NET PAPER-3 JULY 2016
1. Which of W.M. Thackeray’s novel’s closing sentence is
this?
“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his
desire? Or, having it, is satisfied?”
(1) The History of Henry Esmond
(2) Vanity Fair
(3) The Luck of Barry Lyndon
(4) Pendennis
Answer: 2
“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
2. Why does Lovewit in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist leave
his house, setting the stage for his servant Face, alongwith Subtle, a fake
alchemist to fleece people?
(1) To visit his father who left him long ago.
(2) To find out new sources of minting money.
(3) Because of an epidemic of plague.
(4) To make a pilgrimage.
Answer: 3
In The Alchemist, A rich dude named Lovewit has hightailed it out of his London home and headed for the safety of his country estate because the plague has hit and city-dwellers are dropping like flies. While he's been away for about six weeks, his butler's been using the house to operate a bunch of scams and run a brothel.3. By the end of the nineteen fifties novelists like Stan
Barstow, Sid Chaplin, Alan Sillitoe and David Storey were routinely lumped
together as representatives of “Kitchen-sink realism”. Who in 1954 wrote the
article “The Kitchen Sink”, calling attention to the gritty and direct realism?
(1) Martin Harrison
(2) Stan Smith
(3) David Sylvester
(4) Philip Callow
Answer: 3
Ex: John Osborne play Look Back in Anger (1956)
The term "Kitchen Sink School" was first used in the visual arts, where the art critic David Sylvester used it in 1954 to describe a group of painters who called themselves the Beaux Arts Quartet, and depicted social realist-type scenes of domestic life
4. Which of the following is not an allegorical character in
the play Everyman?
(1) Kindred
(2) Strength
(3) Christian
(4) Discretion
Answer: 3
5. Who among the following translators is notable as the
first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English?
(1) Charles Wilkins
(2) Nathaniel Halhead
(3) William Jones
(4) Barbara Stoler Miller
Answer: 1
6. In Biographia Literaria S.T. Coleridge defines the
imagination as the faculty by which
(1) the soul perceives the phenomenal diversity of the
universe.
(2) the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.
(3) the mind acquires images by its associative power.
(4) the mind separates images by its discriminatory power.
Answer: 2
7. Why do the Houyhnhnms have so few words in their
language?
(1) Their wants and passions are fewer than human wants and
passions, and they need fewer words.
(2) They consider language to be morally corrupt and prefer
to remain silent.
(3) They find speech difficult because they are horses.
(4) They prefer action to words.
Answer: 1
In Jonathan Swift's novel "Gulliver's Travels," the Houyhnhnms are depicted as a highly rational and intelligent race of horses who possess a language with a very limited vocabulary. There are a few possible reasons why the Houyhnhnms have so few words in their language:Efficiency: The Houyhnhnms value simplicity and efficiency in all aspects of their lives. Their language reflects this by using a small set of words that are sufficient to convey all the necessary information without any unnecessary complexity.
Logic: Their language is designed to be precise and unambiguous, with each word having a clear and specific meaning. By using a small set of words, they can ensure that their language is consistent and logical.
Lack of Emotion: The Houyhnhnms are not governed by emotions in the same way that humans are. Their language reflects this by not having words to express emotions such as love, hate, or anger. By using a limited vocabulary, they can avoid the confusion and irrationality that emotions can introduce into communication.
Overall, the Houyhnhnms' language is designed to be functional and practical, rather than expressive or emotional. It reflects their highly rational and efficient nature, and serves as a tool for clear and precise communication.
8. Identify the title of A.D. Hope’s first published book of
poems.
(1) Native Companions
(2) The Wandering Islands
(3) A Midsummer Eve’s Dream
(4) The Cave and the Spring
Answer: 2
A.D. Hope's first published book of poems is titled "The Wandering Islands." It was first published in 1955 and contains a collection of 50 poems. The book received critical acclaim and helped establish A.D. Hope as a major Australian poet. Some of the themes explored in the book include nature, mythology, history, and the human condition.9. Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in
language teaching?
