1 Which among the following group of writers is labelled as “University Wits”?
Thomas Lodge, Thomas Wilson, Walter Raleigh
John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, George Peele
Thomas kyd, Francis Beaumont, John Lyly
Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe
Answer: D
2 which cultural analyst has combined the study of different dimensions of youth culture with commentary on developments in cultural theory and politics?
Angela Mc Robbie
Donna Horraway
Linda Hutcheon
Julia Kristeva
Answer: A
3 Give Below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): Only actual research develops research skills.
Reasons (R): Information is discrete, whereas knowledge consists of a network of connections.
In the light of the above two statements, choose the correct option:
Both (A) and (R) are true and is the correct explanation of (A)
Both (A) and (R) true and is not the correct explanation of (A)
(A) is true, but is (R) false
(A) is false, but is (R) true
Answer: B
4 which of the following is a collaborative work of W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood?
Letters from Iceland
The Dance of Death
The Ascent of F6
The Orators
Answer: C
5 Who among the following prose writers of the Romantic period authored “On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts”?
Charles Lamb
Walter Savage Lander
Thomas De Quincey
Anne Radcliffe
Answer: C
6 In which of the following essays did Charles Lamb first use the pseudonym/persona, Elia?
“My First Play”
“The Two Races of Men”
“New Year’s Eve”
“The South Sea House”
Answer: D
7 Give Below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): Many modern British writers infused their works with an entrance sense of uncertainty, disillusionment and despair.
Reasons (R): The Waste Land ends in a flurry of random allusions.
In the light of the above two statements, choose the correct option:
Both (A) and (R) are true and is the correct explanation of (A)
Both (A) and (R) true and is not the correct explanation of (A)
(A) is true, but is (R) false
(A) is false, but is (R) true
Answer: B
8 Which two of the following works were published after 1947?
The Dark Room
Sampath: A Printer of Malgudi
Seven Summers
The Big Heart
Answer: B
9 Which one of the following observations of “Lost Generation”. A term coined by Gertude Stein, is correct?
German Jews who survived the Second World War and went to Israel
The American expatriates in Europe after the First World War
The Irish Freedom fighters of the early Twentieth Century
The European living in America
Answer: B
10 Give Below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): Dialects are the bread range of social as well as regional varieties
Reasons (R): A dialect describes variations not only at the phonological level, but also at the levels of texts and syntax.
In the light of the above two statements, choose the correct option:
Both (A) and (R) are true and is the correct explanation of (A)
Both (A) and (R) true and is not the correct explanation of (A)
(A) is true, but is (R) is false
(A) is false, but is (R) is true
Answer: B
11 Which of the following work by Henry Fielding begins as a parody of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela?
Tom Jones
Don Quixote
Amelia
Joseph Andrews
Answer: D
12 Which of the following statements is correct?
Langue is the language system, and Parole, the individual usage.
Langue is the language usage, and Parole, the individual system.
Langue is the language in abeyance, and Parole, the individual application.
Langue is the language collective, and Parole, the individual deviation.
Answer: A
13 Of the five conditions of the Sublime, according to Longinus, the most important condition is:
Vigorous treatment of passions
Majesty of the structure
A lofty cast of mind
A wide range of thoughts
Answer: C
14 What is the correct chronological order of the publication of the following?
German Grammar (Jacob Grimm)
Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend, Greek
Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic and German (Franz Bopp)
An Investigation into the Origin of Old Norse or Icelandic Language (Rasmus Rask)
Concerning the Conjugation System of the Sanskrit Language in Comparison with those of the Greek, Latin, Persian and German Language (Franz Bopp)
(a), (b), (c) and (d)
(b), (c), (d) and (a)
(c), (d), (a) and (b)
(d), (c), (b) and (a)
Answer: C
15 The following is a list of key critical terms. Which is the right chronological order of their formulation?
Langue- the unconscious- difference- heresy of paraphrase
The unconscious- langue- heresy of paraphrase- difference
Difference- langue-heresy of paraphrase- the unconscious
Langue- difference- the unconscious- heresy of paraphrase
Answer: B
16 which of the following characters in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour Last over uses formal Latinate diction?
