AP/TS SET-2012 ENGLISH Paper – III

ANDRA PRADESH /TELANGANA SET-2012 ENGLISH Paper – III

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions (1 – 4)


What opium is instilled into all disaster ! It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction, but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought ... People grieve and bemoan themselves, but it is not half so bad with them as they say. There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me, is to know how shallow it is. That, like all the rest, plays about the surface, and never introduces me into the reality, for contact with which, we would even pay the costly price of sons and lovers. Was it Boscovich who found out that bodies never come in contact ? Well, souls never touch their objects. An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with. Grief too will make us idealists. In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate, – no more. I cannot get it nearer to me . If tomorrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years ; but it would leave me as it found me, neither better nor worse. So is it with this calamity : it does not touch me : something which I fancied was a part of me, which could not be torn away without tearing me, nor enlarged without enriching me, falls off from me, and leaves no scar .... I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.



1. In line 1, opium is used figuratively for is capacity to :

(A) deaden the senses

(B) corrupt the soul

(C) weaken the will

(D) produce euphoria



2. According to the author, at times “We Court Suffering” (lines 4-5) because we believe that

(A) pain is more enjoyable than pleasure or truth

(B) pain brings us into contact with reality

(C) pain makes people more resilient

(D) Re cessation of pain brings pleasure



3. The clause “The things we aim at and converse with” means roughly the same as the phrase.

(A) “slippery sliding surfaces”

(B) “innavigable sea”

(C) “beautiful estate”

(D) “real nature”



4. The phrase “no more” most nearly means

(A) no longer in existence

(B) nothing deeper

(C) I can bear no additional pain

(D) I understand my grief



OR



Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions (1-4)

I sat all morning in the college sick bay

Counting bells knelling classes to a close.

At two o’clock our neighbours drove me home

In the porch I met my father crying--

He had always taken funerals in his stride--

And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram

When I came in, and I was embarrassed

By old men standing up to shake my hand

And tell me they were ‘sorry for my trouble”

Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,

Away at school, as my mother held my hand

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.

At ten o’clock the ambulance arrived

With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

Next morning I went up into the room.

Snowdrops

And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him

For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,

He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.

No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year.



1. The situation in the poem is

(A) loss of a Sibling

(B) a public gathering

(C) classroom teaching

(D) Big Jim Evans talking



2. The poem is in

(A) Heroic couplets

(B) Triplets

(C) Quatrains

(D) Sestets



3. The boy felt

(A) safe because the bumper did not knock him down

(B) happy at the courtesies attended by old people

(C) proud to be the eldest child

(D) numb at the sense of loss



4. The last line of the poem implies

(A) the boy grew a foot a year

(B) the four year old boy met with an untimely death

(C) boys are boys

(D) the box is of the right size



5. Gradgrind is a character in the novel

(A) Oliver Twist

(B) Hard Times

(C) David Copperfield

(D) Great Expectations



6. Which poem of Wallace Stevens opens with the line, “call the roller of big cigars” ?

(A) “Sunday Morning”

(B) “The Emperor of Ice-cream”

(C) “The Snow Man”

(D) “It Must Give Pleasure”



7. The writers, who collaborated in adopting Shakespeare’s plays into stories for children, Tales form Shakespeare are

(A) Mary Lamb and Caroline Lamb

(B) Charles Lamb and Caroline Lamb

(C) Samuel Johnson and Charles Lamb

(D) Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb



8. Which novel is not by Mrs. Gaskell ?

(A) Mary Barton

(B) Ruth

(C) The Professor

(D) North and South



9. Which literary theory flourished in the 1960s as an attempt to apply to literature the methods and insights of modern linguistics and anthropology ?

