AP/TS SET 2013- ENGLISH Paper – III

ANDRA PRADESH / TELANGANA SET 2013- ENGLISH Paper – III

1. Who of the following writers is NOT Irish ?

(A) Jonathan Swift

(B) James Joyce

(C) Samuel Beckett

(D) Graham Greene



2. Sylvia Plath’s only novel is entitled

(A) Nick and the Candlestick

(B) The Bell Jar

(C) Ariel

(D) The Colossus



3. The term Jazz Age in America relates to the decade of

(A) 1930s

(B) 1920s

(C) 1940s

(D) 1950s



4. Which American playwright was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936 “ for dramatic works of vital energy, sincerity, and intensity of feeling, stamped with an original conception of tragedy” ?

(A) Edward Albee

(B) Eugene O’Neill

(C) Arthur Miller

(D) Eugene Walter



5. She was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize

(A) Maya Angelou

(B) Gwendolyn Brooks

(C) Molly Ivins

(D) Toni Morrison



6. The huge success of which play in 1947 secured Tennessee Williams’s reputation as a great playwright ?

(A) The Glass Menagerie

(B) A Streetcar Named Desire

(C) Clothes for a Summer Hotel

(D) In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel



7. “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.” This remark of Abraham Lincoln refers to which author ?

(A) Phillis Wheatley

(B) Harriet Beecher Stowe

(C) Margaret Mitchel

(D) Maya Anjelou



8. In which country was Robert Frost first published ?

(A) England

(B) Canada

(C) America

(D) Spain



9. What term best characterizes the Harlem Renaissance ?

(A) Oppression

(B) Protest

(C) Anger

(D) Celebration



10. Which of the following is NOT a play by August Wilson ?

(A) Fences

(B) The Piano Lesson

(C) Radio Golf

(D) The Slave



11. The term ‘chutnification’ is coined by

(A) Chetan Bhagat

(B) Shobha De

(C) Salman Rushdie

(D) Khushwant Singh



12. Who of the following did NOT win the Nobel Prize for literature ?

(A) Doris Lessing

(B) Harold Pinter

(C) Gunter Grass

(D) Graham Greene



13. Whom does Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind marry for the third time ?

(A) Ashley

(B) Rhett Butler

(C) Charles Hamilton

(D) Frank Kennedy



14. Which statement is NOT true about the Jacobean Age ?

(A) It coincides with the reign of King James I of England

(B) It coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland

(C) It succeeds the Restoration period

(D) It precedes the Caroline age



15. Match the following

I. Amos Tutuola 1. Weep Not Child

II. Ngugi Wa Thiang’O 2. A Man of the People

III. Ayi Kwe Armah 3. Palm-wine Drinkard

IV. Chinua Achebe 4. The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born

I II III IV

(A) 2 4 3 1

(B) 1 3 2 4

(C) 3 1 4 2

(D) 4 2 1 3



16. The Bluest Eye is a novel by

(A) Toni Morrison

(B) Alice Walker

(C) Ralph Ellison

(D) Bernard Malamud



17. The author, better known by his pen name Mark Tuuain is

(A) Samuel Clemens

(B) Sylvia Plath

(C) Samuel Johnson

(D) Jane Hirshfield



18. The word ‘edutainment’ is an example of the process of word formation called

(A) back formation

(B) clipping

(C) compounding

(D) blending



19. The word ‘alcohol’ comes from

(A) Arabic

(B) French

(C) Italian

(D) German



20. TESOL stands for

(A) Teaching English as a Second Language

(B) Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages

(C) Teaching English Speakers Other Languages

(D) Teaching English Speaking Only for Law



21. The study of Transformational Generative Grammar began with

(A) Leonard Bloomfield

(B) Roman Jakobson

