Telangana SET -2017 English Paper-3
1. Lemuel, Pamela and Belinda are all:
(A) The first names of characters from 18th Century literary texts
(B) The first names of characters in Gulliver's Travels
(C) The first names of authors of 18th Century canonical literary authors
(D) The first names of characters in Fielding's novels
2. The following groups feature confessional poets. Identify the group which includes a non-confessional poet:
(A) Robert Lowell, W.D. Snodgrass, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton
(B) Robert Lowell, M.L. Rosenthal, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton
(C) W.D. Snodgrass, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, John Berryman
(D) Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, John Berryman, Robert Lowell
3. Edward Bond, Jane Smiley, Margaret Atwood and Anne Tyler are grouped together because:
(A) They have all written plays
(B) They are all American authors
(C) They have all won the Booker
(D) They have all re-written Shakespeare's plays.
4. The Movement poets did not include:
(A) Philip Larkin
(B) Thom Gunn
(C) Donald Davie
(D) Geoffrey Hill
5. In a Blackwood's Magazine review the Romantic poets Keats and Shelley were dismissively labelled:
(A) The Beauteous poets
(B) The Upstarts
(C) The Cockney School
(D) The Parvenus
6. Romanticism as a movement flourished
(A) Only in England
(B) In England and on the European continent
(C) In England and America
(D) In England, on the European continent and in America
7. Blake expressed the importance of the particular when he said that "To Generalize is to be Particularize is to be ……………… To particularize is the alone Distinction of Merit". Fill in the blank with the correct choice.
(A) An idiot
(B) A poet
(C) A dreamer
(D) A politician.
8. The idea of the "noble savage" was first sympathetically theorised by:
(A) James Fenimore Cooper
(B) Frantz Fanon
(C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(D) Thomas Hobbes
9. Child characters on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage were seen in plays such as:
(A) Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi and The Winter's Tale
(B) Macbeth, Richard II and Arden of Faversham
(C) The Duchess of Malfi, Richard II and Doctor Faustus
(D) The Winter's Tale, Doctor Faustus and Volpone
10. Ferdinand is a character in:
(A) The Tempest, The Revenger's Tragedy
(B) The Duchess of Malfi, The Revenger's Tragedy
(C) The Duchess of Malfi, The Tempest
(D) The Tempest, The Maid's Tragedy
11. Which of the following is wrongly included in the lists of Elizabethan prose writers ?
(A) John Lyly, Robert Greene, Thomas Deloney
(B) Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Thomas More
(C) Thomas Deloney, Robert Greene, Francis Bacon
(D) Thomas Nashe, Francis Bacon, John Lyly
12. Among the following choices which was not authored by Spenser?
(A) The Shepherd's Calendar
(B) Epithalamion
(C) Arcadia
(D) Prothalamion
13. English drama of the latter half of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not influenced by:
(A) Morality plays
(B) In-yer-face drama
(A) The Beauteous poets
(B) The Upstarts
(C) The Cockney School
(D) The Parvenus
6. Romanticism as a movement flourished
(A) Only in England
(B) In England and on the European continent
(C) In England and America
(D) In England, on the European continent and in America
7. Blake expressed the importance of the particular when he said that "To Generalize is to be Particularize is to be ……………… To particularize is the alone Distinction of Merit". Fill in the blank with the correct choice.
(A) An idiot
(B) A poet
(C) A dreamer
(D) A politician.
