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Thursday, 30 November 2023

GUJARATH SET NOV- 2023 Paper - II- ENGLISH

GUJARATH SET NOV- 2023 Paper - II- ENGLISH 

 

1. In which of the following plays does the character of Helen appear?

 (A) Volpone

 (C) As You Like It

 (B) Dr. Faustus

 (D) The Alchemist

 

2. Who among the following is the protagonist of Oliver Goldsmith's The Good Natured Man?

 (A) Sir William Honeywood

 (C) Jarvis

 (B) Sir William Honeymoon

 (D) Miss Richard

 

3. A close study of Ben Jonson's plays represents him as the master of

 (A) Sentimental Comedy

 (B) Pastoral Tragedy

 (C) Comedy of Humours

 (D) Comedy of Manners

 

4. Which of the following plays is not written by John Webster ?

 (A) The Devil's Law Case

 (B) Samson Agonistes

 (C) The Duchess of Malfi

 (D) The White Devil

 

5. Which of the following plays is written by Bertolt Brecht ?

 (A) The Life of Galileo

 (B) Look Back in Anger

 (C) The Caretaker

 (D) A Raisin in the Sun

 

6. Which of the following characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet says: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark ?"

 (A) Claudius

 (B) Polonius

 (C) Laertes

 (D) Marcellus

 

7. Which among the following novels of D.H. Lawrence deals with Mexican life and typically emphasizes on the values of the primitive as opposed to the civilized?

 (A) Women in Love

 (B) Sons and Lovers

 (C) The Plumed Serpent

 (D) Lady Chatterley's Lover

 

8. To which country does Ngugi Wa Thiong'o belong?

 (A) South Africa

 (B) Sri Lanka

 (C) Kenya

 (D) Nigeria

 

9. In which of plays, the real-estate industry is referred as seedy and unscrupulous by David Mammet?

 (A) Duck Variations

 (B) Glengarry Glen Ross

 (C) American Buffalo

 (D) A Life in the Theatre

 

10. Which of the following awards was won by Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance?

 (A) Booker Prize

 (B) Půlitzer Prize

 (C) National Book Award

 (D) National Book Critics Circle Award

 

11. Who wrote the long narrative poem 'Troilus and Criseyda' adapted from Boccacio?

 (A) William Shakespeare

 (B) William Langland

 (C) Geoffrey Chaucer

 (D) John Gower

 

12. In which of the Shakespearean Sonnets do you find the following lines?

 "Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ admit impediments, Love is not love/ which alters when it alteration finds...?"

 (A) Sonnet 116

 (B) Sonnet 18

 (C) Sonnet 114

 (D) Sonnet 15

 

13. Which of the following poets wrote 'My Grandmother's House'?

 (A) Arun Kolathkar

 (B) Nissim Ezekiel

 (C) Kamala Das

 (D) A. K. Ramanujan

 

14. Who wrote the nonsense verse 'Jabberwocky' in 1871?

 (A) George Orwell

 (B) George Lucas

 (C) Lewis Carroll

 (D) George Eliot

 

15. Power Politics is a collection of poems dealing with ferninism, gender issues and identity crisis. Who wrote it?

 (A) Margaret Atwood

 (B) Susanna Moodie

 (C) Margaret Laurence

 (D) Anne Herbert

 

16. Who wrote the epic poem The Approximate Man?

 (A) Tristan Tzara

 (B) Marcel Duchamp

 (C) Francis Picabia

 (D) Philippe Soupault

 

17. In which of the following poem is the lover's heart compared to a hand grenade?

 (A) The Sun Rising'

 (B) 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'

 (C) 'The Given Heart'

 (D) 'A Supplication'

 

18. John Milton appointed one of the metaphysical poets as his amanuensis after he went blind. What is his name?

 (A) Henry Vaughan

 (B) John Donne

 (C) Abraham Cowley

 (D) Andrew Marvell

 

19. Whom did Dryden hail as "The Father of our English Numbers"?

 (A) Edmund Waller

 (B) William Davenant

 (C) Richard Lovelace

 (D) Thomas Carew

 

20. To whom did Samuel Johnson apply the epithet 'Augustan' first?

 (A) Alexander Pope

 (B) John Dryden

 (C) Jonathan Swift

 (D) Joseph Addison

 

21. These two literary rivals shared the same years of birth and death. Who are they?

 (A) Dryden and Shadwell

 (B) Sidney and Gosson

 (C) Pope and Theobald

 (D) Greene and Shakespeare

 

22. Natyasastra is divided into ................... chapters.

 (A) 33

 (B) 34.

