AP/TS SET-2012 ENGLISH Paper – II

ANDRA PRADESH /TELANGANA SET-2012 ENGLISH Paper – II

1. Match the following :

(a) Becky Sharp (i) Animal Farm

(b) Snowball (ii) Vanity Fair

(c) Thomas Becket (iii) A Portrait of the Artist as a Youngman

(d) Stephen Dedalus (iv) Murder in the Cathedral

Code :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)

(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

(C) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)

(D) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)



2. Match the following :

(a) Irony as a Principle of Structure (i) Empson

(b) The Golden Bough (ii) Cleanth Brooks

(c) Seven Types of Ambiguity (iii) Northrop Frye

(d) The Archetypes of Literature (iv) Frazer

Code :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)

(B) (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)

(C) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)

(D) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)



3. Match the writers and their pseudonyms :

(i) Charlotte Bronte (a) George Orwell

(ii) Eric Arthur Blair (b) Lewis Carroll

(iii) Charles Dickens (c) Boz

(iv) Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (d) Currer Bell

                                            (e) O’ Henry

(A) i – d; ii – a; iii – c; iv – b

(B) i – e; ii – a; iii – d; iv – b

(C) i – b; ii – c; iii – d; iv – a

(D) i – d; ii – e; iii – a; iv – b



4. Arrange the following books in order of their appearance

(I) Paradise Regained

(II) Paradise Lost

(III) Areopagitica

(IV) Comus

(A) (III), (I), (IV), (II)

(B) (IV), (II), (III), (I)

(C) (I), (III), (II), (IV)

(D) (II), (IV), (I), (III)



5. Which of the following plays is not written by George Bernard Shaw ?

(A) The Lady of Lyons

(B) Caesar and Cleopatra

(C) Candida

(D) Androcles and the Lion



6. Rich Like Us is a Sahitya Academy Award Winning novel by

(A) Anitha Desai

(B) Nayanthara Sahgal

(C) Kamala Markandaya

(D) Leela Dey



7. Thomas Hardy took the title of the novel Far from the Madding Crowd from

(A) The Deserted Village

(B) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

(C) The Sleepless Lover

(D) At a Solemn Music



8. Samuel Butter took the name of his hero Hudibras from

(A) The Bible

(B) Mac Flecknoe

(C) The Dunciad

(D) The Fairie Queene



9. Which of the following novels was not written by William Faulkner ?

(A) Absalom, Absalom !

(B) Light in August

(C) As I Lay Dying

(D) The Secret Agent



10. Who gives the following advice ?

Be Homer’s works your study, and delight,

Read them by Day, and meditate by Night ...

(A) John Dryden

(B) Alexander Pope

(C) Samuel Johnson

(D) Thomas Carlyle



11. The Empire Writes Back has been jointly authored by

(i) Helen Tiffin

(ii) Bill Ashcroft

(iii) Helen Gardner

(iv) Garreth Griffiths

(A) (i) (ii) (iv)

(B) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(C) (ii) (i) (iii)

(D) (i) (iii) (iv)



12. The mythical hero who stole fire from heaven and gave it to mankind is

(A) Sisyphus

(B) Icarus

(C) Prometheus

(D) Proteus



13. Name the mythological figure who fell in love with his own reflection in the waters of a spring

(A) Narcissus

(B) Orpheus

(C) Tantalus

(D) Tiresias



14. Identify the texts in which blank verse is used

(i) Paradise Lost

(ii) Prelude

(iii) Idylls of the King

(iv) Tintern Abbey

(A) (i) and (ii)

(B) (i), (ii) and (iii)

(C) (ii), (iii) and (iv)

(D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)



15. “Of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, Shakespeare had the largest and most comprehensive soul.” The author of the statement is

(A) Henry Fielding

(B) Thomas Rymer

(C) Samuel Johnson

(D) John Dryden



16. Who among the following is not an Irish writer ?

(A) George Bernard Shaw

(B) Oscar Wilde

(C) Seamus Heaney

(D) Henrik Ibsen



17. The author of The Playboy of the Western World is

(A) George Moore

(B) Tom Stoppard

(C) J. M. Synge

(D) Harold Pinter



18. Which of the following poems is not a dramatic monologue ?

(A) My Last Duchess

(B) The Bishop Orders His Tomb

(C) Andrea del Sarto

(D) Tintern Abbey



19. Who among the following is not a Booker Prize Winner ?

(A) Kiran Desai

(B) Aravind Adiga

(C) Arundhati Roy

(D) Anita Desai



20. The author of The Way of All Flesh is

(A) Samuel Johnson

(B) Samuel Butler

(C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(D) Samuel Huntington



21. “There’s a special providence in the fall of a Sparrow” occurs in Shakespeare’s play

