TELANGANA SET -2018 ENGLISH Paper - II

(held on 15.07.2018)

 

Read the poem carefully and answer questions 1-5:

 Child of the Americas

 I am a child of the Americas, a light-skinned mestiza of the Caribbean, a child of many diaspora, born into this continent at a crossroads.

 I am a U.S. Puerto Rican Jew, a product of the ghettos of New York I have never known.

 An immigrant and the daughter and granddaughter of immigrants.

 I speak English with passion: it's the tongue of my consciousness, a flashing knife blade of crystal, my tool, my craft.

 I am Caribbeña, island grown. Spanish is in my flesh, ripples from my tongue, lodges in my hips: the language of garlic and mangoes, the singing in my poetry, the flying gestures of my hands.

 I am of Latinoamerica, rooted in the history of my continent:

 I speak from that body.

 I am not african. Africa is in me, but I cannot return.

 I am not taina. Taino is in me, but there is no way back

 I am not european. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there.

 I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish.

 I was born at the crossroads and I am whole.

 

1. How does the poet describe the English language?

(A) The language of drama

(B) The language of treachery

(C) The language of memory

(D). The language of consciousness

 

2. How does the poet describe her roots?

(A) As American only

(B) As multiple

(C) As Caribbean only

(D) As Jewish

 

3. The poet's ancestors are

(A) Native Americans

(B) Immigrants,

(C) Native, British

(D) Travelling Europeans

 

4. From the tone of the poem, what would you say is the poet's attitude towards her roots?

(A) Remorseful

(B) Angry

(C) Guilty

(D) Proud

 

5. 'Crossroads' as a metaphor at the end of the poem suggests

(A) Multiple advantages

(B) Multiple disadvantages

(C) Multiple confusions

(D) Multiple applications

 

6. What links the following women Romantic writers?

Clara Reeve, Maria Edgeworth, Ann Radcliff

(A) All are Gothic writers

(B) All are English

(C) All died very young

(D) All wrote about India

 

7. Who is the author of the book The Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture?

(A) Shani Mootoo

(B) Lakshmi Persaud

(C) Gaitutra Bahadur

(D) Ramabhai Espinet

 

8. Which one of the following is not a Reader-Response critic ?

(A) Stanley Fish

(B) Wolfgang Iser

(C) Jacques Derrida

(D) Jane Tompkins

 

9. Identify the correct chronological sequence of the Nobel Prize winners for literature.

(A) Toni Morrison - Nadine Gordimer -Pearl S. Buck

(B) Pearl S. Buck-Nadine Gordimer Toni Morrison

(C) Nadine Gordimer - Peari S. Buck -Toni Morrison

(D) Pearl S. Buck Toni Morrison Nadine Gordimer

 

10. Which Caribbean writer re-interpreted Shakespeare's The Tempest and the characters of Prospero and Caliban in terms of personal identity and Caribbean History?

(A) Caryl Phillips

(B) Wilson Harris

(C) V. S. Naipaul

(D) George Lamming

 

11. Which of the following statements about Affective Fallacy is false ?

(A) A poem is evaluated for its emotional effects upon the readers

(B) It supports objective criticism

(C) Reader-response criticism does not support it

(D) The critic does not describe the effects of a work on its readers

 

12. The 'growth of a poet's mind is a description of his own poem by Wordsworth. Which poem?

(A) The Excursion

(B) Tintern Abbey

(C) The Prelude

(D) The Female Vagrant

 

13. Who lends money to Nora in A Doll's House?

(A) Dr. Rank

(B) Nora's father

(C) Krogstad

(D) Christine Linde

 

14. Who among the following is not a Victorian essayist?

(A) Walter Pater

(B) William Morris

(C) Charles Dickens

(D) Leigh Hunt

 

15. Whom does Eliot call the 'Central Personage of The Waste Land?

(A) Tiresias

(B) Eurydice

(C) Orpheus

(D) Apollo

 

16. Of the following turn-of-the century authors who is best known for the story of a child growing up in the Indian jungles.

