TS SET- 2023 - PAPER-II- ENGLISH (HELD ON 30.10.2023)

Q.51 In his 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey grouped poets together as the ‘Lake School of Poets’. Identify them.

1. John Keats, Willaim Wordsworth, Robert Southey

2. William Wordsworth, William Blake, Robert Southey.

3. William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, Robert Southey.

4. John Keats, P. B. Shelley, William Wordsworth

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Q.52. “Who knows but the world may end tonight?” is the popular line from

1. Robert Browning in The Grammarian’s Funeral

2. Robert Browning in The Last Ride Together

3. Alfred Lord Tennyson in In Memoriam

4. Alfred Lord Tennyson in The Lady of Shallott

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Q.53. Who among the following said, “Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.”

1. Jane Masefield

2. Walter de La Mare

3. Richard Aldington

4. G B Shaw

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Q.54. Which of the following statements about, “Literature of the Modern Age” is correct?

1. It accepted and approved conventional Victorian morality.

2. It did not involve any change in form or plot.

3. It did not involve any change in style and character.

4. It is characterized by widespread experiments and innovation in subject matter.

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Q.55. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?

I. Rohinton Mistry a. A Suitable Boy

II. Jhumpa Lahiri b. The Inheritance of Loss

III. Vikram Seth c. A Fine Balance

IV. Kiran Desai d. The Interpreter of Maladies

1.I-a, II-b, III-c, IV-d

2. I-b, II-c, III-d, IV-a

3. I-c, II-d, III-a, IV-b

4. I-d, II-a, III-b, IV-c

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Q.56. Who are founding figures of the concept ‘Cultural Studies?’

1. Raymond Murphy, Richard Hoggart, Stuart Hall

2. Raymond Williams, Richard Higgins, Stuart Hall

3. Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, Stuart Hall

4. Raymond Williams, Richard I. A, Stuart Mill

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Q.57. John Dryden’s An Essay on Dramatic Poesie is written in the manner of ………

1. Aristotle’s Poetics

2. Sidney’s Defence of Poetry

3. Horace’s Ars Poetica

4. Plato’s Republic

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Q.58. Structuralism in Linguistics was popularized by the following work.

1. Ferdinand de Saussure’s Courses in General Linguistics

2. J Hillis Miller’s The Disappearance of God

3. I A Richard’s Meaning of Meaning

4. Wolfgang Iser’s The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach

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Q.59. Who among the following considered John Dryden as “father of English Criticism, as the writer who first taught us determine upon principles the merit of composition?”

1. Mathew Arnold

2. Dr Samuel Johnson

3. Joseph Addison

4. Alexander Pope

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Q.60. Identify the correct chronological sequence of William Blake’s poems.

1. The Songs of innocence- The Gates of Paradise-The Songs of Experience- The Poetical Sketches-

2. The Poetical Sketches- The Songs of innocence- The Songs of Experience- The Gates of Paradise-

3. The Poetical Sketches- The Songs of innocence- The Gates of Paradise- The Songs of Experience-

4. The Songs of innocence- The Songs of Experience- The Gates of Paradise- The Poetical Sketches-

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Q.61. Which of the following poems of Alexander Pope is known by its other title Prologue to the Satires?

1. The Rape of the Lock

2. Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

3. An Essay on Criticism

4. Of the Characters of Women

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Q.62. Which detective character was created by G K Chesterton?

1. Sherlock Holmes

2. Philip Marlowe

3. Father Brown

4. Mister Marshal

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Q.63. Which among the following is not a play written by George Bernard Shaw?

1. Man and Superman

2. A Losing Game

3. The Doctor’s Dilemma

4. The Man of Destiny

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Q.64. Dylan Thomas’s popular poem ‘Fern Hill’ is named after …….

1. a countryside in Australia 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.

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Q.65. Which among the following is not the characteristic of ‘Utopian Republic’?

1. People are neither too rich nor too poor.

2. People do not believe in physical beauty

3. People have no addiction to drinking and gambling.

4. People have no legal disputes.

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Q.66. Bluntschli, Sergius, Raina and Louka are the important characters in………..

1. G B Shaw’s Arms and the Man

2. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger

3. Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker

4. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

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Q.67. Name the theorist who divided poets into ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ and popularized the practice of misreading.

1. Roland Barthes

2. Harold Bloom

3. Geoffrey Hartman

4. Stanley Fish

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Q.68. It is a figure of speech having intended meaning different from expression made. Identify it.

