NET PAPER-3 DECEMBER 2015
1. Thomas and Henrietta Bowler’s edition of The Family Shakespeare gave rise to the word Bowdlerize. What does it mean ?
(1) the expurgation of indelicate language
(2) the modernization of archaic vocabulary
(3) the insertion of bawdy songs
(4) the expansion of female characters
Answer: 1
Explanation: The Family Shakespeare is a collection of expurgated Shakespeare plays, edited by Thomas Bowdler and his sister Henrietta ("Harriet"), intended to remove any material deemed too racy, blasphemous, or otherwise sensitive for young or female audiences, with the ultimate goal of creating a family-friendly rendition of Shakespeare's playsIt is one of the most often cited examples of literary censorship, despite (or perhaps because of) its original family-friendly intentions. The Bowdler name is also the origin of the term "bowdlerise", meaning to omit parts of a work on moral grounds.
2. First follow ____________ and your
judgement frame. By her just __________, which is still the same. Supply the
appropriate words to fill in the blanks.
(1) wit, law
(2) reason, rule
(3) nature, standard
(4) sense, criterion
Answer: 3
3. Preparation of vocabulary list for the
purpose of English language teaching was carried out by__________.
(1) Otto Jespersen
(2) Noam Chomsky
(3) N.S. Prabhu
(4) Michael West
Answer: 4
4. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri prefer
to use Empire rather than imperialism. According to them
(1) There is only one empire and we had better
recognize it. Hence the Empire with E upper case
(2) There may he many empires hut only one
is patently visible and operational. That is denoted by Empire with E upper
case
(3) The present day empire does not have an
identifiable location or centre. Hence we ought to differentiate this view of
Empire with E upper case
(4) The culturally dominant global empire
is the only one that really matters. We signify that Empire with E upper case
Answer: 3
Empire and Imperialism: A Critical Reading is a book by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
5. Who among the following critics
discerned in the Shelleyan Lyric the signs of adolescence ?
(1) F.R. Leavis
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) Cleanth Brooks
(4) I.A. Richards
Answer: 2
6. Two among the following critical
journals became strongly associated with New Criticism.
(a) Partisan Review
(b) Southern Review
(c) Kenyon Review
(d) Hudson Review
The right combination according to the code
is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (b) arid (c)
(4) (c) and (d)
Answer: 3
7. Match the columns :
(a) Robert Burton
(b) Richard Hooker
(c) Thomas Browne
(d) Thomas Nashe
(i) Urn Burial
(ii) The Unfortunate Traveller
(iii) The Anatomy of Melancholy
(iv) Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(2) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(3) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(4) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
Answer: 3
8. Which of the following characters in The
White Devil describes the glory of great men as : Glories, like glow worms a
far off shine bright / But looked to near have neither heat nor light ..
(1) Vittoria
(2) Lodovico
(3) Flamineo
(4) Cornelia
Answer: 3
9. In which of Philip Larkin.s poem does he
refer to .long uneven lines. of men waiting to be enlisted for the war ? (“Never such innocence
again” concludes the poem)
(1) Mr. Bleaney
(2) Mc MXIV
(3) Ambulances
(4) Sad Steps
Answer: 2
10. In Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa one morning found himself changed in his bed to a monstrous kind of vermin. The most difficult thing for Samsa was :
(1) to look at his image in the mirror
(2) to remember what happened the day
before
(3) to communicate with anyone
(4) to brush his teeth
Answer: 3
11. Identify the individual who is a
nihilist from the following :
(1) Pechorin in A Hero of Our Times
(2) Bazarov in Fathers and Sons
(3) Levin in Anna Karenina
(4) Oblomov in Oblomov
Answer: 2
Bazarov is a self-confident young nihilist whom Arkady befriends at Petersburg University. He is the son of Vassily and Arina. Bazarov studies natural science, hoping to become a doctor, and he rejects authoritative principles in favor of a materialistic, utilitarian view of the world12. Which of these works in nineteenth-century Russian fiction originated the type of a Superfluous Man ?
(1) The Diary of a Superfluous Man
(2) A Hero of our Own Times
(3) Eugene Onegin
(4) Deal Souls
Answer: 3
It is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. Onegin is considered a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes (so-called superfluous men).