(A) Rudyard Kipling

(B) John Kipling

(C) Bram Stoker

(D) H. G. Wells

 

17. Who was the first African American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature ?

(A) Alice Walker

(B) Toni Morrison

(C) Maya Angelou

(D) Zora Neale Hurston

 

18. 'Exterminate the Brutes' is the operative colonial line from the novel

(A) Heart of Darkness

(B) No Longer at Ease

(C) A Passage to India

(D) The Jungle Book

 

19. For which of the following works Jonathan Franzen won the National Book Award in 2001?

(A) How to be Alone

(B) The Discomfort Zone

(C) The Corrections

(D) Oryx and Crake

 

20. Who said "The creative writer does the same as the child at play. He creates a world of phantasy which he takes very seriously?

(A) Sigmund Freud

(B) T. S. Ellot

(C) S. T. Coleridge

(D) Carl Jung

 

21. The Oxford English Dictionary was conceived in 1858. When was it published?.

(A) 1928

(B) 1904

(C) 1936

(D) 1919

 

22. The famous novella The Death of Ivan Ilych is written by

(A) Dostoevsky

(B) Tolstoy

(C) Balzac

(D) Gorky

 

23. Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is in ……………. parts.

(A) Five

(B) Six

(C) Seven

(D) Eight

 

24. Sir Giles overreach is the name of the arch villain in

(A) The Maid's Tragedy

(B) A New Way to Pay Old Dehts

(C) The Revenger's Tragedy

(D) The Malcontent

 

25. "Texts are therefore, not structures of presence but traces and tracing of othemess". Who made this statement ?

(A) Kate Millet

(B) T. S. Eliot

(C) Cleanth Brooks

(D) John Frow

 

26. I know why the Caged Bird Sings is a/an ……… by Maya Angelou.

(A) Novel

(B) Poem

(C) Short story

(D) Autobiography

 

27. The author of The Blind Assassin is

(A) Margaret Atwood

(B) Isabel Allende

(C) Sydney Sheldon

(D) Fredric Forsyth

 

28. Which name is not associated with the protagonist of The White Tiger?

(A) Balram Halwai

(B) Ashok Sarma

(C) Mukesh

(D) Munna

 

29. A History of English Language Teaching is authored by

(A) Anthony P. R. Howatt

(B) Christopher Brumfit

(C) D. A. Wilkins

(D) David Crystal

 

30. Name the British critic who was a star witness in the trial of The Lady Chatterley's Lover.

(A) F. R. Leavis

(B) I. A. Richards

(C) Richard Hoggart

(D) Raymond Williams

 

31. An Ambassador is an honest person who lies abroad for the good of his/her country. Identify the figure of speech.

(A) Paradox

(B) Metaphor

(C) Irony

(D) Pun

 

32, Molly Bloom's famous account at the end of Ulysses may be best described as

(A) Automatic writing

(B) Stream of consciousness

(C) Trauma writing

(D) Psychomachia

 

33. The Maid's Tragedy was banned for sometime as it was supposed to contain hints of

(A) Fratricide

(B) Homicide

(C) Regicide

(D) Uxoricide

 

34. The key Victorian essay on education The Idea of a University' was written by

(A) Cardinal Newman

(B) T. H. Huxley

(C) Charles Dickens

(D) Karl Marx

 

35. New criticism owes its origin to the book called New Criticism (1941) authored by

(A) Cleanth Brooks

(B) Allen Tate

(C) John Crowe Ransom

(D) William Empson

 

36. "Brevity is the Soul of Wit". Who says this?

