NET PAPER-3 DECEMBER 2013
1. In which of the following novels
Harikatha is strategically used as a medium of ‘consciousness raising’?
(A) Waiting for the Mahatma
(B) The Serpent and the Rope
(C) A Bend in the Ganges
(D) Kanthapura
Answer: (D)
2. Identify the text in the following list
which offers a fictionalized survey of English
Literature from Elizabethan times to 1928:
(A) E.M. Forster, the Eternal Moment
(B) Virginia Woolf, Orlando
(C) Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
(D) David Jones, In Parenthesis
Answer: (B)
3. Match List – I with List – II according
to the code given below:
i. John Ruskin
ii. Henry Mayhew
iii. Sir Charles Lyell
iv. Sir James George Frazer
1. London Labour and the London Poor
2. The Golden Bough
3. Unto The Last
4. The Principles of Geology
Codes:
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 1 4
(B) 2 1 3 4
(C) 2 3 4 1
(D) 3 1 4 2
Answer: (D)
4. Which of the following poems DOES NOT
begin in the first person pronoun?
(A) Shelley’s “Adonais”
(B) Byron’s “Don Juan”
(C) Keats’s “Lamia”
(D) Coleridge’s ‘The Aeolian Harp’
Answer: (C)
5. In his Anatomy of Melancholy Robert
Burton proposes the following two principal kinds:
I. Love
II. Death
III. Spiritual
IV. Religious
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer: (C)
6. Listed below are some English journals
widely read by professionals: Screen, Critical
Quarterly, Review of English, Wasafiri. One
of the above founded by C.B. Cox, and now being
edited by Colin MacCabe, carries not only
critical and scholarly essays in English Studies but
reviews film, culture, language and
contemporary political issues. Identify the journal:
(A) Wasafiri
(B) Screen
(C) Critical Quarterly
(D) Review of English Studies
Answer: (C)
7. In Marvell’s “A Dialogue between Soul
and Body”, who/which of the following has the last
word?
(A) Body
(B) God
(C) Soul
(D) Satan
Answer: (A)
8. In Blake’s poem “A Poison Tree” the
speaker’s anger grows and becomes ________.
(A) A cherry
(B) An apple
(C) An orange
(D) A rose
Answer: (B)
9. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason
(R):
Assertion (A): For deconstructive critics
how human beings read and interpret signs they receive will determine their
modes of knowing and being, whether those signs come in the form of literary texts
or bank statements.
Reason (R): The fact of the matter is that
human beings use signs to function in the world and are always likely to do so.
In the context of the two statements, which
one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: (A)
10. Ian McEwan’s Saturday spans one day in
the life of
(A) A divorce lawyer
(B) An ageing pianist
(C) A London neurosurgeon
(D) A famous poet
Answer: (C)
11. “Open Forum” as applied to poetry, is
the same as ________. It is poetry that is not written
according to traditional fixed patterns.
(Fill up)
(A) Blank verse
(B) Concrete poetry
(C) L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poetry
(D) Free verse
Answer: * (Marks given to all)
12. The author of the book observes “I have
attempted, through the medium of biography,
to present some Victorian visions to the
modern eye”. The four main characters in this book
are Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale,
Dr. Arnold and General Gordon. Who is this
author?
(A) Mathew Arnold
(B) Robert Browning
(C) Lytton Strachey
(D) Oscar Wilde
Answer: (C)
13. In his attack delivered on the theatre
in A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness
of the English Stage, Jeremy Collier
specially arraigned ______ and _______.
(A) Congreve and Vanbrugh
(B) Farquhar and Vanbrugh
(C) Wycherley and Farquhar
(D) Congreve and Etherege
Answer: (A)
14. I.A. Richards’ Practical Criticism
(1929) inaugurated a new phase in the history of English
critical thought. What was this book’s
subtitle?
(A) Studies in Poetry
(B) A Study in Literary Judgement
(C) Essays and Studies
(D) A Theoretical Guide
Answer: (B)
15. Which of the following arrangements is
in the correct chronological sequence?
