NET PAPER-3 JUNE 2015
1. When Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters
in Search of an Author opens the audience find the producer attempting to stage
a play. What is the title of this play ?
(1) “Rites of Performance”
(2) “Rules of the Game”
(3) “Tonight We Stage a Play”
(4) “Modes of Acting”
Answer: 2
An acting company prepares to rehearse the play The Rules of the Game by Luigi Pirandello. As the rehearsal is about to begin, they are unexpectedly interrupted by the arrival of six strange people.
2. Which Canterbury pilgrim carries a
brooch inscribed with the Latin words meaning “Love Conquers All” ?
(1)The Prioress
(2) The Monk
(3) The Wife of Bath
(4) The Squire
Answer: 1
Explanation: Prioress (a nun) is known as "Madam Eglantine". A brooch is generally a pin, but it seems she has one of gold hanging at the end of her rosary, with an "A" on it. The Latin inscription means "Love conquers all."
3. In his Introduction to The Oxford Book
of Twentieth-Century English Verse (1973), Philip Larkin underlines the
importance of a native tradition with seen as the major poet of the Modern
Period.
(1)William Butler Yeats
(2) T.S. Eliot
(3) Thomas Hardy
(4) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: 3
Explanation: The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse is a poetry anthology edited by Philip Larkin. The volume contains works by 207 poets.
4. Philip Sidney defended poetry against
such descriptions of it as “the mother of lies” and “the nurse of abuse.” His
main argument here is .
(1) The poet is no conjuror or illusionist
and represents a world.
(2) The poet cannot lie because he is not
claiming to tell us the truth.
(3) The poet cannot speak the truth because
he is not representing the real world.
(4) The poet is a philosopher for whom
truth is a lie, and lie truth, in an imaginary world.
Answer: 2
The first criticism is that poetry is a waste of time. Second, critics claim, poetry “is the mother of lies. Third, poetry is “the nurse of abuse”,; The fourth and final criticism Sidney rebuts is the fact that Plato banished poetry from his ideal city in the Republic.
5. Chapter III of Oliver Twist opens with a narratorial remark about Oliver being punished for “the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more.” What did Oliver ask for more ?
(1) More time to play
(2) More food to eat
(3) More books to read
(4) More money to spend
Answer: 2
Explanation: In Oliver Twist, when Oliver asks the master who's in charge of serving the food for more gruel, the master hits him on the head with a ladle. Mr. Bumble, the parish beadle, is then informed of Oliver's behavior, and the Board of Directors decides to sell the boy for five pounds.
6. Edmund Spenser’s Epithalamion is a
carefully structured poem carrying __________ corresponding to the .
(1) twelve stanzas; months of the year
(2) three hundred and sixty five lines;
days of the year
(3)fourteen stanzas; two week-long bridal
ceremonies
(4)eleven stanzas; eleventh month, November
Answer: 2
Explanation: Epithalamion is an ode written as the finale of Amoretti, commemorates Spenser’s marriage to Elizabeth Boyle, daughter of James Boyle, the relation of Earl of Cork, Richard Boyle, on June 11, 1594. The music begins before sunrise and continues through the wedding ceremony and into the newlywed couple’s consummation night.
7. Choose the right chronological sequence
below :
(1)Victorian Period – Jacobean Period –
Tudor Period – Restoration Period
(2)Edwardian Period – Tudor Period –
Jacobean Period – Victorian Period
(3)Tudor Period – Jacobean Period –
Restoration Period – Edwardian Period
(4)Jacobean Period – Tudor Period –
Restoration Period – Edwardian Period
Answer: 3
8. “That woman’s days were spent in
ignorant good – will, Her nights in argument Until her voice grew shrill” (W.
B. Yeats : “Easter 1916”) Who is the poet referring to ?
(1)Maud Gonne
(2) Lady Augusta Gregory
(3) Kathleen Pilcher
(4) Constance Gore – Booth Markievicz
Answer: 4
9. Which of the following was replaced by
Communicative Language Teaching ?