(A) Polonius

(C) Claudius

(B) Laertes

(D) Hamlet

 

37. Who coined the term arche-writing?

(A) Jacques Derrida

(B) Michel Foucault

(C) Roland Barthes

(D) Jonathan Culler

 

38. The play, Death of a Salesman is divided into

(A) Three Acts

(B) Two Acts

(C) Two Acts followed by a Requiem

(D) Three Acts followed by a Requiem

 

39. In which poem does Wordsworth describe himself as "a Worshipper of Nature"?

(A) Tintern Abbey

(B) Daffodils

(C) The Solitary Reaper

(D) The World is too much with us

 

40. What is the subtitle of I. A. Richards' Practical Criticism?

(A) A Study of Poetry

(B) A Study of Literary Evaluation

(C) A Study of Literary Judgement,

(D) A Study of Literary Criticism

 

41. He rejoiced at the happy thought. Identify the figure of speech.

(A) Tautology

(C) Paradox

(B) Repetition

(D) Metaphor

 

42. Who says in Webster's The White Devil, "Conspiring with a beard made me a graduate"?

(A) Brachiano

(B) Vittoria

(C) Flamineo

(D) Zanche

 

43. The classic study of industrial London and its working class by Henry Mayhew is titled

(A) London Labour and the London poor

(B) The Condition of the Working class

(C) Hard Times

(D) The Descent of Man

 

44. "That Metaphor is the omnipresent principle of language can be shown by mere observation". Whose observation is this?

(A) S. T. Coleridge

(B) Mathew Arnold

(C) I. A. Richards

(D) F. R. Leavis

 

45. 'The Parable of the Lost Daughter: Luke | 15: 11-32 is a translated short story based on the parable of the prodigal son In The Bible. Which Dalit woman writer wrote this story in Telugu?

(A) Jajula Gowri

(B) Gogu Syamala

(C) Challapalli Swaroopa Rani

(D) M. M. Vinodini

 

46. Who wrote, "How to recognise the poem when you see one"?

(A) Norman Holland

(B) Stanley Fish

(C) I. A. Richards

(D) F. R. Leavis

 

47. These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone gives the reader a glimpse of the harrowing times in conflict-ridden Nagaland. Who is the author of this book ?

(A) Monalisa Changkija

(B) Easterine Iralu

(C) Temsula Ao

(D) Nini Lungalang

 

48. In which of the following novels, "Harikatha' is strategically used as a part of freedom movement in India?

(A) Kanthapura

(B) Waiting for the Mahatma

(C) The Serpent and the Rope

(D) A Passage to India

 

49. Identify the figure of speech in the following expression: Darkness Visible

(A) Oxymoron

(B) Paradox

(C) Irony

(D) Anti-thesis

 

50. The Leviathan Simile in Paradise Lost foretells

(A) The danger of suspected evil

(B) The danger of unsuspected evil

(C) Great future for mankind

(D) Great future for Adam and Eve

 

51. 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll is best described as a/an

(A) Elegy

(B) Nonsense Lyric

(C) Panegyric

(D) Mock Heroic

 

52. Wilful waste makes woeful want. Identify the figure of speech.

(A) Pun

(B) Repetition

(C) Alliteration

(D) Climax

 

53. A History of the World in 10% Chapters is a novel that presents a subversive history of earth beginning with Noah's Ark. Who is the author of this book?

(A) Salman Rushdie

(B) Graham Greene

(C) Julian Barnes

(D) Martin Amiss

 

54. What is auditory imagination?

(A) Predicting the sense from the sound

(B) Tertiary imagination

(C) Meaning guessed from rhyming

(D) Imagination combined with fancy

 

55. Name the writer who describes revenge as a kind of wild justice.

(A) Christopher Marlowe

(B) Francis Bacon

(C) Ben Jonson

(D) John Donne

 

56. Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabetical (1604) was an attempt to explain the meanings of …………. words.