(C) Noam Chomsky

(D) C.K. Ogden



22. Code-switching is a kind of

(A) Grammatical system

(B) Linguistic performance

(C) Linguistic competence

(D) Meaningless babbling



23. Scanning and skimming are techniques of

(A) teaching grammar

(B) reading

(C) writing

(D) listening



24. The notion of “Input hypothesis” is attributed to

(A) Krashen

(B) M.A.K. Halliday

(C) M.L. Tickoo

(D) Brumfit



25. The History of English Language Teaching is written by

(A) Hornby

(B) Howatt

(C) David Crystal

(D) McCathy



26. Who of the following is known for his attempts to simplify English spelling ?

(A) Webster

(B) Dr. Johnson

(C) Daniel Jones

(D) Wren



27. The Norman Conquest marks the beginning of _______ period.

(A) the Old English

(B) the Middle English

(C) the Modern English

(D) the Anglo Saxon



28. By PS rules it is meant

(A) Phrase Syntax rules

(B) Phonetic Structure rules

(C) Phrasal Syntactic rules

(D) Phrase Structure rules



29. She Stoops to Conquer is

(A) a novel by Daniel Defoe

(B) a poem by Alexander Pope

(C) a play by Oliver Goldsmith

(D) a tragic romance by John Dryden



30. Chaucer was called “Father of English Poesye” by

(A) Shakespeare

(B) Donne

(C) Dryden

(D) Byron



31. Which of these is NOT a history play ?

(A) Richard II

(B) Henry V

(C) Merchant of Venice

(D) Richard III



32. The Christ-like figure in Crime and Punishment is

(A) Sonya

(B) Razumikhin

(C) Dunya

(D) Raskolnikov



33. Antigone is a part of Trilogy by

(A) Horace

(B) Aeschylus

(C) Euripides

(D) Sophocles



34. Who was the king of Thebes accidentally slain by his son Oedipus ?

(A) Laius

(B) Atreus

(C) Nestor

(D) Pentheus



35. The gods drink nectar and eat this for food

(A) Ambrosia

(B) Cthonus

(C) Frankincense

(D) Myrmex



36. The agent of salvation for Dante in The Divine Comedy is

(A) Virgil

(B) Beatrice

(C) Saint Peter

(D) Jesus Christ



37. Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon are plays by

(A) Sophocles

(B) Euripides

(C) Aeschylus

(D) Virgil



38. The title Things Fall Apart is drawn from

(A) Byzantium

(B) The Second Coming

(C) The Fisherman

(D) Sailing to Byzantium



39. Septimus Warren Smith is a character in

(A) Mill on the Floss

(B) Jane Eyre

(C) Wuthering Heights

(D) Mrs. Dalloway



40. Which are the verse dramas by T.S. Eliot

I. Ash Wednesday

II. The Cocktail Party

III. Four Quartets

IV. Murder in the Cathedral

(A) II, III and IV are correct

(B) II and IV are correct

(C) I and II are correct

(D) I, II and III are correct



41. The phrase “only connect” is associated with

(A) James Joyce

(B) E.M. Forster

(C) Virginia Woolf

(D) D.H. Lawrence



42. Which is the longest running stage-play of Agatha Christie ?

(A) Endless Night

(B) Death on the Nile

(C) Murder on the Orient Express

(D) The Mousetrap



43. Match the following

I. W.K. Wimsatt and Manroe Beardsley 1. Irony as a Principle of Structure

II. Cleanth Brooks 2. The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles

III. Mikhail Bakhtin 3. The Intentional Fallacy

IV. Roman Jakobson 4. Epic and Novel

I II III IV

(A) 3 1 4 2

(B) 1 4 2 3

(C) 4 2 3 1

(D) 2 3 1 4



44. Who has described culture as “sweetness and light” ?

(A) F.R. Leavis

(B) T.S. Eliot

(C) Lionel Trilling

(D) Matthew Arnold



45. Wolfgang Iser belongs to the school of

(A) Cultural Studies

(B) Reader-Response criticism

(C) Formation

(D) Ecocriticism



46. The concept of the signified and the signifier is a part of

(A) Structural linguistics