(A) Julius Caesar

(B) Hamlet

(C) Macbeth

(D) Othello



22. In which poem of Wordsworth does the following line occur ?

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive”

(A) The Prelude

(B) A Morning Exercise

(C) Daffodils

(D) Upon Westminister Bridge



23. The poem “If” was written by

(A) Rudyard Kipling

(B) G. M. Hopkins

(C) T. S. Eliot

(D) None of these



24. The term ‘post modernism’ is often applied to the literature and art

(A) after World War I

(B) before World War I

(C) after World War II

(D) before World War II



25. Identify the poet who said “God made the country and man made the town” ?

(A) William Wordsworth

(B) Shelly

(C) Thomas Hardy

(D) William Cowper



26. Ursula Brangwen is a character in two novels by D. H. Lawrence

(A) The Rainbow and Women in Love

(B) The White Peacock and Sons and Lovers

(C) Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Lost Girl

(D) Aaron’s Rod and Kangaroo



27. “The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.” These words of Shakespeare are from

(A) Love’s Labour Lost

(B) As You Like It

(C) Tempest

(D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream



28. Which is the ‘three person coalition’ after the death of Julius Caesar ?

(A) Julius, Brutus, Cassius

(B) Octavius, Antony, Lepidus

(C) Cassius, Augustus, Antony

(D) Casa, Cinna, Brutus



29. Who is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude ?

(A) Khalil Gibran

(B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(C) V. S. Naipaul

(D) Jorge Luis Borges



30. In which poem of Coleridge do the following lines occur ?

He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small;

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all.

(A) Christabel

(B) Fears in Solitude

(C) The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

(D) Kubla Khan



31. Match the following critics with their critical works

(I) Roland Barthes (1) Anxiety of Influence

(II) Harold Bloom (2) Orientalism

(III) Stanley Fish (3) The Death of the Author

(IV) Edward Said (4) Can the Subaltern Speak ?

                            (5) Is there a Text in the Class ?

(I) (II) (III) (IV)

(A) (4) (5) (1) (3)

(B) (2) (3) (4) (5)

(C) (3) (1) (5) (2)

(D) (1) (4) (2) (3)



32. Match the term with the statement

(I) Fiction that includes within itself commentary on its own narrative or linguistic identity

(II) A line of a poem which is repeated in the course of a poem, usually at the end of a stanza

(III) The rhyming of vowel sounds without the rhyming of consonants

(IV) My host handed me a hospitable glass of wine

(1) assonance

(2) transferred epithet

(3) refrain

(4) Metafiction

(I) (II) (III) (IV)

(A) (3) (1) (2) (4)

(B) (2) (4) (3) (1)

(C) (4) (3) (1) (2)

(D) (1) (4) (3) (2)



33. Match the authors with the works

(I) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (1) The Renaissance in India

(II) Mahatma Gandhi (2) The Discovery of India

(III) Jawaharlal Nehru (3) Chandilya

(IV) Shri Aurobindo (4) Buddha and His Dhamma

                                (5) Hind Swaraj

(I) (II) (III) (IV)

(A) (2) (4) (3) (1)

(B) (4) (5) (2) (1)

(C) (5) (1) (4) (3)

(D) (3) (2) (1) (4)



34. In which poem of Keats do these lines occur ?

when, sick for home,

She stood in tears amid the alien corn

(A) Ode on a Grecian Urn

(B) To Autumn

(C) Ode to Psyche

(D) Ode to a Nightingale



35. Which writer remarks : “One is not born, but rather becomes a women” ?

(A) Elaine Showalter

(B) Sigmund Freud

(C) Terry Eagleton

(D) Simone de Beauvoir



36. Name the author of the statement

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness till the end.

(A) James Joyce

(B) Virginia Woolf

(C) D. H. Lawrence

(D) Somerset Maugham



37. In which work of Shakespeare are the following lines found ?

What’s in a name ? That which we call a rose.

By any other word would smell as sweet.