(A) Common

(D) Hebrew

(C) Slang

(D) Hard

 

57. The line "Destroyer and preserver, hear, oh hear!” occurs in

(A) Ode to a Nightingale'

(B) 'Daffodils'

(C) Kubla Khan'

(D) Ode to the West Wind"

 

58. Thomas De Quincey's Confessions dealt with the use of a particular substance. Which one ?

(A) Opium

(B) Nicotine

(C) Morphine

(D) Tylenol

 

59. The words 'English' and 'Tiger’ are examples of the foot

(A) lambic

(B) Trochee

(C) Dactyl

(D) Anapaest

 

60. Match the following:

a. Epithalamion                 i. George Puttenham

b. Piers Plowman              il. Christopher Marlowe

c. Hero and Leander        iii. Langland

d. The Arte of English Poesie        iv. Spenser

 

     (a)     (b)          (c)           (d)

(A) iv     iii            ii             i

(B) iv      ii             iii            i

(C) iv      i              ii             iii

(D) iv     iii            i              ii

 

61. The artist who satirized the urban poor of London in the 18th Century was

(A) J. M. W. Turner

(B) William Hogarth

(C) William Cowper

(D) Willian Daniells

 

62. This is a learned book. Identify the figure of speech,

(A) Transferred Epithet

(B) Metaphor

(C) Personification

(D) Hyperbole

 

63. 'No ! I am not prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord'. Who says this?

(A) Polonius in Hamlet

(B) Rosencrantz in Hamlet

(C) Prufrock in the 'Love Song'

(D) A. C. Bradley in Shakespearean Tragedy

 

64. What's the other name Eliot gave to professional critic ?

(A) Critic with gusto

(B) Super reviewer

(C) Academic critic

(D) Poet critic

 

65. In Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, alchemy operates on the twin principles of

(A) Philosopher's stone and Elixir

(B) Philosopher's stone

(C) Philosopher's stone and necromancy

(D) Divine Right Theory and Philosopher's stone

 

66. "I must be cruel only to be kind" is an example of

(A) Irony

(B) Oxymoron

(C) Paradox

(D) Hyperbole

 

67. Pick out the phrases used in "Ode: Intimations of Immortality".

i. Visionary gleam

ii. Celestial light

iii. Full-throated ease

iv. Easeful death

(A) i and iii

(B) ii and iii

(C) ii and iv

(D) i and ii

 

68. "ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey where wealth accumulates and men decay" is a statement from

(A) Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village

(B) Coleridge's "Kubla Khan'

(C) Pope's 'Dunciad

(D), Shelley's 'Adonais'

 

69. Among the following who is frequently treated as a precursor of the English Romantics?

(A) Geoffrey Chaucer

(B) John Donne

(C) William Blake

(D) John Suckling

 

70. The satire in Bartholomew Fair is essentially directed at

(A) Shakespeare

(B) Puritanism

(C) Catholicism

(D) Monarchy

 

71. Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, about a Black slave, is set in

(A) England

(B) West Indies

(C) Australia

(D) Africa

 

72. What a piece of work is man! Identify the figure of speech.

(A) Exclamation

(B) Hyperbole

(C) Metaphor

(D) Irony

 

73. Who is the author of the remark 'The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read"?

(A) Mark Twain

(B) George Bernard Shaw

(C) Kingsley Martin

(D) Oscar Wilde

 

74. Who coined the term, "Globalectics"?

(A).T. S. Eliot

(B) Ezra Pound

(C) Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

(D) Chinue Achebe

 

75. Which two novels from among the following are by Amitav Ghosh ?

i. The Calcutta Chromosome

ii. So many Hungers

iii. Shadow from Ladakh

iv. In an Antique Land

The right combination according to the code-is

(A) ii and iv

(B) i and iv

(C) i and

(D) i and iii

 

76. Explorations in Applied Linguistics is a book by

(A) M. A. K. Halliday

(B) H. G. Widdowson

(C) Richards and Rodgers

(D) M. L. Tickoo

 

77. 'Abandon all hope ye who enter here'. What is the source of this statement?