Holofernes
Dull
Costard
Moth
Answer: A
17 Which one of the following has two heroes with the same name?
The Island of the Mighty
The German Goddess
Animal Farm
Armadale
Answer: D
18 Which of the following plays by T.S Eliot is in the correct chronological order of publication?
Murder in the Cathedral- The Family Reunion- The Cocktail Party- The Confidential Clerk
The Cocktail Party- The Confidential Clerk- The Family Reunion – Murder in the Cathedral
The Family Reunion- The Cocktail Party- Murder in the Cathedral- The Confidential Clerk
The Confidential Clerk- Murder in the Cathedral- The Cocktail Party- The Family Reunion
Answer: A
19 Which of the following describes Foucault’s views on knowledge?
Knowledge is not metaphysical or transcendental
Knowledge is not a matter of perspective.
Knowledge is not pure or neutral but is always from a point of view
Knowledge is unconstrained by regimes of power
Answer: C
20 which of the following periods of English Literature is also called “Puritan Interregnum”?
The Neoclassical Period
The Caroline Age
The Restoration
The Commonwealth Period
Answer: D
21 Which of the following fictional characters is in the right Chronological order?
Uncle Toby- Man Friday- Stephen Dedalus- Miss Havisham
Stephen Dedalus- Man Friday – Uncle Toby- Miss Havisham
Man Friday- Uncle Toby- Miss Havisham –Stephen Dedalus
Miss Havisham- Uncle Toby- Stephen Dedalus- Man Friday
Answer: C
22 Who among the following has written a series of poems entitled. “Very Indian Poems in Indian English”?
Vikram Seth
Arun Kolatkar
Nissim Ezekiel
Keki N Daruwalla
Answer: C
23 Who made the remark: “Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree”?
Rabindranath Tagore
Ezra Pound
B. Yeats
S. Eliot
Answer: B
24 Which of the following stylistic features characterize spoken discourse?
Greater use of explicit connectives
Greater dependence on verbal connectives
Greater syntactic embedding
Greater use of fillers and repitions
Choose the correct option:
(a) and (b)
(b) and (c)
(c) and (d)
(b) and (d)
Answer: D
25 Which two of the correctly describe the features of Wuthering Heights?
Flash backs and time shifts
Oedipal obsessions
Magic and ritual
Acute evocation of place
Choose the correct option:
(a) and (c)
(b) and (d)
(a) and (d)
(c) and (d)
Answer: C
26 Who among the following are associated with the ‘Jazz Age’?
Ernest hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald
Scott fitzgerald and John Dos Passos
John das passos and Sherwood Anderson
Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson
Answer: D
27 The key figures in the development of British cultural studies are
Richard Hoggard
Raymond Williams
Stuard Hall
Lawrence Grossberg
The most appropriate option is:
(a) and (b)
(b) and (c)
(a),(b) and (c)
(b),(c) and (d)
Answer: C
28 Which two of the following are autobiographical narratives?
Kanthapura
Meatless Days
Prison and Chocolate Cake
The God od small things
The correct option is:
(a) and (b)
(b) and (c)
(a) and (c)
(c) and (d)
Answer: B
29 In the following list, which two actors belong to the Elizabethan period?
Richard Burbage
Will kempe
David Garrick
John Kemble
Choose the correct option:
(a) and (c)
(b) and (d)
(a) and (b)
(c) and (d)
Answer: C
30 How many tales and pilgrims are there in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales?
24 pilgrims and 23 tales
23 pilgrims and 24 tales
22 pilgrims and 24 tales
24 pilgrims and 22 tales
Answer: Bonus Marks Given to All
31 Match the types of writing with their descriptions:
(a) exegesis I. Writing about saints’ lives
(b) invective II. Detailed explanation of a passage
(c) hagiography III. A defence or justification of one’s actions and beliefs
(d) apology IV. A bitterly critical attack of something
Choose the correct option:
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
(a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)
(a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
Answer: A
32 Match the works with authors
a) Homi bhabha i. Saving the text
b) Geoffrey Hartman ii. The location of cultute
c) Edward said iii. Desire in language
d) Julia Kristeva iv. Culture and imperialism
Choose the correct option:
(a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)
Answer: B
33 which two concepts developed by the French sociologist pierre bourdieu, have become increasingly influential in cultural studies?