(A) Romeo and Juliet

(B) As You Like It

(C) Twelfth Night

(D) Merchant of Venice



38. Who is the author of ‘Troilus and Criseydo’ ?

(A) Geoffrey Chaucer

(B) Thomas Wyatt

(C) Edmund Spenser

(D) John Lyly



39. Who among the following was not a part of the ‘Pre-Raphaelite” movement ?

(A) Christina Rossetti

(B) William Morris

(C) George Eliot

(D) George Meredith



40. Which of the following British writers was not born in India ?

(A) William Makepeace Thackeray

(B) Rudyard Kipling

(C) George Orwell

(D) Aldous Huxley



41. Who among the following were University wits ?

(i) Christopher Marlowe and Robert Greene

(ii) Thomas Nashe and Thomas Lodge

(iii) George Peele and John Lyly

(A) (i) and (ii)

(B) (i) and (iii)

(C) (ii) and (iii)

(D) (i), (ii) and (iii)



42. A metrical foot having one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable is called a/an

(A) trochee

(B) anapaest

(C) spondee

(D) iamb



43. What is a play designed for reading rather than performance called

(A) Closet Drama

(B) Melodrama

(C) Poetic Drama

(D) Morality Play



44. The Romantic period of America is also sometimes known as

(A) The American Revolution

(B) The American Renaissance

(C) The American Dream

(D) The American Reformation



45. Ralph Roister Doister was written by

(A) Nicolas Udall

(B) Jasper Heywood

(C) John Rastell

(D) Medwall



46. Which one of the following works did Edmund Spenser dedicate to Sir Philip Sidney ?

(A) The Shepheards Calendar

(B) Arcadia

(C) Defence of Poetry

(D) Astrophel and Stella



47. Which of the following poets does not belong to the category of ‘Metaphysical Poets’ ?

(A) John Donne

(B) Henry Vaughan

(C) Andrew Marvell

(D) George Chapman



48. Arrange the following plays in the order of their composition

(i) Othello

(ii) Macbeth

(iii) Antony and Cleopatra

(iv) King Lear

(A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

(B) (ii), (iv), (iii), (i)

(C) (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)

(D) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)



49. Match the following pastoral plays with their authors

(I) Endymion (1) John Fletcher

(II) The Lady of May (2) Ben Jonson

(III) The Faithful Shepherdess (3) John Lyly

(IV) The Sad Shephard (4) Philip Sidney

(I) (II) (III) (IV)

(A) (1) (2) (3) (4)

(B) (3) (4) (2) (1)

(C) (4) (3) (2) (1)

(D) (3) (4) (1) (2)



50. Fanny Price is a character in

(A) Mansfield Park

(B) Emma

(C) Persuasion

(D) Northanger Abbey

ANSWERS

1. (A) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
2. (D) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
3. (A) i – d; ii – a; iii – c; iv – b
4. (B) (IV), (II), (III), (I)
5. (A) The Lady of Lyons
6. (B) Nayantara Sahgal
7. (B) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
8. (D) The Faerie Queene
9. (D) The Secret Agent
10. (B) Alexander Pope
11. (A) (i) (ii) (iv)
12. (C) Prometheus
13. (A) Narcissus
14. (B) (i), (ii), and (iii)
15. (C) Samuel Johnson
16. (D) Henrik Ibsen
17. (C) J. M. Synge
18. (D) Tintern Abbey
19. (D) Anita Desai
20. (B) Samuel Butler
21. (B) Hamlet
22. (A) The Prelude
23. (A) Rudyard Kipling
24. (C) After World War II
25. (D) William Cowper
26. (A) The Rainbow and Women in Love
27. (D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
28. (B) Octavius, Antony, Lepidus
29. (B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
30. (C) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
31. (C) (3) (1) (5) (2)
32. (C) (4) Metafiction
33. (B) (4) Buddha and His Dhamma
34. (D) Ode to a Nightingale
35. (D) Simone de Beauvoir
36. (B) Virginia Woolf
37. (A) Romeo and Juliet
38. (A) Geoffrey Chaucer
39. (C) George Eliot
40. (D) Aldous Huxley
41. (D) (i), (ii), and (iii)
42. (D) Iamb
43. (A) Closet Drama
44. (B) The American Renaissance
45. (A) Nicholas Udall
46. (A) The Shepheards Calendar
47. (D) George Chapman
48. (D) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)
49. (B) (3) (4) (2) (1)
50. (A) Mansfield Park

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