Answers

1. D
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. C
6. C
7. C
8. A
9. D
10. A

Match the following:

a) Rugby Chapel - (i) Eliot
b) Ambulance - (ii) Browning
c) Four Quartets - (iii) Arnold
d) Fra Lippo Lippi - (iv) Larkin
e) Philosophy - (v) Ezekiel

Answer
a - iii
b - iv
c - i
d - ii
e - v

Quiz #10

1️⃣ Which of the following is a spoof of a Gothic novel ?
(A) Frankenstein (B) Northanger Abbey
(C) Castle of Otranto (D) Mysteries of Udolfo

2️⃣ What is the correct chronological sequence of the following ?
(A) Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy
(B) Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy, Pamela, Moll Flanders
(C) Tristram Shandy, Moll Flanders, Pamela, Joseph Andrews
(D) Pamela, Moll Flanders, Joseph Andrews, Tristram Shandy

3️⃣ Which of the following is an essentially Freudian concept ?
(A) Archetype (B) The Uncanny
(C) The Absurd (D) The Imaginary

4️⃣ Which of the following is NOT a Partition novel ?
(A) Train to Pakistan (B) Sunlight on a Broken Column
(C) The Shadow Lines (D) In Custody

5️⃣ Attia Hosain's novel Sunlight on a Broken Column takes its title from which poet?
(A) Tagore (B) Eliot
(C) Yeats (D) Sarojini Naidu

6️⃣ “Provincializing Europe” is a concept propounded by
(A) Edward Said (B) Paul Gilroy
(C) Abdul R. Gurnah (D) Dipesh Chakravarty

7️⃣ Choose the odd one out
(A) Walter (B) Paul
(C) Miriam (D) Martha

8️⃣ Which Chaucerian text parodies Dante’s The Divine Comedy ?
(A) The Canterbury Tales (B) The Book of the Duchess
(C) The House of Fame (D) Legend of Good Women

9️⃣ Who among the following is associated with the ideology of Utilitarianism ?
(A) J.A. Froude (B) Charles Kingsley
(C) J.S. Mill (D) Cardinal Newman

🔟 Fill in the blank Meg, Jo, _ and Amy
(A) Beth (B) Mary
(C) Jude (D) Pete

Answers
1. B
2. A
3. B
4. D
5. B
6. D
7. D
8. C
9. C
10. A

QUIZ #11

1️⃣ The plan of Arthurian stories has influenced the composition of Tennyson’s
(A) In Memoriam
(B) Idylls
(C) “Maud”
(D) “Locksley Hall”

2️⃣ Who, among the following Indian
writers in English, has created an identifiable imagined locale ?
(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) Raja Rao
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Anita Desai

3️⃣ The rhyme scheme of the Spenserian sonnet is
(A) abab bcbc cdcd ee
(B) abab cdcd efef gg
(C) abba cddc effe gg
(D) abba abba cde cde

4️⃣ Who among the following Marlovian characters is consumed by greed ?
(A) Barabas
(B) Tamburlaine
(C) Doctor Faustus
(D) Mephistopheles

5️⃣ A Shakespearean sonnet has the following rhyme scheme :
(A) ABBA, ABBA, CDCDCD
(B) ABAB, BCBC, CD CD EE
(C) ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
(D) ABBA, ABBA, CDCD, EE

6️⃣Match the following:
(I) Patrick White (1) Canada
(II) Nadine Gordimer (2) New Zealand
(III) Margaret Atwood (3) Australia
(IV) Keri Hulme (4) South Africa

7️⃣ Which of the following is not about a dystopia ?
(A) George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
(B) Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
(C) William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
(D) R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island

8️⃣ The author of the pamphlet Short View of Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) was
(A) John Bunyan
(B) Jeremy Collier
(C) William Wycherley
(D) John Vanbrugh

9️⃣ Arrange the following stages in a sequence in which all Shakespearean tragedies are structured. Use the code given below :
I. Denouement
II. Conflict
III. Exposition
IV. Climax
Code :
(A) III, II, IV, I
(B) III, IV, II, I
(C) II, IV, III, I
(D) II, IV, I, III

🔟 In The Rape of the Lock, Belinda’s lapdog is named
(A) Luck
(B) Shock
(C) Pluck
(D) Muck

Questions on Literary Theories of Marxism and Feminism tomorrow. Prepare if you will.