(1) Learners acquire language by trying to use it in real
situations.
(2) Learners’ first language plays an important role in
learning.
(3) Language teaching should have a focus on communicative
activities.
(4) Language teaching should give importance to writing
rather than speech.
Answer: 4
10. The Bhasmasura myth is used in R.K. Narayan’s …………..
(1) The Man-Eater of Malgudi
(2) The Financial Expert
(3) The English Teacher
(4) The World of Nagaraj
Answer: 1
11. During the Middle English period, many words were
borrowed from two languages :
I. Celtic
II. Latin
III. French
IV. Old Norse
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) II and IV
(4) III and IV
Answer: 2
12. Select the right chronological sequence of the date of
Bible translations.
(1) King James Version – Tyndale –Revised Standard Version –
Holman Christian Standard Bible
(2) Revised Standard Version – King James Version – Tyndale
– Holman Christian Standard Bible
(3) Tyndale – King James Version – Revised Standard Version
– Holman Christian Standard Version
(4) Revised Standard Version – Holman Christian Standard
Bible – King James Version – Tyndale
Answer: 3
13. The last word in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is
(1) No
(2) The
(3) Morning !
(4) Jaysus
Answer: 2
The last word in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is "the."14. Assertion (A) : In so far as we are taught how to read,
what we engage are not texts but paradigms.
Reason (R) : We appropriate meaning from a text according to
what we need or desire, or, in other words, according to the critical
assumptions or predispositions that we bring to it.
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct
explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer: 1
15. One of the key terms in Michel Foucault’s work is
discourse. This is best described as
(1) the power of persuasion in all articulations.
(2) the selective language powerful people use.
(3) conceptual frameworks which enable some mode of thought
and deny or severely constrain certain others.
(4) the ability to suggest transcendental levels of meaning
in an utterance.
Answer: 3
"Foucault's discourse" refers to the ideas and theories developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault about the role of language and power in shaping knowledge, social structures, and individual subjectivity.According to Foucault, discourse is not just a collection of words and meanings, but a system of power relations that operates through language. Discourses are sets of statements and practices that shape the way we understand and interact with the world, and they are constantly being created, contested, and transformed by individuals and social groups.
16. The narrators of Oroonoko are
I. a woman
II. Oroonoko
III. a purported eyewitness of the events described
IV. Trefy
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and IV
(2) I and III
(3) II and III
(4) II and IV
Answer: 2
17. Which character of Henrik Ibsen speaks the following
lines : “The life of a normally constituted idea is generally about seventeen
or eighteen years, at the most twenty?”
(1) Nora in A Doll’s House
(2) Dr. Thomas Stockman in An Enemy of the People
(3) John Rosmer in Rosmerscholm
(4) Oswald in Ghosts
Answer: 2
18. In literary studies structuralism promotes
(1) new interpretations of literary works.
(2) the view that literature is one signifying practice
among others.
(3) a systematic account of literary archetypes.
(4) unstable structures of systems of signification.
Answer: 2
19. P.B. Shelley’s Julian and Maddalo is a conversation
between Julian and Count Maddalo.
Who do these two characters represent?
(1) Julian represents Keats and Count Maddalo, Byron
(2) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, Byron
(3) Julian represents Shelley and Count Maddalo, William
Godwin
(4) Julian represents Mary Shelley and Count Maddalo,
William Godwin
Answer: 2
20. What is practical criticism?
(1) The close analysis of literary texts in such a way as to
bring out their political meaning.
(2) A movement which wished to make literary criticism more
relevant.
(3) The close analysis of poems without taking account of
any external information.
(4) The study of ambiguity.
Answer: 3
21. Which of the following does not describe some of the practices/beliefs
of feminist literary criticism?
(1) Feminist criticism recuperates female writers ignored by
the canon.