(1)Motivational Approach
(2) Situational Language Teaching
(3) Natural Language Processing
(4) Structural Approach
Answer: (add score to all)
10. To whom does Francis Bacon offer the
following piece of advice ?
“Let him sequester himself from the Company
of his Countrymen, and diet in such Places,
where there is good company of the Nation…
Let him upon his Removes, … procure
Recommendation, to some person of Quality,
residing in the Place, whither he removeth…”
(1)The Beaux
(2) The Peddler
(3) The Traveller
(4) The Stationer
Answer: 3
11. In his masterpiece, Of the Lawes of
Ecclesiasticall Politie, Richard Hooker affirmed the Anglican tradition as that
of a “threefold cord not quickly broken.” He specifically referred to the
following EXCEPT .
(1) tradition
(2) scripture
(3) community
(4) reason
Answer: 3
12. Match the following :
List – I
(a) Christina Rossetti : Goblin Market
(b) Matthew Arnold : Sohrab and Rustom
(c) Robert Browning : The Ring and the Book
(d) Arthur Hugh Clough : The Bothie of
Tober-na-Vuolich
List – II
(i) The tale of a father who inadvertently destroys
his son
(ii) Gently satiric account of an Oxford
student on vacation
(iii) Story of pleasure-seeking Laura and
the conventionally moral Lizzie who resists temptations
(iv) A sensational 17th century murder
presented through multiple dramatic monologues
The right matching according to the code is
:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(2) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(3) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii)
(4) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
Answer: 3
13. “Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor; Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.”
These concluding lines of William Blake’s Innocence poem called “Holy
Thursday” allude to a Biblical passage. Identify the passage.
(1)The angel of the Lord encampeth round
about those who fear Him and delivereth them. Psalms 34.7
(2)Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh
to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error. Ecclesiastes
5.6
(3)And they said unto her, Thou art mad.
But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his
angel. The Acts 12.15
(4)Be not forgetful to entertain strangers
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13.2
Answer: 4
14. Direct Method of Language Teaching
involves :
a. the use of Target Language only
b. repetition of exercises
c. linguistic correctness
d. problem solving exercises
In relation to the above which of the
following is correct ?
(1) (c) and (d) only
(2) (a), (b) and (d)
(3) (a), (b) and (c)
(4) (a), (b), (c) and (d)
Answer: * (Add score to all)
15. In which of the following works does
the narrator proclaim, “either I’m nobody, or I’m the nation” ?
(1)George Lamming’s In the Castle of My
Skin
(2)Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight”
(3)Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”
(4)Kamau Braithwaite’s “Nation Language”
Answer: 2
Explanation: Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight” contains the following stanza...
I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation,
16. Like Cordelia, the Fool in King Lear is
.
(1) killed by Goneril’s troops.
(2) referred to by Lear as his child.
(3) disliked by Regan and Cornwall.
(4) punished for not telling the truth.
Answer: 2
17. Sindi Oberoi, the narrator hero in Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner says : “My foreignness lay within me and I couldn’t leave myself behind wherever I went.”
Identify the countries which Sindi Oberoi went
to.
(1)Kenya, Uganda, England, America, India
(2)Kenya, Uganda, New Zealand, England,
India
(3)Kenya, England, Canada, India
(4)Kenya, America, England, Australia,
India
Answer: 1
18. Assertion (A) : The world does not become raceless or will not become unracialized by assertion. The act of enforcing racelessness in literary discourse is itself a racial act.
Reason (R) : Pouring rhetorical acid on the
fingers of a black hand may indeed destroy the prints, but not the hand.
Besides, what happens, in that violent, self- serving act of erasure, to the
hands, the fingers, the fingerprints of the one who does the pouring ? Do they
remain acid-free ? The literature itself suggests otherwise.