1. Satire

2. Allegory

3. Irony

4. Cinquain

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Q.69. The term ‘invective’ in literature refers to ………..

1. an insulting writing attack upon a real person, in verse or prose, usually involving caricature and ridicule

2. the chanting or reciting of words deemed to have magical powers

3. the abusive writing or speech in which there is harsh denunciation of some person or thing

4. a written or spoken text in which an apparently straightforward statement of event is undermined in its context so as to give it a very different significance.

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Q.70. Identify the correct chronological sequence

1. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood- The Scottish Chaucerians- The University Wits- The Transitional Poets- The Rhymer’s Club

2. The University Wits- The Scottish Chaucerians- The Transitional Poets- The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood- The Rhymer’s Club

3. The Rhymer’s Club- The Scottish Chaucerians- The University Wits- The Transitional Poets- The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

4. The Scottish Chaucerians- The University Wits- The Transitional Poets- The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood- The Rhymer’s Club

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Q.71. An extremely simplified form of a language used for oral, verbal contact among a community whose members speak different languages but do not share a common language in order to fulfil the essential needs of communication

1. Creole

2. Pidgin

3. Dialect

4. Idiolect

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Q.72 Identify the correct statements on Langue and Parole below:

I. Langue is the abstract language system, the grammar of a language.

II. Parole is the language actually produced by its user following langue.

III. Langue is the language actually produced by its users following parole.

IV. Parole is the abstract language system, the grammar of a system.

Options:

1. I and III are correct.

2. I and II are correct.

3. II and III are correct.

4. II and IV are correct.

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Q.73 What is 'Universal Grammar'?

1. It is a set of basic grammatical principles universally followed and easily recognized by people.

2. It is a set of basic grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural languages.

3. It is a set of advanced grammatical principles assumed to be fundamental to all natural languages.

4. It is a set of universally respected practices that have come, in time, to be known as grammar

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Q.74. Identity the correct definition of 'Register'.

1. The way in which a language registers in the minds of its users.

2. The way user of a language registers the nuances of that language.

3. A variety of language used in social situations or one specially designed for the subject it deals with.

4. A variety of language used in non-professional or informal situations by Professionals.

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Q.75. Identity the correct statement.

I. 'Interlanguage' is a term we owe to M.A.K. Halliday

II. 'Interlanguage' develops an autonomous and self-contained grammatical system.

III. It is a distinct stage in a learner's progress in the study of a second language.

IV. It owes nothing at all either to the learner's native or target/second language.

Options:

1. Only option I is correct

2. Only option III is correct

3. II and III are correct.

4. III and IV are correct.

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Q.76. Identify the poem in which the following lines appear.

Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,

Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown.

Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

1. ‘The World' by Henry Vaughan

2. ‘The Definition of Love' by Andrew Marvell

3. 'The Collar' by George Herbert

4. ‘The Good Morrow’ by John Donne

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Q.77. T.S. Eliot uses the term 'objective correlative' in 1919 in the essay …………… to describe a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion' that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader.

1. The Metaphysical Poets

2. Hamlet

3. Tradition and the Individual Talent

4. Dante

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Q.78. Identify the author of The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.

1. B R Ambedkar

2. Nirad C Chaudhuri

3. Kamala Das

4. Jawaharlal Nehru

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Q.79. Who among the following was not a member of the ‘Bloomsbury Group’?

1. E M Forster

2. Lytton Strachey

3. Winston Churchill

4. Virginia Woolf

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Q.80. The Reader Response Theory implies that ……...

1. there is no one correct meaning of the text

2. the readers of an age construct the meaning

3. beliefs determine meaning

4. a style is the hallmark of the text

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Q.81."The English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. English in Africa will have 'to be a new English, still in communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit its new African surroundings"."

1. Wole Soyinka

2. Ngugi wa Thiongo

3. Chinua Achebe

4. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Q.82.Who wrote the essay "The Death of the Author?"

1. William Hazlitt

2. Roland Barthes

3. Michael Foucault

4. Lionel Trilling

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Q.83.A.C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy was first published in

1. 1904

2. 1905

3. 1906

4. 1907

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Q.84.Who among the following translators is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English?

1. Charles Philip Brown

2. Charles Wilkins

3. Victor Hugo

4. William Jones

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Q.85.Match the following works with their authors.