(2) Feminist literary critics offer a criticism of the
construction of gender.
(3) Feminist literary critics argue that the traditional
canon is justified.
(4) Feminist literary critics mostly reject the
essentialising of ‘male’ and ‘female’.
Answer: 3
22. Which work by Franz Kafka is also known as The Man Who
Disappeared?
(1) The Castle
(2) “Metamorphosis”
(3) “In the Penal Colony”
(4) Amerika
Answer: 4
The full title of Kafka's novel commonly known in English as America: The Missing Person(1927). It tells the story of a young man named Karl Rossmann who is sent to America by his family after he gets a maid pregnant in his hometown in Austria. In America, Karl encounters a series of strange and surreal adventures as he tries to navigate the unfamiliar landscape and make a life for himself.23. Towards the end of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust the protagonist Tony Last is trapped in the jungle by the calculating crazy Mr. Todd who forces him to read and reread the novels of a particular author.
Waugh has also written a short story dealing with Tony’s singular experience in the jungle.
Who is the novelist referred to and what is the title of the short story?
(1) Rudyard Kipling, “Revisiting the Jungle”
(2) Joseph Conrad, “Shadows of the Dark Trees”
(3) Charles Dickens, “The Man Who Liked Dickens”
(4) Henry Fielding, “Tom Jones’s Journey into the Wild”
Answer: 3
"The Man Who Liked Dickens" is a short story by Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1933. The story follows a man named Mr. Albert Edward, who is a passionate admirer of the Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. Mr. Edward is a lonely and somewhat eccentric figure, who spends his days reading and rereading Dickens' novels and collecting Dickens memorabilia.24. At the beginning of the Restoration period, there was a
seismic shift in the social, political and religious attitudes of the English.
Which of the following statements best describes that shift?
(1) England shifted from an aristocratic Catholic monarchy
to a parliamentary democracy.
(2) England shifted from an atheistic oligarchy to a deistic
squirearchy.
(3) England shifted from a Republican Puritan Commonwealth
to an aristocratic Anglican monarchy.
(4) England shifted from a parliamentary democracy to an
aristocratic Catholic tyranny.
Answer: 3
25. The Grammar-Translation Method in English Language
Teaching stresses on
(1) Fluency
(2) Accuracy
(3) Appropriateness
(4) Listening Skill
Answer: 2
26. “[They] then heaved out,/ away with a will in their
wood-wreathed ship.” This line describing Beowulf’s departure from Geatland, is
typical of the poem’s form and Old English poetic technique because
I. it features alliteration
II. it rhymes
III. it features onomotopoeia
IV. it has four strong stresses
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) II and IV
Answer: 3
27. Identify the poet, translator, publisher and essayist
who founded a press in the 1950s called Writers’ Workshop and provided a
publishing outlet for Indians writing in English.
(1) P. Lal
(2) A.K. Mehrotra
(3) Vinay Dharwadkar
(4) A.K. Ramanujan
Answer: 1
28. Antagonised by what he considered to be the
provinciality of the Lake Poets, Byron wrote the preface to which of his works
as a rebuke to Wordsworth’s own introduction to “The Thorn”?
(1) The Prisoner of Chillon
(2) Don Juan
(3) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
(4) The Vision of Judgement
Answer: 2
Lord Byron wrote the preface to his long narrative poem, "Don Juan," as a rebuke to the poet William Wordsworth, who was then serving as Poet Laureate of England. In the preface, which was added to the poem in its fifth canto, Byron criticized what he saw as Wordsworth's overly sentimental and moralistic approach to poetry.Byron was particularly critical of Wordsworth's emphasis on nature and his tendency to elevate the ordinary experiences of everyday life to the level of the sublime. In contrast, Byron championed a more worldly and sophisticated approach to poetry, one that embraced pleasure, passion, and the pursuit of pleasure.
29. Which of the following theoretical movements claimed
that “the device is the only hero of literature”?