13. What is Gilgamesh ?
(a) a Babylonian epic poem
(b) a series of gnomic verses
(c) a classical play
(d) the story of a harsh ruler
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (c)
(3) (a) and (d)
(4) (b)
Answer: 3
The Epic of Gilgamesh (/ ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ /) is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, and is regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature and the second oldest religious text, after the Pyramid Texts.
14. American Dictionary of the English
Language was the work of _________ published in ________
(1) Merriam Webster, 1903
(2) H.L. Mencken, 1930
(3) Noah Webster, 1828
(4) Benjamin Franklin, 1768
Answer: 3
15. Which of the following texts of Amitav
Ghosh is based on the refugee occupation of an island in the Sundarvans ?
(1) Sea of Poppies
(2) The Hungry Tide
(3) River of Smoke
(4) The Glass Palace
Answer: 2
16. Which of the following is described by
Robert Browning as A Child’s Story?
(1) Bells and Pomegranates
(2) Pauline
(3) Fifine at the Fair
(4) The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Answer: 4
17. Identify the New Critic who served as
the cultural attaché at the American Embassy in London from 1964 to 1966 :
(1) John Crowe Ransom
(2) Cleanth Brooks
(3) Allen Tate
(4) Robert Penn Warren
Answer: 2
18. .The Gilded Age refers to a period of
American history between 1870 and the first decades of the twentieth century.
Who among the following American writers is credited with the coining of the
term?
(1) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(2) Mark Twain
(3) William Dean Howells
(4) Theodore Dreiser
Answer: 2
The Gilded Age, the term for the period of economic boom which began after the American Civil War and ended at the turn of the century was applied to the era by historians in the 1920s, who took the term from one of Mark Twain 's lesser-known novels, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873).19. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes was a great achievement by Edward Gibbon.
It was
published between 1776 and 1788, two significant dates that.
(1) Signalled the end of the Napoleonic
wars and the rise of Feudalism
(2) Signalled the American Revolution and
the French Revolution
(3) Covered the fall of peasantry and the
rise of bureaucracy in England
(4) Suggest the period of Queen Anne.s
reign
Answer: 2
20. "Being so caught up, so mastered by the brute __________ of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power, Before the __________ beak could let her drop." --Yeats, ‘Leda and the Swan’
Choose the right words for the blanks
(1) beast, shiny
(2) force, animal
(3) blood, indifferent
(4) thrust, irate
Answer: 3
21. Match the following : Terms Description
(a) Ambiguity
(b) Aporia
(c) Intertextuality
(d) Heteroglossia
(i) A term coined by Julia Kristeva to
refer to the fact that texts are constituted by a .tissue of citations..
(ii) A term used by Mikhail Bakhtin to
describe the variety of languages and voices within a novel.
(iii) An irresolvable internal
contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, usually associated with deconstructive
thinking.
(iv) A term made famous by William Empson
to indicate that a word, phrase, or text can be interpreted in more than one
way.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(2) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(3) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(4) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
Answer: 3
22. Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me ?
Which nineteenth-century work bears these lines from Paradise Lost as epigraph ?
(1) Wuthering Heights
(2) Frankenstein
(3) Don Juan
(4) Jude the Obscure
Answer: 2
23. A literary researcher now faced with
choosing between a print text and its digital counterpart chooses the latter
mostly to
(1) facilitate the consultation of an
exhaustive bibliography
(2) avoid the expense of buying books
(3) look for specific words and phrases and
lines
(4) enhance his/her understanding of
textual variants, if any, between the two media
Answer: 3
24. Which of the following statements on
Hudibras are true ?
(a) It is a novel written by Matthew Prior.
(b) It is a satirical poem published in 3
parts.
(c) Hudibras was written by Samuel Butler.
(d) Hudibras discusses complex issues of
justice, politics and religion.
(1) (c) and (d) are true
(2) (a) and (d) are true
(3) (b) and (c) are true
(4) (a) and (b) are true
Answer: 3
Hudibras is a vigorous satirical poem, written in a mock-heroic style by Samuel Butler (1613–1680), and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678. The action is set in the last years of the Interregnum, around 1658–60, immediately before the restoration of Charles II as king in May 1660.