I. Discovery of India a. E.M. Forster

II. India Wins Freedom b. Jawaharlal Nehru

III. A Passage to India c. V.S. Naipaul

IV. India: A Million Mutinies Now d. Abdul Kalam Azad

Options:

1. I- b, II- c, III – a, IV- d

2. I-b II – d, III – c, IV- a

3. I-b. II – d, III- a, IV - c

4. I-b. II – a, III- d, IV - c

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Q.86. 'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People' was the subtitle of …………

1. Everyman in his Humour

2. The Way of the World

3. Comedy of Manners

4. The Importance of Being Earnest

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Q.87. Which of the following options is correct?

I. Transcendentalism was a philosophical and literary movement.

II. Transcendentalism flourished in the Southern States of America in the 19th century.

III. Transcendentalism was a reaction against 18th century rationalism and the skeptical philosophy of Locke.

IV. Among the major texts of Transcendentalist thought are the essays of Emerson, Thoreau's Walden and the writings of Margaret Fuller.

1. I and II are correct.

2. I and III are correct.

3. I and IV are correct.

4. II and IV are correct.

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Q.88. Which critic is matched with the concept correctly among the following?

1. P.B. Shelly-Negative Capability

2. T. S. Eliot - Dissociation of Sensibility

3. I.A. Richards - Structuralism

4. Franz Kafka - Magic Realism

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Q.89 How did the party of school boys in William Golding's Lord of Flies find themselves on the desert island?

1. When the ship carrying them wrecked near the shore of the island.

2. When sea-pirates left them on island as they were kidnapped.

3. When the school master sent them for a picnic to the island.

4. When the plane carrying them crashed on the island.

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Q.90 Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Whose popular statement is this?

1. S.T. Coleridge

2. T.S. Eliot

3. E.E. Cummings

4. Robert Frost

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Q.91.Which of the following theories is stated in terms of five hypotheses namely. "The acquisition-learning hypothesis. The natural order hypothesis. The monitor hypothesis. The input hypothesis and The affective filter hypothesis" with respect to Second Language Acquisition?

1. The Monitor Model of Krashen

2. Accommodation Theory of Giles and Byrne

3. Discourse Theory of Hatch

4. The Acculturation Model of Schumann

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Q.92.Who made the following statement? "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

1. Virginia Woolf

2. George Orwell

3. Jane Austen

4. Charles Dickens

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Q.93.Identify the sentence with the most usual sequence of adjectives.

1. Indumathi was a beautiful, thin, tall, young, black-haired, Indian woman.

2. Indumathi was a beautiful, tall, thin, young, black-haired, Indian woman.

3. Indumathi was a beautiful, young, thin, tall, black-haired. Indian woman.

4. Indumathi was a young, beautiful, tall, thin, black-haired. Indian woman.

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Q.94.Match the following poetic lines with the poets.

I. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

II. Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.

III. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills

IV. Two roads diverged in a wood. and I- I took the one less travelled by

a. S.T. Coleridge's Rime of Ancient Mariner

b. William Wordsworth's 'Daffodils

c. P. B. Shelly's 'Ode to the West Wind'

d. Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

Codes:

1. I-d, II-a, III-b, IV-c

2. I-b, II-a, III-c, IV-d

3. I-c, II-a, III-b, IV-d

4. I-a, II-b, III-d, IV-c

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Q.95.Thomas Nash wrote a picaresque novel titled The Unfortunate Traveller. What is the other title to it?

1. The Life of Jack Milton

2. The Story of an Unfortunate Hero

3. The Life of a Student

4. The Life of Jack Wilton

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Q.96."Tragedy is a representation of an action, which is serious and by exciting pity and fear gives a healthy relief to such emotions." Whose comment is this?

1. Plato

2. Aristotle

3. Longinus

4. I.A. Richards

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Q.97 In G.B. Shaw's Arms and the Man, a man runs away from the battle and takes refuge in heroine's room. To save him. heroine gives him an overcoat along with her photo in one of the coat's pocket with an inscription Raina, to her chocolate cream soldier. a souvenir. Who is the runaway man? 2

1. Sergius

2. Petkoff

3. Bluntschli

4. Nocola

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Q.98. Who gave the following statement? "There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."

1. William Makepeace Thackeray

2. George Orwell

3. Thomas Moore

4. George Bernard Shaw

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Q.99.All human things are subject to decay

And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

In John Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, 'decay' means

1. Decline

2. Death

3. Break up of health

4. Flourish

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Q.100.The volume of poetry titled A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields was written by

1. Amritha Pritam

2. Toru Dutt

3. Sarojini Naidu

4. Eunice de Souza

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Q.101. Who called whom, "A beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain"?