(1) Russian formalism
(2) New Criticism
(3) Phenomenology
(4) Deconstruction
Answer: 1
The literary movement that claimed that "device is the only hero of literature" was the Russian Formalist movement. The Russian Formalists were a group of literary critics and theorists who emerged in Russia in the early 20th century. They sought to develop a scientific approach to the study of literature, emphasizing the formal aspects of literary texts over their content or historical context.
The Formalists believed that literary texts were made up of a series of devices or techniques that the author used to create a particular effect on the reader. They argued that it was these devices, rather than the characters or themes of the text, that were the most important aspect of literature.
30. In Jean Francois Lyotard’s works the term “language
games”, sometimes also called “phrase regimens” denotes :
I. the multiplicity of communities of meaning.
II. the breakdown of communities of meaning.
III. the innumerable and incommensurable separate systems in
which meanings are produced.
IV. the singular system in which meanings are dispersed and
displaced.
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and IV
(2) I and III
(3) II and IV
(4) II and III
Answer: 2
In Lyotard's works, the term "language games", sometimes also called "phrase regimens", denotes the multiplicity of communities of meaning, the innumerable and incommensurable separate systems in which meanings are produced and rules for their circulation are created. This involves, for example, an incredulity towards the metanarrative of human emancipation.
31. What part of Canada is Alice Munro most famous for
depicting?
(1) Vancouver
(2) Montreal
(3) Ontario
(4) Quebec
Answer: 3
Alice Laidlaw Munro spent her early years within the small-town culture of western Ontario. She began writing in her teenage years and published her first story, “The Dimensions of a Shadow,” when she was 19. She was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature32. In John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera what is Peachum’s
occupation?
I. Pimp
II. Lawyer
III. Fencer of stolen goods, and master of a gang of thieves
IV. Impeader of less powerful criminals.
The right combination according to the code is
(1) III & IV
(2) II & III
(3) I & IV
(4) II & IV
Answer: 1
Runner of a criminal highwaymen syndicate and father to Polly, Peachum is a man of great responsibility. His subordinates rely on him for either their freedom or imprisonment, since he often uses his connections to send a man to the gallows in exchange for reward money. He is also Mrs. Peachum's "common-law" husband and Lockit's frequent partner.
33. In the opening stanza of “Song of Myself”, Whitman
begins his spiritual awakening at the age of …………….
(1) 37
(2) 15
(3) 24
(4) 61
Answer: 1
34. In which of the following poems does Tennyson describe
and condemn the spirit of aestheticism whose sole religion is the worship of
beauty and of knowledge for their own sake and which ignores human
responsibility and obligations of one’s fellowmen?
(1) “The Princess”
(2) “The Lady of Shalott”
(3) “The Palace of Art”
(4) “Tithonus”
Answer: 3
The Palace of Art " is an 1832 (revised 1842) poem by Alfred Tennyson. In the poem a man constructs a palace of art for his soul with any amount of art.35. Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
deliberately blurs the boarder lines between the world of the theatre and the
world of ‘real life’ by carefully chiselled dialogues like :
“Don’t you feel the ground beneath your feet as you reflect
that this ‘you’ which you feel today, all this present reality of yours, is
destined to seem a mere illusion to you tomorrow?”
Who is the speaker? Who is it addressed to?
(1) Stepdaughter to Father
(2) Father to Stage Manager
(3) Stage Manager to Director
(4) Mother to Director
Answer: 2
Six Characters in Search of an Author is one of the most famous plays about theatre, a metatheatrical masterpiece which invites us to think about the relationship between theatre and ‘real’ life.36. In a poem in memory of Major Robert Gregory, Lady
Gregory’s son, W.B. Yeats mentions an Irish writer who had found his
inspiration “In a most desolate stony place” that he came “Towards nightfall
upon a race/ passionate and simple like his heart.” Who is the writer?