(A) The Castle of Otranto – Melmoth the
Wanderer – The Monk – The Mysteries of Udolpho
(B) The Castle of Otranto – The Mysteries
of Udolpho – The Monk – Melmoth the Wanderer
(C) The Mysteries of Udolpho – The Castle
of Otranto – The Monk – Melmoth the Wanderer
(D) Melmoth the Wanderer – The Castle of
Otranto – The Mysteries of Udolpho – The Monk
Answer: (B)
16. Select from among the following plays,
the one that best suits the description below:
I. Alyque Padamsee invited its author to
write it.
II. The play had communalism as its theme.
III. This play was banned from the Deccan
Herald Theatre Festival for dealing with a sensitive issue.
IV. The play, however, was produced by
Playpen in Bangalore on July 1993. The play is _______.
(A) Dance like a Man
(B) Where there’s a Will
(C) Final Solutions
(D) The Wisest Fool on Earth
Answer: (C)
17. I have known three generations of John
Smiths. The type breeds true. John Smith II and
III went to the same school, university and
learned profession as John Smith I. Yet John
Smith I wrote pseudo-Swinburne; John Smith
II wrote pseudo-Brooke; and John Smith III is
now writing pseudo-Eliot. But unless John
Smith can write John Smith, however
unfashionable the result, why does he
bother to write at all? Surely one Swinburne; one
Brooke, and one Eliot are enough in any
age?
(Robert Graves, “The Poet and his Public”)
1. Graves is critical of blind adulation
and imitation of successful poets.
2. Graves is critical of blind conformity
to standards set by Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot.
3. Swinburne, Brooke, and Eliot represent
the movements: Decadence, the Georgian, and
Modernist respectively.
4. The poets in question are Algernon
Charles Swinburne, Stopford Brooke, and Thomas Stearns
Eliot.
(A) Only 1 and 2 are correct.
(B) Only 4 is incorrect.
(C) Only 3 and 4 are correct.
(D) Only 3 is incorrect.
Answer: (B)
18. During the colonial era, the British
used to call the Indian Languages vernaculars. We do not use this word for our
bhashas because:
I. we consider English to be equally
vernacular.
II. verna is, literally a home-born slave.
III. Not all Indian languages are languages
of the Indo-European family, and therefore not all vernacular.
IV. the natives of India were never slaves.
(A) IV
(B) II and IV
(C) III
(D) I and III
Answer: (B)
19. More’s Utopia displays strong influence
of
I. The Arthurian legends
II. Plato’s Republic
III. Amerigo Vespucci’s account of the
travels
IV. The teachings of John Wycliffe
The correct combination according to the
code is
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Answer: (B)
20. By ‘language transfer’ is meant
(A) Knowledge generated in the development
of a learner on account of other domains of
knowledge.
(B) The carryover of rules of the mother
tongue syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the
Second language in question.
(C) The carryover of rules of the Second
language syntax, phonology, or semantic system to the
mother tongue in question.
(D) The vocabulary and sentence structure
transferred haphazardly during Second language
acquisition from any other language
accessed by the learner.
Answer: (B)
21. Which of the following descriptions is
NOT true of Peter Carey’s The True History of the
Kelly Gang?
(A) It is an epistolary novel.
(B) It has such characters as Edward Kelly,
his mother, and his wife.
(C) It is also about the Bush and the
frontier.
(D) The novel is dedicated to Edward
Kelly’s father.
Answer: (D)
22. Identify the poem that opens with the
lines:
I walk through the long schoolroom
questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
thechildren learn to cipher and to sing …
(A) “Among the Schoolchildren”
(B) “Among School Children”
(C) “A Man Young and Old”
(D) “The Man Young and Old”
Answer: (B)
23. Which of the following statements is
NOT true of Foucault’s position in History of
Sexuality?
(A) Modern sexuality is produced through
and as discourse.
(B) The proliferation of modern discourses
of sexuality is more striking than their suppression.
(C) To write historically about sexuality
involves increasingly direct, immediate knowledge or
understanding of an unchanging sexual
essence.
(D) Modern sexuality is intimately
entangled with the historically distinctive contexts and structures
now called ‘knowledge’.
Answer: (C)
24. The following is an exchange between
two characters, husband and wife, in a famous
play. The lines appear at the very end of
an emotionally-charged sequence of the last scene:
“… I’ve stopped believing in miracles.”
“But I’ll believe. Tell me!
Transform ourselves to the point that ….?”
“That our living together could be a true
marriage.”
(She goes out down the hall.)
Which play? Name the characters.