1. S.T. Coleridge called John Keats

2. Mathew Arnold called P.B. Shelly

3. P.B. Shelley called Robert Southey

4. Jane Austen called William Wordsworth

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Q.102 What is 'Hudibrastic Verse'?

1. Composed of an octave and sestet

2. Three quatrains with a concluding couplet

3. Not bound by rhyme, metrical and stanza pattern

4. Humorous narrative with eight syllables

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Q.103. Who commented on whom as 'he had succeeded as a writer not by conforming to the spirit of the age, but in opposition to it?'

1. William Hazlitt on Charles Lamb

2. Mathew Arnold on William Wordsworth

3. S.T. Coleridge on P.B. Shelly

4. None of the above

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Q.104 Match List I with List II.

List I (character) List II (novel)

A. Molly Bloom I. Sons and Lovers

B. Paul Morel II. Ulysses

C. Kurtz III. Great Expectations

D. Pip IV. Heart of Darkness

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. А-iii. В-ii, C- I, D-IV,

2. А-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

3. А-ii, В-i, C-IV, D-III

4. А-IV, В-III, C-II, D-I

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Q.105. Fifteen years have gone round

Since thou arosest to tread

In the summer-morning, the road

Of death, at a call unforeseen

Sudden, for fifteen years,

We who till then in thy shade

Rested as under the boughs

Of a mighty oak, have endured

Sunshine and rain as we might.

Bare, unshaded, alone

Lacking the shelter of thee.

The above lines from an elegy have been written by a famous poet as a tribute to his dearest. Identify him.

1. Thomas Gray in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard in memory of the poet Richard West

2. Mathew Arnold in Rugby Chapel in memory of his father.

3. John Milton in Lycidas in memory of his contemporary Edward King

4. P.B.Shelly in Adonis in memory of famous poet John Keats

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Q.106. Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable is a story of an ordinary boy, who is conscious of his status in society and yet cannot help but question is unfairness. Who wrote the foreword to the novel?

1. Graham Greene

2. James Joyce

3. EM. Forster

4. D.H. Lawrence

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Q.107 "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." is a very useful remark for the people of all generations. Whose critical remark is this?

1. George Bernard Shaw in The Doctor's Dilemma

2. Anton Chekhov in A Marriage Proposal

3. Oscar Wilde in The Importance of Being Earnest

4. William Shakespeare in Measure for Measure

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Q.108 Match the following characters with their representative animals from George Orwell's' Animal Farm.

i. Boxer A. Horse

ii. Old Major B. Boar

iii. Moses C. Raven

iv. Benjamin D. Donkey

1. i-C, ii- B, iii - D iv - A

2. i- A, ii- B, iii- C, iv - D

3. i-D, ii- B, iii C, iv -A

4. i-C, ii-A, iii-D, iv- B

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Q.109 …………… is "an ironic comment on the decadence of modern civilization by juxtaposition of images from the present with the past."

1. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

2. T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland

3. John Milton's Paradise Lost

4. Sylvia Plath's Ariel

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Q.110 "You taught me language, and my profit on 't is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you for learning me your language!"

1. Brutus to Caesar

2. Iago to Othello

3. Edmund to King Lear

4. Caliban to Prospero

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Q.111 Transposed Heads is a beautiful story, based on a popular Indian legend that explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body and mind. Identify its author.

1. Girish Karnad

2. Amitav Ghosh

3. Thomas Mann

4. Chetan Bhagath

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Q.112 Identity the poem which narrates the story of a disillusioned young man, who tires of his pleasure-seeking lifestyle and decides to travel.

1. My Pilgrimage

2. The Unlikely Pilgrimage

3. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

4. The Unexpected Pilgrimage

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Q.113 "The movement in the arts and literature which emphasized inspiration, subjectivity and the primacy of the individual" is

1. Individualism

2. Modernism

3. Romanticism

4. Naturalism

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Q.114 Charles Dickens historical novel A Tale of Two Cities is set in

1. London and America

2. London and Paris

3. London and Ireland

4. London and Netherlands

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Q.115 What is action research?

1. A form of self-reflective enquiry undertaken by participants in social situations in order to improve rationality and justice of their own practices.

2. A small scale intervention in the functioning of the real world... and the close examination of the effects of such interventions.