(1) J.M. Barrie
(2) J.M. Synge
(3) Isaac Bickerstaffe
(4) Thomas More
Answer: 2
The artist Jack B Yeats, a close friend and collaborator of JM Synge’s, wrote a letter to the dramatist in the wake of the riots that greeted the Abbey Theatre’s premiere of The Playboy of the Western World in late January 1907.37. Jacques Derrida’s work received some criticism from
analytical philosophers. Who below was a critic of Derrida?
(1) John Searle
(2) Jean-Francois Lyotard
(3) Emmanuel Levinas
(4) Paul de Man
Answer: 1
In the early 1970s, John Searle had a brief exchange with Jacques Derrida about speech-act theory. The exchange was characterized by a degree of mutual hostility, each of whom accused the other of having misunderstood his basic points. Searle was particularly hostile to Derrida's deconstructionist framework and much later refused to let his response to Derrida be printed along with Derrida's papers in the 1988 collection Limited Inc. Searle did not consider Derrida's approach to be legitimate philosophy or even intelligible writing and argued that he did not want to legitimize the deconstructionist point of view by dedicating any attention to it.38. Who among the following bought and renovated the house
of the Anglican poet, George Herbert, near Salisbury, England, in 1996?
(1) Daljit Nagra
(2) Vikram Seth
(3) Amitava Kumar
(4) Arundhati Roy
Answer: 2
39. Which pair of novels by Anita Desai take as their
subject the suppression and oppression of Indian women?
I. Where Shall We Go This Summer?
II. The Zigzag Way
III. Cry, the Peacock
IV. Baumgartner’s Bombay
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and III
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 2
“Where Shall We Go This Summer?”, an illustrious novel by Anita Desai is a story of an oppressed mind. Cry, the Peacock is the story of a young girl, Maya, obsessed by a childhood prophecy of disaster. The author builds up an atmosphere of tension as torrid and oppressive as a stiffling Indian summer, both in the crowded, colourful cities and the strangely beautiful countryside.40. From among the following identify the two Indian English
authors who received appreciation and encouragement from their British
counterparts :
I. R.K. Narayan, Graham Greene
II. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Evelyn Waugh
III. Mulk Raj Anand, E.M. Forster
IV. Raja Rao, Iris Murdoch
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) II and IV
(3) I and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 3
Swamy and the friends is the first book by R.K. Narayan. Graham Greene who helped getting it published called it "A book in ten thousand".
E. M. Forster's wrote Preface to Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable.
41. Match the character with the work :
Character
I. Count Fosco
II. Margaret
III. Lucy Snowe
IV. Maggie Tulliver
Work
A. Villette
B. Adam Bede
C. The Woman in White
D. North or South
Codes :
I II III IV
(1) C D A B
(2) D C A B
(3) C A D B
(4) C A B D
Answer: * Marks given to all
Count Fosco is a character in The Women in WhiteMaggie Tulliver is the protagonist of The Mill on the Floss
Lucy Snowe is the protagonist and narrator of Villette.
Margaret Hale is Richard and Maria Hale ’s daughter and Frederick ’s sister in North and South
42. This poet was accidently killed in Burma by a pistol
shot in 1944. His posthumously published collection of poems Ha ! Ha ! Among
the Trumpets is divided into three sections.
The first section describes a tense, waiting England and the
second the voyage to the East. In the third section he uncomfortably comes to
terms with the alien contours, the harsh light and the dry wastes of India as
evident in poems like “The Maratta Ghats”, “Indian Day” and “Observation Post :
Forward Area”.
Who is the poet?
(1) Keith Douglas
(2) Sidney Keyes
(3) David Gascoyne
(4) Alun Lewis
Answer: 4
43. As Adam and Eve leave Paradise, “hand in hand with
wand’ring steps and slow” (Book XII, Paradise Lost) what is their consolation?
(1) They are comforted by their love for one another.
(2) They are comforted by their foreknowledge of the coming
of Christ as Redeemer of mankind.