 (C) 36

 (D) 32

 

23. Which among the following novels portrays the character of Squire Alworthy ?

 (A) Tom Jones

 (B) Amelia

 (C) Joseph Andrews

 (D) Pamella

 

24. How many years did James Joyce take to complete his novel Finnegan's Wake?

 (A) Five years

 (B) Seven years

 (C) Ten years

 (D) Fifteen years

 

25. Who among the following is not a Victorian novelist?

 (A) George Meredith

 (B) Benjamin Disraeli

 (C) William Makepeace Thackeray

 (D) Jane Austen

 

26. In which of the following novels does the character of Michael Henchard appear?

 (A) The Mayor of Casterbridge

 (B) Hard Times

 (C) Pride and Prejudice

 (D) Ulysses

 

27. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale falls in the category of

 (A) A dystopian novel

 (B) A picaresque novel

 (C) A romantic novel

 (D) An epistolary novel

 

28. According to ...............  poetry is a happy fusion of 'Sabda' and 'Artha'.

 (A) Bharatha

 (B) Abhinavgupta

 (C) Bhamaha

 (D) Anandvarthan

 

29. Which of the following works is not written by William Golding?

 (A) The Inheritors

 (B) The Spire

 (C) Darkness Visible

 (D) My Cleaner

 

30. Which of the following characters does not appear in Charles Dickens' Hard Times?

 (A) Thomas Gradgrind

 (B) Cecilia Juper

 (C) David Matthews

 (D) Louisa

 

31. What is the primary characteristic of non-fictional prose?

 (A) Imaginary characters

 (B) Factual information and real events

 (C) Creative storytelling

 (D) Rhyming verses

 

32. Which author is renowned for his collection of essays titled Essays?

 (A) Michel de Montaigne

 (B) George Orwell

 (C) Virginia Woolf

 (D) Mark Twain

 

33. What is a common feature of essays by Charles Lamb?

 (A) Strictly factual content

 (B) Personal reflection and exploration of ideas

 (C) Rhyming couplets

 (D) Dialogue-driven narratives

 

34. What does investigative journalism primarily involve ?

 (A) Reporting on personal experiences

 (B) Analyzing fictional stories

 (C) In-depth research to uncover hidden truths

 (D) Reviewing classic literature

 

35. What distinguishes a memoir from an autobiography?

 (A) Memoirs are always written in the third person

 (B) Memoirs focus on a specific period or theme in the author's life

 (C) Memoirs are longer than Autobiographies

 (D) Autobiographies are written by ghostwriters

 

36. Who is famous for investigative work in exposing government surveillance programs?

 (A) Hunter S. Thompson

 (B) Bob Woodward

 (C) Glenn Greenwald

 (D) J.K. Rowling

 

37. Who wrote Mandela's Ego?

 (A) Wole Soyenka

 (B) Lewis Nkosi

 (C) Alice Walker

 (D) Toni Morrison

 

38. Which of the following is an example of creative non-fiction?

 (A) A scientific research paper

 (B) A travelogue

 (C) A biography of a historical figure

 (D) A memoir written by an astronaut

 

39. Which essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau discusses the "noble savage" concept?

 (A) 'The Social Contract'

 (B) 'The Stranger

 (C) 'The Wealth of Nations'

 (D) 'The Prince'

 

40. Albert Camus explored the theme of absurdity in life in

 (A) 'The Myth of Sisyphus'

 (B) 'The Second Sex'

 (C) 'The Communist Manifesto'

 (D) 'War and Peace'

 

41. Who is known for introducing the concept of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in linguistics?

 (A) Eddie Whorf Sapir

 (B) Benny Sapir Whorf

 (C) Edward Lee Whorf

 (D) Benjamin Lee Whorf

 

42. Which of the following is an example of an allophone in English phonology?

 (A) /p/ in "pat" and /p/ in "spat"

 (B) /p/ in "pat" and /b/ in "bat"

 (C) /p/ in "pat" and /V in "cat"

 (D) /p/ in "pat" and /k/ in "cap"

 

43. Which theory of language acquisition suggests that children have an innate ability to understand and produce language, known as the Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?

 (A) Social Interactionist Theory

 (B) Behaviorist Theory

 (C) Universal Grammar Theory

 (D) Connectionist Theory

 

44. Which semiotic concept refers to the process of attaching meaning to a sign, such as interpreting a word's meaning in language?

 (A) Semiosis

 (B) Signifier

 (C) Signified

 (D) Referentiality

 

45. Which area of psycholinguistics is concerned with how words are accessed and retrieved from memory during language production?

 (A) Neurolinguistics

 (B) Lexical semantics

 (C) Word recognition

 (D) Phonological processing

 

46. What term describes the process by which languages influence and shape each other due to cultural contact and communication?