25. The formalist critic ______________ mocked the character -based criticism of ___________ by posing a famous question,
How many children had Lady Macbeth?
(1) F.R. Leavis, E.K. Chambers
(2) Cleanth Brooks, F.L. Lucas
(3) Monroe Beardsley, Kenneth Burke
(4) L.C. Knights, A.C. Bradley
Answer: 4
26. Which of the following pair of words
does not have two different vowel glides ?
(1) care, pure
(2) write, freight
(3) caught, court
(4) eight, ate
Answer: 4
(1) keə, pjʊə
(2) raɪt, freɪt(3) kɔːt, kɔːt
(4) eɪt, ɛt
27. Assertion (A) : Arts will often work
obliquely, by myth or symbol. They may make their best criticism of life simply
by being; they may best state by not stating.
Reason (R) : It follows, if even only part
of all this is true, that the arts do have an important social function. Arts
can give greater depth to a society’s sense of itself. A country without great
art might be a powerful collection of thriving earthworms hut would be a sorry society.
(1) Reason (R) is perfectly aligned with
Assertion (A)
(2) Assertion (A) is unrelated to Reason
(R)
(3) Assertion (A) hardly reflects Reason
(R).s elaboration
(4) Reason (R), in fact, contradicts
Assertion (A)
Answer: 1
28. Which of the following is NOT an
example of derivational morpheme ?
(1) friend – friendship
(2) courage – courageous
(3) rely – reliable
(4) climate – climactic
Answer: 1
Inflectional affixes create new forms of the same word without changing parts of speech.
29. Which of these statements is incorrect
about presentism and its basic premises ?
(1) Hugh Grady is its principal proponent.
(2) Our knowledge of works from the past is
conditioned by and dependent upon the ideologies of the present
(3) Presentism does not contextualize
cultural production in the same way or make use of the theorists that New
Historicism does
(4) Historicism itself necessarily produces
an implicit allegory of the present in its configuration of the past
Answer: 3
30. Where there is leisure for fiction,
there is little grief., was Samuel Johnson’s criticism of a famous poem. Which
poem was it?
(1) P.B. Shelley’s “Adonais”
(2) Philip Sidney`s “Astrophel and Stella”
(3) Thomas Gray`s “Elegy Written on a
Country Churchyard”
(4) John Miltion`s “Lycidas”
Answer: 4
31. The story is grounded in the forbidden
nature of Achenbach’s Obsession with a young boy; its author ultimately links
the obsession with death, disease and esthetic disintegration. The author of
the story is :
(1) Goethe
(2) Mann
(3) Borges
(4) Proust
Answer: 2
The main character of the novella Thomas Mann's The Death in Venice, Aschenbach is a successful, celebrated German writer who lives in Munich.32. Which of the following novels of Joseph
Conrad is set in Malay ?
(1) Nigger of the Narcissus
(2) Lord Jim
(3) Nostromo
(4) Heart of Darkuess
Answer: 2
33. Nuruddin Farah’s Maps tells the story
of __________
(1) Abida
(2) Ahu
(3) Askar
(4) Andy
Answer: 3
Maps (1986) and Gifts (1992), Secrets (1998)- triology
Links (2003), Knots (2006), and Crossbones (2011) constitute another trilogy.
34. One of the most quoted statements on poetry by John Keats is reproduced with blanks below. Complete the statement with correct words.
If Poetry __________ as naturally as the leaves to a tree,
it __________ at all.
(1) does not come; hid better not come
(2) comes not; might come not
(3) comes not; had better not come
(4) come not; did not come
Answer: 3
35. Manohar Malgonkar was a hunter, a
lieutenant colonel in the British army, and a teaplanter. He also wrote a
memorable novel about the Sepoy Mutiny, especially Peshwa Baji Rao II. What is
that novel ?
(1) A Distant Drum
(2) A Combat of Shadows
(3) A Bend in the Ganges
(4) The Devil`s Wind
Answer: 4
36. Who wrote the screenplay for the film
version of John Fowles’s novel The French Lieutenant`s Woman?
