TELANGANA SET -2017 ENGLISH Paper - II
1. The first English translations of Sigmund Freud were published by ……….
(A) Maurice Gwyer's Faber & Gwyer.
(B) Weidenfeld & Nicolson Co.
(C) Thames & Hudson Co.
(D) Virginia & Leonard Woolfa Hogarth Press.
2. Which of the following was T. S. Eliot's source for the grail legend in The Waste Land?
(A) Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance
(B) Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West
(C) Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung
(D) Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough
3. Wordsworth defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". Which of the following statements is the second part of this definition?
(A) "It takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."
(B) "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
(C) "Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do."
(D) "Language ...is an infinitude of used or potential poems waiting to be molded into new realities."
4. "[Language] becomes ugly and inaccurate because," according to George Orwell, "our thoughts are …………… but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
(A) foolish
(B) slovenly
(C) silly
(D) easy
5. What significance does Seamus Heaney give "tongue" in The Government of the Tongue?
(A) A poet's personal gift of utterance and the common resources of language
(B) People's command of their language and their power to exercise it
(C) A government's moderate use of language in governance
(D) A poet's physical and spiritual awareness of inspired language
6. "The parish of rich women, physical decay, Yourself...". What do these make of Yeats in Auden's view?
(A) proud
(B) vainglorious
(C) complacent
(D) silly
7. Complete the list of rhyme-series of the sonnet, "God's Grandeur: God-rod-trod- ............. foil-oil-toil- ……….. spent- went- …………; things-springs- ……………..
(A) nod-boil-dent-fangs
(B) sod-moil-tent-dings
(C) mod-spoil-meant-flings
(D) shod-soil-bent-wings
8. The Easter Rising of 1916 was in protest against …………..
(A) England's participation in the Great War.
(B) The execution of 15 Irish leaders.
(C) Britain's imperialist policies in general.
(D) The suppression of Scottish provincial rights.
9. The posthumous ………………publication by…………………….. of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry is a landmark in the history of Modern British literature.
(A) 1922, Coventry Patmore
(B) 1918, Robert Bridges
(C) 1922, Robert Bridges
(D) 1918, Coventry Patmore
10. A neutral tone, an unpretentious fidelity to mundane experiences, a general distrust of arcane myths and allusive denseness, and an insistence on the purity of English diction characterize ………………..
(A) New Apocalypse
(B) Poets of the Thirties
(C) Poets of the Movement
(D) Postmodernist poets
11. How does the State in Harold Pinter's Mountain Language designate the people from the mountain?
(A) outlaws
(B) enemies of the state
(C) marginals
(D) terrorists
14. Piers Plowman is ………………..
(A) an allegorical poem.
(B) a piece of meditative prose.
(C) a work whose basic format is novelistic.
(D) a passion play.
12. Which of the following is not a text by Frantz Fanon ?
(A) The Wretched of the Earth
(B) Black Skin, White Masks
(C) A Dying Colonialism
(D) Discourse on Colonialism
15. Identify the genre most closely associated with the set of novels listed here:
Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Moll Flanders
(A) Picaresque novel
(B) Picturesque novel
(C) Epistolary novel
(D) Metafiction
13. Which of the following statements about The Canterbury Tales is true?
(A) "The General Prologue" is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
(B) In all, Chaucer tells 30 tales in this work.
(C) The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time its author's death.
(D) The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain, and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.
16. Which of the following plays is NOT by Christopher Marlowe ?
(A) Edward II
(B) The Dumb Waiter
(C) Tamburlaine
(D) Jew of Malta
17. Of the following critics, only one is associated with the French Feminists. Identify her.
(A) Luce Irigaray
(B) Sandra Gilbert
(C) Rosi Braidotti
(D) Judith Butler
18. The landscape most closely associated with the life and works of William Wordsworth is:
(A) Grasmere
(B) Essex
(C) Scottish Highlands
(D) Wales
19. The routine travel on the European continent undertaken by sons of royal and aristocratic families of England was called ……………….
(A) Continental travel
(B) Euro-tour
(C) Grand tour
(D) Royal tour
20. "Anthem for doomed youth", "September 1 1939", "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death" are all poems about …………….
(A) Youth
(B) War
(C) Music
(D) Sports
21. Of the following novels, one is NOT a nautical tale:
(A) Old Man and the Sea
(B) Moby Dick
(C) Billy Budd
(D) Huckleberry Finn
22. "Pilgrim Fathers" is a term associated with …………….
(A) Australia
(B) Jerusalem
(C) America
(D) India
23. Which of the following is associated with Abraham Lincoln ?
(A) "I have a dream" speech
(B) The Gettysburg Address
(C) "Blood, soil, sweat and tears" speech
(D) "Yes we can speech
24. Which of the following landscapes is associated with William Faulkner?
(A) Yoknapatawpha
(B) Wessex
(C) Essex
(D) Windermere
25. Which term would complete the sequence of Aristotle's "three unities"?
Unity of action, unity of place
(A) Unity of character
(B) Unity of time
(C) Unity of identities
(D) Unity of space
26. Plato's famous attack was directed at ……………
(A) Kinga
(B) Priests
(C) Soldiers
(D) Poets
27. To describe a legal process as a "Kangaroo court" is to use an …………
(A) Animal simile
(B) Animal skin
(C) Animal metaphor
(D) Animal psyche
28. When a book is made into a film, one refers to it as …………….
(A) Filmography
(B) Adaptation.
