) The New Left 39. Abel Whittle is a character in:
Answer: C (A) The Return of the Native
(B) The Mayor of Casterbridge
34. What century is variously called The Age (C) Far from the Madding Crowd
of Enlightenment, The Age of Sensibility, (D) Tess of the D‟Urbervilles
The Augustan Age and The Age of Prose Answer: B
and Reason?
(A) sixteenth century 40. In which eclogue of The Shepheardes
(B) seventeenth century Calender does Spenser praise Queen
(C) eighteenth century Elizabeth I ?
(D) nineteenth century (A)January
Answer: C (B) April
(C) August
35. What is common to the following poems (D)November
? Answer: B
Wordsworth‟s „The Recluse‟
Shelley‟s „The Triumph of Life‟ 41. Which of the following is NOT the
Byron‟s „Don Juan‟ opening of the well-known Romantic poem?
Keats‟ „Hyperion‟ (A) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness
pains/ My sense
(A) They are all elegies (B) Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
(B) They are all unfinished poems (C) Margaret, are you grieving/Over Golden
(C) They are all divided into cantos grove unleaving?
(D) They are women-centred poems (D) The world is too much with us
Answer: B Answer: C

36. Who among the following called the 42.Politics and the English Language is an
novel ‗the bright book of life‘ ? essay by :
(A) D.H. Lawrence (A) F.R. Leavis
(B) James Joyce (B) Terry Eagleton
(C) Virginia Woolf (C) George Orwell

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(D) Raymond Williams
Answer: C
43. ‗The mind-forged manacles‘ is phrase
from :
(A) ”London”
(B) ”Eternity”
(C) “A Poison Tree”
(D) “I Asked a Thief”
Answer: A
44. ―He is not fully recognized at home; he is
not recognized at all abroad. Yet I firmly
believe that the poetical performance of
__________ is, after that of Shakespeare and
Milton, undoubtedly most considerable in
our language.‖ To whom does Matthew
Arnold refer in the above statement ?
(A) Edmund Spenser
(B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
(D) S.T. Coleridge
Answer: C
45. The Globe Theatre opened in :
(A) 1585
(B) 1593
(C) 1599
(D) 1603
Answer: C
Read the following passage carefully, and
select the right answers from the
alternatives given below in the questions 46
to 50 :
We need to begin by casting doubt on the
legitimacy of the notion of literature. The mere
fact that the word exists, or that an academic
institution has been built around it, does not
mean that the thing itself is self-evident.
Reasons perfectly empirical ones, to begin with
are not hard to find. The full history of the
word literature and its equivalents in all
languages and all eras has yet to be written, but
even a perfunctory look at the question makes
it clear that the term has not been around
forever. In the European languages, the word
literature in its current sense is quite recent: it
dates back just barely to the nineteenth century.
Might we be dealing with a historical
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phenomenon rather than an „eternal‟ one?
Moreover, many languages (many African
languages, for example) have no generic term
covering all literary productions. To these
initial observations we may add the
fragmentation characteristic of literature today.
Who dares specify what literature is and what
is not, given the irreducible variety of the
writing that tends to be attached to it, from
vastly different perspectives?
The argument is not conclusive: a notion may
legitimately exist even if there is no specific
term in the lexicon for it. But we have been led
to cast the first shadow of doubt over the
„naturalness‟ of literature. A theoretical
examination of the problem proves no more
reassuring. Where do we come by the
conviction that there is indeed such a thing as
literature? From experience, we study „literary‟
works in school, then in college; we find the
„literary‟ type of book in specialized stores; we
are in the habit of referring to „literary‟ authors
in everyday conversation. An entity called
„literature‟ 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.
Answer: D
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.
Answer: D
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)
Answer: C

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 Paper 2- December 2009
legitimacy than an „eternal‟ one.
(C) A historical phenomenon can be debated 1. A classical influence on Ben Jonson‘s
and possibly settled while an „eternal‟ one must Volpone is
be taken (A) Juvenal
on trust or not at all. (B) Aristophanes
(D) historical phenomenon is well above (C) Plautus
disputation while an „eternal‟ one is not. (D) Terence
Answer: C Answer: B

50.What does ‗the fragmentation 2. Kipling‘s ―The White Man‘s Burden‖ is

characteristic of literature today‘ suggest to addressed to
the writer ? (A) The American imperial mission in the
(A) the fragmentation of modern Philippines.
consciousness. (B) The Belgian colonial expansion in the
(B) the divided perceptions of literature by its Congo.
readers. (C) The British Imperial presence in Nigeria.
(C) the lack of specificity of literature. (D) The British colonial entry into
(D) the blur that frustrates further investigation Afghanistan.
into this concept Answer: A
Answer: C
3. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse was
founded by Harriet Monroe in
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(B) 1920 (A) 1-7 2-5 4-6 3-8
(C) 1918 (B) 1-6 2-5 3-8 4-7
(D) 1912 (C) 1-5 2-6 3-8 4-7
Answer: D (D) 2-5 1-7 3-4 6-8
Answer: B
4. Who among the following was Geoffrey
Chaucer‘s contemporary ? 9. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante‘s
(A) Thomas Chatterton The Divine Comedy ?
(B) John Gower (A) The Canterbury Tales
(C) Thomas Shadwell (B) The Book of the Duchess
(D) John Gay (C) The House of Fame
Answer: B (D) Legend of Good Women
Answer: C
5. Which of the following is NOT written by
Walter Scott ? 10. Essays of Elia was published in
(A) Ivanhoe (A) 1800
(B) Lady of the Lake (B) 1823
(C) Heart of Midlothian (C) 1827
(D) The English Mail Coach (D) 1850
Answer: D Answer: B

6. ―Provincializing Europe‖ is a concept 11. Which of the following is an example of

propounded by homosexual fiction ?
(A) Edward Said (A) The Well of Loneliness
(B) Paul Gilroy (B) Maurice
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah (C) Orlando
(D) Dipesh Chakravarty (D) The Ballad of the Reading Gaol
Answer: D Answer: A

7. The earliest tract on feminism is 12. W.B. Yeat‘s ―Easter 1916‖ is

(A) Simone de Beauvoir‟s The Second Sex (A) a response to a major political uprising
(B) Virginia Woolf‟s A Room of One‟s Own (B) a reminiscence of his visit to a nursery
(C) Mary Wollstonecraft‟s A Vindication of school
the Rights of Woman (C) a love poem for Maud Gonne
(D) Mary Astell‟s A Serious Proposal to the (D) an ode to his native country
Ladies Answer: A
Answer: D
13. William Empson‘s Seven Types of
8. Match the imaginary location with its Ambiguity is
creator : (A) A structuralist study of narrative
1. Emily Bronte (B) A piece of psychoanalytic criticism
2. Thomas Hardy (C) A study of the media
3. Lowood Parsonage (D) An analysis of poetic ambivalence
4. Charles Dickens Answer: D

5. Wessex 14. Who among the following is associated

6. Egdon Heath with the ideology of Utilitarianism ?
7. Coketown (A) J.A. Froude
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(C) J.S. Mill 20. Dr. Johnson‘s ―The Vanity of Human
(D) Cardinal Newman Wishes‖ expresses
Answer: C (A) Epicureanism
(B) Humanism
15. The ‗Condition of England‘ literature (C) Stoicism
refers to (D) Cynicism
(A) The literature written by the labour class. Answer: D
(B) The literature of England extolling living
conditions. 21. ―A trivial comedy for serious people‖
(C) The literature of England depicting the was the subtitle for
vulnerability of labour classes. (A) Everyman in His Humour
(D) The literature of England depicting the (B) Blythe Spirit
imperial projects abroad. (C) The Way of the World
Answer: C (D) The Importance of Being Earnest.
Answer: D
16. Philip Sidney wrote An Apology for
Poetry in immediate response to 22. Which famous elegy closes with the
(A) Plato‟s Republic following lines ?
(B) Aristotle‟s Poetics “In the deserts of the heart/Let the healing
(C) Stephen Gosson‟s The School of Abuse fountain start,/In the prison of his days,/ Teach
(D) Jeremy Collier‟s Immorality and the free man how to praise.”
Profaneness of the English Stage. (A) In Memoriam
Answer: C (B) Thyrsis
(C) “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”
17. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a (D) “Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot”
_________ play translated into English. Answer: C
(A) Gujarati
(B) Bengali 23. The Temple is a collection of poems by
(C) Marathi (A) Thomas Carew
(D) Kannada (B) Robert Herrick
Answer: C (C) George Herbert
(D) Richard Crashaw
18. Arrange the following in ascending order Answer: C
in terms of size :
1. epic 2. epigram 3. stanza 4. sonnet 24. Ben Jonson‘s comedies are
(A) 1 2 3 4 (A) Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, The
(B) 2 1 3 4 Shoemaker‟s Holiday
(C) 2 3 4 1 (B) Volpone, The Alchemist, Epicoene
(D) 1 3 4 2 (C) Volpone, The Alchemist, The Knight of the
Answer: C Burning Pestle
(D) Volpone, Epicoene, The Shoemaker‟s
19. ―Fail I alone in words and deeds ?/Why, Holiday
all men strive and who succeeds ?‖ These Answer: B
lines are from
(A) “Rabbi Ben Ezra” 25. What is ‗L‘ Allegro‘s‘ companion piece
(B) “Fra Lippo Lippi” called ?
(C) “Caliban upon Setebos” (A) Lamia
(D) “The Last Ride Together” (B) Hyperion
Answer: D (C) Il Penseroso

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(D) Thyrsis 30. ―Imagined Communities‖ is a concept
Answer: C propounded by
(A) Benedict Anderson
26. Match the character with the novel : (B) Homi Bhabha
1. Caddy (C) Aijaz Ahmed
2. Lennie (D) Partha Chatterjee
3. Jake Barnes Answer: A
4. Tommy Wilhelm
5. The Sound and the Fury 31. The New Historicists include
6. Of Mice and Men (A) Greenblatt, Showalter, Montrose
7. The Sun Also Rises (B) Greenblatt, Sinfield, Butler
8. Seize the Day (C) Greenblatt, Montrose, Goldberg
Codes : (D) Williams, Greenblatt, Belsey
(A) 1-5 2-6 3-7 4-8 Answer: C
(B) 2-7 1-8 3-5 4-6
(C) 3-5 4-6 2-8 1-7 32. Wallace Stevens‘ ―The Man with the
(D) 4-5 3-8 2-7 1-8 Blue Guitar‖ may be linked to the work of
Answer: A the following artist :
(A) Modigliani
27. Who among the following writers (B) Chagall
belonged to the American Beat Movement ? (C) Picasso
(A) Allen Ginsberg (D) Cezanne
(B) Mark Beard Answer: C
(C) Isaac McCaslih
(D) Charles Beard 33. The author of Gender Trouble is
Answer: A (A) Elaine Showalter
(B) Helene Cixous
28. ―The Lost Generation‖ is a name applied (C) Michele Barrett
to the disillusioned intellectuals and (D) Judith Butler
aesthetes of the years following the First Answer: D
World War. Who called them ―The Lost
Generation‖ ? 34. The structural analysis of signs was
(A) H.L. Mencken practised by
(B) Willa Cather (A) Michel Foucault
(C) Jack London (B) Jacques Lacan
(D) Gertrude Stein (C) Julia Kristeva
Answer: D (D) Roland Barthes
Answer: D
29. Hyperbole is
1. an extravagant exaggeration 35. Which of the following is a spoof of a
2. a racist slur Gothic novel ?
3. a metrical skill (A) Frankenstein
4. a figure of speech (B) Northanger Abbey
(A) 1 is correct (C) Castle of Otranto
(B) 1 and 4 are correct (D) Mysteries of Udolfo
(C) 1 and 3 are correct Answer: B
(D) 3 is correct
Answer: B 36. The ―madwoman in the attic‖ is a
specific reference to

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(A) The narrator of “Goblin Market” 40. Which of the following is an essentially
(B) Augusta Egg‟s 1858 narrative painting Freudian concept ?
(C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper (A) Archetype
(D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre (B) The Uncanny
Answer: D (C) The Absurd
(D) The Imaginary
37. Assertion (A) : Dr Johnson‘s The Lives Answer: B
of the Poets carries critical and biographical
studies of poets he admired. It does not, 41. He wrote an essay called ―Conrad‘s
however, carry a life of William Darkness‖ where he praises the earlier
Wordsworth. writer for offering him a vision of the
Reason (R) : Dr. Johnson singled out poets world‘s ―half-made societies‘. Identify the
whom he not only admired but also adored. writer.
This explains his omission of Wordsworth. (A) Chinua Achebe
(B) V.S. Naipaul
(A) (A) is wrong but (R) is correct. (C) Salman Rushdie
(B) (A) is true but (R) is false. (D) Ngugi wa Thiongo
(C) (A) and (R) are true. Answer: B
(D) Neither (A) nor (R) is true.
Answer: D 42. ―Magic Realism‖ is closely associated
with
38. What is the correct chronological (A) Italo Calvino
sequence of the following ? (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, (C) Anita Desai
Tristram Shandy (D) Rohinton Mistry
(B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, Answer: B
Moll Flanders
(C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, 43. Who among the following combines
Joseph Andrews anthropology, history and fiction ?
(D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, (A) Kamala Markandya
Tristram Shandy (B) Mulk Raj Anand
Answer: A (C) Upmanyu Chatterjee
(D) Amitav Ghosh
39. ―How can what an Englishman believes Answer: D
be heresy ? It is a contradiction in terms.‖
This means 44. Which of the following is NOT a
1. An Englishman does not know what heresy Partition novel ?
is. (A) Train to Pakistan
2. An Englishman has no beliefs. (B) Sunlight on a Broken Column
3. And, therefore, there is no question of his (C) The Shadow Lines
heresy. (D) In Custody
4. And, therefore, there cannot be any question Answer: B
of his acting his beliefs.
(A) 1 and 4 are correct 45. Which of the following options is correct
(B) 2 and 1 are correct ?
(C) 1 and 3 are correct (i) Transcendentalism was a philosophical and
(D) 2 and 4 are correct literary movement.
Answer: C (ii) It flourished in the Southern States of
America in the 19th century.
(iii) It was a reaction against 18th century
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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.
Answer: A
Read the following passage carefully, and
select the right answers from the
alternatives givenbelow 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 example, in
contemporary Britain there are discourses
which can be labelled „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
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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.
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.
Answer: C
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
Answer: A
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
Answer: D
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.
Answer: C
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.
(D) Studying discourse as language.
Answer: B

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1. The epithet ―a comic epic in prose‖ is best
applied to
(A) Richardson‟s Pamela
(B) Sterne‟s A Sentimental Journey
(C) Fielding‟s Tom Jones
(D) Defoe‟s Robinson Crusoe
Answer: C

2. Muriel Spark has written a dystopian

novel called
(A) Memento Mori
(B) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(C) Robinson
(D) The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Answer: C

3. Samuel Butler‘s Erewhon is an example of

(A) Feminist Literature
(B) Utopian Literature
(C) War Literature
(D) Famine Literature
Answer: B

4. The line ―moments of unageing intellect‖

occurs in Yeats‘s
(A) Byzantium
(B) Among School Children
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(C) Sailing to Byzantium (A) Milton
(D) The Circus Animals‟ Desertion (B) Spenser
Answer: C (C) Shakespeare
(D) Pope
5. In his 1817 review of Coleridge‘s Answer: B
Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey
grouped the following poets together as the 11. Tennyson‘s Ulysses is
‗Lake School of Poets‘ : (I) a poem expressing the need for going
(A) Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge forward and braving the struggles of life
(B) Wordsworth, Byron and Coleridge (II) a dramatic monologue
(C) Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge (III) a morbid poem
(D) Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey (IV) a poem making extensive use of satire
Answer: D
The right combination for the above statement,
6. Which of the following novels is not by according to the code, is
Patrick White ? (A) I & IV
(A) The Vivisector (B) II and III
(B) The Tree of Man (C) III and IV
(C) Voss (D) I and II
(D) Oscar and Lucienda Answer: D
Answer: D
12. Which post-war British poet was
7. The famous line ―……. where ignorant involved in a disastrous marriage with
armies clash by night‖ is taken from a poem Sylvia Plath ?
by (A) Philip Larkin
(A) Wilfred Owen (B) Ted Hughes
(B) W.H. Auden (C) Stevie Smith
(C) Siegfried Sassoon (D) Geoffrey Hill
(D) Matthew Arnold Answer: B
Answer: D
13. Chaucer‘s Parliament of Fowles is in
8. Which among the following novels is not part
written by Margaret Atwood ? (I) a puzzle
(A) Surfacing (II) a debate
(B) The Blind Assassin (III) a threnody
(C) The Handmaid‟s Tale (IV) a beast fable
(D) The Stone Angel The correct combination for the above
Answer: D statement, according to the code, is
(A) I, II & IV
9. The term ‗theatre of cruelty‘ was coined (B) II, III & IV
by (C) I & IV
(A) Robert Brustein (D) II & IV
(B) Antonin Artaud Answer: A
(C) Augusto Boal
(D) Luigi Pirandello 14. Who among the following wrote a book
Answer: B with the title The Age of Reason ?
(A) William Godwin
10. The verse form of Byron‘s Childe Harold (B) Edmund Burke
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Answer: C Answer: D

15. The Restoration comedy has been 21. Sethe is a character in

criticized mainly for its (A) The Colour Purple
(A) excessive wit and humour (B) The Women of Brewster Place
(B) bitter satire and cynicism (C) Beloved
(C) indecency and permissiveness (D) Lucy
(D) superficial reflection of society Answer: C
Answer: C
22. Imagined Communities is a book by
16. Ideology and Ideological State (A) Aijaz Ahmad
Apparatuses is an essay by (B) Edward Said
(A) Terry Eagleton (C) Perry Anderson
(B) Karl Marx (D) Benedict Anderson
(C) Raymond Williams Answer: D
(D) Louis Althusser
Answer: D 23. Who among the following is a Cavalier
poet ?
17. Sexual possessiveness is a theme of (A) Henry Vaughan
Shakespeare‘s (B) Richard Crashaw
(A) Coriolanus (C) John Suckling
(B) Julius Caesar (D) Anne Finch
(C) Henry IV Part – I Answer: C
(D) A Midsummer Night‟s Dream
Answer: D 24. Which play of Wilde has the subtitle, A
Trivial Comedy for Serious People ?
18. The term ‗Cultural Materialism‘ is (A) A Woman of No Importance
associated with (B) Lady Windermere‟s Fan
(A) Stephen Greenblatt (C) The Importance of Being Earnest
(B) Raymond Williams (D) An Ideal Husband
(C) Matthew Arnold Answer: C
(D) Richard Hoggart
Answer: B 25. Which of the following plays is not
written by Wole Soyinka ?
19. Which of the following authorbook pair (A) The Lion and the Jewel
is correctly matched ? (B) The Dance of the Forests
(A) Muriel Spark – Under the Net (C) Master Harold and the Boys
(B) William – Girls of Golding Slender Means (D) Kongi‟s Harvest
(C) Angus Wilson – Lucky Jim Answer: C
(D) Doris Lessing – The Grass is Singing
Answer: D 26. Which of the following plays by William
Wycherley is in part an adaptation of
20. Who among the following is a Canadian Moliere‘s The Misanthrope ?
critic ? (A) The Plain Dealer
(A) I.A. Richards (B) The Country Wife
(B) F.R. Leavis (C) Love in a Wood
(C) Cleanth Brooks (D) The Gentleman Dancing Master
Answer: A

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27. ‗Inversion‘ is the change in the word 33. Which among the following is not a
order for creating rhetorical effect, e.g. this sonnet sequence ?
book I like. Another term for inversion is (A) Philip Sydney – Astrophel and Stella
(A) Hypallage (B) Samuel Daniel – Delia
(B) Hubris (C) Derek Walcott – Omeroos
(C) Haiku (D) D.G. Rossetti – The House of Life
(D) Hyperbaton Answer: C
Answer: D
34. ‗Incunabula‘ refers to
28. The phrase ‗the willing suspension of (A) books censured by the Roman Emperor
disbelief ‘ occurs in (B) books published before the year 1501
(A) Biographia Literaria (C) books containing an account of myths and
(B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads rituals
(C) In Defence of Poetry (D) books wrongly attributed to an author
(D) Poetics Answer: B
Answer: A
35. The most notable achievement in
29. The religious movement Methodism in Jacobean prose was
the 18th century England was founded by (A) Bacon‟s Essays
(A) John Tillotson (B) King James‟ translation of the Bible
(B) Bishop Butler (C) Robert Burton‟s Anatomy of Melancholy
(C) Bernard Mandeville (D) None of the above
(D) John Welsey Answer: B
Answer: D
36. The Court of Chancery is a setting in
30. My First Acquaintance with Poets, an Dickens‘
unforgettable account of meeting with (A) Little Dorrit
literary heroes, is written by (B) Hard Times
(A) Charles Lamb (C) Dombey and Son
(B) Thomas de Quincey (D) Bleak House
(C) Leigh Hunt Answer: D
(D) William Hazlitt
Answer: D 37. Which romantic poet coined the famous
phrase ‗spots of time‘ ?
31. The figure of the Warrior Virgin in (A) John Keats
Spenser‘s Faerie Queene is represented by (B) William Wordsworth
the character (C) S.T. Coleridge
(A) Britomart (D) Lord Byron
(B) Gloriana Answer: B
(C) Cynthia
(D) Duessa 38. The statement ‗I think, therefore, I am‘
Answer: A is by
(A) Schopenhauer
32. The book Speech Acts is written by (B) Plato
(A) John Austin (C) Descartes
(B) John Searle (D) Sartre
(C) Jacques Derrida Answer: C
(D) Ferdinand de Saussure
Answer: B

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39. Verse that has no set theme – no regular 44. Pope‘s The Rape of the Lock was
meter, rhyme or stanzaic pattern is published in 1712 in
(I) open form (A) three cantos
(II) flexible form (B) four cantos
(III) free verse (C) five cantos
(IV) blank verse (D) two cantos
Answer: D
The correct combination for the statement,
according to the code, is 45. Stephen Dedalus is a fictional character
(A) I, II and III are correct associated with
(B) III and IV are correct I. A Portrait of the Artist as a
(C) II, III and IV are correct Young Man
(D) I and III are correct II. Sons and Lovers
Answer: D III. Ulysses
IV. The Heart of Darkness
40. Which is the correct sequence of
publication of Pinter‘s plays ? The correct combination for the above
(A) The Room, One for the Road, No Man‟s statement according to the code is
Land, The Homecoming (A) I & II
(B) The Homecoming, No Man‟s Land, The (B) I, II & III
Room, One for the Road (C) III & IV
(C) The Room, The Homecoming, No Man‟s (D) I & III
Land, One for the Road Answer: D
(D) One for the Road, The Room, The
Homecoming, No Man‟s Land 46. In Moby Dick Captain Ahab falls for his
Answer: C (A) ignorance
(B) pride
41. Johnson‘s Dictionary of the English (C) courage
Language was published in the year (D) drunkenness
(A) 1710 Answer: B
(B) 1755
(C) 1739 47. The first complete printed English Bible
(D) 1759 was produced by
Answer: B (A) William Tyndale
(B) William Caxton
42. The literary prize, Booker of Bookers, (C) Miles Coverdale
was awarded to (D) Roger Ascham
(A) J.M. Coetzee Answer: C
(B) Nadine Gordimer
(C) Martin Amis 48. Elizabeth Gaskell‘s novel Mary Barton is
(D) Salman Rushdie sub-titled
Answer: D (A) The Two Nations
(B) A Tale of Manchester Life
43. In Keats‘ poetic career, the most (C) A Story of Provincial Life
productive year was (D) The Factory Girl
(A) 1816 Answer: B
(B) 1817
(C) 1820 49. Some of the Jacobean playwrights were
(D) 1819 prolific. One of them claimed to have
Answer: D
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written 200 plays. The playwright is
(A) John Ford
(B) Thomas Dekker
(C) Philip Massinger
(D) Thomas Heywood
Answer: D

50. The concept of ―Star-equilibrium‖ in

connection with man-woman relationship
appears in
(A) Women in Love
(B) Maurice
(C) Mrs. Dalloway
(D) The Old Wives‟ Tales
Answer: A

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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
Answer: C

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
Answer: C

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
Answer: D

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

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(D) The land of the Houyhnhnms (C) Laurence Sterne‟s Tristram Shandy
Answer: B (D) George Eliot‟s Middlemarch
Answer: B
5. Patrick White‘s Voss is a novel about
(A) the sea 11. Langland‘s Piers Plowman is a satire on
(B) the capital market (A) aristocracy
(C) the landscape (B) chivalry
(D) the judicial system (C) peasantry
Answer: C (D) clergy
Answer: D
6. Although Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney
writes in English, in voice and subject 12. Which of the following thinkerconcept
matter, his poems are pair is correctly matched ?
(A) Welsh (A) I.A. Richards – Archetypal Criticism
(B) Scottish (B) Christopher Frye – Mysticism
(C) Irish (C) Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction
(D) Polish (D) Terry Eagleton – Psychological Criticism
Answer: C Answer: C

7. To whom is Mary Shelley‘s famous work 13. Sexual jealousy is a theme in

Frankenstein dedicated ? Shakespeare‘s
(A) Lord Byron (A) The Merchant of Venice
(B) Claire Clairmont (B) The Tempest
(C) William Godwin (C) Othello
(D) P.B. Shelley (D) King Lear
Answer: C Answer: C

8. Which among the following poems by 14. The title, The New Criticism, published
Philip Larkin records his impressions while in 1941, was written by
travelling to London by train ? (A) Cleanth Brooks
(A) “Aubade” (B) John Crowe Ransom
(B) “Church Going” (C) Robert Penn Warren
(C) “The Whitsun Wedding” (D) Allan Tate
(D) “An Arundel Tomb” Answer: B
Answer: C
15. Which of the following is not a Revenge
9. The English satirist who used the sharp Tragedy ?
edge of praise to attack his victims was (A) The White Devil
(A) Ben Jonson (B) The Duchess of Malfi
(B) John Donne (C) Doctor Faustus
(C) John Dryden (D) The Spanish Tragedy
(D) Samuel Butler Answer: C
Answer: A
16. Who of the following playwrights rejects
10. One of the most famous movements of the Aristotelian concept of tragic play as
direct address to the reader – ―Reader, I imitation of reality ?
married him‖ – occurs in (A) G.B. Shaw
(A) Henry Fielding‟s Tom Jones (B) Arthur Miller
(B) Charlotte Bronte‟s Jane Eyre (C) Bertolt Brecht

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(D) John Galsworthy 21. ―There is nothing outside the text‖ is a
Answer: C key statement emanating from
(A) Feminism
17. The label ‗Diasporic Writer‘ can be (B) New Historicism
applied to (C) Deconstruction
I. Meena Alexander (D) Structuralism
II. Arundhati Roy Answer: C
III. Kiran Desai
IV. Shashi Deshpande 22. The Augustan Age is called so because
The correct combination for the statement, (A) King Augustus ruled over England during
according to the code, is this period
(A) I and IV are correct. (B) The English writers imitated the Roman
(B) II and III are correct. writers during this period
(C) I, II and IV are correct. (C) The English King was born in the month of
(D) I and III are correct. August
Answer: D (D) This was an age of sensibility
Answer: B
18. The letter ‗A‘ in The Scarlet Letter
stands for 23. One of the important texts of Angry
I. Adultery Young Man Movement is
II. Able (A) Time‟s Arrow by Martin Amis
III. Angel (B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by
IV. Appetite James Joyce
(C) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The correct combination for the statement, (D) The French Lieutenant‟s Woman by John
according to the code, is Fowles
(A) I and II are correct. Answer: C
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) I, II and IV are correct. 24. Whom does Alexander Pope satirise in
(D) I, II and III are correct. the portrait of Sporus ?
Answer: D (A) Lady Wortley Montague
(B) Joseph Addison
19. A monosyllabic rhyme on the final (C) Lord Shaftsbury
stressed syllable of two lines of verse is (D) Lord Harvey
called Answer: D
(A) monorhyme
(B) feminine rhyme 25. The hero of Marlowe‘s Tamburlaine was
(C) masculine rhyme born as a
(D) eye rhyme (A) carpenter
Answer: C (B) goldsmith
(C) shepherd
20. A fatwa was issued in Salman Rushdie‘s (D) fisherman
name following the publication of : Answer: C
(A) Midnight‟s Children
(B) Shame 26. In a letter to his brother George in
(C) Satanic Verses September 1819, John Keats had this to say
(D) Grimus about a fellow romantic poet : ―He describes
Answer: C what he sees – I describe what I imagine –
Mine is the hardest task.‖ The poet under
reference is
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(A) Wordsworth (C) Francis Bacon
(B) Coleridge (D) John Locke
(C) Byron Answer: D
(D) Southey
Answer: C 33. The terms ‗resonance‘ and ‗wonder‘ are
associated with
27. A sequence of repeated consonantal (A) Stephen Greenblatt
sounds in a stretch of language is (B) Terence Hawkes
(A) alliteration (C) Terry Eagleton
(B) acrostic (D) Ronald Barthes
(C) assent Answer: A
(D) syllable
Answer: A 34. The rhetorical pattern used by Chaucer
in The Prologue to Canterbury Tales is
28. Reformation was predominantly a (A) ten-syllabic line
movement in (B) eight-syllabic line
(A) politics (C) rhyme royal
(B) literature (D) ottava rima
(C) religion Answer:A
(D) education
Answer: C 35. Charles Darwin‘s Origin of the Species
was published in the year
29. The motto ―only connect‖ is taken from (A) 1859
(A) Joseph Conrad‟s Nostromo (B) 1879
(B) Rudyard Kipling‟s Kim (C) 1845
(C) H.G. Wells‟ The History of Mr. Polly (D) 1866
(D) E.M. Forster‟s Howards End Answer: A
Answer: D
36. Who of the following is the author of
30. English Iambic Pentameter was brought Juno and the Paycock ?
to its first maturity in (A) Lady Gregory
(A) sonnet (B) W.B. Yeats
(B) dramatic verse (C) Oscar Wilde
(C) lyric (D) Sean O‟Casey
(D) elegy Answer: D
Answer: B
37. The title of William Faulkner‘s The
31. Who among the following was not a Sound and the Fury is taken from a play by
member of the Bloomsbury Group ? (A) Christopher Marlowe
(A) Lytton Strachey (B) William Shakespeare
(B) Clive Bell (C) Ben Jonson
(C) E.M. Forster (D) John Webster
(D) Winston Churchill Answer: B
Answer: D
38. ―Silverman has never read Browning.‖
32. The concept of human mind as tabula This is an example of
rasa or blank tablet was propounded by (A) chiasmus
(A) Bishop Berkley (B) conceit
(B) David Hume (C) zeugma