8. The idea of the "noble savage" was first sympathetically theorised by:
(A) James Fenimore Cooper
(B) Frantz Fanon
(C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(D) Thomas Hobbes
9. Child characters on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage were seen in plays such as:
(A) Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi and The Winter's Tale
(B) Macbeth, Richard II and Arden of Faversham
(C) The Duchess of Malfi, Richard II and Doctor Faustus
(D) The Winter's Tale, Doctor Faustus and Volpone
10. Ferdinand is a character in:
(A) The Tempest, The Revenger's Tragedy
(B) The Duchess of Malfi, The Revenger's Tragedy
(C) The Duchess of Malfi, The Tempest
(D) The Tempest, The Maid's Tragedy
11. Which of the following is wrongly included in the lists of Elizabethan prose writers ?
(A) John Lyly, Robert Greene, Thomas Deloney
(B) Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Thomas More
(C) Thomas Deloney, Robert Greene, Francis Bacon
(D) Thomas Nashe, Francis Bacon, John Lyly
12. Among the following choices which was not authored by Spenser?
(A) The Shepherd's Calendar
(B) Epithalamion
(C) Arcadia
(D) Prothalamion
13. English drama of the latter half of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not influenced by:
(A) Morality plays
(B) In-yer-face drama
(C) Classical drama
(D) Interludes
14. Mark the choice that includes a character who does not figure in Carlyle's list of heroes:
(A) Mohammed, Odin, Dante
(B) Mohammed, Knox, Shakespeare
(C) Odin, Luther, Cromwell
(D) Odin, Milton, Knox
15. The untimely death of a young girl is a motif which is repeated in:
(A) "Thyrsis" and "Cry of the Children"
(B) "Cry of the Children" and "Goblin Market"
(C) "Goblin Market" and "Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead"
(D) "Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead" and "King Cophetua"
16. "Natural Theology in the Island" is the subtitle to:
(A) "Caliban upon Setebos"
(B) Darwin: A Life in Poema
(C) "Hap"
(D) "Vulture"
17. Dickens'a novels are usually criticized for their sentimentality but applauded for their:
(A) Shapelessness
(B) Comic zest
(C) Sloppy emotionalism
(D) Repetitive nature
18. The notion that parents should have numerous children whom they can then sell as food for the hungry is:
(A) From Swift's A Modest Proposal
(B) From Gulliver's Travels, Bk 4
(C) From Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
(D) From Pope's Essay on Man
19. Fill in the blank so that it forms the correct title of an 18th Century novel:
Pamela, or Virtue ……………..
(A) Beleaguered
(B) Rewarded
(C) Besieged
(D) Satisfied
20. Which of the following is not an epistolary novel?
(A) The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
(B) Pamela
(C) Joseph Andrews
(D) Evelina
21. Poems such as "Musee des Beaux Arts" and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" are best described as:
(A) Painting poems
(B) Ekphrastic poems
(C) Descriptive poems
(D) Landscape poetry
22. The following includes one title which is not an example of "a poem that explains the art of poetry":
(A) Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"
(B) William Wordsworth's Prelude
(C) Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
(D) Interludes
14. Mark the choice that includes a character who does not figure in Carlyle's list of heroes:
(A) Mohammed, Odin, Dante
(B) Mohammed, Knox, Shakespeare
(C) Odin, Luther, Cromwell
(D) Odin, Milton, Knox
15. The untimely death of a young girl is a motif which is repeated in:
(A) "Thyrsis" and "Cry of the Children"
(B) "Cry of the Children" and "Goblin Market"
(C) "Goblin Market" and "Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead"
(D) "Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead" and "King Cophetua"
16. "Natural Theology in the Island" is the subtitle to:
(A) "Caliban upon Setebos"
(B) Darwin: A Life in Poema
(C) "Hap"
(D) "Vulture"
17. Dickens'a novels are usually criticized for their sentimentality but applauded for their:
(A) Shapelessness
(B) Comic zest
(C) Sloppy emotionalism
(D) Repetitive nature
18. The notion that parents should have numerous children whom they can then sell as food for the hungry is:
(A) From Swift's A Modest Proposal
(B) From Gulliver's Travels, Bk 4
(C) From Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel
(D) From Pope's Essay on Man
19. Fill in the blank so that it forms the correct title of an 18th Century novel:
Pamela, or Virtue ……………..
(A) Beleaguered
(B) Rewarded
(C) Besieged
(D) Satisfied
20. Which of the following is not an epistolary novel?
(A) The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
(B) Pamela
(C) Joseph Andrews
(D) Evelina
21. Poems such as "Musee des Beaux Arts" and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" are best described as:
(A) Painting poems
(B) Ekphrastic poems
(C) Descriptive poems
(D) Landscape poetry
22. The following includes one title which is not an example of "a poem that explains the art of poetry":
(A) Archibald MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"
(B) William Wordsworth's Prelude
(C) Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
(D) Marianne Moore's "Poetry"
23. Mark the set which has the titles of poems matched correctly with their authors:
(A) Lewis Carroll: "The Owl and the Pussycat"; Edward Lear: "Father William"; T.S. Eliot: "Macavity the Mystery Cat"; Shel Silverstein: "Dirty Face"
(B) Lewis Carroll: "Father William"; T.S. Eliot: "The Owl and the Pussycat"; Edward Lear: "Macavity the Mystery Cat"; Shel Silverstein: "Dirty Face"
(C) Edward Lear: "Dirty Face"; Lewis Carroll: "Father William"; T.S. Eliot: "Macavity the Mystery Cat"; Shel Silverstein: "The Owl and the Pussycat
(D) Edward Lear: "The Owl and the Pussycat"; Lewis Carroll: "Father William": T.S. Eliot: "Macavity the Mystery Cat"; Shel Silverstein: "Dirty Face"
Read the following statements on this passage and mark the correct choice.
24. ………………. sure, it waits upon
Some god o' the island. Sitting on a bank,
Weeping again the king my father's wreck,
This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,
Or it hath drawn me rather.
(a) These lines, spoken by Edgar in King Lear, are part of a long speech delivered on the heath.
(b) These lines, spoken by Ferdinand in The Tempest, describe Ariel's music.
(c) This passage reappears in an altered and ironic version in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land.
(d) The passage appears verbatim in W.H. Auden's Sea and the Mirror.
(A) (a) and (d)
(B) (b) and (c)
(C) (c) and (d)
(D) (a) and (c)
25. Lines are "run-ba" in poetry in order to:
(A) Meet their rhythmic end
(B) Complete their grammatical sense
(C) Ensure their rhythmic flow
(D) Skip parenthetical clausea.