3. The study of a social situation with a view to improving the quality of action within it.

4. All the above.

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Q.116 From which language the word 'Entrepreneur' entered into English?

1. Latin

2. French

3. Scandinavian

4. Japanese

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Q.117 Who was the first proposer of Linguistic Survey of India?

1. George Abraham Grierson

2. Thomas Babington Macaulay

3. Lord William Bentinck

4. None of the above

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Q.118 Who was the first English woman author known to earn her living by writing?

1. Jane Austen

2. Emily Bronte

3. Aphra Behn

4. Virginia Woolf

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Q.119 Which of the following format rules are true according to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook?

1. Place the list of works cited at the end of the paper

2. Double space between the title and the first entry

3. While giving URL its first part of https://has to be omitted

4. All the above

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Q.120 Who among the following belong to 'Yale School of Critics'?

1. F. R. Leavis, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man. J Hillis Miller

2. Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, Paul de Man. J Hillis Miller

3. Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, J Hillis Miller

4. Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, Mathew Arnold

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Q.121 Whose statement is this? 'He who fights with monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster."

1. George Orwell

2. Friedrich Nietzsche

3. William Shakespeare

4. Alexander Pope

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Q.122 'Epistemology' is the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between ……………..

1. Culture and strong belief

2. Justified belief and opinion

3. Established fact and social norm

4. Knowledge and understanding

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Q.123 ………………..is one of the forerunners who used Pidgin English in Indian English poetry. Read the following poem written by him and identify the poet.

What you think of prospects of world peace?

Pakistan behaving like this.

China behaving like that,

It is making me very sad. I am telling you.

Really, most harassing me

All men are brothers, no?

In India also

Gujaratis, Maharashtrians, Hindiwallahs

All brothers

Though some are having funny habits

Still you tolerate me,

I tolerate you.

One day, Ram Rajya is surely coming

1. Nissim Ezekiel

2. Henry Derozio

3. Michael Madhusudan Dutt

4. Gieve Patel

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Q.124 Bhabani Bhattacharya was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his famous novel ………..

1. The Golden Boat

2. Towards Universal Man

3. Music for Mohini

4. Shadow from Ladakh

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Q.125 Identify the 'critical language area in the posterior superior temporal lobe that connects to Broca's area via a neural pathway. It is involved in the comprehension and associated with language processing of oral and written forms."

1. Frontal Area

2. Wernicke's Area

3. Temporal Area

4. Occipital Area

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Q.126. The Hungry Tide, The Glass Palace and The Sea of Poppies are the novels which deal with subaltern studies. Identify the novelist who wrote them.

1. Gayatri Spivak

2. Ranajith Guha

3. Amitav Ghosh

4. None of the above

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Q.127 Match List I with List II.

List I (first line)

A. The sea is calm tonight.

B. I sit in one of the dives

C. The winter evening settles down

D. Once I am sure there's nothing going on

List II (poem)

I. "Preludes"

II. "Church Going"

III. "Dover Beach"

IV. "September 1.1939"

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. А-III. В-II. C-I, D-IV

2. А-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

3. А-II. В-І, C-IV, D-III

4. А-IV, В-III, C-II, D-I

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Q.128 Which of the following are the examples of violation of research ethics?

1. Using an inappropriate research design

2. Image manipulation and plagiarism

3. Data falsification and fabrication

4. All the above

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Q.129 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 was awarded to Ernest Hemingway for his mastery of the art of narrative and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style. Identify the novel.

1. A Farewell to Arms

2. The Old Man and the Sea

3. The Sun Also Rises

4. A Moveable Feast

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Q.130. Which among the following are stress-timed languages?

1. English and Spanish

2. English and German

3. English and French

4. English and Italian

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Q.131. What is 'ethnography'?

1. The scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs, habits and mutual differences

2. The scientific description of earth and its relation with biodiversity

3. The scientific description of separating earth elements and a mixture of chemical substances

4. The scientific description of earth and the processes that act on other materials

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Q.132.Who among the following was influenced immediately after reading John Ruskin's literary essay Unto This Last and decided to change his way of life.

1. Jawaharlal Nehru

2. Vallabhbhai Patel

3. S. Radhakrishnan

4. M.K. Gandhi

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Q.133. Representative Men is a collection of seven lectures delivered by which were published as a book of essays in 1850.