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(D) metonymy (B) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Answer: D (C) Gerard Manley Hopkins
(D) Algernon Charles Swinburne
39. The term ‗Intentional Fallacy‘ is first Answer: C
used by
(A) William Empson 44. Aston is a character in Pinter‘s
(B) Northrop Frye (A) The Birthday Party
(C) Wellek and Warren (B) The Caretaker
(D) Wimsatt and Beardsley (C) The Dumb Waiter
Answer: D (D) The Homecoming
Answer: B
40. ―Recessional : A Victorian Ode‖,
Kipling‘s well-known poem, 45. Byron‘s English Bards and Scottish
I. laments the end of an Era Reviewers is about
II. marks a new commitment to scientific I. the survey of English poetry
knowledge II. evangelism in English poetry
III. expresses the sincerity of his religious III. contemporary literary scene
devotion IV. the early English travelers
IV. was occasioned by Queen Victoria‟s 1897
Jubilee Celebration The correct combination for the statement,
according to the code, is
The correct combination for the statement, (A) III and IV are correct.
according to the code, is (B) II, III and IV are correct.
(A) I, II and III are correct. (C) I and II are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct. (D) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct. Answer: D
(D) I, III and IV are correct.
Answer: B 46. Which Eliotian character utters the
question – ―Do I eat a peach‖ ?
41. Who among the following is not a (A) Marina
Restoration playwright ? (B) Prufrock
(A) William Congreve (C) Sweeney
(B) William Wycherley (D) Stetson
(C) Ben Jonson Answer: B
(D) George Etherege
Answer: C 47. Which among the following works by
Daniel Defoe landed him in prison and the
42. Which famous Romantic poem begins pillory ?
with the line : ‗Hail to thee, blithe spirit ! / (A) The True-Born Englishman
Bird thou never wert‖ ? (B) Captain Singleton
(A) “Ode to a Nightingale” (C) The Shortest Way with Dissenters
(B) “To the Cuckoo” (D) Moll Flanders
(C) “To a Skylark” Answer: C
(D) “To the Daisy”
Answer: C 48. The arrival of printing in fifteenth
century England was engineered by
43. Who among the following Victorian (A) Sir Thomas Malory
poets disliked his middle name ? (B) John Gower
(A) Arthur Hugh Clough (C) John Barbour

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(D) William Caxton
Answer: D

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
Answer: C

50. The Restoration comedy, The Double

Dealer was written by
(A) John Dryden
(B) William Wycherley Paper 2- June 2011
(C) William Congreve
(D) George Etherege 1. Little Nell is a character in Dickens‘s
Answer: C (A) Hard Times
(B) Great Expectations
(C) Oliver Twist
(D) The Old Curiosity Shop
Answer: D

2. Who, among the following Indian writers

in English, has created an identifiable
imagined locale ?
(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) Raja Rao
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Anita Desai
Answer: C

3. Who among the following is not a

formalist critic ?
(A) Allen Tate
(B) Cleanth Brooks
(C) Stanley Fish
(D) William Empson
Answer: C

4. The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian

sonnet is
(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee
(B) abab cdcd efef gg
(C) abba cddc effe gg
(D) abba abba cde cde
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5. Who among the following Marlovian (B) Shelley‟s “A Defence of Poetry”
characters is consumed by greed ? (C) Sidney‟s “An Apology for Poetry”
(A) Barabas (D) Eliot‟s of Poetry and Poets
(B) Tamburlaine Answer: A
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) Mephistopheles 10. Which of the following is not about a
Answer: A dystopia ?
(A) George Orwell‟s Nineteen Eighty-Four
6. The plan of Arthurian stories has (B) Aldous Huxley‟s Brave New World
influenced the composition of Tennyson‘s (C) William Golding‟s Lord of the Flies
(A) In Memoriam (D) R.M. Ballantyne‟s The Coral Island
(B) Idylls Answer: D
(C) “Maud”
(D) “Locksley Hall” 11. Who among the following is not
Answer: B associated with the translation of the Bible ?
(A) Miles Coverdale
7. There are two lists given below.Match the (B) William Tyndale
authors in List – I withtheir nationality in (C) John Wycliffe
List – II by choosing the right option against (D) Thomas Browne
the code. Answer: D
(I) Patrick White
(II) Nadine Gordimer 12. Arrange the following stages in a
(III) Margaret Atwood sequence in which all Shakespearean
(IV) Keri Hulme tragedies are structured. Use the code given
below :
(1) Canada I. Denouement
(2) New Zealand II. Conflict
(3) Australia III. Exposition
(4) South Africa IV. Climax
Code :
(I) (II) (III) (IV) Code :
(A) (2) (1) (4) (3) (A) III, II, IV, I
(B) (4) (3) (2) (1) (B) III, IV, II, I
(C) (3) (4) (1) (2) (C) II, IV, III, I
(D) (3) (2) (4) (1) (D) II, IV, I, III
Answer: C Answer: A

8. A Shakespearean sonnet has the following 13. The term, ‗curtal sonnet‘, was coined by
rhyme scheme (A) John Milton
(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD (B) William Blake
(B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE (C) Gerald Manley Hopkins
(C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG (D) Matthew Arnold
(D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE Answer: C
Answer: C
14. The author of the pamphlet Short View
9. ―The future of poetry is immense, because of Immorality and Profaneness of the
in poetry…. our race, as time goes on, will English Stage (1698) was
find an ever surer and surer stay.‖ – This (A) John Bunyan
claim for poetry is made in (B) Jeremy Collier
(A) Arnold‟s “The Study of Poetry”
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(C) William Wycherley 20. Hamlet, lying wounded, says to his
(D) John Vanbrugh friend, ―Horatio, I am dead.‖ This is an
Answer: B example of
(A) protasis
15. Identify a play in the following list that is (B) anacrusis
not written by Oscar Wilde : (C) prolepsis
(A) A Woman of No Importance (D) pun
(B) The Importance of Being Earnest Answer: C
(C) Saints and Sinners
(D) An Ideal Husband 21. The Castle of Otranto is an example of
Answer: C (A) Gothic fiction
(B) Romance
16. Put the following novels by Charles (C) Comic fiction
Dickens in a sequential order with the help (D) Bildungsroman
of the code : Answer: A
1. Great Expectations
2. Hard Times 22. ―The City of Dreadful Night‖, a long
3. Bleak House poem depicting the late Victorian sense of
4. A Tale of Two Cities gloom and despondency, is written by
(A) Matthew Arnold
Code : (B) Robert Browning
(A) 3, 2, 4, 1 (C) James Thomson
(B) 2, 4, 3, 1 (D) John Davidson
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3 Answer: C
(D) 4, 2, 1, 3
Answer: A 23. Which of the following novels by V.S.
Naipaul is set in Africa and carries echoes of
17. Thomas Kyd‘s The Spanish Tragedy was Joseph Conrad ?
influenced by (A) The Mystic Masseur
(A) Seneca (B) A Bend in the River
(B) Tertullian (C) A House for Mr. Biswas
(C) Virgil (D) The Mimic Men
(D) Plautus Answer: B
Answer: A
24. In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda‘s
18. In its final published version, Eliot‘s The lapdog is named
Waste Land contains a total of (A) Luck
(A) 334 lines (B) Shock
(B) 433 lines (C) Pluck
(C) 373 lines (D) Muck
(D) 423 lines Answer: B
Answer: B
25. You Can‘t Do Both is a novel by
19. Jean Rhys‘s Wide Sargasso Sea is set in (A) John Fowles
(A) The Congo region (B) Doris Lessing
(B) The Niger Delta (C) Kingsley Amis
(C) The Caribbean (D) Irish Murdoch
(D) The African Savannah Answer: C
Answer: C

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26. The character, Nathan Zuckerman, is 32. Eliot uses the term ―objective
associated with the fiction of correlative‖ in his essay.
(A) Norman Mailer (A) “The Metaphysical Poets”
(B) Saul Bellow (B) “Hamlet”
(C) Philip Roth (C) “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
(D) Bernard Malamud (D) “Dante”
Answer: C Answer: B

27. Plato censured poetry because he 33. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel
believed it Prize for literature in the year
(A) eliminates the ego. (A) 1995
(B) promotes sensuality. (B) 1996
(C) distorts reality. (C) 1997
(D) cripples the imagination. (D) 1998
Answer: B Answer: A

28. Which of the following Tennyson poems 34. The pamphlet on the Irish condition,
is a dramatic monologue ? ―An Address to the Irish People‖ was
(A) In Memoriam composed by
(B) “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (A) W.B. Yeats
(C) “Crossing the Bar” (B) P.B. Shelley
(D) “Tithonus” (C) Jonathan Swift
Answer: D (D) G.B. Shaw
Answer: B
29. The character Giovanni features in one
of the following texts : 35. Which of the following arrangements of
(A) John Cleland‟s Fanny Hill : Memoirs of a English novels is in the correct chronological
Woman of Pleasure sequence ?
(B) John Ford‟s „Tis Pity She‟s a Whore‟ (A) Kim, A Passage to India, Sons and Lovers,
(C) John Braine‟s Room at the Top Brave New World
(D) John Evelyn‟s Diaries (B) Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India, Kim,
Answer: B Brave New World
(C) Kim, Sons and Lovers, A Passage to India,
30. Which of the following poems features Brave New World
the phrase, ―the still, sad music of (D) Brave New World, Kim, Sons and Lovers,
humanity‖ ? A Passage to India
(A) “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Answer: C
Recollections of Early Childhood”
(B) “Michael : A Pastoral Poem” 36. ―Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift‖ is
(C) “The Solitary Reaper” written by
(D) “Tintern Abbey” (A) Alexander Pope
Answer: D (B) Samuel Johnson
(C) John Gay
31. Molly Bloom is a character in James (D) Jonathan Swift
Joyce‘s Answer: D
(A) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(B) Dubliners 37. Widowers‘ Houses was written by
(C) Ulysses (A) Oscar Wilde
(D) Exiles (B) T.S. Eliot
Answer: C (C) John Galsworthy
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(D) G.B. Shaw (D) Robert Southey
Answer: D Answer: D

38. Who among the following Marxist critics 44. Tom Paine‘s The Rights of Man was
has reconsidered the classic problem of published in
‗base and superstructure‖ in relation to (A) 1790
literature ? (B) 1791
(A) Edmund Wilson (C) 1792
(B) Raymond Williams (D) 1793
(C) Lucien Goldmann Answer: B
(D) Walter Benjamin
Answer: B 45. Andrew Marvell‘s ―An Horatian Ode
upon Cromwell‘s Return from Ireland‖ was
39. ―Heteroglossia‖ refers to written in
(A) the multiple readings of a text. (A) 1647
(B) the juxtaposition of multiple voices in a (B) 1649
text. (C) 1650
(C) the comments on the margins of a text. (D) 1648
(D) the gloss or commentary relating to a text. Answer: C
Answer: B
46. ―The Rime of Ancient Mariner‖ is about
40. Margaret Drabble is the author of (A) a perilous adventure in the sea
(A) The Memoirs of a Survivor (B) the accidental killing of an octopus
(B) The Witch of Exmoor (C) the curse of a sea God
(C) The Service of Clouds (D) the guilt and expiation of the Ancient
(D) The Godless in Eden Mariner
Answer: B Answer: D

41. MacFlecknoe is an attack on Dryden‘s 47. ―To Daffodils‖ is a poem, written by

literary rival, (A) Robert Herrick
(A) Richard Flecknoe (B) William Wordsworth
(B) Thomas Shadwell (C) John Keats
(C) John Wilmot (D) P.B. Shelley
(D) Matthew Prior Answer: A
Answer: B
48. Which of the following novels
42. Eighteenth century writers used satire reconstructs the historical events of the
frequently for Indian Mutiny ?
(A) attacking human vices and follies. (A) The Jewel in the Crown
(B) inciting the reading public. (B) The Siege of Krishnapur
(C) glorifying the culture of the upper classes. (C) The Day of the Scorpion
(D) pleasing their women readers. (D) The Towers of Silence
Answer: A Answer: B

43. Byron‘s ―The Vision of Judgement‖ is a 49. ―England, my England‖ is a poem by

satire directed against (A) W.E. Henley
(A) Charles Lamb (B) A.E. Housman
(B) John Keats (C) R.L. Stevenson
(C) Henry Hallam

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(D) Rudyard Kipling
Answer: A

50. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford

University due to the publication of
(A) The Revolt of Islam
(B) The Necessity of Atheism
(C) The Triumph of Life
(D) The Masque of Anarchy
Answer: B

Paper 2- December 2011

1. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and
Scenery is written by
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) Robert Southey
(C) John Clare
(D) Thomas Gray
Answer: C

2. Hemingway‘s novel A Farewell Arms is

divided into to
(A) two books
(B) three books
(C) four books
(D) five books
Answer: D

3. ―Panopticism‖ is the title of achapter in a

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

4. The lines, ―She was a worthywoman al hir

lyve:/ Housbondes atcherche dore she hadde
five‖, are an example of
(A) blank verse
(B) clerihew
(C) heroic couplet
(D) free verse
Answer: C

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5. Who, among the following women writers, (D) John Ruskin
famously imagined the plight of Answer: B
Shakespeare‘s sister ?
(A) George Eliot 10. Who amongst the following is not a
(B) Virginia Woolf Jewish-American novelist ?
(C) Irish Murdoch (A) J.D. Salinger
(D) Frances Burney (B) Henry Greene
Answer: B (C) William Faulkner
(D) Philip Roth
6. Read the following statement and the Answer: B
reason given for it. Choose the right
response. 11. Which among the following plays by
Assertion(A) : Dickens‟s novels are called Christopher Marlowe has epic features ?
„Newgate Novels‟. (A) Doctor Faustus
Reason (R) : They are called so, because (B) Edward II
Dickens adulates in these novels the careers (C) Hero and Leander
and adventures of criminals. (D) Tamburlaine
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and(R) is the Answer: D
correct explanation.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the 12. Sir Fopling is a character in
correct explanation. (A) Wycherley‟s The Plain Dealer
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. (B) Congreve‟s The Way of the World
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. (C) Etherege‟s The Man of Mode
Answer: A (D) Davenant‟s The Platonick Lovers
Answer: C
7. Who among the following writers does not
belong to the group, the University Wits ? 13. Who famously said, ―Three or four
(A) John Lyly families in a Country Village is the very
(B) Thomas Nashe thing to work on‖ ?
(C) George Peele (A) Clara Reeve
(D) Thomas Kyd (B) Maria Edgeworth
Answer: D (C) Frances Burney
(D) Jane Austen
8. Which of the following characters of Answer: D
Webster‘s The White Devil utters the
memorable words : Oft gay and honour‘d 14. Ikemefuna is a character in the novel
robes those tortures try : We think cag‘d (A) When Rain Clouds Gather
birds sing, when indeed they cry. (B) The Mimic Men
(A) Vittoria Corombona (C) Things Fall Apart
(B) Bracciano (D) The Interpreters
(C) The Cardinal Answer: C
(D) Flamineo
Answer: D 15. A foot consisting of a strong syllable
followed by a weak syllable is called
9. ―All great literature is, at bottom, a (A) Trochee
criticism of life‖ – this statement is (B) Iambic
attributed to (C) Spondee
(A) Thomas Carlyle (D) Terza Rima
(B) Matthew Arnold Answer: A
(C) J.S. Mill
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16. What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the 21. The Unfortunate Traveller has been
depiction of the Wife of Bath in The authored by
Canterbury Tales ? (A) Robert Greene
(A) Meekness (B) Thomas Deloney
(B) Defiance (C) Thomas Nashe
(C) Chastity (D) Thomas Lodge
(D) Experience Answer: C
Answer: B
22. Who, among the following, is not a
17. Put the following books of Pope in a practitioner of Jacobean tragedy ?
sequence of publication. Answer the (A) George Villiers
question with the help of the Code given (B) John Marston
below : (C) John Webster
(i) The Dunciad (D) Thomas Middleton
(ii) The Rape of the Lock Answer: A
(iii) An Essay on Man
(iv) An Essay on Criticism 23. The author of Nation and Narration is
Code : (A) Edward Said
(A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv) (B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(B) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) (C) Frantz Fanon
(C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii) (D) Homi Bhabha
(D) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii) Answer: D
Answer: C
24. Which of the following novels has a great
18. Dinah Morris is a character in George impact on the formal experimentation in
Eliot‘s novel contemporary fiction ?
(A) Middlemarch (A) Thomas Nashe‟s The Unfortunate
(B) Silas Marner Traveller
(C) Daniel Deronda (B) Henry Fielding‟s Tom Jones
(D) Adam Bede (C) Laurence Sterne‟s Tristram Shandy
Answer: D (D) Samuel Richardson‟s Pamela
Answer: C
19. The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel
of judges to the best novel by a citizen of 25. The phrase ‗Only Connect‘ is associated
(A) the United Kingdom with
(B) the British Commonwealth or the Republic (A) D. H. Lawrence
of Ireland (B) James Joyce
(C) the United Kingdom or the British (C) E. M. Forster
Commonwealth (D) Virginia Woolf
(D) the United Kingdom or the British Answer: C
Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland
Answer: B 26. Which of the following books is by
Margaret Atwood ?
20. A ‗curtal sonnet‘ consists of (A) The Stone Angel
(A) 11 lines (B) No Fixed Address
(B) 12 lines (C) The Edible Woman
(C) 13 lines (D) Halfbreed
(D) 14 lines Answer: C
Answer: A

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27. The expression ―murderous innocence‖ 2. The Vicar of Wakefield
is an example of 3. She Stoops to Conquer
(A) Oxymoron 4. The Beggar‟s Opera
(B) Zeugma
(C) Chiasmus I. Oliver Goldsmith
(D) Pun II. John Gay
Answer: A III. Samuel Johnson
IV. Richard Sheridan
28. Read the following statement and the
reason given for it. Choose the right Code :
response : I II III IV
Assertion (A) : Othello killed Desdemona. (A) 1 4 3 2
Reason (R) : Because Desdemona committed (B) 2 4 1 3
infidelity. (C) 3 2 4 1
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)is the (D) 4 3 2 1
correct explanation. Answer: *
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the
correct explanation. 33. The term ―egotistical sublime‖ was
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false. coined by
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. (A) S.T. Coleridge
Answer: C (B) John Keats
(C) William Wordsworth
29. The Enlightenment believed in the (D) William Hazlitt
universal authority of Answer: B
(A) Religion
(B) Tradition 34. Put the following novels of George Eliot
(C) Reason in a sequential order. Answer the question
(D) Sentiments with the help of the code :
Answer: C (i) Middlemarch
(ii) Daniel Deronda
30. Which of the following works of John (iii) Felix Holt, the Radical
Milton is an elegy ? (iv) Romola
(A) Lycidas
(B) L‟Allegro Code :
(C) Camus (A) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)
(D) Paradise Lost (B) (ii), (i), (iii), (iv)
Answer: A (C) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii)
(D) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
31. Which of the following poem by Keats Answer: D
uses the Spenserian stanza ?
(A) Endymion 35. Who, among the following writers, is
(B) The Fall of Hyperion known for his unforgettable sense of
(C) The Eve of St. Agnes humour and comedy ?
(D) Lamia (A) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: C (B) P.G. Wodehouse
(C) Thomas Hardy
32. Match the following authors with their (D) John Galsworthy
respective works with the help of the code Answer: D
given below :
1. The Vanity of Human Wishes
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36. Which of the following is not an (A) Joseph Conrad
apocalyptic novel ? (B) James Joyce
(A) Doris Lessing‟s The Four-Gated City (C) Jane Austen
(B) L.P. Hartley‟s Facial Justice (D) George Eliot
(C) Anthony Burgess‟s The Wanting Seed Answer: B
(D) V.S. Naipaul‟s A House for Mr Biswas
Answer: C 41. Isaac Bashevis Singer is an
(A) African-American writer
37. Identify the author of the following lines (B) American-Jewish writer
: (C) American-Indian writer
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, (D) American-Asian writer
Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have Answer: B
shown
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is 42. Samuel Beckett‘s Waiting for Godot has
one. (A) three Acts
(A) Shakespeare (B) five Acts
(B) George Herbert (C) four Acts
(C) John Donne (D) two Acts
(D) Henry Vaughan Answer: D
Answer: C
43. James Joyce‘s Exiles is a
38. In the summer of 1712, The Spectator (A) Short Story
published a series of essays on ―The (B) Poem
Pleasures of Imagination,‖ written by (C) Play
(A) Richard Steele (D) Novel
(B) John Dennis Answer: C
(C) John Locke
(D) Joseph Addison 44. ―It was a bright cold day in April and
Answer: D the clocks were striking thirteen‖ – is the
opening sentence of
39. Read the following statement and the (A) Ulysses
reason given for it. Choose the right (B) Nostromo
response. (C) Chrome Yellow
Assertion (A) : Gulliver‟s Travels earned (D) Nineteen Eighty-Four
Jonathan Swift the bad name of being a Answer: D
misanthrope.
Reason (R) : Swift in the novel was neutral to 45. The subtitle of William Godwin‘s Caleb
the image of man. Williams is
(A) Man As He Is Not
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R)is the (B) Man As He Is
correct explanation. (C) Things As They Are
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the (D) The Pupil of Nature
correct explanation. Answer: C
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true. 46. Who amongst the following belongs to
Answer: B the group of radical feminists ?
(A) Helene Cixous
40. Who, amongst the following, does not (B) Monica Wittig
belong to the ‗Great Tradition‘, enunciated (C) Simone de Beauvoir
by F. R. Leavis ?
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(D) Luce Irigaray
Answer: A

47. ―On the Knocking at the Gate in

Macbeth‖ is a longer essay by
(A) G. Wilson Knight Paper 2- June 2012
(B) A. C. Bradley
(C) Thomas De Quincey 1. To refer to the unresolvable difficulties a
(D) F. R. Leavis text may open up, Derrida makes use of the
Answer: C term:
(A) aporia
48. The expression, ―dreaming house‖ is an (B) difference
example of (C) erasure
(A) Zeugma (D) supplement
(B) Transferred epithet Answer: (A)
(C) Chiasmus
(D) Apostrophe 2. Who, among the following English
Answer: B playwrights, scripted the film Shakespeare
in Love?
49. The term ‗Practical Criticism‘ is coined (A) Harold Pinter
by (B) Alan Bennett
(A) William Empson (C) Caryl Churchill
(B) W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. (D) Tom Stoppard
(C) I.A. Richards Answer: (D)
(D) F. R. Leavis
Answer: C 3. Arrange the following in the chronological
order:
50. Victor Shklovsky‘s name is associated 1. Mary Wollstonecraft‟s Vindication of the
with Rights of Women
(A) Post-modernism 2. Lyrical Ballads
(B) New Historicism 3. French Revolution
(C) Reader Response Theory 4. Percy‟s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
(D) Russian Formalism (A) 4, 3, 1, 2
Answer: D (B) 3, 2, 1, 2
(C) 1, 2, 4, 3
(D) 2, 1, 3, 4
Answer: (A)

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
Answer: (D)

5. The Irish Dramatic Movement was

heralded by such figures as
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(A) W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward 11. List – I
Martyn I. “Because I could not stop for death…”
(B) Jonathan Swift and his contemporaries II. “O Captain ! My Captain!”
(C) H. Drummond, Edward Irving and John III. “Two roads diverged in a wood….”
Ervine IV. “So much depends /upon”
(D) Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries List – II
Answer: (A) a. Robert Frost
b. William Carlos Williams
6. Which poem by Chaucer was written on c. Emily Dickinson
the death of Blanche, Wife of John of d. Walt Whitman
Gaunt?
(A) Troilus and Criseyde The correctly matched series would be :
(B) The House of Fame (A) I-d; II-c; III-b; IV-a
(C) The Book of Duchess (B) I-a; II-b; III-c; IV-d
(D) The Legend of Good Women (C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-c
Answer: (C) (D) I-c; II-d; III-a; IV-b
Answer: (D)
7. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the
other title of 12. The predominant tone and thrust of
(A) Gorboduc Jonathan Swift‘s ―A Modest Proposal‖ are
(B) Ralph Roister Doister (A) comic
(C) Damon and Pythias (B) solemn
(D) Lamentable Tragedy (C) hortatory
Answer: (A) (D) irony
Answer: (D)
8. Who of the following poets is Australian?
(A) Austin Clarke 13. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty Second
(B) Judith Wright Street, Uncertain and afraid As the clever
(C) Edwin Muir hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade. So
(D) Derek Walcott begins Auden‘s ―September 1, 1939‖. What
Answer: (B) is the meaning of the word in italics?
(A) bench
9. ―He found it [English] brick and left it (B) night club
marble‖, remarked one great writer on (C) house
another. Who were they? (D) park
(A) Milton on Shakespeare Answer: (B)
(B) Dryden on Milton
(C) Johnson on Dryden 14. C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards were
(D) Jonson on Shakespeare reputed in the 1930s for introducing
Answer: (C) (A) Practical Criticism
(B) New Criticism
10. Who, among the following, is a Nobel (C) Standard English Project
Laureate? (D) Basic English Project
(A) Tony Morrison Answer: (D)
(B) Seamus Heaney
(C) Ted Hughes 15. In which of the following works does
(D) Geoffrey Hill Mrs. Malaprop appear ?
Answer: (A & B) (A) The Rivals
(B) She Stoops to Conquer
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho
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(D) The Way of the World places wrecked by political conflicts?
Answer: (A) (A) Anthony Powell
(B) Evelyn Waugh
16. Which of the following statements about (C) William Golding
Christopher Marlowe are true? (D) Graham Greene
I. Edward II was written in the last year of Answer: (D)
Marlowe‟s life.
II. Many critics consider Doctor Faustus to be 21. List – I
Marlowe‟s best play. 1. Good sense is the body of poetic genius
III. His Spanish Tragedy comes a close second. 2. Poetry is the breath and a finer spirit of all
IV. Marlowe was less educated than knowledge
Shakespeare. 3. Literary criticism is a description and
(A) I and II are true. evaluation of its object
(B) II and III are true. 4. Nature never set forth the earth in as rich a
(C) II and IV are true. tapestry as diverse poets have done
(D) III and IV are true. List – II
Answer: (A) I. Brooks, “The Formalist Critic”
II. Sidney, Defence/ An Apology for Poetry
17. ―Art for Art‘s Sake‖ became a rallying III. Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
cry for IV. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
(A) the Aesthetes 1234
(B) the Symbolists (A) IV III I II
(C) the Imagists (B) II IV III I
(D) the Art Noveau School (C) III II I IV
Answer: (A) (D) IV II I III
Answer: (A)
18. Confessions of an English Opium Eater
is a literary work by 22. In which of the following travel books
(A) S. T. Coleridge does Mark Twain give an account of his visit
(B) P. B. Shelley to India?
(C) Thomas De Quincey (A) A Tramp Abroad
(D) Lord Byron (B) Roughing It
Answer: (C) (C) The Innocents Abroad
(D) Following the Equator
19. Which of the following statements about Answer: (D)
The Canterbury Tales is true?
(A) “The General Prologue‟ is appended to The 23. William Blake‘s famous poems such as
Canterbury Tales. ―London‖, ―The Sick Rose‖, and ―The
(B) In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this Tyger‖ appear in
work. (A) Songs of Innocence
(C) The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished (B) Songs of Experience
at the time of its author‟s death. (C) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain (D) Vision of the Daughters of Albion
and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers Answer: (B)
in this work.
Answer: (C) 24. Who among the following English artists
illustrated the novels of Dickens and Scott?
20. Who, among the following, was a (A) Richard Hogarth
Catholic novelist, an Intelligence Officer, a (B) Joshua Reynolds
film critic and set his fictions in far-away (C) George Cruishank
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(D) John Tennial (D) David Hare
Answer: (C) Answer: (C)

25. The last of Gulliver‘s Travels is to 31. Examine the following statements and
(A) The Land of the Houyhnhnms identify one of them which is not true.
(B) The Land of Homosapiens (A) Rudyard Kipling died in the year 1936.
(C) The Land of the Hurricanes (B) He was born in India but schooled in
(D) The Newfound Land England.
Answer: (A) (C) He returned to India as a police constable
in Burma.
26. Madam Merle is a character in (D) He is the author of Jungle Book and
(A) The Great Gatsby Barrack Room Ballads.
(B) The Portrait of a Lady Answer: (C)
(C) The Jungle
(D) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 32. What is the correct combination of the
Answer: (B) following?
I. Balachandra Rajan
27. In which of the following scenes of The II. R. K. Narayan
Waste Land do we have a departure from III. Kamala Markandaya
Standard English? IV. Romen Basu
(A) The typist scene a. The Tamarind Tree
(B) The pub scene b. The Coffer Dams
(C) The hyacinth garden scene c. The Dark Dancer
(D) The Chapel Perilous scene d. The Dark Room
Answer: (B) (A) I – c; II – d; III – b; IV – b
(B) I – d; II – a; III – b; IV – c
28. The words ―If it were done when tis (C) I – c; II – a; III – d; IV – b
done, then twere well / It were done (D) I – d; II – c; III – a; IV – b
quickly…‖ are uttered by Answer: * (Marks given to all)
(A) Hamlet
(B) Lear 33. Name the poet who chooses his successor
(C) Othello and the successor-poet whom Dryden
(D) Macbeth satirises in his famous poem.
Answer: (D) (A) James Shirley and Chris Shirley
(B) Henry Treece and Charles Triesten
29. John Dryden‘s Absalom and Achotophel (C) Richard Flecknoe and Thomas Shadwell
a (D) Thomas Percy and Samuel Pepys
(A) religious tract Answer: (C)
(B) political allegory
(C) comic verse epic 34. ―If______ comes, can_______ be far
(D) comedy behind ?‖ (Shelley, ―Ode to the West
Answer: (B) Wind‖)
(A) winter, spring
30. The term ‗the comedy of menace‘ is (B) autumn, summer
associated with the early plays of (C) wind, rains
(A) Arnold Wesker (D) spring, winter
(B) John Arden Answer: (A)
(C) Harold Pinter
35. The following passages are the very first
lines of well-known works. Match the lines
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and the works: (C) iron, gold, silver and brass
a. Moby Dick (D) gold, platinum, silver and diamond
b. Macbeth Answer: (C)
c. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
d. Tristram Shandy 40. Which among the following novels has
e. “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” more than one ending?
I. Let us go then, you and I….. (A) Lucky Jim
II. Call me Ishmael….. (B) The Prime of Jean Brodie
III. When shall we three meet again? (C) The French Lieutenant‟s Woman
IV. He disappeared in the dead of winter (D) The Clockwork Orange
V. I wish either….begot me ….. Answer: (C)