Dissemination
Gynesis
Cultural capital
Habitus
Choose the correct option:
(a) and (c)
(b) and (c)
(c) and (d)
(b) and (d)
Answer: C
34 Which of the following is the correct chronological order of publication of the following poems?
Lamia- Paradise lost- Alastor- The dunciad
The dunciad- Alastor- Lamia- Paradise lost
Alastor- The dunciad- Paradise lost- Lamia
Paradise lost- The dunciad- Alastor- Lamia
Answer: D
35 What is the chronological order of the appearance of the following periodicals?
The tattler
The spectator
The Examiner
The reflector
Choose the correct option:
(b), (a), (d) and (c)
(c), (b), (a) and (d)
(a), (b), (c) and (d)
(d), (a), (b) and (c)
Answer: C
36 Match the periodicals with their writers/ contributors
a) The Rambler i. Charles Dickens
b) Macmillan’s Magazine ii. Samuel Johnson
c) The guardian iii. David Masson
d) Bentley’s Miscellany iv. Richard Steele
Choose the correct option:
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
Answer: C
37 In which of the following works is the character ‘Ariel’ an exclusion?
The tempest
Paradise lost
The rape of the lock
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Answer: D
38 Which two aspects of cultural diffusion in the Age of Globalization need to be addressed by pedagogy of language in general and of English in particular?
Uni directionality
Multi directionality
Complex and extensive
Simplistic and abbreviated
Choose the correct option:
(a) and (b)
(b) and (c)
(c) and (d)
(d) and (a)
Answer: Marks Given to All
39 Which of the following set of characters in Charles Dickens’ novels is in the right chronological order?
Bounderby – David Copperfield- Mrs. Mann- Nathaniel Winkle
David Copperfield- Mr. Bounderby- Nathaniel Winkle- Mrs. Mann
Nathaniel winkle- Mrs. Mann- David Copperfield- Mr. Bounderby
Mann- David Copperfield- Nathaniel winkle- Mr. Bounderby
Answer: C
40 Which two principal kinds of melancholy are proposed by Robert Burton in volume III of Anatomy of melancholy?
‘Love’
‘Religious’
‘Morbid’
‘Psychic’
The correct option is:
(a) and (b)
(a) and (c)
(b) and (d)
(c) and (d)
Answer: A
41 Match the works with authors:
a) Bodies that matter i. Camille paglia
b) A world of difference ii. Elaine showalter
c) A literature of their own iii. Barbara Johnson
d) Vamps and thamps iv. Judith butler
Choose the correct option:
(a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
Answer: C
42 Match the following technological advancements impacting learning and teaching of language with their corresponding years:
a) Hypertext markup language (HTML) i. 2004
b) Streaming of video on the internet ii. 2003
c) My space.com iii. 1991
d) Facebook iv. 1997
Choose the correct option:
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
(a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
Answer: A
43 Examples of poetic compounding are found in the work of which two modernist writers?
Graham Greene
James Joyce
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Stephen spender
Choose the correct option:
(c) and (d)
(a) and (b)
(b) and (c)
(a) and (c)
Answer: C
44 Which British administrator passed a resolution for the “Promotion of European literaters and science among the natives of India”?
Lord Hastings
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Bentinck
Lord hardinage
Answer: C
45 In which one of the following Middle English poems is Hector a character?
Troilus and Cressida
Piers plowman
The seafarer
Beowulf
Answer: A
46 Which two of the following poems can be categorized as poems belonging to the neo-classical period of English literature.