(1) Harold Pinter
(2) Torn Stoppard
(3) David Marnet
(4) Caryl Phillips
Answer: 1
37. How all their plays be neither right
tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and elowns, not because the
matter so carrieth it, hut thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a
part in majestical matters. What term does Philip Sidney use to characterize
such plays and which of the unities of Aristotle do they violate ?
(1) mongrel tragicomedy; unity of action
(2) mixed tragedies; unity of action
(3) multi-plot drama; unity of time
(4) mingled yarn; unity of place
Answer: 1
In A Defence of Poetry (1579) Sir Philip Sidney praises Orpheus, a central figure in Renaissance thought, the poet-civiliser who, by his artistry, drew “the wild untamed wits to an admiration of knowledge”. Sidney, however, was at pains to find any “delightful teaching” in what he called the “mongrel tragi-comedy” of his day, even though a play like Richard Edwards’ Damon and Pithias (1563), a “tragical comedy” full of “matter, mix’d with mirth and care”, had already appeared. Edwards’ play illustrates the power of art to combat the abuses of tyranny. Music and love play a major role here, as in Robert Greene’s tragicomic James IV (1590), and in Shakespeare’s late plays. In this paper, the wisdom tradition of Orpheus provides the back-cloth to an exploration of the role of the dramaturgist in the above-mentioned plays.38. There is a large number of religious
poems in Old English Poetry. One of the finest is the Dream of the Rood. The
words Rood in the title means :
(1) the Cross
(2) the Christian
(3) the Infidel
(4) the Cardinal
Answer: 1
39. Identify from among the following, the
one incorrect statement on M. Anantanarayanan’s Silver Pilgrimage (1961):
(1) M Anantanarayanan modelled this
narrative on the well-known picaresque novels in English
(2) The Silver Pilgrimage is M.
Anantanarayanan.s only foray into fiction
(3) This novel is mainly an account of the
adventures of Jayasurya, a Sri Lankan prince of the sixteenth century
(4) Among the literary texts quoted by the
novel are lines from Shakespeare, Donne and Rilke and classical Tamil poets
Answer: 1
Silver Pilgrimage (1961) is in a style redolent of the the Kathasaritsagara, the author describes the culture and thought of medieval India while describing a pilgrimage from Lanka to Kasi (Benares). Along the way are hilarious retellings of Hamlet and Macbeth from an Indological perspective, disputations on the possibility of the existence of those 'liberated whilst alive' between Saiva and Vaisnava theologians, and so on and so forth.40. Listed below are the titles of some
influential books by Frank Kermode. Identify which one of the titles that does
NOT belong to the set.
(1) The Sense of an Ending
(2) Not Entitled -A Memoir
(3) The Genesis of Secrecy
(4) The Great Code : The Bible amid
Literature
Answer: 4
The Great Code : The Bible amid Literature considered by many to be Northrop Frye's magnum opus, The Great Code (1982) reflects a lifetime of thinking about the patterns and meanings of the Bible.
41. Identify the one erroneous statement on
Neoclassicism listed below :
(1) Lodovico Castelvetro and Torquato Tasso
greatly influenced English writers like Milton and
Dryden
(2) Neoclassicism took its final form
during the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715)
(3) Boilean’s L’Art poétique influenced
Pope’s Essay, on Criticism
(4) The English relation to Neoclassicism
was one of dialogue. Most literally, this dialogue is
effected in Addison`s An Essay on Dramatic
Poesy
Answer: 4
42. In his Poems of Love and War, a
collection of classic Indian poems in English translation, A.K. Ramanujan
sought to revive an ancient ___________ poetic tradition. Choose the right word.
(1) Tamil
(2) Sanskrit
(3) Kannada
(4) Pali
Answer: 1
43. Arrange the following sentences in the
order in which they appear in Emerson`s 'Self Reliance':
(a) To be great is to be misunderstood.
(b) Pythagoras was misunderstood, and
Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and
every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
(c) If it so bad then to he misunderstood!
(d) It is a right fool’s word.
(e) Misunderstood!