In the context of the statements above,
(1) (A) makes complete sense in the light
of (R).
(2) (A) makes complete sense regardless of
(R).
(3)Neither (A) nor (R) makes complete
sense.
(4) (R) challenges the view advanced in
(A).
Answer: 1
19. A poet laureate said “I do not think
that since Shakespeare there has been such a master of the English language as
I.” Who is the poet ?
(1)Stephen Spender
(2) John Dryden
(3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(4) Ted Hughes
Answer: 3
Explanation: Alfred, Lord Tennyson was the most highly regarded poet of his period and the most widely read of all English poets. Tennyson's thought was often shallow and dealt with matters of fleeting significance, but his technical skill and prosody were unsurpassed. Perhaps the most perceptive evaluation of his work is embodied in Tennyson's own remark to Carlyle:I don't think that since Shakespeare there has been such a master of the English language as I — to be sure, I have nothing to say.
20. Who among the following was a contemporary of John Milton and wrote The Worthy Communicant ? It is said that "his prose can be read easily, when Milton’s must be studied.”
(1)Jeremy Taylor
(2) John Bunyan
(3) Andrew Marvell
(4) George Herbert
Answer: 1
21. In 1668, Dryden wrote Of Dramatic
Poesie : An Essay which uses__________ separate characters to dramatise the
conflicting viewpoints which new theatrical activity had produced.
(1)three
(2) two
(3) four
(4) six
Answer: 3
Explanation: Dramatic Poesty is a debate among four friends • Eugenius (Charles Sackville) • Crites (Sir Robert Howard • Lisideius (Sir Charles Sedley) • Neander (thought to represent Dryden)
22. Writing his most influential play,
August Strindberg called it “My most beloved drama, the child of my greatest
suffering.” The play is :
(1) A Dream Play
(2) Miss Julie
(3) The Bridal Crown
(4) The Dance of Death
Answer: 1
23. In which essay does Virginia Woolf
observe that “if a writer were a free man [sic] and not a slave” to the
conventions of the literary market-place, there would be “no plot, no comedy,
no tragedy, no love interest, or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps
not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it” ?
(1)”How it Strikes a Contemporary”
(2) “Modern Fiction”
(3) “The Russian Point of View”
(4) “Mr. Bennett and Mr. Brown”
Answer: 2
24. In his famous letter to Benjamin Bailey (November 22, 1817) John Keats wrote : “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth.” Which of the following sentences follows this passage ?
(1) Now I am sensible all this is a mere
sophistication, however it may neighbour to any truths, to excuse my own
indolence…
(2) The Imagination may be compared to
Adam’s dream – he woke and found it true.
(3) This however I am persuaded of, that
nothing beside Imagination can give us sweet sensations and pleasurable
thoughts.
(4) My pains at last some respite shall
afford, while I behold the battles Imagination maintains.
Answer: 2
25. Which of the following pair best
describes the characteristic features of Marlowe’s portrait of Tamburlaine ?
(a) ambition
(b) apathy
(c) cruelty
(d) sympathy
The right combination according to the code is .
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (b) and (c)
Answer: 3
26. Who is the author of the statement :
“The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his
own face in the glass” ?
(1)Arthur Symons
(2) Benjamin Disraeli
(3) W. B. Yeats
(4) Oscar Wilde
Answer: 4
Explanation: In the preface of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde writes,
“The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
The nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.”
27. Which of the following statements about
Thomas Mann’s novels is true ?
a. Buddenbrooks is a family saga set in the
early decades of the twentieth century.
b. Aschenbach, the writer protagonist in
Death in Venice, is preoccupied with classicism, especially with classical
ideals of male beauty.
c. In his second winter at the sanatorium,
Hans Castorp, protagonist of The Magic Mountain gets lost in a blizzard during
a solitary skiing expedition.
d. Adrian Leverkuhn, the modern day Faustus
in Mann’s Doctor Faustus is a musician. The right combination according to the
code is :
(1) Only (a) and (c) are correct
(2) Only (b) and (d) are correct
(3) (b), (c) and (d) are correct
(4) (a), (b) and (d) are correct
Answer: 3
28. To whom did Raja Ram Mohan Roy write in
1823 his letter seeking the introduction of English education in India ?