“The ring and the book”
“The Vanity of human wishes”
“Cato”
“Lamia”
Choose the correct option:
(a) and (b)
(b) and (c)
(c) and (d)
(a) and (d)
Answer: B
47 Which of the following arrangements of prose-pamphlets is in the right chronological order?
The shortest way with dissenters – A modest proposal – Areopagitica – Reflections on the revolution in France
A modest proposal – The shortest way with dissenters- Areopagitica – Reflections on the revolution in France
Areopagitica- The shortest way with dissenters – A modest proposal– Reflections on the revolution in France
Areopagitica – Reflections on the revolution in France- The shortest way with dissenters – A modest proposal
Answer: C
48 Which arrangements of D.H Lawrence’s novels is in the correct chronological sequence?
Kangaroo- The Plumed Serpent- Sons and Lovers – The rainbow
Sons and Lovers – The rainbow- Kangaroo- The Plumed Serpent
The rainbow- The Plumed Serpent- Kangaroo- Sons and Lovers
The rainbow- Kangaroo- The Plumed Serpent- Sons and Lovers
Answer: B
49 Which three of the following poets figure in William Dunbar’s lament for the makers?
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Gower
Robert henryson
William Langland
Choose the most appropriate option:
(a), (b) and (d)
(a), (b) and (c)
(b), (c) and (d)
(a), (c) and (d)
Answer: B
50 Match the author with the text:
a) Rita Kothari i. The queen’s hinglish
b) Probal dasgupta ii. The indianization of English
c) Braj b. kachru iii. Translating India
d) Baljinder k. mahal iv. The otherness of English
Choose the correct option:
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
(a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
Answer: B
51 Which combination in the following constitutes the trilogy oresteia?
Agamemnon, The Persians, Eumenides
The Persians, The suppliants, Agamemnon
Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Seven against Thebes, Agamemnon, The suppliants
Answer: C
52 In paradise lost Milton invokes his ‘heavenly muse’, ‘urania’, at the beginning of which two books?
Book I
Book IV
Book IX
Book VII
Choose the correct option:
(a) and (d)
(b) and (c)
(c) and (d)
(b) and (d)
Answer: A
53 Who among the following proposed that the English Language is “man made”, not “woman made”?
Mary Has
Dorothy L Sayers
Dale Spender
Carol Chomsky
Answer: C
54 Which two of the following statements are applicable to feminist criticism?
Recuperate the female writers ignored by the canon
Fully endorse the social construction of gender
Valorize the traditional canon uncritically
Mostly reject the essentialising of ‘male’ and ‘female’
Choose the correct option
(a) and (b)
(b) and (c)
(a) and (d)
(a) and (c)
Answer: C
55 Give Below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): The Primary component in novelistic forms is a plot that evolves coherently from its beginning to a end in which all complications are resolved.
Reasons (R): The novel is constituted by a multiplicity of divergent and contending social voices that achieve their full significance only in the process of their dialogic interaction both with each other and with the voice of the narrator.
In the light of the above two statements, choose the correct option:
Both (A) and (R) are true and is the correct explanation of (A)
Both (A) and (R) true and is not the correct explanation of (A)
(A) is true, but (R) false
(A) is false, but (R) true
Answer: B
56 What does Socrates mean when in Plato’s Ion, he says “Poets are nothing but the interpreters of gods”?
The Poets are the markers of their poems
The Poets are acutely aware of gods in composing their poems
The Poets are divinely possessed when they compose their poems
The Poets first hear what gods say then put than into words
Answer: C
57 Now often did Richard Steel’s Tatler appear every week and how many issues of Tatler I total were published?
Two times a week; 171 issues
Once a week; 151 issues
Three times a week; 271 issues
Three times a week; 26 issues
Answer: C
58 Which one of the following novels by Kingsley Amis represents its protagonist as an ‘angry young man’?
I Like it Here
Lucky Jim
The Biographer’s Moustache
The Great Man
Answer: B
59 Who are the co-editors of Chutneyfying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish?
Jamuna Kachru
Rita Kothari
Rupert Snell
Alastair Pennycook
Answer: C
60 Which two aspects of cultural diffusion in the Age of Globalization need to be addressed by pedagogy of language in general and of English in particular?