(A) I-c; II-a; III-b; IV-e; V-d 41. ―You have seen how a man was made a
(B) I-e; II-b; III-a; IV-c; V-d slave; you shall see how a slave was made a
(C) I-b; II-a; III-d; IV-e; V-c man‖ is an example of
(D) I-b; II-e; III-d; IV-c; V-a (A) Bathos
Answer: (A) (B) Epistrophe
(C) Chiasmus
36. Which of the following is not a revenge (D) Anti-climax
tragedy? Answer: (C)
(A) Hamlet
(B) The Duchess of Malfi 42. Which of the following statements is
(C) Volpone NOT correct?
(D) Gorboduc (A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic
Answer: (C) form in some of his major poems.
(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of
37. What is a neologism? Good Women.
(A) A word with roots in a native language (C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court
(B) A word whose meaning changes with every poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman
renewed use and Latin.
(C) A word newly coined or used in a new (D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the
sense Governor
(D) An obsession with new words and phrases Answer: (D)
Answer: (C)
43. Material feminism studies inequality in
38. Which of the following is not true of terms of
Edward Said‘s Orientalism? (A) only gender
(A) Makes use of Foucault‟s concept of (B) only class
discursive formulation (C) both class and gender
(B) Is one of the founding texts of Postcolonial (D) only patriarchy
theory Answer: (C)
(C) Makes use of Barthes‟s concept of writerly
text 44. Who among the following is not an Irish
(D) Utilises the Gramscian notion of hegemony writer?
Answer: (C) (A) Oscar Wilde
(B) Oliver Goldsmith
39. Thomas Love Peacock classified poetry (C) Edmund Burke
into 4 periods. They are: (D) Thomas Gray
(A) carbon, gold, silver and brass Answer: (D)
(B) brass, silver, gold and diamond
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45. Entries in The Diary of Samuel Pepys 50. An epilogue is
begins after (A) prefixed to a text which it introduces.
(A) The Restoration (B) suffixed to a text which it sums up or
(B) The Glorious Revolution extends.
(C) The Reformation (C) a piece of writing or speech that formally
(D) The French Revolution begins a book.
Answer: (A) (D) a piece of writing or speech that bears no
relation to the text at hand.
46. In a poem, a line may either be end- Answer: (B)
stopped or
(A) rhymed
(B) broken
(C) accented
(D) run-on
Answer: (D)

47. Which of the following poets wrote the

essay ―Naipaul‘s India and Mine‖?
(A) Kamala Das
(B) R. Parthasarthy
(C) A. K. Ramanujam
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
Answer: (D)

48. Match the following :

1. Peter Ackroyd
2. James Boswell
3. Samuel Johnson
4. Richard Ellman

I. James Joyce
II. T. S. Eliot
III. Life of Johnson
IV. Lives of Poets

(A) I-3, II-4, III-1, IV-2

(B) I-4, II-1, III-2, IV-3
(C) I-1, II-2, III-3, IV-4
(D) I-2, II-3, III-1, IV-4
Answer: (B)

49. ―The pen is mightier than the sword‖ is

an example of
(A) simile
(B) image
(C) conceit
(D) metonymy
Answer: (D)

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 (B) Gulliver‟s Travels
(C) The Spectator
(D) An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Answer: (A)

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
Answer: (B)

3. The period of Queen Victoria‘s reign is

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

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.
Answer: (D)

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
Answer: (D)

6. Who among the poets in England during

the 1930s had left–leaning tendencies?
Paper 2- December 2012 (A) T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington
(B) Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert
1. Identify the work below that does not Brooke
belong to the literature of the eighteenth (C) W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day
century: Lewis
(A) Advancement of Learning (D) J. Fleckner, W. H. Davies, Edward Marsh
Answer: (C)
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7. Match the following: (D) All of them are farces.
1. The Sage of Concord Answer: (B)
2. The Nun of Amherst
3. Mark Twain 12. W.M. Thackeray‘s Vanity Fair owes its
4. Old Possum title to
5. Emily Dickinson (A) Browning‟s Fifine at the Fair
6. R.W. Emerson (B) Shakespeare‟s Merchant of Venice
7. T.S. Eliot (C) Goldsmith‟s Vicar of Wakefield
8. Samuel L. Clemens (D) Bunyan‟s Pilgrim‟s Progress
Answer: (D)
(A) 1–6; 2–5; 3–8; 4–7
(B) 1–5; 2–6; 3–7; 4–8 13. The Puritans shut down all theatersin
(C) 1–8; 2–7; 3–6; 4–5 England in
(D) 1–7; 2–8; 3–5; 4–6 (A) 1642
Answer: (A) (B) 1640
(C) 1659
8. Name the theorist who divided poets into (D) 1660
―strong‖ and ―weak‖ and popularized the Answer: (A)
practice of misreading:
(A) Alan Bloom 14. Who of the following was not a
(B) Harold Bloom contemporary of Wordsworth and
(C) Geoffrey Hartman Coleridge?
(D) Stanley Fish (A) Robert Southey
Answer: (B) (B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) William Hazlitt
9. In the Rape of the Lock Pope repeatedly (D) A. C. Swinburne
compares Belinda to Answer: (D)
(A) The sun
(B) The moon 15. Which of the following statements about
(C) The North Star Waiting for Godot is NOT true?
(D) The rose 1. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
Answer: (A) acts”.
2. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
10. Which of the following awards is not scenes”.
given to Indian–English writers? 3. It carries a subtitle: “a tragicomedy in two
(A) The Booker Prize parts”.
(B) The Sahitya Akademi Award 4. It does not carry a subtitle.
(C) The Gyanpeeth (A) 4
(D) Whitbread Prize (B) 2
Answer: (C & D) (C) 3
(D) 1
11. Identify the correct statement below: Answer: * (Marks given to all)
(A) Gorboduc is a comedy, while Ralph
Roister Doister and Gammer Gurton‟s Needle 16. The Bloomsbury Group included British
are tragedies. intellectuals, critics, writers and artists. Who
(B) Gorboduc is a tragedy, while Ralph Roister among the following belonged to the
Doister and Gammer Gurton‟s Needle are Bloomsbury Group?
comedies. I. John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey
(C) All of them are problem plays. II. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Clive Bell
III. Patrick Brunty, Paul Haworth
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IV. Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Walter Pater 21. The year 1939 proved to be a crucial
(A) I and II year for two important writers in England.
(B) I Identify the correct phrase below:
(C) II and III (A) For Yeats who died, for Auden who left
(D) IV England for the U. S.
Answer: (A) (B) For Eliot who started publishing verse–
drama, for Hardy whose Wessex Poems were
17. Who, among the following is credited published.
with the making of the first authoritative (C) For Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene,
Dictionary of the English Language? each for publishing his first novels.
(A) Bishop Berkeley (D) For Eliot who won the Nobel Prize and
(B) Samuel Johnson Orwell who published his Animal Farm.
(C) Edmund Burke Answer: (A)
(D) Horace Walpole
Answer: (B) 22. The Enlightenment was characterized by
(A) Accelerated industrial production and
18. In Dryden‘s Essay of Dramatic Poesy general well–being of the public.
(1668), who opens the discussion on behalf of (B) A belief in the universal authority of reason
the ancients? and emphasis on scientific experimentation.
(A) Lisideius (C) The Protestant work ethic and compliance
(B) Crites with Christian values of life.
(C) Eugenius (D) An undue faith in predestination and
(D) Neander neglect of free will.
Answer: (B) Answer: (B)

19. The term invective refers to 23. Which Shakespearean play contains the
(A) The abusive writing or speech in which line: ―…there is a special providence in the
there is harsh denunciation of some person or fall of a sparrow‖?
thing. (A) King Lear
(B) An insulting writing attack upon a real (B) Hamlet
person, in verse or prose, usually involving (C) Coriolanus
caricature and ridicule. (D) Macbeth
(C) A written or spoken text in which an Answer: (B)
apparently straightforward statement or event
is undermined in its context so as to give it a 24. Match the following pairs of books and
very different significance. authors:
(D) The chanting or reciting of words deemed I. Condition of the Working Class in England
to have magical power. II. London Labour and the London Poor
Answer: (A) III. Past and Present
IV. Theunto This Last
20. Which of the following novels depicts the
plight of the Bangladeshi immigrants in East i. John Ruskin
London? ii. Henry Mayhew
(A) How far can you go iii. Thomas Carlyle
(B) The White Teeth iv. Friedrich Engels
(C) An Equal Music
(D) Brick Lane Codes:
Answer: (D) I II III IV
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) iv ii iii i
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(C) ii iv i ii 30. Which is the correct sequence of the
(D) iii ii iv iv novels of V.S. Naipaul?
Answer: (B) (A) The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The
Suffrage of Elvira – A House for Mr. Biswas.
25. In which of the following texts do Aston, (B) Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A
Davies and Mick appear as characters? House for Mr.Biswas – The Suffrage of Elvira.
(A) Wyndham Lewis‟s Enemy (C) The Suffrage of Elvira – Miguel Street –
(B) Harold Pinter‟s Caretaker The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr.
(C) Katherine Mansfield‟s “Life of Ma Parker” Biswas.
(D) Graham Greene‟s Brighton Rock (D) The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of
Answer: (B) Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr.
Biswas.
26. What is common to the following Answer: (D)
writers? Identify the correct description
below: 31. ―Kubla Khan‖ takes an epigraph from
William Congreve (A) Samuel Purchas‟ Purchas His Pilgrimage
George Etherege (B) Hakluyt‟s Voyages
William Wycherley (C) The Book Named the Governour
Thomas Otway (D) Sir Thomas More‟s Utopia
(A) All of these were Restoration playwrights Answer: (A)
(B) All of them were critics of Orwell‟s regime
(C) All of them edited Shakespeare‟s plays 32. Which of the following author– theme is
(D) All of them wrote tragedies in the same age correctly matched?
Answer: (A) (A) The Battle of the Books- Tribute to “The
rude forefathers of the hamlet”.
27. In which Jane Austen novel do you find (B) The Rape of the Lock- Quarrel between
the characters Anne Elliott, Lady Russell, ancient and modern authors.
Louisa Musgrove and Captain Wentworth? (C) Gray‟s “Elegy”-Accumulation of wealth
(A) Emma and the consequent loss of human lives and
(B) Mansfield Park values.
(C) Persuasion (D) The Deserted Village- Quarrel between
(D) Northanger Abbey two families caused by Lord Petre.
Answer: (C) Answer: * (Marks given to all)

28. In which of his essays does Homi Bhabha 33. Which among the following titles set a
discuss the ‗discovery‘ of English in colonial course for academic literary feminism?
India? (A) Nostromo
(A) “Signs taken for Wonders” (B) From Ritual to Romance
(B) “Mimicry” (C) A Room of One‟s Own
(C) Nation and Narration (D) A Dance to the Music of Time
(D) “The Commitment to Theory” Answer: (C)
Answer: (A)
34. In which play do we see a reworking of
29. ______was the first Sonnet Sequence in E.M.Forster‘s A Passage to India as a
English. camaeo?
(A) Edmund Spenser‟s Amoretti (A) The Birthday Party
(B) Philip Sidney‟s Astrophel and Stella (B) A Resounding Tinkle
(C) Samuel Daniel‟s Delia (C) Indian Ink
(D) Michael Drayton‟s Idea‟s Mirror (D) Amadeus
Answer: (B) Answer: (C)
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35. Shakespeare‘s sonnets 41. Whom did Keats regard as the prime
(A) Do not carry a dedication. example of ‗negative capability‘?
(B) Are dedicated to James I of England. (A) John Milton
(C) Are dedicated to Mary Arden. (B) William Wordsworth
(D) Are dedicated to an unknown “Mr. W.H.” (C) William Shakespeare
Answer: (D) (D) P.B. Shelley
Answer: (C)
36. Which of the following poems uses terza
rima? 42. Charles Dickens‘s A Tale of Two Cities
(A) John Keats‟s “Ode to a Nightingale” begins with the sentence
(B) P.B. Shelley‟s “Ode to the West Wind” (A) It was the best of times; it was the worst of
(C) William Wordsworth‟s “The Solitary times.
Reaper” (B) It was the brightest of times; it was the
(D) Alfred Tennyson‟s “Ulysses” darkest of times.
Answer: (B) (C) It was the richest of times; it was the
poorest of times.
37. When one says that ―someone is no (D) It was the happiest of times; it was the
more‖ or that ―someone has breathed his/ saddest of times.
her last‖, the speaker is resorting to Answer: (A)
(A) Euphism
(B) Euphony 43. The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
(C) Understatement were published posthumously by
(D) Euphemism (A) Edwin Muir
Answer: (D) (B) Edward Thomas
(C) Robert Bridges
38. Which of the following are ―companion (D) Coventry Patmore
poems‖? Answer: (C)
(A) “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets”
(B) “L‟Allegro” and “II Penseroso” 44. Which of the following is the correct
(C) “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun Rising” chronological sequence?
(D) “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! The (A) A Poison Tree – The Deserted Village –
Lark” The Blessed Damozel– Ozymandias
Answer: (B) (B) The Deserted Village – A Poison Tree –
Ozymandias – The Blessed Damozel
39. What does the term episteme signify? (C) The Blessed Damozel – A Poison Tree –
(A) Knowledge The Deserted Village – Ozymandias
(B) Archive (D) The Deserted Village – The Blessed
(C) Theology Damozel – Ozymandias – A Poison Tree
(D) Scholarship Answer: (B)
Answer: (A)
45. The term homology means a
40. Which of the following is a better correspondence between two or more
definition of an image in literary writing? structures. Who of the following developed a
(A) A reflection theory of relations between literary works
(B) A speaking picture and social classes in terms of homologies
(C) A refraction (A) Raymond Williams
(D) A reflected picture (B) Christopher Caudwell
Answer: (B) (C) Lucien Goldmann
(D) Antonio Gramsci
Answer: (A OR C)
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46. F. Turner‘s famous hypothesis is that (B) Bloom‟s Blunder
(A) The Frontier has outlived its ideological (C) A Day in the life of Stephen Dedalus
utility in American civilization. (D) The Dead
(B) The Frontier has posed a challenge to the Answer: (A)
American creative imagination.
(C) The Frontier has been the one great 50. (i) A pastiche is a mixture of themes,
determinant of American civilization. stylistic elements or subjects borrowed from
(D) The Frontier has been the one great other works.
deterrent to American progress. (ii) It is distinguished from parody because not
Answer: (C) all parody is pastiche
(iii) A pastiche is also known as a „purple
47. Which statement(s) below on the passage‟.
Spenserian stanza is/are accurate? (iv) A pastiche is given to an elevated style,
I. A quatrain, unrhymed, but alliterative especially in its
II. A stanza of four lines in iambic pentameter (A) (i) and (ii) are correct.
III. An eight–line stanza in iambic pentameter (B) Only (i) is correct.
followed by a ninth in six iambic feet (C) (iii) and (iv) are correct.
IV. An eight–line stanza with six use of (D) Only (iv) is correct.
figurative language. Iambic feet followed by a Answer: (A)
ninth in iambic pentameter
(A) I and II
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV
Answer: (C)

48. Match the following texts with their

respective themes:
I. Areopagitica (Milton)
II. Leviathan (Hobbes)
III. Alexander‟s Feast (Dryden)
IV. The Way of The World (Congreve)

i. Fashion, courtship, seduction

ii. The liberty For Unlicensed Printing
iii. Absolute Sovereignty
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
Answer: (B)

49. The preliminary version of James

Joyce‘s Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man was called
(A) Stephen Hero
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 3. ―Where I lacked a political purpose, I
wrote lifeless books.‖ To which of the
following authors can we attribute the above
admission?
(A) Graham Greene
(B) George Orwell
(C) Charles Morgan
(D) Evelyn Waugh
Answer: (B)

4. Modernism has been described as being

concerned with ―disenchantment of our
culture with culture itself‖. Who is the
critic?
(A) Stephen Spender
(B) Malcolm Bradbury
(C) Lionel Trilling
(D) Joseph Frank
Answer: (C)

5. ―Only that film, which fluttered on the

grate, still flutters there, the sole unquiet
thing.‖
The above lines are quoted from
(A) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(B) “Michael”
(C) “Frost at Midnight”
(D) “This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison”
Answer: (C)

6. Which one of the following modern poems

employs ottava rima?
Paper 2- June 2013 (A) “Among School Children”
(B) “In Praise of Limestone”
1. In Pinter‘s Birthday Party, Stanley is (C) “The Wild Swans at Coole”
given a birthday present. What is it? (D) “The Shield of Achilles”
(A) A toy Answer: (A)
(B) A piano
(C) A drum 7. John Dryden in his heroic tragedy All for
(D) A violin Love takes the story of Shakespeare‘s
Answer: (C) (A) Troilus and Cressida
(B) The Merchant of Venice
2. How does Lord Jim end? (C) Antony and Cleopatra
(A) Jim is shot through the chest by Doramin. (D) Measure for Measure
(B) Jim kills himself with a last unflinching Answer: (C)
glance.
(C) Jim answers “the call of exalted egoism” 8. Arrange the following works in the order
and betrays Jewel. in which they appear. Identify the correct
(D) Jim surrenders himself to Doramin. code:
Answer: (A) I. No Longer at Ease
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II. Things Fall apart 3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
III. A Man of the People 4. Native Son
IV. Arrow of God Which is the correct combination according to
The correct combination according to the code the code?
is: I II III IV
Code: (A) 2 1 3 4
(A) III, IV, II, I (B) 3 4 2 1
(B) IV, III, I, II (C) 4 3 1 2
(C) II, I, IV, III (D) 1 2 4 3
(D) I, II, III, IV Answer: * (Marks given to all)
Answer: (C)
13. Which of these plays by Shakespeare
9. Samuel Pepys kept his diary from does not use ‗cross-dressing‘ as a device?
(A) 1660 to 1669 (A) As You Like It
(B) 1649 to 1660 (B) Julius Caesar
(C) 1662 to 1689 (C) Cymbeline
(D) 1660 to 1689 (D) Two Gentlemen of Verona
Answer: (A) Answer: (B)

10. In the Defence of Poetry, what did 14. Which of the following works cannot be
Sydney attribute to poetry? categorised under postcolonial theory?
(A) A magical power whereby poetry plays (A) Nation and Narration
tricks on the reader. (B) Orientalism
(B) A divine power whereby poetry transmits a (C) Discipline and Punish
message from God to the reader. (D) White Mythologies
(C) A moral power whereby poetry encourages Answer: (C)
the reader to evaluate virtuous models.
(D) A realistic power that cannot be made to 15. Locke‘s Essay Concerning Human
seem like mere illusion and trickery. Understanding is a classic statement of
Answer: (C) _________ Philosophy.
(A) Aesthetic
11. An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot presents (B) Empiricist
portraits of the following contemporary (C) Nationalist
individuals: (D) Realist
(A) Addison and Lord Hervey Answer: (B)
(B) Dryden and Rochester
(C) Swift and Steele 16. ―Power circulates in all directions, to
(D) Smollett and Defoe and from all social levels, at all times.‖ Who
Answer: (A) said this?
(A) Edward Said
12. Match the following authors with their (B) Michel Foucault
works: (C) Jacques Derrida
List – A (D) Roland Barthes
I. Alice Walker Answer: (B)
II. Ralph Ellison
III. Richard Wright 17. Which one of the following is not written
IV Zora Neale Hurston by an Australian Aboriginal writer?
List – B (A) Kath Walker
1. Invisible Man (B) Peter Carey
2. The Colour Purple (C) Robert Bropho
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(D) Jack Davis 21. Which American poet wrote: ―I sound
Answer: * my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the
world‖?
18. Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of (A) Robert Lowell
Surrey jointly brought out Tottel‘s (B) Walt Whitman
Miscellany during the Renaissance. (C) Wallace Stevens
Identify the name of the Earl of Surrey from (D) Langston Hughes
the following: Answer: (B)
(A) Thomas Lodge
(B) Thomas Nashe 22. The etymological meaning of the word
(C) Thomas Sackville ―trope‖ is
(D) Henry Howard (A) Gesture
Answer: (D) (B) Turning
(C) Mirror
19. Match the following lists: (D) Desire
(Novelists) Answer: (B)
I. Margaret Laurence
II. Margaret Atwood 23. Who among the following English poets
III. Sinclair Ross defined poetic imagination as ―a repetition
IV. Thomas King in the finite mind of the eternal act of
(Novels) creation in the infinite ‗I AM‘ ‖?
1. Surfacing (A) Blake
2. The Stone Angel (B) Wordsworth
3. Medicine River (C) Coleridge
4. As for Me and My House (D) Shelley
Which is the correct combination according to Answer: (C)
the code?
I II III IV 24. Little Nell is a character in Dickens‘
(A) 1 4 3 2 (A) David Copperfield
(B) 3 2 1 4 (B) The Old Curiosity Shop
(C) 4 3 2 1 (C) Bleak House
(D) 2 1 4 3 (D) Great Expectations
Answer: (D) Answer: (B)

20. The dramatic structure of Restoration 25. Match the following:

comedies combines in it the features of (Schools/Concept of Criticism)
I. The Elizabethan Theatre I. Formalism
II. The Neoclassical Theatre of Italy and II. New Critics
France III. Psychological Theory of the Value of
III. The Irish Theatre Literature
IV. The Greek Theatre IV. Literary art as archetypal image
The correct combination according to the code (Critics)
is 1. John Crow Ransom
Codes: 2. The Jungians
(A) I and IV are correct. 3. Victor Shklovsky
(B) III and IV are correct. 4. I.A. Richards
(C) II and III are correct. The correct combination according to the code
(D) I and II are correct. is:
Answer: (D) I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
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(B) 2 4 1 3 (C) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(C) 4 1 2 3 (D) The Mayor of Caster bridge
(D) 3 2 1 4 Answer: (D)
Answer: (A)
30. The phrase ―dark satanic mills‖ has
26. In the late seventeenth century a ―Battle become the most famous description of the
of Books‖ erupted between which two force at the centre of the industrial
groups? revolution. The phrase was used by
(A) Cavaliers and Roundheads (A) William Wordsworth
(B) Abolitionists and Enthusiasts for slaves (B) William Blake
(C) Champions of Ancient and Modern (C) Thomas Carlyle
Learning (D) John Ruskin
(D) The Welsh and the Scots Answer: (B)
Answer: (C)
31. ―Five miles meandering with a mazy
27. ―Everything that man esteems Endures a motion through wood and dale the scared
moment or a day Love‘s pleasure drives his river ran.‖ Where does this ‗sacred river‘
love away…‖ In the above quote the last line directly run to?
is an example of (A) A lifeless ocean
(A) Allusion (B) The caverns measureless
(B) Pleonasm (C) A fountain
(C) Paradox (D) The waves
(D) Zeugma Answer: A and B
Answer: (C)
32. Who is the twentieth century poet, a
28. Match the author with the work: winner of the Nobel Prize for literature who
(Authors) rejected the label ―British‖ though he has
I. Kingsely Amis always written in English rather than his
II. Allan Silletoe regional language?
III. Doris Lessing (A) Douglas Dunn
IV. Jean Rhys (B) Seamus Heaney
(Works) (C) Geoffrey Hill
1. Saturday and Sunday Morning (D) Philip Larkin
2. The Golden Note Book Answer: (B)
3. The Left Bank
4. Lucky Jim 33. Which of the following statements best
Which is the correct combination according to describes Sir Thomas Browne‘s Religion
the code? Medici?
Code: (A) It is a story of conversion or providential
I II III IV experiences.
(A) 3 4 1 2 (B) It emphasizes Browne‟s love of mystery
(B) 4 1 2 3 and wonder.
(C) 2 3 1 4 (C) It is full of angst, melancholy and dread of
(D) 1 2 3 4 death.
Answer: (B) (D) It reports the facts of Browne‟s life.
Answer: A and B
29. In which of Hardy‘s novels does the
character Abel Whittle appear? 34. Which of the following characters from
(A) Far from the Madding Crowd Eliot‘s Waste Land is not correctly
(B) The Return of the Native mentioned?
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(A) The typist 40. The following are two lists of plays and
(B) Madam Sosostris characters. Match them.
(C) The Merchant from Eugenides (Characters)
(D) The Young Man Carbuncular 1. Malevole
Answer: (C) 2. Beatrice
3. Bianca
35. Which one of the following best describes 4. Doll Tear sheet
the general feeling expressed in literature (Plays)
during the last decade of the Victorian era? I. Women Beware Women
(A) Studied melancholy and aestheticism II. The Malcontent
(B) The triumph of science and morbidity III. The City Madam
(C) Sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal IV. The Changeling
(D) Raucous celebration combined with Which is the correct combination according to
paranoid interpretation the code?
Answer: (A) I II III IV
(A) 3 1 4 2
36. Which poem by Shelley bears the (B) 2 1 2 4
alternative title, ―The Spirit of Solitude‖? (C) 1 2 3 4
(A) Mont Blanc (D) 4 3 2 1
(B) “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” Answer: (A)
(C) “Adonais”
(D) Alastor 41. With Bacon the essay form is
Answer: (D) (A) An intimate, personal confession
(B) Witty and boldly imagistic
37. Which tale in The Canterbury Tales uses (C) The aphoristic expression of accumulated
the tradition of the Beast Fable? public wisdom
(A) The Knight‟s Tale (D) Homely and vulgar
(B) The Monk‟s Tale Answer: (C)
(C) The Nun‟s Priest‟s Tale
(D) The Miller‟s Tale 42. Evelyn Waugh‘s Trilogy published
Answer: (C) together as Sword of Honour is about
(A) The English at War
38. At the end of Sons and Lovers Paul (B) The English Aristocracy
Morel (C) The Irish question
(A) Sets off in quest of life away from his (D) Scottish nationalism
mother. Answer: (A)
(B) Considers the option of committing
suicide. 43. Who coined the phrase ―The Two
(C) Joins his elder brother William in London. Nations‖ to describe the disparity in Britain
(D) Embraces a Schopenhauer – like nihilism. between the rich and the poor?
Answer: (A) (A) Charles Dickens
(B) Thomas Carlyle
39. When you say ―I love her eyes, her hair, (C) Benjamin Disraeli
her nose, her cheeks, her lips‖ you are using (D) Frederick Engels
a rhetorical device of Answer: (C)
(A) Enumeration
(B) Ant anagoge 44. Milton introduces Satan and the fallen
(C) Parataxis angels in the Book I of Paradise Lost. Two of
(D) Hypo taxis the chief devils reappear in Book II. They
Answer: (A) are
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I. Moloch 50. Sir Thomas More creates the character
II. Clemos of a traveller into whose mouth the account
III. Belial of Utopia is put. His name is
IV. Thamuz (A) Michael
The correct combination according to the code (B) Raphael
is (C) Henry
(A) I and IV are correct. (D) Thomas
(B) I and III are correct. Answer: (B)
(C) I and II are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Answer: (B)

45. When Chaucer describes the Friar as a

―noble pillar of order‖, he is using
(A) Irony
(B) Simile
(C) Understatement
(D) Personification
Answer: (A)

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
Answer: (B)

47. Which character in Jane Eyre uses

religion to justify cruelty?
(A) Blanche Ingram
(B) Mr. Brocklehurst
(C) Sir John Rivers
(D) Eliza Reed
Answer: (B)

48. Which Romantic poet defined a slave as

‗a person perverted into a thing‘?
(A) Blake
(B) Coleridge
(C) Keats
(D) Shelley
Answer: (B)

49. John Suckling belongs to the group of

(A) Metaphysical poets
(B) Cavalier poets
(C) Neo-classical poets
(D) Religious poets
Answer: (B)
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 (D) Addison
Answer: (D)

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
Answer: (D)

6. In an age of pressurized happiness, we

sometimes grow insensitive to subtle joys.
The italicised words are an example of
Paper 2- September 2013 (A) A transferred epithet
(B) A simile
1. In the following cluster of poems by (C) A metaphor
Shelley, which one has the voyage motif? (D) A hyperbaton
(A) “Adonais” Answer: (A)
(B) The Revolt of Islam
(C) “Ode to the West Wind” 7. In Graham Greene‘s Brighton Rock, Hale
(D) Alastor is murdered with the help of ‗brighton rock‘
Answer: (D) which is
(A) A kind of sugar-candy
2. In Sydney‘s sonnet sequence, Astrophil (B) A form of grenade
and Stella, the final sonnet (#108) (C) A baton
(A) Brings no resolution (D) A kind of rock
(B) Ends in joy Answer: (A)
(C) Brings a definite resolution
(D) Promises another sonnet sequence 8. Which poet among this group does not
Answer: (A) belong to the ‗Auden Generation‘ group of
poets?
3. Who among the following English writers (A) Stephen Spender
opposed the Licensing Act of 1643? (B) Alun Lewis
(A) John Milton (C) Cecil Day Lewis
(B) Thomas Browne (D) Louis Macneice
(C) Andrew Marvell Answer: (B)
(D) Abraham Cowley
Answer: (A) 9. In Lord of the Flies which character
comes to realize that the ‗beast‘ is actually
4. Who claimed: ―I have not published a the evil inside the boys themselves and it is
single paper that is not written in a spirit of that which is breaking things up?
benevolence and with a love of mankind‖? (A) Jack
(A) Pope (B) Simon
(B) Dryden (C) Roger
(C) Swift (D) Ralph
Answer: (B)