(A) Othello. Othello, Desdemona
(B) Sure Thing. Bill, Betty
(C) A Doll’s House. Helmer, Nora
(D) Death of a Salesman. Willy, Linda
Answer: (C)
25. The following statements relate to the
early history of the English language. Identify the
set that gives INCORRECT statements:
1. English has borrowed words such as sky,
give, law, and leg from Norse.
2. English has also borrowed some pronouns
like they, their, them from Norse.
3. In grammar, Modern English is much more
highly inflected than Old English.
4. After the Norman Conquest, French became
the language of the court, the language of nobility
and polite society, and literature.
5. Following the Norman Conquest, French
virtually replaced English as the language of the people.
6. Among the French words that came into
English are: study, logic, grammar, noun, etc.
(A) 1, 2, 3
(B) 3, 5
(C) 4, 5, 6
(D) 2, 4
Answer: (B)
26. Choices of linguistic forms in using a
language, or how a language is actually
spoken/written, especially one that differs
from its prescribed grammar, is called
(A) Utterance
(B) Use
(C) Usage
(D) Deviation
Answer: (C)
27. Jamaica Kincaid’s narrative A Small
Place
(A) Is all about learning Farsi and meeting
young people in modern Iran.
(B) Is an essay that discusses the politics
of tourism and other neo-colonial modes of foreign
intervention?
(C) Isa collection of tiny narratives about
gender relations and includes stories concerning the
Sumerian goddess Inanna.
(D) A novella that looks unblinkingly at
marital ceremonies and maternity in Antigua.
Answer: (B)
28. Identify the correctly-matched poets
and their works from the following:
(A) Nissim Ezekiel-Hymns in Darkness,
Kamala Das – The Sirens, R. Parthasarthy – Rough Passage,
A.K. Ramanujan – The Striders
(B)Nissim Ezekiel – The Striders, Kamala
Das – Rough Passage, R. Parthasarthy – Hymns in
Darkness, A.K. Ramanujan – The Sirens
(C) Nissim Ezekiel – The Sirens, Kamala Das
– Hymns in Darkness, R. Parthasarthy – The Striders,
A.K. Ramanujan– Rough Passage
(D) Nissim Ezekiel – Rough Passage, Kamala
Das – The Striders, R. Parthasarthy – The Striders, A.K.
Ramanujan – Hymns in Darkness
Answer: (A)
29. William Wordsworth had a deep influence
on Thomas Hardy. According to Hardy a
particular poem by Wordsworth was his ‘best
cure for despair’. Which is that poem?
(A) “Michael”
(B) “Tintern Abbey Revisited”
(C) “The Idiot Boy”
(D) “The Leechgatherer”
Answer: (D)
30. In Henry James’s Ambassadors, there is
a character who never appears in the novel. We
get to know about this significant person,
however, from the other characters. Who is this
character?
(A) Maria Gostrey
(B) Madame de Vionette
(C) Mrs. Newsome
(D) Mrs. Sarah Pocock
Answer: (C)
31. Why are Scott’s novels called “Waverley
Novels”?
(A) His novels are all set in Waverley.
(B) The Waverley Castle has a significant
role in his novels.
(C) Waverley (in his first novel of that
name) is a model hero for the protagonists of Scott’s novels.
(D) Scott started his novel-writing career
in his 43rd year with the novel, Waverley.
Answer: (D)
32. Which of these descriptions/ statements
best suits the idea of the ‘Renaissance Man’?
I. A fop, a scoundrel, who enjoys enormous
power in Renaissance courts and aristocratic families.
II. A near-mythical figure: a knight,
courtier, musician, poet, scholar and
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III. One who ploughs a lonely furrow and
keeps away from politicking and scandals.
IV. Someone like Sir Philip Sydney best
suits the ideal of the Renaissance Man.
(A) I
(B) IV
(C) I & III
(D) II & IV
Answer: (D)
33. Maxim Gorky, the Great Russian writer
of fiction and drama, was in real life a man called
______.
(A) Goliardic Kreshkov
(B) Ronsardo Felixikov
(C) Malthias Serpieri
(D) Aleksei Peshkov
Answer: (D)
34. After the prediction of the oracle that
he was destined to kill his father, Oedipus could
have avoided patricide
I. Had he not determined in horror never to
return to the only parents he knew.
II. Had he been a man of unusual
self-control.