(B) Transformational grammar

(C) Philology

(D) Deconstruction



47. Robert Graves, Francies Fergusson, Maud Bodkin and Richard Chase are

(A) New Critics

(B) Eco Critics

(C) Myth Critics

(D) Marxist Critics



48. Unrhymed Iambic pentameter lines constitute

(A) Free verse

(B) Blank verse

(C) Epistolary verse

(D) Irregular verse



49. The label ‘Diasporic Writer’ can be applied to

I. Jhumpa Lahiri

II. Arundhati Roy

III. Kiran Desai

IV. Shashi Deshpande

(A) I and IV are correct

(B) II and III are correct

(C) I, II and IV are correct

(D) I and III are correct



50. Subaltern studies are influenced by

(A) Karl Marx

(B) Antonio Gramsci

(C) Michel Foucault

(D) Sigmund Freud



51. The term “Anagnorisis” describes

(A) The moment of discovery by the protagonist

(B) The reversal of fortune for the protagonist

(C) The happy resolution of the plot

(D) The death of the protagonist





52. Match the following :

I. Bharata 1. Ars Poetica

II. Aristotle 2. On the Sublime

III. Horace 3. Natya Shastra

IV. Longinus 4. Poetics

I II III IV

(A) 3 4 1 2

(B) 1 3 2 4

(C) 2 1 3 4

(D) 4 3 1 2



53. Match the following :

I. Free Verse 1. Composed of an octave and sestet

II. Petrarchan Sonnet 2. Three quatrains with a concluding couplet

III. Hudibrastic Verse 3. Not bound by rhyme, metrical and stanza pattern

IV. Shakespearean Sonnet 4. Deliberate doggerel

I II III IV

(A) 2 4 3 1

(B) 1 3 2 4

(C) 4 2 1 3

(D) 3 1 4 2



54. The term “author function” is associated with

(A) Jacques Derrida

(B) Stephen Greenblatt

(C) Michel Foucault

(D) Roland Barthes



55. Realism combined with fantastic is a

postmodern phenomenon called

(A) Supernaturalism

(B) Gothic Element

(C) Magic Realism

(D) Fantasy



56. Three tercets make a/an

(A) Ottava rima

(B) Alexandrine

(C) Terza rima

(D) Spenserian stanza



57. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” is the first line of Keats’s poem

(A) Hyperion

(B) Lamia

(C) Endymion

(D) Ode on a Gracian Urn



58. The phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” occurs in

(A) Biographia Literaria

(B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads

(C) In Defence of Poetry

(D) Poetics



59. About which 19th 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) Hazlit on Lamb

(D) Dequincey on Crabbe



60. Lytton Stratchey’s Eminent Victorians is a/an

(A) Novelette

(B) Long Poem

(C) Biography

(D) Autobiographical Novel



61. Under the Banyan Tree is

(A) a collection of poems by Jayanta Mohapatra

(B) a collection of one-act plays by Mahesh Dattani

(C) an anthology of essays by C.D. Narasimhaiah

(D) a collection of short stories by R.K. Narayan



62. The Trotter Nama is

(A) a novel by Vikram Chandra

(B) a poem by Gieve Patel

(C) a travel account by I. Allan Sealy

(D) an autobiography by Ruskin Bond



63. Which of the following plays is NOT by Girish Karnad ?

(A) Tughlaq

(B) Hayavadana

(C) Final Solutions

(D) Tale-Danda



64. Which of the following novels has NOT been made into a film ?

(A) English, August

(B) Midnight’s Children

(C) Revolution 2020

(D) Q & A



65. Silence! The Court is in Session is a ____ play translated into English.

(A) Gujarati

(B) Marathi

(C) Kannada

(D) Tamil



66. Who, among the following, wrote the Foreword to Mulk Raj Anand’s novel Untouchable ?

(A) Rudyard Kipling

(B) E.M. Forster

(C) R.K. Narayan

(D) Graham Greene



67. “My mother only said

Thank God, the scorpion picked on me

And spared my children.”