(C) Morphing
(D) Screening
29. Thomas More in the 16th century inaugurated a concept with a novel about a perfect fictional place. What was this concept?
(A) Picturesque
(B) Dystopia
(C) Utopia
(D) Imagination
30. When a critic discusses the circulation of social energy through texts, then the critic is practising a mode of criticism called ………………
(A) Dialectical materialism
(B) Historical materialism
(C) Social materialism
(D) New Historicism
31. If a critic examines the following aspects of a text and characters, what school of criticism would she/he belong to?
Oedipal complex, unconscious, repression, totemism
(A) Social criticism
(B) Psychoanalytic criticism
(C) Ecocriticism
(D) Historicism
32. The Authorized Version of the Bible was authorized by ………..
(A) Queen Elizabeth I
(B) Queen Victoria
(C) King James I
(D) King Henry VIII
33. From the following, which is NOT a genre ?
Drama, lyric, memoir, comics
(A) Drama
(B) Lyric
(C) Memoir
(D) Comics
34. "Leonine" would be a …………..
(A) Simile
(B) Synecdoche
(C) Metaphor
(D) Metonymy
35. The perspective from which the story and its events are narrated is called …………
(A) Storyteller stance
(B) Teller position
(C) Narrator's location
(D) Point of view
36. On a rainy day, a character declares, "What a bright, sunny day it is". When the character means the opposite of what he says, it may be termed …………..
(A) Situational irony
(B) Verbal irony
(C) Unintended irony
(D) Intended irony
37. Which of the following epidemics is associated with Chaucer's time?
(A) Smallpox
(B) Influenza
(C) Plague
(D) Syphilis
38. A work usually believed to have inaugurated the picaresque hero ………
(A) Inferno
(B) Tristram Shandy
(C) Don Quixote
(D) Divine Comedy
39. One of the most famous brand logos of the twentieth century, the Nike swoosh, is designed after Nike, the Greek goddess of …………
(A) Music
(B) Victory
(C) War
(D) Peace
40. "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" In the above lines, both ending with questions, according to the poet, what happens to the dream when it is deferred?
(A) It loses its vigour
(B) It gains its vigour
(C) It becomes real
(D) It becomes evil
41. "He clasps the crag with crooked hands".
In the above sentence, which sound effect is being employed?
(A) Metaphor
(B) Metonymy
(C) Alliteration
(D) Synecdoche
42. The first African American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature is …………
(A) Toni Morrison
(B) Octavia Butler
(C) James Baldwin
(D) Ralph Ellison
43. Which of the following concepts in postcolonial theory is associated with the thinker Homi K Bhabha?
(A) Hybridity
(B) Double consciousness
(C) Nativism
(D) Ecoconsciousness
44. Robert Young's term for "postcolonialism" is ……………
(A) Neocolonialism
(B) Postcolonial cosmopolitanism
(C) Tricontinentalism
(D) Nativism
45. The French feminists argued that there is a fluid, poetic, non-linear writing that women should adopt. They called this style …………..
(A) Ecriturefeminine
(B) Poetic feminine
(C) Sapphic feminine
(D) Ero-feminine
46. Artistic beauty and perfection, sought even at the cost of intellectual uncertainity, was termed ……………. By an English Romantic poet.
(A) Fancy
(B) Imagination
(C) Hamartia
(D) Negative capability
47. In which text does Wordsworth famously define poetry as the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings?"
(A) "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads
(B) Essay on Shakespeare
(C) A Guide to the Lake District
(D) Essay on Chaucer
48. Recalling the personages of The Waste Land, spot the odd (wo)man out:
1. Belladonna; 2. Eugenides; 3. The Typist; 4. Marie; 5. Madam Sosostris; 6. Ruin-bibber; 7. Tiresias; 8. The Youngman Carbuncular.
(A) 1
(B) 5
(C) 6
(D) 7
49. "How choose between this Africa and the English tongue I love?"
In the above statement about the postcolonial condition what does the poet claim about English?
(A) That the postcolonial cannot use the English language.
(B) That the postcolonial must use English rather than African languages.
(C) That the postcolonial need not abandon either English or African languages.
(D) That the postcolonial finds English difficult.
50. Which of the following statement is NOT correct?
(A) Chaucer used the rhyme royal, a stanzaic form in some of his major poems.
(B) Chaucer was the author of The Legend of Good Women.
(C) Chaucer wrote in English when the court poetry of his day was written in Anglo-Norman and Latin.
(D) Chaucer wrote The Book Named the Governor.
ANSWER KEY
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1 |
D |
26 |
D |
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2 |
A |
27 |
C |
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3 |
A |
28 |
B |
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4 |
B |
29 |
C |
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5 |
A |
30 |
D |
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6 |
D |
31 |
B |
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7 |
D |
32 |
C |
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8 |
B |
33 |
D |
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9 |
B |
34 |
C |
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10 |
C |
35 |
D |
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11 |
A |
36 |
B |
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12 |
D |
37 |
C |
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13 |
C |
38 |
C |
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14 |
A |
39 |
B |
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15 |
A |
40 |
A |
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16 |
B |
41 |
C |
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17 |
A |
42 |
A |
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18 |
A |
43 |
A |
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19 |
C |
44 |
C |
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20 |
B |
45 |
A |
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21 |
D |
46 |
D |
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22 |
C |
47 |
A |
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23 |
B |
48 |
C |
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24 |
A |
49 |
C |
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25 |
B |
50 |
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