(A) Reception theory

(B) Symbolism

(C) Structuralism

(D) Phenomenological criticism



10. Match the following :

I. Libido 1. Carl Jung

II. Collective unconscious 2. Sigmund Freud

III. Ambiguity 3. Frazer

IV. Myth 4. William Empson

I II III IV

(A) 2 4 3 1

(B) 2 1 4 3

(C) 2 1 3 4

(D) 2 3 4 1



11. The Greek word for ‘arrogance/pride’ is

(A) Catharsis

(B) Hubris

(C) Denouement

(D) Anagnorisis



12. Hermeneutics is the theory of

(A) Religion

(B) Tradition

(C) Existence

(D) Interpretation



13. The term “malapropism” comes from the name of a character in

(A) The School for Scandal

(B) The Rivals

(C) Joseph Andrews

(D) Tom Jones



14. English Critical Texts is edited by

(A) David Daiches

(B) D. J. Enright and Ernest Chickera

(C) Nagarajan and Seturaman

(D) Rene Wellak



15. Which playwright is known for writing lengthy prefaces to his plays ?

(A) Christopher Fry

(B) Samuel Beckett

(C) George Bernard Shaw

(D) Tennessee Williams



16. The “mad woman in the attic” is a specific reference to

(A) The narrator of Global Market

(B) Augusta Egg’s 1858 narrative painting

(C) The Heroine of The Yellow Wallpaper

(D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre



17. Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy

(A) The Canterbury Tales

(B) The Book of the Duchess

(C) The House of Fame

(D) Legend of Good Women



18. Which literary theory advocates “the historical context as a co-text” ?

(A) Historicism

(B) New Historicism

(C) Anti-Historicism

(D) Archetypal criticism



19. Ivanhoe is a

(A) Satirical Novel

(B) Historical Novel

(C) Religious Novel

(D) Verse Novel



20. The Spider and the Bee episode occurs in

(A) Culture and Anarchy

(B) The Battle of the Books

(C) Aesop’s Fables

(D) The Rape of the Lock



21. Who according to Johnson “sacrifices virtue to convenience” ?

(A) Milton

(B) Voltaire

(C) Rhymer

(D) Shakespeare



22. Who begins his essay with the question “What is truth” ?

(A) Charles Lamb

(B) Francis Bacon

(C) Robert Lynd

(D) Joseph Addison



23. Which French writer wrote a book on Mahatma Gandhi ?

(A) Thomas Mann

(B) Gustave Flaubert

(C) Romain Rolland

(D) Jean Racine



24. Which one of the following is not a German writer ?

(A) Herman Hesse

(B) Franz Kafka

(C) Thomas Mann

(D) Gustave Flaubert



25. Lugi Pirandello is the author of

(A) The Divine Comedy

(B) Six Characters in Search of an Author

(C) Prometheus Bound

(D) Prometheus Unbound



26. “... he turned drawing-room comedy on its head, had a stage filled with empty chairs, and transformed man into beast.” Which playwright does this statement refer to ?

(A) Eugene Ionesco

(B) Herold Pinter

(C) Samuel Beckett

(D) John Osborne



27. Meursault is a character created by

(A) Jean Paul Sartre

(B) Samuel Beckett

(C) Albert Camus

(D) Bertolt Brecht



28. Match the following :

I. Aristophenes 1. Oedipus the King

II. Sophocles 2. Plutus

III. Euripedes 3. The Persians

IV. Aeschylus 4. The Bacchae

I II III IV

(A) 2 1 4 3

(B) 4 2 1 3

(C) 1 4 3 2

(D) 3 1 2 4



29. “The Myth of Sisyphus” is an essay by

(A) Jean Paul Sartre

(B) Emile Zola

(C) Albert Camus

(D) Soren Kierkegaard



30. Vacanas of Basava and Akkamahadevi are translated as Speaking of Shiva by

(A) Shiv K. Kumar

(B) Arun Kolatkar

(C) A.K. Ramanujan

(D) Arvind Mehrotra



31. The concept of “Third Theatre” was introduced in Indian drama by

(A) Girish Karnad

(B) Vijay Tendulkar

(C) Badal Sircar

(D) Satyajit Ray



32. Nissim Ezekiel’s essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine” is a reaction against which work of Naipaul ?

(A) Area of Darkness

(B) India : A Wounded Civilization

(C) India : A Million Mutinies Now

(D) Beyond Belief



33. Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography is translated into English by