(3) They are comforted by God, who travels before them in
the form of a pillar of fire.
(4) They are comforted by the angel, who holds each of them
by the hand.
Answer: 2
44. In An Essay of Dramatic Poesy to whom does Dryden refer
with the phrase “he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature”?
(1) Ben Jonson
(2) Ovid
(3) William Shakespeare
(4) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: 3
45. Emily Dickinson’s use of “open form” or “free verse” is
comparable to her contemporary American poet,
(1) Anne Bradstreet
(2) Robert Lowell
(3) Walt Whitman
(4) Sylvia Plath
Answer: 3
46. In “A Letter of the Authors” Edmund Spenser writes that
two characters in Faerie Queene represent Queen Elizabeth. Who are they?
I. Britomart
II. Cynthia
III. Belphoebe
IV. The Faerie Queene
The right combination according to the code is
(1) III and IV
(2) I and IV
(3) I and III
(4) II and III
Answer: 1
Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, an idealized portrait of Queen Elizabeth.Belphoebe (behl-FEE-bee), a virgin huntress, reared by the goddess Diana, who cannot respond to the devotion offered by Prince Arthur’s squire, Timias. She is another of the figures conceived as a compliment to Elizabeth.
47. Who among the following African novelists was a student
of philosophy and literature in India?
(1) Nuruddin Farah
(2) Ben Okri
(3) Helon Habila
(4) Benjamin Kwakye
Answer: 1
48. In particular William Blake was influenced by the
religious writings of
I. Martin Luther
II. Jacob Boehme
III. Emanuel Swedenborg
IV. Confucious
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and IV
(2) I and II
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 3
49. Which British King, having defeated the Viking invaders,
consciously used the English language to create a sense of national identity
and retain political control over independent countries?
(1) Alfred the Great
(2) Edward the Elder
(3) King Arthur
(4) Ethelbert of Kent
Answer: 1
50. In “Politics and the English Language” George Orwell
provides a list of rules to aid in curing the English language. What is the
final rule?
(1) Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech
which you are used to seeing in print.
(2) Never use a long word where a short one will do.
(3) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
(4) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything
outright barbarous.
Answer: 4
Orwell's six rules of good writing in "Politics and the English Language" are as follows: don't use clichés, always use short words rather than long ones, always cut unneeded words, use the active voice, don't use foreign or scientific phrases or jargon, and break any of these rules if you need to.51. In his Defence of Poesy what is the “best and most
accomplished kind of poetry” in Sidney’s estimation?
(1) Heroical, or epic poetry
(2) Lyric poetry
(3) Pastoral poetry
(4) Elegiac poetry
Answer: 1
In Sir Philip Sidney's "Defence of Poesy," he argues that the best and most accomplished kind of poetry is epic poetry. Sidney believed that epic poetry had a unique ability to elevate the soul and inspire virtuous action in its readers. He saw epic poetry as a means of communicating the values and ideals of a society and of inspiring readers to emulate the heroic actions of the poem's characters.52. Which writer of the Romantic period makes the following comment :
“The poet is far from dealing only with these subtle and analogical
truths. Truth of every kind belongs to him, provided it can bud into any kind
of beauty, or is capable of being illustrated and impressed by poetic faculty”?
(1) Wordsworth in Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
(2) William Hazlitt in “On the Feeling of Immortality in
Youth”
(3) Leigh Hunt in What is Poetry?
(4) Keats in one of his letters to his brother
Answer: 3
53. In his poem “Whispers of Immortality” T.S. Eliot says that a dramatist “was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.”
Who are the dramatist and the poet referred to by Eliot?
(1) Christopher Marlowe and Andrew Marvell
(2) John Webster and John Donne
(3) Seneca and Homer
(4) Thomas Kyd and Henry Vaughan
Answer: 2
54. Functional Communicative Approach in English Language
Teaching is in opposition to
(1) Structural Approach
(2) Comprehensive Approach
(3) Translation and Grammar Method
(4) Functional Approach
Answer: 1
55. According to Julia Kristeva, it is the eruption of the
………… within the …………… that provides the creative and innovative impulse of
modern poetic language.