(1) Lord Amherst
(2) Lord Bentinck
(3) Lord Cunningham
(4) Lord Hastings
Answer: 1
29. Listed below are the seemingly friendly
characters in The Pilgrim’s Progress who give Christian dangerous advice. Among
them is one who does not belong to this group. Identify this odd character.
(1) Mr. Worldly Wiseman
(2) Evangelist
(3) Ignorance
(4) Talkative
Answer: 2
30. Aristotle argued that poetry provides
a/an __________ outlet for the release of intense emotions.
(1) safe
(2) dangerous
(3) uncertain
(4) unreliable
Answer: 1
31. The direct French influence on the
English language during the Middle English period was in the form of .
(1)loss of inflections.
(2)intake of French words into English.
(3)both the loss of inflections and intake
of French words into English.
(4)addition of inflections.
Answer: 2
32. A significant development in 1662 was
the establishment of The Royal Society in England. The main purpose of the
society was .
(1)to set the rules for the royal court and
governance
(2)to guide and promote the development of
science and scientific exploration
(3)to set norms for civil society
(4)to promote theatre
Answer: 2
33. William Cowper wrote in The Task (IV.
681-82) about those who “Build factories with blood, conducting trade/At the
sword’s point …” These lines allude to :
(1)Turkish militant traders across Europe
(2)Nordic conquerors across East Asia
(3)West Indian slave-plantation owners and
the East India Company ‘nabobs’
(4)Exploiters of child labour in the London
suburbs
Answer: 3
34. The commedia dell’arte originated in
Italy in the sixteenth century. Which of the following descriptions are the
most appropriate ?
a. Tears alternating with crude laughter
b. Comedy of the guild or by the
professionals in the “art”
c. Plautine comedy alternating with
ritualistic manoeuvres
d. Improvised comedy that follows a scenario rather than written dialogue.
The right combination according to the code
is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (d)
(3) (a) and (c)
(4) (b) and (c)
Answer: 2
35. “Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in
Night, God said, Let Newton be! And all was Light.” Alexander Pope’s famous
couplet impressively captures .
(1)Newton’s confirmation of the Genesis
passage where God ordains Light
(2)Newton’s empirical observations of
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
(3)Newton’s application of principles of
motion to account for many natural phenomena
(4)Newton’s discovery that all colours are
contained in white light
Answer: 4
Explanation: Alexander Pope has a well-known epitaph on Isaac Newton: “Nature, and Nature’s Laws, lay hid in Night. God said, Let Newton be! and All was Light.” It reflects the fame as well as the immense value of Newton with regard to science and religion. Less known is the fact that Newton spent more time on theology than on science. Newton’s most important work is the Principia Mathematica.
36. What was the name of the experimental
theatre group founded in 1915 by Susan Glaspell, Eugene O’Neill and other
dramatists in order to challenge Broadway’s control over American drama?
(1) The Wall Street Theatre Group
(2) The Washington Square Players
(3) The Actor’s Studio
(4) The Provincetown Players
Answer: 4
Explanation: The Provincetown Players was a collective of artists, writers, intellectuals, and amateur theater enthusiasts. Under the leadership of the husband and wife team of George Cram “Jig” Cook and Susan Glaspell from Iowa, the Players produced two seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts (1915 and 1916) and six seasons in New York City, between 1916 and 1922. The company's founding has been called "the most important innovative moment in American theatre."[1] Its productions helped launch the careers of Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell, and ushered American theatre into the Modern era.Eugene O'Neill, the winner of four Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature, is widely considered the greatest American playwright.