III. Had he remembered the prediction and
had he been more cautious having recognized that
possibly after all Polybos was not his
father.
IV. Had he never struck any man who was
older than himself saying at the moment of provocation
‘This insolent man is grey-haired; let him
have the road’?
Find the correct combination according to
the code:
(A) I, II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) I, III and IV are correct.
(D) II, III and IV are correct.
Answer: (D)
35. Identify the Post-Apartheid novel by
Nadine Gordimer.
(A) The Conservationist
(B) The House of Gun
(C) The Lying Days
(D) Burger’s Daughter
Answer: (B)
36. The Duchess of Malfi married her
steward, Antonio. For the Elizabethan audience her marriage was a triple
offence. Which of the following is NOT one?
(A) She was a widow marrying a second time.
(B) She married on her own outside the
Church.
(C) She married beneath her status in
disregard of ‘degree’.
(D) She married against the wishes of her
brothers who almost acted like her guardians.
Answer: (D)
37. Who among the following has written the
essay, “The Indian Jugglers”?
(A) Charles Lamb
(B) William Hazlitt
(C) Thomas de Quincey
(D) Thomas Love Peacock
Answer: (B)
38. How would you best describe George
Meredith’s Modern Love (1862)?
(A) A ballad
(B) A lyric travelogue
(C) A verse romance
(D) A sonnet sequence
Answer: (D)
39. The play was written in 1881 when its
author was in Italy. This is considered to be his most remarkable intellectual
effort. The softening of the brain as a result of a disease inherited from his
father is the subject. Which is the play?
(A) An Enemy of the People
(B) Ghosts
(C) Rhinoceros
(D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
Answer: (B)
40. In many ways, grammatical categories
remain mysterious. Whatdoes it mean to speak a
language that in every sentence requires
you to locate yourself in time, or specify your
source of knowledge, or the shape of what
you are talking about? We still don’t know. But
putting the question like this suggests a
clear andlimited way of interpreting the idea that
different languages represent different
worlds. Which of the following statements on this
passage interprets it most accurately?
(A) The passage reflects the unreliability
of grammatical categories of a language generally.
(B) The passage concedes that the
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis cannot be discounted entirely.
(C) The passage upholds the reliability of
grammatical categories of a language generally.
(D) The passage suggests that the
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is largely discredited today.
Answer: (B)
41. Tolstoy’s War and Peace carries a
lengthy discussion of determinism and free will in
________.
(A) Its prologue
(B) An exchange between Pierre and Natasha
(C) An exchange between Nikolai Rostof and
Princess Bezukhoi
(D) Its epilogue
Answer: (D)
42. Which from among the following is NOT
true of Nagmandala?
(A) It does not have multiple narratives.
(B) It is open-ended.
(C) It combines conventional and subversive
modes.
(D) Story is personified in the play.
Answer: (A)
43. Arrange the following literary journals
chronologically:
(A) The London Magazine
the Quarterly Review
Blackwood’s Magazine
the Saturday Review
theTatler
(B) The Tatler
the Saturday Review
Blackwood’s Magazine
the Quarterly Review
the London Magazine
(C) The Quarterly Review
Blackwood’s Magazine
the Tatler
the Saturday Review
the London Magazine
(D) The Tatler
the London Magazine
the Quarterly Review
Blackwood’s Magazine
the Saturday Review
Answer: * (Marks given to all)
44. Pick out the two relevant and correct
descriptions of Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money
(1987):
1. This play proposes the foundation of a
monastery for the education of British gentlewomen.
2. This narrative deals with children who
are sick of their “enforced idleness.”
3. This play is subtitled “City Comedy.”
4. In this play, the state of the British
economy is symbolized by a takeover bid by an international
cartel.
5. This narrative details the adventures of
an Anglo-Indian orphan.
6. Money is the only criterion for success
for the players in this play’s share-market.
(A) 1 and 6 are correct.
(B) 2 and 5 are correct.
(C) 4 and 6 are correct.
(D) 5 and 6 are correct.
Answer: (C)
45. Identify from among the following FALSE
statements:
1. Eric Arthur Blair became the famous
British novelist, George Orwell.
2. Orwell was conversant in Hindustani and
fond of Indian food.
3. Young Eric Blair lived in Myanmar’s
trading town, Katha.
