AP/TS SET -2014 ENGLISH Paper – III

 

1. The ability to produce sentences or utterances that are grammatically correct is known as

(A) Fluency

(B) Accuracy

(C) Comprehension

(D) Precision

 

2. Jane Austen’s Emma was published in the year

(A) 1810

(B) 1820

(C) 1815

(D) 1825

 

3. Aristotle argues that the soul of tragedy is

(A) diction

(B) plot

(C) character

(D) chorus

 

4. “What dire offence from am’rous causes springs, what mighty contests rise from trivial things.” These famous opening lines are from

(A) The Tempest

(B) The Rape of the Lock

(C) The Prelude

(D) Paradise Lost

 

5. A novel without a hero is a reference to

(A) Crime and Punishment

(B) War and Peace

(C) Return of the Ivy

(D) Possession

 

6. The term “Pre-Raphaelite” originated in

(A) Italy

(B) Rome

(C) France

(D) England

 

7. ‘Yoknapatawpha’ county is a fictional country created by

(A) Sinclair

(B) Faulkner

(C) Hemingway

(D) O’Neil

 

8. The period beginning from the beheading of Charles in 1649 to the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 is known as

(A) Cromwell’s Commonwealth

(B) Puritan protectorate

(C) Interregnum

(D) Republican rule

 

9. “Codrus” is a character in

(A) The Rape of the Lock

(B) Absalom and Achitophel

(C) An Epistle to Dr.Arbuthnot

(D) Dunciad

 

10. “For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,

Sunk though he be beneath the watery floar

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed.”

Here ‘day-star’ refers to the

(A) Prince

(B) Poet

(C) Sun

(D) Mercury

 

11. The Absurdist play Rhinoceros is by

(A) Samuel Beckett

(B) Ionesco

(C) Pasterneck

(D) Kafka

 

12. Duinos Elegies belong to

(A) Boyles

(B) Celan

(C) Paz

(D) Rilke

 

13. The French poet known as the precursor of symbolism is

(A) Rilke

(B) Brodsky

(C) Baudelaire

(D) Neruda

 

14. The poem “Telemachus” is by

(A) Octavia Paz

(B) Piccasso

(C) Neruda

(D) Brodsky

 

15. Which of the following statements is/are wrong based on the novel Heart of Darkness?

1. Kurtz pretends to be mad

2. The novel opens on the mouth of the Thames

3. Marlow is the hero narrator of the tale

4. Chinua Achebe denounced this novel as ‘bloody racist’.

(A) Only 1 or 2

(B) Only 2

(C) Only 3 or 4

(D) Only 4

 

16. Which of the following is not authored by E.M.Forster?

(A) A Passage to India

(B) Where Angels Fear to Tread

(C) A Room with a View

(D) The Heart of the Matter

 

17. The reference in Eliot’s The Waste Land to “Datta, Dayadhwam, Damyata” is from

(A) Bhagavadgita

(B) Ramayana

(C) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

(D) Kathopanishad

 

18. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer.”

The opening lines are from the poem

(A) “Leda and the Swan”

(B) “Byzantium”

(C) “The Second Coming”

(D) “Easter 1916”

 

19. Keats in the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” closely examines the

(A) Relationship between man and God

(B) Issue of Human follies

(C) Issues related to socio-political order

(D) State of changelessness and Permanence

 

20. In which poem of Wordsworth does the following line occur: “ Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive

(A) “The Prelude”

(B) “Daffodils”

(C) “A Morning Exercise”

(D) “Upon Westminister Bridge”

 

21. Which of the following is not a work by Wordsworth?

(A) The Prelude

(B) The Recluse

(C) Hyperion

(D) The Excusion

 

22. Shelley’s, ‘Adonais’ is an elegy on the death of

(A) Milton

(B) Coleridge

(C) Keats

(D) Johnson

 

23. Identify the poem by Swinburne which begins: “When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces ………….

(A) A Song of Italy

(B) Songs before Sunrise

(C) Atlanta in Calydon

(D) Chasteland

 

24. Community language learning is the method developed by

(A) Mackey

(B) Hughes

(C) La Forge

(D) Charles Curran

 

25. Which statement is NOT true about the Victorian Age?

(A) It was an age of intellectual development

(B) It adhered to ludicrous notions of morality

(C) It expounded the philosophy of utilitarianism

(D) It gave utmost importance to women’s Empowerment

 

26. The distinction between langue and parole was made by

(A) Saussure

(B) Bakhtin

(C) Virginia Woolf

(D) Derrida

 

27. ‘The ploughman plods home his weary way’. The figure of speech is

(A) Synecdoche

(B) Metonomy

(C) Transferred Eprihet

(D) Euphemism

 

28. Which novel of Ben Okri won him the Booker Prize?

(A) Flowers and Shadows

(B) The Famished Road

(C) The Landscapes Within

(D) The White Tiger

 

29. ‘The Cost of Living’ is a collection of essays by

(A) Salman Rushdie

(B) Vikram Seth

(C) Arundhati Roy

(D) Shashi Tharoor

 