(1) individual, tradition
(2) specific, generic
(3) semiotic, symbolic
(4) particular, general
Answer: 3
56. In Crime and Punishment which character speaks the
following words. Who/what are they addressed to?
“I waited for you impatiently…. all this blasted psychology
is a double-edged weapon.”
(1) Svidrigailov to the pistol with which he shoots himself
(2) Katherine Ivanovna to Marmeladov
(3) Porfiry Petrovich to Raskolnikov
(4) Raskolnikov to the Bible he finds in the prison cell in
Siberia
Answer: 3
57. What three Germanic tribes invaded Britons in the fifth
century AD, bringing with them the roots of modern English?
(1) The Danes, Saxons and Celts
(2) The Celts, Jutes and Saxons
(3) The Saxons, Danes and Angles
(4) The Jutes, Angles and Saxons
Answer: 4
58. Which of the following is not a part of the series of
poems called Jejuri, written by Arun Kolatkar?
(1) “Yeshwant Rao”
(2) “Chaitanya”
(3) “The Priest”
(4) “An Old Man”
Answer: 4
59. Bertolt Brecht’s concept of alienation was a rejection
of the idea that realism was the only mode of art a critique of capitalist
society should produce. Alienation is best described as
(1) making the audience feel that they do not belong.
(2) distancing artistic conventions to prevent an emotional
catharsis.
(3) scripting unnatural behaviour on stage.
(4) a rejection of capitalism or the market.
Answer: 2
60. Ngugi wa Thiongo changed the medium of his writing from
English to …………..
(1) Swahili
(2) Yoruba
(3) Xhosa
(4) Gikuyu
Answer: 4
61. Which of the following ancient critics does Alexander
Pope commend as exemplary in Essay on Criticism?
(1) Aristotle, Quintilian, Dryden, Dionysius, Horace
(2) Aristotle, Longinus, Quintilian, Durfey, Dryden
(3) Aristotle, Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian, Longinus
(4) Aristotle, Horace, Durfey, Quintilian, Longinus
Answer: 3
62. Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin is best
described as a selfelegy, anticipating the poet’s death?
(1) “The Old Fools”
(2) “Aubade”
(3) “Ambulances”
(4) “Faith Healing”
Answer: 2
“Aubade” is often regarded as Larkin’s final major poem, since he wrote little in the last decade of his life. James Booth, the author of a biography of Larkin, calls "Aubade" the poet's "final, uniquely definitive self-elegy."63. In John Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress what is the first
obstacle encountered by Christian on his progress?
(1) The Slough of Despond
(2) Vanity Fair
(3) The River of Death
(4) The Swamp of Despair
Answer: 1
64. Identify the correct chronological sequence of
publication of the four parts of The Four Quartets.
(1) Burnt Norton – The Dry Salvages – East Coker – Little
Gidding
(2) Burnt Norton – Little Gidding –The Dry Salvages – East
Coker
(3) Burnt Norton – East Coker – The Dry Salvages – Little
Gidding
(4) Little Gidding – Burnt Norton – The Dry Salvages – East
Coker
Answer: 3
65. Which of the following is not true of the novels of
Charles Dickens?
(1) They deal with the problems of the discontents of an
urban civilization.
(2) The plots are strikingly tight-knit.
(3) They share a sense of fun and determining optimism.
(4) They incorporate elements of popular contemporary
culture.
Answer: 2
66. Published in 1604, the first monolingual English
Dictionary was
(1) Nathaniel Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary of
the English Language
(2) Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language
(3) Robert Cawdrey’s Table Alphabetical
(4) Thomas Blount’s Glossographia
Answer: 3
67. Which of the following statements best describe the
narrative perspective employed in Thomas More’s Utopia?