 (A) Linguistic determinism

 (B) Language convergence

 (C) Language divergence

 (D) Linguistic relativity

 

47. Which variety of English is often considered the standard for international communication, including business and diplomacy?

 (A) American English

 (B) British English

 (C) Received Pronunciation (RP)

 (D) International English

 

48. Which term describes the phenomenon of pronouncing a word or phrase in a simplified or non-standard way, often due to rapid speech or informality?

 (A) Euphony

 (B) Elision

 (C) Epenthesis

 (D) Aphaeresis

 

49. Which of the following idiomatic expressions means to reveal a secret or hidden information?

 (A) Spill the beans

 (B) Break a leg

 (C) Kick the bucket

 (D) The ball is in your court

 

50. In reading comprehension, what is the term for a word or phrase that helps to link sentences and paragraphs within a text ?

 (A) Transition word

 (B) Function word

 (C) Compound word

 (D) Hyphenated word

 

51. Which term describes the phenomenon where speakers unconsciously adjust their speech to match the speed, tone, and vocabulary of their conversation partner?

 (A) Code-switching

 (B) Mirroring

 (C) Over articulation

 (D) Enunciation

 

52. What was the primary responsibility assigned to the Company by the Charter Act of 1813 in relation to education in India?

 (A) To establish missionary colleges

 (B) To promote indigenous languages and cultures

 (C) To spend one lakh rupees annually on education

 (D) To encourage Indians to write in English

 

53. Who were some of the key individuals involved in the establishment of Hindu College, Calcutta, in 1817?

 (A) Charles Grant and Wilberforce

 (B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy and David Hare

 (C) William Carey, Joshua Marshman and William Ward

 (D) Alexander Duff and John Wilson

 

54. What was the primary purpose of the Calcutta School-Book Society, established in 1817?

 (A) To promote the distribution of English literature

 (B) To provide education to poor children in Calcutta

 (C) To print educational books and materials for schools in Bengal

 (D) To encourage missionary activities in Calcutta

 

55. Bishop Heber College in Tiruchirappalii, established in 1823, was primarily focused on the education of

 (A) Poor children in South India

 (B) Indian Christians

 (C) European and Indian children

 (D) Missionary pastors and missionaries

 

56. According to a letter from the General Committee of Public Instruction dated 6 October 1823, what condition was set for native college students regarding the philosophical class?

 (A) They must be proficient in Oriental languages

 (B) They must be well-versed in Western science

 (C) They must have a strong foundation in the English language

 (D) They should prioritize the study of European history

 

57. What was Raja Ram Mohan Roy's attitude towards the use of English in education letter dated 11 December 1823?

 (A) He believed English should replace all other languages

 (B) He supported English as a medium alongside vernacular languages

 (C) He insisted on using Persian for official business

 (D) He opposed the study of Western literature

 

58. Who was the Governor-General responsible for introducing significant educational reforms, including the promotion of English literature and science in India?

 (A) Charles Canning

 (B) Warren Hastings

 (C) William Bentinck

 (D) Richard Wellesley

 

59. According to the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company in 1832, why was the cultivation of the English language highly desirable in India?

 (A) To promote Indian literature

 (B) To favour the English language and culture

 (C) To strengthen the study of Western history

 (D) To introduce natives into places of trust

 

60. What was the purpose of the Abbot-Wood Report (1936-37) in the field of education?

 (A) To recommend the use of English as the primary language of instruction

 (B) To advocate for the teaching of classical languages like Sanskrit

 (C) To base primary and secondary education on children's natural interests

 (D) To establish more universities in India

 

61. Who introduced the concept of encoding/decoding?

 (A) Frederick Jameson

 (B) Stuart Hall

 (C) Jurgen Habermas

 (D) Homi Bhabha

 

62. Who used the term "sweetness and light in reference to culture?

 (A) Matthew Arnold

 (B) Stuart Hall

 (C) Jurgen Habermas

 (D) Richard Hoggart

 

63. Where was the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies located?

 (A) Birmingham

 (C) Amsterdam

 (B) Paris

 (D) Moscow

 

64. The Empire Strikes Back by the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies talks about

 (A) Gender bias

 (C) Feminism

 (B) Race and racism

 (D) Ethnicity

 

65. Negritude was not

 (A) A cultural movement

 (B) A social moverment

 (C) A political movement

 (D) A poetic movement

 

66. Arjun Appadurai writes about five types of cultural flows of imagination

 (A) Ethnoscapes, mediascapes, econoscapes, financescapes and ideoscapes

 (B) Cultural flow, language flow, economic flow, ideological flow and geographical flow