(1) (a), (e), (d), (c), (b)
(2) (e), (a), (b), (c), (d)
(3) (c), (d), (a), (b), (e)
(4) (e), (d), (c), (b), (a)
Answer: 4
44. X … Do you know it is nearly seven ?
Y (irritably) Oh! it always is nearly
seven.
X well, I’m hungry.
Y I never knew you when you weren’t …
X What shall we do after dinner ? Go to a
theatre ?
Y Oh no! I loathe listening.
X Well, let us go to the club ?
Y Oh no! I hate talking.
X Well, we might trot round to the Empire
at ten ?
Y Oh no! I can’t bear looking at things. It
is so silly.
X Well, what shall we do ? N Nothing!
X It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
However, I don’t mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.
Identify the speakers in this dialogue :
(1) Aston (X) to Mick (Y) The Caretaker
(2) Algernon (X) to Jack (Y) The Importance
of Being Earnest
(3) Lucky (X) to Pozzo (Y) Waiting for
Godot
(4) Man (X) to the Woman (Y) The Waste Land
Answer: 2
45. Which of these Greek plays was a source
for The Winter’s Tale ?
(1) Iphigeneia at Aulis
(2) AIcestis
(3) Medea
(4) Iphigenaia at Tauris
Answer: 2
46. Sweet is the lore which nature brings;
Our meddling intellect,
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things :
We murder to dissect
- Wordsworth
Which of the following best summarises the speaker’s position
?
(1) Nature is incomplete without a human
witness to attest to its beauty
(2) Human endeavours will succeed only if
the laws of nature are taken into account
(3) Nature yields a pleasure superior to
that derived from intrusive human inquiry
(4) He flaws inherent in human nature are
also evident in the natural world
Answer: 3
Nature, without us interfering in it, is beautiful and sweet, but as soon as we start to meddle in it, we destroy it. ‘We murder to dissect’ is the most famous line from the poem A Short Analysis of William Wordsworth’s ‘The Tables Turned’ ‘The Tables Turned’ is a poem from the 1798 collection Lyrical Ballads,. The line is a condensing of the slightly longer sentiment that ‘in order to dissect something and analyse it, we kill it’.
47. (a) Jean Baudrillard tells us the
postmodern societies are marked by simulacra.
(b) By simulacra he means
non-representations of reality.
(c) Simulacra artificially produce a mediated
world masquerading as authenticity.
(d) It was not Jean Baudrillard but his
interpreters who coined the term .simulacra.
Which of the above statements are true ?
(1) (b), (c) and (d)
(2) (a) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (c)
Answer: 2
48. Which of the following is correct as
the natural order of language acquisition ?
(1) Listening -Reading -Speaking -Writing
(2) Writing -Reading -Listening -Speaking
(3) Listening -Speaking -Reading -Writing
(4) Reading -Listening -Speaking –Writing
Answer: 3
49. Which of the following statements is
NOT TRUE regarding the poems of Derek Walcott ?
(1) His poem ‘Goats and Monkeys’ has an
epigraph from Shakespeare’s Othello
(2) In ‘The Sadhu of Couva’ Walcott refers
to Diwali, Hanuman and the Ramayana
(3) Walcott has written a poem entitled
‘Jean Rhys’
(4) In ‘A Far Cry From Africa’ Walcott
depicts his divided loyalties in the context of the Changuna Uprising
Answer: 4
50. In Shakespeare’s time who owned the
rights to a theatrical script ?
(1) the playwright(s)
(2) the patron of the acting company
(3) the printer
(4) the acting company
Answer: 4
51. Which of the following sentences uses
more than three cohesive devices ?
(1) At that time a person could drive for
miles without seeing a house
(2) All of them could recite the poem
yesterday
(3) You can use a pencil, though not a pen,
to write your name
(4) As soon as Mohan entered the stadium
the crowd cheered
Answer: 3
52. Match the columns :
English Translator
(i) William Jones
(ii) Nathaniel Halhed
(iii) W. Franklin
(iv) T.H. Griffith
Indian Text
(a) The love of Kamarupa and
(b) Ramayana
(c) Upanishads
(d) Abhijnan Sakuntalam
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(2) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(3) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(4) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
Answer: 2
Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin), 1826-1906 translated The Rámáyan of Válmíki, into English verse.53. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of
the New Bolt Report, The Teaching of English in England?
