GUJARATH SET DEC-2019 Paper - II- ENGLISH

1. Which character embodies in himself the characteristics of an ideal Renaissance person, a conventional malcontent, a traditional avenger and a sensitive idealist?

(A) Antony

(B) Hamlet

(D) Richard III

2. Which of the following Marlowian protagonists can be called a "Machiavellian" man?

(A) Tamburlaine

(B) Dr. Faustus

(D) Edward

3. Which of the following is not a characteristic quality of the Restoration Drama?

(A) The amoral wit

(B) Stylized hedonism

(D) Licentiousness

4. What was introduced in the plays by George Bernard Shaw ?

(A) Poetic quality

(B) Anti-Romanticism

(D) The discussions into drama

5. Arrange the following plays of W.B. Yeats chronologically:

I. The Resurrection

II. The Countess Cathleen

III. The Death of Cuchulain

IV. Calvary

(A) (II, IV, III, I)

(B) (II, IV, I, III)

(D) (II, III, I, IV)

6. Which of the following plays represents actionless naturalism, deliberately, vague symbolism and apparently aimless and aggressively colloquial dialogues?

(A) Look Back in Anger

(B) The Caretaker

(D) The Entertainer

7. Match "The Plays' in the table A with "The Sources' in the table B correctly:

A -The Plays

(I) Tughlaq

(ii) Yayati

(iii) Hayavadana

(iv) Naga-Mandala

B- The Sources

(a) The Mahabharata

(b) History

(d) Kathasaritsagar

Codes: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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

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

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

8. Which playwright has dealt with the issues like homosexuality, child-sexual abuse, gender discrimination and communalism etc.?

(A) Girish Karnad

(B) Mahesh Dattani

(D) Shiv K Kumar

9. Which of the following is a play by Wole Soyinka.?

(A) The Lion and the Jewel

(B) Too Early for Birds

(D) Anowa

10. Death of a Salesman is written by the American playwright:

(A) Eugene O'Neill

(B) Tennessee Williams

(D) Edward Albee

11. Which poem shows a remarkable synthesis of chivalric, patriotic, Christian and Platonic, of medieval and protestant, of courtly love and Christian marriage, of Italian Romance and medieval allegory and of pageantry and philosophy?

(A) Canterbury Tales

(B)The Faerie Queene

(D) The Rape of the Lock

12. Which of the following poems is NOT from John Donne's Holy Sonnets?

(A) "Batter My Heart"

(B) "Death Be not Proud"

(D) "Let Man's Soul be a Sphere"

13. P. B. Shelley's The Cenci does not concern itself with:

(A) Incestuous lust of the father

(B) Violence

(D) Romantic love

14. The lines "The sea is calm to-night/The tide is full, the moon lies fair/Upon the strengths;" are from the well-known poem by:

(A) S.T. Coleridge

(B) Matthew Arnold

(D) George Meredith

15. The obscurity in the poem The Waste Land is not because of: poem

(A) the weaving of the themes of barrenness, decay and death

(B) the mingling of the Christian story with the Buddhist and other Oriental analogies

(D) the projection of a broad view of civilization and history as well as human failure

16. John Betjeman uses the traditional verse forms to pinpoint the details of the life of:

(A) the working class of the English society

(B) the English elite class before World War II

(D) the English bourgeoisie after World War II

17. Which of the following poets is associated with Jejuri ?

(A) A. K. Ramanujan

(B) Kamala Das

(D) A. K. Mehrotra

18. Who is considered to be the father of Modern Indian English poetry by a majority of crities ?

(A) Jayanta Mahapatra

(B) A. K. Ramanujan

(D) Nissim Ezekiel

19. Match the names of the poets given in the table-A with their poems in table-B correctly:

A- Poets

(i) A. K. Ramanujan

(ii) Keki Daruwalla

(iii) Kamala Das

(iv) Nissim Ezekiel

B- Poems

(a) "Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S."

(b) "On the Death of a Poem"

(d) "My Grandmother's House"

Codes: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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

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

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

20. The epic, Meghanad Badh Kavya, is written by:

(A) Toru Dutt

(B) Michael Madhusudan Dutt

(D) Henry Derozio

21. Match the following:

(i) Arcadia (a) gothic Novel

(ii) Pilgrim's Progress (b) boldly experimental fiction

(iii) Tristram Shandy (c) allegorical novel

(iv) The Mysteries of Udolpho (d) pastoral narrative

The correctly matched unit, according to the code:

(I) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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

(B) (d) (α) (c) (b)

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

22. Shyam Selvadurai's main character in his novel Funny Boy is "funny" for the following reason (Choose the correct option).