26. In which poem of GM Hopkins do we see a kestrel's flight captured so beautifully in his sprung rhythm?
(A) The Wreck of the Deutschland
(B) "Spring"
(C) "God's Grandeur"
(D) "The Windhover"
27. The American term honcho derives from word meaning "squad-leader which we now apply to someone who is a leader or a boss.
(A) Irish
(C) Norse
(B) Japanese
(D) Arabic
28. Match the names of authors in List-I with the titles of books in List -II
List - I
(a) Edward Said
(b) Homi K. Bhabha
(c) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(d) Frantz Fanon
List-II
(i) The Location of Culture
(ii) Death of a Discipline
(iii) Black Skin, White Masks
(iv) Orientalism
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (1) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (1)
(C) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(D) (iii) (iv) (1) (1)
29. "Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five examples and Three Thoughts on Translation is an essay written by …………..
(A) U.R. Ananthamurthy
(B) Arundhati Roy
(C) Shashi Tharoor
(D) A.K. Ramanujan
30. A BBC television series, which was later published as a book titled Ways of Seeing, that discussea the representation of woman in western paintings and advertisements is written by
(A) John Berger
(B) John Major
(C) Jonathan Swift
(D) Joseph Addison
31. The films Maqbool, Omkara and Haider have been adapted from the plays of ………..
(A) Harold Pinter
(B) G.B. Shaw
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) Kalidasa
32. The author of the book The Language of New Media is …………….
(A) Thomas Elsaesser
(B) David Crystal
(C) Manuel Castells
(D) Lev Manovich
33. An important institution for the introduction and promotion of American Literature in India in the 1960s was ……………….
(A) Sahitya Akademi
(B) The British Council
(C) The American Studies Research Centre
(D) Alliance Francaise
34. In his book In Theory. Aijaz Ahmed works out the relation between the three entities:
(A) Classes, Nations, Literatures
(B) Region, Nation, Language
(C) State, Religion, Gender
(D) Literature, Print, Cinema
35. There was a concerted attempt at rethinking the discipline of English Studies in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Identify the order of publication of the books on the subject:
(A) Masks of Conquest, The Lie of the Land, Provocations, Rethinking English
(B) Rethinking English, Provocations, Masks of Conquest, The Lie of the Land
(C) Provocations, Rethinking English, The Lie of the Land, Masks of Conquest
(D) The Lie of the Land, Masks of Conquest, Rethinking English, Provocations
36. "Whether we look at the intrinsic value of our literature, or at the particular situation of this country, we shall see the strongest reason to think that, of all foreign tongues, the English tongue is that which would be the most useful to our native subjects." This is a quotation from …………….
(A) Sir George Anderson's Christian Education in India in 1932
(B) Thomas Babington Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education of 1835
(C) The Hunter Education Commission Report of 1884
(D) Charles Grant's Observations Written Chiefly in 1792
37. Power for Foucault is not something someone wields, but power in the form of ………….
(A) Wealth
(B) Military might
(C) Knowledge
(D) Sexual Prowess
38. According to ……………….. certain verbs actually 'perform' an act when they are uttered.
(A) Speech Act theorists such as Austin and Searle
(B) Russian Formalists such as Vladimir Propp
(C) Language Development theorists such as B. F. Skinner
(D) Cognitive Linguists such as George Lakoff
39. The theory of gender as a form of performativity or stylized, iterative act is proposed by:
(A) Julia Kristeva
(B) Judith Butler
(C) Laura Mulvey
(D) Donna Haraway
40. Linguistics, an instance of language that is used to talk about language, is a form of …………
(A) Metaculture
(B) Metalepsis
(C) Metalanguage
(D) Metamorphosis
41. In his discussion of signification, Charles Peirce distinguished between ……………..
(A) Iconic, Symbolic and Indexical signs
(B) Logos, phonograms, ideograms
(C) Sound, Image, Concept
(D) Emblem, Trope, Metonym
42. The error of interpreting a literary work by referring to evidence outside of itself, such as the design and purpose of the author is called ………………..
(A) Affective fallacy
(B) Intentional fallacy
(C) Authorial fallacy
(D) Interpretive fallacy
43. ………………… in the words of Louis Montrose is "a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history".
(A) New Criticism
(B) New Historicism
(C) Modernism
(D) Neo-realism
44. According to Reader-response theory the 'implied reader' is ……………..
(A) The Actual reader
(B) One who is established by the text itself and expected to respond in specific ways
(C) The Practical reader
(D) One who engages in close reading
45. ………………. was deployed by Bertolt Brecht in his Epic theatre of the 1920s to prevent emotional identification with familiar aspects of social reality.
(A) Alienation effect
(B) Allusion
(C) Allegorical effect
(D) Alliteration
46. T.S. Eliot uses the term ……………. to refer to a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of a particular emotion, and which will evoke the same emotion from the reader.