(A) Milton's Paradise Lost

(B) Dante's Divine Comedy

(C) Dostevsky's Notes from Underground

(D) Jeffrey Archer's A Prison Diary

 

78. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus' wife's-name is

(A) Penelope

(B) Clytemnestra

(C) Antigone

(D) Helen

 

79. What is the name of the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

(A) Frankenstein

(B) Viktor

(C) Clerval

(D) No name

 

80. The smallest metrical unit of measurement in verse is called a

(A) Metre

(B) Rhyme

(C) Foot

(D) Syllable

 

81. In his essays, Bacon was influenced by the following French writer

(A) Rousseau

(B) Montaigne

(C) Voltaire

(D) Pierre Charron

 

82. 'Nature and Nature's laws

Lay hid in the night

God said, 'Let ……….. be'!

and all was light.’

The name of which scientist figures in these lines of Alexander Pope ?

(A) Kepler

(B) Galileo

(C) Newton

(D) Einstein

 

83. Which Indian English poet founded writers workshop?

(A) Nissim Ezekiel

(B) P. Lal

(C) Keki N. Daruwalla

(D) Kamala Das

 

84. Which of the following is Nelson Mandela's Autobiography?

(A) Africa, the Time has Come

(B) Long Walk to Freedom

(C) No Future Without Forgiveness

(D) Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter

 

85. Identify the work that is not by Thomas Mann.

(A) Doctor Faustus

(B) The Transposed Heads

(C) Magic Mountain

(D) Chronicle of a Death Foretold

 

86. The word 'frenemy' is an example of

(A) Portmanteau words

(B) Back formation

(C) Conversion

(D) Clipping

 

87. Which novel by Jean Toomer, depicts the African American experience?

(A) Cane

(B) The Blacker the Berry

(C) Quick Sand

(D) Nigger Heaven

 

88. Name the character whom Don Quixote mentions as his lady love.

(A) Dulcinea

(B) Lydia

(C) Valentia

(D) Sylvia

 

89. Whom did Samuel Johnson praise as "having touched nothing that he did not adorn"?

(A) Addison

(B) Goldsmith

(C) Shakespeare

(D) Milton

 

90. "A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er informed the tenement of clay" is from,

(A) Macbeth

(B) Absalom and Achitophel

(C) Rape of the Lock

(D) Everyman in His Humour

 

91. Which among the following is a novel by Samuel Johnson ?

(A) Idler

(B) Rambler

(C) Rasselas

(D) Rabelais

 

92. Who authored The Swan and the Eagle? |

(A) C D Narasimhaiah

(B) PS Sundaram

(C) KRS Iyengar

(D) MK Naik

 

93. What according to I. A. Richards are the two aspects of a metaphor ?

(A) Tenor and vehicle

(B) Ground for comparison and vehicle

(C) Ingenuity and similarity

(D) Comparison and contrast

 

94. Which period introduced actresses on the London stage ?

(A) Jacobean Period

(B) Caroline Period

(C) Augustan Period

(D) Restoration Period

 

95. Name the poet who once famously declared "I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation"

(A) Derek Walcott

(B) George Herbert

(C) Gerard Manley Hopkins

(D) TS Eliot

 

96. Match the following:

(a) Angelo            i. King Lear

(b) Edmund         ii. Othello

(c) Iago                 iii. Titus Andronicus

(d) Tamora          iv.  Measure for Measure

    (a)      (b)          (c)          (d)

(A) ii       i              iv            iii

(B) iv      i              ii             iii

(C) iv      ii             i              iii

(D) i       iii            ii             iv

 

97. Which of the following is not supposed to have originated in a dream ?

(A) Coleridge Kubla Khan

(B) Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

(C) Wilkie Collins -The Moonstone

(D) RL Stevenson- Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

 

98. Who described Madame Bovary as a novel in prose "doing what poetry is supposed to do”?

(A) Henry James

(B) Vladimir Nabakov

(C) Leo Tolstoy

(D) Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

99. The statement "A the learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring is by

(A) John Dryden

(B) Alexander Pope

(C) John Keats

(D) Mathew Arnold

 

100. The philosophical-text An Essay Concerning Human Understanding was authored by

A) John Locke

(B) John Bunyan

(C) Immanuel Kant

(D) David Hume

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