1. R.W. Emerson

2. E.M. Forster

3. William Hazlitt

4. W.H. Auden

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Q.134. R.P. Blacknur in his "A Critic's Job of Work" says, 'Like walking, criticism is a pretty nearly universal art, both require a constant intricate shifting and catching the balance: neither can be questioned much in process, and few perform either really well. For either a new terrain is fatiguing and awkward, and in our day most men prefer paved walks and some form of rapid transport, some easy theory or overmastering dogma.' Based on the above passage identify the correct statements.

i. Blackmur compares walking with criticism because he considers both to be 'arts' of a similar kind that call for attention to detail and utmost care.

ii. Blackmur admits that some people do however manage to be good critics and good walkers.

iii. Critics prefer tried and tested approaches for much the same reason as walkers would look for paved walks and rapid transport.

iv. Blackmur does not quite give us the equivalents of 'some paved walks and some form of rapid transport' in order to press his comparison.

Options:

1. i and ii are correct

2. i and iii are correct

3. ii and iii are correct

4. iii and iv are correct

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Q.135. Which is the gene responsible for language in human beings?

1. FOXP 1

2. FOXP 2

3. FOXP 3

4. FOXP 4

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Q.136. Identify the incorrect statement.

1. Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism were two opposing sides of the American Renaissance.

2. Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism evolved in the middle of 18th century.

3. The Transcendentalists saw both nature and people as inherently good.

4. For the Dark Romantics, nature was a potentially sinister force.

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Q.137. Which of the following statement is incorrect?

1. Lewis Carroll's first fantasy novel for children, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was published in 1865.

2. Leo Tolstoy finishes his historical epic War and Peace, which is set during the Napoleonic era aid the 1812 French invasion of Russia.

3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment describes the thoughts and motivations of a murderer. Dmitri Karamazov.

4. Under the pen name George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans portrays the complexity of ordinary life in Middlemarch.

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Q.138. Match the following

i. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

ii. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

iii. Our revels now are ended. These our actors Are melted into air.

iv. The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

a. The Winter's Tale

b. The Tempest

c. As You Like It

d. Twelfth Night

Options:

1. 1-d, 2-c, 3-b. 4-a

2. 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c

3. 1-a. 2-b, 3-c.4-d

4. 1-a, 2-c, 3-b, 4-d

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Q.139. Which is used as research method in language studies?

1. Experimental Research

2. Ethnography

3. Case Study

4. All the above

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Q.140. What is 'realia'?

1. Real life situations which enable the students to learn a language

2. Real life objects that enable students to learn a language

3. Real life reflections which encourages and motivates the students to leam a language

4. None of the above

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Q.141-145 comprehension

Read the following passage and answer the questions from 141-145:

Certain people who brag of their foresight are the stupidest of all. They are always preoccupied with work so that they may be in a position to live better; they spend life in making provision for life. Their plans are designed for the future, but procrastination is the greatest waste of life. It robs us of each day as it comes, and extorts the present from us on promises of the future. Expectancy is the greatest impediment to living: in anticipation of tomorrow it loses today. You operate with what is in Fortune's hand and let go what is in your hand.

Question-141 Which of the following is closer in meaning to 'procrastinate'?

1. delay

2. deluge

3. design

4. dissipate

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Q.142 Which of the following expressions best captures the spirit of the passage?

1. Look before you leap.

2. Defy all odds.

3. Seize the day.

4. Patience is all.

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Q.143. The clause, "they spend life in making provision for life", is an example of:

1. repetition

2. Paradox

3. ellipsis

4. expurgation

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Q.144.Which of the following is opposite in meaning to 'foresight'?

1. indiscretion

2. circumspection

3. defect

4. persistence

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Q.145. The writer suggests that "Fortune's hand" is:

1. benign.

2. incomparable.

3. remedial.

4. unpredictable.

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Q.146 to 150 Comprehension

Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

Its loveliness increases, it will never

Pass into nothingness; but will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing

A flowery band to bind us to the earth.

Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth

Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,

Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways

Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all.

Some shape of beauty moves away the pall

From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon.

Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon

For simple sheep; and such are daffodils

With the green world they live in; and clear rills

That for themselves a cooling covert make

'Gainst the hot season; the mid forest brake,

Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:

And such too is the grandeur of the dooms

We have imagined for the mighty dead;

All lovely tales that we have heard or read;

An endless fountain of immortal drink.

Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.

Question-146. Why does the poet ask everyone to drink the 'immortality drink'?

1. This drink will bring them closer to nature.

2. Because it tastes good.

3. To experience immense happiness.

4. As it is the hot season.

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Q.147 Which things cause suffering to human beings?