(1) It was commissioned in 1919
(2) It urged the teaching of the national
literature
(3) It proposed the teaching of English
Literature at the university level
(4) It aimed at uniting divided classes
after the war
Answer: 3
54. This revenge tragedy opens with the long soliloquy of the protagonist carrying the skull of his poisoned fiance and swearing vengeance for the old Duke who has committed the vicious act.
Identify the play.
(1) The Spanish Tragedy
(2) The Revenger’s Tragedy
(3) The Duchess of Malfi
(4) The Changeling
Answer: 2
55. What did Anthony Trollope seek to
criticize through the character Mr. Slope ?
(1) Methodism
(2) Low Churchmen
(3) High Church doctrine
(4) Anglicanism
Answer: 2
Mr.Slope is in “Barcherster Towers”56. .To refer to symbols as Lacanian
symbols., to dub self-doubt as Lacanian self-doubt., and to call reflections in
a mirror Lacanian reflections is not to read the mind from a perspective informed
by Lacan. Nor do parenthetical references to Barthes. hermeneutic code and Foucault’s
analysis of sexual discourse constitute an interpretation necessarily different
from that of traditional humanist criticism
The author of the passage of objecting to
critics who _______________.
(1) try to force a parallel between recent
critical approaches and traditional humanist criticism
(2) decoratively apply the names and
terminology of recent critical theories without employing the methodology
(3) attempt to reduce the study of
literature to a hunt for coded messages and symbols
(4) stubbornly maintain a traditional
notation of the role of criticism while refusing to acknowledge new theoretical
developments
Answer: 2
57. Peter Ackroyd’s first novel, The Great Fire of London, picks up the historical echoes and artfully deploys a Dickens novel as an intertext.
Identify the source Dickens text.
(1) Great Expectations
(2) Little Dorrit
(3) Martin Chuzzlewit
(4) Old Curiosity Shop
Answer: 2
58. Which of the following plays by Henrik
Ibsen deals with the perils that await the emancipated woman in a society which
is not ready to accept her ?
(1) A Doll’s House
(2) An Enemy of the People
(3) Hedda Gabler
(4) Pillars of Society
Answer: 3
Hedda Gabler is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
59. .Yet it is the masculine values that
prevail., observed a famous writer Speaking cruelly, she continued, football
and sport are important., the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes
trivial. Name the author and the text.
(1) Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of
the Rights of Woman
(2) Audre Lorde Age, Race, Class….
(3) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
(4) Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Answer: 3
60. According to Coleridge, the secondary
imagination dissolves, diffuses, _________ , in order to recreate….. Choose the
right word for the blank.
(1) disintegrates
(2) dissipates
(3) displaces
(4) dissociates
Answer: 2
61. Beginning 1996, an Indian publisher commenced
the publication of a series of modern Indian novels in English translation. By
2003, it had published eighty novels of repute from almost all Indian
languages. Identify the publisher.
(1) Asia Publishing House
(2) Macmillan India
(3) Jaico
(4) Arnold Heinemann
Answer: 2
62. William Dunbar’s Lament for the makers
is about :
(1) kings
(2) priests
(3) poets
(4) peasants
Answer: 3
63. Who among the following protagonists of
Thomas Hardy feels his lot as akin to Job’s ?
(1) Clym Yeo bright
(2) Angel Clare
(3) Jude
(4) Troy
Answer: 3
64. Edward Braithwaite’s poem Calypso
assumes that you are familiar with ____________ .
(1) the business of Calypso during the
Middle Passage
(2) the West Indian music in syncopated
African rhythm
(3) the folk ways and mores of Trinidadian
merchants
(4) the operatic performance of Banjos
Answer: 2
65. Which of the modern plays by a British
playwright actually puts Shakespeare as character on stage ?
(1) Edward Bond’s Bingo
(2) Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language
(3) Terence Rattigan’s Inspector calls
(4) Joe Orton’s Loot
Answer: 1
66. A famous challenge to the Neoclassical
tenets of form and reason in aesthetic considerations came from Edmund Burke.
