NET PAPER-3 SEPTEMBER 2013 (RE-TEST)
1. Which of the following statements is not
true of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina? It is concerned with
(A) The jumbled trivia of day-today life.
(B) The belief in social progress and
scientific advancement.
(C) Insistent quest for meaning.
(D) The reaction of immediate family
members to someone’s terminal illness.
Answer: (D)
2. In The Rape of Lock Belinda’s guardian
sylph is unable to prevent the Baron’s fatal mischief because
(A) He discovers an earthly lover lurking
in Belinda’s heart.
(B) He is disturbed by Clarissa’s speech.
(C) The view is blocked by the imposing
figure of Sir Plume.
(D) He is yet to return from a visit to the
Cave of Spleen.
Answer: (A)
3. ‘Ah! I’ll never, never meet such a man
again. You ought to have heard him recite poetry …
Oh, he enlarged my mind.” In Heart of
Darkness these words about Kurtz are spoken by
(A) The manager
(B) The intended
(C) The first-class agent
(D) The Russian
Answer: (D)
4. Arrange the following ELT methods and
approaches in the order in which they appear.
Use the codes given below:
Code:
I. Direct Method
II. The Communicative Language Teaching
III. The Grammar Translation Method
IV. The Silent Way
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I, III, IV, III
(B) III, I, IV, II
(C) III, II, I, IV
(D) I, III, II, IV
Answer: (B)
5. Which of the following statements is not
applicable to Derrida’s rejection of the notion of
the ‘Metaphysics of Presence’?
(A) The desire for immediate access to
meaning privileges presence over absence.
(B) All presences are necessarily
metaphysical and, therefore, are to be rejected.
(C)
A fleeting meaning of the text is created through the play of ‘difference’ and
‘differance’.
(D) Metaphysics involves installing hierarchies
and orders of subordination in the various dualisms that it encounters.
Answer: (B)
6. Read the following and its code: “a
prince’s court
Is like a common fountain, whence should
flow Pure silver drop in general: but if’t chance
Some curs’d example poison’t near the head
Death and disease through the whole land
spread.”
Code:
I. It is the description of the French Court
at the beginning of The Duchess of Malfi.
II. It is about the English court. Such was
Webster’s England, but to avoid censorship Webster gives
his play a foreign location.
III. It is about the Italian court.
IV. The court is located in Malfi.
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) II and IV are correct.
Answer: (B)
7. Literary works by post-modern British
writers such as Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and
Jeanette Winterson generally tend to share
which of the following characteristics?
(A) The use of fragmented narrative
structures with multiple shifts in consciousness, chronology and location.
(B) An emphasis on the rich universality of
life in cultures and countries all over the world.
(C) A sense of sentimental nostalgia for
nineteenth and early twentieth century life, typically expressed in rueful,
melancholic tones.
(D) The use of brief, economic literary
forms and a spare, astringent literary style.
Answer: (A)
8. Given below are two statements, one is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as
Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Some post-colonial writers
maintain that being ‘unhomed’ is not the same as being ‘homeless’.
Reason (R): Because the migrants are not at
home in themselves: their cultural identity crisis has made them psychological
refugees.
In the context of the above statements,
which one of the following is correct?
Code:
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is wrong.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct.
(C) (A) is wrong, but (R) is correct.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong.
Answer: (B)
9. Which of the following statements are
not true about Margaret Laurence’s Novel, The Stone Angel?
Code:
I. The novel is set in a fictional small
town in Manitoba called Manawaka.
II. The novel was written when she was away
from Canada.
III. The novel is narrated retrospectively
by Hagar Shipley.
IV. The novel is least known of her works.
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) II and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Answer: (C)
10. Which of the following statements is
not true of many contemporary African writers?
(A) They convey a melancholy tone of
longing for traditionalreligious rituals.
(B) They celebrate unambiguously the
benefits of Western education.
(C) They bemoan the loss of values and
indict aspirations of wealth.