Uni Directionality
Multidirectionality
Complex and extensive
Simplistic and abbreviated
Choose the correct option:
(a) and (b)
(b) and (c)
(c) and (d)
(d) and (a)
Answer: B
61 From whose work did John Milton take the epigraph to his Areopagitica?
Sophocles
Euripides
Plato
More
Answer: B
62 Match the author with the story:
a) Edgar Allan Poe i. “The Fall of the House of Usher”
b) E.M Forster ii. “The Prophet’s Hair”
c) Katherine Mansfield iii. “The Garden Party”
d) Salman Rushdie iv. “The Celestial Omnibus”
Choose the correct option:
(a)-(iii), (b)-(ii),(c)-(i),(d)-(iv)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii),(c)-(i),(d)-(ii)
(a)-(i), (b)-(iv),(c)-(iii),(d)-(ii)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(i),(c)-(iv),(d)-(iii)
Answer: C
63 Which two of the following are associated with Deconstruction?
Jacques Derrida
Raymond Williams
Paul De Man
Jonathan Dolli more
Choose the correct option:
(a) and (b)
(a) and (c)
(a) and (d)
(b) and (d)
Answer: B
64 In the UNESCO definition, a ‘Pamphlet’ is an unbound publication that is not a periodical and contains:
No fewer than 5 and no more than 48 pages
No fewer than 10 and no more than 68 pages
No fewer than 15 and no more than 64 pages
No fewer than 20 and no more than 80 pages
Answer: A
65 How Many syllables are there in the word intransigently?
Three
Six
Five
Four
Answer: C
66 Which two names from R.M Ballantyne’s Coral Island are repeated in William Golding’s reworking of the same text as Lord of the Flice?
Ralph
Roger
Jack
Simon
The correct option is:
(a) and (d)
(a) and (c)
(c) and (d)
(b) and (d)
Answer: B
67 Which one of W.M Thackeray’s novels has the following as the closing sentence? “Which of us I happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? Or having it is satisfied”?
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
Pendennis
Vanity Fair
The History of Henry Esmond
Answer: C
68 Match the poet with the opening line of the poem.
a) Shelley i. I cry your mercy- pity love! Aye, love!
b) Coleridge ii. The world is too much with us
c) Keats iii. O world, O life, O time
d) Wordsworth iv. When true love burns desire is Love’s pure flame
Choose the correct option:
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)
(a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
Answer: A
69 Which of the following books carried the additional title Sermon on the Sea?
The Religion of Man by Tagore
Essay on the Gita by Aurobindo
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule by Gandhi
Christ and Satyagraha by Elwin
Answer: C
70 Which two of the following novels deal with the theme of apartheid?
Purple Hibiscus
July’s People
Cry, The Beloved Country
The Mimic Men
Choose the correct option:
(a) and (c)
(b) and (d)
(b) and (c)
(a) and (d)
Answer: C
71 Which of the following descriptions delineate Roman a Clef (Novel with key)?
A novel depicting the life of an artist from childhood to maturity
A novel using the altered names of the actual people of the time
A novel describing historical incidents with fictional characters
A novel giving the effect of realism by highlighting the social problems of the time
Answer: B
72 Match the theorist with the text:
a) John Fiske i. Distinction
b) Michel de Certeau ii. The Postmodern Condition
c) Pierre Bourdieu iii. Reading the Popular
d) Jean Francois Lyotard iv. The Practice of Everyday Life
Choose the correct option:
(a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
Answer: A
73 Which of the following tales in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales deals with the murder of a child by Jews?