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10. Which text exemplifies the anti- 14. ―We will do it, I tell you; we will do it.‖
Victorian feeling prevalent in the early The repetition of a phrase is
twentieth century? (A) Antiphrasis
I. Eminent Victorians (B) Diacope
II. Jungle Book (C) Aposiopesis
III. Philistine Victorians (D) Enumeratio
IV. The Way of All Flesh Answer: (B)
The correct combination according to the code
is 15. Find the poet who is the odd one in the
(A) II and IV are correct. group:
(B) I and IV are correct. (A) Wallace Stevens
(C) III and IV are correct. (B) Robert Lowell
(D) II and III are correct. (C) Sylvia Plath
Answer: (B) (D) Anne Sexton
Answer: (A)
11. What event allowed mainstream British
theatre companies to commission and 16. Which one of the following characters in
performs work that was politically, socially Shakespeare‘s Tempest is associated with
and sexually controversial without fear of the Earth?
censorship? (A) Ferdinand
(A) The abolition of the Lord Chamberlain‟s (B) Ariel
office in 1968. (C) Caliban
(B) The illegal performance of works by (D) Prospero
Howard Brenton and Edward Bond. Answer: (C)
(C) The collapse of liberal humanist consensus
in the late 1960s. 17. In the Advancement of Learning Bacon
(D) A combined appeal to the Queen by a attempted a preliminary survey of the entire
group of London dramatists. field of learning, by analyzing the principal
Answer: (A) obstacles to its advancement. Identify from
among the following choices the one that he
12. The Wife of Bath‘s philosophy did not mention as an obstacle:
ofmarriage shows that she (A) Rhetoric
(A) Is a strong person with keen awareness of (B) Medieval scholasticism
her own rights? (C) Inductive method
(B) Tends to say one thing and do the opposite. (D) Pseudo sciences
(C) Cares only for pleasure, not for right and Answer: (C)
wrong.
(D) Trusts thought too much instead of feeling. 18. Who among this group of youngmale
Answer: (A) characters in Jane Austen‘snovels is not sent
to the University for Education?
13. Which of the following characters is (A) Tom Bertram
killed in Achebe‘s Things Fall Apart in (B) John Thorpe
conformity with an African tribal custom? (C) James Morland
(A) Okonkwo (D) Henry Tilney
(B) Obierika Answer: D
(C) Ikemefuna
(D) Nwoye 19. Charles Dickens caricatured utilitarian
Answer: (C) thinking with telling directness in his
portrayal of
(A) Paul Dombey
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(B) Thomas Gradgrind IV. Lives of the English Poets
(C) Philip Pirrip Which is the correct combination according to
(D) Harold Skimpole the above code?
Answer: (B) (A) III, I, II, IV
(B) I, II, III, IV
20. Which one of the following playwrights (C) IV, III, II, I
will not be covered under the category / (D) II, III, I, IV
term ‗Theatre of the Absurd‘? Answer: (A)
(A) Jean Genet
(B) Jean Giraudoux 24. Arrange the following forms in the order
(C) Samuel Beckett in which they appeared. Use the code given
(D) Eugene Ionesco below:
Answer: (B) I. commedia dell‟arte
II. Confessional poetry
21. The following are two lists of lines from III. Agitprop
poems and their titles. Match them: IV. Picaresque novel
(Lines from poems) The correct combination is:
I. “The squat pen rests as snug as a gun.” Code:
II. “A serious house on serious earth it is.” (A) IV, I, II, III
III. “Time held me green and dying.” (B) I, IV, III, II
IV. “I hold creation in my foot.” (C) II, IV, I, III
(Titles of poems) (D) I, III, IV, II
1. “Church Going” Answer: (B)
2. “Hawk- Roosting”
3. “Digging” 25. Which of the following poems deals with
4. “Fern Hill” neighbourly relations?
Which is the correct combination according to (A) “Birches”
the above code? (B) “Home Burial”
I II III IV (C) “Mending Wall”
(A) 4 1 2 3 (D) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
(B) 2 3 4 1 Answer: (C)
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 3 1 4 2 26. The following are two lists of writers and
Answer: (D) their works. Match them:
(Writers)
22. _________ is the use of words whose I. Katherine Susannah Prichard
pronunciation imitates the sound the word II. Colin Johnson
describes. III. Sally Morgan
(A) Alliteration IV. Jack Davis
(B) Onomatopoeia (Works)
(C) Oxymoron 1. Barungin
(D) Enthymeme 2. My Place
Answer: (B) 3. Wild Cat Falling
4. Coonardoo
23. Arrange the following books in the order Which is the correct combination according to
in which they appeared. Use the code given the above code?
below: I II III IV
I. The Dictionary of the English Language (A) 3 2 1 4
II. The History of Rasselas (B) 4 3 2 1
III. The Vanity of Human Wishes (C) 2 1 4 3
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(D) 1 4 3 2 I. Uma Parameswaran
Answer: (B) II. Bharati Mukherjee
III. Michael Ondaatje
27. How does John Stuart Mill define IV. Cyril Dabydeen
‗happiness‘? Which is the correct combination according to
(A) Doing what one wants to do the above code?
(B) Leading a fulfilling life I II III IV
(C) Pleasure and the absence of pain (A) 1 3 2 4
(D) Virtuous activity (B) 3 4 1 2
Answer: (C) (C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
28. ―Had we but world enough, and time, Answer: (C)
this coyness, lady, were no crime … But at
my back I always hear Time‘s winged 31. Dryden‘s dramatization of Paradise Lost
chariot hurrying near.‖ Andrew Marvell in is entitled
these lines emphasizes the theme of (A) All for Love
(A) Love (B) The State of Innocence
(B) Love and transience (C) Annus Mirabilis
(C) Love and political passion (D) Religio Medici
(D) Love and flattery Answer: (B)
Answer: (B)
32. Two pioneering feminist tracts, Kate
29. The following are two lists of dramatists Millet‘s Sexual Politics and Germaine
and their plays. Match them: Greer‘s The Female Eunuch were published
(Dramatists) in
I. George Etheredge (A) 1969
II. William Wycherley (B) 1968
III. John Vanbrugh (C) 1970
IV. William Congreve (D) 1967
(Plays) Answer: (C)
1. The Country Wife
2. The Man of Mode 33. Who defined poetry as ‗the best words in
3. The Double Dealer the best order‘?
4. The Provok‟d Wife (A) Wordsworth
The correct combination is: (B) Coleridge
I II III IV (C) Keats
(A) 2 3 4 1 (D) Shelley
(B) 3 2 1 4 Answer: (B)
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 2 1 4 3 34. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by
Answer: (D) ―Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe‖?
(A) Britain‟s pre-eminence as a global power
30. The following are two lists of writers and will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
their works. Match them: (B) Abandon the introspection of the
(Works) Romantics and turn to the higher moral
1. Drums of My Flesh purpose found in Goethe.
2. Trishanku (C) Even a foreign author is better than a
3. Jasmine home-grown scoundrel.
4. Anil‟s Ghost (D) Leave England and immigrate to Germany.
(Writers) Answer: (B)
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35. Conrad‘s Heart of Darkness presents (D) The Longest Journey
two conflicting discourses present in his own Answer: (C)
culture. Identify the two discourses from the
following: 41. The ‗Vulgate Bible‘ was prepared to
(A) Modernism and anticolonialism make the Bible available to
(B) Modernism and structuralism (A) The ecclesiastics
(C) Anti-colonialism and Eurocentricism (B) The elite class
(D) Material culturalism and tribalism (C) The courtiers
Answer: (C) (D) The common men
Answer: (D)
36. Who among the following poets defined
free verse as playing tennis without a net? 42. Literary works such as Charles
(A) Robert Frost Dickens‘s David Copperfield, Samuel
(B) Ezra Pound Butler‘s The Way of All Flesh and James
(C) Philip Larkin Joyce‘s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
(D) William Carlos Williams Man provide examples of which following
Answer: (A) novelistic form?
(A) Nouveau roman or new novel
37. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the (B) Epistolary novel
following plays except (C) Bildugsroman
(A) Tamburlaine the Great (D) Historical novel
(B) The Jew of Malta Answer: (C)
(C) Richard III
(D) Edward II 43. ―I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!‖
Answer: (C) expresses a pathetic cry of a wounded heart
from ―Ode to the West Wind‖ by Shelley.
38. According to Barthes, a text which The poem consists of
draws attention to its artifice, to the ways in (A) Fourteen line terzarima stanzas
which it is structured, is called (B) four-lined stanza characterized by swift
(A) Writerly text action
(B) Aesthetic text (C) A particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle
(C) Readerly text (D) An unstressed syllable followed by a
(D) Formal text stressed one
Answer: (A) Answer: (A)

39. Which of the following descriptions is 44. In the Fall of Hyperion Keats‘s Muse
not applicable to Pope‘s The Rape of the figure is
Lock? (A) Thea
(A) A mock heroic poem (B) Moneta
(B) Written in heroic couplets (C) Lamia
(C) Pope‟s tribute to Queen Anne (D) Calliope
(D) Produced in two versions, consisting of 2 Answer: (B)
and 5 cantos
Answer: (C) 45. What literary work best captures a sense
of the political turmoil particularly
40. From the following list, choose the work regarding the issue of religion just after the
which is not written by E.M. Forster: Restoration?
(A) Where Angels Fear to Tread (A) Gay‟s Beggar‟s Opera
(B) Maurice (B) Butler‟s Hudibras
(C) A Room of One‟s Own (C) Pope‟s Dunciad
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(D) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel
Answer: (D)

46. Who among the Victorian authors has

described himself/herself as an agnostic?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) George Eliot
(D) Thomas Hardy
Answer: (C)

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
Answer: (C)

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
Answer: (C)

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
Answer: (D)

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
(D) William Wordsworth
Answer: (B)

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1. ____ the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Which word?
(A) Bird
(B) Immortal
(C) Forlorn
(D) Fancy
Answer: (C)
2. In poems like ―The Altar‖ and ―Easter
Wings‖ ________ exploits _______.
(A) John Donne, alliteration
(B) Robert Herrick, trimetre
(C) G.M. Hopkins, sprung rhythm
(D) George Herbert, typographic space
Answer: (D)
3. No, no thou hast not felt the lapse of
hours!
For what wears out the life of mortal men?
‗Tis that repeated shocks, again, again,
Exhaust the energy of strongest souls
And numb the elastic powers …
Who does the poet address here?
(A) The Scholar Gipsy
(B) Telemachus
(C) The Nightingale
(D) The Poet‟s Sister, Dorothy
Answer: (A)
4. The roman a clef (French for ―novel with
a key‖) uses contemporary historical figures
as its chief characters. They are of course
given fictional names. One example is
Aldous Huxley‘s Point Counter Point. Its
Mark Rampion is modelled on M_______.
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) E.M. Forster
(C) Wyndham Lewis
(D) Arnold Bennett
Answer: (A)
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5. She was a worthy woman al hir lyve,
Housbondes at chirche-dore she hadde fyve,
In the ‗Prologue‘ Chaucer represents the
Wife of Bath as:
I. crude and vulgar
II. outspoken and boastfully licentious
III. a witness to masculine oppression
IV. bubbling with vitality
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.
Answer: (B)
6. The novel tells the story of twin brothers,
Waldo, the man of reason and intellect, and
Arthur, the innocent half-wit, the way their
lives are inextricably intertwined. Which is
the novel?
(A) The Tree of Man
(B) Voss
(C) The Solid Mandala
(D) The Vivisector
Answer: (C)
7. Who among the following was NOT a
member of the Scriblerus Club?
(A) Thomas Parnell
(B) Alexander Pope
(C) Joseph Addison
(D) John Gay
Answer: (C)
8. _______ is a theological term brought into
literary criticism by _______.
(A) Entelechy, St. Augustine
(B) Ambiguity, William Empson
(C) Adequation, Fr Walter Ong
(D) Epiphany, James Joyce
Answer: (D)
9. ________ the Almighty Power Hurled
headlong flaming from th‘ Ethereal Sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire Who
durst defy th‘ Omnipotent to Arms.
(Paradise Lost, I.44-49.)
Choose the appropriate word: 1. “The Otter”
(A) Him 2. “Snake”
(B) He 3. “Ghost Crabs”
(C) Satan 4. “Prevent the Dog from Barking with a Juicy
(D) The Fiend Bone.”
Answer: (A) Codes:
i ii iii iv
10. Which of the following works does not (A) 1 2 4 3
have a mad woman as a character in it? (B) 2 3 1 4
(A) The Yellow Wallpaper (C) 3 1 4 2
(B) The Mad Woman in the Attic (D) 3 2 1 4
(C) Jane Eyre Answer: (C)
(D) Wide Sargasso Sea
Answer: (B) 15. His cooks with long disuse their trade
forgot;
11. Which of the following is NOT a quest Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were
narrative? hot.
(A) Shelley‟s Alastor Who is this character whose stinginess
(B) Byron‟s Manfred passed into a proverb?
(C) Coleridge‟s Christabel (A) Corah
(D) Keats‟s Endymion (B) Shimei
Answer: (C) (C) Zimri
(D) Achitophel
12. The novel has a scene where African Answer: (B)
American students are made to compete and
fight with each other as they rush for the 16. ―The story and the novel, the idea and
gold coins tossed on an electric blanket. the form, are the needle and thread, and I
Identify the novel. never heard of a guild of tailors who
(A) Richard Wright: Native Son recommended the use of the thread without
(B) James Baldwin: Another Country the needle, or the needle without the
(C) Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man thread.‖
(D) Toni Morrison: Bluest Eye This famous passage describing the relation
Answer: (C) of idea to form is found in
(A) Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
13. G.M. Hopkins‘s ―Windhover‖ is (B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia
dedicated: Literaria
(A) To Christ, our Lord (C) Henry James, “The Art of Fiction”
(B) To Christ our lord (D) I.A. Richards, Principles of Literary
(C) To no one Criticism
(D) To Christ, the Lord Answer: (C)
Answer: (A and B)
17. Identify the correctly matched set below:
14. Match List – I with List – II according to (A) The Norman Conquest – 1066
the code given below: William Caxton and the introduction of
List – I (Authors) printing – 1575
i. Ted Hughes The King James Bible – 1611
ii. Seamus Heaney Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1755
iii. W.H. Auden The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate –
iv. D.H. Lawrence 1649-1660
List – II (Poems) (B) The Norman Conquest – 1066
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William Caxton and the introduction of
printing – 1475
The King James Bible – 1611
Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1755
The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate –
1649-1660
(C) The Norman Conquest – 1016
William Caxton and the introduction of
printing- 1475
The King James Bible – 1564
Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary -1780
The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate –
1649-1660
(D) The Norman Conquest – 1013
William Caxton and the introduction of
printing – 1575
The King James Bible – 1627
Dr. Johnson‟s English Dictionary – 1746
The Commonwealth Period/ the Protectorate –
1624-1660
Answer: (B)
18. Leopold Bloom in Ulysses is
(A) a Great War veteran
(B) a Dublin bar owner
(C) a Jewish advertising agent
(D) an Irish nationalist
Answer: (C)
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
Answer: (B)
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
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(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
Answer: (B)
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
Answer: (C and D)
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
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
Answer: (D)
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
Answer: (A)
24. Here is a list of early English plays 28. Brother to a Prince and fellow to a
imitating Greek and Latin plays. Pick the beggar if he be found worthy.
odd one out: This is the epigraph to
(A) Gorboduc (A) T.S. Eliot‟s “The Hollow Men”
(B) Tamburlaine (B) Rudyard Kipling‟s “The Man Who Would
(C) Ralph Roister Doister be the King”
(D) Gammer Gurton‟s Needle (C) George Eliot‟s Silas Marner
Answer: (B) (D) E.M. Forster‟s Howard‟s End
Answer: (B)
25. Where does Act I Scene 1 of William
Congreve‘s Way of the World open? 29. Robert Graves‘s ―In Broken Images‖
(A) A Chocolate-House ends thus:
(B) A Pub He in a new confusion of his understanding;
(C) A Carrefour I in a new understanding of my confusion.
(D) The drawing room of Sir Willfull‟s The figure of speech here is _______.
mansion (A) Chiasmus
Answer: (A) (B) Catachresis
(C) Inversion
26. While ―a well-boiled icicle‖ for ―a well- (D) Zeugma
oiled bicycle‖ is an example of Spoonerism, Answer: (A)
someone saying ―Congenital food‖ for
‗Continental food‘ is an example of ______. 30. The phrase ―leaves dancing‖ is an
(A) Malaproprism example of ________.
(B) Pleonasm (A) pathetic fallacy
(C) Neologism (B) hyperbole
(D) Archaism (C) pun
Answer: (A) (D) conceit
Answer: (A)
27. It is unimaginable that all the following
events happened in one year: 31. At the end of The Great Gatsby, the
1. Arthur Evans discovered the first European narrator Nick Carraway observes:
civilization; his excavations in Crete revealed a ―They were careless people‖. Who were
culture that was far older than either Attic they?
Greece or Ancient Rome. (A) Tom and Daisy
2. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch published the (B) The Wilsons
Oxford Book of English Verse. (C) Gatsby and his friends
3. Pablo Picasso stepped off the Barcelona train (D) The people of East Egg
at Gare d‟ Orsay, Paris. Answer: (A)
4. Max Planck unveiled the Quantum Theory.
5. Hugo de Vries identified what would later 32. William Wordsworth‘s statement of
come to be called genes. purpose in publishing the Lyrical Ballads
6. Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation carries the following phrase. (Complete the
of Dreams. phrase correctly).
7. Coca-cola arrived in Britain. ―to choose incidents from common life and
Identify the year: to relate or describe them, throughout, as
(A) 1899 far as possible, ______.‖
(B) 1900 (A) in a selection of language really used by
(C) 1901 men.
(D) 1903 (B) in a relation to language really used by
Answer: (B) men.
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(C) in a selection of language really used by 35. Who among the following proposes that
common man. the unconscious comes into being only in
(D) in deference to language actually used by language?
men. (A) Sigmund Freud
Answer: (A) (B) Jacques Lacan
(C) Stuart Hall
33. Match List – I with List – II according to (D) Paul de Man
the code given below: Answer: (B)
List – I (Novels)
i. Lord Jim 36. The Elizabethan Settlement established
ii. To the Lighthouse during the reign of Elizabeth I
iii. A Passage to India I. ensured the supremacy of the Church of
iv. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man England.
List – II (Last lines) II. allowed Christians to acknowledge the
1. „It was done; it was finished. Yes, she authority of the Pope.
thought laying down her brush in extreme III. allowed the extremer Protestants to be part
fatigue, I have had my vision.‟ of the Anglican church.
2. „April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me IV. created a group known as the Roundheads.
now and ever in good stead…‟ The correct combination according to the code
3. „He feels it himself and says often that he is is:
“preparing to leave all this; preparing to (A) I and III are correct.
leave,…”, while he waves his hands sadly at (B) I and II are correct.
his butterflies.‟ (C) II and III are correct.
4. „ “No not yet,” and the sky said, “No, not (D) III and IV are correct.
there”.‟ Answer: (A)
Codes:
i ii iii iv 37. Which of the following poems by
(A) 2 4 3 1 Tennyson does NOT speak of old age and
(B) 3 2 4 1 death?
(C) 3 1 4 2 (A) “The Beggar Maid”
(D) 2 3 1 4 (B) “The Lotus-Eaters”
Answer: (C) (C) “Ulysses”
(D) “Tithonus”
34. Identify the incorrect description/s of Answer: (A)
―Sprung Rhythm‖ from the following:
1. This rhythm causes ideas to spring in our 38. One English poet addressing another:
minds – hence Sprung Rhythm. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
2. In Sprung Rhythm the feet are of equal Thou hast a voice whose sound was like the
length. sea:
3. A foot may have one to four syllables in Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
Sprung Rhythm.www.netugc.com So didst thou travel on life‘s common way,
4. Its metre is derived from the metre of Anglo- In cheerful godliness….
Saxon poetry which was based on accent and Whose lines are these? To whom are they
linked by alliteration. addressed?
(A) 4 is incorrect. (A) W.H. Auden – W.B. Yeats
(B) 1 & 4 are incorrect. (B) P.B. Shelley – William Blake
(C) 3 is incorrect. (C) William Wordsworth – John Milton
(D) 1 is incorrect. (D) Ben Jonson – William Shakespeare
Answer: (D) Answer: (C)

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39. Samuel Johnson‘s Lives of Poets (1781) (C) the angels in heaven
was originally a series of introductions to the (D) no one in particular
poets he wrote for a group of London Answer: (B)
publishers. They were collected as:
(A) Lives of English Poets: Critical and 44. You will find the following lines in an
Biographical Essays. English poem:
(B) Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Thou by the Indian Ganges‘ side
Works of English Poets. Shouldst rubies find; I by the side
(C) Notes, Biographical and Critical, on the Of Humber would complain.
Works of English Poets. Which poem? Who is the poet?
(D) Lives of English Poets: Biographical and (A) “Lonely Hearts.” Wendy Cope
Critical Notes. (B) “Holy Thursday.” William Blake
Answer: (B) (C) “Tiger Mask Ritual.” Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni
40. Which of the following is NOT (D) “To His Coy Mistress.” Andrew Marvell
mentioned in Northrop Frye‘s four ‗generic Answer: (D)
plots‘?
(A) The comic 45. Teach me half the gladness
(B) The tragic That thy brain must know,
(C) The lyric Such harmonious madness
(D) The ironic From my lips would flow
Answer: (C) The world should listen then, as I am
listening now.
41. Arrange the sections of The Waste Land Whose lines are these? To whom are they
in the order in which they appear in the addressed?
poem: (A) John Keats. The Nightingale
1. The Fire Sermon (B) P.B. Shelley. The Skylark
2. Death by Water (C) William Wordsworth. The Wye Valley
3. A Game of Chess (D) Robert Browning. The Grammarian
4. What the Thunder Said Answer: (B)
5. The Burial of the Dead
(A) 3, 2, 1, 5, 4 46. Match List – I with List – II according to
(B) 5, 1, 2, 3, 4 the code given below:
(C) 5, 2, 3, 1, 4 List – I (Novel)
(D) 5, 3, 1, 2, 4 i. Dombey and Son
Answer: (D) ii. The Return of the Native
iii. Bleak House
42. Sir Plume is a character in ____ iv. Tess
(A) Dryden‟s Absalom and Achitophel List – II (Major symbol)
(B) Congreve‟s The Way of the World 1. fog
(C) Pope‟s The Rape of the Lock 2. train
(D) Farquhar‟s The Beaux‟ Strategem 3. heath
Answer: (C) 4. mist
Codes:
43. Steeling herself to the murder, Lady i ii iii iv
Macbeth calls on ______ to ―unsex me (A) 2 3 1 4
here‖. (Macbeth I.5.39) (B) 4 2 3 1
Choose the right option to fill in the blank: (C) 2 3 4 1
(A) God (D) 1 3 4 1
(B) the spirits of hell Answer: (A)
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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
(D) Enduring Love
Answer: (C)

48. Which novel of Graham Greene in the

following list does NOT end in some form of
suicide by the protagonist?
(A) The Heart of the Matter
(B) England Made Me
(C) Brighton Rock
(D) The Power and the Glory
Answer: (B)

49. Who among the following gave a happy

ending to King Lear?
(A) James Quin
(B) Nahum Tate
(C) Peg Woffington
(D) Charles Macklin
Answer: (B)

50. Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice starts

with the famous statement: ―It is a truth
universally acknowledged that a single man
in possession of a good fortune must be in
want of a life.‖
As we get to read the novel this statement
seems to be made from the point of view of:
I. the surrounding families
II. Mrs Bennet
III. Mr Bennet
IV. The women of Jane Austen‟s age and
society
Find out the correct combination according to
the code: Paper 2- June 2014
(A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and IV are correct. 1. ―The just man justices. What kind of
(C) II, III and IV are correct. foregrounding do you find in the above
(D) I, III and IV are correct. lines?
Answer: (B) (A) Syntactic
(B) Semantic
(C) Collocation

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(D) None of the above (D) ten iambic pentameters
Answer: A,B Answer: C

2. Match the items in List – I with items in 6. Match the items in List – I with items in
List – II according to the code given : List – II according to the code given below :
List – I List – I (Critic)
i. Lambic i. Cleanth Brooks
ii. Anapaestic ii. William Empson
iii. Dactylic iii. Mark Schorer
iv. Trochaic iv. Maud Bodkin
List – II List – II (Theory)
1. An unstressed syllable followed by a 1. Ambiguity
stressed syllable 2. Paradox
2. A stressed is followed by two unstressed 3. Archetypal patterns in poetry
syllables. 4. Techniques as discovery
3. An unstressed syllable is followed by a Codes :
stressed syllable i ii iii iv
4. A stressed syllable is followed by an (A) 2 1 4 3
unstressed syllable (B) 3 2 1 4
Codes : (C) 1 2 3 4
i ii iii iv (D) 2 3 4 1
(A) 2 1 3 4 Answer: A
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3 7. ―The artist may be present in his work
(D) 3 1 2 4 like God in creation, invisible and almighty,
Answer: Marks given to all everywhere felt but nowhere seen.‖ Henry
James is talking here about the artist‘s
3. The separation of styles in accordance (A) impersonality
with class appears more consistently in (B) absence
………… than in medieval works of (C) presence
literature and art. (D) creativity
(A) Ben Jonson Answer: A
(B) Shakespeare
(C) Philip Sidney 8. Match the items in List – I with items in
(D) Edmund Spenser List – II according to the code given below :
Answer: B List – I (Theorist)
i. Michel Foucault
4. ―Had we but world enough, and time, ii. Judith Butler
This coyness, lady, were no crime.‖ This iii. Alan Sinfield
statement is an example of iv. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
(A) Irony List – II (Book)
(B) Paradox 1. Gender Trouble
(C) Hyperbole 2. Epistemology of the Closet
(D) Euphemism 3. History of Sexuality
Answer: A 4. Cultural Politics-Queer Reading
Which is the correct combination according to
5. A Spenserian stanza has the code :
(A) four iambic pentameters Codes :
(B) six iambic pentameters i ii iii iv
(C) eight iambic pentameters (A) 3 1 2 4
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(B) 3 1 4 2 13. Act V of Marlowe‘s Edward the Second
(C) 4 2 1 3 shows the murder of the king. Where does it
(D) 4 3 1 2 take place?
Answer: B (A) Westminster, a room in the palace
(B) A room in Berkeley Castle
9. ―The greatness of a poet‖, Arnold says, (C) A room in Killingworth Castle
―lies in his powerful and beautiful (D) Within the Abbey of Neath
application of ideas to life‖. But a critic Answer: B
pointed out it was ―not a happy way of
putting it, as if ideas were a lotion for the 14. Identify the correctly matched set :
inflamed skin of suffering humanity‖. Who (A) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
was this critic? Tottels Miscellany – 1557
(A) T.S. Eliot Astrophel and Stella – 1591
(B) F.R. Leavis The Spanish Tragedie – about 1585
(C) David Lodge (B) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1559
(D) Allen Tate Tottels Miscellany – 1579
Answer: A Astrophel and Stella – 1585
The Spanish Tragedie – about 1591
10. Derrida‘s American disciples were (C) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1585
(A) Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J. Hills Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Miller Astrophel and Stella – 1579
(B) Gertrude Stein, Barbara Johnson, Michael The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
Ryan (D) “The Shepheards Calender” – 1579
(C) Barbara Johnson, Michael Ryan, Mary Tottels Miscellany – 1591
Ellman Astrophel and Stella – about 1585
(D) Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Felix The Spanish Tragedie – about 1557
Guattari Answer: A
Answer: A
15. Match the items in the List – I with items
11. Identify the correct group of playhouses in List – II according to the code given
in late sixteenth century London from the below :
following groups : List – I (Authors)
(A) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Hope i. Lucy Hutchinson
(B) Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe, Sejanus ii. John Bunyan
(C) Hope, Curtain, Rose, Swan, Globe iii. John Evelyn
(D) Swan, Curtain, Rose, Globe, Thames iv. Margaret Cavendish
Answer: A,C List – II (Works)
1. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
12. ―Keep up your bright swords, for the 2. Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees
dew will rust them. 3. Natures Pictures
Good Signior, you shall more command with 4. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
years. Codes :
Than with your weapons.‖ The above lines i ii iii iv
are addresses by Othello to (A) 2 3 1 4
(A) Roderigo and officers (B) 4 3 2 1
(B) Brabantio, Roderigo and Officers (C) 4 1 2 3
(C) The Duke and Senators (D) 4 2 1 3
(D) Montano and Cassio Answer: C
Answer: B

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16. ―But deeds, and language, such as men (B) The Castle of Otranto
do use; (C) Tristram Shandy
And persons, such as comedy would choose, (D) A Tender Husband
When she would show an image of the time, Answer: C
and sport with human follies, not with
crime.‖ 20. The son of a joiner, he was apprenticed
In the above lines Jonson as a printer. He remained a printer
I. Opposes the artificiality of the romantic throughout his life. He was asked to prepare
tragic-comedy. a series of modern letters for those who
II. Initiates the use of realism. could not write for themselves. This humble
III. Considers analysis of moral short comings task taught him the art of expressing himself
more important in letters. Who is the novelist?
IV. Encourages the use of farce with (A) Daniel Defoe
melodrama. (B) Samuel Richardson
Find out the correct combination according to (C) Henry Fielding
the code : (D) Tobias Smollett
(A) I, II and III are correct Answer: B
(B) I, II and IV are correct
(C) I, III and IV are correct 21. ―Where ignorance is Bliss Tis folly to be
(D) II, III and IV are correct wise.‖ Who wrote the following lines?
Answer: A (A) Pope
(B) Gray
17. ―And if no peece of chronicle we prove, (C) Collins
We‘ll build in ………….. pretty roomes.‖ (D) Southey
(A) lyrics Answer: B
(B) epics
(C) sonnets 22. Which of the following works is not
(D) stanzas actually a prose essay?
Answer: C (A) Essay of Dramatic Poesy
(B) Essay on Man
18. ―That glory never shall his wrath or (C) An Essay Concerning Human
might extort from me.‖ (Paradise Lost, Book Understanding
I) (D) An Essay Towards a New Theory of
What ‗glory‘ is being referred to by Satan ? Vision
(A) The courage never to submit or yield Answer: B
(B) To reign in Hell
(C) To defeat God 23. Whom does Mirabell deceive into
(D) To spread evil believing that he loves her in The Way of the
Answer: A World?
(A) Millamant
19. It has been described as a ―novel without (B) Lady Wishfort
predecessors‖, the product of an original (C) Mrs. Marwood
mind and became immediately popular. It is (D) Mrs. Fainall
a peculiar blend of pathos and humour, Answer: B
though the pathos is sometimes overdone to
the point of becoming offensively 24. ―Competence to age is supplementary to
sentimental. youth, a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear
The novel was published in 1760. What is the best that is to be had. We must ride
the name of the novel ? where we formerly walked : live better and
(A) Gulliver‟s Travels be softer and shall be wise to do so – than we
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had means to do in the good old days you (D) It should be viewed as an artistic form
speak of.‖ Answer: A
Who speaks these words and to whom?
(A) Lamb to Bridget 30. Match the items in List – I with items in
(B) Wordsworth to Dorothy List – II according to the code given below :
(C) Dorothy to Bridget List – I (Novels)
(D) Lamb to Dorothy i. Ulysses
Answer: A ii. A Passage to India
iii. To the Lighthouse
25. The Prelude although begun as early as iv. Women in Love
1799 and finished in its first version in 1805, List – II (Characters)
was not published until …………….. 1. Mrs. Moore
(A) 1815 2. Molly Bloom
(B) 1820 3. Gerald Crich
(C) 1830 4. Lily Briscoe
(D) 1850 Codes :
Answer: D i ii iii iv
(A) 3 1 2 4
26. ―A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the (B) 2 1 4 3
wreathed trellis of a working brain.‖ The (C) 4 2 1 3
above lines are quoted from (D) 1 3 2 4
(A) „Adonais‟ Answer: B
(B) „Ode to Psyche‟
(C) „Eve of St. Agnes‟ 31. Which among the following novels was
(D) „Endymion‟ not written in 1922?
Answer: B (A) Ulysses
(B) Jacob‟s room
27. ―Love seeketh only self to please, To bind (C) Aaron‟s Rod
another to its delight.‖ (D) A Passage to India
This selfish and possessive nature of love is Answer: D
illustrated in Blake‘s
(A) „The Clod and the Pebble‟ 32. ―A sudden blow : the great wings beating
(B) „The Sick Rose‟ still
(C) „A Poison Tree‟ Above the staggering girl, her thighs
(D) „Ah Sunflower‟ caressed
Answer: A By the dark webs, her nap caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his
28. Who is the author of Mary, and the breast.‖
unfinished The Wrongs of Woman? Who is the author of the above lines?
(A) Mary Wollstonecraft (A) W.B. Yeats
(B) William Godwin (B) T.S. Eliot
(C) Mary Hay (C) W.H. Auden
(D) Elizabeth Inchbald (D) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: A Answer: A