Answers
1. B
2. C
3. A
4. A
5. C
6. (I) - 3
(II) - 4
(III) - 1
(IV) - 2
7. D
8. B
9. A
10. B

Quiz #12

1️⃣ The Communist Manifesto claims ‘the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of ___’
A) oppression
B) class stuggle
C) powerful
D) class imbalace

2️⃣ Complete the title of the seminal bookk written by Engels in 1867 - Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of ______.
A) Political Economy
B) Capital
C) Bourgeoisie
D) Economic Inequality

3️⃣ The Fourth Wave of feminism uses ___ as a medium of revolution
A) Newspapers
B) Social Media
C) Television
D) Universities

4️⃣ Who is cited by Beauvoir as the first instance of denouncing mysogyny in literature
A) Margret Cavendish
B) Jean de Meun
C) Christine de Pizan
D) Mary Wolstonecraft

5️⃣ Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1781) was written by
A) Jeremy Collier
B)Jeremy Banthem
C) Bacon
D) Beauvoir

6️⃣ Put these initial feminist texts in ascending order
A) The Second Sex
B) Principles of Morals and Legislation
C) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
D) Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen

7️⃣ The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity is a book by
A) Barthes
B) Jameson
C) Habermas
D) Zizek

8️⃣ In which book did Frederic Jameson integrate dialectic thinking with insights from Structuralism and Freud?
A) The Political Unconscious
B) Marxism and Form
C) Postmodernism and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

9️⃣ Who coined the term culture industry?
A) Lukacs
B) Gramsci
C) Adorno and Horkheimer
D) Jameson and Eagelton

🔟 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is a seminal work by
A) Karl Marx and Engels
B) Ernesto Laclau
C) Walter Benjamin
D) Slavoj Zizek

Answers

1. B
2. A
3. B
4. C
5. B
6. B, D, C,A
7. C
8. A
9. C
10. C

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📓Quiz #13

1⃣ Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize ?
(A) The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody
(B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting
(C) Feasting, Fasting and The Zig Zag Way
(D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain

2⃣ Which among the following statements is not correct?
Badal Sircar’s Pagla Ghora is a play about
(A) the condition of women in post- Second World War Bengal.
(B) the political and religious conditions of the time.
(C) sexual passion.
(D) lack of communication between men and women.


3⃣The various symbols used in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq are associated with Code :
I. Pythons II. Vultures
III. Wasps IV. Butterflies
The correct combination according to the code is :
(A) I and II are correct.
(B) I and III are correct.
(C) III and IV are correct.
(D) II and III are correct.

4⃣ In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which character has two pages of unpunctuated speech ?
(A) Estragon
(B) Vladimir
(C) Lucky
(D) Pozzo

5⃣ Laura Mulvey’s pioneering essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is an instance of the feminist appropriation of psychoanalysis. It particularly uses
(A) Freud’s concept of sublimation
(B) Jung’s concept of collective unconscious
(C) Lacan’s concept of the gaze
(D) Lacan’s notion of the fragmented body

6⃣ An extremely simplified form of a language used as a contact language among speakers of different languages is a
(A) dialect (B) creole
(C) pidgin (D) register

7⃣ Which of the following novels acted as an influence on Salman Rushdie in forging a new narrative style in
English ?
(A) Raja Rao’s Kanthapura
(B) G.V. Desani’s All About H Hatterr
(C) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
(D) R.K. Narayan’s The Sweet Vendor

8⃣ The ‘Angel in the House’ became a common label for the Victorian ideal of respectable middle-class femininity. The phrase originated with a popular long poem by
(A) Arthur Munby
(B) Arthur Hugh Clough
(C) Charlotte Mew
(D) Coventry Patmore

9⃣ Which of the following novels is NOTa Partition novel ?
(A) Azadi
(B) Tamas
(C) Clear Light of the Day
(D) That Long Silence