(A) Mahesh Desai

(B) Rakesh Verma

(C) Ramdas Gandhi

(D) Mahadev Desai



34. Which one of the following Indian English novelists did not win the Booker Prize ?

(A) Aravind Adiga

(B) Arundhati Roy

(C) Kiran Desai

(D) Anita Desai



35. Match the following :

I. Kanyasulkam 1. S.L. Bhyrappa

II. Vamsa Vriksha 2. Siva Sankaran Pillai

III. Chemmeen 3. Akilan

IV. Portrait of a Woman 4. Gurajada Appa Rao

I II III IV

(A) 4 1 2 3

(B) 4 2 1 3

(C) 4 3 2 1

(D) 4 1 3 2



36. Which novel in English won the first Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1960 ?

(A) The Guide

(B) The Serpent and The Rope

(C) Kanthapura

(D) Cat and Shakespeare



37. Which American poet wrote the poem Brahma ?

(A) Emerson

(B) Walt Whitman

(C) Allen Ginsberg

(D) Thoreau



38. Who wrote “My subject is wars and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity” ?

(A) Rupert Brooke

(B) Edmund Blunden

(C) Wilfred Owen

(D) Siegfried Sassoon



39. Which of the following was not published in 1922 ?

(A) Mrs. Dalloway

(B) Ulysses

(C) The Wasteland

(D) Siddhartha



40. The classic epic poem Savitri by Sri Aurobindo deals with the theme of

(A) Love and Death

(B) Life and Death

(C) Sin and Death

(D) All of these



41. Gone with the Wind is by

(A) Margaret Drabble

(B) Margaret Laurence

(C) Margaret Mitchell

(D) Margaret Atwood



42. Application of linguistic knowledge to literary interpretation is called

(A) Pragmatics

(B) Stylistics

(C) Psycholinguistics

(D) Semiotics



43. The word “mob” is an example of the process of word-formation called

(A) Back-Formation

(B) Shortening

(C) Metanalysis

(D) Metanthesis



44. Who propounded the terms Langue and Parole ?

(A) Ferdinand de Saussure

(B) Paul de Man

(C) Roland Barthe

(D) Northrop Frye



45. Who wrote English as a Global Language ?

(A) H.G. Widdowson

(B) Michael Wallace

(C) David Crystal

(D) Carter Ronald



46. The English Language is said to have

(A) Syllable – timed rhythm

(B) Phoneme – timed rhythm

(C) Stress – timed rhythm

(D) Word – timed rhythm



47. What does CALL stand for ?

(A) Computerized Advanced Language Learning

(B) Computer Assisted Language Learning

(C) Computer Advised Language Learning

(D) Computer Associated Language Learning



48. Who was the first art critic to define ‘Rasa’ ?

(A) Valmiki

(B) Dandin

(C) Bharata

(D) Mahimbhatta



49. In calling orientalism a “discourse,” Said draws on the terminology most closely associated with

(A) Michel Foucault

(B) Jacques Lacan

(C) Jacques Derrida

(D) Gayatri Spirak



50. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare, according to T.S. Eliot, is an “artistic failure” ?

(A) The Tempest

(B) Hamlet

(C) Henry IV, PI

(D) Twelfth Night



51. M.H. Abrams’ The Deconstructive Angel is a critique of

(A) Roland Barthes

(B) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

(C) Jaques Derrida

(D) Paul de Man



52. Intertextuality refers to

(A) Close reading

(B) Comparison between two texts

(C) The conditioning of the meaning of a text by other texts

(D) The reading of the intention of the author



53. In Moby Dick captain Ahab falls for his

(A) ignorance

(B) pride

(C) courage

(D) drunkenness



54. Who among the following was not a Poet Laureate ?

(A) Andrew Marvel

(B) Ben Jonson

(C) Dryden

(D) Wordsworth



55. Which collection of poems by Blake is intended to be read by children ?

(A) Songs of Innocence

(B) Thel

(C) Poetical Sketches

(D) Visions of the Daughters of Albian



56. Kitchen-sink drama refers to works on

(A) the lives of women

(B) the lives of the affluent

(C) the lives of the working class

(D) the lives of plumbers



57. Match the following :

I. Richard Wright 1. Beloved

II. Ralph Ellison 2. Native Son

III. Toni Morrison 3. A Raisin in the Sun

IV. Lorraine Hansberry 4. Invisible Man

I II III IV

(A) 2 4 1 3

(B) 2 1 4 3

(C) 1 2 3 4

(D) 3 2 1 4



58. What is the full name of Voss in Patrick White’s Voss ?

(A) Le Mesurier Voss

(B) Travelyan Laura Voss

(C) Johan Ulrich Voss

(D) Edmund Voss



59. Willy Loman is a/an

(A) baseball player

(B) insurance agent

(C) salesman

(D) school teacher



60. Which river has significance in the writings of Mark Twain ?

(A) Missouri

(B) Ohio

(C) Mississippi

(D) Amazon



61. In which poem of A.D. Hope do these lines occur” ?

“And the great earth, with neither grief nor malice,

Receives the tiny burden of her death.”