(A) Dissociation of Sensibility
(B) Objective Correlative
(C) Historical Sense
(D) Impersonality
23. Mark the set which has the titles of poems matched correctly with their authors:
(A) Lewis Carroll: "The Owl and the Pussycat"; Edward Lear: "Father William"; T.S. Eliot: "Macavity the Mystery Cat"; Shel Silverstein: "Dirty Face"
(B) Lewis Carroll: "Father William"; T.S. Eliot: "The Owl and the Pussycat"; Edward Lear: "Macavity the Mystery Cat"; Shel Silverstein: "Dirty Face"
(C) Edward Lear: "Dirty Face"; Lewis Carroll: "Father William"; T.S. Eliot: "Macavity the Mystery Cat"; Shel Silverstein: "The Owl and the Pussycat
(D) Edward Lear: "The Owl and the Pussycat"; Lewis Carroll: "Father William": T.S. Eliot: "Macavity the Mystery Cat"; Shel Silverstein: "Dirty Face"
Read the following statements on this passage and mark the correct choice.
24. ………………. sure, it waits upon
Some god o' the island. Sitting on a bank,
Weeping again the king my father's wreck,
This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,
Or it hath drawn me rather.
(a) These lines, spoken by Edgar in King Lear, are part of a long speech delivered on the heath.
(b) These lines, spoken by Ferdinand in The Tempest, describe Ariel's music.
(c) This passage reappears in an altered and ironic version in T.S. Eliot's Waste Land.
(d) The passage appears verbatim in W.H. Auden's Sea and the Mirror.
(A) (a) and (d)
(B) (b) and (c)
(C) (c) and (d)
(D) (a) and (c)
25. Lines are "run-ba" in poetry in order to:
(A) Meet their rhythmic end
(B) Complete their grammatical sense
(C) Ensure their rhythmic flow
(D) Skip parenthetical clausea.
26. In which poem of GM Hopkins do we see a kestrel's flight captured so beautifully in his sprung rhythm?
(A) The Wreck of the Deutschland
(B) "Spring"
(C) "God's Grandeur"
(D) "The Windhover"
27. The American term honcho derives from word meaning "squad-leader which we now apply to someone who is a leader or a boss.
(A) Irish
(C) Norse
(B) Japanese
(D) Arabic
28. Match the names of authors in List-I with the titles of books in List -II
List - I
(a) Edward Said
(b) Homi K. Bhabha
(c) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(d) Frantz Fanon
List-II
(i) The Location of Culture
(ii) Death of a Discipline
(iii) Black Skin, White Masks
(iv) Orientalism
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (1) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (1)
(C) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(D) (iii) (iv) (1) (1)
29. "Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five examples and Three Thoughts on Translation is an essay written by …………..
(A) U.R. Ananthamurthy
(B) Arundhati Roy
(C) Shashi Tharoor
(D) A.K. Ramanujan
30. A BBC television series, which was later published as a book titled Ways of Seeing, that discussea the representation of woman in western paintings and advertisements is written by
(A) John Berger
(B) John Major
(C) Jonathan Swift
(D) Joseph Addison
31. The films Maqbool, Omkara and Haider have been adapted from the plays of ………..
(A) Harold Pinter
(B) G.B. Shaw
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) Kalidasa
32. The author of the book The Language of New Media is …………….
(A) Thomas Elsaesser
(B) David Crystal
(C) Manuel Castells
(D) Lev Manovich
33. An important institution for the introduction and promotion of American Literature in India in the 1960s was ……………….
(A) Sahitya Akademi
(B) The British Council
(C) The American Studies Research Centre
(D) Alliance Francaise
34. In his book In Theory. Aijaz Ahmed works out the relation between the three entities:
(A) Classes, Nations, Literatures
(B) Region, Nation, Language
(C) State, Religion, Gender
(D) Literature, Print, Cinema
35. There was a concerted attempt at rethinking the discipline of English Studies in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Identify the order of publication of the books on the subject:
(A) Masks of Conquest, The Lie of the Land, Provocations, Rethinking English
(B) Rethinking English, Provocations, Masks of Conquest, The Lie of the Land
(C) Provocations, Rethinking English, The Lie of the Land, Masks of Conquest
(D) The Lie of the Land, Masks of Conquest, Rethinking English, Provocations
36. "Whether we look at the intrinsic value of our literature, or at the particular situation of this country, we shall see the strongest reason to think that, of all foreign tongues, the English tongue is that which would be the most useful to our native subjects." This is a quotation from …………….
(A) Sir George Anderson's Christian Education in India in 1932
(B) Thomas Babington Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education of 1835
(C) The Hunter Education Commission Report of 1884
(D) Charles Grant's Observations Written Chiefly in 1792
37. Power for Foucault is not something someone wields, but power in the form of ………….
(A) Wealth
(B) Military might
(C) Knowledge
(D) Sexual Prowess
38. According to ……………….. certain verbs actually 'perform' an act when they are uttered.
(A) Speech Act theorists such as Austin and Searle
(B) Russian Formalists such as Vladimir Propp
(C) Language Development theorists such as B. F. Skinner
(D) Cognitive Linguists such as George Lakoff
39. The theory of gender as a form of performativity or stylized, iterative act is proposed by:
(A) Julia Kristeva
(B) Judith Butler
(C) Laura Mulvey
(D) Donna Haraway
40. Linguistics, an instance of language that is used to talk about language, is a form of …………
(A) Metaculture
(B) Metalepsis
(C) Metalanguage
(D) Metamorphosis
41. In his discussion of signification, Charles Peirce distinguished between ……………..
(A) Iconic, Symbolic and Indexical signs
(B) Logos, phonograms, ideograms
(C) Sound, Image, Concept
(D) Emblem, Trope, Metonym
42. The error of interpreting a literary work by referring to evidence outside of itself, such as the design and purpose of the author is called ………………..