🔟 According to Bakhtin the idea of the Carnivalesque represents the following characteristics except :
(A) a liberation from the prevailing truth and established order
(B) a harking back to the past
(C) emphasis on play, parody, pleasure and the body
(D) the suspension of all hierarchical rank, principles, norms and prohibitions

💢Paper 2- January 2017

*1. Identify from the following the work Nirad C. Chaudhuri called “the
finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme”.*
(1) Kim
(2) A Passage to India
(3) Train to Pakistan
(4) Private Life of an Indian Prince
Answer: 1

*2. Who is the author of the poem “The Defence of Lucknow” dealing with
the siege of Lucknow, one of the terrible incidents of the Indian Mutiny ?*
(1) Rudyard Kipling
(2) Edward Lear
(3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
(4) Robert Browning
Answer: 3

*3. Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy
are the two fundamental structures of language ?*
(1) Ferdinand de Saussure
(2) J.L. Austin
(3) Roman Jakobson
(4) Victor Shklovsky
Answer: 3

*4. From among the following, who are the Dashwood sisters in Jane
Austen’s Sense and Sensibility ?*
I. Elinor
II. Marianne
III. Mary
IV. Amanda
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) I and III
(2) I and II
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
Answer: 2

*5. Which among the following texts can be characterised as a lesbian
Bildungsroman ?*
(1) Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop
(2) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
(3) Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(4) Ruth Pawar Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
Answer: 3

*6. Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication :*
(1) Paradise Lost – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning
Human Understanding – MacFlecknoe
(2) The Advancement of Learning – An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding – MacFlecknoe – Paradise Lost
(3) The Advancement of Learning – Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding
(4) Paradise Lost – MacFlecknoe – The Advancement of Learning – An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding
Answer: 3

*7. Poe’s “The Raven” mourns the death of Poe’s*
(1) lost Lenore
(2) lost Abigail
(3) pet animal
(4) lost heritage
Answer: 1

*8. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth who was “untimely ripped” from his mother’s
womb ?*
(1) Macbeth
(2) Macduff
(3) Duncan
(4) Malcolm
Answer: 2

*9. Alexander Pope revised The Rape of the Lock three times. In the
final revision of the poem in 1717 he inserted a speech by*
(1) Belinda
(2) Clarissa
(3) Betty
(4) Thalestris
Answer: 2

*10. Identify, from the following list, two plays written by John Webster :*
I. A Woman Killed with Kindness
II. The Revenger’s Tragedy
III. The White Devil
IV. The Ducchess of Malfi
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I & IV
(2) II & IV
(3) III & IV
(4) I & III
Answer: 3

Answers
1. B
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. C
6. C
7. B
8. D
9. D
10. D

💢Paper 2 January

*11. Which of the following works by David Malouf tells the story of the
Roman poet, Ovid, during his exile in Tomis ?*
(1) Remembering Babylon
(2) The Great World
(3) The Conversations at Curlow Creek
(4) An Imaginary Life
Answer: 4

*12. In his Defence of Poesy which of the following works does Sidney
commend as good examples of English Poesy ?*
I. The Mirror of Magistrates
II. The Shepherd’s Calendar
III. Lament for the Makers
IV. Ballad of Scottish King
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) I and III
(2) I and IV
(3) I and II
(4) II and III
Answer: 3

*13. Who among the following dismissed Ulysses as “a misfire” ?*
(1) Virginia Woolf
(2) Wyndham Lewis
(3) E.M. Forster
(4) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: 1

*14. Which of the following works Daniel Defoe offered his readers as a
collection of “Strange Surprising Adventures” ?*
(1) Moll Flanders
(2) Robinson Crusoe
(3) Roxana
(4) Captain Singleton
Answer: 2

*15. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, what does Mr. Brocklehurst accuse
Jane of when he visits Lowood School ?*
(1) Laziness
(2) Stealing
(3) Lying
(4) Spying
Answer: 3