(D) They assess the social impact of systems
and institutions of colonial rule.
Answer: (B)
11. The ‘Angel in the House’ became a
common label for the Victorian ideal of respectable middle-class femininity.
The phrase originated with a popular long poem by
(A) Arthur Munby
(B) Arthur Hugh Clough
(C) Charlotte Mew
(D) Coventry Patmore
Answer: (D)
12. Which of the following literary types
is associated with the poetry of Charles Baudelaire?
(A) Flaneur
(B) Poete Maudit
(C) Encomium
(D) Honnete Homme
Answer: (A)
13. In A Farewell to Arms the main image
clusters are associated with
Code:
I. Rain
II. Beasts
III. Insects
IV. River
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) I, II and IV are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Answer: (D)
14. Which of the following poets describes
his “mistress” as “No, she is not Anglo-Indian. She is Indian English, the
language that I use.”
(A) Nissim Ezekiel
(B) Keki Daruwalla
(C) A.K. Ramanujan
(D) R. Parthasarathy
Answer: (B)
15. All of the following are
characteristics of Renaissance humanism except
(A) Sanctity of the Latin texts of
Scriptures.
(B) Rejection of Christian principles.
(C) Belief that ancient Latin and Greek
writers were inferior to later authors.
(D) Primary causative agent of the
Reformation.
Answer: (C)
16. ‘Stand up, young woman … and tell me
what sort of a barbarous people your country folk are, where child-murder is
become so commonplace as to require the restraint of laws like yours.’ The
queen in Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian is referring to a strange Scottish law
according to which if a woman
(A) gives birth to a child and the child is
missing, she is considered guilty of infanticide.
(B) Secretly gives birth to a child and the
child is missing and she has not confided to anyone about her pregnancy, she is
considered guilty of infanticide.
(C) gives birth to a child and the child is
missing and she has not confided to anyone about her pregnancy, she is
considered guilty of infanticide.
(D) gives birth to a child and kills the
child and she is guilty of infanticide.
Answer: (B)
17. Which of the following statements is
not applicable to the definition of New Historicism?
New historicist critics
(A) Remind us that it is treacherous to
reconstruct the past as it really was – rather than as we have been conditioned
by our own place and time to believe the way it was.
(B) Are less likely to see history as
linear and progressive, as something developing toward the present.
(C) Tend to view history as literature’s
background.
(D) Are unlikely to suggest that a literary
text has a single or easily identifiable historical context.
Answer: (C)
18. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen
portrays an ‘excess of sensibility’ in
(A) Marianne
(B) Margaret
(C) Elinor
(D) Lucy
Answer: (A)
19. Ben Jonson disliked
Code:
I. fantastic comedy
II. Wide-ranging chronicle-history and
stupendous tragedy
III. The comedies of Terence and Plautus
IV. The ability of satire to expose human
vices and follies
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and III are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I and II are correct.
Answer: (D)
20. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as
Reason (R):
Assertion (A): In the 1950s and 60s Baldwin
and Ellison returned to universal themes and
focused on innovations in literary forms.
Reason (R): In the 1930s and 40s African
and American Literature was mostly preoccupied with protest.
In the context of the above statements,
which one of the following is correct?
Code:
(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)
21. In coining the term ‘Ecriture feminine’
Helene Cixous signifies a mode of textual production, not necessarily written
by women. Who among the following male writers is used by her as an example?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) Joseph Conrad
(C) James Joyce
(D) E.M. Forster
Answer: (C)
22. Of the following characters in Jacobean
plays, choose the one who is not a villainous character:
(A) De Flores (The Changeling)
(B) Luke Frugal (The City Madam)
(C) Sir Giles Overreach (A New Way to Pay
Old Debts)
(D) Bosola (The Duchess of Malfi)
Answer: * (Marks given to all)
23. Resistance to slavery created a literature
of the abolitionist movement in the last
quarter of the eighteenth century in
Britain. Such literature included books written
by former slaves. Two such writings are
Code:
I. Mary Robinson
II. Olaudah Equiano
III. Mary Prince
IV. Anne Cromarty Yearsley
The right combination according to the code
is
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Answer: (D)
24. Hippolyte Taine published his four
volume History of English Literature in 1864 based on the following categories
except one. Which one?