(A) Affective fallacy
(B) Intentional fallacy
(C) Authorial fallacy
(D) Interpretive fallacy
43. ………………… in the words of Louis Montrose is "a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history".
(A) New Criticism
(B) New Historicism
(C) Modernism
(D) Neo-realism
44. According to Reader-response theory the 'implied reader' is ……………..
(A) The Actual reader
(B) One who is established by the text itself and expected to respond in specific ways
(C) The Practical reader
(D) One who engages in close reading
45. ………………. was deployed by Bertolt Brecht in his Epic theatre of the 1920s to prevent emotional identification with familiar aspects of social reality.
(A) Alienation effect
(B) Allusion
(C) Allegorical effect
(D) Alliteration
46. T.S. Eliot uses the term ……………. to refer to a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of a particular emotion, and which will evoke the same emotion from the reader.
(A) Dissociation of Sensibility
(B) Objective Correlative
(C) Historical Sense
(D) Impersonality
47. …………………….. translated and introduced Mahasweta Devi's Breast Stories.
(A) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(B) Lakshmi Holmstrom
(C) Aparna Dharwadkar
(D) J. Devika
48. "I hold the half-inch Himalayas in my hand".
This famous nostalgic account of Kashmir comes from the major diasporic Indian poet:
(A) Sujata Bhatt
(B) Meena Alexander
(C) Agha Shahid Ali
(D) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
49. Slumdog Millionaire the film is based on the novel Swarup: written by Vikas
(A) Q and A
(B) Six Suspects
(C) The Accidental Apprentice
(D) A Great Event
50. In the third-person narrator, the narrator is ………………….
(A) someone outside the story proper who refers to all the characters in the story by name or as "he" or she
(B) is someone who speaks as "I"
(C) is someone who mentions at least one character as "you"
(D) is someone who interviews characters to collect the details of the story.
51. In Nissim Ezekiel's poem "Night of the Scorpion", the lines "Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children" is spoken by the speaker's
(A) Father
(B) Grandmother
(C) Mother
(D) Aunt
52. ……………………… narrative theory discusses how narratives have a three-part structure beginning with Equilibrium, then moving towards Disequilibrium and finally ends with the New Equilibrium.
(A) Todorov's
(B) Propp's
(C) Genette's
(D) Eisentein's
53. Which of the following pairs would apply best to the Victorian age?
(A) Feudalism and international trade
(B) Faith and science
(C) Christianity and primitivism
(D) Monarchy and regicide
54. Which one of the following Victorian poets wrote a poem praising the action of English soldiers during the Indian 'Mutiny'?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) A.C. Swinburne
(C) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(D) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
55. Identify the correct sequence of authors:
Matthew Prior, Christopher Smart, John Suckling, Matthew Arnold
(A) Matthew Prior, Christopher Smart, John Suckling, Matthew Arnold
(B) Matthew Prior, Christopher Smart, Matthew. Arnold, John Suckling
(C) Matthew Prior, John Suckling, Matthew Arnold, Christopher Smart
(D) John Suckling, Matthew Prior, Christopher Smart, Matthew Arnold
56. What is the correct order of appearance of the following novels ?
Hard Times, Jude the Obscure, Dracula, Treasure Island.
(A) Hard Times, Jude the Obscure, Dracula, Treasure Island
(B) Hard Times, Dracula, Treasure Island, Jude the Obscure
(C) Treasure Island, Jude the Obscure, Dracula, Hard Times
(D) Hard Times, Treasure Island, Jude the Obscure, Dracula
57. Which of the following is not a Gothic horror story?
(A) Dracula
(B) Castle Rackrent
(C) Billy Budd
(D) The Monk
58. "I prefer not to", is the regular and repeated response of the protagonist of Herman Melville's
(A) Billy Budd
(B) Bartleby
(C) Ahab
(D) Ishmael
59. "All right, then, I'll go to hell". This statement by a boy-hero while refusing to betray his black friend is at the heart of a novel. Which one?
(A) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(B) Moby Dick
(C) The Color Purple
(D) American Pastoral
60. Omeros is the reworking of Homer by the postcolonial poet:
(A) Wole Soyinka
(B) Derek Walcott
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) AD Hope
61. "I speak three languages, write in
Two, dream in one...
The language I speak,
Becomes mine, its distortions, its queernesses
All mine, mine alone.
It is half English, half Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest..."