29. Identify the incorrect factor in Henry 33. ―Consume my heart away; sick with
James‘ theory of the novel : desire
(A) It should be sentimental And fastened to a dying animal.‖
(B) It should be objective The above lines are taken from
(C) It should be realistic (A) “Felix Randal”
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(B) “Sailing to Byzantium” 39. Who among the following is not an
(C) “Coole and the Ballylee, 1931” American modernist poet?
(D) “The Second Coming” (A) William Carlos Williams
Answer: B (B) Ezra Pound
(C) William Ellery Channing, the younger
34. Who among the following is not a (D) Marianne Moore
surrealist poet? Answer: C
(A) Hugh Sykes Dykes
(B) David Gascoyne 40. An important poet and playwright who
(C) Kenneth Allot in the 1960s led the Black Arts Movement,
(D) C. Day Lewis in the spirit of negritude, posited a ‗Black
Answer: D Aesthetic‘ that expressed a pan-African,
organic and whole sensibility.
35. The protagonist returns with an (A) Henry Louis Gates Jr.
admonition, the diamond sent to him for (B) Amiri Baraka
smuggling out a packet of diamonds as (C) Ishmael Reed
bribe. (D) Bell Hooks
This scene occurs in one of the novels of Answer: B
Graham Greene – Identify the novel
(A) The End of the Affair 41. Match List – I with List – II according to
(B) The Heart of the Matter the code given below :
(C) The Ministry of Fear List – I (Authors)
(D) Our Man in Havana i. V.S. Naipaul
Answer: B ii. Jean Rhys
iii. Marina Warners
36. Samuel Beckett‘s trilogy published iv. J.M. Coetzee
together in London in 1959 under the List – II (Books)
English titles is 1. Foe
(A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy 2. Indigo or Mapping the Waters
(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable 3. Wide Sargasso Sea
(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies 4. Mimic Men
(D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks, Codes :
Murphy i ii iii iv
Answer: Marks given to all (A) 4 2 3 1
(B) 4 1 2 3
37. Among the following playwrights, who (C) 4 3 2 1
was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1920? (D) 1 3 4 2
(A) Eugene O‟Neill Answer: C
(B) Sean O‟Casey
(C) William Somerset Maugham 42. Yasmine Gooneratne‘s The Pleasures of
(D) J.B. Priestly Conquest termed as a postcolonial novel of
Answer: A the nineties is ironically enough set in the
tropical island nation of
38. D.H. Lawrence popularized the concept (A) Sri Lanka
of …………… in his novels. (B) Fiji
(A) Realism (C) The Caribbean
(B) Naturalism (D) Amnesia
(C) Primitivism Answer: D
(D) Expressionism
Answer: C
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43. Which of the following is not an Asian – (C) Elizabeth Jane
Canadian writer ? (D) Lucetta
(A) Shauna Singh Badlwin Answer: C
(B) Himani Banerjee
(C) Joy Kogawa 49. ―Out of the gosple he tho words caughte
(D) Meena Alexander And this figure he added eek therto,
Answer: D That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ?‖
In the Prologue the Parson is represented as a
44. Which of the following is true? man :
(A) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a poem in nine books 1. who loved money
(B) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a collection of sonnets 2. who criticized the corrupt clergy
from the Portuguese 3. who practiced what he preached
(C) „Aurora Leigh‟ is a nursery rhyme book 4. who was a poor but honest clerk
(D) „Aurora Leigh‟ is “the Seeds and Fruits of Find the correct combination according to the
English Poetry” code :
Answer: A (A) 1, 2 and 3 are correct
(B) 1, 2 and 4 are correct
45. ―The old order changeth yielding place (C) 2, 3 and 4 are correct
to new, (D) 1, 3 and 4 are correct
And God fulfils himself in many way.‖ Answer: C
In which of the following poems do these
lines appear? 50. Match the items in List – I with items in
(A) „Locksley Hall‟ List – II according to the code given below:
(B) „Two Voices List – I (Plays)
(C) „Morte d‟Arthur‟ i. White Devil
(D) „Ulysses‟ ii. Maids Tragedy
Answer: C iii. Every Man in his Humour
iv. The Spanish Tragedie
46. George Eliot‘s attempt to write a List – II (Characters)
historical novel of the Italian Renaissance 1. Hieornimo
was not successful. Which was this novel? 2. Old Knowell
(A) Adam Bede 3. Vittoria Corombona
(B) Felix Holt 4. Aspatia
(C) Silas Marner Codes :
(D) Romola i ii iii iv
Answer: D (A) 4 3 1 2
(B) 2 1 3 4
47. In which novel, does the hero, driven by (C) 3 4 2 1
passion and revenge, add a new dimension (D) 4 3 2 1
to the concept of suffering? Answer: C
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) Jude the Obscure
(C) Mill on the Floss
(D) Hard Times
Answer: A

48. From the following women characters in

Hardy‘s novels choose the odd one out :
(A) Bathsheba Everdene
(B) Eustacia Vye
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1. Two of the following list are ―Angry
Young Men‖ of the 1950‘s British literary
scene.
I. John Osborne
II. C.P. Snow
III. Anthony Powell
IV. Kingsley Amis
The right combination, accordingto the code
(A) I & II
(B) II & IV
(C) I & IV
(D) I & III
Answer: C

2. Laurence Sterne‘s Tristram Shandy

contains
(A) Six volumes
(B) Nine volumes
(C) Ten volumes

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(D) Four volumes 7. In King Lear who among the following
Answer: B speaks in the voice of Poor Tom ?
(A) Kent
3. Which of the following statement is NOT (B) Edgar
true of Areopagitica ? (C) Edmund
(A) It was published in 1644. (D) Gloucester
(B) It argues for the liberty of Unlicensed Answer: B
Printing.
(C) It pleads for British privileges regarding 8. In Wordsworth‘s Prelude the Boy of
Free Trade. Winander is affected by
(D) It is a speech addressed to the Parliament (A) Blindness
of England. (B) Deafness
Answer: C (C) Muteness
(D) Lameness
4. Thomas Hardy‘s last major novel was Answer: C
_______.
(A) Tess of the D‟urbervilles 9. Which of the following is NOT mentioned
(B) Jude the Obscure as part of the London locale in The Waste
(C) The Return of the Native Land ?
(D) The Trumpet Major (A) St. Magnus Martyr
Answer: B (B) King Arthur Street
(C) St. Mary Woolnoth
5. The Hind and the Panther Transvers‘d to (D) Lower Thames Street
the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Answer: B
Mouse is a satire on
(A) Alexander Pope 10. Which of the following novels is NOT
(B) Jonathan Swift written by Jean Rhys ?
(C) John Dryden (A) After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
(D) Samuel Butler (B) Good Morning, Midnight
Answer: C (C) The Quiet American
(D) Wide Sargasso Sea
6. Match the columns : Answer: C
Terms Theorists
1. Matthew Arnold 11. The first official royal Poet Laureate in
2. Friedrich Nietzsche English literary history was _______.
3. G.H. Hopkins (A) Ben Jonson
4. S.T. Coleridge (B) William Davenant
(C) John Dryden
I. Apollonian – Dionysian (D) Thomas Shadwell
II. Fancy – Imagination Answer: C
III. Hellenism – Hebraism
IV. Inscape – Instress 12. Who does Alexander Pope refer to in the
following lines ?
I II III IV ―Born to no pride; inheriting no strife,
(A) 2 4 1 3 Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
(B) 2 4 3 1 Stranger to civil and religious rage,
(C) 1 4 2 3 The good man walked innoxious through his
(D) 4 2 1 3 age.‖
Answer: A (A) Pope‟s father
(B) Pope himself
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(C) Dr. Arbuthnot (D) By assisting the Friar in Church services
(D) The Duke of Marlborough Answer: B
Answer: A
17. From among the following, identify
13. The Theory of Natural Selection is Coleridge‘s companion in a fanciful scheme
attributed to ________. to establish a Utopian community of free
(A) Arthur Schopenhauer love on the banks of the Susquehaina river ?
(B) Charles Darwin (A) Lord Byron
(C) A.N. Whitehead (B) Robert Southey
(D) Aldous Huxley (C) William Hazlitt
Answer: B (D) William Wordsworth
Answer: B
14. Which character in William Golding‘s
Lord of the Flies maintains, ―Life is 18. Which of the following novels by H.G.
scientific‖ ? Wells is about the condition of England as
(A) Simon Empire ?
(B) Piggy (A) The Island of Dr. Moreau
(C) Ralph (B) The War of the Worlds
(D) Jack (C) Tono-Bungay
Answer: B (D) The Invisible Man
Answer: C
15. Match the authors under List – I with
the titles under List – II : 19. Joothan by Om Prakash Valmiki is
1. Of Grammatology (A) a collection of poems
2. The Archaeology of Knowledge (B) a play
3. Structural Anthropology (C) an autobiography
4. Anatomy of Criticism (D) a novel
Answer: C
I. Claude Levi-Strauss
II. Jacques Derrida 20. Listed below are some English plays
III. Northrop Frye across several centuries : Twelfth Night, She
IV. Michel Foucault Stoops to Conquer, The Importance of
Being Earnest, Pygmalion and Blithe Spirit.
I II III IV What is common to them ?
(A) 1 3 4 2 (A) All problem plays; scheming and intrigue
(B) 3 1 2 4 (B) All tragedies; sin and redemption
(C) 3 1 4 2 (C) All ideologically framed; class and gender
(D) 2 1 3 4 (D) All romantic comedies; love and laughter
Answer: C Answer: D

16. How did Chaucer‘s Pardoner make his 21. Who among the following wrote a poem
living ? comparing a lover‘s heart to a hand grenade
(A) By selling stolen cattle from the ?
neighbourhood ottery (A) John Donne
(B) By selling indulgences to those who (B) Abraham Cowley
committed sins (C) Wilfred Owen
(C) By pardoning those who stole property or (D) Robert Graves
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22. The Uncertainty Principle is attributed 28. Dylan Thomas is associated with the
to group _______.
(A) William James (A) The New Apocalypse
(B) John Dewey (B) The Black Arts
(C) Werner Heisenberg (C) The Movement
(D) Charles Darwin (D) Deep Image Poetry
Answer: C Answer: A

23. ―Jabberwocky‖ is a creation in _______. 29. Which of the following writers writes
(A) Edward Lear‟s poetry from Canada ?
(B) Lewis Carroll‟s work (A) V.S. Naipaul
(C) Charles Dickens‟s Martin Chuzzlewit (B) Margaret Atwood
(D) Thomas Hardy‟s Woodlanders (C) Derek Walcott
Answer: B (D) James Joyce
Answer: B
24. Who are Didi and Gogo ?
(A) They are two characters in Endgame. 30. ―The boast of heraldry, the pomp of
(B) They are nicknames, respectively, for power,
Lucky and Pozzo. And all that beauty, all that wealth e‘er
(C) They are nicknames, respectively, for gave,
Vladimir and Estragon. Awaits alike the inevitable hour
(D) They are two characters in Breath. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.‖
Answer: C What is the subject of awaits ?
(A) Hour
25. Who among the following theorists talks (B) The things mentioned in the first 2 lines.
about ―the circulation of social energy‖ ? (C) “And all that beauty, all that wealth e‟er
(A) Raymond Williams gave”
(B) Stephen Greenblatt (D) Grave
(C) Antonio Gramsci Answer: A
(D) Haydon White
Answer: B 31. ―Heav‘n has no rage, like love to hatred
turn‘d / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman
26. How many legends of good women could scorn‘d.‖
Chaucer complete in his The Legend of Identify the text in which the above quote
Good Women ? occurs :
(A) Six (A) The Double-Dealer
(B) Seven (B) The Way of the World
(C) Eight (C) The Mourning Bride
(D) Nine (D) Love for Love
Answer: D Answer: C

27. The Round Table is a collection of essays 32. A Young Lady‘s Entrance into the
jointly written by ________. World is the sub-title of _______.
(A) Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt (A) Belinda
(B) Charles Lamb and Leigh Hunt (B) Cecilia
(C) William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt (C) Evelina
(D) William Hazlitt and Thomas de Quincey (D) Camilla
Answer: C Answer: C

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33. ―The old order changeth, yielding place 39. ―And miles to go before I sleep‖ is a line
to new‖ is from ________. from a poem by
(A) “Morte d‟Arthur” (A) Emily Dickinson
(B) “Idylls of the King” (B) Walt Whitman
(C) “Paracelsus” (C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(D) “Asolando” (D) Robert Frost
Answer: B Answer: D

34. Which of the followingcannot be 40. What common link do you find among
classified as fantasy fiction ? ―The Disquieting Muses‖ by Sylvia Plath,
(A) The Inheritors (William Golding) ―The Starry Night‖ by Anne Sexton,
(B) The Magus (John Fowles) ―Mourning Picture‖ by Adrienne Rich, and
(C) The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein) ―Musee des Beaux Arts‖ by W.H. Auden ?
(D) The History Man (Malcolm Bradbury) (A) They inspired paintings.
Answer: D (B) They are confessional poems.
(C) They are all inspired by paintings.
35. Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a work (D) They are all inspired by Van Gogh‟s
associated with _______. paintings.
(A) Wilhelm von Humboldt Answer: C
(B) Ernst Cassirer
(C) Immanuel Kant 41. ―All Rising to Great Place is by a _____
(D) Battista Vico staire.‖ (Francis Bacon)
Answer: B (A) Murky
(B) Winding
36. Which of the following facts is NOT true (C) Crooked
of Spenser ? (D) Sinister
(A) He is a kind of English Homer, telling Answer: B
stories of heroic confrontations.
(B) He fashioned an original verse form : The 42. In Jeremy Collier‘s 1698 pamphlet
Spenserian Stanza. attacking the immorality and profaneness of
(C) He opposed England‟s break with the the English stage, who among the following
Roman Catholic Church. was the principal target ?
(D) He is a Christian poet. (A) William Congreve
Answer: C (B) John Dryden
(C) John Vanbrugh
37. William Blake developed the ideas of (D) William Wycherley
―Prolifics‖ and ―Devourers‖ in Answer: C
(A) Jerusalem
(B) Milton 43. Charles Dickens‘s visit to the United
(C) Marriage of Heaven and Hell States produced _________.
(D) Songs of Innocence and Songs of (A) Hard Times
Experience (B) Nicholas Nickleby
Answer: C (C) Martin Chuzzlewit
(D) Oliver Twist
38. Surrealism is associated with Answer: C
(A) Ernst Cassirer
(B) Tristan Tzara 44. Who among the following is a working-
(C) Henrik Ibsen class poet ?
(D) Andre Breton (A) John Betjeman
Answer: D (B) Tony Harrison
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(C) Thom Gunn (A) End-stopped rhyme
(D) Robert Graves (B) Alliteration
Answer: B (C) Run-on line
(D) Tercet
45. New Science is a work associated with Answer: C
_______.
(A) Ernest Cassirer
(B) Wilhelm von Humboldt
(C) G. Battista Vico
(D) Immanuel Kant
Answer: C

46. Identify Petrarch‘s sonnet sequence from

among the following :
(A) Rine Sparse
(B) Astrophel and Stella
(C) Amoretti
(D) Delia
Answer: A

47. The island setting of Latmos figures in

Keats‘s
(A) Endymion
(B) The Eve of St. Agnes
(C) Lamia Paper 2- June 2015
(D) Hyperion
Answer: A 1. Matthew Arnold‘s ―touchstones‖ were
―short passages, even single lines‖ of classic
48. The Artist Hero is a theatrical creation poetry beside which the lines of other poets
emphasized by ________. may be placed in order to detect the
(A) W.B. Yeats presence or absence of high poetic quality.
(B) Charles Baudelaire In his ―Study of Poetry‖ Arnold cited
(C) Oscar Wilde ―touchstones‖ from such non-English poets
(D) Andre Gide as Homer and Dante and also from the
Answer:* (Marks given to all) English poets, Shakespeare and Milton.
Which English poet did he disapprovingly
49. Which of the following African writers call ―not one of the great classics‖ in the list
won the Nobel Prize for Literature ? below?
(A) Chinua Achebe (1) Chaucer
(B) Nadine Gordimer (2) Sidney
(C) Ngugi wa Thiong‟o (3) Spenser
(D) Bessie Head (4) Donne
Answer: B Answer: 1

50. ―My lute, be as thou wert when thou 2. Samuel Pepys began his diary on
didst grow ……………
With thy green mother in some shady (1) New Year‟s Day 1660
groove‖ – William Drummond (2) All Saints‟ Day 1662
The above quote is an example of _______. (3) Thanksgiving Day 1665
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(4) New Year‟s Day 1667 (3) Queen Caroline
Answer: 1 (4) Queen Elizabeth
Answer: 3
3. On which of the following authors has
Peter Ackroyd NOT written a biography? 8. Chaucer‘s first work, The Book of the
(1) Charles Dickens Duchess is a dream poem on the death of
(2) William Blake …………….
(3) T. S. Eliot (1) Duchess of Malfi
(4) W. B. Yeats (2) Duchess of Lancaster
Answer: 4 (3) Duchess of Scotland
(4) Duchess of Paris
4. Which group of the following poets was Answer: 2
called the Auden Group because they
developed a style and viewpoint similar to 9. What was Charles Lamb‘s connection
that of W. H. Auden? with India?
(1) Louis MacNeice, C. D. L.ewis, Stephen (1) He was fascinated by the Indian jugglers
Spender and trades-people in London and wrote an
(2) John Masefield, Edwin Muir, Norman essay on them
McCaig (2) He was fascinated by Eastern mystical
(3) MacDiarmid, G. M. Hopkins, Edwin Muir religions, especially Buddhism
(4) W. IT. Davies, Robert Bridges, John (3) He was a clerk for thirty three years in the
Masefield East India Company
Answer: 1 (4) He was clerk in South Sea house that
prepared patents and documents for British
5. When one line of poetry runs into the trading companies in India
next, with no punctuation to slow the Answer: 4
reading, it is a case of …………..
(1) caesura 10. Find the odd one among the Marxist
(2) consonance critics below:
(3) enjambment (1) Georg Lukacs
(4) hyperbole (2) Louis Althusser
Answer: 3 (3) Raymond Williams
(4) Northrop Frye
6. Which of the following is NOT a Answer: 4
characteristic of the Victorian Age?
(1) The rise of a highly competitive industrial 11. In the lines ―With gold jewels cover
technology every part, /And hide with ornaments their
(2) An emphasis on strictly controlled social want of art‖ (Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects
behavior (1) the „Follow Nature‟ fallacy
(3) A romantic focus on home and family (2) artificiality
(4) The growth of rural traditions and (3) aesthetic order
movement from large cities (4) poor taste
Answer: 4 Answer: 2

7. In The Heart of Midlotliian, Walter Scott 12. The opposite of hyperbole is

deals with real political and personal details, ……………..
but notable among his characters is the (1) meiosis
depiction of …………. (2) inversion
(1) Queen Anne (3) anagnorisis
(2) Queen Victoria
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(4) synecdoche (4) Lady Gregory
Answer: 1 Answer: 3

13. What significance do we attach to the 18. In medieval England a …………….. was
publication of I Am an Indian in Canada ? understood to be a trained craftsman, one
(1) The title refers to the autobiography of an who worked under a master who owned the
unknown Indian writer longing for the South business.
Asian countryside (1) pardoner
(2) The first ever account of ethnic conflicts (2) summoner
within Canada (3) journeyman
(3) The first anthology of Native Canadian (4) manciple
writing following the Civil Rights Movement Answer: 3
of the1960s
(4) The first anthology of writers afflicted by 19. Christopher Marlowe‘s heroes are said
class and gender differences in Canada of the to be larger than life, exaggerated both in
late 1970s their faults and in their qualities. They have
Answer: 3 a desire for everything in extreme. In one of
his plays the hero wants to conquer the
14. What is the moral of ―The Nun‘s Priest‘s whole world. The name of the play is
Tale‖ ? ……………..
(1) Slow and steady wins the race. (1) The Jew of Malta
(2) Greed is the root of all evil. (2) Doctor Faustus
(3) Beauty lies within. (3) Tamburlaine the Great
(4) Never trust a flatterer. (4) Edward II
Answer: 4 Answer: 3

15. The author of the essay ―Silly Novels by 20. With what does the speaker claim to be
Lady Novelists‖ is …………….. half in love in ―Ode to a Nightingale‖?
(1) George Eliot (1) the nightingale‟s haunting melody
(2) Henry James (2) the scented flavour of early summer
(3) Oscar Wilde (3) the night sky and all the stars
(4) Richard Steele (4) the peace that comes with death
Answer: 1 Answer: 4

16. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson 21. In which chapter of Poetics does
Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial Aristotle use the word ‗catharsis‘ in his
existence on a lonely island reflects definition of tragedy?
…………… (1) Chapter IV
(1) man‟s desire to return to nature (2) Chapter VI
(2) the author‟s criticism of colonization (3) Chapter ITT
(3) the ideal of rising bourgeoisie (4) Chapter V
(4) the aristocrat‟s disdain for the harsh social Answer: 2
reality
Answer: 3 22. Match the following:
List – I
17. Who is the author of the collection The (a) “The Function of Criticism”
Celtic Twilight? (b) “The Function of Criticism at the Present
(1) J. M. Synge Time”
(2) Sean O‟Casey (c) The Function of Criticism : From „The
(3) W. B. Yeats Spectator‟ to Poststructuralism
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(d) “The Function of English at the Present (d) Titus Andronicus
Time” The right combination according to the code is:
List – II (1) (a) and (b)
(1) Terry Eagleton (2) (a) and (c)
(ii) Richard Ohmann (3) (c) and (d)
(iii) Matthew Arnold (4) (a) and (d)
(iv) T. S. Eliot Answer: 1
The right matching according to the code is:
(a) (b) (c) (d) 26. In her essay ―Professions for Women‖
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii) Virginia Woolf finds an analogy between the
(2) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) act of writing and …………….
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) (1) driving a motor car
(4) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i) (2) riding a horse
Answer: 1 (3) fishing
(4) gardening
23. Identify the TRUE statement on Thomas Answer: 3
More‘s Utopia.
(1) Utopia is divided into four parts, each 27. The ascension of King James I in
dealing with Raphael Hythloday‟s adventures ………….. inaugurated the Jacobean age.
in the four suburbs of Antwerp. (1) 1600
(2) Utopia is divided into two parts; the first (2) 1601
records a conversation between Thomas More (3) 1603
and Raphael Hythloday, and the second is (4) 1609
Hythloday‟s discourse on the institutions and Answer: 3
practices of Utopia.
(3) Utopia is divided into two parts; the first is 28. Which of the following is NOT true of
Thomas More‟s discourse on the institutions the Byronic hero?
and practices of Utopia, and the second a (1) moody
conversation between More and Hythloday. (2) passionate
(4) Utopia is divided into four parts, each (3) repentant
dealing with the ordered patterns of towns and (4) remorse-torn
cities in Antwerp. Answer: 3
Answer: 2
29. Like many other novelists, Hardy
24. In ―The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‖ employed language variation (dialect and
what disaster befalls the ship and the crew? standard) with a purpose. In this respect
(1) The ship is caught in ice and breaks into which of the following statements is correct?
pieces. (1) His major characters such as Tess and Jude
(2) A fierce storm batters the ship and drowns always speak in local dialects, as per their
the crew. social positions.
(3) “Slimy things with legs” attack the ship and (2) His major characters such as Tess and Jude
kill many of the crew. rarely speak in local dialects, in spite of their
(4) The ship is becalmed and the crew dies of social positions.
thirst. (3) His major characters such as Tess and Jude
Answer: 4 rarely speak in standard language in spite of
their social positions.
25. Falstaff is a character in ………….. (4) His major characters such as Tess and Jude
(a) Henry IV Part I rarely speak in a mixture of a dialect and
(b) The Merry Wives of Windsor standard.
(c) The Comedy of Errors Answer: 2
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30. ―It used to be said,‖ began a famous stood for a great optimism, barriers seemed
English writer, ―everyone had a novel in to be coming down all over, it was as if
them … Just now, though, in 1999, you World War II had finally drawn to close,
would probably be obliged to doubt the there was an openness and high-spiritedness
basic proposition: What everyone has in and relaxation of mood‖. Who were ―they‖ ?
them, these days, is not a novel but a (1) The Beatles
memoir‖. Identify the source (2) The Rolling Stones
(1) Martins Amis, Experience (3) The New Left
(2) Michel Butor, Passing Time (4) The Arts Council folks
(3) John Fowles, The French Lieutenant‟s Answer: 1
Woman
(4) Julian Barnes, Flaubert‟s Parrot 36. In Paradise Lost Milton presents the
Answer: 1 action of the fall of man in two stages in
Books ………………
31. The opening sixteen lines of Paradise (1) IV and IX
Lost comprise: (2) IV and VIII
(1) One sentence (3) III and IX
(2) Two sentences (4) V and X
(3) Three sentences Answer: 1
(4) Four sentences
Answer: 1 37. In Gulliver‘s Travels Struldbruggs are
…………..
32. Who among the following poets (1) people replete with abstract learning.
compared human tears to ―love‘s wine‖ ? (2) people exempt from natural death.
(1) Ben Jonson (3) people persecuted by pets and servants.
(2) John Donne (4) people lured by a new ideal.
(3) Andrew Marvell Answer: 2
(4) John Suckling
Answer: 2 38. Margaret Atwood has tried a revisionist
writing of a crucial scene in Hamlet called
33. Ernest Pontifex is a character in ―Gertrude Talks Back‖. The scene in
………….. Atwood opens with a reference to the name
(1) Tono Bungay of an implied listener. Who is this implied
(2) The Man of Property listener?
(3) The Way of All Flesh (1) Hamlet
(4) Nostromo (2) Ophelia
Answer: 3 (3) Polonius
(4) Claudius
34. In which of the following stories does Answer: 1
Rudyard Kipling present a newspaper
editor who recounts his dealings with a 39. Samuel Johnson wrote London in
couple of ―loafers‖ ? imitation of ……………
(1) “His Chance in Life” (1) Horace
(2) “Thrown Away” (2) Ovid
(3) “Lispeth” (3) Juvenal
(4) “The Man Who Would Be King” (4) Moschus
Answer: 4 Answer: 3

35. Trying to capture the upbeat mood of 40. Which of the following is NOT written
1964-65, the poet Thom Gunn said: ―They by Buchi Emecheta?
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(1) The Joys of Motherhood 46. Identify the group known as ―The
(2) Second-Class citizen Wesker Trilogy‖?
(3) A Question of Power (1) The Growth of the Soil, Gauze of Life, In
(4) Kehinde the Grip of Life
Answer: 3 (2) Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots, I‟m
Talking about Jerusalem
41. Samuel Johnson‘s use of the term (3) The Four Seasons, Chips with Everything,
―metaphysical‖ in a piece of criticism was Golden City
…………. (4) Lunatics and Lovers, The Patriots, Dead
(1) approving End
(2) disapproving Answer: 2
(3) positive
(4) accidental 47. Who is the central character of Derek
Answer: 2 Walcott‘s Dream on the Monkey Mountain
?
42. ―I am not an angel …… and I will not be (1) Diana Guinness, one of the Mitford Sisters
one till I die: I will be myself.‖ This is (2) Jordan, a fantasist
……………… (3) Makak, a charcoal burner
(1) Maggie Tulliver in Mill on the Floss (4) Eva Smith, a seamstress
(2) Aurora Leigh in the eponymous poem Answer: 3
(3) Jane Eyre in the eponymous novel
(4) Betty Higdon in Our Mutual Friend 48. The phrase ―darkness visible‖ (Paradise
Answer: 3 Lost, 1.63) is an example of ……………..
(1) periphrasis
43. Who among the following playwrights (2) pun
was the son of a gardener? (3) oxymoron
(1) Harold Pinter (4) transposition
(2) Joe Orton Answer: 3
(3) Tom Stoppard
(4) Edward Bond 49. What is common to writers such as Sam
Answer: 2 Selvon (The Lonely Londoners), Timothy
Mo (Sour Sweet), and Hanif Kureishi (The
44. ―He is the very pineapple of politeness!‖ Black Album) ?
This sentence is an example of ………….. (1) All of them are brilliant writers of
(1) paronomasia autobiographies who tell stories and write
(2) spoonerism poetry.
(3) malapropism (2) They use Standard English with some
(4) anaphora Creole inflections peculiar to the Caribbean.
Answer: 3 (3) They are diasporic writers who depict
postcolonial London very different from its
45. Ferdinand de Saussure argued that colonial representations.
meaning is generated through (4) They contrast the „First Nations‟ with local
(1) a system of structured differences in populations of their respective countries.
language Answer: 3
(2) a system of random differences in language
(3) a system of structured references in 50. F. R. Leavis and Q. D. Leavis launched a
language critical journal devoted to the moral
(4) a system of random references in language centrality of English Studies. Name the
Answer: 1 Journal.
(1) The English Historical Review
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(2) The Criterion
(3) Scrutiny
(4) The Edinburgh Review
Answer: 3

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1. Who, among the following, advanced the
theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at
birth, and acquires all ideas by experience?
(1) John Locke
(2) John Wesley
(3) Isaac Watts
(4) Denis Diderot
Answer: 1

2. Which of the following authors wrote

Studies in the History of the Renaissance?
(1) Walter Pater
(2) Oscar Wilde
(3) Thomas Carlyle
(4) John Ruskin
Answer: 1

3. Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry

in one of Jane Austen‘s novels?
(1) Knightley
(2) Darcy
(3) Collins
(4) Mr. Martin
Answer: 4

4. A poet once referred to an old man as ―A

tattered coat upon a stick‖. That is an
example of ………………
(1) Metonymy
(2) Sarcasm
(3) Simile
(4) Metaphor
Answer: 4