(A) The adjective "funny" is ironic because back home, his grandfather mistakes the young narrator to be a woman.

(B) The main character plays feminine roles, while no punitive action is taken against the girl who tells on him to adults, in spite of the fact that her behavior is masculine.

(C) Localized moments of funny, magical descriptions characterize the scenes where the main character appears and this suggests homosexuality in Sri Lankan society.

(D) Heterosexual unions in Selvadurai's novel are represented as potentiality dysfunctional, and friendships between the 'boy' and 'girl' are rather funny.

23. Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss juxtaposes three types of space. They are:

(A) Domestic space, public space, the in-between personal space

(B) The colonial space of the past, the nationalist space of the future, the American space of the present

(C) The space afforded by historical negotiation, the space opened up by contemporary politics, the space that neither history nor politics has yet noticed

(D) The earth, the sky and the abyss as the characters invoke in the story

24. Which of the following would you call a 'dystopian novel'?

(A) The Road to Wigan Pier

(B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

(D) Brave New World

25. Which of the following titles by Gertrude Stein is influenced by Cubism ?

(A) Tender Buttons

(B) Three Lives

(D) Making of the Americans

26. The early form of the short story, from which the printed stories derived, was the …………

(A) Fable

(B) Parable

(D) Koan

27. Which of the following story by Edgar Allan Poe is set against the Venetian carnival and tells the story of a man buried alive within the brick wall?

(A) "The Masque of the Red Death"

(B) "The Mystery of Marie Roget"

(D) "The Cask of Amontillado"

28. Who is the eponymous character in Somerset Maugham's "The Verger"? What does he do?

(A) Frank Eddie; runs a clothes-store in London

(B) Albert Foreman; caretaker of St. Peter's church in London

(D) Joe Murphy; a small-time trader and double-dealer

29. The main character in R.K. Narayan's short story, "A Horse and Two Goats" is a person called …………..

(A) Nani

(B) Muni

(D) Chinni

30. What imparts a weird quality to the setting of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is ……………..

(A) The mad traffic sirens heard in the background of Dartmoor streets

(B) The mad rush-hour traffic on the Dartmoor streets

(D) The fog over Dartmoor that no reader can miss visualizing

31. Which of the following is NOT a work by William Hazlitt?

(A) Lectures on the English Comic Writers

(B) The Spirit of the Age

(D) Moral Essays

32. E.M. Foster's reflections on his association with India and the Indian appear in a collection of essays called ……………….

(A) Abinger Harvest

(B) The Common Reader

(D) India, Again!

33. A distinguished writer of essays, Charles Lamb also wrote the following with his sister:

(A) Of Age and Innocence

(B) Tales from Shakespeare

(D) Enter Conversing

34. Identify the distinguished work of the Enlightenment noted for its antagonism to Christianity which created a new narrative for historians in the world.

(A) A Masque of Mercy

(B) Anatomy of Melancholy

(D) Heroes and Hero Worship

35. Who, among the following, is well-known for the celebrated autobiography, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821)?

(A) Edmund Burke

(B) William Godwin

(D) Thomas De Quincey

36. Which of the statements on Joseph Addison's joumalism is NOT true?

(A) Addison defended the Whigs in the weekly, The Examiner (1710)

(B) Addison wrote a series of sarcastic pamphlets called Drapier's Letters (1724)

(D) Addison collaborated with Richard Steele on The Spectator (1711-12)

37. John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864) is an autobiography. Its title translates as ………………..

(A) Defense of his Life

(B) Apologies for his Life

(D) All for my Life

38. Dr. Johnson's Lives of Poets is famous for the critical biography of famous English poets. Identify from the following the poet whose life does not appear in this collection.

(A) John Milton

(B) Alexander Pope

(D) William Wordsworth

39. A highly artificial but influential 'style' called 'Euphuism' is derived from ……………….

(A) Daniel Defoe's An Essay upon Projects

(B) John Lyly's Hero of his Prose Romances

(D) Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy

40. Which of the following would you describe as a sociological enquiry that attempted to comprehend and then regulate Victorian society that had been transformed by vast economic changes ?