This famous statement, by Kamala Das, about the role of English appears in:
(A) "The Looking Glass"
(B) "An Introduction"
(C) "A Losing Battle"
(D) "My Grandmother's House"
62. The novel which inaugurated the theme of "doubling" in English literature was:
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(C) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(D) The Plumed Serpent
63. Among the following authors, who is best known for retellings of epic stories?
(A) Ashok Banker
(B) Preeti Shenoy
(C) Ramendra Lal
(D) Ranjit Lal
64. Which EA Poe story has as its central theme of the "double"?
(A) "William Wilson"
(B) "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
(C) "The Gold Bug"
(D) "The Masque of Red Death"
65. "The Talented Tenth" as a term to designate leadership among African Americans was popularized by:
(A) Booker T. Washington.
(B) Richard Wright
(C) Toni Morrison
(D) W.E.B. Dubois
Read the given poem and answer the questions that follow (66 to 70):
You love us when we're heroes, home on leave
Or wounded in a mentionable place
You worship decorations; you believe
That chivalry redeems the war's disgrace
You make us shells. You listen with delight
By tales of dirt and danger fondly thrilled
You crown our distant ardours while we fight
And mourn our laurelled memories when we're killed
You can't believe that British troops "retire"
When hell's last horror breaks them, and they run
Trampling the terrible corpses-blind with blood
O German mother dreaming by the fire
While you are knitting socks to send your son
His face is trodden deeper in the mud.
66. The "us" and "you" in the poem:
(A) Refer to soldiers at the war-front and the women at home
(B) Refer to British soldiers at the war-front and those left behind at home
(C) Refer to German soldiers and their mothers
(D) Refer to only the decorated soldiers and their wives
67. The phrase "wounded in a mentionable place speaks about:
(A) The unmentionable nature of wounds in the back because they show evidence of cowardice.
(B) Wounds that were gained in war locations when the soldiers were on spying missions
(C) Wounds that make entertaining conversation for
(D) The reluctance to speak about wounds that are in those parts of the body not usually mentioned in polite conversation or that demonstrate cowardice.
68. The poem works at two levels. These are:
(A) The terrible truth of war and the contrary view those not at the war-front like to hold on to.
(B) The reality of war and the recognition of that truth by those who have not experienced it.
(C) The tendency of the soldiers to fool themselves about the nature of war even as they experience it.
(D) The tendency of those who are not soldiers to glorify war even when they know the truth.
69. The poem's theme can best be expressed as:
(A) The horror of war
(B) The horror of war juxtaposed with the perception of war
(C) The enjoyment of war by those inexperienced in it
(D) The enjoyment of war by those who experience it and those who hear about it.
70. The final three lines of the poem juxtapose:
(A) Horror and tranquility by using different similes
(B) Horror and tranquility by using different but connected similes
(C) Pathos and tranquility by using different images
(D) Pathos and tranquility by using different but connected images.
Questions 71 to 75 are based on the following passage:
Rather than saying that little boys and little girls, from the very start, learn two different ways of speaking. I think that the process is more complicated. Since the mother and other women are dominant influences in the lives of most children under the age of 5, probably both boys and girls first learn 'women's language' as their first language. As they grow older, boys especially go through a stage of rough talk; this is probably discouraged in little girls more strongly than in little boys, in whom parents may often find it more amusing than shocking. By the time children are 10 or so, and split up into same-sex peer groups, the two languages are already present, according to my recollections and observations. But it seems that what has happened is that the boys have unlearned their original form of expression and adopted new forms of expression, while the girls retain their old ways of speech. The ultimate result is the same, of course, whatever the interpretation.
So a girl is damned if she does, damned if she doesn't. If she refuses to talk like a lady, she is ridiculed and subjected to criticism as unfeminine; if she does learn, she is ridiculed as unable to think clearly, unable to take part in a serious discussion: in some sense, as less than fully human. These two choices which a woman has to be less than a woman or less than a person are highly painful
71. "By the time children are 10 or so......". What does this phrase suggest?
(A) approximately
(B) appropriately
(C) or above
(D) or below
72. …………….in whom parents may often find it more amusing than shocking." Who does the author mean here?
(A) little boys
(B) little girls
(C) their parents
(D) older girls
73. "[A] girl is damned if she does, damned if she doesn't." How do we understand what the author mean by this statement?
(A) by reading the whole paragraph.
(B) by reading the paragraph. previous
(C) by reading the line following this statement.
(D) by reading between the lines.
74. Are the "two choices" mentioned in the last line real choices for women? Explain.
(A) Yes. They have the freedom to exercise the less painful choice.
(B) Yes. They have the freedom to exercise the more beneficial choice.
(C) No. They have no real choice either way.
(D) No. They must feel painful always.
75. What is the main topic discussed in this passage?
(A) The socio-linguistic behavior of little boys and little girls.
(B) The speech patterns of little boys and little girls.
(C) The process of developing speech styles in the little boys and little girls.
(D) The process of developing speech behavior in the little boys and little girls.