4. This town gave him the model for the
fictional district of Kyauktada in Burmese Days.
5. Orwell was born on June 25, 1903 in
Motihari, Bihar.
6. The Orwell Commemorative Committee in
Motihari has been demanding a restoration of
Orwell’s birthplace as a heritage site.
7. Orwell never returned to his birth
place.
8. The British journalist Ian Jack was
mainly responsible for our knowledge of Orwell’s antecedents
relating to Katha and Motihari.
(A) 2, 4, 8 are false.
(B) 7 and 8 are false.
(C) 3, 6 and 8 are false.
(D) All statements above are true.
Answer: (D)
46. Virginia Woolf borrowed the idea of the
common reader from Dr. Johnson. To which
particular work of Johnson’s does she
remain indebted?
(A) The Lives of the Most Eminent English
Poets; the essay on Milton
(B) The Lives of the Most Eminent English
Poets; the essay on Gray
(C) Preface to Shakespeare
(D) The Patriot
Answer: (B)
47. J.M. Coetzee was the first writer to be
awarded the Booker Prize twice. He won the prize
for
(A) Life and Times of Michael K. and
Disgrace
(B) Dusklands and Disgrace
(C) Foe and Elizabeth Costello
(D) Age of Iron and Disgrace
Answer: (A)
48. After the Norman Conquest England
became a three-language nation for at least two
centuries. The three languages were
(A) English, French and German
(B) English, Latin and German
(C) English, French and Latin
(D) English, French and Greek
Answer: (C)
49. Here are sentences labelled Assertion
(A) and Reason (R):
Assertion (A): In who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? George and Martha’s blue and green-eyed son is a myth.
Reason (R): He is a creation of the
couple’s imagination originating from their sense of sterility and vacuum in
life.
In the light of (A) and (R), which of the
following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is
not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: (A)
50. In the word rapidly, ‘ly’ is an adverbial
suffix indicating manner while rapid is a ______, ly is a ____.
(A) Word, wordling
(B) Morpheme, morpheme-bit
(C) Free morpheme, bound-morpheme
(D) Full morpheme, half-morpheme
Answer: (C)
Question Nos. 51 to 55 is based on a poem.
Read the poem carefully and pick out the most
appropriate answers.
It’s Your Own Fault Of course you can play
with them. There’s no harm in them. They are only
words. Words alone are certain good, said
someone. And someone also said unlike sticks and
stones Words will never break your bones.
(That is called rhyme. A rhyme is nice to play with too
from time to time.) What? They’ve turned
nasty? They’ve clawed you and bitten you? Dear me,
there’s blood all over the place.And broken
bones.They were perfectly tame when I left them.
Something they ate might have disagreed
with them. You mean you fed them on meaning? No
wonder then. – D.J. Enright
51. The poet’s remark on ‘rhyme’ is _____.
(A) Put in parenthesis
(B) Put in parentheses
(C) Framed rhetorically
(D) Put in apposition
Answer: (A)
52. The poem is cast in the form of a
______.
(A) Romantic lyric
(B) Verse epistle
(C) Dramatic monologue
(D) Dialogue
Answer: (C)
53. What is the “fault” to which the
speaker refers here?
(A) Playing with words
(B) Using only words
(C) Taking words too seriously
(D) Reading meanings into words
Answer: (D)
54. What tone is most appropriate for
reading this poem?
(A) Evasive
(B) Plaintive
(C) Ironic
(D) Sarcastic
Answer: (C)
55. “No wonder then.” Explain.
(A) No wonder that the words here begin to
mean.
(B) No wonder that you now find the words
menacing.
(C) No wonder that the words find you
menacing.
(D) No wonder the words still mean and are
tame.
Answer: (B)
56. “Nothing odd will do long. ______ did
not last long.” Dr. Johnson had this to say about one
of the eighteenth century novels. Identify
it from the following list:
(A) Tom Jones
(B) The Female Quixote
(C) Tristram Shandy
(D) Clarissa
Answer: (C)
57. Identify the sonnet upon sonnet by
William Wordsworth:
(A) “London, 1802”
(B) “The world is too much with us…”
(C) “Friend! I know not which way…”
(D) “Nuns fret not at their convent’s
narrow room…”
Answer: (D)
58. Who among the following women writers
has written Novel on Yellow Paper?