1. Race for luxuries

2. Laziness

3. Both the above

4. None of the above

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Q.148. What is the message of the poem?

1. Beauty never fades.

2. Beauty lifts spirits high.

3. Beauty is a joy forever.

4. All these

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Q.149. What is the endless fountain according to the poet?

1. Moving streams

2. The Sunlight

3. A thing of beauty which gives happiness.

4. None

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Q.150 How does a thing of beauty provide shelter and comfort?

1. By giving a sense of joy and happiness.

2. By removing pain and suffering.

3. Like a bower.

4. All of these

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TS SET- 2023 - PAPER-II- ENGLISH (HELD ON 30.10.2023)

Q.51 In his 1817 review of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Francis Jeffrey grouped poets together as the ‘Lake School of Poets’. Identify them.

Q.52. “Who knows but the world may end tonight?” is the popular line from

Q.53. Who among the following said, “Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.”

Q.54. Which of the following statements about, “Literature of the Modern Age” is correct?

Q.55. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched? I. Rohinton Mistry a. A Suitable Boy II. Jhumpa Lahiri b. The Inheritance of Loss III. Vikram Seth c. A Fine Balance IV. Kiran Desai d. The Interpreter of Maladies

Q.56. Who are founding figures of the concept ‘Cultural Studies?’

Q.57. John Dryden’s An Essay on Dramatic Poesie is written in the manner of ………

Q.58. Structuralism in Linguistics was popularized by the following work.

Q.59. Who among the following considered John Dryden as “father of English Criticism, as the writer who first taught us determine upon principles the merit of composition?”

Q.60. Identify the correct chronological sequence of William Blake’s poems.

Q.61. Which of the following poems of Alexander Pope is known by its other title Prologue to the Satires?

Q.62. Which detective character was created by G K Chesterton?

Q.63. Which among the following is not a play written by George Bernard Shaw?

Q.64. Dylan Thomas’s popular poem ‘Fern Hill’ is named after …….

Q.65. Which among the following is not the characteristic of ‘Utopian Republic’?

Q.66. Bluntschli, Sergius, Raina and Louka are the important characters in………..

Q.67. Name the theorist who divided poets into ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ and popularized the practice of misreading.

Q.68. It is a figure of speech having intended meaning different from expression made. Identify it.

Q.69. The term ‘invective’ in literature refers to ………..

Q.70. Identify the correct chronological sequence

Q.71. An extremely simplified form of a language used for oral, verbal contact among a community whose members speak different languages but do not share a common language in order to fulfil the essential needs of communication

Q.73 What is 'Universal Grammar'?

Q.74. Identity the correct definition of 'Register'.

Q.76. Identify the poem in which the following lines appear. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown. Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

Q.77. T.S. Eliot uses the term 'objective correlative' in 1919 in the essay …………… to describe a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion' that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader.

Q.78. Identify the author of The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.

Q.79. Who among the following was not a member of the ‘Bloomsbury Group’?

Q.80. The Reader Response Theory implies that ……...

Q.81."The English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. English in Africa will have 'to be a new English, still in communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit its new African surroundings"."

Q.82.Who wrote the essay "The Death of the Author?"

Q.83.A.C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy was first published in

Q.84.Who among the following translators is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English?

Q.85.Match the following works with their authors. I. Discovery of India a. E.M. Forster II. India Wins Freedom b. Jawaharlal Nehru III. A Passage to India c. V.S. Naipaul IV. India: A Million Mutinies Now d. Abdul Kalam Azad Options:

Q.86. 'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People' was the subtitle of …………

Q.88. Which critic is matched with the concept correctly among the following?

Q.89 How did the party of school boys in William Golding's Lord of Flies find themselves on the desert island?

Q.90 Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. Whose popular statement is this?

Q.91.Which of the following theories is stated in terms of five hypotheses namely. "The acquisition-learning hypothesis. The natural order hypothesis. The monitor hypothesis. The input hypothesis and The affective filter hypothesis" with respect to Second Language Acquisition?

Q.92.Who made the following statement? "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

Q.93.Identify the sentence with the most usual sequence of adjectives.

Q.95.Thomas Nash wrote a picaresque novel titled The Unfortunate Traveller. What is the other title to it?

Q.96."Tragedy is a representation of an action, which is serious and by exciting pity and fear gives a healthy relief to such emotions." Whose comment is this?