(A) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(B) Lakshmi Holmstrom
(C) Aparna Dharwadkar
(D) J. Devika
48. "I hold the half-inch Himalayas in my hand".
This famous nostalgic account of Kashmir comes from the major diasporic Indian poet:
(A) Sujata Bhatt
(B) Meena Alexander
(C) Agha Shahid Ali
(D) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
49. Slumdog Millionaire the film is based on the novel Swarup: written by Vikas
(A) Q and A
(B) Six Suspects
(C) The Accidental Apprentice
(D) A Great Event
50. In the third-person narrator, the narrator is ………………….
(A) someone outside the story proper who refers to all the characters in the story by name or as "he" or she
(B) is someone who speaks as "I"
(C) is someone who mentions at least one character as "you"
(D) is someone who interviews characters to collect the details of the story.
51. In Nissim Ezekiel's poem "Night of the Scorpion", the lines "Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children" is spoken by the speaker's
(A) Father
(B) Grandmother
(C) Mother
(D) Aunt
52. ……………………… narrative theory discusses how narratives have a three-part structure beginning with Equilibrium, then moving towards Disequilibrium and finally ends with the New Equilibrium.
(A) Todorov's
(B) Propp's
(C) Genette's
(D) Eisentein's
53. Which of the following pairs would apply best to the Victorian age?
(A) Feudalism and international trade
(B) Faith and science
(C) Christianity and primitivism
(D) Monarchy and regicide
54. Which one of the following Victorian poets wrote a poem praising the action of English soldiers during the Indian 'Mutiny'?
(A) Matthew Arnold
(B) A.C. Swinburne
(C) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(D) Dante Gabriel Rossetti
55. Identify the correct sequence of authors:
Matthew Prior, Christopher Smart, John Suckling, Matthew Arnold
(A) Matthew Prior, Christopher Smart, John Suckling, Matthew Arnold
(B) Matthew Prior, Christopher Smart, Matthew. Arnold, John Suckling
(C) Matthew Prior, John Suckling, Matthew Arnold, Christopher Smart
(D) John Suckling, Matthew Prior, Christopher Smart, Matthew Arnold
56. What is the correct order of appearance of the following novels ?
Hard Times, Jude the Obscure, Dracula, Treasure Island.
(A) Hard Times, Jude the Obscure, Dracula, Treasure Island
(B) Hard Times, Dracula, Treasure Island, Jude the Obscure
(C) Treasure Island, Jude the Obscure, Dracula, Hard Times
(D) Hard Times, Treasure Island, Jude the Obscure, Dracula
57. Which of the following is not a Gothic horror story?
(A) Dracula
(B) Castle Rackrent
(C) Billy Budd
(D) The Monk
58. "I prefer not to", is the regular and repeated response of the protagonist of Herman Melville's
(A) Billy Budd
(B) Bartleby
(C) Ahab
(D) Ishmael
59. "All right, then, I'll go to hell". This statement by a boy-hero while refusing to betray his black friend is at the heart of a novel. Which one?
(A) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(B) Moby Dick
(C) The Color Purple
(D) American Pastoral
60. Omeros is the reworking of Homer by the postcolonial poet:
(A) Wole Soyinka
(B) Derek Walcott
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) AD Hope
61. "I speak three languages, write in
Two, dream in one...
The language I speak,
Becomes mine, its distortions, its queernesses
All mine, mine alone.
It is half English, half Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest..."
This famous statement, by Kamala Das, about the role of English appears in:
(A) "The Looking Glass"
(B) "An Introduction"
(C) "A Losing Battle"
(D) "My Grandmother's House"
62. The novel which inaugurated the theme of "doubling" in English literature was:
(A) Sons and Lovers
(B) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(C) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(D) The Plumed Serpent
63. Among the following authors, who is best known for retellings of epic stories?
(A) Ashok Banker
(B) Preeti Shenoy
(C) Ramendra Lal
(D) Ranjit Lal
64. Which EA Poe story has as its central theme of the "double"?
(A) "William Wilson"
(B) "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
(C) "The Gold Bug"
(D) "The Masque of Red Death"
65. "The Talented Tenth" as a term to designate leadership among African Americans was popularized by:
(A) Booker T. Washington.
(B) Richard Wright
(C) Toni Morrison
(D) W.E.B. Dubois
Read the given poem and answer the questions that follow (66 to 70):
You love us when we're heroes, home on leave
Or wounded in a mentionable place
You worship decorations; you believe
That chivalry redeems the war's disgrace
You make us shells. You listen with delight
By tales of dirt and danger fondly thrilled
You crown our distant ardours while we fight
And mourn our laurelled memories when we're killed
You can't believe that British troops "retire"
When hell's last horror breaks them, and they run
Trampling the terrible corpses-blind with blood
O German mother dreaming by the fire
While you are knitting socks to send your son
His face is trodden deeper in the mud.