His work was titled :
(1) An Enquiry into the Philosophical
Origin of, Our Ideas of the sublime and the Beautiful
(2) Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin
Of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
(3) An Enquiry into the Philosophical
Origin of Our Ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime
(4) Philosophical Enquiry into Our Original
Ideas of the Beautiful and the Sublime
Answer: 2
67. Match the following
(a) The Grammar -Translation Method
(b) The Direct Method
(c) Total Physical Response
(d) The Natural Approach
(i) comprehensible input
(ii) strategic use of mother tongue
(iii) shuns mother tongue
(iv) oral input
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(2) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(3) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(4) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
Answer: 1
68. Which of these works by Indian writers
does NOT have the Naxalite Movement as a background?
(1) Mother of 1084
(2) The Lives of Others
(3) The Shadow Lines
(4) The Lowland
Answer: 3
69. So when the last and dreadful hour,
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And music shall untune the sky.
These are the
closing lines of a famous poem. Identify the poem.
(1) Il penseroso
(2) Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
(3) The Good -Morrow
(4) Song : The Year’s at the Spring.
Answer: 2
70. This eighteenth-century English poem imitates spenser in stanza form and in allegorical narrative: passers -by are lured by an enchanter with promises of ease, luxury, and aesthetic delight, then consigned to a dungeon where they languish in apathy and impotence until the Knight of Arts and Industry dissolves the spell.
Identify the poem.
(1) The Vanity of Human Wishes
(2) The Seasons
(3) The Castle of Indolence
(4) The Task
Answer: 3
The Castle of Indolence is a poem written by James Thomson, a Scottish poet of the 18th century
The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated is a poem by the English author Samuel Johnson.
71. Which of the following statements on
the Hogarth press is FALSE ?
(1) The Hogarth press was founded in 1917
by Leonard and Virginia Woolf
(2) Its location was their home, called
Hogarth House
(3) The press was solely devoted to
publishing international classics in translation
(4) The press published translations of
Gorky, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Rilke, Svevo and others
Answer: 3
Read
the below passage and answer questions 72 to 75 that follows :
THE ANTIGUA THAT I knew, the Antigua in which I grew up, is not the Antigua you, a tourist, would see now. That Antigua no longer exists. That Antigua no longer exists partly for the usual reason, the passing of time, and partly because the bad-minded people who used to rule over it, the English, no longer do so. (But the English have become such a pitiful lot these days, with hardly any idea what to do with themselves now that they no longer have one quarter of the earth’s human population bowing and scraping before them. They don’t seem to know that this empire business was all wrong and they should, at least, be wearing sackcloth and ashes in token penance of the wrongs committed, the irrevocableness of their bad deeds, for no natural disaster imaginable could equal the harm they did. Actual death might have been better. And so all this fuss over empire . what went wrong here, what went wrong there . always makes me quite crazy, for I can say to them what went wrong : they should never have left their home, their precious England, a place they loved so much, a place they had to leave but could never forget. And so everywhere they went they turned it into England; and everybody they met they turned English. But no place could ever really he England, and nobody who did not look exactly like them would ever be English, so you can imagine the destruction of people and land that came from that. The English hate each other and they hate England, and the reason they are so miserable now is that they have no place else to go and nobody else to feel better than.)
72. To whom is the passage directly addressed ?
(1) readers
(2) non-antiguans
(3) tourists
(4) the English
Answer: 3
73. The English feel extremely miserable
because :
(1) Their political supremacy is over
(2) They do not have anyone else to feel
superior to
(3) They have been reduced to a state of non-entity
(4) They have no lands to colonise
Answer: 2
74. Do the British realize that colonizing
countries was a had practice, according to the narrator ?
(1) Yes; they do
(2) No; they don’t
(3) The narrator is rather unsure they do
(4) The narrator is rather unsure they
don’t
Answer: 3
75. Which of the following best describes
the content of the extract ?
(1) The speaker fervently desires better
understanding between the English and the colonized people in post colonial
times
(2) The speaker is interested in nostalgic
tours of emigre antiguans to their childhood home
(3) The speaker whose childhood was spent
in Antigua reports the great change currently evident in the pungent irony
(4) The speaker is making a case for the
penance of the english, the erstwhile rulers of Antigua
Answer: 3
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