AP/TS SET 2014- ENGLISH Paper – II

 

1. Leantio is a character from

(A) Duchess of Malfi

(B) Women beware Women

(C) The Rape of the Lock

(D) Aurengzebe

 

2. Milton’s ‘Lycidas’ mourns the death of

(A) Edward King

(B) George Prince

(C) Sidney Simpson

(D) Charles

 

3. The famous monologue in Act II Scene 7 of As You Like It “All the world’s a stage” is delivered by

(A) Orlando

(B) Rosalind

(C) Jaques

(D) Oliver

 

4. Who made use of “sprung rhythm” in poetry ?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) Ezra Pound

(C) Hopkins

(D) Yeats

 

5. ‘Comedy of Humours’ was developed by

(A) Ben Jonson

(B) Moliere

(C) George Meridith

(D) Samuel Johnson

 

6. The heroine of “Twelfth Night” is

(A) Olivia

(B) Maria

(C) Viola

(D) Claudia

 

7. “Life ………… is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

This famous quote is from the play

(A) Hamlet

(B) Macbeth

(C) Measure for Measure

(D) King Lear

 

8. What is the subtitle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” ?

(A) Prince of Venice

(B) Prince of Athens

(C) Prince of Tyre

(D) Prince of Cyprus

 

9. “And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep”. Identify the figure of speech

(A) Simile

(B) Metaphor

(C) Paradox

(D) Personification

 

10. Who of the following ascended the British throne to mark the Restoration ?

(A) Henry II

(B) Richard II

(C) Charles II

(D) William III

 

11. The meaning of ‘catharsis’ is

(A) Imitation

(B) Purgation

(C) Expectation

(D) Redemption

 

12. The style of art based on order, serenity and restraint is known as

(A) Romanticism

(B) Classicism

(C) Metaphysical poetry

(D) Rationalism

 

13. Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads defines poet as a

(A) Prophet of truth

(B) Seer

(C) Reformer

(D) Man speaking to men

 

14. The sub-title of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela is

(A) Virtue Unrecognized

(B) Virtue Rewarded

(C) Virtue Personified

(D) Virtue Recognized

 

15. “The Defence of Rhyme” was written by

(A) Samuel David

(B) Thomas Dekker

(C) Philip Sydney

(D) Robert Greene

 

16. The term negative capability was introduced by

(A) John Keats

(B) T.S. Eliot

(C) Samuel Coleridge

(D) P.B. Shelley

 

17. The poem “The Lotos Eaters” is notable for its successful creation of the mood of

(A) Apathy and inaction

(B) Jubilation

(C) Anger and bitterness

(D) Hope

 

18. “Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” These lines are taken from

(A) Ode to the West Wind

(B) Ode on a Grecian Urn

(C) To a Sky lark

(D) Ode to the Nightingale

 

19. The “Duchers of Malfi” by John Webster is a

(A) Comedy

(B) Historical play

(C) Romantic Tragedy

(D) Satirical play

 

20. The ‘Father of English Prose’ is

(A) John Gower

(B) John Wycliff

(C) Langland

(D) Chaucer

 

21. Which of the following is ‘a novel without a hero’ ?

(A) Vanity Fair

(B) Mill on the Floss

(C) Northanger Abbey

(D) Pickwick Papers

 

22. Which among the following is Robert Penn Warren’s work ?

(A) Sister Carrie

(B) The Grapes of Wrath

(C) All the King’s Men

(D) The Pride of Family

 

23. The poem “Pulley” was written by

(A) Thomas Crew

(B) Lovelace

(C) Middleton

(D) George Herbert

 

24. Rober Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy” belongs to the __________ age.

(A) Shakespearean

(B) Puritanical

(C) Augustan

(D) Jacobean

 

25. While defining tradition, Eliot emphasizes the

(A) Death of past

(B) Presentness of past

(C) Presentness of future

(D) Significance of present

 

26. The first critic to theorise on feminism is

(A) Julia Kristeva

(B) Toni Morrison

(C) Simone de Beauvoir

(D) Linda Hutcheon

 

27. ‘A Personal Record’ is the autobiography of

(A) James Joyce

(B) Joseph Conrad

(C) Aldous Huxley

(D) D.H. Lawrence

 

28. Who among the following is not an American writer ?

(A) James Joyce

(B) Mark Twain

(C) Arthur Miller

(D) Ernest Hemingway

 

29. The motif of Yeats’ ‘Leda and the Swan’ is based on

(A) Roman mythology

(B) Christian mythology

(C) Greek mythology

(D) Indian mythology

 

30. “Willing suspension of disbelief” is an expression used by

(A) Illiad

(B) Aenaid

(C) The Bible

(D) Divine Comedy

 

31. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature in the year

(A) 1920

(B) 1915

(C) 1913

(D) 1910

 

32. The author of “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is

(A) Orhan Pamuk

(B) Khaled Hosseini

(C) Bapsi Sidhwa

(D) Salman Rushdie

 

33. ‘Canopus in Argos : Archives’ is a sequence of Science fiction novels by

(A) Chinua Achebe

(B) Dorris Lessing

(C) Christopher Okigbo

(D) None of the above

 

34. Guy de Maupassant is a famous writer of

(A) Canada

(B) Russia

(C) Germany

(D) France

 

35. Epic simile is also known as

(A) Homeric

(B) Pindaric

(C) Classic

(D) Elegaic

 

36. Paradise Lost is written in

(A) Free verse

(B) Blank verse

(C) Sprung Rhythm

(D) Rhyme Royal

 

37. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”. This quote is attributed to

(A) John Keats

(B) William Wordsworth

(C) P.B. Shelley

(D) Samuel Coleridge

 

38. The poem “Defence of Lucknow” was written by

(A) Swinburne

(B) Shelley

(C) Tennyson

(D) Rossetti

 

39. The sub-title of Middle March is

(A) A study in Rural Life

(B) A study in Foreign Life

(C) A study of Social Life

(D) A study in Provincial Life

 

40. Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye ?

(A) Saul Bellow

(B) J.D. Salinger

(C) Hemingway

(D) John Updike

 

41. In D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow the first generation of lovers consists of

(A) Tom and Lydia

(B) Anna and Will

(C) Ursula and Skrebensky

(D) Paul and Miriam

 

42. Nora is the protagonist of

(A) Notes from Underground

(B) Mother

(C) Doll’s House

(D) House of Wax

 

43. Psychoanalytical criticism explains Hamlet’s problematic relationship with his mother in terms of

(A) Oedipus Complex

(B) Electra Complex

(C) Inferiority Complex

(D) Superiority Complex

 

44. Which writer among the following is associated with the Bloomsbury group ?

(A) W.H. Auden

(B) W.B. Yeats

(C) T.C. Hulme

(D) Virginia Woolf

 

45. The title of the first section of The Wasteland is

(A) The Burial of the Dead

(B) A Game of Chess

(C) What the Thunder Said

(D) The Fire Sermon

 

46. The novel “Stranger” by Camus is also known as

(A) The Outsider

(B) Insider

(C) Alien

(D) Foreigner

 

47. Gayathri Spivak voices the concerns of the

(A) Nationalists

(B) Neo-Buddhists

(C) Subaltern

(D) Regional literature

 

48. The Word ‘Diaspora’ literally means

(A) Shifting

(B) Sorting out

(C) New Environment

(D) Scattering

 

49. The founder of Deconstruction was

(A) Roland Barthes

(B) Raymond Williams

(C) Jacques Derrida

(D) Stuart Hall

 

50. A verse form using a stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables is called

(A) Sonnet

(B) Ballad

(C) Lyric

(D) Rhyme Royal

ANSWERS:

1. (B) Women Beware Women
2. (A) Edward King
3. (C) Jaques
4. (C) Hopkins
5. (A) Ben Jonson
6. (C) Viola
7. (B) Macbeth
8. (C) Prince of Tyre
9. (D) Personification
10. (C) Charles II
11. (B) Purgation
12. (B) Classicism
13. (D) Man speaking to men
14. (B) Virtue Rewarded
15. (C) Philip Sidney
16. (A) John Keats
17. (A) Apathy and inaction
18. (A) Ode to the West Wind
19. (C) Romantic Tragedy
20. (D) Chaucer
21. (A) Vanity Fair
22. (C) All the King’s Men
23. (D) George Herbert
24. (D) Jacobean
25. (B) Presentness of past
26. (C) Simone de Beauvoir
27. (B) Joseph Conrad
28. (A) James Joyce
29. (C) Greek mythology
30. (D) Divine Comedy
31. (C) 1913
32. (B) Khaled Hosseini
33. (B) Doris Lessing
34. (D) France
35. (A) Homeric
36. (B) Blank verse
37. (A) John Keats
38. (C) Tennyson
39. (D) A study in Provincial Life
40. (B) J.D. Salinger
41. (A) Tom and Lydia
42. (C) Doll’s House
43. (A) Oedipus Complex
44. (D) Virginia Woolf
45. (A) The Burial of the Dead
46. (A) The Outsider
47. (C) Subaltern
48. (D) Scattering
49. (C) Jacques Derrida
50. (D) Rhyme Royal

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