37. After his return from the land of
Houyhnhnms, Gulliver refused to let his wife and children __________ .
(1)show disrespect to English horses.
(2)ride horse-drawn carriages.
(3)touch his bread, or drink out of his
cup.
(4)communicate with him in English tongue.
Answer: 3
Explanation: His fourth voyage is to the land of the Houyhnhnms, who are horses endowed with reason. Their rational, clean, and simple society is contrasted with the filthiness and brutality of the Yahoos, beasts in human shape. Gulliver reluctantly comes to recognize their human vices. Gulliver stays with the Houyhnhnms for several years, becoming completely enamored with them to the point that he never wants to leave. When he is told that the time has come for him to leave the island, Gulliver faints from grief. Upon returning to England, Gulliver feels disgusted about other humans, including his own family.
38. In which of the following volumes do you find a charming appreciation of the Wordsworth household by Thomas de Quincey ?
(1)The Confessions of an English
Opium-Eater
(2)Lives and Letters, Far Away and Long Ago
(3)Notes on My Lake Country Evenings
(4)Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets
Answer: 4
Explanation: The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who lived and wrote in the Lake District during the nineteenth century. The Lake Poets were part of the Romantic Movement and are best remembered for verses related to natural imagery. Despite this, they did not follow a single idea or school of thought. Reminiscences of the English Lake Poets by Thomas De Quincey.
39. One of the most highly revered,
scholarly, and passionate interpreters of English and world literatures, he was
appointed the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at
University College, London in 1967, and later as King Edward VII Professor of English
Literature at Cambridge in 1974, an appointment made by the Crown at the suggestion
of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth
in 1991. Entitled to designate himself as “Sir,” he never did, but wrote and autobiography
entitled Not Entitled in 1995. The epigraph to this book came from Coriolanus : “He was a kind of nothing,
titleless.”
Who among the following is this
writer/critic ?
(1) F. R. Leavis
(2) I. A. Richards
(3) Frank Kermode
(4) David Lodge
Answer: 3
Explanation: Not Entitled: A Memoir by Frank Kermode, He is a great critic of english literature, a different kind of text: a luminous account of his own life.
40. Which of the following provided
theoretical basis for Audio-Lingual Method of Language Teaching ?
(1)Transformational Generative Linguistics
(2)Congnitive Psychology and Structural
Linguistics
(3)Behaviourist Psychology and
Bloomfieldian Structural Linguistics
(4)Systemic Functional Linguistics
Answer: 3
41. Who among the following characters of
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov dies in the final scene ?
(1) Anya
(2) Firs
(3) Varya
(4) Lopakhin
Answer: 2
42. In tracing the history of English poetry, Thomas Gray’s “Progress of Poesy” invokes a major poet as follows : “Nor second He, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Extasy, The secrets of th’ Abyss to spy.” Who is “He” ?
(1) William Shakespeare
(2) Edmund Spenser
(3) John Milton
(4) John Dryden
Answer: 3
43. “I suffered from impaired eye-sight, depression and poverty and left Oxford without a degree. After a period as a teacher and my marriage to a widow twice my age, I left for London, to begin writing for a magazine, I produced my own journal.”
Choose the correct answer, identifying the
writer, the magazine and the journal.
(1)John Milton, The Examiner’s Magazine,
London Magazine
(2)Joseph Addison, The Freeholder, The
Tatler
(3)Richard Steele, The Guardian, The
Spectator
(4)Samuel Johnson, The Gentlemen’s
Magazine, The Rambler
Answer: 4
44. Which of the American novelists is associated with the series of five books about Natty Bumppo, an old hunter, also called Leatherstocking ?
(1) Stephen Crane
(2) James Fennimore Cooper
(3) Herman Melville
(4) Jack London
Answer: 2
Explanation: Natty Bumppo, fictional character, a mythic frontiersman and guide who is the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper’s five novels of frontier life that are known collectively as The Leatherstocking Tales.