(A) Elizabeth Smither
(B) Stevie Smith
(C) Zulu Sofola
(D) Gita Mehta
Answer: (B)
59. In most people, the first language /
dialect acquired is ‘mother tongue’. Among the commonly used terms for mother
tongue, one of the following is avoided. Identify the one term NOT applied to
mother tongue:
(A) First language
(B) Prime language
(C) Native language
(D) Primary language
Answer: (B)
60. Identify the group of critical concepts
that parenthetically aligns them with their respective theorists:
(A) The Carnivalesque (Jean Baudrillard),
Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur (Walter Benjamin),
Chora (Gayatri C. Spivak), Simulacrum /
Simulacra (Antonio Gramsci), The Subaltern (Mikhael
Bakhtin), Metahistory (Walter Benjamin),
Aura (Julia Kristeva), Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin),
Hegemony (Antonio Gramsci)
(B) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur
(Walter Benjamin), Chora (Julia Kristeva), Simulacrum /
Simulacra (Jean Baudrillard), the Subaltern
(Gayatri C. Spivak) Metahistory (Hayden White),
Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony
(Antonio Gramsci)
(C) Habitus (Julia Kristeva), Flaneur
(Walter Benjamin), Chora (Pierre Bourdieu), Simulacrum /
Simulacra (Hayden White), The Subaltern
(Gayatri C. Spivak), Metahistory (Jean Baudrillard),
Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony
(Antonio Gramsci)
(D) Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu), Flaneur
(Antonio Gramsci), Chora (Julia Kristeva), Simulacrum /
Simulacra (Jean Baudrillard), The Subaltern
(Gayatri C. Spivak), Metahistory (Hayden White),
Polyphony (Mikhael Bakhtin), Hegemony
(Walter Benjamin)
Answer: (B)
61. What was the mandate of the Stationer’s
Company incorporated in London in 1557?
(A) To oversee the affairs of the Royal
Registry.
(B) To oversee authors’ and printers’, or
printer-publishers’ rights.
(C) To oversee authors’ and printers’ or
printer-publishers’ use of stationery.
(D) To oversee the quality of stationery
harnessed by the Royal Registry.
Answer: (B)
62. One of the following was described by
its author as “a poem including history.” Identify
the poem.
(A) Robert Lowell, Life Studies
(B) William Carlos Williams, Paterson
(C) Elizabeth Bishop, Questions of Travel
(D) Ezra Pound, the Cantos
Answer: (D)
63. Arrange the following groups of English
writers in chronological order:
(A) The Metaphysical poets
The High Modernists
Transitional poets
The Georgians
the Aesthetes
the University Wits
(B) The University Wits
the Metaphysical poets
Transitional poets
The Aesthetes
The Georgians
the High Modernists
(C) The High Modernists
the Georgians
the Aesthetes
Transitional poets
The Metaphysical poets
The University Wits
(D) The University Wits
the Metaphysical poets
The Aesthetes
Transitional poets
The Georgians
the High Modernists
Answer: * (Marks given to all)
64. Which Bible is the earliest English
version printed with verse divisions?
(A) Tyndale’s Translation
(B) The Geneva Bible
(C) The Douay-Rheims Version
(D) King James Version
Answer: (B)
65. E.M. Forster’s Passage to India begins
with a description of the city of Chandrapore. It has an old Indian part and a
new part consisting of the British civil station. Which of the following
descriptions of the city is not found in the text?
(A) The streets are mean, the temples
ineffective.
(B) It is a city of gardens.
(C) It is a tropical pleasaunce washed by a
noble river.
(D) The new civil station is not sensibly
planned and not modern.
Answer: (D)
66. In which of the following books would
you find the following arguments / observations?
Escapist fiction lacks serious fiction’s
apocalyptic experience of finality. The two versions of
literary experience are qualitatively
different; every novel fits one category or the other,
not both. Serious fiction, however, compels
our attention by representing improvements
(the “world of potency”) as being achieved
(a “world of act”) and by showing narrative
movement “through time to an end, an end,
we must sense even if we cannot know it.”