(A) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

(B) The Heart of Midlothian

(D) The Origin of Species

41. Which approach is an outcome of the experiments carried out in language teaching in the army campus during World War II ?

(A) The Structural Approach

(B) The Communicative Approach

(D) The Humanistic Approach

42. The description of systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language is called …………….

(A) Phonology

(B) Phonemes

(D) Phonetics

43. The 'comprehensible input' of Krashen implies that sufficient quantity of …………………. is the condition for process of acquisition to take place.

(A) Exposure

(B) Expertise

(D) Experiment

44. ………………………. were the two languages from which English borrowed during the Middle English period.

(A) Celtic and Old Norse

(B) Latin and French

(D) Spanish and German

45. Which coherent theory of language learning was based mainly on the work of Pavlov and Skinner?

(A) Behaviorism

(B) Humanism

(D) Constructivism

46. A term that is used in a general and technical sense for a contact language which draws on elements from two or more languages is called ………….

(A) Creole

(B) Pidgin

(D) Register

47. Who evolved 'the silent way', a language-teaching method by proposing that "teaching must be subordinate to learning"?

(A) Leonard Bloomfield.

(B) Noam Chomsky

(D) Caleb Gattegno

48. ………………… is a written or spoken text produced to be read/heard by proficient language users and not altered in any way to aid language learning.

(A) An Authentic Text

(B) A Graded Text

(D) An Accurate Text

49. Who argues that "the elitist status of English in India creates problems for the economic development because that means that the education of the mass of people will be ignored"?

(A) Braj Kachru

(B) N. S. Prabhu

(D) Mark Tully

50. Who is the author of the book Research Methods in Language Learning which was published in 1992?

(A) David Nunan

(B) Noam Chomsky

(D) Tom MacArthur

51. What was the gist of the Saddler Commission Report of 1872 ?

(A) By and large, education in the bhashas is good for Indian Students

(B) There is something unsound in a system of education which leaves young learners unable to use their own bhashas

(D) Nothing will equal English in modernizing the Indians in future.

52. Who among the following wrote, "Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic subjects of Great Britain"?

(A) Charles Grant

(B) H. T. Prinsep

(D) T. B. Macaulay

53. Why was the Kunzru Committee appointed by the UGC in 1957?

(A) To study the teaching of regional languages and English in India.

(B) To report on the question of North Indian languages in school instruction

(D) To study the background and training of English teachers in colleges and universities

54. Ram Mohan Roy's "Letter to Lord Amherst was the first ever to appeal for ……………

(A) the teaching of English and European Science in India

(B) the introduction of minority languages for Muslims and Sikhs in India

(D) the teaching of Latin and Greek in Indian Schools and Colleges

55. What is the significance of Wood's Dispatch of 1854?

(A) It made for the emergence of the Babu class in India.

(B) It outlined the British government's agenda for a comprehensive education policy for India.

(D) It emphasized the need for encouraging children's natural biases and interest in education.

56. Who, among the following, has observed that the English language classroom constitutes an important political site for initiating insurgent knowledge ?

(A) G. C. Aniche

(B) L. Bloomfield

(D) W. Bright

57. Who, among the following, describes the education of Indians in English as "a mask of conquest"?

(A) Gayatri Spivak

(B) Meenakshi Mukherjee

(D) Gauri Viswanathan

58. Match the following:

(i) Linguistic Imperialism

(ii) Filtration Theory

(iii) Butler English

(iv) The anxiety of Indianness

(a) Meenakshi Mukherjee

(b) Robert Phillipson

(d) T. B. Macualay

Codes: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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

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

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

59. What do we understand when we say that English affords "social mobility in India"?

(A) English will afford societies to prosper, and indirectly help people to prosper in mobility.

(B) English is seen as an important and efficient access route to the middle classes and geographical mobility in India

(D) "Social mobility is an attribute language teachers canvass for English no matter where they teach the subject.

60. Who were the "Anglicists" in the debate on the subject of English education in the 19th century India?

(A) Those who were scholars of English

(B) Those who swore by English education

(D) Those who opposed Orientalist discourse

61. Which of the following is the most appropriate, and therefore the most widely studied, by Cultural Studies ?

(A) Everyday life

(B) Historical events

(D) Literary transactions

62. Who are the Luddites and what were they against ?

(A) Those in society who affect fashion and laugh at religious people

(B) Those who hate all machinery and machinism

(D) Those who love literature but hate all other arts

63. The process, or a set of processes, through which an individual first fashions and then declares her/his identity to the world is called...........