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5. Which of these is NOT a pastoral elegy? the Novel”
(1) Lycidas Answer: 3
(2) In Memoriam
(3) Thyrsis 10. Match the columns:
(4) Adonais (Author)
Answer: 2 (a) Sebastian Faulks
(b) Peter Ackroyd
6. In Beckett‘s Waiting for Godot the (c) Tan McEwan
characters often use dislocated, repetitious (d) David Lodge
and cliched speech primarily to: (Text)
(1) illustrate the essentially illogical, (i) Amsterdam
purposeless nature of the human condition (ii) Changing Places
(2) re-create the workings of the subconscious (iii) Hawksmoor
(3) mock the exaggerated dignity and wisdom (iv) Birdsong
of modern, self-professed intellectuals Codes:
(4) reinforce the comic action of farcical plots (a) (b) (c) (d)
Answer: 1 (1) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(2) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
7. Which of the following sixteenth-century (3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
poets was NOT a courtier? (4) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(1) George Puttenham Answer: 3
(2) Philip Sidney
(3) Walter Raleigh 11. In New Criticism, the key term ‗tension‘
(4) Thomas Wyatt is associated with:
Answer: * (Marks given to all) (1) Cleanth Brooks
(2) John Crow Ransom
8. Patrick White published two novels in the (3) Austin Warren
1950s giving the eras of pioneering and (4) Allen Tate
exploration in Australian history an epic, Answer: 4
ironic and psychological dimension. The
novels are: 12. While compiling what sort of book did
(a) A Fringe of Leaves Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for
(b) The Tree of Man his Pamela or Virtue Rewarded?
(c) Voss (1) an account of the plague in London
(d) The Aunt‟s Story (2) an instruction manual for manners
The right combination according to the code is: (3) a book of devotion
(1) (a) and (b) (4) a book of model letters
(2) (b) and (c) Answer: 4
(3) (c) and (a)
(4) (c) and (d) 13. Who among the war Poets gained
Answer: 2 notoriety in 1917, when disenchanted with
the way the war was being conducted he
9. In which of the following works did drafted his letter of ―wilful defiance of the
Bakhtin propose his widely cited concept of military authority‖ which captured
the ‗Carnivalesque‘? attention in the House of Commons, and was
(1) “Discourse in the novel” forcibly admitted to the war hospital at
(2) Dialogic Imagination Craiglockhart, primarily to avoid his being
(3) Rabelais and his world court-martialled?
(4) “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in (1) Rupert Brooke
(2) Siegfried Sassoon
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(3) Wilfred Owen (4) Robert Ilerrick
(4) Isaac Rosenberg Answer: 1
Answer: 2
19. In a remarkably proleptic insight, a
14. If you cannot understand an argument critic wrote the following, anticipating
and remark, ―It‘s Greek to me‖, you are Benedict Anderson‘s definition of the nation
quoting …………… as ―an imagined political community‖:
(1) John Milton ―Most novels are in some sense knowable
(2) Samuel Johnson communities. It is part of a traditional
(3) William Shakespeare method — an underlying stance and
(4) John Donne approach — that a novelist offers to show
Answer: 3 people and their relationships in essentially
knowable and communicable ways‖.
15. Which of the following works did Walter Name the critic and the reference
Scott compile? (1) Van Wyck Brooks, The writer in America
(1) The Lay of the Last Minstrel (2) Raymond Williams, The country and the
(2) Marmion city
(3) Ivanhoe (3) Joseph Wood Krutch, The Modern Temper
(4) The Minstrelsy of Scottish Border (4) T.S. Eliot, Notes Towards a Definition of
Answer: 4 culture
Answer: 2
16. Which of the following is NOT written
by Wole Soyinka? 20. ―Fair is my love, and cruel as she‘s fair;
(1) Home and Exile Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes
(2) Kongi‟s Harvest are sunny‖.
(3) The interpreters The above lines are characterized by:
(4) The Swamp Dwellers (1) circumlocution
Answer: 1 (2) antithesis
(3) anticlimax
17. In the Defense of Poesy Sidney says: (4) bathos
―Now as in geometry the oblique must be Answer: 2
known as well as right and in arithmetic, the
odd as well as the even, so in the actions of 21. In his ―Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot‖ Pope
our life who seeth not the filthiness of evil tells us that as a poet he had benefited from
wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of ―This saving counsel, ‗keep your piece nine
virtue‖. Which of the following forms of years‘‖ – which enjoins on writer‘s patience
poesy offers a foil that helps us perceive the and great care before they rush to print.
beauty of virtue? Whose ―counsel‖ is Pope referring to?
(1) Pastorals (1) Longinus‟s in On the Sublime
(2) Parody (2) Horace‟s in Ars Poetica
(3) Comedy (3) Quintilian‟s Institutio Oratoria
(4) Tragedy (4) Aristotle‟s Poetics
Answer: 3 Answer: 2

18. John Dryden described a major English 22. An English architect and stage-designer
poet as ―a rough diamond, and must first be – Beginning 1605, joined Jacobean court to
polished ere he shines …..‖ Identify him: design masques — contributed significantly
(1) Geoffrey Chaucer to the spectacular theatre which succeeded
(2) John Gower the commonwealth after his death – the first
(3) George Herbert designer to use revolving screens to indicate
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scene-changes on the English stage. (2) James Baldwin‟s Go Tell it on the
Identify this artist/designer. Mountain
(1) Henry Irving (3) Toni Morrison‟s Song of Solomon
(2) Inigo Jones (4) Richard Wright‟s Native Son
(3) Henry Arthur Jones Answer: 2
(4) William Inge
Answer: 2 27. Chartism, a political movement that took
its name from the People‘s Charter had six
23. …………… may be defined as any points. Identify the one point on the
departure from the rules of pronunciation following list that was NOT Chartist:
or diction, for the sake of rhyme or metre, (a) universal manhood sufferage
or an unjustifiable departure from fact. (b) equal electoral districts
(1) Poetic license (c) comprehensive insurance scheme for labour
(2) Poetic justice (d) vote by secret ballot
(3) Poetic deviance (e) payment of MPs
(4) Poetic diction (f) no property qualifications for MPs
Answer: 1 (g) Annual parliaments
Codes:
24. That I lumanities and the sciences were (1) (e)
in fact ―two cultures‖ was suggested by (2) (g)
………….. (3) (c)
(1) Aldous Huxley in his oxford lectures on (4) (d)
poetry Answer: 3
(2) W.H. Anden in his oxford lectures on
poetry 28. These beauteous forms,
(3) F.R. Leavis in his book, The Great Through a long absence, have been to me
Tradition As is a landscape to a blind man‘s eye…
(4) C.P. Snow in his Rede lecture (―Tintern Abbey Lines‖)
Answer: 4 Which of the following rhetorical terms best
suits these lines?
25. Chaueer satirizes the Monk because the (1) Apostrophe
Monk: (2) Litotes
(1) is too concerned with courtesy and matters (3) Hyperbole
of etiquette (4) Catachresis
(2) cheats the poor peasants by selling them Answer: * (Marks given to all)
false religious relics
(3) courts favour of wealthy people but spends 29. The ‗monster‘ in Frankenstein is NOT
no time with poor people responsible for the death of:
(4) spends too much time hunting and too little (1) Clerval
time on religious duty (2) Justine
Answer: 4 (3) Elizabeth
(4) Alphonse Frankenstein
26. Divided into three sections this ground- Answer: 4
breaking work published in 1953 uses as the
frame of the spiritual and moral awakening 30. Which of the following plays of William
of a fourteen-year-old during a Saturday Shakespeare is NOT directly referred to in
night service in a Harlem church. Identify T.S. Eliot‘s The Waste Land?
the work. (1) Hamlet
(1) Zora Neale Hurston‟s Their Eyes Are (2) King Lear
Watching God (3) Coriolanus
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(4) The Tempest find lacking in his own work in comparison?
Answer: 2 (1) Fra Lippo Lippi – humour
(2) Raphael – Soul
31. Identify the group below which is known (3) Leonardo da Vinci – Verisimilitude
as the ―Sons of Ben‖. (4) Botticelli – liveliness
(1) Noel Coward, E.G. Craig, William Answer: 2
Macready, Matheson, Lang
(2) John Dryden, the Earl of Rochester, Samuel 36. In which of the following does Robert
Butler Southey detail the Indian superstitions as an
(3) William Cartwright, Richard Corbett, idolatry to be suppressed by a civilizing
Thomas Randolph protestant form of colonialism?
(4) William Holman hunt, John E. Millais, (1) “Thalaba”
D.G. Rossetti, William Morris (2) The Curse of Kehama
Answer: 3 (3) “Pitying the wolves”
(4) Country Horrors!
32. Christopher Marlowe was one of the first Answer: 2
major writers to affirm what can be
identified as a clearly homosexual 37. The following is the classic ending of a
sensibility. Which drama of his deals with celebrated novella in English:
it? ―I kept on creeping just the same, but I
(1) Edward II looked at him over my shoulder. I‘ve got out
(2) The Jew of Malta at last‘, said I, ―in spite of you and Jane.
(3) Doctor Faustus And I‘ve pulled off most of the papers, so
(4) Dido, Queen of Carthage you can‘t put me back !―
Answer: 1 Now why should that man have fainted? But
he did, and right across my path by the wall,
33. ―When true silence falls we are still left so that I had to creep over him every time !―
with echo but are nearer nakedness. One (1) Yellow Woman (Leslie Mormon Silko)
way of looking at speech is to say that it is a (2) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte
constant stratagem to cover nakedness‖. P.Gilman)
Identify the playwright who underlines the (3) Johny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
significance of silence thus. (Sylvia Plalth)
(1) Samuel Beckett (4) Where Are You Going, Where Have You
(2) Harold Pinter Been? Joyce C. Oates)
(3) Luigi Pirandello Answer: 2
(4) Joe Orton
Answer: 2 38. Harriet B. Stowe had wanted to write a
work based on the life of an Afro-American
34. The determining feature of syllabic verse writer which was later published as:
is neither ……………. nor …………… but (1) Uncle Tom‟s Cabin
the number of syllables in a line. (2) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(1) number, numbers (3) Cry, The Beloved Country
(2) sounds, silences (4) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
(3) stress, quantity Answer: 2
(4) gists, piths
Answer: 3 39. Samuel Johnson‘s ―Dissertation upon
Poetry‖ is part of which of his following
35. In Robert Browning‘s dramatic works?
monologue, which painter does Andrea del (1) the final section of his preface to
Sarto compare himself to? What does he Shakespeare
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(2) a chapter of his novel Rasselas 43. What is the name of the angel, who, of
(3) the epilogue of his Lives of Poets those who owed allegeance to Satan, dared
(4) one of his Rambler essays to protest against his impious doctrine and
Answer: 2 left his company to return to God (Paradise
Lost, Book V)?
40. A new series called ―New Accents‖ was (1) Michael
launched by Methuen in 1977. The first title (2) Abdiel
to be published in the series was: (3) Uriel
(1) Deconstruction : Theory and Practice (4) Gabriel
(2) Formalism and Marxism Answer: 2
(3) Structuralism and Semiotics
(4) Making and Difference : Feminist Literary 44. Which of the following is NOT a school
criticism associated with Romantic period in English
Answer: 3 literature?
(1) The Cockney School
41. ―Humble and rustic life was generally (2) The Fireside School
chosen, because, in that condition, the (3) The Lake School
essential passions of the heart find a better (4) The Satanic School
soil in which they can attain their maturity, Answer: 2
are less under restraint, and speak a plainer
and more emphatic language… The 45. The idea of ―new ethnicities‖ in post-war
language, too, of these men has been Britain was advanced by …………..
adopted… because such men hourly (1) Donald Hall
communicate with the best objects from (2) Stuart hall
which the best part of language is originally (3) Paul Gilroy
derived‖. Which of the following groups of (4) Hanif Kureishi
the author‘s poems in the Lyrical Ballads Answer: 2
(1800) contradict this statement in the
―Preface to the Lyrical Ballads‖, as pointed 46. Virginia Woolf‘s To the Lighthouse
out by S.T. Coleridge? begins in a piece of dialogue:
(1) “Ode on the Intimations of Immortality”, ―Yes, of course, if it‘s fine tomorrow‖, said
Prelude. Mrs. Ramsay. ―But you‘ll have to be up with
(2) The Tasks, Seasons. lark‖, she added.
(3) “Michael”, “Ruth”, “The Brothers”. Present among the listeners of her remark is
(4) “Elegy Written in a country churchyard”, ……………
“Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the (1) her father
Highlands”. (2) her nephew
Answer: 3 (3) her son
(4) her driver
42. A remarkable novelist of the English Answer: 3
Modernist phase who wrote a short book on
what the novel is (and why it matters) 47. Match the phrase with character
remarked, ―Oh dear, yes – the novel tells a (a) “motiveless malignity”
story‖. Identify the novelist: (b) “Reason in Madness”
(1) Virginia Woolf (c) “Supp‟d full of horrors”
(2) James Joyce (d) “To be, or not to be”
(3) E.M. Forster (i) Macbeth
(4) DII. Lawrence (ii) Hamlet
Answer: 3 (iii) Lear
(iv) Iago
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Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
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(2) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv) 1. Which British University figures in
Answer: 3 William Wordsworth‘s Prelude ?
(1) Durham
(2) Glasgow
48. In Tristram Shandy the narrator‘s
(3) Cambridge
presentation of his life and opinions is
(4) Oxford
………….
Answer: 3
(1) linear
(2) digressive
(3) chronological 2. Who is the author of A Woman Killed
(4) rounded with Kindness ?
Answer: 2 (1) John Marston
(2) Thomas Middleton
(3) John Fletcher
49. The famous sonnet of John Milton
(4) Thomas Heywood
beginning ―When I consider how my light is
Answer: 4
spent…‖ ends with ……………
(1) Before me stares a wolfish eye, Behind me
creeps a groan or sigh 3. In William Congreve‘s The Way of the
(2) They also serve who only stand and wait World identify the speaker of the line :
―One‘s
(3) And – which is more – you‟ll be a Man, my
son! cruelty is one‘s power, and when one parts
(4) And bless him for the sake of him that‟s with one‘s cruelty, one parts with one‘s
gone power.‖
Answer: 2 (1) Mirabell
(2) Witwoud
(3) Millamant
50. Her vision was of several caves. She saw
(4) Mincing
herself in one, and she was also outside it,
Answer: 3
watching its entrance, for Aziz to pass in.
She failed to locate him. It was the doubt
4. T.S. Eliot found spiritual support in
that had often visited her, but solid and
(1) Christianity
attractive, like the hills. ―I am not —―speech
(2) Hinduism
was more difficult than vision. ―I am not
(3) Buddhism
quite sure‖.
(4) Judaism
The above extract from A Passage to India is
Answer: 1
about Adela‟s cave experience. Who is
questioning Adela?
(1) Mrs. Moore 5. By what name is Gulliver known in
(2) Mr. McBryde Brobdingnag ?
(3) Fielding (1) Grildrig
(4) Ronney Heaslop (2) Glumdalclitch
Answer: 2 (3) Splacknuck
(4) Mannikin
Answer: 1

6. Who among the following was born in

India ?
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(1) Paul Scott (4) Popular
(2) Lawrence Durrell Answer: 3
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) V.S. Naipaul 12. Who among the following authors were
Answer: 2 greatly influenced by Thomas Carlyle‘s
writings?
7. What metaphor does Edmund Spenser I. Charles Dickens
employ (Faerie Queene Book 1 Canto 12) to II. Elizabeth Gaskell
frame his tale and to describe the III. Emily Bronte
relationship between the tale and its IV. Oscar Wilde
readers? The right combination according to the code is
(1) That of a caravan of lost souls, traversing a (1) I and II
desert. (2) II and III
(2) That of a stagecoach, which picks up (3) I and IV
diverse passengers along the way. (4) I and III
(3) That of a ship filled with jolly mariners. Answer: 1
(4) That of a riderless horse, following his own
direction. 13. Which of the following is another term to
Answer: 3 describe ―art for art‘s sake‖?
(1) Aestheticism
8. Who among the following is not associated (2) Didacticism
with Russian formalism? (3) Realism
(1) Roman Jakobson (4) Neo-realism
(2) Georges Poulet Answer: 1
(3) Boris Eichenbaum
(4) Victor Shklovsky 14. The statement that there are ―none so
Answer: 2 credulous as infidels‖ is an illustration of
(1) Oxymoron
9. Which character in Dickens keeps on (2) Antithesis
hoping that ―something will turn up‖? (3) Paradox
(1) Barkis (4) Metonomy
(2) Micawber Answer: 3
(3) Uriah Heep
(4) Miss Havisham 15. Who narrates Heart of Darkness?
Answer: 2 (1) Marlow
(2) Director of Companies
10. What is the name of the boat that rescues (3) Kurtz
Ishmael in Herman Melville‘s Moby Dick? (4) An unnamed narrator
(1) Pequod Answer: 4
(2) Rachel
(3) Hagar 16. The Mistakes of a Night is the subtitle of
(4) Sphinx (1) The Conscious Lovers
Answer: 2 (2) The Good Natur‟d Man
(3) She Stoops to Conquer
11. Northanger Abbey is a parody of the (4) The Rivals
………….. romance. Answer: 3
(1) Oriental
(2) French 17. Identify the first novel written by Patrick
(3) Gothic White :

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(1) The Living and the Dead (3) Robert Herrick
(2) The Tree of Man (4) Andrew Marvell
(3) Happy Valley Answer: 3
(4) The Aunt‟s Story
Answer: 3 23. Which of the following is not Jacques
Derrida‘s work?
18. In King Lear for what reason does Kent (1) Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question
assume a disguise? (2) The Transcendence of the Ego
(1) To continue to serve Lear, though Lear has (3) Of Grammatology
banished him. (4) The Work of Mourning
(2) To spy on Edmund. Answer: 2
(3) To antagonize Goneril and Regan.
(4) To revenge upon Lear for banishing him. 24. In Paradise Lost which character
Answer: 1 narrates the story of the making of Eve from
a rib in
19. What is a feminine rhyme? Adam‘s side?
(1) A rhyme on two syllables in which the last (1) Adam
syllable is unstressed. (2) Eve
(2) A rhyme on two syllables. (3) Raphael
(3) A rhyme on three syllables. (4) God
(4) A poem in which every third syllable Answer: 1
rhymes.
Answer: 1 25. A.S. Byatt‘s Possession attempts the
imitation of the work of two Victorian poets,
20. Identify two of the following written by loosely
Christopher Fry : based on
I. French Without Tears I. Alfred Tennyson
II. The Lady‟s Not for Burning II. Robert Browning
III. Venus Observed III. Christina Rossetti
IV. The Deep Blue Sea IV. William Morris
The right combination according to the code is The right combination according to the code is
(1) II and III (1) I and II
(2) I and III (2) II and IV
(3) II and IV (3) II and III
(4) I and IV (4) III and IV
Answer: 1 Answer: 3

21. In ―Tradition and Individual Talent‖, 26. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is a short
according to T.S. Eliot, the term comedy by
―Traditional‖ (1) Bernard Shaw
usually means (2) W.B. Yeats
(1) something positive (3) J.M. Synge
(2) something negative (4) John Osborne
(3) something historical Answer: 1
(4) something old
Answer: 2 27. John Milton‘s description of gold as a
―precious bane‖ (Paradise Lost, Book II) is
22. Who of the following is a Cavalier poet? best
(1) George Herbert described as
(2) John Donne (1) a dactyl
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(2) an oxymoron The lowing herd winds slowly o‟er the lea,
(3) enjambment The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
(4) zeugma And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Answer: 2 (1) Iambic Hexameter
(2) Trochaic Pentameter
28. There is a play on the name of (3) Iambic Pentameter
Machiavelli in the prologue to Christopher (4) Terza Rima
Marlowe‘s Answer: 3
(1) Doctor Faustus
(2) The Jew of Malta 33. Which two novels of Buchi Emecheta
(3) Tamburlaine, the Great provide a fictionalized portrait of poor,
(4) Edward II young
Answer: 2 Nigerian women struggling to bring up their
children in London?
29. Shakespeare famously neglects to I. The Slave Girl
observe Aristotle‘s rules concerning the II. The Joys of Motherhood
three dramatic unities, and Samuel Johnson III. Second Class Citizen
undertakes to defend Shakespeare from IV. In the Ditch
these criticisms in his Preface to The right combination according to the code is
Shakespeare. Which of the Aristotelian (1) I and II
dramatic unities does Johnson believe (2) II and III
Shakespeare to observe most successfully? (3) III and IV
(1) Time (4) I and IV
(2) Place Answer: 3
(3) Action
(4) Johnson does not feel that the Aristotelian 34. In John Bunyan‘s Pilgrim‘s Progress
dramatic unities are important who keeps Christian‘s head above water in
Answer: 3 the River of Death?
(1) Hopeful
30. Who among the following was praised (2) Helpful
and patronized as a ―Ploughman Poet‖? (3) Faithful
(1) John Clare (4) Cheerful
(2) George Crabbe Answer: 1
(3) Robert Burns
(4) Walter Scott 35. Childe Harold‘s Pilgrimage is a
Answer: 3 (1) religious allegory
(2) fairy tale
31. Which novel of Doris Lessing ends with a (3) long poem
projection forward in time after a (4) Utopian novel
devastating Answer: 3
atomic war?
(1) The Grass is Singing 36. In Thomas More‘s Utopia which of the
(2) The Golden Notebook following leisure pastimes is not a favourite
(3) The Four-Gated City among Utopians?
(4) A Proper Marriage (1) Music
Answer: 3 (2) Public lectures
(3) Conversation
32. Name the dominant meter of the (4) Dicing and cards
following quatrain : Answer: 4
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
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37. Which of the following statements does (1) “Far from the madding crowd”
not describe Michel Foucault‘s position? (2) “A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown”
(1) In Foucault‟s work sexuality is literally (3) “Full many a flower is born to blush
written on the body. unseen”
(2) Power operates through discourse. (4) “All nature is but art, unknown to thee”
(3) There is connection between power and Answer: 4
knowledge.
(4) Where there is power, it is possible to find 42. Robert Browning‘s ―Rabbi Ben Ezra‖ is
resistance. a defence of
Answer: 1 (1) youth against old age
(2) old age against youth
38. In which year did the Great Exhibition (3) power against knowledge
take place? (4) knowledge against power
(1) 1851 Answer: 2
(2) 1857
(3) 1861 43. In Geoffrey Chaucer‘s Canterbury
(4) 1871 Tales, the pilgrims, like the medieval society
Answer: 1 of which
they are a part, are made up of three social
39. When Fidessa says, ―O but I fear the groups or ―estates‖. What are the three
fickle freakes …./ Of fortune false, and estates?
oddes of (1) Nobility, church and commoners
armes in field‖ (Faerie Queene, Book I, (2) Royalty, nobility and peasantry
Canto 5), this is a fine example of (3) Royalists, republicans and peasants
(1) Alliteration (4) Country, city and commons
(2) Allegory Answer: 1
(3) Assonance
(4) Antithesis 44. Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the
Answer: 1 wrenching story of a protagonist who
murders her
40. Match the work with author : child rather than to allow him/her to live as
I. “The Excursion” a slave?
II. “Christabel” (1) Sula
III. Milton (2) Tar Baby
IV. Queen Mab (3) Song of Solomon
A. S.T. Coleridge (4) Beloved
B. P.B. Shelley Answer: 4
C. William Wordsworth
D. William Blake 45. Who among the following translated
Homer?
I II III IV (1) Thomas Gray
(1) C A B D (2) Samuel Johnson
(2) C A D B (3) Oliver Goldsmith
(3) B C A D (4) Alexander Pope
(4) B A C D Answer: 4
Answer: 2
46. Shyam Selvadurai‘s Funny Boy is a
41. Which of the following phrases is not (1) Picaresque novel
found in Thomas Gray‘s ―Elegy written in a (2) Epistolary novel
Country Churchyard‖? (3) Diary novel
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(4) Coming-of-age novel 1. What is the fate of ignorance in Bunyan‘s
Answer: 4 Pilgrim‘s Progress?
(1) He drowns in the River of Death
47. When was the English ban on James (2) He enters the Celestial City
Joyce‘s Ulysses lifted? (3) He finds the Truth
(1) 1924 (4) He discovers the way to Hell
(2) 1945 Answer: 4
(3) 1936
(4) 1962 2. God is referred to as ―The President of
Answer: 3 Immortals‖ in
(1) Paradise Lost
48. Who among the following is not an (2) Waiting for Godot
imagist? (3) Tess of the D‟urbervilles
(1) Ezra Pound (4) The White Devil
(2) W.B. Yeats Answer: 3
(3) Amy Lowell
(4) T.E. Hulme 3. Match the character with the author :
Answer: 2 List – I
I. Madeline
49. Thomas Carew‘s Poems appeared in II. Prometheus
print in 1640 and contain a variety of III. Urizen
amorous IV. Childe Harold
addresses to and reflections on, a fictional List – II
mistress known as A. Blake
(1) Celia B. Byron
(2) Julia C. Shelley
(3) Anne D. Keats
(4) Melanie I II III IV
Answer: 1 (1) B C A D
(2) C D A B
50. Match the novelists with their work : (3) D C A B
I. William Golding (4) C D B A
II. Salman Rushdie Answer: 3
III. Graham Swift
IV. Peter Ackroyd 4. The phrase ―loud colour‖ is an example of
A. Grimus (1) Synecdoche
B. Hawksmoor (2) Synaesthesia
C. Darkness Visible (3) Redundancy
D. Waterland (4) Paraleipsis
I II III IV Answer: 2
(1) D A C B
(2) C A D B 5. In one of Marlowe‘s plays the hero is
(3) B C A D warned not ―to practise more than heavenly
(4) B A C D power permits.‖ Identify the play.
Answer: 2 (1) The Jew of Malta
(2) Edward the Second
Paper 2- August 2016 (3) Doctor Faustus
(4) Tamburlaine the Great
Answer: 3

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6. Match the Graham Greene novel with its (2) Seamus Heaney
setting : (3) Brian Friel
List – I (4) G.B. Shaw
I. The Ministry of Fear Answer: 3
II. The Third Man
III. The Power and the Glory 11. Identify the term among the following
IV. The Quiet American which does not relate to a movement in art
List – II or literature.
A. Vienna (1) Cubism
B. Mexico (2) Empiricism
C. Vietnam (3) Expressionism
D. London (4) Surrealism
I II III IV Answer: 2
(1) D A B C
(2) B A C D 12. ―Kubla Khan‖ is thought to have been
(3) D B A C written in 1797, but it was not published
(4) C D B A until 1816. Who persuaded Coleridge to
Answer: 1 publish it?
(1) Wordsworth
7. What was the title of the collection of (2) Byron
short stories published by James Joyce in (3) Keats
1914? (4) Wordsworth‟s sister
(1) Dubliners Answer: 2
(2) Londoners
(3) New Yorkers 13. In Restoration comedy, character names
(4) Berliners often reveal character traits. What trait does
Answer: 1 the name Sir Wilfull Witwoud reveal?
(1) Woodenness
8. Patrick White‘s classic work Voss is based (2) Miserliness
on the story of a …………… explorer. (3) A desire to be thought of as witty
(1) Flemish (4) Petulance
(2) Australian Answer: 3
(3) German
(4) Spanish 14. From the following list identify the two
Answer: 3 novels published by John Henry Newman
I. The Grammar of Assent
9. In ―Tradition and Individual Talent‖ II. Apologia pro vita sua
Eliot describes the workings of the poet‘s III. Loss and Gain
mind in terms of which of the following? IV. Callista
(1) Natural selection The right combination according to the code is
(2) A chemical reaction :
(3) A flowing river (1) I and II
(4) A cornucopia (2) II and III
Answer: 2 (3) III and IV
(4) I and IV
10. Who among the following wrote an Answer: 3
immensely powerful play about the
remapping of Irish places with new British 15. Consider the following lines form
names? Beowulf :
(1) J.M. Synge What literary device does the poet use in
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these lines? 21. In More‘s Utopia what religion is
A few miles from here practised by the Utopians?
a frost-stiffened wood waits and keeps watch (1) Belief in a single, infinite power and sun,
above a mere. moon and planetary worship
(1) Personification (2) Islam
(2) Pathetic fallacy (3) Judaism
(3) Metaphor (4) Buddhism
(4) Litotes Answer: 1
Answer: 1
22. In Book 5 of prelude, Wordsworth
16. Which of the following plays of Bernard dreams of an Arab in the desert after
Shaw attacks Darwinism? reading which great work?
(1) You Never Can Tell (1) Cervantes‟s Don Quixote
(2) Man and Superman (2) Coleridge‟s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
(3) St. Joan (3) Euclid‟s Elements
(4) Back to Methuselah (4) Shakespeare‟s The Tempest
Answer: 4 Answer: 1

17. In King Lear to which woman has 23. Lady Dedlock is a character in Dickens‘s
Edmund sworn his love? (1) Bleak House
(1) Cordelia (2) Great Expectations
(2) Goneril (3) David Copperfield
(3) Regan (4) Hard Times
(4) both Goneril and Regan Answer: 1
Answer: 4
24. Which Keat‘s poem was originally
18. The poetic line, ―Break, break, break‖ is intended to be part of a collection of verse-
an example of tales based on stories by Boccaccio?
(1) spondee (1) The Eve of St. Agnes
(2) trochee (2) Lamia
(3) iambus (3) Isabella
(4) pyrrhics (4) Hyperion
Answer: 1 Answer: 3

19. Ben Jonson‘s Pleasure Reconciled to 25. Where does Conrad‘s Heart of Darkness
Virtue is a begin?
(1) domestic tragedy (1) The Congo
(2) masque (2) The Thames
(3) villanelle (3) Belgium
(4) closet drama (4) The Atlantic
Answer: 2 Answer: 2

20. What is the rhyme scheme of the 26. In Gullivers Travels which of the
Shakespearean sonnet? following ideas is not a product of the
(1) abcbcbcabc bc dd Academy of Lagado?
(2) abba abbc decd ee (1) A random sentence-generating machine.
(3) ababcdcdef ef gg (2) A proposal to end speech altogether, by
(4) aa bb cc dd aa bb dd carrying around sacks of the things that words
Answer: 3 signify.
(3) A project for truncating words and
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shortening sentences by leaving out verbs. (4) Solitudo
(4) A digestible dictionary, written on a wafer. Answer: 2
Answer: 4
32. Which of these is the best paraphrase of
27. Which of the following stories is NOT the line, ―the paths of glory lead but to the
written by Nathaniel Hawthorne? grave‖?
(1) “The Minister‟s Black Veil” (1) Those who seek glory often die in its
(2) “Young Goodman Brown” pursuit.
(3) “The Purloined Letter” (2) Everyone dies, even the famous and
(4) “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” glorious.
Answer: 3 (3) The pursuit of glory is futile.
(4) The pursuit of glory is dangerous.
28. What attributes of Shakespeare‘s Answer: 2
characterization does Johnson admire in his
preface to Shakespeare? 33. Which novel did James Joyce call ―the
(1) The way his characters represent particular English Ulysses‖?
times and places. (1) Robinson Crusoe
(2) The way his characters exhibit quirks (2) Clarissa
representative of their humours or (3) Vanity Fair
professions. (4) Great Expectations
(3) The way his characters portray the general Answer: 1
passions and principles of human
nature. 34. What narrative perspective does
(4) The way his characters portray real Chaucer employ in the opening of ―The
individuals. General Prologue‖?
Answer: 3 (1) A first-person “I”
(2) Omniscience
29. According to Foucault sexuality points to (3) Third person
discourses about all the following EXCEPT (4) Free indirect discourse
(1) Medicine Answer: 1
(2) Anthropology
(3) Psychology 35. A fragmentary unfinished novel entitled
(4) Criminology Emma was published in Cornhill Magazine.
Answer: 2 Identify the author.
(1) Elizabeth Gaskell
30. ―All Arabia breathes from yonder box.‖ (2) Charlotte Bronte
This line from The Rape of the Lock is an (3) Emily Bronte
example of (4) George Eliot
(1) periphrasis Answer: 2
(2) innuendo
(3) metonymy 36. The pre-eminent evaluative criterion of
(4) chiasmus F.R. Leavis‘s Great Tradition is
Answer: 3 (1) moral purpose
(2) sublime subject matter
31. Who among the following addresses the (3) reader-response
reader in a substantial Preface to Robert (4) truth to life
Burton‘s Anatomy of Melancholy? Answer: 1
(1) Zelotopia
(2) Democritus Junior
(3) Democritus
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37. In Wide Sargasso Sea what is the name 43. Which of the following is NOT written
of Rochester‘s Creole wife-to-be? by Rudyard Kipling?
(1) Bertha (1) Just So Stories
(2) Martha (2) Puck of Pook‟s Hill
(3) Jane (3) The Secret Garden
(4) Barbara (4) Rewards and Faeries
Answer: 1 Answer: 3