30. The Jnanapeetha Award for the year 2013 has been awarded to

(A) Indira Goswami

(B) Jayakantan

(C) Kedarnath Singh

(D) Satyendra Singh

 

31. Salman Rushdie is known for his use of

(A) Philosophical realism

(B) Socialist realism

(C) Social realism

(D) Magic realism

 

32. The University wits called Shakespeare “an upstart crow beautifying himself with our ……….”

(A) Mask

(B) Feathers

(C) Wings

(D) Style

 

33. Who said this? “Sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s Child”.

(A) Dryden

(B) Bunyan

(C) Milton

(D) Johnson

 

34. The significant feature of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is his use of

(A) Satire

(B) Supernaturalism

(C) Astronomy

(D) History

 

35. “Anelida and Arcite” is an incomplete poem by

(A) James I

(B) Langland

(C) Occleve

(D) Chaucer

 

36. “Is there a text in this class?” is written by

(A) Roland Barthes

(B) Stanley Fish

(C) Hiriyanna

(D) Jacques Derrida

 

37. The acclaimed critical work Theatre of the Absurd is written by

(A) Martin Esslin

(B) F.O. Mathiessen

(C) Edward Albee

(D) Cleanth Brooks

 

38. Experimental Drama is associated with

(A) Marlowe

(B) Molliere

(C) Brecht

(D) Racine

 

39. Kafka’s works are known for

(A) Classicism

(B) Absurdism

(C) Romanticism

(D) Relativism

 

40. Gregor Samsa is the protagonist of

(A) The Chairs

(B) The Frogs

(C) The Rhinoceros

(D) Metamorphosis

 

41. The Good Woman of Schezuan is a drama written by

(A) Ionesco

(B) Kafka

(C) Butler

(D) Brecht

 

42. The author of The Wretched of the Earth is

(A) Franta Fanon

(B) Jean Paul Sartre

(C) Androis Malraux

(D) Albert Camus

 

43. Who among the following writers was a Transcendentalist?

(A) Ernest Hemingway

(B) Ralph Ellison

(C) R.W. Emerson

(D) Philip Roth

 

44. Who among the following wrote the novel Herzog?

(A) Ken Kesey

(B) Saul Bellow

(C) Elie Wiesel

(D) Norman Mailer

 

45. Which American poet wrote the poem ‘Iris by Night’?

(A) Walt Whitman

(B) H.D. Thorenu

(C) Robert Frost

(D) Sylvia Plath

 

46. Which river figures in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ?

(A) Audson River

(B) Mississippi River

(C) Chicago River

(D) Thames River

 

47. Match the following writers with their works:

I. Horace 1. Phaedrus

II. Quintillian 2. Arts Poetica

III. Longinus 3. Institutio Oratoria

IV. Plato 4. On the Sublime

I II III IV

(A) 2 3 4 1

(B) 3 2 1 4

(C) 2 3 1 4

(D) 1 2 3 4

 

48. Name the legendary biographer who wrote The Life of Samuel Johnson

(A) James Boswell

(B) John Riley

(C) Alexander Pope

(D) John Dryden

 

49. “Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.” Who made this statement?

(A) Jaeques Derrida

(B) Ferdinand de Saussure

(C) Jean Baudrillard

(D) Roland Barthes

 

50. Terry Eagleton belongs to the _________ school of criticism.

(A) Marxist

(B) Structuralist

(C) Formalist

(D) Deconstructionist

 

51. The critics of the Chicago School followed

(A) Aristotle

(B) Plato

(C) Arnold

(D) Dryden

 

52. Who coined the term “Gyno criticism?”

(A) Emily Dickinson

(B) Alice Walker

(C) Virginia Woolf

(D) Elaine Showalter

 

53. Freud is the founder of

(A) Aesthetic school

(B) Impressionistic school

(C) Expressionistic school

(D) Psycho-Analysis

 

54. Who wrote the essay “The Metaphysical Poets”?

(A) T.S. Eliot

(B) W.B. Yeats

(C) W.H. Auden

(D) Ezra Pound

 

55. J.C.Ransom is the pioneer of

(A) Post modernism

(B) Structuralism

(C) New criticism

(D) Modernism

 

56. Don’t make ________________ noise.

(A) The

(B) An

(C) A

(D) No article

 

57. The plural of Ox is

(A) Oxon

(B) Oxes

(C) Oxen

(D) Ox

 

58. The feminine of a Fox is

(A) Vixen

(B) Witch

(C) Wisp

(D) Wolf

 

59. Which kind of play is designed for reading rather than performance?

(A) Melodrama

(B) Poetic Drama

(C) Closet Drama

(D) Morality Plays

 

60. A type of novel in which the hero undergoes an episodic series of adventures is called the

(A) Adventurous novel

(B) Historical novel

(C) Psychoanalytical novel

(D) Picaresque novel

 