“The Monk’s Tale”
“The Second Nun’s Tale”
“The Prioress’s Tale”
“The Shipman’s Tale”
Answer: C
74 Who did the following? “Discursive practice are not purely and simply modes of manufacture of discourse. They take shape in technical ensembles, in institutions, in behavioral schemes, in types of transmission and dissemination in pedagogical forms that both impose and maintain them”
Roland Barthes
Michel Foucault
Homi K. Bhabha
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Answer: B
75 Which three of the following writers are associated with ‘kitchen sink drama’?
Arnold Wesker
John Arden
Shelagh Delaney
John Osborne
Choose the most appropriate option:
(a), (b) and (d)
(a), (b) and (c)
(b), (c) and (d)
(a), (c) and (d)
Answer: D
76 Which of the following combinations best describes the typical methodology of literary research?
Direct, empirical and quantitative
Phenomenological, speculative and abstract
Textual, critical and historical
Synoptic, conceptual and speculative
Answer: C
77 Following Plato, which two of the following statements about ‘Phantasm and Semblance’ are correct?
‘Phantasm’ is an image, while ‘Semblance is the real object’.
‘Phantasm’ is the real object while ‘Semblance is only a resemblance’.
‘Phantasm’ unlike semblance has the same proportional as the object.
Semblance is unreal’ but looks ‘real’ as compared to phantasm.
Choose the correct option:
(b) and (c)
(c) and (d)
(a) and (b)
(d) and (a)
Answer: B
78 What is the order of publication of the following books of Noam Chomsky?
Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Syntactic Structures
Knowledge of Language
Choose the correct option:
(d), (c), (b),(a)
(b), (c), (d), (a)
(c), (b), (a), (d)
(a), (b), (c), (d)
Answer: C
79 Give Below are two statements one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): Cultural Studies is simply the study of culture as a discrete entity divorced from its social and political context.
Reasons (R): Cultural Studies aim to understand Culture in all its complex forms and to analyse the Social and Political context within which it manifests itself.
In the light of the above two statements, choose the correct option:
Both (A) and (R) are true and is the correct explanation of (A)
Both (A) and (R) true and is not the correct explanation of (A)
(A) is true, but (R) is false
(A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer: B
80 Which term among the following will be applicable to a situation in which a character initiates a scheme which depends for its success on the ignorance of the poem against whom it is directed?
Conflict
Intrigue
Ally
Foil
Answer: B
81 Which two of the following novels belong to the Victorian Age in English Literature?
Pendennis
The Way of All Flesh
The Battle of the Books
Barchester Towers
Choose the correct option:
(a) and (c)
(b) and (d)
(c) and (d)
(a) and (d)
Answer: D
82 Which one of the following titles of Robert Browning’s works means to disport in the open air, to amuse oneself at random?
Jocoseria
“Andrea del Sarto”
“Abt Voglet”
Asolando
Answer: D
83 Match the characters with the play:
a) Donalbain i. King Lear
b) Claudio ii. Macbeth
c) Nerissa iii. Merchant of Venice
d) Goneril iv. Measure for Measure
Choose the correct option:
(a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
(a)-(ii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(iii), (d)-(i)
(a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv)
(a)-(i), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iii)
Answer: B
84 Which of the following is the proper explanation of the concept of “Freytag’s Pyramid”?
Analysis of the plot of a drama
Analysis of the characters of a drama
Analysis of the theme of conflict between a woman and two men in drama
Analysis of the different types of drama
Answer: A
85 Which of the following movements was Arthur Symons was referring to as ‘an interesting disease’ and ‘an over subtilizing refinement upon refinement’?
Celtic Revival
Romantic Movement
Decadence
Feminism
Answer: C
86 Who among the following theorists believes that the proliferation of television images is producing a cultural condition a kin to ‘historical amnesia’?
Jean Baudrillard
Ihab Hassan
Frederic Jameson
Daniel Bell
Answer: C
87 Which of the following plays by Ben Jonson ends with the performamce of a puppet play in imitation of Marlowe’s Hero and Leander?