(A) Race
(B) Psychology
(C) Historical moment
(D) Milieu
Answer: (B)
25. The two ‘mother-figures’ in Dickens’s
Great Expectations are
Code:
I. Estella
II. Miss Havisham
III. Mrs Joe
IV. Georgiana
The right combination according to the code
is:
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I and II are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Answer: (A)
26. Judith Wright’s works reveal the
following features except one. Which one?
(A) A keen focus on the Australian
environment
(B) Concern for the relationship between
the settlers, indigenous Australians and the bush.
(C) A correspondence between inner
existence and objective reality.
(D) An obsession with religious and
political issues.
Answer: (D)
27. Arrange the following books in the
order in which they appeared:
Code:
I. Leviathan
II. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
III. Le Morte D’Arthur
IV. Utopia
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I, IV, III, II
(B) III, IV, I, II
(C) III, IV, II, I
(D) III, I, IV, II
Answer: (C)
28. Which of the two novels of Anita Desai
were shortlisted for the Booker Prize?
(A) The Artist of Disappearance and In
Custody
(B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting
(C) Feasting, Fasting and the Zig Zag Way
(D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain
Answer: (B)
29. Edward Said points to two forms of
orientalism. They are
(A) Real and fake
(B) Voluntary and involuntary
(C) Subjective and objective
(D) Latent and manifest
Answer: (D)
30. Which of the plays in its Preface was
described by Eugene O’Neill as ‘a play of old sorrow, written in tears and
blood’?
(A) Desire under the Elms
(B) The Hairy Ape
(C) Long Day’s Journey into Night
(D) Mourning Becomes Electra
Answer: (C)
31. “With all the eagerness to know the
truths of life, she retained very childlike ideas about marriage … the really
delightful marriage must be that when your husband was a sort of a father, and
could even teach you Hebrew, if you wished it.” She is the protagonist in one
of George Eliot’s novels. Who is she?
(A) Romola
(B) Hetty Sorel
(C) Maggie
(D) Dorothea
Answer: (D)
32. Given below are two statements, one is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The term “Standard English”
is misleading.
Reason (R): There are many linguistic
communities that do have a genuine standard variety, a fixed and invariant form
of the language that is used for certain kinds of communication.
In the context of the above statements,
which one of the following is correct?
Code:
(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: (B)
33. Given below are two statements, one is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The Waste Land ends in a
flurry of random allusions.
Reason (R): The ending of the poem reflects
the poet’s divided life between America and England and a life given over to
primitivism.
In the context of the above 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, 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: (C)
34. Which of the following novels acted as
an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a new narrative style in English?
(A) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
(B) G.V. Desani’s All about H Hatterr
(C) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
(D) R.K. Narayan’s The Sweet Vendor
Answer: (B)
35. Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of
Udolpho is a novel about
(A) A father and a daughter setting out on
a journey.
(B) The kidnapping of Emily by Montoni and
her visit to Venice.
(C) Emily’s adventures in the castle of
Udolpho, the outcome of the adventures, her escape and her
final union with Valencourt.
(D) The adventures of Montoni and his men
in Udolpho.
Answer: (C)
36. In Marxist criticism the term
‘interpellation’ defines
(A) The ways in which the ideological
structure in social formation is constructed out of material
practices.
(B) The ways in which the ideological
structure in social formation is constructed out of discursive
practices.
(C) The ways in which the subjects of an
ideology are placed in false positions of knowledge regarding themselves.
(D) The ways in which the subjects of an
ideology resist false positions of knowledge regarding others.