The character is known by various names throughout the series, including Leather-Stocking, Hawkeye, Pathfinder, and Deerslayer.
Natty Bumppo, a young white man who was raised by Delaware Indians and educated by members of a Moravian sect, is a brave and honourable woodsman, hunter, and interpreter.
45. In John Dryden’s Essay on Dramatic
Poesy Neander defends the English invention of __________.
(1) romantic comedy
(2) action tragedy
(3) tragi-comedy
(4) morality plays
Answer: 3
46. Who wrote The History of Australian
Literature in 1961 ?
(1) Randolph Stow
(2) H. M. Green
(3) Handel Richardson
(4) Francis Adam
Answer: 2
47. Match the following :
Theorist
a. Bharata
b. Kuntaka
c. Bhamaha
d. Anandavardhana
Theories
(i) Vakrokti
(ii) Riti
(iii) Dhvani
(iv) Rasa
The right matching according to the code is
:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(1) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
(2) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(3) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(4) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
Answer: 3
48. What is “Forster Collection” ?
(1)Memorabilia and documents related to the
Scottish War of Independence (1296-1328) housed in Glasgow Museum
(2)The special collection of E. M. Forster
effects housed in King’s College, Cambridge
(3)The largest collection of Charles
Dickens manuscripts and proofs curated by John Forster
(4)The collection of political and military
documents named after the liberal M. P., W. E. Forster reputed for the Forster
Education Act
Answer: 3
49. What was remarkable about the poet F.
T. Marinetti’s first Futurist Manifesto in Le Figaro ?
(1)It resounded like the monotonous beating
of a big drum that filled the air with muffled shocks and lingering vibration.
(2)It proclaimed that someone must go on
writing for those who were still convinced of the future for which they had
taken up arms.
(3)It blasted the dead weight of “museums,
libraries, and academics,” glorifying “the beauty of speed.”
(4)It declared that man, the individual, is
an infinite reservoir of possibilities; and if man can so rearrange society by
the destruction of oppressive disorder, then the possibilities have a future.
Answer: 3
50. How would one best describe Thomas
Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus (1833) ?
(1) A combination of journal, fashion-book,
and tips for advertisers
(2) A lyrical novel a la Marcel Proust
(3) A combination of novel, autobiography,
and essay
(4) A satire on sartorial fashions and
feibles of medieval Europe
Answer: 3
Explanation: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books is an 1831 novel by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in November 1833 – August 1834. The novel purports to be a commentary on the thought and early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (which translates as 'God-born Devil's-dung'). "Sartor Resartus" is usually translated as "The Tailor Re-tailored". It is an autobiographical novel depicting a young man of deeply religious upbringing being scorned in love, and thereafter wandering.
51. An Indian English poet once remarked
that his discipline and education gave him his “outer” whereas his Indian
origin gave him “inner” form. Reflecting a part of this claim is a famous essay
he called .
(1)”Is There a Native Way of Thinking ?”
(2)”Can the Subaltern Speak ?”
(3)”Where Do We Go from Here : Some
Speculations”
(4)”Is There an Indian Way of Thinking ?”
Answer: 4
52. In the remarkably crucial courtroom
scene of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is called upon to speak. Whose
voice do we hear in the narrative ?
(1) Tea Cake’s voice
(2) Janie’s first-person voice
(3) Pheoby’s voice
(4) The omniscient third-person voice
Answer: 4
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. It is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, and Hurston's best known work. The novel explores main character Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny". Set in central and southern Florida in the early 20th century, the novel was initially poorly received.
53. Who is the author of the statement “A
prophet is a Seer, not an Arbitrary Dictator” ?
(1) Salman Rushdie
(2) Kahlil Gibran
(3) William Blake
(4) Oscar Wilde
Answer: 3
54. The word order in Modern English became
relatively fixed because .