(A) Self-making

(B) Self-engendering

(D) Self-regulation

64. The spectacle of the mall had its origins in the visual culture of the panoramas of the nineteenth century. Name the theorist who proposed this idea:

(A) Rita Felski

(B) Roland Barthes

(D) John Frow

65. Which British theorist proposed the idea of "lived cultures", a foundation for most cultural theorists?

(A) Matthew Arnold

(B) Raymond Williams

(D) Denys Thompson

66. With which socio-cultural theorist do we associate terms such as "taste" and "distinction"?

(A) C. Wright Mills

(B) Talcott Parsons

(D) Pierre Bourdieu

67. To which prominent literary traditions of India is Folklore close?

(A) Secular scriptures

(B) Bhakti

(D) Life of saints

68. To which celebrated anthropologist of culture do we owe the following: "In a civilization, there is a great tradition of the reflective few and there is a little tradition of the largely unreflective many?"

(A) Milton Singer

(B) R. G. Collingwood

(D) Robert Redfield

69. When we say that, like many other items in cultural exchange, folklore items are "autotelic", what we mean is that ………………

(A) they travel by themselves

(B) they are exchanged automatically

(D) they move places without our knowledge

70. In cultural studies we discuss "the culture of consumption". How do we describe the phenomenon ?

(A) a complex negotiation between the discourse generated by brands

(B) a complex negotiation between the languages of politics and power

(D) a confrontation between the privileged and the less privileged

71. Kuntak has given ……………… types of 'Vakrata'.

(A) 4

(B) 5

(D) 8

72. Who was the first poet critic in the history of English Literature?

(A) Sir Phillip Sidney

(B) Ben Jonson

(D) William Wordsworth

73. Odes and Epodes was written by:

(A) Longinus

(B) Horace

(D) Plato

74. Who said, "The effect of elevated language upon audience is not persuasion but transport."

(A) Cacecilius

(B) Plotinus

(D) Longinus

75. Which is NOT one of the charges that the Puritans had against poetry ?

(A) That poetry has a therapeutic value

(B) That poetry was just a tissue of lies

(D) That it was only an imitation of an imitation, and therefore trivial

76. Shakespeare, according to Johnson offers:

(A) particular manners peculiar to individuals

(B) particular manners peculiar to time

(D) representation of general nature

77. Wordsworth writes, "Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of heart ……………………….”

(A) are under great restraint

(B) do not speak a plainer language

(D) find a better soul

78. As propounded by Coleridge in Biographia Literaria, what do the following terms suggest in terms of poetic genius. Match the qualities in Column A with their corresponding parts in Column B:

Column-A Column-B

(i) Good Sense (a) Life

(ii) Fancy (b) Soul

(iii) Motion (c) Drapery

(iv) Imagination (d) Body

The correctly matched items according to the series are:

Codes: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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

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

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

79. In which of the following essays, did Arnold put forward the "Touchstone Theory'?

(A) "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"

(B) "Culture and Anarchy"

(D) "The Literary Influence of Academics"

80. "Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry". These lines are from which essay of T. S. Eliot ?

(A) "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

(B) "The Metaphysical Poets"

(D) "Frontiers of Criticism"

81. The pervasive image of the state of 'panoptic' surveillance used by Michel

Foucault was conceived by:

(A) Louis Althusser

(B) Jeremy Bentham

(D) Alan Sinfield

82. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of 'Cultural Materialism'?

(A) Historical Context

(B) Textual Context

(D) Freudian Theory

83. "What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? Who wrote these lines and in which essay?

(A) I. A. Richards in "The Two Uses of Language"

(B) Henry James in "The Art of Fiction"

(D) Leslie Fiedler in "To give the Devil his Due"

84. In his book The Mirror and the Lamp, M. H. Abrams describes different kinds of criticism. Which among the following is NOT included by him?