Answer: (C)
37. According to Longinus, the sublime has
the following features except :
(A) It is the essence of all great poetry
and oratory.
(B) It is interested in the usual rhetorical
goal of persuasion.
(C) It valorises a special use of language.
(D) It is a matter of reader-response.
Answer: (B)
38. In a trickster tale
I. an anthropomorphized animal often serves
as the protagonist
II. The ending is ambiguous
III. The hero can be a shape shifter, a
cheat or a liar
IV. Humans act as a mouth piece for the
gods
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) II and III are correct.
(B) I, II and III are correct.
(C) I and III are correct.
(D) I and IV are correct.
Answer: (C)
39. The best source for historical evidence
of individual words in English is
(A) The American Heritage Dictionary
(B) Fennell
(C) The Oxford English Dictionary
(D) The Online Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary
Answer: (C)
40. Which of the following statements on
the ending of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” is correct?
The death of Gregor Samsa is marked by
(A) Violent convulsions.
(B) A slow ebbing a way of life hardly
perceptible.
(C) The miraculous appearance of a priest
to administer the last rites.
(D) The intense mourning of the cleaner who
discovers the body.
Answer: (B)
41. Archetypal criticism accepts as its
informing principle that archetypes are present in all literature and provide
the basis of its interconnectedness. Practitioners include
Code:
I. Northrop Frye
II. Dorothy Van Ghent
III. Derek Traversi
IV. Maud Bodkin
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and IV are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and II are correct.
Answer: (A)
42. In the sonnet “Death, Be Not Proud”,
Donne says to death: “Those whom thou think’st
thou dost over-throw / Die not, poor death,
nor yet canst thou kill me.” What does he mean?
(A) Death is very strong.
(B) Death is not death, because after death
we wake up to live eternally.
(C) One must face death courageously and
defiantly.
(D) Death is not as strong as he thinks he
is.
Answer: (D)
43. In which of the following plays of
Luigi Pirandello the stage itself, the symbol of appearance and reality,
becomes the setting of the play?
(A) Right You Are (If You Think, You Are)
(B) To Clothe the Naked
(C) The Life I Gave You
(D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
Answer: (D)
44. Given below are two statements, one is
labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Many modern British writers
infused their works with an extreme sense of uncertainty, disillusionment and
despair.
Reason (R): The writers were responding to
the devastation of war and feeling disconnected from the traditions of the
past.
In the context of the above statements,
which one of the following is correct?
Codes:
(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)
45. Which among the following statements is
not correct? Badal Sircar’s Pagla Ghora is a play about
(A) The condition of women in post- Second
World War Bengal.
(B) The political and religious conditions
of the time.
(C) Sexual passion.
(D) Lack of communication between men and
women.
Answer: (B)
46. The various symbols used in Girish
Karnad’s Tughlaq are associated with
Code:
I. Pythons
II. Vultures
III. Wasps
IV. Butterflies
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.
Answer: (A)
47. “Collocations” refer to
(A) The combination of words in a phrase
(B) The act of positioning words
(C) Grouping of words in a sentence
(D) Combination of natural words
Answer: (C)
48. Of the following statements, which one
is not true of Congreve’s The Way of the World?
(A) The Way of the World was staged in
1700.
(B) It was played at the theatre in
Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
(C) It was a failure on the stage.
(D) The dialogue was unintelligible.
Answer: (D)
49. Jimmy Porter in John Osborne’s Look
Back in Anger displays
I. Rebelliousness
II. Nostalgia
III. Restlessness
IV. Mendacity
The right combination according to the code
is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) II and III are correct.
(D) III and IV are correct.
Answer: (B)
50. The following are two lists of works
and their themes. Match them correctly:
(Works)
I. The Heart of Midlothian, Tess of the
D’urbervilles
II. The End of the Affair, the Golden Bowl
III. The Heart of theMatter, Lord Jim
IV. Heart of Darkness, Nostromo
(Themes)
1. Suicide
2. Greed
3. Infanticide
4. Adultery
The correct combination according to the
code is:
I II III IV
(A) 3 4 1 2
(B) 4 3 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Answer: (A)
51. In As You Like It when Oliver brings in
the bloody napkin dyed in Orlando’s blood, why does Rosalind faint? Which of
the following is not the correct answer?