(1)it developed its inflectional system.
(2)it lost its highly developed
inflectional system.
(3)it lost its derivational system of word
formation.
(4)it developed its derivational system of
word formation
Answer: 2
55. Julia Kristeva’s ‘intertextuality’
derives from .
a. Noam Chomsky’s deep structure
b. Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism
c. Jacques Derrida’s differance
d. Ferdinand de Saussure’s sign
The right combination according to the code
is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)
Answer: 4
56. Dylan Thomas’s famous poem “Fern Hill,”
is named after .
(1)a countryside in Austria to which he
paid occasional visits.
(2)a childhood haunt of the poet’s family
in Devonshire.
(3)the Welsh farmhouse where the poet spent
summer holidays as a boy
(4)The Welsh Anglican church to which the
young poet used to be taken by his mother.
Answer: 3
57. “In the seventeenth century,” writes T.
S. Eliot in “The Metaphysical Poets,” “a dissociation of sensibility set in,
from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was
aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century,
___________and __________ .
(1)Ben Jonson and Abraham Cowley
(2)George Herbert and Henry Vaughan
(3)John Donne and Andrew Marvell
(4)John Milton and John Dryden
Answer: 4
58. The label ‘material feminism’ refers to
the work of those thinkers who study inequality in terms of .
(1) gender differences.
(2) class differences.
(3) both gender and class differences.
(4) female consumerism.
Answer: 3
59. Who among the following displays in her
best work the dual influence of feminism and magic realism ?
(1) Pat Barker
(2) Muriel Spark
(3) Angela Carter
(4) J. K Rowling
Answer: 3
60. Identify the group of British poets who
evidently draw upon new trends in literary theory (such as poststructuralism)
and wrote poems that reflect on themselves and the language used in/by them.
(1)Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek
Mahon
(2)Medbh McGuckian, Denise Riley, Wendy
Cope
(3)Christopher Middleton, Roy Fisher, J. H.
Prynne
(4)Donald Davie, Charles Tomlinson, Thom
Gunn
Answer: 3
Varieties of Neo-Modernism is a book By Christopher Middleton, Roy Fisher, J.H. Prynne
61. In Old English other grammatical
classes also had the four cases that nouns had. Which were these grammatical
classes ?
(1) Pronouns and verbs only
(2) Pronouns and adjectives only
(3) Definite article and verbs only
(4) Pronouns, adjectives and definite
article
Answer: 4
62. Which of the following novels opens
with the description of an accident to a hot-air balloon ?
(1)John Fowles’s The Magus
(2)Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love
(3)James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late
(4)Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting
Answer: 2
63. Azizun, a courtesan(=prostitute) from Kanpur in A Tale from the Year 1857 : Azizun Nisa by Tripurari Sharma undergoing self-actualisation says : “Yes, I must complete what I’ve set out to do. I’m not a mere woman.”
In order to make her impact by her attitudinal shift, she .
(1)challenges the codifiers of the Shariat.
(2)forsakes her profession to become a
soldier.
(3)becomes a political leader.
(4)becomes a successful dancer.
Answer: 2
64. The hermeneutics of suspicion is a term
coined by Paul Ricoeur .
a. to designate the postcolonial tendency
to see theory and related reading manoeuvres as a global conspiracy.
b. to describe interpretive bids that
challenge and seek to overcome compartmentalized cultural experiences.
c. who, following Marx, Nietzsche, and
Freud, held that textual appearances are deceptive and texts do not gracefully
relinquish their meanings.
d. to describe a mode of interpretation
that adopts a distrustful attitude towards texts in order to elicit otherwise
inaccessible meanings or implications.
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (c)
Answer: 3
65. Which of the following is not a
feminist novel ?
(1)Ashapurna Debi’s Subarnalata
(2)Rajam Krishnan’s Lamp in the Whirlpool
(3)Chudamani Raghavan’s Yamini
(4)Bani Basu’s The Enemy Within
Answer: 4
66. The term ‘poetic justice’ was coined by
.