I. First-person narration by Raphael Hythloday
II. Third-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More
III. First-person narration by a narrator named Thomas More
IV. Third-person narration by Raphael Hythloday
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2) II and IV
(3) II and III
(4) I and II
Answer: 1
68. In the opening pages of one of Thomas Mann’s novels we
can see space itself becoming a form of time : “Space, like time, engenders
forgetfulness but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings
and giving us back our primitive unattached state.”
Which is the novel?
(1) Doctor Faustus
(2) Death in Venice
(3) The Confessions of Felix Krull
(4) The Magic Mountain
Answer: 4
69. Match the lines with the titles of the poems :
Lines
I. The boa-constrictor’s coil/ Is a fossil
II. My manners are tearing off heads /The allotment of death
III. More coiled steel than living
IV. Time in the sea eats its tail
Titles of the poems
A. “Thrushes”
B. “The Jaguar”
C. “Relic”
D. “Hawk Roosting”
Codes :
I II III IV
(1) A D A C
(2) B D A C
(3) C D B A
(4) D B C A
Answer: 2
70. Which one of Joseph Conrad’s novels expresses the contrast between the solidarity of shipboard life and the profound underlying loneliness of existence thus :
“loneliness impenetrable and transparent, elusive and everlasting…. that surrounds, envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and perhaps beyond”?
(1) The Heart of Darkness
(2) The Nigger of the Narcissus
(3) Lord Jim
(4) Nostromo
Answer: * Marks to All
“ [T]he tremendous fact of our isolation, of the loneliness impenetrable and transparent, elusive and everlasting; of the indestructible loneliness that surrounds, envelops, clothes every human soul from the cradle to the grave, and, perhaps, beyond.” ― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands71. John Dryden’s two philosophico-religious poems are
I. Absalom and Achitophel
II. A Layman’s Faith
III. Annus Mirabilis
IV. The Hind and the Panther
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) III and I
(3) II and III
(4) II and IV
Answer: 4
Read the following poem and answer the questions, 72 to
75 :
Stray
Cats
They are not exactly homeless.
They are dissidents who have lost their faith
in furnished interiors, morning walks,
the cake and the cutlery.
When you have nine lives to live
you learn to take things in your stride.
You learn to stretch your body
at full length and yawn at domestic
fictions. And for this reason
you figure in horror films
in the mandatory moment
between the flash of lightning
and the appearance of the ghost.
The light is darkish blue and you see
yourself in the iris of the burning
eye. The horror is in the seeing.
What you see is altered by the act
of seeing. The mystery does not stop
there. The seer is in turn altered
by what he sees. Having known this,
stray cats jump from roof to roof.
They monitor the world from treetops
and hold their weekly meetings
in the graveyard, like wandering mendicants.
And when they walk out of the mirror
of the sun and cross the crowded road
in a flash, for a shining moment,
they lurk in the light like a giant shadow
of doubt. Ill-omens to those who cannot
see beyond what they see.
72. The poem constructs its account of stray cats by way of
a contrast with
(1) wild cats
(2) ominous cats
(3) domestic cats
(4) mysterious cats
Answer: 3
73. In the overall context, what do “furnished interiors,
morning walks,/ the cake and the cutlery” represent?
(1) Ordinary life
(2) “Domestic fictions”
(3) “A giant shadow of doubt”
(4) Creaturely comforts
Answer: 2
74. The last two lines suggest that cats crossing the
crowded road
(1) is an unexceptionable superstition.
(2) is not necessarily the ill-omen it is held out to be.
(3) is an example of human obsession.
(4) is indicative of the homelessness of stray cats.
Answer: 2
75. From among the following select two words that help
accentuate the enigmatic character of stray cats :
I. Doubt
II. Mandatory
III. Faith
IV. Mystery
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and IV
(3) II and IV
(4) III and IV
Answer: 2
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