38. Which popular nursery rhyme is 44. In Faerie Queene what is Redcrosse‘s
mentioned at the end of The Waste land? reward for slaying the Dragon?
(1) Ring-a-roses (1) The Dragon‟s treasure hoard
(2) London Bridge is Falling Down (2) The satisfaction of accomplishing the end
(3) Humpty Dumpty of a righteous quest
(4) Jack and Jill (3) Eternal salvation
Answer: 2 (4) Una‟s hand in marriage and her parents‟
kingdom
39. Purple Hisbiscus is a work by Answer: 4
(1) Cyprian Ekwensi
(2) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 45. Which of the following novels has the
(3) Seffi Atta death of General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq,
(4) Chukwuemeka Ike the former President of Pakistan, at its
Answer: 2 centre?
(1) The Kite Runner
40. Which country is Jacques Derrida born (2) A Case of Exploding Mangoes
in? (3) Shame
(1) France (4) Kartography
(2) South Africa Answer: 2
(3) Algeria
(4) Belgium 46. Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym that refers
Answer: 3 to
(1) E.L. Woodward
41. Which of the following plays is NOT part (2) Charles Lutwidge Dodson
of the so-called Arnold Wesker Trilogy? (3) Michael Brock
(1) I‟m Talking about Jerusalem (4) W.E. Houghton
(2) Chips with Everything Answer: 2
(3) Roots
(4) Chicken Soup with Barley 47. One of the following collections initiated
Answer: 2 confessional poetry in America, a new mode
in which the poet bared his/her most
42. Identify the play from among the tormenting personal problems with great
following in which a spendthrift young man honesty and intensity.
auctions away the portraits of his ancestors : (1) Live or Die
(1) The Taming of the Shrew (2) Words for the Wind
(2) The School for Scandal (3) Life Studies
(3) The Strife (4) Ariel
(4) The Philanderer Answer: 3
Answer: 2
48. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a
…………… by …………….
(1) novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne
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(2) play, Mrs. Radcliffe (3) Train to Pakistan
(3) poem, William Blake (4) Private Life of an Indian Prince
(4) sermon, Laurence Sterne Answer: 1
Answer: 3
2. Who is the author of the poem ―The
49. In the poem or invocation at the opening Defence of Lucknow‖ dealing with the siege
of Book 3, Paradise Lost, Milton asks for of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of
divine help in writing his epic. He states that the Indian Mutiny ?
he is in particular need of aid because he has (1) Rudyard Kipling
what he considers to be a disability. What is (2) Edward Lear
it? (3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(1) Lameness (4) Robert Browning
(2) Deafness Answer: 3
(3) Prolixity
(4) Blindness 3. Who among the following theorists holds
Answer: 4 that metaphor and metonymy are the two
fundamental structures of language ?
50. Match the poets with the collection : (1) Ferdinand de Saussure
List – I (2) J.L. Austin
I. Philip Larkin (3) Roman Jakobson
II. Geoffrey Hill (4) Victor Shklovsky
III. Ted Hughes Answer: 3
IV. Seamus Heaney
List – II 4. From among the following, who are the
A. Lupercal Dashwood sisters in Jane Austen‘s Sense
B. Door into the Dark and Sensibility ?
C. The Less Deceived I. Elinor
D. For the Unfallen II. Marianne
I II III IV III. Mary
(1) C D B A IV. Amanda
(2) C B D A The right combination according to the code is
(3) C D A B :
(4) D C B A (1) I and III
Answer: 3 (2) I and II
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 2

5. Which among the following texts can be

characterised as a lesbian Bildungsroman ?
(1) Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
(2) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Paper 2- January 2017 (3) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the
Only Fruit
1. Identify from the following the work (4) Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
Nirad C. Chaudhuri called ―the finest novel Answer: 3
in the English language with an Indian
theme‖. 6. Identify the correct chronological
(1) Kim sequence of publication :
(2) A Passage to India (1) Paradise Lost – The Advancement of
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Learning – An Essay Concerning Human (4) I & III
Understanding – MacFlecknoe Answer: 3
(2) The Advancement of Learning – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding – 11. Which of the following works by David
MacFlecknoe – Paradise Lost Malouf tells the story of the Roman poet,
(3) The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Ovid, during his exile in Tomis ?
Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay Concerning (1) Remembering Babylon
Human Understanding (2) The Great World
(4) Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – The (3) The Conversations at Curlow Creek
Advancement of Learning – An Essay (4) An Imaginary Life
Concerning Human Understanding Answer: 4
Answer: 3
12. In his Defence of Poesy which of the
7. Poe‘s ―The Raven‖ mourns the death of following works does Sidney commend as
Poe‘s good examples of English Poesy ?
(1) lost Lenore I. The Mirror of Magistrates
(2) lost Abigail II. The Shepherd‟s Calendar
(3) pet animal III. Lament for the Makers
(4) lost heritage IV. Ballad of Scottish King
Answer: 1 The right combination according to the code is
:
8. In Shakespeare‘s Macbeth who was (1) I and III
―untimely ripped‖ from his mother‘s womb (2) I and IV
? (3) I and II
(1) Macbeth (4) II and III
(2) Macduff Answer: 3
(3) Duncan
(4) Malcolm 13. Who among the following dismissed
Answer: 2 Ulysses as ―a misfire‖ ?
(1) Virginia Woolf
9. Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the (2) Wyndham Lewis
Lock three times. In the final revision of the (3) E.M. Forster
poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by (4) D.H. Lawrence
(1) Belinda Answer: 1
(2) Clarissa
(3) Betty 14. Which of the following works Daniel
(4) Thalestris Defoe offered his readers as a collection of
Answer: 2 ―Strange Surprising Adventures‖ ?
(1) Moll Flanders
10. Identify, from the following list, two (2) Robinson Crusoe
plays written by John Webster : (3) Roxana
I. A Woman Killed with Kindness (4) Captain Singleton
II. The Revenger‟s Tragedy Answer: 2
III. The White Devil
IV. The Ducchess of Malfi 15. In Charlotte Bronte‘s Jane Eyre, what
The right combination according to the code is does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse Jane of when
(1) I & IV he visits Lowood School ?
(2) II & IV (1) Laziness
(3) III & IV (2) Stealing
(3) Lying
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(4) Spying (4) Bede
Answer: 3 Answer: 3

16. William Faulkner‘s As I Lay Dying 21. In The Fall of Hyperion : A Dream Keats
contains one of the shortest chapters in sees a ladder leading upwards and is
literary history. Which of these sentences is addressed by a prophetess in the following
the chapter in its entirety ? words : ―None can usurp this height … / But
(1) “For the love of God, where is my hat ?” those to whom the miseries of the world /
(2) “My mother is a fish.” Are misery, and will not let them rest.‖ Who
(3) “Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with.” is the prophetess ?
(4) “Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam.” (1) Urania
Answer: 2 (2) Moneta
(3) Melete
17. The prelude to Middlemarch makes a (4) Mneme
reference to the particular history of a Answer: 2
remarkable woman, …………..
(1) St. Agnes 22. Virginia Woolf‘s To the Lighthouse has a
(2) St. Theresa tripartite structure. The three parts are
(3) St. Joan named the following EXCEPT :
(4) St. Carmel (1) The Sky
Answer: 2 (2) The Window
(3) Time Passes
18. ―O, for a draught of vintage ! that hath (4) The Lighthouse
been Answer: 1
Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green, 23. Which novel by Patrick White is based
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt on the story of Ludwig Leichhardt, the
mirth !‖ Prussian naturalist who explored Australia
The above description is an example of in the mid-1840s, in which White‘s fictional
(1) Paronomasia hero says when asked about navigation –
(2) Synaesthesia ―The Map? I will first make it‖ ?
(3) Aphaeresis (1) The Tree of Man
(4) Synecdoche (2) Voss
Answer: 2 (3) Riders in the Chariot
(4) The Solid Mandala
19. The term, ―poetic justice,‖ to designate Answer: 2
the idea that the good are rewarded and the
evil punished, was devised by 24. Who among the following is not a
(1) Aristotle character in William Golding‘s Lord of the
(2) John Dryden Flies ?
(3) Thomas Rhymer (1) Ralph
(4) Ben Jonson (2) Piggy
Answer: 3 (3) Peter
(4) Jack
20. ………….. is the producer of the first Answer: 3
complete printed English Bible.
(1) Jerome 25. Dante Gabriel Rossetti founded the Pre-
(2) William Tyndale Raphaelite Brotherhood which included
(3) Miles Coverdale I. Holman Hunt
II. Arthur Hugh Clough
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III. Gerald Manley Hopkins 30. What is a trochee ?
IV. John Millais (1) A two syllable foot of verse with two heavy
The right combination according to the code is stresses
(1) II and III (2) A two syllable foot of verse in which the
(2) I and IV stress falls on the first syllable
(3) I and III (3) Three successive heavy stresses
(4) II and IV (4) A six line stanza in which the rhyme sounds
Answer: 2 are all identical
Answer: 2
26. The seven deadly sins are sought to be
portrayed in Chaucer‘s Canterbury Tales. 31. Keats‘s ―La Belle Dame Sans Merci‖
Which of the following sins is not covered by combines two poetic forms
Chaucer ? I. Lyric
I. Jealousy II. Dramatic Monologue
II. Envy III. Ballad
III. Lust IV. Sonnet
IV. Homicide The right combination according to the code is
The right combination according to the code is (1) II and III
(1) I & II (2) I and IV
(2) I & III (3) I and III
(3) I & IV (4) II and IV
(4) III & IV Answer: 3
Answer: 3
32. ………….. narrator highlights the
27. Richardson‘s Pamela had its origin in problem of narrative authority.
(1) the real case of a woman born to lower- (1) First person
middle-class parents (2) Self-conscious
(2) an elementary letter-writing manual (3) Third person
(3) the general plight of English women (4) Participant
(4) the suggestion of a friend to defend middle- Answer: 2
class values
Answer: 2 33. Who among the following modern
writers is associated with the quote, ―Only
28. The Medall, a poem written by John connect‖ ?
Dryden in 1681, is sub-titled (1) D.H. Lawrence
(1) A Satire against Sedition (2) Virginia Woolf
(2) A Satire against Tyranny (3) James Joyce
(3) A Satire against Greed (4) E.M. Forster
(4) A Satire against Apostasy Answer: 4
Answer: 1
34. Which of the following images does not
29. ―Full fathom five thy father lies‖ is an figure in Auden‘s ―Musee des Beaux Arts‖ ?
example of (1) a boy falling out of the sky
(1) assonance (2) children … skating on a pond at the edge of
(2) alliteration wood
(3) apostrophe (3) ranches of isolation and the busy griefs
(4) enjambment (4) the dogs go on with their doggy life
Answer: 2 Answer: 3

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35. Feste is a clown in 41. What is the occupation of Max‘s son,
(1) Twelfth Night Lenny, in Harold Pinter‘s The Home
(2) As You Like It Coming ?
(3) The Taming of the Shrew (1) boxer
(4) Much Ado About Nothing (2) butcher
Answer: 1 (3) pimp
(4) cab driver
36. Which play by Tom Stoppard has a play Answer: 3
within the play ?
(1) Enter a Free Man 42. Which Byron poem begins in the
(2) The Real Inspector Hound following manner : ―I want a hero : an
(3) Jumpers uncommon want, when every year and
(4) Night and Day month sends forth a new one‖ ?
Answer: 2 (1) Beppo
(2) Childe Harold‟s Pilgrimage
37. Which of the following is not true of free (3) Don Juan
verse ? (4) The Vision of Judgement
(1) Characterised by short, irregular lines. Answer: 3
(2) No rhyme pattern.
(3) Written in iambic pentameter 43. In the second ending of John Fowles‘s
(4) A dependence on the effective and more The French Lieutenant‘s Woman Charles
intense use of pauses Smithson‘s lawyer finds that Sarah has been
Answer: 3 living in the house of
(1) William Morris
38. James Thomson‘s long poem, The (2) William Holman Hunt
Seasons, revised and expanded all his life, (3) D.G. Rossetti
began in the first instance as a poem entitled (4) James Collinson
(1) Spring Answer: 3
(2) Summer
(3) Winter 44. In 1692 William Congreve published
(4) Autumn Incognita, a work of fiction which is dubbed
Answer: 3 a ‗novel‘ on its title-page. What is the sub-
title ?
39. Two cantos from the seventh book of (1) Love and Duty Reconcil‟d
The Faerie Queene appeared posthumously. (2) Beauty in Distress
They are known as (3) Virtue Rewarded
(1) Mutability cantos (4) Love in Excess
(2) Friendship cantos Answer: 1
(3) Justice cantos
(4) Courtesy cantos 45. In ―Tradition and the Individual Talent‖
Answer: 1 T.S Eliot uses the analogy of the catalyst to
elucidate his theory of impersonal poetry.
40. Foucault believes that the facts of history He cites the example of a filament of
will protect us from platinum and, in the poetic process this is
(1) repeating mistakes equivalent to
(2) totalitarianism (1) the language of the poet
(3) deconstructionism (2) the mind of the poet
(4) historicism (3) the soul of the poet
Answer: 4 (4) the life of the poet
Answer: 2
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46. Match the character with the work : 50. Match the author with the work :
A. Pip Author
B. Causaubon A. John Locke
C. Becky Sharp B. William Dampier
D. Heathcliff C. Jeremy Collier
D. Thomas Rhymer
I. Middlemarch Work
II. Great Expectations I. A Short View of the Immorality and
III. Wuthering Heights Profanity of the Stage
IV. Vanity Fair II. Two Treatises on Government
The right combination according to the code is III. A Short View of Tragedy
: IV. Voyages
I II III IV ABCD
(1) B C D A (1) II I IV III
(2) D A C B (2) III IV I II
(3) B A D C (3) II IV I III
(4) C B A D (4) IV III II I
Answer: 3 Answer: 3

47. Samuel Johnson‘s Lives of the English

Poets combines the following except
(1) analytical criticism
(2) literary history
(3) personal biography
(4) Socratic dialogue
Answer: 4

48. Which two works of JM Coetzee won

Booker Prize on two occasions ?
I. In the Heart of the Country
II. Life and Times of Michael K.
III. Disgrace
IV. Waiting for the Barbarians
The right combination according to the code is
:
(1) II and III
(2) II and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) I and III
Answer: 1

49. Who among the following Greek

Philosophers has a bearing on the
composition of Shelley‘s ―Adonais‖ ?
(1) Miletus
(2) Socrates
(3) Plato
(4) Aristotle
Answer: 3

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 2. Which of the following lines by
Shakespeare is repeated several times in
Virginia Woolf‘s novel Mrs. Dalloway ?
(1) “If music be the food of love, play on”.
(2) “Fear no more the heat of the sun, Nor the
furious winter‟s rages”.
(3) “Those are pearls that were his eyes”.
(4) “There is a tide in the affairs of man”.
Answer: 2

3. Identify the important theatres of the

Elizabethan period :
(a) Peacock
(b) Globe
(c) Swan
(d) Grand
The right combination according to the code is
:
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (b) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)
Answer: 2

4. In which poem does Matthew Arnold

express the dilemma of : ―Wandering
between two worlds, one dead, The other
powerless to be born‖ ?
(1) “Self – Dependence”
(2) “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse”
(3) “To a Republican Friend”
(4) “Dover Beach”
Paper 2- November 2017 Answer: 2

1. In Frances Burney‘s novel, Evelina, the 5. Who made the comment that, ―All
eponymous heroine comes out in society in modern American literature comes from one
two locations. They are : book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry
(a) Bath Finn‖ ?
(b) Bristol (1) Henry James
(c) Leeds (2) William Faulkner
(d) London (3) Jack London
The right combination according to the code is (4) Ernest Hemingway
: Answer: 4
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c) 6. The Emblem is a poetic genre containing
(3) (a) and (d) a symbolic picture with a text and a verse
(4) (b) and (d) exposition popular in the early 17th century.
Answer: 4 Who popularised this kind of poetry
through the work Emblems [1635] ?
(1) Robert Southwell
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(2) Francis Quarles his Lives of Poets did Johnson make this
(3) John Davies remark ?
(4) Joseph Sylvester (1) John Dryden
Answer: 2 (2) Thomas Parnell
(3) Abraham Cowley
7. Which Byron work begins thus : ―I want a (4) Alexander Pope
hero : an uncommon want, when every year Answer: 3
and month sends forth a new one ………‖ ?
(1) Beppo 12. The terms of the contract are not
(2) Cain disagreeable to me. The above sentence
(3) Manfred contains an example of :
(4) Don Juan (1) enumeratio
Answer: 4 (2) litotes
(3) anaphora
8. The title of Sir Thomas Browne‘s famous (4) metonymy
treatise, Religio Medici means : Answer: 2
(1) Religion of a Doctor
(2) Religion of Magician 13. Who is the author of the following lines ?
(3) Religion of Divinity ―To see a World in a Grain of Sand
(4) Religion of Meditation And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Answer: 1 Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour…‖.
9. Which among the following recent novels (1) Thomas Gray
is a retelling of Sophocles‘s Antigone ? (2) William Blake
(1) Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire (3) William Collins
(2) Fiona Mozley, Elmet (4) William Cowper
(3) Zadie Smith, Swing Time Answer: 2
(4) Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
Answer: 1 14. In Women in Love what is Winifred‘s
pekinese dog called ?
10. Identify the two important works of Paul (1) Bismarck
de Man from the following list : (2) Looloo
(a) Blindness and Insight (3) Lucky
(b) Allegories of Reading (4) Buddy
(c) Theoretical Essays Answer: 2
(d) Criticism and Ideology
The right combination according to the code is 15. Which of the following New Critics put
: forward the idea of the ‗heresy of
(1) (a) and (b) paraphrase‘ ?
(2) (a) and (c) (1) Allen Tate
(3) (b) and (c) (2) Cleanth Brooks
(4) (b) and (d) (3) W.K. Wimsatt
Answer: 1 (4) Monroe C Beardsley
Answer: 2
11. Samuel Johnson denounced the
metaphysical poets saying, ―About the 16. Edmund Spenser‘s Colin Clout‘s Come
beginning of the seventeenth century Home Again is a fine example of :
appeared a race of writers that may be (1) carpe diem
termed the metaphysical poets‖. In the (2) sonnet sequence
biography of which of the following poets in (3) georgic poetry
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(4) pastoral eclogue (4) Geoffrey Chaucer‟s Canterbury Tales
Answer: 4 Answer: 3

17. In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy whom 22. Pinter once admitted that he first
does John Dryden refer to as ―the most became aware of the dramatic power of the
learned and judicious Writer which any pause from seeing a popular American
Theater ever had‖ ? comedian. Which one ?
(1) John Webster (1) Bob Hope
(2) Christopher Marlowe (2) W. C. Fields
(3) Ben Jonson (3) Jack Benny
(4) William Shakespeare (4) Charlie Chaplin
Answer: 3 Answer: 3

18. This Australian poet was raised in New 23. Charles Dickens‘s Bleak House is
South Wales and grew up in rural pointedly critical of England‘s :
Australian landscape. In 1946 she published (1) Privy Council
her first book of poems. In 1962, she became (2) Court of Appeal
cofounder and president of the Wild Life (3) Court of Chancery
Preservation Society of Queensland and (4) military courts
served as its president several times Answer: 3
thereafter. Identify the poet.
(1) Dorothy Hewett 24. Which of the following is NOT true of
(2) Nettie Palmer the ideal state in Thomas More‘s Utopia ?
(3) Judith Wright (1) Personal property, money and vice are
(4) Amy Witting effectively abolished.
Answer: 3 (2) The root causes of crime, ambition and
political conflict, are eliminated.
19. Aphra Behn‘s Oroonoko is set in (3) There is only one religion guided by the
__________. principle of a benevolent Supreme Being.
(1) Surinam (4) Its priesthood, which includes some
(2) Abyssinia women, is limited in number.
(3) Egypt Answer: 3
(4) Assyria
Answer: 1 25. Which character created by Coleridge
makes the following account of her
20. Who published the first collected edition harrowing experience ?
of Gerard Manley Hopkins‘s poems in 1918 ―Five warriors seized me yestermorn,
? Me, even me, a maid forlorn :
(1) Robert Bridges They choked my cries with force and fright,
(2) Coventry Patmore And tied me on a palfrey white‖.
(3) John Betjeman (1) Geraldine
(4) Stephen Spender (2) Christabel
Answer: 1 (3) Christabel‟s mother
(4) The maid who appeared in Christabel‟s
21. Samuel Richardson named his heroine dream
Pamela after one of the characters in Answer: 1
__________.
(1) Edmund Spenser‟s Faerie Queene 26. Which novel of Thomas Hardy begins
(2) William Shakespeare‟s Venus and Adonis with the sombre description of Egdon Heath
(3) Philip Sidney‟s Arcadia ?
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(1) Jude the Obscure 32. Which of the following characters in
(2) The Return of the Native Moby Dick falls overboard and turns insane
(3) Far from the Madding Crowd as a result ?
(4) Under the Greenwood Tree (1) Pip
Answer: 2 (2) Queequeg
(3) Starbuck
27. The metrical form of Gower‘s Confessio (4) Tashtego
Amantis is : Answer: 1
(1) iambic pentameter
(2) anapestic trimeter 33. Which of the following poems by Seamus
(3) octosyllabic couplets Heaney is dedicated to the Irish poet Paul
(4) trochaic tetrameter Muldoon ?
Answer: 3 (1) “The Loaning”
(2) “The Sandpit”
28. What happens to the lock of hair at the (3) “A Migration”
end of Alexander Pope‘s The Rape of the (4) “Widgeon”
Lock ? Answer: 4
(1) It is given back to its rightful owner.
(2) It is preserved in a monument. 34. In William Golding‘s Lord of the Flies
(3) It turns into a star. which of the following characters is put to
(4) It is presented to the poet as a token of death ?
gratitude. (1) Piggy
Answer: 3 (2) Ralph
(3) Simon
29. The Bard. The Iron Lady. The King. The (4) Jack
above are examples of : Answer: 1 & 3
(1) anacoluthon
(2) aposiopesis 35. In Canterbury Tales who has a red face
(3) asyndenton full of sores ?
(4) antonomasia (1) the Summoner
Answer: 4 (2) the Shipman
(3) the Yeoman
30. Which of the following novels by (4) the Reeve
Margaret Atwood depicts the historical Answer: 1
event of the notorious murders committed in
1843 ? 36. The pace of speech is called :
(1) The Blind Assassin (1) syllable
(2) Alias Grace (2) loudness
(3) Cats Eye (3) tempo
(4) Oryx and Crake (4) pitch
Answer: 2 Answer: 3

31. Which of the following poems by W. B. 37. Match the title with the author :
Yeats repudiates the sensual world in favour (a) Sexual Politics
of ―the artifice of eternity‖ ? (b) A Literature of Their Own
(1) “Under Ben Bulben” (c) Thinking About Women
(2) “Among School Children” (d) The Laugh of the Medusa
(3) “Sailing to Byzantium” (i) Mary Ellman
(4) “After Long Silence” (ii) Elaine Showalter
Answer: 3 (iii) Helene Cixous
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(iv) Kate Millet (3) Miss Bates
Code : (4) Mr. Collins
(a) (b) (c) (d) Answer: 3
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(2) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii) 43. ―All the world‘s a stage, And all the men
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) and women merely players‖, occurs in
(4) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii) Shakespeare‘s As You Like It. Which
Answer: 2 character says the line ?
(1) Jacques
38. Which of the following historical events (2) Celia
does Tennyson‘s poem ―The Charge of the (3) Rosalind
Light Brigade‖ describe ? (4) Touchstone
(1) The Battle of Hastings Answer: 1
(2) The Wars of the Roses
(3) The Battle of Waterloo 44. Which of the following rivers are
(4) The Crimean War mentioned in Andrew Marvell‘s poem ―To
Answer: 4 His Coy Mistress‖ ?
(1) Thames and Rhine
39. Northrop Frye‘s influential work, (2) Thames and Ganges
Anatomy of Criticism includes, as the (3) Ganges and Humber
subtitle indicates, four essays. Which of the (4) Thames and Humber
following is NOT one among them ? Answer: 3
(1) “Archetypal Criticism : Theory of Myths”
(2) “Typological Criticism : Theory of Types” 45. ―The truth, the whole truth, and nothing
(3) “Historical Criticism : Theory of Modes” but the truth‖. The above is an example of :
(4) “Ethical Criticism : Theory of Symbols” (1) ploce
Answer: 2 (2) epizeuxis
(3) plurisignation
40. In Robert Browning‘s ―Andrea del (4) diaeresis
Sarto‖, with which of the following painters Answer: 1
does Andrea NOT compare himself with ?
(1) Michelangelo 46. Which of the following images is NOT
(2) Leonardo da Vinci part of W.H. Auden‘s poem ―In Memory of
(3) Rembrandt W.B. Yeats‖ ?
(4) Raphael (1) Mercury sinking in the mouth of the dying
Answer: 3 day
(2) Wolves running through evergreen forests
41. In Jonathan Swift‘s Gullivers Travels (3) Silence invading the suburbs
Gulliver refers to William Dampier, the (4) Memory scattering like the beads
famous writer of two voyages, as : Answer: 4
(1) master
(2) brother 47. Who among the following is the author
(3) cousin of Steps to the Temple ?
(4) uncle (1) John Donne
Answer: 3 (2) Richard Crashaw
(3) George Herbert
42. Who among the following is NOT a (4) Henry Vaughan
character in Pride and prejudice ? Answer: 2
(1) Mr. Darcy
(2) Miss Bingley
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48. Match the character with the work :
(a) Jim Dixon
(b) Jimmy Porter
(c) Joe Lampton
(d) Charles Lumley
(i) Room at the Top
(ii) Hurry on Down
(iii) Look Back In Anger
(iv) Lucky Jim
Code :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(2) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
Answer: 1

49. In the opening book of The Prelude

Wordsworth mentions famously that he was
―fostered alike by __________ and
__________‖. Pick out the right pair.
(a) nature
(b) fear
(c) imagination
(d) beauty
The right combination according to the code is
:
(1) (a) and (c)
(2) (d) and (b)
(3) (d) and (c)
(4) (a) and (d)
Answer: 2

50. The title of Ngugi wa Thiong‘o‘s Petals

of Blood is derived from a poem by Derek
Walcott. Identify the poem.
(1) “A Far Cry from Africa”
(2) “The Swamp”
(3) “Goats and Monkeys”
(4) “Midsummer”
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 4. David Hare
Answer: 3

4. The years in English literary history

between 1649 and 1660 are known as
1. the Neo-Classical period
2. the Commonwealth period
3. the Stuart period
4. the Jacobean period
Answer: 2