(1) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(2) Thomas Rymer
(3) Samuel Johnson
(4) William Wordsworth
Answer: 2
67. Which of the following novels deals
with the Biafran War ?
(1) July’s People
(2) Waiting for the Barbarians
(3) Half of a Yellow Sun
(4) Arrow of God
Answer: 3
July’s People a 1981 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer imagines an alternate history in which a Black liberation movement forcefully overturns apartheid rule, embroiling the nation in a violent civil war that endangers the lives of the country’s minority white population.Waiting for the Barbarians is a 1980 novel by the South African writer J. M. Coetzee, it is a political allegory about the paranoia at the roots of imperial narratives and the blood lust of colonial violence. Written during the apartheid era in South Africa
Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by 4th Estate in London, the novel tells the story of the Biafran War.
Arrow of God, published in 1964, is the third novel by Chinua Achebe. Along with Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease, it is considered part of The African Trilogy,
68. Which of the following is not true in
Dalit aesthetics as given by Sharan Kumar Limbale ?
(1)The agony, assertion, resistance, anger
and protest of the dalits should be expressed.
(2)Dalit anubhava (experience) should take
precedence over anuman (speculation).
(3)Sympathy for the dalits should be
generated.
(4)Ungrammatical language, different from
the standard norms of expression, should be used.
Answer: 3
69. Which of the following is not a
critical study by William Empson ?
(1) Seven Types of Ambiguity
(2) The Dyer’s Hand
(3) Milton’s God
(4) Some Versions of the Pastoral
Answer: 2
The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays is a collection of essays and lectures by W. H. Auden, published in 196270. This was a path-breaking feminist essay written in the 1970s which used hybrid terms like “sext” and “chaosmos.”
Identify the author.
(1) Luce Irigaray
(2) Helene Cixous
(3) Julia Kristeva
(4) Simon de Beauvoir
Answer: 2
Read the poem and answer the questions that
follow (71 – 75) :
The Voice Woman much missed, how you call
to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as what you were
When you had changed from the one who was
all to me But as first, when our day was fair
Can it be you that I hear ? Let me view
you, then Standing as when I drew near to the town
Where you would wait for me : yes, as I
knew you then, Even to the original air-blue gown!
Or is it only the breeze, in its
listlessness Travelling across the wet mead to me here, You being
ever dissolved to wan wistlessness Heard no
more again far or near ?
Thus I; faltering forward, Leaves around me
falling,
Wind oozing thin through the thorn from
norward And the woman calling.
71. What suggestion does the opening stanza
give of a woman won or a woman lost ?
(1)The contrast between ‘now’ and ‘then’
(2)The continuity between ‘now’ and ‘then’
(3)The phrase “had changed”
(4)The phrase “our day was fair”
Answer: 1 & 3
72. What is tantalizing about the speaker’s
experience in stanza 2 ?
(1)the disappearance of the lady and the
echo of the voice
(2)the indistinct voice heard by the
speaker and the absence of woman
(3)The uncertainty of the voice and the
speaker’s inability to see the woman
(4)the woman disappearing before her voice
is fully heard
Answer: 3
73. What phrase in the poem suggests the
possibility of the woman as “dead” ?
(1) “You had changed …. to me”
(2) “I knew you then”
(3) “You being ever dissolved”
(4) “Woman much missed”
Answer: 3
74. Identify the special sound effect in
the line given : Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward…
(1) Alliteration
(2) Onomatopoeia
(3) Assonance
(4) The use of sibilants
Answer: 1
75. What longing does the speaker voice ?
(1)longing for reunion in the other world
(2)longing for physical union in the
present
(3)longing for physical union in the town
where they used to meet
(4)longing for a return to the town where
they used to meet
Answer: * (Marks given to all)
0 comments:
Post a Comment