66. The "us" and "you" in the poem:
(A) Refer to soldiers at the war-front and the women at home
(B) Refer to British soldiers at the war-front and those left behind at home
(C) Refer to German soldiers and their mothers
(D) Refer to only the decorated soldiers and their wives
67. The phrase "wounded in a mentionable place speaks about:
(A) The unmentionable nature of wounds in the back because they show evidence of cowardice.
(B) Wounds that were gained in war locations when the soldiers were on spying missions
(C) Wounds that make entertaining conversation for
(D) The reluctance to speak about wounds that are in those parts of the body not usually mentioned in polite conversation or that demonstrate cowardice.
68. The poem works at two levels. These are:
(A) The terrible truth of war and the contrary view those not at the war-front like to hold on to.
(B) The reality of war and the recognition of that truth by those who have not experienced it.
(C) The tendency of the soldiers to fool themselves about the nature of war even as they experience it.
(D) The tendency of those who are not soldiers to glorify war even when they know the truth.
69. The poem's theme can best be expressed as:
(A) The horror of war
(B) The horror of war juxtaposed with the perception of war
(C) The enjoyment of war by those inexperienced in it
(D) The enjoyment of war by those who experience it and those who hear about it.
70. The final three lines of the poem juxtapose:
(A) Horror and tranquility by using different similes
(B) Horror and tranquility by using different but connected similes
(C) Pathos and tranquility by using different images
(D) Pathos and tranquility by using different but connected images.
Questions 71 to 75 are based on the following passage:
Rather than saying that little boys and little girls, from the very start, learn two different ways of speaking. I think that the process is more complicated. Since the mother and other women are dominant influences in the lives of most children under the age of 5, probably both boys and girls first learn 'women's language' as their first language. As they grow older, boys especially go through a stage of rough talk; this is probably discouraged in little girls more strongly than in little boys, in whom parents may often find it more amusing than shocking. By the time children are 10 or so, and split up into same-sex peer groups, the two languages are already present, according to my recollections and observations. But it seems that what has happened is that the boys have unlearned their original form of expression and adopted new forms of expression, while the girls retain their old ways of speech. The ultimate result is the same, of course, whatever the interpretation.
So a girl is damned if she does, damned if she doesn't. If she refuses to talk like a lady, she is ridiculed and subjected to criticism as unfeminine; if she does learn, she is ridiculed as unable to think clearly, unable to take part in a serious discussion: in some sense, as less than fully human. These two choices which a woman has to be less than a woman or less than a person are highly painful
71. "By the time children are 10 or so......". What does this phrase suggest?
(A) approximately
(B) appropriately
(C) or above
(D) or below
72. …………….in whom parents may often find it more amusing than shocking." Who does the author mean here?
(A) little boys
(B) little girls
(C) their parents
(D) older girls
73. "[A] girl is damned if she does, damned if she doesn't." How do we understand what the author mean by this statement?
(A) by reading the whole paragraph.
(B) by reading the paragraph. previous
(C) by reading the line following this statement.
(D) by reading between the lines.
74. Are the "two choices" mentioned in the last line real choices for women? Explain.
(A) Yes. They have the freedom to exercise the less painful choice.
(B) Yes. They have the freedom to exercise the more beneficial choice.
(C) No. They have no real choice either way.
(D) No. They must feel painful always.
75. What is the main topic discussed in this passage?
(A) The socio-linguistic behavior of little boys and little girls.
(B) The speech patterns of little boys and little girls.
(C) The process of developing speech styles in the little boys and little girls.
(D) The process of developing speech behavior in the little boys and little girls.
ANSWER KEY
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PAPER III |
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Q. No. |
Answer |
Q.NO. |
Answer |
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1 |
A |
39 |
B |
|
2 |
B |
40 |
C |
|
3 |
D |
41 |
A |
|
4 |
D |
42 |
B |
|
5 |
C |
43 |
B |
|
6 |
D |
44 |
B |
|
7 |
A |
45 |
A |
|
8 |
C |
46 |
B |
|
9 |
A |
47 |
A |
|
10 |
C |
48 |
C |
|
11 |
B |
49 |
A |
|
12 |
C |
50 |
A |
|
13 |
B |
51 |
C |
|
14 |
D |
52 |
A |
|
15 |
B |
53 |
B |
|
16 |
A |
54 |
C |
|
17 |
B |
55 |
D |
|
18 |
A |
56 |
D |
|
19 |
B |
57 |
C |
|
20 |
C |
58 |
B |
|
21 |
B |
59 |
A |
|
22 |
C |
60 |
B |
|
23 |
D |
61 |
B |
|
24 |
B |
62 |
C |
|
25 |
B |
63 |
A |
|
26 |
D |
64 |
A |
|
27 |
B |
65 |
D |
|
28 |
C |
66 |
B |
|
29 |
D |
67 |
D |
|
30 |
A |
68 |
A |
|
31 |
C |
69 |
B |
|
32 |
D |
70 |
D |
|
33 |
C |
71 |
A |
|
34 |
A |
72 |
A |
|
35 |
A |
73 |
C |
|
36 |
B |
74 |
C |
|
37 |
C |
75 |
C |
|
38 |
A |
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