(A) Many will swoon when they look at
blood.
(B) She faints because of her real concern
and anxiety for Orlando.
(C) Frailty, thy name is woman.
(D) She is counterfeiting as she herself
later claims.
Answer: (D)
52. Which is the correct statement about
Euripides’s Medea? In Euripides’s Medea the chorus consists of
(A) Fifteen Corinthian women who are
Medea’s next door neighbours
(B) Fifteen Athenian elders
(C) Fifteen Spartan women
(D) Fifteen Sicilian Women
Answer: (A)
53. Which of the following is not an award
received by Mahasweta Devi?
(A) Ramon Magsaysay Award
(B) Jnanpith Award
(C) Padmashri
(D) Commonwealth Writers Prize
Answer: (D)
54. The Statute of Pleadings makes English
the official language of the English Parliament in
(A) 1755
(B) 1362
(C) 1611
(D) 1879
Answer: (B)
55. The following are two lists of
statements and the poets / critics who made them. Match
them correctly:
(Statements on imagination)
I. One power alone makes a poet – The
Imagination, The Divine Vision
II. … what the imagination seizes on beauty
must be the truth
III. The great instrument of moral good is the
imagination
IV. Works of imagination should be written
in a very plain language
(Poets / critics)
1. Shelley
2. Coleridge
3. Blake
4. Keats
The right combination according to the code
is:
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 4 1 2
(C) 1 3 2 1
(D) 4 1 3 2
Answer: (B)
56. In Lord of Flies Golding inverts the
morality of R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island involving adventures of three
boys marooned on South Pacific Island. Two names are
repeated in Golding’s tale. They are
Code:
I. Ralph
II. Roger
III. Jack
IV. Simon
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) III and IV are correct.
(C) I and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Answer: (D)
57. The following are two lists of
characters and the works in which we find them. Match them correctly according
to the code:
(Characters)
I. Ratna
II. Raghu
III. Padma
IV. Gargi
(Works)
1. A House for Mr Biswas
2. Midnight’s Children
3. The Last Labyrinth
4. Kanthapura
Code:
I II III IV
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 4 1 2 3
(D) 1 2 3 4
Answer: (C)
58. In spite of being constant in his
relationship with Sophia, Tom is involved in relationships with three other
ladies in the three parts of Tom Jones. Here is a list of these women. Find the
odd one:
(A) Molly Seagrim
(B) Mrs Western
(C) Lady Booby
(D) Lady Bellaston
Answer: (C)
59. This novel by Lawrence was greeted with
the headlines: ‘A book the police should ban; loathsome study of sex depravity;
misleading youth to unspeakable disaster.’ Its opening chapter was originally
suppressed. Name the novel:
(A) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(B) The Rainbow
(C) Women in Love
(D) The White Peacock
Answer: (C)
60. In Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” the
key ideas are best described as the following except one. Which one?
(A) Movement versus stasis
(B) Disappointing love versus eternal bliss
(C) Scars of history versus consolations of
art
(D) Beauty versus truth
Answer: (C)
61. These critics transcend the subjective
point of view. They bow to other forms of
objective authority: the authority of the
past and the authority of the social consensus.
They adopt the scientific attitude without
the science.
The above formulation best describes
(A) The Neoclassical Critics
(B) The Romantic Critics
(C) The Art for Art Sake Critics
(D) The Symbolist Critics
Answer: (A)
62. In Beckett’s Waiting for Godo, which
character has two pages of unpunctuated speech?