5. In R.K. Narayan‘s Swami and Friends,

which game offers Swami the best kind of
emotional release from the strains and
pressures of disagreeable circumstances ?
1. Cricket
2. Football
3. Tennis
Paper 2- July 2018 4. Hockey
Answer: 1
1. Which narrative poem by Lord Tennyson
presents the story of a fisherman turned 6. William Blake expressed the importance
Merchant sailor who, after a shipwreck, is of the particular when he said that ―To
marooned on a desert island ? Generalize is to be ____________. To
1.”Crossing the Bar” Particularize is the alone Distinction of
2.”Tithonus” Merit.‖ Fill in the blank.
3.”Enoch Arden” 1. An Idiot
4.”Maud” 2. A Poet
Answer: 3 3. A Dreamer
4. A Skunk
2. In ―Memorial Verses‖ Matthew Arnold Answer: 1
pays tribute to three great poets. Who are
they ? 7. Which of the following was not a dialect of
1. Goethe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth Old English ?
2. Goethe, Shakespeare, Milton 1. Irish
3. Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth 2. Northumbrian
4. Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron 3. Mercian
Answer: 4 4. Kentish
Answer; 1
3. Who among the following English
playwrights wrote screenplays on novels 8. Anthony Burgess‘s last novel, published in
such as Marcel Proust‘s In Search of Lost 1993, is called A Dead Man in Deptford.
Time, John Fowles‘s French Lieutenant‘s Who is the central character to whom the
Woman, and Margaret Atwood‘s title refers ?
Handmaid‘s Tale ? 1. Sir Walter Raleigh
1. John Arden 2. Sir Philip Sidney
2. Edward Bond 3. Christopher Marlowe
3. Harold Pinter 4. Earl of Southampton
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9. Choose the chronological order:
1. William Caxton prints the first English book
– William Shakespeare‟s First Folio – John
Milton‟s Areopagitica – “Tottel‟s Miscellany”
(Songs and Sonnets).
2. “Tottel‟s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets) –
William Shakespeare‟s First Folio – William
Caxton prints the first English book – John
Milton‟s Areopagitica.
3. William Caxton prints the first English book
– “Tottel‟s Miscellany” (Songs and Sonnets) –
William Shakespeare‟s First Folio – John
Milton‟s Areopagitica.
4. William Shakespeare‟s First Folio – John
Milton‟s Areopagitica – William Caxton prints
the first English book – “Tottel‟s Miscellany”
(Songs and Sonnets).
Answer: 3
10. What does the phrase ut pictura poesis
from Horace‘s Art of Poetry mean ?
1. “as in painting, so in poetry”.
2. “poetry beggars pictorial description” .
3. “as in poetry, so in painting” .
4. “picture above all poetry” .
Answer: 1
11. Who among the following is the author
of Account of the Augustan Age in England
(1759) ?
1. John Gay
2. William Hazlitt
3. Oliver Goldsmith
4. Samuel Johnson
Answer: 3
12. In how many parts did Cervantes
publish his novel, Don Quixote ?
1. Three
2. Five
3. Two
4. Twelve
Answer: 3
13. Lytton Strachey‘s Eminent Victorians
carries biographical sketches of writers and
public figures. Identify the list below that
correctly mentions those Eminent
Victorians.
1.Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale,
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Thomas Arnold and General Gordon.
2.A.E.W. Mason, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch,
Matthew Arnold, Robert Bridges.
3.E.F. Benson, Cardinal Manning, Lord
Tennyson, Beatrice Webb.
4.George Harding, General Gordon, Robert
Browning, Mrs Humphrey Ward.
Answer: 1
14. One of the following statements about
the eponymous saint of Dryden‘s ―Song for
St. Cecilia‘s Day‖ is incorrect. Identify that
Statement.
1.St. Cecilia‟s was a Roman Lady, an early
Christian martyr.
2.St. Cecilia‟s was an Armenian devotee of the
Christian Faith.
3.St. Cecilia‟s festival is celebrated on 22
November in England.
4.St. Cecilia‟s was a patroness of music who
was fabled to have invented the organ.
Answer: 2
15. Which of the statements on Michael
Robert‘s Faber Book of Modern Verse
(1936) is not true ?
1.His anthology canonized modern poetry and
poets for quite some decades.
2.The Collection begins with the poems of
Robert Bridges.
3.Roberts omitted the Georgian poets in his
anthology.
4.Yeats, Eliot and Pound find a place in the
Faber Book of 1936.
Answer: 2
16. Who among the following proposed that
the First Gulf War had never taken place, it
was simply a hyperreal, media-generated
spectacle?
1.Richard Rorty
2.Jean-Francois Lyotard
3.Jean Baudrillard
4.Umberto Eco
Answer: 3
17. Sir Thomas Browne‘s Urn Burial was
prompted by
1. The Discovery of ancient buial-urns near
Norwich.
2. The Contemporary researches on burial rites Ramanujan, “Sunset at Puri” ; Dutt, “Our
in Norway. Casurina Tree” ; Mahapatra, “Small-Scale
3. The Death of St. Francis of Assissi and his Reflections on a Great house” .
burial. 4. Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” ;
4. The Publication of the English Book of Ramanujan, “Small-Scale Reflections on a
Common Prayer. Great house” ; Dutt, “Our Casurina Tree” ; ;
Answer: 1 Mahapatra, “Sunset at Puri” .
Answer: 4
18. Identify from the among the following
list those that cannot be called War Fiction. 22. From among the following, identify the
A. A Modern Instance incorrect observation regarding Ferdinand
B. Catch – 22 de Saussure‘s seminal distinction between
C. The Age of Innocence language and parole.
D. The Naked and the Dead. 1. Parole is the particular language system,the
elements, the elements of which we learn as
1. (a) and (b) children, and which is codified in our
2. (b) and (c) grammars and dictionaries, whereas langue is
3. (a) and (c) the language-occasion (what A says to B).
4. (b) and (d) 2. A language consists in the interrelationship
Answer: 3 between Langue and Parole.
3. Saussure made this crucial distinction in a
19. Who among the following writers was study called A Course in General Linguistics
not the one Identified with The Movement of (1916).
the 1950‘s England ? 4. Langue is the particular language-system,
1. Roy Fuller the elements of which we learn as children, and
2. Kingsley Amis which is codified in our grammars and
3. Philip Larkin dictionaries, whereas Parole is the language-
4. Donald Davie occasion (what A says to B).
Answer: 1 Answer: 1

20. Which of the following novels does not
belong to Nuruddin‘s Farah‘s Blood In the
Sun Trilogy ?
1. Maps
2. Knots
3. Gifts
4. Secrets
Answer: 2
21. In the following series, which one has all
the poets correctly matched in the poems ?
1. Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” ;
Ramanujan, ” Small-Scale Reflections on a
Great house” ; Dutt, “Sunset at Puri” ;
Mahapatra, “Our Casurina Tree” .
2. Ezekiel, “Sunset at Puri” ; Ramanujan,
“Small-Scale Reflections on a Great house” ;
Dutt, “Our Casurina Tree” ; Mahapatra, “Poet,
Lover, Birdwatcher” .
3. Ezekiel, “Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher” ;
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23. John Heywood wrote a farcical Interlude
called The Four P‘s.
1. a Palmer, a Pedlar, a Pothecary, a Packer
2. a Printer, a Pedlar, a Pothecary, a Palmer
3. a Pedlar, a Parson, a Palmer, a Pothecary
4. a Palmer, a Pardoner, a Pothecary, a Pedlar
Answer: 4
24. In the mechanical drill method of second
language acquisition :
(a) The learner has the freedom to from many
responses.
(b) The learner‟s response is totally controlled.
(c) Comprehension of the item by the learner is
not required.
(d) Comprehension of the item by the learner is
obligatory.
The right combination according to the Code
is:
1. (a) and (d) 26. Match the characters with the novels:
2. (a) and (c) (a) Arthur Seaton (i) Top Girls
3. (b) and (c) (b) Marlene (ii) The Golden Notebook
4. (b) and (d) (c) Anna Wulf (iii) The Swimming Pool
Answer: 3 Library
(d) Beckwith (iv) Saturday Night and Sunday
25. Thou will not wake Morning
Till i thy fate shall overtake;
Till age, or grief, or sickness must Code:
Marry my body to that dust (a) (b) (c) (d)
It so much loves; and fill the room 1. (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
My heart keeps empty in the Tomb. 2. (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
Stay for me there; I will not fail 3. (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
To meet thee in that hollow Vale. 4. (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
And think not much of my delay; Answer: 2
I am already on the way.
27. The very last passage of a novel is given
Which of the following readings do you find below. Identify the novel.
appropriate to the spirit of the lines above ? ―Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the
1. In that inter space between the lines, the Millionth time the reality of experience and
ending of one and the beginning of another, to forge in the smithy of my soul the
there is a silent internal language, the poem‟s uncreated conscience of my race.
language-within-language, tacitly signalled April 27. Old father, Old artificer, stand me
through the deployment of rhymed space. now and ever in good stead.‖
2. Ageing and dying are of course helplessly 1. To the light house
passive ; but here love make them as though 2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
they were now also willing things in the 3. Maurice
husband eager to join his dead wife. Through 4. Almayer‟s Folly
simple intimate tones of the shared earthly life Answer: 2
– stay for me, wait for me, I will not fail- he
not only imagines her but imagines her 28. Francis Bacon‘s New Atlantis is about a
thinking for him. utopian state called
3. The lyric voice here can feel the poem 1. Asgard
speaking back to him – in the cold lineal stare 2. Avalon
of „there was nothing in my belief‟ – even as 3. Bensalem
his dead wife did not. It is as though the poem 4. Baltia
itself then demands his response, in order to be Answer: 3
able to move from one line to another. To
attempt that movements in keeping the poem‟s 29. The 1950‘s saw the rise of backlash
space alive, the lyric voice asserts, “I will not against modernism and against New
fail/to meet there in that hallow Vate.” Romanticism that became known as The
4. My whole nature was so penetrated with Movement. Which of the following little
grief and humiliation of such considerations, magazines came to be associated with The
That, even now, famous and caressed and Movement ?
happy as I am, I often forget to my dream that i (a) Departure
have a dear wife who died, leaving me alone in (b) New Verse
this world. Even that I am a man, and now I (c) London Mercury
wander desolately back to that time of our lives (d) New Poems
when my wife and I shared moments of bliss.
Answer: 2
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The right combination according to the code is: 1. Misogynists
1. (a) and (b) 2. Misanthropes
2. (c) and (d) 3. Misnomers
3. (a) and (d) 4. Mysomousoi
4. (b) and (d) Answer: 4
Answer: 3
34. Who, among the following raises the
30. The error of interpreting a literary work following painful question of longing and
by referring to evidence outside of itself, belonging ?
such as the design and purpose of the author ―Where shall I turn, divided to the vein ?
is called i who have cursed
1. Affective fallacy The drunken officer of British rule, how
2. Intentional fallacy choose
3. Authorial fallacy Between this Africa and the English tongue I
4. Synecdochic fallacy love?‖
Answer: 2 1. Derek Walcott
2. Louise Bennett
31. A.R. Ammons parodies a famous poemin 3. Kamau Brathwaite
his ―Swoggled‖ 4. Wole Soyinka
I‟d rather Answer: 1
be
suckled by 35. In the 1940‘s, a critic and a philosopher
an produced two influential and controversial
outworn pagan papers called ―The Intentional Fallacy‖ and
than ―The Affective Fallacy‖.
get my horn Identify Them
wreathed in (a) Cleanth Brooks
an (b) Monroe C. Beardsley
old Triton. (c) William K. Wimsalt Jr.
(d) R.P. Blackmur
Which poet, which poem ?
1. John Keats, “On First Looking into The right combination according to the code is:
Chapman‟s Homer” 1. (a) and (b)
2. John Milton, “On His Blindness” 2. (b) and (d)
3. William Wordsworth, “The World is Too 3. (b) and (c)
Much with Us” 4. (c) and (d)
4. Elizabeth B. Browning, “How do I Love Answer: 3
Thee…?”
Answer: 3 36. Philip Larkin‘s ―Sad Steps‖ notices ―The
way the moon dashes through clouds that
32. Fanny Burney‘s Evelina carries the blow Loosely as cannon-smoke to stand
subtitle: apart…‖
1. or a Naive Lady‟s Entrance into the World. The poem alludes to :
2. or a Young Lady‟s Entrance into the World. 1. Coleridge‟s “Dejection : An Ode”
3. or a Young Lady‟s Exit into the World. 2. The moonlit scenes in A Midsummer
4. or a Bold Lady‟s Entrance into the Hall. Night‟s Dream
Answer; 2 3. Philip Sidney‟s Astrophel and Stella
4. T.S. Eliot‟s „Morning at the Window”
33. What does Philip Sidney call poet-haters Answer: 3
in his Defence of Poesie ?
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37. Match the following opening lines with 40. An English poet couldn`t help the
their respective titles: excitement that an historical event caused in
(a) “I leant upon a coppice gate” (i) “Thirteen his life-time:
Blackbirds” Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
(b) “A Sudden blow: the great wings (ii) But to be young was very heaven
“Sympathy”
beating still….” Which poet? What „dawn‟?
(c) “Among twenty snowy mountains” (iii) 1. W.H Auden; the Spanish Civil War
“The Darkling Thrusts” 2. Lord Tennyson; the Jubilee of Queen
(d) “I know what the caged bird feels, (iv) Victoria`s reign
“Leds and the Swan” 3. William Wordsworth; the French Revolution
alas…” 4. William Blake; the Industrial Revolution
Answer: 3
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d) 41. Which novel by John Banville tells the
1. (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) story of a group of travellers who arrive on
2. (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) a small island and stumble upon the house of
3. (ii) (i) (iii) (iv) Prof. Kreutznaer whose relationship to a
4. (i) (ii) (iv) (iii) painting entitled The Golden World by a
Answer: 2 fictional Dutch artist named Vaublin plays a
central role?
38. Identify the titles that were published in 1. Ghosts
the 1920‘s 2. The Sea
(a) Look, Stranger! 3. The Ark
(b) The Tower 4. Eclipse
(c) The Waste Land Answer: 1
(d) The Road to Wigan Pier
42. Identify the two plays usually paired for
Code: their critique of the politics of language and
1. (a) and (c) acts of police interrogation
2. (b) and (c) 1. Earthly Powers, The Wanting Seed
3. (b) and (d) 2. Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots
4. (c) and (d) 3. Left-handed Liberty, The Hero Rises
Answer: 2 4. One for the Road, Mountain Language
Answer: 4
39. This novel is dedicated. ―To the railroad
of bones‖ and has as its epigraph the line, 43. Semiotics originated mainly in the works
―I am the woman they give dead women‘s of two theorists. They are:
clothes to‖ from Christine Gelineau‘s a. Charles Sanders Peirce
―Inheritance‖ b. Mikhail Bakhtin
Identify the novel c. Ferdinand de Saussure
1. African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou d. Valentin Voloshinov
2. The Chibok Girls by Helon Habila
3. The Underground Railroad by Colson The right combination according to the code is
Whitehead ______________ .
4. The Book of Night Women by Marlon 1. (a) and (b)
James 2. (b) and (c)
Answer: 4 3. (a) and (c)
4. (c) and (d)
Answer: 3
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44. Robert Burton`s Anatomy of Melancholy 49. Which novel of Kazuo Ishiguro is
was published in 1621 and expanded and narrated by a Japanese widow living in
altered in _________________ subsequent England and draws on the destruction and
editions rehabilitation of Nagasaki ?
1. two 1. An Artist of the Floating World
2. four 2. The Unconsoled
3. six 3. A Pale View of Hills
4. five 4. When We Were Orphans
Answer: 4 Answer: 3

45. Which of the following magazines self 50. Which novels opens thus:
consciously created an identity for “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my
Vorticists, a group of painters, sculptors and own life, or whether that station will be held by
writers? anyone else, these pages must show.”
1. Blast 1. Tristram Shandy
2. The Egoist 2. Lady Audley‟s Secret
3. The Criterion 3. David Copperfield
4. New Age 4. Fitz-Boodle‟s Confessions
Answer: 1 Answer: 3

46. ―In Every cry of every Man, 51. Traces of the Morality plays are
In every Infant‘s cry of fear discernible in a play like Dr. Faustus, traces
In every voice, in every ban….‖ such as
1. Vernacular songs adapting secular themes
The figure of speech characterized by 2. Its Soliloquizing Protagonist, Good and Bad
repetition of words or group of words at the Angels and its final moral.
beginning of consecutive sentence is called 3. Its Refrains from the Corpus Christi Carol,
1. Apostrophe the complaint of Christ, the lover of mankind.
2. Anaphora 4. Its Rhythmical prose, and the presence of a
3. Incremental Repetition larger narrative rhythm in the Morality plays.
4. Alliteration Answer: 2
Answer: 2
52. The branch of philosophy that asks the
47. At whose behest does the Redcrosse question, ―How do we know what we know
Knight undertake his quest in The Faerie is?‖
Queene ? 1. Ontology
1. Gloriana‟s 2. Epistemology
2. Una‟s 3. Eschatology
3. Duessa‟s 4. Phenomenology
4. Prosperine‟s Answer: 2
Answer: 2
53. The eighteenth century practice in
48. In which city did John Ruskin see a ―England of book selling was midway
paradigm for Victorian Britain ? between direct patronage and impersonal
1. Vienna sales. A patron paid half the cost of a book
2. Venice before publication and half on delivery. The
3. Rome author of the book received these payments
4. Paris directly. The patron‘s name appeared in the
Answer: 2 preface for the book published in this
manner.
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This practice was known as 4. (a) and (c)
1. Subscription Answer: 4
2. Contribution
3. Pre-publication 57. The four Moral Essays of Alexander
4. Remaindering Pope are addressed to carefully selected
Answer: 1 figures. Identify
1. Timons, Newton, Martha Blount, Wellington
54. Oxford India has published a volume of 2. Lord Cobham, Robert Walpole, Houghton
Premchand translations in English, The Hall, Chandos
Oxford India Premchand. Who among the 3. Martha Blount, Lord Cobham, Bathurst,
following is not one of the translators? Burlington
1. David Rubin 4. William III, John Haydn, Joseph Addison,
2. Alok Rai John Dennis
3. Gillian Wright Answer: 3
4. Christopher King
Answer: 3 58. Bertolt Brecht‘s Mother Courage and
Her Children presents the war-torn Europe
55. Which of the two novels of Jane Austen as its protagonist as she follows troops with
have the spa town of Bath as a primary her canteenwagon.
location? What is the real name of Mother Courage ?
(a) Emma 1. Paula Danckert
(b) Pride and Prejudice 2. Anna Fierling
(c) Northanger Abbey 3. Jane Vanstone
(d) Persuasion 4. Jani Lauzon
Answer: 2
The right combination according to the Code
is: 59. From among the following, identify the
1. (a) and (d) journal that publishes articles on English
2. (b) and (c) language teaching and learning.
3. (c) and (d) 1. University of Toronto Quarterly
4. (a) and (b) 2. Agenda
Answer: 3 3. TESOL Quarterly
4. English Language Notes
56. In the communicative approach to ELT, Answer: 3
the development of language learning or
teaching involves a shift; 60. Arrange the following Elegies in English
(a) from form-based to a meaning-based in Chronological order:
approach 1. “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard” –
(b) from an electic approach to a rigid method “Adonais” – “Thyrsis” – “In Memoriam”
(c) from teacher-centered to learner-centered 2. “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard” –
classes “Adonais” – “In Memoriam” – “Thyrsis”
(d) from broad-based competence to specific 3. “Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard” –
needs “In Memoriam” – “Adonais” – “Thyrsis”
4. “Adonais” – “Elegy Written in a Country
The right combination according to the Code Courtyard” – “In Memoriam” – “Thyrsis”
is: Answer: 2
1. (b) and (d)
2. (a) and (d) 61. Who is the only one of Milton‘s
3. (b) and (c) contemporaries to be mentioned by name in
Paradise Lost ?
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1. Francis Bacon Bangram on receiving the news of the death of
2. Johannes Vermeer his uncle and recalls his past life.
3. Galileo Answer: 2
4. King Charles
Answer: 3 65. In John Gower‘s Confessio Amantis,
Amans, the lover makes his confession to the
62. K.S. Maniam is a major writer of Indian priest named
origin, writing in English, born and living in 1. Verito
Malaysia. 2. Genius
Identify two of his novels from the following 3. Amor
list. 4. Phoebe
(a) The Rice Mother Answer: 2
(b) The Return
(c) Touching Earth 66. In Eugene Ionesco‘s Chairs, the
(d) Between Lives absurdity is not much in the banal words
that are uttered
The right combination according to the Code 1. in the large scale use of frightening stage
is: props and lighting effects.
1. (a) and (d) 2. in the absurdist interpretation of them by
2. (b) and (c) character after character.
3. (c) and (d) 3. in the fact that they are spoken to an ever-
4. (b) and (d) growing number of empty chairs.
Answer: 4 4. in the fact that they are spoken time and
again by members of the audience.
63. What did Thomas Perey collect in his Answer: 3
Reliques ?
1. Medieval Folklore and lyrics of the 67. A half-sentence in Purchas his
Midlands Pilgrimage triggered off ―Kubla Khan‖.
2. Old songs, ballads, and romances in English Whose work was Purchas hid Pilgrimage?
and Scots 1. Robert Herrick, the poet‟s
3. Highland lore, mostly oral wisdom of the 2. John Hakluyt‟s, the collector of traveler‟s
Scots tales
4. Romantic idylls. sonnets and odes 3. Samuel Purchas, the London Parson‟s
Answer: 2 4. Edward Purchas, the globe-trotter‟s
Answer: 3
64. Nirad Chaudhuri‘s Autobiography of an
Unknown Indian concludes with an essay on 68. Based on the life of a thirteenth-century
the course of Indian history. But in the troubadour, from among the following
penultimate chapter Chaudhuri concludes identify the work, that marked a
the account of events in his life. How does catastrophic failure in Robert Browning‘s
this narrative end? poetic career, earning him a reputation for
1. Chaudhuri ties the knot with his childhood impenetrable difficulty?
sweetheart and moves from Calcutta to Delhi. 1. Paracelsus
2. Chaudhuri obtains a job in the military 2. Sordello
accounts department and gives it up because he 3. The Ring and The Book
finds it soul-destroying. 4. Pauline
3. Chaudhuri joins the editorial team of a Answer: 2
Calcutta newspaper and is upset over the
drudgery of a reporter‟s life. 69. In Tristram Shandy, the Author‘s
4. Chaudhuri rushes to his ancestral village preface
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1. is hawked to the highest bidder.
2. appears in-between chapters 13 and 14 in
Volume II.
3. is printed in italics in all editions.
4. appears in-between chapters 10 and 11 in
Volume I.
Answer: *
70. Evelyn Waugh once complained that
T.S. Eliot Poems, 1909-1925 was
―marvelously good, but very hard to
understand,‖ The most pessimistic novel
Waugh wrote was called ____________ and
he owed the title to ___________
1. Black Mischief – “Sweeney among the
Nightingales”
2. Scoop – “Morning At the Window”
3. Prancing Nigger – Ash Wednesday
4. A Handful of Dust – The Waste Land
Answer: 4
71. During the years 1830 to 1850, the
illusion of peace in Victorian England was
broken by such incidents as
1. the Revolution in France and the Chartist
Movement in England.
2. the General Strike of 1835 and the Rail
Tragedy of 1847.
3. the visionary libertarianism of poets and the
lawless embodiment of revolution.
4. the disaster of the Indian Mutiny and the
incompetent bungling of the Crimean War
Answer: 4
72. Gulliver receives the following response
when he boasts about his countrymen:
―….the most pernicious race of little odious
vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl
upon the face of the earth.‖ Whose
response?
1. The King of Lilliput‟s
2. The King of Brobdingnag‟s
3. The Governor of Glubbdubrib‟s
4. The first of the Houyhnhnm‟s he meets.
Answer: 2
73. In the Inferno Dante, as he travels
through the various circles of the hell finds
Judas who is unable to speak. What is the
reason behind this?
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1. His tongue is transformed into a coiled
snake.
2. His head is battered and so he cannot open
his mouth.
3. Lucifer is chewing on his head.
4. His tongue is pulled out and nailed on the
tree of sin.
Answer: 3
74. Assertion (A) : Our reality is linguistic, a
language mediated reality.
Reason (R) : Our perception and
understanding of reality are largely
constructed by the words and other signs we
use.
In the light of the statements above,
1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation of (A).
2. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the
correct explanation of (A).
3. (A) is true but (R) is false.
4. (A) is false but (R) is true.
Answer: 1
75. In his book, In theory, Ajiaz Ahmed
works out the relations between the three
entities:
1. Classes, Nations, Literature‟s.
2. Regions, Nation, Languages.
3. State, Religions. Gender.
4. Literature, Print, Theory.
Answer: 1
76. In 1660, a group of 12 people including
Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren formed
what they called the Royal Society. In 1663,
it became The Royal Society of London for
Improving Natural Knowledge. What was
the Society‘s motto?
1. “In Him we trust”
2. “In the words of no one”
3. “Lighted to lighten”
4. “Love conquers all”
Answer: 2
77. Of whom did W.B. Yeats say that ―We
were the last Romantics‖?
1. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
2. The Imagiste poets
3. His Friends in the Irish Literary Revival.
4. Himself and his lady love, Maud Gonne
Answer: 3
78. Who wrote The Wandering Jew, a poem
in four cantos and the short lyric, ―The
Wandering Jew‘s Solilquy‖?
1. S.T. Coleridge
2. Lord Byron
3. Thomas Gray
4. P.B. Shelley
Answer: 4
79. Where, according to T.S. Eliot, are we
likely to find ―not only the best, but the most
individual parts of a poet‘s work‖ ?
1. in the poet‟s juvenilia or rejected drafts.
2. in the best anthologies and scrap-books.
3. in those parts where the dead poets assert
their immortality.
4. in those parts where the living poets depart
from their ancestors.
Answer:3
80. Which of the following is true of The
Canterbury Tales ?
1. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates Sir Thopas
Tale only.
2. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates The Tale of
Melibee only.
3. Chaucer, the pilgrim, narrates Sir Thopas
Tale and The Tale of Melibee .
4. Chaucer, the pilgrim does attempt to narrate
an unnamed tale but abruptly stops due to the
intervention of the other pilgrims.
Answer: 3
81. During the reign of Norman Kings, it
was fashionable to speak ___________ in
upper-class circles in England.
1. Norse
2. Latin
3. Danish
4. French
Answer: 4
82. Who, among e following, collaborated
with Purohit Swami in translating the Ten
Principal Upanishads into English ?
1. Christopher Fry
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2. Aldous Huxley
3. Lawrence Durrell
4. W.B. Yeats
Answer: 4
83. What unique distinction does Ben
Jonson‘s ―To Penshurst‖ have in the English
literary canon ?
1. It is the only distinguished poem in English
addressed to the Lords of Penshurst.
2. It celebrates Philip Sidney‟s elevation to
knighthood, Sidney being the youngest scion of
the family.
3. It is one of the first English poems
celebrating a specfic place, a forerunner to
Cooper‟s Hill and Windsor Forest.
4. It is the first poem in an elegiac series that
late Elizabethan poets began on the demise of
the Lord of Penshurst.
Answer: 3
84. It is well known that in many of his
plays, To Stoppard has consciously drawn
upon earlier, often reputed works. Match
the following Stoppard plays with earlier
works whose spirit seems to have informed
them.
(a) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (i)
Hamlet
(b) Indian Ink (ii) A Passage to India
(c) Inspector Hound (iii) The Mousetrap
(d) Travesties (iv) Importance of Being Earnest
Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
1. (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
2. (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
3. (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
4. (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
Answer: *
85. After discovering the truth about his
heinous crimes committed in the past, what
does Oedipus request as his punishment?
1. Exile
2. Castration
3. Decapitation
4. Blindness
Answer: 1
86. How does Women in Love open?
1. Rupert Birkin, Lawrence‟s alter ego, is
taking a walk in the English Countryside.
2. The Brangwean sisters, Ursula and Gudrun,
are “working and talking”.
3. The wedding party gathers at short lands, the
Criches‟s home.
4. The last lesson is in progress, “peaceful and
still” in Ursula‟s classroom.
Answer: 2
87. Samuel Johnson has the following to say
about an English poet:
“These images are marked by glittering
accumulations of ungraceful ornaments : they
strike, rather than please. The images are
magnified by affectation : the language is
labored into harshness. The mind of the writer
seems to work with unnatural violence -
„Double, double, toil and trouble‟. He has a
kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking
on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too
visible, and there is too little appearance of
ease and nature.”
Identify the poet.
1. Thomas Gray
2. John Dryden
3. John Milton
4. Thomas Wyatt
Answer: 1
88. ―Take the smoking disclaimer issue‖
begins Vishal Bharadwaj. ―Putting a
disclaimer every time somebody smokes on
screen is not an answer. If M.F. Hussain had
painted a man with a cigar, would you have
asked him to put the disclaimer, ―Cigarette
smoking is injurious to health‖ on the
painting‖?
The point Bharadwaj makes with his rhetorical
question is the following:
1. The smoking disclaimer is ineffectual
because M.F. Hussain‟s painting wouldn‟t have
carried it.
2. The smoking disclaimer on objects
perceived as „art‟ is simply superfluous.
3. The smoking disclaimer is ineffectual
because „art‟ entertains but does not instruct.
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4. The smoking disclaimer on screen or on
M.F. Hussain painting distracts us from
enjoying art.
Answer: 2
89. According to ________ certain verbs
actually :perform‖ an act when they are
uttered.
1. Speech Act theorists such as Austin and
Searle.
2. Russian Formalists such as Shklovsky and
Propp.
3. Language theorists such as Sapir and Whorf.
4. Cognitive Linguists suc
Answer:1
90. Haunted castles, strange noises and an
acceptance of the supernatural with all its
trappings mark _____________________
1. metafiction
2. fantasy fiction
3. epistolary fiction
4. gothic fiction
Answer:4
91. …. sure it waits upon
Some god o` the` island. Sitting on a bank
Weeping again the King my father`s wrack
This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air. Thence I have followed it,
Or it hath drawn me rather…
Which of the following statements on this
passage are true?
a. These lines, spoken by Edgar in King Lear,
are part of a long speech delivered on the heath
b. These lines, spoken by Ferdinand in The
Tempest, describe Ariel`s music
c. The passage reappears in an altered and
ironic version in T.S Eliot`s Waste Land
d. The passage reappears verbatim in W.H
Auden`s Sea and the Mirror
The correct answer according to the code is :
1. (a) and (d)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (a) and (c)
Answer:2
92. Arrange the following plays of
Shakespeare according to their periods
(early, middle, late…) of composition
1. As You Like It, Love Labours Lost, Antony
and Cleopatra, The Tempest, Midsummer
Night`s Dream
2. Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest,
Midsummer Night`s Dream, Love `s Labours
Lost, As You Like It
3. Love `s Labours Lost, Midsummer Night`s
Dream, As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra,
The Tempest
4. Midsummer Night`s Dream, Antony and
Cleopatra, The Tempest, As You Like It, Love
`s Labours Lost
Answer:3
93. Who among the following is not a
reader-response critic?
1. Maud Bodkin
2. Hans-Robert Jauss
3. Stanley Fish
4. Wolfgang Iser
Answer:1
94. Leo Tolstoy`s Anna Karenina closing
lines present…
1. a sad reflection on the unfortunate suicide of
Anna which should have been averted
2. the enlivening freshness of a rain which has
been threatening to break out
3. Levin`s affirmation that whatever happens to
him, life is not meaningless but unquestionably
meaningful
4. Vronsky`s lament over the death of Anna
which ends on a positive note, affirming the
human tendency to pass over the tragic events
with hope
Answer:3
95. Which of the following novels begins
with a Prologue under the Title ‖ The
Storming of Seringapatam‖ saying ―I
address these lines written in India- to my
relatives in England‖?
1. The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G farell
2. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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3. The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
Answer:2
96. In ―Gerontion‖ T.S ELiot says
‖ _____________ has many cunning
passages, contrived corridors / And issues,
deceives with whispering ambitions, / Guides
us by vanities ―
What is Eliot`s subject?
1. History
2. Politics
3. State
4. Religion
Answer:1
Read the following poem and answer
questions 97 to 100
The Mountain
My students look at me expectantly
I explain to them that the life of art is a life
of endless labor. Their expressions
hardly change; they need to know
a little more about endless labor.
So I tell them the story of Sisyphus,
how he was doomed to push
a rock up a mountain knowing nothing
would come of this effort
but that he would repeat it
indefinitely. I tell them
there is joy in this, in the artist`s life,
that one eludes
judgement, and as I speak
I am secretly pushing a rock myself,
slyly pushing it up the steep
face of a mountain. Why do I lie
to these children? They aren`t listening,
they aren`t deceived, their fingers
tapping at the wooden desks-
So I retract
the myth; I tell them it occurs
in hell, and that the artist lies
because he is obsessed with attainment,
that he perceived the summit
as that place where he will live for ever,
a place about to be
transformed by his burden: with every breath,
I am standing at the top of the mountain.
Both my hands are free. And the rock has
added
height to the mountain

97. Whose poetic voice is triggered right

from the beginning?
1. of student`s
2. of teacher`s
3. of critics`
4. of an observer`s
Answer:2

98. The speaker brings up the story of

Sisyphus specifically by way of glossing
____________
1. art in life
2. life in art
3. endless labor
4. poetic expectation
Answer:3

99. In its context, the words ‗the

fingers/tapping at the wooden desks‘ , best
represent the students`
1. lack of protest
2. lack of interest
3. show of disrespect
4. show of impatience
Answer:4

100.Why does the speaker say that ―the rock

has added height to the mountain‖?
1. because the speaker is already on top of the
mountain
2. because both the hands of the speaker are
now free
3. because the mountain now seems largely
incomprehensible
4. because she feels that the immensity of the
problem has grown
Answer:4

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