These lines are written by

(A) Kamala Das

(B) Nissim Ezekiel

(C) Jayanta Mohapatra

(D) Toru Dutt



68. Which one of the following is a verse novel ?

(A) The Golden Gate

(B) The Great Indian Novel

(C) Ulysses

(D) Music for Mohini



69. Which statement is NOT true about Gitanjali ?

(A) It was published in 1912

(B) W.B. Yeats wrote a memorable

introduction to it

(C) Its central theme is patriotism

(D) Tagore won the Nobel Prize for it in 1913



70. The World is What It is, the biography of V.S. Naipaul, is written by

(A) Patrick White

(B) Paul Theroux

(C) Patrick French

(D) Robert Hamner



71. The character Lopakhin figures in

(A) Uncle Vanya

(B) Crime and Punishment

(C) The Cherry Orchard

(D) The Idiot



72. The latest novel of V.S. Naipaul is

(A) A Way in the World

(B) Magic Seeds

(C) The Enigma of Arrival

(D) Half a Life



73. Identify the twins in The God of Small Things

(A) Ammu and Chacko

(B) Velutha and Chacko

(C) Rahel and Estha

(D) Rahel and Sophie Mol



74. The line “They think we are dirt because we clean their dirt” is uttered by

(A) Kali

(B) Bakha

(C) Gulabo

(D) Paravan



75. Match the following :

I. The Namesake 1. Kiran Desai

II. The Inheritance of Loss 2. Jhumpa Lahiri

III. The Mistress of Spices 3. Manju Kapur

IV. Difficult Daughters 4. Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni

I II III IV

(A) 4 2 1 3

(B) 3 4 2 1

(C) 2 1 4 3

(D) 4 3 2 1

ANSWERS

1. (D) Graham Greene
2. (B) The Bell Jar
3. (B) 1920s
4. (B) Eugene O’Neill
5. (B) Gwendolyn Brooks
6. (B) A Streetcar Named Desire
7. (B) Harriet Beecher Stowe
8. (A) England
9. (D) Celebration
10. (D) The Slave
11. (C) Salman Rushdie
12. (D) Graham Greene
13. (B) Rhett Butler
14. (C) It succeeds the Restoration period
15. (C) 3 1 4 2
16. (A) Toni Morrison
17. (A) Samuel Clemens
18. (D) Blending
19. (A) Arabic
20. (B) Teaching English for Speakers of Other Languages
21. (C) Noam Chomsky
22. (B) Linguistic performance
23. (B) Reading
24. (A) Krashen
25. (B) Howatt
26. (A) Webster
27. (B) the Middle English
28. (D) Phrase Structure rules
29. (C) a play by Oliver Goldsmith
30. (C) Dryden
31. (C) Merchant of Venice
32. (A) Sonya
33. (D) Sophocles
34. (A) Laius
35. (A) Ambrosia
36. (B) Beatrice
37. (C) Aeschylus
38. (B) The Second Coming
39. (D) Mrs. Dalloway
40. (B) II and IV are correct
41. (B) E.M. Forster
42. (D) The Mousetrap
43. (A) 3 1 4 2
44. (D) Matthew Arnold
45. (B) Reader-Response criticism
46. (A) Structural linguistics
47. (C) Myth Critics
48. (B) Blank verse
49. (D) I and III are correct
50. (B) Antonio Gramsci
51. (A) The moment of discovery by the protagonist
52. (A) 3 4 1 2
53. (D) 3 1 4 2
54. (C) Michel Foucault
55. (C) Magic Realism
56. (C) Terza rima
57. (C) Endymion
58. (B) Preface to Lyrical Ballads
59. (B) Coleridge on Keats
60. (C) Biography
61. (A) a collection of poems by Jayanta Mohapatra
62. (C) a travel account by I. Allan Sealy
63. (C) Final Solutions
64. (A) English, August
65. (B) Marathi
66. (B) E.M. Forster
67. (C) Jayanta Mohapatra
68. (A) The Golden Gate
69. (C) Its central theme is patriotism
70. (C) Patrick French
71. (C) The Cherry Orchard
72. (B) Magic Seeds
73. (C) Rahel and Estha
74. (B) Bakha
75. (A) 4 2 1 3

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