The Alchemist
Volpone
Bartholomew Fair
Every Man in His Humour
Answer: C
88 Which two of the following plays were written by Thomas Heywood?
Gorboduc
The Play called the Four P.P
The Play of the Weather
The Spanish Tragedy
Choose the correct option
(a) and (b)
(a) and (c)
(b) and (c)
(c) and (d)
Answer: C
89 Which of the following is true of Aristotle’s Critical Position?
Writers are likely to be mere entertainers who appeal to the emotions and passions of the audience.
Texts created by poets are almost inevitably inaccurate and defective as limitations
The best artitistic texts will be both complex and unified: every part of the work will be essential to it and will be linked to every other part.
Texts should be judged on the basis of how accurately they imitate philosophical truth.
Answer: C
90 In the following list, which two journals relate to the field of post-colonial literature?
Kunapipi
Interventions
Daedalus
Clio
Choose the correct option
(a) and (c)
(b) and (c)
(c) and (d)
(a) and (b)
Answer: D
91 Read the following poem and answer the questions:
HOME IS SO SAD
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped to the comfort of the last to go As if to win them back. Instead, bereft of anyone to please, it withers so, having no heart to put aside the theft. And turn again to what is started as, a joyous shot at how things ought to be, Long fallen wide. You can see how it was: Look at the pictures and the cutlery. The music in the piano stool. That vase.
91. Why is the ‘home’ ‘Sad’?
Because it has waited in vain
Because its joy has faded
Because it remains unchanged
Because it is devoid of resident
Answer: A
92. There is a ‘thief’ in the poem. Who is that ‘thief’?
The time that ticks away
The fate that overpowers
The tenant who leaves
The past that beckons
Answer: C
93. Why has the ‘home’ ‘withered’?
Because everything has to fade sooner or later
Because it has no longer the reason to be what it was
Because it is an organic entity in any case
Because it has been betrayed categorically
Answer: B
94. How was the home before it became ‘sad’?
It was as it would be
It was as it shall be
It was as it should be
It was as it could be
Answer: C
Read the following passage and answer the questions:
Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human. If we realized the horror and weight of lying, we would see that it is more worthy of the stake than other crimes. I find that people normally waste time quite inappropriately punishing children for innocent misdemeanors formenting them for thoughtless actions which lead nowhere and leave no trace. It seems to me that the only faults which we should vigorously attack as soon as they arise and start to develop are lying and little below that, stubbornness. Those faults grow up with the children. Once let the tongue acquire the habit of lying and it is astonishing how impossible it is to make it give it up. That is why some otherwise decent men are object slaven to it. One of my tailors is a good enough fellow, but I have never heard him once speak the truth, not even when it would help him, if he did so.
95. ‘Lying’ is a fault that should be punished only
When the first lie is uttered
When it becomes convenient
When it becomes stubborn
When it begins to turn into a habit
Answer: D
96. It is suggested in the passage that the tailor does never speak the truth because
He cannot keep the word he gives
He does not know lying is a crime
He thinks lying will help him.
He is a slave of his profession
Answer: A
97. According to the author “thoughtless actions”
Torment others
Are strictly not misdemeanors
Mean nothing and are soon forgotten
Are punishment for children
Answer: C
98. How does ‘lying’ affect human relationships?
It makes the relationships ‘human’
It reduces the affinity among people
It promotes togetherness among diverse people
It does not affect at all as it is merely words
Answer: B
99. Read the following passage from Antigone and answer question
Creon: And yet wert bold enough to break the law
Antigone: Yea, for these laws were not ordained by Zeus.
And she who sits enthroned with gods below,
Justice enacted not these human laws.
Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man,
Could’st by a breath annual and override.
The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven
The three kinds of laws implicit in Antigone’s response are:
Human, unwritten, written
Of Gods, of Zeus, of Justice
Of Gods, of Justice, of Man
Of Man, of Heaven, Of Zeus
Answer: C
100 Read the following passage and answer the question
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredibility, it was the season of light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short, the period was far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
The Age described in the above passage is best described as the Age of
Parallelisms
Inconsistencies
Contraries
Anomalies
Answer: C
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