61. Match the following:

I. V.S. Naipaul 1. The Solid Mandala

II. Yasmine Gooneratne 2. Dream on Monkey Mountain

III. Derek Walcott 3. The Pleasures of Conquest

IV. Patrick White 4. The Mimic Men

I II III IV

(A) 4 3 2 1

(B) 2 4 1 3

(C) 3 2 1 4

(D) 2 3 4 1

 

 62. The author of Love in the Time of Cholera is

(A) Albert Camus

(B) Gabriel Marquez

(C) Hemingway

(D) Pablo Neruda

 

63. Roman Jakobson listed ____________ component factors in verbal communication.

(A) Four

(B) Five

(C) Six

(D) Seven

 

64. CEFR stands for

(A) Common England Framework Reference

(B) Collected English Framework Reference

(C) Common English Framework Reference

(D) Collected European Framework Reference

 

65. Multiple intelligences refers to a ________________ based philosophy.

(A) Teacher

(B) Management

(C) Society

(D) Learner

 

66. ‘Art and Illusion’ is a work by

(A) Martin Heideggar

(B) Gaston Bachelard

(C) Ernst Cassixer

(D) Ernst Gombrich

 

67. ‘Mythos’ is the term used by Aristotle for

(A) Thought

(B) Plot

(C) Character

(D) Spectacle

 

68. The noun form of brief is

(A) Briefness

(B) Brevity

(C) Briefly

(D) Briefen

 

69. The poem “Our Casuarina Tree” is written by

(A) Kamala Das

(B) Toru Dutt

(C) Kamala Markandeya

(D) Shashi Deshpande

 

70. Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations ?

(A) Philip Pirrip

(B) Filip Pirip

(C) Philip pip

(D) Philips pirip

 

71. Which Indian poet is known as the Nightingale of India ?

(A) Toru Dutt

(B) Kamala Das

(C) Arundhati Roy

(D) Sarojini Naidu

 

72. Which of the following novels was written by Charlotte Bronte ?

(A) Mill on the Floss

(B) Middle March

(C) Weathering Heights

(D) Villette

 

73. Who authored the book Discipline and Punish ?

(A) Michel Foucault

(B) Roland Barthes

(C) Jacques Derrida

(D) Jean Baudrillard

 

74. Which literary discourse of the West about the East constructs certain stereotypes which become accepted as self-evident facts leading to political and economic imperialism?

(A) Orientalism

(B) Utilitarianism

(C) Marxism

(D) Cultural Materialism

 

75. Translation method has some advantages such as

I. Easy comprehensibility

II. Helps interaction

III. Easy expression by the students

IV. Quick grasping of grammatical rules and language structures

(A) I, III and IV are correct

(B) I, II and III are correct

(C) I and IV are correct

(D) II and III are correct

ANSWERS

1. (B) Accuracy
2. (C) 1815
3. (B) Plot
4. (B) The Rape of the Lock
5. (A) Crime and Punishment
6. (D) England
7. (B) Faulkner
8. (C) Interregnum
9. (D) Dunciad
10. (C) Sun
11. (B) Ionesco
12. (D) Rilke
13. (C) Baudelaire
14. (D) Brodsky
15. (A) Only 1 or 2
16. (D) The Heart of the Matter
17. (C) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
18. (C) The Second Coming
19. (D) State of changelessness and Permanence
20. (A) The Prelude
21. (C) Hyperion
22. (C) Keats
23. (C) Atalanta in Calydon
24. (D) Charles Curran
25. (D) It gave utmost importance to women’s empowerment
26. (A) Saussure
27. (C) Transferred Epithet
28. (B) The Famished Road
29. (C) Arundhati Roy
30. (C) Kedarnath Singh
31. (D) Magic Realism
32. (B) Feathers
33. (C) Milton
34. (B) Supernaturalism
35. (D) Chaucer
36. (B) Stanley Fish
37. (A) Martin Esslin
38. (C) Brecht
39. (B) Absurdism
40. (D) Metamorphosis
41. (D) Brecht
42. (A) Frantz Fanon
43. (C) R.W. Emerson
44. (B) Saul Bellow
45. (C) Robert Frost
46. (B) Mississippi River
47. (A) 2 3 4 1
48. (A) James Boswell
49. (D) Roland Barthes
50. (A) Marxist
51. (A) Aristotle
52. (D) Elaine Showalter
53. (D) Psycho-Analysis
54. (A) T.S. Eliot
55. (C) New Criticism
56. (C) A
57. (C) Oxen
58. (A) Vixen
59. (C) Closet Drama
60. (D) Picaresque Novel
61. (A) 4 3 2 1
62. (B) Gabriel García Márquez
63. (C) Six
64. (D) Common European Framework of Reference
65. (D) Learner
66. (D) Ernst Gombrich
67. (B) Plot
68. (B) Brevity
69. (B) Toru Dutt
70. (A) Philip Pirrip
71. (D) Sarojini Naidu
72. (D) Villette
73. (A) Michel Foucault
74. (A) Orientalism
75. (A) I, III, and IV are correct

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