(A) Sincerity and Authenticity
(B) The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the
Theory of Fiction
(C) Beyond the Apocalypse
(D) The Rhetoric of Fiction
Answer: (B)
67. Philip Larkin’s “The Whitsun Weddings”
I. describes a long train journey
II. Establishes a ‘we’ voice of collective
outlook
III. Traces the disfigurement of a sunny
landscape on an advertising poster
IV. Gives an account of a drug pusher
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Answer: (B)
68. Match the last lines of the poems with
their correct titles:
List – I
1. “Death, be not proud…”
2. “The Great Lover”
3. “Dover Beach”
4. “To His Coy Mistress”
I. And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where
ignorant armies clash by night.
II. Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
III. One short sleep past, we wake
eternally, and death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
IV. This one last gift I give: that after
men shall know, and later lovers, far-removed, Praise you, “All
these were lovely;” say, “He loved.”
Codes:
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 2 1 4 1
(D) 1 2 3 4
Answer: (A)
69. The Oxford Companions are handy
reference volumes for teachers and students of
English. Identify the one volume that has
NOT yet appeared in this series:
(A) The Oxford Companion to
Twentieth-Century Literature in English
(B) The Oxford Companion to Canadian
Literature
(C) The Oxford Companion to American
Literature
(D) The Oxford Companion to Indian
Literature in English
Answer: (D)
70. While writing or printing, scholarly
use prefers titles in italics. Which of the following is the correct way of
writing/printing?
(A) Charles Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities
(B) Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities
(C) Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
(D) Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities
Answer: (C)
Questions from 71 to 75 are based on the
following passage. Read the passage carefully and
select the most appropriate option:
Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness,
there is what I call a mythical norm, which each one of
us within our hearts knows “that is not
me”. In America, this norm is usually defined as white, thin,
male, young, heterosexual, Christian, and
financially secure. It is with this mythical norm that the
trappings of power reside within the
society. Those of us who stand outside that power often
identify one way in which we are different,
and we assume that to be the primary cause of all
oppression, forgetting other distortions
around difference, some of which we ourselves may be
practicing. By and large within the women’s
movement today, white women focus upon their
oppression as women and ignore differences
of race, sexual preference, class, and age. There is a
pretense to homogeneity of experience
covered by the word sisterhood that does not in fact exist.
(Audre Lorde)
71. A mythical norm is endemic to
societies:
1. Where racial myths are prevalent and
widely respected and perpetuated through utterances
that establish ‘we’ and ‘they’ groups.
2. Where the superiority of one’s own
culture and nation no longer emphasized openly or
straightforwardly.
3. Where ‘difference’ has been a
preoccupation in the representation of people who are racially,
ethnically, and in terms of gender and
sexual preference different from an assumed majority.
4. That believes that the norm is part of
their right to defend the ways of life enjoyed by a
dominant group, their traditions and
customs against outsiders – not because these outsiders are
inferior, but because they belong to other
cultures.
(A) 1 and 4 are correct.
(B) 2 and 3 are correct.
(C) Only 4 is correct.
(D) Only 3 is correct.
Answer: (B)
72. How does the author mark her difference
from other writers on similar issues and
underscore her radical style
typographically?
1. By her use of parataxis
2. By italicizing ‘mythical norm’ and
‘sisterhood’
3. By using lowercase for proper and common
nouns
4. By using phrases like ‘Those of us who
stand outside…’
(A) 1 & 4 are correct.
(B) 2 is correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 & 3 are correct.
Answer: *
73. That there are levels and grades of
powerlessness in societies entertaining ‘a mythical norm’ is indicated
1. By the overall tone and tenor of the
passage.
2. By the suggestion that ‘a mythical norm’
is responsible for the unequal distribution of power
among people.
3. By referring to ‘other distortions
around difference’.
4. By referring to white women who narrow
down oppression directed only at white women.
(A) 4 is correct.
(B) 1 & 2 are correct.
(C) 3 is correct.
(D) 2 is correct.
Answer: (C)
74. Why is the author dismissive about
‘sisterhood’?
1. Because it is italicised.
2. Because it does not exist in principle.
3. Because it assumes that all ‘sisters’
are alike.
4. Because it assumes that all ‘sisters’
are unique.
(A) 3 is correct
(B) 1 is correct
(C) 4 is correct
(D) 2 is correct
Answer: (A)
75. Does the author absolve all women from
the ‘distortions around difference’?
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Not sure.
4. Yes, in a qualified manner though.
(A) 1 is correct
(B) 2 is correct
(C) 3 is correct
(D) 4 is correct
Answer: (B)
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