*16. William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying contains one of the shortest
chapters in literary history. Which of these sentences is the chapter in
its entirety ?*
(1) “For the love of God, where is my hat ?”
(2) “My mother is a fish.”
(3) “Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with.”
(4) “Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam.”
Answer: 2

*17. The prelude to Middlemarch makes a reference to the particular
history of a remarkable woman, …………..*
(1) St. Agnes
(2) St. Theresa
(3) St. Joan
(4) St. Carmel
Answer: 2

*18. “O, for a draught of vintage ! that hath been
Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth !”
The above description is an example of*
(1) Paronomasia
(2) Synaesthesia
(3) Aphaeresis
(4) Synecdoche
Answer: 2

*19. The term, “poetic justice,” to designate the idea that the good are
rewarded and the evil punished, was devised by*
(1) Aristotle
(2) John Dryden
(3) Thomas Rhymer
(4) Ben Jonson
Answer: 3

*20. ………….. is the producer of the first complete printed English Bible.*
(1) Jerome
(2) William Tyndale
(3) Miles Coverdale
(4) Bede
Answer: 3

💢📓 Paper 3 January 2017

*1. Who among the following is not a diasporic writer?*
(1) Beryl Bainbridge
(2) Timothy Mo
(3) Hanif Kureishi
(4) Sam Selvon
Answer: 1

*2. “A text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’
meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space
in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash.
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of
culture.”*
*Which of the following best expresses the position stated above?*
(1) A text is a tissue of lies that has no referential and cultural
validity.
(2) A text is a communication from the Author-God with multiple meanings.
(3) A text is a force field of ambiguity where meanings collapse in the
face of opposition.
(4) A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is
linked to multiple sources of language and culture.
Answer: 4

*3. In William Congreve’s The Way of the World Fairall is Lady Wishfort’s*
(1) Son
(2) Son-in-law
(3) Nephew
(4) Servant
Answer: 2

*4. Match the periodical with the founder/s :*
List – I
A. The Egoist
B. The English Review
C. Blast
D. Poetry : A Magazine of Verse
List – II
I. Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound
II. Harriet Monroe
III. Harriet Weaver and Dora Marsden
IV. Ford Madox Ford
Codes :
A B C D
(1) II III I IV
(2) III I IV II
(3) III IV I II
(4) III II I IV
Answer: 3

*5. Which statement best expresses the theme of Coleridge’s “The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner”?*
(1) To kill a living creature is immoral.
(2) People should honour and respect all living things.
(3) Prayer can accomplish miracles.
(4) True harmony is achieved only through cooperative effort.
Answer: 2

*6. “The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis” was proposed by*
(1) Stephen Krashen
(2) M.A.K. Halliday
(3) Merrill Swain
(4) Gertrude Buck
Answer: 3

*7. In Tristram Shandy Corporal Trim’s brother Tom describes the
oppression of a black servant in a sausage shop in Lisbon that he
visited. This episode is inspired by a letter Laurence Sterne received
from a black man. Sterne’s reply became an integral part of 18th century
abolitionist literature.
Name the person who wrote the aforementioned letter to Sterne.*
(1) William Wilberforce
(2) Ignatius Sancho
(3) William Blackstone
(4) John Hawkins
Answer: 2

*8. In Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, which song does
Yvette sing to Mother Courage and Kattrin?*
(1) “The Song of the Great Souls of the Earth”
(2) “The Fraternization Song”
(3) “The Song of the Great Capitulation”
(4) “The Memorial Song”
Answer: 2

*9. In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, under what pretext does Emma go
every week for her clandestine meeting with Leon in Rouen?*
(1) Under the pretext of going to the church for weekly confession.
(2) Under the pretext of meeting her blind friend who lives alone.
(3) Under the pretext of weekly shopping.
(4) Under the pretext of taking piano lessons.
Answer: 4

*10. Identify the two books by C.S. Lakshmi (Ambai) published in English
translation :*
I. Astride the Wheel
II. Going Home
III. A Purple Sea
IV. In a Forest, A Deer
The right combination according to the code is
(1) III and II
(2) I and II
(3) I and IV
(4) III and IV
Answer: 4