(A) Mimetic Criticism

(B) Psychoanalytical Criticism

(D) Objective Criticism

85. L.A. Richards was the founder of:

(A) Practical Criticism

(B) Feminist Criticism

(D) Mimetic Criticism

86. To which character does The Madwoman in the Attic make a special reference ?

(A) Bertha Mason

(B) Hester Prynee

(D) Celie

87. Choose the correct option which matches writers (Column A) with the concepts/theories they put forward (Column B):

A B

(i) Jacques Derrida (a) Hybridity

(ii) Ferdinand de Saussure (b) Deconstruction

(ii) Homi Bhabha (c) Orientalism

(iv) Edward Said (d) Structuralism

Codes: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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

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

(D) (d) (c) (b) (α)

88. Select the correct alternative out of the four given:

The Postmodernist critics:

(A) do not challenge the distinction between high and low

(B) do not foreground the elements of narcissism in narrative technique

(D) foreground irony

89. Archetypal Patterns in Poetry was first published in the year:

(A) 1928

(B) 1938

(D) 1924

90. Verfremdungseffekt is a technique that …………………

(A) Explains surrealism in art

(B) Alienates audience from the play

(D) Involves naturality of performance

91. Match the following correctly

Column A Column B

(i) non sequitur (a) and others

(ii) op.cit. (b) it does not follow

(iii) et al. (c) in the same place

(iv) ibid. (d) in the work cited

The correctly matched series would be:

Codes: (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

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

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

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

92. When you make a substantive claim about a writer's works in your doctoral dissertation, which one of the following would be prudent to assume ?

(A) Every claim is always subject to conditions.

(B) Every claim will have its substantive merits.

(D) Some claims are more substantive than others.

93. As a researcher, what role do you think to be most appropriate for yourself to assume?

(A) Of someone who knows what others need to know, and to cast your reader as someone who doesn't know but needs to.

(B) Of someone who does not know what others need to know, and to cast your reader as someone who knows more than you do.

(D) Of someone who knows what others need to know, but one who casts your reader as someone who knows just about enough.

94. The most helpful bibliographical databases include details of publications such as …………….

(A) Indices

(B) Reprint rights

(D) Abstracts

95. Academic books published in the US will invariably carry the publishing data of

(A) The Union Catalogue of Books and Periodicals

(B) The Modern Library of America

(D) The New York Public Library

Read the following poem and answer the questions 96 to 100.

Let us find out, if we must be constrained,

If by dull rhymes our English must be chained,

And, like Andromeda, the Sonpet sweet

Fettered, in spite of pained loveliness,

Sandals more interwoven and complete

To fit the naked foot of poesy,

Let us inspect the lyre, and weigh the stress

Of every chord, and see what may be gained

By ear industrious, and attention meet;

Than Midas of his coinage, let us be

Jealous of dead leaves in the bay-wreath crown;

Misers of sound and syllable, no less

So, if we may not let the Muse be free,

She will be bound with garlands of her own.

96. The rhyme scheme in this poem is

(A) abba, abba, edeede

(B) abba, abba, ededed

(D) abcabd, cabcdede

97. The metaphor used in the first line of the poem compares English to:

(A) Carefully guarded treasure

(B) Andromeda

(D) A necklace

98. The crown mentioned in the poem is made of

(A) Laurel leaves

(B) Dead leaves

(D) Muse's garlands

99. The poem is written in:

(A) rhymed couplets

(B) blank verse

(D) rhymed triplets

100. Andromeda in this poem refers to

(A) a famous Muse of poetry

(B) a galaxy

(D) a mythical Egyptian poet

ANSWER KEY:

GUJARAT STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST, 29 DECEMBER 2019

FINAL ANSWER KEY FOR PAPER-II

SUBJECT: English

Q.NO.	CORRECT CHOICE	Q.NO.	CORRECT CHOICE	Q.NO.	CORRECT CHOICE	Q.NO.	CORRECT CHOICE
1	B	26	C	51	B	76	D
2	C	27	D	52	A	77	D
3	D	28	B	53	C	78	A
4	D	29	B	54	A	79	C
5	B	30	D	55	B	80	A
6	C	31	D	56	C	81	B
7	B	32	A	57	D	82	D
8	B	33	B	58	D	83	B
9	A	34	C	59	B	84	B
10	C	35	D	60	B	85	A
11	B	36	B	61	A	86	A
12	D	37	A	62	B	87	C
13	D	38	D	63	C	88	D
14	B	39	B	64	C	89	C
15	C	40	C	65	B	90	B
16	C	41	A	66	D	91	A
17	C	42	A	67	B	92	A
18	D	43	A	68	D	93	A
19	A	44	B	69	A	94	D
20	B	45	A	70	A	95	C
21	C	46	B	71	C	96	D
22	B	47	D	72	A	97	C
23	B	48	A	73	B	98	B
24	D	49	D	74	D	99	C
25	A	50	A	75	A	100	C

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