 (C) Ethnoscapes, technoscapes, ideoscapes, financescapes and mediascapes

 (D) Culture flow, literary flow, economic flow, ideological flow and geographical flow

 

67. Which of these scholars does not talk about cultural racism?

 (A) Martin Barker

 (B) Etinne Balibar

 (C) Pierre-Andre Taguieff

 (D) Jurgen Habermas

 

68. Which of the following figures is not associated with the Frankfurt School of Cultural Studies?

 (A) Max Horkheimer

 (B) Theodor W. Adorno

 (C) Herbert Marcuse

 (D) Richard Hoggart

 

69. Devassos (translated as Perverts in Paradise) was written by which Latin American exponent of Culture Studies?

 (A) Guillermo Núñez Noriego

 (B) João Silvério Trevisan

 (C) Ray González

 (D) Alberto Mirandé

 

70. Cultural Studies was initially developed as an academic field by

 (A) American Capitalist Academics

 (B) Asian and African Post-Colonial Academics

 (C) American Postmodern Literary Theorists

 (D) British Marxist Academics

 

71. Epistle to the Pisos written as a letter to a Roman senator named Lucius Piso is popularly known as

 (A) Poetics

 (B) Ars Poetica

 (C) On the Sublime

 (D) Symposium

 

72. Who wrote, "Never did a Slave Become an Orator"?

 (A) Plato

 (B) Longinus

 (C) Socrates

 (D) Menander

 

73. Who wrote 'Peri Bathous' that parodies Longinus' Peri Hupsous or On the Sublime?

 (A) Alexander Pope

 (B) Joseph Addison

 (C) Thomas Hobbes

 (D) John Locke

 

74. Who calis Shakespeare's characters as "genuine progeny of common humanity"?

 (A) Harold Bloom

 (B) William Hazlitt

 (C) Samuel Johnson

 (D) A. C. Bradley

 

75. These two poets are held responsible for the onset of the dissociation of sensibility in English poetry by T. S. Eliot. Who are they?

 (A) Chaucer and Gower

 (B) Sidney and Spenser

 (C) Donne and Marvell

 (D) Milton and Dryden

 

76. The anthropologist most commonly associated with structuralist thinking is

 (A) Claude Lévi-Strauss

 (B) Margaret Mead

 (C) Victor Turner

 (D) James Clifford

 

77. Raymond Williams is best known for his work

 (A) The Dialogical Principle

 (B) Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

 (C) The Aims of interpretation

 (D) Society and Culture

 

78. Who coined the term 'posthumanism'?

 (A) Ihab Hassan

 (B) Rosi Braidotti

 (C) Francesca Ferrando

 (D) N. Katherine Hayles

 

79. Who introduced the theory of dismodernism in disability studies?

 (A) Lennard J. Davis

 (B) Oliver Sacks

 (C) Mike Oliver

 (D) Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

 

80. Who among the following has studied the peasant insurgency in colonial India?

 (A) Sumit Sarkar

 (B) Gayatri Spivak

 (C) Dipesh Chakrabarty

 (D) Ranajit Guha

 

81. Match the following

 i. Psychoanalytic Structuralism            a. Linda Hutcheon

 ii. Hegemony                                        b. Jacques Lacan

 iii. Metafiction                                      c. Antonio Gramsci

 iv. Hybridity                                        d. Homi Bhabha

 (A) i-c; ii-d; iii-b; iv-a

 (B) i-a; ii-c; ili-d; iv-b

 (C) i-b; ii-c; iii-a; iv-d

 (D) l-b; ii-d; iii-a; iv-c

 

82. According to Coleridge Esemplastic imagination has the ability

 (A) To create and visualize mental images

 (B) To construct and follow narratives

 (C) To unify or synthesize various elements into a cohesive whole

 (D) To mentally manipulate objects

 

83. The term 'ecological imperialism' was coined by

 (A) Vandana Shiva

 (B) Laurence Buell

 (C) Paulo Freire

 (D) Alfred Crosby

 

84. Choose the correct pair.

 (A) Terry Eagleton - The Common Pursuit

 (B) Wayne C. Booth - The Rhetoric of Fiction

 (C) Raymond Williams - Seven Types of Ambiguity

 (D) F. R. Leavis - Literary Theory: An Introduction

 

85. In the essay 'Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism', what are the texts that Spivak focuses on

 (A) Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Frankenstein.

 (B) Jane Eyre, The Awakening, A Room of One's Own.

 (C) Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, The Awakening.

 (D) Mrs. Dalloway, Wuthering Heights, The Awakening.