Q.97 In G.B. Shaw's Arms and the Man, a man runs away from the battle and takes refuge in heroine's room. To save him. heroine gives him an overcoat along with her photo in one of the coat's pocket with an inscription Raina, to her chocolate cream soldier. a souvenir. Who is the runaway man? 2

Q.98. Who gave the following statement? "There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."

Q.99.All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons, monarchs must obey. In John Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, 'decay' means

Q.100.The volume of poetry titled A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields was written by

Q.101. Who called whom, "A beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain"?

Q.102 What is 'Hudibrastic Verse'?

Q.103. Who commented on whom as 'he had succeeded as a writer not by conforming to the spirit of the age, but in opposition to it?'

Q.104 Match List I with List II. List I (character) List II (novel) A. Molly Bloom I. Sons and Lovers B. Paul Morel II. Ulysses C. Kurtz III. Great Expectations D. Pip IV. Heart of Darkness Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.106. Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable is a story of an ordinary boy, who is conscious of his status in society and yet cannot help but question is unfairness. Who wrote the foreword to the novel?

Q.107 "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." is a very useful remark for the people of all generations. Whose critical remark is this?

Q.108 Match the following characters with their representative animals from George Orwell's' Animal Farm. i. Boxer A. Horse ii. Old Major B. Boar iii. Moses C. Raven iv. Benjamin D. Donkey

Q.109 …………… is "an ironic comment on the decadence of modern civilization by juxtaposition of images from the present with the past."

Q.110 "You taught me language, and my profit on 't is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you for learning me your language!"

Q.111 Transposed Heads is a beautiful story, based on a popular Indian legend that explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body and mind. Identify its author.

Q.112 Identity the poem which narrates the story of a disillusioned young man, who tires of his pleasure-seeking lifestyle and decides to travel.

Q.113 "The movement in the arts and literature which emphasized inspiration, subjectivity and the primacy of the individual" is

Q.114 Charles Dickens historical novel A Tale of Two Cities is set in

Q.115 What is action research?

Q.116 From which language the word 'Entrepreneur' entered into English?

Q.117 Who was the first proposer of Linguistic Survey of India?

Q.118 Who was the first English woman author known to earn her living by writing?

Q.119 Which of the following format rules are true according to the documentation style prescribed by the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook?

Q.120 Who among the following belong to 'Yale School of Critics'?

Q.121 Whose statement is this? 'He who fights with monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster."

Q.122 'Epistemology' is the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between ……………..

Q.124 Bhabani Bhattacharya was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his famous novel ………..

Q.125 Identify the 'critical language area in the posterior superior temporal lobe that connects to Broca's area via a neural pathway. It is involved in the comprehension and associated with language processing of oral and written forms."

Q.126. The Hungry Tide, The Glass Palace and The Sea of Poppies are the novels which deal with subaltern studies. Identify the novelist who wrote them.

Q.128 Which of the following are the examples of violation of research ethics?

Q.129 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 was awarded to Ernest Hemingway for his mastery of the art of narrative and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style. Identify the novel.

Q.130. Which among the following are stress-timed languages?

Q.131. What is 'ethnography'?

Q.132.Who among the following was influenced immediately after reading John Ruskin's literary essay Unto This Last and decided to change his way of life.

Q.55. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?

I. Rohinton Mistry a. A Suitable Boy

II. Jhumpa Lahiri b. The Inheritance of Loss

III. Vikram Seth c. A Fine Balance

IV. Kiran Desai d. The Interpreter of Maladies

Q.76. Identify the poem in which the following lines appear.

Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,

Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown.

Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

Q.85.Match the following works with their authors.

I. Discovery of India a. E.M. Forster

II. India Wins Freedom b. Jawaharlal Nehru

III. A Passage to India c. V.S. Naipaul

IV. India: A Million Mutinies Now d. Abdul Kalam Azad

Options:

Q.90 Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Whose popular statement is this?

Q.99.All human things are subject to decay

And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

In John Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, 'decay' means

Q.104 Match List I with List II.

List I (character) List II (novel)

A. Molly Bloom I. Sons and Lovers

B. Paul Morel II. Ulysses

C. Kurtz III. Great Expectations

D. Pip IV. Heart of Darkness

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Q.108 Match the following characters with their representative animals from George Orwell's' Animal Farm.

i. Boxer A. Horse

ii. Old Major B. Boar

iii. Moses C. Raven

iv. Benjamin D. Donkey