(A) Estragon
(B) Vladimir
(C) Lucky
(D) Pozzo
Answer: (C)
63. Laura Mulvey’s pioneering essay,
“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is an instance
of the feminist appropriation of
psychoanalysis. It particularly uses
(A) Freud’s concept of sublimation
(B) Jung’s concept of collective
unconscious
(C) Lacan’s concept of the gaze
(D) Lacan’s notion of the fragmented body
Answer: (C)
64. Which of the following novelists does
not belong to the “Campus Novelists” Group?
(A) Angus Wilson
(B) David Lodge
(C) Anthony Powell
(D) Malcolm Bradbury
Answer: (C)
65. Which of the following statements is
not true of The Stranger by Camus?
(A) The title character is Meursault, an
Algerian who kills an Arab man.
(B) The story, divided into two parts,
gives Meursault’s first person narrative before and after the
murder respectively.
(C) It is a realistic novel, true to the
locale it depicts.
(D) The theme and outlook of the novel are
cited as exemplars of existentialism.
Answer: (C)
66. The Faerie Queene is an epic
celebration of
Code:
I. Queen Elizabeth
II. The Irish Nation
III. The Roman Catholic Church
IV. The Protestant Faith
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: (C)
67. Which of the following statements is
not a correct description of Pope’s The Dunciad?
(A) The Dunciad is an attack on bad writers
and bad writing.
(B) It is a pessimistic commentary on the
civilization of the time.
(C) It is about the coronation of Theobald.
(D) It wishes to satirize Theobald only.
Answer: (D)
68. Which of the following statements
cannot be subsumed under the “Sapir-Whorf”
hypothesis?
(A) Each language presents us with its own
categorization of the universe.
(B) Language is a guide to social reality.
(C) One adjusts to reality essentially
without the use of language.
(D) A language and the society that uses it
interlock.
Answer: (C)
69. Which philosophers do Dante encounter
in Limbo, the first circle of hell?
Code:
I. Socrates
II. Aristotle
III. Heraclitus
IV. Plato
The correct combination according to the
code is:
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and IV are correct.
(C) II and IV are correct.
(D) I and III are correct.
Answer: (B)
70. Which of the following best describes
the role of revision in the writing process?
(A) Revision is discrete phase of the
writing process that should occur after the initial drafting
phase.
(B) Substantive revisions should be
finalized during the second draft phase of the writing process.
(C) Revision is a recursive activity that
may occur at any phase of the writing process.
(D) Substantive revision should occur
primarily during the editing phase of the writing process.
Answer: (C)
71. Who among the following eighteenth
century English poets committed suicide after years of living close to
starvation as a struggling poet?
(A) Robert Burns
(B) Thomas Chatterton
(C) William Collins
(D) Charlotte Smith
Answer: (B)
72. “Why can’t we be friends now’ … it’s what
I want. It’s what you want.’ But the horses didn’t want it – they swerved
apart; the earth didn’t want it.” At the end of A Passage to India Forster
suggests that
(A) If Fielding and Aziz want, they can be
friends.
(B) Probably if the Indians and the English
want, they can still be friends.
(C) Though Fielding and Aziz want, the
horses and the earth of India do not want the English and
the Indians to be friends, not yet.
(D) The East is east and the West is west
and the twain shall never meet.
Answer: (C)
73. An extremely simplified form of a
language used as a contact language among speakers of different languages is a
(A) Dialect
(B) Creole
(C) Pidgin
(D) Register
Answer: (C)
74. Robert Buchanan, a minor poet, critic
and novelist, took sides in the literary squabbles
of the 1860s against Swinburne and the
Rossettis. He wrote a review which introduced the
term:
(A) The Earthly School of Poetry
(B) The Fleshly School of Poetry
(C) The Stealthy School of Poetry
(D) The Esoteric School of Poetry
Answer: (B)
75. The narrator of Piers Plowman falls
asleep on
(A) The Mendip hills
(B) The Purbeck hills
(C) The Malvern Hills
(D) The Cheviot Hills
Answer: (C)
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