 

86. The following is a list of key critical terms. What is the right chronological order of their formulation?

 (A) Langue-the unconscious difference-heresy of paraphrase

 (B) The unconscious - langue - heresy of paraphrase - difference

 (C) Difference-langue-heresy of paraphrase the unconscious

 (D) Langue-difference - the unconscious - heresy of paraphrase

 

87. "Post structuralist seeks to show that the text is characterized by disunity rather than unity," Who made this statement?

 (A) David Lodge

 (B) Peter Barry

 (C) Richard J. Lane

 (D) M.H. Abrams

 

88. Who was the first to coin the term 'intertextuality'?

 (A) Wolfgang Iser

 (C) Julia Kristeva

 (B) Ferdinand de Saussure

 (D) H. R. Hauss

 

89. In the Indian Literary theory what refers to a suggested or implied meaning of literature?

 (A) Vakrokti

 (C) Rasa

 (B) Dhvani

 (D) Abhidha

 

90. Why is a literature review essential in the research design and planning phase ?

 (A) To prove the researcher's expertise

 (B) To summarize research findings

 (C) To provide a foundation for the research

 (D) To outline the research's conclusions

 

91. What role does the research question play in the research design phase?

 (A) It determines the research paper's summary

 (B) It defines the research's purpose and direction

 (C) It helps to decide the title of the research paper

 (D) It influences the choice of research tools

 

92. What distinguishes content analysis from other research methods in English studies?

 (A) It involves laboratory experiments

 (B) It focuses on quantitative data

 (C) It analyzes textual and visual materials

 (D) It requires extensive fieldwork

 

93. What is the primary goal of pilot testing data collection instruments in English research?

 (A) To identify and rectify issues

 (B) To establish ethical guidelines

 (C) To collect final research data

 (D) To ensure data confidentiality

 

94. What distinguishes grounded theory analysis in English research?

 (A) It relies on statistical tools

 (B) It focuses solely on quantitative data

 (C) It aims to develop theories from data

 (D) It begins with preconceived hypotheses

 

95. What is the primary purpose of an abstract in a research paper?

 (A) To provide a detailed literature review

 (B) To summarize the entire research paper

 (C) To showcase the author's creative writing skills

 (D) To critique the methodology used in the research

 

96. What is the primary purpose of obtaining informed consent from research participants in English studies?

 (A) To ensure participants are paid for their time

 (B) To collect personal information for future use

 (C) To protect participants' rights and privacy

 (D) To provide participants with free research materials

 

97. In research, what is the primary purpose of using secondary sources ?

 (A) To gather original data

 (B) To analyze primary source materials

 (C) To provide context and background information

 (D) To avoid the use of scholarly articles

 

98. What is the primary purpose of submitting research papers to peer-reviewed joumals?

 (A) To showcase creative writing skills

 (B) To receive remuneration

 (C) To engage in academic debates

 (D) To undergo rigorous evaluation by experts

 

99. When conducting qualitative research in English studies, what challenge is associated with data saturation?

 (A) Over-reliance on quantitative data

 (B) Exhausting the pool of potential research participants

 (C) The risk of data interpretation bias

 (D) Inadequate data collection methods

 

100. Which software tool is commonly used in research for qualitative data analysis and coding textual data ?

 (A) SPSS

 (B) MATLAB

 (C) Excel

 (D) NVivo




ANSWER KEY



GUJARAT STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST, NOVEMBER 2023
FINAL ANSWER KEY FOR PAPER-II
SUBJECT: English


Q.NO.

CORRECT CHOICE

Q.NO.

CORRECT CHOICE

Q.NO.

CORRECT CHOICE

Q.NO.

CORRECT CHOICE

1

B

26

A

51

B

76

A

2

A

27

A

52

C

77

B

3

C

28

C

53

B

78

A

4

B

29

D

54

C

79

A

5

A

30

C

55

B

80

D

6

D

31

B

56

C

81

C

7

C

32

A

57

B

82

C

8

C

33

B

58

C

83

D

9

B

34

C

59

D

84

B

10

B

35

B

60

C

85

A

11

C

36

C

61

B

86

B

12

A

37

B

62

A

87

B

13

C

38

D

63

A

88

C

14

C

39

A

64

B

89

B

15

A

40

A

65

D

90

D

16

A

41

D

66

C

91

B

17

C

42

A

67

D

92

C

18

D

43

C

68

D

93

A

19

A

44

A

69

B

94

C

20

B

45

C

70

D

95

B

21

C

46

B

71

B

96

C

22

C

47

D

72

B

97

C

23

A

48

B

73

A

98

D

24

B

49

A

74

C

99

B

25

D

50

A

75

D

100

D


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