(A) Australia

(B) Inscription for a war

(C) Standardization

(D) Death of the Bird



62. The writer associated with expressionism is

(A) Edward Albee

(B) Tennessee Williams

(C) Arthur Miller

(D) Eugene O’Neill



63. Laura and Tom are characters in Tennessee William’s play

(A) The Rose Tattoo

(B) The Glass Menagerie

(C) A Streetcar Named Desire

(D) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof



64. Which poet said, “We were the last Romantics” ?

(A) W. B. Yeats

(B) William Wordsworth

(C) S.T. Coleridge

(D) Alfred Tennyson



65. Who among the following is not connected with the Oxford Movement ?

(A) Oscar Wilde

(B) John Keble

(C) E.B. Pusey

(D) J.H. Newman



66. Which language gave the word “shampoo” to the English Language ?

(A) French

(B) Chinese

(C) Italian

(D) Hindi



67. Who is the author of An Outline History of the English Language ?

(A) F.T. Wood

(B) A.C. Baugh

(C) C.L. Wren

(D) David Crystal



68. What, according to Aristotle, are the two emotions that tragedy arouses in the audience ?

(A) Pity and Fear

(B) Surprise and Shock

(C) Sympathy and Satisfaction

(D) Despair and Disgust



69. Osborne’s Look Back in Anger marked a new voice on the British stage by virtue of its reaction against

(A) The problem of unemployment

(B) Existing affected drawing room comedies

(C) The problem of over crowding in cities

(D) Absurd theatre



70. Who considers “truth and high seriousness” qualities of great poetry ?

(A) Matthew Arnold

(B) Alexander Pope

(C) Sir Philip Sidney

(D) Thomas Gray



71. The poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” is by

(A) Dylan Thomas

(B) W.H. Auden

(C) W.B. Yeats

(D) Ted Hughes



72. In “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” the participants are

I. Crites and Neander

II. Lisideius and Eugenius

III. Sedley and Howard

IV. Sackille and Dryden

(A) I and II

(B) II and III

(C) III and IV

(D) I and IV



73. ‘Affective fallacy’ is defined as the error of judging :

(A) a work by its effects on the reader

(B) a work by the intention of the author

(C) inanimate objects as animate

(D) a work by affections aroused



74. According to whom is poetry “not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion” ?

(A) S.T.Coleridge

(B) Allen Tate

(C) John Dryden

(D) T.S. Eliot



75. Which of the following novels opens with the line : “Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically” ?

(A) Sound and Fury

(B) All the King’s Men

(C) Lady Chatterley’s Lover

(D) Mrs. Dalloway

ANSWERS

1. (A) deaden the senses OR (A) Loss of a sibling
2. (B) pain brings us into contact with reality OR (C) Quatrains
3. (B) “innavigable sea” OR (D) Numb at the sense of loss
4. (B) nothing deeper OR (B) The four-year-old boy met with an untimely death
5. (B) Hard Times
6. (B) “The Emperor of Ice-cream”
7. (D) Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
8. (C) The Professor
9. (C) Structuralism
10. (B) 2 1 4 3
11. (B) Hubris
12. (D) Interpretation
13. (B) The Rivals
14. (B) D. J. Enright and Ernest Chickera
15. (C) George Bernard Shaw
16. (D) Bertha Mason of Jane Eyre
17. (C) The House of Fame
18. (B) New Historicism
19. (B) Historical Novel
20. (B) The Battle of the Books
21. (D) Shakespeare
22. (B) Francis Bacon
23. (C) Romain Rolland
24. (D) Gustave Flaubert
25. (B) Six Characters in Search of an Author
26. (A) Eugene Ionesco
27. (C) Albert Camus
28. (A) 2 1 4 3
29. (C) Albert Camus
30. (C) A.K. Ramanujan
31. (C) Badal Sircar
32. (A) Area of Darkness
33. (D) Mahadev Desai
34. (D) Anita Desai
35. (A) 4 1 2 3
36. (B) The Serpent and The Rope
37. (A) Emerson
38. (C) Wilfred Owen
39. (A) Mrs. Dalloway
40. (D) All of these
41. (C) Margaret Mitchell
42. (B) Stylistics
43. (B) Shortening
44. (A) Ferdinand de Saussure
45. (C) David Crystal
46. (C) Stress – timed rhythm
47. (B) Computer Assisted Language Learning
48. (C) Bharata
49. (A) Michel Foucault
50. (B) Hamlet
51. (D) Paul de Man
52. (C) The conditioning of the meaning of a text by other texts
53. (B) pride
54. (A) Andrew Marvel
55. (A) Songs of Innocence
56. (C) the lives of the working class
57. (A) 2 4 1 3
58. (C) Johan Ulrich Voss
59. (C) salesman
60. (C) Mississippi
61. (D) Death of the Bird
62. (D) Eugene O’Neill
63. (B) The Glass Menagerie
64. (A) W. B. Yeats
65. (A) Oscar Wilde
66. (D) Hindi
67. (A) F.T. Wood
68. (A) Pity and Fear
69. (B) Existing affected drawing room comedies
70. (A) Matthew Arnold
71. (A) Dylan Thomas
72. (A) I and II (Crites and Neander, Lisideius and Eugenius)
73. (A) A work by its effects on the reader
74. (D) T.S. Eliot
75. (C) Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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